Once again we seem to have somebody who can't understand that "freedom of speech" doesn't mean "freedom from consequences". There's not really anything to see here - a kid wrote an open letter to his school using profanity and threats, and the school is pushing back. It doesn't matter if it was inside or outside of school. When somebody feels threatened by somebody else, they are entitled to do something about it.
I for one am growing pretty tired of people doing stupid things and then saying "But, it was free speech!"
I think the "But why?" in this case would be expanded to "But why did you waste our time by announcing that you made your SNES run so fast that it was useless?" I could also talk about how I dropped my Newton in a puddle and now it sometimes shocks me when I turn it on, but I doubt anybody would care about that useless bit of information either.
That's true, he didn't say he "invented" the internet. His exact words were "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet." So although you win on a technicality, the spirit of the saying is still there.
You must not use virtual desktops much. I easily run six virtual desktops without losing windows, and I'm sure plenty of people run a whole lot more than that. I generally have one devoted to Firefox windows, one devoted to mail/mud terminals, and the rest devoted to management/programming terminals.
I don't profess to actually know much about gpfs, but I do use it on a daily basis. But, I can say that you are mostly right. Two additions: GPFS's original name was MMFS, putting it much older than 1998 (I believe). 2.3 is indeed the latest release, but we've been using it for around a year now and are up to patch level 10.
When I started playing with gpfs on our linux machines about a year ago, I got pretty angry at it pretty often (mostly because we, with other people, were making it do things that the developers were still implementing for us). It's been pretty stable for the last four to six months though and definitely lets us do some great stuff:
As transistor-based microchips hit the limits of Moore's Law
Actually, I don't think "Moore's Law" has a limit. An off-the-cuff comment that the number of transistors in a processor will double every 18 months doesn't have a limit. It just keeps getting higher and higher.
Oddly, I have the exact opposite problem - as powerful as Photoshop is, I find myself struggling to complete tasks with it that would be easier in Gimp. I bet it has more to do with what one you're more used to using than anything else.
Of course, I can easily recognize that Photoshop is a lot stronger than Gimp in many areas (CMYK, for example). But Photoshop also has that "funding" thing and that "several years head start" thing going for it. Since Gimp is still very actively under development, I'm not too worried about those though.
Each of these digital "people" suffers from the same problem most movies full of digital actors suffer from: they look like animated dead people. We humans are pretty good at accepting cartoon characters as "real" when they don't look like humans, but once they start looking too real we start looking for those details indescribable that show they are alive. When they don't move/look 100% natural, they tend to just register in our minds as dead bodies moved by puppet strings...
Now I'm torn - do I keep using the headlines page I wrote a few years ago, or do I start playing with Google's stuff? I know I will always have control of the first case, but the second case is so much cooler...
We havn't seen this happening in the last 200 years! It _must_ be happening because of human factors! We need to stop poluting the world with little magnets!
This story reminds me of why I very recently left Sprint for a less painful cell phone company. I lived in Nebraska when I got my first phone, and Sprint was the big kid on the block. However, the crippled phone, horrible customer service, and nickle-and-dime tactics made made me only stick with them because they were the best of a sad lot. After moving to Chicago last year, I dropped them and moved to T-Mobile. Wow was I impressed - the bluetooth features on my phone weren't crippled, they have an almost realistic developer community, they don't try to charge you to add your own pieces to the hardware you bought. I suppose Sprint will pick up some people from this for the same reason they got me (they are the only ones doing it right now), but I'm also sure somebody else will do something like this in a more realistic way soon enough (if people want it).
I, however, don't see any need for such a service.
With your 8 track, tape, or CD you were able to trade with your friends in the school yard, make a backup copy if you were taking it skiing, and do many other of those things that count as "fair use", right? Did you ever have a company decide "Oh, wait, you aren't allowed to listen to that CD any more" and remove your ability to do so? Did you have to buy a new copy of your CD every time you bought a new computer, switched jobs, or changed too many pieces of hardware in your computer?
Also, when phonograph -> 8-tracks -> DAT-> cassettes -> CDs evolution happened, you saw things get better (depending on your definition of better) between at least two of those changes, right? How is locking down the format making it better?
