Imagine a house where RJ-11 comes in to the DSL router in the basement, which goes out to a switch, which goes to a patch panel, which goes to the house's wiring, which goes to a RJ-45 faceplate....Dipshit.
Speaking as a small-time sysadmin myself, I disagree on principle--ATA Raid for critical servers becomes a great idea once you realize that you can buy 2 1TB-usable RAID5 machines with 3Ware ATA RAID controllers for less than the price of a single 1TB-usable RAID5 SCSI machine.
Granted, I'm fully in agreement with you--SCSI is more reliable and better for processing servers etc. But when it comes down to a cost-effective way to get a hell of a lot of disk, I can heartily recommend the 3Ware Escalade stuff. Just make sure you build it with redundant servers in mind or you buy their hot-swapping gear. And don't use it with older/smaller Western Digital drives--there's a bug. =P
What you misheard/misunderstood was the standard NASA procedure for data. The Principal Investigator gets the data exclusively for a year, then it's released into the public domain along with the specs/calibration data needed to analyze it.
Yes, and this is why they embargo the Hubble pictures too.
Just because it is standard procedure doesn't make it right. When I wrote out my check for taxes this last week, some of that money goes to fund NASA. The public funds NASA in its entirety. So, they should have access to the data at the same time as anyone else, IMNSHO.
Sounds fair to me--everyone in the US makes an equal contribution to the project, EXCEPT the Principal Investigaotor, who contributes the idea and designs to the project. Therefore, for his extra work, he gets exclusive access to data for a year. For YOUR contribution, you get full access to the data, time-delayed.
Speaking as a taxpayer, you don't have anything to whine about unless you are completely denied access to the data. Which you aren't.
WTF was the point of punishing them for eating from the Tree of Knowledge then, if they already had the knowledge that they would gain from it (a conscience)?
Actually, if you read his entire proof, he outlines the steps he takes to get there, which include a pretty complete consideration of how we can begin to trust our observations.
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Ever heard the phrase "time will tell?" Well time has indeed "told", still after 2000 years of people who believe in Jesus. And going strong.
If time will tell, I guess we'd better all convert to Hinduism then.
The whole aspect of living out your faith today entails making sacrifices and suffering because Christ did that for us.
I mean, seriously, WTF. Christ sacrificed and suffered so we would no longer have to. Jesus, (pun intended) why do people think that Christianity implies self-sacrifice and suffering. Just be a good person!
You need to be using better weapons. Holding the mouse button down for ~5sec before you hit can get one-hit kills on just about any normal adversary, assuming you're using a mid-range weapon (base damage in the ~20-30ish range) and can actually hit something with your skill level.
Well, back in the good old days when 4MB was "more RAM", you generally only had a machine with relatively large amounts of RAM if you were processing a similarly large amount of data.
Joe User would have a machine with 4MB RAM and 8MB swap for his word processing and Ultima 2 or whatever.
Stan Scientific would have a machine with 32MB RAM and 64MB swap because he probably was going to eventually have to deal with datasets larger than 32MB (if you've done ANY scientific computing over historical datasets, you know what I mean).
Basically, more RAM implies you should be swapping less, for a home system. But for a server or high-end processing computer, more RAM implies you need vast amounts of RAM in general, and swap doesn't hurt.
We like patents on mechanical devices that can be built, demonstrated as a physical object, and are noticably innovative. (such as noticable improvements in fuel injection systems etc.)
We hate patents on software, business methods, and anything else which cannot be built or demonstrated as a physical object. (such as one-click purchasing as in Amazon, or patents for things for which no prototype exists)
No one has because any declaratory judgement would be contingent on the decision of the IBM/SCO case already being decided.
Declaratory Judgements only work when the issues at hand are not already being decided in the courts--once someone actually sues one of the targets over the issue, it's pointless to file a DJ suit.
Because DJ suits boil down to "They're threatening to sue me, and I want it decided once and for all rather than living with threats." If the judge can look at the DJ suit and say "this point is already being judged elsewhere" it can't go anywhere because it's already going, know what I'm saying?
*raises hand* I'm a corporate IT type, and I read his benchmarks. Along with about three others on a regular basis. Because sometimes, "real work" tends to scale pretty similarly to game performance--especially when that real work is a lot of 3D graphic operations.
