"We like to think of technology as always being forward looking. It's supposed to be about nanoparticles and the Cloud, not steam engines and the telephone exchange."
Those who think technology only means looking into the future should think again
For example:
Without compass, an ancient invention, we won't even comprehend the North from the South
There are so many things that we are enjoying now rely on old tech, some of the tech dates back thousands of years.
I guess the adage "Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it"
And I guess re-inventing the wheel isn't exactly a very expedient act, or is it?
You can easily run 64GB per socket at full speed with the E5-2600 (16GB x 4 channels) without spending that much money. Heck for maybe 10% more you can run 128GB per socket (You need RDIMM's to run two 16GB modules per bank).
As TFA has put it:
"... the compute nodes would include "several thousand" Dell Stallion servers, with each server boasting dual 8-core Intel E5-2680 processors and 32 gigabytes of memory"
I am guessing it might have something to do with budget
From the way I look at it, they are populating each memory slot with 4GB of el-cheapo DDR3 DRAM and that way they may be saving quite a bit of $$$ to buy more Dell servers
It is proven that birth leads in 100% of cases to death, hence, we will defeat death itself by this move.
Please do not let the religious fundamentalists know about it.
No matter which religion they are from - Christians or Islam - because for them, their respective true prophet never die.
You see, defeating death is no longer news to them any more - Their respective prophets had already achieved that unimaginable feat a long, long time ago.
Qatar booked an estimated gross domestic product per capita of more than $92,501 for 2011
Whereas for the United States of America -- only $48,442
As for your expression "generally poor and/or oppressed", there ARE millions and millions of poor and oppressed Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, and Atheists all over the world.
Tell us, how often do you see the poor and oppressed Buddhist or Hindu or Christian or Atheist murdering / beheading / massacring innocent victims in the name of their religion?
In other words, poor and/or oppressed should not, and can never become a valid raison d'etre for anyone in massacring other people
Stop apologizing for those bloody assholes who worship their "allah"
Yah, all Muslims were responsible. Just like all people from Colorado were responsible for the Aurora massacre.
You know what?
I am truly fucking tired of the BULLSHITS from you moslem apologists !!!
In the aftermath of the Aurora tragic massacre so many of the good people of Colorado showed up for the memorial, and so many of them spoke out CONDEMNING THE VIOLENCE !!
On the other hand, what about them moslems?
How many of them did you see spoke out against the beheading of non-moslems, carried out by their moslem brethren, in the name of Islam?
Tell me, please ! Please tell me how many of them moslem actually speak out against the asinine violence in the name of their "allah" ?
They keep on telling us that "Islam is a peaceful religion", it's just that when comes to practice, peace is no where to be seen !!
They keep on telling us that "Islam is a religion of the intellect", that there are a lot of "moderate moslems" who do not like violence
FINE !! If so, where were those so-called "moderate moslems" when the Madrid Train Stations got bombed?
Did we see any of those "moderate moslems" spoke out against the bombing of the London subway system?
Do you know that them moslems beheaded little kids in southern Thailand, just because their parents were (the parents were butchered as well) non-moslems?
I have the links to those bloody pictures, but due to my respect for the Slashdot community I decide not to provide it here. I humbly ask you to google the links yourself and see the true nature of Islam
I might be modded down to troll, I might be even banned from Slashdot, but I do not care. I just can't stand anymore bullshit from those moslem apologists --- STOP APOLOGIZING FOR THE VIOLENCE BEING CARRIED OUT IN THE NAME OF "ALLAH"
I was interested in the level of "dehydration" those creatures were being put through before were sent to space
TFA #1, from Smithsonian Magazine, only mentioned "dehydration", but it did provide a link to the cell magazine summary, where it is mentioned that the "waterbears" were put through "extreme dehydration"
Hmm....
How extreme is extreme dehydration?
To what I know, all living things, whether it be plants, microbes, animals, had to have H2O inside the cell structures (DNA/RNA) to keep alive
If the cells dried up, the cell walls will crumble, and once the cell walls collapsed, that's it, baby, asta- lavista !
So back to the "extreme dehydration" claim on the cell magazine's summary --- just how "extreme" is the "extreme dehydration" ?
Does it cause permanent cell wall collapse?
I guess, in the case of the "waterbear", the "extreme dehydration" isn't absolute - which means, the "waterbear" may have a built-in valve structure, to lock enough H2O inside its body to keep the body at least at a minimum level (kind of deep hibernation)
But anyway, this findings is a plus for all. If we can find out how the waterbear locks in H2O, maybe we too can modify our human body structure and can survive without water for a prolong period.
