wow, His sense of humor sucks so bad, even on vacation it isn't doing anything funny. It should be installing banana peels in creme pie factories, or installing fake dog crap at a germaphobe conference.
And I don't want them caving into "big infomercial" sleazeballs that tell use phrases like "Big Pharma" to try and persuade potential customers to buy their scientifically unproven snake oil instead.
I guess I'm still suspicious of latency. If two machines want to do the same thing at the same time, one of them has to yield to the other if there is only one cpu. If they are also doing intensive IO on the same physical disk that will slow things down as well? Again I'm not an expert and I'll take your comments under consideration, but I don't think virtual machines are a drop in solution for a cluster. Plus, I think getting ten times the cpu performance of a Pentium 4 1.7 ghz in a single box, might not be cheaper than the $1000.
Its not that I hate virtual machines, I use them when ever possible, but I'm no expert -- please correct me if I'm wrong. Its just that I don't think I can accurately simulate what I want to do cheaply enough. I'm buying ~ $100 machines, right? each one has its own memory, cpu and disk. there's no contention for their resources. To do that 100% correctly, wouldn't I need a core for each, and a disk for each vm? I'm pretty sure that would be more than $1000, for a ten node system, nes pas?
Its tangential to the topic, not really on, not really off. Those are the best kind in my opinion. Expand the problem space to make it more interesting. If you apply your standard for off topic-ness close to 80% of the comments here should be marked off topic. It would make it a much less interesting site. IMHO.
and for the record, I hate the sight of my own text. I won't reread any text i write, unless a response makes me question what I originally said. Sometimes what you write is much differnt than what you though you were writting. phantom finger syndrome.
Personally, I'm looking at stupid cheap computers for some cluster computing research. For that purpose, yes the newer ones are too expensive. If I could get four @100 instead of one @ 400, that would obviously be better.
Just install a key logger of your own. Then you'll be able to see any access he's been making, including any to the keylogger he has installed.
From my own experience, Tin foil hats are good, but access to the government computers to make sure they aren't after you is more comforting to me.
Note to federal agents: I have not gained access to your computers. And you might want to change your desktop wallpaper, scantily clad women on a work computer is just begging for a lawsuit.
I'd mod you up, if I hadn't posted. Arguing with me can take a lot out of a person. Speaking form experience, it is tough arguing with me, but I try anyways. I don't necessarily disagree 100% with anyone who replied. There is some truth in their arguments as there is in mine. But through the discussion, we can move the dialog forwards. These are the questions that matter. Just think of how much smarter we are all for having participated in a discussion that who's out come was not predetermined in any way.
PS> I really don't want to think about the interface for Bill Hero 360. Would it just be a single button that through some genius of engineering spouted out some half baked idea? Or would pressing the button just prompt a message telling you were wasting your time playing Bill Hero 360 and open a voip connection with me instead? Its like my fear one day of calling support that they might eventually elevate me through the tiers until my other cell phone rang, connecting me to myself.
So can any Slashdotters assist me in building my case to restrict access?
I think he was asking us to help him flesh out his argument, ie give him some reasons to back up his intuition. Well intentioned or not, your response is like telling someone who's asking for directions that they are lost.
I never said anywhere that fun things or worthwhile things had to be difficult. You assigned those values, not me. Its about trying to do things that are worthwhile that embiggens the smallest of minds. Take a walk, think outside the lines, have a conversation with some one about an important topic. I don't like guitar hero because of its limited nature, not the lack of skill required.
Like I said in my original post according to my own memory, I'm 25% joking. Plus my point is bigger than guitar hero, obviously. Plus, I think this issue is at the root of this worlds general apathetic malaise.
I'm not entirely sure you understood my rant. People are trying for the fake, not for the real. Playing guitar changes your brain. Changes the way you think. No game can do that. Not wow ( which I also loathe with all possible passion), nor any other game video or not. Make up your own rules, play the dangerous game of life: no do overs, but unlimited possibilities.
I play the guitar and complain about guitar hero. ITs not pride its a watering down of achievement. We have fake cheese, fake milk, fake fat, fake babies, fake women, fake meat and now fake guitars?! Thats just too much fakeness. I want reality. I want other people to want reality. I want people to go out and have real experiences that aren't limited by a machine, or set of rules.
We were not meant to live like this. Now if you'll excuse me, I'll go out and get myself a large pizza with fresh sausage and cheese in the pursuit of all that is real.
