Exactly. And in any case, the TeV was already ruled out as capable of producing one, at least 5 years ago, IIRC. I believe this was ruled out by theory *and* other experiments, reducing the possible Higgs range to a really heavy Higgs that would require at least the energy of the LHC to produce. But, maybe things have changed?
In a situation where normally you would not skid at all, how do you know the ABS will not turn on when it shouldn't?
Does that actually happen? I've lived my life under the impression that adequate pressure in the brake line was necessary to trigger systems like this, making it extremely difficult for the system to just "come on" while you're driving. If it comes on when you're braking, but not braking hard enough to justify ABS, I can't see that you're likely to have much problem. What's the difference in stopping distance, exactly? Apologies for my ignorance here... my car doesn't even have this system.
In complete contrast to the other players here, who like to explore the entire game or collect all the collectibles or finish with the minimum time or maximum goods, or whatever, I do pretty much the exact opposite: I meta-game to break the game (short of death) until it's unplayable and continuing would require starting over or reverting to some previous save point, at which point I'm usually giggly and ecstatic that I broke it and am no longer interested playing in the game.
For example, in Half-Life 2 I was pretty bored with the game until we got to that part with the speedboat... now HERE was an opportunity for FUN! The developers had added game physics that worked so well, that I was actually able (after several deliberate tries) to get the speedboat to launch up into the air from some obstacle, flip over completely, and get stuck behind some rubble! I didn't die in the process (on the successful break attempt, anyway), just fell out of the boat when it flipped, and watched it get itself into an irreconcilably ridiculous position! Hahahah! It was practically impossible to get anywhere without that damn boat, and thus I had succeeded in breaking the game to unplayable. *^_^* (tears of joy!)
For some strange reason, I get kicks exploring into areas where my character will be stuck for eternity, but won't die, (like falling into wells or off the edge of the world or getting inside a wall), or for destroying the source of some spawning-object that I need to collect or use, etc. Sometimes I even submit bug reports for this behavior. =P
So, if the other guys are OCD for collecting everything, what am I for purposely breaking the game beyond playable?
Let the individual divisions of the school give you their needs, and you meet them.
Yes, the "meet them" part is the part where supposed "agendae" may fall. I believe the OP was asking how to gracefully meet the needs of the school while aligning himself with what he sees to be the ethics of his field, while at the same time dealing with other managers who are in equal-ish positions of decision (for instance on a committee) but possibly of opposite opinions regarding what constitutes a balance of ethics, or possibly in another field where there are altogether different considerations to be made.
Consumers of IT take for granted what a complicated (and often political) process this is in a large organization!
Even a sole-proprietor IT business consulting to a single other person with a technical need to be met faces these issues in deciding what meets the need for the client. In short, what meets the client's needs is what the client agrees meets his/her needs. "Agrees" implies more than just cutting and pasting a spec sheet -- there are arguments to be made based on such foggy things as user preferences, which the user might not even know beforehand, and long-term impact analysis of the various options, which, if the user could do, would negate the need for technical consultation services! Promoting FOSS is likely one of the OP's strategies for maximizing positive impact and minimizing risk, not just an "agenda", but a professional stance based in reason and ethics.
You don't imagine that this process somehow evaporates when the "IT business" and client are parts of the same large institution, do you?
Note that they aren't changing their solutions for political reasons, they are truly better, not just open source and not-Microsoft.
I think that it isn't just better software, FOSS is a better solution for large organizations because they can make custom "in-house" changes, as they like, whenever they like. Changes can mean feature updates or interlinking with other services on campus, security customizations, etc, for which the large organization doesn't have to remain tied to software manufacturers or through ongoing service contracts. It saves money for everyone in the organization, provides students and alums with programming projects and jobs (if even short-term), and contributes humanitarian effort to the free development of technology in the world.;)
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Best results might come from doing this with "Hello World", as well as doing similar activities with art, music, physics, language, and sports, in equal proportions.
Computer programming offers the ability for a child to explore at least the theoretical foundations of every discipline known to man. She can program musical ensembles with tones, harmonics, and rhythms, she can create graphic art and learn about color, light, motion, and composition, she can write games and calculate sports plays, and honestly are physics and math really questionable in the domain of programming? When I was 9, the first thing I did once comfortable in BASIC was to grab my dad's star charts and start writing up a solar system simulator, purely out of interest in physics, math, and astronomy! Programming is a tool for exploration... you're basically handing them the keys to the imaginable universe!
