Oh no, look out. Yet another hack attempt comming from a military outpost or educational institution. Who woulda thought? (Gee) Sure is hard to bust into these mammoth vaults that have similar securities to... "A brick of swiss-cheese". Get with it clan. People have been using military systems and ARPANET for years as not only a target, but a drop point to break into other systems. Not very much news here. What would be the icing is if someone found out it was Kevin Mitnick.
Ya, and everybody runs lint on their C code too!;) . And I ALWAYS check for NULL pointers even right after doing a malloc(), . And I always turn on the best optimization for compiling. .
It's f'n html man. Give it a rest. The article was about the search engine, not about how pretty their html code is.
Yes, yes, I know this goes against all/. rules and regulations. And yes, I am not forced to read Mr. Kats comments. But man, for crying out loud.
Your "articles" are complete drivel. You dance around subjects like a rabbit with its fur set ablaze and the mere fact that you have written an article about "media hype" is totally against what your weak article is attempting to get at. I'm sure you could have gotten to the point a lot sooner in your article without writting a bloody essay. (G).
Quite honestly, I believe your article adds no intellegent information to the situation other than what ever you spewed up last week on the "same subject". Do me a favour and tell me something a little less trivial about the movie and your silly socio-internet-movie points of view.
Write something more cohesive and try to get to the point early.
Ok, Will someone be so kind as to tell me just what the bloody hell is going on here? Seriously, I had no idea such a law for exporting "supercomputers" existed. First of all this is just about as bad as that silly cryptography exportation bull.
And as if things weren't bad enough, those back-asswards crazies from down under have really stuffed their heads with some kind of slime-mold because that Austrailian law is utter RUBISH .
It honestly makes me wonder just what is going through those political figures' minds. For most, I would recommend a 'brain-enema', but it seems most already suffer from a full frontal labotamy.
Great! So now what? When will the ironic day finally occur where I am asking the brain-dead political heads of state if I'm allowed to go to the bathroom.
There is (IIRC) language in the communications act as amended that says something about the intent of the communicating parties. It is unlawful to intercept communications intended as point to point
BULLOCKS!
I honestly don't care what the law says in this matter. Mind you, I DO NOT monitor such messages. I still think this is full of crap. Seriously! In my opinion talking over a cell phone (OVER OPEN AIR-WAVES) is just as 'private' as talking with your friend in a public building. You ARE NOT guaranteed a secure channel.
I feel this way about almost ALL forms of communication these days. If you are honestly not smart enough to understand that "Big Brother" is always watching...well tough-tuna!
If you expect PRIVACY these days, unfortunately, you are limited to anything you say directly into someones ear-drum, or if you have a SECURE method of encryption.
But seriously over radio...un-encryped. I should have the RIGHT to listen to it if I see fit. It's MY AIR too is it not?
Hmm.. dumping assets? What could this imply? A market shift perhaps. I can hear the suits at Compaq now...
Yes that's it. Quickly remove all assets from the internet as that is a fairly stable market now. Quickly divert all extra funds into building radiation proof cases to withstand the 1GHz chip we're gonna smash in there.
...and while we're at it...
Rumour has it that someone has found a way to remove those silly screws from the backs of our boxes. One million to R&D to come up with a new way to prevent kiddies from prying open their boxes.
From a duct tape manufacturing pant...signing off
Blackfire
Re:Some thoughts/comparisons
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1GHz Alphas
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· Score: 1
Real world usage can vary immensly from the SPEC values, depending on what you're doing. I have friends who've compared various machines for high end computations (fluid dynamics) and they found the SGIs ran/scaled the best, even though they didn't have the best SPECfp results for a single chip - it's their massive data buses that do the trick. Actually, the PA-RISC 8500 doesn't have a complete Fortran compiler yet... Most people I know consider the Alpha to be let down by it's IO/bus data-rate,etc. Yes, it's better than PC, but it's not much compared to the other high-end RISC guys, especially SGI,though I expect this difference to change...
Of course! Don't be silly. The only way to get real numbers is to run REAL applications. Unfortunately, this becomes difficult to compare the differences in time when dealing with cross-platform issues. SPEC (read CRAP) doesn't tell you a thing other than the fact that "an elephant is bigger than a cheetah"
GREAT! "I'll have one elephant please!"
WRONG!
Little does the average joe know that it really depends on several things that are HARD, VERY HARD to examine when dealing w/ cross-platform issues.
