Breeding isn't the real problem, as we always need younger brains and muscles. Eldery is the problem, as much as retirement. Europe is having this problem right now: too many people over 60 years old, and they are living even more every day. Humanity is the problem of this world:P
OK, stop raising people everybody.
That's just the same as a Malthusian thinking, isn't it? Read Malthusian catastrophe.
Even if we know that having only 1/10th of current world population would be beneficial to the world at all, how can we get ride of the "undesired" 9/10th ? Once you can answer that, maybe we could adopt your solution. I'd happily agree with you.
Have you ever consider their know-how in data compression and data storage? They have indexed *almost* (ok, ok, maybe just HTML and Images, but whatever) the whole fuckin' world wide web.
And how much of that 2GB isn't actually shared with other users? Do you have some pr0n there? Maybe other thousand users have the same, maybe even with the same filename. So they say "you are using 1.5GB", but of that 1.5GB much is stored in a shared space with other users.
Funny videos, PowerPoint Slides, pr0n... it's the same file stored there for you, or anyone in the world. A few security concerns about it, surely, but nothing THAT critical (think in something like: "if SHA256 and MD5 doesn't match, save in a new shared space").
Why do you think that people would use Micro$oft products? They don't know ANYTHING about computers (yet), so they won't be bothering themselvs to install something they don't know how to use. They will use what came with the Connected PC.
Micro$oft doesn't want to people start using Linux because it's the begining of the revolution. Think this way: Which one is most likely to get a job on a small store that already uses Linux? The guy with a Connected PC with Linux or the one using Windows?
Don't know, but does Gentoo support MIPS, MIPSEL and other strange archs like those? The main issue is about differences in little endian and big endian archs, where some important packages may break.
Why would someone run Debian on a cellphone, tell me? IA-64 are good machines for researchers and for some powerful applications. Have you ever seen a webserver running on IA-64 machine running Debian? I do, all the time.
Debian doesn't need to drop anything, it just need to stop being so wimpy wanting to release all archs together. Why can't we have Debian 3.1 being the stable version for some archs and Debian 3.0 being stable for others? Is that SO hard to mantain?
> I don't have displays of cigarettes, liquor, and porno magazines in my home.
I do, and my childrens don't have problems with cigaretts, liquor or porn. Oh wait, I don't have any children.
Nothing to see were, move along..
Ever heard about Debian STABLE and Debian TESTING? Yeah, that's another good example. STABLE is really stable, but not everybody can run "old" software on their machines.
I run Debian TESTING (sarge) on my machines, but would run to UNSTABLE (sid) because I don't need bleeding egde updates.
Actually, there aren't any memory specs on the article, neither on the top500 summary. On IBM page http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/bladecenter/j s20/more_info.html here we see that those machines are up to 4GB of RAM.
Maybe memory was too expensive and they are running with the enough to boot on?:)
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Breeding isn't the real problem, as we always need younger brains and muscles. Eldery is the problem, as much as retirement. Europe is having this problem right now: too many people over 60 years old, and they are living even more every day. Humanity is the problem of this world :P
OK, stop raising people everybody.
That's just the same as a Malthusian thinking, isn't it? Read Malthusian catastrophe.
Even if we know that having only 1/10th of current world population would be beneficial to the world at all, how can we get ride of the "undesired" 9/10th ? Once you can answer that, maybe we could adopt your solution. I'd happily agree with you.
Have you ever consider their know-how in data compression and data storage? They have indexed *almost* (ok, ok, maybe just HTML and Images, but whatever) the whole fuckin' world wide web.
And how much of that 2GB isn't actually shared with other users? Do you have some pr0n there? Maybe other thousand users have the same, maybe even with the same filename. So they say "you are using 1.5GB", but of that 1.5GB much is stored in a shared space with other users.
Funny videos, PowerPoint Slides, pr0n... it's the same file stored there for you, or anyone in the world. A few security concerns about it, surely, but nothing THAT critical (think in something like: "if SHA256 and MD5 doesn't match, save in a new shared space").
> Are they trying to kill Intel sales?
/me ducks
How about EM64T ? http://www.intel.com/technology/64bitextensions/
Maybe Intel isn't aiming for 64-bit desktop computing yet, but there are plenty servers running EM64T (P4 Xeon) already.
And I'm not even going to talk about Itanium 2...
Bah, extreme programming isn't as good as the coding practice we started at our lab: SUICIDAL EXTREME PROGRAMMING!
:D
Code for weeks, without even trying to compile. When you think your code is good enough, start compiling and fixing it. Well, it is working yet...
No post and already slashdotted.
Long live asp-based sites.
FP?
Same here for me, long time since I set up my own local mirror for x86, IA-64 and x86_64, being the last from amd64.debian.net.
:)
Maybe tomorrow morning I will download a minimal ISO file just to start doing fresh install on some old machines.
Great job Debian Team, thanks!
Why do you think that people would use Micro$oft products? They don't know ANYTHING about computers (yet), so they won't be bothering themselvs to install something they don't know how to use. They will use what came with the Connected PC.
Micro$oft doesn't want to people start using Linux because it's the begining of the revolution. Think this way: Which one is most likely to get a job on a small store that already uses Linux? The guy with a Connected PC with Linux or the one using Windows?
Easy with this one, it's an old Dual P3 machine:
s /web_trailer_II_larger.mov
http://200.17.94.190/~felipe/star_wars_revolution
Interesting? The ones who moderated this INTERESTING should receive a kick.
:)
At least if they are not talking about his sig... really interesting sig
Don't know, but does Gentoo support MIPS, MIPSEL and other strange archs like those? The main issue is about differences in little endian and big endian archs, where some important packages may break.
Why would someone run Debian on a cellphone, tell me? IA-64 are good machines for researchers and for some powerful applications. Have you ever seen a webserver running on IA-64 machine running Debian? I do, all the time.
Debian doesn't need to drop anything, it just need to stop being so wimpy wanting to release all archs together. Why can't we have Debian 3.1 being the stable version for some archs and Debian 3.0 being stable for others? Is that SO hard to mantain?
It would be on the Games section just if you use to "play with yourself", if you know what I mean.
> I don't have displays of cigarettes, liquor, and porno magazines in my home. I do, and my childrens don't have problems with cigaretts, liquor or porn. Oh wait, I don't have any children. Nothing to see were, move along..
Ever heard about Debian STABLE and Debian TESTING? Yeah, that's another good example. STABLE is really stable, but not everybody can run "old" software on their machines. I run Debian TESTING (sarge) on my machines, but would run to UNSTABLE (sid) because I don't need bleeding egde updates.
Dude, this is slashdot! Don't say "look my website" unless you are sure you can handle it :P
I was wondering the same thing, until I realised that the first image on the web was "photoshopped".
http://musiclub.web.cern.ch.nyud.net:8090/MusiClub /bands/cernettes/firstband.html
Condor was made many years before grid computing, it is just a bad comparison for people who doesn't know how to explain grid computing.
Let's stop talking to other persons, because we don't know the protocol. Open-source the human code or I will isolate myself!
Actually, there aren't any memory specs on the article, neither on the top500 summary. On IBM page http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/bladecenter/j s20/more_info.html here we see that those machines are up to 4GB of RAM.
Maybe memory was too expensive and they are running with the enough to boot on? :)