I, a 22 year old nerd, have been building fanless, high performance machines that are silent since the 90's. My first PC I built when I was 12 was silent.
Ok, but you left out one important detail. They are silent, but did they actually ever work?
Otherwise, my parents have an Apple II that has been silent since the 80's. Now beat that!
I would much rather have someone set up an unlicensed druggist's 2 doors down than for the police to batter down my door in the dark of night, with rules of engagement for dealing with a supposedly violent criminal.
How about a foreign secret service stealing your identity, and performing a hit in your country? And you just happen to have a vague resemblance to the hit man in the security video . . . ?
Try to get *that* straightened out.
I fear that all these systems give government folks a false sense of security. And they don't realize that anything that comes out of these systems, can only be as good as the validity of the data that went in.
When renting a car in a western European country, the first thing that Hertz will tell you, is that you are not allowed to drive the car to an eastern European country. Because "the car will not make it back." Hertz says the same thing when you rent in Texas: "You cannot take this car to Mexico".
So what anti-theft-AI is planned for these vehicles? Maybe those lasers can do more than just scan?
A car loaded with so much luxury high-tech accessories would surely make a tempting target for a thief. Maybe the cars will just autonomously disappear?
... Intel announces plans to ship systems equipped with an experimental 48-core CPU... . According to Sean Koehl, technology evangelist with Intel Labs, the chip only draws between 25 and 125 Watts
Well, I guess this new sub won't have this Intel 48-core Gigantium Inside.
We're actually 2nd right now, behind the Russian Federation (~10 Mbit/s) but ahead of the EU (~7 Mbit/s), Brazil, Australia, Canada, China (~2 Mbit/s), and other continent-sized federations.
EU Politician: "Our Internet runs at ~7 Mbit/s
Russian Politician: "Ha! Our Internet runs at ~10 Mbit/s!"
EU Politician: "Nonsense! Nobody can watch pornography that fast!"
US Politician: "Speed doesn't matter! The girth of your tubes is important!"
So broadband Internet infrastructure is now the key to world domination?
Things were simpler when countries only had to worry about Mine Shaft Gaps.
"We have the best internet infrastructure in the world! It's just too bad that most of our citizens are so undereducated, that they can't figure out how to do anything useful with it."
So when analyzing a kernel dump caused by a deadlock with spin locks, I get to look at 48 stack traces, to find out who got what where, and who wants what they will never get?
Sounds like fun.
Ok, creative use of LPARs/Virtualization technologies could reduce the headaches. A friend of mine owned an ancient 6-cylinder Jaguar that spent more time in the repair shop than on the road. He was looking a at 12-cylinder also in the shop, when the chief mechanic commented, "You don't want that. A 12-cylinder just means 6 more headaches.
Sometimes I think about that comment with more CPUs/cores, when I am doing kernel development.
Fruit flies seem to spontaneously generate ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_generation ) in rotten fruit in my kitchen. I think Pasteur fudged some his data when disproving Spontaneous Generation.
Although, scientists are doing their part to get rid of the fruit fly plague. If you are a fruit fly, your mostly likely cause of death will be a fruit fly genetics experiment . . . performed by a scientist!
Or by over-eager high school biology students, massacring hundreds at a time on microscope sacrificial alters.
No, we abused up all the ketamine a few days ago on Slashdot in a thread about near death experiences or scientific heaven, or something like that. Our jury concluded that real death was more fun and exciting than near death.
An American specialist is expected to arrive here real soon, as soon as he can extricate himself out of some legal matters on tmz.com. He has a therapy called "The big 'P'", but he advises folks that they should not try to "push it" themselves.
And hey, if you are going to do something that you can only do once in a lifetime, like dying, do you want to be asleep while doing it? You'll miss everything.
The preprint of their paper, available on the arXiv, shows that terrestrial clocks exceed the accuracy and stability of the astrophysical 'clocks' by all sensible measures, in some cases by several orders of magnitude."
... are obviously not a quality substitute for stuff Made on Earth, despite what Wal-Mart may claim.
Are you sure that the star child workers billions of light years away from our planet are not putting poisonous lead into the atomic clocks made for *your* childeren . . . ?
... it will be an impressive boom when it does go off, assuming the size of the boom goes up proportionally with the size of the battery...
So how many exploding iPod/Laptop batteries is this critter, which uses molten sodium. Did your high school chemistry ever do the "this is sodium; this is water; this is sodium in water" trick?
Good thing that it doesn't rain much in Texas.
But I guess that the folks building the battery will know about the dangers, and take appropriate safety measures. Like, getting their asses out of town when the puppy goes online.
Does some poor soul have to do the "lick the connectors on the 9 volt battery" test, to see if it's fully charged?
... the mummified head of Daryl McBride on a pike.
