They probably mean 70% of the worlds unique data. 'Girls Gone Wild' DVDs as an agregate whole worldwide just hold 4 GB or whatever of data, but happen to do it very redundantly. The hundreds of millions of PC hard drives worldwide, again, are very very redundant.
Can you hook up 35 printers to your PC? How many terminals does it support? Can you keep four operators busy mounting tapes on the drives connected to it?
People have the notion that because they have a CPU that spins soooo fast that it has the thruput of a mainframe. Which is an error.
System/370s don't come just as a chunk of hardware. They're more like a jet airliner. They come with support contracts and support personell. And the software that runs on them isn't 'retail' and you can't just nab a copy off a warez site.
Not implying anything about what you'd do with a s370, but it's not likely even if you found the hardware on a loading dock somewhere and got it for salvage price, that you'd ever be able to run anything on it.
Yes, but 'all the HTML and other text' just isn't that much data, in the final analysis. Not like the task of storing the huge mass of records that business mainframes store.
I haven't checked yet, but I (again) rooted the Real Player tray thing out of the Registry on the Windows 2000 machine here. I suspect as usually that the next time the player is run it will shove a registry key in again to start up the tray applet on the next system boot.
It gets bad when one has to create read-only files with the name of the directory the malware wants to install in to block the malware from installing.
Does Total Recorder still work? I used to snatch audio streams to WAV files using that thing, over in Windows-land.
Godwin's Law applys to Usenet, where threads can go on for months and even years. It isn't even applicable to Slashdot, where threads expire by design within a week.
People should really, really stop citing Godwin. It's almost gotten to the point where a new 'Anti-Godwin's Law' is needed like:
"people who invoke Godwins law on Slashdot have automatically removed themselves from the discussion"
It's been said that doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is a good mark of mental illness.
It's been said that branding one's opponents as 'mentally ill' has been a favorite tactic of tyrants, fascists, and communists. Worked well for Stalin. Do you have a suggested 'treatment' in mind?
What are these 'solvable problems'? Getting that road built to nowhere? The construction workers meeting their boat payments? Re-election?
You're engaging in rhetoric and 'tricky number manipulation.' The fact is that Reagan wanted to spend more on the Military, and the Democrats wanted to spend more money on social programs. Citing raw numbers is a distortion of the truth. The Democrats would have been delighted to spend more on social programs, and less on National Defense, even if it meant a bigger overall number. Reagan would have been delighted to completely eliminate many social programs, let private charity take over and people be helped by their neighbors rather than bureaucrats in govt.
As far as IBM is concerned, it was 'so huge' long before Microsoft even came on the scene. I don't buy the grandparent commenter's notion that IBM 'lost' to Microsoft due to anything related to growth in the company. They were a big slow company back then, and remained one. They established a standard that other firms copied in the 'PC' sphere and that's about it. The 'PC' division was a seperate autonomous entity that I suspect many of the 'suits' at IBM Headquarters were sad they'd ever launched, after a time.
They 'lost' to Microsoft from the start of the deal, when they build an open architecture using off-the-shelf components. Not because they later became 'bloated.'
It's not fair to say that Reagan spent all that money alone. Remember, there was a Democratic congress during that entire period. And not the a bit more lean Democratic congress. I'm talking about fricking 'Tip' O'Neil and the other porkbarrel fatboys.
It's disgusting that the Republicans have fallen so short of their campaign to cut government. But the alternative at the pollbooth is worse.
If you don't think we, the people, have a better chance of cutting wasteful government spending than we do of preventing continental drift, you've got a pitifully dismal view of the potential of people in a democracy.
My favorite program, and probably yours as well, is the campaign to cut government spending. As much of any of it as is possible without the roads collapsing, etc.
But there seem to be many people who feel politicians are more efficient at spending their money than they are themselves.
I'm glad to see some tempered reason here. There's a shortage of it too often on slashdot.
