Servers don't use SLI unless they're very special-purpose. Easily half the power in that sort of system is supporting the graphics card. A 1000 watt system with only 32GB of ram is either very inefficient, or doing something that a slashdot poster isn't qualified to pontificate about.
Only a/. geek would make a car crash analogy for getting trojaned warez. The real instant karma would be if you did the car-copying thing, then suddenly died, and were reincarnated as an RIAA lawyer. It could take you a dozen lives to get back up to "human".
It sounds like your school administrator was a failure. One of two things should have happened: One, the students should not have the choice of which math course to attend, except in special circumstances. Two, an incompetent teacher should not be permitted to continue teaching. If the school system is foolish enough to sign a contract that flatly denies any possibility of firing incompetence, they deserve what they get. On the other hand, of course, students are not rational. They may have avoided the other teacher because his course was more rigorous, and your mother's course emphasized "new math" and feelings. But then, that's the thing about anecdotes. They can mean anything you want them to mean.
Emphasis on first-posting causes author to fail at RTFA. Film at 11.
The article has nothing to do with quantum mechanics. They're not saying that quarks make you do things. What they're saying is that a mathematical model of probability derived from quantum theory is a better predictor of actual human activity than the classic mathematical model. That's a fairly specific--and even likely testable--assertion, and a knee-jerk response does you no benefit.
Yes. Fanboys say things that enforce their fanboy-ism. Rational people tend to just look at them like they're silly, and then get back to work on whatever computer they happen to prefer.
There sure are a lot of people who didn't bother to read the article. The point of these attacks are that it's a coordinated botnet attack. Meaning if you block any single IP, or even a large subnet, you've cost the attacker nothing. Fail2ban, denyhosts, all of these won't even slow these attacks down.
Your assertion is: The government ordered lenders to loan to people with bad credit ratings, no stable income sufficient to repay, and without any deposit. This is prima facie false. Unscrupulous and unethical lenders began issuing loans to people manifestly unable to handle the repayment. They did this to make money. They did this because of the republican-championed deregulation efforts. Regulations would have prevented the massive numbers of foreclosed mortgages, because the people being foreclosed on would never have taken a mortgage. The resulting death-spiral of the world economy wouldn't have occurred, and the people who normally could afford the sensible mortgage they'd taken wouldn't have lost their jobs and joined the ranks of the homeless. Further, you claim that the root cause of all this is a common-sense accounting rule. Over a year ago, former FDIC chair William Isaac championed this idea. This is nonsense. The root cause is the banks foolishly dabbling in unstable mortgages to make a quick buck. It doesn't matter what accounting method you use, if you invest heavily in any high-risk market, you stand a chance to lose your money. It doesn't even take Econ101 to know that.
That's exactly what GP was doing, you sub-literate fool. That will remove his entire 6-in-1-type card reader from the system, which is exactly what he doesn't want to have happen.
Yes, wear-leveling does delay the inevitable complete failure of the media. What wear-leveling completely negates is what I was actually talking about, which you'd have seen *if* you passed English 101. The issue is where the FAT remains on the same physical sector for the entire life of the drive, and a failure of that specific physical sector renders the drive useless.
Your entire post would make sense if only one thing were true. If this PC weren't MORE expensive than the closest Mac counterpart, you could excuse poor build quality, under-powered processor, and heftiness as merely being good value for dollar. But that's not true. It's MORE EXPENSIVE than the Air. A slim laptop that's more pricey than the already overpriced status symbol that is the Macbook Air, but provides significantly less value? Somebody failed, and failed hard.
Assuming you're doing the common thing wrt windows: Don't use the "safely remove hardware" eject. Right click the drive icon and choose eject there. Linux, otoh, doesn't need eject. Just umount the thing, and sync if you're paranoid.
You are wrong. See pretty much every other poster on the article. Wear-leveling negates the worry of any single sector being written to failure. Unless, of course, you use flash chips developed in the previous millennium, like a caveman.
Yes. Now either disprove it, as GP did with the "sun causes global warming" theory, or provide another that also fits the evidence. You don't get to ignore a scientific theory just because you don't like the conclusion.
Of course it's not documented. Even if the GP's conspiracy theories were correct, you think the FBI would leave documentation around on the web about ignoring American terrorists in favor of beating up some liberals who don't have guns?
You don't only care about the u-boats you want to destroy. You also care about the ones that pop up into the middle of a carrier group to say "Hi! Naval superiority? Yeah, you're OUR bitch now." China has the superiority. It'd be real nice if we could take it back, seeing as how likely a shooting war on that side of the world is.
You gotta catch up with the wingnuttery, dude. These days it's all right-wing whining about FEMA internment camps for Patriots, terror that the gubmint will take away their AK-47s, and the xenophobic "DEY TOOK OUR JAHBS!" ranting about immigrants.
