These birds are going back into the ecosystem as food for other animals so it's not quite as bad as burning old animals (fossel fuels).
The same logic could be applied for the killing of whales, sea turtles and other rare animals. They are going back into the ecosystem! After I eat my three endangered sea turtles for dinner (yum!!), I will later crap them out and that crap will become food for bacteria.
Or those endangered elephants. That ivory sure is nice! And isn't it wonderful how that huge dead carcas then becomes food for so many other animals! Yay!
and you're reliable and honest and willing to take what's offered in the way of starting compensation - - many doors will open.
Interviewing 101: Lesson 1: Do not blindly accept what is offered as a starting salary. Ever. Always negotiate your salary. Don't be an ass about it and demand an outrageous sum, but go back-and-forth a bit with them until you settle on an agreeable sum.
In fact, in many countries outside the US (and especially in the middle east), street market vendors expect you to negotiate the price of an item. If you do not negotiate with them and simply pay the asked for price, they give you no respect at all and even some dirty looks. If you negotiate heartily, they may even offer you coffee or tea and sit down to chat and bullshit with you for a while. Moral of the story? Negotiation is expected.
Back on topic here, I read somewhere (yeah, yeah, facts and figures without references are useless, I know) that 58% of men and 89% of women do not ever negotiate their job salaries. This can cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars over your working lifetime.
Another point is that most potential employers will not even talk about money unless they are serious about you - i.e. they are very interested in hiring you. So don't be afraid to negotiate! Always negotiate!
Oh my god! It's another sign of the apocalypse! We're doomed!!!!
I know the apocalypse is coming. The whole world is upside-down. The best rapper is white, the best golfer is black, and Saddam Hussein is a pussy in real life (as opposed to on iraqi tv)!
That since they are running the Opteron in 32-bit mode, it's not taking advantage of it's full potential. Guess we'll wait until "round 2" like he says, but it still looks bad that he kind of dodges this. If it were me I'd be running the benchmarks on 64-bit linux versus 64-bit linux.(gentoo?)
The G5 is similarly crippled. Mac OSX is a 32 bit OS running in 32 bit mode. All 32 bit. The only "piece" of OSX that is 64 bit is the memory access - to allow a G5 to use up to 8 GB of ram.
While the G5 chip is fully 64 bit, OSX is taking each 64 bit instruction (from 64 bit apps like Photoshop, for example) and breaking it into two 32 bit instructions which it sends one after the other to the CPU. I imagine 32 bit Windows on the Opteron is similar.
The "real" benchmarks will be the ones that compare 64 bit performance on each platform. We'll be waiting a while for those, as OSX will not be fully 64 bit for another year (or more).
Linux would level the playing field for the short term, because that would leave hardware as the only variable thus providing a true comparison of hardware performance.
Last thing to keep in mind is that OSX is built using GCC - which doesn't build the fastest PPC970 binaries. IBM is working to provide Apple with a much optimized PPC970 compiler tailored for the G5 - this is expected to give a large performance gain for this platform.
Assuming they have a fat pipe out to the internet to get all that data in there, I suppose a single un-patched windows machine in the mountain could be vulnerable to a host of malacious things.
1. ebay
2. if it's a complete pc, give it to goodwill
3. if parts, offer them to your local LUG members
4. or to the computer dept / club of your local highschool / community college
5. give to cowboyneal
I did recently find a receipt though, from 1990 (I think) that showed me paying $160.00 for four 1MB simms. That's $40/MB! Sheesh!
I used them to upgrade my first PC - a 386-25 with 4MB (upgraded to 8). It had a 40MB hard drive, which was like a $300 upgrade from the 20MB drive it came with.
Who knew I'd ever be cruising along with a dual Athlon MP 1900 with 1.5 GB of ram!!
when your engine blows up, you have to pay quite a bit to replace it
This is true, however the $99 spent on an ipod battery could buy a good car battery. I'm aware that new and high-tech battery technology isn't free, but this is nearly the same cost as a laptop computer battery which uses the exact same technology but is much larger.
While it does sound like a nice analogy to compare a car battery to an ipod battery, it's not really fair. Let's face it, an iPod has only a couple parts - battery, lcd, hard drive, casing, plus the accessories (charging cradle, case, earbuds). A car has thousands of parts, many of them quite expensive (engine, transmission, rims, computer, ect). So it's not shocking that the iPod battery cost represents a significant chunk of the iPod's cost, while the battery in a car represents only a small chunk.
This is true. My point was simply that the ipod's battery is a known wear item with a known wear interval (~500 charge cycles), therefore, it should be replaceable.
