I've been Windows-free for 8 months now. You know, many Linux programs require you to "su" before you install, lots of configuration scripts will throw shit in the KDE or other critical system areas.
...federally funded researchers just can't make more stem cell lines from aborted fetuses.
I think you're thinking of embryonic stem cells, not fetal stem cells. Embryonic stem cells are created in a laboratory, not taken from aborted fetuses.
This is a critical distinction. The most powerful potential uses come from DNA-matched embryonic stem cells, i.e. taking a donated ovum and fertilizing it with the patient's DNA to create an embryo. The microscopic embryo containing your DNA has it's stem cells extracted to be used in treatment. This treatment has become a partisan issue because of the Republican's cooption of the fundamentalist Christians - the ones that believe a human soul is created at conception. Certainly a minor ethical distinction but one very important to a small part of the Republican base.
You're thinking of the Rest Bonus system that World of Warcraft has implemented. I'm not on the beta, but just hearing about this system gives me hope for the future of massive games. Finally a MMORPG that I can play a few nights a week and still somewhat compete with the professional gamers (e.g. parents-basement players).
How about voting in Democrats with guts? The Libertarian candidate is articulate and well-informed, but people aren't going to take a computer programmer seriously.
Don't know what happened to these guys, but it worked just as smoothly for me as my last KDE upgrade. You can try it too! That's a beta Windows Update site.
TCP the implementations typically cannot hold millions of connections open.
My apologies for the compsci comment. It was uncalled for.
Regardless, replacing the 'close connection' portion of TCP with a database write to be used for subsequent re-attaching of an existing session merely moves the problem up a few layers. Portions of the millions of connections will still need to be reestablished -- requested by the clients (status quo), or with your method. The burden still exists.
The BitTorrent method is discussed elsewhere, I think one part of it is the best (application layer) solution. The normal TCP connect/data/disconnect-to-free-resource flow occurs, but part of the data is an update timer changed dynamically by load.
If a network layer change is needed, why not just have the clients listen for UDP packets, while the server sends out staccato connectionless uselessnews.rss based on the database you discussed?
Need better TCP stacks? I don't understand why you would break standard TCP in order to accomplish a scattered update. If it's really an issue, the server should just set a hard limit on hits to uselessinfo.rss and cease to return anything other than a 20-byte error message once that limit has been reached. There's _much_ more potential for dDOS with a modified TCP stack. Sounds like you learned a little bit about protocols in your compsci class and now everything is a TCP issue -- the problem is poor coding and obsessive geeks, and not the transport or network layers.
I don't see what the big deal is. If you don't care to pay the license fee, let your customers go elsewhere. If it's too expensive, your competitors' LAN centers will go out of business. End of story.
The extension/plugin model is never going to make it outside the niche until an "official" signing process is implemented on Mozilla's site. It shouldn't be an option to install an unsigned XPI by default (for the l33t ha40rz an about:config change could be made.) Users are trained to click 'OK' by default.
The Supreme Court isn't going to overturn this decision. The case mentioned in the writeup was a very narrow legal challenge to the definition of 'wiretap.' Fair game since there was no actual interception taking place. It's time to lobby for new laws, not make existing ones overly broad.
Wait until just one of the distro mirrors has an RPM modified. Do you think every linux user checks MD5sums against the author's site? I love my linux, but the lack of a standard application signing mechanism leaves me a little uneasy.
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How would you compare SuSE to Mandrake performance?
Never, ever mention Mother Jones in an argument. Instant loss of credibility, regardless of content.
Windows looks too much like OSX!
Are you being ironic? Unix forces you to edit crappily-documented text files scattered across the filesystem.
Agreed...on Linux you get to add the recreation of scripts necessary to launch mailto: links, etc. Anyone know the easiest way on Linux?
Who modded up this whiner? ;-)
I've been Windows-free for 8 months now. You know, many Linux programs require you to "su" before you install, lots of configuration scripts will throw shit in the KDE or other critical system areas.
I think you're thinking of embryonic stem cells, not fetal stem cells. Embryonic stem cells are created in a laboratory, not taken from aborted fetuses.
This is a critical distinction. The most powerful potential uses come from DNA-matched embryonic stem cells, i.e. taking a donated ovum and fertilizing it with the patient's DNA to create an embryo. The microscopic embryo containing your DNA has it's stem cells extracted to be used in treatment. This treatment has become a partisan issue because of the Republican's cooption of the fundamentalist Christians - the ones that believe a human soul is created at conception. Certainly a minor ethical distinction but one very important to a small part of the Republican base.
You're thinking of the Rest Bonus system that World of Warcraft has implemented. I'm not on the beta, but just hearing about this system gives me hope for the future of massive games. Finally a MMORPG that I can play a few nights a week and still somewhat compete with the professional gamers (e.g. parents-basement players).
How about voting in Democrats with guts? The Libertarian candidate is articulate and well-informed, but people aren't going to take a computer programmer seriously.
Don't know what happened to these guys, but it worked just as smoothly for me as my last KDE upgrade. You can try it too! That's a beta Windows Update site.
My apologies for the compsci comment. It was uncalled for.
Regardless, replacing the 'close connection' portion of TCP with a database write to be used for subsequent re-attaching of an existing session merely moves the problem up a few layers. Portions of the millions of connections will still need to be reestablished -- requested by the clients (status quo), or with your method. The burden still exists.
The BitTorrent method is discussed elsewhere, I think one part of it is the best (application layer) solution. The normal TCP connect/data/disconnect-to-free-resource flow occurs, but part of the data is an update timer changed dynamically by load.
If a network layer change is needed, why not just have the clients listen for UDP packets, while the server sends out staccato connectionless uselessnews.rss based on the database you discussed?
Need better TCP stacks? I don't understand why you would break standard TCP in order to accomplish a scattered update. If it's really an issue, the server should just set a hard limit on hits to uselessinfo.rss and cease to return anything other than a 20-byte error message once that limit has been reached. There's _much_ more potential for dDOS with a modified TCP stack. Sounds like you learned a little bit about protocols in your compsci class and now everything is a TCP issue -- the problem is poor coding and obsessive geeks, and not the transport or network layers.
Which makes one wonder...why do they keep it?
I don't see what the big deal is. If you don't care to pay the license fee, let your customers go elsewhere. If it's too expensive, your competitors' LAN centers will go out of business. End of story.
My advice: stop yer whining, learn office politics. OSS has no single-app replacement for Outlook w/ Exchange.
The extension/plugin model is never going to make it outside the niche until an "official" signing process is implemented on Mozilla's site. It shouldn't be an option to install an unsigned XPI by default (for the l33t ha40rz an about:config change could be made.) Users are trained to click 'OK' by default.
The Supreme Court isn't going to overturn this decision. The case mentioned in the writeup was a very narrow legal challenge to the definition of 'wiretap.' Fair game since there was no actual interception taking place. It's time to lobby for new laws, not make existing ones overly broad.
Wait until just one of the distro mirrors has an RPM modified. Do you think every linux user checks MD5sums against the author's site? I love my linux, but the lack of a standard application signing mechanism leaves me a little uneasy.
I'm deepest!
Joe Sixpack also doesn't read EFF pseudo-lawsuits, so no harm done.
The IT director of USBank should be fired, I agree.
I suppose your usage does demonstrate human vanity or folly. My apologies. ;-)
Apache-hosted servers are Slashdotted every single day. Not sure if any single-server site could withstand a Slashdotting.
How is it ironic? A funny coincidence perhaps.