They are both starting to be made more and more like each other. More to the point, how do you define a supercomputer? This is very important for things like export controls.
It's amusing to note that Macintosh touted it's G4 multi-processor workstations as violating export restrictions by being considered a 'super-computer'. But it just goes to show how out of date US export law is. Besides, what's to prevent someone from buying a 250 port switch from Cisco, 250 workstations from IBM, and then shipping them seperately and downloading the Beowulf software seperately?
Export restrictions aren't very restrictive, taken in that light. National security most certainly isn't being enhanced any...
There's a quote I'm reminded of which I will paraphrase:
A man goes to a trade show and tells the security guard "I am the greatest thief of all time, and I will plunder this trade show". This worried the guard, so he kept an eye on the thief, and on his way out, searched the thief.
The thief returned the second day and said "I stole many things yesterday, but today will be better!" The guard was now very worried, and at the end of that day searched the thief. After he found nothing he asked the thief "What are you stealing?" And the thief smiled and said, "I am stealing ideas!"
The moral of the story is that ideas cannot be kept locked up in boxes, buried in vaults, or kept behind the magic of technology. They cannot be imprisoned.
NOTE: By turning this system on you agree to the licensing agreement found herein as well as all future games which may run on this machine.
Additional note: Your purchase of this product is non-refundable. Under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act you may not modify, redistribute, or reverse-engineer this product for the purposes of allowing any additional functionality. Yes, we do know that you paid for it but since you don't own your home (mortgage), car (loan), or computer (encrypted 'monitors') anymore, we figure we'll continue the trend and not let you own this either.
See! See! Those free software nuts steal every idea we corporations come up with - now they're even buying out their competition and then giving away their product. They'll collapse their revenue stream! The company will have to lay off people by the thousands! Anti-competitive moves like this will not be toler..
Oh, NOW you've done it. Have you NO idea what this is going to cause? You've just tempted some geek to use this program to design a jet propulsion engine using only legos...
I've never, ever, heard of an employer (I know several managers personally) who throw out a resume based on whether you passed a certification or not. You're lying, flat out, end of story. The fact that you got moderated up only reinforces a belief of mine about slashdot.
Let's break this post down, class:
When I'm reading resumes, I immediately toss out any resume with MCSE on it.
MCSEs mean they passed a test. That means they likely have more knowledge about X than someone who hasn't. You may place any value for X that you please, it makes no difference. So, given a blank resume with just a name, and another blank resume with a name and "MSCE" on it, I will hire the MSCE. Knowing nothing else, wouldn't you too? So, automatically throwing out said resume is an act of extreme idiocy.
It doesn't mean anything unless you can back it up with some good sample code or a good answer to an algorithm question in the interview.
You obviously have neither taken the MSCE, nor gotten past your 2nd year of college. Most engineering degrees focus on problem-solving skills - you are presented a problem and it is up to you to solve it. The Cisco certification does similar.
Lastly, do you even know what empirical research is?
Balloney! Companies are claiming there's an IT shortage, but their definition of "IT" is severely distorted. They're paying high rates right now for technicians and they want that to end: Some companies spend almost 40% of their IT budget on personnel costs. I can't blame them, but to say there's a *shortage* is complete and absolute BS.
I've talked to people in a dozen corporations (my friends now, but it's a practical example) and almost all of them say that their department is adequately staffed. Only startups are having any problems aquiring IT professionals - and that's because by their nature they can't afford to pay for them.
It's called the laws of supply and demand - they're paying high costs so they want to increase supply to lower them. This is why Congress is being pressured into allowing immigrants with computer skills in - they're trying to decrease costs. There is no shortage. I repeat, there is no shortage.
Nice system, but I do think there's valid criticism for it being a redhat look-alike. I've found that it's essentially still redhat right now with the following additions:
recompiled for pentium machines
directory structure *alittle* more sane
X-based installer (cooker?)
nifty partitioning program in the installer
In short, the big feature is ease of installation.. but once installed you'd be hard-pressed to tell me it isn't redhat with a different name.:/ This is coming from somebody who has used RH5.2 to 6.1, rawhide, slackware, mandrake 7 (oxygen beta) and mandrake stable. I use it because of the optimizations - compiling takes *forever* from the.src.rpm's.. but the speed difference is appreciable.
