AMD continuously acts like they don't have the money to fight Intel's 170 Billion Dollar image. Its hilarious. AMD is an EIGHT BILLION DOLLAR COMPANY! I know 2 million dollar dot-coms that have a more savvy marketing department.
Remember that the purpose of a marketing deparmtment is to (ahem) make money. Are these two "million dollar" dot-coms making EIGHT BILLION DOLLARS?
In 10 years we'll likely be measuring drive sizes in TB instead of GB, laughing about the days when computers only came with 40 GB HDs and single core processors, kind of like how we laugh about how computers from the 80's had HDs that measured in MBs and RAM that measued in KB!
Really?
If this is true, where are the 5 Ghz CPUs we're supposed to have now? Oh, you don't have any? Well, there's "dual core" CPUs, there's "dual proc" systems, but there's still no CPUs much over 4 Ghz?
You can't grow exponentially forever. There are limits to how much information can be embedded into a 3"*5"*1" cube. No, we're nowhere near the theoretical limits, but we are probably approaching the limits of what our MR HDD technology can achieve, since we're moving to perpendicular technology as our technology matures.
The conputer industry, 1975-2005. It's been fun, it's been exciting, but it's maturing fast.
We're being butt fed asynchronous 6Mbps, when we could have fiber connections that make SATA look slow. I'm sure we could argue over whether we're ready for the technology on a national scale. Whether its cost effective etc. But in this context, when we're looking at trying to make POTS work over 20km, its time we really start to look at utiliziling fiber properly.
Basic economics, as I tried to highlight earlier. To satisfy your average home user, you have to get CHEEEEP. Your average home user wants to pay $10-$20/month for 'IntarWeb' service. That leaves precious little money for infrastructure improvements. A single hour of lineman's time costs $40-$60 USD, and TWO HOURS of their time can equal the profit margin on a single DSL account for an entire year!
And, this doesn't include equipment, trucks, ladders, MODEMS, and all that other stuff, either.
5 years ago, I got a 1.5 Mbps DSL circuit, and it was, bar none, the hottest, fastest connection around. Now, it's pretty ho-hum, while prices have dropped. I'd say things are progressing pretty nicely.
Want fiber? Pay. I'm OK with that, since the commodity DSL is "good enough" for consumer use.
The only thing I find annoying is that the bandwidth capping happens AT MY MODEM. Why would they do that? In fact, I can download a patch for my computer that "uncaps" my DSL modem to get full speed service - until they notice and pull the plug on me, that is.
Why not allow connections within SBC (my DSL provider) at full speed, and cap them at the 'net connections? Sorta like my cell phone allowing unlimited minutes within their network while charging me for calls made to customers with other companies...
Just be careful when you use strong language that you can take what you dish out.
How long will it be, now that data outweighs POTS, until we get fiber to the front door?
A few years ago, when I had not yet "made it", I saved a few hundred dollars by wiring my house's telephone lines with phone parts from the local dollar store, using a kitchen knife and a penny. (as a screwdriver)
This wiring works very well today - I have 2 phone lines in my house, and a DSL modem that gives me 1.5 Mb throughput. The DSL modem has been tested to 6 Mb with no difficulty. (Since I went for the cheaper plan, my speed is capped)
I'm a big Linux advocate, now running 2 dozen Linux servers spread across the western United States with great success. Years of near perfect uptime, and highly reliable software!
I had an executive of one of my clients ask me about using a Sun/Linux server in his enterprise. I told him about my experiences with Linux and why all my solutions are based thereon. Then, I asked him the $$ questions:
1) How much $$ will the equipment cost? Based on my knowledge of the client, I guessed $10,000.
2) How much will he be paying the staff to manage said server? Based on my knowledge of the client, I guessed $30,000-$50,000. (one full time admin)
I then made the point that while Linux is viable, and I think every qualified technology provider should at least be familiar with it, that it was largely inconsequential whether he went with Linux/Unix/Windows. He'll spend some 15 TIMES as much on the staff to maintain his server than the server itself! What mattered was the STAFF.
