If one Windows computer has a failure a week, two nodes -> two failures a week, etc. A 500 node Windows Supercomputer would experience a failure roughly every twenty minutes.
"Do you void your warranty on your car when you replace the all-season tires with Blizzaks?"
Actually, my brother is a mechanic at a Ford dealer. He says that they will not honor the warranty if a wheel bearing fails prematurely and the car does not have the stock tires on it. Putting wide or offset tires on a car causes the weight of the car to not be supported directly beneath the bearing and can lead to premature bearing failure.
It really is amazing how small things can scale. I work for a company that does point-of-sale software. Our customers are very conscious of application performance. One of our larger customers calculated that adding one second to each transaction would cost an additional $9 million a year.
I was attending a sales presentation for some database software (don't remember what it was) in the late 1990s when a person in the audience asked about Y2K compliance. The salesmen proudly proclaimed that the software could handle dates from 1850 to 2450. Another hand goes up. He claims: "I'm with the Hudson Bay company, and we have diliquent accounts going back to 1630." The salesman thinks about it for a second. He replies, "When was the last time you collected on one of them?"
Which I guess brings this back on topic. Apparently some companies keep your information for multiple centuries.
PJ never to ceases to amaze. There are usually 2-3 new articles everyday on Groklaw, posted around the clock. The are filled with tons of in-depth information. now she is doing this too. Does PJ ever sleep? Is "PJ" actually several people?
A large asteroid is basically a several thousand ton chunk of nearly pure iron. Think what that would be worth.
1. Build a space probe. 2. Have space probe guide asteroid into Earth orbit. 3. Safely bring asteroid down to Earth's surface. 4. Sell asteroid to local scrap iron dealer for $50/ton. 5. Profit!!
The best part would be watching the rednecks at the scrap yard trying to fit the asteroid into the car crusher. Implementation of the first three steps is left as an exercise to the reader.
A local radio-controlled airplane hobbiest announced today that he has built a working model of (cue tympanis... Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum) MEGA MAID.
Granted no one would implement a solution without trying it first. However, in all likelihood, they would be more likely to try it in the first place if they had heard someone casually mention it was good in a forum. The problem is that it is often difficult to distinguish against a real unbiased opinion and an astroturfer.
Used cars are definitely the way to go, escpecially if you live in an area with a high incidence of auto theft. For the price of a good alarm system, you can buy a car that isn't worth stealing.
You go out two notes and calculate the weight based on the cosine of the third note. Divide that by the last note of a harmonic frequency. If the note in question is sharp or flat, divide by six and take the remainder. Omit every third note. After the sixth note, if the notes are in fact, collinear and not symmetric, you can reverse the cofactor matrix and restore the eigenvalues, but not without first calculating the modulus of the largest cubic divisor.
"Here were produced... sentimental songs which were composed entirely by mechanical means on a special kind of kaleidoscope known as a versificator." --Orwell's '1984'
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Like the Camera phone itself, this is a solution to a problem I never knew existed.
Sources close to Disney report that Michael Eisner was seen angrily removing his CEO hat and punching his fist through it.
The Acme Safe Co. announced today that next year's model will feature a "lock" to prevent unauthorized persons from accessing the contents.
Cable news channel MSNBC announced today that they will be releasing their archives under the Windows XP EULA.
Teacher: You're thinking of something else, son.
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If one Windows computer has a failure a week, two nodes -> two failures a week, etc. A 500 node Windows Supercomputer would experience a failure roughly every twenty minutes.
For quick reference:
>man 2 shrek
In order to protect myself from the lawsuits, I have deleted my swap partit [CARRIER LOST]
"Do you void your warranty on your car when you replace the all-season tires with Blizzaks?"
Actually, my brother is a mechanic at a Ford dealer. He says that they will not honor the warranty if a wheel bearing fails prematurely and the car does not have the stock tires on it. Putting wide or offset tires on a car causes the weight of the car to not be supported directly beneath the bearing and can lead to premature bearing failure.
It really is amazing how small things can scale. I work for a company that does point-of-sale software. Our customers are very conscious of application performance. One of our larger customers calculated that adding one second to each transaction would cost an additional $9 million a year.
It seems like this sort of announcement is becoming a common thing. Heck, even Microsoft did this with their WIX installer.
Step 1: Dust off the source code for something that hasn't made any money in years.
Step 2: Slap a GPL on it.
Step 3: Release it to SourceForge.
Step 3: Gain the goodwill of the open-source community.
I was attending a sales presentation for some database software (don't remember what it was) in the late 1990s when a person in the audience asked about Y2K compliance. The salesmen proudly proclaimed that the software could handle dates from 1850 to 2450. Another hand goes up. He claims: "I'm with the Hudson Bay company, and we have diliquent accounts going back to 1630." The salesman thinks about it for a second. He replies, "When was the last time you collected on one of them?"
Which I guess brings this back on topic. Apparently some companies keep your information for multiple centuries.
Intel phrases Itanium into a complicated metaphor.
PJ never to ceases to amaze. There are usually 2-3 new articles everyday on Groklaw, posted around the clock. The are filled with tons of in-depth information. now she is doing this too. Does PJ ever sleep? Is "PJ" actually several people?
Consider this:
A large asteroid is basically a several thousand ton chunk of nearly pure iron. Think what that would be worth.
1. Build a space probe.
2. Have space probe guide asteroid into Earth orbit.
3. Safely bring asteroid down to Earth's surface.
4. Sell asteroid to local scrap iron dealer for $50/ton.
5. Profit!!
The best part would be watching the rednecks at the scrap yard trying to fit the asteroid into the car crusher. Implementation of the first three steps is left as an exercise to the reader.
It'll fly in a vacuum as long as there is no gravity and you give it a push. It just won't accelerate in a vacuum.
A local radio-controlled airplane hobbiest announced today that he has built a working model of (cue tympanis ... Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum) MEGA MAID.
A local man injured by stray gunfire was arrested for stealing bullets.
A new program: autoconfconf
I am struck by the recursive nature of the situation.
Granted no one would implement a solution without trying it first. However, in all likelihood, they would be more likely to try it in the first place if they had heard someone casually mention it was good in a forum. The problem is that it is often difficult to distinguish against a real unbiased opinion and an astroturfer.
Used cars are definitely the way to go, escpecially if you live in an area with a high incidence of auto theft. For the price of a good alarm system, you can buy a car that isn't worth stealing.
OSDN announced today that the Slashdot Karma system will be integrated with the Terrorist Quotient database.
No, its like this:
You go out two notes and calculate the weight based on the cosine of the third note. Divide that by the last note of a harmonic frequency. If the note in question is sharp or flat, divide by six and take the remainder. Omit every third note. After the sixth note, if the notes are in fact, collinear and not symmetric, you can reverse the cofactor matrix and restore the eigenvalues, but not without first calculating the modulus of the largest cubic divisor.
Could it be?
... sentimental songs which were composed entirely by mechanical means on a special kind of kaleidoscope known as a versificator." --Orwell's '1984'
"Here were produced
The RIAA announced today that they will be using this technology to phase out recording artists altogether. CDs will still cost $16.99, though.