Civ4 runs great on my latitude D800 (Pentium M 1.6, 1GB Ram, 7200RPM drive, Geforce 4go 32MB). This isn't even modern, it's old now:) Well, old from a Can't upgrade RAM or Video card without some uber-bucks.
But what that means is that the virus undergoes mutations at a certain rate. And eventually one of those mutations might lead to resistance to the drug. All the other variants will be destroyed but that very small population which has the resistance will spread very rapidly.
That is why some say that not taking the full dose of antibiotics and using antibiotic soaps in homes can lead to the breeding of super-bacteria.
Are you suggesting that by using antibacterial soaps at home, we're killing off the non-resistent varients and therefore increasing the propensity for resitant strains to spread? I am by no means an expert on this, but I would have figured antibiotics use or not, the resistent strains will eventually develop.
Seems to me it's going to take A LOT of those bombs to catch up to the Crusades or the holocaust...but then, I'm just using math. You might be using God's math(tm) for all I know.
Oh I see. The other trillions of planets, stars, moons, asteroids and celestial bodies are just as perfect or don't matter? You must be _fun_ to have a conversation with. I'd probably start somewhere with the dinosaur bones in the earth, maybe move on to how god faked the ice ages, age of the earth, etc. Maybe I'd move on to more galaxy related stuff, but by then there's a good chance his credibility and logic would clearly be beyond hope. I'd probably have more fun conversing with someone in a psychiatric ward.
Your post must have been written to be funny, because it sure isn't accurate.
hatrd is hatrd no matter the guise, but fundamental christian are generally 'give hugs not hate' oriented (there are exceptions of course)
Not fundamental christians. Normal, everyday christians that I sit across from at lunch might be, but fundamentalist christians are a completely different story. To say that every fundie christian "gives hugs and doesn't hate, minus some exceptions" is ludicrous. In fact, it sounds like the same mindless drivel a politician drools out when he says stuff like "It is the people who are in power!".
Reformation? Crusades? Holocaust? Wiccans? Yahweh ben Yahweh? Jim Jones/People's temple? Jonesboro, Arkansas? Paducah, Kentucky?
Are they pre-sliced, rustproof, easy-to-handle, low calorie, simpson's individual emperor stringettes, free from artificial coloring, as used in hospitals?
The libertarian party of all parties? I'm not a member, though I did vote libertarian last year, but I like this. I wonder if any of/.'s democrats/republicans can venture to guess why their beloved party didn't sponsor something so crucial to to keeping the corruption out of our voting. Perhaps it's because they (say: democrats) live by the old cliche: "The enemy (republicans) of my enemy (libertarians/other 3rd party) is my friend" ?
These guys account for something like 1-5% of the vote (depending, of course), it makes sense that they're trying to get these things in line. Think I might just go pay my dues.
And seriously, how many console models have you seen in your life that had this kind of failure after the initial launch? I've been buying consoles ever since the mid-80's, and I don't recall something like this happening ever, so I definitely would say that it *is* news indeed, in the truest sense of the word.
Well we have this thing called the internet now. It actually allows us to talk in almost real time. News, rumours and porn can spread (pun!) at near light speed. When my family got our first Nintendo, it didn't work out of the box. We took it back, exchanged it for a new one. Of course, I didn't post it in my blog, submit it to news sites, take screen shots or even IM my brethren who also purchased one. Hardly any of these things were around/popular when the Dreamcast/PS2 were released, so it's little wonder that you didn't hear about similiar failures. Another thing, the 360s are much, much more complex than nintendos, game boys, ps2s and toasters. I have absolutely no doubt that the out of the box failure rate would be higher. Almost like comparing motorcycles to unicycles.
p.s. I'm far from an M$ fanboy, but I think you need to put this issue into perspective.
fimbulvetr@media:/etc/apache2$ grep MaxKeepAliveRequests apache2.conf # MaxKeepAliveRequests: The maximum number of requests to allow MaxKeepAliveRequests 100 fimbulvetr@media:/etc/apache2$ grep StartServers apache2.conf # StartServers......... number of server processes to start StartServers 5
Seems that they're documented enough to figure out a barebones configuration. I realize you're pointing out it's complexity and these examples are nothing but trees in the forest, and there are plenty more, but the point is that they _are_ documented. Apache is an extremely powerful and flexible webserver. For light servers, it's easy to get it up and running right away (by keeping the defaults) - and the reverse is true - it takes very little work to get a default httpd.conf to run in a highload environment (assuming you're running in a pretty standard one).
