True, but I was equating "marketdroids" with "brand-name sluts". Those who buy Gap jeans because they have that Gap logo on them, not because they look better/fit better/perform better, etc. Does that make sense?
The problem is many of these sort of/.'ers have no actually (sic) programming skills, they just want to say Open Source in a zealous fashion.
I, a professional programmer, whose life depends upon the sale of my services rather than my code, would like to comment.
I scream "Open Source", because it makes my life a lot easier. I use a lot of proprietary software in my work (Oracle, Sybase Jaguar, etc. etc), and I can think of many times when a quick glance at a source code would've answered my question, rather than pouring over the endless amounts of absolutely useless documentation.
Of course, I see useless documentation in the Open Source world as well, and they annoy me as well. However, with OSS, I can just as easily read the source, and find my answers within. The overhead of doing so many be higher than reading a good set of documentation, but when such documentation does not exist, then with OSS, one is left with an alternate source of information.
OTOH, many/.'ers sound like I did in college--eager, intelligent, but lacking in experience. They scream "Open Source", may or may not have actual programming experience (and for the most part, undergraduate academic experience do not count), and tend not to see the picture from a "business standpoint". Yes, performance is important in many cases. However, at the same time, only in a handful of cases is it the most important aspect. My managers (and therefore, my paycheck) will not give a rat's ass if my code was the most optimised piece of art available if it was even days overdue. At the same time, if it were "acceptably" fast, they'll see me as "effective", "efficient", "productive", blah blah blah.
I see their point, though. Most traffic I see on these sites that I create tend to garner more revenue-per-user than your average portal (or even the average ecommerce site) does, making them a low-volume site. At the same time, many of the clients we service have strict deadlines; a manager at a Fortune 500 company's time being wasted for even hours due to a slipped deadline ends up costing us greatly.
Of course, this often means that I write code that is not even up to par with my own standards of cleanliness and performance, but that is life. Fast, cheap, good. Please choose any two.
Extra syllables are considered Jiamari (translates roughly into "letter overflow"--for the most part, each phoenetic letter in Japanese translates into a syllable). IIRC, you are allowed one in each haiku, though the result has been considered to be in poor form.
(re: data rates) I think remember seeing the plans about Iridium back in the 1980's. Back then, data traffic wasn't important, the cellular market ran on those *suitcases* that were called phones (though Motorola may have launched the Micro-TAC, a 16 oz(!) phone-by then), and of course, the analogue cellular network was nowhere near ubiquitous as it is today.
Of course, the Iridium protocol is similar to the GSM protocol, so it may be possible to do packet radio, but data-over-GSM gets very low bandwiths....
Just out of curiousity, but how is the software faulty if the bloody thing in the bloody hardware is inaccessible unless you use some horrid software hack (virtual real mode processor) to get around kludged-up hardware? It sounds, to me, like a software work-around to a mis-designed hardware.
I believe his intention is to have the individual registers sort it out with the alleged copyright holders, instead of getting the domain name registry in the legal throws.
*grin* you just reminded me of my undergraduate days, when I saw hundreds of xneko sessions connecting to this guy's workstation from a fast remote server, rendering the workstation unusable. I had to use ident to figure out who was doing this.
FWIW, I've heard of stability problems with the Epox's KX133-chipset mb. However, I have not heard any such issues with both Asus nor Abit's KX-133-chipset offerings. Granted, they're both hearsay, and I only have one specific system for each of the three cases, so YMMV.
A set of libraries are there to offer routines to access the hardware. It's not exactly a modern OS, in that it offers things like memory protection and such (though this can also be implemented in a kludgy form), but more a set of library routines to call the hardware systems in a "predictable" manner. Of course, it probably doesn't have anything in terms of preventing you from writing/reading directly to/from the hardware without using any of the library functions designed for the purpose.
So with just 12 TB, you have 23 solid years of entertainment
<sarcasm>Or, alternatively, you can just barely install Windows 2005</sarcasm>
Seriously, though, you have a point, but how about the bloody sods who want more resolution on sound/video/images ? Of course, I shudder to think downloading all those images on a dialup connection *ducks and runs for cover*
Sun? SMP? Enterprise 10k runs with up to 64 processors, AFAIK. It's also not uncommon to see 4-way SS20's back when the HyperSPARC architecture was at the top.
