... and I swear that one image that claimed to be HP systems looked a lot like racks full of Sun x4600-series systems.
I fear that we'll never stop mistakenly referring to clusters of computers as a supercomputer.
I'm compelled to watch Burn Notice for two reasons:
1) Bruce Campbell
2) Jarod's brother
but yeah, you're pretty much right. It's maddeningly formulaic, and the bad guys are as absurd and dumb as they were on Alias. The only halfway interesting occasional bit is decent footwear on Fiona, who unfortunately wouldn't be attractive even if she did put on 20 pounds to reach a healthy weight (and develop breasts).
I've had ISDN at two times in the past. On occasions when I needed to do large downloads fast, I went to a coffee shop or library. Not ideal, but it wasn't the end of the world.
Transmission is one of the worse [sic]bittorrent client available. Might as well just have them use a command line utility with the gui available in Transmission.[...]For torrents you need uTorrent or its far crappier linux brother ktorrent.
I tried the new uTorrent port briefly, hated it. Transmission generally does the job for me, the brief 2.41 crashing issues notwithstanding.
So you feel that chopping the feet off a raccoon-dog then peeling the skin off while the animal is not only alive but conscious is a reasonable thing to do?
I hate sociopaths.
Take a plane to a far flung location on the globe, without any money or means of support, change your name, dissolve all ties to your previous existence, preemptively sabotage any way anyone could trace you, and live off trash or stolen mangoes from a tree, until something better comes along.
Riiiight, because it's so easy to fly to another country for $0 airfare, without ID or a VISA, and make any sort of living without knowing the local language.
And maybe the challenge and novelty of that will put you in a new frame of mind. And then you can be happy someday
My cystine stone formation slowed dramatically when I went off dairy. My dumbass sister has the same condition, but still pounds back meat like friggin' crazy, and continues to form stones at a substantially higher rate.
Oxalate intake (don't forget spinach and chocolate) is only an issue for people with calcium oxalate stones. The different types of stones have different dietary implications. For cystine, animal protein matters for sure: it tends to decrease urinary pH, which increases precipitation of cystine. The methionine in milk products is metabolized into cystine.
Anyone who drinks Pepsi products gets what they deserve. Water intake is an important factor in reducing precipitation of sparingly-soluble salts and acids, but claiming that anyone who drinks enough won't get them is naive. I drink at least a gallon a day, and I still form stones (wanna see pictures?). Nonstop water intake isn't going to change the genetic defect in my tubules.
TFA doesn't say anything about the source of the culture medium -- in all such stories I've read in the past, it was animal-derived, so I maintain a wait-and-see stance. Even if cultured meat hits the market that isn't fed on, well, meat, I don't know that I'd want the health issues of going back to eating animal products. Ever have a percutanous nephrolithotomy? I can't recommend it.
We digress substantially from the usual Slashdot obsession over childish video games and denial of Linux's lameness, but so it goes..
I'm a *ix sysadmin, labeled "gifted" as a kid, tested IQ (which is admittedly nothing more than a score on a test) of 149. My wife has done various non-tech/math/science jobs. Our son was born in our early 40's. I noticed delays as early as 6 months, and by 18 months was convinced that he was showing signs of ASD: crawling/sitting/walking milestones on the tail end of "normal" at best, hand flapping, gaze avoidance, obsessive lining/stacking, delayed speech, echolalia. I sure as hell didn't *want* my son to be ASD, but both my wife and the @#$@ pediatrician were in denial. "As long as he's making progress he's okay". After a fight finally got the former to admit that he needed to be evaluated and the latter finally agreed. We took him to one of the local ASD centers and there was no question. He's getting services now, but the hassles with providers, schools, and especially insurance are legion. Our policy covers up to 60 OT+ST visits / year, yet each claim is initially disallowed as not covered, and I have to call in to have it reprocessed. Every single one. Searching on the insurance web site for OT providers showed exactly one in-network, who only sees hospital in-patients. HR talked to the insurance company, who had the same search results, so we started him with an out of network OT. $500 initial evaluation, which insurance after 3 months still hasn't properly processed. Then, after that, the insurance company somehow runs a different search that shows dozens of in-network OT providers, so oops sorry you can't actually petition us for in-network coverage for the out-network provider like we told you you could.
