This is something that Emacs has in the GNUS client, you score emails up and down and it starts adding filtering rules. Using LISP you could extend this to do some pretty funky moderating.
Every problem is reducable to a previously solved problem or by definition is unsolveable - Church Turing Thesis.
You buy something that breaks after a few hours, its then just plain trash.
So apart from being bad from an environmental, consumer and most other perspectives this is a good thing because it helps push up the pollution rates even further.
1) Fine MS, this could be a small amount (say similar to the $150m it fined Nintendo) or a large amount (its MS what should the limit be).
2) Reorganise the way MS products are classified which could change the way they are taxed.
3) Ban certain products from being sold in the EU.
4) Declare certain individuals to be culpable for the violations and have them subject to arrest if they enter the EU.
Quite a few other things, saying they can't do much is like when President Bush demanded the Chinese do nothing to that spy plane.... so they sent it back in crates.
1) US courts regularly deny the authority of courts abroad
2) US courts regularly assume their rules apply abroad.
3) When the EU has ruled against US product before (growth hormone is not allowed in beef sold in the EU) the US claims it is a restraint of trade and raises it to the EU.
So what will probably happen is MS will rightly be found guilty, they will ignore the remedy, and when it is enforced they will bleat to the president who will "defend US interests", he will ignore the rights of foreign courts and claim this is purely anti-competative and anti-US rather than being a different resolution applied to EXACTLY the same finding of guilt found in the US.
Personally I hope the EU stands up and gives them a bloody nose, and makes its move over to Open Source even quicker.
Meet ISS who says she is being used and abused by men, and indeed women, she says she has entertained over 112 people in the last two years and has gained over 200,000 pounds. ISS says that all of these people leave after a short period of time and never come back. But she says that she still has a positive outlook on life and doesn't feel the weight is a problem, in fact she hardly feels it at all...
Well Lets bring out ISS...
JERRY JERRY JERRY JERRY JERRY JERRY JERRY JERRY JERRY JERRY JERRY JERRY JERRY JERRY JERRY JERRY
Now for something with real bizarre appeal you need to go for...S/390 on a laptop. Yes folks thats right, the great big clunking mainframe in the backroom running on your own Thinkpad.
Solaris is for wimps, I wouldn't go anywhere without my portable mainframe system.
I left Uni with one programming language (Ada) (Okay and LISP, M68k, Prolog and other really useful languages!) one OS (AIX) but I understood however thing worked.
However the answer to the question "do you know X" is always "yes" the advantage to theory is that it makes the lie true. How long to learn a new language ? If you understand the theory then the only thing that matters is syntax, 2 days ? 3 more days to learn the libraries ?
You resume should say that at University you learnt the following, not "I taught myself" because employers will look for the former wording not the later.
Jesus though "Advanced web design" where you do Perl. What has the planet come to ? Sorry to sound like an old fart but "Advanced Web Design" doesn't sound like something in a degree, it sounds like a Dummies book. XML as a course ? Its a bloody markup language, what is there to learn ? XSLT ?!
Learning extra languages or technologies is simple if you just understand the principles. Then you can claim to have known them for years, even though it was only last week when you found out this interview required it. As long as you can understand the theory then everything else makes sense.... except VB.
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I know it sounds harsh but the reality is that most courses worry about Java, C++, Jaluna and people become concerned about the technologies rather than the theories.
The person who knows Knuth will be able to code in any language, the person who doesn't is limited in what they can do. Did your course teach you how to dope a transistor, build an Op-Amp ? An AND Gate ? A Compiler for a processor you design ? An OS for that Processor ?
And did it do all of these by starting with theory or was the first lesson "Print hello world" ?
The problem with practical courses is that they teach people to be the bricklayers of the Software Engineering world. The theory course teach you to be the engineer and how to apply theory to practicality.
It isn't about being taught "cool" technologies, its about being taught the theory behind them. RTOS is great in that it teaches you about Thread-death, dead-lock, live-lock, IO blocking, race conditions in a very immediate environment, so when you build a bigger system you automatically avoid those issues because you understand what is the right way to work.
Some Universities do teach the cool theory stuff, but most people don't choose to do that as its harder. It also makes you less marketable in the first year after graduation as you don't have the buzzwords... 12 months on however you'll be roasting everyone.
