Sorry, but OSX only got faster because it was insanely slow to begin with. OSX was like molasses on machines of mine that ran quickly with OS 9.
I love the new features of OSX, but don't kid yourself. It's not getting faster because the Apple folks are working magic, they are fixing bloated/bugged code, and the OS is only now starting to run at the speeds it should have run at to begin with.
Nah, insane people are poor. You wouldn't be able to get any money off of them. Rich people don't go insane or crazy. They become 'eccentric'.
Now patent being eccentric and you have a business model.
The article is about "Published Research Findings". It doesn't specify that all the papers analyzed were from peer reviewed journals. There are a lot of non peer reviewed journals out there. Usually you only publish in those if you have a short paper, or one that's not extremely novel, or just not of great general interest. Many times researchers will publish in those journals when they can't get the paper published in a peer reviewed journal. I'm sure the percentage of false findings in those journals is much higher, and may have altered the ratio of found false papers significantly.
Press on the little update notification on your panel and have _all_ your apps updated. Now that's incredibly hard, you are right.
Which distro is this on? Ok. Now stop and realize, the distribution you use is NOT *Linux*. It's one distribution and there are plenty of others out there where it is not just a 'Press on the little update notification on your panel'.
This is one of those major problems when someone says "But on Linux it's easy". Your 'Linux'(distro) is not everyone's 'Linux'(distro).
You mean you like how it has lots of problems because it uses programs (CUPS) that are known to... well, kinda blow?
OS9 sucked, really sucked, but when you plugged in a printer, it pretty much just worked. Now to get my printers to work I have to go to fix-a-mac software and download a program to fix problems in the CUPS implementation just to get things to print.
Yes, because it is using open source software someone out there can write a patch for it, but I'd much prefer if they'd create a decent print service instead.
It's been a while since I used it, but as I recall it was *MUCH* lighter on resources than Firefox. Firefox is pretty darn bloated. Some folks will be glad to pay for a light fast alternative.
Hey leandrod, you SQL troll. OK, we all know SQL is not truely relational as relational theory goes. We already knew that. If anyone didn't, you've posted that a million times on slashdot every time someone brings up SQL.
Put up or shut up. Present a working system that really is relational, or STFU and let people who are actually producing real working software talk when they are using standard accepted language. You are like those nimrods who post 'corrections' all the time when someone uses the word 'hacker' in a way that is common usage, but they themselves don't like.
Hans had produced a real advanced working filesystem. What have you done?
Why do it that way? No idea. But that's they way they set up the installer application. If it needed to make a partition it would always create a FAT one, and then later convert it to NTFS if you wanted an NTFS partition. That was a limitation only in the scripting of the installer. If you had a NTFS partition already set up on the drive (from formatting in a different windows machine) it would see the NTFS partition and install straight to it.
Lay solar panals across a large area (300x300 miles) of desert. It does't matter that the power density is lower because it's just desert. That isn't prime real estate so it doesn't really matter. That would produce enough electricity for most of the country.
I wonder if they can just 'cook the books' as Paramount and the other studios are famous for so that they can get rich while 'technically' the movie won't make any money because while the gross profits were huge, they swell the expenses to compensate so there is no net profit.
I've got two 7200 RPM drives in one laptop. No problem. I'm always either my desk at work, or my desk at home. Not everyone is a road warrier who needs battery life on long flights, etc. Lots of us use ours as a luggable desktop between two or more spots where we can plug into a wall socket.
Of course they aren't going to win any lawsuit against Google. They aren't planning to.
Had you ever heard of Perfect10 before? I hadn't. The company just spent $1,000 on lawyer bills and got themselves $1,000,000 worth of publicity. Exactly what I think they were shooting for.
Some folks will do it for speed. RAID0. Laptop drives are usually pretty slow, and usually what makes a laptop significantly slower than an desktop with an equivalent CPU speed (I buy 7200 RPM ones for my laptops myself, but 5400 is more common). RAID0 can add some needed speed. If your just doing word processing/email, that speed isn't needed, but some folks do serious computations on their laptops, others have their laptop do dual duty as their game rig. Not everyone is going to use their computer like you do.
Others will do it for the extra reliability. Nightly backups might be good enough for you, but as I said, not everyone uses their laptops for the sort of work you do.
