A quad-CPU motherboard might be a bit of an overkill (i.e., 4 CPUs @ 104 degrees = 416 degrees). Might have to underclock the CPUs.
Sounds like someone flunked physics (or is playing at silly buggers). 104F = ambient + 34 (roughly), so a quad CPU setup is likely capped at ambient + 132. This is obviously bunk, unless there's no radiator, as air-cooled chips run a fair bit cooler than that. Solution: add a radiator, a largish fan at 2500RPM, and a pump. Still fairly quiet.
It has become a fashionable trend to look for downsides to all new solutions, equating tiny and/or unknown downsides of the new solution with the large and known downsides of the existing ones. It is a lot like Luddism.
Not at all - Luddism was more about replacing livable wage jobs with factory ones that paid shit, not explicitly about opposing new technology
""Quite simply, I wanted to examine this factually, using real customer scenarios to test this hypothesis: can Linux run on older hardware than Windows? In many developing countries and public institutions, such as a local library, they typically don't have deep technical staff, so they need to use software without lots of modification and customization."
And yet, the summary used the 'run on anything' phrase, which is commonly known to mean running a version of Linunx on whatever bizarre thing you can imagine, like a toaster, or in a matchbook.
The other thing worth noting is that most people run whatever the machine originally came with; when Linux gets it, it's frequently years out of date and used as some sort of server, not a desktop. Who's going to run the latest whizbang KDE desktop on a castoff PC to demonstrate the superiority of Linux, anyway? Also, what's the use case here? is this choosing between a windows upgrade or a Linux install? Saying that WinXP installs on a 486 is, as others have pointed out, pointless.
They were incorrectly acting because the system was not responding as they expected based on their inputs.
IIRC, part of the problem was that the sensors measured inputs rather than outputs. The example I heard was measuring a servo being activaated and assuming that that meant the valve was closed, rather than measuring the valve directly.
People whine about the dangers of nuclear power, yet TMI which was about the worst possible scenario for a US nuclear power plant released less radiation than a MUCH smaller coal plant would in a year.
Yeah, then they bitch about nuclear waste when newer designs can solve that problem too, meanwhile reducing any terrorist threat from running a breeder reactor.
The movie industry hates DVD for the same reason it hates unadulterated CD: the pirates have cracked it so thoroughly that the studios might as well post the disk images on mininova themselves.
Since when have the disk images ever been protected? The real pirates mass produce copies of DVDs, sometimes on the same presses as the legit ones.
and two states which have no permitting requirements at all (Alaska and Vermont).
Does that mean that a convicted felon can get a permit for a rifle (assuming you need one in the first place) in alaska? I guess that'd make sense if you lived up north.
The above is one tactic that Mitnick should have used instead of being stupid and using the same cellphone over and over and over so they could find him easier.
Has it occurred to you that maybe Mitnick got nabbed before GSM became widespread?
You're confusing not named, with not identified. If it was common knowledge which professor he was speaking of (even though he didn't name him) libel has still been committed.
Okay, the prof was known. How is it libellous to say that Prof x is a cockmaster and not worthy of the title prof? That sounds like a (nasty) insult, but not really libellous. If it is, then I guess I'm not allowed to write about how some prof back in college sucked either.
On top of it all the P4 does not support a 2 cpu rig, that would be a Xenon. You priced a dual core/dualcpu capable chip lately. I'm not even sure they exist, but just a dual core Xenon is...ouch.
Yeah I have - they cost around $250, but usually aren't SLI. Of course, I was looking at AMD chips; none of that inferior Intel crap fo me.
Calling a teaching professor a "cockmaster" would not be tolerated if he did it face to face with the professor, and it's not any different because he did it online in his blog. If he can't be trusted to keep comments about an academic superior and his fellow peers professional, how can he be trusted to keep comments about future patients confidential and professional as well?
Yes, because we must always be under a microscope. Get a grip: he made a nasty comment about some unnamed professor in a blog. Why should this be punished at all?
First, if he publishes "a false statement that negatively affects someone's reputation", he's guilty of libel, and the professor can sue him in civil court for damages.
Not if the prof is never identified.
Second, if he goes to a private university, agrees to a code of conduct, then violates it- that's not "civil liberties".
Since he can anonymously tar any professor by name without consequence, I fail to see how this is relevant.
