You mean less time between breakdowns, right? Dell is the Wal-Mart of computers. For hard day-to-day work, I would seriously prefer something from Apple or Sun before Dell.
Also, as far as benchmarking goes, P4/Xeon score well in integer performance, but comparatively are middle-of-the-pack in FP performance. So, depending on how the statistics are manipulated, everyone is a winner.
So, please, explain to me why I am a shallow thinker.
Like many conspiracy/doomsday theorists you seem to be taking piecemeal evidence and drawing sweeping conclusions from it.
The report cited by the Guardian was actually a "what if" thought experiment by the US government. It is no different than having epidemiologists saying "what if a bio attack happened, what would the outcome be?". It simply predicts the worst case imaginable so government planners can try do thier jobs. The likelihood of anything that bad happening is slim to none. In fact, I would be more worried about the unpredictable, meaning I just go on with my life and hope for the best.
The extreme rapid change described in that article brings up my skeptic meter a bit. I really wonder if that report is one of the many disaster case studies that the government does for planning purposes. They do lots of fictional thought-experiments for things like biological attack, what happens if russian scientists sell everything to Iran, etc. Before I believe that article, I would need to see corroberating information.
Erm, surely you have to put the power in for these half dozen iMacs?
The obvious solution to this is to put a high-power high-density microwave transmission dish on each desk for power distribution. I can't wait to see the smiles on the childrens' faces when they see the clean productive learning environment I...BZZZzzZzzZTTtTTtt...oh dear god!
There are a few (very few) who will gamble away every dime they have, then sell their house and throw that away too. Addictive types will honor their addictions. Why penalize the vast majority because of a few losers?
It's too bad that they weren't able to gamble away their ability to reproduce!
Really? Statistically, I will die dozens of times before even having the slimmest of a slightest chance of winning a state lottery. The Lottery is just another tax scam to make up for political shortfalls, not unlike those FCC "fees" on my phone bill.
It should be illegal to call a tax something other than a tax, but there are so many conflicts of interest in doing this that it will never happen.
I understand your confusion. The elevation where the post is carved is determined by moderation. Of the -1 posts, any that reference shocking hobbies get dumped into Lake Erie (don't eat the fish!). The rest get buried in a poor neighborhood in Detroit. This is why they are not immediately visible in the archives.
An (old) Python topic-of-heated-discussion was the relative merit of tabs vs. spaces.
Now that everyone and their uncle has wasted their time configuring their IDE to use two, three, four, six, or eight spaces for automatic tab replacement, they will have to waste more time trying to type tabs in a language that acually requires them.
Tabs really are better than spaces for indentation. The only reason people want two-space "tabs" is so bad programming with many many nested loops, structures, and other declarations will fit within a maximized terminal window.
When a program with traditional 8-space tabs starts to fill a screen left-to-right, that's a good indication for the programmer to step back and re-think their work.
Not only that, it feels like passing a watermelon that is backed by two cans of beans.
I seriously burned out of web development after only a couple of years of doing it. There were dozens (hundreds?) of crappy me-too toolkits, methods, paradigms, languages, and "standards." Add to this working with dozens of me-too "developers" who think Toolkit X is the best because they saw it on the cover of a magazine, and being a web developer really is the job from hell.
Java is 10,000% cleaner and easier than (X|HT|XHT)ML, JavaScript, DOM, CSS, etc.etc.etc. Yes, we should all be very angry about the Microsoft vs. Sun debacle, and it really was a disaster for the WWW. I agree 100%.
One possibility is a hardware switch which would need to be pressed before any firmware modification could proceeed. A similar idea would provided a hardware write protection to certain portions of the operating system.
Sun workstations require pysically moving a jumper on the motherboard before the OpenBoot PROM can be upgraded. The NVRAM can be altered without the jumper change, but people are so used to NVRAM batteries going dead that many people already know what to do with them. Also, resetting the NVRAM is easy and the OpenBoot command prompt allows manually accessing any partition (NVRAM is really just a convenience).
Hard drive firmware is certainly still a risk, so data could still be vulnerable. However, this is little different than simply re-formatting the partitions, which is easier for a worm author to do.
So, I'd say that Sun hardware, at least, isn't likely to get wiped out by a firmware attack. I'm sure there are PC motherboards out there that have similar jumper requirements, too; it's probably just a matter of shopping around and not buying cheap crap.
This would simply turn a buffer overflow exploint into a denial of service one. It would be better for bad array access to throw an exception, which is the case in Java.
Students are monitored by the logger, if it finds a word or phrase in our database, then a screenshot is sent to us, and we can then watch the student in real time over VNC.
This kind of rancid crap is why home schooling is so popular. Our children are not inmates!
