"The US had catalytic converters in the 70's, and got rid of lead fuel, too. Europe still fights over whether to have them."
I don't know where you get your information, but you're dead wrong. In Sweden catalytic converters have been mandatory for several decades. We use unleaded fuel. Average Swedish cars also use much less petrol/km (Weaker engines), which also means less polution.
Also keep in mind that catalytic convertion converts carbon monixide to carbon dioxide, which is less dangerouse, but still thought to be the main reason for the greenhouse effect. So in the end it's not good for the environment to use a car which uses oilproducts for fuel.
If serving huge amounts (>1 GB/hour)of static content from a single-CPU computer is what your server does, Apache is not for you. The Apache model will never do that as fast as Tux, Zeus or Boa.
But if you would stop to think for a while, you would see that no one does that. Nowdays, it's all about dynamic content. And in that case the overhead of using multiple threads is tiny compared to the added benefits of scalability and stability.
It is actually possible to use a kernel-based server like Tux for static content and let Apache take care of the dynamic bits.
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OK, this is more than just a little bit OT, but see if I care.:)
The 11:th verse of the poem 'The Walrus and the Carptenter', from chapter 4 of Lewis Carrolls book 'Trough the looking-glass' reads like this:
'The time has come,' the Walrus said,
'To talk of many things:
Of shoes - and ships - and sealing wax -
Of cabbages - and kings
And why the sea is boiling hot -
And whether pigs have wings.'
So your quote is not entirely correct. I intentionally omitted the last two lines in my sig.
I've never followed a docusoap, but aside from beeing rather annoying they never seemed to do much damage. But an awfull lot of shows have been cancelled lately. The Tick, Futurama, Rugrats and Voyager.
What's worse though, is that because we know when the meeting took place we can't know where it actually happened. They might have gone to Hawaii. That would make both Bohr and Heissenberg a liar.
You sure about that? The nazis had a very strong support in actual democratic elections. Very little, if any evidence points to any cheating within during the elections. I've never heard a historian dispute that a large majority of the Germans supported Hitlers actions.
But one should remember a few things though:
Even if a majority supported Hitler, millions of Germans where against him.
The nazis had almost complete media control.
War often makes people overly nationalistic.
The Verailles-treaty was more or less meant to permanently crush Germanys economy. Evil evil evil stupid.
Many other countries had strong Nazi sympathies. In my native Sweden I belive there was a majority in favour of Germany during the first years of the war.
I'm not trying to point a finger at the germans and say that they are/were bad people. Quite the opposite, I'm trying to say that even good, smart and kind poeple can do really horrible and destructive things.
Yeah, that's pretty much what Bohr said. Heissenberg on the other hand claimed he was a nationalist but detested the Nazis, that he was trying to stall the work on the A-bomb because he was afraid of what Hitler might do with it, and that he wasn't really trying to recruit Bohr. There isn't any proof either way. But There are numerous plays, TV-series and documentaries making a happy little stab in the dark.
Checked out the documents. These are documents written in the sixties, i.e. twenty years after Heissenberg supposedly tried to convince Bohr to build a german A-bomb. Doesn't really add anything interesting to the story. Bohr had his version, Heissenberg his. Neither one can back it up.
Why is this such a big deal anyway? Heissenberg, one of many famous modern physisists might have been a Nazi. So was almost the entire german population for crying out loud. Most of them did not know the entire story, and later on most of them understood that they had been horribly wrong. Let it rest.
What a pile of crap. This 'unsafe mode' allows you to access pointers allowing you to stumble into memory protection problems. Just like almost every noninterpreted programing language ever written. Pretty much every single operating system kernel used today is written in C. Including Bill Joys very own Solaris. In uuuuunsaaaaafe daaaangerous dig-your-own-bunghole code without memoryprotection. Bill Joy is a clown.
I'd say unsafe mode is a good idea. That way you can isolate the REALLY performance critical parts of a program and write them really to the metal and have all the shine, fluffy memory protection dope you want for your wussy GUIs.
Sounds overly complicated (Read: stupid). First of all price on identical products vary so it would be a bit arbitrary, and besides that, it would open up to the question of which piece of hardware is the culprit.
By using nearly identical hardware, one can be sure of the performance impact of that piece of hardware. Afterwards, you can compare prices, and try figureing out which processor fits your wallet best.
Let's see. Unreal was supposed to be released shortly after Quake, but ended up beeing about two years late. Is there any real reason to expect that the Unreal 2 engine will slip any less?
OK, here's all you have to do: Use zwrite (A part of the Zephyr kit) to send someone a message. Use the font embedding to set the fontsize to zero. Complex, aint it.
Yeah. Give everyone an iMac. They should be able to get a good deal considering Apples financial situation. And Macs are easy to use, have great software (Including IExplorer and MS Office) and since they look cute, people might not be so afraid of them.
At my university, we get our annual dose of Suns dirt cheap. All computer manufacturers give huge disscounts to universitys, it's market segmentation as well as a very positive branding.
To bad Solaris SUCKS for desktop usage. There has been a bug in Suns X-server for ~5 years now that allows you to remotely crash another users X-server if they use Zephyr. There are several other known crash-exploits for this bug as well. The bug is still open. Never existed in XFree86.
The first episode of The Tick will air this weekend in sweden. Or was it last weekend?
Sad to see a TV-series cancelled before it even hits the international market. Wasn't that the story with Twin Peaks? It was a dud in the US so Lynch had to wrap it up prematurely, then it became a huge hit in europe, but it was already to late.
My favorite prematurely cancelled TV-show was American Gothic, though. Man, that show rocked.
Interesting post. But you should keep in mind that the british legal system is very different from anything else in the world. This sort of abstract reasoning is often used in GB, most other countries have laws and stick to them.