Bloggers seem absolutely shocked at a centuries-old legal concept: one cannot just wander around saying (or publishing) whatever the hell one wants to. If you lie and it damages someone's reputation...that's not legal, and you can fully expect to be held accountable.
So, what laws were broken? I can say any damn thing I like about the woman behind the counter at starbucks and she has no recourse if I never identify her.
No they are not. Please don't overreact. Free speech does not mean free speech without consequences. Sure you have the right to say whatever you want but don't act surprised when there are repercussions to that speech. Would you think it would be outrageous if a student ran around a University Quad screaming every racial epithet known to civil society and a Dean kicked them right out of school?
Okay, I gotta know: what do you think the appropriate consequence is for ripping on an unnamed professor? Seriously, how is the University not out of line here?
So either you accept the fact that all modern OSes are written in Turing incomplete languages, or you accept that an artificial boundary cannot be established as the deciding factor of the Turing-incompleteness.
I would say that all modern computers are Turing incomplete due to limited memory space, but that this makes little difference most of the time.
But if companies are going to just throw up their hands and say "we can't hire competent people, there aren't enough of them in the world, they only doom themselves to a continued shortfall in talent, and an increase in buggy software.
What they really meant was "we can't hire competent people at the same prices as Jimmy the mounth-breather." Take that as you will.
So yea, it's about the same as car modding. Wanting it to look cool (or tacky) and go faster (until it blows up).
Nah, you're confusing car modders with ricers (the ones who stick cold neon tubes in the PCs with the bigass window in the side and garish stickers and grapefruit launchers on their cars).
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A quad-CPU motherboard might be a bit of an overkill (i.e., 4 CPUs @ 104 degrees = 416 degrees). Might have to underclock the CPUs.
Sounds like someone flunked physics (or is playing at silly buggers). 104F = ambient + 34 (roughly), so a quad CPU setup is likely capped at ambient + 132. This is obviously bunk, unless there's no radiator, as air-cooled chips run a fair bit cooler than that. Solution: add a radiator, a largish fan at 2500RPM, and a pump. Still fairly quiet.
Do you pronounce that Ab or A flat?
It has become a fashionable trend to look for downsides to all new solutions, equating tiny and/or unknown downsides of the new solution with the large and known downsides of the existing ones. It is a lot like Luddism.
Not at all - Luddism was more about replacing livable wage jobs with factory ones that paid shit, not explicitly about opposing new technology
of which you are making fun ...
You have a problem with split infinitives?
The myth they were actually trying to disprove is that Windows doesn't run on old hardware.
It isn't a myth: Windows doesn't run on a 486, it walks.
""Quite simply, I wanted to examine this factually, using real customer scenarios to test this hypothesis: can Linux run on older hardware than Windows? In many developing countries and public institutions, such as a local library, they typically don't have deep technical staff, so they need to use software without lots of modification and customization."
And yet, the summary used the 'run on anything' phrase, which is commonly known to mean running a version of Linunx on whatever bizarre thing you can imagine, like a toaster, or in a matchbook.
The other thing worth noting is that most people run whatever the machine originally came with; when Linux gets it, it's frequently years out of date and used as some sort of server, not a desktop. Who's going to run the latest whizbang KDE desktop on a castoff PC to demonstrate the superiority of Linux, anyway? Also, what's the use case here? is this choosing between a windows upgrade or a Linux install? Saying that WinXP installs on a 486 is, as others have pointed out, pointless.
They were incorrectly acting because the system was not responding as they expected based on their inputs.
IIRC, part of the problem was that the sensors measured inputs rather than outputs. The example I heard was measuring a servo being activaated and assuming that that meant the valve was closed, rather than measuring the valve directly.
People whine about the dangers of nuclear power, yet TMI which was about the worst possible scenario for a US nuclear power plant released less radiation than a MUCH smaller coal plant would in a year.
Yeah, then they bitch about nuclear waste when newer designs can solve that problem too, meanwhile reducing any terrorist threat from running a breeder reactor.
People like you that worship him as anything but a petty thief that really had no "skillz" to begin with.
Um, who ever said that I worship him? I met him earlier this year and he came off as just another suit.
I certainly do not have the technical expertise or authority to contribute to an encyclopaedia.
Yeah you do. Your example would be a useful addition to the Gimball entry - applications help flesh out the meaning of the thing.
The best one is a guy who saves a nuclear power plant from a three mile island style nuclear disaster.
