You'd need to take the Cell processor and then put it in something a little more accessible so you could run arbitrary code on it, just like a regular server! Hey, I'm gonna go tell IBM to get on it right now!
Should be passphrase, or passacronym, or pass-date-backwards-plus-randomTLAoftheday-plus-half-the-car-registration-mark
People choose words because they think "password... meh." WRONG. The whole vowel+consonant thing instantly destroys a huge chunk of entropy, for instance.
Tech is not the issue - basic tuition on WHY you have a password and WHY you don't give it out is what we need.
(The CIO's office can help by ensuring single-sign-on actually works!)
Many long-distance trains in the UK have a "quiet coach" where they ask people not to use mobile phones, personal stereos, children etc.
They do. I am in the noisy coach, tapping away on the laptop.:-)
The difference is, of course, that it's very easy to move from the quiet coach to another one if you need to make a call (or the reverse), not so easy on a plane (more people to climb over, less space).
Meh. Clearly you have never BEEN on a UK train.
I am marginally more comfortable on a plane seat than a train seat, on balance. (OK, table seats excepted, but tonight I had BOOKED a seat and I physically couldn't get to it for the first 30 minutes due to the sheer number of people in the aisle between me and it.)
Hmm... I wonder how long it'll be before mobile phones can be used in the Channel Tunnel? You're only underground for 20 minutes though (it's 30 miles).
It's discussed by someone every few months... bound to happen, and on the London Underground too.
This carriage here what I am sitting in has a signal booster for the Orange network, by the way.
Yes, I make/take calls on trains - but only short ones and only if I think it's important enough. I might add those calls frequently relate to the continued employment of other slashdot readers. Of course the REALLY important ones relate to the employment of THIS slashdot reader, and yes, when I am off air for all 8 hours of a flight to the States, it is a problem, because that is a whole working day lost.
Remember that is the day directly before the meeting you were going over there for in the first place... in other words, probably quite an important day, given that whatever you are up to justifies flying 3000 miles in the first place!
What are these "silent" planes of which you speak?
A background hum of conversation might actually be better than the monotonous low-frequency rumble which is what we currently listen to.
Unless you put your headphones on to block it out - in which case, I think you will find they will also block out the noise of other passengers!
Anyhoo you all seem to be under some misapprehension that teenagers will be able to AFFORD the airborne tariffs, because you can bet they will be charging big dollar.
There's a big difference between USING technology and UNDERSTANDING it, and the kids today just don't care.
Some would say that's the difference between a member of (technological) society, or a, what's that other word... oh yeah... geek.:-)
There is also a difference between understanding enough to make most efficient use of the tech, and understanding too much and arsing about with it until it breaks and/or you're well past diminishing returns - and the "too much detail" problem is pretty prevalent in our industry, I have to say!
Firstly, this is slashdot.org, not slashdot.us. In the UK many customers are already paying twice the 'current prices' alleged in the US posts here.
Secondly, the price of coal, gas, and oil are all rising, so even if the solar price stays at the current level, it will soon become the cheapest option simply by standing still.
Thirdly, when carbon markets gain more momentum the power companies will focus on low-carbon options, which will accelerate the pace of solar development immensely. In effect, the companies will be paid for not burning coal; clearly this will have an effect on the market. Europe is ahead of the US already here...
I don't see how this can behave much like a molecule in the common parlance either.
Hydrogen = A positively charged baryon interacting with a negatively charged (and much lighter) lepton. Held together mainly by the exclusion principle, which prevents it radiating away all the binding energy, and hence is fairly stable. (Although it has been alleged that protons themselves decay, eventually)
Positronium = A positively charged lepton interacting with an antiparticle of same lepton. Which by definition radiates away the binding energy pretty darn quickly.
However, a bunch of particles evolving together in a fundamental way can be thought of as a "molecule" I guess... so maybe that's what they mean here. But chemically, it ain't a molecule, and surely when people hear "molecule" they think of chemistry - not QCD.
This would be akin to describing a whole bunch of stuff in a B-E condensate as "an atom." (Which I have seen written down, come to think of it, but it's not terribly helpful terminology.)
Seen quite a few posts here asking why the physical models of these lag somewhat compared to how good the rest of the enviroment generally looks...
