After looking at the Babel-dy-gook of translations of the PPC 970 article, everything I read on slashdot had the appearance of broken English. Sigh. This too shall pass.
Anyways, couldn't they get much better performance if they had a electrical signal that had a not so fast not so regular repeating pattern of pulses of light and then used a second out of phase signal to modify it to get the correct pattern. Both signals could run at a lower rate (leaving room for improvement and lowering costs of development, time to market) and then the final pattern would be nearly the same as the single signal trying to do all the work. The single signal would approach the point of insufficient return on investment faster than the two signals.
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That is the first coherent argument I ever read.
Thank you.
I railed against the time is money thing because I find a lot of people who still count the jiffies after the clock strikes "Go Home".
And then they wonder why they're never happy.
Just my $.02
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Those sysadmins would get paid whether it went down or not.
Those network admins would get paid whether it went down or not.
They're most likely salaried so no extra charge. Even if they're not they're hired for their brains not their time.
Now if SCO is so lame as to need outside help, well yeah there's a hit there.
As for customers let me explain why all these time is money arguments are bull.
Day 1
SCO: $0 Company A: $500
Company A wants product for $500. SCO is not down: SCO $500 A $0
SCO is down: SCO $0 A $500 Day 2: SC0 $500 A $0
No difference only time delay.
Now let's suppose Company A needs service so that customers can get access.
There is still no difference. Because the relation between customers and company A just reduces to the previous example.
Sure customers might go elsewhere, but we all know that's insignificant considering the ton of vendor-lock in that people get when we talk about servers and networking systems. So they can't go elsewhere most likely anyway.
All there is is a time delay.
I like analogies. I dislike lazy analogies.
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If ISP does not fix it's system to block spammers, their news server will be DDoS'ed.
1. Just crumple up a piece of paper. 2. Trace the creases in pen. 3. Scan the piece of paper. 4. The image is the key to the document.
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1. These are computers not human beings. 2. Crashing or overloading them is merely temporary suspended animation. 3. There was no real damage done. 4. So called lost transactions were merely delayed to another day not lost, therefore there was zero damage only righteous frustration of SCO.
It's the most satisfying benign form of protest.
I encourage it.
Also, I'll add that the Usenet Death Sentence was often used to get ISPs to care about spam. Quite effectively too.
You could emulate a beowulf cluster of those that would eventually become sentient, look at all the Quake clones on the market, realize that you have no life, realize that it is forgotten, and shut itself off in disgust.
1. Privatization of info seeking tasks. 2. Out sourcing by private companies to individual contractors. 3. Info contractors limited to having information on no more 10 people. 4. Info contractors must be legally knowledgable with yearly review.
In a country of 300,000,000 that would mean 30,000,000 would be aware of the laws that the country is crushed by. 30 Million... Aware... uh, we win!
The second amendment has been neutered by uses against purely violent threats.
I thought it was supposed to help us defend against a corrupt gov't.
I say the hell with the guns. Every home should have a legal counsel fully loyal to that home's interests with local, state, national, and global expertise.
They're not communication services. Which means they should have even less liability than true common carriers.
When I send a letter out, the mailperson takes it out of my hands and carries it via this route or that.
When I send an email, my email software barks at the ethernet port hoping for a useful reply. All the ISP does is route traffic according to well defined rules that they have no control over.
Or say I use web-based mail. Whose ISP is responsible? Mine? The Web Mail's ISP? The Receiver's ISP? Is the Web Mail an ISP? Really, then I can be an ISP too by installing a Network Capable Operating System like GNU OS which often includes sendmail and other goodies.
No. ISPs are required by the DMCA to counternotify for specific files, to notify users, to allow users to respond to the plaintiff, and to comply with the DMCA when the plaintiff has complied with the DMCA.
Assuming the price isn't inflated by either AMD or Intel, the Opteron uses less materials = less waste (wastage isn't a word anymore than smartness is a word).
That's debatable. The prices are probably inflated.
However, given the performance of the chips, it will require less Opterons to do the same job as the Xeons which means less "dumpage", less waste, and less contamination.
Better performance = better environment, in comparison to the competition.
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After looking at the Babel-dy-gook of translations of the PPC 970 article, everything I read on slashdot had the appearance of broken English. Sigh. This too shall pass.
Anyways, couldn't they get much better performance if they had a electrical signal that had a not so fast not so regular repeating pattern of pulses of light and then used a second out of phase signal to modify it to get the correct pattern. Both signals could run at a lower rate (leaving room for improvement and lowering costs of development, time to market) and then the final pattern would be nearly the same as the single signal trying to do all the work. The single signal would approach the point of insufficient return on investment faster than the two signals.
I have seen this before... ECP?
That is the first coherent argument I ever read.
Thank you.
I railed against the time is money thing because I find a lot of people who still count the jiffies after the clock strikes "Go Home".
And then they wonder why they're never happy.
