haha, that's really informative, I've not seen the differences head-to-head before. If I had mod points I'd slap them on you and the grandparent. Funny how the American measurements seem smaller than the Imperial ones.
Coastal airports are not very good ideas as the coast gets a lot more birds than inland (birds and turbofans don't mix) and coasts have much more extreme weather - the wind blows hundreds of miles unobstructed, massive waves during storms etc. But bang-on with your topological analysis.
They have to connect to the internetional telecoms network, and need to pay for that. The Cuban Peso is not a freely exchnged currency, telcos won't take it as payment, they need dollars, so Cuba has to get them from somewhere. The internet is not very restricted if they pay in USD. I am sure this is not the only reason, but it is a major one, perhaps Amnesty International could get off the soap box and offer to subsidise bandwidth costs if they feel so strongly... the fact is most citizens of developing countries do not have access to the internet. The Soviet Union broke up without its citizens using the internet, China has embraced capitalism not due to the internet, the Berlin Wall fell in no part due to the internet. Infact as the internet has become so wide spread it has had little value-added effect other communication didn't already have in developing countries.
Yesterday (Saturday) was mainly spent watching Startrek episodes I've downloaded by WinMX and Bitorrent, a few Voyager but mainly Enterprise, it is so much better than TOS and TNG. While doing this I consumer a large amount of alchool, around 5 litres of Budweiser (Budvar) in total. I also had an avocado and a pork pie and a scotch egg, which were nice. But around 9pm I wanted something hearty, so popped off down the road to Khans (an Indian restaurant in Queensway of variable quality) and got myself a tandorri chicked, chicken jalfrezi, chicken korma (hey, I fancied some chicken), pilau rice and a naan. Boy was that Jalfrezi hot! Pureed green chillis! No problems until this morning when I had an urge to crap. Went to the toilet, it wasn't too solid, but just like it stung on the way it stung on the way out. The stinging went away after I had wiped my ass and had a shower. Now I feel grrrrrrreat! Like a huge load of... uh.... crap.... has been ejected from me. Just what I needed.
correction: (by far the best programmer, but a very intelligent all-rounder) should read (by far from the best programmer, but a very intelligent all-rounder).
You may have some latency issues on your connection to be worked out.
...the digital equivalent to stamps, paid if the receiver considers he is being spammed.
As much as Bill Gates and Microsoft get group-hated there are some good ideas and some possibilities for decent implementation here, such as this. It is the darker side of MS that holds them back; if they could make great software that was fully transparent (I'm sure most of the developers would be happy with this) they would be totally win-win, and Bill Gates seems pretty philantropic as an individual, I wonder what holds them back...
MS is not an average company in the pocket of suits, it is run by an intelligent guy (by far the best programmer, but a very intelligent all-rounder) who has some kind of vision. I see, not too far from now, a bright future with Gates and Torvalds hand-in-hand. [No, my name is not Morpheus].
What do Slashdot readers use to keep their cable clean and their wives happy?
Tea bagging. The action of inserting the penis into the receivers mouth violently and deeply (usually from a position of the receiver on the floor/a chair and the giver positioning themselves oferhead) and letting the balls slap the face of the rceiver. This is tea-bagging, not the crap on urban-dictionary suggesting it is lowering the testicles into the mouth - that is incorrect, if in doubt ask a gay friend.
MS would be developing these bugfixes and developing the software whether they gave these million copies away or not.
MS projects revenue for a product. The "supply is infinite" argument earlier in the thread is a fallacy. The first copy could be seen as bearing the fixed costs of development (reproduction costs are low, but this is also true of railways - laying the track is a large cost which the cost of running a train on is not, also toll roads, also airplane development costs, infact almost every product bears huge fixed costs and relatively low replication costs). However seeing the first copy as bearing the fixed costs is a fallacy, as MS doesn't project demand in singular units but in bulk. The fixed costs of development are based on mass replication, just like Boeing, just like GM.
MS would not be developing these bugfixes and developing the software whether they gave these million copies away or not as you are mixing two points. MS would develop these fixes only where the cost involved matched the demand of them and MS products (and priced into the future demand) in the MS revenue model with a certain level of significance.
