Err, couldn't they centralize their 4000 small server in one place? Or at least in the same places they put their big boxes? 4000 is not that many servers considering you can have usually at least 20 per rack and then you have 20 racks.
The problem is that this device causes all sorts of problems for vehicles like,
1. increased rolling resistance (car drivers pay for the power generated)
2. motorcycles anyone?
3. increased tire wear
Humans are a better idea because all it does is cause slightly more exercise. For roads, I do not think this is such a good idea. Parking lots maybe, or drive thrus but not normal roads.
You are so against NASA waisting lives? Then why not look to the Army (ie. all the armies of the world, wasting lives for profit mostly)?
And it is asinine to suggest that "customers of your spaceship flight can sue if they die"!!! You clearly DO NOT understand the motives of what NASA stands behind and what it is for. You do not understand what science and pushing frontiers means.
Finally, it is not important that some moron kills astronauts. What is important is that some moron can hold the entire human race back a number of years. A much more serious problem if you ask any astronaut or scientist. The intent is important. Incompetence can be mitigated.
Man, I hope this shows up. ATI Drivers for my x700 mobility in my laptop are one of the final problems I have with Linux.
Err... shouldn't that be,
"ATI Drivers for my x700 mobility in my laptop are one of the final problems I have with ATI graphics hardware". It is not Linux that is preventing you from using your display to maximum potential.
>if that's your issue, then create a daemon that renices the priorities of pre-set programs to >some given level - better yet tweak the module that starts programs to nice them as they start. Works >better than blocking the background tasks by bumping everything that's happening under a users uid, while >still providing the lower latency issue.
Here is what they average computer user will think of your solution:
1) What's a daemon? 2) What does "renices" mean? 3) What are priorities? 4) What is a pre-set program? 5) What is a module? 6) What does it mean to block a task? 7) What is a background task? 8) What is a UID? 9) What is latency?
How is it any different from Window's solutions? Windows has,
1) Daemons called "services" 2) Renice is in Task Manager 3) Priorities are there too, but really fscked up compared to UNIX ones (ie. multi-tiered for processes and threads, ugly) 4) Windows does not have "pre-set programs?" 5) Modules in Windows - it is ALL modules called "drivers" 6) Windows can stop tasks. 7) background tasks - please. Windows has those! 8) UID in Windows is SID or something like that that is an ugly, ugly thing. 9) Latency. That's hardware. Windows has that too.
So, you are questioning an average user response to UNIX solution while the average Windows solution involves pretty much the same stuff.
Linux "failed" on the desktop not because it lacks features or whatever. It "failed" because Windows was there first. That's it. Nothing more. Nothing less. If Linux + X.org + GNU was around in 1990 in current form, Windows would currently be a footnote and people would write the same thing why Windows failed on the desktop.
PS. The "solution" was NOT for the average user. It was for the developer of the OS. ie. how to use priority levels to automatically prioritize tasks. Windows does that, but I find Window's desktop latency a lot worse than that of Linux+X.Org.
Never dropped calls. Once I could not terminate via VoIP because of problem on their end - fixed in 30 minutes. But never dropped calls. I only use SIP via Asterisk. Never used IAX2.
I use Linux 2.6.18 with SIP iptables module to forward all traffic to internal Asterisk gateway. I'll have to upgrade to Asterisk 1.4.x sometime soon so I can finally take advantage of the SIP jitter buffer. (Jitter is not really a big problem for myself)
Iraq - Saddam Hussein was a megalomaniac that needed to look powerful. That is why he refused inspection. For looks, not because he had anything. Anyway, case closed but Iraq was never really a threat after 1990 war.
North Korea - similar to Hussein's except on more national level. They are not that dangerous because they are not looking to start war. North Korea leadership needs to feel important on the world scale and hence its insistence to deal with US in bilateral way. They view themselves as equal to US. They consider Japan not only on US side, but a puppet of US hence they do not want to talk with them. They believe China is their buddy, but after the last nuclear test attempts and stern talking from China, they are now more co-operative (maybe looking at example of Libya?)
