My (hello) world brings all the boys to the yard, And their like It's smaller than yours, Damn right it's smaller than yours, I can teach you, But I have to charge
Yeah, I really would forward the address of a 41 year old party girl to my personal account. Her experience and the thrill of catching a STD will clearly benefit my sex live.
Although this is/. and people are more interested in technical questions, for me the really interesting question is: How can they encrypt the "metadata" on broadcasts – including the assistive information used by deaf and blind people ?
I mean, this basically means all of the broadcast can be copied and used in any way imaginable except for the part of the broadcast which is important to the handicapped ? This sounds sort of immoral to me.
True, I just wanted to point out that most arguments here can be proven wrong by one counter example.
Nearly everything in engineering involves a tradeoff. So arguments leading to statements like language a is better than language b are nearly always wrong.
Also garbage collection is turned off in real-time systems not because of space complexity but because of time complexity. For real-time systems the important factors are the deadlines for given tasks.
Additionally, normally garbage collection does not improve the time complexity of an algorithm but the space complexity, because it avoids memory leaks and possibly fragmentation.
Ah, that must be the reason real-time systems disable garbage collection. It's just more efficient and outperforms manual memory management all the time.
It depends on exactly what is encoded with this number. If it is a pixel in an image flipping one bit won't destroy the image. The same is true for video and plain text. Flipping a bit in a text file would change exactly on letter.
The problem lies in the encoding and the type of information saved.
If, for example, a binary format is used, there has to be a way to identifiy the borders of the different data formats. For information of fixed length, this can be done with counting. If the information has no fixed length, this can be done with byte stuffing.
If we want to save a linked list in a binary format using byte stuffing, we would take one byte and define it to be the new list character. Then we code the list in a way that our list character newer turns up in the expression used to save a list. Normally this is done by defining an escape character which tells us that the next character is not the special character used for byte stuffing.
For example, we want to save a list of sentences using ASCII and define the pipe symbol "|" as special character. The resulting file would look like this:
Hello world|This is a simple example|for the almighty interweb
Now, the only way the file would turn out to be unusable after flipping a bit is, if a bit of the byte used for the pipe symbol was flipped. Flipping any other bit would change the meaning, but the program would be able to load it anyway.
So it depends on what and how it is saved. For most media files flipping a bit would not render the file useless. For an account it probably would.
If the data is important, add redundancy, that is additional bits for error correction. If the data is not important, don't add redundancy because it increases the file size.
That is exactly the reason why compressed files are useless after a flipped bit. A compression algorithm removes redundant bits to decrease file size.
Google has created a technology to adress the shortcomings of an old standard and now, as the new one reaches it's final state, Google tells us to use it.
You're probably right about the Web 2.0 vs. Web 1.0 thing. But the rest of your post is just ignorant.
First, let's consider Moore's law. As it is based on the size of transistors it will come to an end. There is a physical limit to the size of transistors, just think about the size of an atom, for example.
Then your five usage categories for computers, namely calculations, entertainment, information retrieval, image manipulation, and word processing, are just wrong.
Computers can do exactly on thing, calculations. Every other use is derived from this. This aside let's look at your other four categories.
Entertainment - Sure this is one use, but nearly everything can and is used for entertainment. And entertainment was there long before computers so I don't see how this is a category for computer usage. Just think about books, theaters, sports, games and the like.
Information retrieval - You are right here, but you know database management is not the same as information retrieval. Information retrieval is a technology to retrieve information relevant to a specific topic. A database can be used for that, but database management is the technology used to optimise databases. Information retrieval includes crawlers to get the information, generation of an index, searching for relevant content for a given request, etc.
Image manipulation - This is just a subset of signal processing. Signal processing (including generation) comes down to generate and manipulate signals of arbitrary dimensions. If you are using 2 dimensions, these signals could be images, if you are using 1 dimension your signal could be an audio signal. So you are totaly ignorant to image generation, processing, audio manipulation, generation, processing, pattern matching, machine learning,...
Word processing - This is true, I think.
Also you are forgetting about improving the efficiency in terms of energy consumption, lowering the entry barrier in terms of ease of use and cost, security, robotics, controlling factories, simulation (not for entertainment), autonomous systems and as pointed out before the most common use for computers, communication.
Therefore, as your assumptions are wrong, your conclusion is wrong. It seems you used a computer 20 years ago, never tried anything new and you are predicting the future with no imagination.
In computer science this is known as garbage in, garbage out.