The point!
Of course this is somewhat beside the original point that MS was donating something. Such donations are tax deductable (though $1bn is surprisingly large MS and Bill Gates seem surprisingly benovenant for megalomaniacs). Though I doubt the UN were able to pay full-whack for this, in which case MS are engaging in discrimatory pricing (pay nothing now, get locked in to an MS-centric IT system and pay later, a la this interesting article on The Register (here)).
Why 'michael' felt it necessary to append a flippant and flamebait comment (to a well meaning article) like the wholesale value was $million I don't know, if that was really the case let me set up a MS software wholesaler right now, I'll sell software to my MS software retail subsidiary and sell to the consumer for a 1000 times mark up. I am starting to see why he is so hated.
Well, I am not a troll so you are not feeding me, but warm regards all the same.
But why not disclose that in the article. The #1 rule in good journalism _must_ be a fair and balanced opinion, it is only fair you let Sun know you were going to publish an atricle and post it to a major *NIX webiste. Sun might not be the fairest company, but that is no reason to drag yourself to that level. And if they refuse provide the evidence in the article.
Apologies though, I was now aware the system had been available for 2 months already. Guess I was misled by the title "Sun's new UltraSPARC workstation: the Blade 1500". But it was posted my _michael_ so I suppose a hidden agenda is compulsory.
Don't worry, I RTFA and they didn't mention any. But 2 points:
1. This is not seasonally adjusted. OK, reliable seasonal adjustment is not easy in usch a small data set, but comparing November to Septemer is a misnomer. In November college students have got they computer systems set up and want some entertainment but September they're just starting out and havn't got their computers set up (and the whole April-September season they're working or on holiday). How about some quantitive statistics so YoY% growth can discount seasonality.
2. I have noticed a serious decline (this is a personal observation, not any scientific analysis) in my turnover in several key P2P networks recently. Since Kazaa acted against KazzaLite clients and servers on the Kazaa network seem to have significantly fallen (thoug the population stats in the client browser show similar numbers as before), I suspect Kazaa implemted an update on the protocol, but don't have any details. On eDonkey it is increasingly hard to et a connection, let alone a decent DL rate, but ULs are saturated. On WinMX there has been a decline in availibility of most files. I would like to know the cause of these changes (it can't all be a updated implementation on Kazaa and a contagion effect on other protocols can it?!).
It only got 1MB Cache and a rather slow harddisk. And it can't take more then 4GB ram so I really can't imagine what kind of task it would be good at
That is because you're thinking in x86 terms. The 8MB cache the III has and the 1MB cache it has makes little difference. The CPU is a little brother of the III, not a peer of the P4. They are designed for completely different jobs.
A crap analogy would be: a fork is shit for eating soup (unless it has many vegetables, but then maybe a chopstick) but a spoon is shit for pronging meat.
I really wanted to test the graphics capabilities of this machine, but the program just wouldn't compile properly. I spent days searching Google, reading forums, and sifting through mailing lists looking for answers. I made some progress, but after delaying this story for more than a week I decided it was time to publish it one way or the other.
Why not just ask Sun, they designed it! The reviewer may not have the gold-with-bells-and-whistles support contract (not the Solaris expertise most admins/users would have, seemingly), but for a sneak peak review of a system I'm sure they would have been happy to help out.
Likewise...measuring performance was a very difficult task because of the amount of reading, research, and configuration that had to go into Solaris 8 to get it to compile benchmark programs.. Now I'm sure Sun had not had a wet dream one day and come up with a whole new processor without coming up with a way to test it. Why not ask them, I'm sure they would oblige, and if not flame them in the review? Better that than search on newsgrops for a computer only you have.
This 'review' was an example of utterly incompetant analysis and journalism.
"He described his practice of traveling south for two weeks in the fall and two weeks each month in the winter as a perk he's earned."
So he works on his 'holiday', good for him if he loves what he does and wants to beneft his listeners. If he lives there, so what, it's not like he's being nasty, like some.