Something to be mindful of is that the mobs that swarmed through Europe around the middle of the 20th century were fostered by a political organization (which I'll leave as nameless) that was one of the first to figure out how to harness the power of mass communications. Which they used to great effect in their conquests, for more than a decade before being stopped. Look at their rhetoric. They claimed the mantle of 'science' in their conquests. Thank goodness the deception couldn't be maintained common sense was drummed into the mob eventually.
The mob they raised knew that they were using new powers and new technology. They thought of themselves as a vanguard. "All the rules have changed" was the slogan on everbody's lips. Remind you of anything going on today? We know now how perverted the message was then. How will the people in the future look back and see us?
Well, how about four P4s, instead of your G5? Dollars for dollars, etc. etc. You don't need all that expensive Apple window-dressing for a compute-intensive application. Bare motherboards on rack shelves rule.
Actually, the flashmob philosophy is about mob rule, and putting the power in the hands of anybody who can manipulate enough people. It's fine for some liberals to 'prove the concept' but the end result will be populist lynch mobs if the snowball continues to roll.
It doesn't have much to do with democracy. It might be pretty effective at smashing abortion clinics or destroying the office buildings of particularly litigious attorneys. Be careful of what you promote.
I just rightclick and block images from each site whenever a banner advert appears on the screen.
It only needs to be done a few times to block most of the garbage.
Yes, it means I don't get most of the icons and images here on slashdot, since I block images.slashdot.org. I know where there are 'live' blank spots to click when I need.
He's worse than Clinton, as it appears he's actually done a few things, i.e. his killing of civillians in Vietnam, in those short few months he was hotdogging around there in a boat.
An ineffective fat horndog like Clinton at least didn't do that much damage.
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They probably mean 70% of the worlds unique data. 'Girls Gone Wild' DVDs as an agregate whole worldwide just hold 4 GB or whatever of data, but happen to do it very redundantly. The hundreds of millions of PC hard drives worldwide, again, are very very redundant.
That depends on how you measure 'power' though.
Can you hook up 35 printers to your PC? How many terminals does it support? Can you keep four operators busy mounting tapes on the drives connected to it?
People have the notion that because they have a CPU that spins soooo fast that it has the thruput of a mainframe. Which is an error.
System/370s don't come just as a chunk of hardware. They're more like a jet airliner. They come with support contracts and support personell. And the software that runs on them isn't 'retail' and you can't just nab a copy off a warez site.
Not implying anything about what you'd do with a s370, but it's not likely even if you found the hardware on a loading dock somewhere and got it for salvage price, that you'd ever be able to run anything on it.
Do you have three phase power?
Yes, but 'all the HTML and other text' just isn't that much data, in the final analysis. Not like the task of storing the huge mass of records that business mainframes store.
I haven't checked yet, but I (again) rooted the Real Player tray thing out of the Registry on the Windows 2000 machine here. I suspect as usually that the next time the player is run it will shove a registry key in again to start up the tray applet on the next system boot.
It gets bad when one has to create read-only files with the name of the directory the malware wants to install in to block the malware from installing.
Does Total Recorder still work? I used to snatch audio streams to WAV files using that thing, over in Windows-land.
People should really, really stop citing Godwin. It's almost gotten to the point where a new 'Anti-Godwin's Law' is needed like
I'm happier with my solution: listen to Car Talk while out and about having a good time in the car on Saturday. On the car radio.
It's been said that doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is a good mark of mental illness.
It's been said that branding one's opponents as 'mentally ill' has been a favorite tactic of tyrants, fascists, and communists. Worked well for Stalin. Do you have a suggested 'treatment' in mind?
What are these 'solvable problems'? Getting that road built to nowhere? The construction workers meeting their boat payments? Re-election?
You're engaging in rhetoric and 'tricky number manipulation.' The fact is that Reagan wanted to spend more on the Military, and the Democrats wanted to spend more money on social programs. Citing raw numbers is a distortion of the truth. The Democrats would have been delighted to spend more on social programs, and less on National Defense, even if it meant a bigger overall number. Reagan would have been delighted to completely eliminate many social programs, let private charity take over and people be helped by their neighbors rather than bureaucrats in govt.
