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I browsed to the site.
I randomly scrolled down.
There the name was. How uncanny.
The company was there and it brought it all back like it was yesterday (it was yesterday actually): The helicopters (games), the fighting, the blood and guts, our asshole commander in chief.
I don't know about you guys but I am really scared here. This sort of thing makes us have to ask ourselves fundemental questions about what is right and wrong. Hollywood actors (that aren't chicks getting naked) should not have personal websites. Do we really want our children accidently browsing to Arnold's sight?
Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans will help on this issue. If you made Spam illegal how else would they meet attractive barely-legal teens in nearby colleges who need to meet men?
...which is when they took me to the elevator with the granite doors. My Controller put his hand over the elevator access panel. A strange growl seemed to bellow up from the floor, and the doors creaked apart. This elevator was more suited for a gothic asylumn than a software company. We stepped inside the spacious elevator.
There were no buttons. The walls were inlaid with strange runes and glyphs. Once we'd entered the doors closed quickly behind, and we began our decent. The air seemed to quiver, and I felt a great uneasiness. My Controller's face was unmoved. He still wore his dark glasses despite the relatively dim lighting.
We came to slow halt, and the doors opened. What images then came into view are so horrific that the very thought of them puts me into a terrible panic.
A vast hall stretched forth lined with arches the likes my eyes had never seen. Arrayed in a great grid were hundreds of people strapped into black chairs which seemed to envelope their bodies. My God. It was them. All of those ex-Mac developers. So, here is where they'd all gone. Their bodies shaved and naked were bristling with wires and tubes anchoring them into some kind of demonic machine beneath the floor. I could feel the dark energies churning beneath my feet and imagined huge gears grinding in an alien orchestra devised for some purpose beyond comprehension.
Two Controllers approached from the far side of the hall. In their hands were strange surgical tools. But, these warped, metallic devices were for no humane medical operations, but for some preverted task of which I wanted no part. I tried to run, but my Controller grapped my arm with a cold grip of uncanny strength. Then I remembered what the crazy old man had told me in the town...
Why didn't the insurance company send somebody out to inspect the crops? Why wouldn't the insurance company require the farmers to at least photograph the crops and the damage?
Not too sure about that. Tux has been around for awhile. Webservers like Tux don't really do all that much in the kernel. Most of the complicated functionality such as auth, dynamic content, etc live in user space with Tux. All that is in the kernel is the file serving part and it works faster because the memory copying is reduced (since the memory is all in kspace) and the files served by webservers tend to be large.
Putting a database into the kernel is an entirely different proposition. Unlike with a webserver, the bottleneck with a database is not memory copying or even I/O. The bottleneck is with bandwith in the memory bus do to the large size of tables and with the high latency of the I/O bus to the drives. Plus, you wouldn't be able to process SQL queries and do index lookups any faster in the kernel than you would in user space. Databases already can talk to raw partitions and bypass the filesystems within the kernel. Generally the data is stored and retrieved from databases in small chunks, so the memory penalty of having the database in user space is really minor.
The only bennifit I can see for putting the database in the kernel is to assist in clustering of databases. Given the intensive peer-to-peer communications of a cluster and the need for low latency I/O, putting as much as you can closer to the hardware is always a plus.
The fact that unix is really just a chain of simple interfaces is the principle reason for Linux's existance. Linus knew what the POSIX API calls looked like and what they were supposed to do, but he had no implementation to work with. He tackled them one at a time, and was able to make progress because of the nearly linear progression of the interfaces. One builds upon another. Once he'd completed most of the system api, he was able to port GCC and then BASH. From there he was able to build the much of the early user space with little effort since that work was already accomplished in other unix environments.
The fact that unix's design is so module really is the reason it has been cloned so often. Windows and VMS on the other hand were designed reasonably ad hoc with massive sets of interfaces. Emulating the operating system is virtually impossible for these systems (my apologies to the wine folks who are braver than I).
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You are right that my rationale was misguided. However, QA's testing matrix just doubled with the addition of linux as a platform. And there really is no such thing as linux (i.e. RedHat 6.2, 7.0, 7.1, Debian, etc). So sympathies should still be extended to QA, just not for the reasons it stated.
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Red hat is in the black actually. They had a posative cash flow this year. In otherwords more cash came in than went out. The net loss is attributable to the ammortization of aquistions from prior years. Ammoritzations are not attributable to cash flows only to balance sheets and income statements. When one asks whether a company is in the red or the black, it is implicit that they are refering to cash flows and/or the operating budget (which like cash flows doesn't include ammortizations).
No naked ladies! When my government spends a few billion to put a giant telescope in orbit, I expect to see some nude shots. I get all kinds of action through my telescope.
Actually, I see lots of ads from Sun, Oracle, HP, etc. I would think that/. would be a fairly valuable asset. For one thing, the readership base is incredibly loyal. Think about how lame/. has gotten as of late, and how we still come here.
