Unless your boss is a complete idiot, you should be able to buy what is a basic necessity for carrying out your job repsonsibilities. Admittedly, your boss may well be a complete idiot.
His boss isn't an idiot, he's a God-damned slave owner wannabee.
You're not a slave, and don't let him treat you like one.
PS: Installing an inventory/services management system is a MASSIVE undertaking. Even small- to mid-sized businesses can take upwards of a year or more to get something like that functioning smoothly.
And if you undertake the project, be sure your boss's boss's boss is aware of it, because getting credit for something like that is precisely the sort of thing that can give you an inside track into upper management.
I.e. if you pull it off, make damned sure that your slimy, good for nothing, slave owner-wannabee of a "boss" [or his boss, etc.] doesn't try to take credit for it.
You can't freaking run old Dos programs on windows anymore.
Au contraire, and I am constantly amazed at the plethora of 16-bit programs that continue to run on kernels as recent as Windows 2000 - which is a real testament to M$FT & Intel/AMD's devotion to backwards compatibility [and which is also the lesson that FOSS types should take away from this].
However, I hear that Win64/AMD64 does NOT support 16-bit binaries.
Zonk:Once you've entered your zip code, it will also tell you what movies are playing in your area.
zetasmack:google knows all. do not question.
Today you've entered your zip code into the largest database in the history of the human species, and it's been cross-correlated with the Google cookie on your hard drive.
Tomorrow you're gonna enter what? Your phone number? Your home address? Your SSN? Your vote for president?
Some day you people are gonna yearn for an earlier, simpler time, when people could reasonably expect to enjoy a right to anonymity.
Either way, I have never trusted a movie review from anyone but a close friend who I know is reliable. I have yet to find a movie critic whos opinions are consistant with my tastes.
It opens next week. I saw it, and here's the thing: It's unbelievably bad. O I'm telling you this because movie critics won't. So far all the early reviews -- all of them, from Variety to the Hollywood Reporter to Time magazine -- have been favorable. Why? Because while the movie critics of my long-ago youth were middlebrow snobs suspicious of populist entertainment, today's critics have turned into toadies. They are afraid of being on an audience's bad side, afraid that a movie they will pan might really strike a chord. Since it's a foregone conclusion that the final Star Wars is going to make a jillion dollars, the safe thing for critics to do is say nice things about it. The only nice thing I can think to say about it is that it's not quite as mindspinningly wretched as its predecessor, Attack of the Clones, but it's plenty awful anyway. Even Yoda gives a rotten performance. Go see it if you must when it opens next week, but at least you got one fair warning here.
WARNING: He also gives a Jar-Jar spoiler in a later reply.
step 5) open the registry (RegEdit) and search for "RunOnce"; directly above it will be "Run".
Sadly, you can't do that with Aurora [I was up with it until 5AM last night, and I'll be at it for the rest of tonight, and much of tomorrow]. I'll expound on the registry stuff in a moment, but first let me outline a few other things you'll have to deal with.
Aurora installs at least two services [Start | Programs | Administrative Tools | Services]; they're down at the bottom, called "Win" this, and "Win" that [I forget the exact names, but they're pretty obviously malware services]. It also installs executables and "cabinet" [.CAB] files all over your computer, as well as desktop links and web browser plugins, and probably a whole host of other things I didn't discover. And every user who logs in after the infection will get copies of this crap installed throughout the entirety of their "Documents and Settings" folder.
If you have a second copy of the operating system [at worst, take the hard drive out and install it in another computer as a secondary drive], then you can search the entire hard drive for files that were introduced on or later than the date of infection and delete MOST of the crap that was installed.
However, in our case, the underlying file that invoked "Aurora" was \WINNT\zbkiebmtvti.exe [it might have a different name for you], but it was somehow installed with a modification date of 04/09/2004 [our infection was yesterday, 05/08/2005], so a simple search on recently-modified files will not find that one [and may not find other newly-introduced files, with fake modification dates, that are lurking in other parts of your hard drive].
However, even if you disable the services installed by Aurora, and even if you could delete all the files it installs, it does something FAR more malicious - something that I've never before seen in malware, which gets back to the point I wanted to make at the beginning of this reply: At or near the registry point HKLM\Software, Aurora inserts an "infinitely large" subtree into your computer's registry [I assume that they used either the maximum size of a registry subtree in Windows, or the maximum size of an entry in the underlying MSJet database, or something similar]. When either regedit.exe or regedt32.exe encounters this "infinitely large" subtree, they both crash, and tend to exit Dr Watson style [I guess it never dawned on the poor guys who designed regedit.exe and/or regedt32.exe that someone would do something quite so evil]. You can't search beyond this "infinitely large" subtree, and neither regedit.exe nor regedt32.exe are capable of deleting any of its branches [at either the beginning of the subtree, or at its end], so you can't do the old trick of searching for "RunOnce" and then moving up one key to get to Run.