The ISA is one (Instruction Set Archetechture). The compiler is another. (remember when companies figured out that by using "special" compiler optimizations, they could get their SPEC benchmarks in matrix alg. to go through the roof). Of course, cache and clock speed all matter.
The problem is in trying to weigh these all out PROPERLY. SPEC does a 'reasonable' job, but don't read the damn thing like a BIBLE or you'll end up with your wrists slit in a bath-tub somewhere.
Keep in mind what these are...just tiny benchmarks... not REAL world applications... Well unless you sit around and run "Seive" all day in the back-ground just to grind out a few extra FLOPS in a day....but that would be like driving your car through Jersey to get to Manhatten, when you live in Brooklyn. (read POINTLESS waste of time)
In a jungle...somewhere signing off
Blackfire
Re:Not Threatening Xeon
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1GHz Alphas
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· Score: 1
Agreed. The common consumer will hopefully have more purchasing power for their buck when these companies finally colide in an undoubtably heated price-war. Mind you, this won happen for a few years, but I can already smell the smoke from here.
The competition between AMD and Intel has been well honestly, less than intense. I'm hoping that by the time that Intel realizes that its the underdog in this battle some REAL price juggling will occur.
Mmm smells like....Bacon!
From the Canadian outbacke...signing off Blackfire
I must say that it is far too easy to 'give up' on those silly marketing bunch who are capable of only using a search engine to look for possible canidates for a specific position. But lets be honest ladies and gentlemen: As fellow geeks would you not do the same thing to save yourself some trouble?
And certainly, you'll have to believe me here, many computer types can bring excellent computing skills to the job, but they certainly lack fundamental social skills. If you get the opportunity to talk to one of these knobs on the fone, I'm affraid you are going to have to bring the conversation down to THEIR level. Trying to impress them by using "techie-speak" and fancy acronyms is usually only going to make the matter worse.
Ask general questions like: "What are my key responsibilities?" "How long has your client been in the industry?" "What city is it in?" "What are the communities like in this city."
These are all facts that the Head-hunter has in front of his face. Since I'm sure he KNOWS who his client is, and has probably placed other people with them.
The trick is this. Don't treat the HH like the hiring manager; This is wrong! Ask lots of simple questions that make you sound interested in the job. This will help you get 'your foot in the door' - so to speak.
Follow all directions closely. Don't ask silly questions or make silly comments until AFTER you are in a position to do so. (This usually requires you to be asking someone who knows the answer, and keep in mind the head-hunter has the computer knowledge of a small vole.) Don't ask "but why can't you just convert it to html?"...don't make critical comments like this. This does absolutely NOTHING for you at this point in the game.
Practice your social skills! Far too often I see people who are fairly capable at getting their points across by hiding in 'fear' behind a keyboard and a terminal. Learn to be able to talk comfortably with others. It WILL help!
For example: The next time you go to the grocery store..(or whatever). Have a conversation with the clerk ringing your groceries in. Ask him/her something. If you have to...comment about the weather. Keep practicing. It will soon come with more ease.
That's about all I can think of for the dim-witted and dumb-founded.
1) If you believe, as a lot of Christians do, that putting the soul into a body (embryo) is God's prerogative, then trying to clone people is a sin of hubris (arrogance).
First of all, for the record, I am religious, but this comment is for all those religious nuts that can't face the fact that GOD made this science possible in the first place. I mean if you look at past scientific discoveries, the church has ALWAYS been critical and several years behind the rest of the population. Look at history...look to the future. (2) Knowing that one is a clone is likely to have psychological consequences. I know that I am unique and that's important for my world-view. Imagine that you know that you are a clone of some guy, a copy of him. How does that make you feel?
Although I wouldn't know, probably much the same as a kid who finds out he's adopted. How does that make him/her feel? In the case where his parents couldn't/didn't want to look after him. Look it's a similar thing that society will have to learn to deal with.
Albeit, genetic engineering does have its drawbacks, but come-on so do a lot of early emerging sciences. We have to look for the good as well as try to protect ourselves against the negative effects as well. Of course it would be stupid to go on with projects like these without looking at the consequences but keep in mind all the benefits chemistry has made....sure it makes medicines... it cures people... but it also the reason we have drug addicts... and why Oklahoma City was bombed.
If I thought about all the BAD things all the time... well you get the picture...
Slashdot Mirror
I believe it is based on Suse. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
No one ever used a toilet on the Enterprise.
