Depends on the goal. If your company's goal is to create a solid, stable, efficient, maintainable, scalable infrastructure then you can forget about the business skills and focus on the job. If their goal is just to make money at all cost, then forget about the tech skills (you already got the job) and focus on the business skills, such as how to smile and lie to someone's face and turn around to stab them in the back in your next meeting with their superior, and how to cover your ass proactively to avoid taking the fall for disasters that will result from the obvious lack of competence, since nobody cared about competence, its not the goal, etc, etc, etc..:)
I think Ghandi once said something like "an eye for an eye, and soon the whole world is blind". But maybe if we were all blind we could see the error of our ways. Fighting fire with fire doesn't always work, not when the fire is in your living room and you live in a high-rise apartment complex with hundreds of other families. And that's precisely what we're doing when we attack a country for the actions of a handful of terrorists.
Yes, there are aggressive people. I could be one of them. But the best way to keep me sedated is to provide me freedom, justice and opportunity. How many people who have freedom, justice and opportunity are violently aggressive? Less than 1%? But what does that mean, freedom, justice and opportunity? What are those things we speak of?
I think being selfish is partially why we're constantly in conflict for our resources. We're selfish with our justice, we're selfish with our freedom and we're selfish with our opportunity, so... FIGHT! May the most evolved win.
They don't just put one key on the DVD. They put hundrends of 5-byte keys, encrypted by a key that every commercial licensed DVD player has. So once they broke the CSS encryption scheme they got access to hundreds of keys.
Its not like DVDs have a key stamped on them that you can't read or can't write. They have keys stored on them that you must read to decrypt the dvd, but you can't be allowed to read unless you're authorized, which is where they messed up.
In this case I bet a bit for bit copy of a DVD would still work..
Well, at least I learned I can burn an encrypted DVD with k3b. So I guess k3d somehow "stamps" DVDs inside my drive, fascinating.
People were capable of great things. They might still be, but first you got to get them organized. That's getting harder and harder as we seldom agree with eachother on these things. What is important to you, or what shows greatness for you, is probably not the same for me.
So I err on the side of skepticism. If NASA somehow "lost" those most memorable moments I think there's more to this story that simpley "oops, we're sofa king retarded". Are you going to make excuses like they forgot to make a backup. I mean, c'mon, this is NASA we're talking about here. They can put a man on the moon, but can't save a copy of the VHS? WTF!
If we did put a man on the moon, prove it. I suspect we did. But we haven't gone back since. And we lost or destroyed the tapes, so maybe if we did go to the moon we saw something. Buzz Aldrin said so. But who am I to believe? You, because you know your authority? Once the authorities were certain the Sun circled the Earth, but I'm sure they lost the tapes to prove that too.
I agree, and most people don't need anything faster than an Intel 955, even the 855 is good enough for 90% of desktop use minus modern 3D gaming. They play quake just fine. What more does one NEED, honestly? ATI and nVidia better wake up or they may soon find a new real competitor on the block.
I bought Intel graphics with my laptop. At first I wasn't pleased with the performance, but then I got to testing it directly. I can easily get 30 fps in OpenGL for simple geometries. Its really not that bad. They doubled the performance since, and I'm sure their latest stuff is most useable. Can you imagine what they'll come out with next?
I didn't like Intel, but lately they've been attracting my pocketbook more than any other anti-FOSS businesses. As far as I'm concerned if they aren't pro-FOSS by now, they're anti-FOSS. They know just as well as I do what its all about. Microsoft, no matter how much they say they support it, is obviously fighting it tooth and nail behind closed doors.
757s caused steel reinforced skyscrapers to burn to the ground in less than two hours...
Listen, as long as we aren't looking for the real cause to these problems its highly unlikely our solutions will have any effect.
We only care about placing blame and seeking reveng.. i mean, justice.
If there is life after Earth I just hope they don't have to deal with our Holy democratic and capitalist society bringing them what we call freedom. Let them live in pieces, after we're done doing whatever it is we're doing..
I remember running Doom on Linux back in 1996 at 320x240 on an unsupported trident card under XFree86 with an 8-bit color palette that got real ugly if I moved the mouse out of the window area, which was mostly full screen. It was aweful, but better than nothing. 486 DX2 66, at least 8MB of RAM, probably 16. I bet it would run better now..
I have another solution. I just stopped telling people what software they should run AND I've stopped helping them solve their software problems. Give them enough time, they'll figure it out.;)
I have an NF2 with an AMD Athlon XP 2600+ and an nVidia 6200. It plays CS with no problems at all too. I just bought an AM2 and its having some strange timing issues with Linux. Not exactly sure what's causing it, but I think it might be a bug in KDE..
See, me and AMD have this love/hate sorta relationship, kinda like SGI. They're one of the good guys, or at least that's been everyone's perception, for the most part. They have so much wonderful technology, but a lot of it is kept just out of the consumer's reach.
But the quad core challenge is kinda cool, price cuts are welcome (though not quite enough w/o x2 3600+), and this ATI merger has some worried. I think ATI's quality and products have shown considerable improvement. Their Linux support is acceptable, and as long as everything works I dont mind integrated graphics. In fact, I love having a GPU available on a low end system for basic OpenGL when its necessary. Even my laptop's Intel chipset is useable. Anyway, AMD's recent announcements have calmed some of my fears that they've lost focus. I'm still concerned for AMD that it will be easy for me to get a $300 Conroe and overclock it to 2x 3.0 Ghz. AMD has no price/performance comparison to this, even after the cuts, that I am aware of. Maybe they're easy to overclock as well.. I haven't heard much about X2 overclockability, and 3.0 seems a bit high for the 90nm A64.
I wish AMD would not do things like the 939 Athlon vs. 940 Opteron, cpu clock multiplier locks, disabled chips to prevent multi-CPU functions, and other typical consumer practices that insult my intelligence. But they got rich shareholders to answer to. Shareholders that cost me $100s in new motherboard, memory and peripherial upgrades. Shareholders that probably own shares in motherboard, memory and peripherial manufacturers (Conspiracy, I tell ya!). While I'm at it, I wish Microsoft would GPL Vista, Intel make a HyperTransport Core 2 (for the benchmarks), and someone, for the love of God, please make 10ns Ghz DDR2. thanks
It sounds like Intel may release a quad-core P4 before they have a Conroe. Maybe AMD will have their quad-core ready by the time Intel has Conroe based quad-core chips.
Now imagine they were passing a blunt around between them.. no really, cuz that's the kind of hippie bullshit you're talking about.
Why carpool when I could just do all my work from home? Because we're too capitalist to promote telecommuting. Seriously.
This is a social problem, not something that can be solved by the individual. It has to be talked about on TV before people will think about it.
Think about it.. what causes rush hour? 8-5.. so why not pass a law forcing all government businesses to run 24/7 for starters.. split the day up into 4 hour segments of work and let people choose the hours they want, etc..
There are other alternatives, once our society decides we want to look at the alternatives.. Work doesn't have to be work. We could work smarter, not harder, if we (management included) choose to..
Americans just want cheap gas. We would run our cars on water, but people would laugh at us, so even if it might be possible we'll settle for cheap gas. It smells good, is a multi-purpose cleaner, and is fun to set on fire.
No, really, even if we could run our car on recycled garbage or water we'd never do it. It would be too embarrassing to admit we didn't have to fight all these wars for oil now that we've won.
Go buy a 1.8 Ghz x 4 Opteron Server today for only around $1200..
Not such a bad deal, really, but single thread and gaming performance would suck compared with these new chips..
We really need 2.2+ Ghz Opterons for that price to be competitive with Woodcrest (2.0 Ghz @ $350 + 4MB cache)..
If times weren't a changin I would think AMD still kicks ass, but right now they seem stagnant. I want to be able to say without a doubt AMD is still the best bang for the buck, but I can't say that anymore, so I'm upset.
I wouldn't mind paying an arm and a leg to get a 8+ CPU 16-way NUMA server for under $10k.
I just don't want $8k to go to CPUs.
I want to choose between spending $1k on cheap CPUs and overclocking the hell out of them for immediate gratification or $5k on premium chips for stability, etc. Artificial price scales do not please me. When the difference between the Opteron and the Athlon X2 is just a jumper on the chip.. I can't support those business practices. Its unethical.
On the other hand if the difference really is stability, I think we should know how unstable the cheap stuff really is.. Or at the very least let's be honest here. What is the real reasoning behind this scheme? Is it honestly justifiable?
Yeah, its was the AMD 76x, before the pros I think..
It was a really nice system, other than the stability issues. I wish I could have afford to upgrade the CPUs to 2+ Ghz. It could have been really nice.. if AMD..
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Depends on the goal. If your company's goal is to create a solid, stable, efficient, maintainable, scalable infrastructure then you can forget about the business skills and focus on the job. If their goal is just to make money at all cost, then forget about the tech skills (you already got the job) and focus on the business skills, such as how to smile and lie to someone's face and turn around to stab them in the back in your next meeting with their superior, and how to cover your ass proactively to avoid taking the fall for disasters that will result from the obvious lack of competence, since nobody cared about competence, its not the goal, etc, etc, etc.. :)
I don't want one now, too little too late.
sources?
sheesh, don't any of you look this stuff up?
