Just checked, ignoring £1 and £2 coins I've got 10 x 20p, 2 x 10p and 4 x 5p, fairly typically except I'd usually have a few 1p/2p coins and maybe a 50p. So 12 quarters doesn't sound at all unusual to me.
Especially since those 12 quarters were in my wallet:-)
Nobody has suggested the TSA are really intelligent anyway. In face the last time I went through the metal detector my wallet set it off (I had 12 quarters in it). Put it through the scanner and the guy smiled saying "Wow dude, you have a lot of change!".
I replied "How much do they pay you guys??"
Seriously, 12 quarters is a lot of change? I guess at $14.95 an hour it must seem like a lot:-)
I'm curious if anything has really happened with community development of titles open sourced in the previous two bundles. I'd be interested in checking out community builds.
And while Jack Claw is Windows only in this release, I wonder how long it will take to get ported since the source is being released.
Reading through one of the release announcements there was a guy (joel) who said Jack Claw was initially a windows release but will be released for Linux soon. I'm hoping that's the case myself.
We have a couple dozen also. We're running Hadoop which means the RAID controllers are not needed. Would have been VERY NICE if Dell had told us we could have purchased these servers without them (apparently it IS an option).
On the plus side, 12 RAID 0 drives works very fast in our cluster:-)
Running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Haven't had a drive disappear yet and we've had them for several months working 24x7
We, the sophisticated western people would never do such a thing. Take a web site like that nasty wikileaks that is publishing our diplomatic small talk. We would never ever dream of kicking them from their hosters, cancel their bank accounts, block/ddos their web sites or imprison their founder.
Yes, but burst speed or sustained 24/7 speed? You do realize that Comcast will cut you off after 250 GB/month, right? That's a sustained download speed of 96 kB, or less than a Mbit/s under constant use.
That would depend on how the ISP is selling the service at. Some advertise based on burst speed and other's do not.
In all cases you will have a top speed the provider is advertising. Concast (for instance) offers various tiers including 3/6/8/10 and so on up to I believe 100 Meg speeds today.
I'm aware about the 250 gig limit btw. The contract I signed with them 8 years ago was 'unlimited use for a flat monthly fee'. Today they don't provide that service anymore. Especially since they did cut off my family and several other's on my street for using 'unlimited' too much.
So you are suggesting Concast's 6/8/10/12/50 Meg solutions are comparable to the local DSL's 1.5/3/5/7 Meg solutions?
Seriously?
You're comparing burst transfer rates. In many places, Comcast has a cap and your allowed sustained tranfer rate 24/7 is less that 1 Meg. Never had a problem with a cap on DSL.
Actually I was thinking in terms of download speeds.
Right, because you don't have any embarrassing secrets. You don't tell friends things in confidence.
Thanks to this leak (and to the idiotic flubbing of security in the first place), it will be at least a little bit harder for American diplomats to make friends who will tell them things in confidence.
Comcast cable internet is rarely the only option for internet in any given community. There is almost always an option to get a DSL product from the phone company. Which means you basically have to have a landline. So you pay somewhere close to the same amount of money for much slower internet.
If I was in a community where it was DSL on AT+T copper or comcast I'd probably go with comcast.
There is fiber optic cable ran within 10 feet of my property. It will someday have phone/tv/internet going over it. At the moment it is dark, but once it is available..... Goodbye cable internet. I don't have comcast I have a "smaller" cable internet supplier, Mediacom. Comcast is all around us though.
So you are suggesting Concast's 6/8/10/12/50 Meg solutions are comparable to the local DSL's 1.5/3/5/7 Meg solutions?
Seriously?
I'm in that predicament. I live in the third largest city in Utah with over 100,000 residents and yet our options are pretty much that. I have 1.5 Meg dsl or I can go back to Concast and put up with their BS for another 4 more years.
Not much of an option. Too bad our City Council doesn't have the political backbone to push for better solutions. And yes I've looked into wireless. It's worse.
If something could potentially be used in a bad way, even if most people aren't going to abuse it, it must immediately be banned! So, basically, anything that can be used as a weapon, too. Which is... pretty much everything.
From Star Trek 4, in the words of Dr. Gillian Taylor: Whoever said the human race was logical?