Well, mostly because Outlook is a dog, and Thunderbird works.
That, and the price is right for Thunderbird (I don't get Outlook free, just OE which is measurably inferior IMHO), which is the advantage of Open Source in this instance. That, and the fact that to my knowledge Thunderbird has never randomly executed malicious code in an e-mail, as Outlook has been known to do on occasion.
Y'see, that's never bothered me. I'm fortunate enough to have a machine that's the mail server for my domain, and it filters literally 99.5% of the spam before I see it. Since it's co-lo'ed on a free pipe, I don't care about its bandwidth, and since it's not doing anything but being a mail server, I don't care how much CPU time spamassassin takes up. =P
I think the main reason that European democracies are more "in touch with the people" despite the dishonesty of politicians everywhere is that the people's experience of bad government is MUCH closer, historically speaking, in Europe--certainly there are large numbers who remember what it's like to live under a fascist or a communist dictator. When you realize that almost all European countries have only had their current form of government for at most ~50 years, and many less, especially in the Eastern Bloc...
Give 'em a hundred years or so. They'll get as corrupt as the US gov't is now.
Minor nitpick--there are two versions of the Hellfire missile. One is laser-guided, and not fire-and-forget. One is radar-guided, and is most definitely fire-and-forget. And much more expensive per shot, but them's the breaks.
Agreed we need a new self-propelled artillery piece. Not sure Crusader is it.
Yes, but some hosting providers will sell multiple web addresses/domains on a single server to various people. So one of these people associated with 123.123.123.123 is a spammer, and the rest are small businesses, personal pages, random whatever. NOW who's getting hurt by your plan?
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Yeah, we've had SEVERAL aircraft mounted with high-power kilowatt lasers. The first one, IIRC, was a 707 back in the 70s.
Imagine a house where RJ-11 comes in to the DSL router in the basement, which goes out to a switch, which goes to a patch panel, which goes to the house's wiring, which goes to a RJ-45 faceplate. ...Dipshit.
Speaking as a small-time sysadmin myself, I disagree on principle--ATA Raid for critical servers becomes a great idea once you realize that you can buy 2 1TB-usable RAID5 machines with 3Ware ATA RAID controllers for less than the price of a single 1TB-usable RAID5 SCSI machine.
Granted, I'm fully in agreement with you--SCSI is more reliable and better for processing servers etc. But when it comes down to a cost-effective way to get a hell of a lot of disk, I can heartily recommend the 3Ware Escalade stuff. Just make sure you build it with redundant servers in mind or you buy their hot-swapping gear. And don't use it with older/smaller Western Digital drives--there's a bug. =P
If most scientists could get more money by working for private firms, they would already.
They ARE already. To the detriment of us all.
Or, most scientists would work for private firms for more money, and there would be NOTHING released.
What you misheard/misunderstood was the standard NASA procedure for data. The Principal Investigator gets the data exclusively for a year, then it's released into the public domain along with the specs/calibration data needed to analyze it.
Yes, and this is why they embargo the Hubble pictures too.
Just because it is standard procedure doesn't make it right. When I wrote out my check for taxes this last week, some of that money goes to fund NASA. The public funds NASA in its entirety. So, they should have access to the data at the same time as anyone else, IMNSHO.
Sounds fair to me--everyone in the US makes an equal contribution to the project, EXCEPT the Principal Investigaotor, who contributes the idea and designs to the project. Therefore, for his extra work, he gets exclusive access to data for a year. For YOUR contribution, you get full access to the data, time-delayed.
Speaking as a taxpayer, you don't have anything to whine about unless you are completely denied access to the data. Which you aren't.
WTF was the point of punishing them for eating from the Tree of Knowledge then, if they already had the knowledge that they would gain from it (a conscience)?
Seems like YOU need to re-read.
Actually, if you read his entire proof, he outlines the steps he takes to get there, which include a pretty complete consideration of how we can begin to trust our observations.
Ever heard the phrase "time will tell?" Well time has indeed "told", still after 2000 years of people who believe in Jesus. And going strong.
If time will tell, I guess we'd better all convert to Hinduism then.
The whole aspect of living out your faith today entails making sacrifices and suffering because Christ did that for us.
I mean, seriously, WTF. Christ sacrificed and suffered so we would no longer have to. Jesus, (pun intended) why do people think that Christianity implies self-sacrifice and suffering. Just be a good person!
