Let me make this clearer for those that aren't very technical: It's holding an HTTP session open and Apache has a limited number of simultaneous HTTP sessions. All someone has to do is send about 100 requests to your website and leave them open without sending any further information. Nobody else will be able to connect to your web server for a long time. The weekend is coming, so I'm expecting lots of downtime for government sites in the next couple of days...
Its campaign may be rubbish, but it's working! Also, we have been pounding MS for sticking to IE6 for long enough. Now that they're trying to get users to switch to a better browser (IE8 may not be the best, but it's definitely a lot better than IE6) we pound them again. They may claim what IE8 is better than Firefox/Opera/Safari/Chrome put together, we may hate them for that, but we have to spare a bit of love for the fact that they're finally letting their users know that they can have better than IE6. Now, unless they suddenly stop supporting IE8 and put it in the WGA program, we should be thanking them.
Yes, TFS means that the price per MB keeps going down. But... it would be interesting to compare the price per disk with the disk space used by the customer. If people require average capacities, they will always pay the same price, so the same money you spent 10 years ago to store your porn you wanted back then is the same money you have to spend today to store the porn you want now. So, prices have always stayed about the same or, as the GB pointed out, constantly lowered.
But there is no big difference! We are "designing" our genetics using the easiest tool we have access to: "screening." Your "screening" will create a design pattern in genetics: smart, athletic, sensitive, strong etc.
She just pointed the telescope at the sky and waited long enough. I believe that if you wait enough, you're bound to seeing something unique because there's lots of stuff out there that only comes out every once in a while. This sounds like a crazy idea, so who would believe it, right? There must have been someone who understood that it was possible, someone with astronomy knowledge. That's who deserves some credit!
so it doesn't matter what people in the slashdot community think: for engineers to use anything but these tried-and-tested engineering libraries, that happen to be written in fortran, would just be genuinely stupid of them.
So, your idea is to teach everyone FORTRAN because if they become engineers, they might need it?
How many projects do need those kind of computations? There are some cases, I agree, but I could also argue that everybody should be taught assembler, because they have tons of microchips in every-day devices, such as mobile phones, televisions or cars. NO! Leave FORTRAN where it should be, with the mathematical experts, don't feed more useless stuff to undergrads.
Welcome to Slashdot. I mean... What the fuck? You may say Dollhouse is crap (and I can't disagree, because I haven't seen it) but you get modded Insightful for such a comment? You should either got modded as Interesting. This is your own personal opinion - and maybe most Slashdotters have the same opinion, but it's an opinion. I can prove that Dollhouse was not crap because it was a movie. If it were a crap, it would have been in the toilet, literally and you would have gotten modded Informative. I know this is completely off-topic, but come on, mods, what the fuck? The parent was more like a Troll comment, but because Slashdot agrees with it doesn't make it Insightful. This has everything to do with personal taste and nothing to do with objectivity. It even bashes the show judging it by personal taste and forgets that someone actually liked it and believed in it. Unless it's common sense to say that the show completely sucked and there wasn't one rational person to find it worth watching, this was a bad mod day for Slashdot and a bad mood day for me.
Will you do anything to help them? If they win, the Slashdot crowd will support you for supporting them. If they lose, we'll blame it on you, because you could have helped. I know time is money, but I personally find this to be one of the most important RIAA trials ever. Where can I donate? I think I've got about $100 laying around somewhere and, even if I'm from Eastern Europe, I will do anything I have to in order to keep those bastards away from us.
Be responsive and always close the circle by telling the user what you have done for him.
If you do that in great detail, they will eventually tell you they don't care what you do and they just want their things to work again; that's usually trailed by a "please" or "if you find the time." If you go into a lot of details when you explain what you've done to get things to work again, they will eventually understand how stressful and difficult your job is and they will give you all the time you need to get it fixed. So, after a while, you can stop giving them details.
I have never played a free MMO that didn't have someone running around the home city just shouting out advertisements.
Hero Online doesn't have ads and you only pay if you want bonus stuff, like armors and such, which you can trade in-game anyway so there's no need for any real money to get that stuff and the game is playable even without it.
You can't make laws as clear as technical documents. That's a quixotic notion held by those who fail to appreciate that other people see things vastly different from how they do.
But isn't that the whole reason for which we have laws?
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Wait a minute... are you implying that intellectual property should be considered property? People should get paid for their ideas? On Slashdot? And you're getting modded Informative? *
* the ideas expressed in this post are not my beliefs, they are presented only for their ironic humor
The issue here is, when you're doing things like stem cell research, the future of human kind is in your hands. This is like saying "we shouldn't put people in prisons, because they're not animals and being killers or thieves doesn't make them animals". Unfortunately, you're right, because almost anyone can do "research" today.
word-processing, spread-sheeting, data-basing, developing software and even Windows, heck, even using AutoCAD on a Pentium II
But you definitely couldn't do with those even remotely to what you can do with the latest versions today. You could play Doom but you couldn't even consider run something like The Sims 3. You could edit documents, but you couldn't share them, organize them, etc. You could transfer pictures from your 640KB digital camera to your 200 MB hard disk, but you couldn't transfer pictures from your 16GB camera to your 1TB hard disk. There's a huge difference in the quality of the features you had available on a 486 and the features you have now on a P4 at 3GHz. I believe you're missing some obvious things and the sad thing is, you're modded Insightful!
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Let me make this clearer for those that aren't very technical: It's holding an HTTP session open and Apache has a limited number of simultaneous HTTP sessions.
All someone has to do is send about 100 requests to your website and leave them open without sending any further information. Nobody else will be able to connect to your web server for a long time. The weekend is coming, so I'm expecting lots of downtime for government sites in the next couple of days...