Iran - not like either of the above. Iran is guided by their religion and their own interpretation of it. This makes them very dangerous (unpredictable) because their own self interest is not their primary motivator. The leadership's primary motivator is not their self-preservation or prestige, but prestige in the name of their religion. Like Taliban, the current leaders do not view their destruction as their demise. They will most likely not attack others, but attempt to instigate an attack on them. This will allow Iran to view any aggression against Israel/US (and local allies) as justified not by international standards, but by their scripture's standards.
Iran was *always* the most dangerous of the three. Iran must not be attacked - that is what Iran's leadership wants and is aiming for. Attacking Iran will result in a major regional war and Israel will be one of its casualties.
Anyway, this is my simple, brief assessment of the "Axis of Evil".
PS. Do not forget Libya - they complied and sanctions are getting lifted. War is not the answer. Only in Afghanistan was it justified because that country did not have a functioning government anytime after the Soviets withdrew and definitely not when Kabul was taken by Taliban in late 90s.
Paying more to call a cell? WTF? That is why some people in Europe call their US buddies and ask them to call back. The US buddies thinks it is 0.03 per minute to call with their VoIP phone but then guess what? Because you are calling a mystical cell phone, the caller get clobbered with 0.25+ per minute.
Sorry, but this is really fscked up. The caller should only pay a fixed, small amount to the receiver to place a call. This is how it works in US or Canada. If the receiver makes a *choice* to have a cell or an encrypted satellite phone, then they should pay for that choice, not the caller.
So what about telemarketers? That's what the law is for. Seems to work OK so far.
Why not go with a real VoIP provider? A SIP provider like les.net? I've been using that service for a long time now. Termination (ability to call PSTN) is separate from DID (PSTN calls you), so you do not even have to worry about monthly charges if you have a local phone number because of DSL or something. Yes, some places do not allow you to have an unbundled service.:(
Of course, Packet8 or other, less technical solutions are available.
Good luck with that! Debian unstable/testing will probably be in shambles [1] at that time so Ubuntu will really have to work hard to get a release version ready.
def: shambles - lots of changes in libraries and possibly partial upgrades. Distribution in heavy update mode. Some archs not up to date. etc.
Maybe Ubuntu LTS changed to follow more closely with Debian. Feisty+2 seems like a deadline for Etch+1. But since Debian is Debian, Debian will miss it by a few months (and that is usually good - the extra months are there to weed out the RC bugs that otherwise would make it to stable).
That is NOT the problem of the scheduler. It is a problem of the X server. The X server should kill the offending process or stop accepting requests from it.
The scheduler just schedules CPU time per process/thread based on CPU need (if applicable). It is not there to police if one process is abusing the API of another process.
The laser pointers probably do not use a lot of power. Even big, clumsy stuff like http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/gro und/an-peq1.htm But not every soldier carries this type of equipment with them. These days, the army doesn't even use laser markers that much anymore so this is a bad example (most is GPS stuff, right?)
Radios do not use a lot of power either, unless the Army uses WWII stuff. Even satellite stuff doesn't use a lot of power.
Night vision goggles do not use a lot of power either. I'm not an expert on these, but looking at specs of one like, http://www.nightvisionbinoculars.com/rigel2300.htm l The power source is 3V CR123A lithium battery.
I know you can run these things off of a AAA batteries.
A Wii has more power consumption than any of the above devices (except, maybe the first one). The "little Wii" has more computing power in it than probably any of the military stuff the Army carries around short of cruise missiles, but I doubt a cruise missile has more computing power than a PPro anyway. No offense or anything though..
And if you are using tabs, you are fscked. You have no idea where the tabs are. Where the spaces are.
Trust me, over the last dozen years, it is much easier to deal with just simple spaces. Tabs are bad especially since every other editor seems to silently convert them to spaces (and sometimes vice-versa!).
Aside: Slashdot is broken. It inserts two (2) spaces for every one of my spaces in the area. See, stuff can't even handle spaces!
That is why I would *never* buy RIMM stock. Well, maybe it is worth getting some long term puts on the stock. But I would not bet on puts for AAPL even though they are at 40 P/E. The current sales of iPhones, if continue, will bring in a lot of cash for Apple.