Anyway, it seems to me that anyone who would do something as malicious as purposely inserting an "infinitely large" subtree into your registry, with the intent of crashing regedit.exe and regedt32.exe, is precisely the sort of person who would install a keyboard sniffer to record your VISA and Mastercard info. So I'm basically wiping the drive clean and reinstalling the operating system from scratch.
Quite frankly, if I ever meet the bastards who wrote this crap [and who thought that it would be some kinduva nifty-cool business plan to go around inserting "infinitely large" subtrees into people's registries], then I will be sorely tempted to shoot them and throw their God-damned corpses in a swamp.
South Florida is home to more spammers than any other place in the world...
Don't forget the Bush family...
South Florida is Democrat territory [mostly transplanted NYers and NJers] and went overwhelmingly Gore. Republican strength is in North Florida, which, for all intents and purposes, is an entirely different state.
By the way, real estate swindling is a long time source of Democrat wealth [John Zaccaro, husband of Geraldine Ferraro; Richard Blum, husband of Diane Feinstein; etc], which is the primary reason why Federal, State, and Local zoning laws and "environmental" regulations exist in the first place [to defend the interests of the landed gentry, and crooked Tony Soprano-esque insiders who can game the system].
We could also take some time to review the history of penny stock swindlers, like FDR's bootlegger cum-Nazi apologist ambassador to Great Britain, but this reply is getting kinda long-winded.
Microsoft, once it owned the bulk of the market, has been a second-mover.
I don't know whether you do any business programming, but the momentum behind C# and.NET is just massive. There are on the order of terabytes and terabytes of code that have been [or are being] written for that platform.
Now you could say that Sun was the "first mover" with Java, and M$FT was the "second mover" with.NET, but my point is that just because M$FT has been working quietly behind the scenes on something like.NET doesn't mean they aren't innovating. It's just that they're innovating [and grabbing market share] in an arena that isn't quite as sexy as Google, iTunes, or Playstation.
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I the only one smiling from ear to ear?
I'd be willing to wager that Microsoft's customers are pretty darned happy - everytime M$FT gets angry at the competition, their customers are rewarded with a vast new generation of ably-crafted products [often given away for free].
CentOS is pretty much an exact copy of RHEL, except for trademark names and artwork, so it should work flawlessly...except for one thing. If the installer is explicitly checking versions, backup and then replace the redhat-release file found in/etc from CentOS to the appropriate Redhat version that says "Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon)". This will fool some installers (such as Oracle) that demand a supported OS before they will install. After the install is complete, you should be able to copy the old redhat-release (that says CentOS) back without problems.
Look, I'm deeply, deeply cynical about the GPL and the LGPL, but even amongst FOSS fanboys, that sorta thing has gotta invoke at least a little twinge of shame.
You know, there are real, live, flesh and blood employees and shareholders of RHAT, who need this thing called "a revenue stream" so that they can put this other stuff called "food and drink" on the table for their loved ones, and this thing called "a roof" over their loved ones' heads, for those rare occasions when they're subject to this water that falls out of the sky, which we call "rain".
But if you can somehow convince yourself [and the US Court System] that this sort of thing is ethical, then I guess RHAT has only themselves to blame for getting in bed with the likes of Richard Milhaus Stallman.
My particular field is medical visualization for Radiology, so essentially I have to organize huge sets of patient data in a way that I can do things like, well, volumetrically render your skull to see if you have a lesion, etc. Today, I have to pull this to the workstation, organize the dataset, and render the scene from the dataset onto the stage. Because of the flowing nature of our data (that is to say, this isn't like a game where you can pre-cache models on the local workstations since every patient is a different model), I would like a way to tie direct3d to a pre-render engine at the database layer so that all I would have to provide to a client like a web page is the end product. I'm working with MS SQL atm, so I'll use it as an example, a typical MRI image of your chest comes out of a scanner in some stupidly high resolution. That scan typically contains voxel data which is defines by the mm thickness of the slice. Your POV as an end user over the web is, 'all I care about is this one particualr diagnostic output', or one image lets say. To actually GET that image may or may not require that a set of transforamtions be applied to a large subset of slices in any particular study. It would be really nice to not have to add external services (another app), and instead be able to directly and natively be able to access the inner workings of the database engine to do this directly, instead of offloading it to the local OS. Object programmability, in the.NET for instance, would allow me to actually write all of the above applications directly in SQL, rather than writing them in C# and then using ADO.NET as as interface layer for the database (again another middleman).
We're about to start on a big database backend for scientific and engineering frontends, and I'm having the damndest time trying to find a product that was designed with an eye towards what I'd call "basic mathematics".