That's just my short review of them. I won't comment on LinuxOne other than to say that Mandrake is making an honest attempt to create a new distribution/based/ on redhat, whereas LinuxOne is ripping redhat off.
Must be some real high level non player character type I've not come across.
That's true. They're all 30 level necromancers from the underworld. One look and the player will fall madly in love with them, upon which the necromancer has total control over you. A saving throw v. death is allowed, however. Seperation is possible if you either kill the necromancer or remove the player from the girlfriend forcefully for one month and hermetically seal him in a cave. You should also have cold water available in the cave. Some high-level priests (the Zen ones) have claimed limited success by allowing the character to transcend the girlfriend... but such things are legends.
if(HoursSinceLastShower > 24) { - if(Player.Girlfriend) + if(Player.Girlfriend != NULL)// we're dealing with pointers - Girlfriend.StormOut; + Girlfriend.StormOut(&Player);// do it right Player.Shower; }
I would also submit that you should add additional checks to make sure that when Girlfriend is called the give() member function is invoked with any of the following #defines: FLOWERS, DINNER, FANCY_DINNER, PROMISE. Doing so may prevent dissatisfaction from incrementing. After a certain threshold, girlfriend will set it's BoyFriend private variable to NULL and not update the boyfriend object referenced. It's a bug in the Girlfriend object, so we must be careful to keep the dissatisfaction variable at zero to prevent calling a deallocated girlfriend object - which will segfault the system and prevent further gameplay.
Well, it would have made even/worse/ press had they gone and said "shortly after launch, the spacecraft became useless". Better to announce after it fails that the cause was 'unknown'.
This assumes, of course, that the 'leaked' information is invalid. It would seem that people always mistrust the official spokesman and instead go with the unidentified source. Figures - trust no one, literally (we'll trust the guy that doesn't exist!)...
You know, with so many developers trying to bypass the X APIs and write directly to the screen, one would think that X is out of date.
There seems to be a big push to get the X protocol away from network protocols and into direct API calls. Any thoughts (maybe we could interview an X developer next week?) people?
You won't win in a court of law, regardless of how right you are. They have better ties.
Instead, I suggest you spin-doctor it: "Coca Cola to remove website over drug addictions".. and then go on to say that Coca Cola is *really* going after you because it doesn't want it's name associated with drugs. Bring up the colorful history of how Coca Cola *REALLY DID* have narcotics in it.. maybe a few claims of revisionist history?
I'm not joking here - you need to sensationalize it if you want to stand a chance. Good luck.
Well, actually, to clear up any confusion, I had tendonitus.. which is a precursor to the well-known carpel-tunnel affliction. So I took a week or two off slashdot. My social life has also picked up abit, as has work, so slashdot has kinda taken a backseat to that (as it always has, just more so right now).
Don't worry about my trolls - there's only a couple of them (probably a small group of friends at some unknown high school) that troll my posts with any regularity. Hit up my user info link above this post and look around, you'll find my links to them.
Anyone ever played the AI in any of the following games:
Red Alert Age of Empires Command & Conquer Warcraft 1 or 2 (any add-in pack too) Axis and Allies
If you have, you'd notice a disturbing trend: except for chess, computers thus far stink at game playing! If they can't even master that, do you think I want them flying airplanes, driving cars, and making me breakfast? Er, wait.. scratch the cars, they'd probably do better. But for the rest - intelligent machines would be a mistake right now. We need advances in artificial intelligence, not manufacturing processes.
I have a Guillemot GeForce 256, and have had zero (as in, none) problems with it. Not a single display glitch. I will admit that the TV out (which is what your D* acronyms basically mean) hasn't been tested, and I rather doubt the XFree crew will get it working anytime soon - it's a proprietary extension, if not a common one.
Keep in mind that I haven't even/tried/ using it for 3D under linux. I don't play games under linux, I use my windows partition for that. If Sierra would port Tribes (or that nifty-looking Tribes 2) to Linux,/then/ I'd investigate further..
Lastly, for anyone who uses linux and doesn't have a card that does what you want under linux, write the manufacturer. Video games won't come to linux until the hardware support is there - especially FPS games. We need more drivers than just what MesaGL and Glide support.