He isn't dumb, but he knows he is too big to fail. He has many, many employees who would do everything he says to avoid being fired. This means he doesn't care about things I would consider important, like how do I get home ? etc.
For example if I am out of fuel, I would have to walk a long way to the next gas station, while he just calls a security guard and makes him do his bidding.
So he isn't dumb, he has a huge network and the power to influence the masses.
Nowadays we rely on computer tabloids to deliver utterly useless articles on slow news days.
In the olden days we got a town crier for this purpose. Every day he delivered the news of the day in a mild and melodic voice, clearly superior to an eye-abusing web page or an unmanageable and oversized paper. Also if they delivered completely bogus and boring news, there was a very direct way to communicate your annoyance. And if the other options fail, you could easily initiate one the very thrilling and entertaining whichhunts, a joy for the whole family.
So clearly, even the media delivering this unbelievable interesting story had a superior alternative.
There are many who won't use math for several reasons. I think they should use math. Not to prove that their ideas are right, but to describe them in a short, well defined way and as a tool for communicating and exploring their models. In the end math is just a language for expressing qualitative and quantitativ relations. Everything one can express in math can also be expressed in any modern language (The other way is not so easy), but as soon as it comes to reasoning and logic it is easy to see how one can exploit the expressiveness of modern languages. Actually there are people who are paid for this (don't believe me ? - Just look in your maketing department).
At least, in math, if your axioms and assumptions are right, anything that can be proven also is right.
On the other hand, most assumptions in economics are just wrong. I mean, come on, who really behaves rational all the time ?
If searching would not require a large indexed crawl of the www and if handling the search requests would not require a huge amount of servers, your statement would be true in the search engine business.
If developing a system for mobile phones would not include developing and producing the actual hardware your statement would be true for mobile os.
It all comes down to thrust. If my ISP changes the answers of the root server for non existing adresses how do I know they don't do it for other adresses, too ? And if they use something like deep packet inspection to select my DNS requests and redirect them to their server, it's actually a man in the middle attack. Also known as DSN spoofing and used by many criminals to collect all sorts of information.
Seriously, we have to stop taking crap from those return of investment and cash flow management idiots, who think they can change the way everything works, because they own the infrastructure.
As slashdotters seem to like car analogies, would anyone of you use a navigation system which would give you any directions for not existing streets ? I would throw it out of my car.
Probably I should write a script which just asks for a bogus URL every ms. Also it would follow every link on this site. Let's see for how long this practice is being used if every DNS request is answered by a web site and all their advertisement contractors have to pay for "clicks" by a stoopid script ?
As someone pointed out before, perhaps the real indicator for success is happiness. Then again, I got hit by a car three month ago. In Hospital they kept asking how bad my pain was on a scale from 0 to 10. The pain I would have rated 10 before the accident was a 3 after. That's probably the real answer to being happy, just go down as far as it goes, and in the end the scale has moved and you will be happy.
That's the kind of thinking which made nearly every girl in germany stupid and nearly every man an investment banker.
Think about it, if girls don not listen to anyone trying to teach then technology, we will end up with a bunch of unable artist and stupid models. Because they _will_ listen to tv. They will be made to mindless decoration objects.
At the chair of economics I work for, we got 12 employees excluding the professor. Two of them being male, ten of the being female. The two male employees are from germany and are writing their Ph. d. thesis. One of the female employees is german. She's the secretary. The rest of them comes from Romania, Greece, Iran and China. And that is a chair of Economics. Just imagine how it is at the computer science chair where i write my diploma thesis at.
So at a german university it is much easier to meet an intelligent woman from the eastern civilization than an intelligent german (man or woman).
So it should be: Girls and boys, listen to this because you will be a mindless decoration object if you don't.
Somehow I suspected this is known since Monkey Island.
The whole research went like this: scientist 1: Oh let's research about open games. So what do we know actually ?
scientist 2: Open games are games with a huge world.
scientist 2: Yes.
scientist 1: Then my conclusion is clear. Interesting stories and characters are important, but they must be balanced by varied and entertaining gameplay.
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My (hello) world brings all the boys to the yard,
And their like
It's smaller than yours,
Damn right it's smaller than yours,
I can teach you,
But I have to charge
Yeah, I really would forward the address of a 41 year old party girl to my personal account. Her experience and the thrill of catching a STD will clearly benefit my sex live.
/* ... // Crappy code here
* Sorry, had a couple of beers and no time to fix it, yet
*/
Sounds like Bastard Operator From Hell to me. But it could be the only defense against Incredibly Incompetent Manager From Hell.
