Basically this study is saying that with our current technology, it would be difficult to go to Mars or anywhere beyond. That itself wouldn't be so bad if the tone of the article made it sound impossible to do at all.
With 1960 technology it wouldn't have been possible to go to the moon. But with 1969 technology, it sure was. In 2005, we might lack radiation shielding that makes interplanetary distances hard to traverse without killing you 50 years from now. But in 2015, it might very well be easy to have lightweight material shield you adequately.
I tried installing Windows from 3.5" floppies using my 1581 disk drive on my Commodore 64. No dice. I even SYS 64738'd the system at least 10 times and the darn thing wouldn't even read the weird 1.4 meg format that Microsoft stores their floppies in.
Clearly, they're cutting Commodore out of the market.
Wow - AMD gets 10% market penetration for servers.
With good news like this, I wouldn't be surprised if something like Firefox reaching 75 million downloads were to happen! I hope I see a Slashdot story on that soon.
I think you're mostly correct. The only thing I worry about is the casual call to a company you do business with that requires you tell them your SSN over the phone to set up or make changes to your account.
Before you go off praising yourself for being so technically savvy, you really should RTFA
I found the article to be written for a very non-technical set of users (like you?). It didn't even mention servers and focused a lot on games.
1. In the article, system boot time went from approx. 15 seconds to approx 10 seconds. Hardly seems worth it.
Are you kidding me? A 33% increase in speed in boot time "hardly seems worth it". Don't you realize that the 33% increase in speed in boot time would likely be a 33% increase in speed in other operating system tasks?
Why not just max out your system with 4GB of physical ram and kill the swap-file altogether?
Anyone that says this doesn't understand Windows architecture enough that an explanation in a comment on Slashdot would rectify. Please research this more before you steer other people incorrectly.
I've seem more than a few systems where SQL server is using up 3.5 GB of RAM just caching databases off the disk
Caching the database won't help you with writes to the log file which is what I said. As for your claim of 3.5 GB of RAM being used by SQL Server - you must run into a lot of instances of the relatively rare SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition. Because the Standard Edition can only address 2 gigs of RAM. (click on What is the maximum amount of RAM supported by SQL Server 2000?).
Imagine how fast your system would be if you took the memory off the card and installed it on your motherboard, thus eliminating the need for a swap file
You obviously have a Linux slant, which is what led you to this point. I challenge you to set up a Windows computer with 4 gigabytes of RAM (the max). Then run Performance Monitor and monitor the swap file, and run some applications. You'll find the swap file is stilll being used even though RAM + Swap File can't be greater than 4 gig.
Imagine how fast your database server would be with its transaction log installed in a memory file
Wow, that would be a great feature. If SQL Server had that feature built in, that is. Or hell, even if it had the option to turn off the transaction log if you were doing a large processing that wouldn't fall under normal non-logged operations (bcp/SELECT INTO).
or since the memory is now just standard memory and won't need a special driver
Special driver? This acts like an SATA drive. What OS are you using that needs a "special driver" to support SATA?
you can just switch to Linux and use a real database
Amazing! I received my MCDBA certification on a fake database. I guess I was dreaming all those hours of studying. The company I work for must be imaginary too, using a fake database and all.
Anyone that says this isn't worth it is not very technical in my book.
An affordable 4 GB is fantastic for this kind of thing. Use your imagination:
1. Imagine how fast your system would be installed on a battery-backed up RAM drive.
2. Imagine how fast your system would be with your memory swap file installed on this.
3. Imagine how fast your database server would be with its transaction log installed on this. Hey, throw the tempdb (for SQL Server) on there as well.
4. Many other things.
If you're thinking of this as a standard hard drive to store your DivX movies and MP3 files, you're not thinking right. Solid state drives are miracles that can speed up systems beyond anything you would expect.
Therefore, the word addiction comes to mind and you won't leave no matter how much you bitch about rollbacks.
If anyone deserves to be modded up in this thread, it's you. I can't imagine playing these games as an adult. I grew up playing D&D-style games on my Commodore 64 (Ultima 4, Bard's Tale, Pool of Radiance, etc), but I can't even imagine playing these MMORPG games.
1. I'm an adult. My serious computer game playing days should be behind me.
2. Is there an end to these things? My only saving grace that let me return to a normal eating/sleeping pattern with games of the past is that they freakin' ended at some point. I don't think I ever would've seen the light of day if I played a game that never ended. Especially if it gave me a poor facsimile of social interaction by being able to communicate with real people inside the game.
