Its great to have a scientific criticism of a scientific theory. This is the stuff that science is made of. When people start finding what they claim are holes in a theory and decide to further claim that the correct explanation is their invisible friends are at work, then I have a real problem with that. This has nothing to do with fear, much as you might feel better to see it that way. You have gone one step further that ID folks, you have decided that your god, and yours alone, made the universe. That kind of leaves out all the other worlds religions. What makes you think that one of their gods didn't do the deed? You have proof?
Oh please. All your sarcasm won't keep someones dog alive. Dogs die every year from drinking normal anti-freeze. How it got out can vary widely. Someone flushes the radiator and is not aware of the problem. Dog drinks it. Radiator springs a leak. Whatever. If you put this stuff in your home and your nifty keen liquid cooled computer springs a leak when you are out and your dog happens to drink it (yes, it does taste good to them), then you may return to a dead dog.
The poster makes a good suggestion. Available in any auto store as an alternative anti-freeze, polyethylelne glycol provides a huge safety margin for creatures that might drink it. The poster was not proposing passing new legislation using the "think of the children" rhetoric, he was only passing along a useful safety tip for those not aware of the hazard of regular anti-freeze. Save your sarcastic rapier for someone who deserves it.
His old friend, Isadore, shook his massive head at him. "We know how it must be to have a lot of money but no working car," he said, the harsh Macon County drawl of his voice softened by his years in Atlanta high society. "It's my pleasure to bring you back to your fancy apartment, and we're all so happy that y'all is still alive. Y'all could have been killed in that dreadful wreck." Isadore paused to put on the turn signal before making a safe turn across rush-hour traffic into the parking lot of Bruce Lucent's luxury apartment building. "Y'all'll gets a new car on Monday."
"I don't know how I'll be able to drive it with my arm in a cast," Bruce Lucent shoots back. "It's lucky I wasn't killed outright like so many people are when they have horrid automobile wrecks."
"Fortunately, fast and efficient Emergency Medical Services, based on a program founded by Lyndon Baines Johnson the 36th President of the United States helped y'all survive an otherwise, deadly crash," Isadore chuckled. He nodded his head toward the towering apartment building, in the very shadow of Peachtree Avenue, where Bruce lived his luxurious life. So young, yet so wealthy, based on his skills as an expert software developer.
I am sure all of you insanely wealthy "expert programmers" can relate.
Here are all of the processed pictures from the leikens site, without bothering to properly mirror the site. They don't allow deep linking, so here you can play with just the images. For proper credits see the liekens site.
This seems to be a common theme in the last few months, and the meta-mod system is failing in this regard. I have seen a LOT of posts that fail the rabid Linux fanboy test instantly get modded flamebait. Its sad to see since there are a lot of thoughtful ideas that never see the light of day once they get the curse of flamebait. Its harder to get rid of than gum on your shoe since lots of moderators seem to think that once they see the first flamebait label hit a post they need pay no further attention to it.
You seem really keen on this, but it is false. The only way RMS contradicts capitalism is that he refuses to admit the crude monetisation of so-called 'intellectual property'. RMS instead says: ideas are not property. And our existing copyright and patent laws in fact state this.
Sorry, it is not false just because you say so. The essence of this argument seems to be that engineering effort is equal to "ideas" and therefore should have no protection in the law. If I design and manufacture a motorcycle then you should be able to waltz in after all the hard work is done and get free copies of all the tooling so you can build my motorcycle design free of engineering costs. Since I recover the costs of engineering in the price of each motorcycle made and you will undercut the price in the market I guess I am just screwed eh? The "crude monetisation of so-called 'intellectual property'" in most cases is nothing more than wanting to get paid for your work. Until the crude monetisation of the rest of the stuff in the world catches up with your utopian ideals closed source and getting paid for it will still have a place in the world.
According to an unnamed reliable inside source (I can't remember the cab drivers name), tips from COMDEX attendees far outstrip those from conventions attended by doctors.
If the casino owners have a gripe, it may be that COMDEX attendees posess basic math skills. This is an area in which cowboys are not known to shine.
