The more complicated the device, the more things that can go wrong.
Don't forget, the United States got its ass handed to it in Vietnam even with a technological superiority that has never been seen before or since.
Simple stuff doesn't break as often, and when it does its easier and faster to get it working again. That makes a big difference when the shit hits the fan. Simple stuff is also easier and faster to train people in using.
High tech military hardware certainly makes a difference, but when shit goes wrong, we need stuff that any idiot can operate and fix. Our commanders need to be focusing on how to win a battle, not how to keep the equipment working.
I think the problem is is this virus stops propogating at an HIV level something above zero.
So, lets say you have ten points of HIV. You get this treatment, and it pushes your HIV level down to 1. At that point, the HIV hunter dissipates from your system, leaving the HIV a chance to regroup and go back on the attack.
Of course, if they can figure out with some precision just when the anti-virus stops working, they can schedule booster doses for appropriate times.
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ITs how they are used. If you throw a computer in front of someone and expect them to learn, well, they are fucked.
If they are treated as one of many tools in an educators toolbox, that would be very good. In high school chemistry class, we got to do some experiments on some old Apple II's that the school couldn't afford the expense or safety risk to do. Those are things that without those computers, we simply wouldn't have been able to do more than just read about, but with them, we got to do the experiments and see what happens. Perhaps not as good as doing the experiments with actual chemicals, but a hell of a lot better than just reading.
Actually, the US does get intelligence from CNN. CNN is actualy very good at ferreting out information other civilian organizations can't get, and often manages to get information before most of the US gets it... the Marines who went ashore in Somalia damn near killed a CNN camera crew that was there to greet them.
For some applications it will certainly be useful, for others it won't be.
I've been known to use 'cat' as a text editor(writer? the editing facilities of cat kinda suck) at times. In some(rare) instances, it can get the job done very quickly for that use.
If there are other tasks that need the sort of processing applicable to 3D graphics, then using the GPU is not a problem, though the programming I imagine might be a little complicated.
Burn a CD, and store it in a place with stable temperatures and humidity, it will last for a very long time.
Pop it in and out of your computer on a daily basis, its going to deteriorate from scratches and heat from the drive slowly warping it.
CD's aren't damaged by electromagnetic waves except at incredibly high levels. A magnetic tape however, being within a couple feet of a television will cause noticeable degradation within weeks or months. For long term archival storage, background radiation will start having a noticeable effect on magnetic media, while CD's will just sit there.
If the "performance bottleneck" of the human has been found, it may be possible to develop definitive, or at least useful, tests for actual intelligence.
What I see as more significant, is knowing how the brain works, we can figure out how to optimize it. IQ tests, while they might become more accurate, may end up less relevant because people will know what foods most impact that area of the brain, perhaps drug therapies to grow it can be developed, activities that stimulate it can be pushed... This can potentially be a dramatic aid to bringing humanity to the next level.
Hopefully, risks involved in this are researched before they go and optimize away. like any other computer system, if you randomly optimize without full knowledge of the implications, you can easily make things worse.
The comment was stupid, yes, but not all jobs that you'd use supercomputers for can be broken down into many threads as others can. A linux cluster will do well for some jobs, a cray box will do well for others. There *will* be times when a Cray system is so far superior to anything you could do with Linux that it becomes the only real option.
However, dismissing linux cluster technology automatically is dumb. In many cases, it provides more than enough cpu power and I/O bandwith to support your reason for getting a supercomputer, and probably at less cost than the other options.
Its all a matter of determining what you need the computer to do, determining your budget, and get the best system in your budget for the uses you have for it. Sometimes that will be a Cray, sometimes a Linux cluster.
Umm... Its an ISO standard, royalty free... They might get some money licensing an *implementation* but not the language.
Sadly, while I would chalk it up to a poorly transcribed/edited interview if it was anyone else saying it, McBride might actually believe they own C++...
