Uh. Well some of us learnt a few things new about gmail.
1) It actually goes up to 1023MB, not 1000MB. 2) Inbound email bandwidth per account is probably more than 20Mbps. 3) You can't login for a few days if people fill it up rapidly with 5MB attachments.
"What's your opinion on karma-whoring trolls, who copy/paste someone else's posts hoping to get modded-up? Is it OK to you? After all, "you don't believe in copyright, any of it".
You are also overreacting the other way. There's a significant difference between copying and plagiarism. Plagiarism requires lying/untruthfulness and intent.
If someone reuses your words, but cites the original author, or even only says "someone else said this", that is not plagiarism, that is quoting. Whereas if someone intentionally copies material and misrepresents it as his/her original, that is plagiarism (or even fraud in some cases). If someone genuinely recreates the words, it's not plagiarism.
If all the popular quotations, phrases and words in the world were copyrighted then without fair/reasonable use clauses, only those with the most copyrights could speak.
I believe copyrights (even GPL) should last at most for 7 or so years. It should definitely not be 20 or more years. And whatever that has been freed to the public cannot be bound again.
As is, people who work to extend the coverage and duration of copyrights are the real thieves - for they actually remove/limit access to works (that would have otherwise become public property). Unlike theft, copying does not remove/limit access. Copying usually increases access.
Anyone working on a cure for your recurring kidney stones or are they only working on treating the symptoms?
There must be a chemical which is secreted in normal humans to inhibit the formation of kidney stones.
I suppose there's less money in this. I remember when people found a cure for a chronic disease like stomach ulcers (most cases caused by h. pylori) the drug company selling tagamet and friends definitely lost a cash cow.
In my opinion for these things, the main problem is not how well it works, it's how well it fails.
It has to fail better than the system it's supposed to replace. It's easy to design a system that works well, it's not so easy to design a system that fails well.
The cost of human brains, training (and incompetence) is typically a sunk cost - you're going to have those already whether you want to or not - esp for situations where the systems fail (unless the systems can be reliable enough which is unlikely).
"In the USA at least, commercial airline travel is much much safer than riding in a conventional automobile."
Which stats please? Per trip, per km or per hour of travel?
The last I checked they're about the same per trip. Airplanes aren't that safe. They are safe, but they aren't that safe - if you want safe pick your airline and flight accordingly.
Why aren't you getting more than 23MB/sec? Running out of CPU with your scp?
Have you tried a nonencrypted network copy of similar sized dummy data? How fast is it?
If the data doesn't change that much every night and you have enough disk space on the tape server you could try using cvsup. But you need enough CPU to keep up.
"In an effort to increase literacy, about 2,000 of the characters used in China have been simplified. These simplified characters are also used in Singapore, but in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and Malaysia the traditional characters are still used."
And many of the simplified characters _really_ look different - no resemblance to the traditional versions.
Then there are the stylized versions of these (similar to cursive vs print).
Drive speeds haven't really gone up tremendously. Still too slow.
Imagine you have a 1TB drive, but were stuck at a 100MB/sec max seq transfer rate. It takes you 2.7 hours to read/write the entire drive. And that's for _sequential_ access. Gets ugly for random seek.
A similar speed 10TB drive will take you more than a day (27+ hours) to read sequentially.
Before the point where it takes too long to read an entire single drive you might as well start using multiple drives to add capacity rather than having bigger drives.
Taking too long is subjective, but I'd say this: how long can you make your boss/customer wait whilst you are restoring an entire disk image from backup? 27 hours or 2.7 hours? or 25 minutes?
So 70GB would be about the limit if you have impatient users and bosses.
Larger capacities are OK if they are to hold data that aren't important enough to be backed up, and don't require masses of data to be available quickly. Or you are doing mirroring and read speeds are important but write speeds aren't as important (but remember that restoring from backup = writing;) ).
There are plenty of people around who'd never find the plentiful news sources. And these people outnumber the others who can.