Although this is /. and people are more interested in technical questions, for me the really interesting question is: How can they encrypt the "metadata" on broadcasts – including the assistive information used by deaf and blind people ?
I mean, this basically means all of the broadcast can be copied and used in any way imaginable except for the part of the broadcast which is important to the handicapped ? This sounds sort of immoral to me.
A crap, so I am philosophical, technical and diplomatic (in that order) but not seductive. That explains everything.
True, I just wanted to point out that most arguments here can be proven wrong by one counter example.
Nearly everything in engineering involves a tradeoff. So arguments leading to statements like language a is better than language b are nearly always wrong.
Also garbage collection is turned off in real-time systems not because of space complexity but because of time complexity. For real-time systems the important factors are the deadlines for given tasks.
Additionally, normally garbage collection does not improve the time complexity of an algorithm but the space complexity, because it avoids memory leaks and possibly fragmentation.
Ah, that must be the reason real-time systems disable garbage collection. It's just more efficient and outperforms manual memory management all the time.
No, bandwidth hogs normally use file sharing which is implemented with tcp (i. e. bit torrent).
The problem is tcp distributes bandwidth per connection. Someone using more connection gets a bigger part of the available bandwidth.
It depends on exactly what is encoded with this number. If it is a pixel in an image flipping one bit won't destroy the image. The same is true for video and plain text. Flipping a bit in a text file would change exactly on letter.
The problem lies in the encoding and the type of information saved.
If, for example, a binary format is used, there has to be a way to identifiy the borders of the different data formats. For information of fixed length, this can be done with counting. If the information has no fixed length, this can be done with byte stuffing.
If we want to save a linked list in a binary format using byte stuffing, we would take one byte and define it to be the new list character. Then we code the list in a way that our list character newer turns up in the expression used to save a list. Normally this is done by defining an escape character which tells us that the next character is not the special character used for byte stuffing.
For example, we want to save a list of sentences using ASCII and define the pipe symbol "|" as special character. The resulting file would look like this:
Hello world|This is a simple example|for the almighty interweb
Now, the only way the file would turn out to be unusable after flipping a bit is, if a bit of the byte used for the pipe symbol was flipped. Flipping any other bit would change the meaning, but the program would be able to load it anyway.
So it depends on what and how it is saved. For most media files flipping a bit would not render the file useless. For an account it probably would.
If the data is important, add redundancy, that is additional bits for error correction. If the data is not important, don't add redundancy because it increases the file size.
That is exactly the reason why compressed files are useless after a flipped bit. A compression algorithm removes redundant bits to decrease file size.
Some even cheap printers include some good rotary encoders and servos. This robot was build mainly from parts of old streamers and printers.
Google has created a technology to adress the shortcomings of an old standard and now, as the new one reaches it's final state, Google tells us to use it.
You're probably right about the Web 2.0 vs. Web 1.0 thing. But the rest of your post is just ignorant.
First, let's consider Moore's law. As it is based on the size of transistors it will come to an end. There is a physical limit to the size of transistors, just think about the size of an atom, for example.
Then your five usage categories for computers, namely calculations, entertainment, information retrieval, image manipulation, and word processing, are just wrong.
Computers can do exactly on thing, calculations. Every other use is derived from this. This aside let's look at your other four categories.
Entertainment - Sure this is one use, but nearly everything can and is used for entertainment. And entertainment was there long before computers so I don't see how this is a category for computer usage. Just think about books, theaters, sports, games and the like.
Information retrieval - You are right here, but you know database management is not the same as information retrieval. Information retrieval is a technology to retrieve information relevant to a specific topic. A database can be used for that, but database management is the technology used to optimise databases. Information retrieval includes crawlers to get the information, generation of an index, searching for relevant content for a given request, etc.
Image manipulation - This is just a subset of signal processing. Signal processing (including generation) comes down to generate and manipulate signals of arbitrary dimensions. If you are using 2 dimensions, these signals could be images, if you are using 1 dimension your signal could be an audio signal. So you are totaly ignorant to image generation, processing, audio manipulation, generation, processing, pattern matching, machine learning, ...
Word processing - This is true, I think.
Also you are forgetting about improving the efficiency in terms of energy consumption, lowering the entry barrier in terms of ease of use and cost, security, robotics, controlling factories, simulation (not for entertainment), autonomous systems and as pointed out before the most common use for computers, communication.
