I'd be very interested in knowing how much it would be to render something like a Pixar all-CGI movie on their grid.
For all those who keep asking about cost-effectiveness... don't forget that when you rent from a utility grid, you don't have to worry about obsolescence - it's someone else's problems. You're not throwing out a bunch of P3s because P4s are available and better price/performance when the second project comes along. Renting CPU time is an operating expense. Running your own compute grid is both an operating and a capital expense.
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From a programmer's perspective, the IBM version of the TPM (or TCPA chip) looks like Figure 1. Garrick, please crop the caption out of the figure itself.
It looks like the article picked a few lines out where Linus said that many of the software patents that have been issued shouldn't have, and added a lot of filler to make it look like he's saying that software patents are inherently bad.
I don't see anything in what he said that says that software patents shouldn't ever be issued, only that in a lot of cases, they were issued in violation of the USPTO's own rules.
"Joins the attack" is a bit overzealous, to say the least.
msnbot has been quite aggressive in the past month crawling my sites more often than googlebot or Slurp (Inktomi/Yahoo)
I don't think "they haven't been doing it as long" counts for much when you're talking about a company with tens of billions in its warchest and a targeted mission to topple competitors.
In this sense, yes, the ID card and privacy may very well be contradictory. But you could theoretically have an ID card which was anonymous, but presented to you as some sort of credential.
Think of it as a standard door lock. The lock provides security, they key provides access, with the assumption that anyone presented with a key should have access. Unlike a scheme which requires biometric or identifiable authentication - non-anonymous keycard/biometrics/doorman - a metal key, in a sense, protects your privacy.
If you were given an ID card which identified you based upon some other kind of characteristic, such as having completed some form of task, separate from your name, age, DNA, etc... you could have an ID card which protected your anonymity. I guess it's all about how you think of ID as identifying you.
If you don't think of the passbook of a Swiss numbered bank account as being a form of ID, then I'm sure you'll disagree with me.
RedHat and SuSE both have software and hardware vendor support. You might find that companies with an existing relationship with Novell (or even a nostalgic one) will tend towards SuSE, but like in the days decades ago when "Nobody got fired for buying IBM", you'd probably have your best defense against a pink slip with RedHat.
It didn't mention anything in the review - will it support RAID on multiple drives off a single port multiplier? Where are these port multipliers likely to be found, affixed to the case's drive cage?
Seems a bit nuts to go all Doomsday about this when kids use their thumbs 6 hours a day playing console video games... and when their thumbs hurt, they stop. You don't see GenXers walking around with crippled thumbs, do you?
I dunno, the logo looks like the guy's hiding under his Fedora, and only whispers things while sharing a bench in the park with a guy he knows only as Yellowjacket.
I'm sure that even with a lobbying office in DC, that Redmond will launch a shock-and-awe campaign that will make the RedHat guys run home screaming to mommy when their overcome by a republican guard of WMDs (Windows Misinformation Drones).
On the shelves at CompUSA, there seem to be a plethora of ATI cards with 9200s in them. Is the total volume shipped as relevant if ATI's bottom-feeding?
Since everyone's up for getting all pissed about the potential abuse of licensing... I'm sure that some of the Sun code which will be opened has some relation to SCO.
If the industry comes up with a framework which will significantly reduce errors, and they *don't* use it, then will they be opening themselves up for significant liability which either increases malpractice insurance premiums or subjects to jusdgements that their insurance won't cover.
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Will megabucks per second be a measure of aggregate CPU power that might be used to manipulate libraries of congress?
I'd be very interested in knowing how much it would be to render something like a Pixar all-CGI movie on their grid.
For all those who keep asking about cost-effectiveness... don't forget that when you rent from a utility grid, you don't have to worry about obsolescence - it's someone else's problems. You're not throwing out a bunch of P3s because P4s are available and better price/performance when the second project comes along. Renting CPU time is an operating expense. Running your own compute grid is both an operating and a capital expense.
From a programmer's perspective, the IBM version of the TPM (or TCPA chip) looks like Figure 1. Garrick, please crop the caption out of the figure itself.
Garrick? Garrick? McFly? McFlyyyyyyyyyy?
