oh what a lovely asshole. are you sure you understand the difference between a DDoS (thousands of computers throwing ALL their capacity, hundreds of packets per second, per machine at a single server), and the "manual way" (a few kids hitting F5 about 10 times a second)?
anyways you should have a little bit of you priorities checked. if you think that someone deserves to go to jail for recomending people to "take down" a website manually (the equivalent of 10 people pushing a brick wall as hard as they can to take it down...), then this world is not the place for you. the world is as screwed as it is because of people like you: people who voted for bush twice.
quoting maddox, the pirate: I HOPE YOU CHOKE.
in soviet russia, you would buy some cheap-ass motherboards with onboard SATA RAID and a whole lot of huge-ass hard drives. then run linux (BSD is dead) and samba, FTP or whatever... imagine a beowulf cluster of that! scalability is not such of a deal (obligatory simpsons qoute)
Frink: Well, sure, the Frinkiac-7 looks impressive, don't touch it, but I predict that within 100 years, computers will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them.
and that will cost you wayyyy less than XServe RAID. the time you will lose installing the system? just a little less than the time it takes apple to deliver your system via overnight courier. anyone that tells otherwise it's just making FUD.
what we need is a mega-RAID to hold all the dupes being posted in slashdot.
Intel's processors use technology (superscalar) developed by russian scientists recruited by intel in the 80s. The american space program was developed by Von Braun (a nazi german) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_braun And let's not forget that you yanks, with your friends the english you took all of the information collected by german and japanese scientist during the world war II.
And remember that in Japan you can get 50 and 100mbit connections for $50 in your home.
Oh and when you say "we enjoy the quality of life that we do", you refer to the gov't spying on every chatroom you see, and officers visiting you for reading communist books (http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/17/2 115239), or for living in the country where they have more serial killers than all other countries combined? Oh, or you mean the quality of life in the country where the president was on vacation while one of its most important (and historic) cities was washed away by a hurricane, or the country where, despite having all of those security measures, it had 4 airplanes hijacked at the same time, and the secret service took down only the one targeting the pressident, while thousands died at the world trade center, and some at the pentagon. Or the country where the president says "well... we thought there were weapons of mass destruction, but it seems as if our sources were wrong..." and forgets the part that says "but well, we have our troops there so we might steal their oil as well". Or, back to topic, the country where a huge corporation sues you for sharing a couple of files, while you watch MTV's "Cribs" and all those singers show you their mansions with dressing rooms so big that they need a person to keep it properly? (again, while all those people in New Orleans is now homeless because a hurricane blow the whole town away)
I'm sorry, what quality of life were you talking about?
yeah, when I was a kid I watched in american TV series like all those spelling bees and I was like WTF! is it so hard to spell? now I understand why they do that, because it's kind of tricky with all those strange sounds letters can make in english. like, in spanish they all sound the same, except for the H which is mostly silent unless in SH and CH, and G before E and I, and the LL sound, and the R and RR. thats basically it. i remember that spelling bee in the simpsons, the one that was fixed for lisa to lose. in spanish they translated it as varón (male) and barón (like lord, or something like that). technically if it was spanish, lisa could have spelled it right if she was looking at the judge's mouth. Barón is pronounced with a B, that is with the lips, whereas varón is pronounced with a V, that is, with the lips and teeth. they sound exactly the same but if she was looking at the guy's mouth she could have read it right. supposing the judge pronounced it with the right B of course...:P
Homer spies a Time magazine with Ned Flanders on the cover and a caption "Man of the Century". Homer scoffs, "Must have been a pretty slow century."
http://www.snpp.com/episodes/3F07.html
What if they run Windows Server? Should Microsoft compensate the bank? Worse yet, what if they run Linux or BSD (altough BSD is dead;)?
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The big issue here is speed of development and ease of use. Java is a bitch to learn, it requires a compiler, and it has a syntax that's byzantine as hell. Compare that to an interpreted language like Python or Ruby that has a very spare syntax, is interpreted, and are quite easy to learn.