Once an entity becomes famous or important, the tendency is for it to become buyable. And if it becomes consistently famous/important enough, Big Media will buy it. Thus the conglomerates will maintain their dominance.
There are plenty of Cola flavoured drink sources. But the "Joe Public" has only room in his brain for a handful of brands, or maybe just two or three.
There are plenty of politicians. But "Joe Public" only can think about voting Republican or Democrat (even if both candidates are _Owned_ by Corp America).
"He thinks it is OK for HIM to have such things, but DAMN IT! us normal people shouldn't!"
When were normal people owners of large media conglomerates?
You really should RTFA.
He's complaining that even if normal people WANT to do stuff he used to do, they are unlikely to succeed. And that things are pretty bad.
He's complaining the game isn't fun or even becoming a farce coz the referee isn't doing a good job.
Quote: "I freely admit: When I was in the media business, especially after the federal government changed the rules to favor large companies, I tried to sweep the board, and I came within one move of owning every link up and down the media chain. Yet I felt then, as I do now, that the government was not doing its job. The role of the government ought to be like the role of a referee in boxing, keeping the big guys from killing the little guys. If the little guy gets knocked down, the referee should send the big guy to his corner, count the little guy out, and then help him back up. But today the government has cast down its duty, and media competition is less like boxing and more like professional wrestling: The wrestler and the referee are both kicking the guy on the canvas. "
RTFA. He knows what he's talking about in that article while obviously you and more than half of Slashdot don't.
Hey maybe a bunch of females just thought it looked sexy. And that is often enough to outweigh all the other negatives. No matter how efficient you are, there are no subsequent generations if you don't get to reproduce:).
There are plenty of inefficient and not so evolutionarily robust creatures around (many are actually going extinct even without our "help"), they're only around coz life isn't that harsh or competitive where they live.
Another thing, I believe the ability to throw rocks and stuff fast and accurately can probably deter many large predators. Esp if you have a fair number of rock throwers in the group.
I also read somewhere that walking and carrying stuff balanced on your head is actually more efficient than carrying it on a backpack.
"When/If licenses do change to take into account for dual core chips, how will they address hyperthreaded processors where only bits and pieces of the core are duplicated? Should these count as 1, or 1.3, or 2 processors?"
Ah, it looks like you need to attend the 2 day Sales training course for Product ABC. Only USD1799 specially for you.
Heh, I wonder how many people here actually understand what you're talking about. Looks like most don't.
You'd still have to change the RSS protocol. Plus I think HTTP keepalives aren't usually expected to stay alive for that long (even if it's allowed, many systems may make assumptions).
An issue you may have to deal with is some firewalls may time out and close the connection. Unless you send dummy packets, that'll complicate things.
Also I'm not sure if popular load balancers would like that sort of thing - these are used to more actively balance/distribute traffic to webservers - typically they also keep track of connections and response times. I daresay a few news sites use these things (rather than the DNS balancing method).
Perhaps this problem could be reduced if there was better and more transparent web caching spread about the world (ISPs etc). Then the caches take the load where possible.
Trouble with reading a lot is kids don't usually have long enough arms to make it easy to hold books at the proper reading distance.
So I believe there's a higher risk of them becoming short sighted (there probably aren't enough scientific studies to prove it yet, but so far it sure seems that way). Well I suppose nowadays it's better to be a bit shortsighted (as long as it's correctable) than to be illiterate, or to be a poor/nonreader.
Plenty of the cartoons on the cartoon network/nickelodeon are pretty extreme. I wouldn't let kids watch those...
Disney is a bit more insidious:).
I don't have kids. But I figure you just have to brainwash your kids properly before they get brainwashed by MTV and friends.
It's fine if they think Beavis and Butthead are funny+sick. But if they grow up thinking Beavis and Butthead are role models or something, that's trouble.
Google's approach works coz when you look for something, you get a relevant ad for it. So guess what, people are far far more likely to click on the ad, coz hey it's what they're looking for.
The stupider marketing/advertising people think they'll sell more by ALWAYS having their ad show up. Then they complain about very low click throughs and conversions to sale. Doh.
They should get a clue. I don't spend 99% of my life thinking about your stupid widget, if I did, I probably wouldn't have money to buy it. If you keep shoving it in my face, I'll start to get used to ignoring it. If you make it hard to ignore, I'd just get more and more annoyed.
Someone once said that he knows half of his advertising works. He just doesn't know which half. Well, Google's approach increases the odds a bit.
It'll be really stupid to advertise ribs+steak restaurants when someone is looking for vegan burgers. You know that "half" won't work, so why would you want to spend money advertising for this "half"?
"You know I once had one ask me while I had a printer in bits if he could print on it. I had to say no on account of it was in the middle of being repaired"
"Encounters like that frighten me"
Really? There's a good reason why divers who repair boat propellers etc have the boat keys (and spare keys) in a very safe place (e.g. with them) while they dive.
Think about it... Scary huh? Remember this if you ever have to repair potentially dangerous machinery.
Slashdot Mirror
"Kevin Rose is a wannabe hacker (or cracker, whatever term you want to use) who tries to portray himself as a technology guru. "
Sure he's not that "1337" but you're probably just jealous - he has a girlfriend and you don't, he actually gets email from nonspammers, etc etc.
It's a US TV show, what are you expecting d'oh? As is it's already too "1337" for the TV bosses that they're dumbing down TechTV into another channel.
Uh. Well some of us learnt a few things new about gmail.
1) It actually goes up to 1023MB, not 1000MB.
2) Inbound email bandwidth per account is probably more than 20Mbps.
3) You can't login for a few days if people fill it up rapidly with 5MB attachments.
At least some nerds would be interested.
There are countries where software patents don't apply.
Well, if they use the doom3 engine they'll probably be OK.
There are many games which use the Quake3 engine (JKII, RTCW, etc). And they perform well on hardware that's good for the Quake3 engine.
In fact with the exception of a handful of other game engines (e.g. Unreal), most suck and have a poor fps for the eyecandy you get.
Well you can do stuff like this with perl, CPAN.
:).
CPAN is definitely code reuse
"What's your opinion on karma-whoring trolls, who copy/paste someone else's posts hoping to get modded-up? Is it OK to you? After all, "you don't believe in copyright, any of it".
You are also overreacting the other way. There's a significant difference between copying and plagiarism. Plagiarism requires lying/untruthfulness and intent.
If someone reuses your words, but cites the original author, or even only says "someone else said this", that is not plagiarism, that is quoting. Whereas if someone intentionally copies material and misrepresents it as his/her original, that is plagiarism (or even fraud in some cases). If someone genuinely recreates the words, it's not plagiarism.
If all the popular quotations, phrases and words in the world were copyrighted then without fair/reasonable use clauses, only those with the most copyrights could speak.
I believe copyrights (even GPL) should last at most for 7 or so years. It should definitely not be 20 or more years. And whatever that has been freed to the public cannot be bound again.
As is, people who work to extend the coverage and duration of copyrights are the real thieves - for they actually remove/limit access to works (that would have otherwise become public property). Unlike theft, copying does not remove/limit access. Copying usually increases access.
Anyone working on a cure for your recurring kidney stones or are they only working on treating the symptoms?
There must be a chemical which is secreted in normal humans to inhibit the formation of kidney stones.
I suppose there's less money in this. I remember when people found a cure for a chronic disease like stomach ulcers (most cases caused by h. pylori) the drug company selling tagamet and friends definitely lost a cash cow.
In my opinion for these things, the main problem is not how well it works, it's how well it fails.
It has to fail better than the system it's supposed to replace. It's easy to design a system that works well, it's not so easy to design a system that fails well.
The cost of human brains, training (and incompetence) is typically a sunk cost - you're going to have those already whether you want to or not - esp for situations where the systems fail (unless the systems can be reliable enough which is unlikely).