So, I'm just one data point, but one that is consistent with the idea the math/science types and older fathers increase the incidence of ASD.
As for ASD deniers: clearly you don't have a 3-year-old who kicks you in the face daily and can't say anything more complex than "want bottle".
My understanding of the small-/ strategy was always that it was to minimize the potential for media errors taking out something critical.
The aforementioned devs, or at least the idiot who wrote the summary, would do well to understand the difference between the words "filesystem" and "directory". They'd also be much more valuable to users were they to drop an insane quest to break masses of existing software that relies on things living along certain paths, and instead do something about the embarrassment that we can't make ext4 filesystems >16TB.
The end-result is silly: for example, I’m running a 5GHz 802.11n network for all my devices at home
For "all my devices"? How many things do you have that require WiFi? How many of them would be better connected via copper?
The first thing that jumped out at me in the above summary was to ask why the hell desktops are using WiFi.
Eg., in the mid-80's when I was in college, down the street was a huge "state-related" university with something like 40-60k students. The CS department was about a dozen people and didn't have $ to even buy workstations for their staff. CS students wrote FORTRAN on Hollerith cards. Yes, in 1985, Hollerith cards. But, just up the hill was a 60,000 seat footballs stadium that they somehow had $ for, as well as the scores of athletic scholarships and incentives they threw at jocks every year.
95% of classes, involve sitting in lectures. There is no reason to be paying thousands of professors in a field, to be teaching the same overall subject matter, but in thousands of slightly different and unique ways. The subject matter itself, is uniform.
This makes a certain amount of sense prima fascia, but misses a few things:
o At many bigger / better schools, teaching is a secondary activity for professors -- it's something that they're forced to do. While I was in college, I had exactly one prof who clearly enjoyed teaching, and another who was actively hostile about it (Dorota Dabrowska, I'm talking about *you*).
o Profs on average aren't really paid that much. The non-prof "instructors" or even grad students who teach a fair number of classes make even less.
o Maybe 95% of classes involve sitting in lectures, but that doesn't mean that they *only* involve lectures. Many of the classes I took also had recitations that were interactive between smaller groups of students and the prof or a grad student, and many had a lab of some kind, eg. chemistry, biology, and pretty much anything computer-related. Being tested solely on a lecture removes all that interaction and hands-on work.
khanacademy.org style: you record ONE person, doing a lecture series, and share with everyone
Share how? About ten years ago I applied to the local state school's evening MSCS program (which was foolish, since only employees of the two largest local employers got in -- guess who sponsored it?) and found that one of the requirements was being able to watch lectures that were only available on a school-specific CATV channel, which of course was only available in a limited geographical area.
You want more handholding? fine, pay more. but for those who can handle the above scenario, there's no need to make them pay more than the above, to get their "piece of paper" enabling them to get a job.
This would only accelerate the trend of a BS becoming only as valuable as a high-school diploma used to be, with jobs that don't involve the words "Would you like fries with that?" requiring an MS or at least some sort of premium college work.
Want to really decrease the cost? Outlaw the obscenity of oxymoronic athletic scholarships. Stop throwing cars and pussy at the jocks, stop giving them free rides at the expense of the rest of us. Stop building and maintaining friggin' 109,000 seat stadiums (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Stadium).
and what Americans are most worried about is the fact that they have to pay an extra 20-30% for hard drives.
... which have been nearly free for years to begin with. I roll my eyes when I read a review of a 2TB disk that says that $150 or whatever is too expensive.
Back when I worked for a certain computer vendor, a 1GB (or was it the new 2.5GB?) 8" IPI disk drive listed for $27,000 to our customers.
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... and then assume that everyone reading is a hipster and thus has a clue what it's about?
... and I swear that one image that claimed to be HP systems looked a lot like racks full of Sun x4600-series systems. I fear that we'll never stop mistakenly referring to clusters of computers as a supercomputer.
I'm compelled to watch Burn Notice for two reasons: 1) Bruce Campbell 2) Jarod's brother but yeah, you're pretty much right. It's maddeningly formulaic, and the bad guys are as absurd and dumb as they were on Alias. The only halfway interesting occasional bit is decent footwear on Fiona, who unfortunately wouldn't be attractive even if she did put on 20 pounds to reach a healthy weight (and develop breasts).
