Rigetti's a different company with different technology. I don't think they're offering free live access to anyone in the way D-Wave is, you can just go sign up and run... quantum problems, if you can figure out how to write one anyway
From what I've read, it's not useful for factoring problems, but it can solve optimization problems like the Travelling Salesman with excellent solutions in a short period of time.
https://cloud.dwavesys.com/lea... - it's not BS, I've clicked through a lot of it. I can't say I understand it but it's given me an API token and I can run their "ping" command which apparently executes... something.
Honestly, what the fuck is wrong with this guy? Hacked iPhones are only a matter of time, and his 350Z was probably still worth north of $28,000. Unless he thinks he's going to be able to capitalize on having this phone, he truly is a sorry waste of skin.
Also: if you want a hackable phone, just run Windows Mobile or anything else that is developer-friendly. Normal iPhone users are not going to be willing to go through a bunch of rigamarole to run programs on their devices.
Amen, and thanks for pointing that out. Folks, this guy isn't looking at the world through a narrow straw. He's written some of the best speculative sci-fi around - check out the Accelerando book linked by the parent post. Starts just a few years from now and rushes you through a Singularity all the way out to a Matrioshka Mind.
It's _because_ he's had to research all the best visions of futurism that he's qualified to write an essay with this sort of opinion. He might be wrong, and I'm sure he hopes that he is too, but it's pretty realistic to consider that we as biological life forms may never leave this planet in a big way.
So, we just upload our mind and send ourselves out in a bazillion little solar-powered ships full of nanoscale computers. Piece of cake.
No, because 25,000 years is not enough time for new deposits of untouched surface metals, oil, and everything else to form as it is now. Chances are if we fuck up this attempt at spreading ourselves out in the universe, there won't be enough unprocessed material to jumpstart another society.
PHP is licensed under the GPL, so we don't need to worry about an MS-proprietary version of it. They'd have to reimplement the system from scratch, and who would bother to do that when they have ASP.NET?
I for one would love to see.NET support for PHP so I could use it to write native Windows GUI programs, access ODBC in a more robust fashion, and get more access to Windows-internal stuff that is so easy to do on Unix but so hard to do on Windows. A bit of performance would be nice, but chances are I will keep running my servers on Debian simply because that's all they are: brainless webservers with muscle and nothing holding them back.
I fully concur with your post. In fact, it's 7 AM right now and I have somewhere to be, but I am brewing a nice teapotfull of Earl Grey and I am going to sit here and drink the whole damned thing before I even think of rushing off to work.
I'm also pegged directly by your 16-25 crowd there. Perhaps there's hope yet?
Wouldn't it be a better value to simply buy a 'real' projector, which while it may not produce 1080p, ought to have better image and colour quality, look more professional, and not require as much fiddling?
Then again, I once built a poor man's projector using a Fresnel lens and an old 14" monitor for Cubic Player's Wurfel-mode at a MOD party. Fuck it! Have fun!
It pisses me off to no extent to see that the solution for all of today's energy problems have a fairly simple, 1950's era technology solution. Nuclear power is virtually pollution free, and all modern reactors (such as Canadian ones, the last of the British ones, and probably the new Chinese ones) are so far away from any chance of a catastrophic meltdown that it's not even a real consideration.
I blame Chernobyl for a lot of this; it's always what people bring up when you mention nuclear power.
As for the waste, I agree with the idea that we need to store it; it will definitely be useful one day. It's fucking radioactive, it's probably useful for something. Firing it into the sun is a waste.
For what it's worth, I've been running your beautiful filesystem for quite some time now, and I'm eagerly awaiting the day when people will look past their xenophobia and embrace it as the new Unix way. Meta files inside of files was a brilliant idea, and it makes it ten thousand times easier to work with files without needing a million system calls. "Everything is a file" becomes so much more true with your system.
Politics are stupid, yet somehow necessary; don't let them get you down. Please keep working on this technology (not as though anyone can stop you) so that when the rest of the community panics that they've got nothing to counter Apple or some eventual WinFS future bastard child, you'll be there to save the day.
Next time you want to post a little dig like that, do it anonymously - I don't want everybody thinking Debian maintainers are all ignorant idiots who flame things they've clearly never used.
MySQL has had foreign keys for quite some time now, as long as your tables are InnoDB.
Aha, and that's because 2.6.12.5 is a stable, production quality release with 5 sub-versions of bug fixes and no new features. Conversely, new features went into 2.6.13.
If you're so concerned about stability, why are you running a bleeding edge kernel? Stick with what your distro provides you unless you're okay with it breaking once in a while.
If you don't have broadband already, what the hell are you doing on Slashdot? Besides, who really wants to play games on a modem, the lag is a killer for anything but Doom on a direct pc-to-pc modem connection.
You didn't read the article. There are awesome physics going in there, including enemies falling down stairs when killed, and more realistic box movement among other things.
Don't be an ignoramus. Read the damned article next time before you shout your mouth off about something. If you think that Doom 3 is 'incremental', you're certainly not the person who should be talking about it.
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Rigetti's a different company with different technology. I don't think they're offering free live access to anyone in the way D-Wave is, you can just go sign up and run... quantum problems, if you can figure out how to write one anyway
From what I've read, it's not useful for factoring problems, but it can solve optimization problems like the Travelling Salesman with excellent solutions in a short period of time.
https://cloud.dwavesys.com/lea... - it's not BS, I've clicked through a lot of it. I can't say I understand it but it's given me an API token and I can run their "ping" command which apparently executes... something.
Wish I hadn't failed math!
What the hell good is an 8MB ram drive, even if it's very fast?
Honestly, what the fuck is wrong with this guy? Hacked iPhones are only a matter of time, and his 350Z was probably still worth north of $28,000. Unless he thinks he's going to be able to capitalize on having this phone, he truly is a sorry waste of skin.
Also: if you want a hackable phone, just run Windows Mobile or anything else that is developer-friendly. Normal iPhone users are not going to be willing to go through a bunch of rigamarole to run programs on their devices.
Amen, and thanks for pointing that out. Folks, this guy isn't looking at the world through a narrow straw. He's written some of the best speculative sci-fi around - check out the Accelerando book linked by the parent post. Starts just a few years from now and rushes you through a Singularity all the way out to a Matrioshka Mind.
It's _because_ he's had to research all the best visions of futurism that he's qualified to write an essay with this sort of opinion. He might be wrong, and I'm sure he hopes that he is too, but it's pretty realistic to consider that we as biological life forms may never leave this planet in a big way.
So, we just upload our mind and send ourselves out in a bazillion little solar-powered ships full of nanoscale computers. Piece of cake.
Change your default mail client to Windows Mail, log out and in, delete c:\program files\thunderbird manually, and try again.
Just remember: Net Neutrality is the *good thing* that we're fighting for. The opposite is called "Corporate Control over the Internet".
No, because 7/7/7 is my wedding day and my wife-to-be will just stay home to read Harry Potter and skip the whole thing.
No, because 25,000 years is not enough time for new deposits of untouched surface metals, oil, and everything else to form as it is now. Chances are if we fuck up this attempt at spreading ourselves out in the universe, there won't be enough unprocessed material to jumpstart another society.
PHP is licensed under the GPL, so we don't need to worry about an MS-proprietary version of it. They'd have to reimplement the system from scratch, and who would bother to do that when they have ASP.NET?
.NET support for PHP so I could use it to write native Windows GUI programs, access ODBC in a more robust fashion, and get more access to Windows-internal stuff that is so easy to do on Unix but so hard to do on Windows.
I for one would love to see
A bit of performance would be nice, but chances are I will keep running my servers on Debian simply because that's all they are: brainless webservers with muscle and nothing holding them back.
Hey, at least this new director doesn't go around punching Internet celebrities in the face.
I fully concur with your post. In fact, it's 7 AM right now and I have somewhere to be, but I am brewing a nice teapotfull of Earl Grey and I am going to sit here and drink the whole damned thing before I even think of rushing off to work.
I'm also pegged directly by your 16-25 crowd there. Perhaps there's hope yet?
Give us a model number!
Wouldn't it be a better value to simply buy a 'real' projector, which while it may not produce 1080p, ought to have better image and colour quality, look more professional, and not require as much fiddling?
Then again, I once built a poor man's projector using a Fresnel lens and an old 14" monitor for Cubic Player's Wurfel-mode at a MOD party. Fuck it! Have fun!
It pisses me off to no extent to see that the solution for all of today's energy problems have a fairly simple, 1950's era technology solution. Nuclear power is virtually pollution free, and all modern reactors (such as Canadian ones, the last of the British ones, and probably the new Chinese ones) are so far away from any chance of a catastrophic meltdown that it's not even a real consideration.
I blame Chernobyl for a lot of this; it's always what people bring up when you mention nuclear power.
As for the waste, I agree with the idea that we need to store it; it will definitely be useful one day. It's fucking radioactive, it's probably useful for something. Firing it into the sun is a waste.
For what it's worth, I've been running your beautiful filesystem for quite some time now, and I'm eagerly awaiting the day when people will look past their xenophobia and embrace it as the new Unix way. Meta files inside of files was a brilliant idea, and it makes it ten thousand times easier to work with files without needing a million system calls. "Everything is a file" becomes so much more true with your system.
Politics are stupid, yet somehow necessary; don't let them get you down. Please keep working on this technology (not as though anyone can stop you) so that when the rest of the community panics that they've got nothing to counter Apple or some eventual WinFS future bastard child, you'll be there to save the day.
Next time you want to post a little dig like that, do it anonymously - I don't want everybody thinking Debian maintainers are all ignorant idiots who flame things they've clearly never used.
MySQL has had foreign keys for quite some time now, as long as your tables are InnoDB.
how about:
PURR: PostgreSQL, UNIX, Ruby and Rails
or RAPR: Rails on Apache, PostgreSQL, and Ruby
(kinda motorola type thing)
Aha, and that's because 2.6.12.5 is a stable, production quality release with 5 sub-versions of bug fixes and no new features. Conversely, new features went into 2.6.13.
If you're so concerned about stability, why are you running a bleeding edge kernel? Stick with what your distro provides you unless you're okay with it breaking once in a while.
If you don't have broadband already, what the hell are you doing on Slashdot?
Besides, who really wants to play games on a modem, the lag is a killer for anything but Doom on a direct pc-to-pc modem connection.
Try clicking the link that says "privacy implications" in the story. Then, read!
It's not our job to fucking predigest every news story for your feeble mind.
Wow, I'm sure you're smarter than John Carmack. Thanks for enlightening all of us with your brilliant banter.
Sir, do you have a newsletter that I could parchance subscribe to, so I could hear every idea your witty mind produces?
Well, that makes you a majority of one....
:D
At least the Xbox's pad is better than its predecessors at FPS games. Try the new Xbox Controller - S, the smaller japanese version. Much better.
I agree there's more speed and precision with a mouse, but if you want it that badly, hack up a USB mouse to an Xbox cable and hope for support
You didn't read the article. There are awesome physics going in there, including enemies falling down stairs when killed, and more realistic box movement among other things.
Don't be an ignoramus. Read the damned article next time before you shout your mouth off about something. If you think that Doom 3 is 'incremental', you're certainly not the person who should be talking about it.