Not true. Java is much easier to learn that C++. C++ has a really nasty way to do things. it requires a compiler too, etc. But these are different things. Anyways, Python, and the only true interpreted language (Perl of course), have one major flaw: they are read-only. You can code a program in the flexible ways (black magic, as Wall likes to cal it), but then you end up with a program that you won't be able to read or debug just a few hours after you finish. If you write it the proper way, you end up almost with a C program (without the data definitions). Don't even go into objects with Perl, it's just suicide. Thats the reason java is so bitchy to learn, it forces you to do things right, but in the long run its an advantage. You don't end up with a concatenation when you wanted to do a sum (Neither in perl because . and + are different strings), and you can apply the same operators ("!=" to strings, vs "!=" and "ne" for perl).
That isn't to say that Java doesn't have its place, just as an IBM mainframe has its place, but the vast majority of tasks don't require a mainframe. For doing something like simple text process, Java's syntax just gets in the way - why build a massive application in Java when you can bang out a much simpler and easier system in Perl, Python, PHP, or Ruby?
Why of course! Because python, perl, all the same shit. They're designed to process text. Sed and awk are too. But you don't see a corporate app written in sed, awk, or bash. Neither in perl, python or php. The truth is, I don't know what is wrong with these people. The wikipedia-haters. The java-haters. I mean, dude if you dont like it just ignore it! Java isn't designed to do web sites, as PHP is, and php isn't designed to write desktop apps. Why try to do such comparations? Would you use PHP to write a shell script? I don't think so.
It's all about the KISS principle, and syntactically and practically Java is just too complex - it's like trying to dust a room with a jackhammer.
SOOO not true. For writing a simple visit counter, yes, java is way too much. But for writing a supply chain management software, one that doesnt run inside a web browser, Java is your friend. If you're on Windows 100%, you may be better off with C#.
true. take for example a PIC microcontroller. Can draw anything betwen 50uA when "SLEEP"ing and 500 (4MHz) - 2000uA (20MHz) when running. A regular leds needs between 10 and 20 mA to glow decently at room light. (There are "very low power" leds that glow at 2mA but these are more expensive)
Newer philips sets take even longer. First, they warm up the filament v-e-r-y slowly, so it won't burn from cold-starting it. Two, when it's finally warm, the TV makes a calibration routine (3 tiny r,g, and b lines at the top of the screen), "so that the electron cannons age evenly over time", and this helps the tube not to fade to a color within the years.
True, Philips audio sets have an "ECO" off mode that will turn off the clock too, if you want to. Those VFD's can draw more than a few watts. Also the newer TVs have something called a "burst" power supply, that when off consumes so little power that the standby led remains lit for minutes when unplugged. I think it's because they're european design and that makes them more strict, or just because Philips is more elitist (and expensive) that the rest of the competition.
Well, a technology with a name such as "HyperThreading" is targeted more to end users who don't know about processors, rather than SQL "Performance Tuners" who try to squeeze every cycle of processing power. HyperThreading might help poorly written thread management (independent audio and video subsystems for example), but not true multithreading, that's for sure.
inaction? what the fuck are you talking about? microsoft is constantly developing new "technologies" and shit. just look at the patent records. besides they did upgrade windows. thank god the shitty 9x era ended. well I didn't care too much about win98 because by that time i was already running NT4 and never looked back. xp is very stable, and they constantly add shit to it. for example, the wireless support, USB 2.0, etc. and these things come for free (service packs). remember how long it took for people to switch to XP? here in my country (Argentina), nearly 50% of PCs still run 98. so anyway all those points you made are valid just to some extent. how many people cares if the system runs a message scheduler, file system, etc. that is older? I mean my house is old, it has solid brick walls. Should I tear it down and re-make it with hollow bricks because they have superior thermal isolation? Microsoft doesn't upgrade their OS because, as it is "it just works". what about sysadmins, the ones that should really care about things like that? large corporations don't have macs on the desktops. they have windows, because apple is so ridiculously expensive. I hope that will change now that they will go intel, but I doubt it. Just look at, for example, the fucking iPods. Take the shuffle for example. The shit don't even have a fucking screen! For $50 I can buy some chinese mp3 player, which also plays WMA and has a FM tuner, and serves as a 1GB USB 2.0 pen-drive. Oh, and it does have a screen with a fucking LED backlight. And runs off a standard battery. You see, people ARE idiots when they throw away they money like that.