I've had ISDN at two times in the past. On occasions when I needed to do large downloads fast, I went to a coffee shop or library. Not ideal, but it wasn't the end of the world.
Transmission is one of the worse [sic]bittorrent client available. Might as well just have them use a command line utility with the gui available in Transmission.[...]For torrents you need uTorrent or its far crappier linux brother ktorrent.
I tried the new uTorrent port briefly, hated it. Transmission generally does the job for me, the brief 2.41 crashing issues notwithstanding.
If you use phrases of adolescent self-promotion such as "especially girls" and "all the women I've met", you're uncool.
... and clearly a kid. Women over 30 continue to only care about height and testosterone.
Indeed, I find that pretty much any /. article that includes the word "could" in the summary ends up being speculation or vaporware.
So you feel that chopping the feet off a raccoon-dog then peeling the skin off while the animal is not only alive but conscious is a reasonable thing to do? I hate sociopaths.
I was about to post the same thing -- Lightroom can profitably use as many as 8 cores. More cores vs fewer faster cores depends a lot on the workload.
The irony is that every single time I've tried to use this Glasnost tool, it's told me that the server was too busy.
Take a plane to a far flung location on the globe, without any money or means of support, change your name, dissolve all ties to your previous existence, preemptively sabotage any way anyone could trace you, and live off trash or stolen mangoes from a tree, until something better comes along.
Riiiight, because it's so easy to fly to another country for $0 airfare, without ID or a VISA, and make any sort of living without knowing the local language.
And maybe the challenge and novelty of that will put you in a new frame of mind. And then you can be happy someday
Spoken like a clueless tall guy.
My cystine stone formation slowed dramatically when I went off dairy. My dumbass sister has the same condition, but still pounds back meat like friggin' crazy, and continues to form stones at a substantially higher rate. Oxalate intake (don't forget spinach and chocolate) is only an issue for people with calcium oxalate stones. The different types of stones have different dietary implications. For cystine, animal protein matters for sure: it tends to decrease urinary pH, which increases precipitation of cystine. The methionine in milk products is metabolized into cystine. Anyone who drinks Pepsi products gets what they deserve. Water intake is an important factor in reducing precipitation of sparingly-soluble salts and acids, but claiming that anyone who drinks enough won't get them is naive. I drink at least a gallon a day, and I still form stones (wanna see pictures?). Nonstop water intake isn't going to change the genetic defect in my tubules.
TFA doesn't say anything about the source of the culture medium -- in all such stories I've read in the past, it was animal-derived, so I maintain a wait-and-see stance. Even if cultured meat hits the market that isn't fed on, well, meat, I don't know that I'd want the health issues of going back to eating animal products. Ever have a percutanous nephrolithotomy? I can't recommend it.
So who the fuck is this Charlie Miller that we're supposed to recognize?
You live in the trunk of Harry Dean Stanton's car?
Maybe because LISTSERV was an artifact of the batch-orientation of BITnet? Even the truncated name was a BITnet artifact.
We digress substantially from the usual Slashdot obsession over childish video games and denial of Linux's lameness, but so it goes.. I'm a *ix sysadmin, labeled "gifted" as a kid, tested IQ (which is admittedly nothing more than a score on a test) of 149. My wife has done various non-tech/math/science jobs. Our son was born in our early 40's. I noticed delays as early as 6 months, and by 18 months was convinced that he was showing signs of ASD: crawling/sitting/walking milestones on the tail end of "normal" at best, hand flapping, gaze avoidance, obsessive lining/stacking, delayed speech, echolalia. I sure as hell didn't *want* my son to be ASD, but both my wife and the @#$@ pediatrician were in denial. "As long as he's making progress he's okay". After a fight finally got the former to admit that he needed to be evaluated and the latter finally agreed. We took him to one of the local ASD centers and there was no question. He's getting services now, but the hassles with providers, schools, and especially insurance are legion. Our policy covers up to 60 OT+ST visits / year, yet each claim is initially disallowed as not covered, and I have to call in to have it reprocessed. Every single one. Searching on the insurance web site for OT providers showed exactly one in-network, who only sees hospital in-patients. HR talked to the insurance company, who had the same search results, so we started him with an out of network OT. $500 initial evaluation, which insurance after 3 months still hasn't properly processed. Then, after that, the insurance company somehow runs a different search that shows dozens of in-network OT providers, so oops sorry you can't actually petition us for in-network coverage for the out-network provider like we told you you could. So, I'm just one data point, but one that is consistent with the idea the math/science types and older fathers increase the incidence of ASD. As for ASD deniers: clearly you don't have a 3-year-old who kicks you in the face daily and can't say anything more complex than "want bottle".