"Most Project Gutenberg e-texts are public domain. You can do anything you like with these--you can re-post them on your site, print them, distribute them, convert them to other formats."
The Air Force and Marines have better luck than the other services. The Marines tend to get the ones that are looking for a challenge- and being the smallest makes it even easier to fill all the seats. The Air Force gets the ones who want college money and tech training since its the easiest.
The Army and the Navy are a bit screwed. Not enough of a percieved challenge to get the hardcore warrior types, but too many percieved challenges to draw the ones that just want some easy college money and some training.
But exactly why I went Marine Corps for my first service. Hardest service means the most effective cure for laziness. And the instant friendship with other Marines is somethign you have to experience to believe.
On the other hand, I'm working on getting some medical issues dealt with so I can go Air Guard for my third service(Army Guard was my second, didn't like it much.).
One of these days I'll come up with a reason to join the Navy and complete the set.
The reason we didn't send reservists and Guardsmen to vietnam wasn't that we didn't have enough, it was to keep those forces ready to counter a Soviet invasion of Europe. It was believed they'd provide a better speedbump than conscripts would.
" It takes less time to get a random high-asvab grunt up to speed on a windows NT based system than on a linux system.
Do you have an evidence to back up that claim? Any studies? Documents? Or are you just making up crap as you go?"
If you need a study to see my point here, you are an idiot. Many, MANY more servicemen will have experience with Windows at home, school, or work than will have experience with Linux. You could sit them in front of an NT server, hand them a quick reference card or even just the help files provided with windows and they can be functional. The extra downtime with reboots and blue screens(which are incredibly rare with 2k and XP) can be more than made up for by leveraging soldiers prior computer experience.
" "Sir, the guy we pulled in after the 6 shop got bombed is saying 'what the fuck is this %> stuff all about?'"
I guess there is no such think as a GUI under Linux? I take it you cannot write GUI apps for Linux? All taks need to be done from a terminal? You are very "Insightful" aren't you?"
Not all tasks need to be done from the terminal. But there are enough that do that someone who has only used Windows will have trouble. Linux GUIs are simply not even close to those in Windows for administering the entire system. Even with Mandrake I can't avoid the command line completely even if I wanted to. And even when I can, its not nearly as intuitive as Windows.
Remember, this is a world where you can't do the corporate thing and send someone away for training or hire a new admin. There isn't time for that when the lead is flying. This is a world where you may have to replace your team of trained administrators because they just got killed, and you need them replaced immediately or more people will die. You need to be able to leverage peoples prior experience to pull it off, and that experience will almost certainly be in Windows products.
The military cannot afford the time to train a *nix admin after the trained admins got blown away by a scud. Speed of getting someone able to at least operate the system if not flourish with it should be a concern for all military hardware- its not like the corporate world, in the military, doing your job perfectly and with all possible safety measures can still get you killed.
It takes less time to get a random high-asvab grunt up to speed on a windows NT based system than on a linux system. In combat, when the division commander needs to have his command and control systems telling him where everybody is now, do you want to tell him "Sir, the guy we pulled in after the 6 shop got bombed is saying 'what the fuck is this %> stuff all about?'"
Command line might be easier to teach, but hand two complete novices(as in never used a PC) a GUI system, a command line system, and a typicaly sparse new users guide.
See who makes effective use of their system faster. Idiot simple interfaces aren't for those who go out to be trained, they are for the secretaries and such who take a job and need to work right away, without training in how to use the computer.
Theoretically... Also,.NET is going to be slammed by this apparently. They are actually partially breaking some of their own technology that they've been trying to base everything on.
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Darwin already runs on x86, theoretically, the ideal OS host for this would be Darwin/x86...
Jesus fucking christ that article was trash.
I would have modded this insightful.
Whoever modded this 'funny', go read about the US experience in Vietnam.
The more complicated the device, the more things that can go wrong.
Don't forget, the United States got its ass handed to it in Vietnam even with a technological superiority that has never been seen before or since.
