Sorry then. I guess I missed the sarcasm with all the serious replies, and the insightfull moderation.. ahaha.. How do I remove my parent post?
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Is this a troll?
Telling people not to voice their opionions because of fear of what other people might think of you is an asinine way to excersice your right to free speech.
Yes, free speech is something we believe in at slashdot as well. We can and should make jokes. Why? Because we always make jokes about things! I would make a joke right now, but (1) I'm not that funny, and (2) I'm just too shocked that I am being told in a +5 comment not to say something.
Let the media report what they will. The fact is, some part of the community that you posted to can find humour in this. We are for sure a community that finds humour in everything.
Actually, now that I read your comment again, I am not sure you are serious. Perhaps it was just a joke and our mods have modded you insightfull?
Don't buy anything. Work on sharing the football team's headsets. They probably have a bigger budget than your theatre department anyways. This should work out as long as you never have a performance during a game, which you should never do anyways!!
If they don't have one, perhaps its a good time to talk about splitting the cost of one.
I don't know. I have seen a lot of students who have had someone pay for them simply piss away their time at college because they had no desire themselves to be their. Those that really want an education will make it a priority and find a way.
Whats my point? That those friends of yours that dropped out because it was too difficult, might not have gotten very much out of college had they completed it.
Ok, thank you for proving my point. Lets say you said that 56k was the limit to speed on a phone line.
64k is the very real limit for information transmission within the voice-band over standard copper pair used for POTS (plain old telephone service).
Ok, as you said. Now, DSL comes along and raises our speed to amounts of up to 8Mbit/s in my area.
Was some law of physics broken? No.
What did happen was people inovated in order to get more bandwidth over the telephone lines.
You're problem (as you have decided to make this discussion personal and mean spirited) is that you can't see three feet in front of you, and past the current way of doing things. I sure as hell hope you don't work at Intel, or we would never see the advances we are seeing now. You may be happy with the way things are now, but luckily there are others who use something called an imagination, and use it to innovate new ways of computing.
So while you can feel free to limit your discussion to physical impossibilites... Allow me to enlighten you to the fact that there are other projects in the works, any one of which, if successfull would revolutionize the way we think of a microprocessor.
I don't know where you were when modem speeds were being advanced, but I heard time and time again that we had hit the limit on speed. And the first time I remember hearing it was when USRobotics started looking at compression (MNP) to increase speed rather than the modem itself.
And luckily those doing research and development are able to use their imagination. If electons become too slow, someone will find something else.
Don't forget, the speed of sound was once considered a barrier and absolute limit to speeds of aircraft for many years.
I am sure we all remember when we were told that phone lines could not physically hold more than 2,400 bps. Well, we are at 56k now, and the only reason we stopped there is because cable modems have been invented and there is not as much money in it anymore.
If there is enough money to be had, humans will always find a way to push the limits further and further.
I should not imagine even mission critical production environments sticking with 2.4 after 2.6 is released.
Nope. There is no way we will be moving to 2.6. The boxes we have running 2.4 now will be running 2.4 untill the day they die. I imagine any mission critical environments will be doing the exact same thing as we are.
With new servers you put into production, you may consider 2.6 depending on speed/feature requirements. But existing mission critical machines will never be upgraded.
Think about it, you have a machine and a system that is working. What exactly are you trying to fix? Make it faster? If it was too slow for you, you would have already bought more hardware. So, its not too slow, its been working fine and has been tested. You would have to be mad to upgrade the thing.
Mission critical boxes usually always keep the same kernel version until the day the die.
Actually this is mostly true. Even if you don't spend all of your time working, you compare the benefits to an hour of work even if not conciously. I bet you buy food instead of growing it, buy clothes instead of making them, and take your car to a mechanic for major work. I could go on forever, but at some point it will be worth your money to go buy a CD instead of creating them yourself, if that is what you are doing now.
Not exactly. He didn't say to stop using FPS, just that there was an "endless fascination".
You may be happy looking ONLY at Horse Power in reviewing a car, but last I checked any car review does more that that. It also looks at Miles Per Gallon, comfort, and a host of other things. Probably MOST IMPORTANT in a new car review would be additional features or benefits that a car has. If the car is the first to have an airbag or cruise control, for example.
I doubt many people would buy a car just by looking at Horse Power, and in fact I don't think many people focus on it.
So I am full agreement with the grandparent: Most important is "how detailed a scene you can render at full frame rate."
I could care less if my card renders Wolfenstein3D at 10,000 fps. I want to know how good I can get a picture to look at a normal refresh rate.
How true. In fact this endless fascination of FPS on antiquated games I would bet has an effect on where money goes for R&D at these places. I can see it now, marketing insisting they don't need a new engine--just a faster processor on the chip or new algorithms so that Half Life can get a high number of frames per second.
