Leakey seems to have become a bit confused about this; he dated Lucy at sundry millions of years old and then modern human remains were found in a nearby stratum much lower down - therefore, by the usual reckoning, modern man is maybe maybe 5 or 6 million years old.
OTOH, by actually counting the Carbon 12/14 atoms instead of dealing with them en-masse, nothing is lost (well, three nothings, to be more exact). 5kyo or 5Myo? Your call. (-:
My own view is that it's got zippo to do with hunting instincts and lots to do with the erosion of family bonds. Put people in a mechanical system (daycare to school to factory/cubefarm to prison to cemetary, always lined up, always regimented, always forced "by circumstances", (until last one) always watch clock), where they've go nobody to turn to except others who also don't know and need help, and explosions like these are inevitable. Keep mums and dads always at work, children always separate at school, dilute the remaining time with television and sports, and what time is left for nurture? For building of character, stability, confidence, courage, reasoning, personality?
If you want instinct, subcultures like Goths etc might be an instinctive reaction against attempts to force each person to be one cabbage in a field of millions of identical cabbages - as Larsen's penguin cartoon put it, "I've just gotta be meeee!" Long live freedom, particularly of association and expression! It's what the USA was built on, and it's what is being stolen from you in the biggest chunks right now.
Finally, I get around to putting 5.01 AKA 5.0FilterUpgrade onto a CD, and the very next day, lo! a new version appeareth!
I hope it's as fast (relatively speaking) on Linux as the OS/2 bloke above intimated. My 5.01 runs usefully fast on a K6-II-300 with 64M, and only crashes about as often as Word, but got about a D from me for importing things from Word (2, 6 or 8).
Mind you, Word 8 gets only a C from me for importing from Word (for windows) 2. I see on their website that SO claim to have been working on that, so perhaps they'll get at least a C as well. S-:
Oh, well... at -f grab-staroffice-from-aarnet.sh now+10hours...
You whipper-snippers wouldn't remember when same dome was turned into an enormous breast, nor when a 'phone booth was discovered atop it - and found to be entirely functional, light and all, when the maintenance people got up there to remove it.
You would have to make Linux maybe 5x faster to make Mindcraft benchmarks work - essentially a Complete Waste Of Time.
And it's dollars to doughnuts that the other benchmarks quoted by MS on their page were against SaMBa set up for security (default) and then benchmarked for speed.
One benchmark graph in particular showed what looked like a benchmark of CGI versus server-module; in other words, it wasn't benchmarking like against like. Surprise.
Do these benchmarks also verify that the received data is actually correct? The thought I have is that if not, "we" could do the same thing that MS appear to be doing, i.e. set everything up to be as fast as possible and to hell with the risk of corruption, and show them what a _real_ server OS can do. Full speed ahead, and damn the checksums! (-:
The maximum amount of time for a script to execute was exceeded. You can change this limit by specifying a new value for the property Server.ScriptTimeOut or by changing the value in the IIS administration tools."
Just about says it all. (-:
The two other benchmarks they refer to both apparently stuffed the tuning. Mention of slow read times is a bit of a giveaway. Go read the SaMBa tuning HOWTO.
One of the benchmarks was also comparing apples with oranges; as if a server running, say, PERL as a CGI would compete with one running mod_perl!
So far, so good, said the man as he fell past the third floor. We're riding an asymptote here.
The silly thing is, the answer's simple: give authority AND responsibility back to parents. Encourage them AND hold them to blame.
Questions to ask: why weren't the parents charged with having a bomb on the premises? Why aren't parents presented with home and/or co-operative schooling as options when they arrive to sign up their child for 12 years' part-time prison? Why does punishing your child for risky behaviour put you at risk of a jail sentence? And so on...
Would you rather learn in school or aboard a cruise liner?Read this especially the long and detailed study at the other end of the link in it, and the short item at the bottom of the page. You could come out of it with better grades, more friends, and knowing who your parents are!
Yes, April and all... but an MS thought-control interface would be next to useless anyway, due to flooding by frustration and disappointment, wouldn't it?
Perl isn't exactly CPU-lite as a webserver. I'd say Mr Malda just runs nice hardware with a decent OS and webserver on it. But if the slashdotting of slashdot ever worries you, send him an Alpha or two. Then all you'll have to worry about is his uplink getting slashdotted...
Bill's book is just like the rest of his career: get your ideas and hard work from elsewhere; university rubbish bins and other people's efforts for example, then flog them for all you're worth (and start off by being worth a mint anyway).
Both of these reviewers seem to have been infected: none of their ideas are new or exciting or even insightful. Is the book in fact a literature virus?
If so, what are these two reviewers now going to use as a virus scanner? Terry Pratchett novels?
