I don't know about you, but I would just keep driving straight, make sure I was in a legal part of the street, and hit her and her huge SUV. After that she would probably stop pulling that crap; but then again, my car isn't anything i really care a lot about. Around here I am just as likely to hit a deer and total my ride, so I would have no problem with setting her straight (and probably have her insurance pay for fixing my car, unlike in the case of a deer collision.) Her SUV may be large but a frontal/corner impact would definitely cost her big time cash, and probably have her insurance jump up quite a bit.
Server deployments these days are placed into laterally expandable environments serving up Windows based.NET server architectures or *nix based AMP solutions which are basically highly inefficient in terms of processing power. But everyone is happy because it's reasonably easy to develop solutions ontop of these frameworks. Here's some observed data as I hit my home computer with about one page refresh every one or two seconds:
The font chopped up the nice fixed formatting, but what is seen is that on my reasonably fast single core machine it used approximately 25% of the system's CPU power to serve up a small number of pages per second. This is with an installation of a MediaWiki on Linux with Mysql, so it's possible that other solutions are worse especially when having to render up more complex HTML. I am not an expert in this field though, so feel free to add to or correct my statements.
I dispute that. And even if Linux does die out, its legacy will continue. This is very true. Not to mention if 'Linux' dies it will just be the kernel. there is so much more to a linux distro/application stack than just the kernel. If anything is "headed to the landfill", it's the whole Closed Source model -- or more strictly, the egregious idea of keeping the Source Code of a program secret from its own users. This is the key statement. Do you think people these days would be buying Dells and running Solaris on them if Solaris wasn't open sourced? No; they would be too afraid that Sun would pull another quick one and decide that Solaris 11 (or whatever) wouldn't be released on x86. People forget about history, but not when this stuff happened so recently. Over time people may forget exactly why, but using Open Source Software will become second nature. People will start asking why there's no open development process, why there's not publicly available mailing lists, why the documentation for a peice of software isn't editable by the users, why the end users can't directly submit a bug request. All of those things lend themselves to a faster and more adaptable development process, and quicker turn around time for the customer. Why call up your proprietary vendor, sit on the phone waiting for an hour only to find out some information that you could have just looked up if their data sat in an externally viewable location? Transparency is also a great tool for the customer to evaluate the real quality of a product and the people behind it.
ummm, no.
from a google of "pedestrian right of way" and North Carolina (state in the U.S.) laws (src:
(c) Where a system of traffic-control signals or devices does not include special pedestrian-control signals, pedestrians shall be subject to the vehicular traffic-control signals or devices as they apply to pedestrian traffic.
and...
20-174. Crossing at other than crosswalks; walking along highway.
(a) Every pedestrian crossing a roadway at any point other than within a marked crosswalk or within an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles upon the roadway.
I don't care to refute everything you say, but my older computer could run vista. It's a 1.6Ghz (AMD 1900+ XP) with 1Gb of ram and 2x40GB hard drives which clearly fits the bill. (The video card is also DX9 capable with 128MB ram, but that was a previously upgraded component.) It is about 5 years old. According to the all knowing and never wrong wikipedia the cpu was released on November 5, 2001. I don't remember but it might be the Thoroughbred core, in which case my point is completely incorrect. Not that I care, Vista isn't coming close to my computers. For my uses Linux is just fine, and in the future I'll only consider OS X and Linux. Non-the-less there are definitely 3 and 5 year old computers that are capable of running Vista; whether they should is a different answer.
As for your other points you're definitely correct. Billy G was talking out of his lower orifice, although to the uneducated he may have sounded reputable.
Except I can't shoot a corporation as the last course of action.