You toss in a quarter, and the head screams "I'll swallow your code! I'll swallow your code!," whilst you get to whack at it with a chainsaw and plink it with the shotgun out of the Smithsonian Housewares exhibit, and taunt it with Bruce Campbell grimaces.
Both got people into communication more, in more places, and with folks who they didn't know. People became more interested in new (or old!) technologies that they could fiddle around with.
Ham radio? No carrier contract? No monthly flat rate? Can choose whatever equipment you want, not whatever cell phone model that your carrier shoves in your face?
Where's the catch?
I'll bet that the Telcom Titans really feel like Ham has stuck a weed up their asses. "Curses, those damn meddling kids! Communicating through the airwaves, without us being able to charge them for it!"
The Fonz tells Darth Vader to "sit on it." Yoda as Arnold the wise force wielding burger flipper. Joanie Loves Chewbacca. Maybe a bit of "Gilligan's Island" on the side . . . the Skipper and Gilligan as Storm Troopers . . . the Skipper pulls off Gilligan's Storm Trooper Helmet and whacks him over the head with it . . . Princess Leia arrives by train in "Petticoat Junction" to flirt with all of the "My three Ewok Sons."
With Colonel Klink and Schultz behind the wheel of the Death Star, what couldn't be funny?
... and ask, "Y'all got any folks here who look like real sick? I need to look at 'em to boost my im-ma-ume system, or sumptin' like that.
Maybe that's why Mother Theresa lived so long: "For over 45 years she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Theresa " She must have had one tough bad-ass immune system.
So if I watch more NASCAR, will I avoid traffic accidents, and get cheaper car insurance?
Maybe programmers should be forced to look at buggy programs . . . ?
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... are probably their own local governments.
"Click here to have your corrupt mayor tarred and feathered, and ridden out of town on a rail."
. . . or . . .
"Click here to endorse a public works program, which nobody wants, because nobody needs . . . Monorail!"
I'm sorry, this doesn't sound like a particularly good book for *anyone*
If it sells enough copies, it might be particularly good for the author . . .
... the pain sets in.
I, a 22 year old nerd, have been building fanless, high performance machines that are silent since the 90's. My first PC I built when I was 12 was silent.
Ok, but you left out one important detail. They are silent, but did they actually ever work?
Otherwise, my parents have an Apple II that has been silent since the 80's. Now beat that!
I would much rather have someone set up an unlicensed druggist's 2 doors down than for the police to batter down my door in the dark of night, with rules of engagement for dealing with a supposedly violent criminal.
How about a foreign secret service stealing your identity, and performing a hit in your country? And you just happen to have a vague resemblance to the hit man in the security video . . . ?
Try to get *that* straightened out.
I fear that all these systems give government folks a false sense of security. And they don't realize that anything that comes out of these systems, can only be as good as the validity of the data that went in.
... forget the techie crap, and try spending more time communicating with your children.
I'd rather have a kid who I know I can trust to turn off his PC for the night, than have to rely on tech control and surveillance.
Just like the kid in the neighborhood who owns the ball determines the rules of the game.
You don't like it that way? The solution is simple:
Don't play in that game, and . . .
. . . find a different ball and game that has rules that you like.
When renting a car in a western European country, the first thing that Hertz will tell you, is that you are not allowed to drive the car to an eastern European country. Because "the car will not make it back." Hertz says the same thing when you rent in Texas: "You cannot take this car to Mexico".
So what anti-theft-AI is planned for these vehicles? Maybe those lasers can do more than just scan?
A car loaded with so much luxury high-tech accessories would surely make a tempting target for a thief. Maybe the cars will just autonomously disappear?
... Intel announces plans to ship systems equipped with an experimental 48-core CPU ... . According to Sean Koehl, technology evangelist with Intel Labs, the chip only draws between 25 and 125 Watts
Well, I guess this new sub won't have this Intel 48-core Gigantium Inside.
We're actually 2nd right now, behind the Russian Federation (~10 Mbit/s) but ahead of the EU (~7 Mbit/s), Brazil, Australia, Canada, China (~2 Mbit/s), and other continent-sized federations.
EU Politician: "Our Internet runs at ~7 Mbit/s
Russian Politician: "Ha! Our Internet runs at ~10 Mbit/s!"
EU Politician: "Nonsense! Nobody can watch pornography that fast!"
US Politician: "Speed doesn't matter! The girth of your tubes is important!"
So broadband Internet infrastructure is now the key to world domination?
Things were simpler when countries only had to worry about Mine Shaft Gaps.
"We have the best internet infrastructure in the world! It's just too bad that most of our citizens are so undereducated, that they can't figure out how to do anything useful with it."
So when analyzing a kernel dump caused by a deadlock with spin locks, I get to look at 48 stack traces, to find out who got what where, and who wants what they will never get?
Sounds like fun.
Ok, creative use of LPARs/Virtualization technologies could reduce the headaches. A friend of mine owned an ancient 6-cylinder Jaguar that spent more time in the repair shop than on the road. He was looking a at 12-cylinder also in the shop, when the chief mechanic commented, "You don't want that. A 12-cylinder just means 6 more headaches.
