An Arduino will get you pretty close to a box with pins attached to a USB cable, though the USB cable is emulating a serial port.
A Raspberry Pi is like an original iPhone with the screen removed a few ports added and all the Arduino GPIO features built onboard so you get GPIO support built in.
Theres something wrong with VMware that makes it think it can charge more for virtualization software than the hardware it is replacing. They need their asses handed to them for a few years to put them back in their place.
Whenever you see Roblimo post a video, its of Tim Lord (timothy) and it illustrates just how incredible ignorant of the subject matter at hand timothy is.
I can not think of a single slashdot post in its history that timothy has made that was informative, or even had an accurate summary or headline. Its really hard to get it wrong as much as he does.
Actually, yes, they do, as most don't bother to turn them off.
The reality of it however is that the CPU itself is operating in the ghz range, which means its got all sorts of side bands and harmonics that can fall into the range that cockpit equipment uses.
You don't have to worry about a properly functioning radio transmitter causing an issue, its the broken ones that are an issue (if any), so leaving the CPU running is not really solving the real problem you're pretending exists.
One other item of note: If you are a passenger on a plane, you have no rights. The FAA authorizes the pilot and crew full authority over what you can and cannot do on a plane.
Wrong. The FAA, and specifically, the FARs do not override any other law or the constitution. Nice try though.
The FAA is not a law creation or enforcement agency and can do NEITHER. Everything it does that is made legally binding is run through Congress to do so.
You are NOT the pilot or airline's bitch just because you are on one of their flights. They more or less can throw you off the aircraft, thats about it from a legal perspective.
You need to stop spreading this bullshit like its true. It isn't. You're spreading FUD and this stupid shit results in more people thinking its acceptable that some stewardess cunt is legally allowed to treat them like shit.
How stupid are you? You're talking about putting shit away so you aren't distracted... but then you say 'read sky mall instead during those 10 minutes', which is exactly what you claim you're not supposed to be doing.
Why is reading the inflight mag different than reading my iPad other than the fact that my iPad isn't trying to sell me $150 slippers with headlights on them?
When the news says 'big hurricane coming' and you don't leave town, you deserve the result.
I grew up in Florida, had we been given the same notice, we would have boarded up our houses and moved inland.
Why exactly did any idiot stay in a location which is BELOW SEA LEVEL when the ocean and all its fury was about to be dumped on it is beyond me.
Couple that with the fact that the mayor and governor of the state wants cash rather than help, so they could pocket a good portion of it, should make it a little more clear. Don't let reality inform you, listen your favorite biased news program instead and by all means, swallow it whole while you're at it.
OpenBoot, like BIOS, was replaced by EFI years ago. The PC windows world is JUST now picking up on the EFI bandwagon that everyone else has been on for years.
Games don't have to support the hardware. The physical buttons can be configured so apps see the physical buttons as on screen touch input. It works with most games already though its probably not useful for something like fruit ninja which doesn't use fixed position onscreen controls
It is UNIX-style design where the user is expected to actually understand what they are doing.
No, it is not, and never was. It is infact the opposite of that. man pages, as one obvious example, are there so people who don't know what they are doing can figure it out. It is designed to be intuitive and provide you with the information needed to get the job done. It was built to have small, simple tools that were easy to understand. They can perform simple tasks on their own or when working together, perform some complex ones... hence the powerful unix command line. The original UNIX design considered but new, inexperienced users and how to bring them up to speed as well as how to empower users with more knowledge of the system.
What you are referring to is a Linux/OSS attribute, not a UNIX attribute. Linux/OSS developers typically expect the user of the software to be a developer as well. This is the result of everyone scratching their own itch only and most code being written by people for themselves without any consideration of others. No one WANTS to write the things that makes it intuitive or easy for someone else who doesn't understand all the quirks. Obviously this isn't true for some of the paid developers, but the majority of them aren't.
If no one on their team is tasked with the responsibility of proper backups then you should read between the lines and take from that a lot more about the project itself.
If the project doesn't do proper backups, a basic tenant of the computer world... something they should have learned before they could code... what exactly do you expect from the rest of the project?
Your excuse is one typically said by the guy who was responsible but didn't do his job and is looking for petty excuses.