Since this comment was incredibly flame worthy and highly insensitive: If you can't sense sarcasm or have no sense of humor then anyone that replies needs to preemptively know that I don't care what you have to say.
jumping from a 2.4 kernel to a 2.6 kernel is a big step and 2.6 doesn't support everything that 2.4 does. redhat 9 had 2.4 and fedora 4 has 2.6 i don't want to state the obvious but this is something you should consider before saying "Or do you mean that Fedora Core can't be regarded as the same distro as the original Red Hat series?" and therefore concluding that you need to purchase RHEL. I used to use the various Redhat products, I even purchased RH8 professional and had a subscription to the redhat network for a while. I would have kept paying for that service but Redhat decided that I was not a market they were striving for, and realistically it was the correct choice for them to make. I am very happy with Fedora and I like the choices they have made with their plans for 7.
whoops, i should've said "8 special purpose cores". the ensuing failure of PS3 gaming is almost self-prophetic. they've designed something that is very hard for programmers to fully utilize. the parallels to the itanium 2 are almost obvious.
the xbox 360 will definitely rule the roost for next gen games, as it already has many decent titles and early adoption on its side. (... as an aside i find it interesting how people are all coming out to pick on the ps3 and sony. i don't know how sony could fair worse recently considering the psp's firmware/community lockout problems, ps3 complicated design, and the music disc's rootkits. but for me it doesn't matter as i've always hated sony.)
from all knowing never wrong wikipedia: "It has a PowerPC-based "Power Processing Element" (PPE) and six accessible 3.2 GHz Synergistic Processing Elements (SPEs), a seventh runs in a special mode and is dedicated to OS security, and an eighth disabled to improve production yields." I do remember seeing pictures of the chip's layout which definitely indicate it has 8 cores.
While being a humorous post you bring up a good point. Using electricity at night instead of the daytime can be easier on the electric grid because we're not burning extra coal during the peak hours.
We're geeks which makes this even more hilarious. We could just leave one main machine running at night instead of all n of them. We could try to not use old left over CRTs. We could try to get by on one hard drive instead of 4. We could get rid of that tiny pop/snack fridge that wastes massive amounts of electricity per year. Hell, we are still mixing 5v and 12v in all of our personal computers. (remember how google recently asked if we could switch to just 5v for most uses?) The lives that the typical computer geek/nerd lives has room for improvement just like anyone else.
you know, i never really thought of it, but unix was originally meant for gaming. holy carp. it is too bad it didn't evolve well with it, but I suppose the thing to blame is the unix wars. the potential speed for gaming even on linux is pretty intense. some of the schedulers may need some tuning but even so the times used in system calls is pretty low, and the other stuff like transferring data to the video card is probably the only hurdle. there was a writeup by the nvidia folks about what freebsd would need to do to get up to linux's speed levels that is quite interesting. in some ways, the linux kernel's desire to only allow open drivers and the unix wars of old produce slightly similar results. (not that I am going to argue for closed drivers -- no elf'in way) oh how i pity the fate of beos.
This situation is rather simple. There is a problem so Nintendo is addressing it. Don't blame this on the consumers, what else could happen if people make pitching and swinging motions directed toward a television while playing a baseball game on the Wii? So Nintendo puts these straps on the controllers to control them after a slip occurs. It turns out they weren't strong enough. This could be anyones fault, from testing to manufacturing. Websites like this exist for a reason./end hopelessly obvious and redundant rant.
Great comment. I totally agree, we as customers can easily afford to have the help getting paid at least a dollar or two more. And mandatory insurance provided by employer isn't bad for those employees above a certain age, say 18. If they do all of this correct then the price of items really wouldn't have to go up much, but this all depends on the old geezers that own these said restaurants and other places of low-education employment.
I worked at McDonalds for over 4 years while in high school and part of college and I agree with others that it really shouldn't drive up the costs much. But good employees usually aren't paid minimum wage, i know I was getting several dollars over without being a manager. Just as an anecdote, I never once worked with a Mexican at McDonalds, but we were in a smallish growing town that had a lot of hard working teenagers. Call it the midwestern work ethic or whatever you want but there was rarely a bad apple that was lazy and called in sick all the time or didn't work hard (src South Dakota.)
I believe in standing by what I say, and if I needed to speak out against my government I would love to be held accountable. Sort of why the Declaration of Independence wasn't signed by "Anonymous Coward."
"lobby to make incandescent bulbs illegal, leavign lights on illegal, using hotplates and space heaters illegal, hairdryers, etc." that is ridiculous, people have freedoms (at least in this country) and to make those things illegal is going to far. the thing to do is to educate people that doing those things is costly to themselves and the environment.
