Detecting _the effects of_ something are different from detecting that thing.
Let's try a simple example:
Scenario 1) You come home from the pub and you see a man taking letting the air out of your tyres
Scenario 2) You come home from the pub and you see that your tyres are flat.
Scenario 1 is _hard evidence_ that there's someone who's letting down tyres in the neighbourhood, scenario 2 is _not_. Are you really sure your 20 year old Lada doesn't have fucked valves?
I know this is gonna get me -1 flamebait, but at least I'm honest: {{{ $ uname -rsm FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE i386 }}}
Hmmm, on retrospect, the Linux mags are boring too, and the Windoze ones are even worse.
I recommend everyone to pop over to MP3.com and download Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie's "Every OS Sucks", can you tell I listened to it this morning?:-)
I forgot to add that even if you accept the proton/neutron/electron/photon model of earthly matter, then there's no _hard_ evidence for the majority of subatomic particles. The experiments that prove the existance of other subatomic particles are simply looking at the fingerprints left on the earthly matter after interactions.
And how did we prove the existence of the standard nuclear model of the atom in the first place - we (well, Rutherford) looked at the fingerprint caused by particle scattering.
How hard do you want? They've found a crystal with no known pathway for its creation apart from a directed one. The three conclusion options are 1) On earth it's directed by microbes, on mars it's directed by God. 2) On earth it's only directed by microbes, on mars the laws of physics permit it to happen without direction 3) On earth it's directed by microbes, on mars it's directed by microbes.
Get out your Ockham's razer - which of the two are you more inclined to pare away?
YAWIAR.
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You're sooooo wrong!!!!!!
Sure, keep the navigation part of a web-site flash-free, but at the end of the day, there's nothing better than a good old fashioned game of mini-putt! (google for 'flash miniputt' to find it).
_That's_ what Flash is good for - reminiscing about how games used to be on the C64, BBC, or ZX Spectrum!
(in case you've missed my point, I'm actually agreeing with paradesign, for reference).
The only way that dotcom tossers buying ferraris helps the poor is 1) a) if lots of tax was paid
and
b) the tax system supports the poor or 2) They crash straight into another dotcom tosser driving a SUV, and wipe each other out, and their wallets go flying into the air and scatter dolalr bills all over a nearby slum.
Alas 1b) ain't likely in the US, so looks like we gotta wait for 2)...
YAWIAR (tosser = perjorative for 'one who pleasures himself', if it's not known west of the pond)
Not just take, but sell elsewhere and make a profit.
There's a law here called (roughly) 'every man's right' which says (roughly) that almost all things in nature (the berries, the mushrooms, the fish etc.) are free for everyone to use (pick/kill) as they need to eat. However, it's strictly forbidden to abuse this right to make a profit. You can kill what you eat, and nothing more.
Taking that which is freely given and _selling_ it to others is _exploitation_. Not everyone minds being exploited, so we shouldn't really try to change things forcably, however I claim that we can still validly _view_ the situation as exploitation.
{{{ I submit that it is not amateur scientists that are in decline, but Scientific American. }}}
Well said. In tha last few years we've seen all kinds of hobby science being done. Sure old fields may have dried up, but new fields have opened. e.g. Look at the microwave plasma ball experiments which were impossible 20 years ago (I think that I first read about these about 10 years ago, the recent story on slashdot was very behind the times).
Nowadays the raw components of hobby hacking may be pre-built processors, DSPs, RF units (naughty, naughty) etc., but that doesn't detract from their innovativeness.
20 years ago people weren't rolling their own capacitors, for heaven's sake, so why should we expect modern day tinkerers to not take advantage of what are now commodity items?
{{{ 2. Fix their pricing so that it is uniform to all OEMs (so that OEMs will not be persecuted individually for carrying a competing product, like Linux or Netscape) }}}
Freedom of tort stands in your way here. Sure it sounds great in principle, but to do the above involves removing their right to make a contract with a client/customer under their own terms.
Some would say that they no longer deserve that right as they've misused it in the past, which is a valid point, and one I probably agree with. However, as soon as you start removing basic rights you're putting yourself on pretty shaky grounds.
I genuinely believe the AMD guy had a gun to his head when he wrote his declaration. Sign it or sign AMD's economic suicide note. Not a tricky choice, I think I'd have done the same (and snitched as soon as possible).