"telecom analysts estimated 500,000 to 700,000 devices totaling $250 million were sold by Sunday after three days of sales, USA Today reported."
So, their stock is up today. I don't know. Maybe they will go up and up for a while. If you want to bet that apple will go up because iPhone will be a huge success, then buy some options. They should have their profits out by 2008, so buying some calls (buys) at $25 per $110 share should be a bargain. If stock continues like it has in the last 6 months, it'll be closer to $200 than $100 by January.
But this depends if the demand continues or dries up.
Sir, you are the second greatest moron I've read about on Slashdot.
WTF do you think happens to shit put in the ocean? It DILUTES! It DILUTES so freaking great that now Tuna is full of Mercury and orcas (killer whales) are going nuts because of the DILUTED pollutants.
The "dilution factor" works only if you have insignificant amount of pollution. Not cubic miles of shit dumped all over the place.
Thank you, but your kind of thinking is why there is 10 TIMES as much plastic in the ocean than algae and phytoplankton.
Most intel for both sides was never through some secret agents, but through turncoats.
The ones you talk about don't really exist and/or were not very useful. Turncoats contacted CIA/KGB officials (usually embassies or similar) and provided requested info or misc. info they thought was important. Sometimes "turncoats" were officers from the other side, trying to mislead. Or traps trying to get your agents deported/exchanged.
No one sneaked in because they were official personnel of UN or embassies or press or whatever.
For Qtopia, it is somewhat less but I can't find any info on TT's site about the actual pricing. It is about $200 for the SDK. I *think* I saw that it was about $20-$30 per device some time ago. Much cheaper than Windows.
Of course, you could just hack X+Gnome and be 100% "free" (not really for free, costs money to hack the thing for a phone). But I guess some other WM would be better than having Gnome there.
As for Apple Stock, it actually fell 0.6% today to $121. Their P/E ratio is about 38 which means even if they have a 30% jump in profit, that means their P/E ratio will drop to about 29. That is still relatively high. Companies like Microsoft and IBM have their P/E ratios at about 21 and 16 respectfully. Currently there seems to be a 15% anticipated increase in profits for next year over current year. If that does not materialize, Apple stock will drop.
Apple may be a better company to invest in today than MSFT though. I'm not sure if the price is warranted though (they'll need to double their earnings to be at the same price as MSFT is right now)
They are owned by the shareholders who happen to be the customers. So, everything is for the benefit of the customers and not some outsiders. No problems with embezzlement, either.
Huh? No problem with embezzlement? I can think of a million ways how there could be a problem with embezzlement, just like with with any other business/charity. After all, someone is running the accounts of the charity, correct? Why is stopping them from moving the fund used to pay damages to some other account, withdrawing the funds and disappearing?
Sorry. Criminals always find a way to steal money. It doesn't matter if it is a for-profit, non-for-profit or a private property.
What does this mean? Should the gov't provide securities brokerage, or financial instruments like loans or annuities?
The government *does* provide those things. What do you think they're talking about when they say the national interest rate has been raised or lowered? That's the rate at which the government loans money to banks, who then pass it along to individuals, at a profit.
I don't think you have an idea how it works. the Bank of Blah (Blah => pick a nation) sets the interests for overnight lending rates. The long term rates are not set by this. They do seem to be guided by it and by the state of the economy. The long term bonds are market driven. Sure, the government can sell bonds at ANY rate it feels like it, but if they do not sell at a high enough yield, guess what? No one would buy them. Thus, they DO NOT set the rates for long term bonds - the market does (gov't wants to sell them at lowest rates, just like any corp. out there selling bonds).
I think Banks are much safer than credit unions just because of their size. Sure, if you have a tiny bank vs. tiny credit union, the bank is not that much ahead in term of risk. But there were cases where credit unions almost went under due to some bad loans. Big Banks don't go under that easily (at least Canadian Big 5).
Sorry, but non-for-profits don't make sense in the money area, aside for things like savings account or similar. How can a non-for-profit deliver good Mutual Funds, for example? They don't have an incentive to do so. Banks provide a lot more services than credit unions will ever do.
