His point is that SuSe is free and Windows is not. Why are you so bitter about something you got for free? If it is not worth the savings to read a stinking manual, fine-- use Microsoft. People too lazy to read a man page deserve to have to pay for software, IMHO.
Argue about who is right and wrong allyou want but there is one point missing here.
Anyone who shoots at cops or even threatens a cop is very, very stupid. The only sensible thing to do when the cops show up to arrest you is to let them do their job and keep your mouth shut. Anything else can get you killed.
I share many of the concerns about abuse of government power. I even think that cops can be way too trigger happy. But Randy Weaver and the Waco bunch both threatened the cops (I think the Waco guys even shot some). That is insanely stupid.
He did recant once he was threatened with torture.
I doubt many would stand on scientific principle under those conditions. What is rotating around what becomes fairly esoteric when faced with mean people with sharp knives.
dtg
It's unlikely that such a cobbled-together supercomputer would be able to scale well on a real incompressible flow calculation. Such calculations require way too much global communication because of elliptic solves. Most of the demos for breaking benchmarks that I have seen run purely hyperbolic problems. So if the unladen swallow is going Mach 1.0 or greater, we have ourselves a test problem.
Now I have heard it all: a discussion of the merits of breastfeeding on slashdot. What's next? A discussion of hospital childbirth vs. midwives?
What is the world coming to?
dtg
Of course it's not objective. I think we all agree. I have seen Stalinist propaganda posters that were more believable. The big questions in my mind follow. Is there anybody at all out there that is fooled by such obvious propaganda? If there are such people, are they responsible for technology decisions? If so, why would anyone put such a credulous idiot in charge of IT decisions?
dtg
I am not an expert in X. Most of the X code I have written is for the very specific application of visualizing numerical data.
I find X really difficult to use as a programming interface and I suspect many others do as well. There are ~10,000 pages of documentation of X and not an example in the bunch. I think this is why so many layers (Motif and on up) are built on top of X. If it is the upper layers that are slow, it is still the fault of the crappy API that the layers are necessary. It just shouldn't be as hard as it is to put up a window with a few buttons.
NASA suffers from the following dilemma: (1) It's political support comes largely from manned spaceflight (2) There is no justifiable reason for manned spaceflight.
Robotic exploration is safer and cheaper. You don't have to worry about keeping hunks of meat alive in a very hazardous environment. Just the amount of sheilding required to keep astronauts alive on long flights boggles the mind. Robots don't care if a flight takes years, people do. The list goes on and on.
Because so much of NASA's political support comes from denying these fundamental facts, they will continue to put humans at risk for no reason at all and at considerable expense.
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His point is that SuSe is free and Windows is not. Why are you so bitter about something you got for free? If it is not worth the savings to read a stinking manual, fine-- use Microsoft. People too lazy to read a man page deserve to have to pay for software, IMHO.
In other news, Microsoft announce that cause and effect are reversed when it comes to their software.
"We think it is due to our patented time-traveling module," quips Steve Balmer.
Argue about who is right and wrong allyou want but there is one point missing here.
Anyone who shoots at cops or even threatens a cop
is very, very stupid. The only sensible thing to do when the cops show up to arrest you is to let them do their job and keep your mouth shut. Anything else can get you killed.
I share many of the concerns about abuse of
government power. I even think that cops can be way too trigger happy. But Randy Weaver and the Waco bunch both threatened the cops (I think the Waco guys even shot some). That is insanely stupid.
He did recant once he was threatened with torture. I doubt many would stand on scientific principle under those conditions. What is rotating around what becomes fairly esoteric when faced with mean people with sharp knives. dtg
It's unlikely that such a cobbled-together supercomputer would be able to scale well on a real incompressible flow calculation. Such calculations require way too much global communication because of elliptic solves. Most of the demos for breaking benchmarks that I have seen run purely hyperbolic problems. So if the unladen swallow is going Mach 1.0 or greater, we have ourselves a test problem.
Today it works fine.
Yesterday it didn't work.
Windows is like that.
---Author Unknown
You mean that we should actually test our code?
Against real data?
Aren't you worried that could start some kind of
scary precedent?
dtg
To me this was the most interesting line of the article:
Sun's compiler was the clear winner. Surprisingly, the older version of GNU's GCC beat 3.3.2 by a very slim margin.
One of my favorite version numbers (2.95.3) is still getting good press. Cool.
dtg
Now I have heard it all: a discussion of the merits of breastfeeding on slashdot. What's next? A discussion of hospital childbirth vs. midwives? What is the world coming to? dtg
A pringle is pretty close to being a saddle point.
Of course it's not objective. I think we all agree. I have seen Stalinist propaganda posters that were more believable. The big questions in my mind follow. Is there anybody at all out there that is fooled by such obvious propaganda? If there are such people, are they responsible for technology decisions? If so, why would anyone put such a credulous idiot in charge of IT decisions? dtg
I am not an expert in X. Most of the X code I have written is for the very specific application of visualizing numerical data.
I find X really difficult to use as a programming
interface and I suspect many others do as well. There are ~10,000 pages of documentation of X and not an example in the bunch. I think this is why so many layers (Motif and on up) are built on top of X. If it is the upper layers that are slow, it is still the fault of the crappy API that the layers are necessary. It just shouldn't be as hard as it is to put up a window with a few buttons.
NASA suffers from the following dilemma:
(1) It's political support comes largely from manned spaceflight
(2) There is no justifiable reason for manned spaceflight.
Robotic exploration is safer and cheaper. You don't have to worry about keeping hunks of meat alive in a very hazardous environment. Just the amount of sheilding required to keep astronauts alive on long flights boggles the mind. Robots don't care if a flight takes years, people do. The list goes on and on.
Because so much of NASA's political support comes from denying these fundamental facts, they will continue to put humans at risk for no reason at all and at considerable expense.
dtg