3. How in the world could anyone with a job compete with the people that play this 24x7?
By "Troll away!" do you mean respond to your troll?
I have not read the study itself
You've also apparently not read the article that talks about the study. In there it states:
They conclude the country would be better off investing in solar, wind and hydrogen energy.
Yet you accuse the study's authors of being a shill for Fox News (what that has to do with is anyone's guess) and that they spun the story to support burning of fossil fuels.
I really wish vocal liberals such as yourself weren't so offensive every time you talked. With enemies like you, right-wingers are assured a comfortable place in office and that serves nobody well.
Take this as constructive criticism from a swing voter who voted for Al Gore but couldn't imagine voting for a Democrat today. Despite the fact I'm socially liberal and agree with Democrats on many issues, I find you guys far more intellectually dishonest than the other side. Please fix that, because I don't want the other side to take over either.
Pretty good, but doesn't stop you going in with a static address in the right range tho...
How is this "pretty good" then? It would take someone with access to a network port 2 seconds to find out your subnet information and would take them another 2 seconds to skip DHCP completely and put an address in manually. Even worse, they could add your entire subnet to the list of IP addresses on the system and cause IP address collisions with every host on your network.
Before anyone implements this suggestion thinking it's going to add much to your security, realize it's a big pain in the ass for not a lot of benefit.
Amazing how all you have to do to be the biggest karma whore is post something against George Bush.
The original post could've been about bunnies and strawberries, but you will get +5 Informative every time!
As a radical moderate, it's very interesting to watch how much more liberals hate George Bush than conservatives hated Bill Clinton. Who would've thought that was even possible!?
I've formerly held an MCSE certification (expired with Windows NT 4.0), currently hold MCSD (on the Visual Basic 6 track) and also currently hold MCDBA (on the SQL Server 2000 track).
I find there are in general two ways to study for the tests (each with variations):
1. Aquire some real world experience, study the material, maybe take some practice tests (like Transcender) and then take the real tests.
2. Go to www.braindumpcentral.com and find the questions and answers that will be on the test and memorize them, then take the real tests.
If she went path #1, it's fairly impressive. Though I think back to when I was 10 and programming proficiently in 6502 assembly and Commodore BASIC on my C-64 and I realize that children of that age aren't actually incompetent.
How long until.coke and.pepsi are top level domains?
I guess now if you want to protect your trademark, you have to buy dozens of TLDs today and perhaps hundreds tomorrow if ICANN continues its goofy trend.
When President Bush referred to The Internets, many people thought he was mis-speaking. He was apparently foreshadowing a plan to make sure that Europe gets off our Internet and makes their own!
Going to space is dangerous, but beneficial. As soon as people realize that, we'll be much better off.
107 cameras seems a bit like overkill and perhaps an attempt to fix a "one in a million" problem that has already occurred.
Could you imagine if the western part of the United States was settled by people that needed 107 cameras pointed at their wagons to make sure that a wheel wasn't falling off before they left? Some people have an adventurous spirit. Let them adventure. Sometimes they die. Sucks, but true.
Until you get rid of the "never say die" agendas that everyone has, you'll never get rid of this type of dialogue.
They have their spin that their talking points are designed to get across, and so long as they are defending a position that benefits them (no matter how hypocritical or nonsensical), they're going to have to utilize such unnatural speech.
Not the same thing, and totally incorrect. Roads are used and paid for by people that pay taxes cars, tolls, gasoline and income.
People who ride the bus outside of downtown metropolitan areas, are typically very poor, pay almost no taxes, and don't pay enough to pay the costs to run the buses.
One is clearly a welfare system, the other is not.
our leaders can't figure out a way to push down these costs for all users of healthcare
Our leaders have figured out many ways to lower the cost of healthcare. I have a good compromise:
Piss off Democrats: Implement tort reform capping non-economic damages to $250k.
Piss off Republicans: Implement a total ban on consumer-directed advertising of pharmaceuticals.
Do those two things and you'll see the cost of healthcare plummet.
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Basically this study is saying that with our current technology, it would be difficult to go to Mars or anywhere beyond. That itself wouldn't be so bad if the tone of the article made it sound impossible to do at all.
With 1960 technology it wouldn't have been possible to go to the moon. But with 1969 technology, it sure was. In 2005, we might lack radiation shielding that makes interplanetary distances hard to traverse without killing you 50 years from now. But in 2015, it might very well be easy to have lightweight material shield you adequately.