Contrarty to what ignorant people like yourself think. GPL is not the definition of FOSS. FOSS in and of itself is a fucking retarded acronym since its actually talking about two different things, but that rant aside... you have to be a completely ignorant moron to not realize that zfs is more open and free than your precious Linux kernel, and far more so than anything infected with GPLv3.
Upon reception of an HTTP request, the demo spawns a new Xen domain with LING VM and a web application written in Erlang. After serving a single request the domain simply shuts itself down and frees all resources. The whole process takes 1.5-2sec.
I think that 1 connect per 1.5-2 seconds minimum is probably impressive for a web server if its running on... well hell, I don't know, an Arduino can serve pages faster than that.
Considering that Apache or IIS on any modern hardware, even limited to a single core will move 400 requests a second or more without breaking a sweat then I'm not really getting why I'm supposed to be impressed with their silly misuse of resources. This setup is more or less an example of why we have people who write OSes, people who write server software... and guys like this who reinvent the wheel... poorly.
What carrier are you using in the United States that actually charges less if you don't subsidize the phone with them?
No one in the US buys phones outright because doing so is fucking retarded. The monthly fee remains the same regardless of if you buy it at full price or with a contract. Even if you buy it with a contract and cancel the contract before you even walk out of the store it IS STILL CHEAPER THAN PAYING FULL PRICE, at least on $400 and above phones.
You have absolutely no experience what so ever in the retail world do you?
This is pretty much standard business practice for high profile retail targets, Apple didn't invent the practice they just joined in. Just because you're unaware of the fact that everyone does it, doesn't make it new. The cute part is that you think Samsung doesn't do the same with their Android phones.
Congratulations, you're a tool of propaganda rather than a human capable of thinking for themselves.
I'm not sure how this could be enforced - power outages often come along with another disaster (earthquake, hurricane, etc), so in many cases merchants may not be able to even travel to their store, or the store may be severely understaffed.
Same way you handle all disaster readiness scenarios... you check on them in advance and confirm compliance of the ability to do so BEFORE the disaster comes.
Also, for big-box stores with lots of inventory, there's a security concern with having a lot of cash on-site when electric cash recyclers and other forms of securely storing money may not be working, and armored car service may not be running.
So you're seriously saying that its a problem because they make too much money... I would love to have those problems, though they really are easy to solve. Not having 'big' box stores in the first place would be a good start.
Not that I think any of these things should be mandated. If the power is out for any length of time the store will compensate. People are going to want to make money and sell things, believe it or not, this was actually possible without cash registers at all at one point in time. This is actually what I use as the start of my argument as to why calculators should be illegal.
Clock rates aren't a measurement of density or processing ability. Moore's 'law' is that the number of transistors that can be (and are being) stuffed onto chips doubles approximately every 18 months.
AT BEST they had 36 bit internal memory buses, it wasn't until at least the P4 before intel CPUs actually did 64bit buses for anything except special instructions (MMX/SSE). The standard data paths were 32 bits externally for data until the 64 bit transition, less for addressing until we finally started getting chips that could physically address more than 4 gigs of memory when it went up to 36 bits, before the 64 bit transition. The data bus is (since p4/celeronD) 64 bit internal AND external, and the address bus is a virtual 64 bit internal, while actually being implemented as a 48 bit bus if I recall correctly, with a limited number of those pins made available external to the CPU for actual addressing of physical ram.
Yea, I miss the days of working with crappy hardware, crappy software, and a time when developers thought it was perfectly acceptable that pretty much every program on the computer should be its own OS and have drivers for everything it needed directly.
Sigh, you remember things differently than reality.
Linux 'worked great' on them because at that stage, it didn't really do many useful things and it certainly wasn't optimized and taking advantage of all the quirks and tricks the hardware had to offer. You're referring to a time in Linux's infancy.
No, that was never the reason. There were several excuses used but none of them were ever actually legitimate reasons for doing it. You just weren't smart enough to realize that from an engineering perspective, every single excuse they used was exactly the opposite of the way reality works. Those chips all already had onboard cache for instance. Hell, the 386 had on chip cache. They just added a new block, named it something different and you bought the excuse hook, line and sinker.
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No, its not possible, not even in theory.
It would theoretically be possible to be all female DNA, but it can not ever be all male DNA.
Your sex is not controlled by some 'developmental quirk'. Your sex is determined by the sperm that fertilizes your egg.