Our short-term needs:
1) True 64-bitness in the access language, so that we can take advantage of our AMD64 hardware & Win64 OSes with an eye towards very large data sets in the future. Java is a no go here, because it will NOT take something as trivial as a 64-bit counter in a "for"-loop. [Recent versions of C++ and C# will, however].
2) A very strong sense of type in the access languages, and preferably in the underlying database itself. For instance, ideally the database would know [inherently] how to deal with primitives such as
a) all variety of 16-bit & 32-bit Unicode characters
b) 96-bit Intel & AMD extended doubles
c) 128-bit Sparc extended doubles
d) 128-bit Altivec extended doubles
e) 128-bit LabVIEW timestamps
etc
Classical business-oriented programming languages, like SQL, are very ASCII oriented, and typically everything gets dumped in the database as strings of ASCII [8-bit] characters, with proprietary logic added afterwards to lend a sense of type to the data. We want the underlying database to understand type, however.
3) A sane, stable, and rather fast transport protocol to move data from client workstations to a centralized repository. Candidates might include DSTP, OPC, SOAP/SOAP+, etc. Preferably the transport protocol would have a strong sense of type as well, so that you wouldn't need to add extra logic on the client end to encode the type, followed by extra logic on the server end to un-encode the type.
4) Solid, stable, and fast replication for redundancy purposes.
5) Good, solid integration with an industry standard user authentication system, such as Novell Directory Services, or Microsoft Active Directory.
Long term, a future interest will be in the area of what I might call a systematized approach to scientific data analysis, and particularly things that go under the guise of e.g.
Look, I know where this conversation goes, and I don't think there's a whole helluva lotta point in continuing it.
However, two final thoughts:
1) You said: I know that you're probably busy at work today -- me too -- but I also think that you know you're misrepresenting the what the Bible says about Hell and the wrath of God. Even the Gospels, which seem to be the only parts of the Bible you want to discuss, aren't nearly as kind [google.com] and cuddly [google.com] as you seem intent on pretending. For the record: I spend an inordinate amount of my waking life pondering the spectre of eternal damnation, not to mention a disturbing amount of my sleeping life, as well.
2) If you ever change your mind, and decide you want to go home, I'm confident you'll be welcomed with open arms.
Look, it's not gonna be worth anyone's time to correspond with you if that's your attitude.
The very idea of condemning an eternal soul to eternal suffering is perhaps the most evil idea one could imagine. Nothing merits a judgment of everlasting torture. Not murder, not original sin, certainly not looking at a pretty girl with a lusty gleam in your eye.
Just a few points here.
1) What would you have God do with people like
a) Mao Tse Tung, ~100 million murders
b) Joseph Stalin, ~75 million murders
c) Adolph Hitler, ~25 million murders
d) Pol Pot, ~2 million murders
e) etc etc etc
Give them a kiss on the cheek and 72 virgins?
2) The word "ETERNAL" does not appear in the passages you cited. YOU inserted it.
It seems to me that the relevant portions of the bible are overwhelming concerned [by orders of magnitude] not with the sentence of eternal damnation, but rather with the offer of eternal life.
Besides, as you indicated in your very first post:
I do miss religion and the comforts that it brought. I liked singing in church, I liked feeling like I would go to heaven when I died, I liked the sense of purpose and mission my life had.
All that touchy-feely stuff about loving your neighbors is FUN!!!
Why are you blue-staters so damned intent on being miserable for your entire lives?
On a more serious note, was anyone else distrubed by the fact that it was recommended, concerning human-brained mice, that they monitor for signs of humanlike behavior in human-brained mice, and if they find such behavior, they were to... immediately kill the mice?
Obviously not - our society has determined that the appropriate course of action is to starve the mouse to death over the course of a couple weeks.
I do miss religion and the comforts that it brought. I liked singing in church, I liked feeling like I would go to heaven when I died, I liked the sense of purpose and mission my life had.
I'm not real clear to me how any of that stuff is supposed to be bad for you - sounds pretty healthy to me.
But it's all lies. Comfortable, well-meaning lies, but also hurtful, destructive lies, too. I just couldn't stand it. Better to know the truth, even if it isn't what you want to hear, than to waste your life.
Can you prove that "it's all lies"? As an aside, a fellow named Kurt Gödel believed that he was in possession of a proof that they were not all lies. And plenty of other geeks, like Donald Knuth, and Fred Brooks, don't think they're lies. Who knows - maybe even John McCarthy, as well.
I'm glad I'm a scientifically-minded geek who can appreciate the numinous in this universe without having to also believe in a white-bearded old man who condemns every human being who doesn't follow his bizarre, evil rules to an eternity of torture and suffering.
