OK... agreed, but that's not what I was talking about. By "web client" I meant client-side web software, usually called "browser" but not necessarily used for "browsing". Useful for e.g. downloading system software updates, taking a peek at some HTML-format documentation while you're standing at the server rack, etc. I generally have at least one machine in each rack with a GUI on it and part of that GUI is a HTML-renderer / HTTP-client, i.e. a web browser. It's not strictly absolutely necessary but often pretty handy.
Uhh, the Roadster is built on a Lotus Elise body and frame. If you are looking at a $50+k road hugging high performance vehicle full of win and awesome, the Lotus Esprit screams it at 8000 RPMs.
How a post that confuses an Elise with the Esprit(which hasn't been made since 2004)got +5 insightful I'll never know.
An insightful post with an insignificant error in it, how extraordinary!
People who don't know Lotus don't care about the difference between Elise and Esprit; people who do know Lotus can't possibly be confused by the obvious slip-up.
Well not guilt per se but methinks we Germans have a certain obligation of making sure Auschwitz will never happen again, at least not on German grounds.
Maybe the next Auschwitz will happen on Polish grounds instead. Oh, wait...
Or a friggin' write-protect jumper on the flash, which is actually present in the PCB wiring of most motherboards but 99% of the time the manufacturer is too cheap to solder on the pins. Actually it's not the 1 cent manufacturing cost they save but the zillions of tech support calls from clueless users desperate to reflash their BIOS (usually for no good reason) but unable to locate the WP jumper with both hands and a map.
Hardware flash WP has been high on my list of mobo spec priorities for years but it's nearly impossible to find, since that's not an advertising bullet on the spec sheet. This is huge for systems that play different roles with interchangeable cold-swap system drives. If I'm running an untrusted sandbox system on a scratch drive and some malware silently infects the flash BIOS, that system is now untrustable even with a system drive swap, which totally sucks in testing/development labs. If I could just set a jumper and permanently write-protect the BIOS that problem would go away.
Many believe the only reason they licensed it in the first place was to prevent legal action by the justice department.
They licensed long before there was any danger of monopoly accusations. The reason was that certain large customers would not commit to any long term purchase contracts without an available second source (in case the primary source went out of business or decided to stop production of the item). AMD et al were basically a checkbox on the requirements list to make a few big sales.
"Incorrect thinking" is a problem of politics or religion. Science discards less useful models and nomenclature in favor of more useful ones. As more data are gathered and models refined, sometimes classifications are revised to increase their utility. The scientific definition of "planet" would be one such classification. There's nothing particularly "incorrect" about thinking of Pluto as a planet, but if you speak that way you're less likely to be understood properly by scientists specializing in the study of near-Earth astronomy. The Illinois legislature has basically proclaimed that it wants nothing to do with organized astronomy, which is fine, presuming the people of Illinois don't want any astronomers or NASA-related contracts in their state.
I use SeaMonkey, which is theoretically the same engine as FireFox (with a better UI, IMHO). I leave it running for weeks at a time and I've never seen it go past 200MB; usually it's well under 100. Either FireFox is doing something very differently, or people are doing things with web browsers that I can't imagine.
"Hmm... renter in good standing making monthly payments, owner in bad standing not making monthly payments. Maybe we should offer them the house in exchange for them continuing to pay. The worst that could happen is they say no and move out."
The tenants won't want to take over the loan, because it's for more than the house is worth (otherwise the owner would have sold instead of defaulting). The rent doesn't cover the mortgage, or the owner would have continued making payments (most likely an ARM that went up after rent was fixed). So there's no way to make this work other than the bank becoming landlord and renting at a loss. I guess that's just not a business the banks want to be in.
Best case would be if the bank could make a realistic appraisal of how much the house will actually sell for in a foreclosure auction and immediately offer it to the tenants for that much before evicting them. But that would require the bank to be realistic about how much the house is actually worth now, and nobody's willing to do that yet -- everybody still dreams that this is just a temporary blip, that the real estate market will recover and we'll all be rich again.
Fact is most criminals are not particularly clever - often they make mind-numbimgly stupid mistakes.
Who collects the statistics on crimes that go unnoticed? Maybe most criminals are smart and never get caught; we only hear about the occasional idiots who leave a very clear trail behind them.
Doesn't handwritten assembly have the potential to be much faster than assembly compiled from C?
Short answer: no.
Correct answer: Yes.
Useful answer: If you have to ask, don't bother trying it in any real application. The keyword above is "potential", which you almost certainly won't be able to realize unless you're already a very high-level wizard of low-level programming.
(It also depends on what you mean by "much faster". You're not going to get 10x but you could get 2x.)
