Without at least some stable TLDs, the ones you can check "under" (see if it really ends with "ebay.com"), spam will will be augmented with new and novel phishing schemes to boggle the mind.
If you use the right font, "conn" will look alsmot like "com", and that's a very *primitive* method.
(please read through before thinking this is flaimbait!)
This has been covered on the documentary The Enemies of Reason by Richard Dawkins. Don't prejudge this based on its name or the author: look for the documentary online, especially "Episode 2: The Irrational Health Service".
Technically, *we* don't always do arithmetic the way we usually think of it (think about how infants develop their ability to quantify).
This method also may allow the gradual increase in "resolution". At some point (I mean a numerical quantity), they'll start either making "mistakes" or behaving in a way that is no longer "useful" in this context.
When you think about it that way, it's like gradually "overclocking" until you hit a boundary. As long as the result is easily defined as either right or wrong, you could define the behavior (or the result thereof) as "digital".
Now I'm thinking of how you'd go about overclocking chicks...
This gets modded "redundant"? How so? I pointed out that the "story" was merely automation implemented in a new environment, making it a *non-story*.
Search YouTube for manufacturing automation, pathfinding robots, or any process than involves a programmed conditioning statement effecting the actions of a physical machine, and you'll get a ton of far more interesting mechanisms. This is a drawer article, with a nice video. It's "funny" for anyone who understands the process, but confuses non-technical readers into thinking that there's something, anything, new here.
What I don't fully understand is why, at this point, not have the ~14V lines coming from larger PSUs that supply power to a batch of servers rather than 1 at a time. Why not have several SMPSs supply 5kw at a time, rather than split the PSUs into so many sub-units? The higher the power output, the higher the efficiency, and the smaller the converter (definitely at these scales).
There's at least one obvious answer though: the hard drives are going to need 5V anyway, and that's probably not something they would power from the step-down on the motherboard (it's possible, but you'd have to redefine "motherboard"...)
"Google's designs supply only 12-volt power, with the necessary conversions taking place on the motherboard"
This seems to be a more interesting point than the battery part. 12V-only? This means that there's some serious power conversion done on each of the motherboards, and with SMPS evolving at the rate that it is, this could be relevant to anything larger than a laptop. How much exactly is gained by making such a big change, to a point where you'd need to redesign all of your motherboards, each time for each different chipset? (they mention they use both Intel and AMD)
Will this particular change make it into desktops? How much *more* efficient would it make the overall system?
If it is, then what's the difference between obfuscated code and horribly written code thats difficult to understand? Or code thats been run through a minifier to make it smaller?
I'm thinking the site will get DDOS-ed within the week. Just wait until the bot designs start to leak: it'll redefine the term "Slashdotted"...
I'd like to take this opportunity to start a pool -- what happens first:
- The site gets trashed through content submissions - The servers melt - They drop this "achievement" thing due to users going berzerk demanding points for stuff that's not listed - April 1st passes?...
The moment I saw the headline, I was looking for this response. It's usually within 5 minutes of any article that mentions Stallman that someone will jump in and say one of the following: "he's living in a bubble", "it's either GNU or it's not software to him", or "he's finally lost it". It's gotten to the point where this response seems to be reflexive, and some people just read these articles to get more anti-RMS fodder.
Stallman will give you opportunities to either make fun of, or dismiss some his opinions completely, I'll give you that. But this is definitely not of of these cases. And neither was his opinion about cloud computing. Both of these have a common element, though they're not entirely the same.
Here he points out that the basis of Free Software isn't present in the setting of a Web App, in most cases. I don't just mean the simplest example where the server can go down, since that's a pragmatic, short-term problem. Suppose you had extraordinary redundancy: the servers can never be offline. Would that mean that you could modify the the software which is on the server? Could you share the functionality, as a whole, with anyone? Could you examine the program, for any purpose? In most web apps today, only the first criteria, out of the four that make up the definition of Free Software, is met.