Which of his rules are evil? There's a rather succinct summary of them here:
ST: Nemesis was also a flaming pile of dung, rivalling Star Trek V in the crap department. No need to rehash the reasons that movie sucked.
I have never watched Nemesis all the way from beginning to the end - whenever it's on HBO or Showtime, I might pause for a minute or two, before moving on to something else [Stargate, BG, Matrix I/II/III, Starship Troopers, whatever].
Last night as I surfed through HBO/Showtime for the umpteenth gazillion time, and didn't pause at Nemesis for more than a second or two, it finally dawned on me why I can never summon the enthusiasm to watch that damned movie: Because I don't want to waste two hours of my life watching a narcissistic, self-absorbed, self-glorifying, idolatrous paean to Patrick Stewart.
See Patrick as a young man. See Patrick as an old man. Watch Patrick the young struggle with teen angst. Watch Patrick the old struggle with octogenarian angst.
No thanks - I've got better things to do with my time.
PS: When was the last time Picard got laid? At least Kirk had the decency to leave the galaxy littered with his bastard offspring by way of union with a veritable army of hot, sexy, vixen-ish, Russ Meyer-esque, 1960's sex kittens.
I think that deep down inside, Picard may suffer from the Eton Disease.
I can see a future where Sun's hardware business dies and Java is bought be another company which makes Sun the next SCO.
Has Sun ever made so much as a wooden nickel on "Java"? They've been giving away [for free] the virtual machine, the "compiler", and the libraries since Day One.
Don't get me wrong, they were kind and loving people, but their view of the world was one in which the forces of Satan had become victorious and would corrupt your kids if you weren't vigilant. To tell the truth, I sometimes miss the days when I believed the same things they did. Life was so much easier. But then I see the Texas legislature making it illegal for gays to be foster parents, and I can't help but sigh. It's harder on this side of the religious fence, but at least I feel better about myself.
Sounds like you should have heeded their warnings.
Although I've been a techie my whole life, i was raised by religiously fanatical parents, so none of this talk of space exploration and evolution would be tolerated in our home. So that excluded enjoying HGG on the radio, television, or bookshelf.
You're kidding, right? What did you parents do, turn off the television when Cronkite was talking about the Apollo missions?
That sort of thing only happens in movies like Carrie.
In general, AddRef/Release are not horribly high frequency call.
Granted, the timing difference might be imperceptible for single iterations, but if you stick the things in big "for" loops, and run them a million [or a billion] times, you ought to be able to get a sense of just how much quicker your code is:
1) START TIMER
2) A GAZILLION ITERATIONS OF THE CODE
3) STOP TIMER
4) (TIMER DIFFERENCE) / (A GAZILLION) = TIME PER ITERATION
Do that for both your code and Microsoft's, and you can get a little sense of how much faster yours is.
I wonder how much Microsoft even bothers to optimize for the different exstension such as SSE and 3DNow, I imagine they don't do much at all.
I've often wondered the same thing when I read platform reviews at Toms/Anandtech/SharkyExtreme/etc.
AMD almost always blows away Intel on integer/database stuff [e.g. the kinds of things that you would do with something like the Standard Template Library], and also on most scientific packages [which, in theory, ought to be heavily multi-threaded].
But then Intel will pull even or maybe slightly ahead on graphics stuff, which I imagine to be heavily biased towards SSE. Of course, in the past, it also helped Intel to have a faster memory pipeline [but now that HyperTranpsort is maturing, that's no longer the case].
PS: What I wanna see is a motherboard with a really good HyperTransport to PCI Express x16 bridge, and like a gazillion fully switched slots. It'll be like having your own $1 million Juniper Systems backplane for the price of an XBox.
From your list, LAX, JFK and SFO will be able to handle it.
See my reply over here: LAX plans to spend about $53 Million, and SFO is spending almost $1 Billion, but neither is ready to take the A380 right now, as we speak.
On the east coast, I don't have any clue what the plans are at Newark/JFK/Laguardia, but I imagine that they will have to make very significant expenditures, as well.
Now, in fairness, you did say will be able to handle it, as opposed to can handle it, but I guess it will be a good five years or more before we know whether your prediction proves true.
The runways at San Francisco International are so close together that the airport will be able to land only one A380 at a time. The airport has spent just less than $1 billion to build a 23-gate terminal with five gates to handle the A380.
Los Angeles International plans to spend $53 million on airport-wide improvements, including $2.25 million to strengthen its underground structures against the A380's weight.
So typical airports would be looking at investing anywhere from $53 Million to $1 Billion in renovations before they could accomodate the A380.
And that's assuming the "environmentalists" didn't keep them tied up in court for a couple of decades.
Frankfurt-New York
Frankfurt-Los Angeles
Frankfurt-San Francisco
Singapore-Taipei-Los Angeles
Singapore-Hong Kong-San Francisco
Sydney-Los Angeles
Just curious:
1) Which of the following airports have runways long enough to allow the A380 to land [or to take off]?