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Should we teach our kids how to ride a motorcycle where pedaling isn't needed? Or do they need to learn to pedal before they ride a motorcycle?
Well, if they can't pedal they're not going to innovate better bicycles and tricycles, that's for sure. But back to your analogy with algorithms...
The question becomes, do you want your kid to grow up a mathematician, scientist, or engineer? Though it may not be immediately apparent, different programming mindsets are used for each of these disciplines, mainly due to the difference in the types of information needing to be computed and the types of problems to be solved.
A kid well-schooled in algorithms might build us better encryption (or prove it impossible!) or might solve complex science puzzles that have never before been computable in all of human history!
Clearly *both* algorithm development and library-navigation are important to innovation, just as it's important to know how to solve complex integrals before you go looking up solutions in a table... what other skill would you use when you discover that the algorithm you want doesn't exist (yet) ?
I'm a straight woman, hooked up with a straight man... we're both damn sexy, and we both work in physics research! We both hang out on Slashdot, and we're only getting sexier the older and smarter we get.
These generalizations are offensive, as generalizations generally are.
Geeks are beautiful *because* they're smart, even more so when they use their smarts to be more healthy and happy. Gender and orientation don't come into it.
Are there photos around here somewhere?? I wasn't aware...
Otherwise, perhaps you should speak for yourself when evaluating the attractiveness of the crowd. I know MANY sexy geeks, and I'm one of them.:)
As a matter of fact, I think more geeks are sexy than not, since there's some mark of intelligence in figuring out proper hygiene, being creative enough to dress yourself well, and analyzing your food intake habits, especially as a ratio to your physical-motion habits. If you can't do those basic analyses, why would you consider yourself even halfway smart?
Medical conditions and face/shape/fashion-preferences aside, only idiots are fat and ugly (ie: unhealthy). They demonstrate physically that they can't research information, and/or can't think through the consequences of their decisions or adjust their actions accordingly. I fail to believe that they would be any better at it when applied to a technical scope, and I've often found that they compensate for their lack of sound reasoning with arrogance (as though laziness and stupidity are glorious virtues).
Why would anyone *want* to even remotely identify with that set of qualities? Does it make you feel better to think that everyone else in your field is just as ignorant?
Very few people are "naturally blessed" with being "thin and beautiful" (because those quoted statements together imply a medical disorder and skewed notion of beauty!), but just about everyone is capable of being healthy, work which naturally results in being sexy and good-looking, which can be objectively measured (and ego-rewarded!) in supermarket smiles and free drinks from strangers, making public confidence easier for the introvert to muster, inevitably leading to a more rewarding career as well. It's a direct correlation, it's obvious, it's documented, and the methods to achieving it are clear.
This simplicity leads me to believe that there are more good-looking men and women on Slashdot than generally assumed, though perhaps they're quiet about it to avoid offending the fat and ugly people who believe otherwise. I have no such reservation, as I myself am offended to be off-hand categorized as not-good-looking just because I'm here.
most travel experts strongly recommend insurance for any trip
And most "insurance salesmen" are liars masquerading as "experts" =P Insurance is a great thing to have in any situation, but you don't need travel-specific insurance in order to be covered when traveling, like many supposed "experts" will recommend. Check your homeowner's or renter's insurance, and it probably covers any of your property, whenever it's with you, regardless of who breaks it or how or why. If it doesn't cover that, call up the company and increase your coverage until it does, even if you have to decrease the total dollar amount of coverage (your house is much less likely to burn down than your laptop is to be broken by someone). It'll be way cheaper than buying a whole extra insurance policy, for sure. If the company you use doesn't offer that kind of coverage -- SWITCH, because they're useless, and will never pay you because they can almost always claim your situation was excluded.
I forgot to mention that using it as a sandbox to build/compile apps for other machines is always a good use of a fast extra!
For that matter, you can use it to simulate the apps running on the other machines, and thereby optimize your compilations. If you script this, and run it in a neural network simulation that allows the script to modify itself, maybe it'll become conscious. Wouldn't that be exciting?!</naive jubilation>
What kind of application requires real-time computing without a video output?
Shoutcast server (streaming audio) would rock, but streaming video would also be cool, web/net/file server...