As an outsourced administrator, I charge somehwat high prices per hour. I also automate things so that very little time is needed on my part (virtually none!) to keep systems configured, updated, secured, and backed up. Thus, my $90/hour rate can match very favorably with many Windows admins earning $25/hour.
If the staff is resistant to using Linux (and they were) then he should either replace the staff, or go with Windows. I think he chose to go the Windows route...
Ok. Someone *PLEASE* explain to me why the HELL people get all worked up over a nude body.
You are either a troll, or are blissfully unaware of what porn actually is.
It's not nude bodies. It's people having promiscuous sex, frequently, and with multiple partners.
Relationships like these do not provide the stable, loving framework for a child to grow up in a loving, stable, secure household. Since reproduction is the primary purpose of sex, it's easy to see where this goes wrong.
Kids need a loving home, with parents they can count on. Kids develop much of their sense of self-worth by the value their parents put on them, and parents that come and go every few years do very little to communicate a sense of worth and value to a kid.
No, I'm not some wack-job Christian, I'm just a loving father of five children happily married to my wife.
I've seen what promiscuous relationships can do to a child. I cringe when I see what my sister-in-law is doing to her children with her frequently changing boyfriends. Her children are crying out for a stable, loving father. Sometimes, I stand in as the "loving uncle", but it's just not the same and never will be.
So go take your "nude bodies" argument and shove it up your arse. You are clueless. You'd do well to just shut up, and talk when you have some experience to speak from.
Most exploits and crashes are due to bugs in drivers... perhaps it wouldn't be so bad if driver developers didn't have to code their driver as if it were hijacking the OS.
Except that they have to.
It'd be nice if a Transportation engineer didn't have to build the roads and tracks as if people's lives depended on it - but they do. Case closed.
Software runs on hardware. The purpose of the Operating System is to abstract the hardware from the software programs. Drivers are the key to making the Operating System work with large amounts of hardware. Thus, drivers can (and do) affect critical aspects of timing, order of operations, and resource sharing, and so belong at the very core of the Operating System, in the (ahem) kernel.
Perhaps, instead of building safe roads with well-placed lights, we should just wrap all our cars with 25 feet thick layers of bubble wrap?
Then those transportation engineers wouldn't have to build those roads as if lives depended on it! Wouldn't that be worth it??!?
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Email, as a system, is fundamentally broken. It's this broken design that allows SPAM to happen in the first place.
Current anti-spam solutions are to email what an Antivirus package is to Windows - a hack add-on that increases complexity and costs without solving the underlying problem(s).
Rather than fight viruses, we should be engineering an O/S that's inherently resistent to them. How many of you Linux/BSD/MacOS users EVER use antivirus, or need to?
Rather than build ever-better antispam filters for Email, we should be engineering an email solution that's inherenly resistant to SPAM.
The answer lies in authentication - who is sending the email. Some of the best technologies now available use degrees of authentication without actually *saying* it outright. Examples are: refusing invalid domains, greylisting, challenge-response, SenderID - all of these are some form of authentication.
As these are, one-by-one bypassed by the spammers, the need for authentication of senders will continue to increase, until the dolts who will invariably reply with that "your solution will not work because... (check the options)" are shown to simply be.... wrong.
Give it time. It's already happening whatever the originators of the SMTP protocol desired.
Anyone doing anything more than that on the web has to know something besides PHP since doing anything complex in PHP simply isn't very easy at all.
Having done some rather large and complex projects with PHP, your comment leaves me very curious.
What complex thing(s) is/are difficult to do in PHP? (I'll draw the line at stuff like rendering 3D, since the language clearly isn't meant for stuff like that)
I've had excellent results
1) Developing semi-distributed, (borrowing a buzzword) RIA type application using PHP-GTK.