I've had two problems I had an old computer at work in 2003 that blue screened during win xp install. Also recently Win xp failed to install on a low end motherboard I bought on new egg. Just wouldn't do it. It didn't seem to have some of the drivers for the chip set. I spent a day trying to figure it out, couldn't installed ubuntu with out a hitch. Thats not to say that modern linux is always better. I've had it run into problems during install as well. They are what they are, computers can be fickle.
Seriously. I'm going to contact *My* senators and tell them that if they wast a second on catering to people with cottages on cape cod instead of the 5 billion other pressing problems in this country they can kiss their own ass goodbye.
It would be fair to keep the unlimited for the length of the contract, but I doubt they would want to let you continue on after that period. Competition is much higher in the cellphone market than cable. After the contract is up, they would be totally within their rights to refuse to continue offering you the same service at the same price.
I'm not a big fan of class action lawsuits. It seems most of them only serve to enrich the lawyers,with the few exceptions of the first tobacco lawsuits, and the RIAA price fixing that resulted in changing the behavior of the companies as well as enriching the lawyers.
Okay, I'll grant you that one. I've always hated the drive letters. Always. From my first AT, hated the drive letter. If i had been in charge there would have been a way around that. Something like having the drive letters map to a hidden folder(/.A/,/.C/ etc) right around DOS 4 or so. Hell, do it for Windows 7 and kill my complaint, better late than never.
Were exactly do you find remnants of dos in.net? And as everyone older than 16 remembers, Windows NT 4.0 ran on alphas. I escaped the windows prison years ago. It sucks eggs. You don't need to make up stuff up.
That may depend upon you local laws. I'm pretty sure in the us, we buy our milk by the quart/gallon (although the legal measurement is mL/L) and have a whole scientific agency dedicated to weights and measures. They really do have to sell the stated quantity of milk (and not the volume of the container) within a certain tolerance. Otherwise, they very well could be sued -- just like creative.
I don't hate tradition for tradition's sake. And I don't think its done for tradition's sake either. Its easier to count things based on boolean logic with a base two system. Its not like they made it base two because they didn't know any better. Its not the equivalent of defining current as the flow of positive charge and then discovering years later that its usually the negative charges that move.
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wow, His sense of humor sucks so bad, even on vacation it isn't doing anything funny. It should be installing banana peels in creme pie factories, or installing fake dog crap at a germaphobe conference.
And I don't want them caving into "big infomercial" sleazeballs that tell use phrases like "Big Pharma" to try and persuade potential customers to buy their scientifically unproven snake oil instead.
I guess I'm still suspicious of latency. If two machines want to do the same thing at the same time, one of them has to yield to the other if there is only one cpu. If they are also doing intensive IO on the same physical disk that will slow things down as well? Again I'm not an expert and I'll take your comments under consideration, but I don't think virtual machines are a drop in solution for a cluster. Plus, I think getting ten times the cpu performance of a Pentium 4 1.7 ghz in a single box, might not be cheaper than the $1000.
Its not that I hate virtual machines, I use them when ever possible, but I'm no expert -- please correct me if I'm wrong. Its just that I don't think I can accurately simulate what I want to do cheaply enough. I'm buying ~ $100 machines, right? each one has its own memory, cpu and disk. there's no contention for their resources. To do that 100% correctly, wouldn't I need a core for each, and a disk for each vm? I'm pretty sure that would be more than $1000, for a ten node system, nes pas?
Its tangential to the topic, not really on, not really off. Those are the best kind in my opinion. Expand the problem space to make it more interesting. If you apply your standard for off topic-ness close to 80% of the comments here should be marked off topic. It would make it a much less interesting site. IMHO.
and for the record, I hate the sight of my own text. I won't reread any text i write, unless a response makes me question what I originally said. Sometimes what you write is much differnt than what you though you were writting. phantom finger syndrome.
Personally, I'm looking at stupid cheap computers for some cluster computing research. For that purpose, yes the newer ones are too expensive. If I could get four @100 instead of one @ 400, that would obviously be better.
Just install a key logger of your own. Then you'll be able to see any access he's been making, including any to the keylogger he has installed.
From my own experience, Tin foil hats are good, but access to the government computers to make sure they aren't after you is more comforting to me.
Note to federal agents: I have not gained access to your computers. And you might want to change your desktop wallpaper, scantily clad women on a work computer is just begging for a lawsuit.
Hmm. Maybe its due to google analytics. I always have that blocked, and I've never had a problem with ff3 on any web page.
I'd mod you up, if I hadn't posted. Arguing with me can take a lot out of a person. Speaking form experience, it is tough arguing with me, but I try anyways. I don't necessarily disagree 100% with anyone who replied. There is some truth in their arguments as there is in mine. But through the discussion, we can move the dialog forwards. These are the questions that matter. Just think of how much smarter we are all for having participated in a discussion that who's out come was not predetermined in any way.