It definitely sounds like an interesting idea, but how is South Korea going to run on my machine? Plus, having the whole country installed on my drive sounds like it will take up a _lot_ of space...
I suspect that the wannabe nature of a huge number of slashdot readers is part of the problem with this "myth". _Most_ people only experience Java in their web browser or in stand-alone GUI apps. In many cases, these things really are slow, as could probably be expected: your application has to pass through several layers of virtual machine and windowing libraries before it can draw to the screen. Doing real work with Java, requiring writing your own app in an efficient way, isn't really bad. This involves actually getting your hands dirty though. This is likely too hard for too many of our fellow readers.
Of course, I still laugh whenever I hear somebody give a talk about high-performance computing with Java...
(Bring on the posts saying "But look at this one specific example! It scientifically proves that Jaba is 300x slower than teh C++!!1!")
It appears you are forgetting two details from the above:
1. Most of the original post's assertions are based on the assumption that the parents grew up (ie., matured) within the last 20 or so years. Most of your examples are long before that.
2. There are outliers in all distributions. Anybody can come up with examples in both directions. Looking at the general trend, however, it appears that the original post is pretty realistic.
That's the problem with generalizations - you have to lump the good in with the bad.
I'm very interested in this new branch of the government. After 225 years of only three, I think it is about time to add some competition to the judical, legislative, and executive branches!
> Anyone who was on the verge of switching before now have virtually no reason not to.
Except for the horrible interface. I don't know how it looks on Windows, but the Linux version sure is painful to look at. Their pseudo-motif skin is slightly more bearable, but still pretty harsh.
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Once again we seem to have somebody who can't understand that "freedom of speech" doesn't mean "freedom from consequences". There's not really anything to see here - a kid wrote an open letter to his school using profanity and threats, and the school is pushing back. It doesn't matter if it was inside or outside of school. When somebody feels threatened by somebody else, they are entitled to do something about it.
I for one am growing pretty tired of people doing stupid things and then saying "But, it was free speech!"
I think the "But why?" in this case would be expanded to "But why did you waste our time by announcing that you made your SNES run so fast that it was useless?" I could also talk about how I dropped my Newton in a puddle and now it sometimes shocks me when I turn it on, but I doubt anybody would care about that useless bit of information either.
That's true, he didn't say he "invented" the internet. His exact words were "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet." So although you win on a technicality, the spirit of the saying is still there.
You must not use virtual desktops much. I easily run six virtual desktops without losing windows, and I'm sure plenty of people run a whole lot more than that. I generally have one devoted to Firefox windows, one devoted to mail/mud terminals, and the rest devoted to management/programming terminals.
I don't profess to actually know much about gpfs, but I do use it on a daily basis. But, I can say that you are mostly right. Two additions: GPFS's original name was MMFS, putting it much older than 1998 (I believe). 2.3 is indeed the latest release, but we've been using it for around a year now and are up to patch level 10.
/gpfs /dev/gpfs 210T 137T 74T 66% /gpfs
When I started playing with gpfs on our linux machines about a year ago, I got pretty angry at it pretty often (mostly because we, with other people, were making it do things that the developers were still implementing for us). It's been pretty stable for the last four to six months though and definitely lets us do some great stuff:
tg-login2:~> df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
As transistor-based microchips hit the limits of Moore's Law
Actually, I don't think "Moore's Law" has a limit. An off-the-cuff comment that the number of transistors in a processor will double every 18 months doesn't have a limit. It just keeps getting higher and higher.
Oddly, I have the exact opposite problem - as powerful as Photoshop is, I find myself struggling to complete tasks with it that would be easier in Gimp. I bet it has more to do with what one you're more used to using than anything else.
Of course, I can easily recognize that Photoshop is a lot stronger than Gimp in many areas (CMYK, for example). But Photoshop also has that "funding" thing and that "several years head start" thing going for it. Since Gimp is still very actively under development, I'm not too worried about those though.
You know what the worst part is? I checked to make sure I spelled that correctly, and yet I still spelled it wrong. What a fool I am!