I've seen it in Buenos Aires, just about in every mall and electronics store. Even in the Philips HQ in Argentina. I think they have more in demo than what they actually sold. BTW it's called AMBILIGHT. It's 3 CCFLs on each side of the TV, RGB. The processor analyzes the image and takes the average of colors, and outputs these to the CCFLs and through PWM changes the brightness of the tubes. Its a nice detail.
Doc Brown from back to the future called. says his time machine broke and needs a new garbage-to-power converter, but can't get it as we are still in 2005.
they can remove the region coding... and invent some kind of technology that won't allow imported discs to play on your player and name it something else.
anyway what's the big deal with multi region players? I'm from Argentina. DVD makers here make their DVDs region 1 and 4, because of the many people who bought their DVD players on Miami or somewhere else. But what about the americans? Maybe the biggest audience, I don't think Joe Sixpack gives a shit about playing "euro movies", maybe like 1% (with 1% of error margin) of the population cares about playing imported movies (that is, people who like foreign movies and anime fans).
ok. can someone explain why the parent is modded funny? are all the modders today script-kiddies who didn't know the epson LX-810 or the Citizen GSX-190, or any other printer that needed to be put "online" (all green lights on) before you could print? damn.
ok I don't know about nasa, pal. but I can honestly say I once found an 8-track player, dated 1970-something. It worked, all it needed was a new belt. I got it and it worked. So I went looking for a tape and found one at some pawn shop. the tape was about 20cm from the ceiling, and judging by the amount of dirt that was on it, it had been there for a LONG time. I don't remember what the music was, but the tape was dated 1960-something. I popped it on the player and it played. great. Once and again.
Now, if I made a 25 year old piece of junk work with just a new belt, and a 35 year old tape played on it, why would NASA have problems restoring the data from old tapes? if the tapes were really damaged beyond reading but they REALLY wanted to read them, they WOULD HAVE already.
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oh what a lovely asshole. are you sure you understand the difference between a DDoS (thousands of computers throwing ALL their capacity, hundreds of packets per second, per machine at a single server), and the "manual way" (a few kids hitting F5 about 10 times a second)? anyways you should have a little bit of you priorities checked. if you think that someone deserves to go to jail for recomending people to "take down" a website manually (the equivalent of 10 people pushing a brick wall as hard as they can to take it down...), then this world is not the place for you. the world is as screwed as it is because of people like you: people who voted for bush twice. quoting maddox, the pirate: I HOPE YOU CHOKE.
I, for one, welcome our new apple overlords.
in soviet russia, you would buy some cheap-ass motherboards with onboard SATA RAID and a whole lot of huge-ass hard drives. then run linux (BSD is dead) and samba, FTP or whatever... imagine a beowulf cluster of that! scalability is not such of a deal (obligatory simpsons qoute)
Frink: Well, sure, the Frinkiac-7 looks impressive, don't touch it, but I predict that within 100 years, computers will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them.
and that will cost you wayyyy less than XServe RAID. the time you will lose installing the system? just a little less than the time it takes apple to deliver your system via overnight courier. anyone that tells otherwise it's just making FUD.
what we need is a mega-RAID to hold all the dupes being posted in slashdot.
i'm bashing at apple... I must be new here.
BULLSHIT! There is no apple product that costs $3
OK yankee, first off, remember:
2 115239), or for living in the country where they have more serial killers than all other countries combined? Oh, or you mean the quality of life in the country where the president was on vacation while one of its most important (and historic) cities was washed away by a hurricane, or the country where, despite having all of those security measures, it had 4 airplanes hijacked at the same time, and the secret service took down only the one targeting the pressident, while thousands died at the world trade center, and some at the pentagon. Or the country where the president says "well... we thought there were weapons of mass destruction, but it seems as if our sources were wrong..." and forgets the part that says "but well, we have our troops there so we might steal their oil as well". Or, back to topic, the country where a huge corporation sues you for sharing a couple of files, while you watch MTV's "Cribs" and all those singers show you their mansions with dressing rooms so big that they need a person to keep it properly? (again, while all those people in New Orleans is now homeless because a hurricane blow the whole town away)
Intel's processors use technology (superscalar) developed by russian scientists recruited by intel in the 80s.