An Arduino will get you pretty close to a box with pins attached to a USB cable, though the USB cable is emulating a serial port.
A Raspberry Pi is like an original iPhone with the screen removed a few ports added and all the Arduino GPIO features built onboard so you get GPIO support built in.
Theres something wrong with VMware that makes it think it can charge more for virtualization software than the hardware it is replacing. They need their asses handed to them for a few years to put them back in their place.
Well, it was bought and built on what was once considered a real database, does that count?
Whenever you see Roblimo post a video, its of Tim Lord (timothy) and it illustrates just how incredible ignorant of the subject matter at hand timothy is.
I can not think of a single slashdot post in its history that timothy has made that was informative, or even had an accurate summary or headline. Its really hard to get it wrong as much as he does.
Actually, yes, they do, as most don't bother to turn them off.
The reality of it however is that the CPU itself is operating in the ghz range, which means its got all sorts of side bands and harmonics that can fall into the range that cockpit equipment uses.
You don't have to worry about a properly functioning radio transmitter causing an issue, its the broken ones that are an issue (if any), so leaving the CPU running is not really solving the real problem you're pretending exists.
One other item of note: If you are a passenger on a plane, you have no rights. The FAA authorizes the pilot and crew full authority over what you can and cannot do on a plane.
Wrong. The FAA, and specifically, the FARs do not override any other law or the constitution. Nice try though.
The FAA is not a law creation or enforcement agency and can do NEITHER. Everything it does that is made legally binding is run through Congress to do so.
You are NOT the pilot or airline's bitch just because you are on one of their flights. They more or less can throw you off the aircraft, thats about it from a legal perspective.
You need to stop spreading this bullshit like its true. It isn't. You're spreading FUD and this stupid shit results in more people thinking its acceptable that some stewardess cunt is legally allowed to treat them like shit.
How stupid are you? You're talking about putting shit away so you aren't distracted ... but then you say 'read sky mall instead during those 10 minutes', which is exactly what you claim you're not supposed to be doing.
Why is reading the inflight mag different than reading my iPad other than the fact that my iPad isn't trying to sell me $150 slippers with headlights on them?
When the news says 'big hurricane coming' and you don't leave town, you deserve the result.
I grew up in Florida, had we been given the same notice, we would have boarded up our houses and moved inland.
Why exactly did any idiot stay in a location which is BELOW SEA LEVEL when the ocean and all its fury was about to be dumped on it is beyond me.
Couple that with the fact that the mayor and governor of the state wants cash rather than help, so they could pocket a good portion of it, should make it a little more clear. Don't let reality inform you, listen your favorite biased news program instead and by all means, swallow it whole while you're at it.
OpenBoot, like BIOS, was replaced by EFI years ago. The PC windows world is JUST now picking up on the EFI bandwagon that everyone else has been on for years.
For the price, it's borderline stupid to buy a chromebook rather than a MacBook Air
Games don't have to support the hardware. The physical buttons can be configured so apps see the physical buttons as on screen touch input. It works with most games already though its probably not useful for something like fruit ninja which doesn't use fixed position onscreen controls
It is UNIX-style design where the user is expected to actually understand what they are doing.
No, it is not, and never was. It is infact the opposite of that. man pages, as one obvious example, are there so people who don't know what they are doing can figure it out. It is designed to be intuitive and provide you with the information needed to get the job done. It was built to have small, simple tools that were easy to understand. They can perform simple tasks on their own or when working together, perform some complex ones ... hence the powerful unix command line. The original UNIX design considered but new, inexperienced users and how to bring them up to speed as well as how to empower users with more knowledge of the system.
What you are referring to is a Linux/OSS attribute, not a UNIX attribute. Linux/OSS developers typically expect the user of the software to be a developer as well. This is the result of everyone scratching their own itch only and most code being written by people for themselves without any consideration of others. No one WANTS to write the things that makes it intuitive or easy for someone else who doesn't understand all the quirks. Obviously this isn't true for some of the paid developers, but the majority of them aren't.
If no one on their team is tasked with the responsibility of proper backups then you should read between the lines and take from that a lot more about the project itself.
If the project doesn't do proper backups, a basic tenant of the computer world ... something they should have learned before they could code ... what exactly do you expect from the rest of the project?
Your excuse is one typically said by the guy who was responsible but didn't do his job and is looking for petty excuses.