NY - Laguardia
NY - JFK
NY - Newark
NY - MacArthur
LA - LAX
LA - John Wayne
LA - Bob Hope
LA - Long Beach
SF - SFO
SF - Oakland
SF - San Jose
2) Which of the following airports have terminal facilites [seats in lounge areas, toilets in bathrooms, food concessions in concourse areas, parking in parking decks, bussing from remote parking lots, baggage handling conveyor systems] to handle the 800 passengers on an A380? Or hangars large enough to offer the option of servicing the A380?
NY - Laguardia
NY - JFK
NY - Newark
NY - MacArthur
LA - LAX
LA - John Wayne
LA - Bob Hope
LA - Long Beach
SF - SFO
SF - Oakland
SF - San Jose
3) Which of the following airports are NOT beseiged by local "environmentalist" activists who will sue for decades in the American legal system to prevent the expansion of existing runways so as to allow the A380 to land [or to take off]?
NY - Laguardia
NY - JFK
NY - Newark
NY - MacArthur
LA - LAX
LA - John Wayne
LA - Bob Hope
LA - Long Beach
SF - SFO
SF - Oakland
SF - San Jose
4) Which of the following airports can come up with the funds necessary [tens of millions of dollars? hundreds of millions of dollars? billions of dollars?] necessary to upgrade their terminal facilites [seats in lounge areas, toilets in bathrooms, food concessions in concourse areas, parking in parking decks, bussing from remote parking lots, baggage handling conveyor systems] so as to handle the 800 passengers on an A380? Or to upgrade their hangars so as to be able to offer the option of servicing the A380?
NY - Laguardia
NY - JFK
NY - Newark
NY - MacArthur
LA - LAX
LA - John Wayne
LA - Bob Hope
LA - Long Beach
SF - SFO
SF - Oakland
SF - San Jose
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Unless your boss is a complete idiot, you should be able to buy what is a basic necessity for carrying out your job repsonsibilities. Admittedly, your boss may well be a complete idiot.
His boss isn't an idiot, he's a God-damned slave owner wannabee.
You're not a slave, and don't let him treat you like one.
PS: Installing an inventory/services management system is a MASSIVE undertaking. Even small- to mid-sized businesses can take upwards of a year or more to get something like that functioning smoothly.
And if you undertake the project, be sure your boss's boss's boss is aware of it, because getting credit for something like that is precisely the sort of thing that can give you an inside track into upper management.
I.e. if you pull it off, make damned sure that your slimy, good for nothing, slave owner-wannabee of a "boss" [or his boss, etc.] doesn't try to take credit for it.
You can't freaking run old Dos programs on windows anymore.
Au contraire, and I am constantly amazed at the plethora of 16-bit programs that continue to run on kernels as recent as Windows 2000 - which is a real testament to M$FT & Intel/AMD's devotion to backwards compatibility [and which is also the lesson that FOSS types should take away from this].
However, I hear that Win64/AMD64 does NOT support 16-bit binaries.
Zonk: Once you've entered your zip code, it will also tell you what movies are playing in your area.
zetasmack: google knows all. do not question.
Today you've entered your zip code into the largest database in the history of the human species, and it's been cross-correlated with the Google cookie on your hard drive.
Tomorrow you're gonna enter what? Your phone number? Your home address? Your SSN? Your vote for president?
Some day you people are gonna yearn for an earlier, simpler time, when people could reasonably expect to enjoy a right to anonymity.
PS: What is this "scirusgoogle" cookie I have?
Either way, I have never trusted a movie review from anyone but a close friend who I know is reliable. I have yet to find a movie critic whos opinions are consistant with my tastes.
John Podhoretz just posted a warning:
WARNING: He also gives a Jar-Jar spoiler in a later reply.step 5) open the registry (RegEdit) and search for "RunOnce"; directly above it will be "Run".
Sadly, you can't do that with Aurora [I was up with it until 5AM last night, and I'll be at it for the rest of tonight, and much of tomorrow]. I'll expound on the registry stuff in a moment, but first let me outline a few other things you'll have to deal with.
Aurora installs at least two services [Start | Programs | Administrative Tools | Services]; they're down at the bottom, called "Win" this, and "Win" that [I forget the exact names, but they're pretty obviously malware services]. It also installs executables and "cabinet" [.CAB] files all over your computer, as well as desktop links and web browser plugins, and probably a whole host of other things I didn't discover. And every user who logs in after the infection will get copies of this crap installed throughout the entirety of their "Documents and Settings" folder.
If you have a second copy of the operating system [at worst, take the hard drive out and install it in another computer as a secondary drive], then you can search the entire hard drive for files that were introduced on or later than the date of infection and delete MOST of the crap that was installed.
