Of course religions don't have the corner on human sacrifice, not by a long shot, and pointing at the Inquisition or the Crusades as some example of barbarity, as if the body count had some bearing on the level of "bad" produced by the umbrella group perpetrating the crime, is just as silly as this whole conversation being on slashdot in the first place.
Hell, the "godless" commies killed more people in the 20th Century than all other mass killings combined, ever.
I guess in the grand scheme of things (here's a hint, there isn't one) then yeah the crusades and inquisition are bad, but nothing as bad as the Mayans and Aztecs or the Islamic invasions of Europe, the Islamic invasions of Asia and India, and no where near Pol Pot's reign of terror or Hitler's slaughters, which are just barely in the same ball park as Japan's attrocities during WW2, which pale in comparrison to the slaughters of the Russians which are like cake and icecream compared to the death at the hands of the Chinese.
Plenty of "bad" to go around and they didn't need a god to blame it on, neither will future mass murderers though many will use it as an excuse.
Gigabyte makes a neat device using battery backed up RAM plugged into PCI slot that has a SATA hard drive interface wire hanging out of it. Since the whole thing is plugged into your SATA interface and presented to the OS as a hard drive, it performs like a SATA drive that always has the next bits in cache. i.e. fast and with no fragmentation or write limits.
Very popular to serve mailq queue directories. i.e. tons of reads/writes and ludicrously small seek times, and static so a reboot or a hard-crash doesn't wipe it out. 4 GB is plenty big enough for a mailq or even a whole OS image. And this device with 2 GB chips (8 GB capacity) makes a really good LDAP or other small database drive, or a storage area for larger database indexes... where the real data is stored on slower traditional arrays, and this device merely stores the indexes. Works great if your indexes are easy to rebuild.
clustering, word up (if we're allowed to use old catch phrases like that)
disk reads and writes are the least of our troubles when we scaled much more than a small enterprise level of data. The sheer number of moving parts in our environment (not just physical parts, but bits flowing too) killed productivity and we wound up with the complete inability to cache anything.
There's simply too much data flowing back and forth to make caching pay for itself and too often will a hard drive fail requiring even more background noise.
Then God forbid you introduce a load-balancer into the equation because even if they are redundant, they aren't infalable, and they're still a network choke point which you will choke, guaranteed, before too long.
With horizontally scaled architectures, pretty soon you wind up with thousands/hundreds of disk drives (failures on a daily basis) and hundreds of power supplies, CPU coolers, sticks of RAM etc. Successfully scaling horizontally means overbuilding the living shit out of everything envolved to the point where you can handle a significant percentage of your environment going offline, and THEN being able to rebuild the missing parts with hot spares without interrupting your processing. On top of it, your servers have to be stateless with users tied to nothing but the storage backend which is so insanely overbuilt as to never lose a bit of data.
Or you pay through the nose for a real HA/HPC environment like a big iron box with a PB of DASD and 10 engineers who sleep with the box every night.
Anything less than that is a DR waiting to happen or, as we like to call it, compromise.
The problem with most architects building "scalable" environments is that they don't build scalable environments they build affordable environments.
the only A I got in college was for a paper I wrote in psych 101 comparing children to drunken adults, coming to the conclusion that clear-headed sober children creep people out, with some children coming out of the fog by 18, though most not until their 20s and some until they're "ancient" at 30.
now that i have children, I can say without a doubt my observations are right on the money.
yeah, can't say I'm anything other than a rogue, nethack, moria, umoria fan. the modern games with their "animation" and "pictures" and "sound" are just too easy.
that would be an engineered organism designed to eat superconductor, secretely created by the puppeteers and delivered as an economic weapon, to boost sales of their own version of the conductor. IIRC
hmmm, that stuff is cheaper than steel, in fact, cheaper than some woods. Wonder if you could wrap a cardboard tube in it, and use the composite to replace building materials in a deck or treehouse. It would be the coolest deck or treehouse in town, no doubt, with carbon legs and a nice plastic coating.