Many of those posting here claim that FSF's view is not reality. True. But it can _shape_ reality, and much for the better, as GCC (the obvious example) has shown.
It also points out that TANSTAAFL must also be long-range; all of those government $$$ which, however indirectly, launched GNU in practical terms were the payment for the GNU "free lunch" which the computing world now eats. GPL needs to remain current, and prominent, in the software world, even if only to "keep the blighters honest."
Most importantly, their approach "this is our view, we'd like you to adopt it BUT WON'T FORCE YOU TO or even yell at you for not adopting it" is the core and essence of working civilisation. As well as the software impact, who has analysed the _social_ impact of the very existence of the GPL?
The core of Open Sourceism is that ESR can do as he pleases, and we can think as we please of it. If he wants to throw his opinions around as if they had weight, fine. If we want to add weight to them or to disclaim them, fine too.
If the flamers didn't like his opinions, the obvious answer is to voice theirs. If those who _need_ a leader ("We're all individuals/I'm not!") want someone to follow and lionise instead of standing on their own intellectual feet, well, that's their choice too.
It takes up too much space, and it's damn near impossible to keep clean!
With this new protocol, plus the usual wonderfully secure and bugless implementation of it from dear old Micro$loth, them there trees is _all_ deaders!
I think we should immediately move to support low-power flat hi-res displays, even monochrome ones, with a view to helping Moore's law in making them cheaper, more portable and more readily available. Then we can carry our "printer" around with us and who cares if someone "prints" 100 pages to it?
...or PDP-10... and remember, we're talking about a 36-bit machine with register-to-RAM mapping (like some embedded processors have only just rediscovered) that boots from _tape_!
Emperor's New Printer? Anyone remember the OS/2 cartoon that circulated about 6 years ago?
(1) I'm surprised that the Church of Scientology hasn't sued both parties for using words from the title of an old Lafayette Ronald Hubbard book.
(2) "Earth shoes" sound a little, well, crumbly... and prone to sprouting... and difficult to clean...
(3) Perhaps we could take this to its logical conclusion and copyright the name "The And But Why Internet Store", then sue everyone who uses "and", "but", "why", "the", "internet" or "store" in their name?
Disney merchandise, I have been told, is often produced at _less_ than $1 per hour, and in some cases under armed guard (I presume that the guards are paid a little more) because the workers are so desperate that they'll steal merchandise to help feed their families.
What to do? If one boycotts such products, the oppressed workers don't even have the choice of being tyrannised, but if one doesn't, the practice is supported and encouraged by each purchase.
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OTOH, by actually counting the Carbon 12/14 atoms instead of dealing with them en-masse, nothing is lost (well, three nothings, to be more exact). 5kyo or 5Myo? Your call. (-:
My own view is that it's got zippo to do with hunting instincts and lots to do with the erosion of family bonds. Put people in a mechanical system (daycare to school to factory/cubefarm to prison to cemetary, always lined up, always regimented, always forced "by circumstances", (until last one) always watch clock), where they've go nobody to turn to except others who also don't know and need help, and explosions like these are inevitable. Keep mums and dads always at work, children always separate at school, dilute the remaining time with television and sports, and what time is left for nurture? For building of character, stability, confidence, courage, reasoning, personality?
If you want instinct, subcultures like Goths etc might be an instinctive reaction against attempts to force each person to be one cabbage in a field of millions of identical cabbages - as Larsen's penguin cartoon put it, "I've just gotta be meeee!" Long live freedom, particularly of association and expression! It's what the USA was built on, and it's what is being stolen from you in the biggest chunks right now.
Finally, I get around to putting 5.01 AKA 5.0FilterUpgrade onto a CD, and the very next day, lo! a new version appeareth!
I hope it's as fast (relatively speaking) on Linux as the OS/2 bloke above intimated. My 5.01 runs usefully fast on a K6-II-300 with 64M, and only crashes about as often as Word, but got about a D from me for importing things from Word (2, 6 or 8).
Mind you, Word 8 gets only a C from me for importing from Word (for windows) 2. I see on their website that SO claim to have been working on that, so perhaps they'll get at least a C as well. S-:
Oh, well... at -f grab-staroffice-from-aarnet.sh now+10hours...
You whipper-snippers wouldn't remember when same dome was turned into an enormous breast, nor when a 'phone booth was discovered atop it - and found to be entirely functional, light and all, when the maintenance people got up there to remove it.
And then there were the sporting events...
You would have to make Linux maybe 5x faster to make Mindcraft benchmarks work - essentially a Complete Waste Of Time.
And it's dollars to doughnuts that the other benchmarks quoted by MS on their page were against SaMBa set up for security (default) and then benchmarked for speed.
One benchmark graph in particular showed what looked like a benchmark of CGI versus server-module; in other words, it wasn't benchmarking like against like. Surprise.