Would you buy a DVD player if you could only playback a movie 500 times and then the $10 motor would wear out, but no motors were sold - only $200 new DVD players? If someone knew this in advance, they would never buy it.
If those guys used their iPod for 8 hours a day, 7 days a week, that comes out to about 546 charge cycles in an 18 month period. That also doesn't account for poor battery usage by the user (half charges, etc.)
The guys who use their iPod all day long everyday should expect the batteries to die after a shorter period. If I ran my car 8 hours a day, 7 days a week, and then complained when the engine blew up I'd be laughed at by the dealer.
Dealer: "You put how many miles on it in 18 months?"
Me: "220,000. Why did it die so soon?"
Dealer: "Because you're an idiot."
I disagree. First of all, I have an Audi with over 240k miles on it and it still runs great - I regularly drive between DC and Philly, so it is a myth that a product "should" stop working after a "reasonable" amount of time.
Secondly, car parts (and entire engines for that matter) are replaceable items. Sure, some of them you can do yourself, and others required an experienced mechanic. There are certain items like batteries, belts, filters, etc. in a car that are known wear items with known wear intervals. Consumer electronics should be the same way.
Telling an ipod owner that he should plunk $400 on a new ipod because the battery is dead is like telling a car owner that he should plunk $40000 on a new car because the battery is dead. It's obnoxious and reflects poorly on the manufacturer of the product. Having said that, I'm glad apple has started offering a battery replacement service (although IMO $99 is a big rip off).
Not trying to be flamebate but is there any reason someone has taken time to write new drivers for hardware that is 6 years old. I can understand legacy code, which is why linux will still boot on a 386 however this just seems a bit off. Is this bit of hardware really that good?
Agreed. Particularly since, as the article states, these have been replaced with USB gamepads. Ok, so your USB gamepad is $30. Big Deal. Tell your friends to BYOG (bring your own gasmepad),
The USB gamepads are especially nice because USB requires far fewer wires in the cord, so the usb gamepad cords are a lot thinner and more flexible than the 15 pin game port pads. In addition, the USB gamepads will work in anyone's PC - Windows or Linux, so you are not dependant on a wacky driver for some obsolete gamepad hub.
My last agrument: Have a look at the thing - Its huge! Who wants that big-ass thing taking up all their desk space just to plug in some gamepads?? USB looks better and better...
Because they provided for money and troops in Afghanistan to fight *your* war over there?
Riiiight. Going after an international terrorist organization which has killed thousands of innocent people in bombings from Saudi Arabia to Indonesia is "our" war.
Don't be a nob. Do you mean the other 200 something countries in the world. Shouldn't you have just said "Save your accusations of greed nations other than the USA, Briton and Aussie"?
Don't be a wanker - do your homework.
http://chblue.com/artman/publish/article_3719.shtm l
fourty-five nations supported the war and thirty nations sent troops.
So yes, any nation which didn't contribute to the effort should be barred from receiving reconstruction contracts. period.
All I was saying was that we are notorious for adding attached strings to deals when helping other countries. Sometimes, maybe we should just help because its the right thing to do... with no strings attached.
Yes I agree. That is why organizations like the Red Cross and other humanitarian aid groups and charities exist.
Not if you adjust those numbers for the price level, which (in my humble opinion) is logical.
That is also why you can't use "dollar-a-day" measures for poverty. In many countries, you would get enough food for one day for one dollar. In Norway, you wouldn't get a bread.
Your bread example is correct however the Iraqi's do not manufacture computers so they would need to be imported. The cost of producing a computer in the US or Taiwan or Japan is well beyond the means of your average Iraqi.
Once Iraq has a stable economy and stable infrastructure, who knows? Maybe they will open computer factories in Baghdad and in 10 years they will have Gig-E to every home. Time will tell, but until then, a PC in every Iraqi home is simply not feasable right now or in the immediate future.
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These birds are going back into the ecosystem as food for other animals so it's not quite as bad as burning old animals (fossel fuels).
The same logic could be applied for the killing of whales, sea turtles and other rare animals. They are going back into the ecosystem! After I eat my three endangered sea turtles for dinner (yum!!), I will later crap them out and that crap will become food for bacteria.
Or those endangered elephants. That ivory sure is nice! And isn't it wonderful how that huge dead carcas then becomes food for so many other animals! Yay!
including hundreds of golden eagles, red-tailed hawks, kestrels and other raptors
African or European?
and you're reliable and honest and willing to take what's offered in the way of starting compensation - - many doors will open.
Interviewing 101: Lesson 1: Do not blindly accept what is offered as a starting salary. Ever. Always negotiate your salary. Don't be an ass about it and demand an outrageous sum, but go back-and-forth a bit with them until you settle on an agreeable sum.