I've had more stuff getting through too, but the emails that have been through in the past few days have more text in them, a. nd I'$$m NoTT t;a()l king r a d dom. pun.ctu.at.ion. mar;ks; but proper coherent text. The body of the email is still the remote loading picture, but under it are either random combinations of phrases that make sence individually but not stuck together or old news headlines and blurbs. Interesting to see how/if Thunderbird adapts.
Anything that calls itself a science in practice isn't.
er... how about science: "Such activities applied to an object of inquiry or study" or "The observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena"??? Or are you just small minded?
The website says "Originality Reports are exact duplicates of submitted papers, except that any text either copied or paraphrased appears underlined, color-coded, and linked to its original source." [they check against the internet, academic papers and past submitted reports].
When a subject is quite tightly defined, there must be a limit of permutations/combinations in text. I don't like the idea of this system, but would like to know where they draw the line regarding paraphrasing - is a sentence, paragraph, larger? Is it only exact paraphrasing that is detected or can adjectives be sprinkled about?
Technically interesting, but the false-positive risk is worrying.
Dr Evil: For $5 million... Hell, I could build my own themepark on the moon! With hookers, and blackjack! Forget the blackjack.
#2: "Ahem...Well, don't you think we should maybe ask for *more* than five million dollars? Five million dollars isn't exactly a lot of money these days. The US budget defecit in 2003 alone was a little under $400 billion dollars."
Well said. $2 a day given to the world's starving will not reach the starving, it would line the pockets of corrupt officials or get soaked up in the vast inefficiency the majority of charities operate with.
Space exploration (or historic preservation) and removing world poverty are not mutually exclusive. Ending world poverty requires removing corruption and improving logictics in 3rd world countries, pumping money at them will not solve these problems, it will sustain them.
Maybe, or will this create an army of crack GIs that enter a war zone and start running about killing rats and frogs to gain experience, only to spend days/weeks/months in the Bard/Ironsmith Guild perfecting their song/hammering in a treehouse/cave?
I wanted to read this but...
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...the rant says "Forbidden You don't have permission to access/~fullermd/rants/ on this server. Apache/1.3.27 Server at www.over-yonder.net Port 80" and the main link says "Warning: main(../../php_inc/styleswitch.php): failed to open stream: Too many open files in system in/home/fullermd/public_html/php_inc/main.php on line 16 Warning: main(): Failed opening '../../php_inc/styleswitch.php' for inclusion include_path='.:/usr/local/share/pear:/usr/local/s hare/smarty') in/home/fullermd/public_html/php_inc/main.php on line 16 Warning: main(../../php_inc/ahem.php): failed to open stream: Too many open files in system in/home/fullermd/public_html/php_inc/main.php on line 19 Warning: main(): Failed opening '../../php_inc/ahem.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/share/pear:/usr/local/ share/smarty') in/home/fullermd/public_html/php_inc/main.php on line 19 Fatal error: Call to undefined function: print_ahem() in/home/fullermd/public_html/TEMPLATE.php on line 94".
Could someone please be kind enough to post a mirror?
160,000 animals would not feed a population of millions for a year (Ireland's population at this time was ~8 million). They may have made a small difference but would not solve it. The majority of Ireland's population were serfs, at the subsistence level, they would never have been able to eat this food, it would have gone on the plates of the landowners and never into the general population's mouths. It was the social structure of Ireland which caused this problem, not exports. Black-rot not only changed Ireland, but farming practices over the entire world.
Also note Ireland was part of Britain at this time, so "exports to Britain [from Britain]" is an odd way of putting it.
There is a lot of info about the famine online, not least this.
Or the WHO recognises people do not get enough exercise, so recommend a diet better suited to this lifestyle, and the White House is looking after the interests of massive US corporations, rather than the general population.
With each of your examples, the same security problem cannot affect all of these systems. There are lots of species of potato, but because the population of Ireland were reliant on mainly one species, anything that affected this had a massive impact.