My vote on all of this: send a letter to every corporation/large business entity requesting them to shut the lights off or set them to low when there are less employees around. Where I work they keep the lights on way too late.
You have to read between some of the lines here. Schwartz has said (i'm not sure if it was his blog or some videos they put up recently) that through open sourcing Solaris, they have opened the doors for more potential customers. He says they are now seeing licenses purchased for boxes that came from IBM, HP, Dell etc. My view is that these customers would have been too scared to go with Solaris unless they open sourced it, because in the past Sun had abandoned Solaris on x86.
2. If 1 person pays for the downloading of 1000 people plus themselves. Then 1000 people haven't broken the law because the music has been paid for? that's the part i never figured out. for the price they make people pay for these songs, it seems like it would only work if this upload was propogated on and you were charged for subsequent uploads. but since when is person A made to pay the penalty for the actions of persons B and C? And how come they are allowed to go after people that have allowed large numbers of uploads, they allowed other people to commit (B and C) a crime, but person A didn't actually commit it. {snip out more rant here} me personally, i don't care - i buy my music, and i don't let others upload it.
I don't think racists are humorous either. I have been to the inner city, Chicago & Minneapolis-StPaul (though only Chicago was bad). Having seen the shit hole of a situation the inner city poor are in, in the usa, i have a slightly different outlook. but people are racist no matter where you go, but usually their racism is just misdirected anger. in the end though, all of us replying to the original stupid comment doesn't help anything. from my view there's this analysis: * the indians are still pissed because we took their land and never treated them right. * the blacks are still pissed for too many reasons to say. * the euro-whities are pissed because the other two haven't assimilated yet and our plans to breed them out failed. and we're just plain racists most of the time.
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I don't know about you, but I would just keep driving straight, make sure I was in a legal part of the street, and hit her and her huge SUV. After that she would probably stop pulling that crap; but then again, my car isn't anything i really care a lot about. Around here I am just as likely to hit a deer and total my ride, so I would have no problem with setting her straight (and probably have her insurance pay for fixing my car, unlike in the case of a deer collision.) Her SUV may be large but a frontal/corner impact would definitely cost her big time cash, and probably have her insurance jump up quite a bit.
Server deployments these days are placed into laterally expandable environments serving up Windows based .NET server architectures or *nix based AMP solutions which are basically highly inefficient in terms of processing power. But everyone is happy because it's reasonably easy to develop solutions ontop of these frameworks. Here's some observed data as I hit my home computer with about one page refresh every one or two seconds:
The font chopped up the nice fixed formatting, but what is seen is that on my reasonably fast single core machine it used approximately 25% of the system's CPU power to serve up a small number of pages per second. This is with an installation of a MediaWiki on Linux with Mysql, so it's possible that other solutions are worse especially when having to render up more complex HTML. I am not an expert in this field though, so feel free to add to or correct my statements.
I dispute that. And even if Linux does die out, its legacy will continue.
This is very true. Not to mention if 'Linux' dies it will just be the kernel. there is so much more to a linux distro/application stack than just the kernel.
If anything is "headed to the landfill", it's the whole Closed Source model -- or more strictly, the egregious idea of keeping the Source Code of a program secret from its own users.
This is the key statement. Do you think people these days would be buying Dells and running Solaris on them if Solaris wasn't open sourced? No; they would be too afraid that Sun would pull another quick one and decide that Solaris 11 (or whatever) wouldn't be released on x86. People forget about history, but not when this stuff happened so recently. Over time people may forget exactly why, but using Open Source Software will become second nature. People will start asking why there's no open development process, why there's not publicly available mailing lists, why the documentation for a peice of software isn't editable by the users, why the end users can't directly submit a bug request. All of those things lend themselves to a faster and more adaptable development process, and quicker turn around time for the customer. Why call up your proprietary vendor, sit on the phone waiting for an hour only to find out some information that you could have just looked up if their data sat in an externally viewable location? Transparency is also a great tool for the customer to evaluate the real quality of a product and the people behind it.
ummm, no.
from a google of "pedestrian right of way" and North Carolina (state in the U.S.) laws (src: (c) Where a system of traffic-control signals or devices does not include special pedestrian-control signals, pedestrians shall be subject to the vehicular traffic-control signals or devices as they apply to pedestrian traffic.
and...
