Wait, you have to preview before you post? How could I look like such a fool with all my intemperament postings and rambling nonsense if I had to even pretend to preview my posts? Incomprehensible.
In other news, if the sun were to explode it would solve all of my, and your problems. Except for the one about the exploding sun. (numerically you'd be better off? Fewer problems? Sure, incineration might be a bigger problem than the ones you now have, but it's only ONE problem.) Submitted without preview.. Duh...
How is that a good start? You're just moving the exhaust out of your tailpipe, to a smokestack someplace. Now in some places that's a pretty important thing. But we're still all breathing it, and it's still pumping out carbon dioxide. Between the losses in generation of power, transmission of power and then battery charging, this more than offsets the increase in efficiency of an electric motor, or regenerative braking or any of that nonsense. Furthermore if an electric car costs more than a gas car, it's a fair bet it took more resources, meaning more carbon dioxide and total pollution to create the thing to begin with.
To really increase the efficiency of the commuter fleet, what is needed is a much smaller, lighter, somewhat slower vehicle, built to reduced crash safety standards. Boom problem solved. Get the big heavy vehicles off the road, slow things down to fifty miles an hour and a fifteen hundred pound car can probably carry four people at fifty miles to the gallon, maybe sixty.
The question is, does anyone want to do that? The answer is probably not really.
Honestly, as a one with reasonable geek credentials, and a long history of typing and spledding correctly when needed. I don't want, or need software to teach to me to speak, spell and write comprehensible English, and if I do... Well I should just give it up. I never liked the two space thing, it never made sense to me and seems silly, even when hammering away on an ancient manual typewriter.
Don't almost all these PCs come with MS windows installed on them? Come on../. I can't believe you're not all over that thing! (Posted from my trusty Dell, running windows XP instead of Linux, 'cause I didn't reboot after playing some game that still won't work on Linux, given the amount of time I'm willing to spend on making it work.
I think it's safe to say that "He's so good at computers" Just doesn't mean "He loves to play WoW, and he's so good at computers he can make the latest games run on his computer. There was a time when getting anything worth playing to run meant you had to learn how to make a computer work, and probably upgrade the thing to make it any fun, but that time is long past. (You know add a fancy sound card, or a game port, optimize your conventional memory that kind of thing)
Coding is a very specific sort of skill and the utility of that skill is somewhat limited depending on what he's interested in doing with his life. A doctor or Civil engineer needn't learn to code so much, math for example might be a better skill to start honing. Math doesn't change, almost everything else does.
You asked/. what social networking sites are good for the non-uber techie crowd? Why would we know? I'm not even trying to make the joke about how we all live in our grandmothers basement when we're not coding, but seriously?
I don't post that much, and although I don't karma whore. I don't really post anything utterly irrelevant. Well this is as irrelevant a thing as I usually post, and I qualify for disabling ads as well. I think it's to do with how often you meta-moderate and moderate. I usually do these things when I have a minute. Although my/. isn't all that low.
WTF? Guys, I can probably type as fast as anyone I know. I used to do 25WPM on an IBM selectric and if it's an online typing test I can probably get in the 60s or low 70s if I've been typing a lot lately. If you can properly type 100WPM you're awesome and need no improvement. Now... If as I suspect you've not been paying terribly close attention to the results of these tests, or you're including some kind of raw speed without factoring in the mistakes.... Or You've found a test that doesn't use the whole keyboard?
Sure maybe you can jam 100WPM if you're picking the content, but really? I mean on one of the reputable typing tutors that does things like make you use the whole keyboard, all the punctuation and type things like "The forge of the marigolds: Lo! Eleven, thirty-comes early| 35# of sheeps-head costs $87 despite your 11% discount."
Probably I'm just old, despite being a long time geek I learned to type simply because it was an easy class to take in high school. (I already knew how, because my handwriting is awful, so I took lessons young) On the one most of you didn't have to learn to hammer hard enough for a big old Royal manual, on the other hand most of you never knew the pure joy that was the action on the IBM selectric. Seriously, we need those for computers, I'll pay a couple of hundred dollars I don't care, that would be amazing.