Node in a beowulf cluster, computing... anything! Game simulator, fractal renderings, the weather, physics simulations, neural network simulation, circuit simulation, gene sequencing, stock market analysis... some combination of those things...
I'd like to remind anyone who's never been inside an actual compute center that usually only the head nodes, like 2-5 machines for every hundred or so compute nodes, have displays, and the sole purpose of the compute nodes is loads of real-time computing... else why do you think we'd (taxpayers) spend millions of dollars on these compute centers? Obviously, the need to compute (the application) came before the need to display (the video output). How strange that these needs have become so closely marketed as inseparable, that you, the slashdot commenter, can't think of a world where they aren't.;)
While there is still hope for computing in the cloud, it's hard not to wonder if short-term profits, a lack of architectural thinking about security and resilience, and long-term myopia aren't leading us in the wrong direction.
What? Of course those aren't leading us in the wrong direction --- they aren't LEADING anywhere! Science still LEADS technology development, and Slashdot has even run multiple stories about the Open Science Grid. OSG, of course, is just ONE huge example of a set of massively distributed parallel services, spanning multiple organizations and institutions across the country, and peering with other grids across the world! Funding for grid development is completely unmatched in computing projects, given that it happens in so damn many places, and yet the need for faster and better performance (with a complete disregard for profits) drives scientists to find the cheapest and most efficient means of squeezing performance from hardware. It's a VERY active field of research (I happen to work in it)! The grid doesn't only offer compute cycles, it has storage and other services too, and cross-compatibility is a major concern. It really all MUST work together in order to be effective!
As scientists iron out bugs with this stuff, and as their students leave into the workforce, the technology slowly leaks into companies, most of which move at molasses-speed to adopt new ideas. Seriously, when *I* left this field 5 years ago, no one knew what the hell I was talking about when I talked at interviews about my work in "distributed computing" or "parallel processing", forget mentioning "grid" or "clouds". I gave up on jobs after a couple of years and came back to research, but it was just THIS PAST YEAR that any major companies noticed those catch words on my resume. Seriously, it takes a long while for them to catch up to development.
So, in short, it isn't myopia of thinking that's making cloud computing drive itself to the ground, it's the myopia of this article that makes it look that way.
Total props for that one! Hell, if they don't do it, *I* will do it! In fact, I encourage *everyone* to post these ads once we know the URL to the government logging page! Surely these links can be embedded in ad networks serving the area, or posted on some German news concatenators? Freiheit muss leben, um man frei lebt!:-)
I was quite pointedly refuting the notion that popular bands aren't popular due to their signing onto a major label. Obviously they ARE, and for exactly that reason. The parent poster pointed this out in his very next paragraph, and you pointed it out again. Thanks for adding more fodder to my argument;)
Nor are popular bands popular just because they're signed to major labels (otherwise Poe one of my favorite artists would be considerably better known than she is).
What? Poe was extremely popular when she first showed up on the major label music scene in the 90's. Of course artists become popular just because they're signed to major labels; the labels to all the legwork for targeted marketing and distribution. Surely you thought of this direct effect?
They are popular because major labels and other soul crushing pieces of media machinery market them heavily through all the things that people are connected to. Television shows, movies, radio, the blogosphere, etc.
Hmm... it appears you did think of it, Mr. Self-contradiction. So, uh, what was it your argument was about?
Whether you need to reinstall on that sort of time frame has a lot to do with how you're using the machine, and how well you're maintaining it. For lots of people, Windows just "gets sluggish" after a while, and a fresh install is the easiest thing they can do to fix it. The problem is usually caused by one or more of:
malware
too much crap running at startup
a full hard drive / failure to clean up caches and temps
failure to defragment after
constantly installing and uninstalling programs or
using apps that create/destroy thousands of log files
If you only ever use a browser and office apps on your work computer, and run anti-malware utils regularly, you're not likely to run into these problems. If, on the other hand, you used a chat client that created an independent log file for everyone you ever talked to in a chat room, and like to download sparkly new cursors and screensavers all the damn time, you might find yourself needing a reinstall pretty quickly.
Memory leaks aren't the problem. The problem is the way the file system clusterfucks itself if you're doing anything that creates and destroys thousands of small files without defragging the hard drive, resulting in even moderately-sized files being fragmented all over the place, skyrocketing access times for doing just about anything, and wearing out the hard drive too. Non-tech users are more likely to have this problem since they A) have only a single partition for everything, B) never defrag, C) don't clean up temp files.