20-174. Crossing at other than crosswalks; walking along highway.
(a) Every pedestrian crossing a roadway at any point other than within a marked crosswalk or within an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles upon the roadway.
oh man, that's good. i wish i had mod-points.
I don't care to refute everything you say, but my older computer could run vista. It's a 1.6Ghz (AMD 1900+ XP) with 1Gb of ram and 2x40GB hard drives which clearly fits the bill. (The video card is also DX9 capable with 128MB ram, but that was a previously upgraded component.) It is about 5 years old. According to the all knowing and never wrong wikipedia the cpu was released on November 5, 2001. I don't remember but it might be the Thoroughbred core, in which case my point is completely incorrect. Not that I care, Vista isn't coming close to my computers. For my uses Linux is just fine, and in the future I'll only consider OS X and Linux. Non-the-less there are definitely 3 and 5 year old computers that are capable of running Vista; whether they should is a different answer.
As for your other points you're definitely correct. Billy G was talking out of his lower orifice, although to the uneducated he may have sounded reputable.
Except I can't shoot a corporation as the last course of action.
Since this comment was incredibly flame worthy and highly insensitive: If you can't sense sarcasm or have no sense of humor then anyone that replies needs to preemptively know that I don't care what you have to say.
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=2682730&page=1
I thought people knew by now that it is the poor that are generous.
jumping from a 2.4 kernel to a 2.6 kernel is a big step and 2.6 doesn't support everything that 2.4 does. redhat 9 had 2.4 and fedora 4 has 2.6 i don't want to state the obvious but this is something you should consider before saying "Or do you mean that Fedora Core can't be regarded as the same distro as the original Red Hat series?" and therefore concluding that you need to purchase RHEL. I used to use the various Redhat products, I even purchased RH8 professional and had a subscription to the redhat network for a while. I would have kept paying for that service but Redhat decided that I was not a market they were striving for, and realistically it was the correct choice for them to make. I am very happy with Fedora and I like the choices they have made with their plans for 7.
nice, modded as flamebait. anyways, in response to gp post : here's another youtube video that makes you wonder.
If you're willing to think about the situation then there are books out there that take a fair look at gun control. I only scrounged up two, sorry.
whoops, i should've said "8 special purpose cores". the ensuing failure of PS3 gaming is almost self-prophetic. they've designed something that is very hard for programmers to fully utilize. the parallels to the itanium 2 are almost obvious.
the xbox 360 will definitely rule the roost for next gen games, as it already has many decent titles and early adoption on its side. ( ... as an aside i find it interesting how people are all coming out to pick on the ps3 and sony. i don't know how sony could fair worse recently considering the psp's firmware/community lockout problems, ps3 complicated design, and the music disc's rootkits. but for me it doesn't matter as i've always hated sony.)
from all knowing never wrong wikipedia: "It has a PowerPC-based "Power Processing Element" (PPE) and six accessible 3.2 GHz Synergistic Processing Elements (SPEs), a seventh runs in a special mode and is dedicated to OS security, and an eighth disabled to improve production yields." I do remember seeing pictures of the chip's layout which definitely indicate it has 8 cores.
While being a humorous post you bring up a good point. Using electricity at night instead of the daytime can be easier on the electric grid because we're not burning extra coal during the peak hours.
welcome to the "arguments on the internet suck and don't work" group. i applaud you for apologizing.