Now, if you need a super custom setup - it's not such a huge leap for the developers (and even the guy at apache who is the boss of what gets put in the default conf) to presume that the person needing it in a custom environment knows apache pretty well and knows what they need to use in the configuration file.
Finally, I do think it is reasonable to say that people who setup a website should take the responsibility of knowing, at least the basics, of running websites. Even if this means gathering more than a cursory understanding of the workings of apache or any other webserver, it is certainly going to be more beneficial for them than sitting around bitching about the complexities he doesn't want to learn.
You have to be kidding me? XML? Are you out of your mind? Apparently you've drank the XML koolaid and you're parroting it's usefulness for everything but ending world hunger. Almost every OSS project I use relies on the ease and simplicity of text configuration files. Of the few XML configuration files I've ever used, I've been left with a disgustingly horrible taste in my mouth afterwords.
Some of use don't want some GUI to do our configurations, and we certainly don't want to be at the mercy of one. When the GUI breaks or doesn't work (It's KDE only, it's gnome only, Xorg isn't installed, one doesn't exist yet, the ones available don't support these new options yet, ad infinium), we don't want to have to construct super perl scripts with XML capabilities to do mass changes in configuration files. Some of you might be fine with your tomcat's server.xml file being 1500 lines and the accompanying bloat, but I for one choose less complexity, even if the only advantage is controlling configurations more efficiently.
Are you saying this is a *problem* in the sense that it won't work itself out? Because if you are, I think you're wrong. I'm betting on at least one solution manifesting, which way are you betting?
This reminds of when I was the sysadmin at a colo provider. Of course, it was a small provider and I had enough time to watch over colo installs/rebuilds/etc. I was friends with a windows sysadmin who had about 20 servers there, one was running 200 IP addresses on one interface (Each website on it was SSL). He was building a new box and had completed moving the files/configurations but still had to configure the 200 addresses in windows. I was laughing hysterically all the way back to my office, after all, I could have had those configured in linux in less than a minute.
Oh yes, whenever I spend over 400 dollars on a product, I am not really concerned with quality and how well it performs, but just some vague touchy-feel notion that at least the company 'tried'
Oh so you're an apple fan then? You'll fit right in here on slashdot.
Except I'm not really repeating what I hear. I experienced the Sun,Ibm, and Dell issues first hand. I was an appletech from 1999-2001, and was well aware of many of the defects on the then new ibooks, powerbooks and imacs. In fact, I fixed a lot of the same defects on a huge number of machines. Apple still wouldn't claim there was a problem. I'd call them with 6 powerbooks in front of me doing the same thing.
As for the Powerbook with strips "all over" the LCD... call AppleCare and keep complaining until they take it back./i? Haha! And you don't see a problem with this? This is hilarious! Just keep calling back. Nice, man. Nice. Now, maybe I should bring up how apple refuses to replace the obviosly defective Nanos. Or maybe how Apple refused to admit the infamous power button problem when they first released the new Imacs? Or maybe some Cube stuff? Like how they refused to admit the cube had a poorly designed heat-prevention system? Or maybe how they refused to admit previous problems with the LCDs on both the Ibook and powerbook?
Maybe I should bring up how I've had a defective power adapter replaced on my dell, just by opening a support ticket on their website. Or how I got my power supply replaced on my IBM desktop the first time I called them? How about my Sun servers that require one dmesg submission to get a new hard drive?
Keep parroting man, you and your think different crowd are the only fools now.
WTF? Strikes you as the most probable? Do you realize what you're implying? That some supreme force had guiding control of how man and other species have popped into existance? That said supreme force can manipulate genetics of humans and other species at will? That noone has seen, heard, documented, or found evidence of this supreme force's existance? The earth, formed from leftover material from our solar system, which exists at a border of one of many arms of one of very, very, very, very, very many galaxies, just happens to have had a supreme force guide life for an incredibly small fraction of the earth's existence?