I didn't suggest that I lock myself up in a cave somewhere. I merely am trying to convey the idea that I, like many engineers, am an individualist and don't want to be classified and pigeonholed into a particular employement agreement that the "greater good" feel is appropriate. When ever possible, I'd rather fend for myself.
Actually, part of growing up requires personal responsibility and responsibility for others including my family. I have provided for them (not thanks to any union) and have both health and life insurance. I am quick to judge unions because nothing sickens me more than going into a job interview and being told, okay here is the standard deal. I don't want the standard deal. I want the deal that works best for me and my family and I don't trust an union to make that decision for me. "I don't need handouts, and I don't want any," is exactly how I was raised and is a fundemental part of my beliefs. The problem with the world today is people have lost that basic sense of pride that comes from taking personal responsibility in there lives. Personal responisibility for themselves and their lives. You might be perfectly happy letting a union negotiate your job for you. You probably also would enjoy for the union to take care of your retirement, educate your children, take care of your health needs, wash your car, and do your laundry. Hell, why not have the union do the work for you. Why bother working at all. You might need a union on your side when management has you against the wall. Personally, I have faith that my commitment, pride and discipline are better bargining chips than some charter.
As for my maturity and idealism, you are the one who's suggesting that the security of you and your family be left to a union. Perhaps I am guilty of being an idealist myself. However, I am also a realist, and I wouldn't trust my family's safe keeping with a union no sooner than I would trust social security for my retirement or the government for my health care.
The day I'm required to join a union to get a programming job is the day I stop programming. Programmers are individuals. We are proud of our individualism. I don't belong to any groups. I don't affiliate myself with anything. I am productive because I choose to be. I don't need handouts, and I don't want any. Live Free or Die. Keep America free or I'll find somewhere else to live.
Obviously their are restrictions that apply the use of GPL'd work (principly around persisting the licence to derivative works and making available changes). However, the GNU GPL is a non-exclusive license. Granting the University a non-exclusive implies that the University is not entitled to exclusive publishing rights over the material. Given that the GPL meets the requirements of the University, the GPL is a suitable license.
The minimum terms of such license shall grant the University the right to use the original work in its internally administered programs of teaching, research, and public service on a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive basis.
The GPL extends the right to anyone to use the original work for any purpose whatsoever on a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exlusive basis.
XML as in Extensible. Of course, I doubt the X-box is extensible.
X-Windows, standing for Cross Windows. Symbolizing cross compatibility and remote access. Of course, I doubt Microsoft had any of these ideas in mind when they came up with the X-box.
xinitd as in extended initd. A new version is often symbolized with x (such as PCI-X). Microsoft isn't releasing anything extended here.
Actually, the reason Microsoft is calling it the X-box, is because the box leverages the Direct-X API's developed on the windows PC operating systems. Direct-X gets its X because it is a hardware emulation layer and the name implies Direct-[any video/sound chipset].
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I browsed to the site.
I randomly scrolled down.
There the name was. How uncanny.
The company was there and it brought it all back like it was yesterday (it was yesterday actually): The helicopters (games), the fighting, the blood and guts, our asshole commander in chief.
Kind of like when Jurrasic Park was released, they revived Tony Bennit's career (brought a dinasour back to life).
I don't know about you guys but I am really scared here. This sort of thing makes us have to ask ourselves fundemental questions about what is right and wrong. Hollywood actors (that aren't chicks getting naked) should not have personal websites. Do we really want our children accidently browsing to Arnold's sight?
Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans will help on this issue. If you made Spam illegal how else would they meet attractive barely-legal teens in nearby colleges who need to meet men?
You mean gephardt@mail.house.gov.
Spam search engines, please take these two email addresses and imortalize them in your hallowed database of infamy --> gephardt@mail.house.gov gephardt@mail.house.gov
senator_wyden@exchange.senate.gov
gephardt@mail.house.gov
The've got huge teeth!
They can leap!
Look at the bones!
There were no buttons. The walls were inlaid with strange runes and glyphs. Once we'd entered the doors closed quickly behind, and we began our decent. The air seemed to quiver, and I felt a great uneasiness. My Controller's face was unmoved. He still wore his dark glasses despite the relatively dim lighting.
We came to slow halt, and the doors opened. What images then came into view are so horrific that the very thought of them puts me into a terrible panic.
A vast hall stretched forth lined with arches the likes my eyes had never seen. Arrayed in a great grid were hundreds of people strapped into black chairs which seemed to envelope their bodies. My God. It was them. All of those ex-Mac developers. So, here is where they'd all gone. Their bodies shaved and naked were bristling with wires and tubes anchoring them into some kind of demonic machine beneath the floor. I could feel the dark energies churning beneath my feet and imagined huge gears grinding in an alien orchestra devised for some purpose beyond comprehension.
Two Controllers approached from the far side of the hall. In their hands were strange surgical tools. But, these warped, metallic devices were for no humane medical operations, but for some preverted task of which I wanted no part. I tried to run, but my Controller grapped my arm with a cold grip of uncanny strength. Then I remembered what the crazy old man had told me in the town...
