I don't think Dr. Cheikh Modibo Diarra is being entirely honest with his countrymen.
Of course he isn't. He's an executive. That's in his job description... "Lie to sell" is right after "Dispose of any moral qualms" on the list of qualifications.
How much more or less management does Linux take, though? Do you need 1 tech/100 seats with Windows, and 1/500 with Linux? The other way around? How much time is lost to screwed up Windows drivers and reimaging, required reboots for updates? Virus attacks?
If you live in a crime ridden area and don't have good locks, to a certain extent you are "asking for it". You show yourself to be the weak one in the area. Same with this.
Be careful when bending the disks... lots of newer ones are glass. They break, but you don't want the shards to shatter without you having proper eye protection;)
The "old business model" will not work in current economics. The "old business model" of books used to be limited just to the Church because it took monks years to copy them by hand. And then the printing press came in and changed how the economics of everything worked. The Church no longer had a monopoly on "knowledge", and lost a LOT of their influence and money. But society benefited as a whole. We need to look at this further reduction in copying cost in the same light, and figure out how to work around it.
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My flatbed scanner still does great scans, and will do 2600x1200dpi. It's USB... why in the hell should I spend money to upgrade to a new one for Windows? Linux works fine with it.
Yes, they do. So get paid to do it. You're good at it, aren't you? I get paid a salary to write code and create applications. I don't get a cut every time that app is copied or used. If you did a lot of work and then think you deserve to be paid post-facto, then you're an idiot. You MIGHT get paid, but I could very easily spend hundreds of hours running in circles on my lawn. Should I deserve to get paid for that, too?
If you really have valuable knowledge on something, somebody will almost certainly be willing to pay you for that. Don't do work for free "hoping" that you'll get paid in the future. Set up a good business model, and you know you'll get reimbursed for your work.
The 4890 actually DX 10.1, and probably has support for almost all the features in 11. Does the Nvidia card? Didn't think so.
I'm also interested in your "slower than a GTX 285" assertion. I just looked at some benchmarks, and Xbit labs has an overclocked 4890@1GHz beating the tar out of the 285.
Is there a reason you're still running 98? I've found that anything that XP won't run will run in Dosbox. I have yet to find an app that won't run in XP or Dosbox but will run in 98.
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The value of an 8MB stick is very little as far as data is concerned, too. But there are a number of companies that will do bulk USB drives. Get them with few enough features, and you could probably get 1GB drives for around $2-5/ea. That's not too much to worry about.
Get a good SSD, and that's more or less a solved problem and has turned into a myth. The main reason to not use SSD's is that most of the cheap ones are MLC which DO have limited writes. SLC chips are much more robust, and faster, if more expensive. That, and we're talking USB drives. USB is very slow for a drive interface.
You do realize that the bandwidth via USB is severely limited? You'll probably slow your computer down doing that. Leave the swap on your SATA connected hard drive.
If the interface were anything faster than USB though, I'd agree with you. If it's one of those eSATA drives that OCZ has, you might just want to do what you propose.
The fire ants themselves are already decimating the native species. At least this fly is SOMETHING that will kill fire ants. As it stands, the ants are unchallenged. They have nothing that kills them other than pesticides.
It's also a good argument for making sure people are broadly educated. Back when I used to do tech support, the biggest asshole know-it-alls tended to be medical doctors (there were some nice ones, but not very often.) They thought that since they were doctors, they HAD to be smarter than everyone else, in every way. Caused a fair bit of friction when explaining to them what they wanted or thought something did and what the reality was were two very different things. Very specialized, directed education can make a person oblivious.
Depends entirely on what the "acceptable level of stress" is set at. There are very few times where a person will need a machine running flat-out all the time. Hell, I barely even notice that I have frequency scaling turned on on my laptop (it's undervolted too... lasts much longer on battery). And that's not even taking into account my mood.
Give these researchers a little credit... they use the devices, too.
So... connect to the VPN for a netmeeting, then disconnect to go to youtube, then reconnect to get a small file, then disconnect to let your internet radio station start back up, then reconnect...
Split tunneling is not a huge security risk if your network is properly set up. And it will save your company a fuckton of bandwidth. Don't tell me you implicitly trust anything that happens to be plugged into your network, do you? What if an employee brings his laptop home and gets a virus, and then plugs in the next day? Boom, just as boned as if you were on the "wild" Internet and VPN simultaneously. If you protect yourself from that situation, what exactly is the difference between the split VPN and the user having a laptop, then?
That's why reading the context is important. That little word "arbitrarily" before "fixed point" means that you just chose something to USE as a fixed point. Which is PRECISELY what relativity is.
That's the 1% that just doesn't matter. Most copyright infringement happens on "regular" torrent sites. You get into even talking about "good releases" and you're talking about people who wouldn't buy it even if it was a decent price for a fair product. They're just bit packrats for the most part. And even if it comes with documentation, it's still not a manual you can hold in your hand or a box you can stuff in the closet.
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Of course he isn't. He's an executive. That's in his job description... "Lie to sell" is right after "Dispose of any moral qualms" on the list of qualifications.
What makes you think we have control over that?
