A good 20k$ RAID array does much more. First, it doesn't use cheap SATA drives, but Fiberchannel Drivers or even SAS drives which are tested to a higher level of quality (each disk costs like 500$ or more..). And those cheap SATA drives also react much more poorly to non-sequential access (like when you have multiple users). They are unusable for serious file serving. You can never compare RAID arrays that use SATA/IDE to ones that use enterprise drives like FC/SCSI/etc, because the drives are quite different.
Then you have the other features like dual redundant everything: controllers, power supplies, etc. Then you have thermal capabilities of rack-mount solutions that often are different from SATA, etc, etc.
It's not fake.. if you RTFA, you'd notice that they say that what's false is that the government has banned it, but that the rumor originated exactly because some teacher decide not to teach it out of fear.. And that's untolerable. You (the Brits) have to crack down on your terrorist breeding mosques now before its too late.
I was looking at the mozilla wiki and I couldn't find a release schedule for Gecko 1.9 / Firefox 3. Does it exist somewhere? I read allusion to like March and then to the end of the year. I guess if we are still in Alpha, its more like Q3/Q4 ?
I tried recent nightly builds, and I really liked what I saw on the painting front. I hope we can get a stabilized release soon.
As long as they are ours.. That's basically the message that the Universal Music Group (of which Geffen Records is part) is sending. Its so typical of the corporate world (I'd say Corporate America, but I don't think its better elsewhere), they so much apply double standards when it comes to the law.. They are saying, we can steal from you, we can kill you, we can invade your country, we can infringe your copyrights, but if you dare to do one tenth of what we do, then its going to be terrible for you.
So anyways, feel free to use your favorite P2P network to download UMG's works, since they don't think copyright matter. That said, I couldn't agree more with them, the whole copyright thing is dumb and should be abolished.
The reason x86 is better is because its more popular and therefore Intel and AMD have more money to pour into R&D than anyone else. Or I would probably even say everyone else combined. So they make better chips, which sell more and the cycle continues. The other reason is that most PC software currently used is non-Free and runs on Windows and windows runs on x86. Obviously here we are only talking about PCs. Embedded is a completely different story where x86 is marginal, but the performance requirements are completely different and most of the time much lower or very specialised.
That's why I don't buy DRM'ed music. But instead copy music legally for my personal use, using my right to private copying (see the Canadian Copyright Act).
First, continue school. Get a good engineering degree. Don't stop school to work before you get one. Otherwise you'll be screwed into sucky jobs for the rest of your life.
Second, get involved in Free Software (Open Source). I became a core developer of GnomeICU (the Gnome ICQ client) when I was 17 and ICQ was still synonymous with IM. It got me into the Gnome community, I'm still reaping the benefits.
Third, when I was 17, it was the peak of the.com craze, so I managed to find a summer job as a programmer through a friend in a sucky.com. I sucked really bad, the company sucked (they went bankrupt in months). I was payed badly (1$/h more than minimum wage), but I learned a lot. And starting early will really give you an edge over your peers when you graduate to get a real job, early experience looks good on a resume. That said, when you are 17, you have to find that kind of stuff through contacts, because no one sane will hire you because of your qualifications. Even a job as an junior sys-admin assistant can give you some useful experience.
The solution is painful, but simple. Commercial fishing has to disappear. Already half of the world's fish consumption is fish-farmed. In the same way that we don't allow commercial hunting of land animals, we'll have to forbid commercial fishing. It's true that for now farmed fish is most of the time not as good as the hunted one, but its just a matter of time before we improve the technology enough to fix the problem.
It seems that many people are assuming that Quebec used the same Diebold electronic voting machines, when they were clearly not. This press release is outlining the problems of an electronic means of counting paper ballots, which are 100% verifiable if the counting machine fails.
That's what we had in Montréal. But in other cities like Quebec City, they had actual electronic unverifiable voting machines. And that's where they had the most problems.
No its not sad to see it thrown out. The Quebec electoral system is very simple. In the municipal election you have 2 vote (councillor and mayor), in the federal and provincial election you only vote once (for the member of parliament). So its very easy to count paper ballots, its done within 1-2 hours after the election closes in most cases. We have been perfecting paper ballots for over 200 years. So yes, they are much more reliable. Electronic voting in our system is pointless, its more expensive and has no benefits.
Imagine the pain of having to write a functional applications with so many cores. I hope the interconnect will be very very fast. Otherwise writing massively scalable parallel algorithms will be masssively painful. And with so many cores, one will need multiple independants memory banks with some kind of NUMA. And writing apps for those things isn't fun. You have to spend so much time caring about the parallel stuff instead of caring about the problem.
