The text they sent along was pretty much BS, but they do notify you 2 weeks before anything is supposed to go into effect.
If they did this once a year, it won't be a big deal, but if they do it every month it would be a PITA.
There may be some underhanded tracking going on as everyone logs back in to set their prefs to "no", but in general, it is a very slight annoyance. They are only insulting your intelligence, not violating your rights.
I just got this running at my isp account and it appeared to be setup correctly, except that I then read that this blocks only a 1-3 PERCENT of all spam. After looking at my recent list of received spam, I found that most of it comes from 123456@yahoo.com and similar. You can't (easily) block part of yahoo and the spammers can create bogus accounts for each sending so you can't block by email.
I live nearby too:) Legally, I'm pretty sure they aren't allowed to spy on american soil. But that could have been a misrepresentation I picked up somewhere (tom clancy or X-files?)
"One word: Celeron Its probably the worst processor on the market because it lacks cache, but it sells because you can get a 500Mhz processor for the equivalent in price of a 200Mhz PII (even though the PII will perform better)."
Tom's Hardware shows that celerons have approximately equal performance and are cheaper.
As to whether people are stupid or not, most of them are sheep. Slashdotters are probably more intelligent on average than the general populace but they still jump early to conclusions, fall for hoaxes, and buy the latest, greatest toy because someone said it was.
In general, microsoft OS's get better, but slower.
Red Hat, on the other hand, follows a sawtooth pattern: it sucks, gets better, decent (.0,.1,.2). Performance tends to stay the same if not better.
Which is preferred?
It used to be that RH was positioning itself as a server OS. With this latest release, will Oracle bother to do a special RH7 release? What about the other commercial vendors?
Red Hat needs to work on putting a solid product out EVERY SINGLE TIME they release.
Their stock is hovering in the low teens and is battling my CMGI stock to see how fast investors can dump it... You would think they'd be trying NOT to generate bad press...
You should read "Physics is constipated". I forget the author's name, but I picked this book up at a library just for the title.
The author is a disgruntled liberal arts major who went on to make millions and declared "Einstein is Super Stupid".
The main thrust of the book is that units like Coulombs, Amps and Newtons and such make physics too abstract from what is happening. So all of his calculations show all of the units!
Billy Joel. That the person managing his money screwed him over is a completely different story.
Remember 'U Can't Touch This'? MC Hammer filed for bankrupcty too.
MC gave his money away frivilously to his "friends" because he thought he was helping them. Turned out they weren't his friends when he needed help...
Anyway, what it comes down to is that most bands probably waste more money than they have to. They live the big life and spend the money required to do that. Whether it is trashing hotel rooms, drugs, cars or whatever, they aren't managing their money.
Ty Cobb, one of the best baseball players ever, said he couldn't understand why so many ballplayers were crying poverty (avg paycheck circa 1915 was probably less than $3000 a season). He invested his money (primarily in coca cola) and was rich (remember, this was back when there was no free agency and players couldn't really demand a salary).
Even today, people who manage their money effectively will come out ahead. My brother's father-in-law makes a lot of money, but he also shops at discount stores and doesn't buy high-falutin' cars and houses.
"Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, survival of the fittest." - Cobb
North America also has advanced banking systems(online transfers and such). All you need is the account number number AND their bank routing.
The problem is more that North American users aren't as advanced as the banking systems. It may also be that we are so accustomed to writing checks that the easier way hasn't gained enough momentum to be obviously easier.
There really shouldn't be a need for a journaling file system since the sql server basically does this already through the transaction log.
That may be so, but after a FS crash a 30GB EXT2 fsck will take what seems like forever.
Actually, time seems to stop after a crash as you s**t yourself worrying about a successful recovery and catching it from your manager and everyone else relying on that DB.
The quicker it comes back, the better you'll feel. A JFS will help very much. But in this case, since it used as a backup DB, EXT2 will be fine.
Ok, your system doesn't boot. Big deal as long as someone is around who can boot off a floppy or CD, this can be fixed in 10 minutes assuming you know where you fsck'd up.
People assume that a single box needs to scale to be enterprise worthy. Sun may scale to 64 processors, but that box will cost you near 1M US$, not to mention the DB licensing costs.
For 10K you can get a fully redundant 4 proc machine to run linux. If you can swing a read-only replication setup for 7 boxes and 1 box for writes (I know informix can at least do 1 read and 1 write, I have not looked into multiply replicating 1 server), you are in under the 100K mark. Oracle has the Parallel Server (not sure what the limitations are, though).
