I love ponies and pink just fine. What I don't like is the site design change happening while I'm offline after a power outage during a tornado warning with golfball sized hail. And then coming back to xchat losing its settings and then checking e-mail and the first thing I see on/. is a reply and not having seen the front page yet. That's really irritating when they got you thinking your power going out might have screwed stuff up so bad it altered online settings.
May I suggest you attempt this using FTP (And not doing it in IE)? Much more appropriate for such testing than HTTP. RedHat has some fast mirrors, go have some fun. When FC3 came out, I downloaded one of the 700mb ISOs in less than 15 minutes.
Those are boring. For most of last summer, 2-3 times a week I'd get wrong number calls that almost always left the same voicemail "I ain't heard back from you since Tuesday, if you don't show up with my weed again this weekend I'm gonna kill your ass, Boo." for the gist of it. And no, my name is not "Boo" and I'd had the number for about 6 months when this was happening. I never bothered to answer that number or reply to the voice mails for 1, cause they were just so damn funny (to listen to during unlimited minutes hours) and 2, if a drug dealer actually got killed over my inaction I see that as a good thing. I'm now wondering if that's why the calls suddenly stopped.
Crap, it's already causing the system to crash. I've known for years we wouldn't be able to pull off a simulation inside a simulation. Those freaks over at LiveScience better chill out before they erase us all!
It's still cheaper to build and run your own if you keep it doing stuff 24/365. Else Sun wouldn't be doing this at all as it wouldn't make them any money. Even if you're the military. Take Blue Gene/L + ASC Purple at a combined reported cost of $290M. Combined they have 141312 processors. That would come out to $1,237,893,120/yr if they had to rent that processing time at $1/hr/CPU. Granted the CPUs aren't exactly the same speed/power, but I think it makes my point. Basically you could build a Nuclear Power Plant dedicated to just running the "computer" and a factory that builds air conditioners with the amount of money saved per year by just building your own in this example.
Yes. And OpenOffice.org:). I don't know if this would apply or not, but back in 2000-01 I worked for TVA and one of the subdepartments ran weather modeling simulations 24/7 on a too small cluster of 8 Alphas in a rack down in the server room in the basement. This type of stuff would have helped them since they couldn't get the financial approval to purchase a rack powerful enough to get their stuff done. It was literally always overloaded by about 2 weeks of jobs. It brought down the productivity of that group of employees when they were working on that project. But since they always had various projects going on, like I already said, they couldn't get approved for a new server. So something like this would be great for a department that has on going long term projects that they either only work on sporadically or only need computing time say once a month or Fridays after gathering data in the real world the rest of the time.
It's completely about frequency of use. The costs to pay someone (in this case Sun) to run your jobs will surpass the costs to build, maintain, and run an in house cluster at some point. Say your department only needs to run a job like TFA is referring to for 1 week straight twice a year on 600 CPUs. That would set you back $201,600 (plus tax) a year. But if your department needed to start running those jobs twice a month it would cost $2,419,200 a year ($4032/CPU/half a year). At some point between there it starts being cost effective to set up your own cluster. You shouldn't even have to do the math to realize that Sun wouldn't be selling their cluster's time at this price if it weren't, since Sun is in business to make money. It's all about how many hours of time you'd have to buy a year.
I'm already confused... So the lower pin count wins or the higher? Last time I checked, 89437349 > 82398743. Are you already trying to market drastic FUD with your new system?
Er... or something like that. Not giving them e-mail is likely saving Millions and Millions if not Billions and Cillions.:) Just poking a lil fun at Washington for having no clue about units. I think it's why we haven't switched to the metric system.
I would hardly call e-mail "rapid communication"./.ers may have that mentality cause they are near a computer and can/do check their e-mail many many times a day if not constantly. But the majority of people don't. I know many college students even that don't check their e-mail for weeks at a time. I would recommend SMS text messaging for rapid communication when you can't just make a freaking phone call to a colleague. The only time you'd need e-mail would be to send files quickly. You could still do that with floppies and USB sticks though:-p. If you didn't want to ftp them to a server. My main thought while reading this... Isn't this the same orginization that said if RIM shut down their Blackberry service over 50% of their employees would be affected? I say if they have that, they don't really need e-mail. But I like one of your ideas too... pigeons are much less scary than that pedophile tool internet thingy I keep hearing about on the local news right before the trailer park interviews.
why would I want a $500 colour phone discounted to $99 with a 3 year contract?
