This is the first I have heard of this.... what the hell is a free speech zone? That sounds scary as hell. I laugh in the face of anyone who still claims America as a free country.
That is a rather short sighted view of virtualization. The more common use would be to use a high end server to run multiple instances of a windows OS on it at the same time thus turning one physical server into several virtual servers. It is cheaper to run that way and with VMware at least there are other nifty tricks that go along with that. Like being able to move your virtual servers from node to node seamlessly without making the server go down, yet you can still move all the servers off your hardware for maintenance and then move them back.
It isn't about using different OS'es, it is about using a different server structure to be more cost efficient.
I think the distance is easy to explain, and I doubt it was for show. The research seems to originate from Duke. They likely decided they wanted to see if a monkey could control a humanoid robot but making a robot to see so was outside of the scope of what they were trying to do, they are just making the interface. So they searched out some other team making humanoid robots (which Japan seems to have a lot of). It was likely much easier to setup an internet link to connect the two groups as opposed to meeting in the same location. To meet you would have to move a lot of people and a lot of equipment, all of which would be a customs nightmare. Moving monkeys back and forth over international borders probably requires a lot of checks and paperwork and what not, just as I am sure moving research technology does as well, especially something that large.
To sum up, it was a hell of a lot cheaper and faster that way.
I agree, the country is in a sad state of affairs when the citizens believe that race or sex has anything to do with a person's ability to reason or make sound decisions. Please go back to the Klan and let the people with intelligence make the choices.
No, because one has nothing to do with the other. If temperatures are increasing and the energy from the sun is decreasing, then we must be retaining the energy we get for longer periods of time. How would we do that? Greenhouse effect. What causes greenhouse effect? Mainly in our case, CO2, which is exactly what we are pumping into the air in large quantities. If anything, this observation would provide further evidence for climate change caused by humans.
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You are insane. 2007 is not leaps and bounds above anything. The interface looks different but once you get used to it... it is really the exact same thing. The only NEW thing I noticed was the theme section that changes your doc or spreadsheet to preview the presets (which all suck anyway). 2007 on the other hand has a host of other problems such as retarded defaults that make your fonts look like shit and double spacing is the norm. It also likes to change the size of my pics from the original size without asking. And outlook 2007.... oh my. Using Word to render the emails is terrible, makes me want to gouge out my eyes.
They just moved stuff around and rearranged. There is definitely no leaping or bounding in this release.
Oh my lord.. that is the worst atrocity you can do on a website in my opinion. A 3meg high res pic scaled down to a tiny image without just actually reducing the filesize itself is a crime worth capital punishment. And China is just the country to carry it out.
Sadly, I have to agree here. I am an american citizen but I would rather the country go through a depression and be attacked by every terrorist around than to keep being a corrupt peice of crap. America DESERVES to go down for its misdeeds. If should serve as a lesson to later generations and countries that if you act like this, it will bite you in the ass.
Nothing in America will change until people's wallets are effected. That pretty much implies that it will take a depression before things will ever get better.
"It amazes me that companies put all their eggs in one basket on cheap commodity hardware that is known for failure. Loose a system planar or other low level non redundant piece of hardware and suddenly you have hundreds of servers down instead of just one. And of course because we are cheapskates we have to call up and scream at our vendor to get out ASAP because we were to cheap to have a spare kit and an Admin onsite and or capable of switching out hardware."
More true words have never been spoken. I see this literally every day, not because of using virtualization, but the same concept of cutting corners to save money and then making a big stink when something fails because you didn't have a backup plan.
By this logic, it seems like maybe we are not designing our multi-core processors effectively. It may be more effective if we designed different cores for different tasks, much like our brains. If you could describe to a programmer 4 cores on a processor and that each core was really only good at ONE type of processing, then that programmer would logically break up his design into peices for each core to do individually. Even if they had to be done in serial, each core may process its peice faster than a general CPU and thus make the whole process faster. If you were running other programs at the same time that were also serial, they may not be asking for the same cores all the time either.
