BULLSHIT. I eat them quite often (very yummy, very much like almonds!) and you can even buy cookies imported from Mexico which are made from Apricot seeds.
(by the way, did you know that if you eat watermelon seeds, they'll grow in your tummy? Also, eating apple cores can kill you because of the cyanide, OMG the horror!!)
So does nearly every seed-bearing plant, some in higher levels than others. Apricots have a much, much higher cyanide levels, as do apple seeds (although the seeds are much smaller), bitter almonds, and many other fruits and nuts. What is so special about peaches which should trigger such an alert?
American companies can research, design, manufacture/product, and support product here in the US, using US workers, and market their products both domestically and abroad? Surely that would be efficient, AND success would be a huge boon to the local economy?
Indian companies can research, design, manufacture/product, and support product in India, using Indian workers, and market Indian products both domestically and abroad? Surely that would be efficient, AND success would be a huge boon to the local economy?
Amazon has enjoyed a moderate amount of success, therefore online book, CD, and video sales is obviously Microsoft's space. How dare they take food off of Microsoft's table by doing business in an industry kinda-sorta-maybe related to anything we at Microsoft do? And what the hell, now they're stealing our talent to do it? We own that space, we're in that space (maybe. somehow, in a future. Maybe we'll buy them out! Hey wait a second, we have a division called Microsoft Press, don't we? I think we can sue Mr. Johansson and put a stop to our competitors' stealing our employee!
Ballmer:
I'm going to F***ING KILL AMAZON! I'LL KILL THEM AND BURY THEM! I've done it before! (meanwhile, Microsoft's new AI-equipped motorized chairs, which have been provided due to Ballmer's costing the company millions in damaged chairs and the need to avoid these recurring losses, detect Ballmer's impending annurism quickly roll out of the room)
(#1b)Bill Gates:
Meh. I've had my day of being a right ass. I couldn't be bothered being a hater any more. Besides, I'm quitting soon. *donates another $10bil to save the children to appease conscience*
Cliche M$ humor attempt #2:
A Microsoft Security expert? You mean, HE'S the reason Microsoft Windows is so "secure?" Just what the hell is Amazon thinking?
"Content owners don't like it [Sling] because they think it violates their copyrights," HBO CTO Bob Zitter said during a panel here Tuesday. Zitter's comment came in response to a question from the audience.
Think of the slingbox as a coax extension. If I run coax to my kitchen and leave the cable receiver where it is, is that a "copyright violation?" (you mean infringement, you boob! a network exec ought to know better. Copy protection and DMCA are copyright violations because a copyright is a temporary monopoly and there are fair use exceptions to copyright law) No? Good answer.
Now, what if I extend that coax a little further out into a garage, or the back yard? is that a "copyright violation?" No? Good answer.
Now, say I am housesitting for a neighbor my neighbor does not have cable, but I want to watch cable TV I pay for. I add 50' more to that cable, keeping it attached to my own television, When I leave that cable is disconnected. Is that a "copyright violation?" No? Good answer.
Now, say I connect the cable receiver to an appliance which acts as a virtual coax cable (let's say it's made of pixie dust). This virtual coax cable allows only ONE connection at any given moment, and since I pay for the cable, I want to watch it and not get bumped out by some freeloader, so I keep the credentials to access it to myself. Now, I'm in my backyard connected to that virtual cable by the virtue of WiFi. Is that a "copyright violation?" No? Very good.
Now, what if I take that "virtual coax" to my office, and use my work PC as the television. Is that a "copyright violation?" No? Very good.
You now agree that the slingbox is NOT a tool copyright infringement. By the way, even if it were a tool which could facilitate copyright infringement, too farking bad because legitimate stated uses indicate it is primarily designed for non-infringing uses, and it is single-user (as designed anyhow).
I am so fucking sick of media companies screaming "OMFG the sky is falling!! The sky is falling!!" every fucking time new technology comes out, all the while posting record revenues. Assholes. I'm almost mad enough to cancel my HBO subscription.
No, they just make sure their very lowest tier market won't work in a multi-socket board so that customers will have no choice but to buy a Xeon for a dual socket board, or Xeon XP processors for boards with more than two sockets. Intel would LOVE for you to build a box using 100 of their CPUs, but they don't want you to do it with the razor-thin-margin processors.
If by "they've ever entirely succeeded" you meant to type "failed miserably" then you're right, because some spyware actually install themselves into all previous restore points, making them absolute hell to clean up. In those cases tbe best course of action, short of R&R, is to put the HDD in another system, take ownership of System Volume Information, scan it with Windows Defender, Ad-Aware, Spybot S&D, and clamav, then put the HDD back in the original system. R&R is the ideal when a system is compromised to that level, but often impractical.
Not exactly. It will definitely help your average Joe Sixpack $299 Dell PC with integrated video (where video processing gets offloaded by the Intel video chipset to the CPU) run better, the Winmodem and Winprinter and everything else that offloads typical DSP tasks to software won't kill gaming and application performance, and on good Dells ("high end" Dimensions, Precisions, etc.) and whiteboxes with good motherboards, multitasking will be vastly improved, even for mundane office tasks. MSIE won't tie up the GUI any more, and if an runaway process does hog CPU time, the desktop will remain responsive enough to allow you to kill the app. Of course, Windows Movie Maker (or whatever Microsoft calls that freebie now) will transcode Soccer Mom's home videos and burn them to DVD far faster.
And think, just think: BSODs and RSODs will occur almost 100% faster now! How can you beat that? (I kid, I kid)
No kidding. Sometimes, depending on what I'm doing, Acrobat Reader or a awry extension will automagically kill Firefox for me as a reminder.;)
Server uptime is one thing, but complaining about having to restart Firefox every few days? Come on now! if you think Firefox is bad, try using Gimp heavily for full work days. You'll find yourself having to restart Gimp every half hour to hour if you're doing a lot of image resampling because THAT program has some serious memory leaks (some smartass will say "it's OSS, fix it" but leaning a project like Gimp doesn't take just a couple of hours). I'm using a build from the dev branch, so bugs are expected, but if you're complaining about Firefox, you've got it good. Hell, some people have to reboot Windows several times a DAY, especially Win9x users.
There's server uptime, there's gaming rig uptime (you'd better init 1/init 5 your home machine so you don't kill your uptime!) and then there's. . . I don't know, obsessive-compulsive disorder?;)
Hello, poulbailey? Meet Multitasking. I think you two should get acquainted. (only teasing, relax)
Seriously, since when is Firefox the only thing running on your system? Right now I have 132 total processes running (based on ps-aux) including:
A few shell sessions rdesktop connections to two machines Several konqueror windows, several directories open in each kmix Azureus Several OpenOffice.org docs Evolution Kopete xine several server processes
Now, if I had only 1GB installed (I don't, I recently upgraded to 2GB since I had spare RAM lying around) I'd be a little frustrated if Firefox were eating 700MB of RAM. It's using 200MB right now, with four tabs open. Firefox has been open since early yesterday, but still, it shouldn't hold onto all that RAM if not needed. Throw it out to a tmp file or something, or better yet, if I haven't hit a back or foreward button, just flush data and reload it when necessary. I'll patiently wait for the page to download again. I can limit the cache, I know (I'm usually one of the first to mention that when someone accuses Firefox of having memory leaks when it's actually a feature), but I haven't since upgrading. The caching should have some "intelligence" and flush data and release the memory after a period of inactivity. Would the RAM be otherwise used better? Sure, why not cache data from the HDD?
1. Cluster unpatched Windows 2000
2. Install spyware
3. Install SQL Server (unpatched)
There's your disturbed cluster.
Or, for another form of disturbed:
1. Move to Sv^Hweden
2. Start legal torrent site based in Sweden
3. Wait for our govermnent (Bush Administration) to coerce the Swedish government into breaking the law by illegally siezing your servers. That'll be a disturbed cluster!
"massively SMP" does not provide fault tolerance and does not eliminate certain bottlenecks such as disk I/O and network throughput, so if it's for an extremely high volume/high availability fileserver, mail server, or web server, massive SMP isn't going to cut it.
Also, I'd go a render farm (if that's the task) if I had to choose between clustering and SMP, because if one node dies (depending on the managing application) the job just continues, whereas if it's on one single monster machine with no fault tolerance, if the job dies you often have to start rendering again from the beginning. Not fun.
So let's back up and ask:
1. What problem are you trying to solve?
2. If it's a learning experience, try them all, take notes on which suit you best for tasks a, b, and c,
Seriously tho. I'm the only person in my circle of friends with 20/20 vision. And none of them have light prescriptions. None of them can drive without their glasses. how fucked up is that, evolution?
I don't know, let's take a look at the first thousand years (in Biblical terms) shall we?
Genesis 27 1 It happened, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, "My son?" He said to him, "Here I am."
Hmm, it seems that right from the get-go things were all screwed up. Is evolution true? If so we'll never know, but in a couple hundred generations if humanity develops wings or loses the little toe then eventually our distant descendents will know, but we (our current generation) never will. If the creationism is right we'll all find out sooner or later. In the meantime making fun of evolution on such a basis is just, shall we say, flawed, since the "evidence" for creation suggests that humanity was flawed from the earliest of days. You can't blame poor eyesight on entropy on the basis of genetics breaking down any more than one can with absolute certainty prove evolution or disprove the existence of God.
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BULLSHIT. I eat them quite often (very yummy, very much like almonds!) and you can even buy cookies imported from Mexico which are made from Apricot seeds.
(by the way, did you know that if you eat watermelon seeds, they'll grow in your tummy? Also, eating apple cores can kill you because of the cyanide, OMG the horror!!)
So does nearly every seed-bearing plant, some in higher levels than others. Apricots have a much, much higher cyanide levels, as do apple seeds (although the seeds are much smaller), bitter almonds, and many other fruits and nuts. What is so special about peaches which should trigger such an alert?
In soviet russia, . . ah hell, every thread gets this reply. Nevermind, carry on then!
before some typist-nazi calls me on it:
;)
s/exect/exec/
s/annurism quickly/annurism and quickly/
Beet u 2 it, so their!
Oops, they're I go again, er, I mean, oops, I did it again!
Beat ya to it typo nazis, so there!
How about we do this:
American companies can research, design, manufacture/product, and support product here in the US, using US workers, and market their products both domestically and abroad? Surely that would be efficient, AND success would be a huge boon to the local economy?
Indian companies can research, design, manufacture/product, and support product in India, using Indian workers, and market Indian products both domestically and abroad? Surely that would be efficient, AND success would be a huge boon to the local economy?
Cliche M$ humor attempt #1:
(#1a)
Amazon? Amazon? WTF?
I can imagine it now:
Some random M$: Exect #1
Amazon has enjoyed a moderate amount of success, therefore online book, CD, and video sales is obviously Microsoft's space. How dare they take food off of Microsoft's table by doing business in an industry kinda-sorta-maybe related to anything we at Microsoft do? And what the hell, now they're stealing our talent to do it? We own that space, we're in that space (maybe. somehow, in a future. Maybe we'll buy them out! Hey wait a second, we have a division called Microsoft Press, don't we? I think we can sue Mr. Johansson and put a stop to our competitors' stealing our employee!
Ballmer:
I'm going to F***ING KILL AMAZON! I'LL KILL THEM AND BURY THEM! I've done it before!
(meanwhile, Microsoft's new AI-equipped motorized chairs, which have been provided due to Ballmer's costing the company millions in damaged chairs and the need to avoid these recurring losses, detect Ballmer's impending annurism quickly roll out of the room)
(#1b)Bill Gates:
Meh. I've had my day of being a right ass. I couldn't be bothered being a hater any more. Besides, I'm quitting soon. *donates another $10bil to save the children to appease conscience*
Cliche M$ humor attempt #2:
A Microsoft Security expert? You mean, HE'S the reason Microsoft Windows is so "secure?"
Just what the hell is Amazon thinking?
(I kid, on both counts)
Think of the slingbox as a coax extension. If I run coax to my kitchen and leave the cable receiver where it is, is that a "copyright violation?" (you mean infringement, you boob! a network exec ought to know better. Copy protection and DMCA are copyright violations because a copyright is a temporary monopoly and there are fair use exceptions to copyright law) No? Good answer.
Now, what if I extend that coax a little further out into a garage, or the back yard? is that a "copyright violation?" No? Good answer.
Now, say I am housesitting for a neighbor my neighbor does not have cable, but I want to watch cable TV I pay for. I add 50' more to that cable, keeping it attached to my own television, When I leave that cable is disconnected. Is that a "copyright violation?" No? Good answer.
Now, say I connect the cable receiver to an appliance which acts as a virtual coax cable (let's say it's made of pixie dust). This virtual coax cable allows only ONE connection at any given moment, and since I pay for the cable, I want to watch it and not get bumped out by some freeloader, so I keep the credentials to access it to myself. Now, I'm in my backyard connected to that virtual cable by the virtue of WiFi. Is that a "copyright violation?" No? Very good.
Now, what if I take that "virtual coax" to my office, and use my work PC as the television. Is that a "copyright violation?" No? Very good.
You now agree that the slingbox is NOT a tool copyright infringement. By the way, even if it were a tool which could facilitate copyright infringement, too farking bad because legitimate stated uses indicate it is primarily designed for non-infringing uses, and it is single-user (as designed anyhow).
I am so fucking sick of media companies screaming "OMFG the sky is falling!! The sky is falling!!" every fucking time new technology comes out, all the while posting record revenues. Assholes. I'm almost mad enough to cancel my HBO subscription.
No, they just make sure their very lowest tier market won't work in a multi-socket board so that customers will have no choice but to buy a Xeon for a dual socket board, or Xeon XP processors for boards with more than two sockets. Intel would LOVE for you to build a box using 100 of their CPUs, but they don't want you to do it with the razor-thin-margin processors.
Or:
CPUs 1-7: running Linux
CPU 8: running Windows in a virtual machine in its own little litter box
Remember. with Windows Vista, 2GB will soon be considered entry level, plus RAM is cheap now.
If by "they've ever entirely succeeded" you meant to type "failed miserably" then you're right, because some spyware actually install themselves into all previous restore points, making them absolute hell to clean up. In those cases tbe best course of action, short of R&R, is to put the HDD in another system, take ownership of System Volume Information, scan it with Windows Defender, Ad-Aware, Spybot S&D, and clamav, then put the HDD back in the original system. R&R is the ideal when a system is compromised to that level, but often impractical.
No, it's just a news report from a parallel universe which entered ours through a rip in the time-space. . .
Aww hell, Slashdot just jumped the shark!
Not exactly. It will definitely help your average Joe Sixpack $299 Dell PC with integrated video (where video processing gets offloaded by the Intel video chipset to the CPU) run better, the Winmodem and Winprinter and everything else that offloads typical DSP tasks to software won't kill gaming and application performance, and on good Dells ("high end" Dimensions, Precisions, etc.) and whiteboxes with good motherboards, multitasking will be vastly improved, even for mundane office tasks. MSIE won't tie up the GUI any more, and if an runaway process does hog CPU time, the desktop will remain responsive enough to allow you to kill the app. Of course, Windows Movie Maker (or whatever Microsoft calls that freebie now) will transcode Soccer Mom's home videos and burn them to DVD far faster.
And think, just think: BSODs and RSODs will occur almost 100% faster now! How can you beat that? (I kid, I kid)
Who here hasn't been eating since birth?
And what have you been eating - food, I presume?
And of that food, at least some quantity has been fruit?
Have you ever had an apple? OOr, a blueberry? Or a tomato? Or a melon? An avocado? A banana?
So you know what a ripe one looks, feels, or sounds like, vs. an unripe one, right?
So why exactly is this kind of thing necessary?
HAHAHA that was a great one. :D
You owe me a keyboard. *wipes up spit coffee*
No kidding. Sometimes, depending on what I'm doing, Acrobat Reader or a awry extension will automagically kill Firefox for me as a reminder. ;)
;)
Server uptime is one thing, but complaining about having to restart Firefox every few days? Come on now! if you think Firefox is bad, try using Gimp heavily for full work days. You'll find yourself having to restart Gimp every half hour to hour if you're doing a lot of image resampling because THAT program has some serious memory leaks (some smartass will say "it's OSS, fix it" but leaning a project like Gimp doesn't take just a couple of hours). I'm using a build from the dev branch, so bugs are expected, but if you're complaining about Firefox, you've got it good. Hell, some people have to reboot Windows several times a DAY, especially Win9x users.
There's server uptime, there's gaming rig uptime (you'd better init 1/init 5 your home machine so you don't kill your uptime!) and then there's. . . I don't know, obsessive-compulsive disorder?
Hello, poulbailey? Meet Multitasking. I think you two should get acquainted. (only teasing, relax)
Seriously, since when is Firefox the only thing running on your system? Right now I have 132 total processes running (based on ps-aux) including:
A few shell sessions
rdesktop connections to two machines
Several konqueror windows, several directories open in each
kmix
Azureus
Several OpenOffice.org docs
Evolution
Kopete
xine
several server processes
Now, if I had only 1GB installed (I don't, I recently upgraded to 2GB since I had spare RAM lying around) I'd be a little frustrated if Firefox were eating 700MB of RAM. It's using 200MB right now, with four tabs open. Firefox has been open since early yesterday, but still, it shouldn't hold onto all that RAM if not needed. Throw it out to a tmp file or something, or better yet, if I haven't hit a back or foreward button, just flush data and reload it when necessary. I'll patiently wait for the page to download again. I can limit the cache, I know (I'm usually one of the first to mention that when someone accuses Firefox of having memory leaks when it's actually a feature), but I haven't since upgrading. The caching should have some "intelligence" and flush data and release the memory after a period of inactivity. Would the RAM be otherwise used better? Sure, why not cache data from the HDD?
I've known people to insist on chmod -R 777 / on OS X - in a production environment.
Why?
Because it doesn't work like Mac OS. Mac OS let you share out an entire volume and drop anything, anywhere, any time. Learning is hard!
How to build a disturbed cluster:
1. Cluster unpatched Windows 2000
2. Install spyware
3. Install SQL Server (unpatched)
There's your disturbed cluster.
Or, for another form of disturbed:
1. Move to Sv^Hweden
2. Start legal torrent site based in Sweden
3. Wait for our govermnent (Bush Administration) to coerce the Swedish government into breaking the law by illegally siezing your servers. That'll be a disturbed cluster!
After legal fees, administrative fees, and so forth are charged against the artists, the artists will OWE the labels money for this "protection." ;)
"massively SMP" does not provide fault tolerance and does not eliminate certain bottlenecks such as disk I/O and network throughput, so if it's for an extremely high volume/high availability fileserver, mail server, or web server, massive SMP isn't going to cut it.
Also, I'd go a render farm (if that's the task) if I had to choose between clustering and SMP, because if one node dies (depending on the managing application) the job just continues, whereas if it's on one single monster machine with no fault tolerance, if the job dies you often have to start rendering again from the beginning. Not fun.
So let's back up and ask:
1. What problem are you trying to solve?
2. If it's a learning experience, try them all, take notes on which suit you best for tasks a, b, and c,
3. What are your priorities
Don't be $illy, it'$ ju$t not profitable enough.
I've been around *nervoustick* computers since *tick* age seven *tick* and I turned *tick* out perfectly fine *spasm*.
(Score:1, Redundant)
;)
See, I knew I saw that story before, it wasn't just deja-vu!
I don't know, let's take a look at the first thousand years (in Biblical terms) shall we?
Genesis 27
1 It happened, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, "My son?" He said to him, "Here I am."
Hmm, it seems that right from the get-go things were all screwed up. Is evolution true? If so we'll never know, but in a couple hundred generations if humanity develops wings or loses the little toe then eventually our distant descendents will know, but we (our current generation) never will. If the creationism is right we'll all find out sooner or later. In the meantime making fun of evolution on such a basis is just, shall we say, flawed, since the "evidence" for creation suggests that humanity was flawed from the earliest of days. You can't blame poor eyesight on entropy on the basis of genetics breaking down any more than one can with absolute certainty prove evolution or disprove the existence of God.
Nice troll, though!