Genetic diversity does not prevent disease, but it does reduce the effect one disease has on a population. This is the analogy I believe was being drawn. Imagine a virus wiped out (not just crashed) an OS. If all computers in the world were that OS, all computers would be wiped out, if computers were of mixed OSes, a proportion would be wiped out, but enough would survive to keep the infrastrucure intact, this is the point against monopolies.
Now, maybe a virus cannot completely wipe out a computer it infects (for now anyway) and the computer can be patched and rebooted, but even with non-fatal viruses that just crash and require a reboot 'genetic' diversity can smooth the effect a nasty strain of virus has.
Granted I'm just a desktop user and not a server admin with a room to call. I have an AMD 1900+ XP whatever (not overclocked), it is about 70oC now, under a heavy load it goes to 75oC. I have had it for around 2 years and about 10 hours/day, 300 days/year (room temp is 22-25oC, motherboard temp about 30oC). Never had a problem, speed is OK, never a forced shutdown. My processor can take the heat
A high quality heatsink would cost more than a replacement processor.! Heat is not a problem on a desktop. Server farms maybe more of a problem, but using 1900XPs for that is a misallocation in the first place, as processes used will be differently balanced.
I used to run a 486 in 1999, it was a DX2 66MHz, it ran a word processor and a spreadsheet, connected to the internet, why would a student spend money replacing an A-OK computer when they could spend it on beer??? It's not like I was simulating protein folding. [The only reason it had to be replaced was the motherboard blew up (was tinkering, turned power on, saw a bright flash, computer no longer worked).]
The first song I downloaded was in 1999 over Napster. Nirvana's 'Come As You Are', have used P2P ever since.
I did the BYO option a few months ago (having seen a slackware user... just wanted the experience of the deep end) and it was easy. There were a couple of points I didn't know, but online documentation/forums set me straight.
While Slackware and BYO can be compared to working on and benefitting on an earned relationship, Gentoo (when I tried it shortly after being comfortable with BYO) was a stubborn, miserable, moody, bad-tempered piece of shi^H^Hoftware. That is being polite.
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haha, that's really informative, I've not seen the differences head-to-head before. If I had mod points I'd slap them on you and the grandparent. Funny how the American measurements seem smaller than the Imperial ones.
Coastal airports are not very good ideas as the coast gets a lot more birds than inland (birds and turbofans don't mix) and coasts have much more extreme weather - the wind blows hundreds of miles unobstructed, massive waves during storms etc. But bang-on with your topological analysis.
They have to connect to the internetional telecoms network, and need to pay for that. The Cuban Peso is not a freely exchnged currency, telcos won't take it as payment, they need dollars, so Cuba has to get them from somewhere. The internet is not very restricted if they pay in USD. I am sure this is not the only reason, but it is a major one, perhaps Amnesty International could get off the soap box and offer to subsidise bandwidth costs if they feel so strongly... the fact is most citizens of developing countries do not have access to the internet. The Soviet Union broke up without its citizens using the internet, China has embraced capitalism not due to the internet, the Berlin Wall fell in no part due to the internet. Infact as the internet has become so wide spread it has had little value-added effect other communication didn't already have in developing countries.
Yesterday (Saturday) was mainly spent watching Startrek episodes I've downloaded by WinMX and Bitorrent, a few Voyager but mainly Enterprise, it is so much better than TOS and TNG. While doing this I consumer a large amount of alchool, around 5 litres of Budweiser (Budvar) in total. I also had an avocado and a pork pie and a scotch egg, which were nice. But around 9pm I wanted something hearty, so popped off down the road to Khans (an Indian restaurant in Queensway of variable quality) and got myself a tandorri chicked, chicken jalfrezi, chicken korma (hey, I fancied some chicken), pilau rice and a naan. Boy was that Jalfrezi hot! Pureed green chillis! No problems until this morning when I had an urge to crap. Went to the toilet, it wasn't too solid, but just like it stung on the way it stung on the way out. The stinging went away after I had wiped my ass and had a shower. Now I feel grrrrrrreat! Like a huge load of... uh.... crap.... has been ejected from me. Just what I needed.
correction: (by far the best programmer, but a very intelligent all-rounder) should read (by far from the best programmer, but a very intelligent all-rounder).