The EU has no love are large US Companies, they are after all the competition. There is less lobbying in the EU (though loads of corruption) and at the end of the day do you think that the French, Germans, Italians, Spanish etc etc would prefer to see a US Monopoly or something else ?
Or put it another way. If MS had been French, the DoJ would have remedied them out of existence by now.
Watch as the Elegant Linux penguins migrate from Finland down into central Europe for the harsh winter ahead. Linux Penguins are unusual as the only northen hemisphere penguins in the wild, this documentary shows they unusual mating dances and how they manage to move their young thousands of miles by transporting them as small ISO images.
Truely one of natures great wonders.
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Too true, never can trust a man call Georgia. Its the cross-dressing and stetson that are a dead give away.
Now a Pumpkin in a PC.... that would be something... actually generalise it. The first ever PC Oven, don't both with fans or heat sinks turn a rack of PCs into....
The first computer powered Aga Oh yes, think of it now. No longer will you not have time to cook and eat, because your cooker is right in front of you.
To get the required heat will need some additional engineering but a 64 way beowulf cluster should be enough. Soon cooking books will have references to "Gas Mark 5, or 10 processors at 100%".
I have always found that the best way to manage a team is by example. First person who breaks the build, smash his hands. Second person, shoot in the head... sure enough everyone learns from that example and works extra hard.
This is great that these things are comming as standard in the kernel, but so many things are "standard" now its getting pretty large for joe-schmo average user who will get a full kitchen sink kernel with their distro.
This is also great for creating products like VPN gateways et al, but is it time to consider a different structure for kernel builds, with modules being seperately managed with a smarter installation procedure.
Because they didn't get the viewers. This means they think there are more people who will watch the new stuff.... and bugger all who would watch the old stuff.
The advantage of Linux (and to a lesser extent W2K) and the low end Solaris, AIX servers is that for the first time it was sensible to scale horizontally, so rather than have 1 box that did everything ala a Mainframe you'd have 10 that shared the work, then you'd add 5 more. And because the real bottlenecks now are disk and other IO issues you start using things like EMC, Cached RAID disks and lots of other very expensive storage.
But if you are scaling an application horizontally the last thing these days is the processor speed, sure the heavy duty maths is still sitting on a mainframe, your ERP is still on an AS400, but that is more about reliability than power. Intel boxes fail, period, so having one box isn't a smart move, have 10 is a more sensible approach.
Dual NIC, external disk via fibre channel. That is where I'll spend the cash. The processor just needs to be fast enough, and I'd like there to be at least two in the box. 2 Boxes doing everything, federated systems.
If you lob everything on one box, then yes you need all the processor speed you can handle, you also need to think about what happens when the box fails.
If Intel announced that this new processor could degrade its performance when issues arose then I'd be interested. Overheating ? Turn off hyperthreading and drop the clock speed. Still got issues, move down to minimum speed and start a shutdown process.
I like servers that will run for 5-10 years with no down time. But with Intel/AMD boxen I'll stick with lobbing in lots on the basis that they'll fail.
A Salesman once stated in all seriousness that using the AIX S/80 64Way I could have 128 concurrent Quake users, this meant getting 128 graphics cards but it could be done.
With the standard "worlds largest computer" binaries installed. Its on the 10th CD that they paste into the box so you have to cut it open with a knife.
They haven't got any one who has bought the 7.2 CDs yet and they don't have a CD-R to use the downloaded ISOs, so its just plain 6.0 but they are using a KDE desktop.
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This is something that Emacs has in the GNUS client, you score emails up and down and it starts adding filtering rules. Using LISP you could extend this to do some pretty funky moderating.
Every problem is reducable to a previously solved problem or by definition is unsolveable - Church Turing Thesis.
You buy something that breaks after a few hours, its then just plain trash.
So apart from being bad from an environmental, consumer and most other perspectives this is a good thing because it helps push up the pollution rates even further.
So its about the same as a laptop, but has less power, is way more expensive than a PDA but doesn't fit in your pocket.
How is this inexpensive ? What next "Inexpensive Ferrari" ?
1) Fine MS, this could be a small amount (say similar to the $150m it fined Nintendo) or a large amount (its MS what should the limit be).
2) Reorganise the way MS products are classified which could change the way they are taxed.
3) Ban certain products from being sold in the EU.