I think Ghandi once said something like "an eye for an eye, and soon the whole world is blind". But maybe if we were all blind we could see the error of our ways. Fighting fire with fire doesn't always work, not when the fire is in your living room and you live in a high-rise apartment complex with hundreds of other families. And that's precisely what we're doing when we attack a country for the actions of a handful of terrorists.
Yes, there are aggressive people. I could be one of them. But the best way to keep me sedated is to provide me freedom, justice and opportunity. How many people who have freedom, justice and opportunity are violently aggressive? Less than 1%? But what does that mean, freedom, justice and opportunity? What are those things we speak of?
I think being selfish is partially why we're constantly in conflict for our resources. We're selfish with our justice, we're selfish with our freedom and we're selfish with our opportunity, so... FIGHT! May the most evolved win.
Can we sue the RIAA for not releasing any new Beatles songs? Isn't it in their contract somewhere?
/grin/
I bet without the RIAA songs would cost 20% what they do today.
To make them go away all we gotta do is stop giving them or their affiliates money..
You want them to go away, don't you?
Still no sources.. okay, I'll google it.
They don't just put one key on the DVD. They put hundrends of 5-byte keys, encrypted by a key that every commercial licensed DVD player has. So once they broke the CSS encryption scheme they got access to hundreds of keys.
Its not like DVDs have a key stamped on them that you can't read or can't write. They have keys stored on them that you must read to decrypt the dvd, but you can't be allowed to read unless you're authorized, which is where they messed up.
In this case I bet a bit for bit copy of a DVD would still work..
Well, at least I learned I can burn an encrypted DVD with k3b. So I guess k3d somehow "stamps" DVDs inside my drive, fascinating.
If you had a clue about what you're talking about, you would know that CSS keys cannot be written existing DVD blank media
Sources?
I've always through the encryption was on the writable part of the disc..
I like this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish_Prime
I wonder, who's idea was this anyway?
And the problem with conspiracy theories is some of them might be true.
People were capable of great things. They might still be, but first you got to get them organized. That's getting harder and harder as we seldom agree with eachother on these things. What is important to you, or what shows greatness for you, is probably not the same for me.
So I err on the side of skepticism. If NASA somehow "lost" those most memorable moments I think there's more to this story that simpley "oops, we're sofa king retarded". Are you going to make excuses like they forgot to make a backup. I mean, c'mon, this is NASA we're talking about here. They can put a man on the moon, but can't save a copy of the VHS? WTF!
If we did put a man on the moon, prove it. I suspect we did. But we haven't gone back since. And we lost or destroyed the tapes, so maybe if we did go to the moon we saw something. Buzz Aldrin said so. But who am I to believe? You, because you know your authority? Once the authorities were certain the Sun circled the Earth, but I'm sure they lost the tapes to prove that too.
I agree, and most people don't need anything faster than an Intel 955, even the 855 is good enough for 90% of desktop use minus modern 3D gaming. They play quake just fine. What more does one NEED, honestly? ATI and nVidia better wake up or they may soon find a new real competitor on the block.
I bought Intel graphics with my laptop. At first I wasn't pleased with the performance, but then I got to testing it directly. I can easily get 30 fps in OpenGL for simple geometries. Its really not that bad. They doubled the performance since, and I'm sure their latest stuff is most useable. Can you imagine what they'll come out with next?
I didn't like Intel, but lately they've been attracting my pocketbook more than any other anti-FOSS businesses. As far as I'm concerned if they aren't pro-FOSS by now, they're anti-FOSS. They know just as well as I do what its all about. Microsoft, no matter how much they say they support it, is obviously fighting it tooth and nail behind closed doors.
Apple has shiney candy-like graphics and cases. AMD's graphics and cases suck.
757s caused steel reinforced skyscrapers to burn to the ground in less than two hours...
Listen, as long as we aren't looking for the real cause to these problems its highly unlikely our solutions will have any effect.
We only care about placing blame and seeking reveng.. i mean, justice.
If there is life after Earth I just hope they don't have to deal with our Holy democratic and capitalist society bringing them what we call freedom. Let them live in pieces, after we're done doing whatever it is we're doing..
I remember running Doom on Linux back in 1996 at 320x240 on an unsupported trident card under XFree86 with an 8-bit color palette that got real ugly if I moved the mouse out of the window area, which was mostly full screen. It was aweful, but better than nothing. 486 DX2 66, at least 8MB of RAM, probably 16. I bet it would run better now..
I have another solution. I just stopped telling people what software they should run AND I've stopped helping them solve their software problems. Give them enough time, they'll figure it out. ;)
I love google.
CPU drivers?
