As a European from Southern Europe, I only know about thanksgiving from American movies and television. Same goes for Halloween (although we do have carnivals the last 3 Sundays before the 40-day fasting for Easter).
There is a trend, though, to "internationalize" these American celebrations, mainly for consuming purposes I guess (part of the globalization matters).
You don't say? In the definition for the adjective 'terrorist' (I hope you know you used 'terrorist' as a noun) it says: "characteristic of someone who employs terrorism (especially as a political weapon)"; I hoped you would understand the difference between "especially" and "always"... do you?
Later on, there is a sub-sentence saying "a radical who employs terror as a political weapon"; it is obvious to me that your comment is based on this from all the information given on the term. Well, if you think that this is thecomplete definition, arrange that the guys in dictionary.com remove everything else except from that sub-sentence; it must be obvious to you that "they can't write definitions";-)
and he would have actually had to carry out his threats
No, read the definition again: he would have to "employ terrorism".
Francis-Macrae employed terrorism by threatening to attack other computers with massive incoming email and DoS attacks. Notice that he had been already successful in using massive emailing during his business, so his threat about multiple attacks can be considered substantial, and his further threats about "burning" and "bombing" can therefore be considered possible.
These threats are an act of terrorism.
OTOH, Ballmer's "I'm gonna forking kill Google" cannot easily be considered a terrorist action, even if he said that he'd done it before, since these previous actions are not known to his potential victims, and therefore he can't be taken seriously however large the chair being thrown around, because he hasn't the means to destroy another company....Or has he?-)
This horse is dead as far as I am concerned, I promise you I won't write back, feel free to reply as you like.
He's not a "terrorist". His actions were apparently not politically motivated.
Terrorists are not just those who terrorize for political reasons.
B (terrorists) is a superset of A (terrorists with political motives>, so for every x in A, x in B is implied; I believe we agree on that. What you just said is that x is not a member of A, therefore he isn't a member of B too, which logically is flawed.
What do you call someone who threats to bomb a building unless they are offered a large amount of money? Do they have to actually bomb the building to earn the title "terrorist"?
Don't worry, I'm sure someday Intel will come out with competitive chips again.
Pentium M is a great chip. Far better than the Pentium 4, anyway.
I'm a fan of AMD for years now, but I appreciate a lot the performance of the Pentium M in my laptop. So now I wouldn't mind using a cluster running on Pentium M server chips...
More to the point regarding Cray is their XD1. THAT is a cool machine!
Call me a cynical son of a bitch, but I wonder how can they use 144 Opterons in a single unified system with up to 1.2 TiB of memory, while an Opteron can only address 40 bits of physical memory. 2**10, 2**20, 2**30, 2**40... that's still less than 2**40.263034 .
I don't doubt that XD1 flies, I just had a sudden marketing-bullshit-alert;-)
Slashdot readership is not an elite, it's just an assembly of geeks. The up-modding of your article just means that some random readers found it insightful; nothing more, nothing less. It's not a medal or a decoration; judging just by the difference in our/. IDs I would assume you would know by now;-)
...by 80 Gb/s Craylink cables. I think this interlink technology is also licensed to SGI for use in their Origin computers.
Which they call NUMALink (for Non-Uniform Memory Access --a node obviously accesses its memory faster than through the interconnection), and they're used in their Altix (Linux on Itanium2) computers too; I don't know how much they have evolved the technology, I just know that it's 3.2GiB/s each direction.
Have you got any links to some page describing some configuration similar perhaps to your colleague's system? I haven't heard about 10GiB/s CrayLink and find it very intriguing.
No, it's not the Saudis that will buy the technology, most probably it will be the Seven Sisters... The Saudi's are only the "producers" of oil (think artists), the Seven Sisters are the distributors (think RIAA) that take real advantage of the product...
Windows: A 64-bit revamping of a 32-bit extension for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor written by a 2-bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition.
There still is a 200 MHz (overclocked to 233 without any CPU fans:) P-MMX Compaq DeskPro with 224 MiB RAM at a company were I used to be the router-arch (or network admin if you like). IIRC it runs some (heavily modified) version of Mandrake, it's a backup DNS, a primary MX (for ~600 messages per day), a backup web proxy, a firewall and a SMB fileserver. Since it does so many things, it also works as a over-temperature warning; when things stop working, the current routerarch knows that computer room temperature has risen above 28 deg C;-) Its host name is Marvin; seems like the name choice was quite a successful one (ie keeps on working with spurious complaints).
