It's not that Redhat did it on purpose. It was almost certainly an accident. The thing is, if it had happend on the MS end, Slashdot'rs would be screaming at the top of their lungs that it WAS on purpose, although it could easily be just an accident as with Redhat. Thye'd never believe it was an accident, and if MS fixed the mistake, they'd all pat themselves on the back that they'd forced MS's hand.
A 1991 Civic weighs ~600 lbs less then a 2004 Civic coupe (the sedans are much heavier). That weight savings probably accounts for a bit of that difference in MPG...
But it does bring with it, it's own problems. One is one of the same problems that helped bring down the Soviet Union. Lack of incentive.
(Now before you start screaming TROLL at the top of your lungs, let me say that I like open source and I use a lot of open source. I'm just saying it's not a magic bullet.)
Most OS coders write the code they need to use themselves. To scratch an itch. Some maybe for a bit of 'leet' glory. But they write it just for fun. If the fun goes, so does all their commitment. There isn't a monetary incentive to keep going and do the dull boring parts (documentation, etc). Boredom, lack of time, etc can lead to the abandonment of a project. Sourceforge is littered with them. I've used some stuff of there before and gotten attached to using it, only to be burned when the projects were abandoned.
"But!", you say "The source is still available, just write it yourself". No thanks, some of the projects were extensive and keeping them modern/updated would have taken months of coding. I don't' have $30,000 to pay some in-house/contract developer to modernize the project. I do have a couple hundred bucks in my pocket that I would gladly trade for a shrink-wrapped box of updated software. A few thousand other companies might also find that software useful for the price of a few hundred dollars. That's where the proprietary software wins. People have an incentive to keep working on it besides just 'kicks'. If you are being paid for the software you are creating, it keeps you going, even when your having not-so-fun days.
And yes, closed source software gets abandoned too, but I suspect not anywhere as frequently as open source by looking at Sourceforge et. al. I'd love to see some real statistics on relative abandonment of proprietary vs open source, but I expect they would be difficult to gather accurately.
Uh yes it is. I didn't say launching viruses was the same on each system, I said the two instructions sounded much the same. The one the parent said: "Don't run unknown programs as root" and I said: "Don't run unknown programs". Kinda similar, aren't they? The second one is even simpler than the first.
Users don't listen to those instructions. Sorry, they don't. There was even a windows virus that went around a few months ago that had to have instructions for the user to unencrypt it to run it... They ran it. Do you seriously think if one came with instructions for a couple lines typed quickly into a shell, that these same users wouldn't do it?
BTW, who said the virus had to run as root to destroy your user files which are the only valuable thing on your computer? A reinstall of a OS and apps takes a few hours max. Those documents the users have been working on for months, the pictures of little johnny playing T-ball, etc, will never be replaced once the files are erased (Because users like this also don't back up their systems). Even if you are some idiot who thinks the system files are more important than the data files on a home computer, the user can still follow the nice directions included with the virus and SU himself to oblivia.
Because the system described uses DRAM. DRAM is fast. Flash is SLOW. Very Very Very SLOOOOWWWW.
DRAM access time is ~100 times FASTER than a hard drive. Flash is MUCH slower than a hard drive. Much.
Between each and every system on the network? Kinda hard to do right now. I already segment off my laptop users from the desktop users, but that's not enough. The desktop users often need to VPN into other networks (which may be infected). As soon as they log off the VPN they might infect my nice firewalled off LAN. This is why I suggested we need each network switch to acts as a firewall as well.
In the case of the Coast Guard story, they WERE firewalled. The problem was people came back in the after the weekend and plugged in their laptops (which got wormed when they were home, at the cofee shop, etc, etc) behind the firewall. Their ports weren't exposed over the internet while they were on the Coast Guard LAN. Their LAN *was* firewalled off from the internet. When you plug in an infected machine behind the firewall, the firewall does you zero good.
This problem isn't going to be fixed until all network switches can act as router/firewalls as well.
Also interesting that WETA Digital is listed as #44 on the list too, huh? They only listed a Xeon cluster though with 1080 processors. (prolly not be the same machine, but...).
If you'd bother to read the article you would have seen at the end, they had to add a FIFTH data center with another 1000 processors at the end of the film. No, not the same machine. MUCH MUCH larger. Your top500.org site uses old data. big whoop.
I love bashing posts from clueless readers who can't be bothered to read the article. They do sooo much in depth research before posting. I hope they hurt themselves.
Rotary engines are great. Fantastic power/weight ratios. The problems is they need rebuilt often. Until they can overcome that in the engineering design, they won't be popular for regualr passanger cars. I'm hoping the new RX-8 engines show that they can last longer than the old RX-7's. Rebuilding the engine in your car every 60k miles kinda sucks.
Mod parent up. An apt analogy. People with Mozilla might complain to a webmaster that his site was broken if it's off a bit with Mozilla compared to IE. Not the designer's fault, he might have only meant it to work well with IE. Extra support overhead on the web designer when he gets unneeded calls about something being 'broken'. Mozilla is therefore evil for telling the world it is IE.
(I don't like sites designed for only IE, but then again, I like the BSD license because it is freer. I think the any Linux users who complain about the kernel module license issue, but use Mozilla with the IE identifier turned on are hypocrites.)
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Which is probably offset by the many many garage bands, unemployed musicians, etc who arent' getting a salary currently.
