I think it's more likely that people think that a random sampling should repeat less than it does. I wrote a little program called music_randomizer on my computer that plays songs randomly for me. Its main purpose is to wake me up in the morning (I have a cron job for it), but whenever I use it to just listen to songs I always find things repeating more than I expected. The code is correct; it uses the C random() function to index into an array of filenames and pick one to play, but it surely repeats a lot more than I expected it would. If I used music_randomizer frequently, I would probably add a complex weighting scheme so as to lengthen the time between songs repeating. Perhaps Apple should do the same.
> I believe they were only required to remove links from Google News, but for whatever reasons they decided to effectively eradicate the site from Google completely.
As a Pastafarian, I do not share your beliefs;)
The newspapers wanted their sites removed from Google Cache. Google can't search a site it can't cache, so the sites got removed from Google entirely. I think that is what they wanted.
> Make no mistake, jail is the least of your worries. Just being accused by RIAA or MPIAA is enough to bankrupt you and make sure your children don't go to collage.
Oh quit the melodrama. If you're really soooo concerned about having your kids' college fund being taken away, put it in an independent trust so creditors can't get at it. Duh.
First, there has to be a special law on the books for "conspiracy to commit" a crime to be a crime. For the majority of crimes, this isn't the case.
Second, that you've searched for "how to kill wife" alone wouldn't be enough to try you for "conspiracy to commit murder". It would be one data point among many for there to be a conviction. And if you're actually planning to do something criminal, (1) don't do it if the law is legitimate, and (2) use a proxy/clear cookies BEFORE THAT SEARCH.
> The author was asking about Comp Sci degrees - I'd like to see the Comp Sci department at a major university that offers a course on installing Exchange 2003. Most Comp Sci grads I've met can barely install MS Office
Computer Science isn't an extended MSCE training course.
> (of course, that's because they primarily use UNIX and Linux in academia...)
No, Computer Science isn't an extended RHSE training course either.
The job-related benefit of studying CS is that it teaches you how to learn computer-related topics more easily. So you can pick up how to install Sendmail, Postfix, Exchange 2003, or anything pretty quickly after reading the documentation or seeing someone else do it.
The academic benefit of studying undergraduate CS is that you need it before getting a Ph. D.
The largest benefit of studying undergraduate CS, imho, is that it is just the coolest thing since sliced bread, and it's really fun to learn about it.
> I work with a guy who has a Masters Degree, I have no qualifications other than a few GCSEs (high school) and yet I'm earning more than he is and I'm 12 years younger than him. So to me it seems a degree is worthless.
Really? Based on a sample size of 2, you conclude college degrees are worthless? Well, since you didn't take Statistics 101, I guess you can't be faulted for that.
> The article mentions the combo of trusted computing and Vista./me reads TFA.
The article does mention Vista, but only in passing, and doesn't say that's why the army wants the chips.
> You don't need TPM to secure a Linux/BSD/Unix box. You just need to be relatively up to date, properly patched, proper services, and deployment.
You're preaching to the choir, but you're right:)
However, there are advantages to using TPM on a Linux box (don't know about the others), because TPM on Linux can create a "locked down" configuration, where you can only run programs that have been preapproved. This has obvious uses in the army.
> People's lives do not depend on the development of software--especially Microsoft software, thank god. They are two very different development efforts with very different ethical connotations.
Hmmm. No, you're wrong. People's lives can depend on software. In my Data Structures class, the TA told us a horror story about a case where an operating system race condition in a chemotherapy machine resulted in people being given lethal doses of radiation.
Now as far as M$ software... the dependence wouldn't be that direct, true, but people's lives depend on the productivity of society, -- if you have food, you have time to spend on developing medicine -- so I'd say there's still some dependence.
The "human life" argument isn't very good anyway, rather like the classic "10,000 dead in Sri Lanka" troll. Human life is very valuable, and as a society we want everyone to have as much of it as possible, but we also want everyone to have as good a life as possible, which is why we have televisions, music, video games (software), art, literature, and tools to help us finish our work as quickly as possible, including software.
> There's always going to be a loss of potential performance if you don't code down to the gate level, but there are compensating benefits in productivity and the longevity of the solution, providing you choose a level of abstraction that is a natural fit for the problem you are trying to solve.
Actually, going down to the gate level isn't a sure way to get maximum performance too, unless you're talking about modeling the code versus designingthe processor. You can get a higher clock rate by designing application-specific gates from transistors, and CPU designers sometimes do for critical paths.
If the business is based in the U.S., it pays U.S. taxes. The government is getting its cut as much as it gets its cut from the private casinos in Nevada.
> Open Office requires gjc in linux for 100% functionality, sun's jvm won't cut it.
That is 100% WRONG. In fact, Sun was getting flak for not supporting GCJ in OpenOffice.org a while back, so devoted some developer time to working around the incompleteness of GCJ. Sun's Java works absolutely fine with OpenOffice.org, and given that GCJ implements a subset of the Java spec while Sun's JVM implements the whole thing, I have no clue how ANYTHING could EVER find a way to require GCJ, unless you were just retarded and wrote something that depended bugs in GCJ's current implementation.
So send them a patch. Put up or shut up. Right now, you're just being sanctimonious and annoying. But after your patch is incorporated, you'll be a hero to all the many, many people who DESPARATELY NEED to access NTFS data on their Linux SPARC machines.
> PuTTY - only necessary on Windows to get at ssh servers running on *nix. ssh is supported by so many things on Linux, not the least of which is the original openssh client.
PuTTY actually has a Linux port, which is somewhat amusing.
Do you have a source for that? I haven't found anything through Google; as far as I knew, it was still in debate. It's bad if it really was extended indefinitely.
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I think it's more likely that people think that a random sampling should repeat less than it does. I wrote a little program called music_randomizer on my computer that plays songs randomly for me. Its main purpose is to wake me up in the morning (I have a cron job for it), but whenever I use it to just listen to songs I always find things repeating more than I expected. The code is correct; it uses the C random() function to index into an array of filenames and pick one to play, but it surely repeats a lot more than I expected it would. If I used music_randomizer frequently, I would probably add a complex weighting scheme so as to lengthen the time between songs repeating. Perhaps Apple should do the same.
> They even removed the "lpX on fire" error...
:(
Aww, really? Dang
I didn't hear about that. Do you know when they removed it?
> I believe they were only required to remove links from Google News, but for whatever reasons they decided to effectively eradicate the site from Google completely.
;)
As a Pastafarian, I do not share your beliefs
The newspapers wanted their sites removed from Google Cache. Google can't search a site it can't cache, so the sites got removed from Google entirely. I think that is what they wanted.
There is a third party. It's called Via. They compete mostly at the low end, and they're doing quite well in Asian markets.
> Make no mistake, jail is the least of your worries. Just being accused by RIAA or MPIAA is enough to bankrupt you and make sure your children don't go to collage.
Oh quit the melodrama. If you're really soooo concerned about having your kids' college fund being taken away, put it in an independent trust so creditors can't get at it. Duh.
IANAL yet.
> Yes you can. It's called conspiracy.
Bzzt. Armchair lawyer is wrong again.
First, there has to be a special law on the books for "conspiracy to commit" a crime to be a crime. For the majority of crimes, this isn't the case.
Second, that you've searched for "how to kill wife" alone wouldn't be enough to try you for "conspiracy to commit murder". It would be one data point among many for there to be a conviction. And if you're actually planning to do something criminal, (1) don't do it if the law is legitimate, and (2) use a proxy/clear cookies BEFORE THAT SEARCH.
> The freedom to do what you want with something which you have paid money for is a fundamental right.
I don't think so. That's the Libertarian rhetoric, alright, but it's nowhere in the U.S. Constitution.
> ethically, that is stealing.
Mentally, you are retarded.
Out of curiosity, what OSes / applications were running to where you needed > 64 virtualized NICs on that host?
> In order to enforce arbitrary rules you need a cudgel of some sort, whining is the equivalent of a mosquito bite, annoying but easily forgotten.
s. b.
> In order to enforce arbitrary rules you need a cudgel of some sort. Whining is the equivalent of a mosquito bite, annoying but easily forgotten.
Please learn to express yourself more intelligently.
> The author was asking about Comp Sci degrees - I'd like to see the Comp Sci department at a major university that offers a course on installing Exchange 2003. Most Comp Sci grads I've met can barely install MS Office
...and, probably...
Computer Science isn't an extended MSCE training course.
> (of course, that's because they primarily use UNIX and Linux in academia...)