You said you've had the phone for 3 years. Have you had the same plan/contract as well over that same time period? Just curious since for a while there, there wasn't much change in service plans and a "$400 coupon" (essentially) doesn't seem all that bad. I happen to like my Motorola V600 that I've had since Christmas 2004. And our plan with T-Mobile hasn't changed all that muc. We've added another number, but that's insignificant.
I'm one of those that would think there's an error in the/. heading. cheap != inexpensive, and cheap & great don't really go together.
I'm not playing a game. I was just thinking of that guy in Russia that got found out he was a massive spammer and was beaten to death by some average citizens. Legislative punishments are better than some others. And to some of the sites, it wouldn't be a punishment but a grant to their own requests. I just don't see why so many/.ers are opposed to that. Only reason I can come up with is they don't want their ISPs seeing their lookups to.xxx sites. Which would be very naive. The other concern would be people thinking their ISPs might block.xxx TLDs for them if this was passed.
Muahahaha, you fell for my trick. Now the DOJ will know what a perverted freak you are searching for "dinosaur porn" when Google hands over all their search records. No, I just made that up since I didn't have any specific examples.
There's an idea. "God" is the preferred 3 letters, works great. Know any lobbyists? Religion doesn't fall under.com anyway. I know I hate being "sold" my dogma. Alas, they already fall under.org as [typically] non-profit organizations.
People with tinfoil hats think the government is reading their brainwaves. And others think the government is too stupid to know how to have DNS entries ordered changed. Sigh, where's the middle ground?
It is to an 8 year old trying to look up information about dinosaurs. It's "unwholesome" period. But it's "psychologically unhealthy" for a small child.
No, that was another bill about video games where I finally found that definition. I've actually e-mailed one of the senators asking clarity. Wonder if I'll ever get it.
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I love ponies and pink just fine. What I don't like is the site design change happening while I'm offline after a power outage during a tornado warning with golfball sized hail. And then coming back to xchat losing its settings and then checking e-mail and the first thing I see on /. is a reply and not having seen the front page yet. That's really irritating when they got you thinking your power going out might have screwed stuff up so bad it altered online settings.
midnight to noon huh?
May I suggest you attempt this using FTP (And not doing it in IE)? Much more appropriate for such testing than HTTP. RedHat has some fast mirrors, go have some fun. When FC3 came out, I downloaded one of the 700mb ISOs in less than 15 minutes.
They didn't ignore Dell. Dell ignored them.
Then just make fun of his/her grammar skills. "there are less then 19 tested" It's "than" when written correctly.
24/7/365
Sweet! Where are you living that has 365 weeks in a year?
Those are boring. For most of last summer, 2-3 times a week I'd get wrong number calls that almost always left the same voicemail "I ain't heard back from you since Tuesday, if you don't show up with my weed again this weekend I'm gonna kill your ass, Boo." for the gist of it. And no, my name is not "Boo" and I'd had the number for about 6 months when this was happening. I never bothered to answer that number or reply to the voice mails for 1, cause they were just so damn funny (to listen to during unlimited minutes hours) and 2, if a drug dealer actually got killed over my inaction I see that as a good thing. I'm now wondering if that's why the calls suddenly stopped.
Crap, it's already causing the system to crash. I've known for years we wouldn't be able to pull off a simulation inside a simulation. Those freaks over at LiveScience better chill out before they erase us all!
It's still cheaper to build and run your own if you keep it doing stuff 24/365. Else Sun wouldn't be doing this at all as it wouldn't make them any money. Even if you're the military. Take Blue Gene/L + ASC Purple at a combined reported cost of $290M. Combined they have 141312 processors. That would come out to $1,237,893,120/yr if they had to rent that processing time at $1/hr/CPU. Granted the CPUs aren't exactly the same speed/power, but I think it makes my point. Basically you could build a Nuclear Power Plant dedicated to just running the "computer" and a factory that builds air conditioners with the amount of money saved per year by just building your own in this example.
http://jokaroo.com/funnyvideos/jerking_off_world_o f_warcraft.html
Yes. And OpenOffice.org :). I don't know if this would apply or not, but back in 2000-01 I worked for TVA and one of the subdepartments ran weather modeling simulations 24/7 on a too small cluster of 8 Alphas in a rack down in the server room in the basement. This type of stuff would have helped them since they couldn't get the financial approval to purchase a rack powerful enough to get their stuff done. It was literally always overloaded by about 2 weeks of jobs. It brought down the productivity of that group of employees when they were working on that project. But since they always had various projects going on, like I already said, they couldn't get approved for a new server. So something like this would be great for a department that has on going long term projects that they either only work on sporadically or only need computing time say once a month or Fridays after gathering data in the real world the rest of the time.
