A problem with rail, and especially subway, is it becomes exponentially more expensive to build or repair the system as time increases. Most subways are cut and filled. That's very efficient, but it's impossible to cut and fill a new subway in New York today (save for the WTC site). It's also bleeding well impossible to upgrade or repair the system because people expect it to run all the time, all day, all year, on time. What you get is a kind of equilibrium where the whole system barely operates with the absolute minimum of maintenance, and it's not possible to make great leaps of construction.
Come to think of it, database administrators may be familiar with this situation. Nobody can afford downtime, but everybody wants changes and upgrades. In the end nothing gets done.
This happened with a train I was riding on the SF Muni. The train is supposed to leave after the computerized control system clears the train out of the station, and after the driver hits the door close button, and after the doors actually close. Well, this train was malfunctioning (thanks, Breda!) and the door wouldn't close. But the train had been cleared and the driver had hit the door close switch. So the driver gets out of the cab, walks out the door onto the platform, and dislodges the door, which closes. The train takes off and he's still on the platform. Comedy, I tell you.
Well Mr. John Morris of DeRidder, Louisiana, as much as we in San Francisco love to include alternative viewpoints, you can, quite frankly, stick your ignorant backwater opinion right back up your asshole from whence it came.
Pop quiz: which of these people is a Republican:
McCain
Feingold
If you answered "McCain", congratulations! You have enough political knowledge to come out on the winning side of a 50/50 chance! Your "crowd of Democrats" appears to include equal numbers of Republicans and Democrats.
Quiz number 2: Which of the following Soviet dictators signed the McCain-Feingold act into law:
Lenin
Stalin
Khrushchev
Brezhnev
Chernenko
Gorbachev
George W. Bush
If you selected "George W. Bush", you're right again! Beloved Father of America Bush signed the McCain-Feingold Free Speech Destruction Act into law, thereby acheiving for the Republican Party what Soviet Russia could never do: limiting political speech in America.
Final question, regarding tolerance of other viewpoints: which of the following prominent politicians issued a threat on Thursday against any federal judge who dared oppose his wishes?
Her district included none of SoMA and all of Hunter's Point, Bayview, and Potrero Hill.
There is a movement by the residents of her district (almost uniformly impoverished working-class or unemployed people) to recall Sup. Maxwell. She's probably just trying to undercut the ability of the grassroots to organize.
Of course it would work. Haven't you ever seen an LCD screen that lays on top of an overhead projector? You can see right through it when it's projecting white.
When your laptop screen is all white, you're looking directly at the backlight.
I know it's hard to believe that I upgraded from Debian Unstable to Ubuntu Hoary just to satisfy my question, but the answer appears to be "no". The line art and text in 0.1.9 appear to be the same as 0.1.5.
Evince is pretty hawt, but has the rendering improved since 0.1.5? I can't use Evince 0.1.5 (or xpdf and its applications) to view technical datasheets. I simply can't make out the details.
Here's a comparison with Acrobat 7 on the left and Evince 0.1.5 on the right. Acrobat 5 renders identically to Acrobat 7.
One feature I do appreciate in Evince is that it shows the document's title in the window title. Acrobat shows the filename, which is pointless and frequently of the form "/tmp/crap8x7df78".
I think it's much more likely that they simply don't have good documentation, even internally. If they had already produced documentation to pass from the hardware team to the software team, then they could just email it to the OpenBSD people and be done with it, at no cost. But I'd be willing to bet that they lack any kind of good, rigorous hardware documentation. The whole AAC line is complete crap anyway so I'm not sure why anyone cares.
I'm not sure what matrix you are referring to, but every Adaptec SCSI HBA produced over the last decade or more, from EISA to PCI-X, has been based on the same chip, and uses the same driver: aic7xxx under linux. Some more modern chips require the aix79xx driver, which also supports the aic7xxx. Even better, the AIC drivers are open source, developed by an Adaptec insider, and use the same core code on Linux and FreeBSD.
