1. How does one find/fix breakages in 20,000 km of cable? How would this be not much worse than repairing the trans-Atlantic cables, from a cost-benefit view?
2. Why must such a link be terrestrial/oceanic? Why not use satellite links?
I've heard of the AMD 29xx series. An old boss of mine used to do chip-level design, and his right-hand man did chip QA. Those were some interesting discussions, indeed. Chip design has always fascinated me, and I learned a lot talking to those two guys.;-)
As for your sense of awe, you describe exactly how I felt when I first installed Linux. I had purchased the Linux Bible, with an "older" version of Slackware Linux (kernel 1.2.13!). I had to make my own boot disk and root disk, and steal a partition from Windows 95 (why did I ever use it to begin with?). Before I did any of this, I sat down with a notebook, studied Chapter 1, and took notes for three hours. One failed installation later, I was up and running with a pure 32-bit OS. It was magical, indeed. I was running that incredible Unix thing on my own PC, the excellent, expensive Unix was actually there, before my eyes, in my living room!
(Yes, I still had a lot to learn about the history of Unix, Linux, and licensing matters. I didn't care at the time.)
I'm now capable of administering Solaris 8 and 9, AIX 5, and HP-UX 11i. I can build clusters for Solaris and HP-UX. I'm still waiting for my Solaris 10 CD from Sun. And yet, for this 38-year-old "youth," remembering the awe of my first Linux installation still makes me smile.
I did a little contract work (for bongo bucks, way back when) for a man who once worked with Tracy Kidder, who wrote "The Soul of a New Machine", which was about the R&D process behind the Data General Eclipse, used in the QUBE project, launched in Columbus, Ohio, where a COBOL programmer declined to subscribe to it.
I was all for letting the market forces expose Diebold for the idiots they are. And the market forces were doing that. Now, Diebold is suing because Massachusetts chose a competing product, one built on well-considered design and usability principles.
Suing because the market has a better product?
EAT SHIT AND DIE, DIEBOLD!
Seriously, do us all a favor and just go away. It'll make the world a better place if you do.
Untill proven otherwise, they are in fact automatically innocent.
Not in the courts of the IRS. There, you are presumed guilty, and must prove your innocence. And don't bother complaining about it to the Supreme Court; they've already said they don't mind.
"A stopped clock is still right twice a day." It is still completely useless as a timepiece (its intended purpose). Similarly, even if Charles Manson told me that two plus two equals four, I'd still need to corroborate it with another source.
Tell me about it. A couple years ago, when I was living in a not-too-nice neighborhood, someone broke into my car and took the stereo (which self-destructed on disconnect), the amplifier (woefully under-powered), and the speakers (which were wearing out).
What did they leave? A Magellan GPS unit, mounted in a bracket on the dash, with "GPS 315" printed on it in big white letters, in full view. Five seconds for that one item would have doubled the street value of their take.
Take out the Business Reply envelope and the paperwork. Tear your address off, and throw those pieces away. Tear up the remaining paperwork into pieces small enough to fit into the Business Reply envelope. Insert pieces into Business Reply envelope, and seal it. Drop into public mailbox. Voila!
With any luck, Capital One will get charged extra for having so much extra in the reply envelope. And the only pieces you have to dispose of are the ones with your personal info.
Moving water away from the equator will, by definition, shift mass nearer the Earth's axis, causing it to spin faster, just like a skater pulling in his arms. However, that is not what is happening. The Earth's rotation might slow down more quickly without such water-damming, but the spin is still slowing down.
I also think VMS and Microsoft have more of a connection in developer-land than UNIX and Microsoft, and it does sometimes show.
My understanding is that M$ hired some VMS developers to be part of their Windows NT kernel team, which is why NT 3.51 was so stable (for a M$ OS). It started going to pot with NT4, as M$ moved away from the heavy VMS influence.
I had a feeling that he was the kind to poke along, holding up five or six cars behind him.
And all seven of us are still passing people to the right of us. It's still no excuse for following too close. Bite me.
