Remember kids, its bad to let your government try to control you by invoking fear of torture or threats. Don't give in and let them try to control you.
But I'm not afraid of being tortured and threatened by my (the US) government.
Traditionally government spooks have relied upon the eggheads at the NSA to be one step ahead of civilian encryption, not secretly leaning on manufacturers to force them to put in back doors.
It's what they're being allowed to do, by a society that prefers the cheap thrill of confrontation to the long struggle of toleration.
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I'm not suggesting that we should weather Islamism by giving in to it - I'm suggesting that we should weather it by refusing to modify our open, tolerant, liberal societies in response to a spectacular but statistically insignificant level of violence.
Statistically insignificant levels of violence grow into statistically significant levels of violence if you tolerate it.
Tony Blair said the right words: if you imigrate to the West, you are generally expected to live by the West's values; otherwise, GO HOME!!!!!
those might be virtual appliances and there will be an actual appliance that runs (whichever virtual machine software) so they have some place to run. No one is going to want to buy a bunch of PCs to perform tasks which could be handled by some percentage of a PC.
The thing that really worries me about VMs (and big SANs, for that matter) is the old phrase
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
Distributing resources across multiple systems reduces the risk that "a broken basket breaks all your eggs", and gets you fired for putting the company's data in such a vulnerable state.
I could see this as a good topic for a Computer Science thesis, rather than a Sociology thesis. In a Sociology thesis, you'd do more exploration of the cultures and outside influences, whereas in a Computer Science thesis, you'd focus more on how these outside influences have historically determined the end-product and what sort of trends one can see in computing/programming based on culture. Either way, a lot of those megacorps would eat this stuff up, in terms of the "global economy" and outsourcing.
What a load of crap!! When did CompSci turn into a soft science?
A Computer SCIENCE thesis is supposed to stretch the bounds of computer SCIENCE. Go develop a new algorithm or something.
Either way, a lot of those megacorps would eat this stuff up, in terms of the "global economy" and outsourcing.
I'm sure they would. From a sociologist. CompSci PhDs are supposed to have hard knowledge, not fluffy poof.
'm starting my PhD in computing science and I'm interested in understanding how computing technologies are shaped by the cultural environment where they are originally created.
Comp Sci???
Are you sure you aren't really getting a PhD in Sociology??
What sort of improvements can we expect with these patches?
We, those who surf the web, play music, write email, host web servers and run databases will see no improvments.
Those who control tiny systems with ARM and MIPS CPUs will find life more consistent, because now there is The Official Real-Time Kernel, instead of a variety of non-similar patch schemes.
Initially we built 3Gb filesystems - we couldn't back then up, the sequential file pointer in HPUX can only address 2Tb, which meant we couldn't copy the whole filesystem to tape. I had to rebuild with max 2Tb filesystem.
Then, Veritas Netbackup can only parallelise backups in different directory trees so I was taking ages to perform a full back up - 18 - 19 hours (bit of a bugger in a 24hr backup window).
This has always puzzled and concerned me about Unix.
Mainframes and minicomputer OSs like OpenVMS have had parallel database backups for years.
10 CPUs, 50 disk packs, and 10 tape drives each on a separate SCSI card. Whoosh, you pump your database out there in parallel using a vendor utility.
Which makes growing the database really sticky because we have to allocate new filesystems, rather than grow the ones we've got.
Why grow your existing filesystem? That just puts all your eggs in one basket.
I can barely fill a 250GB drive, and most of it is taken up by barely-touched pr0n.
The people who use massive disks now and in the future will be businesses and government agencies, if for no other reason than bureaucracies like to keep records.
They did that so that they could have a copy of the actual printed output that you recieved, and the reason it was dot matrix is because that's the only thing that will apply pressure so that the carbon paper can copy.
You expect logic and analysis from a recent University graduate? Snicker.
Well, I've got some very thick tomes that came with an early version of Office; hell, I've got a pretty thick book that came with MS-DOS.
Exactly. Early versions.
let's face it - Word '97 really isn't much different than Word 'now when all you're doing is typing stuff and occasionally changing the font, which is more than what 99% of its users need.
Agree. Word 97 & Excel 97 are still adequate to my uses. Outlook 2003 is better, though, because of filtering. It's a step back from Outlook 2002, though, in some respects.
for the gamers out there (and there are quite a few last I heard), their choice of OS is pretty damn limited.
Circular, self-reinforcing argument.
Only Windows gets preinstalled, so that's what the game companys write to. Since all the games are written for Windows, gamers want to stay on Windows.
though the bits about partitioning were mind-boggling to me.
Geez, I must be old, since I remember using MS-DOS 2.x FDISK. And reading about it in the excellent manual! No wonder fdisk doesn't boggle my mind.
I'm sure I could have become pretty competent soon enough.
My wife did, with very few problems. GNOME + Evolution + OpenOffice + Mozilla, and now Firefox & Thunderbird.
You're not saying a girl is smarter than you, are you?;)
many manufacturers aren't going to want to bother creating linux drivers, especially if it means that they need to GPL them
All they need to do is supply the documentation, and someone else will do it for them.
Or, they could do what NVIDIA does, and create a GPL stub that interfaces with the closed-source driver. That's what my machine is running now.
Even more annoying to me, though, are the categories they are asking for - love, hope, anger, sorrow, beauty, etc. - with no category for scientific information.
