Why can't.com administrators apply the same rules instead of going for a money grab
ROTFL. I don't think you understand the significance of your own question:.com is for those who want to make money. Why should the administrators of.com do anything else?
Your case was different than what I was referring to...
Many seem to think they "need" an SUV for taking their kid to soccer practice (to carry one soccer ball), grocery shopping, or for downtown driving in a snowy climate. I dislike it when people purchase SUVs for a "status symbol" -- with little regard for utility. (Why does the Ford Excursion even exist?!?) Or even worse, they buy them because they are "big".
And the newer kinds like the Denali, etc seem to be for just that. (Too expensive, large, etc, for off-road, etc). If one doesn't pull a boat, drive off-road, etc, then what is the need? Most SUV owners fall into this category.
I feel the problem is that too many don't even consider alternatives at all. Their sense of need and capability is determined completely from advertisments rather than critical thinking....
For example, what do European outdoor enthusiasts drive? If it is an SUV, then I bet that vehicle is not their daily work-commute vehicle. [for those who do not use mass-transit, walk, etc]. Why the difference?
And even closer to home, it is only in the past ~20 years that SUVs and Minivan's came into being.... Most people seem to have gotten by without these vehicles for much longer before.
It is a huge problem that this country has become so dependent on individual transportation. But if we accept that as a baseline, then I ask what is the need to exacerbate the problem by driving vehicles highly impractical for the situtation?
ost people that need an SUV, for legitmate reasons simply can't afford to buy another car
The problem is that very very few people NEED an SUV.
Many SUVs don't hold any more passengers than a regular small sedan, it is just that the SUV has a little more leg room (and is heavier, taller, less fuel-efficient, etc, etc).
And what about hauling stuff? Well, how often does one haul a whole lot of stuff on a regular basis? Amazing feats can be done with sedans whose rear seats fold down. And before you try to say that an SUV is needed just for a few occasions, consider this. There is an ancient invention called a trailer. Even better, it can be used on different vehicles (you only need to buy it once).
Maybe someone would "need" an SUV if they wanted to take 4 of their overweight friends, and 500lbs of gear, and a boat up a mountain all in one vehicle. But most people don't do this very often....
But do you really think the majority of SUV owners are getting SUVs now merely out of their own vanity?
Have you looked at SUVs lately? Why is "body armour" even a concept on vehicles? So yes, I would say that a high amount of vanity is involved. Money doesn't regulate low-income spending decisions -- debt does.
What about off-road driving? Well, most SUVs have never even seen dirt, despite being equipped with 4x4 drivetrains, etc. And their axles aren't designed for very touch off-roading either.
When people see a strong, muscular person, they tend to make certain favorable assumptions about what they are saying. Similarly, I believe people unconsciously associate large SUVs and vehicles with favorable qualities. (They make the driver appear more effectual, powerful, etc).
Or do you think that the guy who gets the most dates picks his girl up in a Ford Fiesta, Geo Metro, etc?
I strongly believe at least 3/4 of the large 4x4 trucks and SUVs could be replaced with sedans with no disadvantage. (The public is too foolish to realize this)
But your basic point is right. Oakland (another bay area city, smaller than SF at 412,318) has had over 30 murders so far this year, so 18 laptop thefts isn't exactly a crime wave.
Yes, but geeks would prefer to be shot dead than have their laptop stolen.... So this story is indeed a grave concern for slashdot readers.
> You can easily adjust things like file system buffers, memory management, tcp buffers, etc, etc. > A 300lb person can't decide each morning how much fat they want to take with them. > But a Linux user can.
No you can't. You have to recompile the kernel to do that, which 95% of computer users couldn't do and 99.9% wouldn't want to or couldn't be bothered.
YES you can. Ever heard of/proc? Ever bothered to see what is in there? There is a whole lot more there than/proc/cpuinfo. Redhat even has a GUI tool for tuning these parameters.
And for fairness, windows actually has some similar capabilities in the Registry... But many of these settings by default are not in the registry(!) (e.g. windows uses default values).
Who the hell modded you up? Well, I hope those guilt get meta-moderated to smithernes...
The linux kernel is "versatile", not "fat".
What is the difference? You can compile the linux kernel without the stuff you on't want. You can easily adjust things like file system buffers, memory management, tcp buffers, etc, etc. A 300lb person can't decide each morning how much fat they want to take with them. But a Linux user can.