2) Read headers from MP3s
3) Forked it into a daemon to process TCP socket calls with a home-rolled protocol,
Probably some sod (like me) who thought the idea of a toaster that squirts on some Butter/Jelly interesting. But, before I'd buy one, I'd have to make sure that Blackberry Jelly cartridges are cheaply available...
Here's a hint: It's a toaster! This isn't serious business!
Excessive use of swearing makes you seem "lowbrow" and "trashy", and reduces the strength of those words. Used rarely, profanity can be very strong. Used commonly, profanity merely becomes a sign screaming "I'm a lowbrow trashwad who can't think of anything more intelligent to say!".
By swearing in L337, I largely bypass this, while emphasizing my inner nerd. What's not to like?
It's a bit like using "Bloody" as a swear word in the United States. It doesn't sound nearly so trashy, provides a nice expletive, and hints at a longer, global view, all in the same breath. (Unless you're talking to Brits, then it probably just sounds silly, but I digress)
I would LOVE IT if I could run OS/X in VMWare! I run VMWare WorkStation 4.5 on Fedora C3 on my laptop, and develop vertical-market software for schools, in PHP-GTK.
To be able to develop/test for Windows, Linux, AND Apple, all from the same system, from anywhere!?!?!?
Holy F!@king 5h17! I'm going to have to change my underpants... If this project is stable for more than a few months, I'm definitely going to try it!
SOOOO much better than having to port everything to a separate Mac system - with this I could develop on a Win2000 VM, share with Samba, and build installers for ALL THREE platforms with a single script - one shell script to rule them all!
Other posts have described this has a "hatchet job" or "over the top" - I consider this to be a good example of quality reporting!
Why does the Paparazzi exist? Because they only bug celebrities and other public figures. Google is a public company, making its CEO a public figure.
In my eyes, Google is taking a big shot in its image with this stupid, short-sighted move.
My home phone number and address is not in the phone book. Yet, a short google search just now turned up my home address AND telephone number because my wife serves on a home-schooling committee that published minutes.
How is this not relevant? This is reporting at its best, identifying a real, potential social problem, and with this maneuver, Google is cutting off its nose to spite its face.
Nothing can escape from "inside" a black hole, from within inside the event horizon.
This is not entirely correct. For all intents and purposes, you are right, but.... this covers a bit of the "Information Paradox" surrounding black holes, and Hawkings' admission that he was wrong - information DOES escape from a black hole - eventually.
Yes but you must remember that F-Secure are a bunch of alarmist gits who will jump at any opportunity to seed panic with regard to threats... <SNIP>
What's funny is that f-secure makes f-prot, one of the better cheap-to-free antivirus software packages that works on both Windows and Linux.
What I love about the Windows version is that you can run it on some old P3-450 and still end up with a working machine. Try the same with Symantec and you end up with a paperweight.
Also, F-Prot works on Linux, and I scan some 250,000 emails per day on production mail servers using f-prot, with excellent results.
Sorry their marketing dept. sucks, but it's a good product!
But what about AllOfMP3.com? It's apparently legal, (Russian copyright laws regarding broadcast) They have a great selection, the prices are good ($1-$3 per album) and download speed is nice, tool. (I routinely hit 1 Mb on my downloads!)
40 releases X 7.5 minutes X 100 users = 30000 minutes (or 500 hours) of employee time for the client.
Our product is a compliance-based product, and requirements change surprisingly frequently. Also, when an update is performed, all the client's data is backed up onto our servers, so if the computer crashes or is stolen, all their data is preserved.
Which then leads to the next piece - we allow administrators to view their staff's data through said servers, saving them countless hours of manual data collating.
So, all in all, it's a *tremendous* time saver, with warm reception.
Where you go wrong is that people don't actually know what they want!
I've written projects with HIGHLY detailed specs. I've talked to people high and low. I've gotten signatures in triplicate.
And, those are the projects that BOMB QUICKLY AND PAINFULLY.
The last time I tried that approach, I was told on the DAY OF ROLLOUT after 1.5 months of full-time development that it "wouldn't work" and had to be "totally redone".