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Err, couldn't they centralize their 4000 small server in one place? Or at least in the same places they put their big boxes? 4000 is not that many servers considering you can have usually at least 20 per rack and then you have 20 racks.
You mean like this?
6 756694
http://www.google.com/patents?id=t6QRAAAAEBAJ&dq=
The problem is that this device causes all sorts of problems for vehicles like,
1. increased rolling resistance (car drivers pay for the power generated)
2. motorcycles anyone?
3. increased tire wear
Humans are a better idea because all it does is cause slightly more exercise. For roads, I do not think this is such a good idea. Parking lots maybe, or drive thrus but not normal roads.
Nice troll.
You are so against NASA waisting lives? Then why not look to the Army (ie. all the armies of the world, wasting lives for profit mostly)?
And it is asinine to suggest that "customers of your spaceship flight can sue if they die"!!! You clearly DO NOT understand the motives of what NASA stands behind and what it is for. You do not understand what science and pushing frontiers means.
Finally, it is not important that some moron kills astronauts. What is important is that some moron can hold the entire human race back a number of years. A much more serious problem if you ask any astronaut or scientist. The intent is important. Incompetence can be mitigated.
Err... shouldn't that be,
"ATI Drivers for my x700 mobility in my laptop are one of the final problems I have with ATI graphics hardware". It is not Linux that is preventing you from using your display to maximum potential.
How is it any different from Window's solutions? Windows has,
1) Daemons called "services"
2) Renice is in Task Manager
3) Priorities are there too, but really fscked up compared to UNIX ones (ie. multi-tiered for processes and threads, ugly)
4) Windows does not have "pre-set programs?"
5) Modules in Windows - it is ALL modules called "drivers"
6) Windows can stop tasks.
7) background tasks - please. Windows has those!
8) UID in Windows is SID or something like that that is an ugly, ugly thing.
9) Latency. That's hardware. Windows has that too.
So, you are questioning an average user response to UNIX solution while the average Windows solution involves pretty much the same stuff.
Linux "failed" on the desktop not because it lacks features or whatever. It "failed" because Windows was there first. That's it. Nothing more. Nothing less. If Linux + X.org + GNU was around in 1990 in current form, Windows would currently be a footnote and people would write the same thing why Windows failed on the desktop.
PS. The "solution" was NOT for the average user. It was for the developer of the OS. ie. how to use priority levels to automatically prioritize tasks. Windows does that, but I find Window's desktop latency a lot worse than that of Linux+X.Org.
Never dropped calls. Once I could not terminate via VoIP because of problem on their end - fixed in 30 minutes. But never dropped calls. I only use SIP via Asterisk. Never used IAX2.
I use Linux 2.6.18 with SIP iptables module to forward all traffic to internal Asterisk gateway. I'll have to upgrade to Asterisk 1.4.x sometime soon so I can finally take advantage of the SIP jitter buffer. (Jitter is not really a big problem for myself)
The Axis of evil is as follows:
Iraq - Saddam Hussein was a megalomaniac that needed to look powerful. That is why he refused inspection. For looks, not because he had anything. Anyway, case closed but Iraq was never really a threat after 1990 war.
North Korea - similar to Hussein's except on more national level. They are not that dangerous because they are not looking to start war. North Korea leadership needs to feel important on the world scale and hence its insistence to deal with US in bilateral way. They view themselves as equal to US. They consider Japan not only on US side, but a puppet of US hence they do not want to talk with them. They believe China is their buddy, but after the last nuclear test attempts and stern talking from China, they are now more co-operative (maybe looking at example of Libya?)
Iran - not like either of the above. Iran is guided by their religion and their own interpretation of it. This makes them very dangerous (unpredictable) because their own self interest is not their primary motivator. The leadership's primary motivator is not their self-preservation or prestige, but prestige in the name of their religion. Like Taliban, the current leaders do not view their destruction as their demise. They will most likely not attack others, but attempt to instigate an attack on them. This will allow Iran to view any aggression against Israel/US (and local allies) as justified not by international standards, but by their scripture's standards.