You're missing the point. If a public domain DVD can be unencrypted, then it is legal to make copies of it. The issue here is about public domain footage, not about stealing from Disney.
You should check out this article. It's about a 12-year-old who kills his brother while pretending to play a videogame. The article focuses on the danger of videogames and barely mentions that it might be a bad thing for a parent to leave a loaded handgun laying around where kids can find it.
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I don't know where you get your information, but you're dead wrong. In Sweden catalytic converters have been mandatory for several decades. We use unleaded fuel. Average Swedish cars also use much less petrol/km (Weaker engines), which also means less polution.
Also keep in mind that catalytic convertion converts carbon monixide to carbon dioxide, which is less dangerouse, but still thought to be the main reason for the greenhouse effect. So in the end it's not good for the environment to use a car which uses oilproducts for fuel.
But if you would stop to think for a while, you would see that no one does that. Nowdays, it's all about dynamic content. And in that case the overhead of using multiple threads is tiny compared to the added benefits of scalability and stability.
It is actually possible to use a kernel-based server like Tux for static content and let Apache take care of the dynamic bits.
The 11:th verse of the poem 'The Walrus and the Carptenter', from chapter 4 of Lewis Carrolls book 'Trough the looking-glass' reads like this:
'The time has come,' the Walrus said,
'To talk of many things:
Of shoes - and ships - and sealing wax -
Of cabbages - and kings
And why the sea is boiling hot -
And whether pigs have wings.'
So your quote is not entirely correct. I intentionally omitted the last two lines in my sig.
Can't read the article. That was quick!
Might there be a connection?
So this should die out pretty quickly, I guess.
But one should remember a few things though:
Even if a majority supported Hitler, millions of Germans where against him.
The nazis had almost complete media control.
War often makes people overly nationalistic.
The Verailles-treaty was more or less meant to permanently crush Germanys economy. Evil evil evil stupid.
Many other countries had strong Nazi sympathies. In my native Sweden I belive there was a majority in favour of Germany during the first years of the war.
I'm not trying to point a finger at the germans and say that they are/were bad people. Quite the opposite, I'm trying to say that even good, smart and kind poeple can do really horrible and destructive things.
Yeah, that's pretty much what Bohr said. Heissenberg on the other hand claimed he was a nationalist but detested the Nazis, that he was trying to stall the work on the A-bomb because he was afraid of what Hitler might do with it, and that he wasn't really trying to recruit Bohr. There isn't any proof either way. But There are numerous plays, TV-series and documentaries making a happy little stab in the dark.
Why is this such a big deal anyway? Heissenberg, one of many famous modern physisists might have been a Nazi. So was almost the entire german population for crying out loud. Most of them did not know the entire story, and later on most of them understood that they had been horribly wrong. Let it rest.
What a pile of crap. This 'unsafe mode' allows you to access pointers allowing you to stumble into memory protection problems. Just like almost every noninterpreted programing language ever written. Pretty much every single operating system kernel used today is written in C. Including Bill Joys very own Solaris. In uuuuunsaaaaafe daaaangerous dig-your-own-bunghole code without memoryprotection. Bill Joy is a clown.
I'd say unsafe mode is a good idea. That way you can isolate the REALLY performance critical parts of a program and write them really to the metal and have all the shine, fluffy memory protection dope you want for your wussy GUIs.
Sounds overly complicated (Read: stupid). First of all price on identical products vary so it would be a bit arbitrary, and besides that, it would open up to the question of which piece of hardware is the culprit.
By using nearly identical hardware, one can be sure of the performance impact of that piece of hardware. Afterwards, you can compare prices, and try figureing out which processor fits your wallet best.
Heh... This is a copy-and-paste from the previous article about Gnutella. Don't mod it up.
Let's see. Unreal was supposed to be released shortly after Quake, but ended up beeing about two years late. Is there any real reason to expect that the Unreal 2 engine will slip any less?
Yeah, that's REALLY constructive.
OK, here's all you have to do: Use zwrite (A part of the Zephyr kit) to send someone a message. Use the font embedding to set the fontsize to zero. Complex, aint it.
At my university, we get our annual dose of Suns dirt cheap. All computer manufacturers give huge disscounts to universitys, it's market segmentation as well as a very positive branding.
To bad Solaris SUCKS for desktop usage. There has been a bug in Suns X-server for ~5 years now that allows you to remotely crash another users X-server if they use Zephyr. There are several other known crash-exploits for this bug as well. The bug is still open. Never existed in XFree86.
Sad to see a TV-series cancelled before it even hits the international market. Wasn't that the story with Twin Peaks? It was a dud in the US so Lynch had to wrap it up prematurely, then it became a huge hit in europe, but it was already to late.
My favorite prematurely cancelled TV-show was American Gothic, though. Man, that show rocked.
Ho hum, that is a good point.
Whenever the copyright of Snowwhite expires, we'll only have the right to copy and give away the VHS version. Sinister.
Interesting post. But you should keep in mind that the british legal system is very different from anything else in the world. This sort of abstract reasoning is often used in GB, most other countries have laws and stick to them.
You're missing the point. If a public domain DVD can be unencrypted, then it is legal to make copies of it. The issue here is about public domain footage, not about stealing from Disney.
You should check out this article. It's about a 12-year-old who kills his brother while pretending to play a videogame. The article focuses on the danger of videogames and barely mentions that it might be a bad thing for a parent to leave a loaded handgun laying around where kids can find it.
Moderators: This is a good link, please mod it up.
You've gotten your toaster to play DVDs? Cool. I've been experimenting with the same thing, but it just keeps melting the stupid discs! Any tips?