I would like to think that true geeks learn at a quicker pace than most people, and are generally more adept at problem-solving.
Unfortunately it's the really smart people hiring us dumb geeks that are running the cyber fighting unit. Must be amazing how many guns they can stick in those dang tubes running the internet.
Let's see. BSA sometimes means Birmingham Small Arms or refers to a motorcycle with unique electrical issues or means the Boy Scouts of America. So will they hold three fingers in the air and take an oath that that opinion is genuine?
It's the other BSA where they are like the Boy Scouts and have their finger in the air salute. for some reason they got rid of the other two fingers;-)
Frankly complex data mining of large data is a pain in the ass on hadoop as much as anywhere else. You can't do anything too global with hadoop because then you'd need to send all your data to one box anyway. You need specialized complex algorithms since you can only keep a fraction of your data in memory at a time. Simple regression? Have fun.
That said if you're already using hadoop it's quite possible you're using some sort of online learning algorithm anyway for just that reason so converting it to real time updating would be easy.
Maybe. But I'm looking at doing it with pushing data to two boxes and two hadoop clusters (mainly for dr purposes). As for complex algorithms, Hive solves many of those problems with allowing people with SQL backgrounds to mine their information without learning a new language.
It's new, it's not perfect but then again, it is improvement over what's already in the market. Over the next couple years I plan on becoming a hadoop expert (even looking at learning java now).
This is the reason I have never purchased a lexmark printer. Ever. I like being able to purchase other's ink (it's much cheaper). If HP and Epson started suing people for making ink for their respective printers I guess I'll have to start looking at other printer manufacturers.
I don't like strong arming people. It's not right. But I don't mind taking my money elsewhere when I see this kind of garbage.
Recently all forums, from Slashdot to 4chan/g/ got flooded by nearly identical Windowds-promoting posters, all spouting typical Microsoft talking points ("GIMP does not support CMYK", "Linux has no stable ABI", "You have to support all distributions' packages when you release software for Linux", etc.) and using astroturfing tactic ("I love Linux, but <some inane "issue" that is on the first page of results when googling for "Linux problem">").
fortunately as long as GIMP supports jpegs, bmp's and gif's and Linux continues to run for more than 6 hours before needing a reboot then I"m good:-)
I think the problem with Linux is that those who develop it push their philosophy too much and refuse to give room for other philosophies
I'm probably going to upset a lot of people here by comparing Linux to religion; specifically Christianity, but the others are just as guilty of it:
When Monty Python's Life of Brian was released the church was up in arms about it, protesting and demanding it was banned because *they* didn't like it and *they* felt it was unacceptable for people to watch, that it had a negative effect on the church because it went against what they believed in. It never occurred to them that *other* people might be quite happy to go and see it without any issues at all, they just saw it as their duty to protect all us witless heathens from ourselves.
A lot of Linux users are exactly the same with anything closed source; *they* don't want closed source software and drivers because *they* feel it's unacceptable for people to use them and that it will have a negative effect on Linux because it goes against what they believe in. It never occurs to them that *other* people might be quite happy to use closed source software & drivers without any issues at all and just see it as their duty to protect all us witless heathens from ourselves.
I don't see you speaking for the majority of linux users. I new very very few who won't use closed source on linux. Yes it's a religion for some people but for other's it's a matter of trust.
In the words of the technomages (from babylon 5) "Who do you serve and who do you trust?"
I hope not, because he'd be wrong. They are more likely to be redeployed in IraN
Or removed from Iraq in anticipation of retaliation from Iran to Iraq. I understand there has been more saber rattling against them lately (of course that's not really new is it).
Um... Next presidential election is more than 2 years away...
Stunod!
You were aware there is more on the line than just a presidential election right? House and Senate would like to keep their jobs too. I'm sure Obama would prefer they stay in office as well
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Just checked, ignoring £1 and £2 coins I've got 10 x 20p, 2 x 10p and 4 x 5p, fairly typically except I'd usually have a few 1p/2p coins and maybe a 50p. So 12 quarters doesn't sound at all unusual to me.
Especially since those 12 quarters were in my wallet :-)
Nobody has suggested the TSA are really intelligent anyway. In face the last time I went through the metal detector my wallet set it off (I had 12 quarters in it). Put it through the scanner and the guy smiled saying "Wow dude, you have a lot of change!".