Yeah janitors.... Janitors with stock options, making 2-3 times what their non cs classmates do, buying "luxury homes" and 911's at 23, we really got shafted on this one all right.
Your priorities, not mine. I don't care about money. What I do care about is working in a job where my peers and employer respects my opinions and stands behind them. I care about working a standard 40 hour work week with paid vacation and a lunch hour included in my 8 hour day. I care about the quality of the environment I work in.
Those are my standards, and my priorities. I don't think so little of myself to say I don't deserve these things. I do. And if this economy is what it's cracked up to be, employers will still want to hire me even/with/ those demands.
Don't short-change yourself. You're worth every penny. Demand it.
Temper it with action? What, you mean like hosting DeCSS and then going toe-to-toe with my ISP? How about calling up my local cable commissioner and complaining about the monopoly my ISP has for trying to cut off my distribution of something specifically protected under the DMCA?
Just because I don't say what I'm doing doesn't mean I'm not doing it. Slashdotters aren't interested in fighting, or should I say, very few are. I *am* out there. But I have other commitments too, and I can only go so far.
And if you'll excuse some additional cynicism, information does not necessarily equate to power. You must USE the information. Simply aquiring money does not make you powerful.. USING it does. Same equation either way. I will reaffirm that unless we get our collective asses together and start/using/ the information we have access to, we will get nowhere.
There's a large body of computer-oriented people who frequent a site with an obscure name and are currently attempting to effect change in a large organization which controls an even larger body of more generalized groups of people who tend to frequent the places that the computer-oriented groups do not, but which does not make them of any less, or more, importance relative to the computer-oriented group of unspecified gender.
We're not politically or economically powerful. We're not bastioning in the power-base of this country. No, we're the janitors of the e-commerce 'revolution'. We work 60 hour days, are on-call 24/7, many of us aren't payed overtime because we're on the "excempt" listing for full-time work. No, we're definately not in the powerbase.
I'm sorry, but while the above paragraph is unflattering, it's sadly true. We do control some of the best tools ever created to effect social change in this country, nay, the world at large. But the same personality attributes that allows us to spend 12 hours staring at a computer monitor making those tools are the same personality attributes that relegate us to relative obscurity in the public eye. The general public admires the earning potential of this line of work, but little else.
Geeks have no voice as it stands right now. When l0pht went to Congress to testify over security, they were ignored. We submitted proposals for using open source to make the government work cheaper and faster, those were rejected. We're not being taken seriously. Those of us who, in frustration, take to their keyboards and engage in hacktivism are labelled criminals and locked up for dozens of years. Our only recourse - civil disobedience, has already largely been headed off by draconian legislation like the DMCA, or the dozen other acts which make even looking at a computer menacingly a felony.
No, we don't have them - they have us. Our only tools right now are the internet and it's massively distributed architecture, designed to make sure that information that gets out there stays out there, and excercising our technical abilities to route around the damage caused by bad legislation, corrupt politicians, and massive corporations stripping away our rights for additional profit.
I've noticed Samba isn't following the windows specs to the letter. For example, you guys coded into Samba the ability to link networks between a router (forgive me if I'm not clear on this - my docs are behind a firewall right now). Windows doesn't do that.
What other unexplored potential do you see in windows filesharing besides what the official "Microsoft Spec" is?
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It's amusing to note that Macintosh touted it's G4 multi-processor workstations as violating export restrictions by being considered a 'super-computer'. But it just goes to show how out of date US export law is. Besides, what's to prevent someone from buying a 250 port switch from Cisco, 250 workstations from IBM, and then shipping them seperately and downloading the Beowulf software seperately?
Export restrictions aren't very restrictive, taken in that light. National security most certainly isn't being enhanced any...
Am I the only one that thought that this was from "Los Lobotomy" labs?
A man goes to a trade show and tells the security guard "I am the greatest thief of all time, and I will plunder this trade show". This worried the guard, so he kept an eye on the thief, and on his way out, searched the thief.
The thief returned the second day and said "I stole many things yesterday, but today will be better!" The guard was now very worried, and at the end of that day searched the thief. After he found nothing he asked the thief "What are you stealing?" And the thief smiled and said, "I am stealing ideas!"