I'm having a hard time believing it's a real product, just seems to good to be true
summary: seems like a decent box, upgrade ram to 1 gb and you got a deal. pricewatch says the 200 pin sodimm is going for $80ish
begin copy/paste from their specs page:
* CPU - Intel® Celeron® M Processor 370 (1.5 GHz, 90nm, FSB400, 1 MB L2 cache, uPGA478)
* DISPLAY - 14.0" WXGA (1280x768) TFT
* HARD DRIVE - 40 GB
* DIMENSION - 333(W) x 243(D) x 24/33.(H)mm (front/back), 2.2Kg with 6 cells Lithium-lion battery
* MEMORY - 64-bit wide DDR data channel, One 200-pin SODIMM socket, supporting DDR 333/400, 256 MB Expandable up to 1GB, based on SODIMM Modules
* STORAGE - One changeable 2.5" 9.5mm(H) HDD, Supporting Master mode IDE ATA-33/66/100/133 (Ultra DMA), One changeable 12.7mm(H) CD/DVD Combo
* VIDEO CONTROLLER - VIA PN800 integration, Shared Memory Architecture up to 64MB, 128 bit 3D graphic engine, Support analog monitor pixel resolution up to 1920x1400, Support two displays dual view
* KEYBOARD - A4 size keyboard, Built-in Touchpad with scrolling function
* SOUND SYSTEM - AC'97 2.2 Compliant Interface, 3D stereo enhanced sound system, Sound-Blaster PROTM Compatible, S/PDIF Digital output (5.1 CH), 1x Built-in Microphone, 2x Built-in Speakers
* I/O PORTS - 3x USB 2.0 ports, 1x External CRT monitor output, 1x Headphone jack, 1x Microphone jack, 1x S/PDIF output jack, 1x RJ-45 port for LAN, 1x Line-in jack, 1x DC-In jack
* PCMCIA - 1x Type II PCMCIA socket
* COMMUNICATION - 10/100BASE-TX Fast Ethernet on board, 802.11g MiniPCI Wireless LAN
* POWER - Full Range 65W AC adapter - AC input 100~240V, 47~63Hz, DC output 20V, 3.25A, Removable 6-cell Smart Li-ion battery pack, 4000/4400mAh
* SECURITY - Kensington® Lock
you are exactly right, they won't. each state or region will develop farming co-ops that deliver their daily dose of bio fuel to the distribution center from which it will be shipped to the co-ops own gas stations. just like milk.
in fact, if the acreage used for certain crops were devoted to this, North America could be entirely carbon neutral for transportation and home heating within 25 years.
> Many people fear dying because they don't know what to expect.
Absolutely true observation there. People fear dying for as many reasons as there are people, I'll wager.
I fear dying (at the moment) mostly because I will leave orphans. If I knew my kids would be well loved, protected, live a happy life and move on without me, I wouldn't fear it nearly as much as I do now. In the future, I'll fear dying (when my kids are old and gray) for much more simple reasons.
This is exactly what we do at my work (an email service provider), we have filters on the outbound traffic (all outbound traffic) and catch as much spam outbound as inbound. The junk is then held in the outbound queues, some for manual processing, some is processed automatically.
For example, if a customer has a spambot PC that spews out tens of thousands of spams, and if the filters catch it, their IP gets blocked and the junk gets expunged. If you have a relatively static IP, that translates into no email for you.
It's worse for customers who abuse the system via web mail. We catch about 98% of outbound webmail spammers with filters (as it's template based 419er crap) those get expunged of course, but we also block IPs, and proactively check if other users signed up from, or used the IPs used by other spammers and add links to the chains connecting spammer accounts.
So, some low level spammer signs up for 10 accounts from one or two IPs, we catch them all after the first attempt to spam, shut all 10 accounts down, and often will then block the source netblock.
On top of all that, we troll the outbound queues and observe the sheer number of outbound mails per account, email not caught by the filters. Spammers have a particular profile and it is pretty easy to detect those slipping through, resulting in only two or three false positives per year.