I replied "How much do they pay you guys??"
Seriously, 12 quarters is a lot of change? I guess at $14.95 an hour it must seem like a lot :-)
I'm curious if anything has really happened with community development of titles open sourced in the previous two bundles. I'd be interested in checking out community builds.
And while Jack Claw is Windows only in this release, I wonder how long it will take to get ported since the source is being released.
Reading through one of the release announcements there was a guy (joel) who said Jack Claw was initially a windows release but will be released for Linux soon. I'm hoping that's the case myself.
We have a couple dozen also. We're running Hadoop which means the RAID controllers are not needed. Would have been VERY NICE if Dell had told us we could have purchased these servers without them (apparently it IS an option).
On the plus side, 12 RAID 0 drives works very fast in our cluster :-)
Running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Haven't had a drive disappear yet and we've had them for several months working 24x7
Concast really doesn't care.
We, the sophisticated western people would never do such a thing. Take a web site like that nasty wikileaks that is publishing our diplomatic small talk. We would never ever dream of kicking them from their hosters, cancel their bank accounts, block/ddos their web sites or imprison their founder.
Cross my heart...
and hope to what? :-)
Yes, but burst speed or sustained 24/7 speed? You do realize that Comcast will cut you off after 250 GB/month, right? That's a sustained download speed of 96 kB, or less than a Mbit/s under constant use.
That would depend on how the ISP is selling the service at. Some advertise based on burst speed and other's do not.
In all cases you will have a top speed the provider is advertising. Concast (for instance) offers various tiers including 3/6/8/10 and so on up to I believe 100 Meg speeds today.
I'm aware about the 250 gig limit btw. The contract I signed with them 8 years ago was 'unlimited use for a flat monthly fee'. Today they don't provide that service anymore. Especially since they did cut off my family and several other's on my street for using 'unlimited' too much.
Good riddance.
4 years Concast free :-)
So you are suggesting Concast's 6/8/10/12/50 Meg solutions are comparable to the local DSL's 1.5/3/5/7 Meg solutions?
Seriously?
You're comparing burst transfer rates. In many places, Comcast has a cap and your allowed sustained tranfer rate 24/7 is less that 1 Meg. Never had a problem with a cap on DSL.
Actually I was thinking in terms of download speeds.
At least isn't that what the government tells us?
Right, because you don't have any embarrassing secrets. You don't tell friends things in confidence.
Thanks to this leak (and to the idiotic flubbing of security in the first place), it will be at least a little bit harder for American diplomats to make friends who will tell them things in confidence.
Well with friends like that....
Comcast cable internet is rarely the only option for internet in any given community. There is almost always an option to get a DSL product from the phone company. Which means you basically have to have a landline. So you pay somewhere close to the same amount of money for much slower internet.
If I was in a community where it was DSL on AT+T copper or comcast I'd probably go with comcast.
There is fiber optic cable ran within 10 feet of my property. It will someday have phone/tv/internet going over it. At the moment it is dark, but once it is available ..... Goodbye cable internet. I don't have comcast I have a "smaller" cable internet supplier, Mediacom. Comcast is all around us though.
So you are suggesting Concast's 6/8/10/12/50 Meg solutions are comparable to the local DSL's 1.5/3/5/7 Meg solutions?
Seriously?
I'm in that predicament. I live in the third largest city in Utah with over 100,000 residents and yet our options are pretty much that. I have 1.5 Meg dsl or I can go back to Concast and put up with their BS for another 4 more years.
Not much of an option. Too bad our City Council doesn't have the political backbone to push for better solutions. And yes I've looked into wireless. It's worse.
Yeah, that pretty much says it...
No, I'm still seeing the same stupid comments
What do you expect from bots ;-)
If something could potentially be used in a bad way, even if most people aren't going to abuse it, it must immediately be banned! So, basically, anything that can be used as a weapon, too. Which is... pretty much everything.
From Star Trek 4, in the words of Dr. Gillian Taylor: Whoever said the human race was logical?
I would like to think that true geeks learn at a quicker pace than most people, and are generally more adept at problem-solving.
Unfortunately it's the really smart people hiring us dumb geeks that are running the cyber fighting unit. Must be amazing how many guns they can stick in those dang tubes running the internet.