Eh, my stock 2k3 Neon SXT can do 110 MPH easily, though I haven't pushed it as hard as it can go yet.
You need to be using better weapons. Holding the mouse button down for ~5sec before you hit can get one-hit kills on just about any normal adversary, assuming you're using a mid-range weapon (base damage in the ~20-30ish range) and can actually hit something with your skill level.
Well, back in the good old days when 4MB was "more RAM", you generally only had a machine with relatively large amounts of RAM if you were processing a similarly large amount of data.
Joe User would have a machine with 4MB RAM and 8MB swap for his word processing and Ultima 2 or whatever.
Stan Scientific would have a machine with 32MB RAM and 64MB swap because he probably was going to eventually have to deal with datasets larger than 32MB (if you've done ANY scientific computing over historical datasets, you know what I mean).
Basically, more RAM implies you should be swapping less, for a home system.
But for a server or high-end processing computer, more RAM implies you need vast amounts of RAM in general, and swap doesn't hurt.
How the fsck did you go from
7/3 * a^2 = 400
to
a^2 = 40 ?
Should be a^2 = 171.429, a = 13.09, dimensions = 13.09" x 17.46"
Reverse it to check gives us 304.85 + 171.35 = c^2
22"....okay, so maybe I'm a bit off too. =P
We call them Packard Hells for a reason, mostly having to do with their Pentium-series machines.
Same as always:
We like patents on mechanical devices that can be built, demonstrated as a physical object, and are noticably innovative. (such as noticable improvements in fuel injection systems etc.)
We hate patents on software, business methods, and anything else which cannot be built or demonstrated as a physical object. (such as one-click purchasing as in Amazon, or patents for things for which no prototype exists)
No one has because any declaratory judgement would be contingent on the decision of the IBM/SCO case already being decided.
Declaratory Judgements only work when the issues at hand are not already being decided in the courts--once someone actually sues one of the targets over the issue, it's pointless to file a DJ suit.
Because DJ suits boil down to "They're threatening to sue me, and I want it decided once and for all rather than living with threats." If the judge can look at the DJ suit and say "this point is already being judged elsewhere" it can't go anywhere because it's already going, know what I'm saying?
*raises hand* I'm a corporate IT type, and I read his benchmarks. Along with about three others on a regular basis. Because sometimes, "real work" tends to scale pretty similarly to game performance--especially when that real work is a lot of 3D graphic operations.
Well, mostly because Outlook is a dog, and Thunderbird works.
That, and the price is right for Thunderbird (I don't get Outlook free, just OE which is measurably inferior IMHO), which is the advantage of Open Source in this instance. That, and the fact that to my knowledge Thunderbird has never randomly executed malicious code in an e-mail, as Outlook has been known to do on occasion.
Y'see, that's never bothered me. I'm fortunate enough to have a machine that's the mail server for my domain, and it filters literally 99.5% of the spam before I see it. Since it's co-lo'ed on a free pipe, I don't care about its bandwidth, and since it's not doing anything but being a mail server, I don't care how much CPU time spamassassin takes up. =P
Your mileage may vary, of course.
I think the main reason that European democracies are more "in touch with the people" despite the dishonesty of politicians everywhere is that the people's experience of bad government is MUCH closer, historically speaking, in Europe--certainly there are large numbers who remember what it's like to live under a fascist or a communist dictator. When you realize that almost all European countries have only had their current form of government for at most ~50 years, and many less, especially in the Eastern Bloc...
Give 'em a hundred years or so. They'll get as corrupt as the US gov't is now.
Just for the record, I got to #4.
Ridiculously enough, it was on legal content, too--mostly swapping around very large media files.
Minor nitpick--there are two versions of the Hellfire missile. One is laser-guided, and not fire-and-forget. One is radar-guided, and is most definitely fire-and-forget. And much more expensive per shot, but them's the breaks.
Agreed we need a new self-propelled artillery piece. Not sure Crusader is it.
Yes, but some hosting providers will sell multiple web addresses/domains on a single server to various people. So one of these people associated with 123.123.123.123 is a spammer, and the rest are small businesses, personal pages, random whatever. NOW who's getting hurt by your plan?
Your wish is answered. Grandparent is correct, parent is not yet enlightened into the ways of legitimate karma gain.