Sorry, but Slashdot's database literally carves your post into stone on the side of Michigan's highest mountain. The plan is to provide archaeologists from the year 2434 with an accurate historical record of Microsoft during our era.
This of course depends on what type of game you're playing. From what you say, I'm guessing you have FPS games in mind, and all of that is very true. However, when it comes to playing a RPG like FFX, the difference is minimal.
I think consoles are arguably a part of the deline of text-based gaming. Even in the mid-1990s I played graphics and text-command-driven hybrid games that were quite good. Do people still market Zork-like games, any longer? Or do people still think reading/typing/thinking is not cool?
Remember, guys, this is the same HP that is gutting/gutted their core traditionally best-in-class businesses like Laser Printers, Lab Equipment, Calculators, and RISC CPUs!
HP, like IBM, is a member of Slashdot's "loved today hated tomorrow" club.
Engineering disciplines are simply volatile. History proves this. The only difference now is that it seems the peak and trough on the graph might be a big bigger this time around.
Yes, but their corporate image is one of middle-class middle-America white bread and Sunday best slacks. Whether the people who actually shop there match that description is irrelevant, because it is a matter of marketing. Wal-Mart is brilliant at marketing.
Yes, finally we have a process, where the training program has been officially accredited and takes 2.5 years to complete. The resulting Ph.D. is very highly valued in industry, and many people exiting the program get hired on in the best bureaucracies around! The best part is that no programming is necessary at all!
If I know Wal-Mart, 400,00 people will want to check out per hour, but their servers will only be able to hadnle 50,000 transactions in that same time period.
Worse, two-thirds of the servers will be turned off, several will be blocked by some old geezer taking _forever_ to type in his CC number, and the rest will be occupied by people trying to check out with several 100 lb. bags of fish food that had the UPC stickers torn off.
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They offer faster computers though.
You mean less time between breakdowns, right? Dell is the Wal-Mart of computers. For hard day-to-day work, I would seriously prefer something from Apple or Sun before Dell.
Also, as far as benchmarking goes, P4/Xeon score well in integer performance, but comparatively are middle-of-the-pack in FP performance. So, depending on how the statistics are manipulated, everyone is a winner.
So, please, explain to me why I am a shallow thinker.
Like many conspiracy/doomsday theorists you seem to be taking piecemeal evidence and drawing sweeping conclusions from it.
The report cited by the Guardian was actually a "what if" thought experiment by the US government. It is no different than having epidemiologists saying "what if a bio attack happened, what would the outcome be?". It simply predicts the worst case imaginable so government planners can try do thier jobs. The likelihood of anything that bad happening is slim to none. In fact, I would be more worried about the unpredictable, meaning I just go on with my life and hope for the best.
The extreme rapid change described in that article brings up my skeptic meter a bit. I really wonder if that report is one of the many disaster case studies that the government does for planning purposes. They do lots of fictional thought-experiments for things like biological attack, what happens if russian scientists sell everything to Iran, etc. Before I believe that article, I would need to see corroberating information.
Erm, surely you have to put the power in for these half dozen iMacs?
The obvious solution to this is to put a high-power high-density microwave transmission dish on each desk for power distribution. I can't wait to see the smiles on the childrens' faces when they see the clean productive learning environment I...BZZZzzZzzZTTtTTtt...oh dear god!
Nobody ever got a surge excitement from responsibly investing a dollar a week.
I got pretty worked up after seeing that $8 of interest earned on my bank statement today! Yeah!
There are a few (very few) who will gamble away every dime they have, then sell their house and throw that away too. Addictive types will honor their addictions. Why penalize the vast majority because of a few losers?
It's too bad that they weren't able to gamble away their ability to reproduce!
The lottery isn't too bad...
Really? Statistically, I will die dozens of times before even having the slimmest of a slightest chance of winning a state lottery. The Lottery is just another tax scam to make up for political shortfalls, not unlike those FCC "fees" on my phone bill.
It should be illegal to call a tax something other than a tax, but there are so many conflicts of interest in doing this that it will never happen.
I understand your confusion. The elevation where the post is carved is determined by moderation. Of the -1 posts, any that reference shocking hobbies get dumped into Lake Erie (don't eat the fish!). The rest get buried in a poor neighborhood in Detroit. This is why they are not immediately visible in the archives.
An (old) Python topic-of-heated-discussion was the relative merit of tabs vs. spaces.
Now that everyone and their uncle has wasted their time configuring their IDE to use two, three, four, six, or eight spaces for automatic tab replacement, they will have to waste more time trying to type tabs in a language that acually requires them.
Tabs really are better than spaces for indentation. The only reason people want two-space "tabs" is so bad programming with many many nested loops, structures, and other declarations will fit within a maximized terminal window.