In other words, you're correct, but statistically, "doing it right" is a rare thing for anyone to actually do.
Virtualization is easy, but non-virtualization is even easier. There is a VMWare solution that will work: It's VMWare, and it works exactly like you think it does. The current price is listed on the VMWare website. I don't understand why this is a community-posed question, though, since you seem to have answered yourself in the question.
The free solution, on the other hand, is to just clean up the problems on the XP machine. If the other machines on the network continue to run trouble-free, just fix the one with trouble. You probably don't even need to recover or reinstall. Uninstall the ActiveX components, close the firewall back up, run anti-virus and anti-spyware apps (at least 3 different free ones) to remove anything that might have shown up, and if there are less than a handful of problems detected, you don't really need to reinstall. Run msconfig to check for extra crap at startup, and use HijackThis to check for any remaining browser toolbars, add-ons or other crap you don't want. Then make Firefox the default browser. Incidentally, there is a Firefox add-on available called IETabs which lets you run an IE-specific webpage from Firefox without starting IE and all its add-ons (it does use the base IE rendering engine tho).
If the machine hasn't had a fresh XP install in over a year, then it's time to reinstall anyway, and the sluggishness might have little to do with the extra ActiveX crap your wife had to use.
A cleanup might take you 2 hours. A reinstall could take longer, depending on how organized you and your wife have been about backing up data and how many programs you'll need to reinstall. VMWare works, but isn't free. These are the considerations to balance. Good Luck!
Well, I've never claimed to be good at simple things. Apparently basic counting eludes me sometimes... it just seems like it's been so long without fanfare! =P
No, they're just letting the App Store submissions lie around unapproved for inordinate amounts of time, besides explicitly denying entry for such "competitive" content.
This is old news -- Cydia and associated apps have been available on jailbroken iPhones for at least a couple of years now! The most awesome apps I downloaded through Cydia and its Installer App were the BSD Subsystem, OpenSSH Server (0_o!), and Terminal! With those three in hand, the iPhone became just another node on my network, capable of scripted rsync backups and other automated shell customizations! I think that the realization that the iPhone is a fully functional handheld machine is the primary knowledge that Apple seeks to keep out of the hands/heads of the general public. Perhaps the goal is to sell more Macs... or maybe the goal is to soon "open up" the platform to all developers/apps and topple the monopolistic/racketeering practices of phone cos and rival closed-platform phone/handheld manufacturers, similar to what they did with iTunes and DRM? One can only hope...
but in the meantime, one can just jailbreak the iPhone;-)
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Exactly. And in any case, the TeV was already ruled out as capable of producing one, at least 5 years ago, IIRC. I believe this was ruled out by theory *and* other experiments, reducing the possible Higgs range to a really heavy Higgs that would require at least the energy of the LHC to produce. But, maybe things have changed?
In a situation where normally you would not skid at all, how do you know the ABS will not turn on when it shouldn't?
Does that actually happen? I've lived my life under the impression that adequate pressure in the brake line was necessary to trigger systems like this, making it extremely difficult for the system to just "come on" while you're driving. If it comes on when you're braking, but not braking hard enough to justify ABS, I can't see that you're likely to have much problem. What's the difference in stopping distance, exactly? Apologies for my ignorance here... my car doesn't even have this system.
In complete contrast to the other players here, who like to explore the entire game or collect all the collectibles or finish with the minimum time or maximum goods, or whatever, I do pretty much the exact opposite: I meta-game to break the game (short of death) until it's unplayable and continuing would require starting over or reverting to some previous save point, at which point I'm usually giggly and ecstatic that I broke it and am no longer interested playing in the game.
For example, in Half-Life 2 I was pretty bored with the game until we got to that part with the speedboat... now HERE was an opportunity for FUN! The developers had added game physics that worked so well, that I was actually able (after several deliberate tries) to get the speedboat to launch up into the air from some obstacle, flip over completely, and get stuck behind some rubble! I didn't die in the process (on the successful break attempt, anyway), just fell out of the boat when it flipped, and watched it get itself into an irreconcilably ridiculous position! Hahahah! It was practically impossible to get anywhere without that damn boat, and thus I had succeeded in breaking the game to unplayable. *^_^* (tears of joy!)
