I believe there is life on other planets. We currently lack the science to either prove or disprove my belief at the moment. Does that mean it is incorrect for me to believe it though?
Yes. You can believe that it's quite likely and you can hope it's true. But there's no reason to believe it's true, so believing it to be true is incorrect.
I can't believe this was modified "insightful" and I also can't believe I'm bothering to reply, but here goes.
These people aren't trying to disprove their theories, they're trying to find explanations that fit them. They therefore ignore all the data that supports the opposing view and weasel their way into a contorted version of reality where it's possible for these things to be the case. The science is based on (at best) invalid assumptions and (at worst) deliberate lies.
A number of SOHO routers suffer from exactly this problem, the D-link and Netgears from memory. The only solution is to turn off the DNS cache altogether.
You can not believe me if you like. Colour me bothered.
Most users don't need the kind of service which slashdot users expect. If users are prepared to pay more, there are options for them - AAISP is one example. However the vast majority don't want to pay more than around £15-£25 ($30-$50) per month which (given the margins involved - BT take £8 per line and then wholesale bandwidth at what works out at around £.90 per GB IIRC) simply doesn't allow the ISPs to provide a decent amount of bandwidth.
When it comes down to it, they'd rather have 150,000 customers paying £15 and using 500MB per month than 10,000 customers paying £30 and complaining that they get shaped at 30GB.
Sounds to me like you're running a dodgy DNS server on your router; it fills up the memory with DNS cache (which you have a lot of when you P2P) and crashes.
I still believe that introducing your children to the religion we, and our ancestors belonged to is part of their moral, cultural, social and family education. If they don't like what they see, well, most (again: most) religions (or rather their institutionalized frameworks) are not something permanent, and you're free to pick something else in your life.
And if you tell your 4-year-old that all muslims are evil and should all be killed, obviously he's going to grow up with the ability to decide that, actually, dad was wrong all along, right?
How blinkered are you? It takes the strongest of minds, the most logical, the most rational, to be able to break away from childhood indoctrination. Most will spend their lives believing in the imaginary friends which their parents' lies described. They'll kill people, discriminate against them, go to war against them, all because they don't agree with their parents' made-up idiocies.
Dawkins has it right: force-feeding kids religion is child abuse, pure and simple.
Yeah, cos the crock of shit that was AI really made me want to watch another Spielberg Sci-fi movie.
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But it's a bit like the GPL - you either accept it as valid as it is and take the rights it gives you, or you don't accept its validity and have no rights under it.
In other words, either they take my modified NDA and accept the changes I've made or they don't accept it and I haven't signed anything.
Looks to me (having read the paper) like you need to manually snapshot a file every time you might want to (later) revert back to it.
Now I don't know about anyone else but that's not what I want from a system like this: I want a system that keeps transaction logs, essentially, so that I can literally ask for any file as it was at any time.
The problem isn't that the unsigned unknown music is bad, or that there's too much of it to find the good stuff. It's a sociological thing: I want to hear what my friends are hearing so we can say "do you have the latest XYZ album" or whatever. There's probably a scientific word for it but I'm not a sociologist!
It doesn't really matter how good the major labels' tunes are, whatever gets played on the radio will become a hit. This has been shown many many times, with a few rare exceptions of underground hits that work themselves up to the point where the radio can't not play them any more. And it's not because people just buy what they hear, it's because they buy what everyone else is buying.
You even get the same result in elections: floating voters will often (subconsciously) vote for the party they think is going to win (ie the more popular one), even if they have no idea about policies.
Well duh, that's just stupid. Yes, speaking might be quicker than texting but if I'm somewhere I can text using speech recognition I might as well pick up the phone and talk.
Oh come on. You must admit that you just got lucky when your windows boxes survived.
If you'd said "ext2 sucks because it doesn't do X, Y and Z technical things which NTFS does and which is why my NTFS partition is fine and my ext2 partition isn't" you would probably have got a better response. But "my linux box is hozed and therefore ext2 sucks" is just stupid.
And they were right: in any kind of server environment on which your company relies you should have a UPS.
One other thing: 1997 isn't back in the dark ages, don't you know anything n00b?:-):-):-)
[I installed my first slackware off 35 (?) floppies in 1995. And before anyone starts, yes I know I was pretty late to the party]
A standardized mail server benchmark designed to measure a system's ability to act as a mail server servicing email requests, based on the Internet standard protocols SMTP and POP3. The benchmark characterizes throughput and response time of a mailserver system under test with realistic network connections, disk storage, and client workloads.
So that includes users connecting, picking up email, deleting from their data store etc etc etc.
Disclaimer: I have two friends who work for Bluearc but have no other connection to the company
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I believe there is life on other planets. We currently lack the science to either prove or disprove my belief at the moment. Does that mean it is incorrect for me to believe it though? Yes. You can believe that it's quite likely and you can hope it's true. But there's no reason to believe it's true, so believing it to be true is incorrect.
