And you know a lot less about science than you think you do. Next time, work out the difference between a theory and a hypothesis, and between proof and absence of falsification.
No, I understand fully how DNS works. At the moment, the.com root servers have to know the authorative servers for every single.com domain. Likewise for.org,.net etc. If there were no TLDs, then all of the root server databases would have to be merged. This means an increase in database size; but how many *significant* TLDs are there? No more than a couple of dozen. So you see a jump of ~20 in your database size -- but nowhere near the magnitude you suggest. Now, I'm not advocating that merging all TLDs would be a good idea, because there would certainly be a performance hit. However, my point is that there is nothing in DNS, per se, that would prohibit such a merge. If you think otherwise, I'd like to hear it.
OK, sure, knowing something is in.org rather than.com narrows things down a bit. But without TLDs, although things may be a bit slower (or not, as computers get faster), DNS would still work in the same way. If this were not the case, then it wouldn't be possible to add *new* TLDs. Do you see my point?
So the opening bits of the Declaration of Independence, and all that, is just really wishful thinking. Some people are born US citizens, and others are just there for us to torture? Jesus, you really are a revolting piece of shit, aren't you? You wouldn't be out of place as a camp guard at Auschwitz -- you find it so easy to dehumanize those who don't fit into your 'truly human' categories.
Sure, talk to Abu Gonzales, Donald Rumsfeld or even George himself. Torture them all you want, it won't have any effect on the US's moral standing in the world, nor on how our own POWs are treated in the future by enemy powers.
That's what it's supposed to do and is why binary filetypes have headers.
No, it is supposed to look at the MIME type passed by the web server, as per the HTTP 1.1 spec. But it ignores the type, instead grubbing through the file headers. As others have already pointed out, this turns a security issue into a gaping security hole.
Could you care to name a single big hitter who is a *biologist*? Or are you going to trot out fools like William Dembski and Michael Behe, neither of which are biologists?
How can you call Dr Strangelove a non-US movie, when it had the same (US) director as 2001: Stanley Kubric. At least 2001 had a UK author, Arthur C. Clarke.
Only the name Cray remains, not the old-time reputation.
That's not quite true; they still sell Cray-specific technology. One of my colleagues has just bought a small 24-core Opteron system. Each node contains two dual-core processors, and the 6 nodes are linked together by 80 Gb/s Craylink cables. I think this interlink technology is also licensed to SGI for use in their Origin computers.
On something like this, they would probably be programming in High Performance Fortran or Fortran w/ OpenMP -- or some similar dialect that supports massively parallel execution. I'm sure IBM develop an in-house compiler for the language.
Yet you have a computer and an internet connection -- a sign of the high standards of living in the USA. Ironically, this standard of living has been maintained by drawing in talented individuals from around the world (the so-called brain drain).
If the input of skill were removed, the US economy would gradually collapse, simply because there aren't enough educated/intelligent natives to support it. I see this every day in the US physics department I work in, where at least 80% of the grad students are foreign.
Yes, but if I'm interested in high-performance computing, I'd go with the Dell. I wouldn't touch Sun with a barge-pole performance wise; they're strictly for those who need high availability.
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And you know a lot less about science than you think you do. Next time, work out the difference between a theory and a hypothesis, and between proof and absence of falsification.
LOL, nice joke!
No, I understand fully how DNS works. At the moment, the .com root servers have to know the authorative servers for every single .com domain. Likewise for .org, .net etc. If there were no TLDs, then all of the root server databases would have to be merged. This means an increase in database size; but how many *significant* TLDs are there? No more than a couple of dozen. So you see a jump of ~20 in your database size -- but nowhere near the magnitude you suggest. Now, I'm not advocating that merging all TLDs would be a good idea, because there would certainly be a performance hit. However, my point is that there is nothing in DNS, per se, that would prohibit such a merge. If you think otherwise, I'd like to hear it.
OK, sure, knowing something is in .org rather than .com narrows things down a bit. But without TLDs, although things may be a bit slower (or not, as computers get faster), DNS would still work in the same way. If this were not the case, then it wouldn't be possible to add *new* TLDs. Do you see my point?
Can you explain why, in detail? Because I disagree with you.
Hey, chaps, look -- it's a talking cunt!
Not when you realize that flash has a finite read/write count for each block.
It was a fucking joke. Using flash as swap is as good idea as running NFS over dial up.
RTFA. 16 gigabit, not gigabyte.
I'm going to plug one of these AWESOME 16Gb flash thingies into my computer using a USB card reader, and use it as a totally w00t swap device.
Erm...
Fuck me, you're the stupidest turd I've met for over a decade. I almost shat myself laughing.
So the opening bits of the Declaration of Independence, and all that, is just really wishful thinking. Some people are born US citizens, and others are just there for us to torture? Jesus, you really are a revolting piece of shit, aren't you? You wouldn't be out of place as a camp guard at Auschwitz -- you find it so easy to dehumanize those who don't fit into your 'truly human' categories.
You missed one:
5. Is torture OK?
Sure, talk to Abu Gonzales, Donald Rumsfeld or even George himself. Torture them all you want, it won't have any effect on the US's moral standing in the world, nor on how our own POWs are treated in the future by enemy powers.
Amen. A friend of mine refers to A&SS as the "Sargasso Journal" -- where old papers go to die :)
Y'know, I think Edward Teller would have been glad if the atmosphere had burned up. Mein Fuhrer!
That's what it's supposed to do and is why binary filetypes have headers.
No, it is supposed to look at the MIME type passed by the web server, as per the HTTP 1.1 spec. But it ignores the type, instead grubbing through the file headers. As others have already pointed out, this turns a security issue into a gaping security hole.
Cisco traditionally has used a monolithic kernel
As has Linux, and still does. Now stop waving your Cisco cock around - we all think it's plenty big, but it doesn't really impress us.
Oh, and get laid, dude. Evan a sailor will do.
Could you care to name a single big hitter who is a *biologist*? Or are you going to trot out fools like William Dembski and Michael Behe, neither of which are biologists?
How can you call Dr Strangelove a non-US movie, when it had the same (US) director as 2001: Stanley Kubric. At least 2001 had a UK author, Arthur C. Clarke.
Nice summary - thanks for the info!
Only the name Cray remains, not the old-time reputation.
That's not quite true; they still sell Cray-specific technology. One of my colleagues has just bought a small 24-core Opteron system. Each node contains two dual-core processors, and the 6 nodes are linked together by 80 Gb/s Craylink cables. I think this interlink technology is also licensed to SGI for use in their Origin computers.
On something like this, they would probably be programming in High Performance Fortran or Fortran w/ OpenMP -- or some similar dialect that supports massively parallel execution. I'm sure IBM develop an in-house compiler for the language.
Yet you have a computer and an internet connection -- a sign of the high standards of living in the USA. Ironically, this standard of living has been maintained by drawing in talented individuals from around the world (the so-called brain drain). If the input of skill were removed, the US economy would gradually collapse, simply because there aren't enough educated/intelligent natives to support it. I see this every day in the US physics department I work in, where at least 80% of the grad students are foreign.
Because RISC OS was the very first ARM operating system, and therefore is a natural for an ARM-powered device?
Yes, but if I'm interested in high-performance computing, I'd go with the Dell. I wouldn't touch Sun with a barge-pole performance wise; they're strictly for those who need high availability.