4) Declare certain individuals to be culpable for the violations and have them subject to arrest if they enter the EU.
Quite a few other things, saying they can't do much is like when President Bush demanded the Chinese do nothing to that spy plane.... so they sent it back in crates.
1) US courts regularly deny the authority of courts abroad
2) US courts regularly assume their rules apply abroad.
3) When the EU has ruled against US product before (growth hormone is not allowed in beef sold in the EU) the US claims it is a restraint of trade and raises it to the EU.
So what will probably happen is MS will rightly be found guilty, they will ignore the remedy, and when it is enforced they will bleat to the president who will "defend US interests", he will ignore the rights of foreign courts and claim this is purely anti-competative and anti-US rather than being a different resolution applied to EXACTLY the same finding of guilt found in the US.
Personally I hope the EU stands up and gives them a bloody nose, and makes its move over to Open Source even quicker.
Meet ISS who says she is being used and abused by men, and indeed women, she says she has entertained over 112 people in the last two years and has gained over 200,000 pounds. ISS says that all of these people leave after a short period of time and never come back. But she says that she still has a positive outlook on life and doesn't feel the weight is a problem, in fact she hardly feels it at all...
Well Lets bring out ISS...
JERRY JERRY JERRY JERRY JERRY JERRY JERRY JERRY JERRY JERRY JERRY JERRY JERRY JERRY JERRY JERRY
Now for something with real bizarre appeal you need to go for...S/390 on a laptop. Yes folks thats right, the great big clunking mainframe in the backroom running on your own Thinkpad.
Solaris is for wimps, I wouldn't go anywhere without my portable mainframe system.
I left Uni with one programming language (Ada) (Okay and LISP, M68k, Prolog and other really useful languages!) one OS (AIX) but I understood however thing worked.
However the answer to the question "do you know X" is always "yes" the advantage to theory is that it makes the lie true. How long to learn a new language ? If you understand the theory then the only thing that matters is syntax, 2 days ? 3 more days to learn the libraries ?
You resume should say that at University you learnt the following, not "I taught myself" because employers will look for the former wording not the later.
Jesus though "Advanced web design" where you do Perl. What has the planet come to ? Sorry to sound like an old fart but "Advanced Web Design" doesn't sound like something in a degree, it sounds like a Dummies book. XML as a course ? Its a bloody markup language, what is there to learn ? XSLT ?!
Learning extra languages or technologies is simple if you just understand the principles. Then you can claim to have known them for years, even though it was only last week when you found out this interview required it. As long as you can understand the theory then everything else makes sense.... except VB.
I know it sounds harsh but the reality is that most courses worry about Java, C++, Jaluna and people become concerned about the technologies rather than the theories.
The person who knows Knuth will be able to code in any language, the person who doesn't is limited in what they can do. Did your course teach you how to dope a transistor, build an Op-Amp ? An AND Gate ? A Compiler for a processor you design ? An OS for that Processor ?
And did it do all of these by starting with theory or was the first lesson "Print hello world" ?
The problem with practical courses is that they teach people to be the bricklayers of the Software Engineering world. The theory course teach you to be the engineer and how to apply theory to practicality.
It isn't about being taught "cool" technologies, its about being taught the theory behind them. RTOS is great in that it teaches you about Thread-death, dead-lock, live-lock, IO blocking, race conditions in a very immediate environment, so when you build a bigger system you automatically avoid those issues because you understand what is the right way to work.
Some Universities do teach the cool theory stuff, but most people don't choose to do that as its harder. It also makes you less marketable in the first year after graduation as you don't have the buzzwords... 12 months on however you'll be roasting everyone.
The EU has no love are large US Companies, they are after all the competition. There is less lobbying in the EU (though loads of corruption) and at the end of the day do you think that the French, Germans, Italians, Spanish etc etc would prefer to see a US Monopoly or something else ?
Or put it another way. If MS had been French, the DoJ would have remedied them out of existence by now.
Watch as the Elegant Linux penguins migrate from Finland down into central Europe for the harsh winter ahead. Linux Penguins are unusual as the only northen hemisphere penguins in the wild, this documentary shows they unusual mating dances and how they manage to move their young thousands of miles by transporting them as small ISO images.
Truely one of natures great wonders.
Too true, never can trust a man call Georgia. Its the cross-dressing and stetson that are a dead give away.
