Youre dealing with probabilities, not absolutes. So a rock could, in theory, protect a bacteria or a virus for a million years or it could just disintegrate in a minute. But still, X number of those germs just *might* make it a million years, its not probable, but certainly not impossible. The rest is just a copy of Drakes, like, how many rocks like that are generated each year, how many break orbit, how many go extrasolar, how many lasts for a million year journey, how many germs survive, how many survive impact on a foreign planet,... you might just end up with "yeah its possible and it happens a million times each year in our galaxy alone", or it might just be one time in a millenia. But I doubt anyone claims its not possible.
I remember back in the days when I was an intern tech at a local store, building computers custom. Just installing Win95 would be an almost foolproof way of testing if all the ram was working, if it wasnt it just wouldnt complete the install, it'd BSOD.
Just the other week I discussed this with my uncle, he is a die hard christian and I talked to him about what I perceived as a negative effect of religion. You hear it all the time. Whenever something bad happens, it Gods will. Lost your job? Gods will. Got sick? Gods will (Germs whats that?). Your grandma died? Gods will (No she was 100 years old and did just fine, what natural causes?).
It seems that any time a believer explains an event with "It was Gods will." they are basically saying, dont get any ideas, dont ponder, dont try to figure out why.
Im an atheist myself. I wish I could ban religion altogether.
Thankfully, a small segment of the American populace endeavor to maintain our 2nd Ammendment rights in order to ensure the rest of our rights. All across the world people have overthrown governments, in spite of not having the right to bear arms.
assuming the conviction sticks after 20 more years of appeals, this opens the door wide open for others to claim damages for microsofts practises. anyone even slightly suffering by their practises can just point at this one and say 'look they were convicted, now give me my share'. in that sense whatever damages they get in this initial judgement should be trivial compared to the following lawsuits of anyone with a european branch.
good penalty. only problem is you cant steal 20 lines of code in any way shape or form. you can only copy them and abuse them. its only RIAA and MPAA that claims that copying 0's and 1's is stealing.
actually you will probably see recently extinct species coming back in the next 50-100 years, mostly in zoos and such but they will come back because of gene-banks, cloning, artificial life and all.
I doubt we will see a jurassic park anytime soon though. but im sure eventually they will dig up dna for t-rex aswell.
im the author of twsinit, something I expermented with a while ago in the end I got it down to 4KiB RSS (one stack page), still performing its function flawlessly. all an init program needs to do is run some startup scripts and catche sigchld signals anyways. I even went on to agetty after that, getting that down to 4KiB aswell. Everything else on the system was the same btw, all I did was swap out sysv init and rewrite configs.
I'd like to see anyone saying 4KiB is inefficient. /pro
Microsoft office: +15,000 bribes -0 complaints from others for not being able to read MS office files. -5,000 MS government subsidized licenses -10,000 crashes in windows XP sum +-0
staroffice: +0 bribes -5,000 complaints from others for not being able to read MS office files. -0 licenses -10,000 crashes in windoze XP sum -15,000
Civil lawsuit? Altho you would actually have to prove hours spent recovering was due to the worm otherwise you would have to foot the bills for his legal costs (europe is sane in this regard).
if a few million people did this (and won) im sure he would have to declare personal bankrupcy and spend at least a few years on cost of living minimums no matter who hired him for his brainwork.
Sorry, read your message wrong, thought you were complaining about linux file copy speeds =P
but yeah, delete ops shouldnt take any noticable time at all even if the file is XX gigabytes or fragmented to hell and back. unless your NTFS network server is set to zero out filespace when its deleted, then you get filesize write ops. otherwise its only touching the allocation table.
But ofcourse. Moving 5.5Gb from one harddrive to another = 5.5Gb read ops + 5.5Gb write ops + 5.5Gb delete ops. Deleting 4Gb on a network drive = 4Gb delete ops. and in any decent system, a file delete op (even network drive) would be 1 syscall (unlink).
no wonder deleting 4Gb on NTFS is "slightly" faster than moving 5.5Gb on ext3.
using a plain english word for a TLD cuts out the 2/3rds of the world that doesnt speak english. it might aswell be.plzkthx as that would make just as much sense to the non-english speakers. someone go plant a non-english speaker on that ICANN board, that'll teach them "international". and why is it "jobs" and not "job" ? is it a TLD dedicated for those who hold more than one job?
"this does not change the fact that on mid [english: after I retire] and long term [english: after Im dead and buried], the alternative of open source software receives all attention [english: attention by someone else, maybe]."