TiVo is one example.. The other example is binary modules. Even in the Linksys WRT54G, the wireless driver is binary-only. And they distribute it with the GPLv2 kernel and it seems it's allowed. And it seems that neither the GPLv3 addresses that.
If you read the article, you'd know that all the cards from the X1** serie of ATI cards do equally well. So you can buy the low-end version which exist in fanless version.. and is also much cheaper.
This shows how disconnected from the real world Microsofties have become.
Imagine being in a large university class with 100 or 200 students and half of them boot their laptops at the beginning of the class. The sound will be played 50-100 times, how much more annoying can it get!
The sad part about this is that Yahoo maps is soo bad.. And the flash-based beta version is even worse, it looks like a cheap rip-off of google maps, but that doesn't work properly. Any Yahooer should be ashamed of it. They can't do AJAX like Google. Shame on Yahoo.
AMD have taken a large part of the market that Itanium was meant to take, the 64-bit multicore server market. It's a market that pays for commodity performance above all, and AMD seem to have become the dominant CPU supplier for high-end X86 systems like the HP ProLiant DL585. These are the kinds of server that run Wall Street.
Not really, because the no1 PC server manufacturer (Dell) doesnt ship AMD. So we're stuck buy Intel crap... And I'm sure many many other companies have a "all PCs are Dell" policy..
its nice to see that some people are still working to improve gameplay with innovative ideas instead of just focusing on technological details (such as how exact and good looking the shadows are).
Its so not surprising. Artists (the real ones) dont create for money, they do it out of the love of the art (well most do..). And the labels know that. Why bother paying them when they can just pocket the money! And that's what they do.. Oh and since artists usualy aren't great businessmen, the labels win. But in the end, its probably going to be good, maybe artists will one day understand that most dont make money off the recordings and give them away for free (and make the money on the concerts instead!).. . In the meantime, I will keep on exercising my right to private copying (I'm Canadian).
Its funny how the Microsoft people dont get it. That Free Software is not about making the best software, or meeting customer needs. Its about Freedom. What he is saying is a bit like a dictator saying, don't try to unseat me and I won't sponsor terrorism in your country. It is not something we can accept.
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A good 20k$ RAID array does much more. First, it doesn't use cheap SATA drives, but Fiberchannel Drivers or even SAS drives which are tested to a higher level of quality (each disk costs like 500$ or more..). And those cheap SATA drives also react much more poorly to non-sequential access (like when you have multiple users). They are unusable for serious file serving. You can never compare RAID arrays that use SATA/IDE to ones that use enterprise drives like FC/SCSI/etc, because the drives are quite different.
Then you have the other features like dual redundant everything: controllers, power supplies, etc. Then you have thermal capabilities of rack-mount solutions that often are different from SATA, etc, etc.
It's not fake.. if you RTFA, you'd notice that they say that what's false is that the government has banned it, but that the rumor originated exactly because some teacher decide not to teach it out of fear.. And that's untolerable. You (the Brits) have to crack down on your terrorist breeding mosques now before its too late.
Seems like Google's moto of "Do no evil" has been replaced with "Do more profit"
I was looking at the mozilla wiki and I couldn't find a release schedule for Gecko 1.9 / Firefox 3. Does it exist somewhere? I read allusion to like March and then to the end of the year. I guess if we are still in Alpha, its more like Q3/Q4 ?
I tried recent nightly builds, and I really liked what I saw on the painting front. I hope we can get a stabilized release soon.
And as always, Gentoo is the first to bring it to its users !
As long as they are ours.. That's basically the message that the Universal Music Group (of which Geffen Records is part) is sending. Its so typical of the corporate world (I'd say Corporate America, but I don't think its better elsewhere), they so much apply double standards when it comes to the law.. They are saying, we can steal from you, we can kill you, we can invade your country, we can infringe your copyrights, but if you dare to do one tenth of what we do, then its going to be terrible for you.
So anyways, feel free to use your favorite P2P network to download UMG's works, since they don't think copyright matter. That said, I couldn't agree more with them, the whole copyright thing is dumb and should be abolished.
timbaland? who the hell is that?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbaland
The video is gone from YouTube... but is one Google Video.
The reason x86 is better is because its more popular and therefore Intel and AMD have more money to pour into R&D than anyone else. Or I would probably even say everyone else combined. So they make better chips, which sell more and the cycle continues. The other reason is that most PC software currently used is non-Free and runs on Windows and windows runs on x86. Obviously here we are only talking about PCs. Embedded is a completely different story where x86 is marginal, but the performance requirements are completely different and most of the time much lower or very specialised.
The only important question is: Will they release uTorrent code as Free Software?
