Sort of bad examples, because automobiles and heart surgery have helped shaped society and brought new advances in the ages.
Sort of along those same lines the question of "Do we need telephones, cable/satellite tv, etc." Basically making the point that the internet is another form of media delievery. Just so happens that cable/satellite tv is one way and the telephone is usually limited to one person, you have a broad content on demand information delievery service combined with a great communication tool that has standardized itself that for everyone on the internet, it's local.
So has the internet had a chance to shape society? Not yet, the "children of the internet" are still in college, and still just getting their first jobs. We (the children of the internet) won't be running the world for about 20 more years, you know right about the time the internet stops being cool?
But it will be a pivot point, when the standard of the internet starts to full replace medium delivery options it will make antiquated, such as cable/satellite TV and the telephone. It's already been proven that you can watch a sitcom on the internet and make a phone call on the internet. When it's standard that everyone has some type of "messenger" and standard voice and visual components, we'll have a valid replacement for the telephone/television.
But yeah, I do still agree with you, just thought that comparing the internet to something as vital for life as heart surgery or the automobile was a bit not fair to heary surgery and the automobile.
One has never been caught, most footage is obviously faked... and well yeah...
BigFoot is not real I don't care how many PhD's are duped into thinking it is. Obviously a Native American Ape would be a great find, but alas, it's not true...
Proof is in the pudding... BigFoot, Lockness Monster, and Aliens all have PhD's claming their are respectfully real, yet absolutely not one iota of compelling evidence to prove it.
I'm pretty sure even crack dealers have stopped doing business with them (look at SCO's previous business partners).
"War on drugs? It's hard enough to go to school on drugs" -Gobi SNL
SCO Lawyer - "You can't sue crack dealers, that's admitting guilt of drug usage and purchase"
SCO Exec - "So, look if it's going to get a few more points on the market, I'm for it."
SCO Lawyer - "Do you prefer the words controlled substance or are we sticking with 'Crack Rocks'?"
"You're either with us or against us" - President George W. Bush.
The United States "Patriot Act" is nothing more than a shit document that takes and nullfies the constitution we so love and cherish. The legislation was reactionary and we will be facing the horrors of its placement for years to come. Welcome to the American police-state.
It's stated right there that if you are suspected of terrorism, you are screwed. YET, there is no definition of what a "terrorist" is or does in the entire document. Quite possibly for writing this post to slashdot I may be considered a terrorist.
As a slashdot sig once said:
"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you."
Write your senator and congressman and hope and pray that we can once again call ourselves "Members of the land of the free and the brave" and not "Members of the land of the mostly free and scared".
... but wouldn't the fact the market for supercomputers isn't exactly that large. I mean you've got governmental contracts (research, educational, who knows what) that have to take up 95% of all the purchases made, and then a small private market. I mean how many companies are striving for a petaflop machine to run their database server?
If you look at the list of top 100 supercomputers, there are systems that are almost 15 years old or even older (not sure on a few). I know these take years to build and are multibillion dollar projects, but between time has got to be a killer.
Then there's the question of... what do you need a supercomputer for? The applications are pretty limited for a need for a petaflop computer, unless your doing mass storage, cryptography (cracking), or simulations.
Don't get me wrong I'm all about nuclear testing being done in 1's and 0's instead of in the ocean or in the desert, but how big of a bomb do you really need when it's estimated theres enough nukes to blast the entire land surface of the earth 3 times over.
$1K for 1GB this isn't really as "cost effective" as the poster was thinking.
Considering pricewatch sets a GB of ram at $86.00 for PC 133 and $307.00 for DDR4000... are you really paying $900 for a mounting kit that makes the ram look like a harddrive?
Prices are in USD, please multiply by 20 for Canadian prices, thank you.
I gave away an idea before... I'll do it again...
Front:
"I may be an out of work computer science graduate"
Back:
"But I still read slashdot every hour!"
I don't think it's fair to say, "here have this system of subpoena's to follow and do all the detective work for us". I think that the RIAA should have to actually hunt these people down themselves, it's too insane to think that companies like SBC are just going to sit back and take extra work to hurt their business. I say subpoena the screennames and if no one owns up to them, then I guess the RIAA is screwed out of their money.
If someone breaks my car window, I can't subpoena everyone who owned a camera in the area to show me all the photos they took that day, then why on earth can I go to an ISP and say, check your logs for a user at this IP and give me their name/address.
I mean lets face it the smarter robots get the more we advance as a race. If we can understand the minds we program to be able to see the logic or logical answer then we better start to understand ourselves.
But the problem being it begins to raise questions about the future, if we model a machine after ourselves so much will it be our demise? Science fiction has a way of blowing things out of proportion. When we first started seeing atomic weapons there was a fear we'd destroy the world over and over again, but we haven't yet.
