Because Windowmaker is all I want. But Free Software gives us a bountiful array of choices. I don't get why Nick P. needs to run down someone else's desktop.
He needs to mind his own business and write about something he DOES like rather than running down something that he doesn't like.
The only reason anyone is upset is that it's going to be a bunch of guys looking at naked girls on the computer.
The real outrage is the free ride that women get. I was showing my wife a copy of Playboy magazine. Her reaction was "that's it"? She was expecting some nasty funky stuff or something, based on how bent out of shape people get when you say "Playboy Magazine".
Then, she showed me her Cosmo. The very same Cosmo that is stocked at the eye-level height of an 8 year old. WOW! She convinced me, and I am not a faithful subscriber.
So, the story of the future is this: moral outrage about Leisure Suit Larry, extending into perpetuity. But nobody is going to notice the racy programs that will be marketed to girls in the future.
Funny, but it's true, when the call is recursive. The tail call optimization causes a recursive function to execute in constant space, which is a pretty significant optimization.
You can even make this work if you've got a bunch of functions that call each other recursively with a tail call.
For more tips, I'd recommend reading the source code to another stack machine. Outside of some very hard to read dissertations on a dusty shelf, I doubt that the lore of stack machine optimization can be found anywhere else. This is just one of those cases where "did you Gooogle the thing?" just doesn't apply.
The simple version: I make money using open source software, because the marginal cost to learn or use just one more tool is zero. With closed source software, I have to pay somebody for everything that I use, which limits the number of tools that I have.
So, when I have all these free tools laying around with no restrictions, I'm better off because I am limited only by my imagination. My counterparts who are limited by the size of their wallets can't compete with me.
The end story is that if I'm an employee, I get bigger raises. If I'm a business, I have more money to hire people with.
The education of a human being should be a right, if it isn't already. Information is the core of education (there's other things too). The Internet is one source of information.
If there are other equivalent sources of information available, then the Internet is not a right. Learn from books like I did. But, in China, the Internet is pretty much the only source for some necessary information, so it's wrong for kids not to have it. The government does not have the right to keep their population in ignorance.
We're going to pay for these scopes with taxes. And, we're going to pay for these scopes with fund raiser drives. As a geek, I'd pony up $100 a year to help fund some scopes. (As long as I can charge it to my Visa.)
OK, here's what I think, in a couple bullet points:
-Hubble was made to be repairable because it was a "shuttle thing". A space telescope does not need to be repairable. -Hubble isn't any more sophisticated than any of a number of optical spy satellites that we operate. -Hubble isn't really much bigger than an optical spy satellite. -A major limitation of hubble is that there's only one of them. -These things suggest some good ideas for Hubble replacements.
-A replacement for Hubble should not be a single telescope, but an array of telescopes, with different capabilites. -Each telescope should be as much as possible a duplicate of the others, with possible scaling differences. -Functions should be split up among the telescopes. For example, it would be useful to have 2 or 3 half meter optical telescopes, a 1 meter infrared telescope, a 1 meter ultraviolet telescope, and a single 4 meter infrared telescope, all in orbit.
-Each scope would be as simple and cheap as possible. -The point of having multiple scopes is to support multiple programs at the same time. And if one scope breaks, it won't bring the entire program to its knees. -Each scope would be designed to last 7-9 years, and then replaced when it breaks. -The scopes would be built in a mass production type fashion, thus lowering costs. -Most importantly, the scopes, at least the smaller ones, would be launchable on just about any available booster from any country. The big scope might need a Titan to launch it, but at least the Russians have a rocket that can lift a similar amount so we're not dependant on one booster.
Hubble was an excellent start to the telescopes in space program. The next step is to put a few more up there, and to continue to work on bringing launch costs down. I fully expect to see amateur space telescopes within the next 10-15 years, just as we see amateur radio relay satellites. We will also see space telescopes operated by individual universities. When this happens, there will still be a need for federal funding, but the design and the operation of the telescopes can take place at a level closer to the astronomers that use the telescopes.
That piece of film was exposed as a hoax long ago, but it didn't affect the true believers. This is a bit similar to the crop circle believers. The people who invented the crop circle came forward and explained how it was done. The true believers think they are lying, and that crop circles are really made by aliens.