Is it possible that geeks play gay jokes because there arent any gays openly among us? It can be fun to joke about someone or something that isnt present at "the party" but Id rather pick other jokes if a gay was present, im not into hurting anyone.
I dont think geeks are less tolerant than others, we're just less prude and less politically correct. We dont pretend to think some certain way like the general public, we joke and stuff about anything and everything cuz its fun, not because we think gays are any more weird than us... @.@/pro
Indeed you have never experienced the visious malicious evil workings of a mind not as keen as the average slashdotters. Stop thinking about what a reasonable man would do and start thinking more about Murphy's Law. If anything can go wrong it will, and in the worst possible way.
As for "This ballot is spoiled and is not counted" tell that to hundreds of thousands of machines who count the votes,...OOPS! They're human! They make mistakes, just like all humans do. Give 100 of them a ballot with two X's marked, Im sure a good dozen of them will take upon themselves to "interpret" who the vote was cast for ("oh you that X is less prominent than this one..").
Humans make mistakes. Voter is human, the vote is counted by another human, that pretty much quadruples the potential for a mistake doesnt it?
Give a human a finger and they will take the whole arm and preferably a couple of legs too./pro
Forgive me if Im wrong but wasnt one of the aspects they discussed as a gain when making a space lift, the fact that they could use the end point of the lift to launch interplanetary probes, maybe even interstellar ones, without expending any fuel at all? It seems this would work on a lunar elevator, perhaps not as well as an earth elevator but still.
So you have a 1 year transit to the moon with an ion engine, hook up to the lunar elevator and launch to jupiter or pluto or alpha centauri or whatever with a minimal amount of fuel and 99% scientific payload?
Who says its all about lifting crud off the lunar surface...
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Youre dealing with probabilities, not absolutes. So a rock could, in theory, protect a bacteria or a virus for a million years or it could just disintegrate in a minute. But still, X number of those germs just *might* make it a million years, its not probable, but certainly not impossible. The rest is just a copy of Drakes, like, how many rocks like that are generated each year, how many break orbit, how many go extrasolar, how many lasts for a million year journey, how many germs survive, how many survive impact on a foreign planet, ... you might just end up with "yeah its possible and it happens a million times each year in our galaxy alone", or it might just be one time in a millenia. But I doubt anyone claims its not possible.
Where does having Ars Technica saying it rank? Somewhere in between?
I remember back in the days when I was an intern tech at a local store, building computers custom. Just installing Win95 would be an almost foolproof way of testing if all the ram was working, if it wasnt it just wouldnt complete the install, it'd BSOD.
Just the other week I discussed this with my uncle, he is a die hard christian and I talked to him about what I perceived as a negative effect of religion. You hear it all the time. Whenever something bad happens, it Gods will. Lost your job? Gods will. Got sick? Gods will (Germs whats that?). Your grandma died? Gods will (No she was 100 years old and did just fine, what natural causes?).
It seems that any time a believer explains an event with "It was Gods will." they are basically saying, dont get any ideas, dont ponder, dont try to figure out why.
Im an atheist myself. I wish I could ban religion altogether.
-- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
assuming the conviction sticks after 20 more years of appeals, this opens the door wide open for others to claim damages for microsofts practises. anyone even slightly suffering by their practises can just point at this one and say 'look they were convicted, now give me my share'. in that sense whatever damages they get in this initial judgement should be trivial compared to the following lawsuits of anyone with a european branch.
good penalty. only problem is you cant steal 20 lines of code in any way shape or form. you can only copy them and abuse them.
its only RIAA and MPAA that claims that copying 0's and 1's is stealing.
actually you will probably see recently extinct species coming back in the next 50-100 years, mostly in zoos and such but they will come back because of gene-banks, cloning, artificial life and all.
I doubt we will see a jurassic park anytime soon though. but im sure eventually they will dig up dna for t-rex aswell.
im the author of twsinit, something I expermented with a while ago
in the end I got it down to 4KiB RSS (one stack page), still performing its function flawlessly.
all an init program needs to do is run some startup scripts and catche sigchld signals anyways.
I even went on to agetty after that, getting that down to 4KiB aswell.
Everything else on the system was the same btw, all I did was swap out sysv init and rewrite configs.
I'd like to see anyone saying 4KiB is inefficient.
/pro
two words: big boobs
/pro
Microsoft office:
+15,000 bribes
-0 complaints from others for not being able to read MS office files.
-5,000 MS government subsidized licenses
-10,000 crashes in windows XP
sum +-0
staroffice:
+0 bribes
-5,000 complaints from others for not being able to read MS office files.