"In the USA at least, commercial airline travel is much much safer than riding in a conventional automobile."
Which stats please? Per trip, per km or per hour of travel?
The last I checked they're about the same per trip. Airplanes aren't that safe. They are safe, but they aren't that safe - if you want safe pick your airline and flight accordingly.
Why aren't you getting more than 23MB/sec? Running out of CPU with your scp?
Have you tried a nonencrypted network copy of similar sized dummy data? How fast is it?
If the data doesn't change that much every night and you have enough disk space on the tape server you could try using cvsup. But you need enough CPU to keep up.
No.
"In an effort to increase literacy, about 2,000 of the characters used in China have been simplified. These simplified characters are also used in Singapore, but in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and Malaysia the traditional characters are still used."
And many of the simplified characters _really_ look different - no resemblance to the traditional versions.
Then there are the stylized versions of these (similar to cursive vs print).
"You forget the important fact that as the drive DENSITY increases, so does the amount of data read per revolution of the platters"
The _evidence_ of actual transfer rates is more important that your "important fact".
This might be helpful. Select WB99 transfer rate - Begin.
If you have evidence of significantly faster single drives do let me know.
Drive speeds haven't really gone up tremendously. Still too slow.
;) ).
Imagine you have a 1TB drive, but were stuck at a 100MB/sec max seq transfer rate. It takes you 2.7 hours to read/write the entire drive. And that's for _sequential_ access. Gets ugly for random seek.
A similar speed 10TB drive will take you more than a day (27+ hours) to read sequentially.
Before the point where it takes too long to read an entire single drive you might as well start using multiple drives to add capacity rather than having bigger drives.
Taking too long is subjective, but I'd say this: how long can you make your boss/customer wait whilst you are restoring an entire disk image from backup? 27 hours or 2.7 hours? or 25 minutes?
So 70GB would be about the limit if you have impatient users and bosses.
Larger capacities are OK if they are to hold data that aren't important enough to be backed up, and don't require masses of data to be available quickly. Or you are doing mirroring and read speeds are important but write speeds aren't as important (but remember that restoring from backup = writing
There are plenty of people around who'd never find the plentiful news sources. And these people outnumber the others who can.
Once an entity becomes famous or important, the tendency is for it to become buyable. And if it becomes consistently famous/important enough, Big Media will buy it. Thus the conglomerates will maintain their dominance.
There are plenty of Cola flavoured drink sources. But the "Joe Public" has only room in his brain for a handful of brands, or maybe just two or three.
There are plenty of politicians. But "Joe Public" only can think about voting Republican or Democrat (even if both candidates are _Owned_ by Corp America).
I'm curious to see what happens to Google.
"He thinks it is OK for HIM to have such things, but DAMN IT! us normal people shouldn't!"
When were normal people owners of large media conglomerates?
You really should RTFA.
He's complaining that even if normal people WANT to do stuff he used to do, they are unlikely to succeed. And that things are pretty bad.
He's complaining the game isn't fun or even becoming a farce coz the referee isn't doing a good job.
Quote:
"I freely admit: When I was in the media business, especially after the federal government changed the rules to favor large companies, I tried to sweep the board, and I came within one move of owning every link up and down the media chain. Yet I felt then, as I do now, that the government was not doing its job. The role of the government ought to be like the role of a referee in boxing, keeping the big guys from killing the little guys. If the little guy gets knocked down, the referee should send the big guy to his corner, count the little guy out, and then help him back up. But today the government has cast down its duty, and media competition is less like boxing and more like professional wrestling: The wrestler and the referee are both kicking the guy on the canvas. "
RTFA. He knows what he's talking about in that article while obviously you and more than half of Slashdot don't.
? You want him to colourize things again?
"in cold climates, a backpack will "keep warm". This is probably the reason you see the "headpack" only in tropical countries"
Yah. Wind conditions and fluffy head gear for warmth might make balancing stuff on heads much harder.