It's conceivable that some hard drives may have the capability of disabling ECC and PRML decoding, and send the raw signal values from the read heads to the controller. (For all I know such capabilities could even be in the ATAPI spec.) A custom driver (i.e., software) could use that capability and do some kind of magical analysis to get probable past values of zero-overwritten sectors.
BS is a much more likely alternative explanation, IMHO.
If you're not scared of suicidal lunatics with nukes, you're not thinking it through. This is a completely different kind of threat from terrorism. We're talking real nukes here, multi-kiloton fission bombs, not chemical explosives with a little radioactive seasoning on top. This is serious military power, not just a flashy show of killing a few people to try to scare the rest.
It is sometimes considered a bad form to say something bad about fellow techies.
Yeah, right. If there's anything professionals love to do, it's talk trash about their peers. What's the first thing a computer guy says when you bring him in to fix a broken system? "My god, what idiot spec'd/built/installed/configured this piece of garbage? It's a miracle it ever worked at all!" Ditto every other kind of professional, from plumber to surgeon to architect to accountant.
(As such a professional, I often discover that the idiot I'm complaining about was me.)
The only body that has the right to say something is unconstitutional is the Supreme Court.
Perhaps you've never read the First Amendment? Everybody has the right to say that something is unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is the only body with the power to be taken seriously about such things by the rest of the government. Actually, that's not quite right -- the voters also have that power.
(I assume we're talking Constitutional theory here, not real world politics where the President ignores Congress, Congress ignores the Supreme Court, everybody ignores the voters, and big corporations are the only bodies with the power to do anything significant.)
Colorado is the most awesomest. People pull over to let you by on 2-lane mountain roads, even when you're the only vehicle behind them and they're doing the speed limit. You don't even have to tailgate. Just come up on them fast and they actually notice it in their rearviews. Wow.
Libertarianism is "not reality" only in that it's not the actual party in power. It's as realistic as any other political paradigm. My point is that libertarian political philosophers and Libertarian Party leaders really have worked through the "real world" details, and they make at least as much sense as Republicans or Socialists. My beef with the Party and the philosophy is not that they haven't absolutely perfected every response to every conceivable deficiency (which seems to be your beef) but that they haven't had any effect on the political landscape. If we're not going to be effective anyway, we may as well not bother with compromise.
Your critique of libertarianism, like most such critiques, is aimed much more squarely at anarchism than libertarianism; libertarianism is rather moderate in how it prioritizes individual liberty with respect to other requirements of civilized society. A more appropriate critique might involve the libertarian assumption that people are generally capable of rationally acting in their own best interests.
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OK... agreed, but that's not what I was talking about. By "web client" I meant client-side web software, usually called "browser" but not necessarily used for "browsing". Useful for e.g. downloading system software updates, taking a peek at some HTML-format documentation while you're standing at the server rack, etc. I generally have at least one machine in each rack with a GUI on it and part of that GUI is a HTML-renderer / HTTP-client, i.e. a web browser. It's not strictly absolutely necessary but often pretty handy.
"having web client software installed" != "plinking around randomly on youtube all day"
There are often very good reasons to have a usable and reasonably secure web browser installed on a server system.
An insightful post with an insignificant error in it, how extraordinary!
People who don't know Lotus don't care about the difference between Elise and Esprit; people who do know Lotus can't possibly be confused by the obvious slip-up.
Maybe the next Auschwitz will happen on Polish grounds instead. Oh, wait...
Or a friggin' write-protect jumper on the flash, which is actually present in the PCB wiring of most motherboards but 99% of the time the manufacturer is too cheap to solder on the pins. Actually it's not the 1 cent manufacturing cost they save but the zillions of tech support calls from clueless users desperate to reflash their BIOS (usually for no good reason) but unable to locate the WP jumper with both hands and a map.
Hardware flash WP has been high on my list of mobo spec priorities for years but it's nearly impossible to find, since that's not an advertising bullet on the spec sheet. This is huge for systems that play different roles with interchangeable cold-swap system drives. If I'm running an untrusted sandbox system on a scratch drive and some malware silently infects the flash BIOS, that system is now untrustable even with a system drive swap, which totally sucks in testing/development labs. If I could just set a jumper and permanently write-protect the BIOS that problem would go away.
They licensed long before there was any danger of monopoly accusations. The reason was that certain large customers would not commit to any long term purchase contracts without an available second source (in case the primary source went out of business or decided to stop production of the item). AMD et al were basically a checkbox on the requirements list to make a few big sales.
"Incorrect thinking" is a problem of politics or religion. Science discards less useful models and nomenclature in favor of more useful ones. As more data are gathered and models refined, sometimes classifications are revised to increase their utility. The scientific definition of "planet" would be one such classification. There's nothing particularly "incorrect" about thinking of Pluto as a planet, but if you speak that way you're less likely to be understood properly by scientists specializing in the study of near-Earth astronomy. The Illinois legislature has basically proclaimed that it wants nothing to do with organized astronomy, which is fine, presuming the people of Illinois don't want any astronomers or NASA-related contracts in their state.