Regardless, any company that can drop 1M for a 64 proc server is never going to contemplate 100K for a bunch of linux boxes, even if the reliability and scalability even out. The infrastructure manager that has to make the decision is not going to put his a$$ on the line.
The companies that choose the the 100K option will probably be strapped for cash.
OSS can solve any problem where there is enough sustained interest and talent. To write an OSS Enterprise RDBMS would take a whole bunch of those engineers that Oracle pirated away from Informix. Maybe some of them have vested and would be willing to lead the way?:)
I have to second "ExistenZ". It was a very well done movie whereas I couldn't even sit through the Matrix once (DVD version, didn't see it in the theatre).
If you play the Action mod for Quake it takes into account where you are hit. If you play a small character, people tend to aim for your head, which results in getting hit in the stomach which does less damage that a head shot.
Face it, business decisions are made for business reasons. For broadcast.com to offer both formats it takes twice the diskspace and twice the time to convert. This essentially translates to twice the cost.
The number of *nix users is commercially small compared with those using windows. The only reason Mac clients exist is because a lot of schools and artist-types use Macs, IMNSHO. Would you spend twice what you had to just to reach a few percent of the market place?
It annoys me because all of the cool stuff on the web grew up under Unix years before M$ realized the importance of TCP/IP and now they are usurping everything.
The real question is, since it seems everyone thinks RealAudio is crappy technology, how many M$ products are actually better than the competition (ignoring the bloated and buggy OS they sell)?
Also, do they succeed because they can offer the best and brightest a nice chunk of change after they've sacrificed their youth?
And would breaking them up do any good? Or should they just be forced to make regular API/file format releases so that others can at least adhere to their "standards"?
I personally think they should have full API/format releases *before* they release the product. Let M$ make all the money they want, just don't lock the gate to the playground with the alternative kids outside.
There was no "arrogance or ethnocentric attitude" in his message. All three statements are quite true, for the most part.
He doesn't say that all indians and chinese are more intelligent, just that the ones that make it to the US for school have fought their way to the top of their countries' pool of applicants. Naturally, these select people will appear harder working and smarter.
We want more people like that coming to our country, not less.
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You have to love a stock whose performance doesn't need a log chart to convey rate of change!
LNUX Or even better: CMGI
n3bulous
The text they sent along was pretty much BS, but they do notify you 2 weeks before anything is supposed to go into effect.
If they did this once a year, it won't be a big deal, but if they do it every month it would be a PITA.
There may be some underhanded tracking going on as everyone logs back in to set their prefs to "no", but in general, it is a very slight annoyance. They are only insulting your intelligence, not violating your rights.
-- n3bulous
I just got this running at my isp account and it appeared to be setup correctly, except that I then read that this blocks only a 1-3 PERCENT of all spam. After looking at my recent list of received spam, I found that most of it comes from 123456@yahoo.com and similar. You can't (easily) block part of yahoo and the spammers can create bogus accounts for each sending so you can't block by email.
I live nearby too :) Legally, I'm pretty sure they aren't allowed to spy on american soil. But that could have been a misrepresentation I picked up somewhere (tom clancy or X-files?)
Not Really
Tom's Hardware shows that celerons have approximately equal performance and are cheaper.
As to whether people are stupid or not, most of them are sheep. Slashdotters are probably more intelligent on average than the general populace but they still jump early to conclusions, fall for hoaxes, and buy the latest, greatest toy because someone said it was.Isn't the CIA not allowed to operate within US borders? That's the property of the FBI.
In general, microsoft OS's get better, but slower.
.1, .2). Performance tends to stay the same if not better.
Red Hat, on the other hand, follows a sawtooth pattern: it sucks, gets better, decent (.0,
Which is preferred?
It used to be that RH was positioning itself as a server OS. With this latest release, will Oracle bother to do a special RH7 release? What about the other commercial vendors?
Red Hat needs to work on putting a solid product out EVERY SINGLE TIME they release.
Their stock is hovering in the low teens and is battling my CMGI stock to see how fast investors can dump it... You would think they'd be trying NOT to generate bad press...
You should read "Physics is constipated". I forget the author's name, but I picked this book up at a library just for the title.
The author is a disgruntled liberal arts major who went on to make millions and declared "Einstein is Super Stupid".
The main thrust of the book is that units like Coulombs, Amps and Newtons and such make physics too abstract from what is happening. So all of his calculations show all of the units!
It's a pretty funny read.
Name one.
Billy Joel. That the person managing his money screwed him over is a completely different story.
Remember 'U Can't Touch This'? MC Hammer filed for bankrupcty too.