Therefore, as your assumptions are wrong, your conclusion is wrong. It seems you used a computer 20 years ago, never tried anything new and you are predicting the future with no imagination.
In computer science this is known as garbage in, garbage out.
He isn't dumb, but he knows he is too big to fail. He has many, many employees who would do everything he says to avoid being fired. This means he doesn't care about things I would consider important, like how do I get home ? etc.
For example if I am out of fuel, I would have to walk a long way to the next gas station, while he just calls a security guard and makes him do his bidding.
So he isn't dumb, he has a huge network and the power to influence the masses.
Nowadays we rely on computer tabloids to deliver utterly useless articles on slow news days.
In the olden days we got a town crier for this purpose. Every day he delivered the news of the day in a mild and melodic voice, clearly superior to an eye-abusing web page or an unmanageable and oversized paper. Also if they delivered completely bogus and boring news, there was a very direct way to communicate your annoyance. And if the other options fail, you could easily initiate one the very thrilling and entertaining whichhunts, a joy for the whole family.
So clearly, even the media delivering this unbelievable interesting story had a superior alternative.
Ever used svn ? - You're screwed.
Your analysis is seriously flawed. How can you call probably 1.000.000 servers and approximatly 10 years of data mining a low entry barrier ?
Sure 2^128, we're out of adresses by then.
There are many who won't use math for several reasons. I think they should use math. Not to prove that their ideas are right, but to describe them in a short, well defined way and as a tool for communicating and exploring their models. In the end math is just a language for expressing qualitative and quantitativ relations. Everything one can express in math can also be expressed in any modern language (The other way is not so easy), but as soon as it comes to reasoning and logic it is easy to see how one can exploit the expressiveness of modern languages. Actually there are people who are paid for this (don't believe me ? - Just look in your maketing department).
At least, in math, if your axioms and assumptions are right, anything that can be proven also is right.
On the other hand, most assumptions in economics are just wrong. I mean, come on, who really behaves rational all the time ?
Yes, we have to solve the tragedy of the commons.
If searching would not require a large indexed crawl of the www and if handling the search requests would not require a huge amount of servers, your statement would be true in the search engine business.
If developing a system for mobile phones would not include developing and producing the actual hardware your statement would be true for mobile os.
It all comes down to thrust. If my ISP changes the answers of the root server for non existing adresses how do I know they don't do it for other adresses, too ? And if they use something like deep packet inspection to select my DNS requests and redirect them to their server, it's actually a man in the middle attack. Also known as DSN spoofing and used by many criminals to collect all sorts of information.
Seriously, we have to stop taking crap from those return of investment and cash flow management idiots, who think they can change the way everything works, because they own the infrastructure.
As slashdotters seem to like car analogies, would anyone of you use a navigation system which would give you any directions for not existing streets ? I would throw it out of my car.
Probably I should write a script which just asks for a bogus URL every ms. Also it would follow every link on this site. Let's see for how long this practice is being used if every DNS request is answered by a web site and all their advertisement contractors have to pay for "clicks" by a stoopid script ?
As someone pointed out before, perhaps the real indicator for success is happiness. Then again, I got hit by a car three month ago. In Hospital they kept asking how bad my pain was on a scale from 0 to 10. The pain I would have rated 10 before the accident was a 3 after. That's probably the real answer to being happy, just go down as far as it goes, and in the end the scale has moved and you will be happy.
That's the kind of thinking which made nearly every girl in germany stupid and nearly every man an investment banker.
Think about it, if girls don not listen to anyone trying to teach then technology, we will end up with a bunch of unable artist and stupid models. Because they _will_ listen to tv. They will be made to mindless decoration objects.
At the chair of economics I work for, we got 12 employees excluding the professor. Two of them being male, ten of the being female. The two male employees are from germany and are writing their Ph. d. thesis. One of the female employees is german. She's the secretary. The rest of them comes from Romania, Greece, Iran and China. And that is a chair of Economics. Just imagine how it is at the computer science chair where i write my diploma thesis at.
So at a german university it is much easier to meet an intelligent woman from the eastern civilization than an intelligent german (man or woman).
So it should be: Girls and boys, listen to this because you will be a mindless decoration object if you don't.
Somehow I suspected this is known since Monkey Island.
The whole research went like this:
scientist 1: Oh let's research about open games. So what do we know actually ?
scientist 2: Open games are games with a huge world.
scientist 2: Yes.
scientist 1: Then my conclusion is clear. Interesting stories and characters are important, but they must be balanced by varied and entertaining gameplay.