The shark has officially been jumped on that show.
Actually, the shark traveled back in time to jump over its younger self. Ironically, the two sharks saw eachother, and the Enterprise universe spontaneously cancelled itself.
Perhaps then there could be issues with lost information as to current prescription or observational data being lost or corrupted.
I'd bet corruption is a real issue. Possible scenario: a non-ECC RAM PC (i.e., cheap) plus a C-language-based OS with tons of pointer arithmetic (i.e., pretty much all OSes) could never really guarantee any value in memory at all, ever.
If one of our secondary databases crashes, as they seem to do often, we have to wait a day or two until we can get a reboot of the system because the main database runs on the same server.
Why is it that hospitals will drop a cool million in a femtosecond on a new lab machine or a MRI machine but can't spend a dime on a good network?!?!?!?
Oh, boy, are you in for a suprise! Have you ever read a EULA? Microsoft and IBM would probably piss their pants laughing if you try to pin a liability suit on them.
You are trying to make a case that commercial software is more "credible" than OSS software, but you are leaving out the fact that you and your peers are the ones making the liable choices, not any of your vendors. So, a server crashes due to a Windows QA problem? Tough, you chose Windows. The same goes for OSS or any software: you choose it, you live with it (again, read EULA).
I saw a chart recently of the national debt over time. It was more or less under a trillion until 1980 or so, then it just rose and rose and rose and rose, until Clinton, where there was a genuine inflection point, then after 2000, the chart just went off the scale. It was really quite dramatic. And, I should mention, I'm not a Democrat in the slightest. I just don't understand presidential politics when charts like this counter the party lines. I wonder if it is better to have a Democratic figurehead as president with Libertarian-leaning people in the trenches at local and state levels.
...if we went by everything they recommended, we'd all be driving Toyota Camrys...
I disagree. For example, I got a Saturn after reading CR (price was a factor), a Roper fridge (just a de-featured Whirlpool), a Craftsman lawnmower (hard to beat features/price ratio), etc. Toyota Camries are very nice, but there is still a way to balance price and quality/reliability with other brands, just less often they are American brands. It's interesting, however, that the three I mentioned above happen to be US companies, so it is still quite possible to buy "Made in USA" for some things.
Yes, and bicycles are perfect when they can be used safely. However, so many places are just not designed with bicycles in mind, and a person would be risking their life riding on those roads (e.g., 5 or 6 narrow lanes, 45+mph speeds, big trucks, etc.)
The GT sedans aren't all that bad. Not all Subarus are sporty station wagons that appeal to both a person's feminine and masculine sides (either real or imagined).
There is still the factor of having to take time off work, getting rental cars when needed, etc. Some people don't mind this, and this is fine. However, with more and more time constraints in day-to-day living seemingly cropping up, a reliable car is just more necessary now than ever before. This is where resources like Consumer Reports comes in--their red/black circle charts are very telling.
There's something wrong with a 160lb person (average) driving a vehicle for day-to-day use that weighs almost 40 times more than they do, unless they are doing so to earn a living (delivery truck, dump truck, etc.). Think about it: this is 6000lbs of raw metal and technology just to haul their lazy ass around town, when a decent sedan is well under 4000lbs and often under 3000lbs.
Heck, tax 'em more if they cause more accident damage...
I would bet insurance companies have already beat the government to it. SUVs cause more damage in accidents (higher liability insurance rates), and they cost more to repair (higher comprehensive insurance rates). Seriously, more people should consider Subarus or just the plain ol' family sedan, and, then, rent a darn truck when they need an SUV. They'd save a ton of money (and probably a ton of gas, too, literally).
While this makes perfect sense, you are already ahead of many many people out there. This is why there are so many brands out there that market quality and sell trash, because so many people will willingly buy the marketing, complain about the trash later, somehow through a feat of human ingenuity forget their complaints about the trash, and then turn around and buy the marketing all over again. You would be amazed of stories I've heard, like one about a guy who, every year, would fall for a dealership's story about how he needed new fuel injectors. Fuel injectors last for years, but some people are just that stupid. This is also why those quick-lube shops take people aside and say you need XYZ and QRS replaced, because they know two-thirds of people will say "Okay. I'd love for you to charge me another $45. Money grows on trees, right?"