I use SeaMonkey, which is theoretically the same engine as FireFox (with a better UI, IMHO). I leave it running for weeks at a time and I've never seen it go past 200MB; usually it's well under 100. Either FireFox is doing something very differently, or people are doing things with web browsers that I can't imagine.
The tenants won't want to take over the loan, because it's for more than the house is worth (otherwise the owner would have sold instead of defaulting). The rent doesn't cover the mortgage, or the owner would have continued making payments (most likely an ARM that went up after rent was fixed). So there's no way to make this work other than the bank becoming landlord and renting at a loss. I guess that's just not a business the banks want to be in.
Best case would be if the bank could make a realistic appraisal of how much the house will actually sell for in a foreclosure auction and immediately offer it to the tenants for that much before evicting them. But that would require the bank to be realistic about how much the house is actually worth now, and nobody's willing to do that yet -- everybody still dreams that this is just a temporary blip, that the real estate market will recover and we'll all be rich again.
Who collects the statistics on crimes that go unnoticed? Maybe most criminals are smart and never get caught; we only hear about the occasional idiots who leave a very clear trail behind them.
My home network has a whimsical system naming scheme. I'm single, no kids, not even a cat. So much for the rebellion theory.
Maybe only ~7 kg of your body is "you" and the other ~70 kg is bacteria.
Or maybe what the other guys said, about how bacteria are smaller than human cells.
Correct answer: Yes.
Useful answer: If you have to ask, don't bother trying it in any real application. The keyword above is "potential", which you almost certainly won't be able to realize unless you're already a very high-level wizard of low-level programming.
(It also depends on what you mean by "much faster". You're not going to get 10x but you could get 2x.)
Surely you mean "underserved" rather than "undeserved"?
It's also good near-Earth practice for eventual asteroid belt mining operations.
My parser just exploded. Can anyone help?
It's conceivable that some hard drives may have the capability of disabling ECC and PRML decoding, and send the raw signal values from the read heads to the controller. (For all I know such capabilities could even be in the ATAPI spec.) A custom driver (i.e., software) could use that capability and do some kind of magical analysis to get probable past values of zero-overwritten sectors.
BS is a much more likely alternative explanation, IMHO.
If you're not scared of suicidal lunatics with nukes, you're not thinking it through. This is a completely different kind of threat from terrorism. We're talking real nukes here, multi-kiloton fission bombs, not chemical explosives with a little radioactive seasoning on top. This is serious military power, not just a flashy show of killing a few people to try to scare the rest.
Yeah, right. If there's anything professionals love to do, it's talk trash about their peers. What's the first thing a computer guy says when you bring him in to fix a broken system? "My god, what idiot spec'd/built/installed/configured this piece of garbage? It's a miracle it ever worked at all!" Ditto every other kind of professional, from plumber to surgeon to architect to accountant.
(As such a professional, I often discover that the idiot I'm complaining about was me.)
How the hell can a glimpse of a healthy female breast possibly be considered offensive by anyone??? That's the craziest fucking thing I've ever heard.
Perhaps you've never read the First Amendment? Everybody has the right to say that something is unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is the only body with the power to be taken seriously about such things by the rest of the government. Actually, that's not quite right -- the voters also have that power.
(I assume we're talking Constitutional theory here, not real world politics where the President ignores Congress, Congress ignores the Supreme Court, everybody ignores the voters, and big corporations are the only bodies with the power to do anything significant.)
The only sane reason I can think of to put an EULA on free software is to disclaim liability.
Colorado is the most awesomest. People pull over to let you by on 2-lane mountain roads, even when you're the only vehicle behind them and they're doing the speed limit. You don't even have to tailgate. Just come up on them fast and they actually notice it in their rearviews. Wow.
Gesundheit!
Libertarianism is "not reality" only in that it's not the actual party in power. It's as realistic as any other political paradigm. My point is that libertarian political philosophers and Libertarian Party leaders really have worked through the "real world" details, and they make at least as much sense as Republicans or Socialists. My beef with the Party and the philosophy is not that they haven't absolutely perfected every response to every conceivable deficiency (which seems to be your beef) but that they haven't had any effect on the political landscape. If we're not going to be effective anyway, we may as well not bother with compromise.
Your critique of libertarianism, like most such critiques, is aimed much more squarely at anarchism than libertarianism; libertarianism is rather moderate in how it prioritizes individual liberty with respect to other requirements of civilized society. A more appropriate critique might involve the libertarian assumption that people are generally capable of rationally acting in their own best interests.