I realize this is over simplified and would probably have lots of problems in practice. However I know that there are plans to combine CPU and GPU cores for very much the same reasons, they are good in some areas and bad in others.
My money would be that no one tested the patch on systems with firefox as as default so no one noticed the problem. As much as I don't like Microsoft I could see how this could have just been an honest mistake from a side effect of running some premade function during the patch that does several things, only one of which is setting the default flag.
How is this an "accusatory tone"? Looks to me to just be stating the fact that there are some major security patches released that windows users should know about. Microsoft would WANT this information to be spread around so that people patch up and have fewer problems thus relating fewer poor experiences to a Windows problem.
If there were absolutly no trade rules the worker would lose out. Workers would be paid nothing and get no benifits. They would barely make enough to survive on the most meager terms and would die young. Are you a worker? Yeah... thought so.
PS. Do not take this as if I agree with slipping retarded copyright law into a trade agreement, that is just as bad in my book. But extremes in either direction are usually bad.
Darwin is BSD based, thus there is no obligation for apple to share that part of the code. If they need to hide their code to protect "trade secrets" and all that, there is nothing to stop them.
I think OO does start slower than word as well. However you MUST remember to take word out of your startup list for a fair comparison. By default office loads into memory everytime you boot your system thus making startup time APPEAR fast. This is false. Take word out of your startup list and it is more on par. However OO is still slower in my experience.
If it were that simple, there would be no reason to close source anything. Not defending the argument because it was totally bogus. Security by obscurity isn't security at all. If you are relying on the fact that you are hidding your faults you are just asking for someone to find them. If on the other hand you can show all your cards and still come out on top, then what is the better system? If someone could EASILY look of some open source and find an exploit, you had better beleive the good guys already found that one first:-P. Everyone over simplifies this "anyone can look at it" crap. Sure Linux Kernel is open source, and I even program. Can I just sit down and look at it and know what is going on? Not a chance.
I strayed off topic, but look at it this way, if you had to put your money in a vault and one company didn't let you see it but said the bad guys couldn't see it either, so it was safe. And another company let you do whatever you wanted to it, but no one can break it. Where would you keep your money? I bet on the one you can see and can't break. As soon as a "bad guy" finds the other vault, it may not be locked at all:-P You don't know.
If it is critical? You mean if you buy 4 hour service. I work at Dell, we can't send stuff same day just because it is important, you have to have the right kind of contract. That said, I think our support is pretty damn good (at least on the business side). I can't say that every single tech there is top notch, but they give me a good deal of control over how to resolve an issue and send out parts without needing to get approvals etc. I honestly don't see how we make money given the low ass margins on the systems.
What are you talking about? Maybe I am just not detecting sarcasm? But right now AMD is kicking some intel butt when it comes to benchmarks... and that is not counting any non x86 procs. I am sure there are arguments for other chips being better due to a better design structure. I personally think the P4 was a bad design from the get go and now they are starting to realize that themselves once they got to a point where they can't just keep ramping up the clock speed. Thus AMD has pulled ahead.
I have not used google's desktop or WinFS so I could be way off base here. But isn't the google desktop providing many of the same features promised by WinFS in longhorn? And people on slashdot never really seemed to exicted about longhorns features:-P. Now don't get me wrong, I don't think google has done anything wrong here, I just think it is strange that no one has pointed out that it is just like a feature that has been demonized on slashdot in the past. I personally don't like the concept of either. The best way to find data fast is to *gasp* keep it organized in the first place. If I want to check my AIM logs I have a search for that already. If I want to check old emails, my email client can search for that already.... etc. Thus if I keep everything on those areas and a decent order I can find things super quickly anyway. To me it would only be helpful to those that have no idea what they are looking for but just want to find something "interesting" and they do some keyword searches to see what comes up.
I suppose the only major difference is that google doesn't integrate it into the OS.
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This is the first I have heard of this.... what the hell is a free speech zone? That sounds scary as hell. I laugh in the face of anyone who still claims America as a free country.
Indeed, the game was definitely NOT released in 2001, late '04 sounds more accurate.