Iran was *always* the most dangerous of the three. Iran must not be attacked - that is what Iran's leadership wants and is aiming for. Attacking Iran will result in a major regional war and Israel will be one of its casualties.
Anyway, this is my simple, brief assessment of the "Axis of Evil".
PS. Do not forget Libya - they complied and sanctions are getting lifted. War is not the answer. Only in Afghanistan was it justified because that country did not have a functioning government anytime after the Soviets withdrew and definitely not when Kabul was taken by Taliban in late 90s.
Paying more to call a cell? WTF? That is why some people in Europe call their US buddies and ask them to call back. The US buddies thinks it is 0.03 per minute to call with their VoIP phone but then guess what? Because you are calling a mystical cell phone, the caller get clobbered with 0.25+ per minute.
Sorry, but this is really fscked up. The caller should only pay a fixed, small amount to the receiver to place a call. This is how it works in US or Canada. If the receiver makes a *choice* to have a cell or an encrypted satellite phone, then they should pay for that choice, not the caller.
So what about telemarketers? That's what the law is for. Seems to work OK so far.
Why not go with a real VoIP provider? A SIP provider like les.net? I've been using that service for a long time now. Termination (ability to call PSTN) is separate from DID (PSTN calls you), so you do not even have to worry about monthly charges if you have a local phone number because of DSL or something. Yes, some places do not allow you to have an unbundled service. :(
Of course, Packet8 or other, less technical solutions are available.
Mars is 6 months away. It is NOT that far. People spend more time on ISS (International Space Station).
But why is the Surgeon General talking about global warming?
Because he seems to understand science better than the other parties involved? ie. the other non-expert in the topic?
he probably just meant,
while(1)
fork();
Good luck with that! Debian unstable/testing will probably be in shambles [1] at that time so Ubuntu will really have to work hard to get a release version ready.
def: shambles - lots of changes in libraries and possibly partial upgrades. Distribution in heavy update mode. Some archs not up to date. etc.
Maybe Ubuntu LTS changed to follow more closely with Debian. Feisty+2 seems like a deadline for Etch+1. But since Debian is Debian, Debian will miss it by a few months (and that is usually good - the extra months are there to weed out the RC bugs that otherwise would make it to stable).
That is NOT the problem of the scheduler. It is a problem of the X server. The X server should kill the offending process or stop accepting requests from it.
The scheduler just schedules CPU time per process/thread based on CPU need (if applicable). It is not there to police if one process is abusing the API of another process.
No, they don't.
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The laser pointers probably do not use a lot of power. Even big, clumsy stuff like
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/gr
But not every soldier carries this type of equipment with them. These days, the army doesn't even use laser markers that much anymore so this is a bad example (most is GPS stuff, right?)
Radios do not use a lot of power either, unless the Army uses WWII stuff. Even satellite stuff doesn't use a lot of power.
Night vision goggles do not use a lot of power either. I'm not an expert on these, but looking at specs of one like,
http://www.nightvisionbinoculars.com/rigel2300.ht
The power source is 3V CR123A lithium battery.
And the battery is,
http://www.batterystation.com/cr123a.htm
1300mAh
I know you can run these things off of a AAA batteries.
A Wii has more power consumption than any of the above devices (except, maybe the first one). The "little Wii" has more computing power in it than probably any of the military stuff the Army carries around short of cruise missiles, but I doubt a cruise missile has more computing power than a PPro anyway. No offense or anything though..
Then you have code like,
test_function( one_var,
two_var,
bool_val ? three_var*2 : three_var/2,
outputFunction());
And if you are using tabs, you are fscked. You have no idea where the tabs are. Where the spaces are.
Trust me, over the last dozen years, it is much easier to deal with just simple spaces. Tabs are bad especially since every other editor seems to silently convert them to spaces (and sometimes vice-versa!).
Aside: Slashdot is broken. It inserts two (2) spaces for every one of my spaces in the area. See, stuff can't even handle spaces!
SQL queries can be put on more than one line, you know. You can even put comments in the query.
This is straight out of Fahrenheit 451. The entire reason they burnt books.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451
Summary of the summary of the summary. One line news. One line shows. Single word summaries. Burn the books!
