First of all, until the graphics card makers get SERIOUS about Linux support, this is all dreaming.
Second *looks around* desktops are almost all OS X or XP here - Stanford. Linux is for the servers, which numericly dominate, but are for computation, not making poof graphics when you click something. I haven't installed X on a Linux box since about 1996.
When all other technology is moving to isolate us into our own cozy little worlds, you are surprised?
Blogs give you the news you already agree with. IM has only your buddies. Cellphones let you walk around the world talking to people you already know, avoiding all new people. I could go on.
Cozy isn't it. Problem is, now noone has ANY need for real social skills, personality, or the ability to deal with different views.
Why in my day, we telnet'd into a BBS and met people from all over the world! "Chatrooms" (read: bot nests) only come in local and special interest these days.
At least here on Slashdot all us geeks are safe in our dupe friendly Microsoft unfriendly world:)
I just want to know if Firefox 1.1 will support rendering Slashdot?
Just an idea, absurd I know, but... since every OTHER site I visit works great with the fox, so maybe somebody should stop posting dupes and fix the HTML?
If I was going to live "forever" what's my motivation? Even an average engineer that avoids marrage can retire by 40. Then what? You think poeple are lazy now, just wait.
Their "how long will a person born in 2100 life" is rather silly. An entity born in 2100 will most likely me either artificial (human intelligence inorganic) or 100% engineered biomech (human intelligence organic). Either way, it will not be "human".
If you're reading this, you will be long obsolete even if you are alive. Have a nice day:)
And it still requires MySQL. Sorry, but that's a deal breaker.
I don't care about bugs displaying fast, bugs are important, so unless there is a way to run with PostgreSQL or another actual database, it's not of any use to me.
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Oh, then you want the Clearspeed chip, it's 25 GFLOPS @ 5 Watts, so 5 GFLOPS/W.
First of all, until the graphics card makers get SERIOUS about Linux support, this is all dreaming.
Second *looks around* desktops are almost all OS X or XP here - Stanford. Linux is for the servers, which numericly dominate, but are for computation, not making poof graphics when you click something. I haven't installed X on a Linux box since about 1996.
He knew it would get out.
If he wanted to say something really secret or illegal, a game of golf would be involved, not a blog.
Why? Because phone companies give away the phone to sell the insanely priced data services.
And in this case, the real cost is cell towers, which odds are cannot be built near you because noone wants one in their back yard.
So, two words: LAND LINE. Get one of the 3cents/min AT&T cards, and guess what, it works perfectly. Plus, you wont be killed on the roads as often.
What's funny is that all the "Linux" code will compile fine on Windows with Services for UNIX installed correctly.
Windows and OS X will already compile and run 99% of all Open Source code anyone cares about.
A good use for ROT13 :)
If you lower expectations enough, you don't have to spend any money do to the last 10% of development that takes 90% of the time.
:)
It's so very modern
All it takes is the anonymous part. Add that ingredient to anything, and you get the same result.
When all other technology is moving to isolate us into our own cozy little worlds, you are surprised?
:)
Blogs give you the news you already agree with. IM has only your buddies. Cellphones let you walk around the world talking to people you already know, avoiding all new people. I could go on.
Cozy isn't it. Problem is, now noone has ANY need for real social skills, personality, or the ability to deal with different views.
Why in my day, we telnet'd into a BBS and met people from all over the world! "Chatrooms" (read: bot nests) only come in local and special interest these days.
At least here on Slashdot all us geeks are safe in our dupe friendly Microsoft unfriendly world
Um, actually Postgres, tho named differently at the time, predates MySQL by a good decade.
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So this will just be like the last time Rambus had their hooks into a product, it will die a very expensive and slow death.
Cell may be cheap, but the RAM will be $5/MB. Sad to see IBM repeat the mistake Intel learned from.
Even Amiga was a couple of decades late to the party. Vector processors have been around for a looooooooooooong time.
;)
Still, it makes good headlines even today
One point twenty-one Jiggawatts!!!???
Hey, I'm PROUD to wear a $6 t-shirt made by slave labor in China...
Oh wait, I'm NOT, but every other sotre is out of business now...
Woohoo! *happy dance*
I just want to know if Firefox 1.1 will support rendering Slashdot?
Just an idea, absurd I know, but... since every OTHER site I visit works great with the fox, so maybe somebody should stop posting dupes and fix the HTML?
Yea, too absurd...
No Irony, this is how /. has been working for a while. It's smart.
Except for the constant dupes, most stories are now ads in one form or another.
1. 50 years of rented computing history
2. Add a Buzzword and slap "NEW" on it.
3. Press release bonaza!
4. Profit?
We need to force all blogs onto the .blog domain - then we can just filter out all of them at the DNS.
Billions of pictures of peoples cats would no longer terrify the world, woohoo!
If I was going to live "forever" what's my motivation? Even an average engineer that avoids marrage can retire by 40. Then what? You think poeple are lazy now, just wait.
:)
Their "how long will a person born in 2100 life" is rather silly. An entity born in 2100 will most likely me either artificial (human intelligence inorganic) or 100% engineered biomech (human intelligence organic). Either way, it will not be "human".
If you're reading this, you will be long obsolete even if you are alive. Have a nice day
If you let marketing promise things, you will get sued, because that's probably not what engineering built.
;)
Look at the iPod shuffle, marketing thought it was edible, before the webmaster caught it
So, let marketing spew their BS, just unspecific buzzword BS, and everyone is happy except the customer.
... thats alot of dependencies.
And it still requires MySQL. Sorry, but that's a deal breaker.
I don't care about bugs displaying fast, bugs are important, so unless there is a way to run with PostgreSQL or another actual database, it's not of any use to me.
Now for my front end proxies, MySQL is the shit.
The only point that matters to 99.9% of the population is... Should we replace your job with a overseas human or a robot.
Currently, the human still wins (except in japan) but that is rapidly changing.