Are you absolutely sure you are making a fair comparison? (The apparent simplicity is not enough justification). Perhaps more recent redhat kernels either compile more things in (instead of modules) or they cause more modules to be autoloaded by default... And what about changes in default memory management policies (e.g. memory mapping, disk cache, etc)??? And you even go as far to compare different Distributions??? Were they using udev, devfs, or a manually configured/dev? Was hotplug used? Was kudzu used? Were they using all the same hardware init scripts and settings??? I highly doubt you even bothered to look that up.
Also note a lot of "Free Memory" is not very desirable... Memory not being used by applications can used for disk-cache. I've noticed that recent kernels only keep a little memory free, probably to have some "on hand" without incurring the delay of flushing disk cache pages.... This makes a lot of sense. Thus, you cannot simply look at "MemFree:" and draw conclusions. The same applies to the results in "top".
And I would suspect even Windows does something similar (but Taskmgr.exe is probably rigged to only show memory used by apps).
Note to moderators: The parent post is truly nothing more than flamebait at best. Shame on you for modding otherwise.
Business.com is one of those crappy search-engine-ad pages...
Well two of three things are certain: 1) Whoever sold the domain name is still laughing. And his bank is laughing too. 2) Whoever bought the domain name made a lot of money 3) Whoever bought the domain name lost a lot of money
What's great about this announcement is that MS paid lots of money for virtual server and now they are forced to not only give it away for free but also provide support for it. That's millions of dollars down the drain for MS, money that could have gone to research, lobbying, advertising, PR, or even given back to the shareholders. Money down the drain, bad for MS, good for the rest of the world.
I think they could profit by making their virtualization software free....
How?
Well, one advantage to virtualization is that a company could host their external webserver, internal webserver, and mailserver on separate virtual machines... By separating these, each would be (somewhat) protected against any of the others becoming compromised. It also makes sense from an adminstration standpoint.
Now the CATCH! If each virtual machine runs Windows, then how many Windows licenses are required? And how many will be purchased when the next "upgrade" occurs?
And in case anyone hasn't noticed, the near-recent changes in Windows Update seem to indicate that they are going to really start monitoring/enforcing the usage of license keys....
I would like to see someone show this is not the case... But sadly, most "charitable" actions by companies are really the result of a bean-counter finding something clever.
I wanted to email you about your sound convolver project but couldn't find an email....
1) Does this run in real-time without the convolution (i.e. just combining the streams together) 2) How do you handle different streams having different sample rates? 3) Are you summing all streamd and then applying the convolution? Or are you convolving a kernel with each stream and then adding the results? 4) How large are your buffers? Have you considered cache effects?
[For #3, both methods are equivalent, but one much more efficient than the other]
This is actually true but most people choose to ignore it.
In the words of Jerry Seinfield, everything we buy/own is just waiting to become trash.
We buy automobiles knowing they will usually require at least one major repair within ~5 years. And I don't believe this can be considered general "maintenance", when the source of the repairs is KNOWN defects that have existed for many (3,5+) years before...
Would you buy a cell phone knowing that it was going to break within a year?
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It's a rich guy who isn't trying that hard to get richer.
When you have a billion dollars, it takes much effort NOT to get richer.
1 Billion in the bank at 5%/year means an interest income of 50 MILLION/year.
More likely they onle "survivors" were those that had some tolerance (or ability to handle) to radiation...
I don't think they adapted. The ones that didn't survive didn't have the capability.
When I think of edgy, I think of some dude strung out on too much caffiene and cigs.
Again, what's the name of that distro that starts with "U"????
Edgy is probably accurate!
The free LJ users aren't providing LJ with any revenue.
Yes they are! The free users make LJ an appealing venue for advertisements...
Without the free users, LJ would not be able to sell ads -- they would be worthless.
Without the free users, paying ones wouldn't bother.
The free users are probably the most important!
They heard "Are you intelluctually curious?" as "Are you sexually curious?"
For the latter, 25% doesn't surprise me.
Have you heard of the Illuminati? Apparently, they are a powerful group with connections to high levels of governments...
Well, even they answer to the almighty Marshmellow Peeps.
Isn't it suicide to use the built-in encryption in Windows?
My understanding is that when the OS is reinstalled, it generates a use unique identifier for the system and the encryption uses this....