And, I read a book by James Randi a couple years ago where he talks about a cold reader that he trained (like John Edwards). The cold reader did his little tricks, and even after the hoax was exposed, his marks still thought he had some psychic abilities.
Therefore, I predict Bigfoot believers still have a long and profitable future ahead.
It's different because it's a all-in-one solution. Do you run 17 different versions of Oracle? Do run 9 different hardware platforms? The vendors who provide grid computing can not only provide the hardware resources, they can consolidate systems onto common platforms. This helps the grid computing move overall, and it helps the customer reduce the number of platforms they live on. Any large organization will be able to save costs this way.
You're right on though. Grid computing is really similar to outsourcing, but the offerings lately are more complete than they have been in the past.
N3WBI3, I'm just going to play a different game, that's all. My work here is done. As I mentioned before, look in my journal where I will talk about it. You'll be able to post there too, of course.
It's not just the CPU that scales in a grid environment. Things like network connectivity, and database storage also scale. If you haven't looked at the cost of some storage solutions from EMC, then you might not know how expensive they are. Renting can be a way to reduce cost, since these grid solutions can host many many customers on a single piece of physical hardware, without their customers knowing that they don't have their own dedicated box.
I've got a whole new idea brewing. You might as well leave poor old Uma Thurman alone now. Her experiment is finished, and the conservatives have been exposed as fascists.
-the supply of compute power will equal the demand -shifts in supply happen automatically -you pay for what you use
Don't think of cluster computing. That's the wrong idea. Don't think engineering. Those people need clusters, not grids.
Grids are for people who run businesses. Their demand changes all the time, and it's expensive to have to buy computers that can handle the peak load. For example, some types of retailers will do 80% of their business in December. Why should they hang onto the computers all year around?
This is how it will work: you are a business. You call up IBM and you ask for a single processor Celeron machine, with 1 gig of database attached to it. They provide it, maintain it, make sure it's running, and charge you X dollars per month for it.
Then, one day, you discover 100 million dollars in sales that you have to get out the door. You call up IBM and tell them that instead of a dinky Celeron, you need a 32-way machine with a terabyte of database storage. They set you up and you've got the capacity on-line in 15 minutes. A machine like that might run over a million bucks to buy new, but you can use the machine for a lot less than that.
You use that capacity to get the orders out the door, then you discover that your business is back down to the celeron. You call up IBM and have them change you back.
Without grid, you would have to spend a million bucks or more to have that 32 way machine sitting around ready for the two weeks when you needed it. With grid, you only pay for two weeks usage of a million dollar machine, which is a huge savings.
My speech doesn't prevent you from speaking. Mod-bombing is designed to shut me up, to keep me from speaking.
So, go fuck yourself. You and your kind would rape puppies if you thought that it would help Bush get elected. Stop trying to turn this place into the Nazi paradise that you desire so much. You don't like what I have to say? Fine. Go fuck yourself.
I've been a victim of mod-bombing. This is not flamebait.
The gyroscopes do fail too quickly. The first set of 6 was actually found to be defective and failed too quickly. They were all replaced in a servicing mission, and now there are only 4 still working.
There's no reason to use a DVI connector with an analog signal, is there? The cable is more expensive, and analog is good enough for now. Later, when resolutions have increased and digital signals are the only ones used, why should there be pins for the analog signal?
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And, if it hits the target, Taco Bell is giving away free tacos to everyone in America!
Sometimes when I was driving into the wind, all I could do was about 75.
That car was the right thing at the right time. I needed something cheap to buy and cheap to run. It was perfect for getting around town.
Outsourcing isn't bad. It's just stupid business for the most part. PHB's jump on stupid fads all the time, and this is one of them.
Because Windowmaker is all I want. But Free Software gives us a bountiful array of choices. I don't get why Nick P. needs to run down someone else's desktop.
He needs to mind his own business and write about something he DOES like rather than running down something that he doesn't like.
The Geo Metro isn't a death trap. People like to say it is, but it's a pretty safe car.
Remember, people in Europe drive cars that small all the time, and they aren't dying in droves relative to the US.
The only reason anyone is upset is that it's going to be a bunch of guys looking at naked girls on the computer.
