Yes, and don't forget that HTML was build specifically to be shown on different media. But no, MS needed to print out a retarded screen shot instead. Sigh.
So short after the release of the film, it would baffle at least half of the crowd. Who's that guy? He wasn't in the original movie, or was he? They should not mess with the script! After seeing a man turn into a bear, wolfs and big spiders before even getting near Mordor that half will have left and demanded their money back.
This is not college. Slashdot does not start with "there are no stupid questions". There are, you asked one, AND it was already more covered than the genitals in a tiroller soft sex movie.
Hmmm, funny yes, but as always, it really depends on the application. CPU bound tasks that have no shared data will probably scale directly with the number of processors. I've got a simple crypto-analysis tool that does just that (with exactly 8 threads as well). So yes, that will run 8 times faster.
Fortunately Sun understands throughput and memory sharing pretty well, so I presume that it'll scale pretty well in less fortunate situations, such as running an application server. They probably designed it just for that particular field as well.
These kind of articles are starting to be *very* frustrating. Maybe we should get to the point were the slashdot user base can mod down top level articles. This complete bullshit story should neven have hit the main page, or slashdot at all for that matter.
The number of uninformed people that get +5 blaming either IE, Firefox OR Java instead of the user may be an argument against this idea though.
What's that definition of trusted again? If they would have requested permission they would have been burned to the ground for making it hard for the user. This is as much a non-issue as I've ever seen on slashdot.
For evolution to work, you need enough specimen (and a sufficient environment). If all specimen are bad, the entire species dies out. In other words, you need enough splits, and enough good developers for each split. And there must be a sufficient userbase to test out these splits. I wonder if this is the case with firefox.
Well, that might save your data, but the availability is still a problem. You can have a great backup (probably using tapes for a RAID array) but if you need to get an exact copy of a RAID card on sunday you are in trouble.
Anyway, it's rather hard to backup something like 1 TB of data using cheap storage solutions which is why RAID as backup is currently viable. Just don't use it for sensitive information and beware of software issues...
Saying that S-ATA is worse than SCSI is mostly not due to the protocol (see the various S-ATA is not as good as SCSI comments) but due to the cards, and more importantly, to the drives.
SCSI cards and drives have been created specifically for enterprise use. That means that they perform, and that they last. The only way to compare these technologies is to use an expensive S-ATA controller with fast hardware XOR, large cache and controllers and drives that support command queueing. Furthermore the drives should turn rapidly, have average seek-times around 5ms and very high MTBF figures. The current crop of S-ATA cards are nowhere in this league. There are the converted Raptor drives from Western Digital Raptor series, and that's it.
This does not mean that S-ATA RAID configurations are useless:
- redundancy
- storage of large data sets (read mp3, mpeg4, porn and wares)
- raid 0 for video (large sequential data) The cards reviewed have the benefits of tools, the use of a RAID as boot windows drive and - of course - the added serial ATA connectors. For high performance web-servers or multi-user setups, look elsewhere.
It'll be the day that I would convert to Hindu just to have less strain on my wrists. I can already imagine the remarks I would get at work, or worse, when I forget to take it off after work.
The creators of Kazaa? I think not. They are the current owners of Kazaa maybe, but it seems that a Swedish guy together with two Estonians created the application, while the P2P protocol came from Amsterdam. It was sold to Sharman Networks later on. The Australian software company then messed it up big time - but that is history (it seems).
Source: various articles on Google found by searching for "creators of kazaa".
Playing a game while a page containing a flash video is playing in the background does the trick already (firefox/flash plugin, why not renice when run in background, thank you).
But I am not sure that these tasks won't still mess up your HT pentium as well; there is the issue of caching/memory and more importantly, IO to worry about, next to CPU cycles. On current systems the harddisk will be the main problem, since there is only one head position.
In that case you might want to use another web-client. The fulnerability could also affect the lookup of hostnames. Security is tricky business (and the PC is an untrusted platform).
The answer seems to be no. In advanced there is a button [check] (which does not work correctly, click multiple times). Maybe they should add torrent functionality to download signed updates or something similar.
Melinda Gates deserves hell for what she did to us by creating Microsoft Bob and the paperclip. She has severely traumatised lots of people in the first world, and now she's trying to make up for it by supporting the third world. You should check your history before you post.
Yes, you are right about the software and the shared memory. For most home users this would not be such a big deal. Shared memory is fine as long as you don't play games, even though it also slows system performance.
But there are many posts around that claim 500 euro/dollar (yes, I know USD != EUR but they will sell it 1:1 anyway) is such a good deal. There are many computers out there that offer at least the same.
The fan used in Dell computers is not that noisy (we've got a lot at work) as long as you don't use the processor at 100%. Dell servers though...yuk.
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Yes, and don't forget that HTML was build specifically to be shown on different media. But no, MS needed to print out a retarded screen shot instead. Sigh.
So short after the release of the film, it would baffle at least half of the crowd. Who's that guy? He wasn't in the original movie, or was he? They should not mess with the script! After seeing a man turn into a bear, wolfs and big spiders before even getting near Mordor that half will have left and demanded their money back.
I'm not a buff, but I presume they rely on human imagination. Something that's aplenty in humans, with the possible exception of - well - you.