New Catalyst drivers are released every other month and are no longer buggy.
Ok, I don't know much about video cards--but, isn't releasing a driver every month a bad thing? What are they fixing every month if the things is not buggy?
Correct. But my point is you only need one IP for your SMTP server, HTTP server, POP server, DNS Server, Exchange Server, or what not. NAT can also provide a way for you to load balance your multiple HTTP servers that serve the same content.
While not elimnating the need for multiple IP's, there are many ways that companies could save IPs if the need ever arose.
So don't be surprised if/when IPs become scarse that suddenly companies find IPs that they are not using. Thats all.
You'll never escape the limit of n internal servers, that require the same port and serve a different function,for n publicly addressable IPs. Not unless you do some kludge like having an http proxy looking at Host: headers on requests.
Just to be accurate. Because if your servers use different ports (i.e. mail servers, http servers, etc), or they are each serving the same content (i.e. load balancing), then a single ip is not a problem.
Also, why isn't the federal government coming out with a standard software framework for voting?
There is good reason.
The lesson should already have been learned. You don't want a single point that can be corrupted. There is good reason that each state is left to its own devices, and its own decisions etc about elections. It is a hell of a lot harder to rig 50 elections than it is to rig 1.
You want to let each state experiment with things. Eventually a system that works will eventually be left.
Yeah, funny. But, I would bet that there will be a patent on this. I would also bet it has already been applied for. I mean really, this is actually really inovative for them, there must be something patentable in this.
Anyways, stay tuned, I believe the Patent Office takes about a year these days to issue a patent?
The story will of course will run here on slashdot.
More than that, it's also perfectly legitimate for someone who is not the trademark holder to use the trademark for reviews or orther technical articles about the product.
This is saying that I cannot put up a website talking about how much Ford Sucks, how unhealthy McDonalds is, and then advertise it on Google.
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Sorry then. I guess I missed the sarcasm with all the serious replies, and the insightfull moderation.. ahaha.. How do I remove my parent post?
Is this a troll?
Telling people not to voice their opionions because of fear of what other people might think of you is an asinine way to excersice your right to free speech.
Yes, free speech is something we believe in at slashdot as well. We can and should make jokes. Why? Because we always make jokes about things! I would make a joke right now, but (1) I'm not that funny, and (2) I'm just too shocked that I am being told in a +5 comment not to say something.
Let the media report what they will. The fact is, some part of the community that you posted to can find humour in this. We are for sure a community that finds humour in everything.
Actually, now that I read your comment again, I am not sure you are serious. Perhaps it was just a joke and our mods have modded you insightfull?
Don't buy anything. Work on sharing the football team's headsets. They probably have a bigger budget than your theatre department anyways. This should work out as long as you never have a performance during a game, which you should never do anyways!!
If they don't have one, perhaps its a good time to talk about splitting the cost of one.
Fake ATM Fraud Expose
The most sophisticated thefts involve the purchase and setup of real ATMs that actually do dispense cash...
Ok, tell me again where the Fake ATM is?
Actually, I have always wondered about these little ATMs that I see in random places. Just walking by the machines makes me nervous!
I don't know. I have seen a lot of students who have had someone pay for them simply piss away their time at college because they had no desire themselves to be their. Those that really want an education will make it a priority and find a way.
Whats my point? That those friends of yours that dropped out because it was too difficult, might not have gotten very much out of college had they completed it.
Ok, thank you for proving my point. Lets say you said that 56k was the limit to speed on a phone line.
64k is the very real limit for information transmission within the voice-band over standard copper pair used for POTS (plain old telephone service).
Ok, as you said. Now, DSL comes along and raises our speed to amounts of up to 8Mbit/s in my area.
Was some law of physics broken? No.
What did happen was people inovated in order to get more bandwidth over the telephone lines.
You're problem (as you have decided to make this discussion personal and mean spirited) is that you can't see three feet in front of you, and past the current way of doing things. I sure as hell hope you don't work at Intel, or we would never see the advances we are seeing now. You may be happy with the way things are now, but luckily there are others who use something called an imagination, and use it to innovate new ways of computing.
So while you can feel free to limit your discussion to physical impossibilites... Allow me to enlighten you to the fact that there are other projects in the works, any one of which, if successfull would revolutionize the way we think of a microprocessor.
I don't know where you were when modem speeds were being advanced, but I heard time and time again that we had hit the limit on speed. And the first time I remember hearing it was when USRobotics started looking at compression (MNP) to increase speed rather than the modem itself.
And luckily those doing research and development are able to use their imagination. If electons become too slow, someone will find something else. Don't forget, the speed of sound was once considered a barrier and absolute limit to speeds of aircraft for many years.