Simple stuff doesn't break as often, and when it does its easier and faster to get it working again. That makes a big difference when the shit hits the fan. Simple stuff is also easier and faster to train people in using.
High tech military hardware certainly makes a difference, but when shit goes wrong, we need stuff that any idiot can operate and fix. Our commanders need to be focusing on how to win a battle, not how to keep the equipment working.
I think the problem is is this virus stops propogating at an HIV level something above zero.
So, lets say you have ten points of HIV. You get this treatment, and it pushes your HIV level down to 1. At that point, the HIV hunter dissipates from your system, leaving the HIV a chance to regroup and go back on the attack.
Of course, if they can figure out with some precision just when the anti-virus stops working, they can schedule booster doses for appropriate times.
ITs how they are used. If you throw a computer in front of someone and expect them to learn, well, they are fucked.
If they are treated as one of many tools in an educators toolbox, that would be very good. In high school chemistry class, we got to do some experiments on some old Apple II's that the school couldn't afford the expense or safety risk to do. Those are things that without those computers, we simply wouldn't have been able to do more than just read about, but with them, we got to do the experiments and see what happens. Perhaps not as good as doing the experiments with actual chemicals, but a hell of a lot better than just reading.
Actually, the US does get intelligence from CNN. CNN is actualy very good at ferreting out information other civilian organizations can't get, and often manages to get information before most of the US gets it... the Marines who went ashore in Somalia damn near killed a CNN camera crew that was there to greet them.
For some applications it will certainly be useful, for others it won't be.
I've been known to use 'cat' as a text editor(writer? the editing facilities of cat kinda suck) at times. In some(rare) instances, it can get the job done very quickly for that use.
If there are other tasks that need the sort of processing applicable to 3D graphics, then using the GPU is not a problem, though the programming I imagine might be a little complicated.
Burn a CD, and store it in a place with stable temperatures and humidity, it will last for a very long time.
Pop it in and out of your computer on a daily basis, its going to deteriorate from scratches and heat from the drive slowly warping it.
CD's aren't damaged by electromagnetic waves except at incredibly high levels. A magnetic tape however, being within a couple feet of a television will cause noticeable degradation within weeks or months. For long term archival storage, background radiation will start having a noticeable effect on magnetic media, while CD's will just sit there.
If the "performance bottleneck" of the human has been found, it may be possible to develop definitive, or at least useful, tests for actual intelligence.
What I see as more significant, is knowing how the brain works, we can figure out how to optimize it. IQ tests, while they might become more accurate, may end up less relevant because people will know what foods most impact that area of the brain, perhaps drug therapies to grow it can be developed, activities that stimulate it can be pushed... This can potentially be a dramatic aid to bringing humanity to the next level.
Hopefully, risks involved in this are researched before they go and optimize away. like any other computer system, if you randomly optimize without full knowledge of the implications, you can easily make things worse.
The comment was stupid, yes, but not all jobs that you'd use supercomputers for can be broken down into many threads as others can. A linux cluster will do well for some jobs, a cray box will do well for others. There *will* be times when a Cray system is so far superior to anything you could do with Linux that it becomes the only real option.
However, dismissing linux cluster technology automatically is dumb. In many cases, it provides more than enough cpu power and I/O bandwith to support your reason for getting a supercomputer, and probably at less cost than the other options.
Its all a matter of determining what you need the computer to do, determining your budget, and get the best system in your budget for the uses you have for it. Sometimes that will be a Cray, sometimes a Linux cluster.
They are here, yes. Does the average desktop user KNOW THAT? No. They don't.
The systems are ready for the most part, the PR needs some polishing before average people even consider Linux.
For a moment I thought this was real.
Introduce me to the little slut when she's legal ok? And keep the asshole away from me:)
Umm... Its an ISO standard, royalty free... They might get some money licensing an *implementation* but not the language.