Sometimes I think about that comment with more CPUs/cores, when I am doing kernel development.
And instead invent new ways to kill the bastards?
Fruit flies seem to spontaneously generate ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_generation ) in rotten fruit in my kitchen. I think Pasteur fudged some his data when disproving Spontaneous Generation.
Although, scientists are doing their part to get rid of the fruit fly plague. If you are a fruit fly, your mostly likely cause of death will be a fruit fly genetics experiment . . . performed by a scientist!
Or by over-eager high school biology students, massacring hundreds at a time on microscope sacrificial alters.
... will bankrupt you.
... although this is only a prototype, the European Space Agency (ESA) hopes that this technology can be scaled up to put folks in orbit: http://www.pearl.de/a-PE8174-5924.shtml?query=scheulder
Click on "Beratungs-Video" to see the demonstration.
"Repo Man" quote:
Leila: What if he's innocent?
Agent Rogersz: No one is innocent.
Got any ketamine?
No, we abused up all the ketamine a few days ago on Slashdot in a thread about near death experiences or scientific heaven, or something like that. Our jury concluded that real death was more fun and exciting than near death.
An American specialist is expected to arrive here real soon, as soon as he can extricate himself out of some legal matters on tmz.com. He has a therapy called "The big 'P'", but he advises folks that they should not try to "push it" themselves.
And hey, if you are going to do something that you can only do once in a lifetime, like dying, do you want to be asleep while doing it? You'll miss everything.
... there is never a good reason to write any human being off as 'trash.'
To some, 'trash' is a badge of pride: http://www.whitetrashfastfood.com/
The next time that you are in Berlin, stop by. Absinthe is on me. Ya wanna wake up with another funny haircut, and more tatoos?
The preprint of their paper, available on the arXiv, shows that terrestrial clocks exceed the accuracy and stability of the astrophysical 'clocks' by all sensible measures, in some cases by several orders of magnitude."
... are obviously not a quality substitute for stuff Made on Earth, despite what Wal-Mart may claim.
Are you sure that the star child workers billions of light years away from our planet are not putting poisonous lead into the atomic clocks made for *your* childeren . . . ?
Buy Made on Earth!
... it will be an impressive boom when it does go off, assuming the size of the boom goes up proportionally with the size of the battery ...
So how many exploding iPod/Laptop batteries is this critter, which uses molten sodium. Did your high school chemistry ever do the "this is sodium; this is water; this is sodium in water" trick?
Good thing that it doesn't rain much in Texas.
But I guess that the folks building the battery will know about the dangers, and take appropriate safety measures. Like, getting their asses out of town when the puppy goes online.
Does some poor soul have to do the "lick the connectors on the 9 volt battery" test, to see if it's fully charged?
That job would really suck.
Press: "Mr. Speaker DeLeo! How come only two casinos?"
DeLeo: "I only got two friends."
... the mummified head of Daryl McBride on a pike.
You toss in a quarter, and the head screams "I'll swallow your code! I'll swallow your code!," whilst you get to whack at it with a chainsaw and plink it with the shotgun out of the Smithsonian Housewares exhibit, and taunt it with Bruce Campbell grimaces.
Both got people into communication more, in more places, and with folks who they didn't know. People became more interested in new (or old!) technologies that they could fiddle around with.
Ham radio? No carrier contract? No monthly flat rate? Can choose whatever equipment you want, not whatever cell phone model that your carrier shoves in your face?
Where's the catch?
I'll bet that the Telcom Titans really feel like Ham has stuck a weed up their asses. "Curses, those damn meddling kids! Communicating through the airwaves, without us being able to charge them for it!"
The Fonz tells Darth Vader to "sit on it." Yoda as Arnold the wise force wielding burger flipper. Joanie Loves Chewbacca. Maybe a bit of "Gilligan's Island" on the side . . . the Skipper and Gilligan as Storm Troopers . . . the Skipper pulls off Gilligan's Storm Trooper Helmet and whacks him over the head with it . . . Princess Leia arrives by train in "Petticoat Junction" to flirt with all of the "My three Ewok Sons."
With Colonel Klink and Schultz behind the wheel of the Death Star, what couldn't be funny?
"Two and a half Jar Jars?"
. . . the theft of a nation . . .
. . . is the easy bit.
Fencing a nation is a bitch: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fence_(criminal)
... and ask, "Y'all got any folks here who look like real sick? I need to look at 'em to boost my im-ma-ume system, or sumptin' like that.
Maybe that's why Mother Theresa lived so long: "For over 45 years she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Theresa " She must have had one tough bad-ass immune system.
So if I watch more NASCAR, will I avoid traffic accidents, and get cheaper car insurance?
Maybe programmers should be forced to look at buggy programs . . . ?