Another fine example of why we need "-1 Unintelligable" as a moderation choice!
Each of these digital "people" suffers from the same problem most movies full of digital actors suffer from: they look like animated dead people. We humans are pretty good at accepting cartoon characters as "real" when they don't look like humans, but once they start looking too real we start looking for those details indescribable that show they are alive. When they don't move/look 100% natural, they tend to just register in our minds as dead bodies moved by puppet strings...
Now I'm torn - do I keep using the headlines page I wrote a few years ago, or do I start playing with Google's stuff? I know I will always have control of the first case, but the second case is so much cooler...
We havn't seen this happening in the last 200 years! It _must_ be happening because of human factors! We need to stop poluting the world with little magnets!
Is this the opposite of when people cut-and-paste chunks of (or entire) articles into slashdot submissions?
This story reminds me of why I very recently left Sprint for a less painful cell phone company. I lived in Nebraska when I got my first phone, and Sprint was the big kid on the block. However, the crippled phone, horrible customer service, and nickle-and-dime tactics made made me only stick with them because they were the best of a sad lot. After moving to Chicago last year, I dropped them and moved to T-Mobile. Wow was I impressed - the bluetooth features on my phone weren't crippled, they have an almost realistic developer community, they don't try to charge you to add your own pieces to the hardware you bought. I suppose Sprint will pick up some people from this for the same reason they got me (they are the only ones doing it right now), but I'm also sure somebody else will do something like this in a more realistic way soon enough (if people want it).
I, however, don't see any need for such a service.
With your 8 track, tape, or CD you were able to trade with your friends in the school yard, make a backup copy if you were taking it skiing, and do many other of those things that count as "fair use", right? Did you ever have a company decide "Oh, wait, you aren't allowed to listen to that CD any more" and remove your ability to do so? Did you have to buy a new copy of your CD every time you bought a new computer, switched jobs, or changed too many pieces of hardware in your computer?
Also, when phonograph -> 8-tracks -> DAT-> cassettes -> CDs evolution happened, you saw things get better (depending on your definition of better) between at least two of those changes, right? How is locking down the format making it better?
Linspire CEO Offers S. Korea To Replace Windows
It definitely sounds like an interesting idea, but how is South Korea going to run on my machine? Plus, having the whole country installed on my drive sounds like it will take up a _lot_ of space...
Woo! I was afraid nobody would do that. My day is complete!
I suspect that the wannabe nature of a huge number of slashdot readers is part of the problem with this "myth". _Most_ people only experience Java in their web browser or in stand-alone GUI apps. In many cases, these things really are slow, as could probably be expected: your application has to pass through several layers of virtual machine and windowing libraries before it can draw to the screen. Doing real work with Java, requiring writing your own app in an efficient way, isn't really bad. This involves actually getting your hands dirty though. This is likely too hard for too many of our fellow readers.
Of course, I still laugh whenever I hear somebody give a talk about high-performance computing with Java...
(Bring on the posts saying "But look at this one specific example! It scientifically proves that Jaba is 300x slower than teh C++!!1!")
It appears you are forgetting two details from the above:
1. Most of the original post's assertions are based on the assumption that the parents grew up (ie., matured) within the last 20 or so years. Most of your examples are long before that.
2. There are outliers in all distributions. Anybody can come up with examples in both directions. Looking at the general trend, however, it appears that the original post is pretty realistic.
That's the problem with generalizations - you have to lump the good in with the bad.
I'm very interested in this new branch of the government. After 225 years of only three, I think it is about time to add some competition to the judical, legislative, and executive branches!
Ha! It is my personal zombie!
> The TeraGrid is well managed too.. very few problems for such a huge system.
As an admin on the UC/ANL Teragrid cluster, I thank you for the compliment. Keep computin'!
Ah, I see that you didn't read what I said. Reading something before you reply to it shouldn't be that hard either.
> Anyone who was on the verge of switching before now have virtually no reason not to.
Except for the horrible interface. I don't know how it looks on Windows, but the Linux version sure is painful to look at. Their pseudo-motif skin is slightly more bearable, but still pretty harsh.