While you can't buy equity you can invest in USGS. The US government issues 2yr, 5yr, 10yr Treasurey notes.
Why didn't the insurance company send somebody out to inspect the crops? Why wouldn't the insurance company require the farmers to at least photograph the crops and the damage?
Putting a database into the kernel is an entirely different proposition. Unlike with a webserver, the bottleneck with a database is not memory copying or even I/O. The bottleneck is with bandwith in the memory bus do to the large size of tables and with the high latency of the I/O bus to the drives. Plus, you wouldn't be able to process SQL queries and do index lookups any faster in the kernel than you would in user space. Databases already can talk to raw partitions and bypass the filesystems within the kernel. Generally the data is stored and retrieved from databases in small chunks, so the memory penalty of having the database in user space is really minor.
The only bennifit I can see for putting the database in the kernel is to assist in clustering of databases. Given the intensive peer-to-peer communications of a cluster and the need for low latency I/O, putting as much as you can closer to the hardware is always a plus.
The fact that unix's design is so module really is the reason it has been cloned so often. Windows and VMS on the other hand were designed reasonably ad hoc with massive sets of interfaces. Emulating the operating system is virtually impossible for these systems (my apologies to the wine folks who are braver than I).
magic?
You are right that my rationale was misguided. However, QA's testing matrix just doubled with the addition of linux as a platform. And there really is no such thing as linux (i.e. RedHat 6.2, 7.0, 7.1, Debian, etc). So sympathies should still be extended to QA, just not for the reasons it stated.
Red hat is in the black actually. They had a posative cash flow this year. In otherwords more cash came in than went out. The net loss is attributable to the ammortization of aquistions from prior years. Ammoritzations are not attributable to cash flows only to balance sheets and income statements. When one asks whether a company is in the red or the black, it is implicit that they are refering to cash flows and/or the operating budget (which like cash flows doesn't include ammortizations).
No naked ladies! When my government spends a few billion to put a giant telescope in orbit, I expect to see some nude shots. I get all kinds of action through my telescope.
Actually, I see lots of ads from Sun, Oracle, HP, etc. I would think that /. would be a fairly valuable asset. For one thing, the readership base is incredibly loyal. Think about how lame /. has gotten as of late, and how we still come here.
Ack. Sun threads are very different from posix threads. The expected behavior is fundementally different. I'm sure any port would toss dozens of bugs.
They thought of that. The material contains a layer of fabric woven from metal filaments to provide lightning protection.
Actually, part of growing up requires personal responsibility and responsibility for others including my family. I have provided for them (not thanks to any union) and have both health and life insurance. I am quick to judge unions because nothing sickens me more than going into a job interview and being told, okay here is the standard deal. I don't want the standard deal. I want the deal that works best for me and my family and I don't trust an union to make that decision for me. "I don't need handouts, and I don't want any," is exactly how I was raised and is a fundemental part of my beliefs. The problem with the world today is people have lost that basic sense of pride that comes from taking personal responsibility in there lives. Personal responisibility for themselves and their lives. You might be perfectly happy letting a union negotiate your job for you. You probably also would enjoy for the union to take care of your retirement, educate your children, take care of your health needs, wash your car, and do your laundry. Hell, why not have the union do the work for you. Why bother working at all. You might need a union on your side when management has you against the wall. Personally, I have faith that my commitment, pride and discipline are better bargining chips than some charter.
As for my maturity and idealism, you are the one who's suggesting that the security of you and your family be left to a union. Perhaps I am guilty of being an idealist myself. However, I am also a realist, and I wouldn't trust my family's safe keeping with a union no sooner than I would trust social security for my retirement or the government for my health care.
The day I'm required to join a union to get a programming job is the day I stop programming. Programmers are individuals. We are proud of our individualism. I don't belong to any groups. I don't affiliate myself with anything. I am productive because I choose to be. I don't need handouts, and I don't want any. Live Free or Die. Keep America free or I'll find somewhere else to live.
Obviously their are restrictions that apply the use of GPL'd work (principly around persisting the licence to derivative works and making available changes). However, the GNU GPL is a non-exclusive license. Granting the University a non-exclusive implies that the University is not entitled to exclusive publishing rights over the material. Given that the GPL meets the requirements of the University, the GPL is a suitable license.
The GPL extends the right to anyone to use the original work for any purpose whatsoever on a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exlusive basis.
XML as in Extensible. Of course, I doubt the X-box is extensible.
X-Windows, standing for Cross Windows. Symbolizing cross compatibility and remote access. Of course, I doubt Microsoft had any of these ideas in mind when they came up with the X-box.
xinitd as in extended initd. A new version is often symbolized with x (such as PCI-X). Microsoft isn't releasing anything extended here.
Actually, the reason Microsoft is calling it the X-box, is because the box leverages the Direct-X API's developed on the windows PC operating systems. Direct-X gets its X because it is a hardware emulation layer and the name implies Direct-[any video/sound chipset].