It's completely about frequency of use. The costs to pay someone (in this case Sun) to run your jobs will surpass the costs to build, maintain, and run an in house cluster at some point. Say your department only needs to run a job like TFA is referring to for 1 week straight twice a year on 600 CPUs. That would set you back $201,600 (plus tax) a year. But if your department needed to start running those jobs twice a month it would cost $2,419,200 a year ($4032/CPU/half a year). At some point between there it starts being cost effective to set up your own cluster. You shouldn't even have to do the math to realize that Sun wouldn't be selling their cluster's time at this price if it weren't, since Sun is in business to make money. It's all about how many hours of time you'd have to buy a year.
I'm already confused... So the lower pin count wins or the higher? Last time I checked, 89437349 > 82398743. Are you already trying to market drastic FUD with your new system?
Heh, "3:14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate places for themselves;" Did you happen to pick that scripture on purpose?
Er... or something like that. Not giving them e-mail is likely saving Millions and Millions if not Billions and Cillions. :) Just poking a lil fun at Washington for having no clue about units. I think it's why we haven't switched to the metric system.
I would hardly call e-mail "rapid communication". /.ers may have that mentality cause they are near a computer and can/do check their e-mail many many times a day if not constantly. But the majority of people don't. I know many college students even that don't check their e-mail for weeks at a time. I would recommend SMS text messaging for rapid communication when you can't just make a freaking phone call to a colleague. The only time you'd need e-mail would be to send files quickly. You could still do that with floppies and USB sticks though :-p. If you didn't want to ftp them to a server. My main thought while reading this... Isn't this the same orginization that said if RIM shut down their Blackberry service over 50% of their employees would be affected? I say if they have that, they don't really need e-mail. But I like one of your ideas too... pigeons are much less scary than that pedophile tool internet thingy I keep hearing about on the local news right before the trailer park interviews.
the war has cost US taxpayers about $250 billion so far
http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=c om_wrapper&Itemid=182
Heh, I love that site. But I see no reason to pull the oil/gas companies into this. Fossil fuels are like so 1980.
Donald Trump just had his 5th yesterday.
why would I want a $500 colour phone discounted to $99 with a 3 year contract?
You said you've had the phone for 3 years. Have you had the same plan/contract as well over that same time period? Just curious since for a while there, there wasn't much change in service plans and a "$400 coupon" (essentially) doesn't seem all that bad. I happen to like my Motorola V600 that I've had since Christmas 2004. And our plan with T-Mobile hasn't changed all that muc. We've added another number, but that's insignificant.
I'm one of those that would think there's an error in the /. heading. cheap != inexpensive, and cheap & great don't really go together.
I'm not playing a game. I was just thinking of that guy in Russia that got found out he was a massive spammer and was beaten to death by some average citizens. Legislative punishments are better than some others. And to some of the sites, it wouldn't be a punishment but a grant to their own requests. I just don't see why so many /.ers are opposed to that. Only reason I can come up with is they don't want their ISPs seeing their lookups to .xxx sites. Which would be very naive. The other concern would be people thinking their ISPs might block .xxx TLDs for them if this was passed.
Muahahaha, you fell for my trick. Now the DOJ will know what a perverted freak you are searching for "dinosaur porn" when Google hands over all their search records. No, I just made that up since I didn't have any specific examples.
There's an idea. "God" is the preferred 3 letters, works great. Know any lobbyists? Religion doesn't fall under .com anyway. I know I hate being "sold" my dogma. Alas, they already fall under .org as [typically] non-profit organizations.
People with tinfoil hats think the government is reading their brainwaves. And others think the government is too stupid to know how to have DNS entries ordered changed. Sigh, where's the middle ground?
It is to an 8 year old trying to look up information about dinosaurs. It's "unwholesome" period. But it's "psychologically unhealthy" for a small child.
No, that was another bill about video games where I finally found that definition. I've actually e-mailed one of the senators asking clarity. Wonder if I'll ever get it.