Not so much. But nice try. That's due to the instability of the material used to define the kilogram, which is inherently a bad idea overall, since there's no way to re-derive that basis independently.
Even choosing a properly coded program, ANY program that uses a lot of CPU under Windows makes it slow to respond. It doesn't matter how well coded it is. That single program responds fine if it's properly coded, but other programs lag horribly. Under Linux it's quite a bit better, but there's still a world of difference between a single core and dual core when you're actually using the CPU power for processing, versus just letting the machine idle most of the time.
Seriously, try starting a POV-Ray render or some serious number crunching going on, or even just a software update task, and then switch tasks. It will kill any single core, but a dual-core keeps responding fine.
Whereas with my Blackberry, I copy any mp3 I want over, no matter how long, and say "Use this ringtone", and it's done. Apple isn't "easy" unless you're a fairly expert user.
You don't NEED it, but damn if I don't see a difference between running on my dual-core laptop vs. my single-core one. Things are just a little snappier, programs respond much faster, and if, say, the virus scanner updating is taking some CPU time, I can still use my computer. If that happens on the single core, I just have to wait. They've both got 2GB of RAM, 2GHz single-core vs 2.16GHz dual-core, decent hard drive, etc. Comparable machines except for the multi-core difference. It's not necessary, but it's worth it for most people to be able to keep using their machine when some Windows program starts eating up CPU cycles.
If you have actually attached gdb to intercommunicating processes, you know more than 95% of the people posting in this thread. Take anything they say with a huge grain of salt. The multicore hardware is not fundamentally different (from a programming standpoint) from any system with multiple processing units.
Does the drag and drop also keep the applications updated with the rest of the system?
I didn't think so. If you don't think that Synaptic/Adept/apt is a better system than anything else out there, it's only because you haven't ever used it.
Linux (Ubuntu, Debian and Redhat, as well as many others) have a nifty little package manager where you can install a program for almost anything you can think of. Where is that feature on your Mac? The Mac may come with a number of third party tools, but they still don't do 100% of what every user wants to do with their computer. Under Linux, it's much closer to "feature complete", as far as application availability.
Your problem is ATI. Intel and NVIDIA graphics work quite well any more, whereas ATI's drivers have been sub-standard under Linux (and even under Windows) for a long time. Fortunately, ATI's improving, but it'll still be a while before they get there. I've heard that the 8.40 and later drivers improve a lot (which aren't in Ubuntu 7.10).
It's not so much fixing as improving. QT4 (which the KDE team doesn't have much involvement with) is what KDE4 is based on, whereas KDE3 uses QT3, which is a lot more monolithic. They trimmed fat. We should definitely pat them on the back for doing more with less. That's what's called development. Which is the opposite of what Microsoft does, which is to make something less functional while still demanding more resources.
Fat people back then still had to move more than we do now. There's more of a sedentary lifestyle that makes obesity even more dangerous in the modern world, not to mention that many of the calories we eat now are from foods of questionable nutritional content. I don't think past centuries had Twinkies (but I'm pretty sure future centuries will... even if they're the current time's product... heh).
I'll be asking for a 408V 1000A 3-phase industrial drop to recharge my electric car in an hour! Well, yeah... or did you have a proposal for changing the laws of physics somehow? At least you won't have to charge it for 3 days. This is the step needed for viable electric vehicles.
If you could guarantee I'd keep getting my wages, I'd stay in that building for the entire period that it's operating out of compliance. I'd even sleep there. You pony up the cash, I'll bet my life on the reactor operating safely. Sound fair?
See, the problem with the reactor really is more analogous to a "check engine" light. Actually, it's more analogous to a single headlight being burnt out. There's no increased chance of it's failure because of this issue than there has ever been at any point in it's history. They're just working to make it safer, because you are actually doing something illegal by driving with a burnt-out light, but it's really not gonna change anything in the short amount of time that it takes to get your wife to the hospital, and then when she's safely there, you can easily change the headlight with minimal work.
For you to understand this analogy, I will break down the components: Burnt-out headlight = Safety issues of reactor Wife in labor = People who need products of reactor Car = reactor Driver(you) = Politicians who are allowing the reactor to keep operating.
Hi. I'd like to welcome you to a real world. In this place, there are no absolute guarantees, no matter what you may believe or your government may tell you. Please be advised that you will in all likelihood still survive, and possibly even breed, though I certainly hope not, as you are quite obviously ill-equipped to deal with an information based society. If you were, you would have learned that the reactor has operated in the current configuration for over 50 years, safely. Letting it operate for 120 days while working to bring it back into compliance is simply the best option, because otherwise people will go without critical medical treatments and diagnoses. But hey, don't let logic get in the way of a good nuclear witch-hunt.