The real outrage is the free ride that women get. I was showing my wife a copy of Playboy magazine. Her reaction was "that's it"? She was expecting some nasty funky stuff or something, based on how bent out of shape people get when you say "Playboy Magazine".
Then, she showed me her Cosmo. The very same Cosmo that is stocked at the eye-level height of an 8 year old. WOW! She convinced me, and I am not a faithful subscriber.
So, the story of the future is this: moral outrage about Leisure Suit Larry, extending into perpetuity. But nobody is going to notice the racy programs that will be marketed to girls in the future.
I had a Geo Metro with the 1.0L engine that got 55 MPG regularly. The car was a bit small, but it'd go 80 MPH on the highway.
And VW makes some diesels that get really great mileage, better than hybrid.
Hybrids also have the disadvantage of requiring heavy batteries that contain some nasty stuff. The environmental net might not be positive.
Nevertheless, the technology is still new, and I wonder how far it can be pushed.
Funny, but it's true, when the call is recursive. The tail call optimization causes a recursive function to execute in constant space, which is a pretty significant optimization.
You can even make this work if you've got a bunch of functions that call each other recursively with a tail call.
For more tips, I'd recommend reading the source code to another stack machine. Outside of some very hard to read dissertations on a dusty shelf, I doubt that the lore of stack machine optimization can be found anywhere else. This is just one of those cases where "did you Gooogle the thing?" just doesn't apply.
The simple version: I make money using open source software, because the marginal cost to learn or use just one more tool is zero. With closed source software, I have to pay somebody for everything that I use, which limits the number of tools that I have.
So, when I have all these free tools laying around with no restrictions, I'm better off because I am limited only by my imagination. My counterparts who are limited by the size of their wallets can't compete with me.
The end story is that if I'm an employee, I get bigger raises. If I'm a business, I have more money to hire people with.
The education of a human being should be a right, if it isn't already. Information is the core of education (there's other things too). The Internet is one source of information.
If there are other equivalent sources of information available, then the Internet is not a right. Learn from books like I did. But, in China, the Internet is pretty much the only source for some necessary information, so it's wrong for kids not to have it. The government does not have the right to keep their population in ignorance.
If their system comes down from a simple scan, better you find out yourself than the hackers.
If the apps folks are so nervous about things, just remark that if their systems are well built, they will handle a scan with no problems.
We're going to pay for these scopes with taxes. And, we're going to pay for these scopes with fund raiser drives. As a geek, I'd pony up $100 a year to help fund some scopes. (As long as I can charge it to my Visa.)
OK, here's what I think, in a couple bullet points:
-Hubble was made to be repairable because it was a "shuttle thing". A space telescope does not need to be repairable.
-Hubble isn't any more sophisticated than any of a number of optical spy satellites that we operate.
-Hubble isn't really much bigger than an optical spy satellite.
-A major limitation of hubble is that there's only one of them.
-These things suggest some good ideas for Hubble replacements.
-A replacement for Hubble should not be a single telescope, but an array of telescopes, with different capabilites.
-Each telescope should be as much as possible a duplicate of the others, with possible scaling differences.
-Functions should be split up among the telescopes. For example, it would be useful to have 2 or 3 half meter optical telescopes, a 1 meter infrared telescope, a 1 meter ultraviolet telescope, and a single 4 meter infrared telescope, all in orbit.
-Each scope would be as simple and cheap as possible.
-The point of having multiple scopes is to support multiple programs at the same time. And if one scope breaks, it won't bring the entire program to its knees.
-Each scope would be designed to last 7-9 years, and then replaced when it breaks.
-The scopes would be built in a mass production type fashion, thus lowering costs.
-Most importantly, the scopes, at least the smaller ones, would be launchable on just about any available booster from any country. The big scope might need a Titan to launch it, but at least the Russians have a rocket that can lift a similar amount so we're not dependant on one booster.
Hubble was an excellent start to the telescopes in space program. The next step is to put a few more up there, and to continue to work on bringing launch costs down. I fully expect to see amateur space telescopes within the next 10-15 years, just as we see amateur radio relay satellites. We will also see space telescopes operated by individual universities. When this happens, there will still be a need for federal funding, but the design and the operation of the telescopes can take place at a level closer to the astronomers that use the telescopes.
