This is a fairly old argument, and in a dev/test environment it is not accurate. Databases and other disk intensive operations may experience performance issues when virtualized, however there are ways around this, pass-thru disks, iscsi storage (which can be done with software on the host box), etc. All of these would allow the VM direct access to the disk instead of writing everything through the VHD or VMDK file and taking the performance hit.
Virtualization is not some magic fix that makes everything work great, however like any solution it you take your time and properly design it, you will end up with a system that meets or exceeds your needs.
I have already cast my ballot, so that is really irrelevant. I don't feel strongly about either candidate and unfortunately neither candidate is going to solve our issues (which is why I am not trying to sway anyones vote - and have kept my own to myself). One is going to propose new spending while another will propose tax breaks. Either way generations down the road we still have mountains of debt preventing us from prospering.
This is not the time to be talking tax cuts, no matter which party proposes them or who they are for. This is the time to be talking massive spending cuts and paying off our massive debt. When we start making some traction paying off our debt we can start fixing some of these programs (SS, medicaid) that no one in Washington can manage to get a grip on. There is no reason that a country that is as prosperous as the United States cannot afford to operate. That is absolutely insane. Then once we have fixed SS medicaid and so on we can start implementing new programs if that is what the people want and/or cutting taxes.
Ultimately I want a constitutional amendment dictating what our government can collect in taxes and spend every year (per capita). I don't care how it is collected be it gas/property/income whatever. For example if the goverment were allowed to collect 15K per person (this is an average - it could actually be split based on income or consumption). They would then be limited to spending 40-60% - except times of war which they could spend the additional 40-60% on winning the war. Now with the leftover money in peace we would then have a big chunk of money to start paying off our national debt, once that is done we can start saving, and once we have a National Nestegg instead of a national debt we can start lowering taxes and giving back annual rebates. This would limit the growth of government essentially to a percentage of the population. More importantly it will secure the future of generations of Americans.
Ultimately this comes down to a problem with perception. I know many people who believe in Universal Health-care, not because it is the right thing to do, but because it is expensive and the government can afford it more than the individual. This is completely wrong. The American goverment is more broke than the Jones'
"If the San Francisco experiment works, no one will have to murder anyone over a parking space," said Donald Shoup, a professor of urban planning at the University of California, Los Angeles.
The logic here is just flawed. No one had to murder anyone for a parking space to begin with. So now we have successfully manufactured a problem in order to solve it. I mean last I checked this murder was an isolated incident, we are hardly talking about an epidemic. NYC had 15,095* "felony assaults" last year (basically muggings). That is 41.36 per day assuming muggers work a 7 day work week and take no holidays. I would venture a guess to say that there have been much less than 41.36 "murders for parking spaces" over the entire country.
I do however think that the technology is neat, and would be useful/cost-effective in a tighter area (such as a parking structure as opposed to metered street parking where we are talking maybe 20 spaces per block).
U.S. authorities have thus far been prevented from bringing those responsible to justice due to a lack of cooperation from officials in St. Petersburg, Russia...
No seriously though. This is no suprise. We can pretend that the US and Russia are the best of friends but in reality these kinds of situations will continue to happen. What is the Russian Governments incentive to take care of this issue. Like it or not it is good for their economy.
This is probably true, however it is dishonest to say that laptops start at 2000 when it is actually the MacBook Pro that starts at 1999, and there is actually other models of laptops that start at 1099.
...When the laptop starts at $2000 and has the same upgrade cycle...
Actually currently on Apple's Store they have laptops starting at $1099. Did you round up?
Seriously though if you think they are too expensive then fine don't buy one, but if you are going to make an argument that they are too expensive please use accurate, or at least keep the price close to accurate (read: don't double it).
To elaborate a little more on the previous answer. This memory limitation is not a limitation with xp/vista this is a memory limitation with 32 bit xp/vista. If you are using 64 bit xp/vista the 3+gb limit disappears.
In the military, A commanding officer can order you to drop your pants and shoot yourself in the left testicle too but you have the right to disobey. Especially if the order is stupid, immoral, without merit or could get you into trouble. On always has the right to disobey when the authority figure is a moron.. such is the case here.
Actually in the military you are not allowed to disobey an order simply because it is stupid, immoral, without merit or could get you in trouble. The only situation where a military member can disobey an order is when the order is ILLEGAL. Cut and dried plain and simple. Illegal is not synonomous with stupid, immoral, without merit, or could get you in to trouble (whatever the hell that means).
Furthermore, closing a web browser is not shooting yourself in the left testicle. If the teacher had instructed the student to do that your argument might have merit, but alas reality is nowhere near that.
The only thing more amazing than the RIAA's Statisticians is the fact that Slashdot has quite possibly the lowest rate of piracy on the Internet...
Unless... Aww crap whadda mean Porn is copyrighted...
Correction:
The only thing more amazing than the RIAA's Statisticians is the fact that Slashdot has quite possibly the highest rate of piracy on the Internet...
I propose building a wall around our ISS modules. I am tired of illegal space men crossing our borders to steal our resources. Although on the upside at least we do not give them drivers licenses.
If you watch the video, he had said that at the end of the quarter mile they are cooking along at 158mph. I am sure that if you took it for a run longer than a quarter mile you would keep accelerating at that breakneck rate for much longer.
The lamest one was "small computer that runs Vista". I agree as well, although a better wonder, and slightly more in touch with reality, would have been "any computer that runs Vista well"
Seems like you have quite a lot to say yourself. But you prefer not to say them --- because why?
Actually I don't have alot to say about the subject. The few points that Brickwall addresses that I did not agree with were so minor that I chose not to nitpick and instead to address the more blatant attempt to silence him (by modding) because of disagreement.
You don't have the presentation skills?
My presentation skills have nothing to do with my choice to not respond to any issues, I did not respond to any issues that the parent had made simply because he made none. Because of this there was nothing I could say aside from point out that he chose not to make any points.
To people like you, a person who can talk rubbish with style is better than a person who has the correct arguments, but can't control his temper.
I made no comments about anyone talking rubbish with or without style. I simply think that if someone is going to take the time to post then they should at least respond to the point(s) that were brought up in the post they were disputing. Don't waste everyones time simply saying I disagree. Explain why or keep it to yourself.
I say the world don't need people like you.
I am very impressed to know that after a paragraph you know me well enough to determine the validity of my very existence. This would imply that I am simply so well-spoken that I can convey the deepest parts of my personality through an impersonal medium such as the internet. On/. no less...
Mod down. Not only is he just spouting the same cliche talking points that have existed forever, but they are also completely baseless claims. Not to mention that not a single person here is an actual libertarian, because most don't seem to truly understand what it means to be a libertarian. It's not just "socially progressive and financially conservative." It's a lot more complicated, and frankly insidious, than that. Disagreement is not a category for Modding. If you would like to debate one or more of his points then please do... Don't just say you said this and this is wrong. Come up with actual points of your own...
So Mod Parent Down, Mod Grand Parent Up.
I don't agree with everything that the Grandparent said, however he was well spoken and backed up his statements with evidence (however anecdotal).
If it were a negligible impact then he would not have pled guilty to 2 felonies... He would have fought it and been acquitted on most if not all counts by a jury of his peers... He did not want to take it to court and that is that.
Nothing I say will make you understand that what he did was illegal and now he is serving his sentence. It may or may not have been morally objectionable, the law does not care. Period.
The police should uphold the law as it is now. That's what they're there for, and that's why the law exists. If the law is a bad law, then it is the duty of the electorate to change it - not for the police to take the law into their own hands. 100% right on the money. The consitution did not include police officers as a branch of government, giving them a place in checks and balances... The only situation where non-enforcement is legal is when an executive order is issued by the President or Governor depending on where the law originates (federal or state).
You are absolutely right. If our legislature is not fulfilling the will of the people by putting laws on the books that we want, and getting rid of the ones that we don't then we have no use for them and they should be replaced.
All he really did was the equivalent to sneaking into a movie theatre to see a movie for free, for every time he watched the pirated movie. He denied noone else the right to see the movie. If the movie in question was available on DVD, then he denied the movie's producers the equivalent of their share of the DVD's retail price.
SO what he admitted to, was essentially equal to stealing a DVD from Walmart, except that noone lost any actual property (stealing a DVD from Walmart would deprive someone of the right to actually purchase it). Unless he was caught with a pirated copy of a movie that had not been released yet, which goes back to my original point, that what he did was akin to sneaking into a movie theatre... albeit sneaking in multiple times equal to the number of times he watched his pirated copy.
We are still talking about Petty Theft, which is theft of property under the value of $400. Petty Theft is punishable by fine or up to 6 months in jail. Seems he got worse, on both counts... fine AND more than 6 months. I don't see how it was proven that what he did was equal to stealing over $400. If this were true and he simply admitted to the equivalent of stealing a DVD, then why did he plead guilty to 2 felonies? Is petty theft a felony? I am not going to stand up and defend him. He had his chance to exonerate himself, he chose not to. He was sentenced based on the crimes that he was convicted on, the same crimes he pled guilty to. If he did not think he was guilty of the 2 felonies then he should have pled innocent and fought his case...
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This is a fairly old argument, and in a dev/test environment it is not accurate. Databases and other disk intensive operations may experience performance issues when virtualized, however there are ways around this, pass-thru disks, iscsi storage (which can be done with software on the host box), etc. All of these would allow the VM direct access to the disk instead of writing everything through the VHD or VMDK file and taking the performance hit.
Virtualization is not some magic fix that makes everything work great, however like any solution it you take your time and properly design it, you will end up with a system that meets or exceeds your needs.
I have already cast my ballot, so that is really irrelevant. I don't feel strongly about either candidate and unfortunately neither candidate is going to solve our issues (which is why I am not trying to sway anyones vote - and have kept my own to myself). One is going to propose new spending while another will propose tax breaks. Either way generations down the road we still have mountains of debt preventing us from prospering.
-matt
This is not the time to be talking tax cuts, no matter which party proposes them or who they are for. This is the time to be talking massive spending cuts and paying off our massive debt. When we start making some traction paying off our debt we can start fixing some of these programs (SS, medicaid) that no one in Washington can manage to get a grip on. There is no reason that a country that is as prosperous as the United States cannot afford to operate. That is absolutely insane. Then once we have fixed SS medicaid and so on we can start implementing new programs if that is what the people want and/or cutting taxes.
Ultimately I want a constitutional amendment dictating what our government can collect in taxes and spend every year (per capita). I don't care how it is collected be it gas/property/income whatever. For example if the goverment were allowed to collect 15K per person (this is an average - it could actually be split based on income or consumption). They would then be limited to spending 40-60% - except times of war which they could spend the additional 40-60% on winning the war. Now with the leftover money in peace we would then have a big chunk of money to start paying off our national debt, once that is done we can start saving, and once we have a National Nestegg instead of a national debt we can start lowering taxes and giving back annual rebates. This would limit the growth of government essentially to a percentage of the population. More importantly it will secure the future of generations of Americans.
Ultimately this comes down to a problem with perception. I know many people who believe in Universal Health-care, not because it is the right thing to do, but because it is expensive and the government can afford it more than the individual. This is completely wrong. The American goverment is more broke than the Jones'
Seriously though, where else would he keep his pr0n if not on your Mom's XP box?
"If the San Francisco experiment works, no one will have to murder anyone over a parking space," said Donald Shoup, a professor of urban planning at the University of California, Los Angeles.
The logic here is just flawed. No one had to murder anyone for a parking space to begin with. So now we have successfully manufactured a problem in order to solve it. I mean last I checked this murder was an isolated incident, we are hardly talking about an epidemic. NYC had 15,095* "felony assaults" last year (basically muggings). That is 41.36 per day assuming muggers work a 7 day work week and take no holidays. I would venture a guess to say that there have been much less than 41.36 "murders for parking spaces" over the entire country.
I do however think that the technology is neat, and would be useful/cost-effective in a tighter area (such as a parking structure as opposed to metered street parking where we are talking maybe 20 spaces per block).
*according to NYPost
http://www.nypost.com/seven/11182007/news/regionalnews/muggings_making_comeback_in_city_738067.htm
I have nipples, can I attend those classes?
So it was divided into three parts but it is not a trilogy?
Trilogy
Perhaps it was not originally intended to be a trilogy, but it is what it is.
U.S. authorities have thus far been prevented from bringing those responsible to justice due to a lack of cooperation from officials in St. Petersburg, Russia...
No seriously though. This is no suprise. We can pretend that the US and Russia are the best of friends but in reality these kinds of situations will continue to happen. What is the Russian Governments incentive to take care of this issue. Like it or not it is good for their economy.
Wow...
If you cannot keep a machine (of any make) running for more than six months than you probably should save your money.
This is probably true, however it is dishonest to say that laptops start at 2000 when it is actually the MacBook Pro that starts at 1999, and there is actually other models of laptops that start at 1099.
...When the laptop starts at $2000 and has the same upgrade cycle...Actually currently on Apple's Store they have laptops starting at $1099. Did you round up?
Seriously though if you think they are too expensive then fine don't buy one, but if you are going to make an argument that they are too expensive please use accurate, or at least keep the price close to accurate (read: don't double it).
To elaborate a little more on the previous answer. This memory limitation is not a limitation with xp/vista this is a memory limitation with 32 bit xp/vista. If you are using 64 bit xp/vista the 3+gb limit disappears.
-matt
Actually in the military you are not allowed to disobey an order simply because it is stupid, immoral, without merit or could get you in trouble. The only situation where a military member can disobey an order is when the order is ILLEGAL. Cut and dried plain and simple. Illegal is not synonomous with stupid, immoral, without merit, or could get you in to trouble (whatever the hell that means).
Furthermore, closing a web browser is not shooting yourself in the left testicle. If the teacher had instructed the student to do that your argument might have merit, but alas reality is nowhere near that.
The only thing more amazing than the RIAA's Statisticians is the fact that Slashdot has quite possibly the lowest rate of piracy on the Internet...
Unless... Aww crap whadda mean Porn is copyrighted...
Correction:
The only thing more amazing than the RIAA's Statisticians is the fact that Slashdot has quite possibly the highest rate of piracy on the Internet...
So maybe that isn't so amazing...
Very well spoken... An excellent read even if you don't agree with his viewpoint.
I propose building a wall around our ISS modules. I am tired of illegal space men crossing our borders to steal our resources. Although on the upside at least we do not give them drivers licenses.
If you watch the video, he had said that at the end of the quarter mile they are cooking along at 158mph. I am sure that if you took it for a run longer than a quarter mile you would keep accelerating at that breakneck rate for much longer.
Actually I don't have alot to say about the subject. The few points that Brickwall addresses that I did not agree with were so minor that I chose not to nitpick and instead to address the more blatant attempt to silence him (by modding) because of disagreement.
You don't have the presentation skills?
My presentation skills have nothing to do with my choice to not respond to any issues, I did not respond to any issues that the parent had made simply because he made none. Because of this there was nothing I could say aside from point out that he chose not to make any points.
To people like you, a person who can talk rubbish with style is better than a person who has the correct arguments, but can't control his temper.
I made no comments about anyone talking rubbish with or without style. I simply think that if someone is going to take the time to post then they should at least respond to the point(s) that were brought up in the post they were disputing. Don't waste everyones time simply saying I disagree. Explain why or keep it to yourself.
I say the world don't need people like you.
I am very impressed to know that after a paragraph you know me well enough to determine the validity of my very existence. This would imply that I am simply so well-spoken that I can convey the deepest parts of my personality through an impersonal medium such as the internet. On
So Mod Parent Down, Mod Grand Parent Up.
I don't agree with everything that the Grandparent said, however he was well spoken and backed up his statements with evidence (however anecdotal).
You're completely right, I am always making comparisons of things that don't make any sense...
Case in Point: Currently I am comparing you to someone who is way off topic.
If it were a negligible impact then he would not have pled guilty to 2 felonies... He would have fought it and been acquitted on most if not all counts by a jury of his peers... He did not want to take it to court and that is that.
Nothing I say will make you understand that what he did was illegal and now he is serving his sentence. It may or may not have been morally objectionable, the law does not care. Period.
You are absolutely right. If our legislature is not fulfilling the will of the people by putting laws on the books that we want, and getting rid of the ones that we don't then we have no use for them and they should be replaced.
Well put.
SO what he admitted to, was essentially equal to stealing a DVD from Walmart, except that noone lost any actual property (stealing a DVD from Walmart would deprive someone of the right to actually purchase it). Unless he was caught with a pirated copy of a movie that had not been released yet, which goes back to my original point, that what he did was akin to sneaking into a movie theatre... albeit sneaking in multiple times equal to the number of times he watched his pirated copy.
We are still talking about Petty Theft, which is theft of property under the value of $400. Petty Theft is punishable by fine or up to 6 months in jail. Seems he got worse, on both counts... fine AND more than 6 months. I don't see how it was proven that what he did was equal to stealing over $400. If this were true and he simply admitted to the equivalent of stealing a DVD, then why did he plead guilty to 2 felonies? Is petty theft a felony? I am not going to stand up and defend him. He had his chance to exonerate himself, he chose not to. He was sentenced based on the crimes that he was convicted on, the same crimes he pled guilty to. If he did not think he was guilty of the 2 felonies then he should have pled innocent and fought his case...