This is not college. Slashdot does not start with "there are no stupid questions". There are, you asked one, AND it was already more covered than the genitals in a tiroller soft sex movie.
Hmmm, funny yes, but as always, it really depends on the application. CPU bound tasks that have no shared data will probably scale directly with the number of processors. I've got a simple crypto-analysis tool that does just that (with exactly 8 threads as well). So yes, that will run 8 times faster.
Fortunately Sun understands throughput and memory sharing pretty well, so I presume that it'll scale pretty well in less fortunate situations, such as running an application server. They probably designed it just for that particular field as well.
Even if one option was "transfer your bank account contents to an unidentified account in Nigeria" some people would still choose it.
/. worthy nerd would have choosen that option, if only to see what happened...
Any
Those are the JRE runtime warning boxes and have little to do with Firefox itself. Never mind, the top story is FUD.
These kind of articles are starting to be *very* frustrating. Maybe we should get to the point were the slashdot user base can mod down top level articles. This complete bullshit story should neven have hit the main page, or slashdot at all for that matter.
The number of uninformed people that get +5 blaming either IE, Firefox OR Java instead of the user may be an argument against this idea though.
What's that definition of trusted again? If they would have requested permission they would have been burned to the ground for making it hard for the user. This is as much a non-issue as I've ever seen on slashdot.
Is your shift key possessed?
Yeah, by a small digit.
For evolution to work, you need enough specimen (and a sufficient environment). If all specimen are bad, the entire species dies out. In other words, you need enough splits, and enough good developers for each split. And there must be a sufficient userbase to test out these splits. I wonder if this is the case with firefox.
Well, that might save your data, but the availability is still a problem. You can have a great backup (probably using tapes for a RAID array) but if you need to get an exact copy of a RAID card on sunday you are in trouble.
Anyway, it's rather hard to backup something like 1 TB of data using cheap storage solutions which is why RAID as backup is currently viable. Just don't use it for sensitive information and beware of software issues...
Saying that S-ATA is worse than SCSI is mostly not due to the protocol (see the various S-ATA is not as good as SCSI comments) but due to the cards, and more importantly, to the drives.
SCSI cards and drives have been created specifically for enterprise use. That means that they perform, and that they last. The only way to compare these technologies is to use an expensive S-ATA controller with fast hardware XOR, large cache and controllers and drives that support command queueing. Furthermore the drives should turn rapidly, have average seek-times around 5ms and very high MTBF figures. The current crop of S-ATA cards are nowhere in this league. There are the converted Raptor drives from Western Digital Raptor series, and that's it.
This does not mean that S-ATA RAID configurations are useless:
- redundancy
- storage of large data sets (read mp3, mpeg4, porn and wares)
- raid 0 for video (large sequential data)
The cards reviewed have the benefits of tools, the use of a RAID as boot windows drive and - of course - the added serial ATA connectors. For high performance web-servers or multi-user setups, look elsewhere.
It'll be the day that I would convert to Hindu just to have less strain on my wrists. I can already imagine the remarks I would get at work, or worse, when I forget to take it off after work.
They could certainly use some stronger cooling on their servers...
Guys, this was a joke. Since you don't seem to get it, it was a bad joke. Please mod me down...
The creators of Kazaa? I think not. They are the current owners of Kazaa maybe, but it seems that a Swedish guy together with two Estonians created the application, while the P2P protocol came from Amsterdam. It was sold to Sharman Networks later on. The Australian software company then messed it up big time - but that is history (it seems).
Source: various articles on Google found by searching for "creators of kazaa".
Playing a game while a page containing a flash video is playing in the background does the trick already (firefox/flash plugin, why not renice when run in background, thank you).
But I am not sure that these tasks won't still mess up your HT pentium as well; there is the issue of caching/memory and more importantly, IO to worry about, next to CPU cycles. On current systems the harddisk will be the main problem, since there is only one head position.
Or we *are* the epidemic, and everyone is already infected. /.'ers are ruling the earth. I for one...no lets not go there.
Start by building dinosaurs, and then gradually work your way up to a human like robot. Why didn't I think of that? It's evolution all over.
In that case you might want to use another web-client. The fulnerability could also affect the lookup of hostnames. Security is tricky business (and the PC is an untrusted platform).
The answer seems to be no. In advanced there is a button [check] (which does not work correctly, click multiple times). Maybe they should add torrent functionality to download signed updates or something similar.
Melinda Gates deserves hell for what she did to us by creating Microsoft Bob and the paperclip. She has severely traumatised lots of people in the first world, and now she's trying to make up for it by supporting the third world. You should check your history before you post.
Yes, you are right about the software and the shared memory. For most home users this would not be such a big deal. Shared memory is fine as long as you don't play games, even though it also slows system performance.
But there are many posts around that claim 500 euro/dollar (yes, I know USD != EUR but they will sell it 1:1 anyway) is such a good deal. There are many computers out there that offer at least the same.
The fan used in Dell computers is not that noisy (we've got a lot at work) as long as you don't use the processor at 100%. Dell servers though...yuk.
I bet a tractor trailer would be unusable at first to your everyday SUV driver!
You go all the way in defending Solaris and then you compare it to a tractor trailer?