I'm not refering to the US killing in Vietnam, we didn't kill anywhere near the numbers the North Vietnamese killed. Heck there was a purge after the fall that killed over 2 million Vietnamese, almost all of them civillians.
That was 1975 or 76.
Their neighbors killed what, 6 million of their own countrymen in those same years?
So while 40+ million for a whole hemisphere worth of people to 250k here in the US, those numbers are misleading at best. We didn't kill 40 million indians. Didn't happen.
The 42 million number is tossed around alot and the first times such a high number like that 42M was used described the population of the entire western hemisphere, not just people in North America.
Not all these 42 million, and lets face it, that number is pulled out of someone's ass, were slaughtered by the evil whitey. Even back 10,000 years. It was a slaughter, don't get me wrong, but the slaughter took hundreds of years of institutional depravity to reach the low point in the early 20th Century but certainly wasn't all orchestrated by some genetic hatred of the savage red man.
American Indians _did_ take over their neighbors, and that _was_ their world. They were savages, stone aged tribal savages who ravaged each other with a ferocity that equaled that of any other people. There was no peaceful tribe that managed to maintain a peace without war.
You just can't ignore the fact that these societies fought and slaughtered each other on a regular almost ritualistic basis with whole populations being replaced by technologically advanced neighbors. Whole waves of invaders predated whitey by hundreds of generations wiping out the competition using every means available from direct conflict to burning crops to deliberate overhunting.
My real problem with bitching about the past like this is that you rarely see it put in context of the crimes against humanity from other cultures AND there's absolutely nothing that can be done to rectify the situation other than pour your efforts into preventing crimes like this from happening today and in the future.
What other course is there? Take up arms against anyone with European ancestry? Sit and stew, raise the bile in your guy to such a level that you stroke out at a young age?
Take slavery for example: Bitching about slavery does NO good. Education is fine and an absolute must but complaining and blaming it for your current problems? No way. Fighting slavery today is noble and worthy of your time and investment. Taking slavers to the gallows TODAY is noble and righteous. Getting whipped up into a frenzy because your g-g-g-grand father was sold down the river to a cruel master does nobody any good. I'm a rabid abolitionist, and do donate money and technological expertise to anti-slavery organizations on a regular basis.
As far as the raw murder aspect of the problem, the fact is you often see other culture's crimes ignored simply because they aren't crimes of the USA.
Soviet and Chinease communists did this same thing to the tune of 200+ million people over the last 9 decades. 2 Million died after Vietnam fell to the communists. How many millions died in Cambodia and the rest of SE Asia just since the 1970s due to the crimes of the socialist communist regimes? That's in less than a century!
What about muslims? There are muslims doing this exact same thing right now in wide swaths of Africa and the islands of the South Pacific. Whole towns and villages are relocated, forced to convert or put to the blade, right now, this year.
While it's true the crimes of the past must be discussed, the crimes of today are going ignored!
I can date pictures of my house on that sight to 4/29/2006. We were having a family party that day, and several people's vehicles (who are never there at the same time) are in front of the house, and one of those people is in the driveway... three views are of that day, one view is even more recent.
no, believe it or not we find that a large amount of rejects from dhcp type addresses that don't resolve, especially overseas. but you are right, loads of road runner and dsl customers do have names in reverse tables
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scared of a mouse, in-love, nervous, supremely happy etc... any emotion beyond "just fine"
Of course religions don't have the corner on human sacrifice, not by a long shot, and pointing at the Inquisition or the Crusades as some example of barbarity, as if the body count had some bearing on the level of "bad" produced by the umbrella group perpetrating the crime, is just as silly as this whole conversation being on slashdot in the first place.
Hell, the "godless" commies killed more people in the 20th Century than all other mass killings combined, ever.