Contrarty to what ignorant people like yourself think. GPL is not the definition of FOSS. FOSS in and of itself is a fucking retarded acronym since its actually talking about two different things, but that rant aside ... you have to be a completely ignorant moron to not realize that zfs is more open and free than your precious Linux kernel, and far more so than anything infected with GPLv3.
Upon reception of an HTTP request, the demo spawns a new Xen domain with LING VM and a web application written in Erlang. After serving a single request the domain simply shuts itself down and frees all resources. The whole process takes 1.5-2sec.
I think that 1 connect per 1.5-2 seconds minimum is probably impressive for a web server if its running on ... well hell, I don't know, an Arduino can serve pages faster than that.
Considering that Apache or IIS on any modern hardware, even limited to a single core will move 400 requests a second or more without breaking a sweat then I'm not really getting why I'm supposed to be impressed with their silly misuse of resources. This setup is more or less an example of why we have people who write OSes, people who write server software ... and guys like this who reinvent the wheel ... poorly.
I call bullshit.
What carrier are you using in the United States that actually charges less if you don't subsidize the phone with them?
No one in the US buys phones outright because doing so is fucking retarded. The monthly fee remains the same regardless of if you buy it at full price or with a contract. Even if you buy it with a contract and cancel the contract before you even walk out of the store it IS STILL CHEAPER THAN PAYING FULL PRICE, at least on $400 and above phones.
You have absolutely no experience what so ever in the retail world do you?
This is pretty much standard business practice for high profile retail targets, Apple didn't invent the practice they just joined in. Just because you're unaware of the fact that everyone does it, doesn't make it new. The cute part is that you think Samsung doesn't do the same with their Android phones.
Congratulations, you're a tool of propaganda rather than a human capable of thinking for themselves.
I'm not sure how this could be enforced - power outages often come along with another disaster (earthquake, hurricane, etc), so in many cases merchants may not be able to even travel to their store, or the store may be severely understaffed.
Same way you handle all disaster readiness scenarios ... you check on them in advance and confirm compliance of the ability to do so BEFORE the disaster comes.
Also, for big-box stores with lots of inventory, there's a security concern with having a lot of cash on-site when electric cash recyclers and other forms of securely storing money may not be working, and armored car service may not be running.
So you're seriously saying that its a problem because they make too much money ... I would love to have those problems, though they really are easy to solve. Not having 'big' box stores in the first place would be a good start.
Not that I think any of these things should be mandated. If the power is out for any length of time the store will compensate. People are going to want to make money and sell things, believe it or not, this was actually possible without cash registers at all at one point in time. This is actually what I use as the start of my argument as to why calculators should be illegal.
Clock rates aren't a measurement of density or processing ability. Moore's 'law' is that the number of transistors that can be (and are being) stuffed onto chips doubles approximately every 18 months.
Or just buy an adaptor for ATX to AT which would end up costing you less in the end and saving you time. Sometimes hacks aren't the solution.
Except that it didn't.
AT BEST they had 36 bit internal memory buses, it wasn't until at least the P4 before intel CPUs actually did 64bit buses for anything except special instructions (MMX/SSE). The standard data paths were 32 bits externally for data until the 64 bit transition, less for addressing until we finally started getting chips that could physically address more than 4 gigs of memory when it went up to 36 bits, before the 64 bit transition. The data bus is (since p4/celeronD) 64 bit internal AND external, and the address bus is a virtual 64 bit internal, while actually being implemented as a 48 bit bus if I recall correctly, with a limited number of those pins made available external to the CPU for actual addressing of physical ram.
Yea, I miss the days of working with crappy hardware, crappy software, and a time when developers thought it was perfectly acceptable that pretty much every program on the computer should be its own OS and have drivers for everything it needed directly.
Sigh, you remember things differently than reality.
Linux 'worked great' on them because at that stage, it didn't really do many useful things and it certainly wasn't optimized and taking advantage of all the quirks and tricks the hardware had to offer. You're referring to a time in Linux's infancy.
No, that was never the reason. There were several excuses used but none of them were ever actually legitimate reasons for doing it. You just weren't smart enough to realize that from an engineering perspective, every single excuse they used was exactly the opposite of the way reality works. Those chips all already had onboard cache for instance. Hell, the 386 had on chip cache. They just added a new block, named it something different and you bought the excuse hook, line and sinker.