When a program with traditional 8-space tabs starts to fill a screen left-to-right, that's a good indication for the programmer to step back and re-think their work.
Programmers are largely male, so it all started back in 1957 with
Programmable Extensible Neutral-platform Integration System
Ever since, it has been tradition--no an homage--to name languages with 'p' as the first character.
Why? Because it is done through the ass.
Not only that, it feels like passing a watermelon that is backed by two cans of beans.
I seriously burned out of web development after only a couple of years of doing it. There were dozens (hundreds?) of crappy me-too toolkits, methods, paradigms, languages, and "standards." Add to this working with dozens of me-too "developers" who think Toolkit X is the best because they saw it on the cover of a magazine, and being a web developer really is the job from hell.
Java is 10,000% cleaner and easier than (X|HT|XHT)ML, JavaScript, DOM, CSS, etc.etc.etc. Yes, we should all be very angry about the Microsoft vs. Sun debacle, and it really was a disaster for the WWW. I agree 100%.
One possibility is a hardware switch which would need to be pressed before any firmware modification could proceeed. A similar idea would provided a hardware write protection to certain portions of the operating system.
Sun workstations require pysically moving a jumper on the motherboard before the OpenBoot PROM can be upgraded. The NVRAM can be altered without the jumper change, but people are so used to NVRAM batteries going dead that many people already know what to do with them. Also, resetting the NVRAM is easy and the OpenBoot command prompt allows manually accessing any partition (NVRAM is really just a convenience).
Hard drive firmware is certainly still a risk, so data could still be vulnerable. However, this is little different than simply re-formatting the partitions, which is easier for a worm author to do.
So, I'd say that Sun hardware, at least, isn't likely to get wiped out by a firmware attack. I'm sure there are PC motherboards out there that have similar jumper requirements, too; it's probably just a matter of shopping around and not buying cheap crap.
...hit a boundary-check and abort the program.
This would simply turn a buffer overflow exploint into a denial of service one. It would be better for bad array access to throw an exception, which is the case in Java.
What Would The World Be Like Without Microsoft?
Without Microsoft, Microsoft advertisements would actually be true!
Students are monitored by the logger, if it finds a word or phrase in our database, then a screenshot is sent to us, and we can then watch the student in real time over VNC.
This kind of rancid crap is why home schooling is so popular. Our children are not inmates!
(modz plz delete my anonymous coward post, doh!)
Sorry, but Slashdot's database literally carves your post into stone on the side of Michigan's highest mountain. The plan is to provide archaeologists from the year 2434 with an accurate historical record of Microsoft during our era.
This of course depends on what type of game you're playing. From what you say, I'm guessing you have FPS games in mind, and all of that is very true. However, when it comes to playing a RPG like FFX, the difference is minimal.
I think consoles are arguably a part of the deline of text-based gaming. Even in the mid-1990s I played graphics and text-command-driven hybrid games that were quite good. Do people still market Zork-like games, any longer? Or do people still think reading/typing/thinking is not cool?
Off the top of my head, he's trying to cure AIDS.
That's because dead people can't buy Windows and Office.
With nothing to do, we did a lot of reading and played a few board games. Mostly, though, we played with the cat.
Yeah, but dressing the cat up like the Fonz just isn't the same...
I'd love to know what the standard deviation on the calculation of average numbers of TV watched/year is.
It directly correlates in a quadratic fashion with the distribution of waistlines, a much easier metric to observe and analyze.
+5 Interesting?
Remember, guys, this is the same HP that is gutting/gutted their core traditionally best-in-class businesses like Laser Printers, Lab Equipment, Calculators, and RISC CPUs!
HP, like IBM, is a member of Slashdot's "loved today hated tomorrow" club.
Engineering disciplines are simply volatile. History proves this. The only difference now is that it seems the peak and trough on the graph might be a big bigger this time around.
Yes, but their corporate image is one of middle-class middle-America white bread and Sunday best slacks. Whether the people who actually shop there match that description is irrelevant, because it is a matter of marketing. Wal-Mart is brilliant at marketing.
Yes, finally we have a process, where the training program has been officially accredited and takes 2.5 years to complete. The resulting Ph.D. is very highly valued in industry, and many people exiting the program get hired on in the best bureaucracies around! The best part is that no programming is necessary at all!
If I know Wal-Mart, 400,00 people will want to check out per hour, but their servers will only be able to hadnle 50,000 transactions in that same time period.
Worse, two-thirds of the servers will be turned off, several will be blocked by some old geezer taking _forever_ to type in his CC number, and the rest will be occupied by people trying to check out with several 100 lb. bags of fish food that had the UPC stickers torn off.