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(though I'm not sure how they'll be able to scan your ID as they're kicking you out).
Well, first off when they approach you to kick you out, usually one of the first things they'll do is ask to see your id. But then they don't need even need too, the bouncer gets a good description of you as (s)he is escorting you to the curb, aproximate height, weight, hair/skin/eye colour, distinguishing facial marks, etc. Then scans through the database checking pictures they captured when you came in, like right from the front of the license, if they haven't paid to get access to a copy of the once from the dmv, untill they find you. Then welcome to the distributed black list. Vegas casinos do some of the same types of things.
Worse than that... on the side of every page in TFA, you'll notice a link to "pfucata camera bundles" which happens to be pages full of links to amazon with their affiliate id in them. So how much does it cost to buy front page advertising space on/. these days, and does it cost more to have it look like a story?
Note to self: don't hire anyone from Brown University if this is the quality of their grad students.
A few quick issues with your points, just be glad I'm not on your review board, it wouldn't be pretty.
Cisco is only one of a handfull of router manufacturers, and if their gear doesn't keep up with the technology then those 'insane corporate policies' you referenced will be fixed. In the early days of IPv4 Cisco's routers (and everyone else's for that matter) used the cpu to handle routing too, fancy fast path hardware didn't exist at the time. As time changed, and the amount of load on routers increased the industry leaders invented faster and better hardware to keep pace with that load, there is no indication that they won't do the same with IPv6.
This same argument has been made for every new addressing scheme... there was no reason to use more than 8 bits of address, because there would never be more than 256 computers in the world. Same arguments were made for phone numbers. Oh, and it's "Network Address Translation" see RFC 1631, any amount of "anonymity" provided by NAT is purely a placebo effect on the less cluefull user. You focus purely on the number of addresses availabel in IPv4, but fail to take into account how many of those are usable, given the amount of reuse hacks already in use throughout the world, I'm sure we're already well over the number of usable, globally routed, IPv4 addresses. Especially with some of the Asian and European Cell carriers using their own NAT'd 10/8 network, as do a number of US cable modem companies, not only in some cases for end users, but also for their internal routers. (The route out from my cable modem travels through two routers in the 10/8 network.)
Oh, and if you actually read said RFC you would learn that it is not a solution, it is a bandaid. Just read the abstract:
Abstract
The two most compelling problems facing the IP Internet are IP
address depletion and scaling in routing. Long-term and short-term
solutions to these problems are being developed. The short-term
solution is CIDR (Classless InterDomain Routing). The long-term
solutions consist of various proposals for new internet protocols
with larger addresses.
It is possible that CIDR will not be adequate to maintain the IP
Internet until the long-term solutions are in place. This memo
proposes another short-term solution, address reuse, that complements
CIDR or even makes it unnecessary. The address reuse solution is to
place Network Address Translators (NAT) at the borders of stub
domains. Each NAT box has a table consisting of pairs of local IP
addresses and globally unique addresses. The IP addresses inside the
stub domain are not globally unique. They are reused in other
domains, thus solving the address depletion problem. The globally
unique IP addresses are assigned according to current CIDR address
allocation schemes. CIDR solves the scaling problem. The main
advantage of NAT is that it can be installed without changes to
routers or hosts. This memo presents a preliminary design for NAT,
and discusses its pros and cons.
What exactly is the difference between 2 and 3? Two seems to be "2^64 is too many hosts", whereas three seems to be "64 is too many bits". Well, duh. The two go hand in hand. All the same issues that apply to 2 apply to 3... but you raised an additional issue, that having 64bit addresses will bloat routing tables absurdly. That's because of the way addresses have been handed out, split, merged, moved, and generally horribly mismanaged. IPv4 routing tables today are absurdly bloated. IPv6 was designed, from the get go, to fix this problem by using aggregated routes. Say you have two networks that are very nearly adjacent in the address spac
As you point out, SuSE already does this, using, you guessed it, RPM. So the changes have already been made, they just need to be adopted by other distros (if they haven't already been pickedup upstream by redhat) and (probably more importantly) someone needs to document the complex magic required to create the patch rpms.
Um... tried it with a relatively modern distro? I beat on firewire, er ieee1394, devices on SuSE 8.2 and 9.0 all the time... solid as a rock... and neither of these are bleeding edge, heck, they're not even current!