Hmm.....now I know why my kernel patch submission to him was rejected!
Why's that? He doesn't reject them from people who hear voices.
It looks like the article picked a few lines out where Linus said that many of the software patents that have been issued shouldn't have, and added a lot of filler to make it look like he's saying that software patents are inherently bad.
I don't see anything in what he said that says that software patents shouldn't ever be issued, only that in a lot of cases, they were issued in violation of the USPTO's own rules.
"Joins the attack" is a bit overzealous, to say the least.
msnbot has been quite aggressive in the past month crawling my sites more often than googlebot or Slurp (Inktomi/Yahoo)
I don't think "they haven't been doing it as long" counts for much when you're talking about a company with tens of billions in its warchest and a targeted mission to topple competitors.
If you install Kazaa while running MS Antispyware, do you still get the adware installed?
In this sense, yes, the ID card and privacy may very well be contradictory. But you could theoretically have an ID card which was anonymous, but presented to you as some sort of credential.
Think of it as a standard door lock. The lock provides security, they key provides access, with the assumption that anyone presented with a key should have access. Unlike a scheme which requires biometric or identifiable authentication - non-anonymous keycard/biometrics/doorman - a metal key, in a sense, protects your privacy.
If you were given an ID card which identified you based upon some other kind of characteristic, such as having completed some form of task, separate from your name, age, DNA, etc... you could have an ID card which protected your anonymity. I guess it's all about how you think of ID as identifying you.
If you don't think of the passbook of a Swiss numbered bank account as being a form of ID, then I'm sure you'll disagree with me.
Just blocking China and Korean IP space from connecting to port 25 does wonders for reducing spam. See: http://www.okean.com/iptables/rc.firewall.sinokore a
That would be QA, not Q&A.
QA - Quality Assurance
Q&A - Questions and Answers
It looks like airrage needs to do some more QA on his posts.
RedHat and SuSE both have software and hardware vendor support. You might find that companies with an existing relationship with Novell (or even a nostalgic one) will tend towards SuSE, but like in the days decades ago when "Nobody got fired for buying IBM", you'd probably have your best defense against a pink slip with RedHat.
It didn't mention anything in the review - will it support RAID on multiple drives off a single port multiplier? Where are these port multipliers likely to be found, affixed to the case's drive cage?
Seems a bit nuts to go all Doomsday about this when kids use their thumbs 6 hours a day playing console video games... and when their thumbs hurt, they stop. You don't see GenXers walking around with crippled thumbs, do you?
I dunno, the logo looks like the guy's hiding under his Fedora, and only whispers things while sharing a bench in the park with a guy he knows only as Yellowjacket.
Well, by the time they get spanked by the MS FUD team, maybe they'll be RedBottoms.
I'm sure that even with a lobbying office in DC, that Redmond will launch a shock-and-awe campaign that will make the RedHat guys run home screaming to mommy when their overcome by a republican guard of WMDs (Windows Misinformation Drones).
On the shelves at CompUSA, there seem to be a plethora of ATI cards with 9200s in them. Is the total volume shipped as relevant if ATI's bottom-feeding?
Not only did you not RTFA, but you didn't even read what was posted on the front page.
has the backing of AMD
When did "I'm both ignorant *and* lazy" become a valid excuse?
Perhaps with easy access to information, they needn't be making $2/day.
How do you propose to get their incomes up? They're going to magically start building factories and selling something?
Education and access to information are vital if you're going to be anything but a subsistance beggar.
It's a good idea to wear a helmet, gloves, and knee and elbow pads every time you ride your bike, but you don't, do you?
Intel added the x86-64 instructions to the Xeon line and called it EM64T.
Read up!
http://www.intel.com/technology/64bitextensions/
I wonder if something could piss RMS off enough to make him shave his face in protest. :)
Since everyone's up for getting all pissed about the potential abuse of licensing... I'm sure that some of the Sun code which will be opened has some relation to SCO.
You can't write "good" Brainfuck.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck
If the industry comes up with a framework which will significantly reduce errors, and they *don't* use it, then will they be opening themselves up for significant liability which either increases malpractice insurance premiums or subjects to jusdgements that their insurance won't cover.