I didn't RTFA (hey, this is slashdot:-)), but maybe constructing that network has been largely funded by corporations who are now going to make a big buck selling the necessary equipment to students?
Some interesting, more detailed information about Rosetta's activities can be found on the Lander Control Center's page. An overview of the commissioning activities is also available. It's a bit terse and sometimes not really up-to-date, but you can see some technical details. For your information, from the latter page on the commissioning activities:
Block 1: Main Subsystems. 12.03. - 17.03.2004
Block 2: Remaining subsystems and Experiments on HPC / CIU main. 09.04. - 15.04.2004
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill people, uh, people do." But I think, I think the gun helps. You know? I think it helps. I just think just standing there going, "Bang!" That's not going to kill too many people, is it? You'd have to be really dodgy on the heart to have that.
My personal peeve with ReiserFS is, though, that I've had the main ReiserFS partition on my Laptop completely destroyed by a simple power failure once. Many files were in lost+found afterwards, but some had their contents destroyed. (And restoring files by looking at their contents is not fun for ~1000 files...) So I've kinda lost trust in it. ext3 may be slow, but I've never had a single problem with it. Seems very robust to me. So, reliability is more important than speed for me (whoever needs performant servers is of course entitled to a different opinion). XFS and JFS seemingly can't be accessed from Windows, so that is a Minus for some.
I have to say that apparently the guy doing the Google search wasn't doing well enough. Searching on Google for parliamentary.group back.care vice.chairman gives me a PDF as hit number one which I then viewed as HTML and scrolled down for a couple of seconds just to find, on page 6, the entry for the back care APPG listing VCh. Janet Dean MP (Lab). And before you ask, I'm not British. Total time: about 45 seconds.
So, I would say that, while this 'benchmark' was an interesting thing to do, different people will come up with very, very different speeds for the questions, depending on how well they can work the medium.
Also, this test is quite dependent on luck... the Slovenian railway question took me 3:15, because my keywords just didn't give me the CIA world fact book... then again, that's still 1st place.
And this kind of proves your point: It's all about combining all available resources, be they 'old-fashioned' or 'new'. But whatever resources you use, your speed depends on your experience with the particular resources.
For some reason, though, I like this kind of competition! We should set up a meeting somewhere with a fat-enough internet pipe and let people compete on the Web finding answers... kinda like a Quiz show. I think that would be fun...
Well, Sasser is not a virus, it's a worm. Worms usually want to simply spread, not necessarily actively wreak havoc. (Sasser does of course wreak havoc, but that's more of a collateral damage type thing.) Viruses, on the other hand, may (but not always do) deliberately destroy stuff. The Jargon file has some more complete explanations on worms and viruses.
Besides, nontrivial bugs don't result in stack traces or crashes. They result in infrequent, hard-to-spot, anomoalies in the output. No amount of Java stack traces will help you find them.
I second that. I currently have a piece of software that runs as a daemon. It silently crashes about once a week. Tell me a way of debugging it that doesn't take months, and I'll be happy. But until then, I'll have to add debugging statements and triple-check each line of code, run it again and wait another week or so. Right now I can only very vaguely tell where the crash occurs - but not what causes it. Not fun.
That wasn't the point of my post. My post's parent argued about the end of Java. I never said everything was alright with Mozilla. But clearly it hasn't been their end because of "forks and incompatibilities", has it? You shouldn't just look at market share. A Free project cannot just be about market share! A Free software project is about producing a valuable piece of software that is, well, Free as in speech. And the Mozilla people have managed that quite well.
I'm sure people said the same thing when the Mozilla project came to life -- and see where they're standing today. Of course things might go wrong -- but we, the Free Software community, can have an influence on that. And frankly, we don't really want "forks with incompatibilities" either. I don't really think that "the end of Java" is a possibility.
Because it would be one hell of a Free software killer application. There's so many people using Java already, and Stallman's point against Java right now is that when writing code in Java (which many do simply because it's easy and beautiful to write in Java), you create dependencies to non-Free software making it practically impossible to run an entirely Free system using such dependent Free software.
Consider this: if Java were Free, it could easily be the world's most used piece of Free software (before you say Apache or something, let's say 'most used by private persons')
You might be a troll and I did bite, but it was just too good an opportunity to point out what Freeing Java could mean.
Don't forget that there's a whole run-time library associated with Java. You have the language specifications, of course, but there's also all the classes that are coming with the JRE already. These are available in source code within the Java SDK, but under a more restrictive license. And then there's also, of course, the compiler itself, the virtual machine, and tools like javadoc. OK, there's kaffe, for instance, but they're not completely there yet (read their What is Kaffe not? section on the title page). There's also GNU classpath to replace Java's core class libraries, but they're not quite there yet either.
The main problem that I, personally, see with Java-based apps, is the non-native widget set. I have to admit, I honestly detest Swing/AWT stuff. Swing even more. Not only is the default theme ugly IMO, but even if you make it *look* like WinXP or Gtk or whatever, it doesn't *feel* like it. This is where things like SWT should come in. I personally think that Java apps on the desktop will change that "something's wrong" mindset quite a bit if they use native widgets and adhere to the respective native UI guidelines.