I have an NF2 with an AMD Athlon XP 2600+ and an nVidia 6200. It plays CS with no problems at all too. I just bought an AM2 and its having some strange timing issues with Linux. Not exactly sure what's causing it, but I think it might be a bug in KDE..
Doh, almost right.. not a P4. AMD dual X2 + glue chip.
This week I don't hate AMD quite so much.
See, me and AMD have this love/hate sorta relationship, kinda like SGI. They're one of the good guys, or at least that's been everyone's perception, for the most part. They have so much wonderful technology, but a lot of it is kept just out of the consumer's reach.
But the quad core challenge is kinda cool, price cuts are welcome (though not quite enough w/o x2 3600+), and this ATI merger has some worried. I think ATI's quality and products have shown considerable improvement. Their Linux support is acceptable, and as long as everything works I dont mind integrated graphics. In fact, I love having a GPU available on a low end system for basic OpenGL when its necessary. Even my laptop's Intel chipset is useable. Anyway, AMD's recent announcements have calmed some of my fears that they've lost focus. I'm still concerned for AMD that it will be easy for me to get a $300 Conroe and overclock it to 2x 3.0 Ghz. AMD has no price/performance comparison to this, even after the cuts, that I am aware of. Maybe they're easy to overclock as well.. I haven't heard much about X2 overclockability, and 3.0 seems a bit high for the 90nm A64.
I wish AMD would not do things like the 939 Athlon vs. 940 Opteron, cpu clock multiplier locks, disabled chips to prevent multi-CPU functions, and other typical consumer practices that insult my intelligence. But they got rich shareholders to answer to. Shareholders that cost me $100s in new motherboard, memory and peripherial upgrades. Shareholders that probably own shares in motherboard, memory and peripherial manufacturers (Conspiracy, I tell ya!). While I'm at it, I wish Microsoft would GPL Vista, Intel make a HyperTransport Core 2 (for the benchmarks), and someone, for the love of God, please make 10ns Ghz DDR2. thanks
It sounds like Intel may release a quad-core P4 before they have a Conroe. Maybe AMD will have their quad-core ready by the time Intel has Conroe based quad-core chips.
If computer science isn't about computers, what is it about?
Like all other education, its just there to prepare you for work.
Why so many people think so highly of this is beyond me..
On the other hand I write most of my stuff in OO Perl
Now imagine they were passing a blunt around between them.. no really, cuz that's the kind of hippie bullshit you're talking about.
Why carpool when I could just do all my work from home? Because we're too capitalist to promote telecommuting. Seriously.
This is a social problem, not something that can be solved by the individual. It has to be talked about on TV before people will think about it.
Think about it.. what causes rush hour? 8-5.. so why not pass a law forcing all government businesses to run 24/7 for starters.. split the day up into 4 hour segments of work and let people choose the hours they want, etc..
There are other alternatives, once our society decides we want to look at the alternatives.. Work doesn't have to be work. We could work smarter, not harder, if we (management included) choose to..
Want to cut gas consumption in half?
I don't believe that has ever been the goal..
Americans just want cheap gas. We would run our cars on water, but people would laugh at us, so even if it might be possible we'll settle for cheap gas. It smells good, is a multi-purpose cleaner, and is fun to set on fire.
No, really, even if we could run our car on recycled garbage or water we'd never do it. It would be too embarrassing to admit we didn't have to fight all these wars for oil now that we've won.
Yes!
Go buy a 1.8 Ghz x 4 Opteron Server today for only around $1200..
Not such a bad deal, really, but single thread and gaming performance would suck compared with these new chips..
We really need 2.2+ Ghz Opterons for that price to be competitive with Woodcrest (2.0 Ghz @ $350 + 4MB cache)..
If times weren't a changin I would think AMD still kicks ass, but right now they seem stagnant. I want to be able to say without a doubt AMD is still the best bang for the buck, but I can't say that anymore, so I'm upset.
I wouldn't mind paying an arm and a leg to get a 8+ CPU 16-way NUMA server for under $10k.
I just don't want $8k to go to CPUs.
I want to choose between spending $1k on cheap CPUs and overclocking the hell out of them for immediate gratification or $5k on premium chips for stability, etc. Artificial price scales do not please me. When the difference between the Opteron and the Athlon X2 is just a jumper on the chip.. I can't support those business practices. Its unethical.
On the other hand if the difference really is stability, I think we should know how unstable the cheap stuff really is.. Or at the very least let's be honest here. What is the real reasoning behind this scheme? Is it honestly justifiable?
Yeah, its was the AMD 76x, before the pros I think..
It was a really nice system, other than the stability issues. I wish I could have afford to upgrade the CPUs to 2+ Ghz. It could have been really nice.. if AMD..
but nothing I say here will change their minds..