How about employing some logic?
Though the chances of evolving randomly out of some amino acids seems very small, try comparing it to how many planets might exist. You'll quickly discover that it's likely no longer that silly of an idea, it's _bound_ - by the sheer numbers - to happen.
I haven't looked all the way through the discussion yet to see if this has been brought up, but I'd also like to point out that another reason for closed source is that places like ATI might be using techniques/methods patended by Nvidia. Of course, some are so blatently obvious and perform so well, ATI wants to keep using them but the second Nvidia can prove ATI us using them, they'll be sued into oblivion. The same thing applies to raid cards - think Adaptec, LSI, ServeRaid, etc. Patented methods companies don't want to disclose they are using lest patenter sues them.
This would all go away if we didn't have those ridiciulous software patents.
You honestly can't see anything over the refresh rate of your monitor (85 Hz top-end, generally 60Hz for an LCD) so you waste
No waste..while I'm not arguing against you I just want to point out that my eyes are extremely sensitive to refresh rates. I can't stand 60Hz and 85Hz is the minimum I can run at. I can visually tell the difference between 60-85ish, and I get headaches if I operate below 70-75.
Refresh rates _do_ matter...the faster the better, this is an area I don't mind upgrading for. I can't say that better resolutions prevent headaches, I can say I will upgrade for improved resolutions as well. Despite there being some pretty futile upgrades, there really are things to look forward to.
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Civ4 runs great on my latitude D800 (Pentium M 1.6, 1GB Ram, 7200RPM drive, Geforce 4go 32MB). This isn't even modern, it's old now:) Well, old from a Can't upgrade RAM or Video card without some uber-bucks.
But what that means is that the virus undergoes mutations at a certain rate. And eventually one of those mutations might lead to resistance to the drug. All the other variants will be destroyed but that very small population which has the resistance will spread very rapidly.
That is why some say that not taking the full dose of antibiotics and using antibiotic soaps in homes can lead to the breeding of super-bacteria.
Are you suggesting that by using antibacterial soaps at home, we're killing off the non-resistent varients and therefore increasing the propensity for resitant strains to spread? I am by no means an expert on this, but I would have figured antibiotics use or not, the resistent strains will eventually develop.
Funniest comment of the day.
Seems to me it's going to take A LOT of those bombs to catch up to the Crusades or the holocaust...but then, I'm just using math. You might be using God's math(tm) for all I know.
Oh I see. The other trillions of planets, stars, moons, asteroids and celestial bodies are just as perfect or don't matter? You must be _fun_ to have a conversation with. I'd probably start somewhere with the dinosaur bones in the earth, maybe move on to how god faked the ice ages, age of the earth, etc. Maybe I'd move on to more galaxy related stuff, but by then there's a good chance his credibility and logic would clearly be beyond hope. I'd probably have more fun conversing with someone in a psychiatric ward.
Of course, I forgot the inqusistion.
Nobody expects the spanish inqusistion!
Your post must have been written to be funny, because it sure isn't accurate.
hatrd is hatrd no matter the guise, but fundamental christian are generally 'give hugs not hate' oriented (there are exceptions of course)
Not fundamental christians. Normal, everyday christians that I sit across from at lunch might be, but fundamentalist christians are a completely different story. To say that every fundie christian "gives hugs and doesn't hate, minus some exceptions" is ludicrous. In fact, it sounds like the same mindless drivel a politician drools out when he says stuff like "It is the people who are in power!".
Reformation? Crusades? Holocaust? Wiccans? Yahweh ben Yahweh? Jim Jones/People's temple? Jonesboro, Arkansas? Paducah, Kentucky?
Guess you have a lot of exceptions to make.
The only ignorance here is your own.
Are they pre-sliced, rustproof, easy-to-handle, low calorie, simpson's individual emperor stringettes, free from artificial coloring, as used in hospitals?