...so people cannot ship a web based app using Mozilla tech (XUL). It would have to run on IE...
So maybe the Mozilla team should consider creating a XUL plug-in for IE then. Is that feasible, or are there technical quirks preventing that from happening?
I'm not really sure, but the DMCA is for the US only, so shouldn't I be able to get all the results from Germany using google.de? Using your search on google.de gives the same notice (and URL is.ca anyway).
You were modded funny, but it sure as hell is true and rather deserves an Insightful mod... we can not, on the one hand, complain about outsourcing, and on the other hand keep on encouraging exactly those practices through our behavior as consumers. I know it's hard to buy only products that, for instance, do not exploit cheap third-world labor. I mean, who am I to complain, most of my shirts and shoes probably also come from sweat shops and the like. But still, if we complain about outsourcing, we should also reflect on what we spend money on each day and try to at least make small changes to our behavior.
My goodness, we're in a computer age - and the data processing won't be done without a computer anyway! So why should we not use more complicated formulas for tax calculations? Transparency for the citizens, you say? Put up a damn website that lets people find out how much they owe and why.
Here's two examples. What's so much more difficult and complex about the second as long as people have possibilities (e.g. tools) to find out about their tax rates?
tax1(x) = { 0, x < $25k { x*0.2, otherwise
tax2(x) = { 0, x < $25k { x*(0.1+(x-$25k)/400k), $25k <= x < $125k { x*0.25, otherwise
The second attempt is just linearly progressive. And the problem with that is still that it doesn't get the government enough money, becase the majority of the population sits in the middle class. That's why you'd usually make this not linear, but instead use a slight curve with d^2/dx^2 tax(x) < 0.
What's the point in making the tax calculation easier ? It will please Joe Average and make him vote for whatever party in question, but it will either not bring the gov't enough money, or be blatantly unfair (of course, hey, Joe Average can calculate his taxes on a piece of paper, woohoo).
Don't simplify the tax formulas. Instead, use technology to maximize transparency.
(Note: I am not a financial expert, so go ahead and tell me off for BSing if you must:)
The only place Windows is allowed is on the desktop, and that is still NT4 hidden behind a Solaris based proxy and firewalled to the hilt. You cannot even go OUT on a port other than 80 or 443, nevermind the other way.
May be a dumb question, but... why would bank workers' desktop computers need web access at all?
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I didn't RTFA (hey, this is slashdot :-)), but maybe constructing that network has been largely funded by corporations who are now going to make a big buck selling the necessary equipment to students?
Some interesting, more detailed information about Rosetta's activities can be found on the Lander Control Center's page. An overview of the commissioning activities is also available. It's a bit terse and sometimes not really up-to-date, but you can see some technical details. For your information, from the latter page on the commissioning activities:
So I assume we're between Block 3 and Block 4 now.
Just don't buy Bud/Miller/Coors/etc. Go to a nice micro-brewery or come to Europe.
Where do I pick up my prize?
Reiserfs can at least be accessed under Windows.
My personal peeve with ReiserFS is, though, that I've had the main ReiserFS partition on my Laptop completely destroyed by a simple power failure once. Many files were in lost+found afterwards, but some had their contents destroyed. (And restoring files by looking at their contents is not fun for ~1000 files...) So I've kinda lost trust in it. ext3 may be slow, but I've never had a single problem with it. Seems very robust to me. So, reliability is more important than speed for me (whoever needs performant servers is of course entitled to a different opinion). XFS and JFS seemingly can't be accessed from Windows, so that is a Minus for some.
Actually, it looks more like the Gehry buildings in Düsseldorf, Germany, to me... and that's not very surprising, considering it's the same architect :-)
I have to say that apparently the guy doing the Google search wasn't doing well enough. Searching on Google for parliamentary.group back.care vice.chairman gives me a PDF as hit number one which I then viewed as HTML and scrolled down for a couple of seconds just to find, on page 6, the entry for the back care APPG listing VCh. Janet Dean MP (Lab). And before you ask, I'm not British. Total time: about 45 seconds.
So, I would say that, while this 'benchmark' was an interesting thing to do, different people will come up with very, very different speeds for the questions, depending on how well they can work the medium.
Also, this test is quite dependent on luck... the Slovenian railway question took me 3:15, because my keywords just didn't give me the CIA world fact book... then again, that's still 1st place.
And this kind of proves your point: It's all about combining all available resources, be they 'old-fashioned' or 'new'. But whatever resources you use, your speed depends on your experience with the particular resources.
For some reason, though, I like this kind of competition! We should set up a meeting somewhere with a fat-enough internet pipe and let people compete on the Web finding answers... kinda like a Quiz show. I think that would be fun...
Your comment is on the edge of being flamebait, but the gist of it has a good point. What is worse, a few broken computers, or a r00t3d network?
Or, another way to put it: If you think security is expensive, try an accident.