You may have some latency issues on your connection to be worked out.
...the digital equivalent to stamps, paid if the receiver considers he is being spammed.
As much as Bill Gates and Microsoft get group-hated there are some good ideas and some possibilities for decent implementation here, such as this. It is the darker side of MS that holds them back; if they could make great software that was fully transparent (I'm sure most of the developers would be happy with this) they would be totally win-win, and Bill Gates seems pretty philantropic as an individual, I wonder what holds them back...
MS is not an average company in the pocket of suits, it is run by an intelligent guy (by far the best programmer, but a very intelligent all-rounder) who has some kind of vision. I see, not too far from now, a bright future with Gates and Torvalds hand-in-hand. [No, my name is not Morpheus].
What do Slashdot readers use to keep their cable clean and their wives happy?
Tea bagging. The action of inserting the penis into the receivers mouth violently and deeply (usually from a position of the receiver on the floor/a chair and the giver positioning themselves oferhead) and letting the balls slap the face of the rceiver. This is tea-bagging, not the crap on urban-dictionary suggesting it is lowering the testicles into the mouth - that is incorrect, if in doubt ask a gay friend.
You are incorrect.
MS would be developing these bugfixes and developing the software whether they gave these million copies away or not.
MS projects revenue for a product. The "supply is infinite" argument earlier in the thread is a fallacy. The first copy could be seen as bearing the fixed costs of development (reproduction costs are low, but this is also true of railways - laying the track is a large cost which the cost of running a train on is not, also toll roads, also airplane development costs, infact almost every product bears huge fixed costs and relatively low replication costs). However seeing the first copy as bearing the fixed costs is a fallacy, as MS doesn't project demand in singular units but in bulk. The fixed costs of development are based on mass replication, just like Boeing, just like GM.
MS would not be developing these bugfixes and developing the software whether they gave these million copies away or not as you are mixing two points. MS would develop these fixes only where the cost involved matched the demand of them and MS products (and priced into the future demand) in the MS revenue model with a certain level of significance.
The point!
Of course this is somewhat beside the original point that MS was donating something. Such donations are tax deductable (though $1bn is surprisingly large MS and Bill Gates seem surprisingly benovenant for megalomaniacs). Though I doubt the UN were able to pay full-whack for this, in which case MS are engaging in discrimatory pricing (pay nothing now, get locked in to an MS-centric IT system and pay later, a la this interesting article on The Register (here)).
Why 'michael' felt it necessary to append a flippant and flamebait comment (to a well meaning article) like the wholesale value was $million I don't know, if that was really the case let me set up a MS software wholesaler right now, I'll sell software to my MS software retail subsidiary and sell to the consumer for a 1000 times mark up. I am starting to see why he is so hated.
Well, I am not a troll so you are not feeding me, but warm regards all the same.
But why not disclose that in the article. The #1 rule in good journalism _must_ be a fair and balanced opinion, it is only fair you let Sun know you were going to publish an atricle and post it to a major *NIX webiste. Sun might not be the fairest company, but that is no reason to drag yourself to that level. And if they refuse provide the evidence in the article.
Apologies though, I was now aware the system had been available for 2 months already. Guess I was misled by the title "Sun's new UltraSPARC workstation: the Blade 1500". But it was posted my _michael_ so I suppose a hidden agenda is compulsory.
Don't worry, I RTFA and they didn't mention any. But 2 points:
1. This is not seasonally adjusted. OK, reliable seasonal adjustment is not easy in usch a small data set, but comparing November to Septemer is a misnomer. In November college students have got they computer systems set up and want some entertainment but September they're just starting out and havn't got their computers set up (and the whole April-September season they're working or on holiday). How about some quantitive statistics so YoY% growth can discount seasonality.