If anyone wanted to know what a country would look like if a Bond villain actually won, look no farther than Russia.
Why not Saudi Arabia?
Or Pakistan, where a Christian girl with mental retardation is false charged with blasphemy against a religion that has no relation to her - Islam - and although she is innocent, and has been released from jail, is still facing real danger of being killed by Islamic fanatics
That, my friend, is a country where Bond villian rules.
The term "Terrorist" is not necessary equals to "Killer"
The real meaning of "Terrorist" is one who commits "TERROR" - which includes, but not necessarily limited to "KILLING"
Hence - your list of what most likely kill Americans is not necessarily the right list in pointing to what a "Terrorist" can do to America - and Americans
Let's hope it doesn't become an instruction manual like 1984.
Ever since the novel "1984" was published, back in 1949, the world has been actively "prepared" for the fruition
Do you know that the world population more than double, - almost triple - since 1949?
Back in the 1950's, global population of human being was around 2,556,000,000
Now, 7,000,000,000 and rising, by the second !!
With that many more mouths to feed, and the planet ain't getting any bigger, it sure is a recipe for disasters, big disasters
And with big disasters come big opportunities, for some
I won't be surprised at another global calamity 10 to 30 years in the future - and by then, blood may flow like rivers and corpse may pile up like hills and mountains - it would apocalypse, in every sense of the term
If you guys are really seriously want to change Slashdot, changing the logo ain't gonna make Slashdot better
You should start changing the modding system
Nowadays too many of great comments have been modded all the way down to "-1" just because their opinions do not fall within the "norm" of those who have tons and tons of mod points
You have to understand that the Slashdot crowd have changed - it ain't the same Slashdot crowd in the beginning, the crowd which tolerated a lot of different views
The original crowd will argue with you, if they disagree with your post, but will not silence you by modding your comment down to '-1"
Nowadays the Slashdot crowd we have are much less tolerable. They rather come on line as "AC" and post ridiculous "goatse" comments and then mod down comments that they disagree with
So, if you are truly seriously want to give Slashdot an overhaul, change the modding system
Or at least - implement a "tracing" system for who mod whose comments so that you can put a trace and flag out those who have abuse their mod points
I've been searching for a comparison chart of various SQLs but all I can find are very very old articles
There's a database project that I'm working on and I'm choosing which SQL to be employed
MySQL is obviously not up to par
I don't know how good PostgreSQL is - so, is there a comparison chart or something that can facilitate us, the one who are going to make purchasing decision, to make one choice over the other?
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> > I guess the adage "Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it"
"Those who forget the past are doomed to patent it". There, FTFY.
And I can only thank God that nobody ever thought of filing a patent on "Fire"
In Stargate, they had cool helmets, but no time travel.
I think you missed an episode or two of the TV series. :-)
Oh, you mean that episode which centered on a warning note written on a little piece of paper ?
Isn't the world only 6000 years old?
Hmm ... and tis the year the world gonna end, right ?
Don't give Apple any ideas. They may see that a wheel is a completely rounded corner!
Aaaaahhhhhh.... but we got plenty of prior arts, don't we? :)
"We like to think of technology as always being forward looking. It's supposed to be about nanoparticles and the Cloud, not steam engines and the telephone exchange."
Those who think technology only means looking into the future should think again
For example:
Without compass, an ancient invention, we won't even comprehend the North from the South
There are so many things that we are enjoying now rely on old tech, some of the tech dates back thousands of years.
I guess the adage "Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it"
And I guess re-inventing the wheel isn't exactly a very expedient act, or is it?
You can easily run 64GB per socket at full speed with the E5-2600 (16GB x 4 channels) without spending that much money. Heck for maybe 10% more you can run 128GB per socket (You need RDIMM's to run two 16GB modules per bank).
As TFA has put it:
" ... the compute nodes would include "several thousand" Dell Stallion servers, with each server boasting dual 8-core Intel E5-2680 processors and 32 gigabytes of memory"
I am guessing it might have something to do with budget
From the way I look at it, they are populating each memory slot with 4GB of el-cheapo DDR3 DRAM and that way they may be saving quite a bit of $$$ to buy more Dell servers
It is proven that birth leads in 100% of cases to death, hence, we will defeat death itself by this move.
Please do not let the religious fundamentalists know about it.