However, in our case, the underlying file that invoked "Aurora" was \WINNT\zbkiebmtvti.exe [it might have a different name for you], but it was somehow installed with a modification date of 04/09/2004 [our infection was yesterday, 05/08/2005], so a simple search on recently-modified files will not find that one [and may not find other newly-introduced files, with fake modification dates, that are lurking in other parts of your hard drive].
However, even if you disable the services installed by Aurora, and even if you could delete all the files it installs, it does something FAR more malicious - something that I've never before seen in malware, which gets back to the point I wanted to make at the beginning of this reply: At or near the registry point HKLM\Software, Aurora inserts an "infinitely large" subtree into your computer's registry [I assume that they used either the maximum size of a registry subtree in Windows, or the maximum size of an entry in the underlying MSJet database, or something similar]. When either regedit.exe or regedt32.exe encounters this "infinitely large" subtree, they both crash, and tend to exit Dr Watson style [I guess it never dawned on the poor guys who designed regedit.exe and/or regedt32.exe that someone would do something quite so evil]. You can't search beyond this "infinitely large" subtree, and neither regedit.exe nor regedt32.exe are capable of deleting any of its branches [at either the beginning of the subtree, or at its end], so you can't do the old trick of searching for "RunOnce" and then moving up one key to get to Run.
Anyway, it seems to me that anyone who would do something as malicious as purposely inserting an "infinitely large" subtree into your registry, with the intent of crashing regedit.exe and regedt32.exe, is precisely the sort of person who would install a keyboard sniffer to record your VISA and Mastercard info. So I'm basically wiping the drive clean and reinstalling the operating system from scratch.
Quite frankly, if I ever meet the bastards who wrote this crap [and who thought that it would be some kinduva nifty-cool business plan to go around inserting "infinitely large" subtrees into people's registries], then I will be sorely tempted to shoot them and throw their God-damned corpses in a swamp.
And no, I am not kidding.
South Florida is home to more spammers than any other place in the world...
Don't forget the Bush family...
South Florida is Democrat territory [mostly transplanted NYers and NJers] and went overwhelmingly Gore. Republican strength is in North Florida, which, for all intents and purposes, is an entirely different state.
By the way, real estate swindling is a long time source of Democrat wealth [John Zaccaro, husband of Geraldine Ferraro; Richard Blum, husband of Diane Feinstein; etc], which is the primary reason why Federal, State, and Local zoning laws and "environmental" regulations exist in the first place [to defend the interests of the landed gentry, and crooked Tony Soprano-esque insiders who can game the system].
We could also take some time to review the history of penny stock swindlers, like FDR's bootlegger cum-Nazi apologist ambassador to Great Britain, but this reply is getting kinda long-winded.
Microsoft, once it owned the bulk of the market, has been a second-mover.
I don't know whether you do any business programming, but the momentum behind C# and .NET is just massive. There are on the order of terabytes and terabytes of code that have been [or are being] written for that platform.
Now you could say that Sun was the "first mover" with Java, and M$FT was the "second mover" with .NET, but my point is that just because M$FT has been working quietly behind the scenes on something like .NET doesn't mean they aren't innovating. It's just that they're innovating [and grabbing market share] in an arena that isn't quite as sexy as Google, iTunes, or Playstation.
I the only one smiling from ear to ear?
I'd be willing to wager that Microsoft's customers are pretty darned happy - everytime M$FT gets angry at the competition, their customers are rewarded with a vast new generation of ably-crafted products [often given away for free].
CentOS is pretty much an exact copy of RHEL, except for trademark names and artwork, so it should work flawlessly...except for one thing. If the installer is explicitly checking versions, backup and then replace the redhat-release file found in
Look, I'm deeply, deeply cynical about the GPL and the LGPL, but even amongst FOSS fanboys, that sorta thing has gotta invoke at least a little twinge of shame.
You know, there are real, live, flesh and blood employees and shareholders of RHAT, who need this thing called "a revenue stream" so that they can put this other stuff called "food and drink" on the table for their loved ones, and this thing called "a roof" over their loved ones' heads, for those rare occasions when they're subject to this water that falls out of the sky, which we call "rain".
But if you can somehow convince yourself [and the US Court System] that this sort of thing is ethical, then I guess RHAT has only themselves to blame for getting in bed with the likes of Richard Milhaus Stallman.
Ironically enough, I'm off to pick up my nephew from nursery school.
