They actually invited the family of the nut to come pray with them, realizing that the guy was sick and that being angry about it won't bring back the dead.
Merely logical. Family of nut != nut himself.
Punishing family of nut for isolated actions of nut plain wrong, cruel and vindictive (but what most "normal" people would consider acceptable and why the world is full of war... but that's a whole 'nother rant).
So this is what I did, installed 32-bit slack. Runs like a charm on 64-bit x86-64. Downloaded kernel source and build a 64-bit kernel. Next you can procede to build a 64-bit toolchain (of course keeping slack's 32-bit libs). Finally you can recompile packages that will benefit as 64-bit.
Can you please write up how you did this? I'd love to know. I'm a bit short on time these days to try to figure out how to do it myself. I've been experimenting with Splack on an old Sun Ultra, and I am developing my own build and packaging system.
It's strange how there's an official IBM S390 port but no AMD64. The IBM ports were done by people from IBM. There are also S390 ports of a couple of other distros (RedHat for one, and maybe SuSE?). IBM's marketeers must be in overdrive.
SPARC and Alpha ports have come and gone over the years, but never had the backing of Sun or DEC/Compaq/HP.
Remember, Pat does most of the work himself and without sufficient motication and resources, can't do everything.
Intel is still selling millions of 32-bit only x86 processors to the ignorant, so going to a 64-bit Slackware is not top priority yet.
My humble £0.02.
P.S. I've been using Slackware as my primary destop OS since 1996 after first trying it on a borrowed machine a year before. I've used RedHat, Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu, SuSE, Solaris 7, 8, 9 and 10 but I still personally choose Slack. I have 5 x86 boxes (from Pentium II up to Athlon XP) running Slackware and a Sun Ultra 1 running Splack. At work I have a dual-core 64-bit intel Dell running Slack.
A magazine is the perfect size to take into the toilet with you. Unless you want to sit there with a laptop? A magazine is the ultimate in portability, as well.
But can you really stand the embarrassment of walking into a shop and buying that sort of magazine?
Seriously, educate yourself of RTGs if you're worried about launch safety.
Secondly, as others have pointed out, they're an excellent, long-lasting, power source.
A thought just struck me. For much more additional cost, you could make the robots bigger and heavier with much bigger solar panels. They could have batteries big enough to hold several days' charge.
I'll go with the RTGs, which last decades and result in a smaller, more reliable, and more manoeverable vehicle.
Anyway, I'm sure the Martians are more radiation-hardened than we are, what with that thin atmosphere.
Spoken like (the vast majority of Itanium critics) someone who has never even seen one, let alone tested it.
OK, I'll bite.
About 3 years ago at Linux Expo in London the Red Hat guys had an itanic workstation. It was turned off, because it had overheated. They'd put it away out of site and wouldn't let me see it. I wanted to try it out, to see how fast it was. No way.
The guy on the HP itanic stand was waxing lyrical about the "new" crossbar switch in the big iron machines. I pointed out that he was a decade behind the big iron Unix companies like Sun and IBM. Mind you, if a 4-way Compaq ProLiant running Windows 2k is the best server you've ever seen, you might have been impressed. I asked him about itanic's ability to run legacy code (I wondered if he'd mention the pathetic x86 hardware emulation that was 10% as fast as the Pentium at the same clock speed). He said, "16-bit code?" I choked.
You wouldn't buy whine about your CPU not being able to perform like a GPU would you?
No, but a decade ago, intel was touting its proprietary itanic design as the leviathan that would crush all "proprietary" (sic) RISCs. (Never mind that a lot of the big 64-bit RISCs are Open and some are now "Open Source" under the GPL).
This post-RISC all-things-to-all-men has been consistently over-budget, behind schedule and under performing. All of the benchmarks that they advertise and the few selected ones that actually show it in a good light (tight loops of numerical code). And they often compare against much older CPUs, and lower configurations, that other manufacturers. (A tactic straight out of IBM's book).
Now it's a niche player, relegated to a small handful of scientific applications. intel paid SGI to give NASA a 10240-CPU itanic supercomputer for free.
Never mind its horrendous power and cooling requirements.
I'll stick to my out=of-date, cheap and cheerful AMD processors, thanks very much.
I've got better things to fritter away my money on than another 20% gain on tight loops...
Oh, and I buy my porn on DVD from a reputable store and I have a high quality Cambridge Audio DVD player to watch it on.