I tried installing Windows from 3.5" floppies using my 1581 disk drive on my Commodore 64. No dice. I even SYS 64738'd the system at least 10 times and the darn thing wouldn't even read the weird 1.4 meg format that Microsoft stores their floppies in.
Clearly, they're cutting Commodore out of the market.
The payloads are riding up top to avoid debris.
The proverbial cow has left the barn, time to close the barn door.
Don't worry about the hole in the wall until chickens start escaping.
When will NASA start anticipating problems instead of just overreacting to previous ones?
Wow - AMD gets 10% market penetration for servers.
With good news like this, I wouldn't be surprised if something like Firefox reaching 75 million downloads were to happen! I hope I see a Slashdot story on that soon.
I haven't been this excited since the preview for KDE 3.4!!!
I think you're mostly correct. The only thing I worry about is the casual call to a company you do business with that requires you tell them your SSN over the phone to set up or make changes to your account.
Before you go off praising yourself for being so technically savvy, you really should RTFA
I found the article to be written for a very non-technical set of users (like you?). It didn't even mention servers and focused a lot on games.
1. In the article, system boot time went from approx. 15 seconds to approx 10 seconds. Hardly seems worth it.
Are you kidding me? A 33% increase in speed in boot time "hardly seems worth it". Don't you realize that the 33% increase in speed in boot time would likely be a 33% increase in speed in other operating system tasks?
Why not just max out your system with 4GB of physical ram and kill the swap-file altogether?
Anyone that says this doesn't understand Windows architecture enough that an explanation in a comment on Slashdot would rectify. Please research this more before you steer other people incorrectly.
I've seem more than a few systems where SQL server is using up 3.5 GB of RAM just caching databases off the disk
Caching the database won't help you with writes to the log file which is what I said. As for your claim of 3.5 GB of RAM being used by SQL Server - you must run into a lot of instances of the relatively rare SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition. Because the Standard Edition can only address 2 gigs of RAM. (click on What is the maximum amount of RAM supported by SQL Server 2000?).
Imagine how fast your system would be if you took the memory off the card and installed it on your motherboard, thus eliminating the need for a swap file
You obviously have a Linux slant, which is what led you to this point. I challenge you to set up a Windows computer with 4 gigabytes of RAM (the max). Then run Performance Monitor and monitor the swap file, and run some applications. You'll find the swap file is stilll being used even though RAM + Swap File can't be greater than 4 gig.
Imagine how fast your database server would be with its transaction log installed in a memory file
Wow, that would be a great feature. If SQL Server had that feature built in, that is. Or hell, even if it had the option to turn off the transaction log if you were doing a large processing that wouldn't fall under normal non-logged operations (bcp/SELECT INTO).
or since the memory is now just standard memory and won't need a special driver
Special driver? This acts like an SATA drive. What OS are you using that needs a "special driver" to support SATA?
you can just switch to Linux and use a real database
Amazing! I received my MCDBA certification on a fake database. I guess I was dreaming all those hours of studying. The company I work for must be imaginary too, using a fake database and all.
Anyone that says this isn't worth it is not very technical in my book.
An affordable 4 GB is fantastic for this kind of thing. Use your imagination:
1. Imagine how fast your system would be installed on a battery-backed up RAM drive.
2. Imagine how fast your system would be with your memory swap file installed on this.
3. Imagine how fast your database server would be with its transaction log installed on this. Hey, throw the tempdb (for SQL Server) on there as well.
4. Many other things.
If you're thinking of this as a standard hard drive to store your DivX movies and MP3 files, you're not thinking right. Solid state drives are miracles that can speed up systems beyond anything you would expect.
I see they still have tabbed web browsing, which has been in Internet Explorer since version 7.0.
trundling
v. intr.
To move along by or as if by rolling or spinning.
Wow, someone whipped out their thesaurus for this article summary.
Therefore, the word addiction comes to mind and you won't leave no matter how much you bitch about rollbacks.
If anyone deserves to be modded up in this thread, it's you. I can't imagine playing these games as an adult. I grew up playing D&D-style games on my Commodore 64 (Ultima 4, Bard's Tale, Pool of Radiance, etc), but I can't even imagine playing these MMORPG games.
1. I'm an adult. My serious computer game playing days should be behind me.
2. Is there an end to these things? My only saving grace that let me return to a normal eating/sleeping pattern with games of the past is that they freakin' ended at some point. I don't think I ever would've seen the light of day if I played a game that never ended. Especially if it gave me a poor facsimile of social interaction by being able to communicate with real people inside the game.
3. How in the world could anyone with a job compete with the people that play this 24x7?
Those games are dangerous.