Just my $.02
Those sysadmins would get paid whether it went down or not.
Those network admins would get paid whether it went down or not.
They're most likely salaried so no extra charge. Even if they're not they're hired for their brains not their time.
Now if SCO is so lame as to need outside help, well yeah there's a hit there.
As for customers let me explain why all these time is money arguments are bull.
Day 1
SCO: $0
Company A: $500
Company A wants product for $500.
SCO is not down: SCO $500 A $0
SCO is down: SCO $0 A $500
Day 2: SC0 $500 A $0
No difference only time delay.
Now let's suppose Company A needs service so that customers can get access.
There is still no difference. Because the relation between customers and company A just reduces to the previous example.
Sure customers might go elsewhere, but we all know that's insignificant considering the ton of vendor-lock in that people get when we talk about servers and networking systems. So they can't go elsewhere most likely anyway.
All there is is a time delay.
I like analogies. I dislike lazy analogies.
If ISP does not fix it's system to block spammers, their news server will be DDoS'ed.
1. Just crumple up a piece of paper.
2. Trace the creases in pen.
3. Scan the piece of paper.
4. The image is the key to the document.
1. These are computers not human beings.
2. Crashing or overloading them is merely temporary suspended animation.
3. There was no real damage done.
4. So called lost transactions were merely delayed to another day not lost, therefore there was zero damage only righteous frustration of SCO.
It's the most satisfying benign form of protest.
I encourage it.
Also, I'll add that the Usenet Death Sentence was often used to get ISPs to care about spam. Quite effectively too.
But this one is a reference to a window/button related function, not just some while true type deal.
I'm just curious.
Oooh, big roller coaster (browser).
Of course it can break (crash).
Slashdot: But the operator is drunk (it's a coding mistake in something independent of the browser).
User: Nah, it's too huge, can't ride on it.
The parser is broken in one small place in a very simple way that any coder should be able to catch.
It's a bug in the document.
What happens I guess is:
1. You move the mouse outside the body to an image or off window.
2. That blurs it.
3. It wants focus, but the mouse is off the window.
Somewhere javascript is point to self, so it runs focus, but the mouse is not on an object with any relation to javascript.
This one may just be on the boundary between what is and what isn't.
You could emulate a beowulf cluster of those that would eventually become sentient, look at all the Quake clones on the market, realize that you have no life, realize that it is forgotten, and shut itself off in disgust.
I was looking for help. How is that off topic?
What the hell do you use to play?
In Windows?
In Linux?
Anybody?
When did McVeigh put up a website that everyone could discuss concerning his views?
Part of the concept of a militia means an organized force, not some random act.
Depressing...
This isn't even nerdy...
Wonder if my Ask Slashdot about Tesla would get submitted? Or maybe it's time I evolved and used Everything2.
No, you didn't.
/me surrenders laptop to Honey. /me hides.
/. never fails to {conf,am}{az,us}e
You dissed Red Dawn.
You dissed Red Dawn?
You dissed Red Dawn!
Honey, this guy dissed Red Dawn.
Wait I thought I said get the lawyers...
1. Privatization of info seeking tasks.
2. Out sourcing by private companies to individual contractors.
3. Info contractors limited to having information on no more 10 people.
4. Info contractors must be legally knowledgable with yearly review.
In a country of 300,000,000 that would mean 30,000,000 would be aware of the laws that the country is crushed by. 30 Million... Aware... uh, we win!
I agree except that I have never seen those arms ever used to defend against the corrupt gov't.
Not in 200+ years anyway.
The second amendment has been neutered by uses against purely violent threats.
I thought it was supposed to help us defend against a corrupt gov't.
I say the hell with the guns. Every home should have a legal counsel fully loyal to that home's interests with local, state, national, and global expertise.
Share work with who? No one within a city radius still uses that program.
They're not communication services. Which means they should have even less liability than true common carriers.
When I send a letter out, the mailperson takes it out of my hands and carries it via this route or that.
When I send an email, my email software barks at the ethernet port hoping for a useful reply. All the ISP does is route traffic according to well defined rules that they have no control over.
Or say I use web-based mail. Whose ISP is responsible? Mine? The Web Mail's ISP? The Receiver's ISP? Is the Web Mail an ISP? Really, then I can be an ISP too by installing a Network Capable Operating System like GNU OS which often includes sendmail and other goodies.
No. ISPs are required by the DMCA to counternotify for specific files, to notify users, to allow users to respond to the plaintiff, and to comply with the DMCA when the plaintiff has complied with the DMCA.
So much for night clubs...
A counterargument then:
Assuming the price isn't inflated by either AMD or Intel, the Opteron uses less materials = less waste (wastage isn't a word anymore than smartness is a word).
That's debatable. The prices are probably inflated.
However, given the performance of the chips, it will require less Opterons to do the same job as the Xeons which means less "dumpage", less waste, and less contamination.
Better performance = better environment, in comparison to the competition.