Now a Pumpkin in a PC.... that would be something... actually generalise it. The first ever PC Oven, don't both with fans or heat sinks turn a rack of PCs into....
The first computer powered Aga Oh yes, think of it now. No longer will you not have time to cook and eat, because your cooker is right in front of you.
To get the required heat will need some additional engineering but a 64 way beowulf cluster should be enough. Soon cooking books will have references to "Gas Mark 5, or 10 processors at 100%".
I have always found that the best way to manage a team is by example. First person who breaks the build, smash his hands. Second person, shoot in the head... sure enough everyone learns from that example and works extra hard.
This is great that these things are comming as standard in the kernel, but so many things are "standard" now its getting pretty large for joe-schmo average user who will get a full kitchen sink kernel with their distro.
This is also great for creating products like VPN gateways et al, but is it time to consider a different structure for kernel builds, with modules being seperately managed with a smarter installation procedure.
5->10 is a 100% increase, 10->5 is a 50% reduction, 50% on 5 is 7.5.
Are you actually a geek or do you really have a liberal arts degree ?
Chapter 11 means that all the people they owe money to can't ask for it. Therefore they are paying this cash from that.
Taxes don't come into it.
A whole new way of having fun, send your personal robot onto the streets to War-chalk for you.
"I didn't do it officer, you just can't trust robots these days"
Because they didn't get the viewers. This means they think there are more people who will watch the new stuff.... and bugger all who would watch the old stuff.
If you want to see it all, go out and buy it...
Judge: So who ordered you to perform this research ?
PhD: Err... the US Goverment
Judge: Are you aware that this breaks the DMCA ?
PhD: Not really, I mean the goverment asked me to do this, they wouldn't ask me to break the law would they ?
Judge: US Goverment did you ask this PhD student to break the law ?
US Goverment: I've never heard anything so ridiculous when would we ever do that ?
Judge: Nixon ?
USG: Apart from then
Judge: Iran-Contra ?
USG: Apart from then
USG: Anyway the Goverment never got convicted then, so that means we have a precedent...
Judge: Good point, Mr PhD Student I sentence you to 10 years in prison for violating the DMCA and 5 years for mis-use of federal funds.
PhD: ?!
USG: Nice touch.
The advantage of Linux (and to a lesser extent W2K) and the low end Solaris, AIX servers is that for the first time it was sensible to scale horizontally, so rather than have 1 box that did everything ala a Mainframe you'd have 10 that shared the work, then you'd add 5 more. And because the real bottlenecks now are disk and other IO issues you start using things like EMC, Cached RAID disks and lots of other very expensive storage.
But if you are scaling an application horizontally the last thing these days is the processor speed, sure the heavy duty maths is still sitting on a mainframe, your ERP is still on an AS400, but that is more about reliability than power. Intel boxes fail, period, so having one box isn't a smart move, have 10 is a more sensible approach.
Dual NIC, external disk via fibre channel. That is where I'll spend the cash. The processor just needs to be fast enough, and I'd like there to be at least two in the box. 2 Boxes doing everything, federated systems.
If you lob everything on one box, then yes you need all the processor speed you can handle, you also need to think about what happens when the box fails.
If Intel announced that this new processor could degrade its performance when issues arose then I'd be interested. Overheating ? Turn off hyperthreading and drop the clock speed. Still got issues, move down to minimum speed and start a shutdown process.
I like servers that will run for 5-10 years with no down time. But with Intel/AMD boxen I'll stick with lobbing in lots on the basis that they'll fail.
And yet while running enterprise class systems I can't find a system with too little power.
Lets face it servers are well beyond 95% of applications.
A Salesman once stated in all seriousness that using the AIX S/80 64Way I could have 128 concurrent Quake users, this meant getting 128 graphics cards but it could be done.
:-)
Now we know how they test them
With the standard "worlds largest computer" binaries installed. Its on the 10th CD that they paste into the box so you have to cut it open with a knife.
They haven't got any one who has bought the 7.2 CDs yet and they don't have a CD-R to use the downloaded ISOs, so its just plain 6.0 but they are using a KDE desktop.
You can imagine the wording now "Terrorists could use a P2P network to share information, or to co-ordinate attacks."
Same shit different spin. I doubt they'll be watering it down, just making it more of a general threat than being specific on copyright.