I guess in the grand scheme of things (here's a hint, there isn't one) then yeah the crusades and inquisition are bad, but nothing as bad as the Mayans and Aztecs or the Islamic invasions of Europe, the Islamic invasions of Asia and India, and no where near Pol Pot's reign of terror or Hitler's slaughters, which are just barely in the same ball park as Japan's attrocities during WW2, which pale in comparrison to the slaughters of the Russians which are like cake and icecream compared to the death at the hands of the Chinese.
Plenty of "bad" to go around and they didn't need a god to blame it on, neither will future mass murderers though many will use it as an excuse.
Gigabyte makes a neat device using battery backed up RAM plugged into PCI slot that has a SATA hard drive interface wire hanging out of it. Since the whole thing is plugged into your SATA interface and presented to the OS as a hard drive, it performs like a SATA drive that always has the next bits in cache. i.e. fast and with no fragmentation or write limits.
Very popular to serve mailq queue directories. i.e. tons of reads/writes and ludicrously small seek times, and static so a reboot or a hard-crash doesn't wipe it out. 4 GB is plenty big enough for a mailq or even a whole OS image. And this device with 2 GB chips (8 GB capacity) makes a really good LDAP or other small database drive, or a storage area for larger database indexes... where the real data is stored on slower traditional arrays, and this device merely stores the indexes. Works great if your indexes are easy to rebuild.
clustering, word up (if we're allowed to use old catch phrases like that)
disk reads and writes are the least of our troubles when we scaled much more than a small enterprise level of data. The sheer number of moving parts in our environment (not just physical parts, but bits flowing too) killed productivity and we wound up with the complete inability to cache anything.
There's simply too much data flowing back and forth to make caching pay for itself and too often will a hard drive fail requiring even more background noise.
Then God forbid you introduce a load-balancer into the equation because even if they are redundant, they aren't infalable, and they're still a network choke point which you will choke, guaranteed, before too long.
With horizontally scaled architectures, pretty soon you wind up with thousands/hundreds of disk drives (failures on a daily basis) and hundreds of power supplies, CPU coolers, sticks of RAM etc. Successfully scaling horizontally means overbuilding the living shit out of everything envolved to the point where you can handle a significant percentage of your environment going offline, and THEN being able to rebuild the missing parts with hot spares without interrupting your processing. On top of it, your servers have to be stateless with users tied to nothing but the storage backend which is so insanely overbuilt as to never lose a bit of data.
Or you pay through the nose for a real HA/HPC environment like a big iron box with a PB of DASD and 10 engineers who sleep with the box every night.
Anything less than that is a DR waiting to happen or, as we like to call it, compromise.
The problem with most architects building "scalable" environments is that they don't build scalable environments they build affordable environments.
I have a septic system. I relieve myself in my own lawn.
the only A I got in college was for a paper I wrote in psych 101 comparing children to drunken adults, coming to the conclusion that clear-headed sober children creep people out, with some children coming out of the fog by 18, though most not until their 20s and some until they're "ancient" at 30.
now that i have children, I can say without a doubt my observations are right on the money.
yeah, can't say I'm anything other than a rogue, nethack, moria, umoria fan. the modern games with their "animation" and "pictures" and "sound" are just too easy.
that would be an engineered organism designed to eat superconductor, secretely created by the puppeteers and delivered as an economic weapon, to boost sales of their own version of the conductor. IIRC
hmmm, that stuff is cheaper than steel, in fact, cheaper than some woods. Wonder if you could wrap a cardboard tube in it, and use the composite to replace building materials in a deck or treehouse. It would be the coolest deck or treehouse in town, no doubt, with carbon legs and a nice plastic coating.