By "Troll away!" do you mean respond to your troll?
I have not read the study itself
You've also apparently not read the article that talks about the study. In there it states:
They conclude the country would be better off investing in solar, wind and hydrogen energy.
Yet you accuse the study's authors of being a shill for Fox News (what that has to do with is anyone's guess) and that they spun the story to support burning of fossil fuels.
I really wish vocal liberals such as yourself weren't so offensive every time you talked. With enemies like you, right-wingers are assured a comfortable place in office and that serves nobody well.
Take this as constructive criticism from a swing voter who voted for Al Gore but couldn't imagine voting for a Democrat today. Despite the fact I'm socially liberal and agree with Democrats on many issues, I find you guys far more intellectually dishonest than the other side. Please fix that, because I don't want the other side to take over either.
I'm not usually a grammar nazi, but the summary of this article is very difficult to read due to errors.
Pretty good, but doesn't stop you going in with a static address in the right range tho...
How is this "pretty good" then? It would take someone with access to a network port 2 seconds to find out your subnet information and would take them another 2 seconds to skip DHCP completely and put an address in manually. Even worse, they could add your entire subnet to the list of IP addresses on the system and cause IP address collisions with every host on your network.
Before anyone implements this suggestion thinking it's going to add much to your security, realize it's a big pain in the ass for not a lot of benefit.
Isn't there already one reporter jailed over this story?
Does David Lazarus want a big can of Patriot-Act whoop-ass to come down on him or what?
Amazing how all you have to do to be the biggest karma whore is post something against George Bush.
The original post could've been about bunnies and strawberries, but you will get +5 Informative every time!
As a radical moderate, it's very interesting to watch how much more liberals hate George Bush than conservatives hated Bill Clinton. Who would've thought that was even possible!?
I've formerly held an MCSE certification (expired with Windows NT 4.0), currently hold MCSD (on the Visual Basic 6 track) and also currently hold MCDBA (on the SQL Server 2000 track).
I find there are in general two ways to study for the tests (each with variations):
1. Aquire some real world experience, study the material, maybe take some practice tests (like Transcender) and then take the real tests. 2. Go to www.braindumpcentral.com and find the questions and answers that will be on the test and memorize them, then take the real tests.
If she went path #1, it's fairly impressive. Though I think back to when I was 10 and programming proficiently in 6502 assembly and Commodore BASIC on my C-64 and I realize that children of that age aren't actually incompetent.
Someone please write a review of this very long review so I can discern if it's a worthwhile read.
If the review of the review shows that the review is worthwhile, and it is ultimately favorable to the book, I may then read the book.
I just hope the marketing people that work in my company aren't reading Slashdot today.
Otherwise, I'll be making fancy checkboxes for the next 2 months.
Damn you, Slashdot.
How long until .coke and .pepsi are top level domains?
I guess now if you want to protect your trademark, you have to buy dozens of TLDs today and perhaps hundreds tomorrow if ICANN continues its goofy trend.
When President Bush referred to The Internets, many people thought he was mis-speaking. He was apparently foreshadowing a plan to make sure that Europe gets off our Internet and makes their own!
Going to space is dangerous, but beneficial. As soon as people realize that, we'll be much better off.
107 cameras seems a bit like overkill and perhaps an attempt to fix a "one in a million" problem that has already occurred.
Could you imagine if the western part of the United States was settled by people that needed 107 cameras pointed at their wagons to make sure that a wheel wasn't falling off before they left? Some people have an adventurous spirit. Let them adventure. Sometimes they die. Sucks, but true.
Until you get rid of the "never say die" agendas that everyone has, you'll never get rid of this type of dialogue.
They have their spin that their talking points are designed to get across, and so long as they are defending a position that benefits them (no matter how hypocritical or nonsensical), they're going to have to utilize such unnatural speech.
Roads are a public welfare system, then.
Not the same thing, and totally incorrect. Roads are used and paid for by people that pay taxes cars, tolls, gasoline and income.
People who ride the bus outside of downtown metropolitan areas, are typically very poor, pay almost no taxes, and don't pay enough to pay the costs to run the buses.
One is clearly a welfare system, the other is not.
our leaders can't figure out a way to push down these costs for all users of healthcare
Our leaders have figured out many ways to lower the cost of healthcare. I have a good compromise:
Piss off Democrats: Implement tort reform capping non-economic damages to $250k.
Piss off Republicans: Implement a total ban on consumer-directed advertising of pharmaceuticals.
Do those two things and you'll see the cost of healthcare plummet.