Certainly you don't expect rational thought from an artist who wants to shoot a laser from the top of a Mexican pyramid?
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Well duh! Those transformers and magnets suck up a lot of juice.
But that's what VESA and EnergyStar are for. Set xscreensaver for Off After 20 minutes, and go to work, school, bed, etc.
and if you care at all how much power you use, you should buy an lcd)
Or save a bunch of money and buy a 20" flat-screen CRT that powers off after 20 minutes.
ROTFLMAO
But I'm not afraid of being tortured and threatened by my (the US) government.
Blah, blah, blah.
Show me an example of anyone besides (suspected) terrorists who have been extraordinarily rendered (by the US, anyway).
What's "civilian AES"?
Who wants freedom when you are so easily bribed with bread and circuses?
Moving to a society that their belief system is more in tune with.
?????????????
I'm not suggesting that we should weather Islamism by giving in to it - I'm suggesting that we should weather it by refusing to modify our open, tolerant, liberal societies in response to a spectacular but statistically insignificant level of violence.
Statistically insignificant levels of violence grow into statistically significant levels of violence if you tolerate it.
Tony Blair said the right words: if you imigrate to the West, you are generally expected to live by the West's values; otherwise, GO HOME!!!!!
Theo Van Gogh was assassinated in Holland by a radical Muslim. No need for some nebulous GWOT, the
The thing that really worries me about VMs (and big SANs, for that matter) is the old phrase
Distributing resources across multiple systems reduces the risk that "a broken basket breaks all your eggs", and gets you fired for putting the company's data in such a vulnerable state.
What a load of crap!! When did CompSci turn into a soft science?
A Computer SCIENCE thesis is supposed to stretch the bounds of computer SCIENCE. Go develop a new algorithm or something.
Either way, a lot of those megacorps would eat this stuff up, in terms of the "global economy" and outsourcing.
I'm sure they would. From a sociologist. CompSci PhDs are supposed to have hard knowledge, not fluffy poof.
Comp Sci???
Are you sure you aren't really getting a PhD in Sociology??
Really? The Good Old Days really *were* good, I guess.
If you make that suggestion, maybe the Uni will see it as a new revenue stream and implement it.
We, those who surf the web, play music, write email, host web servers and run databases will see no improvments.
Those who control tiny systems with ARM and MIPS CPUs will find life more consistent, because now there is The Official Real-Time Kernel, instead of a variety of non-similar patch schemes.
Make them an official part of the kernel.
I'd ask if you RTFA, but of course it's pointless.
I'd have never graduaded University without WordStar, the KayPro II and it's beautifully clear green screen.
Still, that's comparing a hopped-up Datsun B210 to a Mercedes 300D.
The Datsun is certainly nice and functional, but can't beat the MB.
Obviously you've never used OpenVMS.
Then, Veritas Netbackup can only parallelise backups in different directory trees so I was taking ages to perform a full back up - 18 - 19 hours (bit of a bugger in a 24hr backup window).
This has always puzzled and concerned me about Unix.
Mainframes and minicomputer OSs like OpenVMS have had parallel database backups for years.
10 CPUs, 50 disk packs, and 10 tape drives each on a separate SCSI card. Whoosh, you pump your database out there in parallel using a vendor utility.
Which makes growing the database really sticky because we have to allocate new filesystems, rather than grow the ones we've got.
Why grow your existing filesystem? That just puts all your eggs in one basket.
Where?
But even if it were 32-bit pixels, that would mean the movie would "only" be 74TB.
By now you don't even now what to do with 1024PB
I can barely fill a 250GB drive, and most of it is taken up by barely-touched pr0n.
The people who use massive disks now and in the future will be businesses and government agencies, if for no other reason than bureaucracies like to keep records.
How is repeating a newspaper story considered "To run about and tattle; to tell idle tales"?
She died in some off-beat accident that only Gil Grissom could deduce.
You expect logic and analysis from a recent University graduate? Snicker.
Exactly. Early versions.
let's face it - Word '97 really isn't much different than Word 'now when all you're doing is typing stuff and occasionally changing the font, which is more than what 99% of its users need.
Agree. Word 97 & Excel 97 are still adequate to my uses. Outlook 2003 is better, though, because of filtering. It's a step back from Outlook 2002, though, in some respects.
for the gamers out there (and there are quite a few last I heard), their choice of OS is pretty damn limited.
Circular, self-reinforcing argument.
Only Windows gets preinstalled, so that's what the game companys write to. Since all the games are written for Windows, gamers want to stay on Windows.
though the bits about partitioning were mind-boggling to me.
Geez, I must be old, since I remember using MS-DOS 2.x FDISK. And reading about it in the excellent manual! No wonder fdisk doesn't boggle my mind.
I'm sure I could have become pretty competent soon enough.
My wife did, with very few problems. GNOME + Evolution + OpenOffice + Mozilla, and now Firefox & Thunderbird.
You're not saying a girl is smarter than you, are you?
many manufacturers aren't going to want to bother creating linux drivers, especially if it means that they need to GPL them
All they need to do is supply the documentation, and someone else will do it for them.
Or, they could do what NVIDIA does, and create a GPL stub that interfaces with the closed-source driver. That's what my machine is running now.
Certainly you don't expect rational thought from an artist who wants to shoot a laser from the top of a Mexican pyramid?