This guy has it exactly right. One of my friends had a CD of most of WotC's books in PDF that we passed around. As far as I know, nobody actually used the pirated copies for anything but sneakily reading them in class on a laptop. We *all* trouped down to the store at least once a month to buy another book. Who wants to stare at a crappy PDF when you're rolling dice to kill the dragon? WotC is doing nothing but alienating their paying customers.
Why am I arguing with you? You're acting like an anti-linux troll. Why on earth do you even use Ubuntu and two EeePCs? Go put Windows on the damn things and enjoy your binary drivers.
You mean...like...Documentation/SubmittingDrivers? The helpful file that comes with every distribution of the kernel? That lays out a few very specific requirements for getting a driver into the kernel?
Your lack of knowledge doesn't imply a lack of available information. The reason Asus drivers aren't merged lies directly on the Asus developers' own shoulders.
Your last line is a little disingenuous. When you write a windows driver, for best results you submit it for WHQL certification, do you not? There is also a fairly well-defined procedure to have your driver added to the tree for linux. One of the big requirements is that it's not a piece of crappy insecure inefficient dangerous code, and I'd be willing to bet binary blobs aren't well-accepted either. I have an EeePC. Asus drivers are shite, and I certainly couldn't blame kernel devs for not merging them.
Your sarcasm is mis-placed. The GGP spoke specifically about the case where you possess the CD, and a reasonable reading assumes immediate possession. If you've lost, mis-placed, or can't get at the CD, that's a different case entirely.
This is a strawman. If you own the CD, putting it into the computer once and ripping it (takes all of 10 minutes with modern hardware) is so much simpler than P2P that it's not even a comparison. Plucking a random disc out of my collection and doing a search, it takes me at least a minute to start the download. After it downloads (anywhere from 5 to 45 minutes depending on seeders) I have to fix the tags...random uploaders rarely spell track names correctly. Then I get to move them to the right music folder from the download folder. Compare this to: open cd, put cd in computer, wait 10 minutes, put cd away.
Not that I at all think it should be illegal, it's just not a good line of logic.
Am I the only person who is completely past the entire concept of April Fool's day? Seriously. It's not funny, it's just dumb. It's like when my 4-year-old nephew squirts milk out of his nose. Yes, hilarious. If you're FOUR.
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Servers don't use SLI unless they're very special-purpose. Easily half the power in that sort of system is supporting the graphics card. A 1000 watt system with only 32GB of ram is either very inefficient, or doing something that a slashdot poster isn't qualified to pontificate about.
Only a /. geek would make a car crash analogy for getting trojaned warez. The real instant karma would be if you did the car-copying thing, then suddenly died, and were reincarnated as an RIAA lawyer. It could take you a dozen lives to get back up to "human".
It sounds like your school administrator was a failure. One of two things should have happened: One, the students should not have the choice of which math course to attend, except in special circumstances. Two, an incompetent teacher should not be permitted to continue teaching. If the school system is foolish enough to sign a contract that flatly denies any possibility of firing incompetence, they deserve what they get.
On the other hand, of course, students are not rational. They may have avoided the other teacher because his course was more rigorous, and your mother's course emphasized "new math" and feelings. But then, that's the thing about anecdotes. They can mean anything you want them to mean.
Emphasis on first-posting causes author to fail at RTFA. Film at 11.
The article has nothing to do with quantum mechanics. They're not saying that quarks make you do things. What they're saying is that a mathematical model of probability derived from quantum theory is a better predictor of actual human activity than the classic mathematical model. That's a fairly specific--and even likely testable--assertion, and a knee-jerk response does you no benefit.
Yes. Fanboys say things that enforce their fanboy-ism. Rational people tend to just look at them like they're silly, and then get back to work on whatever computer they happen to prefer.
I notice this is moderated -1, Flamebait.
I'd like to suggest a different mod: +3, Troll. It was both subtle and brilliant.
Gene Ray?
There sure are a lot of people who didn't bother to read the article.
The point of these attacks are that it's a coordinated botnet attack. Meaning if you block any single IP, or even a large subnet, you've cost the attacker nothing. Fail2ban, denyhosts, all of these won't even slow these attacks down.
Your assertion is:
The government ordered lenders to loan to people with bad credit ratings, no stable income sufficient to repay, and without any deposit.
This is prima facie false. Unscrupulous and unethical lenders began issuing loans to people manifestly unable to handle the repayment. They did this to make money. They did this because of the republican-championed deregulation efforts. Regulations would have prevented the massive numbers of foreclosed mortgages, because the people being foreclosed on would never have taken a mortgage. The resulting death-spiral of the world economy wouldn't have occurred, and the people who normally could afford the sensible mortgage they'd taken wouldn't have lost their jobs and joined the ranks of the homeless.