That's because NOBODY has figured it out - not just gamers and game developers. The Navier-Stokes describe the behaviour in simple situations but rapidly move into chaotic behaviour in most cases.
If you think you can, step forward and claim your million bucks... (and probably a Fields or a Nobel to boot)
There is plenty of terrifyingly intelligent business software out there - it just doesn't get the publicity - why would it?
Also - Halo = 20m customers x $20
- SAS (a seriously deep BI/MI/scoring set of applicatons and business rules) = 200 customers x $1m
Halo: You buy it, you install it, you shoot things.
Uber-business-software: you buy it, you install it, it fails to install on your platforms, then you get it working and it fails to scale, you can't get your data into it, you can't find skilled staff to run it... and then eventually it starts working for you.
(I made these numbers up, but you see the point.)
Disclaimer: I implement this stuff for a living, so I'm biased. Then again, I get paid more than the 3 or 4 game coders I know/knew.
Oceanographers presumably have a reasonable grasp of environments with 3 degrees of freedom, and low levels of apparent weight, and a harsh medium requiring special equipment for respiration and protection......or have I been reading too much Steven Baxter.
"allowing web pages to be displayed consistently on different computers. "
And here was thinking the whole point of the Web is that it SHOULD be displayed differently on different computers. On my computer, it's displayed the way -I- like to see it, thank you.
Sadly this site is one of the worst offenders - there's just no sensible way to read it on an HTC size device... yet it's a good old fashioned text-lead forum. How can this be right?
Beam A does some stuff. Beam B does some corresponding stuff. Sounds like cause and effect to me.
Now either we can throw Copenhagen away, and state that B must have anticipated what A was going to do, and change B's own state 'in advance,' which appears to be what all the hullabaloo is about here......or equally, we can say that invisibly small pixies used time machines to do all this tweaking of beams...
But to some dude tweaking A and watching AND IN ALL CIRCUMSTANCES -WAITING- to see what happens to B... it doesn't matter what the mechanism is. Decoherence, Bell, pixies, or whatever, there is no way to surface the mechanism and use it to influence the chain of events, with time's arrow or against it.
If you are watching B there is no way to confirm B's behaviour relates to A, unless you also know what A did and you sit down and correlate it. In other words you cannot infer anything from B until you have looked at what A was doing anyhow...
Everyone is very free with the word 'before' in this discussion... before with regard to whom, what cones, and what worldlines?
I'm quite enjoying the mental image here of Powergen's new offshore wind farm doing for an albatross, and the poetic consquences being visited on all the clueless fools in their billing office who stole five years of my life arguing about a bill which was patently nonsense if only anyone could be bothered to LOOK at the bloody thing rather than mindlessly following the prompts on their customer systems.
(They must have thought I was smelting aluminium in the under-stairs cupboard, or something.)
As the parent points out, this may not work. The man in the street would struggle to pass the "Britishness" test that's been introduced here. Two of the people living on my street have never been to London, for instance, which means there's a whole bunch of "obvious" English stuff they don't know about.
I suppose we're saying that any sufficiently advanced test is hard to defeat for the average idiot, but easy to defeat for the average RI. Perhaps Turing should have spent less time on bombes and more time on CAPCHA alternatives:-)
If OCR was used, then it is as simple as having a mathematical quiz captcha. For example, the answer to "34 + 2" or "first 3 digits of e" (well, ok maybe not this one, unless it's a math forum...).
Praps Dr Kawashima should go into the anti-spam business... How 0wn3d is your brain?
Slashdot Mirror
It has just occurred to me that the brightest mind I have met so far in my 34 years WROTE games for a living.
Not really a leadership character though, to be fair!
Speaking as a one time Generation X'er I can't help but think of Generation G as a bit of a downgrade.
But jPod is a step up from iPod, so it's swings and roundabouts...
Yet for some reason after only 11 comments the dicussion is already focused on these... what does this tell us about the slashdot readership?
OTOH, I for one welcome our BFG-toting million-polygon new overlords.
Hmph, I might change my title from Services Director to Services Masterchief.
Calabai-Yau space
Has six dimensions, only four
syllables. Oops.
You'd need to take the Cell processor and then put it in something a little more accessible so you could run arbitrary code on it, just like a regular server! Hey, I'm gonna go tell IBM to get on it right now!