I screamed, bitched, complained, waved contracts, specifications and all, before spending another 2.5 months rewriting the application. (while people were using it!)
So, now I do things differently. I spend a bit of time, get a spec, and send out an email to all involved, and wait for 24 hours. Then I write it, knowing full well that it will suck upon delivery, and I make this knowledge apparent, obvious, and common.
Then, the comments come. The text is hard to read. It doesn't include N-ARCANE-FEATURE. When you click the button called "Save", it saves it, but it's not obvious what you are saving.
Whatever. The feedback comes in spades.
So, focus on making updates quick and easy, and listen. That's the Linux way: release early, release often.
People will tell you what they like and don't like. Listen, and release an update when you add new features.
In my flagship product, I've released over 40 releases in a single year. It'd be painful, except that the product updates itself, and it takes me all of about 10 minutes to release. Really.
It costs each user about the same - 5-10 minutes, and they can do it whenever they like.
So, I release early, I release often, and I listen closely to the feedback. Users get what they want, and I get what I want. (Users' money!)
This falls under 'human rights'. Which you cannot sign away.
Sure you can. Ever heard of the US Military? You join, and there goes *lots* of your 'human rights'... including (but not limited to) the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...
70 comments, and NOT ONE has made it to a modlevel of 3.
I wonder if this will be a first?
Anyway, I really wonder what the big deal is. If you have a robot with a computer control, what's the big deal if that control computer is managed by an SSH connection?
I spend ~ 6-10 hours per day managing a computer about 200 miles from my home, from my home, with a laptop, while watching my kids swim in the pool in my backyard patio.
Other than the bandwidth involved with video, what's the difference?
It's been said that a single human DNA sample contains about 20 GB of data.
I work on the human genome and I've never heard anyone say that until your comment. The human genome is about 3 billion nucleotides long. You can store each nucleotide as an octet, but that's somewhat wasteful, since each nucleotide only contains two bits of information, not eight. So really, we're talking about 750 MB of highly compressible data.
I got my "20 GB" information from a Carl Sagan book, I believe it was "The evolution of human intelligence".... (?)
I'm not a microbiologist, I'm a database engineer, but my twin sons (now 16) are attending college furiously working towards this field, and aspire to UC SD. (a fact that I take no small amount of pride in!)
What most people don't realize is that the field of biology, or more specifically, microbiology is incredibly dependant on computer technology.
When you are talking about sequencing DNA, you are talking about building a massive database. With an insane number of cross-connections.
The ability to DO microbiology at the level we are now able is pretty much codependant on the development of the computer technology needed to process this incredible quantity of information.
It's been said that a single human DNA sample contains about 20 GB of data. Not 20 GB of static, self-standing, serial MP3 files, but 20 GB of heavily dependant, interlinked, cross-connected, pseudo-relational data.
And, this doesn't take into account recent studies which indicate that DNA might not even represent the majority of the information needed to keep a cell working.
You can't process that kind of information, and all those cross-dependencies without some serious hardware backing you up, and so the rise of microbiology is closely intertwined with the rise of powerful, compact, reliable computing resources.
It's relatively easy to build a robot that can do NNN (eg: Climb stairs/vacuum floor/avoid pitfalls/get a beer) but the challenge is that biological organisms do so MANY of them, so well.
Show me a robot that can climb stairs/vacuum floor/avoid pitfals/get a beer ALTOGETHER for a reasonable price, and I might get interested.
But "reasonable price" doesn't mean "more expensive than the sports car I can't afford".
PS: What kind of sadist posts a direct link to a 20 MB video on slashdot? Somebody must HATE the guy who made this!!!
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It would have been funnier if you had wrote: "On second thoughts, no, I think most people are to damn stupid."
AMD continuously acts like they don't have the money to fight Intel's 170 Billion Dollar image. Its hilarious. AMD is an EIGHT BILLION DOLLAR COMPANY! I know 2 million dollar dot-coms that have a more savvy marketing department.
