Ok, if we're going to work with a blacklist, it'd be nice to actually have it. I don't mind starting the query for completion:
Check to include in blacklist: - Non japanese anime. - Family pictures of close friends with kids. - Paintings. - Family pictures of friends you should call more often but don't. - 3D Computer generated renderings. - Family pictures of work mates you drink beers with, from time to time.
That's some pretty bizarre bullshit. That's right up there with concluding that every human behavior is logical and can always be explained.
Every human behaviour is logical and can always be explained as the inevitable result of the laws of physics applied to the matter it's made of. Everything else is mysticism and superstition.
Ever wonder why EMC stands for Endless Mirroring Company.
And if the endless mirroring company starts moving really fast, until they couldn't possibly move faster, they'd represent the relationship between mass and energy.
"In 2010 the volume of digital information created and duplicated in a year will reach 1.2 zettabytes, according to new data from IDC and EMC. The annual Digital Universe report is an effort to visualize the enormous amount of data being generated by our increasingly digital lives. The report's big numbers -- a zettabyte is roughly a million petabytes -- pose interesting questions about how the IT community will store and manage this firehose of data. Perhaps the biggest challenge isn't how much data we're creating -- it's all the copies of it. Seventy-five percent of all the data in the Digital Universe is a copy, according to IDC."
Losing sight has always been my greatest fear. I understand a lot of blind people can live perfectly fine lives, but I can't think of many worse futures. (I know the news are about genetic blindness, but still).
The day someone comes up with a way of completely bypassing the eyes, for example by perfecting the technology of connecting cameras directly to the brain, will feel as important for me as the day someone finds a way of curing all medular wounds.
It may sound stupid but one of the few reasons I've got for accumulating more money is being able to pay the medicine I hope will exist by the time my body starts failing in those kind of ways.
To make it quicker. You may think that you have 1 GB of RAM available and a 2GHz CPU, but the L2 cache in a modern processor will only hold about 4MB--fetching data or insns from main memory might require as much as 100 CPU cycles. And that's before considering virtual memory, which requires millions of cycles to access.
Making it quicker is not a good enough result to pay the extra expenses of having to hire better programmers.
The current situation (bloated apps that only work on expensive hardware) is the optimal one, in terms of development cost vs results, with the current technology.
We should get benefits from newer, faster hardware. Instead we get increasingly lazy programmers and zero net benefit in speed, but with all the negative costs of new equipment purchases.
We do get benefits from newer, faster hardware. The possibility of hiring cheaper, less prepared, programmers.
Would you need the 10million TB on yourself at all moments?
Maybe having a fridge sized data storage at home will become standard.
No need for such incredibly high speed communications if it's just for the volume that gets sent from your home computer to "personal" computer (the one you carry).
Slashdot Mirror
No, no, no. It's a series of tubes.
And what did you think goes throught the tubes?
Pickup trucks! Full of books!
Play dumb.
Crap! I think everybody's been doing this to me for a long time.
Never again. Next time they use that "Is he still speaking our language?" look, I'll know they're playing dumb and keep on.
So my jobs requires encrypted drives, and in addition I use Linux. What should I tell them when they want to search my drive ?
Do you really need encrypted drives? Couldn't you use encrypted partitions?
What I mean is: Does it impact your job to add a deniability level to your encrypted data?
Because "That's just empty space" is a quite good defense, if done properly.
So your law would be "It's not child porn if they're not engaged in sexual activity"?
That's quite close to directly removing all CP laws.
Ok, if we're going to work with a blacklist, it'd be nice to actually have it. I don't mind starting the query for completion:
Check to include in blacklist:
- Non japanese anime.
- Family pictures of close friends with kids.
- Paintings.
- Family pictures of friends you should call more often but don't.
- 3D Computer generated renderings.
- Family pictures of work mates you drink beers with, from time to time.
That's some pretty bizarre bullshit. That's right up there with concluding that every human behavior is logical and can always be explained.
Every human behaviour is logical and can always be explained as the inevitable result of the laws of physics applied to the matter it's made of. Everything else is mysticism and superstition.
Then why is it important that he pays attention?