2. I have noticed a serious decline (this is a personal observation, not any scientific analysis) in my turnover in several key P2P networks recently. Since Kazaa acted against KazzaLite clients and servers on the Kazaa network seem to have significantly fallen (thoug the population stats in the client browser show similar numbers as before), I suspect Kazaa implemted an update on the protocol, but don't have any details. On eDonkey it is increasingly hard to et a connection, let alone a decent DL rate, but ULs are saturated. On WinMX there has been a decline in availibility of most files. I would like to know the cause of these changes (it can't all be a updated implementation on Kazaa and a contagion effect on other protocols can it?!).
It only got 1MB Cache and a rather slow harddisk. And it can't take more then 4GB ram so I really can't imagine what kind of task it would be good at
That is because you're thinking in x86 terms. The 8MB cache the III has and the 1MB cache it has makes little difference. The CPU is a little brother of the III, not a peer of the P4. They are designed for completely different jobs.
A crap analogy would be: a fork is shit for eating soup (unless it has many vegetables, but then maybe a chopstick) but a spoon is shit for pronging meat.
I wonder that also, but a choice quote:
...measuring performance was a very difficult task because of the amount of reading, research, and configuration that had to go into Solaris 8 to get it to compile benchmark programs.. Now I'm sure Sun had not had a wet dream one day and come up with a whole new processor without coming up with a way to test it. Why not ask them, I'm sure they would oblige, and if not flame them in the review? Better that than search on newsgrops for a computer only you have.
I really wanted to test the graphics capabilities of this machine, but the program just wouldn't compile properly. I spent days searching Google, reading forums, and sifting through mailing lists looking for answers. I made some progress, but after delaying this story for more than a week I decided it was time to publish it one way or the other.
Why not just ask Sun, they designed it! The reviewer may not have the gold-with-bells-and-whistles support contract (not the Solaris expertise most admins/users would have, seemingly), but for a sneak peak review of a system I'm sure they would have been happy to help out.
Likewise
This 'review' was an example of utterly incompetant analysis and journalism.
Also from the link:
"He described his practice of traveling south for two weeks in the fall and two weeks each month in the winter as a perk he's earned."
So he works on his 'holiday', good for him if he loves what he does and wants to beneft his listeners. If he lives there, so what, it's not like he's being nasty, like some.
I've had more stuff getting through too, but the emails that have been through in the past few days have more text in them, a. nd I'$$m NoTT t;a()l king r a d dom. pun.ctu.at.ion. mar;ks; but proper coherent text. The body of the email is still the remote loading picture, but under it are either random combinations of phrases that make sence individually but not stuck together or old news headlines and blurbs. Interesting to see how/if Thunderbird adapts.
Anything that calls itself a science in practice isn't.
er... how about science: "Such activities applied to an object of inquiry or study" or "The observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena"??? Or are you just small minded?
The website says "Originality Reports are exact duplicates of submitted papers, except that any text either copied or paraphrased appears underlined, color-coded, and linked to its original source." [they check against the internet, academic papers and past submitted reports].
When a subject is quite tightly defined, there must be a limit of permutations/combinations in text. I don't like the idea of this system, but would like to know where they draw the line regarding paraphrasing - is a sentence, paragraph, larger? Is it only exact paraphrasing that is detected or can adjectives be sprinkled about?
Technically interesting, but the false-positive risk is worrying.
Dr Evil: For $5 million... Hell, I could build my own themepark on the moon! With hookers, and blackjack! Forget the blackjack.
#2: "Ahem...Well, don't you think we should maybe ask for *more* than five million dollars? Five million dollars isn't exactly a lot of money these days. The US budget defecit in 2003 alone was a little under $400 billion dollars."
Dr Evil: Five Hundred BILLION Dollars
Well said. $2 a day given to the world's starving will not reach the starving, it would line the pockets of corrupt officials or get soaked up in the vast inefficiency the majority of charities operate with.
Space exploration (or historic preservation) and removing world poverty are not mutually exclusive. Ending world poverty requires removing corruption and improving logictics in 3rd world countries, pumping money at them will not solve these problems, it will sustain them.
Maybe, or will this create an army of crack GIs that enter a war zone and start running about killing rats and frogs to gain experience, only to spend days/weeks/months in the Bard/Ironsmith Guild perfecting their song/hammering in a treehouse/cave?
