Simpler solution: build your own tower. I have a whisper-quiet dual Opteron 8gig, 600gig SATA raid 10 server under my desk right now. Just pick the right case, right power supply, right fans. It can be done -- effectively and cheaply.
I have no idea what's wrong with the stupid noisy-ass box vendors. My box is all OEM parts, freely available from Newegg. My CPUs run nice and cool. 105 and 107 at the moment, for example. So WTF?
Amen. All I know is, a lot of times when I've tried to follow the W3C I've been slapped upside the head. After a few slaps upside the head, I really don't want to get slapped any more.
So do I care whether I follow standards? Weakly, I guess. I'd LIKE to. If I have a choice, I try to. But if I need to get something to work, and it works differently in every goddamn browser I try, guess what, I'll throw in the worst piece of shit-ass fucked-up code imaginable, copied off the web from some poor bastard who had the patience to work through the bugs and get the thing to work, just so I can finish the project and submit the bill.
Really good points. Assaults almost always come from people you know, not people you don't know. The rare exceptions are scary, yes. But this "save our children" crusade we seem to be on is totally ridiculous, and it will erode our rights severely if it isn't stepped on hard.
I don't think that the product you're working on, or its ultimate success, has anything to do with anything. There are so many capricious reasons why products and companies don't make it. I've seen situations where one company couldn't make it, and the next company took over their product and sold the shit out of it. I've seen dumb management decisions. Dumb marketing decisions. Underfunded products. Products that made no sense out of the box, but were funded to oblivion anyway.
If you work for one of these projects, are you tarnished for life? Is there an indelible mark on your hide that says, "this person worked for a stupid-ass dot com, so he must be stupid?" No. So, I say to all the self-satisfied arrogant idiots who work for [name a successful company], hey, bonehead, it has NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU PERSONALLY. You're a cog in the wheel. So shut the hell up about this guy and the projects and companies he's worked for. Chances are, he preferred a risky but fun and challenging job to filling out TPS reports, and it's no surprise that most of what he tried failed. Nine out of ten new ideas fail. No surprises here at all.
I don't buy the 22%. I know a lot of programmers. A LOT. I've been programming and typing my ass off since 1970. Maybe one person I've ever met had RSI. So based on my experience, at least, it's a solution looking for a problem, especially if they're counting on that wacky statistic.
Not that it wouldn't benefit someone with really crippling RSI. I'm all for it. Just, don't tell me 1 out of every 5 programmers is going to switch to voice coding. Nonsense.
Exactly. You don't have to know anything at all to instantly feel the massive performance difference that AMD provides over Intel on a dual CPU system. On a dual-CPU AMD Opteron we saw nearly a 100% improvement on a CPU-bound multi-threaded app (nature of the app is that it accesses roughly 1G memory in a fairly regular pattern). On Intel dual Xeons we measured only 27% improvement.
On a non-multithreaded app the two boxes are neck and neck. The above figures are for Opteron 32 bit vs. Xeon 32 bit.
Plus, I might add, Opteron at 2.8Ghz runs roughly even with Intel at 3.8Ghz benchmark-wise, again on a single CPU basis (differs by motherboard, of course, so your mileage may vary). Don't be hoodwinked by CPU clock speed differences.
Sorry, I already patented the idea of patenting the idea of patenting the act of applying for a patent. And just to be safe, I then patented the idea of patenting any further recursions.
I don't know what's wrong with you people. I would have thought that both search engines would retrieve the most "relevant" result by far, namely that broomstick-wielding Star Wars Kid.
Yes, but your CAPITAL is going to Japanese fat cats, not to American fat cats and the UAW. That's a Bad Thing, apparently. I've never been entirely sure why, perhaps some economics major can weigh in and explain it to me.
Love your ID, by the way. Lost money on one, made it on the other.
Thanks, but apparently I have to hack someone's long-abandoned Perl scripts or Python scripts (support was dropped for the two relevant projects 4+ years ago) to accomplish the conversion. Instead I think I will do something that may make me richer.
I think the parent post says it all. Tell me something I haven't heard before, don't scare me with limitations that will probably bite me in the ass later or stick me with a surprise licensing bill, make it worth my while, make it easy to convert over. Otherwise, I'll stick to what I know, whatever that happens to be, because I can be productive there.
Case in point: Thunderbird. Latest version still won't import all my Eudora mailboxes, or retain the notations associated with them (like, note that there's an associated reply). What am I supposed to do, run two mail clients, Thunderbird for "new" mail, and Eudora so I can look up "old" mail? Doesn't take a genius to figure out that continuing to use Eudora (which I despise) is still a better answer than converting to T-bird.
This may be a first -- a troll confessing to trolling, and then apologizing! Why, next thing you know, Bush will apologize for lying to the country and embroiling us in a foreign conflict we can't win!
All the necessary information and explanation (plus q/a) is here. This is the only hope at present. Good luck to everyone on Jan 2 when this thing takes over the world.