Which means if something bad happens and you reinstall, you can kiss all your encrypted volumes goodbye. (unless you have an (unencrypted) backup)
Why can't .com administrators apply the same rules instead of going for a money grab
.com is for those who want to make money. .com do anything else?
ROTFL. I don't think you understand the significance of your own question:
Why should the administrators of
Your case was different than what I was referring to...
Many seem to think they "need" an SUV for taking their kid to soccer practice (to carry one soccer ball), grocery shopping, or for downtown driving in a snowy climate. I dislike it when people purchase SUVs for a "status symbol" -- with little regard for utility. (Why does the Ford Excursion even exist?!?) Or even worse, they buy them because they are "big".
And the newer kinds like the Denali, etc seem to be for just that. (Too expensive, large, etc, for off-road, etc). If one doesn't pull a boat, drive off-road, etc, then what is the need? Most SUV owners fall into this category.
I feel the problem is that too many don't even consider alternatives at all. Their sense of need and capability is determined completely from advertisments rather than critical thinking....
For example, what do European outdoor enthusiasts drive? If it is an SUV, then I bet that vehicle is not their daily work-commute vehicle. [for those who do not use mass-transit, walk, etc]. Why the difference?
And even closer to home, it is only in the past ~20 years that SUVs and Minivan's came into being.... Most people seem to have gotten by without these vehicles for much longer before.
It is a huge problem that this country has become so dependent on individual transportation. But if we accept that as a baseline, then I ask what is the need to exacerbate the problem by driving vehicles highly impractical for the situtation?
ost people that need an SUV, for legitmate reasons simply can't afford to buy another car
The problem is that very very few people NEED an SUV.
Many SUVs don't hold any more passengers than a regular small sedan, it is just that the SUV has a little more leg room (and is heavier, taller, less fuel-efficient, etc, etc).
And what about hauling stuff? Well, how often does one haul a whole lot of stuff on a regular basis? Amazing feats can be done with sedans whose rear seats fold down. And before you try to say that an SUV is needed just for a few occasions, consider this. There is an ancient invention called a trailer. Even better, it can be used on different vehicles (you only need to buy it once).
Maybe someone would "need" an SUV if they wanted to take 4 of their overweight friends, and 500lbs of gear, and a boat up a mountain all in one vehicle. But most people don't do this very often....
But do you really think the majority of SUV owners are getting SUVs now merely out of their own vanity?
Have you looked at SUVs lately? Why is "body armour" even a concept on vehicles? So yes, I would say that a high amount of vanity is involved. Money doesn't regulate low-income spending decisions -- debt does.
What about off-road driving? Well, most SUVs have never even seen dirt, despite being equipped with 4x4 drivetrains, etc. And their axles aren't designed for very touch off-roading either.
When people see a strong, muscular person, they tend to make certain favorable assumptions about what they are saying. Similarly, I believe people unconsciously associate large SUVs and vehicles with favorable qualities. (They make the driver appear more effectual, powerful, etc).
Or do you think that the guy who gets the most dates picks his girl up in a Ford Fiesta, Geo Metro, etc?
I strongly believe at least 3/4 of the large 4x4 trucks and SUVs could be replaced with sedans with no disadvantage. (The public is too foolish to realize this)
Well of course, they probably used the metric system and nothing else!
But your basic point is right. Oakland (another bay area city, smaller than SF at 412,318) has had over 30 murders so far this year, so 18 laptop thefts isn't exactly a crime wave.
Yes, but geeks would prefer to be shot dead than have their laptop stolen.... So this story is indeed a grave concern for slashdot readers.
Yes, but don't patents require enough details to be specified so that a layperson could implement the patented invention?
So yes, Intel does have to tell how!
> You can easily adjust things like file system buffers, memory management, tcp buffers, etc, etc.
> A 300lb person can't decide each morning how much fat they want to take with them.
> But a Linux user can.
No you can't. You have to recompile the kernel to do that, which 95% of computer users couldn't do and 99.9% wouldn't want to or couldn't be bothered.
YES you can. Ever heard of
And for fairness, windows actually has some similar capabilities in the Registry... But many of these settings by default are not in the registry(!) (e.g. windows uses default values).
Is it a matter of size or what? Why was "our" Moon not labeled: "Large Dustry Rock Orbiting Earth"?