Why is it even important that he actually goes to the voting?
He could simply send a memo saying "This year I vote whatever [party leader name] votes" with the exact same result.
Everything else is self delusion.
Considering those laws I would say that that shot of women with their bikini tops moved to the side would not be porn, unless they were paid for it.
Wait... What?
So it's only porn if it's illegal?
What the frack are you talking about?
This guy is not paying attention, yet will be voting on bills that will affect our entire country.
My question is: "Isn't his vote pre-decided by his political party?"
The saddest part is that the repercussions of these actions wouldn't be the same if he was browsing any other, not job related, content.
Ever wonder why EMC stands for Endless Mirroring Company.
And if the endless mirroring company starts moving really fast, until they couldn't possibly move faster, they'd represent the relationship between mass and energy.
"In 2010 the volume of digital information created and duplicated in a year will reach 1.2 zettabytes, according to new data from IDC and EMC. The annual Digital Universe report is an effort to visualize the enormous amount of data being generated by our increasingly digital lives. The report's big numbers -- a zettabyte is roughly a million petabytes -- pose interesting questions about how the IT community will store and manage this firehose of data. Perhaps the biggest challenge isn't how much data we're creating -- it's all the copies of it. Seventy-five percent of all the data in the Digital Universe is a copy, according to IDC."
Beeing a mech. eng. in the wind power industry is not bad at all, you have to do much of your work with a computer and Excel/VBA ;)
I think at least three quarters of the office population do much of our work with excel, word and a mail client.
That wouldn't happen because of zoning.
Nope, zoning can't be useful, as it's done by "that small subset of The People who live by taxing the rest of us and telling us what's good for us".
Losing sight has always been my greatest fear. I understand a lot of blind people can live perfectly fine lives, but I can't think of many worse futures. (I know the news are about genetic blindness, but still).
The day someone comes up with a way of completely bypassing the eyes, for example by perfecting the technology of connecting cameras directly to the brain, will feel as important for me as the day someone finds a way of curing all medular wounds.
It may sound stupid but one of the few reasons I've got for accumulating more money is being able to pay the medicine I hope will exist by the time my body starts failing in those kind of ways.
To make it quicker. You may think that you have 1 GB of RAM available and a 2GHz CPU, but the L2 cache in a modern processor will only hold about 4MB--fetching data or insns from main memory might require as much as 100 CPU cycles. And that's before considering virtual memory, which requires millions of cycles to access.
Making it quicker is not a good enough result to pay the extra expenses of having to hire better programmers.
The current situation (bloated apps that only work on expensive hardware) is the optimal one, in terms of development cost vs results, with the current technology.
We should get benefits from newer, faster hardware. Instead we get increasingly lazy programmers and zero net benefit in speed, but with all the negative costs of new equipment purchases.
We do get benefits from newer, faster hardware. The possibility of hiring cheaper, less prepared, programmers.
"their". This is basic 3th grade English, people!/quote
Punctuation!
Would you need the 10million TB on yourself at all moments?
Maybe having a fridge sized data storage at home will become standard.
No need for such incredibly high speed communications if it's just for the volume that gets sent from your home computer to "personal" computer (the one you carry).
why make it leand and mean? it compiles, ship it.
And what's the answer to your question?
If it works, why optimize it? To save in storage space? How much would I be saving? 10$ in storage space for every hour of optimization?
It's not art, it's a business. You could as well ask why we don't replace steel by titanium in cars.
fuck religion [...] I'm 16.
Careful with what you wish. You're a bit too old, but a priest could get confused.
The visits to the dev team must be stressing though.
"Hey guys, I'm preparing the campaign. How's the new IE coming out?"
"IF THOU BE THE SON OF GOD, COMMAND THAT THESE STONES BE MADE BREAD."
I see you work in marketing.
"IE. Not the unholy creation of Satan it once was."
Or have a better taste.
You have never eaten Doritos, obviously.
Or I don't share your fondness for human flesh.
Awesome! I'm gonna be a dorito!
Nonono. You didn't get it.
You only get some genes, so you'll just be crispier. Or have a better taste.
Careful in your next visit to the zoo.