You are making an assumption that folks are using raid for its raid5 usage. Tons of these posts are about mirroring and striping and have no use for XOR calculations. Any non-XOR calculations that must be performed are trivial and have no real impact on cpu load.
The only real cpu overhead in raid5 will be with write operations, and in a single user system that will be masked by the i/o overhead of pre-reads from the disk.
Well, _almost_ everybody carries around nothing but manufactured crap. I carry around a wallet like everyone else, except mine is hand tooled leather with images of my dogs painstakingly hand crafted into said leather. I would indeed miss it if it were to dissapear as it would be quite hard to replace. Perhaps it is because I live in a slightly different reality?
That will not play in the US was about 20 years ago in England.
With a picture of a large vacuum cleaner it said "Nothing Sucks Like An Electrolux"
Google references claim that the company tried the ad campaign in the US, but I never saw it. I snapped a quick photo at the time, but my shoebox collection of photos is not sorted in calendar order, so sorry.
My first computer was made from an article in Radio-Electronics magazine using an Intel 8008. A little googling showed me this as an example of the machine I made way back then. Nothing quite like writing a boot loader and keying it in by hand so I could read the rest of the program in from an audio tape. Then I built a keyboard and I could fill my 1K of memory in short order. And a clock speed that ran in the KHz would really light you on fire.
By god we were hackers then, in the best sense of the word.
What practical use was it? It jump started me into a lifelong career and paid for itself thousands of times over. And it was fun!
What is with this ? odd use of punctuation in the ? article. It is some new literary fashion statement? Perhaps the author ? got confused by the fact that chinese is a tonal language. Or maybe it is some kind of transplanted valley speak where statements are ? made to sound like questions.
Development of the software must have stopped when the patent application was submitted. From their site:
NOTE:This software requires a PC running Windows95 or Windows98. WindowsNT and Macintosh are not supported at this time. The software has not been tested on Windows2000.
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The first 80% of the problem takes 80% of the time. The final 20% of the problem takes the other 80% of the time.
Its great to have a scientific criticism of a scientific theory. This is the stuff that science is made of. When people start finding what they claim are holes in a theory and decide to further claim that the correct explanation is their invisible friends are at work, then I have a real problem with that. This has nothing to do with fear, much as you might feel better to see it that way. You have gone one step further that ID folks, you have decided that your god, and yours alone, made the universe. That kind of leaves out all the other worlds religions. What makes you think that one of their gods didn't do the deed? You have proof?
Oh please. All your sarcasm won't keep someones dog alive. Dogs die every year from drinking normal anti-freeze. How it got out can vary widely. Someone flushes the radiator and is not aware of the problem. Dog drinks it. Radiator springs a leak. Whatever. If you put this stuff in your home and your nifty keen liquid cooled computer springs a leak when you are out and your dog happens to drink it (yes, it does taste good to them), then you may return to a dead dog.
The poster makes a good suggestion. Available in any auto store as an alternative anti-freeze, polyethylelne glycol provides a huge safety margin for creatures that might drink it. The poster was not proposing passing new legislation using the "think of the children" rhetoric, he was only passing along a useful safety tip for those not aware of the hazard of regular anti-freeze. Save your sarcastic rapier for someone who deserves it.
My 390 starts acting up I just give it a whack upside the cpu rack with my cane.
/Young whippersnappers don't know diddly
For more serious problems you have to spit in the back and kick it.
Coined by George Orwell and used very effectively by George Bush. After all, what congressman could possibly vote against being a Patriot?
His old friend, Isadore, shook his massive head at him. "We know how it must be to have a lot of money but no working car," he said, the harsh Macon County drawl of his voice softened by his years in Atlanta high society. "It's my pleasure to bring you back to your fancy apartment, and we're all so happy that y'all is still alive. Y'all could have been killed in that dreadful wreck." Isadore paused to put on the turn signal before making a safe turn across rush-hour traffic into the parking lot of Bruce Lucent's luxury apartment building. "Y'all'll gets a new car on Monday."
"I don't know how I'll be able to drive it with my arm in a cast," Bruce Lucent shoots back. "It's lucky I wasn't killed outright like so many people are when they have horrid automobile wrecks."