Sure they did...
"Captain's log; stardate..."
-=bf
Oh no, look out. Yet another hack attempt comming from a military outpost or educational institution.
Who woulda thought? (Gee) Sure is hard to bust into these mammoth vaults that have similar securities to... "A brick of swiss-cheese". Get with it clan. People have been using military systems and ARPANET for years as not only a target, but a drop point to break into other systems. Not very much news here. What would be the icing is if someone found out it was Kevin Mitnick.
Stick a fork in it: ding I'm done.
-Bf
Ya, and everybody runs lint on their C code too! ;) . And I ALWAYS check for NULL pointers even right after doing a malloc(), . And I always turn on the best optimization for compiling. .
It's f'n html man. Give it a rest. The article was about the search engine, not about how pretty their html code is.
-wurd.
Yes, yes, I know this goes against all /. rules and regulations. And yes, I am not forced to read Mr. Kats comments. But man, for crying out loud.
Your "articles" are complete drivel.
You dance around subjects like a rabbit with its fur set ablaze and the mere fact that you have written an article about "media hype" is totally against what your weak article is attempting to get at. I'm sure you could have gotten to the point a lot sooner in your article without writting a bloody essay. (G).
Quite honestly, I believe your article adds no intellegent information to the situation other than what ever you spewed up last week on the "same subject". Do me a favour and tell me something a little less trivial about the movie and your silly socio-internet-movie points of view.
Write something more cohesive and try to get to the point early.
-From the flaming pit of a volano,
Blackfire
P.s. Thank you for putting up with this crap.
Ok, Will someone be so kind as to tell me just what the bloody hell is going on here? Seriously, I had no idea such a law for exporting "supercomputers" existed. First of all this is just about as bad as that silly cryptography exportation bull.
And as if things weren't bad enough, those back-asswards crazies from down under have really stuffed their heads with some kind of slime-mold because that Austrailian law is utter RUBISH .
It honestly makes me wonder just what is going through those political figures' minds. For most, I would recommend a 'brain-enema', but it seems most already suffer from a full frontal labotamy.
Great! So now what? When will the ironic day finally occur where I am asking the brain-dead political heads of state if I'm allowed to go to the bathroom.
fflush(your_brain);
Blackfire
There is (IIRC) language in the communications act as amended that says something about the intent of the communicating parties. It is unlawful to intercept communications intended as point to point
BULLOCKS!
I honestly don't care what the law says in this matter. Mind you, I DO NOT monitor such messages. I still think this is full of crap. Seriously! In my opinion talking over a cell phone (OVER OPEN AIR-WAVES) is just as 'private' as talking with your friend in a public building. You ARE NOT guaranteed a secure channel.
I feel this way about almost ALL forms of communication these days. If you are honestly not smart enough to understand that "Big Brother" is always watching...well tough-tuna!
If you expect PRIVACY these days, unfortunately, you are limited to anything you say directly into someones ear-drum, or if you have a SECURE method of encryption.
But seriously over radio...un-encryped. I should have the RIGHT to listen to it if I see fit. It's MY AIR too is it not?
Grappling from an RF antaena...
Blackfire
Hmm.. dumping assets? What could this imply? A market shift perhaps. I can hear the suits at Compaq now...
Yes that's it. Quickly remove all assets from the internet as that is a fairly stable market now. Quickly divert all extra funds into building radiation proof cases to withstand the 1GHz chip we're gonna smash in there.
...and while we're at it...
Rumour has it that someone has found a way to remove those silly screws from the backs of our boxes. One million to R&D to come up with a new way to prevent kiddies from prying open their boxes.
From a duct tape manufacturing pant...signing off
Blackfire
Real world usage can vary immensly from the SPEC values, depending on what you're doing. I have friends who've compared various machines for high end computations (fluid dynamics) and they found the SGIs ran/scaled the best, even though they didn't have the best SPECfp results for a single chip - it's their massive data buses that do the trick. Actually, the PA-RISC 8500 doesn't have a complete Fortran compiler yet... Most people I know consider the Alpha to be let down by it's IO/bus data-rate,etc. Yes, it's better than PC, but it's not much compared to the other high-end RISC guys, especially SGI,though I expect this difference to change...
