I don't think _most_ server farms really require all that much CPU (much less floating point.. that's why Sun actually has a market with their T1000 and T2000 chips, but I digress). IO is usually the bigger bottleneck, be it memory, disk, or network.
Me, I'll take a 2 CPU/core server with 32 GB of memory over a "4x4" CPU server with say only 4 GB of memory any day.
Great... sigsegv hell here I come [back again]...
Why is KDE always seg faulting on me?? And single-click to open/launch things is evil. (yes I know you can change it)
sebFlyte notes a zdnet story thats says "Speaking at Queen Mary, University of London, on Monday night, Open Source Developer Labs chief executive Stuart Cohen said the lawsuits [SCO suing everyone in sight over supposed issues with Linux] were "the best thing that ever happened to Linux"'
Yeah... at IBM's expense. They're fighting this giant battle in the name of Linux, and paying all the legal fees. They're partly to blame for this whole fiasco though (just a teensy bit... SCO may be the fire, but a fire requires fuel [IBM] to keep burning).
Hopefully, after they win, they can have SCO front the bills;)
Personally, I believe you are correct, sarcasm aside. Quality of teachers is probably the most important aspect of our education system, and I just don't think we're getting quality teachers (don't get me wrong, I respect my teachers, but some just couldn't cut it).
For instance, my high school calculus teacher taught me everything I needed to know for college-level calculus, and the same goes for my Computer Science teacher, regarding C++; I learned nothing new in college as far as calculus or C++ is concerned. How many people can say that about _any_ of their high-school teachers?
I say pay our teachers more. Then we can attract brighter and more intelligent people to work in the field, and the results WILL be better.
that Motorola still supplies chips to Apple as well. I can't see this happening, EVER, especially since Apple's primary customer is the end-user, and IBM's is other companies.
I can't even remember all the crappy and worthless doctors I've seen in my lifetime. The number is absurdly high. It seems that at least 1/3 of them are just WAITING to get hit with a malpractice suit...
With that out of the way... you really can't say he did the wrong thing in seeing different doctors, etc. He DID do what they told him to do, and he failed to get better (temporarily feeling better is akin to a "quick hack" in programming). And the thing is, the medical world just works that way. The good doctors spend a lot of time keeping up with the latest medical journals.
I guess I shouldn't mention the doctors that cancelled my appointment, only to run into them at the driving range or golf course...
Unless you're doing lots of long reads (big files, such as databases), it's not really necessary for a linux system. I believe the average file read in a linux system is what, under 1k? You're really only saving on sector transfers, but you're not gaining anything as far as drive head seeks or basic rotational latency.
I'm running a RAID0 array on 15k SCSI HDs here, and honestly it's _not_ that much faster, except for when I'm recording audio (those WAV files get big FAST). Then again, I could still do it with no RAID.
Overall, unless you're dealing with big files, you won't gain much. (not to mention if you have too many drives in your array and not enough throughput (e.g. only ATA100 with 5+ drives), you'll really only choke your system bus.
...they could ensure that my hardware had good driver support, then make that a "HELL YEAH!"
But you see, therein lies the problem. Apple has [pretty] good support for all their products because they only use (and therefore support) a handful of 3rd party hardware out there. MS Windows has to support somewhere around 10x (rough, rough estimate) the amount of hardware that's out there, and I can imagine that's part of the reason Windows is buggy. The problem half the time is driver support! And if Mac OSX were to be released on x86, then they're gonna have the same problem as Windows, though knowing Apple, it won't be anywhere near as bad.
This repair extension program is only for people who waited forever to get their laptops serviced (myself included). All Powerbooks come with a default 1-yr. warranty through Apple, and the earliest Powerbooks that were affected by the white spots problem were manufactured in July 2003, so their warranties just passed a few months ago. Chances are everybody who had white spots had them occur very soon after they bought the laptop, and probably had it serviced very soon afterwards as well (sometimes more than once). The thing is, Apple has had a (permanent) fix for the problem since roughly the beginning of 2004.
My guess is that Apple has finally gone out and publicly offered this extension program since the initial onslaught of "white spots" complaints has finally ended (I only just got mine back a week ago), since they can finally keep up with production. It took them a week and a half to get the part.
A zoo veterinarian says he's not sure why she has altered her behaviour [of walking on two feet only], speculating that the illness could have caused brain damage.
Oh great, so human evolution is merely a result of brain damage. Go us.
...everytime I have to go over to a friend or family member's house and fix their Windows PC (be it spyware/adware, virus, bad drivers, general MS quirkiness, etc.), I am constantly reminded of why I don't use Windows, 'cuz sometimes I forget.
With my linux box, once I get it setup, everything runs smoothly, and nothing ever "randomly" breaks. It just works, which is the way your computer _SHOULD_ work. Be it package upgrades (emerge -uv world), or even kernel upgrades (which are a bit more complex, true), in the end after it's all configured, it will just work.
a distro that does away with Unix paths such as/usr/bin and/lib and uses things like/System/Settings/X11 instead
I generally don't think it's a good idea. It's additional clout that is pretty much unnecessary, seeing as how everybody is already used to/usr/bin,/lib, etc. If there were an advantage, I'd go for it, but there isn't: It's longer to write, you're mixing upper- & lower-case letters, and it's confusing sometimes. No real advantage.
Take OS X for instance. Here's a sample of what's in my root directory on my Powerbook:
/Applications
/Desktop DB
/Desktop DF
/Developer
/Library
/Network
/System
...
etc.
It's confusing and convoluted as hell. There's not necessarily only one type of file in each directory. Not to mention the structuring: there are applications left and right, many of which are actually directories containing more varied data. Madness, I tell you.