All other big companies (and even the small ones) that design CPUs are doing the same. Some even have a large head start (Sun with UltraSPARC T1). You need the interconnect too. Sun, IBM and AMD have that with Hypertransport (intel's work-a-like won't be out until 2008, a full 5 years behind AMD, and 12+ years behind Cray, Sun, IBM and SGI).
Don't forget software. The Solaris kernel has been there since Solaris 7 in the mid-late '90s (SGI Irix too). Linux is catching up on multithreding (2.4 kernels with NPTL). Don't mention Windows. It just doesn't scale at all.
The reason Apple chose intel was price, availability of large quantities of processors and intel processors always look good on certain synthetic benchmarks (small, tight loops that fit in L1 cache).
intel processors suck on servers. Always have, and will until 2008 when their new interconnect comes out. Unless you live in a very cold country and want an itanic for novelty value.
This is hilarious, because if this goes out on the market there's not going to be many operating systems capable of scheduling on that many chips usefully.
Solaris has been for a number of years, and Sun is ahead of the game with multi-core CPUs, with UltraSPARC T1.
But I hate Sun as much as the next Slashdot sheep. They did fire me, after all...
With windows you're guaranteed binary compatibility on a majority of systems
Because Windows only runs on x86 PeeCee hardware of Pentium III and later vintage. And everyone's running the same distribution (Windows XP). OK - maybe two distros, XP and 2003 Slow-Down-My-Server-To-A-Crawl Edition(TM).
The proles are starting to think for themselves! Revolution imminent! Move your funds to Switzerland, climb aboard your yachts and set sail for South America.
In other words, you're going to completely ignore the double standard of pirating music and then turn around and cry foul when students WILLINGLY hand over their assignments in an implicit property transfer?
And you, Mr Judge, Jury and Executioner, think that all students must be guilty of music and video "priacy" and therefore should be subject to treatment and punishment outside of the law?
Do you read the Daily Mail, the Sun or the News of the World? Or are you a member of New Labour or the Republican Party?
Statistically speaking, it's likely that a sizable percentage of these students download copyrighted material from the Internet. Do you think any of them are concerned about IP rights then?"
I see.
So we should only enforce the law when it is to the benefit of large corporations (Microsoft, IBM, Sony), politicians, media cartels (RIAA, MPAA, BPI) but not when the rights of individuals are infringed?
As others have pointed out, false positives can ruin an otherwise honest student's prospects. After all, the point-haired mindset doesn't just pervade middle management in corporations. It affects techers, law enforcers, politicians, government burocrats, journalists, slashdotters.
Oh look! A shiny computerised system! It must be right! I can't understand how it works, therefore it must be very clever and always right! All students (private citizens, civillians, voters, consumers) are fundamentally dishonest law-breakers and deserve my contempt.
Grrrr. Time for my daily drink and drugs coctail. Hand me my pills and whisky.
It can only gain mass with speed if it has rest mass. Photons have zero rest mass. Zero times anything is zero.
Look up the Lorentz Transoform for how to calculate length contraction, mass increase and time dilation. Now try your baseball thrown at 100 miles an hour. You'll see that you have to be going at over half the speed of light to make any appreciable difference.
The chamber gets very hot due to microwave heating. It's larger at one end that the other. It heats up the air, which becomes less dense. There is more less-dense air at the large end than the smaller, so it "sucks" itself round.
i think the point is that you can be more secretive.. it doesn't take the kind of balls to do something online it might take to do in front of a store full of people (or even just one guy behind a counter)
Oh, I don't know about that.
Time's cruel weathering of the soul, an abundance of pre-middle-age cynicism, and maybe two or three pints of strong lager can permit (dare I say it, "encourage") a casual stroll into Harmony on London's Oxford street.
Time and again it is shown that CCVT does nothing to prevent crime, it merely makes it easier to apprehend the cuplrit (sometimes) after a rape, murder or attempted murder.
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They actually invited the family of the nut to come pray with them, realizing that the guy was sick and that being angry about it won't bring back the dead.
Merely logical. Family of nut != nut himself.
Punishing family of nut for isolated actions of nut plain wrong, cruel and vindictive (but what most "normal" people would consider acceptable and why the world is full of war... but that's a whole 'nother rant).
So, how is Elvis? I hear that Roy Orbison and George Harrison are stomping on bugs quicker than Johnny Cash can crank out them line of BCPL.
So this is what I did, installed 32-bit slack. Runs like a charm on 64-bit x86-64. Downloaded kernel source and build a 64-bit kernel. Next you can procede to build a 64-bit toolchain (of course keeping slack's 32-bit libs). Finally you can recompile packages that will benefit as 64-bit.