That is a rather short sighted view of virtualization. The more common use would be to use a high end server to run multiple instances of a windows OS on it at the same time thus turning one physical server into several virtual servers. It is cheaper to run that way and with VMware at least there are other nifty tricks that go along with that. Like being able to move your virtual servers from node to node seamlessly without making the server go down, yet you can still move all the servers off your hardware for maintenance and then move them back.
It isn't about using different OS'es, it is about using a different server structure to be more cost efficient.
I think the distance is easy to explain, and I doubt it was for show. The research seems to originate from Duke. They likely decided they wanted to see if a monkey could control a humanoid robot but making a robot to see so was outside of the scope of what they were trying to do, they are just making the interface. So they searched out some other team making humanoid robots (which Japan seems to have a lot of). It was likely much easier to setup an internet link to connect the two groups as opposed to meeting in the same location. To meet you would have to move a lot of people and a lot of equipment, all of which would be a customs nightmare. Moving monkeys back and forth over international borders probably requires a lot of checks and paperwork and what not, just as I am sure moving research technology does as well, especially something that large.
To sum up, it was a hell of a lot cheaper and faster that way.
I agree, the country is in a sad state of affairs when the citizens believe that race or sex has anything to do with a person's ability to reason or make sound decisions. Please go back to the Klan and let the people with intelligence make the choices.
Just as a side note, I am a white male.
No, because one has nothing to do with the other. If temperatures are increasing and the energy from the sun is decreasing, then we must be retaining the energy we get for longer periods of time. How would we do that? Greenhouse effect. What causes greenhouse effect? Mainly in our case, CO2, which is exactly what we are pumping into the air in large quantities. If anything, this observation would provide further evidence for climate change caused by humans.
You are insane. 2007 is not leaps and bounds above anything. The interface looks different but once you get used to it... it is really the exact same thing. The only NEW thing I noticed was the theme section that changes your doc or spreadsheet to preview the presets (which all suck anyway). 2007 on the other hand has a host of other problems such as retarded defaults that make your fonts look like shit and double spacing is the norm. It also likes to change the size of my pics from the original size without asking. And outlook 2007.... oh my. Using Word to render the emails is terrible, makes me want to gouge out my eyes.
They just moved stuff around and rearranged. There is definitely no leaping or bounding in this release.
Oh my lord.. that is the worst atrocity you can do on a website in my opinion. A 3meg high res pic scaled down to a tiny image without just actually reducing the filesize itself is a crime worth capital punishment. And China is just the country to carry it out.
Sadly, I have to agree here. I am an american citizen but I would rather the country go through a depression and be attacked by every terrorist around than to keep being a corrupt peice of crap. America DESERVES to go down for its misdeeds. If should serve as a lesson to later generations and countries that if you act like this, it will bite you in the ass.
Nothing in America will change until people's wallets are effected. That pretty much implies that it will take a depression before things will ever get better.
"It amazes me that companies put all their eggs in one basket on cheap commodity hardware that is known for failure. Loose a system planar or other low level non redundant piece of hardware and suddenly you have hundreds of servers down instead of just one. And of course because we are cheapskates we have to call up and scream at our vendor to get out ASAP because we were to cheap to have a spare kit and an Admin onsite and or capable of switching out hardware."
More true words have never been spoken. I see this literally every day, not because of using virtualization, but the same concept of cutting corners to save money and then making a big stink when something fails because you didn't have a backup plan.
By this logic, it seems like maybe we are not designing our multi-core processors effectively. It may be more effective if we designed different cores for different tasks, much like our brains. If you could describe to a programmer 4 cores on a processor and that each core was really only good at ONE type of processing, then that programmer would logically break up his design into peices for each core to do individually. Even if they had to be done in serial, each core may process its peice faster than a general CPU and thus make the whole process faster. If you were running other programs at the same time that were also serial, they may not be asking for the same cores all the time either.
I realize this is over simplified and would probably have lots of problems in practice. However I know that there are plans to combine CPU and GPU cores for very much the same reasons, they are good in some areas and bad in others.
Seems like 4200 repaired sections leaves a lot of room for error. Why wouldn't they just make a new one?