Well, Sasser is not a virus, it's a worm. Worms usually want to simply spread, not necessarily actively wreak havoc. (Sasser does of course wreak havoc, but that's more of a collateral damage type thing.) Viruses, on the other hand, may (but not always do) deliberately destroy stuff. The Jargon file has some more complete explanations on worms and viruses.
I really like your sig... it's quite on-topic for this story. Any chance you have a gmail account available there? ;-))
I second that. I currently have a piece of software that runs as a daemon. It silently crashes about once a week. Tell me a way of debugging it that doesn't take months, and I'll be happy. But until then, I'll have to add debugging statements and triple-check each line of code, run it again and wait another week or so. Right now I can only very vaguely tell where the crash occurs - but not what causes it. Not fun.
Except his service pack included the ME/2000 desktop icons...
That wasn't the point of my post. My post's parent argued about the end of Java. I never said everything was alright with Mozilla. But clearly it hasn't been their end because of "forks and incompatibilities", has it? You shouldn't just look at market share. A Free project cannot just be about market share! A Free software project is about producing a valuable piece of software that is, well, Free as in speech. And the Mozilla people have managed that quite well.
s/Java/Netscape/
I'm sure people said the same thing when the Mozilla project came to life -- and see where they're standing today. Of course things might go wrong -- but we, the Free Software community, can have an influence on that. And frankly, we don't really want "forks with incompatibilities" either. I don't really think that "the end of Java" is a possibility.
Because it would be one hell of a Free software killer application. There's so many people using Java already, and Stallman's point against Java right now is that when writing code in Java (which many do simply because it's easy and beautiful to write in Java), you create dependencies to non-Free software making it practically impossible to run an entirely Free system using such dependent Free software.
Consider this: if Java were Free, it could easily be the world's most used piece of Free software (before you say Apache or something, let's say 'most used by private persons')
You might be a troll and I did bite, but it was just too good an opportunity to point out what Freeing Java could mean.
Don't forget that there's a whole run-time library associated with Java. You have the language specifications, of course, but there's also all the classes that are coming with the JRE already. These are available in source code within the Java SDK, but under a more restrictive license. And then there's also, of course, the compiler itself, the virtual machine, and tools like javadoc. OK, there's kaffe, for instance, but they're not completely there yet (read their What is Kaffe not? section on the title page). There's also GNU classpath to replace Java's core class libraries, but they're not quite there yet either.
The main problem that I, personally, see with Java-based apps, is the non-native widget set. I have to admit, I honestly detest Swing/AWT stuff. Swing even more. Not only is the default theme ugly IMO, but even if you make it *look* like WinXP or Gtk or whatever, it doesn't *feel* like it. This is where things like SWT should come in. I personally think that Java apps on the desktop will change that "something's wrong" mindset quite a bit if they use native widgets and adhere to the respective native UI guidelines.
So maybe the Mozilla team should consider creating a XUL plug-in for IE then. Is that feasible, or are there technical quirks preventing that from happening?
I'm not really sure, but the DMCA is for the US only, so shouldn't I be able to get all the results from Germany using google.de? Using your search on google.de gives the same notice (and URL is .ca anyway).
You were modded funny, but it sure as hell is true and rather deserves an Insightful mod... we can not, on the one hand, complain about outsourcing, and on the other hand keep on encouraging exactly those practices through our behavior as consumers. I know it's hard to buy only products that, for instance, do not exploit cheap third-world labor. I mean, who am I to complain, most of my shirts and shoes probably also come from sweat shops and the like. But still, if we complain about outsourcing, we should also reflect on what we spend money on each day and try to at least make small changes to our behavior.
...especially if both of you could have just counted ^W's...
My goodness, we're in a computer age - and the data processing won't be done without a computer anyway! So why should we not use more complicated formulas for tax calculations? Transparency for the citizens, you say? Put up a damn website that lets people find out how much they owe and why.
Here's two examples. What's so much more difficult and complex about the second as long as people have possibilities (e.g. tools) to find out about their tax rates?
The second attempt is just linearly progressive. And the problem with that is still that it doesn't get the government enough money, becase the majority of the population sits in the middle class. That's why you'd usually make this not linear, but instead use a slight curve with d^2/dx^2 tax(x) < 0.
What's the point in making the tax calculation easier ? It will please Joe Average and make him vote for whatever party in question, but it will either not bring the gov't enough money, or be blatantly unfair (of course, hey, Joe Average can calculate his taxes on a piece of paper, woohoo).
Don't simplify the tax formulas. Instead, use technology to maximize transparency.
(Note: I am not a financial expert, so go ahead and tell me off for BSing if you must :)
Not bad for an April Fools.
I'm just wondering why none of you guys have pointed out gmail.google.com yet... that's the best part of it!
Use Google search to find the exact message you want, no matter when it was sent or received.
1000 megabytes of free storage so you'll never need to delete another message.
Each message is grouped with all its replies and displayed as a conversation.
You see only relevant text ads and links to related web pages of interest.
Not quite!
:-)
Free MS keyboards and mice! Woohoo!
May be a dumb question, but... why would bank workers' desktop computers need web access at all?