4 Limbs is a good number, I'm not going to dispute that part.
But the way you say "Evolution has settled on 4 limbs" you make it sound like there's been a lot of trail with 5 6 7 13 or whatever. Your fishy little tetrapod (Someone who knows the right terms should bail me out here.) pre-amphibian ancestors just got lucky. They, and the whole suite of their adaptations were found to be suitable to flop in and out of the water and survive. This is not to say that there's anything superior about 4 limbs as opposed to 6, 8, 5, 3, whatever. The single most dominant animal on the planet primarily gets around on 2. There's a tremendously successful type of things running around with 2 legs and 2 wings. There are almost certainly far more little tiny 6 and 8, and even more legged critters than 4 legged ones... Well you get my point.
Despite what everyone seems to be saying. I think I should point out two things. One, yes free CAD all sucks right now. Two this project is very viable. You just need to design and develop a concept, start a nest egg, begin investing in the projects future. If you can raise a few million dollars in the next couple of years, in fifty, or seventy-five years you'll have enough money to start building the mission. (You have to invest wisely, bank on the power of compound interest, and assume the cost of the mission will come down a couple orders of magnitude, but these aren't unreasonable assumptions.)
This had some good effects, but the misleading and moronic labeling of a lot of these systems as Y2K upgrades. When in fact the forklift was falling apart to begin with.
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There was a substantial, real problem. That was fixed at great time and expense, a whole of "stuff" turned out to be obsolete and much of it became marginally less useful or truly obsolete. (Various small electronic really had two digit dates, somewhere on earth this made them less useful,when people really had a bunch of 1899 documents to keep separate from their 1999 docs, courthouses maybe?)
Then there was a second myth. County employee. "My PC is obsolete, Y2K I need a new one, some of the software isn't complaint, or not certified" These facts weren't necessarily lies, or even inaccurate, in the case of the vast majority of the PCs and replacement electronics I sold the stuff people were replacing was obsolete as hell whether Y2K was a real problem for it or not. Don't forget a lot of still deployed DOS programs and some windows 3.1 stuff was in fact not complaint as well. How much this would have been a real problem for anyone is debatable. So this one wasn't quite a myth, but a vast amount of repairs and upgrades and replacements got assigned to the "Y2K upgrade" when that wasn't really the cause.
Then there was a third GIANT myth somehow, a hundred million times people heard someone say that product X doesn't work after Y2K, and took that at face value. I got into a bit of an argument with a customer, I kept patiently explaining to him that his FAX machine would roll over to show 00 dates, and that the only problem this might cause him was that he might not be able to tell which faxes had arrived in the year 2000 and which had arrived in the year 1900, he was thoroughly convinced it was stop working when the numbers got to 00. In a less than professional moment I told him it didn't have any sort of anti-time travel device. Then I got him to try setting it to 00 and see if would in fact work. (Duh)
See that's the thing, elevators would plunge to the ground, planes would crash machines were going to STOP all these "embedded" systems and hidden devices, the machines we use constantly but don't see. Is our Air Compressor Y2K Complaint? We can't run the plant without air! No matter how many times you explained to people that devices like this were not in fact "certified" or "complaint" if there was in fact any date sensitive function in that equipment it would go on happily believing it was 1900, it was as if they all thought the clock had been set at the current date when these things were built and no one knew what was going to happen when it hit 00, or they had anti-time travel circuits that would shut them down if they found themselves in the years before they were invented.
Your copier, your FAX machine, your air compressor, I liked to point out the really paranoid at the time that their generator wasn't Y2K complaint. A lot of this stuff wasn't date sensitive at all of course, even in the odd case where it happened to know what date it was, the consequences of this thing being "broken" were pretty non-existent. However if you added up the list price of all the embedded equipment that was non-complaint or certified it was a pretty staggering number. This was the number that got snowballed around and was used to scare people who weren't just abjectly stupid into getting worried, then it snowballed from there.
For the record when we came back from the break I had a customer who had an old PC with non-Y2K compliant BIOS and they used it for some forgotten but important application and was somehow date sensitive to them anyway. So I had to write them a batch file to set the date when they started the computer. The day was saved $25 was spent, cabinet parts could still be picked out according to the handy DOS software.
Wait! Back up. That is absolutely NOT how it happened. I'm pretty sure the country was settled in a rural agrarian manner with folks spread out nicely in order to be a farming society. Then transportation and the railroad and all yer fancy city-folk contraptions came along AFTER we "moved out here in the middle of nowhere" Not the other way around. Believe it or else there are people alive today who remember rural electrification and the time before they had power. Also if you'd like to check the history, cars and power came along rather recently. Long after us inbred hilljacks were out here mating with our cousins.