The american space program was developed by Von Braun (a nazi german) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_braun
And let's not forget that you yanks, with your friends the english you took all of the information collected by german and japanese scientist during the world war II.
And remember that in Japan you can get 50 and 100mbit connections for $50 in your home.
Oh and when you say "we enjoy the quality of life that we do", you refer to the gov't spying on every chatroom you see, and officers visiting you for reading communist books (http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/17/
I'm sorry, what quality of life were you talking about?
yeah, when I was a kid I watched in american TV series like all those spelling bees and I was like WTF! is it so hard to spell? now I understand why they do that, because it's kind of tricky with all those strange sounds letters can make in english. like, in spanish they all sound the same, except for the H which is mostly silent unless in SH and CH, and G before E and I, and the LL sound, and the R and RR. thats basically it. i remember that spelling bee in the simpsons, the one that was fixed for lisa to lose. in spanish they translated it as varón (male) and barón (like lord, or something like that). technically if it was spanish, lisa could have spelled it right if she was looking at the judge's mouth. Barón is pronounced with a B, that is with the lips, whereas varón is pronounced with a V, that is, with the lips and teeth. they sound exactly the same but if she was looking at the guy's mouth she could have read it right. supposing the judge pronounced it with the right B of course... :P
Homer spies a Time magazine with Ned Flanders on the cover and a caption "Man of the Century". Homer scoffs, "Must have been a pretty slow century."
http://www.snpp.com/episodes/3F07.html
no papá... si salio en slashdot! http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/11/19 44204&tid=158&tid=95&tid=17
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In Argentina they tried something like that this year ( http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/11/19 44204&tid=158&tid=95&tid=17 ) but it quickly disappeared because of the public outrage...
What if they run Windows Server? Should Microsoft compensate the bank? Worse yet, what if they run Linux or BSD (altough BSD is dead ;)?
Not true. Java is much easier to learn that C++. C++ has a really nasty way to do things. it requires a compiler too, etc. But these are different things. Anyways, Python, and the only true interpreted language (Perl of course), have one major flaw: they are read-only. You can code a program in the flexible ways (black magic, as Wall likes to cal it), but then you end up with a program that you won't be able to read or debug just a few hours after you finish. If you write it the proper way, you end up almost with a C program (without the data definitions). Don't even go into objects with Perl, it's just suicide. Thats the reason java is so bitchy to learn, it forces you to do things right, but in the long run its an advantage. You don't end up with a concatenation when you wanted to do a sum (Neither in perl because . and + are different strings), and you can apply the same operators ("!=" to strings, vs "!=" and "ne" for perl). Why of course! Because python, perl, all the same shit. They're designed to process text. Sed and awk are too. But you don't see a corporate app written in sed, awk, or bash. Neither in perl, python or php. The truth is, I don't know what is wrong with these people. The wikipedia-haters. The java-haters. I mean, dude if you dont like it just ignore it! Java isn't designed to do web sites, as PHP is, and php isn't designed to write desktop apps. Why try to do such comparations? Would you use PHP to write a shell script? I don't think so. SOOO not true. For writing a simple visit counter, yes, java is way too much. But for writing a supply chain management software, one that doesnt run inside a web browser, Java is your friend. If you're on Windows 100%, you may be better off with C#.
http://bash.org/?5300
true. take for example a PIC microcontroller. Can draw anything betwen 50uA when "SLEEP"ing and 500 (4MHz) - 2000uA (20MHz) when running. A regular leds needs between 10 and 20 mA to glow decently at room light. (There are "very low power" leds that glow at 2mA but these are more expensive)
Newer philips sets take even longer. First, they warm up the filament v-e-r-y slowly, so it won't burn from cold-starting it. Two, when it's finally warm, the TV makes a calibration routine (3 tiny r,g, and b lines at the top of the screen), "so that the electron cannons age evenly over time", and this helps the tube not to fade to a color within the years.
True, Philips audio sets have an "ECO" off mode that will turn off the clock too, if you want to. Those VFD's can draw more than a few watts.