MC gave his money away frivilously to his "friends" because he thought he was helping them. Turned out they weren't his friends when he needed help...
Anyway, what it comes down to is that most bands probably waste more money than they have to. They live the big life and spend the money required to do that. Whether it is trashing hotel rooms, drugs, cars or whatever, they aren't managing their money.
Ty Cobb, one of the best baseball players ever, said he couldn't understand why so many ballplayers were crying poverty (avg paycheck circa 1915 was probably less than $3000 a season). He invested his money (primarily in coca cola) and was rich (remember, this was back when there was no free agency and players couldn't really demand a salary).
Even today, people who manage their money effectively will come out ahead. My brother's father-in-law makes a lot of money, but he also shops at discount stores and doesn't buy high-falutin' cars and houses.
"Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, survival of the fittest." - Cobb
North America also has advanced banking systems(online transfers and such). All you need is the account number number AND their bank routing.
The problem is more that North American users aren't as advanced as the banking systems. It may also be that we are so accustomed to writing checks that the easier way hasn't gained enough momentum to be obviously easier.
There really shouldn't be a need for a journaling file system since the sql server basically does this already through the transaction log.
That may be so, but after a FS crash a 30GB EXT2 fsck will take what seems like forever.
Actually, time seems to stop after a crash as you s**t yourself worrying about a successful recovery and catching it from your manager and everyone else relying on that DB.
The quicker it comes back, the better you'll feel. A JFS will help very much. But in this case, since it used as a backup DB, EXT2 will be fine.
Even though I haven't liked the X-Files for the last few seasons, I think this guy is a good choice.
When I saw T2, I thought he would make a perfect choice to play the Sub-Mariner comicbook hero/anti-hero...
Ok, your system doesn't boot. Big deal as long as someone is around who can boot off a floppy or CD, this can be fixed in 10 minutes assuming you know where you fsck'd up.
TeX -- maybe the most impossible to build, install, and configure software package that exists.
Sorry, but this award would go to either IRAF or AIPS (astronomy image analysis programs.)
People assume that a single box needs to scale to be enterprise worthy. Sun may scale to 64 processors, but that box will cost you near 1M US$, not to mention the DB licensing costs.
:)
For 10K you can get a fully redundant 4 proc machine to run linux. If you can swing a read-only replication setup for 7 boxes and 1 box for writes (I know informix can at least do 1 read and 1 write, I have not looked into multiply replicating 1 server), you are in under the 100K mark. Oracle has the Parallel Server (not sure what the limitations are, though).
Regardless, any company that can drop 1M for a 64 proc server is never going to contemplate 100K for a bunch of linux boxes, even if the reliability and scalability even out. The infrastructure manager that has to make the decision is not going to put his a$$ on the line.
The companies that choose the the 100K option will probably be strapped for cash.
OSS can solve any problem where there is enough sustained interest and talent. To write an OSS Enterprise RDBMS would take a whole bunch of those engineers that Oracle pirated away from Informix. Maybe some of them have vested and would be willing to lead the way?
I have to second "ExistenZ". It was a very well done movie whereas I couldn't even sit through the Matrix once (DVD version, didn't see it in the theatre).
If you play the Action mod for Quake it takes into account where you are hit. If you play a small character, people tend to aim for your head, which results in getting hit in the stomach which does less damage that a head shot.
Face it, business decisions are made for business reasons. For broadcast.com to offer both formats it takes twice the diskspace and twice the time to convert. This essentially translates to twice the cost.
The number of *nix users is commercially small compared with those using windows. The only reason Mac clients exist is because a lot of schools and artist-types use Macs, IMNSHO. Would you spend twice what you had to just to reach a few percent of the market place?
It annoys me because all of the cool stuff on the web grew up under Unix years before M$ realized the importance of TCP/IP and now they are usurping everything.
The real question is, since it seems everyone thinks RealAudio is crappy technology, how many M$ products are actually better than the competition (ignoring the bloated and buggy OS they sell)?
Also, do they succeed because they can offer the best and brightest a nice chunk of change after they've sacrificed their youth?
And would breaking them up do any good? Or should they just be forced to make regular API/file format releases so that others can at least adhere to their "standards"?
I personally think they should have full API/format releases *before* they release the product. Let M$ make all the money they want, just don't lock the gate to the playground with the alternative kids outside.
There was no "arrogance or ethnocentric attitude" in his message. All three statements are quite true, for the most part.
He doesn't say that all indians and chinese are more intelligent, just that the ones that make it to the US for school have fought their way to the top of their countries' pool of applicants. Naturally, these select people will appear harder working and smarter.
We want more people like that coming to our country, not less.