My particular field is medical visualization for Radiology, so essentially I have to organize huge sets of patient data in a way that I can do things like, well, volumetrically render your skull to see if you have a lesion, etc. Today, I have to pull this to the workstation, organize the dataset, and render the scene from the dataset onto the stage. Because of the flowing nature of our data (that is to say, this isn't like a game where you can pre-cache models on the local workstations since every patient is a different model), I would like a way to tie direct3d to a pre-render engine at the database layer so that all I would have to provide to a client like a web page is the end product. I'm working with MS SQL atm, so I'll use it as an example, a typical MRI image of your chest comes out of a scanner in some stupidly high resolution. That scan typically contains voxel data which is defines by the mm thickness of the slice. Your POV as an end user over the web is, 'all I care about is this one particualr diagnostic output', or one image lets say. To actually GET that image may or may not require that a set of transforamtions be applied to a large subset of slices in any particular study. It would be really nice to not have to add external services (another app), and instead be able to directly and natively be able to access the inner workings of the database engine to do this directly, instead of offloading it to the local OS. Object programmability, in the
We're about to start on a big database backend for scientific and engineering frontends, and I'm having the damndest time trying to find a product that was designed with an eye towards what I'd call "basic mathematics".
Our short-term needs:
Long term, a future interest will be in the area of what I might call a systematized approach to scientific data analysis, and particularly things that go under the guise of e.g.
Look, I know where this conversation goes, and I don't think there's a whole helluva lotta point in continuing it.
However, two final thoughts:
1) You said: I know that you're probably busy at work today -- me too -- but I also think that you know you're misrepresenting the what the Bible says about Hell and the wrath of God. Even the Gospels, which seem to be the only parts of the Bible you want to discuss, aren't nearly as kind [google.com] and cuddly [google.com] as you seem intent on pretending. For the record: I spend an inordinate amount of my waking life pondering the spectre of eternal damnation, not to mention a disturbing amount of my sleeping life, as well.
2) If you ever change your mind, and decide you want to go home, I'm confident you'll be welcomed with open arms.
But it's all lies.
The burden of proof isn't on me.
Look, it's not gonna be worth anyone's time to correspond with you if that's your attitude.
The very idea of condemning an eternal soul to eternal suffering is perhaps the most evil idea one could imagine. Nothing merits a judgment of everlasting torture. Not murder, not original sin, certainly not looking at a pretty girl with a lusty gleam in your eye.
Just a few points here.
1) What would you have God do with people like
Give them a kiss on the cheek and 72 virgins?2) The word "ETERNAL" does not appear in the passages you cited. YOU inserted it.
3) Search on the word "eternal":
It seems to me that the relevant portions of the bible are overwhelming concerned [by orders of magnitude] not with the sentence of eternal damnation, but rather with the offer of eternal life.Besides, as you indicated in your very first post:
All that touchy-feely stuff about loving your neighbors is FUN!!!Why are you blue-staters so damned intent on being miserable for your entire lives?
On a more serious note, was anyone else distrubed by the fact that it was recommended, concerning human-brained mice, that they monitor for signs of humanlike behavior in human-brained mice, and if they find such behavior, they were to... immediately kill the mice?
Obviously not - our society has determined that the appropriate course of action is to starve the mouse to death over the course of a couple weeks.
I do miss religion and the comforts that it brought. I liked singing in church, I liked feeling like I would go to heaven when I died, I liked the sense of purpose and mission my life had.
I'm not real clear to me how any of that stuff is supposed to be bad for you - sounds pretty healthy to me.
But it's all lies. Comfortable, well-meaning lies, but also hurtful, destructive lies, too. I just couldn't stand it. Better to know the truth, even if it isn't what you want to hear, than to waste your life.
Can you prove that "it's all lies"? As an aside, a fellow named Kurt Gödel believed that he was in possession of a proof that they were not all lies. And plenty of other geeks, like Donald Knuth, and Fred Brooks, don't think they're lies. Who knows - maybe even John McCarthy, as well.
I'm glad I'm a scientifically-minded geek who can appreciate the numinous in this universe without having to also believe in a white-bearded old man who condemns every human being who doesn't follow his bizarre, evil rules to an eternity of torture and suffering.
Which of his rules are evil? There's a rather succinct summary of them here:
ST: Nemesis was also a flaming pile of dung, rivalling Star Trek V in the crap department. No need to rehash the reasons that movie sucked.
I have never watched Nemesis all the way from beginning to the end - whenever it's on HBO or Showtime, I might pause for a minute or two, before moving on to something else [Stargate, BG, Matrix I/II/III, Starship Troopers, whatever].
Last night as I surfed through HBO/Showtime for the umpteenth gazillion time, and didn't pause at Nemesis for more than a second or two, it finally dawned on me why I can never summon the enthusiasm to watch that damned movie: Because I don't want to waste two hours of my life watching a narcissistic, self-absorbed, self-glorifying, idolatrous paean to Patrick Stewart.