The lack of apps you noticed was likely due to the difference between Personal and Professional. Personal is trimmed way way down compared to Professional. There are very few apps I need that aren't on the professional cds/dvd. Those that are, are the kind that aren't on any distro's media, so a quick trip to CPAN or freshmeat.net is usually in order. Note though, that a lot of the most commonly used CPAN modules are in the Professional box. 9.0 Professional had 3270 RPMs on the cds, compare that to your Personal copy by mounting cd 1, then issue this (adjusting path to fit): zcat/media/cdrom/ARCHIVES.gz | grep ^---\> | wc -l
I'm trying to see if I can get the cadence and word choice right so that it reads like it was written by the people who actually do the show. How'd I do?
Very, very well. Better than they do sometimes, though I did stumble over that url, for once some BouncyCapsWouldHaveHelped.
The thing is, are you sure that GCC is equally optimized for both platforms?
It isn't even close. GCC's PowerPC target is very very weak... you get the front end optimizations on the source to tree translation, but when it comes to backend emiting binaries from that tree it is very simple. There is also a minor matter of linux not having support for VMX at all... all those fancy registers and instructions are unused on a G5 running linux. I doubt OS X was allowed to ship without support for them. The euqivalent function on the Opteron (I forget the acronym for it... MMX? or was that intel... oh well, whatever they call single instruction-multiple data) is probably very well supported by linux by now.
But as you say, it's not really relevant... just a pissing context between the architecture bigots. Of course it was just this type of pissing contest that managed to knock that "clock speed doesn't matter" mantra OUT of power in the PowerPC chip development world and recently bring us such a thing as a 2+Ghz PowerPC chip!! It's amazing how quickly ppc has caught up with intell in the megahertz race... of course these days it hard to tell the difference between RISC and CISC architectures at times. I suppose that's the price we've paid.
If you want address space get the heck off of intel related processors!!
http://www.penguinppc64.org/
I've got a system at work with 12G of physical memory right now. I've had accounts on test systems with as much as 32G of physical memory. I think the max is 512G. Yep, http://www-132.ibm.com/content/home/store_IBMPubli cUSA/en_US/eServer/pSeries/high_end/pSeries_highen d.html shows 512G of mainstore max.
p.s. the sandels I bought from zappos a few years ago are still with me, great site!:)
IBM would be the most obvious candidate as Java and particularly open-source Java offerings (such as the Jikes compiler and Eclipse IDE) are a big part of their software activities.
Just for the record, the sum total extent of the corporate sponsorship Jikes has received over the last several years is hosting space on the developerWorks website (where Jikes is the single most active project) and occasional CPU cycles for generation and testing of the binary used for the AIX and OS/400(PASE) environments. None of that came from the portion of the company responsible for Java, which has traditionally been a HUGE effort. (This effort is what generates the JVMs you next mentioned that regularly beat the pants off of Sun's offerings.)
Wouldn't you cheksum every data transfer under those conditions too?
Um, no. At that point I'd use hardware raid and let the hardware figure it out. And I don't mean cheap crap like a promise fake raid, I mean real, industrial strength, RAID-5 controllers like Adaptec makes, or IBM uses in the iSeries or Shark.
IBM and patents seem to me to be a issue of quantity not quality.
Actually, if IBM wanted quantity we could simply submit every patent suggestion that employees come up with. As it is, only a subset of the ideas submitted to the internal process make it through and get submitted. No, the focus is quality and licensability.
Just imagine if ungrateful assholes like you had as open a forum as/. (and the rest of the net in general) back in the days when Picaso, Shakespeare, and Mozart were getting started. Back then you had to be talented to get your words in front of the kind of masses the above tripe was subjected to. Look at any of the big names' really early work, most of it was crap, or at least not up to the level they latter attained. Fred has asperations twoard manga, and a page at a time, even the best manga isn't always funny. Go pickup a good one, pick any page at random and read it, just by itself. Now a couple days later, read the next page... wait a couple days and read another page. You'll very soon note that it's about the same pace as reading MT. If you can't handle that, then don't read the new strips every few days, wait a month or more and come read several of them at the same time.
That's the whole point of the net, it's NOT as much of a meritocracy, you don't have to already be a master in order to put something out there, hell, as you've proven so very well, anyone that can string a sentence together (and even some that can't) can inflict their literary diarrhea on the unsuspecting masses.
That you've not found the humour in the recent stories doesn't suprise me. Fortunately not all the readers of MT are at your level, and even more fortunately, Fred understands this.
It's a fab plant, it can make anything they are sent the masks for. This week it maybe the new Power 4 chips for high end servers, next week it might be small embeded chips for a cell phone. maybe in between they'll run an engineering test batch of some cool new, as yet unnamed, next generation chip for the chip developers to trial.
O'Reilly's "High Performance Computing" (the harrier book, although I've heard it called the raptor book as well) is an excellent volume on performance. It covers everything from hardware architecture to high level language structures. Excellent starting place for those writing performance critical code; although it expects that you already know how to write properly functional code first. (you might be surprised how many people neglect to ensure code still functions properly after the "improve performance".) There are sections on specific langauges (HPF for example) and environments (MPI, PVM) as well. Also good reading for anyone that has to benchmark code (it explains how to do it right) and those who have to understand benchmarks. Includes an explanation of a number of industry standard benchmarks. I wish marketing people that try to sell something based on benchmarks would read this.
Bruce Eckel's "Thinking in..." series are particualrly good (and have the requisite ugly cover to be a classic text). Especially the C++ and Java pair, which should more accurately be titled "Thinking in Objects, C++/Java flavour". These are particularly good for people moving from procedural languages like Cobol, into the OO world. There are also a number of pieces of books he has put out for free.
The Gamma et al. book has really never impressed me, but then I suspect that is because most of the patterns they present were taugt to me over the years already... so by the time I saw that book, it was mostly review.
The other books that I've always found helpfull are the fomal specs for the language... for C++ developers, get a current copy of the bible from Stroustrup. C heads would want K&R's version. For java developers the Lang Spec from Gossling, Joy, Steele, and Bracha is a must read, and the VM spec from Lindholm and Yellin can be a great resource for anyone that is used to assembly level programming and wants to know how this "machine" works.
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Worse than that... on the side of every page in TFA, you'll notice a link to "pfucata camera bundles" which happens to be pages full of links to amazon with their affiliate id in them. So how much does it cost to buy front page advertising space on /. these days, and does it cost more to have it look like a story?
A few quick issues with your points, just be glad I'm not on your review board, it wouldn't be pretty.
Oh, and if you actually read said RFC you would learn that it is not a solution, it is a bandaid. Just read the abstract:
As you point out, SuSE already does this, using, you guessed it, RPM. So the changes have already been made, they just need to be adopted by other distros (if they haven't already been pickedup upstream by redhat) and (probably more importantly) someone needs to document the complex magic required to create the patch rpms.
Um... tried it with a relatively modern distro? I beat on firewire, er ieee1394, devices on SuSE 8.2 and 9.0 all the time... solid as a rock... and neither of these are bleeding edge, heck, they're not even current!
The lack of apps you noticed was likely due to the difference between Personal and Professional. Personal is trimmed way way down compared to Professional. There are very few apps I need that aren't on the professional cds/dvd. Those that are, are the kind that aren't on any distro's media, so a quick trip to CPAN or freshmeat.net is usually in order. Note though, that a lot of the most commonly used CPAN modules are in the Professional box. 9.0 Professional had 3270 RPMs on the cds, compare that to your Personal copy by mounting cd 1, then issue this (adjusting path to fit): zcat /media/cdrom/ARCHIVES.gz | grep ^---\> | wc -l
the kind with seat belts?
Wars where we stood *WITH* the UK:
WWI
WWII
Wars where we stood *AGAINST* the UK:
The Revolutionary War
Very, very well. Better than they do sometimes, though I did stumble over that url, for once some BouncyCapsWouldHaveHelped.
It isn't even close. GCC's PowerPC target is very very weak... you get the front end optimizations on the source to tree translation, but when it comes to backend emiting binaries from that tree it is very simple. There is also a minor matter of linux not having support for VMX at all... all those fancy registers and instructions are unused on a G5 running linux. I doubt OS X was allowed to ship without support for them. The euqivalent function on the Opteron (I forget the acronym for it... MMX? or was that intel... oh well, whatever they call single instruction-multiple data) is probably very well supported by linux by now.
But as you say, it's not really relevant... just a pissing context between the architecture bigots. Of course it was just this type of pissing contest that managed to knock that "clock speed doesn't matter" mantra OUT of power in the PowerPC chip development world and recently bring us such a thing as a 2+Ghz PowerPC chip!! It's amazing how quickly ppc has caught up with intell in the megahertz race... of course these days it hard to tell the difference between RISC and CISC architectures at times. I suppose that's the price we've paid.
If you want address space get the heck off of intel related processors!!
i cUSA/en_US/eServer/pSeries/high_end/pSeries_highen d.html
:)
http://www.penguinppc64.org/
I've got a system at work with 12G of physical memory right now. I've had accounts on test systems with as much as 32G of physical memory. I think the max is 512G. Yep, http://www-132.ibm.com/content/home/store_IBMPubl
shows 512G of mainstore max.
p.s. the sandels I bought from zappos a few years ago are still with me, great site!
Where? BuleGene uses a varient of PPC970 chips from IBM.
That would be a bit over simple... as that would prevent a packet written cd from being read in a normal cd drive... a feature which I quite enjoy.
Otherwise, you're most likely correct in your assesment.
So you're saying he is our saviour from the heart of evil?
Linus could end up owning SCO. Now *that* would justice.
With a market cap of 80M, just about anyone could own sco.
But anyway, I'd pay a couple of bucks, especially if we get a Pay-Per-View event of Linus kicking McBride upside the head.
Wouldn't that be his wife's job? Even if not, it would be better entertainment.
Amen.
Just for the record, the sum total extent of the corporate sponsorship Jikes has received over the last several years is hosting space on the developerWorks website (where Jikes is the single most active project) and occasional CPU cycles for generation and testing of the binary used for the AIX and OS/400(PASE) environments. None of that came from the portion of the company responsible for Java, which has traditionally been a HUGE effort. (This effort is what generates the JVMs you next mentioned that regularly beat the pants off of Sun's offerings.)
Um, no. At that point I'd use hardware raid and let the hardware figure it out. And I don't mean cheap crap like a promise fake raid, I mean real, industrial strength, RAID-5 controllers like Adaptec makes, or IBM uses in the iSeries or Shark.
IBM and patents seem to me to be a issue of quantity not quality.
Actually, if IBM wanted quantity we could simply submit every patent suggestion that employees come up with. As it is, only a subset of the ideas submitted to the internal process make it through and get submitted. No, the focus is quality and licensability.
This is afterall the register you're talking about...
...then just shut the fuck up.
/. (and the rest of the net in general) back in the days when Picaso, Shakespeare, and Mozart were getting started. Back then you had to be talented to get your words in front of the kind of masses the above tripe was subjected to. Look at any of the big names' really early work, most of it was crap, or at least not up to the level they latter attained. Fred has asperations twoard manga, and a page at a time, even the best manga isn't always funny. Go pickup a good one, pick any page at random and read it, just by itself. Now a couple days later, read the next page... wait a couple days and read another page. You'll very soon note that it's about the same pace as reading MT. If you can't handle that, then don't read the new strips every few days, wait a month or more and come read several of them at the same time.
Just imagine if ungrateful assholes like you had as open a forum as
That's the whole point of the net, it's NOT as much of a meritocracy, you don't have to already be a master in order to put something out there, hell, as you've proven so very well, anyone that can string a sentence together (and even some that can't) can inflict their literary diarrhea on the unsuspecting masses.
That you've not found the humour in the recent stories doesn't suprise me. Fortunately not all the readers of MT are at your level, and even more fortunately, Fred understands this.
It's a fab plant, it can make anything they are sent the masks for. This week it maybe the new Power 4 chips for high end servers, next week it might be small embeded chips for a cell phone. maybe in between they'll run an engineering test batch of some cool new, as yet unnamed, next generation chip for the chip developers to trial.
O'Reilly's "High Performance Computing" (the harrier book, although I've heard it called the raptor book as well) is an excellent volume on performance. It covers everything from hardware architecture to high level language structures. Excellent starting place for those writing performance critical code; although it expects that you already know how to write properly functional code first. (you might be surprised how many people neglect to ensure code still functions properly after the "improve performance".) There are sections on specific langauges (HPF for example) and environments (MPI, PVM) as well. Also good reading for anyone that has to benchmark code (it explains how to do it right) and those who have to understand benchmarks. Includes an explanation of a number of industry standard benchmarks. I wish marketing people that try to sell something based on benchmarks would read this.
Bruce Eckel's "Thinking in ..." series are particualrly good (and have the requisite ugly cover to be a classic text). Especially the C++ and Java pair, which should more accurately be titled "Thinking in Objects, C++/Java flavour". These are particularly good for people moving from procedural languages like Cobol, into the OO world. There are also a number of pieces of books he has put out for free.
The Gamma et al. book has really never impressed me, but then I suspect that is because most of the patterns they present were taugt to me over the years already... so by the time I saw that book, it was mostly review.
The other books that I've always found helpfull are the fomal specs for the language... for C++ developers, get a current copy of the bible from Stroustrup. C heads would want K&R's version. For java developers the Lang Spec from Gossling, Joy, Steele, and Bracha is a must read, and the VM spec from Lindholm and Yellin can be a great resource for anyone that is used to assembly level programming and wants to know how this "machine" works.