The moral of the story is that ideas cannot be kept locked up in boxes, buried in vaults, or kept behind the magic of technology. They cannot be imprisoned.
Additional note: Your purchase of this product is non-refundable. Under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act you may not modify, redistribute, or reverse-engineer this product for the purposes of allowing any additional functionality. Yes, we do know that you paid for it but since you don't own your home (mortgage), car (loan), or computer (encrypted 'monitors') anymore, we figure we'll continue the trend and not let you own this either.
"Where are you taking me today?"
*whispering*
Are you..
*more whispering*
it's GPL'd? Oh, uhh.. er.. *quietly putting mouse down*
Oh, NOW you've done it. Have you NO idea what this is going to cause? You've just tempted some geek to use this program to design a jet propulsion engine using only legos...
Let's break this post down, class:
When I'm reading resumes, I immediately toss out any resume with MCSE on it.
MCSEs mean they passed a test. That means they likely have more knowledge about X than someone who hasn't. You may place any value for X that you please, it makes no difference. So, given a blank resume with just a name, and another blank resume with a name and "MSCE" on it, I will hire the MSCE. Knowing nothing else, wouldn't you too? So, automatically throwing out said resume is an act of extreme idiocy.
It doesn't mean anything unless you can back it up with some good sample code or a good answer to an algorithm question in the interview.
You obviously have neither taken the MSCE, nor gotten past your 2nd year of college. Most engineering degrees focus on problem-solving skills - you are presented a problem and it is up to you to solve it. The Cisco certification does similar.
Lastly, do you even know what empirical research is?
I've talked to people in a dozen corporations (my friends now, but it's a practical example) and almost all of them say that their department is adequately staffed. Only startups are having any problems aquiring IT professionals - and that's because by their nature they can't afford to pay for them.
It's called the laws of supply and demand - they're paying high costs so they want to increase supply to lower them. This is why Congress is being pressured into allowing immigrants with computer skills in - they're trying to decrease costs. There is no shortage. I repeat, there is no shortage.
Good way to get credibility: swear at your opponent. -1, flamebait.
Isn't the Karma Whore thing a little tired?
Yup, infact I stopped almost 8 months ago. +1, informative.
Sure, I'm the one who's going to be marked as flamebait
*sarcasm* Was it that obvious? */sarcasm*
- Long time /. reader.
No comment. -1, overrated.
In short, the big feature is ease of installation.. but once installed you'd be hard-pressed to tell me it isn't redhat with a different name. :/ This is coming from somebody who has used RH5.2 to 6.1, rawhide, slackware, mandrake 7 (oxygen beta) and mandrake stable. I use it because of the optimizations - compiling takes *forever* from the .src.rpm's.. but the speed difference is appreciable.
That's just my short review of them. I won't comment on LinuxOne other than to say that Mandrake is making an honest attempt to create a new distribution /based/ on redhat, whereas LinuxOne is ripping redhat off.
That's true. They're all 30 level necromancers from the underworld. One look and the player will fall madly in love with them, upon which the necromancer has total control over you. A saving throw v. death is allowed, however. Seperation is possible if you either kill the necromancer or remove the player from the girlfriend forcefully for one month and hermetically seal him in a cave. You should also have cold water available in the cave. Some high-level priests (the Zen ones) have claimed limited success by allowing the character to transcend the girlfriend... but such things are legends.
- if(Player.Girlfriend)
+ if(Player.Girlfriend != NULL)
- Girlfriend.StormOut;
+ Girlfriend.StormOut(&Player);
Player.Shower;
}
I would also submit that you should add additional checks to make sure that when Girlfriend is called the give() member function is invoked with any of the following #defines: FLOWERS, DINNER, FANCY_DINNER, PROMISE. Doing so may prevent dissatisfaction from incrementing. After a certain threshold, girlfriend will set it's BoyFriend private variable to NULL and not update the boyfriend object referenced. It's a bug in the Girlfriend object, so we must be careful to keep the dissatisfaction variable at zero to prevent calling a deallocated girlfriend object - which will segfault the system and prevent further gameplay.
