What surprises me is that it's still taking quite some time for it to start popping up in actual production environments. Not sure what the reasons for this are.
Huge installed 32 bit codebase.
$1200 price tag for little speed gains.
Unproven platform.
I think thoses are good enough reasons. Also, many hacks are in place to allow 32 bit systems to do a lot of stuff 64 bit ones can do, for example, creating files > 2GB.
Yes, they would last forever in space, however, space is surely out of their temperature specifications, and they would probably be too small to use from thermal contraction. But that's just speculation...
I was just repsonding to the offhand way the original poster said he "threw it in as swap", as if swap was some non-critical thing that you can throw junk drives in for.
I'm doing testing with some unusual swap configurations, and I can tell you, the Linux VM doesn't always handle swap very gracefully if it becomes unavilable suddenly for some reason, or if something else goes wrong. There is a high likelyhood of a deadlock.
RTFA, they last anywhere from 2 days to 2 weeks depending on the coating. Exposure to laser doesn't seem to be the factor, seems to beoxidation due to exposure to air.
The only alternative would be to hire decent staff - which costs even more money. Blockbuster is about PROFITS not TURNOVER and would happily reduce its overall turnover to increase the profit margin.
If they really cared about their employees, they wouldn't subject them to Nazi-eque hair follicle drug testing that will detect drugs used anywhere within the last 3 months.
(I avoid Godwin's law because this is my first post to the thread.:)
/prov./ [Usenet] "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups.
You said things to damage the company you worked for. In public. Under your real name.
I think you are almost eligible for a darwin award.
You can try to get a lawyer, but I doubt you would get much. Freedom in the USA means freedom of speech, it also means freedom to fire people you don't like for whatever reason you want. (Except for a few reasons, such as skin color, religion, etc).
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How would you like it if a bunch of people got together and PUBLICLY posted how much of a moron you are?
Leave it to a stupid christian to not know what "without form and void means".
WITH FORM AND VOID
VOID:
1 a : not occupied : VACANT b : not inhabited : DESERTED
2 : containing nothing
3 : IDLE, LEISURE
4 a : being without : DEVOID b : having no members or examples; specifically of a suit : having no cards represented in a particular hand
5 : VAIN, USELESS
6 a : of no legal force or effect : NULL b : VOIDABLE
As in NOT EXISTING.
FORM:
1 a : the shape and structure of something as distinguished from its material b : a body (as of a person) especially in its external appearance or as distinguished from the face : FIGURE c archaic : BEAUTY
WITHOUT SHAPE OR STRUCTURE (form).
Maybe you should try reading something other than your fantasy book about your imaginary friend that watches you all the time.
Odds of winning depend on the number and quality of entries received.
As always, IANAL, but...:)
When you state "odds" of winning, that implies a certain randomness to the game, which in some states makes this a sweepstake, instead of a contest of skill, which is VERY bad. That means it is most likely void in many states in the Union. (or subject to rediculous restrictions) Beware, and lets hope Google retains better lawyers soon.
I think it should be dismissed out of hand. Most MS vulernabilities are severe, basic, remote exploits.
A lot of the Linux "exploits" are very subtle, and very difficult to exploit. Sure Linux has some glaring ones too, but we find a lot more of the minor ones because of so many people looking at the code, and the fact that every one of our potential security bugs is made public, whereas it's impossible to know how many minor exploits are silently fixed with no announcement on the MS side.
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What surprises me is that it's still taking quite some time for it to start popping up in actual production environments. Not sure what the reasons for this are.
Huge installed 32 bit codebase.
$1200 price tag for little speed gains.
Unproven platform.
I think thoses are good enough reasons. Also, many hacks are in place to allow 32 bit systems to do a lot of stuff 64 bit ones can do, for example, creating files > 2GB.
I bet this time they won't hire OJ Simpson to fake the Mars Landing.
(MODS- It's an obscure joke, just because you don't get it doesn't mean it's offtopic)
Yes, they would last forever in space, however, space is surely out of their temperature specifications, and they would probably be too small to use from thermal contraction. But that's just speculation...
I was just repsonding to the offhand way the original poster said he "threw it in as swap", as if swap was some non-critical thing that you can throw junk drives in for.
I'm doing testing with some unusual swap configurations, and I can tell you, the Linux VM doesn't always handle swap very gracefully if it becomes unavilable suddenly for some reason, or if something else goes wrong. There is a high likelyhood of a deadlock.