I'm having a hard time believing it's a real product, just seems to good to be true
summary: seems like a decent box, upgrade ram to 1 gb and you got a deal. pricewatch says the 200 pin sodimm is going for $80ish
begin copy/paste from their specs page:
* CPU - Intel® Celeron® M Processor 370 (1.5 GHz, 90nm, FSB400, 1 MB L2 cache, uPGA478)
* DISPLAY - 14.0" WXGA (1280x768) TFT
* HARD DRIVE - 40 GB
* DIMENSION - 333(W) x 243(D) x 24/33.(H)mm (front/back), 2.2Kg with 6 cells Lithium-lion battery
* MEMORY - 64-bit wide DDR data channel, One 200-pin SODIMM socket, supporting DDR 333/400, 256 MB Expandable up to 1GB, based on SODIMM Modules
* STORAGE - One changeable 2.5" 9.5mm(H) HDD, Supporting Master mode IDE ATA-33/66/100/133 (Ultra DMA), One changeable 12.7mm(H) CD/DVD Combo
* VIDEO CONTROLLER - VIA PN800 integration, Shared Memory Architecture up to 64MB, 128 bit 3D graphic engine, Support analog monitor pixel resolution up to 1920x1400, Support two displays dual view
* KEYBOARD - A4 size keyboard, Built-in Touchpad with scrolling function
* SOUND SYSTEM - AC'97 2.2 Compliant Interface, 3D stereo enhanced sound system, Sound-Blaster PROTM Compatible, S/PDIF Digital output (5.1 CH), 1x Built-in Microphone, 2x Built-in Speakers
* I/O PORTS - 3x USB 2.0 ports, 1x External CRT monitor output, 1x Headphone jack, 1x Microphone jack, 1x S/PDIF output jack, 1x RJ-45 port for LAN, 1x Line-in jack, 1x DC-In jack
* PCMCIA - 1x Type II PCMCIA socket
* COMMUNICATION - 10/100BASE-TX Fast Ethernet on board, 802.11g MiniPCI Wireless LAN
* POWER - Full Range 65W AC adapter - AC input 100~240V, 47~63Hz, DC output 20V, 3.25A, Removable 6-cell Smart Li-ion battery pack, 4000/4400mAh
* SECURITY - Kensington® Lock
you are exactly right, they won't. each state or region will develop farming co-ops that deliver their daily dose of bio fuel to the distribution center from which it will be shipped to the co-ops own gas stations. just like milk.
in fact, if the acreage used for certain crops were devoted to this, North America could be entirely carbon neutral for transportation and home heating within 25 years.
and no, I'm not kidding.
> Many people fear dying because they don't know what to expect.
Absolutely true observation there. People fear dying for as many reasons as there are people, I'll wager.
I fear dying (at the moment) mostly because I will leave orphans. If I knew my kids would be well loved, protected, live a happy life and move on without me, I wouldn't fear it nearly as much as I do now. In the future, I'll fear dying (when my kids are old and gray) for much more simple reasons.
This is exactly what we do at my work (an email service provider), we have filters on the outbound traffic (all outbound traffic) and catch as much spam outbound as inbound. The junk is then held in the outbound queues, some for manual processing, some is processed automatically.
For example, if a customer has a spambot PC that spews out tens of thousands of spams, and if the filters catch it, their IP gets blocked and the junk gets expunged. If you have a relatively static IP, that translates into no email for you.
It's worse for customers who abuse the system via web mail. We catch about 98% of outbound webmail spammers with filters (as it's template based 419er crap) those get expunged of course, but we also block IPs, and proactively check if other users signed up from, or used the IPs used by other spammers and add links to the chains connecting spammer accounts.
So, some low level spammer signs up for 10 accounts from one or two IPs, we catch them all after the first attempt to spam, shut all 10 accounts down, and often will then block the source netblock.
On top of all that, we troll the outbound queues and observe the sheer number of outbound mails per account, email not caught by the filters. Spammers have a particular profile and it is pretty easy to detect those slipping through, resulting in only two or three false positives per year.
not batteries, capacitors, loads and loads of supremely high capacity capacitors.
in fact, they'll be called "superconducting batteries" but really be capacitors
thank you for correcting that post, it just screamed the need for that alteration.
it really is amazing more people don't use that phrase, I use it all the time, and even the non-sci-fi-geeks around me are using it.
as in my father asking sarcastically, "what am I supposed to do, hold the bolt with my gripping hand? Gimme a break, and hold it for me..."
really, cripes the guy had a point until that rant exposed the tin foil wrapping his head.
how about the push to "protect" from AIDS as a reason to get your children circumcised?
same lie, different backstory.