Though I have never used Solaris on more than 4 processors, from what I've seen, the quad-HyperSPARC SS20's we had at my old employers' place *smoked*. Of course, noone gets excited about 4-way SMP anymore *g*.
Yea using PC100 ram... (Non-DDR) see the probelm here?
Of course, the CPU bus does not always talk to the RAM. It also acts as a conduit for information to the PCI/AGP Bus as well, which means that while the CPU waits for a data from the decoupled RAM connection, it could also read/write to the peripheral busses. No, there isn't a problem here.
Even if the PC100 was the only game in town, there are many ways to speed it up, like having multiple banks of RAM. Instead of having one bank for the memory, you have two. Now, in optimal cases, the cpu can read/write two words at once, effectively doubling the memory bandwith.
ISO 9660, the base filesystem for CD-ROM's. Filenames are limited to 8.3, and all that lovely DOS-ian stuff. However, Rock Ridge Extention (used mainly by *nix) and M$'s Joliet extention add things like longfilenames and such.
In this case, the posters are looking for ISO 9660 CD Image of the bloody things.
FYI, Matsushita Electronics (named after Mr. Matsushita, of course), is the parent company of Panasonic. I think they're branded "National" in Japan, though *shrug*.
Am I the only one worried that these machines will open us to remote surveillance? Yes, things will be more convenient, but do you really want your toaster to turn on by itself as a result of a combination of shoddy vender programming and a malicious script kiddie?
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True, but I was equating "marketdroids" with "brand-name sluts". Those who buy Gap jeans because they have that Gap logo on them, not because they look better/fit better/perform better, etc. Does that make sense?
Of course, this will go against the teaching of *every* marketdroid in existence....
The problem is many of these sort of /.'ers have no actually (sic) programming skills, they just want to say Open Source in a zealous fashion.
I, a professional programmer, whose life depends upon the sale of my services rather than my code, would like to comment.
I scream "Open Source", because it makes my life a lot easier. I use a lot of proprietary software in my work (Oracle, Sybase Jaguar, etc. etc), and I can think of many times when a quick glance at a source code would've answered my question, rather than pouring over the endless amounts of absolutely useless documentation.
Of course, I see useless documentation in the Open Source world as well, and they annoy me as well. However, with OSS, I can just as easily read the source, and find my answers within. The overhead of doing so many be higher than reading a good set of documentation, but when such documentation does not exist, then with OSS, one is left with an alternate source of information.
OTOH, many /.'ers sound like I did in college--eager, intelligent, but lacking in experience. They scream "Open Source", may or may not have actual programming experience (and for the most part, undergraduate academic experience do not count), and tend not to see the picture from a "business standpoint". Yes, performance is important in many cases. However, at the same time, only in a handful of cases is it the most important aspect. My managers (and therefore, my paycheck) will not give a rat's ass if my code was the most optimised piece of art available if it was even days overdue. At the same time, if it were "acceptably" fast, they'll see me as "effective", "efficient", "productive", blah blah blah.
I see their point, though. Most traffic I see on these sites that I create tend to garner more revenue-per-user than your average portal (or even the average ecommerce site) does, making them a low-volume site. At the same time, many of the clients we service have strict deadlines; a manager at a Fortune 500 company's time being wasted for even hours due to a slipped deadline ends up costing us greatly.
Of course, this often means that I write code that is not even up to par with my own standards of cleanliness and performance, but that is life. Fast, cheap, good. Please choose any two.
actually....
Extra syllables are considered Jiamari (translates roughly into "letter overflow"--for the most part, each phoenetic letter in Japanese translates into a syllable). IIRC, you are allowed one in each haiku, though the result has been considered to be in poor form.
(re: data rates) I think remember seeing the plans about Iridium back in the 1980's. Back then, data traffic wasn't important, the cellular market ran on those *suitcases* that were called phones (though Motorola may have launched the Micro-TAC, a 16 oz(!) phone-by then), and of course, the analogue cellular network was nowhere near ubiquitous as it is today.