Smarter people than me could probably point out which sci-fi novel it was (perhaps several novels) about an eventual technocracy in near-future society. E-voting would clearly be one way for a "technological coup d'etat." What would happen if election results ended up being 100% write-in for Mr. Evil, instead of the other canidates? Could the country rally and put in place a paper-ballot system to re-do election in enough time for the new administration?
50% of this year's attendees could probably figure out how to hack the vote before their third Mountain Dew.
This shows that there are clearly people out there who have the skills and, given the right circumstances, the will to be hired by a political campaign, incumbant, lobbyist organization, or criminal organization to aid their respective agendas. When big power plays and money are involved, hiring a computer cracker is probably just part of doing business.
And how long is a PC supposed to last? Novelty wearning out?
My computer is seven years old, and it still runs Mozilla and StarOffice respectably. The reason it is still good is that it likes having 512MB of RAM, a decent hard drive, and a decent video card (leaving RAM slots open on a new computer is essential, too, for longevity).
You think you're gunna give this to a 6 year old and expect he/she keeps it to take to college?
No, but a few years, at least. It'll take two years for a $599 computer to get under a dollar a day of ownership. I think if many people itemized their bills and expensive belongings on how much they cost each day to keep, they'd be amazed. Perhaps they'd start understanding why their credit cards are full and why they have no savings.
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The PC is $599. I'd say that's a pretty reasonable price for any new PC. Plus it's got cute little mouse ear speakers! Ooh!
$599 is not reasonable for a toy whose novelty will wear off quite quickly. Kids grow up fast, and what will happen to that limited mousey computer in 12 months? Video game consoles last for years, as do regular computers, as do decent bicycles, Legos, even coloring books. All the while Mickey Mouse PC collects dust next to the $199 electronic keyboard and the $250 kid-sized electric car, and, in teenage years, next to that broken-down $900 go-kart in the garage. I'm amazed that there is such a market for expensive limited-use toys.
Since the owner of katie.com has prior art going back to 1996, I think she could still register her trademark...and sue the SHIT out of Penguin for misuse of her domain name.
This is exactly what she should do, because a few hundred dollars for registering a trademark is cheaper and would be far more effective than any lawyer's services in the world. What she actually does do is a measure of how much she cares about all this, since a few hundred dollars for a trademark tips the balance slightly in favor of simply forking over the domain.
Mastery of your native language, including the ability to express logical thought. In my case, that's English, but you'd be amazed at what some fellow English-speakers attempt to write. Worst of all is when people type in a "dialect", such as "Southern", on purpose to make it look like they have a personality. All that accomplishes is expressing little while consuming my time, while I try to figure out what they wrote actually means.
The ultimage gnutastic gnuventure: compiling GNUCash under Solaris. Not only is GNUCash a GNOME app, it's a GNOME 1.4 app, and libtool just barfs all over the place with doubly-listed libraries and unfound libraries. Bleh. There's a reason why pre-compiled GNUCash versions for Solaris seem to be stuck at 1.6. I did finally manage to get version 1.6.x compiled, but even then the graphing features segfaulted.
Do people really like those touch-pad mice or do they just use them for the coolness factor? This HP laptop has one. Trying to move my big finger around those little rectangles to point to an icon or a menuitem is just plain frustrating. My old IBM Thinkpad did it right with its pencil-eraser mouse between the G, H, and B keys.
They are there only to address imperfections in the storage media, not as a part of the fundamental design of the computer. I'd bet CPU designers would love to be able to throw out the caches entirely and address main memory with no middle-men. Cache is to CPUs as connection pools are to databases or as JavaScript is to interactive websites (a means to an end, but not the ideal path).
As I understand things, even if a slow bus was eliminated, it still takes the RAM much longer to look up data than the CPU is capable of reading at.
This might be where Niagara enters. This is Sun's newer CPU architecture that has 8 4-thread cores in one package (IIRC). Keep enough threads going at once, and on-chip thread switching and Solaris' (or Linux') kernel thread scheduler keep memory latency at bay. Single-thread performance would be mediocre, but the system would scale really well.
each [sheilded] wire as its own infinante bandwidth.
Where will the signal decoder go on the CPU? It would essentially be a co-processor CPU fanning out to all the inputs on the main CPU and would likely introduce its own latencies and bottlenecks.
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The shark has officially been jumped on that show.
Actually, the shark traveled back in time to jump over its younger self. Ironically, the two sharks saw eachother, and the Enterprise universe spontaneously cancelled itself.
