You seem to be determining what "the right tool for the job" is after the job is already complete.
Looks more like he's considering the costs of switching, which can be large when you're heavily invested in Windows and have little in-house competence in Linux. Of course, this also works the other way around. The TCO thing is still valuable - if you hit an upgrade cycle, you can weigh the cost of upgrading vs. switching and amortize it over the expected upgrades for the next 3 years.
Please explain to me how I am not both legally and morally responsible for my actions? These people will go off and kill in the future and I did nothing to stop them.
You're confusing the issue: your source is the thing they are seeking, so this isn't quite the same thing. Protecting the source comes into play when someone wants to reveal illegal activity without subjecting himself to personal danger or punitive firing, like when an engineer wants to blow the whistle on his company dumping toxic waste in a park.
There are many jobs for which the net income for a company exceeds the salary paid for that work done. This applies to every company that ever made a profit. Many times, an individual employee might generate value for the company several times that for which he's compensated for. While at face value, that might not seem fair, the simple fact of the matter is, the employee doesn't risk anything. The employee doesn't put up a large sum of cash to get the job, and if for some reason the actions of an employee cause the company to lose a lot of money, in most cases the worst that will happen is they get fired.
So, you think that it's reasonable to work for a year for the chance at making 2% of the gross, split 4 ways? That's pretty rotten, and if you don't make it big, then you owe your soul to the recording company. If I were presented with such a contract, I'd demand that the recording company pay the production and promotion costs out of their portion and leave my band with their $0.80/CD. Then add a clause that allows them to opt out in exchange for paying another $1.60/CD to the band. Sure, I'd probably be kicked out, but so what? How is that really worse than signing a deal with the devil?
GNU TV, where the scripts are open-sourced before the show airs and you know all the jokes before the intro starts rolling.
How is different from network tv, where the scripts are rehashes of something from 10 or 20 years ago and you know the entire plot (painful jokes included) in the first two minutes.
Ok I'm going to be honest with you, I can't be bothered to actually calculate how big a capacitor it would take to drive a HDD for a few seconds. My guestimate would be that you're looking at an additional box with capacitors next to your PC however.
Most likely, you only need about 100ms to flush the write cache. When designing this stuff, you choose the actual number based on a cost vs. advantage tradeoff and then make sure that you only buffer what you can write in the worst case. For a 100ms window, you're looking at perhaps 1MB in the cache or less and 2 or 3Watt-secs. If you get a warning from the power supply when its power is cut, then you have about 250ms to clean up things before its internal caps are done. I don't know if this sort of thing is commmunicated, though.
Why didn't they choose FireWire 800 or something like an AGP type i/o so that video card PC cards could be ultrafast?
Well, you can only have one AGP slot, and who wants to handle 30+ watts coming from a plugin card?
Anyway, If you support 64bit/66MHz PCI, then you can just plug a Firewire card in.
Of course, it would be really hard to start legal proceedings against someone on the basis that they used time travel to violate SEC regulations - at least until such time as time travel technology exists. So, if you're going to try this, all you have to do is go back in time far enough that the statute of limitations will have run out by the time that time travel is invented.
I imagine that if someone accused me, in open court, of gaining insider knowledge via time travel, the judge would have a real good laugh. Then he'd commit the guy for a psych evaluation.
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Linux has about 3 different pronounciations that I know of, none of which are "wrong".
This has been settled by fiat: Linus, original creator of the kernel pronounces it so that it rhymes with cynics. That's as close as you'll come to an official pronunciation for something that is maintained and owned by 10,000 different people, most of whom have never met.
100 years ago before the automobile became dominant, society & the economy depended quite a bit on horses. As such, you would be hung for stealing a horse, not because it's such a horrible offense, but because if the punishment wasn't really stiff excess horse theivery would probably have actually undermined the stability of society. Who would want that!
Actually, horse thievery was a horrible offense. If you're out west and someone steals your horse, you have a good chance of dying from it. It's several miles to the next neighbor or settlement, and there are hostile indians about. If you're down south, there's also the problem of being stranded in a desert.