...praytell what accident is this? The core shutting down because there isn't enough coolant? The reactor has been running in it's configuration for 50 years without issue... 120 days more is well worth the almost nonexistent risk of an issue, because it has the potential to save thousands of lives of medical patients who need the products of this reactor to get a diagnosis or treatment. By all means though, keep with your train of thought. It's obviously better to shut down all ambulance services because one of the drivers was found to be drunk.
So what? I'll bet he's happier than these guys in India. Just because it's nuclear doesn't mean it's magic, or somehow worse than other accidents that go on daily. The problem is that you're an idiot and don't realize that radiation is terribly useful, and for the amount of destruction it causes or has caused, it does much more good. Ever gotten an X-ray? Had cancer or known someone with cancer? Hell, had certain digestive tests? All of those procedures need radiation, and I'd bet that many orders of magnitude more lives have been saved or seriously improved by them than have ever been wrecked by the boogeyman of radiation.
If someone's gonna sue the shit out of you for leaking the same amount of nuclear waste in a year that the coal plant down the road puts out a day, you'd be kinda gun-shy too, wouldn't you? People emotionally overreact to the word "nuclear", so to prevent panic and misplaced fear/idiocy/anger, they lie. It's not a hard concept.
So, you're saying that hospitals should just suck it up and pay hundreds of dollars per endpoint in the network, when they could have the exact same software running on a non-proprietary system without artificial limits built into it for much cheaper. This is bad... how? Even if it's not perfect, it is still better than nothing.
From the wikipedia article:
"A firewall is a dedicated appliance, or software running on another computer, which inspects network traffic passing through it, and denies or permits passage based on a set of rules" Ok. So a NAT device, which inspects packets coming in, and denies them if they're going to ports that aren't forwarded according to rules or passes them through if they are, isn't a firewall? It seems to fit the description pretty much exactly.
That's not quite what I get. Higher-up post must have some funny routing or something going on upstream from them: ~$ nmap -A -T4 -F -P0 www.microsoft.com
Starting Nmap 4.20 ( http://insecure.org/ ) at 2007-12-13 11:32 MST Warning: Hostname www.microsoft.com resolves to 4 IPs. Using 207.46.193.254. Interesting ports on wwwtk2test2.microsoft.com (207.46.193.254): Not shown: 1254 filtered ports PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION 80/tcp open http? 443/tcp open https?
Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at http://insecure.org/nmap/submit/ . Nmap finished: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 38.963 seconds
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Not so much. But nice try. That's due to the instability of the material used to define the kilogram, which is inherently a bad idea overall, since there's no way to re-derive that basis independently.
Even choosing a properly coded program, ANY program that uses a lot of CPU under Windows makes it slow to respond. It doesn't matter how well coded it is. That single program responds fine if it's properly coded, but other programs lag horribly. Under Linux it's quite a bit better, but there's still a world of difference between a single core and dual core when you're actually using the CPU power for processing, versus just letting the machine idle most of the time.
Seriously, try starting a POV-Ray render or some serious number crunching going on, or even just a software update task, and then switch tasks. It will kill any single core, but a dual-core keeps responding fine.
Here, here! XP is the last version of Windows I'm going to support, if I have any choice in the matter.
Whereas with my Blackberry, I copy any mp3 I want over, no matter how long, and say "Use this ringtone", and it's done. Apple isn't "easy" unless you're a fairly expert user.
You don't NEED it, but damn if I don't see a difference between running on my dual-core laptop vs. my single-core one. Things are just a little snappier, programs respond much faster, and if, say, the virus scanner updating is taking some CPU time, I can still use my computer. If that happens on the single core, I just have to wait. They've both got 2GB of RAM, 2GHz single-core vs 2.16GHz dual-core, decent hard drive, etc. Comparable machines except for the multi-core difference. It's not necessary, but it's worth it for most people to be able to keep using their machine when some Windows program starts eating up CPU cycles.
Don't forget the memory. All the cores in the world won't do shit without the RAM to store the data.
If you have actually attached gdb to intercommunicating processes, you know more than 95% of the people posting in this thread. Take anything they say with a huge grain of salt. The multicore hardware is not fundamentally different (from a programming standpoint) from any system with multiple processing units.
Does the drag and drop also keep the applications updated with the rest of the system?
I didn't think so. If you don't think that Synaptic/Adept/apt is a better system than anything else out there, it's only because you haven't ever used it.
Linux (Ubuntu, Debian and Redhat, as well as many others) have a nifty little package manager where you can install a program for almost anything you can think of. Where is that feature on your Mac? The Mac may come with a number of third party tools, but they still don't do 100% of what every user wants to do with their computer. Under Linux, it's much closer to "feature complete", as far as application availability.