We see it all the time. From presidential election to reasons for war. Sound bites. No substance.
That is why I would *never* buy RIMM stock. Well, maybe it is worth getting some long term puts on the stock. But I would not bet on puts for AAPL even though they are at 40 P/E. The current sales of iPhones, if continue, will bring in a lot of cash for Apple.
"telecom analysts estimated 500,000 to 700,000 devices totaling $250 million were sold by Sunday after three days of sales, USA Today reported."
So, their stock is up today. I don't know. Maybe they will go up and up for a while. If you want to bet that apple will go up because iPhone will be a huge success, then buy some options. They should have their profits out by 2008, so buying some calls (buys) at $25 per $110 share should be a bargain. If stock continues like it has in the last 6 months, it'll be closer to $200 than $100 by January.
But this depends if the demand continues or dries up.
Sir, you are the second greatest moron I've read about on Slashdot.
WTF do you think happens to shit put in the ocean? It DILUTES! It DILUTES so freaking great that now Tuna is full of Mercury and orcas (killer whales) are going nuts because of the DILUTED pollutants.
The "dilution factor" works only if you have insignificant amount of pollution. Not cubic miles of shit dumped all over the place.
Thank you, but your kind of thinking is why there is 10 TIMES as much plastic in the ocean than algae and phytoplankton.
Most intel for both sides was never through some secret agents, but through turncoats.
The ones you talk about don't really exist and/or were not very useful. Turncoats contacted CIA/KGB officials (usually embassies or similar) and provided requested info or misc. info they thought was important. Sometimes "turncoats" were officers from the other side, trying to mislead. Or traps trying to get your agents deported/exchanged.
No one sneaked in because they were official personnel of UN or embassies or press or whatever.
Deep cover only really works in the movies.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/embedded/aa714410 .aspx
Says about $90/device for Windows XP Embedded.
For Qtopia, it is somewhat less but I can't find any info on TT's site about the actual pricing. It is about $200 for the SDK. I *think* I saw that it was about $20-$30 per device some time ago. Much cheaper than Windows.
Of course, you could just hack X+Gnome and be 100% "free" (not really for free, costs money to hack the thing for a phone). But I guess some other WM would be better than having Gnome there.
As for Apple Stock, it actually fell 0.6% today to $121. Their P/E ratio is about 38 which means even if they have a 30% jump in profit, that means their P/E ratio will drop to about 29. That is still relatively high. Companies like Microsoft and IBM have their P/E ratios at about 21 and 16 respectfully. Currently there seems to be a 15% anticipated increase in profits for next year over current year. If that does not materialize, Apple stock will drop.
Apple may be a better company to invest in today than MSFT though. I'm not sure if the price is warranted though (they'll need to double their earnings to be at the same price as MSFT is right now)
Huh? No problem with embezzlement? I can think of a million ways how there could be a problem with embezzlement, just like with with any other business/charity. After all, someone is running the accounts of the charity, correct? Why is stopping them from moving the fund used to pay damages to some other account, withdrawing the funds and disappearing?
Sorry. Criminals always find a way to steal money. It doesn't matter if it is a for-profit, non-for-profit or a private property.
I don't think you have an idea how it works. the Bank of Blah (Blah => pick a nation) sets the interests for overnight lending rates. The long term rates are not set by this. They do seem to be guided by it and by the state of the economy. The long term bonds are market driven. Sure, the government can sell bonds at ANY rate it feels like it, but if they do not sell at a high enough yield, guess what? No one would buy them. Thus, they DO NOT set the rates for long term bonds - the market does (gov't wants to sell them at lowest rates, just like any corp. out there selling bonds).
I think Banks are much safer than credit unions just because of their size. Sure, if you have a tiny bank vs. tiny credit union, the bank is not that much ahead in term of risk. But there were cases where credit unions almost went under due to some bad loans. Big Banks don't go under that easily (at least Canadian Big 5).
Sorry, but non-for-profits don't make sense in the money area, aside for things like savings account or similar. How can a non-for-profit deliver good Mutual Funds, for example? They don't have an incentive to do so. Banks provide a lot more services than credit unions will ever do.