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No, SIWI (Search for Intra-Web Intelligence).
There are lots of applications, esp in the Unix world, that also install their own private JVM...
Whenever I want to give karma for funny posts, I use Underrated --it's not used that often, and it's almost true...
As a European from Southern Europe, I only know about thanksgiving from American movies and television. Same goes for Halloween (although we do have carnivals the last 3 Sundays before the 40-day fasting for Easter).
There is a trend, though, to "internationalize" these American celebrations, mainly for consuming purposes I guess (part of the globalization matters).
I'll let others talk about their experience.
Do not confuse 3M's DUCT TAPEs with Python's DUCK TYPEs... although it depends mostly on your accent.
Later on, there is a sub-sentence saying "a radical who employs terror as a political weapon"; it is obvious to me that your comment is based on this from all the information given on the term. Well, if you think that this is the complete definition, arrange that the guys in dictionary.com remove everything else except from that sub-sentence; it must be obvious to you that "they can't write definitions"
Francis-Macrae employed terrorism by threatening to attack other computers with massive incoming email and DoS attacks. Notice that he had been already successful in using massive emailing during his business, so his threat about multiple attacks can be considered substantial, and his further threats about "burning" and "bombing" can therefore be considered possible.
These threats are an act of terrorism.
OTOH, Ballmer's "I'm gonna forking kill Google" cannot easily be considered a terrorist action, even if he said that he'd done it before, since these previous actions are not known to his potential victims, and therefore he can't be taken seriously however large the chair being thrown around, because he hasn't the means to destroy another company. ...Or has he?-)
This horse is dead as far as I am concerned, I promise you I won't write back, feel free to reply as you like.
B (terrorists) is a superset of A (terrorists with political motives>, so for every x in A, x in B is implied; I believe we agree on that. What you just said is that x is not a member of A, therefore he isn't a member of B too, which logically is flawed.
What do you call someone who threats to bomb a building unless they are offered a large amount of money? Do they have to actually bomb the building to earn the title "terrorist"?
I'm a fan of AMD for years now, but I appreciate a lot the performance of the Pentium M in my laptop. So now I wouldn't mind using a cluster running on Pentium M server chips...
I don't doubt that XD1 flies, I just had a sudden marketing-bullshit-alert ;-)
And moderating is voting.
SGI at Wikipedia
So CrayLink and NUMALink are SGI developed technology, based on the DASH project at Stanford University.
NUMALink
Have you got any links to some page describing some configuration similar perhaps to your colleague's system? I haven't heard about 10GiB/s CrayLink and find it very intriguing.
No, it's not the Saudis that will buy the technology, most probably it will be the Seven Sisters... The Saudi's are only the "producers" of oil (think artists), the Seven Sisters are the distributors (think RIAA) that take real advantage of the product...
Based on the "old" saying (one such incarnation can be found in: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Win dows )
Windows: A 64-bit revamping of a 32-bit extension for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor written by a 2-bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition.
fgrep = grep -F
Earth is closer to the Sun than Mars is, but there's still a lot of energy reaching Mars' surface.
Be a nice chap and click on TFA URL. What is the page title?
Actually, a megameter would be shortened to Mm.
No; computers are spaceheaters; your coworkers are spaceeaters.
There still is a 200 MHz (overclocked to 233 without any CPU fans :) P-MMX Compaq DeskPro with 224 MiB RAM at a company were I used to be the router-arch (or network admin if you like). IIRC it runs some (heavily modified) version of Mandrake, it's a backup DNS, a primary MX (for ~600 messages per day), a backup web proxy, a firewall and a SMB fileserver. Since it does so many things, it also works as a over-temperature warning; when things stop working, the current routerarch knows that computer room temperature has risen above 28 deg C ;-) Its host name is Marvin; seems like the name choice was quite a successful one (ie keeps on working with spurious complaints).
MOD PARENT UP (Informative would be a good choice)