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Operating Systems of the Future
An anonymous reader writes: "'Imagine computers in a group providing disk storage for their users, transparently swapping files and optimizing their collective performance, all with no central administration.' Computerworld is predicting that over the next 10 years, operating systems will become highly distributed and 'self-healing,' and they'll collaborate with applications, making application programmers' jobs easier."
Does everything have to be on topic around here? The beowulf thing is a standing Slashdot.org joke and I find it humorous.
Please mod parent up.
Wow! This must be a PERSONAL letter, just for me!
The worlds worst pickup lines are actually:
"The human body is 90% water... and you're making me thirsty"
and
"If you were a sandwich at mcdonalds, it'd be called the "mcbeautiful""
A: None. The Universe spins the bulb, and the Zen master merely stays out of the way.
World's least effective pick-up line "Hey, nice shoes, wanna fuck?"
I heard an anecdote of this working, once. It was at Teikyo-Mary in Davenport IA if you want to go find her.
Personally, I fear the thought of the woman that would go along with this.
Does everything have to be on topic around here? The beowulf thing is a standing Slashdot.org joke and I find it humorous.
... and above all, about as original as Microsoft "innovation".
It was humorous the first time. Moderately amusing the next 100 times perhaps. Now it is merely tired, trite, cliched, and asinine
The Future of Human Evolution: Autonomy
ok....this is OT and all, but shouldn't it be "When I want your opinion I'll beat it into you"??
....There is nothing a Cattle Prod and a foot length of 7/8" satellite coaxial can't fix/
Well even a blind man can hit a dart board half the time.
To be honest I have more belief in certain sci-fi writews in the long term of prediction, HG Wells for one. If not take litteraly of course.
AS far as THIS goes...
'rant goes, I was going to find a science timeline to refute it with a few choice examples, but I think I'll leave it at one: The Internet, which allows rabble-rousing pedants to blow off steam into the air of a virtual domain rather than taking up valuable public park space with their soapboxes and shrill, infantile'proclamations
Two points, the internet was one of the things I was ranting about, digital dissemination of infromation is leading corporations to crack down and stifle speech more than before.
Medical breakthroughs dont mean shit when we have twice as many people starving to death, etc.
As far as the soapbox part goes ????
Well I was a loudmouthed opinionated pain in the ass before the internet came to be. I think in a past life I mighta been standing on one.......
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One difference, I will actually backup my words with action, whatever neccesary, I have convictions, right or wrong, theyre mine. Im not (and im not saying you are so dont take this wrong) One of those mealy mouthed politically correct spinless bastards that tries to whitewash everything, while at the same time tries to steal rights and freedoms from you, saying if you respond in a negative way you are a blah blah blah or hiding something or someother crap meant to silence you further.
I was raised to fight, my son will be raised to fight, no matter what the cost, to preserve integrity,not to hide under a shroud of fear,
Humans do some things better than any other 4000 years and it does not change, only the scenery, make no mistake, histroy has tought us this again and again, we kill, plunder and oppress. Until we understand and embrace this we cannot change it.
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On a whole, lives taken by a result of technology from 1900 to lives saved,....guess what your argument loses EVERY time, it has been studied, and proven.
Sig went tro...aahemmm.....fishing........