That's why I specified different directories. The caching is fairly fine-grained, and I am expecting the server to have to hop around the disk quite a bit in the process. I've seen as few as 100 users doing nothing but menial things (the machine's only used for reading mail and running telnet mainly, very low CPU requirement) slow a HP-UX system to a halt.
However, you're right, second time they do it, it should be instant from the cache.
They'll need a gaggle of extra programmers to start writing buffer over-runs, and other exploitable 'features' before they can claim that level of integration!!
Not if the reason it was blocking was due to filesystem latency. If everyone on the network does 'ls' simultaniously in separate directories (on network storage) then the population of lag-city will increase dramatically.
YAWIAR.
Maybe interpret it as "as perfectly as can be done with existing (read common, cheap) technology" instead.
Sure, we know Amdahl's law is pretty much like the laws of thermodynamics (the best you can do is break even, and you can't even break even). However, unless you are talking about high-budget professional solutions (e.g. Cray, HP Superdomes, most big shit fom Sun, other highly integrated solutions with custom inter-processor/memory communications), you're always going to take this hit, and openMosix has no reason to be worse than other simple solutions. And if it can reach a state where there seems to be no performance improvement without throwing hardware at it, then surely it could be said to have reached perfection? However, that's a lot of "if"s, and is all pie in the sky at the moment; whether it achieves this 'perfection' target remains to be seen.
Slashdot Mirror
"It's just like..."
Double barrelled - all ten toes removed.
Well done.
YAWIAR.
Yup, certainly some domains were traded for unbelievable, and stupid amounts.
Reading the article, I spotted this shoddy tabloid journalism:
{{{
Assuming annual registration fees between $15 and $30 these days
}}}
Grrrr! In bulk (500 or more, ISTR), the domains were registered for about $6 each. However, $6*15m is still a whole load of beer-money.
YAWIAR.
Looks like all that is required is the ?x at the end...
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/08/03/delet eddomains/index.html?x
Stupid dumbarses. Phil
Do they act like 802.1lb geurrillas, though. ;-|
YAWIAR.
Detecting _the effects of_ something are different from detecting that thing.
Let's try a simple example:
Scenario 1) You come home from the pub and you see a man taking letting the air out of your tyres
Scenario 2) You come home from the pub and you see that your tyres are flat.
Scenario 1 is _hard evidence_ that there's someone who's letting down tyres in the neighbourhood, scenario 2 is _not_. Are you really sure your 20 year old Lada doesn't have fucked valves?
Sheesh, don't they teach ACs to think any more?
YAWIAR.
The newsletters are so boring!
:-)
I know this is gonna get me -1 flamebait, but at least I'm honest:
{{{
$ uname -rsm
FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE i386
}}}
Hmmm, on retrospect, the Linux mags are boring too, and the Windoze ones are even worse.
I recommend everyone to pop over to MP3.com and download Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie's "Every OS Sucks", can you tell I listened to it this morning?
YAWIAR.
I forgot to add that even if you accept the proton/neutron/electron/photon model of earthly matter, then there's no _hard_ evidence for the majority of subatomic particles.
The experiments that prove the existance of other subatomic particles are simply looking at the fingerprints left on the earthly matter after interactions.
And how did we prove the existence of the standard nuclear model of the atom in the first place - we (well, Rutherford) looked at the fingerprint caused by particle scattering.
YAWIAR.
How hard do you want?
They've found a crystal with no known pathway for its creation apart from a directed one.
The three conclusion options are
1) On earth it's directed by microbes, on mars it's directed by God.
2) On earth it's only directed by microbes, on mars the laws of physics permit it to happen without direction
3) On earth it's directed by microbes, on mars it's directed by microbes.
Get out your Ockham's razer - which of the two are you more inclined to pare away?
YAWIAR.
You're sooooo wrong!!!!!!
Sure, keep the navigation part of a web-site flash-free, but at the end of the day, there's nothing better than a good old fashioned game of mini-putt!
(google for 'flash miniputt' to find it).
_That's_ what Flash is good for - reminiscing about how games used to be on the C64, BBC, or ZX Spectrum!
(in case you've missed my point, I'm actually agreeing with paradesign, for reference).
YAWIAR.
" ... erm,
"Linux-like commands"
shouldn't that really be UNIX-like commands
"
Go in as the admin account and type killall
If nothing happens then it's Linux-like, and if everything shuts down, it's Unix-like.