Have you ever used Eudora?
You seem to be speaking from ignorance.
It's a fine email program, much better, IHMO, than Microsoft's mailer. People pay actual money to purchase it.
But you're a BeOS fan. Wouldn't Microsoft have to shut down and have their main campus razed by the Army Corps of Engineers before you'd be happy?
Now, let's hear from an Amiga fan, too.
As far as IBM is concerned, it was 'so huge' long before Microsoft even came on the scene. I don't buy the grandparent commenter's notion that IBM 'lost' to Microsoft due to anything related to growth in the company. They were a big slow company back then, and remained one. They established a standard that other firms copied in the 'PC' sphere and that's about it. The 'PC' division was a seperate autonomous entity that I suspect many of the 'suits' at IBM Headquarters were sad they'd ever launched, after a time.
They 'lost' to Microsoft from the start of the deal, when they build an open architecture using off-the-shelf components. Not because they later became 'bloated.'
It's not fair to say that Reagan spent all that money alone. Remember, there was a Democratic congress during that entire period. And not the a bit more lean Democratic congress. I'm talking about fricking 'Tip' O'Neil and the other porkbarrel fatboys.
It's disgusting that the Republicans have fallen so short of their campaign to cut government. But the alternative at the pollbooth is worse.
If the economy grows, the same percentage of taxation will bring in more money. The economy is NOT a zero-sum game.
If you don't think we, the people, have a better chance of cutting wasteful government spending than we do of preventing continental drift, you've got a pitifully dismal view of the potential of people in a democracy.
Pitiful as in: you are to be pitied.
My favorite program, and probably yours as well, is the campaign to cut government spending. As much of any of it as is possible without the roads collapsing, etc.
But there seem to be many people who feel politicians are more efficient at spending their money than they are themselves.
Damn, and I have a pretty good positive balance in PayPal at the moment.
I guess I have enough drill bits for most purposes already, though.
I'm glad to see some tempered reason here. There's a shortage of it too often on slashdot.
Something to be mindful of is that the mobs that swarmed through Europe around the middle of the 20th century were fostered by a political organization (which I'll leave as nameless) that was one of the first to figure out how to harness the power of mass communications. Which they used to great effect in their conquests, for more than a decade before being stopped. Look at their rhetoric. They claimed the mantle of 'science' in their conquests. Thank goodness the deception couldn't be maintained common sense was drummed into the mob eventually.
The mob they raised knew that they were using new powers and new technology. They thought of themselves as a vanguard. "All the rules have changed" was the slogan on everbody's lips. Remind you of anything going on today? We know now how perverted the message was then. How will the people in the future look back and see us?
Anybody who doesn't drink Steve Jobs' special koolaide is a 'platform bigot'? Oooh, the irony.
I always make sure I return my source discs to the rental place before they charge me the late fee.
Well, how about four P4s, instead of your G5? Dollars for dollars, etc. etc. You don't need all that expensive Apple window-dressing for a compute-intensive application. Bare motherboards on rack shelves rule.
Actually, the flashmob philosophy is about mob rule, and putting the power in the hands of anybody who can manipulate enough people. It's fine for some liberals to 'prove the concept' but the end result will be populist lynch mobs if the snowball continues to roll.
It doesn't have much to do with democracy. It might be pretty effective at smashing abortion clinics or destroying the office buildings of particularly litigious attorneys. Be careful of what you promote.
I have have Mozilla blocking all graphics from images.slashdot.org and use 'light' layout. It works great.
I just rightclick and block images from each site whenever a banner advert appears on the screen.
It only needs to be done a few times to block most of the garbage.
Yes, it means I don't get most of the icons and images here on slashdot, since I block images.slashdot.org. I know where there are 'live' blank spots to click when I need.
He's worse than Clinton, as it appears he's actually done a few things, i.e. his killing of civillians in Vietnam, in those short few months he was hotdogging around there in a boat.
An ineffective fat horndog like Clinton at least didn't do that much damage.