No, Computer Science isn't an extended RHSE training course either.
The job-related benefit of studying CS is that it teaches you how to learn computer-related topics more easily. So you can pick up how to install Sendmail, Postfix, Exchange 2003, or anything pretty quickly after reading the documentation or seeing someone else do it.
The academic benefit of studying undergraduate CS is that you need it before getting a Ph. D.
The largest benefit of studying undergraduate CS, imho, is that it is just the coolest thing since sliced bread, and it's really fun to learn about it.
YMMV
IHBT HAND
Awesome and inspirational post, man. I wish I had mod points.
> I work with a guy who has a Masters Degree, I have no qualifications other than a few GCSEs (high school) and yet I'm earning more than he is and I'm 12 years younger than him. So to me it seems a degree is worthless.
Really? Based on a sample size of 2, you conclude college degrees are worthless? Well, since you didn't take Statistics 101, I guess you can't be faulted for that.
> The article mentions the combo of trusted computing and Vista. /me reads TFA.
:)
The article does mention Vista, but only in passing, and doesn't say that's why the army wants the chips.
> You don't need TPM to secure a Linux/BSD/Unix box. You just need to be relatively up to date, properly patched, proper services, and deployment.
You're preaching to the choir, but you're right
However, there are advantages to using TPM on a Linux box (don't know about the others), because TPM on Linux can create a "locked down" configuration, where you can only run programs that have been preapproved. This has obvious uses in the army.
My understanding was that the army was standardizing on Linux. What makes you think this isn't the case?
> Then again, thats just me and why I dual boot Linux and Windows. (actually virualize these days)
Which do you run as host OS?
> People's lives do not depend on the development of software--especially Microsoft software, thank god. They are two very different development efforts with very different ethical connotations.
... the dependence wouldn't be that direct, true, but people's lives depend on the productivity of society, -- if you have food, you have time to spend on developing medicine -- so I'd say there's still some dependence.
Hmmm. No, you're wrong. People's lives can depend on software. In my Data Structures class, the TA told us a horror story about a case where an operating system race condition in a chemotherapy machine resulted in people being given lethal doses of radiation.
Now as far as M$ software
The "human life" argument isn't very good anyway, rather like the classic "10,000 dead in Sri Lanka" troll. Human life is very valuable, and as a society we want everyone to have as much of it as possible, but we also want everyone to have as good a life as possible, which is why we have televisions, music, video games (software), art, literature, and tools to help us finish our work as quickly as possible, including software.
> There's always going to be a loss of potential performance if you don't code down to the gate level, but there are compensating benefits in productivity and the longevity of the solution, providing you choose a level of abstraction that is a natural fit for the problem you are trying to solve.
Actually, going down to the gate level isn't a sure way to get maximum performance too, unless you're talking about modeling the code versus designingthe processor. You can get a higher clock rate by designing application-specific gates from transistors, and CPU designers sometimes do for critical paths.
If the business is based in the U.S., it pays U.S. taxes. The government is getting its cut as much as it gets its cut from the private casinos in Nevada.
What OS did Duke run for the Domino servers? Just curious.
Out of curiosity, what OS do most of the Lotus servers you manage run?
> Open Office requires gjc in linux for 100% functionality, sun's jvm won't cut it.
That is 100% WRONG. In fact, Sun was getting flak for not supporting GCJ in OpenOffice.org a while back, so devoted some developer time to working around the incompleteness of GCJ. Sun's Java works absolutely fine with OpenOffice.org, and given that GCJ implements a subset of the Java spec while Sun's JVM implements the whole thing, I have no clue how ANYTHING could EVER find a way to require GCJ, unless you were just retarded and wrote something that depended bugs in GCJ's current implementation.
So send them a patch. Put up or shut up. Right now, you're just being sanctimonious and annoying. But after your patch is incorporated, you'll be a hero to all the many, many people who DESPARATELY NEED to access NTFS data on their Linux SPARC machines.
> PuTTY - only necessary on Windows to get at ssh servers running on *nix. ssh is supported by so many things on Linux, not the least of which is the original openssh client.
PuTTY actually has a Linux port, which is somewhat amusing.
Do you have a source for that? I haven't found anything through Google; as far as I knew, it was still in debate. It's bad if it really was extended indefinitely.