No matter which religion they are from - Christians or Islam - because for them, their respective true prophet never die.
You see, defeating death is no longer news to them any more - Their respective prophets had already achieved that unimaginable feat a long, long time ago.
... comes very simplistic ideas
You see, the idea proposed by that MP is so simplistic
It supposed to go this way --- See no evil, hear no evil, read no evil, think no evil, and you suppose to do no evil
Will it work?
For simple minded folks, perhaps it would
But ... and this is important, the world we live in is filled with people with all kinds of not-that-simple minds
Even without reading, hearing, seeing any of the "evil" we still can think not-so-nice thoughts
Almost most of us stop at the thinking stage, but some don't seem to be able to control, and commit the crime.
Or, put it in another way, simple ideas do work, but only limited to those with simple minds.
You're still free to do whatever you want.
Really?
If you say anything that sounds like you want to do harm to the POTUS, and I can guarantee you that you ain't gonna enjoy any freedom no more
... it's the fact that they're generally poor and/or oppressed
This is yet another bullshit that has been regurgitated, over and over again.
It's a total bullshit !!
You want to portray the moslems as "poor and oppressed" and I will debunk your lies ---
Fact I: Wealth of the moslems:
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD
Qatar booked an estimated gross domestic product per capita of more than $92,501 for 2011
Whereas for the United States of America -- only $48,442
As for your expression "generally poor and/or oppressed", there ARE millions and millions of poor and oppressed Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, and Atheists all over the world.
Tell us, how often do you see the poor and oppressed Buddhist or Hindu or Christian or Atheist murdering / beheading / massacring innocent victims in the name of their religion?
In other words, poor and/or oppressed should not, and can never become a valid raison d'etre for anyone in massacring other people
Stop apologizing for those bloody assholes who worship their "allah"
which countries, on this planet, are not currently being tapped by their governments?
Nice try, buckwheat, but you ain't fooling nobody.
I am not talking about other countries. I am talking about the United States of America - The Land Of The Free
Where "Liberty to All" is thing that supposed to differentiate the United States of America from the rest
This is also the country where "Give Me Freedom Or Give Me Death" has been taught in history lessons, to all students
.... is effective on the unwashed
For those who are seasoned and thick-skinned, we have developed the habit of using our brain, instead of letting others to think for us
Thanks for a very informative and historical analysis of trademark
Yah, all Muslims were responsible. Just like all people from Colorado were responsible for the Aurora massacre.
You know what?
I am truly fucking tired of the BULLSHITS from you moslem apologists !!!
In the aftermath of the Aurora tragic massacre so many of the good people of Colorado showed up for the memorial, and so many of them spoke out CONDEMNING THE VIOLENCE !!
On the other hand, what about them moslems?
How many of them did you see spoke out against the beheading of non-moslems, carried out by their moslem brethren, in the name of Islam?
Tell me, please ! Please tell me how many of them moslem actually speak out against the asinine violence in the name of their "allah" ?
They keep on telling us that "Islam is a peaceful religion", it's just that when comes to practice, peace is no where to be seen !!
They keep on telling us that "Islam is a religion of the intellect", that there are a lot of "moderate moslems" who do not like violence
FINE !! If so, where were those so-called "moderate moslems" when the Madrid Train Stations got bombed?
Did we see any of those "moderate moslems" spoke out against the bombing of the London subway system?
Do you know that them moslems beheaded little kids in southern Thailand, just because their parents were (the parents were butchered as well) non-moslems?
I have the links to those bloody pictures, but due to my respect for the Slashdot community I decide not to provide it here. I humbly ask you to google the links yourself and see the true nature of Islam
I might be modded down to troll, I might be even banned from Slashdot, but I do not care. I just can't stand anymore bullshit from those moslem apologists --- STOP APOLOGIZING FOR THE VIOLENCE BEING CARRIED OUT IN THE NAME OF "ALLAH"
Under the votes tab: Roll no. 569.. Might not be there long
They have nothing to fear from this. They see it as a plus, and most of the voters do, too.
I really like America and I really hate to say this ---
America is no longer the land of the free
It has become the land of the free to be wiretapped, without warrant, without due process, without any valid reason
If DMCA can be applied to kitchen, maybe a chef who trademarked "salt" would sue anyone who dare to use salt in their cooking
Yes, I did read TFA - both of them
I was interested in the level of "dehydration" those creatures were being put through before were sent to space
TFA #1, from Smithsonian Magazine, only mentioned "dehydration", but it did provide a link to the cell magazine summary, where it is mentioned that the "waterbears" were put through "extreme dehydration"
Hmm....