Can you please write up how you did this? I'd love to know. I'm a bit short on time these days to try to figure out how to do it myself. I've been experimenting with Splack on an old Sun Ultra, and I am developing my own build and packaging system.
It must be a funding issue.
It's strange how there's an official IBM S390 port but no AMD64. The IBM ports were done by people from IBM. There are also S390 ports of a couple of other distros (RedHat for one, and maybe SuSE?). IBM's marketeers must be in overdrive.
SPARC and Alpha ports have come and gone over the years, but never had the backing of Sun or DEC/Compaq/HP.
Remember, Pat does most of the work himself and without sufficient motication and resources, can't do everything.
Intel is still selling millions of 32-bit only x86 processors to the ignorant, so going to a 64-bit Slackware is not top priority yet.
My humble £0.02.
P.S. I've been using Slackware as my primary destop OS since 1996 after first trying it on a borrowed machine a year before. I've used RedHat, Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu, SuSE, Solaris 7, 8, 9 and 10 but I still personally choose Slack. I have 5 x86 boxes (from Pentium II up to Athlon XP) running Slackware and a Sun Ultra 1 running Splack. At work I have a dual-core 64-bit intel Dell running Slack.
A magazine is the perfect size to take into the toilet with you. Unless you want to sit there with a laptop? A magazine is the ultimate in portability, as well.
But can you really stand the embarrassment of walking into a shop and buying that sort of magazine?
Does it have a reactionless microwave relativity drive? Or does it create memory in water molecules?
The AV guys need to do a deal with VMWare.
Run Windows under virtualisation, with the AV software interfacing directly with the hypervisor, so getting right in underneath Windows.
Problem solved.
They're a brilliant idea.
Seriously, educate yourself of RTGs if you're worried about launch safety.
Secondly, as others have pointed out, they're an excellent, long-lasting, power source.
A thought just struck me. For much more additional cost, you could make the robots bigger and heavier with much bigger solar panels. They could have batteries big enough to hold several days' charge.
I'll go with the RTGs, which last decades and result in a smaller, more reliable, and more manoeverable vehicle.
Anyway, I'm sure the Martians are more radiation-hardened than we are, what with that thin atmosphere.
Spoken like (the vast majority of Itanium critics) someone who has never even seen one, let alone tested it.
OK, I'll bite.
About 3 years ago at Linux Expo in London the Red Hat guys had an itanic workstation. It was turned off, because it had overheated. They'd put it away out of site and wouldn't let me see it. I wanted to try it out, to see how fast it was. No way.
The guy on the HP itanic stand was waxing lyrical about the "new" crossbar switch in the big iron machines. I pointed out that he was a decade behind the big iron Unix companies like Sun and IBM. Mind you, if a 4-way Compaq ProLiant running Windows 2k is the best server you've ever seen, you might have been impressed. I asked him about itanic's ability to run legacy code (I wondered if he'd mention the pathetic x86 hardware emulation that was 10% as fast as the Pentium at the same clock speed). He said, "16-bit code?" I choked.
You wouldn't buy whine about your CPU not being able to perform like a GPU would you?
No, but a decade ago, intel was touting its proprietary itanic design as the leviathan that would crush all "proprietary" (sic) RISCs. (Never mind that a lot of the big 64-bit RISCs are Open and some are now "Open Source" under the GPL).
This post-RISC all-things-to-all-men has been consistently over-budget, behind schedule and under performing. All of the benchmarks that they advertise and the few selected ones that actually show it in a good light (tight loops of numerical code). And they often compare against much older CPUs, and lower configurations, that other manufacturers. (A tactic straight out of IBM's book).
Now it's a niche player, relegated to a small handful of scientific applications. intel paid SGI to give NASA a 10240-CPU itanic supercomputer for free.
Never mind its horrendous power and cooling requirements.
I'll stick to my out=of-date, cheap and cheerful AMD processors, thanks very much.
I've got better things to fritter away my money on than another 20% gain on tight loops...
Oh, and I buy my porn on DVD from a reputable store and I have a high quality Cambridge Audio DVD player to watch it on.
Also show a picture of Lars Ulrich with a measily pile of only 5 million dollars instead of 6.
Lars said he was sorry. Poor man. Being bald is enough punishment for him. Leave him be.
All other big companies (and even the small ones) that design CPUs are doing the same. Some even have a large head start (Sun with UltraSPARC T1). You need the interconnect too. Sun, IBM and AMD have that with Hypertransport (intel's work-a-like won't be out until 2008, a full 5 years behind AMD, and 12+ years behind Cray, Sun, IBM and SGI).