How much more or less management does Linux take, though? Do you need 1 tech/100 seats with Windows, and 1/500 with Linux? The other way around? How much time is lost to screwed up Windows drivers and reimaging, required reboots for updates? Virus attacks?
If you live in a crime ridden area and don't have good locks, to a certain extent you are "asking for it". You show yourself to be the weak one in the area. Same with this.
dd is nice if you want to specify the block size. I tend to use bs=1M or so, it makes zeroing and drive copying MUCH faster.
Be careful when bending the disks... lots of newer ones are glass. They break, but you don't want the shards to shatter without you having proper eye protection ;)
The "old business model" will not work in current economics. The "old business model" of books used to be limited just to the Church because it took monks years to copy them by hand. And then the printing press came in and changed how the economics of everything worked. The Church no longer had a monopoly on "knowledge", and lost a LOT of their influence and money. But society benefited as a whole. We need to look at this further reduction in copying cost in the same light, and figure out how to work around it.
My flatbed scanner still does great scans, and will do 2600x1200dpi. It's USB... why in the hell should I spend money to upgrade to a new one for Windows? Linux works fine with it.
Yes, they do. So get paid to do it. You're good at it, aren't you? I get paid a salary to write code and create applications. I don't get a cut every time that app is copied or used. If you did a lot of work and then think you deserve to be paid post-facto, then you're an idiot. You MIGHT get paid, but I could very easily spend hundreds of hours running in circles on my lawn. Should I deserve to get paid for that, too?
If you really have valuable knowledge on something, somebody will almost certainly be willing to pay you for that. Don't do work for free "hoping" that you'll get paid in the future. Set up a good business model, and you know you'll get reimbursed for your work.
I'd bet your MATlab and CANape scripts aren't responsible for ruining people's livelihoods and lives if they're wrong, either.
The 4890 actually DX 10.1, and probably has support for almost all the features in 11. Does the Nvidia card? Didn't think so.
I'm also interested in your "slower than a GTX 285" assertion. I just looked at some benchmarks, and Xbit labs has an overclocked 4890@1GHz beating the tar out of the 285.
Only plugged into a non-powered eSATA port. You can get a powered one, I believe, they're just not common.
They priced them up to 16GB in those lines. But they didn't test them.
Is there a reason you're still running 98? I've found that anything that XP won't run will run in Dosbox. I have yet to find an app that won't run in XP or Dosbox but will run in 98.
The value of an 8MB stick is very little as far as data is concerned, too. But there are a number of companies that will do bulk USB drives. Get them with few enough features, and you could probably get 1GB drives for around $2-5/ea. That's not too much to worry about.
Get a good SSD, and that's more or less a solved problem and has turned into a myth. The main reason to not use SSD's is that most of the cheap ones are MLC which DO have limited writes. SLC chips are much more robust, and faster, if more expensive. That, and we're talking USB drives. USB is very slow for a drive interface.
You do realize that the bandwidth via USB is severely limited? You'll probably slow your computer down doing that. Leave the swap on your SATA connected hard drive.
If the interface were anything faster than USB though, I'd agree with you. If it's one of those eSATA drives that OCZ has, you might just want to do what you propose.
The company is called Scotts, ticker is SMG. They're a quite successful yard chemical company.
The fire ants themselves are already decimating the native species. At least this fly is SOMETHING that will kill fire ants. As it stands, the ants are unchallenged. They have nothing that kills them other than pesticides.
It's also a good argument for making sure people are broadly educated. Back when I used to do tech support, the biggest asshole know-it-alls tended to be medical doctors (there were some nice ones, but not very often.) They thought that since they were doctors, they HAD to be smarter than everyone else, in every way. Caused a fair bit of friction when explaining to them what they wanted or thought something did and what the reality was were two very different things. Very specialized, directed education can make a person oblivious.
Depends entirely on what the "acceptable level of stress" is set at. There are very few times where a person will need a machine running flat-out all the time. Hell, I barely even notice that I have frequency scaling turned on on my laptop (it's undervolted too... lasts much longer on battery). And that's not even taking into account my mood.
Give these researchers a little credit... they use the devices, too.
So... connect to the VPN for a netmeeting, then disconnect to go to youtube, then reconnect to get a small file, then disconnect to let your internet radio station start back up, then reconnect...
Split tunneling is not a huge security risk if your network is properly set up. And it will save your company a fuckton of bandwidth. Don't tell me you implicitly trust anything that happens to be plugged into your network, do you? What if an employee brings his laptop home and gets a virus, and then plugs in the next day? Boom, just as boned as if you were on the "wild" Internet and VPN simultaneously. If you protect yourself from that situation, what exactly is the difference between the split VPN and the user having a laptop, then?
That's why reading the context is important. That little word "arbitrarily" before "fixed point" means that you just chose something to USE as a fixed point. Which is PRECISELY what relativity is.
Craigslist doesn't have a hard and fast business model, but they do charge for some ads. But those people are willing to pay because it's very cheap, directed advertising that works well.
That's the 1% that just doesn't matter. Most copyright infringement happens on "regular" torrent sites. You get into even talking about "good releases" and you're talking about people who wouldn't buy it even if it was a decent price for a fair product. They're just bit packrats for the most part. And even if it comes with documentation, it's still not a manual you can hold in your hand or a box you can stuff in the closet.