I suppose it only has to last 1 run, those burn up on decent back down don't they?
My money would be that no one tested the patch on systems with firefox as as default so no one noticed the problem. As much as I don't like Microsoft I could see how this could have just been an honest mistake from a side effect of running some premade function during the patch that does several things, only one of which is setting the default flag.
How is this an "accusatory tone"? Looks to me to just be stating the fact that there are some major security patches released that windows users should know about. Microsoft would WANT this information to be spread around so that people patch up and have fewer problems thus relating fewer poor experiences to a Windows problem.
Perhaps you are showing your own bias?
If there were absolutly no trade rules the worker would lose out. Workers would be paid nothing and get no benifits. They would barely make enough to survive on the most meager terms and would die young. Are you a worker? Yeah... thought so.
PS. Do not take this as if I agree with slipping retarded copyright law into a trade agreement, that is just as bad in my book. But extremes in either direction are usually bad.
Darwin is BSD based, thus there is no obligation for apple to share that part of the code. If they need to hide their code to protect "trade secrets" and all that, there is nothing to stop them.
If you check the main divx page you will see it does support multiple audio streams.
I think OO does start slower than word as well. However you MUST remember to take word out of your startup list for a fair comparison. By default office loads into memory everytime you boot your system thus making startup time APPEAR fast. This is false. Take word out of your startup list and it is more on par. However OO is still slower in my experience.
If it were that simple, there would be no reason to close source anything. Not defending the argument because it was totally bogus. Security by obscurity isn't security at all. If you are relying on the fact that you are hidding your faults you are just asking for someone to find them. If on the other hand you can show all your cards and still come out on top, then what is the better system? If someone could EASILY look of some open source and find an exploit, you had better beleive the good guys already found that one first :-P. Everyone over simplifies this "anyone can look at it" crap. Sure Linux Kernel is open source, and I even program. Can I just sit down and look at it and know what is going on? Not a chance.
:-P You don't know.
I strayed off topic, but look at it this way, if you had to put your money in a vault and one company didn't let you see it but said the bad guys couldn't see it either, so it was safe. And another company let you do whatever you wanted to it, but no one can break it. Where would you keep your money? I bet on the one you can see and can't break. As soon as a "bad guy" finds the other vault, it may not be locked at all
A corporation and a business are not always the same thing.
If it is critical? You mean if you buy 4 hour service. I work at Dell, we can't send stuff same day just because it is important, you have to have the right kind of contract. That said, I think our support is pretty damn good (at least on the business side). I can't say that every single tech there is top notch, but they give me a good deal of control over how to resolve an issue and send out parts without needing to get approvals etc. I honestly don't see how we make money given the low ass margins on the systems.
What are you talking about? Maybe I am just not detecting sarcasm? But right now AMD is kicking some intel butt when it comes to benchmarks... and that is not counting any non x86 procs. I am sure there are arguments for other chips being better due to a better design structure. I personally think the P4 was a bad design from the get go and now they are starting to realize that themselves once they got to a point where they can't just keep ramping up the clock speed. Thus AMD has pulled ahead.
I happen to love football, it is all about the playcalling. It is like human chess with pieces that can make mistakes, or surprise you. Great stuff.
I have not used google's desktop or WinFS so I could be way off base here. But isn't the google desktop providing many of the same features promised by WinFS in longhorn? And people on slashdot never really seemed to exicted about longhorns features :-P. Now don't get me wrong, I don't think google has done anything wrong here, I just think it is strange that no one has pointed out that it is just like a feature that has been demonized on slashdot in the past. I personally don't like the concept of either. The best way to find data fast is to *gasp* keep it organized in the first place. If I want to check my AIM logs I have a search for that already. If I want to check old emails, my email client can search for that already.... etc. Thus if I keep everything on those areas and a decent order I can find things super quickly anyway. To me it would only be helpful to those that have no idea what they are looking for but just want to find something "interesting" and they do some keyword searches to see what comes up.
I suppose the only major difference is that google doesn't integrate it into the OS.
I stand corrected. I did say I was only on it for 30 mins. ;)