Do these benchmarks also verify that the received data is actually correct? The thought I have is that if not, "we" could do the same thing that MS appear to be doing, i.e. set everything up to be as fast as possible and to hell with the risk of corruption, and show them what a _real_ server OS can do. Full speed ahead, and damn the checksums! (-:
error 'ASP 0113'
I think this:
"Script timed out
/ntserver/nts/news/msnw/nt4vLinux.asp
The maximum amount of time for a script to execute was exceeded. You can change this limit by specifying a new value for the
property Server.ScriptTimeOut or by changing the value in the IIS administration tools."
Just about says it all. (-:
The two other benchmarks they refer to both apparently stuffed the tuning. Mention of slow read times is a bit of a giveaway. Go read the SaMBa tuning HOWTO.
One of the benchmarks was also comparing apples with oranges; as if a server running, say, PERL as a CGI would compete with one running mod_perl!
Microsoft through and through, as usual.
The silly thing is, the answer's simple: give authority AND responsibility back to parents. Encourage them AND hold them to blame.
Questions to ask: why weren't the parents charged with having a bomb on the premises? Why aren't parents presented with home and/or co-operative schooling as options when they arrive to sign up their child for 12 years' part-time prison? Why does punishing your child for risky behaviour put you at risk of a jail sentence? And so on...
Would you rather learn in school or aboard a cruise liner? Read this especially the long and detailed study at the other end of the link in it, and the short item at the bottom of the page. You could come out of it with better grades, more friends, and knowing who your parents are!
Yes, April and all... but an MS thought-control interface would be next to useless anyway, due to flooding by frustration and disappointment, wouldn't it?
Perl isn't exactly CPU-lite as a webserver. I'd say Mr Malda just runs nice hardware with a decent OS and webserver on it. But if the slashdotting of slashdot ever worries you, send him an Alpha or two. Then all you'll have to worry about is his uplink getting slashdotted...
Both of these reviewers seem to have been infected: none of their ideas are new or exciting or even insightful. Is the book in fact a literature virus?
If so, what are these two reviewers now going to use as a virus scanner? Terry Pratchett novels?
It also points out that TANSTAAFL must also be long-range; all of those government $$$ which, however indirectly, launched GNU in practical terms were the payment for the GNU "free lunch" which the computing world now eats. GPL needs to remain current, and prominent, in the software world, even if only to "keep the blighters honest."
Most importantly, their approach "this is our view, we'd like you to adopt it BUT WON'T FORCE YOU TO or even yell at you for not adopting it" is the core and essence of working civilisation. As well as the software impact, who has analysed the _social_ impact of the very existence of the GPL?
If the flamers didn't like his opinions, the obvious answer is to voice theirs. If those who _need_ a leader ("We're all individuals/I'm not!") want someone to follow and lionise instead of standing on their own intellectual feet, well, that's their choice too.
Never be the same? Transmeta-plus-stutter seems to _always_ be the same...
http://www.davesclassics.com/mamepage.html and when those THOUSAND OR SO wear out, there's always QuakeWorld and friends...
With this new protocol, plus the usual wonderfully secure and bugless implementation of it from dear old Micro$loth, them there trees is _all_ deaders!
I think we should immediately move to support low-power flat hi-res displays, even monochrome ones, with a view to helping Moore's law in making them cheaper, more portable and more readily available. Then we can carry our "printer" around with us and who cares if someone "prints" 100 pages to it?
Emperor's New Printer? Anyone remember the OS/2 cartoon that circulated about 6 years ago?
* Well, that's not true, since far more home enthusiasts with an interest in 3D graphics use windows than use any other OS.
If this kind of thing happens often, it will eventually be true. And is that a bad thing? (-:
** I've got to make _some_ money off this
* Sure. So charge for it, or charge for support, or charge for something, but don't do it on an OS basis.
Yes! Do it on an OS basis!! Which OS, in reality, costs most to support? TANSTAAFL, you know... (Mike would do it!)
a bolster for corprate insecurity, good only for
pleasant waffling in board meetings.
What Linux and OSS is about is solving every
problem at once, in parallel, without reins. (-:
(2) "Earth shoes" sound a little, well, crumbly... and prone to sprouting... and difficult to clean...
(3) Perhaps we could take this to its logical conclusion and copyright the name "The And But Why Internet Store", then sue everyone who uses "and", "but", "why", "the", "internet" or "store" in their name?
What to do? If one boycotts such products, the oppressed workers don't even have the choice of being tyrannised, but if one doesn't, the practice is supported and encouraged by each purchase.
Looks like the perfect 3D accelerator... (-:
The first author's name is Piter de Vries! House Harkonnen is at our very doors! (-: