And may I ask, how many people does your multi-billion dollar corporation have sitting around to run full regression tests on the 400 applications you run in house? And how long do regression tests take (simply put, sometimes it's more than a day).
So 300 people in the fictitious org are continually testing and retesting the same apps, day in and day out (because even an automated test tool takes time to set up, monitor and interpret, assuming it's even AVAILABLE for Application X). And some of them don't even finish a test cycle before there is a new patch and everyone starts over again.
In the worst case scenario, the organisation can never patch up to date.
On the flip side, what if a bad patch is released (e.g. one that causes a normal system to blue-screen)? MS has 100 million home users who auto install patches; so now 10M or more are broken. Alternatively, as currently, the early adopters test before patch Tuesday and by the day of release, there's at least SOME confidence in the patches.
Actually I've got an idea. What Linux or BSD distro are you running? Do you update sources to the bleeding edge every night and rebuild the system from sources? Do you just assume everything will work? If you do, you already know stuff breaks. If you don't, STFU and stop blaming the cautious among us.
Without cheapening the argument, have you actually looked at phone company profits? Here in Australia, the incumbent telephone and data network mostly-monopoly makes a profit of $4B a year; and that is from a country of about 20m people. $2000 profit, per person, per annum (yes I know there are probably investments that provide returns, they'll have income from other sources etc). But averaged out, it's still ~$2000 for every man, woman and child in the country.
Almost, but not quite. It seems that originally the period was seen to be significant in the account name, and thus I have registered "myfirst.mylast@gmail.com" and someone else (in the UK) has myfirstmylast@gmail.com. As a result, I get Dell UK spam which is useless to me in Australia, and I'm sure he gets some of my mail. The worst part is though they didn't actually bother TELLING anyone that the period was not significant (again, poor communications).
space the instructions further apart so that one or two bit flips won't map to another instruction.
Yeah - I think you left out the thinking bit before your comment.
Sure, a single bit flip in the least significant bit only moves you 1 byte forward or backward in RAM. But in the most significant bit in a 32 bit CPU it moves you 2GB away (let alone the 8.4 billion GB in a 64 bit CPU, if my mental maths is correct).
There are many other cases where pricing appears to be fixed, but it's a deliberate lack of competition (eg in Australia, the weekly fuel price cycles where everyone drops prices at the same time). At least this occurrence will be punished, and yes it will eventually come from the consumer wallet... but I don't see much else that can be done other than fining (and imprisoning the human culprits if possible).
You missed the point, or at least were a little too subtle about the sarcasm at the end of the post.
I think the function would exist - people doing what they want to do and love to do - but it won't be a cottage industry per se. Money is irrelevant - if and only if the replicators can create anything. If there's something they can't create (tea in Hitchhiker's, for example, or massive things like 20m steel beams, nuclear plants) then those small things could potentially replace money.
But replication as a general tech seems to me to be the ultimate in disruptive technology:) - want 200K for a car? Replicate the cash. Need to pay the power bill after replicating the cash? Replicate more cash.
You're trying to buck that trend, which likely would either kill the site or at least kill the fervor with which the zealots maintain it.
I'm really trying to believe this is a problem, but I'm failing. Zealotry is rarely, if ever, a useful trait. It blinds people to the real world, to what the rest of the population want or believe. The sooner the sanity returns, the better.
I'm told by less IT-savvy people, that the nonsense actually sounds plausible and realistic to most of the population. I think this says something about their intelligence, although frankly there are too many of them to insult publicly.
The fact that it doesn't sound reasonable to us is probably an analogue to surgeons watching medical dramas. Do they experience the same kind of conniptions when some actor talks medical language? Or pilots with aircraft dramas? Is it only IT that is seen as black magic?
Because every damn organisation I VPN to uses 192.168.x.x addresses, or 172.[16-32].x.x addresses. By using a 10.x with a 24 bit mask I can use space that doesn't route, doesn't conflict with the orgs I VPN to, and that doesn't require me to reconfigure.
Congratulations, you've got it completely bass-ackwards.
The LOWER house is the House of Representatives (Green), where you will find the PM, Govt reps and the opposition. Usually "owned" by the government of the day (in terms of majority) - anything cane be accepted and sent up to the Senate for debate.