Well, you can't. It has to come from the people concerned.
Don't expect a democratic Iran to be too "US friendly".
Hadn't you heard? The youth in Iran actually like us. This is important when the majority of your population is under 25. Hell, they even held 9/11 memorials in direct opposition to the ruling clerics.
Where the US government has a big problem is in treating other governments as peers.
FreeRepublic is a very right wing website and when the PATRIOT part deux was discussed, no less than 85% of the posts were calling for Bush and Ashcroft's heads on pikes out on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue if they seriously pushed it.
Please correct me if I am wrong, but my understanding is storage capacity more than doubling each year, and are we not at 100Gbits per square inch now?
All true, but considering that the margins are so thin, I expect that R&D will be scaled back quite a bit, so that companies can actually make money. Either that, or maybe we'll see more specializations, with a couple places doing most of the research and then licensing the tech to all comers.
How about a non-volatile layer of memory between the RAM and the Hard drive.
Sun has one of those. They use it to make databases go fast. It's 64MB and has a battery on it, so it's big enough for the rewrite log, which is a major bottleneck to throughput.
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You seem to be determining what "the right tool for the job" is after the job is already complete.
Looks more like he's considering the costs of switching, which can be large when you're heavily invested in Windows and have little in-house competence in Linux. Of course, this also works the other way around. The TCO thing is still valuable - if you hit an upgrade cycle, you can weigh the cost of upgrading vs. switching and amortize it over the expected upgrades for the next 3 years.
Ahem, you left out Einstruzende Neubauten. Don't tell me that it was because you didn't remember how to spell it.
Please explain to me how I am not both legally and morally responsible for my actions? These people will go off and kill in the future and I did nothing to stop them.
You're confusing the issue: your source is the thing they are seeking, so this isn't quite the same thing. Protecting the source comes into play when someone wants to reveal illegal activity without subjecting himself to personal danger or punitive firing, like when an engineer wants to blow the whistle on his company dumping toxic waste in a park.
Java is dynamically typed - that's why it defines things like a ClassCastException.
If you live in a city larger than 50,000 people, there should be a few bars that get live music. Go see them.
Just don't go see Great White. Noone gets out alive.
There are many jobs for which the net income for a company exceeds the salary paid for that work done. This applies to every company that ever made a profit. Many times, an individual employee might generate value for the company several times that for which he's compensated for. While at face value, that might not seem fair, the simple fact of the matter is, the employee doesn't risk anything. The employee doesn't put up a large sum of cash to get the job, and if for some reason the actions of an employee cause the company to lose a lot of money, in most cases the worst that will happen is they get fired.
So, you think that it's reasonable to work for a year for the chance at making 2% of the gross, split 4 ways? That's pretty rotten, and if you don't make it big, then you owe your soul to the recording company. If I were presented with such a contract, I'd demand that the recording company pay the production and promotion costs out of their portion and leave my band with their $0.80/CD. Then add a clause that allows them to opt out in exchange for paying another $1.60/CD to the band. Sure, I'd probably be kicked out, but so what? How is that really worse than signing a deal with the devil?
GNU TV, where the scripts are open-sourced before the show airs and you know all the jokes before the intro starts rolling.
How is different from network tv, where the scripts are rehashes of something from 10 or 20 years ago and you know the entire plot (painful jokes included) in the first two minutes.
Ok I'm going to be honest with you, I can't be bothered to actually calculate how big a capacitor it would take to drive a HDD for a few seconds. My guestimate would be that you're looking at an additional box with capacitors next to your PC however.
Most likely, you only need about 100ms to flush the write cache. When designing this stuff, you choose the actual number based on a cost vs. advantage tradeoff and then make sure that you only buffer what you can write in the worst case. For a 100ms window, you're looking at perhaps 1MB in the cache or less and 2 or 3Watt-secs. If you get a warning from the power supply when its power is cut, then you have about 250ms to clean up things before its internal caps are done. I don't know if this sort of thing is commmunicated, though.
Why didn't they choose FireWire 800 or something like an AGP type i/o so that video card PC cards could be ultrafast?