Don't forget software. The Solaris kernel has been there since Solaris 7 in the mid-late '90s (SGI Irix too). Linux is catching up on multithreding (2.4 kernels with NPTL). Don't mention Windows. It just doesn't scale at all.
The reason Apple chose intel was price, availability of large quantities of processors and intel processors always look good on certain synthetic benchmarks (small, tight loops that fit in L1 cache).
intel processors suck on servers. Always have, and will until 2008 when their new interconnect comes out. Unless you live in a very cold country and want an itanic for novelty value.
This is hilarious, because if this goes out on the market there's not going to be many operating systems capable of scheduling on that many chips usefully.
Solaris has been for a number of years, and Sun is ahead of the game with multi-core CPUs, with UltraSPARC T1.
But I hate Sun as much as the next Slashdot sheep. They did fire me, after all...
With windows you're guaranteed binary compatibility on a majority of systems
Because Windows only runs on x86 PeeCee hardware of Pentium III and later vintage. And everyone's running the same distribution (Windows XP). OK - maybe two distros, XP and 2003 Slow-Down-My-Server-To-A-Crawl Edition(TM).
/me ducks.
It has Liv Tyler... (it also has her wrinkly dad... but...) say no more...
Yes, poor girl, but she's only marginally uglier than her wrinkly old dad, and look at all the money he's made.
OK OK OK OK.
What I meant to say was ${WARMSUNNYTAXHAVEN}. I thought that maybe the Bahama's weren't that exotic. Or Monaco. Or something.
The proles are starting to think for themselves! Revolution imminent! Move your funds to Switzerland, climb aboard your yachts and set sail for South America.
In other words, you're going to completely ignore the double standard of pirating music and then turn around and cry foul when students WILLINGLY hand over their assignments in an implicit property transfer?
And you, Mr Judge, Jury and Executioner, think that all students must be guilty of music and video "priacy" and therefore should be subject to treatment and punishment outside of the law?
Do you read the Daily Mail, the Sun or the News of the World? Or are you a member of New Labour or the Republican Party?
Beered up, and ready to rant!
Statistically speaking, it's likely that a sizable percentage of these students download copyrighted material from the Internet. Do you think any of them are concerned about IP rights then?"
I see.
So we should only enforce the law when it is to the benefit of large corporations (Microsoft, IBM, Sony), politicians, media cartels (RIAA, MPAA, BPI) but not when the rights of individuals are infringed?
As others have pointed out, false positives can ruin an otherwise honest student's prospects. After all, the point-haired mindset doesn't just pervade middle management in corporations. It affects techers, law enforcers, politicians, government burocrats, journalists, slashdotters.
Oh look! A shiny computerised system! It must be right! I can't understand how it works, therefore it must be very clever and always right! All students (private citizens, civillians, voters, consumers) are fundamentally dishonest law-breakers and deserve my contempt.
Grrrr. Time for my daily drink and drugs coctail. Hand me my pills and whisky.
So assuming that New Scientist fail to noticeably pull their socks up, what should I replace my New Scientist subscription with when it expires?
How about the Beano?
It can only gain mass with speed if it has rest mass. Photons have zero rest mass. Zero times anything is zero.
Look up the Lorentz Transoform for how to calculate length contraction, mass increase and time dilation. Now try your baseball thrown at 100 miles an hour. You'll see that you have to be going at over half the speed of light to make any appreciable difference.
The momentum of the photon has nothing to do with mass.
See also "Special Relativity" by A P French, ISBN 0-412-34320-7, if it's still in print.
When a photon loses energy by reflecting off the chamber wall, it can't lose speed, so it loses mass.
Photons don't have mass. I think you'll find that it loses frequency, i.e. it gains wavelength. It becomes "redder."
The chamber gets very hot due to microwave heating. It's larger at one end that the other. It heats up the air, which becomes less dense. There is more less-dense air at the large end than the smaller, so it "sucks" itself round.
Can I have a banana?
i think the point is that you can be more secretive.. it doesn't take the kind of balls to do something online it might take to do in front of a store full of people (or even just one guy behind a counter)
Oh, I don't know about that.
Time's cruel weathering of the soul, an abundance of pre-middle-age cynicism, and maybe two or three pints of strong lager can permit (dare I say it, "encourage") a casual stroll into Harmony on London's Oxford street.
Very wise, grashopper.
Is that Coventry, Planet Zarg?
Time and again it is shown that CCVT does nothing to prevent crime, it merely makes it easier to apprehend the cuplrit (sometimes) after a rape, murder or attempted murder.