Sadly, while I would chalk it up to a poorly transcribed/edited interview if it was anyone else saying it, McBride might actually believe they own C++...
From Project Gutenbergs FAQ:
"Most Project Gutenberg e-texts are public domain. You can do anything you like with these--you can re-post them on your site, print them, distribute them, convert them to other formats."
So just stop.
The Air Force and Marines have better luck than the other services. The Marines tend to get the ones that are looking for a challenge- and being the smallest makes it even easier to fill all the seats. The Air Force gets the ones who want college money and tech training since its the easiest.
The Army and the Navy are a bit screwed. Not enough of a percieved challenge to get the hardcore warrior types, but too many percieved challenges to draw the ones that just want some easy college money and some training.
But exactly why I went Marine Corps for my first service. Hardest service means the most effective cure for laziness. And the instant friendship with other Marines is somethign you have to experience to believe.
On the other hand, I'm working on getting some medical issues dealt with so I can go Air Guard for my third service(Army Guard was my second, didn't like it much.).
One of these days I'll come up with a reason to join the Navy and complete the set.
The reason we didn't send reservists and Guardsmen to vietnam wasn't that we didn't have enough, it was to keep those forces ready to counter a Soviet invasion of Europe. It was believed they'd provide a better speedbump than conscripts would.
" It takes less time to get a random high-asvab grunt up to speed on a windows NT based system than on a linux system.
Do you have an evidence to back up that claim? Any studies? Documents? Or are you just making up crap as you go?"
If you need a study to see my point here, you are an idiot. Many, MANY more servicemen will have experience with Windows at home, school, or work than will have experience with Linux. You could sit them in front of an NT server, hand them a quick reference card or even just the help files provided with windows and they can be functional. The extra downtime with reboots and blue screens(which are incredibly rare with 2k and XP) can be more than made up for by leveraging soldiers prior computer experience.
" "Sir, the guy we pulled in after the 6 shop got bombed is saying 'what the fuck is this %> stuff all about?'"
I guess there is no such think as a GUI under Linux? I take it you cannot write GUI apps for Linux? All taks need to be done from a terminal? You are very "Insightful" aren't you?"
Not all tasks need to be done from the terminal. But there are enough that do that someone who has only used Windows will have trouble. Linux GUIs are simply not even close to those in Windows for administering the entire system. Even with Mandrake I can't avoid the command line completely even if I wanted to. And even when I can, its not nearly as intuitive as Windows.
Remember, this is a world where you can't do the corporate thing and send someone away for training or hire a new admin. There isn't time for that when the lead is flying. This is a world where you may have to replace your team of trained administrators because they just got killed, and you need them replaced immediately or more people will die. You need to be able to leverage peoples prior experience to pull it off, and that experience will almost certainly be in Windows products.
Actually, I do have an idea how true this is, having been going to raves as much as I can afford to for the past three and a half years.
The military cannot afford the time to train a *nix admin after the trained admins got blown away by a scud. Speed of getting someone able to at least operate the system if not flourish with it should be a concern for all military hardware- its not like the corporate world, in the military, doing your job perfectly and with all possible safety measures can still get you killed.
It takes less time to get a random high-asvab grunt up to speed on a windows NT based system than on a linux system. In combat, when the division commander needs to have his command and control systems telling him where everybody is now, do you want to tell him "Sir, the guy we pulled in after the 6 shop got bombed is saying 'what the fuck is this %> stuff all about?'"
Command line might be easier to teach, but hand two complete novices(as in never used a PC) a GUI system, a command line system, and a typicaly sparse new users guide.
See who makes effective use of their system faster. Idiot simple interfaces aren't for those who go out to be trained, they are for the secretaries and such who take a job and need to work right away, without training in how to use the computer.
Raves, and the Marine Corps.
Not joking.
Theoretically... Also, .NET is going to be slammed by this apparently. They are actually partially breaking some of their own technology that they've been trying to base everything on.