Your problem is ATI. Intel and NVIDIA graphics work quite well any more, whereas ATI's drivers have been sub-standard under Linux (and even under Windows) for a long time. Fortunately, ATI's improving, but it'll still be a while before they get there. I've heard that the 8.40 and later drivers improve a lot (which aren't in Ubuntu 7.10).
It's not so much fixing as improving. QT4 (which the KDE team doesn't have much involvement with) is what KDE4 is based on, whereas KDE3 uses QT3, which is a lot more monolithic. They trimmed fat. We should definitely pat them on the back for doing more with less. That's what's called development. Which is the opposite of what Microsoft does, which is to make something less functional while still demanding more resources.
And the only reason to even run TWM is to have multiple terminals showing on the screen at the same time!
Fat people back then still had to move more than we do now. There's more of a sedentary lifestyle that makes obesity even more dangerous in the modern world, not to mention that many of the calories we eat now are from foods of questionable nutritional content. I don't think past centuries had Twinkies (but I'm pretty sure future centuries will... even if they're the current time's product... heh).
If you could guarantee I'd keep getting my wages, I'd stay in that building for the entire period that it's operating out of compliance. I'd even sleep there. You pony up the cash, I'll bet my life on the reactor operating safely. Sound fair?
See, the problem with the reactor really is more analogous to a "check engine" light. Actually, it's more analogous to a single headlight being burnt out. There's no increased chance of it's failure because of this issue than there has ever been at any point in it's history. They're just working to make it safer, because you are actually doing something illegal by driving with a burnt-out light, but it's really not gonna change anything in the short amount of time that it takes to get your wife to the hospital, and then when she's safely there, you can easily change the headlight with minimal work.
For you to understand this analogy, I will break down the components:
Burnt-out headlight = Safety issues of reactor
Wife in labor = People who need products of reactor
Car = reactor
Driver(you) = Politicians who are allowing the reactor to keep operating.
Savvy?
Hi. I'd like to welcome you to a real world. In this place, there are no absolute guarantees, no matter what you may believe or your government may tell you. Please be advised that you will in all likelihood still survive, and possibly even breed, though I certainly hope not, as you are quite obviously ill-equipped to deal with an information based society. If you were, you would have learned that the reactor has operated in the current configuration for over 50 years, safely. Letting it operate for 120 days while working to bring it back into compliance is simply the best option, because otherwise people will go without critical medical treatments and diagnoses. But hey, don't let logic get in the way of a good nuclear witch-hunt.
...praytell what accident is this? The core shutting down because there isn't enough coolant? The reactor has been running in it's configuration for 50 years without issue... 120 days more is well worth the almost nonexistent risk of an issue, because it has the potential to save thousands of lives of medical patients who need the products of this reactor to get a diagnosis or treatment. By all means though, keep with your train of thought. It's obviously better to shut down all ambulance services because one of the drivers was found to be drunk.
So what? I'll bet he's happier than these guys in India. Just because it's nuclear doesn't mean it's magic, or somehow worse than other accidents that go on daily. The problem is that you're an idiot and don't realize that radiation is terribly useful, and for the amount of destruction it causes or has caused, it does much more good. Ever gotten an X-ray? Had cancer or known someone with cancer? Hell, had certain digestive tests? All of those procedures need radiation, and I'd bet that many orders of magnitude more lives have been saved or seriously improved by them than have ever been wrecked by the boogeyman of radiation.
If someone's gonna sue the shit out of you for leaking the same amount of nuclear waste in a year that the coal plant down the road puts out a day, you'd be kinda gun-shy too, wouldn't you? People emotionally overreact to the word "nuclear", so to prevent panic and misplaced fear/idiocy/anger, they lie. It's not a hard concept.
So, you're saying that hospitals should just suck it up and pay hundreds of dollars per endpoint in the network, when they could have the exact same software running on a non-proprietary system without artificial limits built into it for much cheaper. This is bad... how? Even if it's not perfect, it is still better than nothing.
That's not quite what I get. Higher-up post must have some funny routing or something going on upstream from them:
~$ nmap -A -T4 -F -P0 www.microsoft.com
Starting Nmap 4.20 ( http://insecure.org/ ) at 2007-12-13 11:32 MST
Warning: Hostname www.microsoft.com resolves to 4 IPs. Using 207.46.193.254.
Interesting ports on wwwtk2test2.microsoft.com (207.46.193.254):
Not shown: 1254 filtered ports
PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
80/tcp open http?
443/tcp open https?
Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at http://insecure.org/nmap/submit/ .
Nmap finished: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 38.963 seconds