Well, if the Kona ends up winning, you are totally proving his point. His point being, for those of you that didn't RTFA, that an online community (such as an "OMG FRIST POAST!!!1!" on slashdot) can easily throw the results of an online poll.
Right now voting stands on 1587 total votes, 44% for the Tanuki and 45% for the Cadabra.
Do you really think that if the during the 2008 presidential election, Stephen Colbert was on the ballot, he would get something other than a minority of the vote?
Or that 66% of a randomly selected cross section of msnbc viewers would pick Ron Paul as the "most convincing candidate"?
it's just taken the Internet increasing the flow of information for us to realize this.
That is exactly the problem. Online polls are only really representative of people who get news and information from the Internet, which is a minority of people.
Toomey was going to win, so he's going to try playing for the other team.
Yeah, Toomey was going to win the primary, and then get his ass handed to him in the general election. The only reason Specter was getting elected year after year were all those independents and dems that crossed the aisle. The Specter switch doesn't change the fact that Toomey will lose, but it does allow a popular senator to keep representing his state.
Not in so many words, no. Many Democrats have, however, called for us to pull out of Iraq under conditions that are equivalent (in my, and many other people's opinion) to admitting that we've lost.
How is coming to the realization that we lost the same thing as wanting to lose?
Did Japan's surrender that ended WWII before his entire country was destroyed mean that Emperor Hirohito wanted to lose? Did the fact that that James Madison signed a peace treaty with the British that under conditions that are equivalent to admitting that we've lost mean that he wanted America to lose the War of 1812?
I wish as much as the most hardcore right winger that we were accepted with open arms in Iraq and that Iraqi citizens were willing to work with us to rebuild their country, but that isn't what happened.
No one wanted to (or wants to today, for that matter) lose the war. What the Democrats wanted to do was stop sending our boys off to die overseas just to prove that invading Iraq was a good idea in the first place.
Cablevision spokesman Jim Maiella confirmed for me that the $99.95 price is unbundled, and the new tier does not come with any kind of a usage cap or overage fees.
I realize it's hard to take these people at their word, but given the recent PR disasters, it's hard to imagine another big telco/cable company making the same mistakes.
How do you know how it works? I must confess I don't know, but I think the easiest way would be to transfer download.part files from the filesystem to the device, and then back when waking up.
On the fly binary patching is, as you mention, one of the hardest ways to accomplish this. Especially since with newer linux distros memory address are randomly generated to counter this type of "attack"
To demonstrate how modest application stubs can enable
significant sleep-mode operation in Somniloquy, we have
also implemented application stubs for three applications
that were popular in our informal survey: background web download, peer to peer content distribution using
BitTorrent, and instant messaging. For all these appli-
cations, we did not have to modify the operating system
or the existing applications on the PC, which were only
available to us in binaries. To capture the state of the
application for the respective stub, we wrote wrappers
around the binaries.
In a way this is the exact opposite. The KillerNIC is designed to offload network processing to a host OS on the NIC while the computer is on. It promises do deliver better performance by using more power.
The NIC in the article acts a passthrough when the computer is on, and only starts doing its work when you turn the host PC off. It promises to deliver better energy usage by shutting the PC off.
This is dumb. I mean, every house already has a running device with an ARM processor: their router! It would be so much more logical if torrents ran on the router than on a PC. For one thing, the router could throttle back the torrent if computers on the network were asking for data, and it could upload full bore when everyone is asleep.
I like the idea that this thing accepts SD flash cards. Pretty soon, 8GB will be trivially cheap, and that could serve as cache. Periodically, as the cache fills up, the router could wake up a computer, transfer finished files to it and put it back to sleep. This wouldn't be hard - any proper geek could write a script to do this.
This makes me wonder if this is already possible with a little hardware hacking and something like openwrt. The only piece currently missing is the "I'm going to bed" packet from the client to the router, and the "go back to sleep packet" you mentioned. When a client goes to sleep, the router takes over the connections using whatever the mechanism is in this paper, and starts caching rx packets.
Then either when the buffer gets full or a certain pre-defined packet signature triggers the router, the router can send a replay of what happened at 100Mbps back to the client, which is all transparent to the OS.
The caveat of course being that the network stack would need to be similar, you can't have the client machine thinking it sent a RST where the router didn't. And the router would need to decide which packets it can handle, and which are unimportant, and which need to cause a wakeup. But on the surface there isn't a lot stopping a POC of this kind of thing.
but anyone who has used one knows it isn't really a feasible input method for a desktop unless you feel like your arms cramping up after half an hour of use.
Is that so? Someone should probably tell Nicholas Negropontea, or at least the HID designers of the XO-2.