Based on my recollection, does that mean he stopped people from doing anything about it, thus allowing the automatics to do their job?
But do the "real pirates" do a lot of business in the United States? How would it concern the Motion Picture Association of America?
Yes, they make DVDs that look just like the real deal and import them.
The movie industry hates DVD for the same reason it hates unadulterated CD: the pirates have cracked it so thoroughly that the studios might as well post the disk images on mininova themselves.
Since when have the disk images ever been protected? The real pirates mass produce copies of DVDs, sometimes on the same presses as the legit ones.
and two states which have no permitting requirements at all (Alaska and Vermont).
Does that mean that a convicted felon can get a permit for a rifle (assuming you need one in the first place) in alaska? I guess that'd make sense if you lived up north.
The above is one tactic that Mitnick should have used instead of being stupid and using the same cellphone over and over and over so they could find him easier.
Has it occurred to you that maybe Mitnick got nabbed before GSM became widespread?
You're confusing not named, with not identified. If it was common knowledge which professor he was speaking of (even though he didn't name him) libel has still been committed.
Okay, the prof was known. How is it libellous to say that Prof x is a cockmaster and not worthy of the title prof? That sounds like a (nasty) insult, but not really libellous. If it is, then I guess I'm not allowed to write about how some prof back in college sucked either.
On top of it all the P4 does not support a 2 cpu rig, that would be a Xenon. You priced a dual core/dualcpu capable chip lately. I'm not even sure they exist, but just a dual core Xenon is...ouch.
Yeah I have - they cost around $250, but usually aren't SLI. Of course, I was looking at AMD chips; none of that inferior Intel crap fo me.
Well you can make fun of me, just spent $8.5K on a Dual SLI Rig.
Dear God! That's a car!
Calling a teaching professor a "cockmaster" would not be tolerated if he did it face to face with the professor, and it's not any different because he did it online in his blog. If he can't be trusted to keep comments about an academic superior and his fellow peers professional, how can he be trusted to keep comments about future patients confidential and professional as well?
Yes, because we must always be under a microscope. Get a grip: he made a nasty comment about some unnamed professor in a blog. Why should this be punished at all?
First, if he publishes "a false statement that negatively affects someone's reputation", he's guilty of libel, and the professor can sue him in civil court for damages.
Not if the prof is never identified.
Second, if he goes to a private university, agrees to a code of conduct, then violates it- that's not "civil liberties".
Since he can anonymously tar any professor by name without consequence, I fail to see how this is relevant.
Bloggers seem absolutely shocked at a centuries-old legal concept: one cannot just wander around saying (or publishing) whatever the hell one wants to. If you lie and it damages someone's reputation...that's not legal, and you can fully expect to be held accountable.
So, what laws were broken? I can say any damn thing I like about the woman behind the counter at starbucks and she has no recourse if I never identify her.
No they are not. Please don't overreact. Free speech does not mean free speech without consequences. Sure you have the right to say whatever you want but don't act surprised when there are repercussions to that speech. Would you think it would be outrageous if a student ran around a University Quad screaming every racial epithet known to civil society and a Dean kicked them right out of school?
Okay, I gotta know: what do you think the appropriate consequence is for ripping on an unnamed professor? Seriously, how is the University not out of line here?
So either you accept the fact that all modern OSes are written in Turing incomplete languages, or you accept that an artificial boundary cannot be established as the deciding factor of the Turing-incompleteness.
I would say that all modern computers are Turing incomplete due to limited memory space, but that this makes little difference most of the time.
It sounds apocryphal, but I really want it to be true. :-)
It really is true, but it happened in a simulator.
But if companies are going to just throw up their hands and say "we can't hire competent people, there aren't enough of them in the world, they only doom themselves to a continued shortfall in talent, and an increase in buggy software.
What they really meant was "we can't hire competent people at the same prices as Jimmy the mounth-breather." Take that as you will.
So yea, it's about the same as car modding. Wanting it to look cool (or tacky) and go faster (until it blows up).
Nah, you're confusing car modders with ricers (the ones who stick cold neon tubes in the PCs with the bigass window in the side and garish stickers and grapefruit launchers on their cars).
As in "Car tuning is all about being cool and different", e.g. a redneck passion for the ones at the top of the `peoples who have no life` pyramid?
No, Car modding is all about making a car go faster or, in the case of Jeeps, making it climb sheer walls.