"Fortunately, fast and efficient Emergency Medical Services, based on a program founded by Lyndon Baines Johnson the 36th President of the United States helped y'all survive an otherwise, deadly crash," Isadore chuckled. He nodded his head toward the towering apartment building, in the very shadow of Peachtree Avenue, where Bruce lived his luxurious life. So young, yet so wealthy, based on his skills as an expert software developer.
I am sure all of you insanely wealthy "expert programmers" can relate.
Here are all of the processed pictures from the leikens site, without bothering to properly mirror the site. They don't allow deep linking, so here you can play with just the images. For proper credits see the liekens site.
This seems to be a common theme in the last few months, and the meta-mod system is failing in this regard. I have seen a LOT of posts that fail the rabid Linux fanboy test instantly get modded flamebait. Its sad to see since there are a lot of thoughtful ideas that never see the light of day once they get the curse of flamebait. Its harder to get rid of than gum on your shoe since lots of moderators seem to think that once they see the first flamebait label hit a post they need pay no further attention to it.
Write once, exploit everywhere!
:)
Sorry, it is not false just because you say so. The essence of this argument seems to be that engineering effort is equal to "ideas" and therefore should have no protection in the law. If I design and manufacture a motorcycle then you should be able to waltz in after all the hard work is done and get free copies of all the tooling so you can build my motorcycle design free of engineering costs. Since I recover the costs of engineering in the price of each motorcycle made and you will undercut the price in the market I guess I am just screwed eh? The "crude monetisation of so-called 'intellectual property'" in most cases is nothing more than wanting to get paid for your work. Until the crude monetisation of the rest of the stuff in the world catches up with your utopian ideals closed source and getting paid for it will still have a place in the world.
According to an unnamed reliable inside source (I can't remember the cab drivers name), tips from COMDEX attendees far outstrip those from conventions attended by doctors.
If the casino owners have a gripe, it may be that COMDEX attendees posess basic math skills. This is an area in which cowboys are not known to shine.
You are making an assumption that folks are using raid for its raid5 usage. Tons of these posts are about mirroring and striping and have no use for XOR calculations. Any non-XOR calculations that must be performed are trivial and have no real impact on cpu load.
The only real cpu overhead in raid5 will be with write operations, and in a single user system that will be masked by the i/o overhead of pre-reads from the disk.
I can't belive we can't mod the article instead of just the comments. This is obviously a troll.
Not unless you look 3 times harder.
by the first carbon fiber stealth torpedo running Linux.
(Linux reference mandatory for Slashdot posting)
Your'e on fire!
Aye, those Scotts are mighty thrrrifty!
You say "instant gratification" like it was a bad thing!
Well, _almost_ everybody carries around nothing but manufactured crap. I carry around a wallet like everyone else, except mine is hand tooled leather with images of my dogs painstakingly hand crafted into said leather. I would indeed miss it if it were to dissapear as it would be quite hard to replace. Perhaps it is because I live in a slightly different reality?
I have invented the self-playing guitar. In a fit of creative frenzy I have named it the CD!
Hear that knock on your door? Thats the sound of your doom. . .
With a picture of a large vacuum cleaner it said "Nothing Sucks Like An Electrolux"
Google references claim that the company tried the ad campaign in the US, but I never saw it. I snapped a quick photo at the time, but my shoebox collection of photos is not sorted in calendar order, so sorry.
My first computer was made from an article in Radio-Electronics magazine using an Intel 8008. A little googling showed me this as an example of the machine I made way back then. Nothing quite like writing a boot loader and keying it in by hand so I could read the rest of the program in from an audio tape. Then I built a keyboard and I could fill my 1K of memory in short order. And a clock speed that ran in the KHz would really light you on fire.
By god we were hackers then, in the best sense of the word. What practical use was it? It jump started me into a lifelong career and paid for itself thousands of times over. And it was fun!
What is with this ? odd use of punctuation in the ? article. It is some new literary fashion statement? Perhaps the author ? got confused by the fact that chinese is a tonal language. Or maybe it is some kind of transplanted valley speak where statements are ? made to sound like questions.
Pretty current, eh?