Just imagine how many lives would have been saved if people had been fully aware of the incompetent design of the Explorer and bought other cars instead.
Truly. Makes one wonder if there are internal memos in M$ that warn of the possible mayhem in IE and are swept under the rug like the Explorer chassis problems in Ford motor...
Oh, and for bonus points, both products are "Explorers";)
Recently, to work on my master's thesis, I moved my computer to my room (so I wouldn't have the rest of the family trampling around when I'm trying to concentrate). Bad move. It is depressing (in fact, I'm getting a time extension on my thesis due to stress and depression!), the computer/workplace within sight of your bed is haunting, and the scenery gets old in a little while...
I know, the computer-in-the-room is like a exreme version of office-at-home. But seriously, given the choice, I wouldn't do it again. I would rent space somewhere (because the trampling family IS a distraction) but never again the computer in the room.
Chile? You're holding up Chile as an example of a government that represents its people? Liberty? Democracy? A model for the US to follow? God help us all.
Dude, read the news. The plebiscite that got Pinochet outed was held in 1989, and Patricio Aylwin assumed his duties as president in 1990.
BTW, thanks for the US-instilled coup. (and you don't have to take me on faith on that, check the files that CLinton declassified before he ended his last term)
if, for example, you write "This guy sucks" over his name) your vote is to that guy
LMAO. People marking with "X" could do this too: Socialists could draw little pentagrams or swastikas next to Bush, and they have voted for him. Heh, heh. Then they could go to the courts claiming their vote should be counted as a "anybody-but-him vote".
It makes for lively discussion when its time for counting. Each voting table is manned by a "presidente" and two "vocales" (kinda witnesses) that are picked at random from the people who have to vote at that table. Also, every candidate has the right to a witness-representative to the counting, in every table. So people always argue those "defaced" votes. A friend of mine was representative for the counting on the last presidential election, and tried to argue that some guy who had drawn a dick over the other candidate's name wasn't expressing his preference:D (the guy got the vote)
because somebody is bound to make that "X" accross several boxes. And then we'll have discussions about who they tried to vote for.
We don't care who they tried to vote for. That's a null vote, and that's that.
At least, that how we do it in Chile. Ballot with names and horizontal lines, you draw a vertical line on the horizontal line beside your candidate's name, making a pretty "+". If you touch more than one line, you vote is null and void. If you do anything but a line but your scrawling only covers 1 candidate (as if, for example, you write "This guy sucks" over his name) your vote is to that guy. But it you write "candidate 1 for president over his name, and touch another candidate's name with the "t", for example, your vote is null.
This is what Transmeta needs to hype. Their processors are slow, and most people who have laptops plug them into walls 90% of the time, so battery life isn't all that important.
OTOH, a power-efficient, low-heat cluster with a cooling system that doesn't cost more than the machines that make the cluster is nothing to laugh at. Buy a transmeta-based cluster and you don't need a special contract with the electricity company! You don't need five-feet-thick walls for sound insulation! You don't need to pipe liquid nitrogen to your supercomputer!
Having an extra 100,000+ votes clearly stands out as an error. I would have been more concerned if it was a small enough number not to be detected, but a big enough number to affect close races.
So, how do you know the figure they produced later (5k votes) is right? The software has shown itself to be fallible (obviously, it's human made ferchrissakes!) but we only have the word of the company that "now it is ok".
I sure am happy my country still has "stone-age voting", making a single vertical line to cross an horizontal line beside the candidate's name with a soft lead pencil on a paper ballot. Votes are counted at each voting table by the people who staff it (who are chosen at random from the pool of people who vote in that particular table) and every candidate has a right to an observer to watch the vote counting, on every table.
How about this, I give you the finger, and you give me my $9.75 back.
LOL. Good one.
On a side note, $9.75? WTF?!?! I spent less than ten bucks... tickets for my fiancee and me, and a big soda! The perks of living outside the USA:)
And on another note, I think most people didn't like it because the humans don't get to pop a cap in the head computer's ass. What's wrong with a little peace? As I see it, the people who live outside the matrix are safe, the people who still like the matrix keep being happy as batteries, and those who want out get out (it's like if the "click here to remove from list" spam worked!) That's what's wrong with the Matrix... it teaches us that the solution to problems is "Guns. Lot's of them!";)
Implementation of a solid liasion with our providers. (i.e. get on the good side of local crack dealers)
Provide a nexus between production and quality control (getting the PR releases from the saliva-covered desk of the CEOs to a red-assed baboon for approval).
That's the big selling point of Solaris - it might not be fast, but it takes a hell of a lot to make it *slower*.
Yes, I know. It probably won't scale too well on linux. But the thing is, Sun is offering workstations as a bonus for the new CS dept. server (so it undercuts Dell servers). I sure would love Sun iron on the server, but keep your Sun workstations, we can manage pretty well with dual-booting PCs.
A couple of 17"s here. Trying for the 19s, but the cash is scarce, computer parts are expensive on this side of the world and I'm getting married:D (goodbye, senseless computer hardware expenditures!)
honestly, id like to see how linux stacks up vs solaris on sparc iron. personal experience easily declares ******* the winner, but then again, what do i know?
Well, I have some personal experience on this, and it declares ***** the winner. I won't tell you wich, but it has a cute penguin instead of a cup of coffee as it's mascot;)
We kidnapped a Sparc workstation and put debian in it. While the installation was a "riot", the performance kicks solaris' ass into the next neighborhood. In fact, the people at Systems Support were impressed, but it seems our Sun contract forbids us from running anything but solaris on the machines:( so we just kept that token machine and the comps lab still runs slowlaris.