To the GP, that's pretty good evidence that linux will at least have touch screen support in the future.
When the other automakers realize that EV and the hotswapable battery are the way to go, they will all jump on board. Just like everyone realized that there was value in having mini-usb be the standard phone charger, or having usb be the standard video game controller adapter.
Maybe the most read newspaper is trying to teach you something.
What it's teaching me is that the most read newspaper is ignorant. The only reason that there exists a single character for quotation marks is because the ASCII code only has one space for it. It has no place in the print medium. Even the cheapest in word processing software these days will convert these automatically.
Online it's a different story. Some casual experimenting reveals that only the New York Times uses different characters for opening and closing quotation marks, where the WSJ, The Register, The Washington Times, and Ars do not.
Call them what you will, but industrial design and attention to detail is often grossly overlooked. It's why Mac is converting hordes of longtime PC users and why Ubuntu is the most popular linux distro. It's why Adobe is a multi-billion dollar company and why black Myriad text on a white background is instantly recognizable as an Apple ad. It's why I can no longer look at non anti-aliased fonts outside the terminal.
As a user who upgraded to Fedora 7 from Fedora Core 6 after the Liberation fonts switchover, I can say that the impact must be experienced to be believed.
That's funny, my friend and I were just talking about the ridiculous measures isps and telcos have to go through when building data centers. Take for example, this building
The exterior walls are precast concrete panels clad with pink-colored Swedish granite faces.
It is often described as one of the most secure buildings in America, and was designed to be self-sufficient and protected from nuclear fallout for up to two weeks after a nuclear blast.
I bet that would be more expensive to build new than use an existing bunker. Anyway, despite what the article says, I think the thing is an eye sore.
Yeah, not unlike those guys that sign up for the Geek Squad to get free amateur porn, or the stories of the National Security Agency listening in to our men and women overseas having phone sex.
"Hey, check this out," Faulk says he would be told, "there's good phone sex or there's some pillow talk, pull up this call, it's really funny, go check it out. It would be some colonel making pillow talk and we would say, 'Wow, this was crazy'"
"But if you have nothing to hide", the security officials say, "then you'll let us listen in to your phone calls!"
It makes me sick that Obama changed his policy on warrantless wiretapping.
Sun certainly have some good products. I often think that they need to focus a bit more. They have their fingers in many pies but can't be good at all of them.
Split the hardware from the software. Open Solaris runs on x86, java is almost a killer app, etc...
They would have a much easier time selling the software side, in my estimation.
A bank will still fire you if you go against the party line. Working for an investment bank and publicly lobbying against TARP would not work.
For example, a friend of mine works at one of the banks that took TARP funding, and after the %90 bonus tax was instated the bank asked employees to stop calling their congressmen from their work phone. Anyone who disobeyed and was caught would have been terminated.
There is a problem with your analogy. Insider trading has a lot to do with stock brokering, and sanitization standards has a lot to do with cooking in a resturant. Investigative reporting doesn't have anything to do with content control.
The problem is the media conglomerates have their pockets in to many distribution channels. It was probably a well written article and had its place in the public discourse, but the parent company struck it down because another branch doesn't like it. Someone from NBC would probably have the same problem, but someone from the NY Times wouldn't.
*Obviously various wire services have to control their copyright, but in general the news business is incestuous, with leads from certain stories being picked up and dissected by the entire industry. Content is constantly copied, whether it's by google news, or CSPAN reading newspapers on air, or by the journalist that wrote an op-ed in teh Washington Post coming on to PBS to discuss it.
What they do is "Deep Packet Inspection" and they are most definitely there. They have been doing it for some years now, using various combinations of hardware & software.
That's essentially eavesdropping. Sounds like the EFF or someone similar might have a case. In states like New York (as another poster pointed out) they have laws against this.
Course we all know how well that worked with the Bush and Obama administrations.</cynic>
FreeBSD was around 5-10% faster running Linux binaries than Linux was, although I wouldn't be surprised if this has changed now.
I would, actually. If history is any indication, the operating system gets slower as time goes on. Note that I actually have oprofiled some of these areas, and it's frequently due to things like processor ACPI enablement (processor sleeping) and security improvements like stack randomization.
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Well, if the Kona ends up winning, you are totally proving his point. His point being, for those of you that didn't RTFA, that an online community (such as an "OMG FRIST POAST!!!1!" on slashdot) can easily throw the results of an online poll.
Right now voting stands on 1587 total votes, 44% for the Tanuki and 45% for the Cadabra.
Do you really think that if the during the 2008 presidential election, Stephen Colbert was on the ballot, he would get something other than a minority of the vote?
Or that 66% of a randomly selected cross section of msnbc viewers would pick Ron Paul as the "most convincing candidate"?
it's just taken the Internet increasing the flow of information for us to realize this.
That is exactly the problem. Online polls are only really representative of people who get news and information from the Internet, which is a minority of people.
Toomey was going to win, so he's going to try playing for the other team.
Yeah, Toomey was going to win the primary, and then get his ass handed to him in the general election. The only reason Specter was getting elected year after year were all those independents and dems that crossed the aisle. The Specter switch doesn't change the fact that Toomey will lose, but it does allow a popular senator to keep representing his state.
Not in so many words, no. Many Democrats have, however, called for us to pull out of Iraq under conditions that are equivalent (in my, and many other people's opinion) to admitting that we've lost.
How is coming to the realization that we lost the same thing as wanting to lose? Did Japan's surrender that ended WWII before his entire country was destroyed mean that Emperor Hirohito wanted to lose? Did the fact that that James Madison signed a peace treaty with the British that under conditions that are equivalent to admitting that we've lost mean that he wanted America to lose the War of 1812?
I wish as much as the most hardcore right winger that we were accepted with open arms in Iraq and that Iraqi citizens were willing to work with us to rebuild their country, but that isn't what happened. No one wanted to (or wants to today, for that matter) lose the war. What the Democrats wanted to do was stop sending our boys off to die overseas just to prove that invading Iraq was a good idea in the first place.
Cablevision spokesman Jim Maiella confirmed for me that the $99.95 price is unbundled, and the new tier does not come with any kind of a usage cap or overage fees.
I realize it's hard to take these people at their word, but given the recent PR disasters, it's hard to imagine another big telco/cable company making the same mistakes.
How do you know how it works? I must confess I don't know, but I think the easiest way would be to transfer download.part files from the filesystem to the device, and then back when waking up.
On the fly binary patching is, as you mention, one of the hardest ways to accomplish this. Especially since with newer linux distros memory address are randomly generated to counter this type of "attack"
4.4 Applications Using Stubs
To demonstrate how modest application stubs can enable significant sleep-mode operation in Somniloquy, we have also implemented application stubs for three applications that were popular in our informal survey: background web download, peer to peer content distribution using BitTorrent, and instant messaging. For all these appli- cations, we did not have to modify the operating system or the existing applications on the PC, which were only available to us in binaries. To capture the state of the application for the respective stub, we wrote wrappers around the binaries.
Emphasis mine.
In a way this is the exact opposite. The KillerNIC is designed to offload network processing to a host OS on the NIC while the computer is on. It promises do deliver better performance by using more power.
The NIC in the article acts a passthrough when the computer is on, and only starts doing its work when you turn the host PC off. It promises to deliver better energy usage by shutting the PC off.
This is dumb. I mean, every house already has a running device with an ARM processor: their router! It would be so much more logical if torrents ran on the router than on a PC. For one thing, the router could throttle back the torrent if computers on the network were asking for data, and it could upload full bore when everyone is asleep.
I like the idea that this thing accepts SD flash cards. Pretty soon, 8GB will be trivially cheap, and that could serve as cache. Periodically, as the cache fills up, the router could wake up a computer, transfer finished files to it and put it back to sleep. This wouldn't be hard - any proper geek could write a script to do this.
This makes me wonder if this is already possible with a little hardware hacking and something like openwrt. The only piece currently missing is the "I'm going to bed" packet from the client to the router, and the "go back to sleep packet" you mentioned. When a client goes to sleep, the router takes over the connections using whatever the mechanism is in this paper, and starts caching rx packets.
Then either when the buffer gets full or a certain pre-defined packet signature triggers the router, the router can send a replay of what happened at 100Mbps back to the client, which is all transparent to the OS.
The caveat of course being that the network stack would need to be similar, you can't have the client machine thinking it sent a RST where the router didn't. And the router would need to decide which packets it can handle, and which are unimportant, and which need to cause a wakeup. But on the surface there isn't a lot stopping a POC of this kind of thing.
Regarding the CentOS side, you could try func or if you have an oracle installation lying around, spacewalk.
Post it on YouTube AND their site.
I can't wait to see what they do with videos like this classic of an NYPD officer bodychecking some cyclist into the sidewalk.
This website would become a veritable Mecca for such videos! If the cops were to take them down, they would be spending all of their time doing that.
but anyone who has used one knows it isn't really a feasible input method for a desktop unless you feel like your arms cramping up after half an hour of use.
Is that so? Someone should probably tell Nicholas Negropontea, or at least the HID designers of the XO-2.