I can't believe this was modified "insightful" and I also can't believe I'm bothering to reply, but here goes.
These people aren't trying to disprove their theories, they're trying to find explanations that fit them. They therefore ignore all the data that supports the opposing view and weasel their way into a contorted version of reality where it's possible for these things to be the case. The science is based on (at best) invalid assumptions and (at worst) deliberate lies.
So you bunch of Apple fanboyz all agree that Apple's in the right?
Shock!
A number of SOHO routers suffer from exactly this problem, the D-link and Netgears from memory. The only solution is to turn off the DNS cache altogether.
You can not believe me if you like. Colour me bothered.
Most users don't need the kind of service which slashdot users expect. If users are prepared to pay more, there are options for them - AAISP is one example. However the vast majority don't want to pay more than around £15-£25 ($30-$50) per month which (given the margins involved - BT take £8 per line and then wholesale bandwidth at what works out at around £.90 per GB IIRC) simply doesn't allow the ISPs to provide a decent amount of bandwidth.
When it comes down to it, they'd rather have 150,000 customers paying £15 and using 500MB per month than 10,000 customers paying £30 and complaining that they get shaped at 30GB.
Sounds to me like you're running a dodgy DNS server on your router; it fills up the memory with DNS cache (which you have a lot of when you P2P) and crashes.
I still believe that introducing your children to the religion we, and our ancestors belonged to is part of their moral, cultural, social and family education. If they don't like what they see, well, most (again: most) religions (or rather their institutionalized frameworks) are not something permanent, and you're free to pick something else in your life.
And if you tell your 4-year-old that all muslims are evil and should all be killed, obviously he's going to grow up with the ability to decide that, actually, dad was wrong all along, right?
How blinkered are you? It takes the strongest of minds, the most logical, the most rational, to be able to break away from childhood indoctrination. Most will spend their lives believing in the imaginary friends which their parents' lies described. They'll kill people, discriminate against them, go to war against them, all because they don't agree with their parents' made-up idiocies. Dawkins has it right: force-feeding kids religion is child abuse, pure and simple.
Yeah, cos the crock of shit that was AI really made me want to watch another Spielberg Sci-fi movie.
But it's a bit like the GPL - you either accept it as valid as it is and take the rights it gives you, or you don't accept its validity and have no rights under it.
In other words, either they take my modified NDA and accept the changes I've made or they don't accept it and I haven't signed anything.
Looks to me (having read the paper) like you need to manually snapshot a file every time you might want to (later) revert back to it.
Now I don't know about anyone else but that's not what I want from a system like this: I want a system that keeps transaction logs, essentially, so that I can literally ask for any file as it was at any time.
The problem isn't that the unsigned unknown music is bad, or that there's too much of it to find the good stuff. It's a sociological thing: I want to hear what my friends are hearing so we can say "do you have the latest XYZ album" or whatever. There's probably a scientific word for it but I'm not a sociologist!
It doesn't really matter how good the major labels' tunes are, whatever gets played on the radio will become a hit. This has been shown many many times, with a few rare exceptions of underground hits that work themselves up to the point where the radio can't not play them any more. And it's not because people just buy what they hear, it's because they buy what everyone else is buying.
You even get the same result in elections: floating voters will often (subconsciously) vote for the party they think is going to win (ie the more popular one), even if they have no idea about policies.
A smartphone is a phone with some PDA features, as opposed to a PDA with some phone features.
In other words, it works really well as a phone, less well as a PDA.
Well duh, that's just stupid. Yes, speaking might be quicker than texting but if I'm somewhere I can text using speech recognition I might as well pick up the phone and talk.
The inventor's name is Stephen Salter. Heh.
What about Opera for Windows Mobile?
You wrote:
Spam is just as bad as child pornography or rape
No. It's not.
Obviously the OP didn't read SGI's official release...
And they were right: in any kind of server environment on which your company relies you should have a UPS.
One other thing: 1997 isn't back in the dark ages, don't you know anything n00b? :-) :-) :-)
[I installed my first slackware off 35 (?) floppies in 1995. And before anyone starts, yes I know I was pretty late to the party]
For a tiny chat client on Win32, Miranda is brilliant.
You know it makes sense.
So that includes users connecting, picking up email, deleting from their data store etc etc etc.
Disclaimer: I have two friends who work for Bluearc but have no other connection to the company
So you're saying "I've no idea what this software does but I know it's of no use"?
... a good idea, ruined by poor implementation.
Obviously someone sat there on a Friday and decided their personal proejct was to buy dejanews...
You need to implement an invention in order to receive a patent. You can't just have the ideas.