There is no barrier.
I am sure we all remember when we were told that phone lines could not physically hold more than 2,400 bps.
Well, we are at 56k now, and the only reason we stopped there is because cable modems have been invented and there is not as much money in it anymore.
If there is enough money to be had, humans will always find a way to push the limits further and further.
I should not imagine even mission critical production environments sticking with 2.4 after 2.6 is released.
Nope. There is no way we will be moving to 2.6. The boxes we have running 2.4 now will be running 2.4 untill the day they die. I imagine any mission critical environments will be doing the exact same thing as we are.
With new servers you put into production, you may consider 2.6 depending on speed/feature requirements. But existing mission critical machines will never be upgraded.
Think about it, you have a machine and a system that is working. What exactly are you trying to fix? Make it faster? If it was too slow for you, you would have already bought more hardware. So, its not too slow, its been working fine and has been tested. You would have to be mad to upgrade the thing.
Mission critical boxes usually always keep the same kernel version until the day the die.
Actually this is mostly true. Even if you don't spend all of your time working, you compare the benefits to an hour of work even if not conciously. I bet you buy food instead of growing it, buy clothes instead of making them, and take your car to a mechanic for major work. I could go on forever, but at some point it will be worth your money to go buy a CD instead of creating them yourself, if that is what you are doing now.
Not exactly. He didn't say to stop using FPS, just that there was an "endless fascination".
You may be happy looking ONLY at Horse Power in reviewing a car, but last I checked any car review does more that that. It also looks at Miles Per Gallon, comfort, and a host of other things. Probably MOST IMPORTANT in a new car review would be additional features or benefits that a car has. If the car is the first to have an airbag or cruise control, for example.
I doubt many people would buy a car just by looking at Horse Power, and in fact I don't think many people focus on it.
So I am full agreement with the grandparent:
Most important is "how detailed a scene you can render at full frame rate."
I could care less if my card renders Wolfenstein3D at 10,000 fps. I want to know how good I can get a picture to look at a normal refresh rate.
How true. In fact this endless fascination of FPS on antiquated games I would bet has an effect on where money goes for R&D at these places. I can see it now, marketing insisting they don't need a new engine--just a faster processor on the chip or new algorithms so that Half Life can get a high number of frames per second.
New Catalyst drivers are released every other month and are no longer buggy.
Ok, I don't know much about video cards--but, isn't releasing a driver every month a bad thing? What are they fixing every month if the things is not buggy?
We make nothing off the tickets regardless of how much we sell them for.
I believe that should be:
We make nothing off the tickets the first week regardless of how much we sell them for.
Studios get 100% of tickets sales the first week, and declining percentages after that.
Correct. But my point is you only need one IP for your SMTP server, HTTP server, POP server, DNS Server, Exchange Server, or what not. NAT can also provide a way for you to load balance your multiple HTTP servers that serve the same content.
While not elimnating the need for multiple IP's, there are many ways that companies could save IPs if the need ever arose.
So don't be surprised if/when IPs become scarse that suddenly companies find IPs that they are not using. Thats all.
You'll never escape the limit of n internal servers , that require the same port and serve a different function, for n publicly addressable IPs. Not unless you do some kludge like having an http proxy looking at Host: headers on requests.
Just to be accurate. Because if your servers use different ports (i.e. mail servers, http servers, etc), or they are each serving the same content (i.e. load balancing), then a single ip is not a problem.
Also, why isn't the federal government coming out with a standard software framework for voting?
There is good reason.
The lesson should already have been learned. You don't want a single point that can be corrupted. There is good reason that each state is left to its own devices, and its own decisions etc about elections. It is a hell of a lot harder to rig 50 elections than it is to rig 1.
You want to let each state experiment with things. Eventually a system that works will eventually be left.
O.K. Well, even if nobody else did, I thought that was funny.
Yeah, funny. But, I would bet that there will be a patent on this. I would also bet it has already been applied for. I mean really, this is actually really inovative for them, there must be something patentable in this.
Anyways, stay tuned, I believe the Patent Office takes about a year these days to issue a patent?
The story will of course will run here on slashdot.
/dev/sda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.21 seconds =609.52 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 0.38 seconds =168.42 MB/sec SCSI wins.
More than that, it's also perfectly legitimate for someone who is not the trademark holder to use the trademark for reviews or orther technical articles about the product.
This is saying that I cannot put up a website talking about how much Ford Sucks, how unhealthy McDonalds is, and then advertise it on Google.
So much for free speach.
Or you could just take the whole damn PC.
Lets just recall Bill Gates!
I shorted SCOX 3 months ago you insensitive clod!
Its the rule of three. Say anything three times and it sounds more intelligent.