Things that are Linux-like are almost by always GNU-like. GNU ain't Unix, and the killall command is a great way to tell which one you're on!
YAWIAR
The only way that dotcom tossers buying ferraris helps the poor is
1) a) if lots of tax was paid
and
b) the tax system supports the poor
or
2) They crash straight into another dotcom tosser driving a SUV, and wipe each other out, and their wallets go flying into the air and scatter dolalr bills all over a nearby slum.
Alas 1b) ain't likely in the US, so looks like we gotta wait for 2)...
YAWIAR
(tosser = perjorative for 'one who pleasures himself', if it's not known west of the pond)
Not just take, but sell elsewhere and make a profit.
There's a law here called (roughly) 'every man's right' which says (roughly) that almost all things in nature (the berries, the mushrooms, the fish etc.) are free for everyone to use (pick/kill) as they need to eat. However, it's strictly forbidden to abuse this right to make a profit. You can kill what you eat, and nothing more.
Taking that which is freely given and _selling_ it to others is _exploitation_. Not everyone minds being exploited, so we shouldn't really try to change things forcably, however I claim that we can still validly _view_ the situation as exploitation.
YAWIAR.
So were they Anglo-Saxons, or Normans (or French).
Make your mind up before you get all haughty.
YAWIAR.
{{{
I submit that it is not amateur scientists that are in decline, but Scientific American.
}}}
Well said. In tha last few years we've seen all kinds of hobby science being done. Sure old fields may have dried up, but new fields have opened.
e.g. Look at the microwave plasma ball experiments which were impossible 20 years ago (I think that I first read about these about 10 years ago, the recent story on slashdot was very behind the times).
Nowadays the raw components of hobby hacking may be pre-built processors, DSPs, RF units (naughty, naughty) etc., but that doesn't detract from their innovativeness.
20 years ago people weren't rolling their own capacitors, for heaven's sake, so why should we expect modern day tinkerers to not take advantage of what are now commodity items?
YAWIAR.
{{{
2. Fix their pricing so that it is uniform to all OEMs (so that OEMs will not be persecuted individually for carrying a competing product, like Linux or Netscape)
}}}
Freedom of tort stands in your way here. Sure it sounds great in principle, but to do the above involves removing their right to make a contract with a client/customer under their own terms.
Some would say that they no longer deserve that right as they've misused it in the past, which is a valid point, and one I probably agree with. However, as soon as you start removing basic rights you're putting yourself on pretty shaky grounds.
I genuinely believe the AMD guy had a gun to his head when he wrote his declaration. Sign it or sign AMD's economic suicide note. Not a tricky choice, I think I'd have done the same (and snitched as soon as possible).
YAWIAR.
However, /more/ money will be lost by kleenex if he patents using porn to cause arousal.
YAWIAR.
That's why I specified different directories. The caching is fairly fine-grained, and I am expecting the server to have to hop around the disk quite a bit in the process. I've seen as few as 100 users doing nothing but menial things (the machine's only used for reading mail and running telnet mainly, very low CPU requirement) slow a HP-UX system to a halt.
However, you're right, second time they do it, it should be instant from the cache.
YAWIAR.
They'll need a gaggle of extra programmers to start writing buffer over-runs, and other exploitable 'features' before they can claim that level of integration!!
YAWIAR.
Not if the reason it was blocking was due to filesystem latency. If everyone on the network does 'ls' simultaniously in separate directories (on network storage) then the population of lag-city will increase dramatically. YAWIAR.
Oooh, you cynic.
Maybe interpret it as "as perfectly as can be done with existing (read common, cheap) technology" instead.
Sure, we know Amdahl's law is pretty much like the laws of thermodynamics (the best you can do is break even, and you can't even break even).
However, unless you are talking about high-budget professional solutions (e.g. Cray, HP Superdomes, most big shit fom Sun, other highly integrated solutions with custom inter-processor/memory communications), you're always going to take this hit, and openMosix has no reason to be worse than other simple solutions. And if it can reach a state where there seems to be no performance improvement without throwing hardware at it, then surely it could be said to have reached perfection? However, that's a lot of "if"s, and is all pie in the sky at the moment; whether it achieves this 'perfection' target remains to be seen.
YAWAIW.