How extreme is extreme dehydration?
To what I know, all living things, whether it be plants, microbes, animals, had to have H2O inside the cell structures (DNA/RNA) to keep alive
If the cells dried up, the cell walls will crumble, and once the cell walls collapsed, that's it, baby, asta- lavista !
So back to the "extreme dehydration" claim on the cell magazine's summary --- just how "extreme" is the "extreme dehydration" ?
Does it cause permanent cell wall collapse?
I guess, in the case of the "waterbear", the "extreme dehydration" isn't absolute - which means, the "waterbear" may have a built-in valve structure, to lock enough H2O inside its body to keep the body at least at a minimum level (kind of deep hibernation)
But anyway, this findings is a plus for all. If we can find out how the waterbear locks in H2O, maybe we too can modify our human body structure and can survive without water for a prolong period.
If anyone wanted to know what a country would look like if a Bond villain actually won, look no farther than Russia.
Why not Saudi Arabia?
Or Pakistan, where a Christian girl with mental retardation is false charged with blasphemy against a religion that has no relation to her - Islam - and although she is innocent, and has been released from jail, is still facing real danger of being killed by Islamic fanatics
That, my friend, is a country where Bond villian rules.
Russia, on the other hand, pales in comparison.
When you're being accused of violating one of the draconian MAFIAA laws, you are guilty as charged - until, of course, you are proven innocent
That researcher, although having the account restored, still being blocked of accessing any of the disputed materials
And the worst of all is, an American law, is dictating the behavior of the Internet, a worldwide structure.
The term "Terrorist" is not necessary equals to "Killer"
The real meaning of "Terrorist" is one who commits "TERROR" - which includes, but not necessarily limited to "KILLING"
Hence - your list of what most likely kill Americans is not necessarily the right list in pointing to what a "Terrorist" can do to America - and Americans
Let's hope it doesn't become an instruction manual like 1984.
Ever since the novel "1984" was published, back in 1949, the world has been actively "prepared" for the fruition
Do you know that the world population more than double, - almost triple - since 1949?
Back in the 1950's, global population of human being was around 2,556,000,000
Now, 7,000,000,000 and rising, by the second !!
With that many more mouths to feed, and the planet ain't getting any bigger, it sure is a recipe for disasters, big disasters
And with big disasters come big opportunities, for some
I won't be surprised at another global calamity 10 to 30 years in the future - and by then, blood may flow like rivers and corpse may pile up like hills and mountains - it would apocalypse, in every sense of the term
And I hope I will be dead before that happen
If you guys are really seriously want to change Slashdot, changing the logo ain't gonna make Slashdot better
You should start changing the modding system
Nowadays too many of great comments have been modded all the way down to "-1" just because their opinions do not fall within the "norm" of those who have tons and tons of mod points
You have to understand that the Slashdot crowd have changed - it ain't the same Slashdot crowd in the beginning, the crowd which tolerated a lot of different views
The original crowd will argue with you, if they disagree with your post, but will not silence you by modding your comment down to '-1"
Nowadays the Slashdot crowd we have are much less tolerable. They rather come on line as "AC" and post ridiculous "goatse" comments and then mod down comments that they disagree with
So, if you are truly seriously want to give Slashdot an overhaul, change the modding system
Or at least - implement a "tracing" system for who mod whose comments so that you can put a trace and flag out those who have abuse their mod points
This is what I have to say, for now
I've been searching for a comparison chart of various SQLs but all I can find are very very old articles
There's a database project that I'm working on and I'm choosing which SQL to be employed
MySQL is obviously not up to par
I don't know how good PostgreSQL is - so, is there a comparison chart or something that can facilitate us, the one who are going to make purchasing decision, to make one choice over the other?
Thank you !
This is not an Amazon vs Linux case
It's a case of Amazon refusing to sell a "book" that was essentially written by a community, that can be gotten online for free (it's wiki stuffs).
And that "author" of that "book" happens to be a "packager", not an "author" in the truest sense.
I dunno what's going on with Slashdot lately.
Truly, I don't !! And I've been visiting Slashdot for a long-long-time !
For some reasons our comments have disappeared !!
I've tried to access the story at slashdot - http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/09/10/0245230/how-spyware-reaches-oppressive-governments - and still can't find your comment nor mine !!