In fact, in many countries outside the US (and especially in the middle east), street market vendors expect you to negotiate the price of an item. If you do not negotiate with them and simply pay the asked for price, they give you no respect at all and even some dirty looks. If you negotiate heartily, they may even offer you coffee or tea and sit down to chat and bullshit with you for a while. Moral of the story? Negotiation is expected.
Back on topic here, I read somewhere (yeah, yeah, facts and figures without references are useless, I know) that 58% of men and 89% of women do not ever negotiate their job salaries. This can cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars over your working lifetime.
Another point is that most potential employers will not even talk about money unless they are serious about you - i.e. they are very interested in hiring you. So don't be afraid to negotiate! Always negotiate!
Oh my god! It's another sign of the apocalypse! We're doomed!!!!
I know the apocalypse is coming. The whole world is upside-down. The best rapper is white, the best golfer is black, and Saddam Hussein is a pussy in real life (as opposed to on iraqi tv)!
Should I get locked in the PRINCICAL'S OFFICE today -- or have a VASECTOMY??
That since they are running the Opteron in 32-bit mode, it's not taking advantage of it's full potential. Guess we'll wait until "round 2" like he says, but it still looks bad that he kind of dodges this. If it were me I'd be running the benchmarks on 64-bit linux versus 64-bit linux.(gentoo?)
The G5 is similarly crippled. Mac OSX is a 32 bit OS running in 32 bit mode. All 32 bit. The only "piece" of OSX that is 64 bit is the memory access - to allow a G5 to use up to 8 GB of ram.
While the G5 chip is fully 64 bit, OSX is taking each 64 bit instruction (from 64 bit apps like Photoshop, for example) and breaking it into two 32 bit instructions which it sends one after the other to the CPU. I imagine 32 bit Windows on the Opteron is similar.
The "real" benchmarks will be the ones that compare 64 bit performance on each platform. We'll be waiting a while for those, as OSX will not be fully 64 bit for another year (or more).
Linux would level the playing field for the short term, because that would leave hardware as the only variable thus providing a true comparison of hardware performance.
Last thing to keep in mind is that OSX is built using GCC - which doesn't build the fastest PPC970 binaries. IBM is working to provide Apple with a much optimized PPC970 compiler tailored for the G5 - this is expected to give a large performance gain for this platform.
Maybe the kid who got the small present will share the five bucks with his brother and teach you something, sensei.
;-)
Either that or they'll just beat the crap out of each other. Nothing learned there, but it might be entertaining to watch
Thats what I got, no shens. But seriously what the hell am I going to use Whiskey flavored condoms for?!
Well, I could think of something that involves "Hot Grits" and "Natalie Portman"...
But I think you know where I'm going with this.
How about ground beef, pantyhose, and a stapler. All in the same package.
As my old chemistry professor would say, "Nothing good can come of this".
I didn't really get that. But wouldn't be funny if someone did. An idea for next year's "secret santa" perhaps...
Who the hell is coding and releasing new versions on Christmas Day? Take a break!!
And who is reading f$%king slashdot on Christmas Day too??
Oh wait.
I don't think balls are a prerequisite for ripping people off. Greed is more like it.
It takes balls to do the "right thing", and to admit your mistakes. This is NOT the right thing that they are doing.
Assuming they have a fat pipe out to the internet to get all that data in there, I suppose a single un-patched windows machine in the mountain could be vulnerable to a host of malacious things.
1. ebay
2. if it's a complete pc, give it to goodwill
3. if parts, offer them to your local LUG members
4. or to the computer dept / club of your local highschool / community college
5. give to cowboyneal
Lemme guess... this was on the eve of the 2.6.0 kernel release?
I'm afraid I don't go back quite that far.
I did recently find a receipt though, from 1990 (I think) that showed me paying $160.00 for four 1MB simms. That's $40/MB! Sheesh!
I used them to upgrade my first PC - a 386-25 with 4MB (upgraded to 8). It had a 40MB hard drive, which was like a $300 upgrade from the 20MB drive it came with.
Who knew I'd ever be cruising along with a dual Athlon MP 1900 with 1.5 GB of ram!!
Anyone who happens to create any sort of device that someone figures out a way to use it to circumvent anything can be sued under the DMCA.
How much longer before Sears gets sued under the DMCA for producing hammers - because someone happened to use a hammer to break into a building.
Sound ludicrous? So did the DMCA before it was passed...
when your engine blows up, you have to pay quite a bit to replace it
This is true, however the $99 spent on an ipod battery could buy a good car battery. I'm aware that new and high-tech battery technology isn't free, but this is nearly the same cost as a laptop computer battery which uses the exact same technology but is much larger.