It's also happened on two-lane city streets, where the speed limit was 25 and passing wasn't an option. Those are the times I've been very tempted to watch for the slightest movement beside the street, and then slam on my brakes. It would almost be worth it, just to get that stupid blue-white checkerboard off the road and in the repair shop.
BTW, I've done all your suggestions except the dog kibble (thanks for the idea). But you forgot one: down-shift. It's easier on the brakes, and you don't risk your fingers slipping off the handle and the ensuing hurried grab-squeeze-oops.
Are you a BMW driver? Your attitude seems to reflect it. Re-read my original post: The laws of physics apply, even in the left lane, even when I'm already over the speed limit.
In other words, if it's that urgent for you to get from point A to point B, get a police escort. Otherwise, get off my ass!
I'm not friend of Google, but I don't mind seeing them be the means of karmic payback to BMW. For too long, they have behaved as if the rules didn't apply to them, and they encourage their customers to do the same. A few close encounters with a BMW dealership, and tailgating jerks behind the wheel taught me this. It's good to see someone call them to account for their attitude.
Oh, and to any California BMW drivers reading this: Yes, the laws of physics apply to you, too!
The CEO, the CIO, and the CFO. Seriously, stop toying around. The business is being eaten from the inside. Lost business opportunities affect the whole business, not just your department. When the executives hear about lost business opportunities because of some droids' managerial incompetence, they will want some answers. The CEO will make sure something happens, the CIO will know what to make happen, and the CFO will put concrete money figures on the effects.
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I'm reminded of this quip from my fortunes file:
"We will have solar energy as soon as the utility companies solve one technical problem--how to run a sunbeam through a meter."
1. How does one find/fix breakages in 20,000 km of cable? How would this be not much worse than repairing the trans-Atlantic cables, from a cost-benefit view?
2. Why must such a link be terrestrial/oceanic? Why not use satellite links?
I've heard of the AMD 29xx series. An old boss of mine used to do chip-level design, and his right-hand man did chip QA. Those were some interesting discussions, indeed. Chip design has always fascinated me, and I learned a lot talking to those two guys. ;-)
As for your sense of awe, you describe exactly how I felt when I first installed Linux. I had purchased the Linux Bible, with an "older" version of Slackware Linux (kernel 1.2.13!). I had to make my own boot disk and root disk, and steal a partition from Windows 95 (why did I ever use it to begin with?). Before I did any of this, I sat down with a notebook, studied Chapter 1, and took notes for three hours. One failed installation later, I was up and running with a pure 32-bit OS. It was magical, indeed. I was running that incredible Unix thing on my own PC, the excellent, expensive Unix was actually there, before my eyes, in my living room!
(Yes, I still had a lot to learn about the history of Unix, Linux, and licensing matters. I didn't care at the time.)
I'm now capable of administering Solaris 8 and 9, AIX 5, and HP-UX 11i. I can build clusters for Solaris and HP-UX. I'm still waiting for my Solaris 10 CD from Sun. And yet, for this 38-year-old "youth," remembering the awe of my first Linux installation still makes me smile.
This comes full circle for me.
I did a little contract work (for bongo bucks, way back when) for a man who once worked with Tracy Kidder, who wrote "The Soul of a New Machine", which was about the R&D process behind the Data General Eclipse, used in the QUBE project, launched in Columbus, Ohio, where a COBOL programmer declined to subscribe to it.
I am that programmer's nephew.
I was all for letting the market forces expose Diebold for the idiots they are. And the market forces were doing that. Now, Diebold is suing because Massachusetts chose a competing product, one built on well-considered design and usability principles.
Suing because the market has a better product?
EAT SHIT AND DIE, DIEBOLD!
Seriously, do us all a favor and just go away. It'll make the world a better place if you do.
Untill proven otherwise, they are in fact automatically innocent.
Not in the courts of the IRS. There, you are presumed guilty, and must prove your innocence. And don't bother complaining about it to the Supreme Court; they've already said they don't mind.
It looks like someone has already beat you to it. Sort of.
"They feel Australia should sign on to the Kyoto protocol first."