I'm not refering to the US killing in Vietnam, we didn't kill anywhere near the numbers the North Vietnamese killed. Heck there was a purge after the fall that killed over 2 million Vietnamese, almost all of them civillians.
That was 1975 or 76.
Their neighbors killed what, 6 million of their own countrymen in those same years?
So while 40+ million for a whole hemisphere worth of people to 250k here in the US, those numbers are misleading at best. We didn't kill 40 million indians. Didn't happen.
The 42 million number is tossed around alot and the first times such a high number like that 42M was used described the population of the entire western hemisphere, not just people in North America.
Not all these 42 million, and lets face it, that number is pulled out of someone's ass, were slaughtered by the evil whitey. Even back 10,000 years. It was a slaughter, don't get me wrong, but the slaughter took hundreds of years of institutional depravity to reach the low point in the early 20th Century but certainly wasn't all orchestrated by some genetic hatred of the savage red man.
American Indians _did_ take over their neighbors, and that _was_ their world. They were savages, stone aged tribal savages who ravaged each other with a ferocity that equaled that of any other people. There was no peaceful tribe that managed to maintain a peace without war.
You just can't ignore the fact that these societies fought and slaughtered each other on a regular almost ritualistic basis with whole populations being replaced by technologically advanced neighbors. Whole waves of invaders predated whitey by hundreds of generations wiping out the competition using every means available from direct conflict to burning crops to deliberate overhunting.
My real problem with bitching about the past like this is that you rarely see it put in context of the crimes against humanity from other cultures AND there's absolutely nothing that can be done to rectify the situation other than pour your efforts into preventing crimes like this from happening today and in the future.
What other course is there? Take up arms against anyone with European ancestry? Sit and stew, raise the bile in your guy to such a level that you stroke out at a young age?
Take slavery for example: Bitching about slavery does NO good. Education is fine and an absolute must but complaining and blaming it for your current problems? No way. Fighting slavery today is noble and worthy of your time and investment. Taking slavers to the gallows TODAY is noble and righteous. Getting whipped up into a frenzy because your g-g-g-grand father was sold down the river to a cruel master does nobody any good. I'm a rabid abolitionist, and do donate money and technological expertise to anti-slavery organizations on a regular basis.
As far as the raw murder aspect of the problem, the fact is you often see other culture's crimes ignored simply because they aren't crimes of the USA.
Soviet and Chinease communists did this same thing to the tune of 200+ million people over the last 9 decades. 2 Million died after Vietnam fell to the communists. How many millions died in Cambodia and the rest of SE Asia just since the 1970s due to the crimes of the socialist communist regimes? That's in less than a century!
What about muslims? There are muslims doing this exact same thing right now in wide swaths of Africa and the islands of the South Pacific. Whole towns and villages are relocated, forced to convert or put to the blade, right now, this year.
While it's true the crimes of the past must be discussed, the crimes of today are going ignored!
downloading it now, and trying under wine...
.net framework, guess I won't get the opportunity to evaluate it
oh well, must have version 2 or higher of the
so a little bit early it hits the Western Hemisphere directly, a little late and it hits Asia?
sounds like a real mess either way
I can date pictures of my house on that sight to 4/29/2006. We were having a family party that day, and several people's vehicles (who are never there at the same time) are in front of the house, and one of those people is in the driveway... three views are of that day, one view is even more recent.
thanks for the tip! I'll definately pick it up and check it out next week in our demo environment.
no, believe it or not we find that a large amount of rejects from dhcp type addresses that don't resolve, especially overseas. but you are right, loads of road runner and dsl customers do have names in reverse tables
that's a good question, no idea