Of course, the Iridium protocol is similar to the GSM protocol, so it may be possible to do packet radio, but data-over-GSM gets very low bandwiths....
converting from DC to Ac is a real pain
uh... you need a 5VDC (5V @DC, if I read that correctly), not 5VAC.
HTH, HAND.
Seriously, he was the one who *quoted* from it.
Ah, I remember hex-editing saved game files and application binaries alike to get what I wanted out of a game. Tradewars 2000, anyone?
s/bigger/more often used/
HTH, HAND.
Just out of curiousity, but how is the software faulty if the bloody thing in the bloody hardware is inaccessible unless you use some horrid software hack (virtual real mode processor) to get around kludged-up hardware? It sounds, to me, like a software work-around to a mis-designed hardware.
*sigh*.
Of course, that's also why there were IP Network classes. Now there are tons of Classless networks, and the routing tables are just plain *huge*.
<sarcasm> soon, we'll see the advent of TLDv6....</sarcasm> *sigh*
Just my $0.02 USD, of course.
*grin* you just reminded me of my undergraduate days, when I saw hundreds of xneko sessions connecting to this guy's workstation from a fast remote server, rendering the workstation unusable. I had to use ident to figure out who was doing this.
You forgot "good motherboard". HTH, HAND.
FWIW, I've heard of stability problems with the Epox's KX133-chipset mb. However, I have not heard any such issues with both Asus nor Abit's KX-133-chipset offerings. Granted, they're both hearsay, and I only have one specific system for each of the three cases, so YMMV.
Oh, in my case, using Apache JServ: compile, get a forced logout, log back in, and then see it break all over the place.
Seriously, though, Java Servlets is my favourite, as most of our work goes through DB access.
A set of libraries are there to offer routines to access the hardware. It's not exactly a modern OS, in that it offers things like memory protection and such (though this can also be implemented in a kludgy form), but more a set of library routines to call the hardware systems in a "predictable" manner. Of course, it probably doesn't have anything in terms of preventing you from writing/reading directly to/from the hardware without using any of the library functions designed for the purpose.
<sarcasm>Or, alternatively, you can just barely install Windows 2005</sarcasm>
Seriously, though, you have a point, but how about the bloody sods who want more resolution on sound/video/images ? Of course, I shudder to think downloading all those images on a dialup connection *ducks and runs for cover*
Yes, or you can spend non-trivial amounts of money to get a hardware compression board.
Sun? SMP? Enterprise 10k runs with up to 64 processors, AFAIK. It's also not uncommon to see 4-way SS20's back when the HyperSPARC architecture was at the top.
Though I have never used Solaris on more than 4 processors, from what I've seen, the quad-HyperSPARC SS20's we had at my old employers' place *smoked*. Of course, noone gets excited about 4-way SMP anymore *g*.
Yea using PC100 ram... (Non-DDR) see the probelm here?
Of course, the CPU bus does not always talk to the RAM. It also acts as a conduit for information to the PCI/AGP Bus as well, which means that while the CPU waits for a data from the decoupled RAM connection, it could also read/write to the peripheral busses. No, there isn't a problem here.
Even if the PC100 was the only game in town, there are many ways to speed it up, like having multiple banks of RAM. Instead of having one bank for the memory, you have two. Now, in optimal cases, the cpu can read/write two words at once, effectively doubling the memory bandwith.
ISO 9660, the base filesystem for CD-ROM's. Filenames are limited to 8.3, and all that lovely DOS-ian stuff. However, Rock Ridge Extention (used mainly by *nix) and M$'s Joliet extention add things like longfilenames and such.
In this case, the posters are looking for ISO 9660 CD Image of the bloody things.
FYI, Matsushita Electronics (named after Mr. Matsushita, of course), is the parent company of Panasonic. I think they're branded "National" in Japan, though *shrug*.
Am I the only one worried that these machines will open us to remote surveillance? Yes, things will be more convenient, but do you really want your toaster to turn on by itself as a result of a combination of shoddy vender programming and a malicious script kiddie?