Because everyone knows the Moon is made of CHEESE
Who the hell modded you up? Well, I hope those guilt get meta-moderated to smithernes...
/dev? Was hotplug used? Was kudzu used? Were they using all the same hardware init scripts and settings??? I highly doubt you even bothered to look that up.
The linux kernel is "versatile", not "fat".
What is the difference? You can compile the linux kernel without the stuff you on't want. You can easily adjust things like file system buffers, memory management, tcp buffers, etc, etc. A 300lb person can't decide each morning how much fat they want to take with them. But a Linux user can.
Are you absolutely sure you are making a fair comparison? (The apparent simplicity is not enough justification). Perhaps more recent redhat kernels either compile more things in (instead of modules) or they cause more modules to be autoloaded by default... And what about changes in default memory management policies (e.g. memory mapping, disk cache, etc)??? And you even go as far to compare different Distributions??? Were they using udev, devfs, or a manually configured
Also note a lot of "Free Memory" is not very desirable... Memory not being used by applications can used for disk-cache. I've noticed that recent kernels only keep a little memory free, probably to have some "on hand" without incurring the delay of flushing disk cache pages.... This makes a lot of sense. Thus, you cannot simply look at "MemFree:" and draw conclusions. The same applies to the results in "top".
And I would suspect even Windows does something similar (but Taskmgr.exe is probably rigged to only show memory used by apps).
Note to moderators: The parent post is truly nothing more than flamebait at best. Shame on you for modding otherwise.
Business.com is one of those crappy search-engine-ad pages...
Well two of three things are certain:
1) Whoever sold the domain name is still laughing. And his bank is laughing too.
2) Whoever bought the domain name made a lot of money
3) Whoever bought the domain name lost a lot of money
What's great about this announcement is that MS paid lots of money for virtual server and now they are forced to not only give it away for free but also provide support for it. That's millions of dollars down the drain for MS, money that could have gone to research, lobbying, advertising, PR, or even given back to the shareholders. Money down the drain, bad for MS, good for the rest of the world.
I think they could profit by making their virtualization software free....
How?
Well, one advantage to virtualization is that a company could host their external webserver, internal webserver, and mailserver on separate virtual machines... By separating these, each would be (somewhat) protected against any of the others becoming compromised. It also makes sense from an adminstration standpoint.
Now the CATCH! If each virtual machine runs Windows, then how many Windows licenses are required? And how many will be purchased when the next "upgrade" occurs?
And in case anyone hasn't noticed, the near-recent changes in Windows Update seem to indicate that they are going to really start monitoring/enforcing the usage of license keys....
I would like to see someone show this is not the case... But sadly, most "charitable" actions by companies are really the result of a bean-counter finding something clever.
The whole generation of current teenagers will be going senile in their thirties.
Have you seen any teenagers lately? You're too late! They're already senile.
I wanted to email you about your sound convolver project but couldn't find an email....
1) Does this run in real-time without the convolution (i.e. just combining the streams together)
2) How do you handle different streams having different sample rates?
3) Are you summing all streamd and then applying the convolution? Or are you convolving a kernel with each stream and then adding the results?
4) How large are your buffers? Have you considered cache effects?
[For #3, both methods are equivalent, but one much more efficient than the other]
Is it correct to say the US has 50 states????
After all, some like to call themselves by the name "commonwealth".
So now "not helping the government" is a crime in and of itself?
Easy, "if you're not for us, you're against us"
Perhaps one might be interested in a glass of "SSHut the hell up!"
Just kidding - lol
EVERY SINGLE PRODUCT EVERYWHERE is crap
This is actually true but most people choose to ignore it.
In the words of Jerry Seinfield, everything we buy/own is just waiting to become trash.
We buy automobiles knowing they will usually require at least one major repair within ~5 years. And I don't believe this can be considered general "maintenance", when the source of the repairs is KNOWN defects that have existed for many (3,5+) years before...
Would you buy a cell phone knowing that it was going to break within a year?
So you write something like
int Add(int a, int b)
{ return a-b; }
int Test()
{ return Add(1,2) == 3; }
And then your partner can make the test pass by writing:
int Add(int a, int b)
{ return 3; }
or if they are clever,
int Test()
{ return 1; }
Or with a little refactoring,
int OldAdd(int a, int b)
{ return a-b; }
int Add(int a, int b)
{ return OldAdd( a, (-1)*b ); }