Aside from saving money, one of the main reasons that some sports teams have salary caps so that teams in smaller markets can still hire players that are near the same caliber as the players in the big markets. That helps even the playing field in talent between the two teams playing. That in turn makes for FAR more interesting games that watching 3 teams from major markets consistantly blow away all the teams from smaller markets by 10x their score.
Sports do it to make the competition somewhat more level and interesting. What's the incentive for one studio to set a market cap? So they can level the playing field with another studio??? They don't compete one-on-one. They compete for total number of $$$.
Sun can make a profit on $1 because they can accumulate enough customers to keep their cpu busy most of the time. For a company that only keeps the CPU busy 5% of the time, that 95% idle time makes the CPU not worth buying, but worth renting occasionally.
If you don't pay your 'hire' all year, you are going to need to find a contractor willing to deal with large gaps of time in between his use.
Now imagine you are the contractor. If one company that is only going to use you for 1 week every three months, and a gig comes up that is offered to you for 6 months of solid work, with no breaks, which customer are you going to drop for the other? Probably the one that will pay for 6 solid months of work NOW rather than the one that will pay you the same amount of money, but only sporadically and spread over the next 6 years. A company contracting out that 'hire' will likely find themselves going through a string of different contractors, one every or every few jobs run. Each one having to be brought up to speed on the new-to-him cluster.
Sending a check to Sun is going to be much more reliable and more cost-efficient.
We've gone over this before. The price isn't bad. You don't buy time on this system when you have one CPU's worth of stuff to compute and don't need it for a years time.
You buy time on it when you need a LOT of CPUs worth of stuff done NOW.
Imagine you have some projection software package that you need to run once a quarter for your company. You need the data within a week of the beginning of the quarter. You require 10,000 CPU hours to get the numbers all crunched. It's the only "big-computing" job you have.
On one computer the task would take you a little over a years time (8544 hours in a year). That won't quite be up to the task, remember you need the job done in a week. That's 10,000 CPU hours to fit into 168 hours of real time. You'd neeed 60 processors chugging away for those 168 hours to get it done.
How much is a 60 CPU cluster going to cost you to build? It's not insanely expensive, but it's not cheap. It looks a lot better to you to build that cluster than to spend $40,000 a year though! Right?
Wait. Clusters take up space. A 70 CPU cluster (better add in a few for redundency since this job has to be done in time) is not going to fit in the broom closet. That floor space is going to cost you.
Hmm, those 60 CPUs throw off a lot of heat when they run. Better add some more cooling to the building. Another decent expense.
Damn, look at that electric bill from the extra 70 CPUs and cooling for them. This nickel and dime stuff is starting to add up.
And now for the killer. You've got a new 70-CPU cluster. Your going to need someone to manage it. Cluster work is a bit different from what's what your used to, and your IT staff is already busy with their current workloads. It's time to hire a guy to manage the cluster. BZZZZZZZZZT. That hire alone makes the $40,000 a year for grid CPU time a deal.
Work the numbers yourself. It's not really a bad deal if you only occassionally need massive computing.
It might have been a slow leak of cabin pressure. Slow changes are hard to notice. I don't know what the trigger pressure is for the oxygen masks to drop, but if it's low enough, by the time they were triggered pressure might have gotten low enough that the pilots reaction times were significantly lowered.
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There could be a number of sitiuations where algae might work better. Example, maybe you have a target thats covered with a glass/plexiglass/translucent-plastic plate on one side that you don't want to break (no simply injecting your payload into). It might not be a direct shot to the target area, so that air or liquid propellant might have it land in the wrong place. You could however shine a light on the right spot and have the algae swim around until it found it. I'm sure folks can think of others.
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The manufacturing facility for more cargo carriers is a vat with some nutrients and sunlight. What's your simpler assembly line look like?
the thing is, GPL already has a "sue someone over the software and your rights go away clause
That's the GPL license. We are talking about the BSD license here (OpenBSD *isn't* GPL). There is no such restriction in the BSD license. If you think patents are a trouble spot, I'm sure your happy with the GPL license. But patent-exceptions aren't part if the BSD license, and people who like the BSD license aren't going to add them into it. I'm not going to sacrifice my *free* license just to be unified with a less-free GNU license. Sorry.
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Sorry, but OSX only got faster because it was insanely slow to begin with. OSX was like molasses on machines of mine that ran quickly with OS 9.