For those of you who missed the 90's, it was long ago established that M$ just doesn't care, doesn't have to, and won't be stopped or bothered by something as trivial as the government trying to stop them. It is, to laugh. Also good God, if they'd strip of all the asinine bloat XML and other idiotic features it's acquired over the years it might go back to being a pretty damn nifty word processor. Yes MS Word is pretty damn good. Excel ain't bad either. I'm a charter member of the hate and reject M$ club, but that doesn't make all their products bad. DOS 5.0 didn't suck either. (Well, kinda, but really remember the hardware limitations of the era) None of this makes them any less.... "Evil" Embrace extend, violate ignore, pay the fine years later when a few hundred million dollars seems trivial for the internet browser monopoly/operating system monopoly etc. Sure, but anywho, it was long ago demonstrated they don't have to actually answer to anyone as unimportant as Me, You, or the silly Government. Also, do you suppose they'd have to write a check to cover $290,000,000, or is that much cash available in the petty cash box?
As others have pointed out, the volume, among other factors have conspired to make the whole thin client network terminal a dead horse in the race for the last, what? 20 years? More like 30 probably. Not that there aren't applications for them, or that they don't have their own virtues. Just that since they remain a niche product for whatever reason, they remain more expensive in terms of bang for buck, than a traditional PC, which helps keep them a niche product. Rinse Repeat.
The point of the metric system was for a bunch of pretentious jerks, including the french, to re-invent the wheel, then a bunch of pointy-headed science types, who loved it's utility for things like physics and... Well probably just that. Convinced the world it was a good idea to "switch" so now half the world has two or three types of tools, trillions of dollars have been wasted on the pointless duplication of hardware that perfectly functional, and the perfectly functional and in some ways superior for their uses in the building or mechanical trades, let's say systems were sort of, but not really forgotten. (Hint, what's half of 0.6875? Dunno? What's half of 11/16" would you guess 11/32"? It works like that throughout, there's a lot of utility to doing things in Imperial units in ways and places you don't think about.
But again, other civilized nations have shorter sentences, nicer prisons, and less crime. So it doesn't seem to follow much at all. Now maybe they have less crime because they have just a different society somehow. But Canada is an awfully lot like the USA and they have less crime, shorter sentences and nicer prisons. (They have racial diversity, they have guns, they watch our TV, play our video games, it's like an alternate reality version of the USA)
Yeah, what's up with that? Americans (I am one, I'm proud of it generally) seem to take a perverse satisfaction in the fact that we have control over our prisons and they're essentially a playground for the worst, most violent despicable of our criminal elements. Prison isn't so bad if you're a monster, all the drugs, sex and violence you want. This really doesn't seem like proper punishment, and it's certainly not rehabilitation. Why is it we have essentially the most severe sentencing policies of any civilized nation, and the highest crime rate of any civilized nation?
Interestingly, why isn't the/. community calling for his head for being a windows administrator anyway? If he'd have talked the folks on the board into switching the entire network and all of their computers over to OSS he would have been doing a great service to his community, and he could have used the boinc linux client and taken care of everything seamlesssly and automagically.
In my limited but not inconsiderable experience fixing computers, and machines of other types. It's not the CPU or any of the best components that are eventually going to bring the system down, it's the cheapest switch or crappiest fan. In the case of a PC probably the CPU or power supply fan. Given the obsolescence curve for a desktop PC it may well not be worth fixing when either of those goes out, the CPU can more than reasonably be expected to far outlast the fans, the power switch, the disk drives etc.
None of this has much relevance to the seti@home on the school districts computers. If they told him not to do it, and he did it anyway, they should fire him. If he just did it on his own without permission they should unclench, take five minutes to realize they're being stupid and get over themselves. Even if they make him remove the software. Committees and boards are truly the devil's playground, and no good ever came from either of them. Have them all thrown into the sea. (Someone should be in charge of things, boards and Committees are an asinine way to run things, think of witch hunts PTA meetings and lynch mobs. Yeah that's the ticket to sound governance.)
You sir, are a despicable troll. Even to mention or speak of that debate which must be named or alluded to is to fear the instigation of yet another round of "Will my computer last longer if I shut it off or leave it on?" Which, even worse can devolve into "will my X last longer if I shut it off or leave it on?" which has already wasted more human lifetimes worth of time, and gigabytes of text that it is officially worse than hitler.
