With networked clusters you're always going to have latencies, orders of magnitude higher than with single-image supercomputers.
While your point abour ethernet latency is valid, you should be aware that, for somewhat more money, you can get 2gb throughput and about 7us latency. More info at myri.com.
The gap between supercomputer and desktop is getting narrower each year. Eventually you will buy your computer by the pound.
Most likely the KiB thing - some people are advocating the usage of kibibyte in place of kilobyte. Unfortunately, they're not too tactful about it and frequently resort to some sort of appeal to authority to justify themselves.
My point is that client side security is basically null, there are hunders of other ways to "unsecure" a system EVEN with 2000/XP.
My point is that this is a social issue. Even win95 and its crappy security can keep you out if it's backed up by a lab admin that actually cares what you do.
OK, so you remove all these restrictions and tell them the rules and the penalty (up to and including firing). Now They can do their job and you get rid of the slackers.
You are forgetting the prime axiom: the Internet detects censorship as damage and routes around it. If your users can talk to a single arbitrary external server on one port, they potentially have access to everything on the 'net. SSH + Corkscrew talking to an outside proxy server can overcome just about every imaginable firewalling scheme known to man.
You are forgetting that these users are employees. It is the prerogative of the company to decide who gets to use what and 'routing around it' is a potentially sackable offense.
You must get a lot of laughs then, because I've seen that clause in a LOT of online and offline agreements.
That's because it's a standard severability clause. So far as I know, it should be in all contracts.
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Big deal. I did Seattle to Wash DC in 5 or 6 days in a jetta (filled with stuff, too). Would've been less, but i stopped off at some cool places to take pictures and I only drove 6 hours a day. My grandfather drove DC -> denver in 36 hours.
It's all about metrics. If you don't force the techs to follow the same script, you can't effectively compare their performance and weed out the ones that aren't making good numbers.
What, you mean like when they fire the experienced techs that actually solve the customer's problem the first time because he takes too long?
Trains are great for Germany, but the US is just too big to justify the costs of adding railways to every town.
True. However, you could link up most decent sized cities and hit 90% of the population for significantly less. It's mainly a matter of social organization
The trains themselves aren't exactly cheap either.
They'd be cheaper if we adopted similar requirements to the rest of the world so that we can just buy trains instead of getting them custom built.
If I want to make a 5 hour drive through the desert on the weekend, are you suggesting I should pay a Taxi driver to drive 10 hours (including his return trip)?
Rent a car. Duhh.
To be fair, the costs of public transportation being cheaper than automobiles in Europe is partly because your fuel taxes subsidize public transportation. Is it really cost efficient to move an empty train or bus?
And over here, the massive amount of road construction (which does nothing toimprove traffic) subsidizes cars. If you buy a $20k car and finance it, then drive it for 5 years before selling it for $8k, you're paying around $2500/yr plus another thousand plus for fuel and maintenance, which works out to around $300/mo. plus whatever portion of your taxes goes to support infrastructure. Only question is how much does a train cost, per person?
As long as you have notice of the existence of the EULA, and as long as you agree to it by clicking the "OK" or "Next" button, you are bound by the terms regardless of whether you read them.
Ok, some questions are in order:
Would this notice be required to precede a purchase?
Would the text of the EULA be required to be present on the packaging in such a way that it is easily read before purchase?
If no to both questions, what consideration is being offered to the user who has purchased the product and thus has the right to use it?
If the user does not agree, then what of the situation where the user is unable to reverse the purchase, as stores do not accept opened software for refund?
How in god's name is it GOOD to block ports just because it's possible for a piece of software to be taken advantage of over those ports??
Because the common case is for some tech-illiterate person to hook up there computer to the internet without doing anything about security. Blocking netbios basically eliminates a large problemwhich would likely cause a lot of tech support calls and open the SIP to some liability.
This will slow down your surfing to a crawl as your browser will sometimes try to connect to adserver repeatedly first before loading the actual page. A better solution is just to drop all outgoing packets to adserver, works really well for me.
This is exactly backwards. Setting an adserver name to localhost causes connection refused or a 404 (quick). Dropping all packets is more complicated and will either require a timeout (slow) or a no-route error (quick).
The main problem is the cost of disposing of the waste materials i.e. spent fuel and end of life reactors + the danger of nuclear material falling into the hands of terrorists.
If we were allowed to recycle spent fuelrods instead of tossing them, we'd likely have at most 100tons/yr of nuclear waste, mostly low grade.
How long do you think our coal or oil is going to last anyway?
The funny thing about that is that burning coal releases more radiation than an equal capacity nuke plant.
MySQL is good at what it does but don't kid yourself into thinking that it is anywhere near as reliable as Oracle.
That would appear to be the point: most people don't need Oracle. For example, Mythic runs Dark age of Camelot on MySQL According to Gamasutra (javascript user auth) and, if you don't like MySQL, you might consider Postgres as an intermediate solution.
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He has about $30 billion in stock options.
You know, I'm pretty sure that he's got stock, not options.
With networked clusters you're always going to have latencies, orders of magnitude higher than with single-image supercomputers.
While your point abour ethernet latency is valid, you should be aware that, for somewhat more money, you can get 2gb throughput and about 7us latency. More info at myri.com.
The gap between supercomputer and desktop is getting narrower each year. Eventually you will buy your computer by the pound.