Keyboard? How quaint ;-)
Let's see. BSA sometimes means Birmingham Small Arms or refers to a motorcycle with unique electrical issues or means the Boy Scouts of America. So will they hold three fingers in the air and take an oath that that opinion is genuine?
It's the other BSA where they are like the Boy Scouts and have their finger in the air salute. for some reason they got rid of the other two fingers ;-)
You keep on using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means....
Frankly complex data mining of large data is a pain in the ass on hadoop as much as anywhere else. You can't do anything too global with hadoop because then you'd need to send all your data to one box anyway. You need specialized complex algorithms since you can only keep a fraction of your data in memory at a time. Simple regression? Have fun.
That said if you're already using hadoop it's quite possible you're using some sort of online learning algorithm anyway for just that reason so converting it to real time updating would be easy.
Maybe. But I'm looking at doing it with pushing data to two boxes and two hadoop clusters (mainly for dr purposes). As for complex algorithms, Hive solves many of those problems with allowing people with SQL backgrounds to mine their information without learning a new language.
It's new, it's not perfect but then again, it is improvement over what's already in the market. Over the next couple years I plan on becoming a hadoop expert (even looking at learning java now).
Gotta start somewhere right?
This was my first thought too. This should be HIGHLY illegal. This is vigilantism, plain and simple, and is completely illegal and immoral.
Do I hear a liable case coming to a court near us?
This is the reason I have never purchased a lexmark printer. Ever. I like being able to purchase other's ink (it's much cheaper). If HP and Epson started suing people for making ink for their respective printers I guess I'll have to start looking at other printer manufacturers.
I don't like strong arming people. It's not right. But I don't mind taking my money elsewhere when I see this kind of garbage.
"Who do you serve
Microsoft, most likely.
Recently all forums, from Slashdot to 4chan /g/ got flooded by nearly identical Windowds-promoting posters, all spouting typical Microsoft talking points ("GIMP does not support CMYK", "Linux has no stable ABI", "You have to support all distributions' packages when you release software for Linux", etc.) and using astroturfing tactic ("I love Linux, but <some inane "issue" that is on the first page of results when googling for "Linux problem">").
fortunately as long as GIMP supports jpegs, bmp's and gif's and Linux continues to run for more than 6 hours before needing a reboot then I"m good :-)
I think the problem with Linux is that those who develop it push their philosophy too much and refuse to give room for other philosophies
I'm probably going to upset a lot of people here by comparing Linux to religion; specifically Christianity, but the others are just as guilty of it:
When Monty Python's Life of Brian was released the church was up in arms about it, protesting and demanding it was banned because *they* didn't like it and *they* felt it was unacceptable for people to watch, that it had a negative effect on the church because it went against what they believed in. It never occurred to them that *other* people might be quite happy to go and see it without any issues at all, they just saw it as their duty to protect all us witless heathens from ourselves.
A lot of Linux users are exactly the same with anything closed source; *they* don't want closed source software and drivers because *they* feel it's unacceptable for people to use them and that it will have a negative effect on Linux because it goes against what they believe in. It never occurs to them that *other* people might be quite happy to use closed source software & drivers without any issues at all and just see it as their duty to protect all us witless heathens from ourselves.
I don't see you speaking for the majority of linux users. I new very very few who won't use closed source on linux. Yes it's a religion for some people but for other's it's a matter of trust.
In the words of the technomages (from babylon 5) "Who do you serve and who do you trust?"
I hope not, because he'd be wrong. They are more likely to be redeployed in IraN
Or removed from Iraq in anticipation of retaliation from Iran to Iraq. I understand there has been more saber rattling against them lately (of course that's not really new is it).
How many people were killed due to gang related violence in Chicago this week?
Are you suggesting a likely destination for the 90,000 soldiers being pulled out of Iraq? ;-)
Um... Next presidential election is more than 2 years away...
Stunod!
You were aware there is more on the line than just a presidential election right? House and Senate would like to keep their jobs too. I'm sure Obama would prefer they stay in office as well
Nope. It's always been fine. Read the fine article. Read the fine manual. Your wife and I were fine last night. Always just been fine.
You must be new here. Geeks don't have girls in their lives... and to marry one???? ;-)