That piece of film was exposed as a hoax long ago, but it didn't affect the true believers. This is a bit similar to the crop circle believers. The people who invented the crop circle came forward and explained how it was done. The true believers think they are lying, and that crop circles are really made by aliens.
And, I read a book by James Randi a couple years ago where he talks about a cold reader that he trained (like John Edwards). The cold reader did his little tricks, and even after the hoax was exposed, his marks still thought he had some psychic abilities.
Therefore, I predict Bigfoot believers still have a long and profitable future ahead.
It's different because it's a all-in-one solution. Do you run 17 different versions of Oracle? Do run 9 different hardware platforms? The vendors who provide grid computing can not only provide the hardware resources, they can consolidate systems onto common platforms. This helps the grid computing move overall, and it helps the customer reduce the number of platforms they live on. Any large organization will be able to save costs this way.
You're right on though. Grid computing is really similar to outsourcing, but the offerings lately are more complete than they have been in the past.
N3WBI3, I'm just going to play a different game, that's all. My work here is done. As I mentioned before, look in my journal where I will talk about it. You'll be able to post there too, of course.
It's not just the CPU that scales in a grid environment. Things like network connectivity, and database storage also scale. If you haven't looked at the cost of some storage solutions from EMC, then you might not know how expensive they are. Renting can be a way to reduce cost, since these grid solutions can host many many customers on a single piece of physical hardware, without their customers knowing that they don't have their own dedicated box.
I've got a whole new idea brewing. You might as well leave poor old Uma Thurman alone now. Her experiment is finished, and the conservatives have been exposed as fascists.
Watch my journal for more details.
Grid computing means several things:
-the supply of compute power will equal the demand
-shifts in supply happen automatically
-you pay for what you use
Don't think of cluster computing. That's the wrong idea. Don't think engineering. Those people need clusters, not grids.
Grids are for people who run businesses. Their demand changes all the time, and it's expensive to have to buy computers that can handle the peak load. For example, some types of retailers will do 80% of their business in December. Why should they hang onto the computers all year around?
This is how it will work: you are a business. You call up IBM and you ask for a single processor Celeron machine, with 1 gig of database attached to it. They provide it, maintain it, make sure it's running, and charge you X dollars per month for it.
Then, one day, you discover 100 million dollars in sales that you have to get out the door. You call up IBM and tell them that instead of a dinky Celeron, you need a 32-way machine with a terabyte of database storage. They set you up and you've got the capacity on-line in 15 minutes. A machine like that might run over a million bucks to buy new, but you can use the machine for a lot less than that.
You use that capacity to get the orders out the door, then you discover that your business is back down to the celeron. You call up IBM and have them change you back.
Without grid, you would have to spend a million bucks or more to have that 32 way machine sitting around ready for the two weeks when you needed it. With grid, you only pay for two weeks usage of a million dollar machine, which is a huge savings.
I've got about 20 other accounts with maxed out Karma. I can fuck with you for a very long time.
My speech doesn't prevent you from speaking. Mod-bombing is designed to shut me up, to keep me from speaking.
So, go fuck yourself. You and your kind would rape puppies if you thought that it would help Bush get elected. Stop trying to turn this place into the Nazi paradise that you desire so much. You don't like what I have to say? Fine. Go fuck yourself.
I've been a victim of mod-bombing. This is not flamebait.
The gyroscopes do fail too quickly. The first set of 6 was actually found to be defective and failed too quickly. They were all replaced in a servicing mission, and now there are only 4 still working.
To the mod-bomber - shame on you.
And please, put some better gyroscopes on the thing. They fail too quickly.
So you think it's idiotic to point out that it's a better use of time, money, and life to pursue space exploits?
War is a wasteful enterprise, and no amount of spin can change that.
The reason only 500+ US soldiers have died is because we value life so highly.
Right. The war to end all wars. The war to end all killing. Got it.
There's no reason to use a DVI connector with an analog signal, is there? The cable is more expensive, and analog is good enough for now. Later, when resolutions have increased and digital signals are the only ones used, why should there be pins for the analog signal?