Stick with tried and true. It's been proven to work, and there is no major advantage over the new method.
This isn't "junk science" per-se. The problem is, the article is poorly written and forgets to mention the important part: that when you transmit only one photon at a time, you still get the same "interference", although there is nothing for it to interfere with!
The book that the article is based from is a valid book from a very prominent scientist in the field of quantum mechanics (though I don't agree with the theory that David Deutsch supports); just don't let the crappy internet article bog you down.
If you don't believe me, you should go read up on quantum mechanics.
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Me, I'll take a 2 CPU/core server with 32 GB of memory over a "4x4" CPU server with say only 4 GB of memory any day.
Great... sigsegv hell here I come [back again]... Why is KDE always seg faulting on me?? And single-click to open/launch things is evil. (yes I know you can change it)
That's exactly why you use personal email for personal things...
R.I.P. Chief Justice Rehnquist. You shall be missed.
If you thought you even had any privacy to begin with, you're a loony. You know nothing's changed... AOL is merely covering its ass.
Use the Gaim-encryption plugin for "secure" conversations. If you want to converse "securely" with non-Gaim users, stick with email+GnuPG
Yeah... at IBM's expense. They're fighting this giant battle in the name of Linux, and paying all the legal fees. They're partly to blame for this whole fiasco though (just a teensy bit... SCO may be the fire, but a fire requires fuel [IBM] to keep burning).
Hopefully, after they win, they can have SCO front the bills ;)
Think of your photo collection and music collection. It's just another extension of that (think DIARY).
Oddly enough, phdcomics.com was not accessible in China (for me, anyways), and I don't remember, but I don't think google was either.
Um, no. Many of them had real, VALID IDs.
natural selection at its "best."
Personally, I believe you are correct, sarcasm aside. Quality of teachers is probably the most important aspect of our education system, and I just don't think we're getting quality teachers (don't get me wrong, I respect my teachers, but some just couldn't cut it).
For instance, my high school calculus teacher taught me everything I needed to know for college-level calculus, and the same goes for my Computer Science teacher, regarding C++; I learned nothing new in college as far as calculus or C++ is concerned. How many people can say that about _any_ of their high-school teachers?
I say pay our teachers more. Then we can attract brighter and more intelligent people to work in the field, and the results WILL be better.
that Motorola still supplies chips to Apple as well. I can't see this happening, EVER, especially since Apple's primary customer is the end-user, and IBM's is other companies.
...oh, so you mean 99% of users on the Internet (the masses are dumb). Anything that can take advantage of clueless people is a threat in my book.
Not if it's on Slashdot!
With that out of the way... you really can't say he did the wrong thing in seeing different doctors, etc. He DID do what they told him to do, and he failed to get better (temporarily feeling better is akin to a "quick hack" in programming). And the thing is, the medical world just works that way. The good doctors spend a lot of time keeping up with the latest medical journals.
I guess I shouldn't mention the doctors that cancelled my appointment, only to run into them at the driving range or golf course...
....what happened when they probed Mars with X-rays! Watchout! (is Gary Sinise piloting?)
I'm running a RAID0 array on 15k SCSI HDs here, and honestly it's _not_ that much faster, except for when I'm recording audio (those WAV files get big FAST). Then again, I could still do it with no RAID.
Overall, unless you're dealing with big files, you won't gain much. (not to mention if you have too many drives in your array and not enough throughput (e.g. only ATA100 with 5+ drives), you'll really only choke your system bus.
Oh, and today we will have a high of 94F and 84% relative humidity.
(I'd kill for a 70F or less office!)
But you see, therein lies the problem. Apple has [pretty] good support for all their products because they only use (and therefore support) a handful of 3rd party hardware out there. MS Windows has to support somewhere around 10x (rough, rough estimate) the amount of hardware that's out there, and I can imagine that's part of the reason Windows is buggy. The problem half the time is driver support! And if Mac OSX were to be released on x86, then they're gonna have the same problem as Windows, though knowing Apple, it won't be anywhere near as bad.
My guess is that Apple has finally gone out and publicly offered this extension program since the initial onslaught of "white spots" complaints has finally ended (I only just got mine back a week ago), since they can finally keep up with production. It took them a week and a half to get the part.
Oh great, so human evolution is merely a result of brain damage. Go us.
With my linux box, once I get it setup, everything runs smoothly, and nothing ever "randomly" breaks. It just works, which is the way your computer _SHOULD_ work. Be it package upgrades (emerge -uv world), or even kernel upgrades (which are a bit more complex, true), in the end after it's all configured, it will just work.
I guess the key point is Linux's consistency.
I generally don't think it's a good idea. It's additional clout that is pretty much unnecessary, seeing as how everybody is already used to /usr/bin, /lib, etc. If there were an advantage, I'd go for it, but there isn't: It's longer to write, you're mixing upper- & lower-case letters, and it's confusing sometimes. No real advantage.
Take OS X for instance. Here's a sample of what's in my root directory on my Powerbook:
/Applications
/Desktop DB
/Desktop DF
/Developer
/Library
/Network
/System
...
etc.
It's confusing and convoluted as hell. There's not necessarily only one type of file in each directory. Not to mention the structuring: there are applications left and right, many of which are actually directories containing more varied data. Madness, I tell you.
Stick with tried and true. It's been proven to work, and there is no major advantage over the new method.
The book that the article is based from is a valid book from a very prominent scientist in the field of quantum mechanics (though I don't agree with the theory that David Deutsch supports); just don't let the crappy internet article bog you down.
If you don't believe me, you should go read up on quantum mechanics.
R = Ron Rivest
S = Adi Shamir
A = Len Adleman