It's not that Redhat did it on purpose. It was almost certainly an accident. The thing is, if it had happend on the MS end, Slashdot'rs would be screaming at the top of their lungs that it WAS on purpose, although it could easily be just an accident as with Redhat. Thye'd never believe it was an accident, and if MS fixed the mistake, they'd all pat themselves on the back that they'd forced MS's hand.
Mine just arrived, took about a month like they said it would. 2-4 weeks.
MS already makes a CD with a roll up of the patches that they will mail out to you for free...
A 1991 Civic weighs ~600 lbs less then a 2004 Civic coupe (the sedans are much heavier). That weight savings probably accounts for a bit of that difference in MPG...
First clueful reply I've seen to this. My car isn't a hybrid, but it is an (ultra) ULEV. They are better for the environment.
(Now before you start screaming TROLL at the top of your lungs, let me say that I like open source and I use a lot of open source. I'm just saying it's not a magic bullet.)
Most OS coders write the code they need to use themselves. To scratch an itch. Some maybe for a bit of 'leet' glory. But they write it just for fun. If the fun goes, so does all their commitment. There isn't a monetary incentive to keep going and do the dull boring parts (documentation, etc). Boredom, lack of time, etc can lead to the abandonment of a project. Sourceforge is littered with them. I've used some stuff of there before and gotten attached to using it, only to be burned when the projects were abandoned.
"But!", you say "The source is still available, just write it yourself". No thanks, some of the projects were extensive and keeping them modern/updated would have taken months of coding. I don't' have $30,000 to pay some in-house/contract developer to modernize the project. I do have a couple hundred bucks in my pocket that I would gladly trade for a shrink-wrapped box of updated software. A few thousand other companies might also find that software useful for the price of a few hundred dollars. That's where the proprietary software wins. People have an incentive to keep working on it besides just 'kicks'. If you are being paid for the software you are creating, it keeps you going, even when your having not-so-fun days.
And yes, closed source software gets abandoned too, but I suspect not anywhere as frequently as open source by looking at Sourceforge et. al. I'd love to see some real statistics on relative abandonment of proprietary vs open source, but I expect they would be difficult to gather accurately.
Users don't listen to those instructions. Sorry, they don't. There was even a windows virus that went around a few months ago that had to have instructions for the user to unencrypt it to run it... They ran it. Do you seriously think if one came with instructions for a couple lines typed quickly into a shell, that these same users wouldn't do it?
BTW, who said the virus had to run as root to destroy your user files which are the only valuable thing on your computer? A reinstall of a OS and apps takes a few hours max. Those documents the users have been working on for months, the pictures of little johnny playing T-ball, etc, will never be replaced once the files are erased (Because users like this also don't back up their systems). Even if you are some idiot who thinks the system files are more important than the data files on a home computer, the user can still follow the nice directions included with the virus and SU himself to oblivia.
I don't know, I was watching Princess Bride and saw a guy who was only 'mostly dead'...
Because the system described uses DRAM. DRAM is fast. Flash is SLOW. Very Very Very SLOOOOWWWW. DRAM access time is ~100 times FASTER than a hard drive. Flash is MUCH slower than a hard drive. Much.
People who can't figure this stuff out but are running servers on the internet scare me.
Hmm, sounds a lot like "Do not run unknown attachments from email". Doesn't work. Been telling users for years. Doesn't work.
Between each and every system on the network? Kinda hard to do right now. I already segment off my laptop users from the desktop users, but that's not enough. The desktop users often need to VPN into other networks (which may be infected). As soon as they log off the VPN they might infect my nice firewalled off LAN. This is why I suggested we need each network switch to acts as a firewall as well.
This problem isn't going to be fixed until all network switches can act as router/firewalls as well.
yes, yes. I typo'd.
If you'd bother to read the article you would have seen at the end, they had to add a FIFTH data center with another 1000 processors at the end of the film. No, not the same machine. MUCH MUCH larger. Your top500.org site uses old data. big whoop.
I love bashing posts from clueless readers who can't be bothered to read the article. They do sooo much in depth research before posting. I hope they hurt themselves.
*Even more discusted look*
Shhhhhhhh!
Kneejerk and overreaction, but that happens anytime someone at MS sneezes, doesn't it?
Sadly, yes.
Rotary engines are great. Fantastic power/weight ratios. The problems is they need rebuilt often. Until they can overcome that in the engineering design, they won't be popular for regualr passanger cars. I'm hoping the new RX-8 engines show that they can last longer than the old RX-7's. Rebuilding the engine in your car every 60k miles kinda sucks.
Write the script once, then just quickly run that one tiny script each week... I think you'll find you save a lot of time and frustration.
(I don't like sites designed for only IE, but then again, I like the BSD license because it is freer. I think the any Linux users who complain about the kernel module license issue, but use Mozilla with the IE identifier turned on are hypocrites.)
Oh that's just wonderful
hmm, I've got mod points today, but there's no '-1 cruel' modifier...
Wow, a six month, six thousand mile warrenty. Yeah, most 'new' cars come with such a wonerous warrenty. Get real. A refurb car is NOT a new car.
http://www.warftp.org/faq/warfaq.html#AEN189
That would include the military.
There's clear precedent set that you young whippersnappers don't remember.
Recording LP albums to cassette tape. That's fair use according to the law, and that is surely a change in format.