Oh... wait...
http://www-304.ibm.com/jct03004c/press/us/en/pressrelease/22258.wss/
[quote]
With Teflon. Or perhaps a two-piece hinged heat sink from George Foreman?
[/quote]
The lean, mean, pwning machine!
http://www.carelink.co.uk/upload/Carelink/Images%20and%20pictures/Products%20and%20solutions/RSA%20token.gif/
Should be passphrase, or passacronym, or pass-date-backwards-plus-randomTLAoftheday-plus-half-the-car-registration-mark
People choose words because they think "password... meh." WRONG. The whole vowel+consonant thing instantly destroys a huge chunk of entropy, for instance.
Tech is not the issue - basic tuition on WHY you have a password and WHY you don't give it out is what we need.
(The CIO's office can help by ensuring single-sign-on actually works!)
Everyone in our organisation has >=8 letter passwords. It's just a pity they write them down on sticky notes. Stuck to the display.
Many long-distance trains in the UK have a "quiet coach" where they ask people not to use mobile phones, personal stereos, children etc.
:-)
They do. I am in the noisy coach, tapping away on the laptop.
The difference is, of course, that it's very easy to move from the quiet coach to another one if you need to make a call (or the reverse), not so easy on a plane (more people to climb over, less space).
Meh. Clearly you have never BEEN on a UK train.
I am marginally more comfortable on a plane seat than a train seat, on balance. (OK, table seats excepted, but tonight I had BOOKED a seat and I physically couldn't get to it for the first 30 minutes due to the sheer number of people in the aisle between me and it.)
Hmm... I wonder how long it'll be before mobile phones can be used in the Channel Tunnel? You're only underground for 20 minutes though (it's 30 miles).
It's discussed by someone every few months... bound to happen, and on the London Underground too.
This carriage here what I am sitting in has a signal booster for the Orange network, by the way.
Yes, I make/take calls on trains - but only short ones and only if I think it's important enough. I might add those calls frequently relate to the continued employment of other slashdot readers. Of course the REALLY important ones relate to the employment of THIS slashdot reader, and yes, when I am off air for all 8 hours of a flight to the States, it is a problem, because that is a whole working day lost.
Remember that is the day directly before the meeting you were going over there for in the first place... in other words, probably quite an important day, given that whatever you are up to justifies flying 3000 miles in the first place!
What are these "silent" planes of which you speak?
A background hum of conversation might actually be better than the monotonous low-frequency rumble which is what we currently listen to.
Unless you put your headphones on to block it out - in which case, I think you will find they will also block out the noise of other passengers!
Anyhoo you all seem to be under some misapprehension that teenagers will be able to AFFORD the airborne tariffs, because you can bet they will be charging big dollar.
There's a big difference between USING technology and UNDERSTANDING it, and the kids today just don't care.
:-)
Some would say that's the difference between a member of (technological) society, or a, what's that other word... oh yeah... geek.
There is also a difference between understanding enough to make most efficient use of the tech, and understanding too much and arsing about with it until it breaks and/or you're well past diminishing returns - and the "too much detail" problem is pretty prevalent in our industry, I have to say!
Firstly, this is slashdot.org, not slashdot.us. In the UK many customers are already paying twice the 'current prices' alleged in the US posts here.
Secondly, the price of coal, gas, and oil are all rising, so even if the solar price stays at the current level, it will soon become the cheapest option simply by standing still.
Thirdly, when carbon markets gain more momentum the power companies will focus on low-carbon options, which will accelerate the pace of solar development immensely. In effect, the companies will be paid for not burning coal; clearly this will have an effect on the market. Europe is ahead of the US already here...
I was under the misapprehension that everything is turned 90 degrees in metric so that width becomes depth and depth becomes length. Or time.
In super-sym-metric, that's actually true.
I don't see how this can behave much like a molecule in the common parlance either.
Hydrogen = A positively charged baryon interacting with a negatively charged (and much lighter) lepton. Held together mainly by the exclusion principle, which prevents it radiating away all the binding energy, and hence is fairly stable. (Although it has been alleged that protons themselves decay, eventually)
Positronium = A positively charged lepton interacting with an antiparticle of same lepton. Which by definition radiates away the binding energy pretty darn quickly.