The UPPER house is the Senate (Red) where legislation is often rejected, and where a balance of power is more common (translation: Govt and main opposition often hold close to a 50% split, and where the balance of power is often held by nutjobs and whackos. Like now (see Fielding).
Nick Xenophon and Steve Fielding are the two useless crackpot lunatics in the Senate. Fielding has the added bonus of being a serial god-botherer (oops, I mean Family First party member). Xenophon is an independent, so likely doesn't even have anyone (not even imaginary) to help him identify when he is being a tosser.
Conroy is the whackjob pushing the filter to satisfy the other two dickheads and get government policy through the Senate.
A man after my own heart, and I think the lack of exploits for ISA is good verification of this approach. Of course, there are also the customers who deploy ISA 2006 (well 2004 back then) and "because Microsoft isn't secure" front-end that Windows+ISA server with... a Windows+CheckPoint server. Yeah good effort guys:-/
No you didn't. Or to be more precise, it's what you thought was an Australian accent, but which is in fact as far from a normal Aussie accent as true English is to a US citizen;-). Let's face it, most imposters can't even pronounce "G'day" (No, it's not "Gooday") properly. Can you mate?
Perhaps not. 1920 x 1200 is the standard "super-high-res" single screen, and 1920x1080 is the FullHD resolution (or whatever they're calling 1080p nowadays - probably true full high def or something). The next res up is 2560x1600 (I think) which you'll get on your 30" Dell/Apple LCD display.
It's not "only kiddy porn". It's anything that the OFLC deems as "not appropriate", which includes some sexual fetishes and goes as far as some of the more disturbing material on topics such as abortion etc.
Do you believe that anyone is best served by filtering out one side of the debate on a political topic? Then you'd be happy that the OFLC can call anything "RC" - all it takes is a complaint for it to be considered. So today we have a "Labor" government. What if the govt manages to get the main opposition (the Liberal party) website rated RC under the same conditions as the dentist's office (namely, the site was hacked and used as a CP store for a short time)?
Unfortunately you now cannot configure your ADSL modem until you install and configure local DNS and add the modem to the zone. Hardly something most grandmothers can do.
MS charges for software based on the number of "CPUs". This is MS speak that potentially could more accurately be considered the number of "processor packages" on the board, or in the computer.
So if a system has one quad-core processor with hyper-threading (8 logical CPUs) it's one CPU for processor licensing. The server beside it with two six-core processors + hyper-threading (24 logical CPUs) and a further two unused sockets for the same CPU package is two licensing CPUs. Add the two extra processor packages (total 48 logical CPUs) and you need a total of 4 processor licenses.
It used to be that Oracle charged per simultaneous thread, so hyper-threading doubled the license count (cost) and multi-core did the same thing. Microsoft murdered them on DB pricing (SQL was cheaper per CPU, then quadruple the Oracle cost for the same dual processor with hyperthreading box but only double for MS) and I think Oracle have changed their tune now.
Or, since you HAVE read/. for a while, you could read the article. Which describes the measurement of increased C14 levels due to atmospheric fallout after detonation of nuclear weapons, and their subsequent reduction (dilution) due to fossil fuel burning, which in their testing was enough to narrow down to a specific year.
Further to this, Windows also does go to some lengths to avoid swapping a thread between CPUs unnecessarily - this supposedly helps ensure that the CPU cache is best utilised. Perhaps OSX is more liberal about where a thread runs when it has more CPUs than active threads?
Yes, as does Windows. I think I should have been more clear - the scale curve is nice and flat up to 8, 16, maybe 32 logical CPUs. After that though, doubling CPUs doesn't necessarily double performance (even in heavy compute) - other bottlenecks start to impact, as does scheduler performance and architecture.
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And may I ask, how many people does your multi-billion dollar corporation have sitting around to run full regression tests on the 400 applications you run in house? And how long do regression tests take (simply put, sometimes it's more than a day).
So 300 people in the fictitious org are continually testing and retesting the same apps, day in and day out (because even an automated test tool takes time to set up, monitor and interpret, assuming it's even AVAILABLE for Application X). And some of them don't even finish a test cycle before there is a new patch and everyone starts over again.