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http://www.serve.com/bonzai/monty/classics/TheStr
Crap. Stupid tags:)
ssh -Y (server without a monitor)
you@(server without a monitor)$
I realize you weren't asking for advice, but this works pretty well.
although I set it up by hand because the server doesn't have a monitor
ssh -Y
you@$
I realize you weren't asking for advice, but this works pretty well.
The libertarian party of all parties? I'm not a member, though I did vote libertarian last year, but I like this. I wonder if any of /.'s democrats/republicans can venture to guess why their beloved party didn't sponsor something so crucial to to keeping the corruption out of our voting. Perhaps it's because they (say: democrats) live by the old cliche: "The enemy (republicans) of my enemy (libertarians/other 3rd party) is my friend" ?
These guys account for something like 1-5% of the vote (depending, of course), it makes sense that they're trying to get these things in line. Think I might just go pay my dues.
And seriously, how many console models have you seen in your life that had this kind of failure after the initial launch? I've been buying consoles ever since the mid-80's, and I don't recall something like this happening ever, so I definitely would say that it *is* news indeed, in the truest sense of the word.
Well we have this thing called the internet now. It actually allows us to talk in almost real time. News, rumours and porn can spread (pun!) at near light speed. When my family got our first Nintendo, it didn't work out of the box. We took it back, exchanged it for a new one. Of course, I didn't post it in my blog, submit it to news sites, take screen shots or even IM my brethren who also purchased one. Hardly any of these things were around/popular when the Dreamcast/PS2 were released, so it's little wonder that you didn't hear about similiar failures. Another thing, the 360s are much, much more complex than nintendos, game boys, ps2s and toasters. I have absolutely no doubt that the out of the box failure rate would be higher. Almost like comparing motorcycles to unicycles.
p.s. I'm far from an M$ fanboy, but I think you need to put this issue into perspective.
fimbulvetr@media:/etc/apache2$ grep MaxKeepAliveRequests apache2.conf ......... number of server processes to start
# MaxKeepAliveRequests: The maximum number of requests to allow
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100
fimbulvetr@media:/etc/apache2$ grep StartServers apache2.conf
# StartServers
StartServers 5
Seems that they're documented enough to figure out a barebones configuration. I realize you're pointing out it's complexity and these examples are nothing but trees in the forest, and there are plenty more, but the point is that they _are_ documented. Apache is an extremely powerful and flexible webserver. For light servers, it's easy to get it up and running right away (by keeping the defaults) - and the reverse is true - it takes very little work to get a default httpd.conf to run in a highload environment (assuming you're running in a pretty standard one).
Now, if you need a super custom setup - it's not such a huge leap for the developers (and even the guy at apache who is the boss of what gets put in the default conf) to presume that the person needing it in a custom environment knows apache pretty well and knows what they need to use in the configuration file.
Finally, I do think it is reasonable to say that people who setup a website should take the responsibility of knowing, at least the basics, of running websites. Even if this means gathering more than a cursory understanding of the workings of apache or any other webserver, it is certainly going to be more beneficial for them than sitting around bitching about the complexities he doesn't want to learn.
Just one link, but it should speak for itself:
s ure/2004-06/1004.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclo
KBB, by choosing to run IIS, infected every web visitor of theirs one fateful day. Do you want to be _that_ guy?
You have to be kidding me? XML? Are you out of your mind? Apparently you've drank the XML koolaid and you're parroting it's usefulness for everything but ending world hunger. Almost every OSS project I use relies on the ease and simplicity of text configuration files. Of the few XML configuration files I've ever used, I've been left with a disgustingly horrible taste in my mouth afterwords.
Some of use don't want some GUI to do our configurations, and we certainly don't want to be at the mercy of one. When the GUI breaks or doesn't work (It's KDE only, it's gnome only, Xorg isn't installed, one doesn't exist yet, the ones available don't support these new options yet, ad infinium), we don't want to have to construct super perl scripts with XML capabilities to do mass changes in configuration files. Some of you might be fine with your tomcat's server.xml file being 1500 lines and the accompanying bloat, but I for one choose less complexity, even if the only advantage is controlling configurations more efficiently.