Hey maybe a bunch of females just thought it looked sexy. And that is often enough to outweigh all the other negatives. No matter how efficient you are, there are no subsequent generations if you don't get to reproduce :).
There are plenty of inefficient and not so evolutionarily robust creatures around (many are actually going extinct even without our "help"), they're only around coz life isn't that harsh or competitive where they live.
Another thing, I believe the ability to throw rocks and stuff fast and accurately can probably deter many large predators. Esp if you have a fair number of rock throwers in the group.
I also read somewhere that walking and carrying stuff balanced on your head is actually more efficient than carrying it on a backpack.
What's so special about the iPod's scroll wheel?
My old Mag 17" monitor has a pressable wheel to control the settings. Rotate wheel to highlight item, press the wheel to select highlighted item.
But yeah, if you can satisfy Steve Jobs, you've gone a long way towards making a decent product. He's the one who wanted "insanely great" stuff.
But my Gov charges different road tax/license fees depending on the car engine's cubic capacity.
It does make the RX7 road tax rather cheaper. And I wonder how they'd deal with fuel cell electric cars.
"When/If licenses do change to take into account for dual core chips, how will they address hyperthreaded processors where only bits and pieces of the core are duplicated? Should these count as 1, or 1.3, or 2 processors?"
Ah, it looks like you need to attend the 2 day Sales training course for Product ABC. Only USD1799 specially for you.
Heh, I wonder how many people here actually understand what you're talking about. Looks like most don't.
You'd still have to change the RSS protocol. Plus I think HTTP keepalives aren't usually expected to stay alive for that long (even if it's allowed, many systems may make assumptions).
An issue you may have to deal with is some firewalls may time out and close the connection. Unless you send dummy packets, that'll complicate things.
Also I'm not sure if popular load balancers would like that sort of thing - these are used to more actively balance/distribute traffic to webservers - typically they also keep track of connections and response times. I daresay a few news sites use these things (rather than the DNS balancing method).
Perhaps this problem could be reduced if there was better and more transparent web caching spread about the world (ISPs etc). Then the caches take the load where possible.
Trouble with reading a lot is kids don't usually have long enough arms to make it easy to hold books at the proper reading distance.
:).
So I believe there's a higher risk of them becoming short sighted (there probably aren't enough scientific studies to prove it yet, but so far it sure seems that way). Well I suppose nowadays it's better to be a bit shortsighted (as long as it's correctable) than to be illiterate, or to be a poor/nonreader.
Plenty of the cartoons on the cartoon network/nickelodeon are pretty extreme. I wouldn't let kids watch those...
Disney is a bit more insidious
I don't have kids. But I figure you just have to brainwash your kids properly before they get brainwashed by MTV and friends.
It's fine if they think Beavis and Butthead are funny+sick. But if they grow up thinking Beavis and Butthead are role models or something, that's trouble.
Google's approach works coz when you look for something, you get a relevant ad for it. So guess what, people are far far more likely to click on the ad, coz hey it's what they're looking for.
The stupider marketing/advertising people think they'll sell more by ALWAYS having their ad show up. Then they complain about very low click throughs and conversions to sale. Doh.
They should get a clue. I don't spend 99% of my life thinking about your stupid widget, if I did, I probably wouldn't have money to buy it. If you keep shoving it in my face, I'll start to get used to ignoring it. If you make it hard to ignore, I'd just get more and more annoyed.
Someone once said that he knows half of his advertising works. He just doesn't know which half. Well, Google's approach increases the odds a bit.
It'll be really stupid to advertise ribs+steak restaurants when someone is looking for vegan burgers. You know that "half" won't work, so why would you want to spend money advertising for this "half"?
"You know I once had one ask me while I had a printer in bits if he could print on it. I had to say no on account of it was in the middle of being repaired"
"Encounters like that frighten me"
Really? There's a good reason why divers who repair boat propellers etc have the boat keys (and spare keys) in a very safe place (e.g. with them) while they dive.
Think about it... Scary huh? Remember this if you ever have to repair potentially dangerous machinery.