This assumes, of course, that the 'leaked' information is invalid. It would seem that people always mistrust the official spokesman and instead go with the unidentified source. Figures - trust no one, literally (we'll trust the guy that doesn't exist!)...
wopr:~# _
There seems to be a big push to get the X protocol away from network protocols and into direct API calls. Any thoughts (maybe we could interview an X developer next week?) people?
Instead, I suggest you spin-doctor it: "Coca Cola to remove website over drug addictions".. and then go on to say that Coca Cola is *really* going after you because it doesn't want it's name associated with drugs. Bring up the colorful history of how Coca Cola *REALLY DID* have narcotics in it.. maybe a few claims of revisionist history?
I'm not joking here - you need to sensationalize it if you want to stand a chance. Good luck.
Lets face it machines can't fuck up half as badly as politicians have mangaged to do over the last 100 years.
Ever tried using a C compiler?
Don't worry about my trolls - there's only a couple of them (probably a small group of friends at some unknown high school) that troll my posts with any regularity. Hit up my user info link above this post and look around, you'll find my links to them.
Red Alert
Age of Empires
Command & Conquer
Warcraft 1 or 2 (any add-in pack too)
Axis and Allies
If you have, you'd notice a disturbing trend: except for chess, computers thus far stink at game playing! If they can't even master that, do you think I want them flying airplanes, driving cars, and making me breakfast? Er, wait.. scratch the cars, they'd probably do better. But for the rest - intelligent machines would be a mistake right now. We need advances in artificial intelligence, not manufacturing processes.
Keep in mind that I haven't even /tried/ using it for 3D under linux. I don't play games under linux, I use my windows partition for that. If Sierra would port Tribes (or that nifty-looking Tribes 2) to Linux, /then/ I'd investigate further..
Lastly, for anyone who uses linux and doesn't have a card that does what you want under linux, write the manufacturer. Video games won't come to linux until the hardware support is there - especially FPS games. We need more drivers than just what MesaGL and Glide support.
Your priorities, not mine. I don't care about money. What I do care about is working in a job where my peers and employer respects my opinions and stands behind them. I care about working a standard 40 hour work week with paid vacation and a lunch hour included in my 8 hour day. I care about the quality of the environment I work in.
Those are my standards, and my priorities. I don't think so little of myself to say I don't deserve these things. I do. And if this economy is what it's cracked up to be, employers will still want to hire me even /with/ those demands.
Don't short-change yourself. You're worth every penny. Demand it.
Just because I don't say what I'm doing doesn't mean I'm not doing it. Slashdotters aren't interested in fighting, or should I say, very few are. I *am* out there. But I have other commitments too, and I can only go so far.
And if you'll excuse some additional cynicism, information does not necessarily equate to power. You must USE the information. Simply aquiring money does not make you powerful.. USING it does. Same equation either way. I will reaffirm that unless we get our collective asses together and start /using/ the information we have access to, we will get nowhere.
-- Politically Correct Version of "Geek Lobbying"
I'm sorry, but while the above paragraph is unflattering, it's sadly true. We do control some of the best tools ever created to effect social change in this country, nay, the world at large. But the same personality attributes that allows us to spend 12 hours staring at a computer monitor making those tools are the same personality attributes that relegate us to relative obscurity in the public eye. The general public admires the earning potential of this line of work, but little else.
Geeks have no voice as it stands right now. When l0pht went to Congress to testify over security, they were ignored. We submitted proposals for using open source to make the government work cheaper and faster, those were rejected. We're not being taken seriously. Those of us who, in frustration, take to their keyboards and engage in hacktivism are labelled criminals and locked up for dozens of years. Our only recourse - civil disobedience, has already largely been headed off by draconian legislation like the DMCA, or the dozen other acts which make even looking at a computer menacingly a felony.
No, we don't have them - they have us. Our only tools right now are the internet and it's massively distributed architecture, designed to make sure that information that gets out there stays out there, and excercising our technical abilities to route around the damage caused by bad legislation, corrupt politicians, and massive corporations stripping away our rights for additional profit.
Yea, welcome to the 21st century.
What other unexplored potential do you see in windows filesharing besides what the official "Microsoft Spec" is?