In the worst case scenario, the organisation can never patch up to date.
On the flip side, what if a bad patch is released (e.g. one that causes a normal system to blue-screen)? MS has 100 million home users who auto install patches; so now 10M or more are broken. Alternatively, as currently, the early adopters test before patch Tuesday and by the day of release, there's at least SOME confidence in the patches.
Actually I've got an idea. What Linux or BSD distro are you running? Do you update sources to the bleeding edge every night and rebuild the system from sources? Do you just assume everything will work? If you do, you already know stuff breaks. If you don't, STFU and stop blaming the cautious among us.
OK I know that Windows just does NTFS nowadays, unless you manually create a FAT volume - but going from FAT to NTFS is a simple conversion:
convert q: /fs:ntfs
That's all there is to it.
Yeah but the problem is that with our terrible overseas datacomms infrastructure, each day's data will take a week to transfer ...
Without cheapening the argument, have you actually looked at phone company profits? Here in Australia, the incumbent telephone and data network mostly-monopoly makes a profit of $4B a year; and that is from a country of about 20m people. $2000 profit, per person, per annum (yes I know there are probably investments that provide returns, they'll have income from other sources etc). But averaged out, it's still ~$2000 for every man, woman and child in the country.
Almost, but not quite. It seems that originally the period was seen to be significant in the account name, and thus I have registered "myfirst.mylast@gmail.com" and someone else (in the UK) has myfirstmylast@gmail.com. As a result, I get Dell UK spam which is useless to me in Australia, and I'm sure he gets some of my mail. The worst part is though they didn't actually bother TELLING anyone that the period was not significant (again, poor communications).
space the instructions further apart so that one or two bit flips won't map to another instruction.
Yeah - I think you left out the thinking bit before your comment.
Sure, a single bit flip in the least significant bit only moves you 1 byte forward or backward in RAM. But in the most significant bit in a 32 bit CPU it moves you 2GB away (let alone the 8.4 billion GB in a 64 bit CPU, if my mental maths is correct).
Just how far apart do you want the instructions?
There are many other cases where pricing appears to be fixed, but it's a deliberate lack of competition (eg in Australia, the weekly fuel price cycles where everyone drops prices at the same time). At least this occurrence will be punished, and yes it will eventually come from the consumer wallet ... but I don't see much else that can be done other than fining (and imprisoning the human culprits if possible).
The antimatter is very upset at the bias, and is petitioning for full recognition and the payment of reparations.
You missed the point, or at least were a little too subtle about the sarcasm at the end of the post.
I think the function would exist - people doing what they want to do and love to do - but it won't be a cottage industry per se. Money is irrelevant - if and only if the replicators can create anything. If there's something they can't create (tea in Hitchhiker's, for example, or massive things like 20m steel beams, nuclear plants) then those small things could potentially replace money.
But replication as a general tech seems to me to be the ultimate in disruptive technology :) - want 200K for a car? Replicate the cash. Need to pay the power bill after replicating the cash? Replicate more cash.
You're trying to buck that trend, which likely would either kill the site or at least kill the fervor with which the zealots maintain it.
I'm really trying to believe this is a problem, but I'm failing. Zealotry is rarely, if ever, a useful trait. It blinds people to the real world, to what the rest of the population want or believe. The sooner the sanity returns, the better.
Not that it ever will.
I'm told by less IT-savvy people, that the nonsense actually sounds plausible and realistic to most of the population. I think this says something about their intelligence, although frankly there are too many of them to insult publicly.
The fact that it doesn't sound reasonable to us is probably an analogue to surgeons watching medical dramas. Do they experience the same kind of conniptions when some actor talks medical language? Or pilots with aircraft dramas? Is it only IT that is seen as black magic?
Because every damn organisation I VPN to uses 192.168.x.x addresses, or 172.[16-32].x.x addresses. By using a 10.x with a 24 bit mask I can use space that doesn't route, doesn't conflict with the orgs I VPN to, and that doesn't require me to reconfigure.
Congratulations, you've got it completely bass-ackwards.