Remember that the purpose of a marketing deparmtment is to (ahem) make money. Are these two "million dollar" dot-coms making EIGHT BILLION DOLLARS?
So, who's savvy, again?
In 10 years we'll likely be measuring drive sizes in TB instead of GB, laughing about the days when computers only came with 40 GB HDs and single core processors, kind of like how we laugh about how computers from the 80's had HDs that measured in MBs and RAM that measued in KB!
Really?
If this is true, where are the 5 Ghz CPUs we're supposed to have now? Oh, you don't have any? Well, there's "dual core" CPUs, there's "dual proc" systems, but there's still no CPUs much over 4 Ghz?
You can't grow exponentially forever. There are limits to how much information can be embedded into a 3"*5"*1" cube. No, we're nowhere near the theoretical limits, but we are probably approaching the limits of what our MR HDD technology can achieve, since we're moving to perpendicular technology as our technology matures.
The conputer industry, 1975-2005. It's been fun, it's been exciting, but it's maturing fast.
We're being butt fed asynchronous 6Mbps, when we could have fiber connections that make SATA look slow. I'm sure we could argue over whether we're ready for the technology on a national scale. Whether its cost effective etc. But in this context, when we're looking at trying to make POTS work over 20km, its time we really start to look at utiliziling fiber properly.
Basic economics, as I tried to highlight earlier. To satisfy your average home user, you have to get CHEEEEP. Your average home user wants to pay $10-$20/month for 'IntarWeb' service. That leaves precious little money for infrastructure improvements. A single hour of lineman's time costs $40-$60 USD, and TWO HOURS of their time can equal the profit margin on a single DSL account for an entire year!
And, this doesn't include equipment, trucks, ladders, MODEMS, and all that other stuff, either.
5 years ago, I got a 1.5 Mbps DSL circuit, and it was, bar none, the hottest, fastest connection around. Now, it's pretty ho-hum, while prices have dropped. I'd say things are progressing pretty nicely.
Want fiber? Pay. I'm OK with that, since the commodity DSL is "good enough" for consumer use.
The only thing I find annoying is that the bandwidth capping happens AT MY MODEM. Why would they do that? In fact, I can download a patch for my computer that "uncaps" my DSL modem to get full speed service - until they notice and pull the plug on me, that is.
Why not allow connections within SBC (my DSL provider) at full speed, and cap them at the 'net connections? Sorta like my cell phone allowing unlimited minutes within their network while charging me for calls made to customers with other companies...
This has always struck me as stupid.
Just be careful when you use strong language that you can take what you dish out.
How long will it be, now that data outweighs POTS, until we get fiber to the front door?
A few years ago, when I had not yet "made it", I saved a few hundred dollars by wiring my house's telephone lines with phone parts from the local dollar store, using a kitchen knife and a penny. (as a screwdriver)
This wiring works very well today - I have 2 phone lines in my house, and a DSL modem that gives me 1.5 Mb throughput. The DSL modem has been tested to 6 Mb with no difficulty. (Since I went for the cheaper plan, my speed is capped)
Tell me again why fiber is so much better?
I'm a big Linux advocate, now running 2 dozen Linux servers spread across the western United States with great success. Years of near perfect uptime, and highly reliable software!
I had an executive of one of my clients ask me about using a Sun/Linux server in his enterprise. I told him about my experiences with Linux and why all my solutions are based thereon. Then, I asked him the $$ questions:
1) How much $$ will the equipment cost? Based on my knowledge of the client, I guessed $10,000.
2) How much will he be paying the staff to manage said server? Based on my knowledge of the client, I guessed $30,000-$50,000. (one full time admin)
I then made the point that while Linux is viable, and I think every qualified technology provider should at least be familiar with it, that it was largely inconsequential whether he went with Linux/Unix/Windows. He'll spend some 15 TIMES as much on the staff to maintain his server than the server itself! What mattered was the STAFF.