I think it's hilarious how many/. readers have already chimed with the Salon isn't behind a paywall? I haven't read anything on there in years, I just forgot about it when they put up the annoying paywall. I might be willing to pay to get quality content, but I'm just going to be annoyed if you post 1/3 of a story, and then cut me off and ask for money. Which is what I remember post paywall salon to be like, so I stopped going there, ever.
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Wait, you have to preview before you post? How could I look like such a fool with all my intemperament postings and rambling nonsense if I had to even pretend to preview my posts? Incomprehensible.
In other news, if the sun were to explode it would solve all of my, and your problems. Except for the one about the exploding sun. (numerically you'd be better off? Fewer problems? Sure, incineration might be a bigger problem than the ones you now have, but it's only ONE problem.)
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How is that a good start? You're just moving the exhaust out of your tailpipe, to a smokestack someplace. Now in some places that's a pretty important thing. But we're still all breathing it, and it's still pumping out carbon dioxide. Between the losses in generation of power, transmission of power and then battery charging, this more than offsets the increase in efficiency of an electric motor, or regenerative braking or any of that nonsense. Furthermore if an electric car costs more than a gas car, it's a fair bet it took more resources, meaning more carbon dioxide and total pollution to create the thing to begin with. To really increase the efficiency of the commuter fleet, what is needed is a much smaller, lighter, somewhat slower vehicle, built to reduced crash safety standards. Boom problem solved. Get the big heavy vehicles off the road, slow things down to fifty miles an hour and a fifteen hundred pound car can probably carry four people at fifty miles to the gallon, maybe sixty. The question is, does anyone want to do that? The answer is probably not really.
Honestly, as a one with reasonable geek credentials, and a long history of typing and spledding correctly when needed. I don't want, or need software to teach to me to speak, spell and write comprehensible English, and if I do... Well I should just give it up. I never liked the two space thing, it never made sense to me and seems silly, even when hammering away on an ancient manual typewriter.
I had some kind of Zenith console that was just the single coolest thing ever, before the Atari 2600, I had an oddessy to come to think of it..
Don't almost all these PCs come with MS windows installed on them? Come on.. /. I can't believe you're not all over that thing! (Posted from my trusty Dell, running windows XP instead of Linux, 'cause I didn't reboot after playing some game that still won't work on Linux, given the amount of time I'm willing to spend on making it work.
I think it's safe to say that "He's so good at computers" Just doesn't mean "He loves to play WoW, and he's so good at computers he can make the latest games run on his computer. There was a time when getting anything worth playing to run meant you had to learn how to make a computer work, and probably upgrade the thing to make it any fun, but that time is long past. (You know add a fancy sound card, or a game port, optimize your conventional memory that kind of thing) Coding is a very specific sort of skill and the utility of that skill is somewhat limited depending on what he's interested in doing with his life. A doctor or Civil engineer needn't learn to code so much, math for example might be a better skill to start honing. Math doesn't change, almost everything else does.
You asked /. what social networking sites are good for the non-uber techie crowd? Why would we know? I'm not even trying to make the joke about how we all live in our grandmothers basement when we're not coding, but seriously?
I don't post that much, and although I don't karma whore. I don't really post anything utterly irrelevant. Well this is as irrelevant a thing as I usually post, and I qualify for disabling ads as well. I think it's to do with how often you meta-moderate and moderate. I usually do these things when I have a minute. Although my /. isn't all that low.
Sure maybe you can jam 100WPM if you're picking the content, but really? I mean on one of the reputable typing tutors that does things like make you use the whole keyboard, all the punctuation and type things like "The forge of the marigolds: Lo! Eleven, thirty-comes early| 35# of sheeps-head costs $87 despite your 11% discount."
Probably I'm just old, despite being a long time geek I learned to type simply because it was an easy class to take in high school. (I already knew how, because my handwriting is awful, so I took lessons young) On the one most of you didn't have to learn to hammer hard enough for a big old Royal manual, on the other hand most of you never knew the pure joy that was the action on the IBM selectric. Seriously, we need those for computers, I'll pay a couple of hundred dollars I don't care, that would be amazing.