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Truly. Makes one wonder if there are internal memos in M$ that warn of the possible mayhem in IE and are swept under the rug like the Explorer chassis problems in Ford motor...
Oh, and for bonus points, both products are "Explorers" ;)
I know, the computer-in-the-room is like a exreme version of office-at-home. But seriously, given the choice, I wouldn't do it again. I would rent space somewhere (because the trampling family IS a distraction) but never again the computer in the room.
I got stuck with the tonnage and never bothered to find out more (what? on slashdot!?! NO ;)
Interesting how clusters must have pushed refrigeration tech... the Big Mac cluster, if cooled with normal A/C, would have had 60MPH winds in there :D
Maybe that's because they've got HALF A TON of air conditioning equipment...
A topic in the gentoo forums tells of how to make an ebuild that will get the cvs source, patch it, build it and install it in your gentoo box.
Dude, read the news. The plebiscite that got Pinochet outed was held in 1989, and Patricio Aylwin assumed his duties as president in 1990.
BTW, thanks for the US-instilled coup. (and you don't have to take me on faith on that, check the files that CLinton declassified before he ended his last term)
It makes for lively discussion when its time for counting. Each voting table is manned by a "presidente" and two "vocales" (kinda witnesses) that are picked at random from the people who have to vote at that table. Also, every candidate has the right to a witness-representative to the counting, in every table. So people always argue those "defaced" votes. A friend of mine was representative for the counting on the last presidential election, and tried to argue that some guy who had drawn a dick over the other candidate's name wasn't expressing his preference :D (the guy got the vote)
We don't care who they tried to vote for. That's a null vote, and that's that.
At least, that how we do it in Chile. Ballot with names and horizontal lines, you draw a vertical line on the horizontal line beside your candidate's name, making a pretty "+". If you touch more than one line, you vote is null and void. If you do anything but a line but your scrawling only covers 1 candidate (as if, for example, you write "This guy sucks" over his name) your vote is to that guy. But it you write "candidate 1 for president over his name, and touch another candidate's name with the "t", for example, your vote is null.
OTOH, a power-efficient, low-heat cluster with a cooling system that doesn't cost more than the machines that make the cluster is nothing to laugh at. Buy a transmeta-based cluster and you don't need a special contract with the electricity company! You don't need five-feet-thick walls for sound insulation! You don't need to pipe liquid nitrogen to your supercomputer!
Bah, you're fishing for a way to make it sound right.
I could NOT care less => It is at the absolute bottom of my worry queue
What do you mean, the software is used to decide the next president?
So, how do you know the figure they produced later (5k votes) is right? The software has shown itself to be fallible (obviously, it's human made ferchrissakes!) but we only have the word of the company that "now it is ok".
I sure am happy my country still has "stone-age voting", making a single vertical line to cross an horizontal line beside the candidate's name with a soft lead pencil on a paper ballot. Votes are counted at each voting table by the people who staff it (who are chosen at random from the pool of people who vote in that particular table) and every candidate has a right to an observer to watch the vote counting, on every table.
LOL. Good one.
On a side note, $9.75? WTF?!?! I spent less than ten bucks... tickets for my fiancee and me, and a big soda! The perks of living outside the USA :)
And on another note, I think most people didn't like it because the humans don't get to pop a cap in the head computer's ass. What's wrong with a little peace? As I see it, the people who live outside the matrix are safe, the people who still like the matrix keep being happy as batteries, and those who want out get out (it's like if the "click here to remove from list" spam worked!) That's what's wrong with the Matrix... it teaches us that the solution to problems is "Guns. Lot's of them!" ;)
You're a terrorist now. Prepare for Guantanamo. Is Guantanamo a sort of Federal Pound-Me-In-The-Ass resort in the caribbean? :D
hmmm... gentoo-64-ppc anyone? :D (does it exist?)
Implementation of a solid liasion with our providers. (i.e. get on the good side of local crack dealers)
Provide a nexus between production and quality control (getting the PR releases from the saliva-covered desk of the CEOs to a red-assed baboon for approval).
???
Profit! or was it "sue!"?
Your forgot to add "on IBM hardware" :D
That's the big selling point of Solaris - it might not be fast, but it takes a hell of a lot to make it *slower*.
Yes, I know. It probably won't scale too well on linux. But the thing is, Sun is offering workstations as a bonus for the new CS dept. server (so it undercuts Dell servers). I sure would love Sun iron on the server, but keep your Sun workstations, we can manage pretty well with dual-booting PCs.
If you can get a version that works on PPC Linux... maybe. Forget about installing anything i386-based, though.
A couple of 17"s here. Trying for the 19s, but the cash is scarce, computer parts are expensive on this side of the world and I'm getting married :D (goodbye, senseless computer hardware expenditures!)
Well, I have some personal experience on this, and it declares ***** the winner. I won't tell you wich, but it has a cute penguin instead of a cup of coffee as it's mascot ;)
We kidnapped a Sparc workstation and put debian in it. While the installation was a "riot", the performance kicks solaris' ass into the next neighborhood. In fact, the people at Systems Support were impressed, but it seems our Sun contract forbids us from running anything but solaris on the machines :( so we just kept that token machine and the comps lab still runs slowlaris.
sweet jesus, couldn't they get a decent screenshot or post a warning. Now I need to wash my eyes. With chlorine.
Maybe as add-on units...
Hey! Reptiles resent that remark, you know...
Dude, you've got a problem. Why in hell would you watch something you don't like. Did anybody put a gun to your head?