As an outsourced administrator, I charge somehwat high prices per hour. I also automate things so that very little time is needed on my part (virtually none!) to keep systems configured, updated, secured, and backed up. Thus, my $90/hour rate can match very favorably with many Windows admins earning $25/hour.
If the staff is resistant to using Linux (and they were) then he should either replace the staff, or go with Windows. I think he chose to go the Windows route...
Ok. Someone *PLEASE* explain to me why the HELL people get all worked up over a nude body.
You are either a troll, or are blissfully unaware of what porn actually is.
It's not nude bodies. It's people having promiscuous sex, frequently, and with multiple partners.
Relationships like these do not provide the stable, loving framework for a child to grow up in a loving, stable, secure household. Since reproduction is the primary purpose of sex, it's easy to see where this goes wrong.
Kids need a loving home, with parents they can count on. Kids develop much of their sense of self-worth by the value their parents put on them, and parents that come and go every few years do very little to communicate a sense of worth and value to a kid.
No, I'm not some wack-job Christian, I'm just a loving father of five children happily married to my wife.
I've seen what promiscuous relationships can do to a child. I cringe when I see what my sister-in-law is doing to her children with her frequently changing boyfriends. Her children are crying out for a stable, loving father. Sometimes, I stand in as the "loving uncle", but it's just not the same and never will be.
So go take your "nude bodies" argument and shove it up your arse. You are clueless. You'd do well to just shut up, and talk when you have some experience to speak from.
Most exploits and crashes are due to bugs in drivers ... perhaps it wouldn't be so bad if driver developers didn't have to code their driver as if it were hijacking the OS.
Except that they have to.
It'd be nice if a Transportation engineer didn't have to build the roads and tracks as if people's lives depended on it - but they do. Case closed.
Software runs on hardware. The purpose of the Operating System is to abstract the hardware from the software programs. Drivers are the key to making the Operating System work with large amounts of hardware. Thus, drivers can (and do) affect critical aspects of timing, order of operations, and resource sharing, and so belong at the very core of the Operating System, in the (ahem) kernel.
Perhaps, instead of building safe roads with well-placed lights, we should just wrap all our cars with 25 feet thick layers of bubble wrap?
Then those transportation engineers wouldn't have to build those roads as if lives depended on it! Wouldn't that be worth it??!?
Email, as a system, is fundamentally broken. It's this broken design that allows SPAM to happen in the first place.
Current anti-spam solutions are to email what an Antivirus package is to Windows - a hack add-on that increases complexity and costs without solving the underlying problem(s).
Rather than fight viruses, we should be engineering an O/S that's inherently resistent to them. How many of you Linux/BSD/MacOS users EVER use antivirus, or need to?
Rather than build ever-better antispam filters for Email, we should be engineering an email solution that's inherenly resistant to SPAM.
The answer lies in authentication - who is sending the email. Some of the best technologies now available use degrees of authentication without actually *saying* it outright. Examples are: refusing invalid domains, greylisting, challenge-response, SenderID - all of these are some form of authentication.
As these are, one-by-one bypassed by the spammers, the need for authentication of senders will continue to increase, until the dolts who will invariably reply with that "your solution will not work because... (check the options)" are shown to simply be.... wrong.
Give it time. It's already happening whatever the originators of the SMTP protocol desired.
Anyone doing anything more than that on the web has to know something besides PHP since doing anything complex in PHP simply isn't very easy at all.
Having done some rather large and complex projects with PHP, your comment leaves me very curious.
What complex thing(s) is/are difficult to do in PHP? (I'll draw the line at stuff like rendering 3D, since the language clearly isn't meant for stuff like that)
I've had excellent results
1) Developing semi-distributed, (borrowing a buzzword) RIA type application using PHP-GTK.
2) Read headers from MP3s
3) Forked it into a daemon to process TCP socket calls with a home-rolled protocol,
4) Parsed Apache and Sendmail log files,
5) Run system administration,
6) Build a large-scale backup system
and much more, as well as the usual "I built a weblication using LAMP". I fail to see where PHP is particularly limiting in general programming...