While it does sound like a nice analogy to compare a car battery to an ipod battery, it's not really fair. Let's face it, an iPod has only a couple parts - battery, lcd, hard drive, casing, plus the accessories (charging cradle, case, earbuds). A car has thousands of parts, many of them quite expensive (engine, transmission, rims, computer, ect). So it's not shocking that the iPod battery cost represents a significant chunk of the iPod's cost, while the battery in a car represents only a small chunk.
This is true. My point was simply that the ipod's battery is a known wear item with a known wear interval (~500 charge cycles), therefore, it should be replaceable.
Would you buy a DVD player if you could only playback a movie 500 times and then the $10 motor would wear out, but no motors were sold - only $200 new DVD players? If someone knew this in advance, they would never buy it.
If those guys used their iPod for 8 hours a day, 7 days a week, that comes out to about 546 charge cycles in an 18 month period. That also doesn't account for poor battery usage by the user (half charges, etc.) The guys who use their iPod all day long everyday should expect the batteries to die after a shorter period. If I ran my car 8 hours a day, 7 days a week, and then complained when the engine blew up I'd be laughed at by the dealer. Dealer: "You put how many miles on it in 18 months?" Me: "220,000. Why did it die so soon?" Dealer: "Because you're an idiot."
I disagree. First of all, I have an Audi with over 240k miles on it and it still runs great - I regularly drive between DC and Philly, so it is a myth that a product "should" stop working after a "reasonable" amount of time.
Secondly, car parts (and entire engines for that matter) are replaceable items. Sure, some of them you can do yourself, and others required an experienced mechanic. There are certain items like batteries, belts, filters, etc. in a car that are known wear items with known wear intervals. Consumer electronics should be the same way.
Telling an ipod owner that he should plunk $400 on a new ipod because the battery is dead is like telling a car owner that he should plunk $40000 on a new car because the battery is dead. It's obnoxious and reflects poorly on the manufacturer of the product. Having said that, I'm glad apple has started offering a battery replacement service (although IMO $99 is a big rip off).
Not trying to be flamebate but is there any reason someone has taken time to write new drivers for hardware that is 6 years old. I can understand legacy code, which is why linux will still boot on a 386 however this just seems a bit off. Is this bit of hardware really that good?
Agreed. Particularly since, as the article states, these have been replaced with USB gamepads. Ok, so your USB gamepad is $30. Big Deal. Tell your friends to BYOG (bring your own gasmepad),
The USB gamepads are especially nice because USB requires far fewer wires in the cord, so the usb gamepad cords are a lot thinner and more flexible than the 15 pin game port pads. In addition, the USB gamepads will work in anyone's PC - Windows or Linux, so you are not dependant on a wacky driver for some obsolete gamepad hub.
My last agrument: Have a look at the thing - Its huge! Who wants that big-ass thing taking up all their desk space just to plug in some gamepads?? USB looks better and better...
Those "defaults" are the settings that were last used to compile the kernel.
Ok, and judging by the ownership on the files, that would be Linus Torvalds.
That still doesn't answer my question as to why they aren't enabled by default.
Because they provided for money and troops in Afghanistan to fight *your* war over there?
Riiiight. Going after an international terrorist organization which has killed thousands of innocent people in bombings from Saudi Arabia to Indonesia is "our" war.
Get a clue!
Don't be a nob. Do you mean the other 200 something countries in the world. Shouldn't you have just said "Save your accusations of greed nations other than the USA, Briton and Aussie"?
m l
Don't be a wanker - do your homework.
http://chblue.com/artman/publish/article_3719.sht
fourty-five nations supported the war and thirty nations sent troops.
So yes, any nation which didn't contribute to the effort should be barred from receiving reconstruction contracts. period.
All I was saying was that we are notorious for adding attached strings to deals when helping other countries. Sometimes, maybe we should just help because its the right thing to do... with no strings attached.
Yes I agree. That is why organizations like the Red Cross and other humanitarian aid groups and charities exist.
Not if you adjust those numbers for the price level, which (in my humble opinion) is logical. That is also why you can't use "dollar-a-day" measures for poverty. In many countries, you would get enough food for one day for one dollar. In Norway, you wouldn't get a bread.
Your bread example is correct however the Iraqi's do not manufacture computers so they would need to be imported. The cost of producing a computer in the US or Taiwan or Japan is well beyond the means of your average Iraqi.
Once Iraq has a stable economy and stable infrastructure, who knows? Maybe they will open computer factories in Baghdad and in 10 years they will have Gig-E to every home. Time will tell, but until then, a PC in every Iraqi home is simply not feasable right now or in the immediate future.