For some strange reason, I get kicks exploring into areas where my character will be stuck for eternity, but won't die, (like falling into wells or off the edge of the world or getting inside a wall), or for destroying the source of some spawning-object that I need to collect or use, etc. Sometimes I even submit bug reports for this behavior. =P
So, if the other guys are OCD for collecting everything, what am I for purposely breaking the game beyond playable?
Yes, the "meet them" part is the part where supposed "agendae" may fall. I believe the OP was asking how to gracefully meet the needs of the school while aligning himself with what he sees to be the ethics of his field, while at the same time dealing with other managers who are in equal-ish positions of decision (for instance on a committee) but possibly of opposite opinions regarding what constitutes a balance of ethics, or possibly in another field where there are altogether different considerations to be made.
Consumers of IT take for granted what a complicated (and often political) process this is in a large organization!
Even a sole-proprietor IT business consulting to a single other person with a technical need to be met faces these issues in deciding what meets the need for the client. In short, what meets the client's needs is what the client agrees meets his/her needs. "Agrees" implies more than just cutting and pasting a spec sheet -- there are arguments to be made based on such foggy things as user preferences, which the user might not even know beforehand, and long-term impact analysis of the various options, which, if the user could do, would negate the need for technical consultation services! Promoting FOSS is likely one of the OP's strategies for maximizing positive impact and minimizing risk, not just an "agenda", but a professional stance based in reason and ethics.
You don't imagine that this process somehow evaporates when the "IT business" and client are parts of the same large institution, do you?
I think that it isn't just better software, FOSS is a better solution for large organizations because they can make custom "in-house" changes, as they like, whenever they like. Changes can mean feature updates or interlinking with other services on campus, security customizations, etc, for which the large organization doesn't have to remain tied to software manufacturers or through ongoing service contracts. It saves money for everyone in the organization, provides students and alums with programming projects and jobs (if even short-term), and contributes humanitarian effort to the free development of technology in the world. ;)
Computer programming offers the ability for a child to explore at least the theoretical foundations of every discipline known to man. She can program musical ensembles with tones, harmonics, and rhythms, she can create graphic art and learn about color, light, motion, and composition, she can write games and calculate sports plays, and honestly are physics and math really questionable in the domain of programming? When I was 9, the first thing I did once comfortable in BASIC was to grab my dad's star charts and start writing up a solar system simulator, purely out of interest in physics, math, and astronomy! Programming is a tool for exploration... you're basically handing them the keys to the imaginable universe!
Well, if they can't pedal they're not going to innovate better bicycles and tricycles, that's for sure. But back to your analogy with algorithms...
The question becomes, do you want your kid to grow up a mathematician, scientist, or engineer? Though it may not be immediately apparent, different programming mindsets are used for each of these disciplines, mainly due to the difference in the types of information needing to be computed and the types of problems to be solved.
A kid well-schooled in algorithms might build us better encryption (or prove it impossible!) or might solve complex science puzzles that have never before been computable in all of human history!
Clearly *both* algorithm development and library-navigation are important to innovation, just as it's important to know how to solve complex integrals before you go looking up solutions in a table... what other skill would you use when you discover that the algorithm you want doesn't exist (yet) ?
I'm a straight woman, hooked up with a straight man... we're both damn sexy, and we both work in physics research! We both hang out on Slashdot, and we're only getting sexier the older and smarter we get.
These generalizations are offensive, as generalizations generally are.
Geeks are beautiful *because* they're smart, even more so when they use their smarts to be more healthy and happy. Gender and orientation don't come into it.
Are there photos around here somewhere?? I wasn't aware...
:)
Otherwise, perhaps you should speak for yourself when evaluating the attractiveness of the crowd. I know MANY sexy geeks, and I'm one of them.
As a matter of fact, I think more geeks are sexy than not, since there's some mark of intelligence in figuring out proper hygiene, being creative enough to dress yourself well, and analyzing your food intake habits, especially as a ratio to your physical-motion habits. If you can't do those basic analyses, why would you consider yourself even halfway smart?
Medical conditions and face/shape/fashion-preferences aside, only idiots are fat and ugly (ie: unhealthy). They demonstrate physically that they can't research information, and/or can't think through the consequences of their decisions or adjust their actions accordingly. I fail to believe that they would be any better at it when applied to a technical scope, and I've often found that they compensate for their lack of sound reasoning with arrogance (as though laziness and stupidity are glorious virtues).
Why would anyone *want* to even remotely identify with that set of qualities? Does it make you feel better to think that everyone else in your field is just as ignorant?
Very few people are "naturally blessed" with being "thin and beautiful" (because those quoted statements together imply a medical disorder and skewed notion of beauty!), but just about everyone is capable of being healthy, work which naturally results in being sexy and good-looking, which can be objectively measured (and ego-rewarded!) in supermarket smiles and free drinks from strangers, making public confidence easier for the introvert to muster, inevitably leading to a more rewarding career as well. It's a direct correlation, it's obvious, it's documented, and the methods to achieving it are clear.
This simplicity leads me to believe that there are more good-looking men and women on Slashdot than generally assumed, though perhaps they're quiet about it to avoid offending the fat and ugly people who believe otherwise. I have no such reservation, as I myself am offended to be off-hand categorized as not-good-looking just because I'm here.
Only if people like you believe it to be so. The rest of us can sue.
And most "insurance salesmen" are liars masquerading as "experts" =P Insurance is a great thing to have in any situation, but you don't need travel-specific insurance in order to be covered when traveling, like many supposed "experts" will recommend. Check your homeowner's or renter's insurance, and it probably covers any of your property, whenever it's with you, regardless of who breaks it or how or why. If it doesn't cover that, call up the company and increase your coverage until it does, even if you have to decrease the total dollar amount of coverage (your house is much less likely to burn down than your laptop is to be broken by someone). It'll be way cheaper than buying a whole extra insurance policy, for sure. If the company you use doesn't offer that kind of coverage -- SWITCH, because they're useless, and will never pay you because they can almost always claim your situation was excluded.
I forgot to mention that using it as a sandbox to build/compile apps for other machines is always a good use of a fast extra!
For that matter, you can use it to simulate the apps running on the other machines, and thereby optimize your compilations. If you script this, and run it in a neural network simulation that allows the script to modify itself, maybe it'll become conscious. Wouldn't that be exciting?!</naive jubilation>
Shoutcast server (streaming audio) would rock, but streaming video would also be cool, web/net/file server...
;)
Node in a beowulf cluster, computing... anything! Game simulator, fractal renderings, the weather, physics simulations, neural network simulation, circuit simulation, gene sequencing, stock market analysis... some combination of those things...
I'd like to remind anyone who's never been inside an actual compute center that usually only the head nodes, like 2-5 machines for every hundred or so compute nodes, have displays, and the sole purpose of the compute nodes is loads of real-time computing... else why do you think we'd (taxpayers) spend millions of dollars on these compute centers? Obviously, the need to compute (the application) came before the need to display (the video output). How strange that these needs have become so closely marketed as inseparable, that you, the slashdot commenter, can't think of a world where they aren't.
What? Of course those aren't leading us in the wrong direction --- they aren't LEADING anywhere! Science still LEADS technology development, and Slashdot has even run multiple stories about the Open Science Grid. OSG, of course, is just ONE huge example of a set of massively distributed parallel services, spanning multiple organizations and institutions across the country, and peering with other grids across the world! Funding for grid development is completely unmatched in computing projects, given that it happens in so damn many places, and yet the need for faster and better performance (with a complete disregard for profits) drives scientists to find the cheapest and most efficient means of squeezing performance from hardware. It's a VERY active field of research (I happen to work in it)! The grid doesn't only offer compute cycles, it has storage and other services too, and cross-compatibility is a major concern. It really all MUST work together in order to be effective!
As scientists iron out bugs with this stuff, and as their students leave into the workforce, the technology slowly leaks into companies, most of which move at molasses-speed to adopt new ideas. Seriously, when *I* left this field 5 years ago, no one knew what the hell I was talking about when I talked at interviews about my work in "distributed computing" or "parallel processing", forget mentioning "grid" or "clouds". I gave up on jobs after a couple of years and came back to research, but it was just THIS PAST YEAR that any major companies noticed those catch words on my resume. Seriously, it takes a long while for them to catch up to development.
So, in short, it isn't myopia of thinking that's making cloud computing drive itself to the ground, it's the myopia of this article that makes it look that way.
Total props for that one! Hell, if they don't do it, *I* will do it! In fact, I encourage *everyone* to post these ads once we know the URL to the government logging page! Surely these links can be embedded in ad networks serving the area, or posted on some German news concatenators? Freiheit muss leben, um man frei lebt! :-)
I was quite pointedly refuting the notion that popular bands aren't popular due to their signing onto a major label. Obviously they ARE, and for exactly that reason. The parent poster pointed this out in his very next paragraph, and you pointed it out again. Thanks for adding more fodder to my argument ;)
Nor are popular bands popular just because they're signed to major labels (otherwise Poe one of my favorite artists would be considerably better known than she is).
What? Poe was extremely popular when she first showed up on the major label music scene in the 90's. Of course artists become popular just because they're signed to major labels; the labels to all the legwork for targeted marketing and distribution. Surely you thought of this direct effect?
They are popular because major labels and other soul crushing pieces of media machinery market them heavily through all the things that people are connected to. Television shows, movies, radio, the blogosphere, etc.
Hmm... it appears you did think of it, Mr. Self-contradiction. So, uh, what was it your argument was about?
If you only ever use a browser and office apps on your work computer, and run anti-malware utils regularly, you're not likely to run into these problems. If, on the other hand, you used a chat client that created an independent log file for everyone you ever talked to in a chat room, and like to download sparkly new cursors and screensavers all the damn time, you might find yourself needing a reinstall pretty quickly.
Memory leaks aren't the problem. The problem is the way the file system clusterfucks itself if you're doing anything that creates and destroys thousands of small files without defragging the hard drive, resulting in even moderately-sized files being fragmented all over the place, skyrocketing access times for doing just about anything, and wearing out the hard drive too. Non-tech users are more likely to have this problem since they A) have only a single partition for everything, B) never defrag, C) don't clean up temp files.
In other words, you're correct, but statistically, "doing it right" is a rare thing for anyone to actually do.
Virtualization is easy, but non-virtualization is even easier. There is a VMWare solution that will work: It's VMWare, and it works exactly like you think it does. The current price is listed on the VMWare website. I don't understand why this is a community-posed question, though, since you seem to have answered yourself in the question.
The free solution, on the other hand, is to just clean up the problems on the XP machine. If the other machines on the network continue to run trouble-free, just fix the one with trouble. You probably don't even need to recover or reinstall. Uninstall the ActiveX components, close the firewall back up, run anti-virus and anti-spyware apps (at least 3 different free ones) to remove anything that might have shown up, and if there are less than a handful of problems detected, you don't really need to reinstall. Run msconfig to check for extra crap at startup, and use HijackThis to check for any remaining browser toolbars, add-ons or other crap you don't want. Then make Firefox the default browser. Incidentally, there is a Firefox add-on available called IETabs which lets you run an IE-specific webpage from Firefox without starting IE and all its add-ons (it does use the base IE rendering engine tho).
If the machine hasn't had a fresh XP install in over a year, then it's time to reinstall anyway, and the sluggishness might have little to do with the extra ActiveX crap your wife had to use.
A cleanup might take you 2 hours. A reinstall could take longer, depending on how organized you and your wife have been about backing up data and how many programs you'll need to reinstall. VMWare works, but isn't free. These are the considerations to balance. Good Luck!
Well, I've never claimed to be good at simple things. Apparently basic counting eludes me sometimes... it just seems like it's been so long without fanfare! =P
No, they're just letting the App Store submissions lie around unapproved for inordinate amounts of time, besides explicitly denying entry for such "competitive" content.
A jailbroken iPhone with Cydia installed is 1 app away from being a fully functional Unix box.
And if you don't already know which app it is, I'm not going to tell you (because you wouldn't want advice from queers and poseurs anyway).
This is old news -- Cydia and associated apps have been available on jailbroken iPhones for at least a couple of years now! The most awesome apps I downloaded through Cydia and its Installer App were the BSD Subsystem, OpenSSH Server (0_o!), and Terminal! With those three in hand, the iPhone became just another node on my network, capable of scripted rsync backups and other automated shell customizations! I think that the realization that the iPhone is a fully functional handheld machine is the primary knowledge that Apple seeks to keep out of the hands/heads of the general public. Perhaps the goal is to sell more Macs... or maybe the goal is to soon "open up" the platform to all developers/apps and topple the monopolistic/racketeering practices of phone cos and rival closed-platform phone/handheld manufacturers, similar to what they did with iTunes and DRM? One can only hope...
;-)
but in the meantime, one can just jailbreak the iPhone