I love the new features of OSX, but don't kid yourself. It's not getting faster because the Apple folks are working magic, they are fixing bloated/bugged code, and the OS is only now starting to run at the speeds it should have run at to begin with.
Nah, insane people are poor. You wouldn't be able to get any money off of them. Rich people don't go insane or crazy. They become 'eccentric'. Now patent being eccentric and you have a business model.
The article is about "Published Research Findings". It doesn't specify that all the papers analyzed were from peer reviewed journals. There are a lot of non peer reviewed journals out there. Usually you only publish in those if you have a short paper, or one that's not extremely novel, or just not of great general interest. Many times researchers will publish in those journals when they can't get the paper published in a peer reviewed journal. I'm sure the percentage of false findings in those journals is much higher, and may have altered the ratio of found false papers significantly.
Only a couple/few decades prior.
Press on the little update notification on your panel and have _all_ your apps updated. Now that's incredibly hard, you are right.
Which distro is this on? Ok. Now stop and realize, the distribution you use is NOT *Linux*. It's one distribution and there are plenty of others out there where it is not just a 'Press on the little update notification on your panel'.
This is one of those major problems when someone says "But on Linux it's easy". Your 'Linux'(distro) is not everyone's 'Linux'(distro).
OS9 sucked, really sucked, but when you plugged in a printer, it pretty much just worked. Now to get my printers to work I have to go to fix-a-mac software and download a program to fix problems in the CUPS implementation just to get things to print.
Yes, because it is using open source software someone out there can write a patch for it, but I'd much prefer if they'd create a decent print service instead.
It's been a while since I used it, but as I recall it was *MUCH* lighter on resources than Firefox. Firefox is pretty darn bloated. Some folks will be glad to pay for a light fast alternative.
Hey leandrod, you SQL troll. OK, we all know SQL is not truely relational as relational theory goes. We already knew that. If anyone didn't, you've posted that a million times on slashdot every time someone brings up SQL.
Put up or shut up. Present a working system that really is relational, or STFU and let people who are actually producing real working software talk when they are using standard accepted language. You are like those nimrods who post 'corrections' all the time when someone uses the word 'hacker' in a way that is common usage, but they themselves don't like.
Hans had produced a real advanced working filesystem. What have you done?
Why do it that way? No idea. But that's they way they set up the installer application. If it needed to make a partition it would always create a FAT one, and then later convert it to NTFS if you wanted an NTFS partition. That was a limitation only in the scripting of the installer. If you had a NTFS partition already set up on the drive (from formatting in a different windows machine) it would see the NTFS partition and install straight to it.
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Yes, by default the NT installer program would create a FAT partition and then convert it to NTFS. That was the order set up in the installer app.
If, however, you formatted the drive first in another NT machine as NTFS, you could then install directly to the NTFS partition.
Lay solar panals across a large area (300x300 miles) of desert. It does't matter that the power density is lower because it's just desert. That isn't prime real estate so it doesn't really matter. That would produce enough electricity for most of the country.
I wonder if they can just 'cook the books' as Paramount and the other studios are famous for so that they can get rich while 'technically' the movie won't make any money because while the gross profits were huge, they swell the expenses to compensate so there is no net profit.
"fix it yourself or pay someone to do it for you".
So he can spend six months fixing it himself, pay some software develper 6 months salary to fix it, or spend a few hundred dollars and get Photoshop.
This is why OSS isn't going to kill commercial software for a loooooooooong time.
I've got two 7200 RPM drives in one laptop. No problem. I'm always either my desk at work, or my desk at home. Not everyone is a road warrier who needs battery life on long flights, etc. Lots of us use ours as a luggable desktop between two or more spots where we can plug into a wall socket.
Of course they aren't going to win any lawsuit against Google. They aren't planning to.
Had you ever heard of Perfect10 before? I hadn't. The company just spent $1,000 on lawyer bills and got themselves $1,000,000 worth of publicity. Exactly what I think they were shooting for.
Some folks will do it for speed. RAID0. Laptop drives are usually pretty slow, and usually what makes a laptop significantly slower than an desktop with an equivalent CPU speed (I buy 7200 RPM ones for my laptops myself, but 5400 is more common). RAID0 can add some needed speed. If your just doing word processing/email, that speed isn't needed, but some folks do serious computations on their laptops, others have their laptop do dual duty as their game rig. Not everyone is going to use their computer like you do.