Development of AIC drivers seems to have been quiet for the last 9 months or so. Maybe it's just done?
The whole "loud pipes saves lives" is just the mantra of a bunch of neanderthal Harley owners who like to rattle the windows of their neighbors so they can say "Hu hu hu that was fun guys" over a couple of beers at the guild hall of morons. A lot of horseshit, in other words.
It is still costly to enter all those syscalls. You don't have to read the data from disk, but you do enter the kernel again and again. Once I looked at an strace of "yelp", the GNOME help program, and for a list of several tens of thousands of files, it would stat, open, mmap, and close each file 5-10 times. It was horribly bad, even with all the data already in core. In fact it was faster to start Mozilla than to start yelp.
It's worse than it appears, actually. Without removing any clauses, a solo, non-stop flight around the world, without refueling has already been done. It's only that the previous flights have all been either spacecraft or lighter-than-air balloons.
Way long ago, when today's biggest, most-gigantorrific companies were scrappy litte upstarts, they all moved their operations to Switzerland. Why? Switzerland did not grant and did not recognize patents! So these little companies could live in poor, backwards Switzerland and happily "pirate" the patents of other people. One of these companies, Ciba, got its start by ripping of an English patent on aniline dye. Ciba eventually grew up to be one of the planets biggest companies, Syngenta. Syngenta successfully lobbied the European Convention to allow patents on genes, and also went to court to stop South Africa from treating AIDS patients with its patented drugs.
The moral of this story appears to be, the more you rip off other people's "IP", the better chance you stand of become a multigazillionaire. I'm all for it, then.
On the one side, you have practically every reputable scientist on the planet. On the other side, you have a bunch of loony wingnuts. But the media loves a story with two sides, so the wingnuts get elevated to the level of actual science. Repeat for evolution.
There doesn't seem to be an allowance for correctness of rendering and conformity of the javascript implementation. If you discard all requirements for rendering and outcome of the script, cat(1) is the fastest browser hands down. Which explains Opera's performance; Opera's rendering and scripting off by just the tiniest bit in every conceivable feature. There's a definite speed/correctness tradeoff and Mozilla has always opted for correctness when practical.
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Come to think of it, database administrators may be familiar with this situation. Nobody can afford downtime, but everybody wants changes and upgrades. In the end nothing gets done.
Caltrans doesn't operate any railroads. Are you perhaps thinking of BART?
This happened with a train I was riding on the SF Muni. The train is supposed to leave after the computerized control system clears the train out of the station, and after the driver hits the door close button, and after the doors actually close. Well, this train was malfunctioning (thanks, Breda!) and the door wouldn't close. But the train had been cleared and the driver had hit the door close switch. So the driver gets out of the cab, walks out the door onto the platform, and dislodges the door, which closes. The train takes off and he's still on the platform. Comedy, I tell you.
Touché, résumé, ét cétéra
Pop quiz: which of these people is a Republican:
If you answered "McCain", congratulations! You have enough political knowledge to come out on the winning side of a 50/50 chance! Your "crowd of Democrats" appears to include equal numbers of Republicans and Democrats.
Quiz number 2: Which of the following Soviet dictators signed the McCain-Feingold act into law:
If you selected "George W. Bush", you're right again! Beloved Father of America Bush signed the McCain-Feingold Free Speech Destruction Act into law, thereby acheiving for the Republican Party what Soviet Russia could never do: limiting political speech in America.
Final question, regarding tolerance of other viewpoints: which of the following prominent politicians issued a threat on Thursday against any federal judge who dared oppose his wishes?
See if you can pick the right answer.
There is a movement by the residents of her district (almost uniformly impoverished working-class or unemployed people) to recall Sup. Maxwell. She's probably just trying to undercut the ability of the grassroots to organize.
Brilliant comment! Practically every activity on this planet is solar powered, but not in the way that tunnel-vision technologists think.
That's why the great Unix creator in the sky gave us tsort(1). Look it up.
When your laptop screen is all white, you're looking directly at the backlight.
On the SpectSoft page for the RaveHD, they say they are using XFS. Maybe they just pick a filesystem at random for every unit ...
Whoops: Correct link
Here's another comparison of gpdf vs. evince.
Here's a comparison with Acrobat 7 on the left and Evince 0.1.5 on the right. Acrobat 5 renders identically to Acrobat 7.
One feature I do appreciate in Evince is that it shows the document's title in the window title. Acrobat shows the filename, which is pointless and frequently of the form "/tmp/crap8x7df78".
I think it's much more likely that they simply don't have good documentation, even internally. If they had already produced documentation to pass from the hardware team to the software team, then they could just email it to the OpenBSD people and be done with it, at no cost. But I'd be willing to bet that they lack any kind of good, rigorous hardware documentation. The whole AAC line is complete crap anyway so I'm not sure why anyone cares.
I'm not sure what matrix you are referring to, but every Adaptec SCSI HBA produced over the last decade or more, from EISA to PCI-X, has been based on the same chip, and uses the same driver: aic7xxx under linux. Some more modern chips require the aix79xx driver, which also supports the aic7xxx. Even better, the AIC drivers are open source, developed by an Adaptec insider, and use the same core code on Linux and FreeBSD.
Development of AIC drivers seems to have been quiet for the last 9 months or so. Maybe it's just done?
The whole "loud pipes saves lives" is just the mantra of a bunch of neanderthal Harley owners who like to rattle the windows of their neighbors so they can say "Hu hu hu that was fun guys" over a couple of beers at the guild hall of morons. A lot of horseshit, in other words.
Apple doesn't even get to keep 12% of the gross, so yes it's obviously ridiculous.
It is still costly to enter all those syscalls. You don't have to read the data from disk, but you do enter the kernel again and again. Once I looked at an strace of "yelp", the GNOME help program, and for a list of several tens of thousands of files, it would stat, open, mmap, and close each file 5-10 times. It was horribly bad, even with all the data already in core. In fact it was faster to start Mozilla than to start yelp.
The SR-71 was a bad mother. The last flight of an SR-71 was from Palmdale AFB to Washington, D.C., in slightly over 1 hour.
It's worse than it appears, actually. Without removing any clauses, a solo, non-stop flight around the world, without refueling has already been done. It's only that the previous flights have all been either spacecraft or lighter-than-air balloons.
Way long ago, when today's biggest, most-gigantorrific companies were scrappy litte upstarts, they all moved their operations to Switzerland. Why? Switzerland did not grant and did not recognize patents! So these little companies could live in poor, backwards Switzerland and happily "pirate" the patents of other people. One of these companies, Ciba, got its start by ripping of an English patent on aniline dye. Ciba eventually grew up to be one of the planets biggest companies, Syngenta. Syngenta successfully lobbied the European Convention to allow patents on genes, and also went to court to stop South Africa from treating AIDS patients with its patented drugs.
The moral of this story appears to be, the more you rip off other people's "IP", the better chance you stand of become a multigazillionaire. I'm all for it, then.
R, Octave, gnumeric, gnuplot, gcc, f95, TeX.
This has been a test. Your cut&paste functionality works fine. Please return to your normal FreeRepublic now.
On the one side, you have practically every reputable scientist on the planet. On the other side, you have a bunch of loony wingnuts. But the media loves a story with two sides, so the wingnuts get elevated to the level of actual science. Repeat for evolution.
There doesn't seem to be an allowance for correctness of rendering and conformity of the javascript implementation. If you discard all requirements for rendering and outcome of the script, cat(1) is the fastest browser hands down. Which explains Opera's performance; Opera's rendering and scripting off by just the tiniest bit in every conceivable feature. There's a definite speed/correctness tradeoff and Mozilla has always opted for correctness when practical.