See Patrick as a young man. See Patrick as an old man. Watch Patrick the young struggle with teen angst. Watch Patrick the old struggle with octogenarian angst.
No thanks - I've got better things to do with my time.
PS: When was the last time Picard got laid? At least Kirk had the decency to leave the galaxy littered with his bastard offspring by way of union with a veritable army of hot, sexy, vixen-ish, Russ Meyer-esque, 1960's sex kittens.
I think that deep down inside, Picard may suffer from the Eton Disease.
I can see a future where Sun's hardware business dies and Java is bought be another company which makes Sun the next SCO.
Has Sun ever made so much as a wooden nickel on "Java"? They've been giving away [for free] the virtual machine, the "compiler", and the libraries since Day One.
Don't get me wrong, they were kind and loving people, but their view of the world was one in which the forces of Satan had become victorious and would corrupt your kids if you weren't vigilant. To tell the truth, I sometimes miss the days when I believed the same things they did. Life was so much easier. But then I see the Texas legislature making it illegal for gays to be foster parents, and I can't help but sigh. It's harder on this side of the religious fence, but at least I feel better about myself.
Sounds like you should have heeded their warnings.
Although I've been a techie my whole life, i was raised by religiously fanatical parents, so none of this talk of space exploration and evolution would be tolerated in our home. So that excluded enjoying HGG on the radio, television, or bookshelf.
You're kidding, right? What did you parents do, turn off the television when Cronkite was talking about the Apollo missions?
That sort of thing only happens in movies like Carrie.
In general, AddRef/Release are not horribly high frequency call.
Granted, the timing difference might be imperceptible for single iterations, but if you stick the things in big "for" loops, and run them a million [or a billion] times, you ought to be able to get a sense of just how much quicker your code is:
Do that for both your code and Microsoft's, and you can get a little sense of how much faster yours is.All in all, the VC version is 50% larger both in instruction count and code size than the optimal (99% of the time) code.
What are the performance differences?
I wonder how much Microsoft even bothers to optimize for the different exstension such as SSE and 3DNow, I imagine they don't do much at all.
I've often wondered the same thing when I read platform reviews at Toms/Anandtech/SharkyExtreme/etc.
AMD almost always blows away Intel on integer/database stuff [e.g. the kinds of things that you would do with something like the Standard Template Library], and also on most scientific packages [which, in theory, ought to be heavily multi-threaded].
But then Intel will pull even or maybe slightly ahead on graphics stuff, which I imagine to be heavily biased towards SSE. Of course, in the past, it also helped Intel to have a faster memory pipeline [but now that HyperTranpsort is maturing, that's no longer the case].
PS: What I wanna see is a motherboard with a really good HyperTransport to PCI Express x16 bridge, and like a gazillion fully switched slots. It'll be like having your own $1 million Juniper Systems backplane for the price of an XBox.
From your list, LAX, JFK and SFO will be able to handle it.
See my reply over here: LAX plans to spend about $53 Million, and SFO is spending almost $1 Billion, but neither is ready to take the A380 right now, as we speak.
On the east coast, I don't have any clue what the plans are at Newark/JFK/Laguardia, but I imagine that they will have to make very significant expenditures, as well.
Now, in fairness, you did say will be able to handle it, as opposed to can handle it, but I guess it will be a good five years or more before we know whether your prediction proves true.
Here's the link.
From that article:
So typical airports would be looking at investing anywhere from $53 Million to $1 Billion in renovations before they could accomodate the A380.And that's assuming the "environmentalists" didn't keep them tied up in court for a couple of decades.
These routes right now could use the A380-800:
Frankfurt-New York
Frankfurt-Los Angeles
Frankfurt-San Francisco
Singapore-Taipei-Los Angeles
Singapore-Hong Kong-San Francisco
Sydney-Los Angeles
Just curious:
1) Which of the following airports have runways long enough to allow the A380 to land [or to take off]?
2) Which of the following airports have terminal facilites [seats in lounge areas, toilets in bathrooms, food concessions in concourse areas, parking in parking decks, bussing from remote parking lots, baggage handling conveyor systems] to handle the 800 passengers on an A380? Or hangars large enough to offer the option of servicing the A380? 3) Which of the following airports are NOT beseiged by local "environmentalist" activists who will sue for decades in the American legal system to prevent the expansion of existing runways so as to allow the A380 to land [or to take off]? 4) Which of the following airports can come up with the funds necessary [tens of millions of dollars? hundreds of millions of dollars? billions of dollars?] necessary to upgrade their terminal facilites [seats in lounge areas, toilets in bathrooms, food concessions in concourse areas, parking in parking decks, bussing from remote parking lots, baggage handling conveyor systems] so as to handle the 800 passengers on an A380? Or to upgrade their hangars so as to be able to offer the option of servicing the A380? Again, just curious.