That's why I don't buy DRM'ed music. But instead copy music legally for my personal use, using my right to private copying (see the Canadian Copyright Act).
First, continue school. Get a good engineering degree. Don't stop school to work before you get one. Otherwise you'll be screwed into sucky jobs for the rest of your life.
.com craze, so I managed to find a summer job as a programmer through a friend in a sucky .com. I sucked really bad, the company sucked (they went bankrupt in months). I was payed badly (1$/h more than minimum wage), but I learned a lot. And starting early will really give you an edge over your peers when you graduate to get a real job, early experience looks good on a resume. That said, when you are 17, you have to find that kind of stuff through contacts, because no one sane will hire you because of your qualifications. Even a job as an junior sys-admin assistant can give you some useful experience.
Second, get involved in Free Software (Open Source). I became a core developer of GnomeICU (the Gnome ICQ client) when I was 17 and ICQ was still synonymous with IM. It got me into the Gnome community, I'm still reaping the benefits.
Third, when I was 17, it was the peak of the
The solution is painful, but simple. Commercial fishing has to disappear. Already half of the world's fish consumption is fish-farmed. In the same way that we don't allow commercial hunting of land animals, we'll have to forbid commercial fishing. It's true that for now farmed fish is most of the time not as good as the hunted one, but its just a matter of time before we improve the technology enough to fix the problem.
It seems that many people are assuming that Quebec used the same Diebold electronic voting machines, when they were clearly not. This press release is outlining the problems of an electronic means of counting paper ballots, which are 100% verifiable if the counting machine fails.
That's what we had in Montréal. But in other cities like Quebec City, they had actual electronic unverifiable voting machines. And that's where they had the most problems.
No its not sad to see it thrown out. The Quebec electoral system is very simple. In the municipal election you have 2 vote (councillor and mayor), in the federal and provincial election you only vote once (for the member of parliament). So its very easy to count paper ballots, its done within 1-2 hours after the election closes in most cases. We have been perfecting paper ballots for over 200 years. So yes, they are much more reliable. Electronic voting in our system is pointless, its more expensive and has no benefits.
There is already a 9625 beta driver available in nvidia's nzone.
Imagine the pain of having to write a functional applications with so many cores. I hope the interconnect will be very very fast. Otherwise writing massively scalable parallel algorithms will be masssively painful. And with so many cores, one will need multiple independants memory banks with some kind of NUMA. And writing apps for those things isn't fun. You have to spend so much time caring about the parallel stuff instead of caring about the problem.
TiVo is one example..
The other example is binary modules. Even in the Linksys WRT54G, the wireless driver is binary-only. And they distribute it with the GPLv2 kernel and it seems it's allowed. And it seems that neither the GPLv3 addresses that.
If you read the article, you'd know that all the cards from the X1** serie of ATI cards do equally well. So you can buy the low-end version which exist in fanless version.. and is also much cheaper.
This shows how disconnected from the real world Microsofties have become.
Imagine being in a large university class with 100 or 200 students and half of them boot their laptops at the beginning of the class. The sound will be played 50-100 times, how much more annoying can it get!
The sad part about this is that Yahoo maps is soo bad.. And the flash-based beta version is even worse, it looks like a cheap rip-off of google maps, but that doesn't work properly. Any Yahooer should be ashamed of it. They can't do AJAX like Google. Shame on Yahoo.
AMD have taken a large part of the market that Itanium was meant to take, the 64-bit multicore server market. It's a market that pays for commodity performance above all, and AMD seem to have become the dominant CPU supplier for high-end X86 systems like the HP ProLiant DL585. These are the kinds of server that run Wall Street.
Not really, because the no1 PC server manufacturer (Dell) doesnt ship AMD. So we're stuck buy Intel crap... And I'm sure many many other companies have a "all PCs are Dell" policy..
its nice to see that some people are still working to improve gameplay with innovative ideas instead of just focusing on technological details (such as how exact and good looking the shadows are).
Its all in the gameplay!
Its so not surprising. Artists (the real ones) dont create for money, they do it out of the love of the art (well most do..). And the labels know that. Why bother paying them when they can just pocket the money! And that's what they do.. Oh and since artists usualy aren't great businessmen, the labels win. But in the end, its probably going to be good, maybe artists will one day understand that most dont make money off the recordings and give them away for free (and make the money on the concerts instead!).. . In the meantime, I will keep on exercising my right to private copying (I'm Canadian).
Its funny how the Microsoft people dont get it. That Free Software is not about making the best software, or meeting customer needs. Its about Freedom. What he is saying is a bit like a dictator saying, don't try to unseat me and I won't sponsor terrorism in your country. It is not something we can accept.