We're geeks which makes this even more hilarious. We could just leave one main machine running at night instead of all n of them. We could try to not use old left over CRTs. We could try to get by on one hard drive instead of 4. We could get rid of that tiny pop/snack fridge that wastes massive amounts of electricity per year. Hell, we are still mixing 5v and 12v in all of our personal computers. (remember how google recently asked if we could switch to just 5v for most uses?) The lives that the typical computer geek/nerd lives has room for improvement just like anyone else.
you know, i never really thought of it, but unix was originally meant for gaming. holy carp. it is too bad it didn't evolve well with it, but I suppose the thing to blame is the unix wars. the potential speed for gaming even on linux is pretty intense. some of the schedulers may need some tuning but even so the times used in system calls is pretty low, and the other stuff like transferring data to the video card is probably the only hurdle. there was a writeup by the nvidia folks about what freebsd would need to do to get up to linux's speed levels that is quite interesting. in some ways, the linux kernel's desire to only allow open drivers and the unix wars of old produce slightly similar results. (not that I am going to argue for closed drivers -- no elf'in way) oh how i pity the fate of beos.
This situation is rather simple. There is a problem so Nintendo is addressing it. Don't blame this on the consumers, what else could happen if people make pitching and swinging motions directed toward a television while playing a baseball game on the Wii? So Nintendo puts these straps on the controllers to control them after a slip occurs. It turns out they weren't strong enough. This could be anyones fault, from testing to manufacturing. Websites like this exist for a reason. /end hopelessly obvious and redundant rant.
Great comment. I totally agree, we as customers can easily afford to have the help getting paid at least a dollar or two more. And mandatory insurance provided by employer isn't bad for those employees above a certain age, say 18. If they do all of this correct then the price of items really wouldn't have to go up much, but this all depends on the old geezers that own these said restaurants and other places of low-education employment.
I worked at McDonalds for over 4 years while in high school and part of college and I agree with others that it really shouldn't drive up the costs much. But good employees usually aren't paid minimum wage, i know I was getting several dollars over without being a manager. Just as an anecdote, I never once worked with a Mexican at McDonalds, but we were in a smallish growing town that had a lot of hard working teenagers. Call it the midwestern work ethic or whatever you want but there was rarely a bad apple that was lazy and called in sick all the time or didn't work hard (src South Dakota.)
I believe in standing by what I say, and if I needed to speak out against my government I would love to be held accountable. Sort of why the Declaration of Independence wasn't signed by "Anonymous Coward."
"lobby to make incandescent bulbs illegal, leavign lights on illegal, using hotplates and space heaters illegal, hairdryers, etc." that is ridiculous, people have freedoms (at least in this country) and to make those things illegal is going to far. the thing to do is to educate people that doing those things is costly to themselves and the environment.
My vote on all of this: send a letter to every corporation/large business entity requesting them to shut the lights off or set them to low when there are less employees around. Where I work they keep the lights on way too late.
You have to read between some of the lines here. Schwartz has said (i'm not sure if it was his blog or some videos they put up recently) that through open sourcing Solaris, they have opened the doors for more potential customers. He says they are now seeing licenses purchased for boxes that came from IBM, HP, Dell etc. My view is that these customers would have been too scared to go with Solaris unless they open sourced it, because in the past Sun had abandoned Solaris on x86.
2. If 1 person pays for the downloading of 1000 people plus themselves. Then 1000 people haven't broken the law because the music has been paid for?
that's the part i never figured out. for the price they make people pay for these songs, it seems like it would only work if this upload was propogated on and you were charged for subsequent uploads. but since when is person A made to pay the penalty for the actions of persons B and C? And how come they are allowed to go after people that have allowed large numbers of uploads, they allowed other people to commit (B and C) a crime, but person A didn't actually commit it. {snip out more rant here} me personally, i don't care - i buy my music, and i don't let others upload it.
I don't think racists are humorous either. I have been to the inner city, Chicago & Minneapolis-StPaul (though only Chicago was bad). Having seen the shit hole of a situation the inner city poor are in, in the usa, i have a slightly different outlook. but people are racist no matter where you go, but usually their racism is just misdirected anger. in the end though, all of us replying to the original stupid comment doesn't help anything. from my view there's this analysis:
* the indians are still pissed because we took their land and never treated them right.
* the blacks are still pissed for too many reasons to say.
* the euro-whities are pissed because the other two haven't assimilated yet and our plans to breed them out failed. and we're just plain racists most of the time.
yea, you bet. so choose a license different than the gpl. quite simple really.