Um, no, sorry, check your facts. "Associate without tenure" has been around for years. Harvard, for example, is famous for this particular "promotion."
This is no different than Dvorak bitching about Photoshop, or MOG bitching about PJ, or PJ bitching about anyone she perceives as anti-FOSS. Taco has a platform, he'll use it to talk about whatever he wants to talk about, and you're free to stop listening if you want to. Furthermore, you didn't NEED to read the editorial, did you? It was perfectly obvious what he was going to say from the convenient summary on the front page.
Exactly. It's like a Monty Python skit. "Ah, Mission Control, roger that, but we're fucking like bunnies up here, it's as boring as hell and there's nothing else to do. So what are you gonna do about it? Bring us back??"
I mean, really. The "long arm of the law" doesn't stretch that far. The astronauts can start sending back movies of glistening insertions, and what can those NASA morons do about it? Absolutely nothing.
I suspect a Christian Coalition type influence at work here. "Uh, guys, let's throw the religious nuts a bone, there's another funding cycle coming up, so we'll just, uh, ban sex or something. Or look for evidence of 'Intelligent Design' on Mars. I guess red sand and red hills and red craters and red rocks and red sandstorms and ice cold temperatures qualifies as 'intelligent', doesn't it?"
"... zero as a placeholder for the digits of the decimal or other arbitrary number system, including, but not limited to, octal, hexadecimal, and binary."
I note that you have used a zero in your post, as a place holder for the "ones" digit of the decimal number "thirty."
Please remit $5 to PayPal account #34213, or you will be served with a cease-and-desist order as soon as I can get my fat head out of my ass. Thank you.
Dvorak is a troll, and this so-called article is a perfect example of his trolling. We shouldn't feed trolls, and neither should the/. editors, because it just wastes everyone's time.
Sure, let's sue the pants off anyone who does anything wrong. Let's make it impossible for anyone to create anything new or different. Cradle-to-grave protection, ensured by armies of well-intentioned and socially-responsible attorneys -- that's the sure way to economic success!
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Simpler solution: build your own tower. I have a whisper-quiet dual Opteron 8gig, 600gig SATA raid 10 server under my desk right now. Just pick the right case, right power supply, right fans. It can be done -- effectively and cheaply.
I have no idea what's wrong with the stupid noisy-ass box vendors. My box is all OEM parts, freely available from Newegg. My CPUs run nice and cool. 105 and 107 at the moment, for example. So WTF?
Amen. All I know is, a lot of times when I've tried to follow the W3C I've been slapped upside the head. After a few slaps upside the head, I really don't want to get slapped any more.
So do I care whether I follow standards? Weakly, I guess. I'd LIKE to. If I have a choice, I try to. But if I need to get something to work, and it works differently in every goddamn browser I try, guess what, I'll throw in the worst piece of shit-ass fucked-up code imaginable, copied off the web from some poor bastard who had the patience to work through the bugs and get the thing to work, just so I can finish the project and submit the bill.
Really good points. Assaults almost always come from people you know, not people you don't know. The rare exceptions are scary, yes. But this "save our children" crusade we seem to be on is totally ridiculous, and it will erode our rights severely if it isn't stepped on hard.
I don't think that the product you're working on, or its ultimate success, has anything to do with anything. There are so many capricious reasons why products and companies don't make it. I've seen situations where one company couldn't make it, and the next company took over their product and sold the shit out of it. I've seen dumb management decisions. Dumb marketing decisions. Underfunded products. Products that made no sense out of the box, but were funded to oblivion anyway.
If you work for one of these projects, are you tarnished for life? Is there an indelible mark on your hide that says, "this person worked for a stupid-ass dot com, so he must be stupid?" No. So, I say to all the self-satisfied arrogant idiots who work for [name a successful company], hey, bonehead, it has NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU PERSONALLY. You're a cog in the wheel. So shut the hell up about this guy and the projects and companies he's worked for. Chances are, he preferred a risky but fun and challenging job to filling out TPS reports, and it's no surprise that most of what he tried failed. Nine out of ten new ideas fail. No surprises here at all.
I don't buy the 22%. I know a lot of programmers. A LOT. I've been programming and typing my ass off since 1970. Maybe one person I've ever met had RSI. So based on my experience, at least, it's a solution looking for a problem, especially if they're counting on that wacky statistic.
Not that it wouldn't benefit someone with really crippling RSI. I'm all for it. Just, don't tell me 1 out of every 5 programmers is going to switch to voice coding. Nonsense.
Exactly. You don't have to know anything at all to instantly feel the massive performance difference that AMD provides over Intel on a dual CPU system. On a dual-CPU AMD Opteron we saw nearly a 100% improvement on a CPU-bound multi-threaded app (nature of the app is that it accesses roughly 1G memory in a fairly regular pattern). On Intel dual Xeons we measured only 27% improvement.
