I couldn't be happier if they went Poof but their customers are locked in just as bad as Microsoft's. As soon as you have implemented your major business processes on Oracle you might as well write a blank check to Larry.
I don't think that debugging Java on every platform is easier than debugging well-written platform agnostic C code. I've written C code that ran on everything from 32 bit W95 to 64 bit IRIX and it wasn't at all hard. Many tools do that.
When I had to learn Latin, I found it an incredible waste of time. However, it made learning related languages and understanding scientific terms much easier.
A little calculus would stop a lot of the basic arguments against AGW dead in their tracks. Like rate of change of the average temperature (which is an integral.) Then we wouldn't hear nonsense like "Meh, it's been warmer thab now in the past" or "But we had a very cool summer this year, so how can GW be true?"
This clearly calls for the death penalty. She probably didn't like the old lady so it was premeditated. Actually wasn't there two kids? A conspiracy, maybe a terrorist organization? Who is investigating that, two kids unleashing deadly weapons (big hunks of metal trivialized as "bikes") onto unsuspecting senior citizens? What has the world come to?
Slashdot is immune from any liability it would normally have for being the publisher or speaker of "illegal speech" (like defamation, but potentially also intrusions on privacy and the like).
When did driving get any faster? It's still 65, right? OK, maybe 80 at times. So everybody is running their engine at maybe 10% of rated power, with heavy throttle losses, driving the efficiency into the ground. That's why today's big gas engines are so inefficient and need hybrid tech. You control a Diesel (and maybe a DI gas engine, dunno) by injecting less fuel, not by throttling its air intake.
That helps just about zero in this day and age of dual core and GHz overkill. Even the nicest process will always get a few time slices to kick up a lot of IO. Unless you launch a few perl -e 'for(;;){}'...
Debian continues to support it. I just switched from CentOS to Debian for just that reason. Yeah, you have to choose between stable (i.e. oooold), testing and unstable, but I found Squeeze (testing) completely reliable. Even some of the bugs I saw on Ubuntu are gone. Install Squeeze, then apt-get install xen-tools virt-manager xen-linux-system-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 and go from there.
Exactly. It only depends on the amount of self-testing the machine does. Otherwise that dual-hexacore machine with 64GB in the lab should be up faster than in 4 minutes or so. Oh and that's when it starts to boot Linux, which only takes 2 or 3 seconds. Then our application environment, which is a different story...
Yup, I need to know how they perform on a dual hexacore Gulftown! Heh. But seriously, logging into one of the lab machines makes the dual core laptop feel slooow.
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I couldn't be happier if they went Poof but their customers are locked in just as bad as Microsoft's. As soon as you have implemented your major business processes on Oracle you might as well write a blank check to Larry.
I don't think that debugging Java on every platform is easier than debugging well-written platform agnostic C code. I've written C code that ran on everything from 32 bit W95 to 64 bit IRIX and it wasn't at all hard. Many tools do that.
Unless you're on a H-1 visa.
Nah, the ASCII tokens are much better, like the cheerleader-plus "*+*".
Many eminent scientists have turned crackpot in their later years.
When I had to learn Latin, I found it an incredible waste of time. However, it made learning related languages and understanding scientific terms much easier.
I call BS. An English major knows the difference between principle and principal.
With Google and Wikipedia, nobody needs to know anything any more.
A little calculus would stop a lot of the basic arguments against AGW dead in their tracks. Like rate of change of the average temperature (which is an integral.) Then we wouldn't hear nonsense like "Meh, it's been warmer thab now in the past" or "But we had a very cool summer this year, so how can GW be true?"
This clearly calls for the death penalty. She probably didn't like the old lady so it was premeditated.
Actually wasn't there two kids? A conspiracy, maybe a terrorist organization? Who is investigating that, two kids unleashing deadly weapons (big hunks of metal trivialized as "bikes") onto unsuspecting senior citizens? What has the world come to?
Slashdot is immune from any liability it would normally have for being the publisher or speaker of "illegal speech" (like defamation, but potentially also intrusions on privacy and the like).
Except when it's about Scientology?
Don't forget slashdot.org and the risk of serious productivity loss.
How about
( ( process_a &); process_b ) | sort | uniq
?
Then 200+ hp won't help you much either.
Sure, if you can't drive and are unable to adjust your speed while you're on the on-ramp.
When did driving get any faster? It's still 65, right? OK, maybe 80 at times. So everybody is running their engine at maybe 10% of rated power, with heavy throttle losses, driving the efficiency into the ground.
That's why today's big gas engines are so inefficient and need hybrid tech. You control a Diesel (and maybe a DI gas engine, dunno) by injecting less fuel, not by throttling its air intake.
That helps just about zero in this day and age of dual core and GHz overkill. Even the nicest process will always get a few time slices to kick up a lot of IO. ...
Unless you launch a few perl -e 'for(;;){}'
Does it fully support paravirtualized Linux guests by now?
Debian continues to support it. I just switched from CentOS to Debian for just that reason. Yeah, you have to choose between stable (i.e. oooold), testing and unstable, but I found Squeeze (testing) completely reliable. Even some of the bugs I saw on Ubuntu are gone. Install Squeeze, then
apt-get install xen-tools virt-manager xen-linux-system-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64
and go from there.
Exactly. It only depends on the amount of self-testing the machine does.
Otherwise that dual-hexacore machine with 64GB in the lab should be up faster than in 4 minutes or so.
Oh and that's when it starts to boot Linux, which only takes 2 or 3 seconds. Then our application environment, which is a different story...
Then why did my 8088 *boot* MS-DOS?
Amen! And there's an impressive list of languages that can be compiled for Parrot, including ECMAscript.
Yup, I need to know how they perform on a dual hexacore Gulftown!
Heh. But seriously, logging into one of the lab machines makes the dual core laptop feel slooow.
Coming soon to a street corner near you, like surveillance cams?
Meh. Just tell me what they use to wire up the mics. Oxygen free copper? Silver? What cross section?