I think the more we learn to understand ourselves the closer we are to advancing the human race to the next level of existance.
"Forget about exploring space, we still don't have the slightest clue about our own bodies".
Plus the formfactor makes me wonder exactly where you're supposed to put this damned thing. Might as well get over putting this in anything smaller than an ATX board.
... it was bugging me so I looked a little closer.
The camera's 802.11b thing plugs into the camera in two places, one to the USB port and the other to the power source. It then has the ability to transmit the photos to an ftp server.
No mention of WEP or any other type of net xfer.
Seems to me you'd want to set up an upload only account on the ftp server. Just in case someone gets some bright idea to start grabbing ftp accounts.
Don't know why it requires two plugs (later hack more than likely), but this thing looks like it takes up quite a bit space and it doesn't look like you can keep the camera on the trripod when it's plugged in.
I mean come on lets face it sex really isn't all that simple. Do you know 101 ways to please a woman without reading the book, or a 101 ways to please a man for that matter. There are many things about sex more than "Penis goes in hole, repeat until ejactulation". I know the site is primarily male here, but many woman get the shaft "in a non literal meaning" when it comes to heterosexual sex beause most men know what they've taught themselves. Masturbation is about the only sexual outlet for males until around highschool age and trust me you aren't thinking about pleasing the other partner, you're used to what you know, getting your jollies off.
Needless to say "You don't need to tell anyone anything" is a load of horseshit. There are enough teenage pregnancies, std's and sexually frustrated partners out there to prove me right.
Like I said, there's a whole lot more to having sex than sticking a penis in a hole.
Centrally communicate (anyone from around the world can join the same chat room).
But let's get into to why when I was a teenager (soo long ago *cough* 3 years ago *cough*)
1.) Private password protected conversations (no more parents overhearing part if not both parts of a conversation over the phone). You have the ability to talk with others without the fear of the parents figuring out what the hell is going on.
2.) Sex. While it may seem a bit innapropriate for the older crowd here, most people from the age of 13+ have sex on the mind, either sex appeal or actually shagging. While of course there may not be a whole lot of knowledge in the area, there's still the curiosity and since mom and dad usually won't take the time to explain sex as it might actually lead to little billy and suzie wanting to try it, they turn to the one source they can find.
3.) Information. Heard something about a war in Iraq, but all you know is mom is indifferent and dad thinks bush is some asshole for it. But you really would like to know what's going on, but can't understand it. Turn to the internet and a search engine, in a few hours you can deem yourself an expert on middle eastern politics.
4.) Pop-Culture. Want to know what's cool and what's not cool and be able to actually survive highschool? Then you need to know what's "hip" and "Cool". So MTV.com and others like it will guide you through the pains of trying to look "normal" and not be a spectacle. There's three types of people in highschool "popular" "normal" and "bad popular". "Bad popular" is basically the kid everyone knows but everyone picks on, if in highschool you want to avoid at all costs this classification. So best way, spend as much dough as you can muster up and stay "normal" with the cool shoes and correct name brands.
5.) Homework. Yes it's true the internet is a vast tool of conquest in knowledge. But even better, no more turning to the index of a book. Hop on to your local libraries website and do a keyword search in a book. AMAZINGLY enough you will know exactly where the boston tea party is mentioned in the first 100 books that are the authroity on the subject. All by never stepping foot in the library, opening the book, or god forbid reading the damned thing. You can find someone elses blog/essay on the subject and get it dumbed down enough to where you can "write it in your own words". "Write it in your own words" is a new form of "writing" where you take the same basic concept and write it in a different manner with different words thus negating any type of plagerism.
All-in-all the TV is there for when someone else is on the computer or there's no emails or active people on your buddy list. Then and only then, you'll hop on the couch and turn on the TV. And what do teenagers watch? Exactly what I said above, but they don't get it in such mass quantities, it's like methadome for a crack addict, keeps ya at bay, but you still don't like it as much.
So like everything else apple does there's a formula.
For every new technology that people find attractive there will be features that people don't like these features will be compounded by the amount of press the application gets, but will always be a number greater than one. (represented by +T^p with T=technology and p=problems)
Some developer/hero will then take the time to fix this problem by creating a program outside the program to eliminate this feature. So this is how you figure if Apple will have a successful product.
+T^p
So in closing If (+T^p
Give it a week someone will figure a way to disable apple from destroying your precious mp3 collection.
Gotta give apple some credit where credit is due, they are trying to control your multimedia yet again.
... of the US government cowering to corperate america. When are they going to start to realize that this country relies on its citizens and not the elietest upperclass business men. When is it that "We the people.." will mean everyone. I'm sick of these shot from the hip laws that make the common man even less of a man because of the corperate chains that keep us in slavery!!!