Its campaign may be rubbish, but it's working! Also, we have been pounding MS for sticking to IE6 for long enough. Now that they're trying to get users to switch to a better browser (IE8 may not be the best, but it's definitely a lot better than IE6) we pound them again. They may claim what IE8 is better than Firefox/Opera/Safari/Chrome put together, we may hate them for that, but we have to spare a bit of love for the fact that they're finally letting their users know that they can have better than IE6. Now, unless they suddenly stop supporting IE8 and put it in the WGA program, we should be thanking them.
But what if this is a fake ad and some people really gave away the real info?
They can't afford people thinking they should use less bandwidth. For them: bandwidth used by people = money.
Yes, TFS means that the price per MB keeps going down. But... it would be interesting to compare the price per disk with the disk space used by the customer. If people require average capacities, they will always pay the same price, so the same money you spent 10 years ago to store your porn you wanted back then is the same money you have to spend today to store the porn you want now.
So, prices have always stayed about the same or, as the GB pointed out, constantly lowered.
Yes, being interrupted while reading from / posting to Slashdot is just awful!
But there is no big difference! We are "designing" our genetics using the easiest tool we have access to: "screening." Your "screening" will create a design pattern in genetics: smart, athletic, sensitive, strong etc.
You don't need a straight line to find its logic.
She just pointed the telescope at the sky and waited long enough. I believe that if you wait enough, you're bound to seeing something unique because there's lots of stuff out there that only comes out every once in a while. This sounds like a crazy idea, so who would believe it, right? There must have been someone who understood that it was possible, someone with astronomy knowledge. That's who deserves some credit!
Astronomers say that it may be the weakest supernova ever seen.
Or the strongest nova..
so it doesn't matter what people in the slashdot community think: for engineers to use anything but these tried-and-tested engineering libraries, that happen to be written in fortran, would just be genuinely stupid of them.
So, your idea is to teach everyone FORTRAN because if they become engineers, they might need it?
How many projects do need those kind of computations? There are some cases, I agree, but I could also argue that everybody should be taught assembler, because they have tons of microchips in every-day devices, such as mobile phones, televisions or cars. NO! Leave FORTRAN where it should be, with the mathematical experts, don't feed more useless stuff to undergrads.
Next question, please!?
Welcome to Slashdot. I mean... What the fuck? You may say Dollhouse is crap (and I can't disagree, because I haven't seen it) but you get modded Insightful for such a comment? You should either got modded as Interesting. This is your own personal opinion - and maybe most Slashdotters have the same opinion, but it's an opinion. I can prove that Dollhouse was not crap because it was a movie. If it were a crap, it would have been in the toilet, literally and you would have gotten modded Informative. I know this is completely off-topic, but come on, mods, what the fuck? The parent was more like a Troll comment, but because Slashdot agrees with it doesn't make it Insightful. This has everything to do with personal taste and nothing to do with objectivity. It even bashes the show judging it by personal taste and forgets that someone actually liked it and believed in it. Unless it's common sense to say that the show completely sucked and there wasn't one rational person to find it worth watching, this was a bad mod day for Slashdot and a bad mood day for me.
Bye-bye, karma!
Will you do anything to help them? If they win, the Slashdot crowd will support you for supporting them. If they lose, we'll blame it on you, because you could have helped. I know time is money, but I personally find this to be one of the most important RIAA trials ever. Where can I donate? I think I've got about $100 laying around somewhere and, even if I'm from Eastern Europe, I will do anything I have to in order to keep those bastards away from us.
Semi-BOFH:
Be responsive and always close the circle by telling the user what you have done for him.
If you do that in great detail, they will eventually tell you they don't care what you do and they just want their things to work again; that's usually trailed by a "please" or "if you find the time." If you go into a lot of details when you explain what you've done to get things to work again, they will eventually understand how stressful and difficult your job is and they will give you all the time you need to get it fixed. So, after a while, you can stop giving them details.
I have never played a free MMO that didn't have someone running around the home city just shouting out advertisements.
Hero Online doesn't have ads and you only pay if you want bonus stuff, like armors and such, which you can trade in-game anyway so there's no need for any real money to get that stuff and the game is playable even without it.
Yes, you do seem to have some rendering problems yourself.
You can't make laws as clear as technical documents. That's a quixotic notion held by those who fail to appreciate that other people see things vastly different from how they do.
But isn't that the whole reason for which we have laws?
dissension to the current prevailing wisdom on dinosaur posture
Why do these people write like you need a translation guide with you when you want to understand them?
What do I have to do to get in there?
Wait a minute... are you implying that intellectual property should be considered property? People should get paid for their ideas? On Slashdot? And you're getting modded Informative? *
* the ideas expressed in this post are not my beliefs, they are presented only for their ironic humor
Warning: ext4 may break your joke detector.
The issue here is, when you're doing things like stem cell research, the future of human kind is in your hands. This is like saying "we shouldn't put people in prisons, because they're not animals and being killers or thieves doesn't make them animals". Unfortunately, you're right, because almost anyone can do "research" today.
... and 78% of the surveys are made up on the spot.
word-processing, spread-sheeting, data-basing, developing software and even Windows, heck, even using AutoCAD on a Pentium II
But you definitely couldn't do with those even remotely to what you can do with the latest versions today. You could play Doom but you couldn't even consider run something like The Sims 3. You could edit documents, but you couldn't share them, organize them, etc. You could transfer pictures from your 640KB digital camera to your 200 MB hard disk, but you couldn't transfer pictures from your 16GB camera to your 1TB hard disk. There's a huge difference in the quality of the features you had available on a 486 and the features you have now on a P4 at 3GHz.
I believe you're missing some obvious things and the sad thing is, you're modded Insightful!
You read my mind!