Who modded this Interesting? Come on!
Probably some sod (like me) who thought the idea of a toaster that squirts on some Butter/Jelly interesting. But, before I'd buy one, I'd have to make sure that Blackberry Jelly cartridges are cheaply available...
Here's a hint: It's a toaster! This isn't serious business!
There's an issue with swearing:
Excessive use of swearing makes you seem "lowbrow" and "trashy", and reduces the strength of those words. Used rarely, profanity can be very strong. Used commonly, profanity merely becomes a sign screaming "I'm a lowbrow trashwad who can't think of anything more intelligent to say!".
By swearing in L337, I largely bypass this, while emphasizing my inner nerd. What's not to like?
It's a bit like using "Bloody" as a swear word in the United States. It doesn't sound nearly so trashy, provides a nice expletive, and hints at a longer, global view, all in the same breath. (Unless you're talking to Brits, then it probably just sounds silly, but I digress)
I would LOVE IT if I could run OS/X in VMWare! I run VMWare WorkStation 4.5 on Fedora C3 on my laptop, and develop vertical-market software for schools, in PHP-GTK.
To be able to develop/test for Windows, Linux, AND Apple, all from the same system, from anywhere!?!?!?
Holy F!@king 5h17! I'm going to have to change my underpants... If this project is stable for more than a few months, I'm definitely going to try it!
SOOOO much better than having to port everything to a separate Mac system - with this I could develop on a Win2000 VM, share with Samba, and build installers for ALL THREE platforms with a single script - one shell script to rule them all!
I think I've just died and gone to heaven...
Sorry, but with all this hoopla, I went to the original article.
Other posts have described this has a "hatchet job" or "over the top" - I consider this to be a good example of quality reporting!
Why does the Paparazzi exist? Because they only bug celebrities and other public figures. Google is a public company, making its CEO a public figure.
In my eyes, Google is taking a big shot in its image with this stupid, short-sighted move.
My home phone number and address is not in the phone book. Yet, a short google search just now turned up my home address AND telephone number because my wife serves on a home-schooling committee that published minutes.
How is this not relevant? This is reporting at its best, identifying a real, potential social problem, and with this maneuver, Google is cutting off its nose to spite its face.
Nothing can escape from "inside" a black hole, from within inside the event horizon.
This is not entirely correct. For all intents and purposes, you are right, but.... this covers a bit of the "Information Paradox" surrounding black holes, and Hawkings' admission that he was wrong - information DOES escape from a black hole - eventually.
I think the poster misunderstood the benefit of this... this is nothing more than a fancy electric room heater!
This is NOT an alternative energy source, it's a wasteful energy consumer...
Yes but you must remember that F-Secure are a bunch of alarmist gits who will jump at any opportunity to seed panic with regard to threats... <SNIP>
What's funny is that f-secure makes f-prot, one of the better cheap-to-free antivirus software packages that works on both Windows and Linux.
What I love about the Windows version is that you can run it on some old P3-450 and still end up with a working machine. Try the same with Symantec and you end up with a paperweight.
Also, F-Prot works on Linux, and I scan some 250,000 emails per day on production mail servers using f-prot, with excellent results.
Sorry their marketing dept. sucks, but it's a good product!
But what about AllOfMP3.com? It's apparently legal, (Russian copyright laws regarding broadcast) They have a great selection, the prices are good ($1-$3 per album) and download speed is nice, tool. (I routinely hit 1 Mb on my downloads!)
40 releases X 7.5 minutes X 100 users = 30000 minutes (or 500 hours) of employee time for the client.
Our product is a compliance-based product, and requirements change surprisingly frequently. Also, when an update is performed, all the client's data is backed up onto our servers, so if the computer crashes or is stolen, all their data is preserved.
Which then leads to the next piece - we allow administrators to view their staff's data through said servers, saving them countless hours of manual data collating.
So, all in all, it's a *tremendous* time saver, with warm reception.
Where you go wrong is that people don't actually know what they want!
I've written projects with HIGHLY detailed specs. I've talked to people high and low. I've gotten signatures in triplicate.
And, those are the projects that BOMB QUICKLY AND PAINFULLY.
The last time I tried that approach, I was told on the DAY OF ROLLOUT after 1.5 months of full-time development that it "wouldn't work" and had to be "totally redone".
I screamed, bitched, complained, waved contracts, specifications and all, before spending another 2.5 months rewriting the application. (while people were using it!)
So, now I do things differently. I spend a bit of time, get a spec, and send out an email to all involved, and wait for 24 hours. Then I write it, knowing full well that it will suck upon delivery, and I make this knowledge apparent, obvious, and common.
Then, the comments come. The text is hard to read. It doesn't include N-ARCANE-FEATURE. When you click the button called "Save", it saves it, but it's not obvious what you are saving.
Whatever. The feedback comes in spades.
So, focus on making updates quick and easy, and listen. That's the Linux way: release early, release often.
People will tell you what they like and don't like. Listen, and release an update when you add new features.
In my flagship product, I've released over 40 releases in a single year. It'd be painful, except that the product updates itself, and it takes me all of about 10 minutes to release. Really.
It costs each user about the same - 5-10 minutes, and they can do it whenever they like.
So, I release early, I release often, and I listen closely to the feedback. Users get what they want, and I get what I want. (Users' money!)
This falls under 'human rights'. Which you cannot sign away.
Sure you can. Ever heard of the US Military? You join, and there goes *lots* of your 'human rights'... including (but not limited to) the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...
Try having sex while in boot camp....
70 comments, and NOT ONE has made it to a modlevel of 3.
I wonder if this will be a first?
Anyway, I really wonder what the big deal is. If you have a robot with a computer control, what's the big deal if that control computer is managed by an SSH connection?
I spend ~ 6-10 hours per day managing a computer about 200 miles from my home, from my home, with a laptop, while watching my kids swim in the pool in my backyard patio.
Other than the bandwidth involved with video, what's the difference?
It's been said that a single human DNA sample contains about 20 GB of data.
I work on the human genome and I've never heard anyone say that until your comment. The human genome is about 3 billion nucleotides long. You can store each nucleotide as an octet, but that's somewhat wasteful, since each nucleotide only contains two bits of information, not eight. So really, we're talking about 750 MB of highly compressible data.
I got my "20 GB" information from a Carl Sagan book, I believe it was "The evolution of human intelligence".... (?)
I'm not a microbiologist, I'm a database engineer, but my twin sons (now 16) are attending college furiously working towards this field, and aspire to UC SD. (a fact that I take no small amount of pride in!)
What most people don't realize is that the field of biology, or more specifically, microbiology is incredibly dependant on computer technology.
When you are talking about sequencing DNA, you are talking about building a massive database. With an insane number of cross-connections.
The ability to DO microbiology at the level we are now able is pretty much codependant on the development of the computer technology needed to process this incredible quantity of information.
It's been said that a single human DNA sample contains about 20 GB of data. Not 20 GB of static, self-standing, serial MP3 files, but 20 GB of heavily dependant, interlinked, cross-connected, pseudo-relational data.
And, this doesn't take into account recent studies which indicate that DNA might not even represent the majority of the information needed to keep a cell working.
You can't process that kind of information, and all those cross-dependencies without some serious hardware backing you up, and so the rise of microbiology is closely intertwined with the rise of powerful, compact, reliable computing resources.
It's relatively easy to build a robot that can do NNN (eg: Climb stairs/vacuum floor/avoid pitfalls/get a beer) but the challenge is that biological organisms do so MANY of them, so well.
Show me a robot that can climb stairs/vacuum floor/avoid pitfals/get a beer ALTOGETHER for a reasonable price, and I might get interested.
But "reasonable price" doesn't mean "more expensive than the sports car I can't afford".
PS: What kind of sadist posts a direct link to a 20 MB video on slashdot? Somebody must HATE the guy who made this!!!