Further, you claim that the root cause of all this is a common-sense accounting rule. Over a year ago, former FDIC chair William Isaac championed this idea. This is nonsense. The root cause is the banks foolishly dabbling in unstable mortgages to make a quick buck. It doesn't matter what accounting method you use, if you invest heavily in any high-risk market, you stand a chance to lose your money. It doesn't even take Econ101 to know that.
That's exactly what GP was doing, you sub-literate fool. That will remove his entire 6-in-1-type card reader from the system, which is exactly what he doesn't want to have happen.
Yes, wear-leveling does delay the inevitable complete failure of the media. What wear-leveling completely negates is what I was actually talking about, which you'd have seen *if* you passed English 101. The issue is where the FAT remains on the same physical sector for the entire life of the drive, and a failure of that specific physical sector renders the drive useless.
Your entire post would make sense if only one thing were true. If this PC weren't MORE expensive than the closest Mac counterpart, you could excuse poor build quality, under-powered processor, and heftiness as merely being good value for dollar. But that's not true. It's MORE EXPENSIVE than the Air. A slim laptop that's more pricey than the already overpriced status symbol that is the Macbook Air, but provides significantly less value? Somebody failed, and failed hard.
Assuming you're doing the common thing wrt windows: Don't use the "safely remove hardware" eject. Right click the drive icon and choose eject there. Linux, otoh, doesn't need eject. Just umount the thing, and sync if you're paranoid.
You are wrong. See pretty much every other poster on the article. Wear-leveling negates the worry of any single sector being written to failure. Unless, of course, you use flash chips developed in the previous millennium, like a caveman.
Yes. Now either disprove it, as GP did with the "sun causes global warming" theory, or provide another that also fits the evidence. You don't get to ignore a scientific theory just because you don't like the conclusion.
Of course it's not documented. Even if the GP's conspiracy theories were correct, you think the FBI would leave documentation around on the web about ignoring American terrorists in favor of beating up some liberals who don't have guns?
You don't only care about the u-boats you want to destroy. You also care about the ones that pop up into the middle of a carrier group to say "Hi! Naval superiority? Yeah, you're OUR bitch now." China has the superiority. It'd be real nice if we could take it back, seeing as how likely a shooting war on that side of the world is.
You gotta catch up with the wingnuttery, dude. These days it's all right-wing whining about FEMA internment camps for Patriots, terror that the gubmint will take away their AK-47s, and the xenophobic "DEY TOOK OUR JAHBS!" ranting about immigrants.
The left sounds positively sane by comparison.
This guy has it exactly right.
One of my friends had a CD of most of WotC's books in PDF that we passed around. As far as I know, nobody actually used the pirated copies for anything but sneakily reading them in class on a laptop. We *all* trouped down to the store at least once a month to buy another book.
Who wants to stare at a crappy PDF when you're rolling dice to kill the dragon? WotC is doing nothing but alienating their paying customers.
Why am I arguing with you? You're acting like an anti-linux troll. Why on earth do you even use Ubuntu and two EeePCs? Go put Windows on the damn things and enjoy your binary drivers.
You mean...like...Documentation/SubmittingDrivers? The helpful file that comes with every distribution of the kernel? That lays out a few very specific requirements for getting a driver into the kernel?
Your lack of knowledge doesn't imply a lack of available information. The reason Asus drivers aren't merged lies directly on the Asus developers' own shoulders.
Your last line is a little disingenuous. When you write a windows driver, for best results you submit it for WHQL certification, do you not? There is also a fairly well-defined procedure to have your driver added to the tree for linux. One of the big requirements is that it's not a piece of crappy insecure inefficient dangerous code, and I'd be willing to bet binary blobs aren't well-accepted either.
I have an EeePC. Asus drivers are shite, and I certainly couldn't blame kernel devs for not merging them.
Your sarcasm is mis-placed. The GGP spoke specifically about the case where you possess the CD, and a reasonable reading assumes immediate possession. If you've lost, mis-placed, or can't get at the CD, that's a different case entirely.
This is a strawman. If you own the CD, putting it into the computer once and ripping it (takes all of 10 minutes with modern hardware) is so much simpler than P2P that it's not even a comparison. Plucking a random disc out of my collection and doing a search, it takes me at least a minute to start the download. After it downloads (anywhere from 5 to 45 minutes depending on seeders) I have to fix the tags...random uploaders rarely spell track names correctly. Then I get to move them to the right music folder from the download folder.
Compare this to: open cd, put cd in computer, wait 10 minutes, put cd away.
Not that I at all think it should be illegal, it's just not a good line of logic.
Am I the only person who is completely past the entire concept of April Fool's day? Seriously. It's not funny, it's just dumb. It's like when my 4-year-old nephew squirts milk out of his nose. Yes, hilarious. If you're FOUR.