Of course! Don't be silly. The only way to get real numbers is to run REAL applications. Unfortunately, this becomes difficult to compare the differences in time when dealing with cross-platform issues. SPEC (read CRAP) doesn't tell you a thing other than the fact that "an elephant is bigger than a cheetah"
GREAT! "I'll have one elephant please!"
WRONG!
Little does the average joe know that it really depends on several things that are HARD, VERY HARD to examine when dealing w/ cross-platform issues.
The ISA is one (Instruction Set Archetechture).
The compiler is another.
(remember when companies figured out that by using "special" compiler optimizations, they could get their SPEC benchmarks in matrix alg. to go through the roof).
Of course, cache and clock speed all matter.
The problem is in trying to weigh these all out PROPERLY. SPEC does a 'reasonable' job, but don't read the damn thing like a BIBLE or you'll end up with your wrists slit in a bath-tub somewhere.
Keep in mind what these are
In a jungle
Blackfire
Agreed. The common consumer will hopefully have more purchasing power for their buck when these companies finally colide in an undoubtably heated price-war. Mind you, this won happen for a few years, but I can already smell the smoke from here.
....Bacon!
...signing off
The competition between AMD and Intel has been well honestly, less than intense. I'm hoping that by the time that Intel realizes that its the underdog in this battle some REAL price juggling will occur.
Mmm smells like
From the Canadian outbacke
Blackfire
I must say that it is far too easy to 'give up' on those silly marketing bunch who are capable of only using a search engine to look for possible canidates for a specific position. But lets be honest ladies and gentlemen: As fellow geeks would you not do the same thing to save yourself some trouble?
...don't make critical comments like this. This does absolutely NOTHING for you at this point in the game.
And certainly, you'll have to believe me here, many computer types can bring excellent computing skills to the job, but they certainly lack fundamental social skills. If you get the opportunity to talk to one of these knobs on the fone, I'm affraid you are going to have to bring the conversation down to THEIR level. Trying to impress them by using "techie-speak" and fancy acronyms is usually only going to make the matter worse.
Ask general questions like: "What are my key responsibilities?"
"How long has your client been in the industry?"
"What city is it in?"
"What are the communities like in this city."
These are all facts that the Head-hunter has in front of his face. Since I'm sure he KNOWS who his client is, and has probably placed other people with them.
The trick is this. Don't treat the HH like the hiring manager; This is wrong! Ask lots of simple questions that make you sound interested in the job. This will help you get 'your foot in the door' - so to speak.
Follow all directions closely. Don't ask silly questions or make silly comments until AFTER you are in a position to do so. (This usually requires you to be asking someone who knows the answer, and keep in mind the head-hunter has the computer knowledge of a small vole.) Don't ask "but why can't you just convert it to html?"
Practice your social skills!
Far too often I see people who are fairly capable at getting their points across by hiding in 'fear' behind a keyboard and a terminal. Learn to be able to talk comfortably with others. It WILL help!
For example: The next time you go to the grocery store..(or whatever). Have a conversation with the clerk ringing your groceries in. Ask him/her something. If you have to...comment about the weather. Keep practicing. It will soon come with more ease.
That's about all I can think of for the dim-witted and dumb-founded.
In Peurto-Rico....signing off
Blackfire
Ok!!!
...sure it makes medicines... it cures people... but it also the reason we have drug addicts... and why Oklahoma City was bombed.
...signing off
1) If you believe, as a lot of Christians do, that putting the soul into a body (embryo) is God's prerogative, then trying to clone people is a sin of hubris
(arrogance).
First of all, for the record, I am religious, but this comment is for all those religious nuts that can't face the fact that GOD made this science possible in the first place. I mean if you look at past scientific discoveries, the church has ALWAYS been critical and several years behind the rest of the population. Look at history...look to the future.
(2) Knowing that one is a clone is likely to have psychological consequences. I know that I am unique and that's important for my world-view. Imagine that you know that you are a clone of some guy, a copy of him. How does that make you feel?
Although I wouldn't know, probably much the same as a kid who finds out he's adopted. How does that make him/her feel? In the case where his parents couldn't/didn't want to look after him. Look it's a similar thing that society will have to learn to deal with.
Albeit, genetic engineering does have its drawbacks, but come-on so do a lot of early emerging sciences. We have to look for the good as well as try to protect ourselves against the negative effects as well. Of course it would be stupid to go on with projects like these without looking at the consequences but keep in mind all the benefits chemistry has made.
If I thought about all the BAD things all the time... well you get the picture...
-in tiauana
-Blackfire