On every one I've ever tried, it's exactly 8 seconds. Just pointing it out...
Are you saying this is a *problem* in the sense that it won't work itself out? Because if you are, I think you're wrong.
I'm betting on at least one solution manifesting, which way are you betting?
This reminds of when I was the sysadmin at a colo provider. Of course, it was a small provider and I had enough time to watch over colo installs/rebuilds/etc. I was friends with a windows sysadmin who had about 20 servers there, one was running 200 IP addresses on one interface (Each website on it was SSL). He was building a new box and had completed moving the files/configurations but still had to configure the 200 addresses in windows. I was laughing hysterically all the way back to my office, after all, I could have had those configured in linux in less than a minute.
Oh yes, whenever I spend over 400 dollars on a product, I am not really concerned with quality and how well it performs, but just some vague touchy-feel notion that at least the company 'tried'
Oh so you're an apple fan then? You'll fit right in here on slashdot.
WTF?
Why is this off topic? Seems perfectly reasonable to me. I actually had the same thought.
Except I'm not really repeating what I hear. I experienced the Sun,Ibm, and Dell issues first hand. I was an appletech from 1999-2001, and was well aware of many of the defects on the then new ibooks, powerbooks and imacs. In fact, I fixed a lot of the same defects on a huge number of machines. Apple still wouldn't claim there was a problem. I'd call them with 6 powerbooks in front of me doing the same thing.
As for the Powerbook with strips "all over" the LCD ... call AppleCare and keep complaining until they take it back. /i?
Haha! And you don't see a problem with this? This is hilarious! Just keep calling back. Nice, man. Nice. Now, maybe I should bring up how apple refuses to replace the obviosly defective Nanos. Or maybe how Apple refused to admit the infamous power button problem when they first released the new Imacs? Or maybe some Cube stuff? Like how they refused to admit the cube had a poorly designed heat-prevention system? Or maybe how they refused to admit previous problems with the LCDs on both the Ibook and powerbook?
Maybe I should bring up how I've had a defective power adapter replaced on my dell, just by opening a support ticket on their website. Or how I got my power supply replaced on my IBM desktop the first time I called them? How about my Sun servers that require one dmesg submission to get a new hard drive?
Keep parroting man, you and your think different crowd are the only fools now.
WTF? Strikes you as the most probable? Do you realize what you're implying?
That some supreme force had guiding control of how man and other species have popped into existance?
That said supreme force can manipulate genetics of humans and other species at will?
That noone has seen, heard, documented, or found evidence of this supreme force's existance?
The earth, formed from leftover material from our solar system, which exists at a border of one of many arms of one of very, very, very, very, very many galaxies, just happens to have had a supreme force guide life for an incredibly small fraction of the earth's existence?
How about employing some logic?
Though the chances of evolving randomly out of some amino acids seems very small, try comparing it to how many planets might exist. You'll quickly discover that it's likely no longer that silly of an idea, it's _bound_ - by the sheer numbers - to happen.
I haven't looked all the way through the discussion yet to see if this has been brought up, but I'd also like to point out that another reason for closed source is that places like ATI might be using techniques/methods patended by Nvidia. Of course, some are so blatently obvious and perform so well, ATI wants to keep using them but the second Nvidia can prove ATI us using them, they'll be sued into oblivion.
The same thing applies to raid cards - think Adaptec, LSI, ServeRaid, etc. Patented methods companies don't want to disclose they are using lest patenter sues them.
This would all go away if we didn't have those ridiciulous software patents.
You honestly can't see anything over the refresh rate of your monitor (85 Hz top-end, generally 60Hz for an LCD) so you waste
No waste..while I'm not arguing against you I just want to point out that my eyes are extremely sensitive to refresh rates. I can't stand 60Hz and 85Hz is the minimum I can run at. I can visually tell the difference between 60-85ish, and I get headaches if I operate below 70-75.
Refresh rates _do_ matter...the faster the better, this is an area I don't mind upgrading for.
I can't say that better resolutions prevent headaches, I can say I will upgrade for improved resolutions as well. Despite there being some pretty futile upgrades, there really are things to look forward to.