Others will do it for the extra reliability. Nightly backups might be good enough for you, but as I said, not everyone uses their laptops for the sort of work you do.
Aside from saving money, one of the main reasons that some sports teams have salary caps so that teams in smaller markets can still hire players that are near the same caliber as the players in the big markets. That helps even the playing field in talent between the two teams playing. That in turn makes for FAR more interesting games that watching 3 teams from major markets consistantly blow away all the teams from smaller markets by 10x their score.
Sports do it to make the competition somewhat more level and interesting. What's the incentive for one studio to set a market cap? So they can level the playing field with another studio??? They don't compete one-on-one. They compete for total number of $$$.
Sun can make a profit on $1 because they can accumulate enough customers to keep their cpu busy most of the time. For a company that only keeps the CPU busy 5% of the time, that 95% idle time makes the CPU not worth buying, but worth renting occasionally.
If you don't pay your 'hire' all year, you are going to need to find a contractor willing to deal with large gaps of time in between his use.
Now imagine you are the contractor. If one company that is only going to use you for 1 week every three months, and a gig comes up that is offered to you for 6 months of solid work, with no breaks, which customer are you going to drop for the other? Probably the one that will pay for 6 solid months of work NOW rather than the one that will pay you the same amount of money, but only sporadically and spread over the next 6 years. A company contracting out that 'hire' will likely find themselves going through a string of different contractors, one every or every few jobs run. Each one having to be brought up to speed on the new-to-him cluster.
Sending a check to Sun is going to be much more reliable and more cost-efficient.
We've gone over this before. The price isn't bad. You don't buy time on this system when you have one CPU's worth of stuff to compute and don't need it for a years time.
You buy time on it when you need a LOT of CPUs worth of stuff done NOW.
Imagine you have some projection software package that you need to run once a quarter for your company. You need the data within a week of the beginning of the quarter. You require 10,000 CPU hours to get the numbers all crunched. It's the only "big-computing" job you have.
On one computer the task would take you a little over a years time (8544 hours in a year). That won't quite be up to the task, remember you need the job done in a week. That's 10,000 CPU hours to fit into 168 hours of real time. You'd neeed 60 processors chugging away for those 168 hours to get it done.
How much is a 60 CPU cluster going to cost you to build? It's not insanely expensive, but it's not cheap. It looks a lot better to you to build that cluster than to spend $40,000 a year though! Right?
Wait. Clusters take up space. A 70 CPU cluster (better add in a few for redundency since this job has to be done in time) is not going to fit in the broom closet. That floor space is going to cost you.
Hmm, those 60 CPUs throw off a lot of heat when they run. Better add some more cooling to the building. Another decent expense.
Damn, look at that electric bill from the extra 70 CPUs and cooling for them. This nickel and dime stuff is starting to add up.
And now for the killer. You've got a new 70-CPU cluster. Your going to need someone to manage it. Cluster work is a bit different from what's what your used to, and your IT staff is already busy with their current workloads. It's time to hire a guy to manage the cluster. BZZZZZZZZZT. That hire alone makes the $40,000 a year for grid CPU time a deal.
Work the numbers yourself. It's not really a bad deal if you only occassionally need massive computing.
It might have been a slow leak of cabin pressure. Slow changes are hard to notice. I don't know what the trigger pressure is for the oxygen masks to drop, but if it's low enough, by the time they were triggered pressure might have gotten low enough that the pilots reaction times were significantly lowered.
There could be a number of sitiuations where algae might work better. Example, maybe you have a target thats covered with a glass/plexiglass/translucent-plastic plate on one side that you don't want to break (no simply injecting your payload into). It might not be a direct shot to the target area, so that air or liquid propellant might have it land in the wrong place. You could however shine a light on the right spot and have the algae swim around until it found it. I'm sure folks can think of others.
The manufacturing facility for more cargo carriers is a vat with some nutrients and sunlight. What's your simpler assembly line look like?
That's the GPL license. We are talking about the BSD license here (OpenBSD *isn't* GPL). There is no such restriction in the BSD license. If you think patents are a trouble spot, I'm sure your happy with the GPL license. But patent-exceptions aren't part if the BSD license, and people who like the BSD license aren't going to add them into it. I'm not going to sacrifice my *free* license just to be unified with a less-free GNU license. Sorry.
A pr0n movie, of course!
Don't forget you also get 100+ times as many moving parts that can fail and require repair. I'll pass.