Well, you can only have one AGP slot, and who wants to handle 30+ watts coming from a plugin card? Anyway, If you support 64bit/66MHz PCI, then you can just plug a Firewire card in.
I believe that everyone needs enough money for sustenance and comfort, and after that it's all vanity.
This is probably true, but isn't it nice not to have bills?
Of course, it would be really hard to start legal proceedings against someone on the basis that they used time travel to violate SEC regulations - at least until such time as time travel technology exists. So, if you're going to try this, all you have to do is go back in time far enough that the statute of limitations will have run out by the time that time travel is invented.
I imagine that if someone accused me, in open court, of gaining insider knowledge via time travel, the judge would have a real good laugh. Then he'd commit the guy for a psych evaluation.
Linux has about 3 different pronounciations that I know of, none of which are "wrong".
This has been settled by fiat: Linus, original creator of the kernel pronounces it so that it rhymes with cynics. That's as close as you'll come to an official pronunciation for something that is maintained and owned by 10,000 different people, most of whom have never met.
Tariq Aziz is not a Christian
You can say that about a lot of people that claim to be christians. I believe the point is that Iraq is not an Islamic caliphate.
Yeah but a big write cache on the disk will make all of your fancy RAIDing useless.
Not at all. You just need enough juice (in capacitors) to flush the cache in the event of a power cut.
100 years ago before the automobile became dominant, society & the economy depended quite a bit on horses. As such, you would be hung for stealing a horse, not because it's such a horrible offense, but because if the punishment wasn't really stiff excess horse theivery would probably have actually undermined the stability of society. Who would want that!
Actually, horse thievery was a horrible offense. If you're out west and someone steals your horse, you have a good chance of dying from it. It's several miles to the next neighbor or settlement, and there are hostile indians about. If you're down south, there's also the problem of being stranded in a desert.
do you really think anyone should go to jail for ten years for stealing a candybar?
I thought it was 20 years for stealing a loaf of bread to feed your family.
They hurt the most people. They have the lest need in the first place.
There's a world of difference between screwing a million people out of their pensions (Enron) and ripping off a bank for $1M.
unless you can point out a possession sentence that warrants years in jail.
Here's a guide to marijuana laws, by state. The current page is Texas, where you can get a year for 3oz and 2-10yr for 5lbs (possession). Any sort of sale will put you away for more than a decade. Hawaii is just as bad, but most states are more lenient. If you want a pot-friendly state, Colorado seems to be the place to be - mostly fines for possession.
Note that these laws are apparently for pot only. Do a google search and see if you can find out what cocaine possession will get you.
more year in prison than the average raper ?
I first read that as rapper and, you know what? It still made sense.
By definition you cannot impose democracy.
Well, you can't. It has to come from the people concerned.
Don't expect a democratic Iran to be too "US friendly".
Hadn't you heard? The youth in Iran actually like us. This is important when the majority of your population is under 25. Hell, they even held 9/11 memorials in direct opposition to the ruling clerics.
Where the US government has a big problem is in treating other governments as peers.
Witness the recent French-bashing.
Thousands and thousands of people marched last weekend to uphold the right of the authorities in Iraq to stay in power.
No, we marched to protest a war of aggression. Nobody actually likes Saddam.
FreeRepublic is a very right wing website and when the PATRIOT part deux was discussed, no less than 85% of the posts were calling for Bush and Ashcroft's heads on pikes out on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue if they seriously pushed it.
And thus was hope restored to my world.
Please correct me if I am wrong, but my understanding is storage capacity more than doubling each year, and are we not at 100Gbits per square inch now?
All true, but considering that the margins are so thin, I expect that R&D will be scaled back quite a bit, so that companies can actually make money. Either that, or maybe we'll see more specializations, with a couple places doing most of the research and then licensing the tech to all comers.
How about a non-volatile layer of memory between the RAM and the Hard drive.
Sun has one of those. They use it to make databases go fast. It's 64MB and has a battery on it, so it's big enough for the rewrite log, which is a major bottleneck to throughput.
This might be the dumbest argument I've ever seen. Congratulations.
Wait ten years.