4 Limbs is a good number, I'm not going to dispute that part.
But the way you say "Evolution has settled on 4 limbs" you make it sound like there's been a lot of trail with 5 6 7 13 or whatever. Your fishy little tetrapod (Someone who knows the right terms should bail me out here.) pre-amphibian ancestors just got lucky. They, and the whole suite of their adaptations were found to be suitable to flop in and out of the water and survive. This is not to say that there's anything superior about 4 limbs as opposed to 6, 8, 5, 3, whatever. The single most dominant animal on the planet primarily gets around on 2. There's a tremendously successful type of things running around with 2 legs and 2 wings. There are almost certainly far more little tiny 6 and 8, and even more legged critters than 4 legged ones... Well you get my point.
Despite what everyone seems to be saying. I think I should point out two things. One, yes free CAD all sucks right now. Two this project is very viable. You just need to design and develop a concept, start a nest egg, begin investing in the projects future. If you can raise a few million dollars in the next couple of years, in fifty, or seventy-five years you'll have enough money to start building the mission. (You have to invest wisely, bank on the power of compound interest, and assume the cost of the mission will come down a couple orders of magnitude, but these aren't unreasonable assumptions.)
This had some good effects, but the misleading and moronic labeling of a lot of these systems as Y2K upgrades. When in fact the forklift was falling apart to begin with.
Then there was a second myth. County employee. "My PC is obsolete, Y2K I need a new one, some of the software isn't complaint, or not certified" These facts weren't necessarily lies, or even inaccurate, in the case of the vast majority of the PCs and replacement electronics I sold the stuff people were replacing was obsolete as hell whether Y2K was a real problem for it or not. Don't forget a lot of still deployed DOS programs and some windows 3.1 stuff was in fact not complaint as well. How much this would have been a real problem for anyone is debatable. So this one wasn't quite a myth, but a vast amount of repairs and upgrades and replacements got assigned to the "Y2K upgrade" when that wasn't really the cause.
Then there was a third GIANT myth somehow, a hundred million times people heard someone say that product X doesn't work after Y2K, and took that at face value. I got into a bit of an argument with a customer, I kept patiently explaining to him that his FAX machine would roll over to show 00 dates, and that the only problem this might cause him was that he might not be able to tell which faxes had arrived in the year 2000 and which had arrived in the year 1900, he was thoroughly convinced it was stop working when the numbers got to 00. In a less than professional moment I told him it didn't have any sort of anti-time travel device. Then I got him to try setting it to 00 and see if would in fact work. (Duh)
See that's the thing, elevators would plunge to the ground, planes would crash machines were going to STOP all these "embedded" systems and hidden devices, the machines we use constantly but don't see. Is our Air Compressor Y2K Complaint? We can't run the plant without air! No matter how many times you explained to people that devices like this were not in fact "certified" or "complaint" if there was in fact any date sensitive function in that equipment it would go on happily believing it was 1900, it was as if they all thought the clock had been set at the current date when these things were built and no one knew what was going to happen when it hit 00, or they had anti-time travel circuits that would shut them down if they found themselves in the years before they were invented.
Your copier, your FAX machine, your air compressor, I liked to point out the really paranoid at the time that their generator wasn't Y2K complaint. A lot of this stuff wasn't date sensitive at all of course, even in the odd case where it happened to know what date it was, the consequences of this thing being "broken" were pretty non-existent. However if you added up the list price of all the embedded equipment that was non-complaint or certified it was a pretty staggering number. This was the number that got snowballed around and was used to scare people who weren't just abjectly stupid into getting worried, then it snowballed from there.
For the record when we came back from the break I had a customer who had an old PC with non-Y2K compliant BIOS and they used it for some forgotten but important application and was somehow date sensitive to them anyway. So I had to write them a batch file to set the date when they started the computer. The day was saved $25 was spent, cabinet parts could still be picked out according to the handy DOS software.
Wait! Back up. That is absolutely NOT how it happened. I'm pretty sure the country was settled in a rural agrarian manner with folks spread out nicely in order to be a farming society. Then transportation and the railroad and all yer fancy city-folk contraptions came along AFTER we "moved out here in the middle of nowhere" Not the other way around. Believe it or else there are people alive today who remember rural electrification and the time before they had power. Also if you'd like to check the history, cars and power came along rather recently. Long after us inbred hilljacks were out here mating with our cousins.