Actually, they're both 1024. The views of IEEE notwithstanding, setting KB to 1000 runs counter to decades of usage.
Most likely the KiB thing - some people are advocating the usage of kibibyte in place of kilobyte. Unfortunately, they're not too tactful about it and frequently resort to some sort of appeal to authority to justify themselves.
I'm not just making a stale joke here, you've missed the step where MS actually makes large sums of money.
Isn't that implied by them maintaining a monopoly, so they're the only game in town?
My point is that client side security is basically null, there are hunders of other ways to "unsecure" a system EVEN with 2000/XP.
My point is that this is a social issue. Even win95 and its crappy security can keep you out if it's backed up by a lab admin that actually cares what you do.
OK, so you remove all these restrictions and tell them the rules and the penalty (up to and including firing). Now They can do their job and you get rid of the slackers.
You are forgetting the prime axiom: the Internet detects censorship as damage and routes around it. If your users can talk to a single arbitrary external server on one port, they potentially have access to everything on the 'net. SSH + Corkscrew talking to an outside proxy server can overcome just about every imaginable firewalling scheme known to man.
You are forgetting that these users are employees. It is the prerogative of the company to decide who gets to use what and 'routing around it' is a potentially sackable offense.
You must get a lot of laughs then, because I've seen that clause in a LOT of online and offline agreements.
That's because it's a standard severability clause. So far as I know, it should be in all contracts.
Big deal. I did Seattle to Wash DC in 5 or 6 days in a jetta (filled with stuff, too). Would've been less, but i stopped off at some cool places to take pictures and I only drove 6 hours a day. My grandfather drove DC -> denver in 36 hours.
Well, so far I haven't seen any advantage to using the GPL from a free software prespective.
No problem - we don't have to worry about somebody coopting a gpl program and selling as a proprietary package. Some people like that kind of thing.
while they technically "gave it away", there are restrictions [gnu.org] that shouldn't be ignored.
Yes, you must allow access to any modifications that you distribute. No use restrictions.
How ridiculous. 148.
Now now, it's not polite to brag.
Now if they would only stop giving me burgers with the DNA sample under the bun...
No offense, but unless you have a spare box sitting around, $60 is hard to beat.
It's all about metrics. If you don't force the techs to follow the same script, you can't effectively compare their performance and weed out the ones that aren't making good numbers.
What, you mean like when they fire the experienced techs that actually solve the customer's problem the first time because he takes too long?
But where would I put my witty bumper stickers?
Trains are great for Germany, but the US is just too big to justify the costs of adding railways to every town.
True. However, you could link up most decent sized cities and hit 90% of the population for significantly less. It's mainly a matter of social organization
The trains themselves aren't exactly cheap either.
They'd be cheaper if we adopted similar requirements to the rest of the world so that we can just buy trains instead of getting them custom built.
If I want to make a 5 hour drive through the desert on the weekend, are you suggesting I should pay a Taxi driver to drive 10 hours (including his return trip)?
Rent a car. Duhh.
To be fair, the costs of public transportation being cheaper than automobiles in Europe is partly because your fuel taxes subsidize public transportation. Is it really cost efficient to move an empty train or bus?
And over here, the massive amount of road construction (which does nothing toimprove traffic) subsidizes cars. If you buy a $20k car and finance it, then drive it for 5 years before selling it for $8k, you're paying around $2500/yr plus another thousand plus for fuel and maintenance, which works out to around $300/mo. plus whatever portion of your taxes goes to support infrastructure. Only question is how much does a train cost, per person?
As long as you have notice of the existence of the EULA, and as long as you agree to it by clicking the "OK" or "Next" button, you are bound by the terms regardless of whether you read them.
Ok, some questions are in order:
And where exactly do we get the majority of our oil from?
The USA. Next question, please.
How in god's name is it GOOD to block ports just because it's possible for a piece of software to be taken advantage of over those ports??
Because the common case is for some tech-illiterate person to hook up there computer to the internet without doing anything about security. Blocking netbios basically eliminates a large problemwhich would likely cause a lot of tech support calls and open the SIP to some liability.
This will slow down your surfing to a crawl as your browser will sometimes try to connect to adserver repeatedly first before loading the actual page. A better solution is just to drop all outgoing packets to adserver, works really well for me.
This is exactly backwards. Setting an adserver name to localhost causes connection refused or a 404 (quick). Dropping all packets is more complicated and will either require a timeout (slow) or a no-route error (quick).
The main problem is the cost of disposing of the waste materials i.e. spent fuel and end of life reactors + the danger of nuclear material falling into the hands of terrorists.
If we were allowed to recycle spent fuelrods instead of tossing them, we'd likely have at most 100tons/yr of nuclear waste, mostly low grade.
How long do you think our coal or oil is going to last anyway?
The funny thing about that is that burning coal releases more radiation than an equal capacity nuke plant.
MySQL is good at what it does but don't kid yourself into thinking that it is anywhere near as reliable as Oracle.
That would appear to be the point: most people don't need Oracle. For example, Mythic runs Dark age of Camelot on MySQL According to Gamasutra (javascript user auth) and, if you don't like MySQL, you might consider Postgres as an intermediate solution.
You let janitors into the server room?! Put a combination lock on the door and leave the trashcan outside when it gets full.