PS> I really don't want to think about the interface for Bill Hero 360. Would it just be a single button that through some genius of engineering spouted out some half baked idea? Or would pressing the button just prompt a message telling you were wasting your time playing Bill Hero 360 and open a voip connection with me instead? Its like my fear one day of calling support that they might eventually elevate me through the tiers until my other cell phone rang, connecting me to myself.
So can any Slashdotters assist me in building my case to restrict access?
I think he was asking us to help him flesh out his argument, ie give him some reasons to back up his intuition. Well intentioned or not, your response is like telling someone who's asking for directions that they are lost.
I never said anywhere that fun things or worthwhile things had to be difficult. You assigned those values, not me. Its about trying to do things that are worthwhile that embiggens the smallest of minds. Take a walk, think outside the lines, have a conversation with some one about an important topic. I don't like guitar hero because of its limited nature, not the lack of skill required.
Like I said in my original post according to my own memory, I'm 25% joking. Plus my point is bigger than guitar hero, obviously. Plus, I think this issue is at the root of this worlds general apathetic malaise.
So fun = control; living life with passion and purpose = chore. Have I got that math right?
... And thats what I'm afraid of. If you live long enough in a prision, you'll see bars everywhere you go.
I'm not entirely sure you understood my rant. People are trying for the fake, not for the real. Playing guitar changes your brain. Changes the way you think. No game can do that. Not wow ( which I also loathe with all possible passion), nor any other game video or not. Make up your own rules, play the dangerous game of life: no do overs, but unlimited possibilities.
I play the guitar and complain about guitar hero. ITs not pride its a watering down of achievement. We have fake cheese, fake milk, fake fat, fake babies, fake women, fake meat and now fake guitars?! Thats just too much fakeness. I want reality. I want other people to want reality. I want people to go out and have real experiences that aren't limited by a machine, or set of rules.
We were not meant to live like this. Now if you'll excuse me, I'll go out and get myself a large pizza with fresh sausage and cheese in the pursuit of all that is real.
and I'm only 25% joking. The pizza will exist.
I've had two problems I had an old computer at work in 2003 that blue screened during win xp install. Also recently Win xp failed to install on a low end motherboard I bought on new egg. Just wouldn't do it. It didn't seem to have some of the drivers for the chip set. I spent a day trying to figure it out, couldn't installed ubuntu with out a hitch. Thats not to say that modern linux is always better. I've had it run into problems during install as well. They are what they are, computers can be fickle.
Which is why everyone started using it. It wasn't perfect, just better than anything else. Powerset isn't better than lycos.
Seriously. I'm going to contact *My* senators and tell them that if they wast a second on catering to people with cottages on cape cod instead of the 5 billion other pressing problems in this country they can kiss their own ass goodbye.
It would be fair to keep the unlimited for the length of the contract, but I doubt they would want to let you continue on after that period. Competition is much higher in the cellphone market than cable. After the contract is up, they would be totally within their rights to refuse to continue offering you the same service at the same price.
I'm not a big fan of class action lawsuits. It seems most of them only serve to enrich the lawyers,with the few exceptions of the first tobacco lawsuits, and the RIAA price fixing that resulted in changing the behavior of the companies as well as enriching the lawyers.
Uhmm. So all they need to do is stop saying unlimited ( once they put a cap in place) and you'll be fine with it right?
Okay, I'll grant you that one. I've always hated the drive letters. Always. From my first AT, hated the drive letter. If i had been in charge there would have been a way around that. Something like having the drive letters map to a hidden folder( /.A/, /.C/ etc) right around DOS 4 or so. Hell, do it for Windows 7 and kill my complaint, better late than never.
Were exactly do you find remnants of dos in .net? And as everyone older than 16 remembers, Windows NT 4.0 ran on alphas. I escaped the windows prison years ago. It sucks eggs. You don't need to make up stuff up.
That may depend upon you local laws. I'm pretty sure in the us, we buy our milk by the quart/gallon (although the legal measurement is mL/L) and have a whole scientific agency dedicated to weights and measures. They really do have to sell the stated quantity of milk (and not the volume of the container) within a certain tolerance. Otherwise, they very well could be sued -- just like creative.
I don't hate tradition for tradition's sake. And I don't think its done for tradition's sake either. Its easier to count things based on boolean logic with a base two system. Its not like they made it base two because they didn't know any better. Its not the equivalent of defining current as the flow of positive charge and then discovering years later that its usually the negative charges that move.