For those of you who missed the 90's, it was long ago established that M$ just doesn't care, doesn't have to, and won't be stopped or bothered by something as trivial as the government trying to stop them. It is, to laugh. Also good God, if they'd strip of all the asinine bloat XML and other idiotic features it's acquired over the years it might go back to being a pretty damn nifty word processor. Yes MS Word is pretty damn good. Excel ain't bad either. I'm a charter member of the hate and reject M$ club, but that doesn't make all their products bad. DOS 5.0 didn't suck either. (Well, kinda, but really remember the hardware limitations of the era) None of this makes them any less.... "Evil" Embrace extend, violate ignore, pay the fine years later when a few hundred million dollars seems trivial for the internet browser monopoly/operating system monopoly etc. Sure, but anywho, it was long ago demonstrated they don't have to actually answer to anyone as unimportant as Me, You, or the silly Government. Also, do you suppose they'd have to write a check to cover $290,000,000, or is that much cash available in the petty cash box?
As others have pointed out, the volume, among other factors have conspired to make the whole thin client network terminal a dead horse in the race for the last, what? 20 years? More like 30 probably. Not that there aren't applications for them, or that they don't have their own virtues. Just that since they remain a niche product for whatever reason, they remain more expensive in terms of bang for buck, than a traditional PC, which helps keep them a niche product. Rinse Repeat.
The point of the metric system was for a bunch of pretentious jerks, including the french, to re-invent the wheel, then a bunch of pointy-headed science types, who loved it's utility for things like physics and... Well probably just that. Convinced the world it was a good idea to "switch" so now half the world has two or three types of tools, trillions of dollars have been wasted on the pointless duplication of hardware that perfectly functional, and the perfectly functional and in some ways superior for their uses in the building or mechanical trades, let's say systems were sort of, but not really forgotten. (Hint, what's half of 0.6875? Dunno? What's half of 11/16" would you guess 11/32"? It works like that throughout, there's a lot of utility to doing things in Imperial units in ways and places you don't think about.
But again, other civilized nations have shorter sentences, nicer prisons, and less crime. So it doesn't seem to follow much at all. Now maybe they have less crime because they have just a different society somehow. But Canada is an awfully lot like the USA and they have less crime, shorter sentences and nicer prisons. (They have racial diversity, they have guns, they watch our TV, play our video games, it's like an alternate reality version of the USA)
Yeah, what's up with that? Americans (I am one, I'm proud of it generally) seem to take a perverse satisfaction in the fact that we have control over our prisons and they're essentially a playground for the worst, most violent despicable of our criminal elements. Prison isn't so bad if you're a monster, all the drugs, sex and violence you want. This really doesn't seem like proper punishment, and it's certainly not rehabilitation. Why is it we have essentially the most severe sentencing policies of any civilized nation, and the highest crime rate of any civilized nation?
Interestingly, why isn't the /. community calling for his head for being a windows administrator anyway? If he'd have talked the folks on the board into switching the entire network and all of their computers over to OSS he would have been doing a great service to his community, and he could have used the boinc linux client and taken care of everything seamlesssly and automagically.
None of this has much relevance to the seti@home on the school districts computers. If they told him not to do it, and he did it anyway, they should fire him. If he just did it on his own without permission they should unclench, take five minutes to realize they're being stupid and get over themselves. Even if they make him remove the software. Committees and boards are truly the devil's playground, and no good ever came from either of them. Have them all thrown into the sea. (Someone should be in charge of things, boards and Committees are an asinine way to run things, think of witch hunts PTA meetings and lynch mobs. Yeah that's the ticket to sound governance.)
You sir, are a despicable troll. Even to mention or speak of that debate which must be named or alluded to is to fear the instigation of yet another round of "Will my computer last longer if I shut it off or leave it on?" Which, even worse can devolve into "will my X last longer if I shut it off or leave it on?" which has already wasted more human lifetimes worth of time, and gigabytes of text that it is officially worse than hitler.
I think it's hilarious how many /. readers have already chimed with the Salon isn't behind a paywall? I haven't read anything on there in years, I just forgot about it when they put up the annoying paywall. I might be willing to pay to get quality content, but I'm just going to be annoyed if you post 1/3 of a story, and then cut me off and ask for money. Which is what I remember post paywall salon to be like, so I stopped going there, ever.
What about making killing machines? Or even better Killer Robots? C'mon.
Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these?