However, a bunch of particles evolving together in a fundamental way can be thought of as a "molecule" I guess... so maybe that's what they mean here. But chemically, it ain't a molecule, and surely when people hear "molecule" they think of chemistry - not QCD.
This would be akin to describing a whole bunch of stuff in a B-E condensate as "an atom." (Which I have seen written down, come to think of it, but it's not terribly helpful terminology.)
There's a bloke works down the chip shop who swears his name is Daneel...
Seen quite a few posts here asking why the physical models of these lag somewhat compared to how good the rest of the enviroment generally looks...
That's because NOBODY has figured it out - not just gamers and game developers. The Navier-Stokes describe the behaviour in simple situations but rapidly move into chaotic behaviour in most cases.
If you think you can, step forward and claim your million bucks... (and probably a Fields or a Nobel to boot)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navier-Stokes_existence_and_smoothness
Does your real name perchance happen to be ELIZA?
Can you tell me what you think it is that makes you feel that way?
There is plenty of terrifyingly intelligent business software out there - it just doesn't get the publicity - why would it?
Also - Halo = 20m customers x $20
- SAS (a seriously deep BI/MI/scoring set of applicatons and business rules) = 200 customers x $1m
Halo: You buy it, you install it, you shoot things.
Uber-business-software: you buy it, you install it, it fails to install on your platforms, then you get it working and it fails to scale, you can't get your data into it, you can't find skilled staff to run it... and then eventually it starts working for you.
(I made these numbers up, but you see the point.)
Disclaimer: I implement this stuff for a living, so I'm biased. Then again, I get paid more than the 3 or 4 game coders I know/knew.
Oceanographers presumably have a reasonable grasp of environments with 3 degrees of freedom, and low levels of apparent weight, and a harsh medium requiring special equipment for respiration and protection... ...or have I been reading too much Steven Baxter.
"allowing web pages to be displayed consistently on different computers. "
And here was thinking the whole point of the Web is that it SHOULD be displayed differently on different computers. On my computer, it's displayed the way -I- like to see it, thank you.
Sadly this site is one of the worst offenders - there's just no sensible way to read it on an HTC size device... yet it's a good old fashioned text-lead forum. How can this be right?
Beam A does some stuff. Beam B does some corresponding stuff. Sounds like cause and effect to me.
...or equally, we can say that invisibly small pixies used time machines to do all this tweaking of beams...
Now either we can throw Copenhagen away, and state that B must have anticipated what A was going to do, and change B's own state 'in advance,' which appears to be what all the hullabaloo is about here...
But to some dude tweaking A and watching AND IN ALL CIRCUMSTANCES -WAITING- to see what happens to B... it doesn't matter what the mechanism is. Decoherence, Bell, pixies, or whatever, there is no way to surface the mechanism and use it to influence the chain of events, with time's arrow or against it.
If you are watching B there is no way to confirm B's behaviour relates to A, unless you also know what A did and you sit down and correlate it. In other words you cannot infer anything from B until you have looked at what A was doing anyhow...
Everyone is very free with the word 'before' in this discussion... before with regard to whom, what cones, and what worldlines?
I'm quite enjoying the mental image here of Powergen's new offshore wind farm doing for an albatross, and the poetic consquences being visited on all the clueless fools in their billing office who stole five years of my life arguing about a bill which was patently nonsense if only anyone could be bothered to LOOK at the bloody thing rather than mindlessly following the prompts on their customer systems.
(They must have thought I was smelting aluminium in the under-stairs cupboard, or something.)
As the parent points out, this may not work. The man in the street would struggle to pass the "Britishness" test that's been introduced here. Two of the people living on my street have never been to London, for instance, which means there's a whole bunch of "obvious" English stuff they don't know about.
:-)
I suppose we're saying that any sufficiently advanced test is hard to defeat for the average idiot, but easy to defeat for the average RI. Perhaps Turing should have spent less time on bombes and more time on CAPCHA alternatives
If OCR was used, then it is as simple as having a mathematical quiz captcha. For example, the answer to "34 + 2" or "first 3 digits of e" (well, ok maybe not this one, unless it's a math forum...).
Praps Dr Kawashima should go into the anti-spam business... How 0wn3d is your brain?