My understanding of the small-/ strategy was always that it was to minimize the potential for media errors taking out something critical. The aforementioned devs, or at least the idiot who wrote the summary, would do well to understand the difference between the words "filesystem" and "directory". They'd also be much more valuable to users were they to drop an insane quest to break masses of existing software that relies on things living along certain paths, and instead do something about the embarrassment that we can't make ext4 filesystems >16TB.
ZFS manages somehow.
You went to a bar and expected someone to *not* behave like an asshole?
And yet, it's said that VHS won over Beta because JVC vigorously licensed the former, and Sony didn't with the latter.
The end-result is silly: for example, I’m running a 5GHz 802.11n network for all my devices at home
For "all my devices"? How many things do you have that require WiFi? How many of them would be better connected via copper? The first thing that jumped out at me in the above summary was to ask why the hell desktops are using WiFi.
Eg., in the mid-80's when I was in college, down the street was a huge "state-related" university with something like 40-60k students. The CS department was about a dozen people and didn't have $ to even buy workstations for their staff. CS students wrote FORTRAN on Hollerith cards. Yes, in 1985, Hollerith cards. But, just up the hill was a 60,000 seat footballs stadium that they somehow had $ for, as well as the scores of athletic scholarships and incentives they threw at jocks every year.
95% of classes, involve sitting in lectures. There is no reason to be paying thousands of professors in a field, to be teaching the same overall subject matter, but in thousands of slightly different and unique ways. The subject matter itself, is uniform.
This makes a certain amount of sense prima fascia, but misses a few things: o At many bigger / better schools, teaching is a secondary activity for professors -- it's something that they're forced to do. While I was in college, I had exactly one prof who clearly enjoyed teaching, and another who was actively hostile about it (Dorota Dabrowska, I'm talking about *you*). o Profs on average aren't really paid that much. The non-prof "instructors" or even grad students who teach a fair number of classes make even less. o Maybe 95% of classes involve sitting in lectures, but that doesn't mean that they *only* involve lectures. Many of the classes I took also had recitations that were interactive between smaller groups of students and the prof or a grad student, and many had a lab of some kind, eg. chemistry, biology, and pretty much anything computer-related. Being tested solely on a lecture removes all that interaction and hands-on work.
khanacademy.org style: you record ONE person, doing a lecture series, and share with everyone
Share how? About ten years ago I applied to the local state school's evening MSCS program (which was foolish, since only employees of the two largest local employers got in -- guess who sponsored it?) and found that one of the requirements was being able to watch lectures that were only available on a school-specific CATV channel, which of course was only available in a limited geographical area.
You want more handholding? fine, pay more. but for those who can handle the above scenario, there's no need to make them pay more than the above, to get their "piece of paper" enabling them to get a job.
This would only accelerate the trend of a BS becoming only as valuable as a high-school diploma used to be, with jobs that don't involve the words "Would you like fries with that?" requiring an MS or at least some sort of premium college work. Want to really decrease the cost? Outlaw the obscenity of oxymoronic athletic scholarships. Stop throwing cars and pussy at the jocks, stop giving them free rides at the expense of the rest of us. Stop building and maintaining friggin' 109,000 seat stadiums (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Stadium).
and what Americans are most worried about is the fact that they have to pay an extra 20-30% for hard drives.
... which have been nearly free for years to begin with. I roll my eyes when I read a review of a 2TB disk that says that $150 or whatever is too expensive. Back when I worked for a certain computer vendor, a 1GB (or was it the new 2.5GB?) 8" IPI disk drive listed for $27,000 to our customers.