That says it all, really.
Did Google move to Australia?
Without those, I'd hardly call this re-implementation "complete."
"A stopped clock is still right twice a day." It is still completely useless as a timepiece (its intended purpose). Similarly, even if Charles Manson told me that two plus two equals four, I'd still need to corroborate it with another source.
*-not just for blowjobs any longer
It wasn't for a blowjob. It was for perjury.
Granted, he perjured himself in testimony about a blowjob, but it was still perjury listed in the Articles of Impeachment.
Sigh.
So well that you basically made the case of your parent poster for him/her.
Tell me about it. A couple years ago, when I was living in a not-too-nice neighborhood, someone broke into my car and took the stereo (which self-destructed on disconnect), the amplifier (woefully under-powered), and the speakers (which were wearing out).
What did they leave? A Magellan GPS unit, mounted in a bracket on the dash, with "GPS 315" printed on it in big white letters, in full view. Five seconds for that one item would have doubled the street value of their take.
Idiots.
WINE Is Not an Emulator, but rather an "alternative implementation" of an API/ABI, just like "Linux emulation."
Take out the Business Reply envelope and the paperwork. Tear your address off, and throw those pieces away. Tear up the remaining paperwork into pieces small enough to fit into the Business Reply envelope. Insert pieces into Business Reply envelope, and seal it. Drop into public mailbox. Voila!
With any luck, Capital One will get charged extra for having so much extra in the reply envelope. And the only pieces you have to dispose of are the ones with your personal info.
A perfect example of "Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink'!"
And judging by the comments here, many others are.
As I type this, the quote at the bottom of the Slashdot page is:
Go placidly amid the noise and waste, and remember what value there may be in owning a piece thereof. -- National Lampoon, "Deteriorata"
File this under "things that make you go 'hmmmmmmmmmm...'"
Moving water away from the equator will, by definition, shift mass nearer the Earth's axis, causing it to spin faster, just like a skater pulling in his arms. However, that is not what is happening. The Earth's rotation might slow down more quickly without such water-damming, but the spin is still slowing down.
I also think VMS and Microsoft have more of a connection in developer-land than UNIX and Microsoft, and it does sometimes show.
My understanding is that M$ hired some VMS developers to be part of their Windows NT kernel team, which is why NT 3.51 was so stable (for a M$ OS). It started going to pot with NT4, as M$ moved away from the heavy VMS influence.
I had a feeling that he was the kind to poke along, holding up five or six cars behind him.
And all seven of us are still passing people to the right of us. It's still no excuse for following too close. Bite me.
It's also happened on two-lane city streets, where the speed limit was 25 and passing wasn't an option. Those are the times I've been very tempted to watch for the slightest movement beside the street, and then slam on my brakes. It would almost be worth it, just to get that stupid blue-white checkerboard off the road and in the repair shop.
BTW, I've done all your suggestions except the dog kibble (thanks for the idea). But you forgot one: down-shift. It's easier on the brakes, and you don't risk your fingers slipping off the handle and the ensuing hurried grab-squeeze-oops.
Are you a BMW driver? Your attitude seems to reflect it. Re-read my original post: The laws of physics apply, even in the left lane, even when I'm already over the speed limit.
In other words, if it's that urgent for you to get from point A to point B, get a police escort. Otherwise, get off my ass!
I'm not friend of Google, but I don't mind seeing them be the means of karmic payback to BMW. For too long, they have behaved as if the rules didn't apply to them, and they encourage their customers to do the same. A few close encounters with a BMW dealership, and tailgating jerks behind the wheel taught me this. It's good to see someone call them to account for their attitude.
Oh, and to any California BMW drivers reading this: Yes, the laws of physics apply to you, too!
The CEO, the CIO, and the CFO. Seriously, stop toying around. The business is being eaten from the inside. Lost business opportunities affect the whole business, not just your department. When the executives hear about lost business opportunities because of some droids' managerial incompetence, they will want some answers. The CEO will make sure something happens, the CIO will know what to make happen, and the CFO will put concrete money figures on the effects.