...the rant says "Forbidden You don't have permission to access /~fullermd/rants/ on this server. Apache/1.3.27 Server at www.over-yonder.net Port 80" and the main link says "Warning: main(../../php_inc/styleswitch.php): failed to open stream: Too many open files in system in /home/fullermd/public_html/php_inc/main.php on line 16 Warning: main(): Failed opening '../../php_inc/styleswitch.php' for inclusion include_path='.:/usr/local/share/pear:/usr/local/s hare/smarty') in /home/fullermd/public_html/php_inc/main.php on line 16 Warning: main(../../php_inc/ahem.php): failed to open stream: Too many open files in system in /home/fullermd/public_html/php_inc/main.php on line 19 Warning: main(): Failed opening '../../php_inc/ahem.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/share/pear:/usr/local/ share/smarty') in /home/fullermd/public_html/php_inc/main.php on line 19 Fatal error: Call to undefined function: print_ahem() in /home/fullermd/public_html/TEMPLATE.php on line 94".
Could someone please be kind enough to post a mirror?
160,000 animals would not feed a population of millions for a year (Ireland's population at this time was ~8 million). They may have made a small difference but would not solve it. The majority of Ireland's population were serfs, at the subsistence level, they would never have been able to eat this food, it would have gone on the plates of the landowners and never into the general population's mouths. It was the social structure of Ireland which caused this problem, not exports. Black-rot not only changed Ireland, but farming practices over the entire world.
Also note Ireland was part of Britain at this time, so "exports to Britain [from Britain]" is an odd way of putting it.
There is a lot of info about the famine online, not least this.
Or the WHO recognises people do not get enough exercise, so recommend a diet better suited to this lifestyle, and the White House is looking after the interests of massive US corporations, rather than the general population.
With each of your examples, the same security problem cannot affect all of these systems. There are lots of species of potato, but because the population of Ireland were reliant on mainly one species, anything that affected this had a massive impact.
Genetic diversity does not prevent disease, but it does reduce the effect one disease has on a population. This is the analogy I believe was being drawn. Imagine a virus wiped out (not just crashed) an OS. If all computers in the world were that OS, all computers would be wiped out, if computers were of mixed OSes, a proportion would be wiped out, but enough would survive to keep the infrastrucure intact, this is the point against monopolies.
Now, maybe a virus cannot completely wipe out a computer it infects (for now anyway) and the computer can be patched and rebooted, but even with non-fatal viruses that just crash and require a reboot 'genetic' diversity can smooth the effect a nasty strain of virus has.
Granted I'm just a desktop user and not a server admin with a room to call. I have an AMD 1900+ XP whatever (not overclocked), it is about 70oC now, under a heavy load it goes to 75oC. I have had it for around 2 years and about 10 hours/day, 300 days/year (room temp is 22-25oC, motherboard temp about 30oC). Never had a problem, speed is OK, never a forced shutdown. My processor can take the heat
A high quality heatsink would cost more than a replacement processor.! Heat is not a problem on a desktop. Server farms maybe more of a problem, but using 1900XPs for that is a misallocation in the first place, as processes used will be differently balanced.
I used to run a 486 in 1999, it was a DX2 66MHz, it ran a word processor and a spreadsheet, connected to the internet, why would a student spend money replacing an A-OK computer when they could spend it on beer??? It's not like I was simulating protein folding. [The only reason it had to be replaced was the motherboard blew up (was tinkering, turned power on, saw a bright flash, computer no longer worked).]
The first song I downloaded was in 1999 over Napster. Nirvana's 'Come As You Are', have used P2P ever since.
I did the BYO option a few months ago (having seen a slackware user... just wanted the experience of the deep end) and it was easy. There were a couple of points I didn't know, but online documentation/forums set me straight.
While Slackware and BYO can be compared to working on and benefitting on an earned relationship, Gentoo (when I tried it shortly after being comfortable with BYO) was a stubborn, miserable, moody, bad-tempered piece of shi^H^Hoftware. That is being polite.