RTFA
RTFA, they last anywhere from 2 days to 2 weeks depending on the coating. Exposure to laser doesn't seem to be the factor, seems to beoxidation due to exposure to air.
The only alternative would be to hire decent staff - which costs even more money. Blockbuster is about PROFITS not TURNOVER and would happily reduce its overall turnover to increase the profit margin.
:)
If they really cared about their employees, they wouldn't subject them to Nazi-eque hair follicle drug testing that will detect drugs used anywhere within the last 3 months.
(I avoid Godwin's law because this is my first post to the thread.
It's called Godwin's law.
Godwin's Law
/prov./ [Usenet] "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups.
You said things to damage the company you worked for. In public. Under your real name.
I think you are almost eligible for a darwin award.
You can try to get a lawyer, but I doubt you would get much. Freedom in the USA means freedom of speech, it also means freedom to fire people you don't like for whatever reason you want. (Except for a few reasons, such as skin color, religion, etc).
How would you like it if a bunch of people got together and PUBLICLY posted how much of a moron you are?
I'd probably take a hint.
Leave it to a stupid christian to not know what "without form and void means".
WITH FORM AND VOID
VOID:
1 a : not occupied : VACANT b : not inhabited : DESERTED
2 : containing nothing
3 : IDLE, LEISURE
4 a : being without : DEVOID b : having no members or examples; specifically of a suit : having no cards represented in a particular hand
5 : VAIN, USELESS
6 a : of no legal force or effect : NULL b : VOIDABLE
As in NOT EXISTING.
FORM:
1 a : the shape and structure of something as distinguished from its material b : a body (as of a person) especially in its external appearance or as distinguished from the face : FIGURE c archaic : BEAUTY
WITHOUT SHAPE OR STRUCTURE (form).
Maybe you should try reading something other than your fantasy book about your imaginary friend that watches you all the time.
350,000 to 3.5 million years is pretty close to 8 years old, on a geological scale.
I'd say if anything, this proves that the dating is accurate.
Google is messing up:
:)
Odds of winning depend on the number and quality of entries received.
As always, IANAL, but...
When you state "odds" of winning, that implies a certain randomness to the game, which in some states makes this a sweepstake, instead of a contest of skill, which is VERY bad. That means it is most likely void in many states in the Union. (or subject to rediculous restrictions) Beware, and lets hope Google retains better lawyers soon.
SPAM is spiced meat in a can.
Spam is unsolicited, widely distributed, usually automated, advertisements.
Please get it right. Hormel has been cool about all this, at least respect their wishes about the use of their trademark.
I doubt that I'd be very excited about chatting with a bot that learned to communicate by reading the USENET archives.
I'm not sure what you mean by learned to communicate by reading the USENET archive.
We were talking about you, not me.
How does it make you feel when you chatting with a bot that learned to communicate by reading the UDENET archives?
How does it make you feel when you RTFM in your Nazi garb?
(I know, this post is too subtle, the 13 year old moderators won't get the joke, and I will be modded down.)
I believe they pay the fees to patent your stuff (a few thousand at most), and then take a cut of any future profits you might get from said patent.
I'm sure they only accept the better ideas for this anyway, so it's like venture capital from a loan shark sort of.
FTP requires a login to the machine too... maybe not one with shell access, but still an account must be created.
Yeah, but so far (unless I am doing something really wrong), rsync over ssh here locally is dog slow, something like 600 KILO bytes/sec over gigabit!
I'm going to troubleshoot it eventually, but I think a lot of it just has to do with the way rsync works.
I think it should be dismissed out of hand. Most MS vulernabilities are severe, basic, remote exploits.
A lot of the Linux "exploits" are very subtle, and very difficult to exploit. Sure Linux has some glaring ones too, but we find a lot more of the minor ones because of so many people looking at the code, and the fact that every one of our potential security bugs is made public, whereas it's impossible to know how many minor exploits are silently fixed with no announcement on the MS side.
God, you all claim to be nerds?
The article clearly states that he is cancelling the mission to Europa in his proposed cut.
The references are to 2001... You know, the book (or movie)?
THE PARENT IS NOT OFFTOPIC YOU LAME FUCK MODERATOR.
Bush wants to cancel the mission to Europa for good reason....
All these worlds are yours, except Europa.
He got that message last year, after he discovered weapons in a fax paux involving hitting Cheney with a chicken bone after a White House dinner.
It was open source anyway, check the submitter's home page.
It was open source. Read his home page. Here
It was open source, go to his homepage.
From his page:
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