What? They overturned a decision like that, shit. Well keep going, nothing to see here.
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Sort of along those same lines the question of "Do we need telephones, cable/satellite tv, etc." Basically making the point that the internet is another form of media delievery. Just so happens that cable/satellite tv is one way and the telephone is usually limited to one person, you have a broad content on demand information delievery service combined with a great communication tool that has standardized itself that for everyone on the internet, it's local.
So has the internet had a chance to shape society? Not yet, the "children of the internet" are still in college, and still just getting their first jobs. We (the children of the internet) won't be running the world for about 20 more years, you know right about the time the internet stops being cool?
But it will be a pivot point, when the standard of the internet starts to full replace medium delivery options it will make antiquated, such as cable/satellite TV and the telephone. It's already been proven that you can watch a sitcom on the internet and make a phone call on the internet. When it's standard that everyone has some type of "messenger" and standard voice and visual components, we'll have a valid replacement for the telephone/television.
But yeah, I do still agree with you, just thought that comparing the internet to something as vital for life as heart surgery or the automobile was a bit not fair to heary surgery and the automobile.
BigFoot is not real I don't care how many PhD's are duped into thinking it is. Obviously a Native American Ape would be a great find, but alas, it's not true...
Proof is in the pudding
"War on drugs? It's hard enough to go to school on drugs" -Gobi SNL
SCO Lawyer - "You can't sue crack dealers, that's admitting guilt of drug usage and purchase"
SCO Exec - "So, look if it's going to get a few more points on the market, I'm for it."
SCO Lawyer - "Do you prefer the words controlled substance or are we sticking with 'Crack Rocks'?"
Speeding, p2p file sharing, etc.
Glad to know you've got such a profound trust for the "system". I'll go buy my redwood furniture now.
The concept is new and untested, but I think we might see surprising results.
He's probaly only using dial-up, no broadband, hell that sounds pretty minimalistic to me ...
But where the hell is santa gunna live if his homeland is melted??
The United States "Patriot Act" is nothing more than a shit document that takes and nullfies the constitution we so love and cherish. The legislation was reactionary and we will be facing the horrors of its placement for years to come. Welcome to the American police-state.
It's stated right there that if you are suspected of terrorism, you are screwed. YET, there is no definition of what a "terrorist" is or does in the entire document. Quite possibly for writing this post to slashdot I may be considered a terrorist.
As a slashdot sig once said:
"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you."
Write your senator and congressman and hope and pray that we can once again call ourselves "Members of the land of the free and the brave" and not "Members of the land of the mostly free and scared".
Glad to see the REAL criminals being put where they belong, hey aren't ALL the Enron executives still free?
and also, I'm outraged that after Oct 15th they're going to be charging TWICE AS MUCH! 1398.00 seems a whole lot more fair than 699.00.
And lastly, I would like to pay that in yen, if my calculations are correct 699 yen is roughly $6. :-)
If you look at the list of top 100 supercomputers, there are systems that are almost 15 years old or even older (not sure on a few). I know these take years to build and are multibillion dollar projects, but between time has got to be a killer.
Then there's the question of ... what do you need a supercomputer for? The applications are pretty limited for a need for a petaflop computer, unless your doing mass storage, cryptography (cracking), or simulations.
Don't get me wrong I'm all about nuclear testing being done in 1's and 0's instead of in the ocean or in the desert, but how big of a bomb do you really need when it's estimated theres enough nukes to blast the entire land surface of the earth 3 times over.
Considering pricewatch sets a GB of ram at $86.00 for PC 133 and $307.00 for DDR4000 ... are you really paying $900 for a mounting kit that makes the ram look like a harddrive?
Prices are in USD, please multiply by 20 for Canadian prices, thank you.
1.) Can you get insurance, both life and rocket insurance for this type of amateur space travel?
2.) What if they get stuck in space and can't re-enter orbit safely, is NASA/Russia going to make a rescue attempt?
3.) If they do make it and then land, does this mean that it is of course more than possible for any average joe to go to space?
4.) What's next, M-Prize, first man to mars and back?
I gave away an idea before ... I'll do it again ...
Front:
"I may be an out of work computer science graduate"
Back:
"But I still read slashdot every hour!"
If someone breaks my car window, I can't subpoena everyone who owned a camera in the area to show me all the photos they took that day, then why on earth can I go to an ISP and say, check your logs for a user at this IP and give me their name/address.
But the problem being it begins to raise questions about the future, if we model a machine after ourselves so much will it be our demise? Science fiction has a way of blowing things out of proportion. When we first started seeing atomic weapons there was a fear we'd destroy the world over and over again, but we haven't yet.