On a non-multithreaded app the two boxes are neck and neck. The above figures are for Opteron 32 bit vs. Xeon 32 bit.
Plus, I might add, Opteron at 2.8Ghz runs roughly even with Intel at 3.8Ghz benchmark-wise, again on a single CPU basis (differs by motherboard, of course, so your mileage may vary). Don't be hoodwinked by CPU clock speed differences.
Sorry, I already patented the idea of patenting the idea of patenting the act of applying for a patent. And just to be safe, I then patented the idea of patenting any further recursions.
I don't know what's wrong with you people. I would have thought that both search engines would retrieve the most "relevant" result by far, namely that broomstick-wielding Star Wars Kid.
Yes, but your CAPITAL is going to Japanese fat cats, not to American fat cats and the UAW. That's a Bad Thing, apparently. I've never been entirely sure why, perhaps some economics major can weigh in and explain it to me.
Love your ID, by the way. Lost money on one, made it on the other.
Thanks, but apparently I have to hack someone's long-abandoned Perl scripts or Python scripts (support was dropped for the two relevant projects 4+ years ago) to accomplish the conversion. Instead I think I will do something that may make me richer.
Pretty easy decision.
I think the parent post says it all. Tell me something I haven't heard before, don't scare me with limitations that will probably bite me in the ass later or stick me with a surprise licensing bill, make it worth my while, make it easy to convert over. Otherwise, I'll stick to what I know, whatever that happens to be, because I can be productive there.
Case in point: Thunderbird. Latest version still won't import all my Eudora mailboxes, or retain the notations associated with them (like, note that there's an associated reply). What am I supposed to do, run two mail clients, Thunderbird for "new" mail, and Eudora so I can look up "old" mail? Doesn't take a genius to figure out that continuing to use Eudora (which I despise) is still a better answer than converting to T-bird.
This may be a first -- a troll confessing to trolling, and then apologizing! Why, next thing you know, Bush will apologize for lying to the country and embroiling us in a foreign conflict we can't win!
Wait a minute, oops, I'm trolling! Sorry!!
Get a patch here: http://www.hexblog.com/2005/12/wmf_vuln.html
All the necessary information and explanation (plus q/a) is here. This is the only hope at present. Good luck to everyone on Jan 2 when this thing takes over the world.
That would be me. I have no clue what you're talking about. So, thanks for saving me time regarding RTFA.
He doesn't get paid if he doesn't get the account. You do.
Who knows if you're right or not, and who cares? You made me laugh out loud.
"the same way that a lice, flea and tick infestation is the perfect complement to the bed of a sleazy main-street motel" -- fantastic.
Um, no, sorry, check your facts. "Associate without tenure" has been around for years. Harvard, for example, is famous for this particular "promotion."
This is no different than Dvorak bitching about Photoshop, or MOG bitching about PJ, or PJ bitching about anyone she perceives as anti-FOSS. Taco has a platform, he'll use it to talk about whatever he wants to talk about, and you're free to stop listening if you want to. Furthermore, you didn't NEED to read the editorial, did you? It was perfectly obvious what he was going to say from the convenient summary on the front page.
Doesn't IBM own PWC? So, wouldn't it make sense for PWC to "suddenly" decide to dump Windows in favor of BSD/Linux/anything but Windows?
It's even funnier when the kids catch fire, I guess. No thanks.
Exactly. It's like a Monty Python skit. "Ah, Mission Control, roger that, but we're fucking like bunnies up here, it's as boring as hell and there's nothing else to do. So what are you gonna do about it? Bring us back??"
I mean, really. The "long arm of the law" doesn't stretch that far. The astronauts can start sending back movies of glistening insertions, and what can those NASA morons do about it? Absolutely nothing.
I suspect a Christian Coalition type influence at work here. "Uh, guys, let's throw the religious nuts a bone, there's another funding cycle coming up, so we'll just, uh, ban sex or something. Or look for evidence of 'Intelligent Design' on Mars. I guess red sand and red hills and red craters and red rocks and red sandstorms and ice cold temperatures qualifies as 'intelligent', doesn't it?"
My patent #145,623,623,125 covers the use of
"... zero as a placeholder for the digits of the decimal or other arbitrary number system, including, but not limited to, octal, hexadecimal, and binary."
I note that you have used a zero in your post, as a place holder for the "ones" digit of the decimal number "thirty."
Please remit $5 to PayPal account #34213, or you will be served with a cease-and-desist order as soon as I can get my fat head out of my ass. Thank you.
Dvorak is a troll, and this so-called article is a perfect example of his trolling. We shouldn't feed trolls, and neither should the /. editors, because it just wastes everyone's time.
Sure, let's sue the pants off anyone who does anything wrong. Let's make it impossible for anyone to create anything new or different. Cradle-to-grave protection, ensured by armies of well-intentioned and socially-responsible attorneys -- that's the sure way to economic success!