Also the newer TVs have something called a "burst" power supply, that when off consumes so little power that the standby led remains lit for minutes when unplugged.
I think it's because they're european design and that makes them more strict, or just because Philips is more elitist (and expensive) that the rest of the competition.
Well, a technology with a name such as "HyperThreading" is targeted more to end users who don't know about processors, rather than SQL "Performance Tuners" who try to squeeze every cycle of processing power.
HyperThreading might help poorly written thread management (independent audio and video subsystems for example), but not true multithreading, that's for sure.
inaction? what the fuck are you talking about? microsoft is constantly developing new "technologies" and shit. just look at the patent records. besides they did upgrade windows. thank god the shitty 9x era ended. well I didn't care too much about win98 because by that time i was already running NT4 and never looked back. xp is very stable, and they constantly add shit to it. for example, the wireless support, USB 2.0, etc. and these things come for free (service packs). remember how long it took for people to switch to XP? here in my country (Argentina), nearly 50% of PCs still run 98. so anyway all those points you made are valid just to some extent. how many people cares if the system runs a message scheduler, file system, etc. that is older? I mean my house is old, it has solid brick walls. Should I tear it down and re-make it with hollow bricks because they have superior thermal isolation? Microsoft doesn't upgrade their OS because, as it is "it just works".
what about sysadmins, the ones that should really care about things like that? large corporations don't have macs on the desktops. they have windows, because apple is so ridiculously expensive. I hope that will change now that they will go intel, but I doubt it. Just look at, for example, the fucking iPods. Take the shuffle for example. The shit don't even have a fucking screen! For $50 I can buy some chinese mp3 player, which also plays WMA and has a FM tuner, and serves as a 1GB USB 2.0 pen-drive. Oh, and it does have a screen with a fucking LED backlight. And runs off a standard battery. You see, people ARE idiots when they throw away they money like that.
I've seen it in Buenos Aires, just about in every mall and electronics store. Even in the Philips HQ in Argentina. I think they have more in demo than what they actually sold. BTW it's called AMBILIGHT. It's 3 CCFLs on each side of the TV, RGB. The processor analyzes the image and takes the average of colors, and outputs these to the CCFLs and through PWM changes the brightness of the tubes. Its a nice detail.
better yet, sell them to the US for $500, so for every computer an american kid has, 4 poor children get one each.
"Engineuity"... more like ingenuous tan ingenious...
Doc Brown from back to the future called. says his time machine broke and needs a new garbage-to-power converter, but can't get it as we are still in 2005.
they can remove the region coding ... and invent some kind of technology that won't allow imported discs to play on your player and name it something else.
anyway what's the big deal with multi region players? I'm from Argentina. DVD makers here make their DVDs region 1 and 4, because of the many people who bought their DVD players on Miami or somewhere else. But what about the americans? Maybe the biggest audience, I don't think Joe Sixpack gives a shit about playing "euro movies", maybe like 1% (with 1% of error margin) of the population cares about playing imported movies (that is, people who like foreign movies and anime fans).
slashdot is now part of an anti-mozilla campaign (http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/16/18 2232&tid=154&tid=172) backed by Microsoft and its main supporters (symantec, maker of anti virus which only infect windows PCs), etc.
ok. can someone explain why the parent is modded funny? are all the modders today script-kiddies who didn't know the epson LX-810 or the Citizen GSX-190, or any other printer that needed to be put "online" (all green lights on) before you could print? damn.
ok I don't know about nasa, pal. but I can honestly say I once found an 8-track player, dated 1970-something. It worked, all it needed was a new belt. I got it and it worked.
So I went looking for a tape and found one at some pawn shop. the tape was about 20cm from the ceiling, and judging by the amount of dirt that was on it, it had been there for a LONG time. I don't remember what the music was, but the tape was dated 1960-something. I popped it on the player and it played. great. Once and again.
Now, if I made a 25 year old piece of junk work with just a new belt, and a 35 year old tape played on it, why would NASA have problems restoring the data from old tapes? if the tapes were really damaged beyond reading but they REALLY wanted to read them, they WOULD HAVE already.