I think the more we learn to understand ourselves the closer we are to advancing the human race to the next level of existance.
"Forget about exploring space, we still don't have the slightest clue about our own bodies".
Now I can lose 1 remoted and disable up to 8 devices!!!
Ummm if a script kiddie does get in, it makes it nearly impossible to patch as well. Goes both ways.
Plus the formfactor makes me wonder exactly where you're supposed to put this damned thing. Might as well get over putting this in anything smaller than an ATX board.
The camera's 802.11b thing plugs into the camera in two places, one to the USB port and the other to the power source. It then has the ability to transmit the photos to an ftp server.
No mention of WEP or any other type of net xfer.
Seems to me you'd want to set up an upload only account on the ftp server. Just in case someone gets some bright idea to start grabbing ftp accounts.
Don't know why it requires two plugs (later hack more than likely), but this thing looks like it takes up quite a bit space and it doesn't look like you can keep the camera on the trripod when it's plugged in.
I mean come on lets face it sex really isn't all that simple. Do you know 101 ways to please a woman without reading the book, or a 101 ways to please a man for that matter. There are many things about sex more than "Penis goes in hole, repeat until ejactulation". I know the site is primarily male here, but many woman get the shaft "in a non literal meaning" when it comes to heterosexual sex beause most men know what they've taught themselves. Masturbation is about the only sexual outlet for males until around highschool age and trust me you aren't thinking about pleasing the other partner, you're used to what you know, getting your jollies off.
Needless to say "You don't need to tell anyone anything" is a load of horseshit. There are enough teenage pregnancies, std's and sexually frustrated partners out there to prove me right.
Like I said, there's a whole lot more to having sex than sticking a penis in a hole.
See naked people (hell even autopron posts on /.)
Centrally communicate (anyone from around the world can join the same chat room).
But let's get into to why when I was a teenager (soo long ago *cough* 3 years ago *cough*)
1.) Private password protected conversations (no more parents overhearing part if not both parts of a conversation over the phone). You have the ability to talk with others without the fear of the parents figuring out what the hell is going on.
2.) Sex. While it may seem a bit innapropriate for the older crowd here, most people from the age of 13+ have sex on the mind, either sex appeal or actually shagging. While of course there may not be a whole lot of knowledge in the area, there's still the curiosity and since mom and dad usually won't take the time to explain sex as it might actually lead to little billy and suzie wanting to try it, they turn to the one source they can find.
3.) Information. Heard something about a war in Iraq, but all you know is mom is indifferent and dad thinks bush is some asshole for it. But you really would like to know what's going on, but can't understand it. Turn to the internet and a search engine, in a few hours you can deem yourself an expert on middle eastern politics.
4.) Pop-Culture. Want to know what's cool and what's not cool and be able to actually survive highschool? Then you need to know what's "hip" and "Cool". So MTV.com and others like it will guide you through the pains of trying to look "normal" and not be a spectacle. There's three types of people in highschool "popular" "normal" and "bad popular". "Bad popular" is basically the kid everyone knows but everyone picks on, if in highschool you want to avoid at all costs this classification. So best way, spend as much dough as you can muster up and stay "normal" with the cool shoes and correct name brands.
5.) Homework. Yes it's true the internet is a vast tool of conquest in knowledge. But even better, no more turning to the index of a book. Hop on to your local libraries website and do a keyword search in a book. AMAZINGLY enough you will know exactly where the boston tea party is mentioned in the first 100 books that are the authroity on the subject. All by never stepping foot in the library, opening the book, or god forbid reading the damned thing. You can find someone elses blog/essay on the subject and get it dumbed down enough to where you can "write it in your own words". "Write it in your own words" is a new form of "writing" where you take the same basic concept and write it in a different manner with different words thus negating any type of plagerism.
All-in-all the TV is there for when someone else is on the computer or there's no emails or active people on your buddy list. Then and only then, you'll hop on the couch and turn on the TV. And what do teenagers watch? Exactly what I said above, but they don't get it in such mass quantities, it's like methadome for a crack addict, keeps ya at bay, but you still don't like it as much.
For every new technology that people find attractive there will be features that people don't like these features will be compounded by the amount of press the application gets, but will always be a number greater than one. (represented by +T^p with T=technology and p=problems)
Some developer/hero will then take the time to fix this problem by creating a program outside the program to eliminate this feature. So this is how you figure if Apple will have a successful product.
+T^p So in closing If (+T^p Give it a week someone will figure a way to disable apple from destroying your precious mp3 collection.
Gotta give apple some credit where credit is due, they are trying to control your multimedia yet again.
What? They overturned a decision like that, shit. Well keep going, nothing to see here.
Actually ... if you were getting screwed ... you wouldn't need kazaa's sharing of the porn industries files ...