Perhaps then there could be issues with lost information as to current prescription or observational data being lost or corrupted.
I'd bet corruption is a real issue. Possible scenario: a non-ECC RAM PC (i.e., cheap) plus a C-language-based OS with tons of pointer arithmetic (i.e., pretty much all OSes) could never really guarantee any value in memory at all, ever.
If one of our secondary databases crashes, as they seem to do often, we have to wait a day or two until we can get a reboot of the system because the main database runs on the same server.
Why is it that hospitals will drop a cool million in a femtosecond on a new lab machine or a MRI machine but can't spend a dime on a good network?!?!?!?
Who do you blame?
Oh, boy, are you in for a suprise! Have you ever read a EULA? Microsoft and IBM would probably piss their pants laughing if you try to pin a liability suit on them.
You are trying to make a case that commercial software is more "credible" than OSS software, but you are leaving out the fact that you and your peers are the ones making the liable choices, not any of your vendors. So, a server crashes due to a Windows QA problem? Tough, you chose Windows. The same goes for OSS or any software: you choose it, you live with it (again, read EULA).
Why is hospital equipment running windows?
Because fashion and dollars are more important than human lives. Please, don't let reason get in the way of having a pretty desktop!
I saw a chart recently of the national debt over time. It was more or less under a trillion until 1980 or so, then it just rose and rose and rose and rose, until Clinton, where there was a genuine inflection point, then after 2000, the chart just went off the scale. It was really quite dramatic. And, I should mention, I'm not a Democrat in the slightest. I just don't understand presidential politics when charts like this counter the party lines. I wonder if it is better to have a Democratic figurehead as president with Libertarian-leaning people in the trenches at local and state levels.
I don't remember exactly which chart I saw, but, from a search, here is a good one and here is another version.
...if we went by everything they recommended, we'd all be driving Toyota Camrys...
I disagree. For example, I got a Saturn after reading CR (price was a factor), a Roper fridge (just a de-featured Whirlpool), a Craftsman lawnmower (hard to beat features/price ratio), etc. Toyota Camries are very nice, but there is still a way to balance price and quality/reliability with other brands, just less often they are American brands. It's interesting, however, that the three I mentioned above happen to be US companies, so it is still quite possible to buy "Made in USA" for some things.
...and a decent bicycle is about 25 lbs.
Yes, and bicycles are perfect when they can be used safely. However, so many places are just not designed with bicycles in mind, and a person would be risking their life riding on those roads (e.g., 5 or 6 narrow lanes, 45+mph speeds, big trucks, etc.)
The GT sedans aren't all that bad. Not all Subarus are sporty station wagons that appeal to both a person's feminine and masculine sides (either real or imagined).
There is still the factor of having to take time off work, getting rental cars when needed, etc. Some people don't mind this, and this is fine. However, with more and more time constraints in day-to-day living seemingly cropping up, a reliable car is just more necessary now than ever before. This is where resources like Consumer Reports comes in--their red/black circle charts are very telling.
There's something wrong with a 160lb person (average) driving a vehicle for day-to-day use that weighs almost 40 times more than they do, unless they are doing so to earn a living (delivery truck, dump truck, etc.). Think about it: this is 6000lbs of raw metal and technology just to haul their lazy ass around town, when a decent sedan is well under 4000lbs and often under 3000lbs.
Heck, tax 'em more if they cause more accident damage...
I would bet insurance companies have already beat the government to it. SUVs cause more damage in accidents (higher liability insurance rates), and they cost more to repair (higher comprehensive insurance rates). Seriously, more people should consider Subarus or just the plain ol' family sedan, and, then, rent a darn truck when they need an SUV. They'd save a ton of money (and probably a ton of gas, too, literally).
Why not just get a Toyota to begin with.
While this makes perfect sense, you are already ahead of many many people out there. This is why there are so many brands out there that market quality and sell trash, because so many people will willingly buy the marketing, complain about the trash later, somehow through a feat of human ingenuity forget their complaints about the trash, and then turn around and buy the marketing all over again. You would be amazed of stories I've heard, like one about a guy who, every year, would fall for a dealership's story about how he needed new fuel injectors. Fuel injectors last for years, but some people are just that stupid. This is also why those quick-lube shops take people aside and say you need XYZ and QRS replaced, because they know two-thirds of people will say "Okay. I'd love for you to charge me another $45. Money grows on trees, right?"