To the GP, that's pretty good evidence that linux will at least have touch screen support in the future.
Just remember to get the automakers to buy in and actually *use* standardized batteries and mountings.
Good luck with that. I don't see many advantages to Toyota adapting their designs to whatever Ford chooses.
But Peugeot sees many advantages in http://blogs.edmunds.com/greencaradvisor/Manufacturers/peugeot/">adapting their designs to be whatever Mitsubishi uses. Maybe next time you make an assertion you should check to make sure it's true.
When the other automakers realize that EV and the hotswapable battery are the way to go, they will all jump on board. Just like everyone realized that there was value in having mini-usb be the standard phone charger, or having usb be the standard video game controller adapter.
Maybe the most read newspaper is trying to teach you something.
What it's teaching me is that the most read newspaper is ignorant. The only reason that there exists a single character for quotation marks is because the ASCII code only has one space for it. It has no place in the print medium. Even the cheapest in word processing software these days will convert these automatically.
Online it's a different story. Some casual experimenting reveals that only the New York Times uses different characters for opening and closing quotation marks, where the WSJ, The Register, The Washington Times, and Ars do not.
"Well of course this is... Who cares?"
Anyone who's thinking, "Why does this matter?" needs to see this video and the Absolut vodka logo in comic sans.
And why was this moderated off topic? Seeing how the article on WSJ was %50 about bancomicsans, this is extremely relevent.
New phrase: "font-snob"
Call them what you will, but industrial design and attention to detail is often grossly overlooked. It's why Mac is converting hordes of longtime PC users and why Ubuntu is the most popular linux distro. It's why Adobe is a multi-billion dollar company and why black Myriad text on a white background is instantly recognizable as an Apple ad. It's why I can no longer look at non anti-aliased fonts outside the terminal.
As a user who upgraded to Fedora 7 from Fedora Core 6 after the Liberation fonts switchover, I can say that the impact must be experienced to be believed.
Portage for windows perhaps?
The exterior walls are precast concrete panels clad with pink-colored Swedish granite faces.
It is often described as one of the most secure buildings in America, and was designed to be self-sufficient and protected from nuclear fallout for up to two weeks after a nuclear blast.
I bet that would be more expensive to build new than use an existing bunker. Anyway, despite what the article says, I think the thing is an eye sore.
"Hey, check this out," Faulk says he would be told, "there's good phone sex or there's some pillow talk, pull up this call, it's really funny, go check it out. It would be some colonel making pillow talk and we would say, 'Wow, this was crazy'"
"But if you have nothing to hide", the security officials say, "then you'll let us listen in to your phone calls!"
It makes me sick that Obama changed his policy on warrantless wiretapping.
Sun certainly have some good products. I often think that they need to focus a bit more. They have their fingers in many pies but can't be good at all of them.
Split the hardware from the software. Open Solaris runs on x86, java is almost a killer app, etc...
They would have a much easier time selling the software side, in my estimation.
A bank will still fire you if you go against the party line. Working for an investment bank and publicly lobbying against TARP would not work.
For example, a friend of mine works at one of the banks that took TARP funding, and after the %90 bonus tax was instated the bank asked employees to stop calling their congressmen from their work phone. Anyone who disobeyed and was caught would have been terminated.
There is a problem with your analogy. Insider trading has a lot to do with stock brokering, and sanitization standards has a lot to do with cooking in a resturant. Investigative reporting doesn't have anything to do with content control.
The problem is the media conglomerates have their pockets in to many distribution channels. It was probably a well written article and had its place in the public discourse, but the parent company struck it down because another branch doesn't like it. Someone from NBC would probably have the same problem, but someone from the NY Times wouldn't.
*Obviously various wire services have to control their copyright, but in general the news business is incestuous, with leads from certain stories being picked up and dissected by the entire industry. Content is constantly copied, whether it's by google news, or CSPAN reading newspapers on air, or by the journalist that wrote an op-ed in teh Washington Post coming on to PBS to discuss it.
What they do is "Deep Packet Inspection" and they are most definitely there. They have been doing it for some years now, using various combinations of hardware & software.
That's essentially eavesdropping. Sounds like the EFF or someone similar might have a case. In states like New York (as another poster pointed out) they have laws against this.
Course we all know how well that worked with the Bush and Obama administrations.</cynic>
FreeBSD was around 5-10% faster running Linux binaries than Linux was, although I wouldn't be surprised if this has changed now.
I would, actually. If history is any indication, the operating system gets slower as time goes on. Note that I actually have oprofiled some of these areas, and it's frequently due to things like processor ACPI enablement (processor sleeping) and security improvements like stack randomization.