The LOWER house is the House of Representatives (Green), where you will find the PM, Govt reps and the opposition. Usually "owned" by the government of the day (in terms of majority) - anything cane be accepted and sent up to the Senate for debate.
The UPPER house is the Senate (Red) where legislation is often rejected, and where a balance of power is more common (translation: Govt and main opposition often hold close to a 50% split, and where the balance of power is often held by nutjobs and whackos. Like now (see Fielding).
Not quite.
Nick Xenophon and Steve Fielding are the two useless crackpot lunatics in the Senate. Fielding has the added bonus of being a serial god-botherer (oops, I mean Family First party member). Xenophon is an independent, so likely doesn't even have anyone (not even imaginary) to help him identify when he is being a tosser.
Conroy is the whackjob pushing the filter to satisfy the other two dickheads and get government policy through the Senate.
The pope is either an idiot, or a budding tyrant with ambitions of bringing the world back to the dark ages under dominion of the vatican.
I thought that was supposed to go without saying (*ducks*).
A man after my own heart, and I think the lack of exploits for ISA is good verification of this approach. Of course, there are also the customers who deploy ISA 2006 (well 2004 back then) and "because Microsoft isn't secure" front-end that Windows+ISA server with ... a Windows+CheckPoint server. Yeah good effort guys :-/
Don't even check with a lawyer before you check with a lawyer!
Hmm, hang on a tick ...
No you didn't. Or to be more precise, it's what you thought was an Australian accent, but which is in fact as far from a normal Aussie accent as true English is to a US citizen ;-). Let's face it, most imposters can't even pronounce "G'day" (No, it's not "Gooday") properly. Can you mate?
Perhaps not. 1920 x 1200 is the standard "super-high-res" single screen, and 1920x1080 is the FullHD resolution (or whatever they're calling 1080p nowadays - probably true full high def or something). The next res up is 2560x1600 (I think) which you'll get on your 30" Dell/Apple LCD display.
It's not "only kiddy porn". It's anything that the OFLC deems as "not appropriate", which includes some sexual fetishes and goes as far as some of the more disturbing material on topics such as abortion etc.
Do you believe that anyone is best served by filtering out one side of the debate on a political topic? Then you'd be happy that the OFLC can call anything "RC" - all it takes is a complaint for it to be considered. So today we have a "Labor" government. What if the govt manages to get the main opposition (the Liberal party) website rated RC under the same conditions as the dentist's office (namely, the site was hacked and used as a CP store for a short time)?
Unfortunately you now cannot configure your ADSL modem until you install and configure local DNS and add the modem to the zone. Hardly something most grandmothers can do.
MS charges for software based on the number of "CPUs". This is MS speak that potentially could more accurately be considered the number of "processor packages" on the board, or in the computer.
So if a system has one quad-core processor with hyper-threading (8 logical CPUs) it's one CPU for processor licensing. The server beside it with two six-core processors + hyper-threading (24 logical CPUs) and a further two unused sockets for the same CPU package is two licensing CPUs. Add the two extra processor packages (total 48 logical CPUs) and you need a total of 4 processor licenses.
It used to be that Oracle charged per simultaneous thread, so hyper-threading doubled the license count (cost) and multi-core did the same thing. Microsoft murdered them on DB pricing (SQL was cheaper per CPU, then quadruple the Oracle cost for the same dual processor with hyperthreading box but only double for MS) and I think Oracle have changed their tune now.
Or, since you HAVE read /. for a while, you could read the article. Which describes the measurement of increased C14 levels due to atmospheric fallout after detonation of nuclear weapons, and their subsequent reduction (dilution) due to fossil fuel burning, which in their testing was enough to narrow down to a specific year.
Further to this, Windows also does go to some lengths to avoid swapping a thread between CPUs unnecessarily - this supposedly helps ensure that the CPU cache is best utilised. Perhaps OSX is more liberal about where a thread runs when it has more CPUs than active threads?
Yes, as does Windows. I think I should have been more clear - the scale curve is nice and flat up to 8, 16, maybe 32 logical CPUs. After that though, doubling CPUs doesn't necessarily double performance (even in heavy compute) - other bottlenecks start to impact, as does scheduler performance and architecture.