Smarter people than me could probably point out which sci-fi novel it was (perhaps several novels) about an eventual technocracy in near-future society. E-voting would clearly be one way for a "technological coup d'etat." What would happen if election results ended up being 100% write-in for Mr. Evil, instead of the other canidates? Could the country rally and put in place a paper-ballot system to re-do election in enough time for the new administration?
50% of this year's attendees could probably figure out how to hack the vote before their third Mountain Dew.
This shows that there are clearly people out there who have the skills and, given the right circumstances, the will to be hired by a political campaign, incumbant, lobbyist organization, or criminal organization to aid their respective agendas. When big power plays and money are involved, hiring a computer cracker is probably just part of doing business.
And how long is a PC supposed to last? Novelty wearning out?
My computer is seven years old, and it still runs Mozilla and StarOffice respectably. The reason it is still good is that it likes having 512MB of RAM, a decent hard drive, and a decent video card (leaving RAM slots open on a new computer is essential, too, for longevity).
You think you're gunna give this to a 6 year old and expect he/she keeps it to take to college?
No, but a few years, at least. It'll take two years for a $599 computer to get under a dollar a day of ownership. I think if many people itemized their bills and expensive belongings on how much they cost each day to keep, they'd be amazed. Perhaps they'd start understanding why their credit cards are full and why they have no savings.
The PC is $599. I'd say that's a pretty reasonable price for any new PC. Plus it's got cute little mouse ear speakers! Ooh!
$599 is not reasonable for a toy whose novelty will wear off quite quickly. Kids grow up fast, and what will happen to that limited mousey computer in 12 months? Video game consoles last for years, as do regular computers, as do decent bicycles, Legos, even coloring books. All the while Mickey Mouse PC collects dust next to the $199 electronic keyboard and the $250 kid-sized electric car, and, in teenage years, next to that broken-down $900 go-kart in the garage. I'm amazed that there is such a market for expensive limited-use toys.
IMHO no enough CS grads know or appreciate enough real math.
Math is hard.
Since the owner of katie.com has prior art going back to 1996, I think she could still register her trademark...and sue the SHIT out of Penguin for misuse of her domain name.
This is exactly what she should do, because a few hundred dollars for registering a trademark is cheaper and would be far more effective than any lawyer's services in the world. What she actually does do is a measure of how much she cares about all this, since a few hundred dollars for a trademark tips the balance slightly in favor of simply forking over the domain.
Mastery of your native language, including the ability to express logical thought. In my case, that's English, but you'd be amazed at what some fellow English-speakers attempt to write. Worst of all is when people type in a "dialect", such as "Southern", on purpose to make it look like they have a personality. All that accomplishes is expressing little while consuming my time, while I try to figure out what they wrote actually means.
The ultimage gnutastic gnuventure: compiling GNUCash under Solaris. Not only is GNUCash a GNOME app, it's a GNOME 1.4 app, and libtool just barfs all over the place with doubly-listed libraries and unfound libraries. Bleh. There's a reason why pre-compiled GNUCash versions for Solaris seem to be stuck at 1.6. I did finally manage to get version 1.6.x compiled, but even then the graphing features segfaulted.
Do people really like those touch-pad mice or do they just use them for the coolness factor? This HP laptop has one. Trying to move my big finger around those little rectangles to point to an icon or a menuitem is just plain frustrating. My old IBM Thinkpad did it right with its pencil-eraser mouse between the G, H, and B keys.
L2 and L3 caches are not a kludge.
They are there only to address imperfections in the storage media, not as a part of the fundamental design of the computer. I'd bet CPU designers would love to be able to throw out the caches entirely and address main memory with no middle-men. Cache is to CPUs as connection pools are to databases or as JavaScript is to interactive websites (a means to an end, but not the ideal path).
As I understand things, even if a slow bus was eliminated, it still takes the RAM much longer to look up data than the CPU is capable of reading at.
This might be where Niagara enters. This is Sun's newer CPU architecture that has 8 4-thread cores in one package (IIRC). Keep enough threads going at once, and on-chip thread switching and Solaris' (or Linux') kernel thread scheduler keep memory latency at bay. Single-thread performance would be mediocre, but the system would scale really well.
each [sheilded] wire as its own infinante bandwidth.
Where will the signal decoder go on the CPU? It would essentially be a co-processor CPU fanning out to all the inputs on the main CPU and would likely introduce its own latencies and bottlenecks.