-0 licenses
-10,000 crashes in windoze XP
sum -15,000
hmm?
You act as if finland itself has nothing interesting within its borders.
Its easy to imagina a wide variety of video applications that could easily be accomplished with this kind of service.
Finland first country to get video telephony anyone? Internet-only TV stations?
Civil lawsuit? Altho you would actually have to prove hours spent recovering was due to the worm otherwise you would have to foot the bills for his legal costs (europe is sane in this regard).
if a few million people did this (and won) im sure he would have to declare personal bankrupcy and spend at least a few years on cost of living minimums no matter who hired him for his brainwork.
...to buy some votes.
/pro
Instead of sponsoring an election campaign you just pay off a voting machine manufacturer.
Sorry, read your message wrong, thought you were complaining about linux file copy speeds =P
/pro
but yeah, delete ops shouldnt take any noticable time at all even if the file is XX gigabytes or fragmented to hell and back. unless your NTFS network server is set to zero out filespace when its deleted, then you get filesize write ops. otherwise its only touching the allocation table.
But ofcourse.
/pro
Moving 5.5Gb from one harddrive to another = 5.5Gb read ops + 5.5Gb write ops + 5.5Gb delete ops.
Deleting 4Gb on a network drive = 4Gb delete ops.
and in any decent system, a file delete op (even network drive) would be 1 syscall (unlink).
no wonder deleting 4Gb on NTFS is "slightly" faster than moving 5.5Gb on ext3.
using a plain english word for a TLD cuts out the 2/3rds of the world that doesnt speak english. it might aswell be .plzkthx as that would make just as much sense to the non-english speakers. someone go plant a non-english speaker on that ICANN board, that'll teach them "international". and why is it "jobs" and not "job" ? is it a TLD dedicated for those who hold more than one job?
/pro
It made the front page because its interesting and sparks debate, they didnt dump it in the trash just because you happened to disagree.
/pro
Slashdot is not just a blog for the latest software releases, if you only want that kind of news, try freshmeat.
Cost is the only thing that is visible on the bottom line. If its green or black this year, those paper pushers get a bonus, if its red they get nada.
/pro
Or in politiceeze:
/pro
"this does not change the fact that on mid [english: after I retire] and long term [english: after Im dead and buried], the alternative of open source software receives all attention [english: attention by someone else, maybe]."
Is it possible that geeks play gay jokes because there arent any gays openly among us? It can be fun to joke about someone or something that isnt present at "the party" but Id rather pick other jokes if a gay was present, im not into hurting anyone.
/pro
I dont think geeks are less tolerant than others, we're just less prude and less politically correct. We dont pretend to think some certain way like the general public, we joke and stuff about anything and everything cuz its fun, not because we think gays are any more weird than us... @.@
Indeed you have never experienced the visious malicious evil workings of a mind not as keen as the average slashdotters. Stop thinking about what a reasonable man would do and start thinking more about Murphy's Law. If anything can go wrong it will, and in the worst possible way.
...OOPS! They're human! They make mistakes, just like all humans do. Give 100 of them a ballot with two X's marked, Im sure a good dozen of them will take upon themselves to "interpret" who the vote was cast for ("oh you that X is less prominent than this one..").
/pro
As for "This ballot is spoiled and is not counted" tell that to hundreds of thousands of machines who count the votes,
Humans make mistakes. Voter is human, the vote is counted by another human, that pretty much quadruples the potential for a mistake doesnt it?
Give a human a finger and they will take the whole arm and preferably a couple of legs too.
Forgive me if Im wrong but wasnt one of the aspects they discussed as a gain when making a space lift, the fact that they could use the end point of the lift to launch interplanetary probes, maybe even interstellar ones, without expending any fuel at all? It seems this would work on a lunar elevator, perhaps not as well as an earth elevator but still.
So you have a 1 year transit to the moon with an ion engine, hook up to the lunar elevator and launch to jupiter or pluto or alpha centauri or whatever with a minimal amount of fuel and 99% scientific payload?
Who says its all about lifting crud off the lunar surface...
So what you're saying is basically that its company policy within US delivery services to fuck with the content of packages if they arent insured?
Do you honestly think it should work like that?
I dont.
/proton
Without comparisons like the one posted, how would any programmer know the strengths of the operating system that he/she is programming for?
Its clear as crystal that pipes should be avoided at all costs on Windows XP, that seems like valuable information to me!
And ofcourse Im happy that Linux comes out on top, it just shows that KISS works. Very simple pipes, very simple operations, and it does the job well.
/proton