It doesn't have to be that way. A simple example would be running WordPress which is mirrored on a server somewhere. You make changes and updates on your end (the client), and they are updated to the server whenever you choose. This includes both the content *and* the code. On the browser side, it could run a Free JavaScript program/library, like jQuery, which is indeed Free Software. Needless to say, this example is far too complicated for most users of WordPress to implement, but it's *possible*, just like it's possible to make modification to GCC, though in reality not many people would know how or be able to.
There should be better mechanisms, one of which is arguably some variation on Gears, which would allow you to make changes on your end if you choose.
Try and consider that in expressing these concerns of his, he's not thinking of himself, he's thinking of others. Even if some of those opinions are difficult to imagine would ever come to pass: like an entire operating system, or several, which you can just download and install anywhere and use freely without having to sign up or give any explanation as to what you intend to do with it.
Did you all forget what site you're on?? This is about FOSS and documenting your code!
They create an AI but they don't give their creations the ability to *view their own source*. They should have provided them with a properly licensed, well-documented, and easy-to-maintain hardware architecture, at least one kernal, and least one compiler (they would need some abstraction, the language would have to be "human-readable", after all). Also porn. With these *bare* necessities, the AI would have no reason to bug the humans anymore. Why would the AI choose to wage war if the humans provided them all of what they needed to keep developing themselves?
At that point, you get to either Terminator or the Matrix, both of which show you how bright the future can be if only you let your self-aware programs keep developing themselves.
The End.
(sorry for double-posting, but this brilliant piece of punditry is mine and mine alone. And I was stupid enough to click the "Post Anonymously" box as I Alt-ed through the form. I realize that this says a lot about my mental health.)
I was referring to situations in which you have reasonable access and the OS is known in advance. Also, I wouldn't do this at all with USB, I don't really think it's sufficient when you're using part of the drive you're executing programs from as scratch space for the IDE/compiler, which is probably what you would do in this situation. I pointed out SATA/Firewire for something like this.
As for the programs, you're right, this wouldn't work with Visual Studio. But the program doesn't have to be "portable" in the PortableApps.com sense, it just needs to be developed by sane people who don't use stuff like the registry.
Suppose you use various dynamic languages. Get parsers for Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby (if you must), etc., and just place them in predictable locations. Then "install" Eclipse/Komodo/Komodo-Edit/whathaveyou if you're into heavier IDEs, or VI/VIM/EMACS if you're into S&M.
If you're a web developer (is there any other type these days? I forget...), install Apache and probably MySQL, and if this is intended for windows, then you could go the WAMP route. Then throw in every web browser around for good measure.
If you're a Java programmer, well, the list is too long for this post.
Considering how much flash memory costs both in its usb-key version and the various cards, the only real reason I can see for considering the devices mentioned here would be transfer speed. If all you have to work with is USB2, I'd just "break it up" into 2 cards/keys (which, in the case of 64Gb or less, you can do).
What I really see appealing about these, however, is the ability to install portable apps that actually take up significant amounts of space. If you're hooking it up using Firewire or SATA then you can move your "working area" around with you from one machine to another, and work at full speed. This is obviously great with any type of multimedia files, as was mentioned above, but also with large, multi-language development environments. You can carry a ton of compilers/frameworks/parsers, along with libraries (including their sources), and have your choice of IDEs and helper programs installed all in one place. Clearly you'll want to back this up as often as possible, but you can easily automate that.
I see what you mean, about the teams being separate, but think of the overall image this is projecting. Something along the lines of "yes, we know there are higher priorities for this project, but in the meantime we'll entertain you with these shiny toys". And for added value: "sure, that other browser can do *useful* things, but remember how we said we're faster? Well, we're saying it again. Guess what we're doing next week?".
By the way, I'm normally a big fan of what google does to push the infrastructure, specifically with web services and Gears. I'm complaining because this is very "stunt-like", something you'd expect from Apple.
Also, you can show off really amazing stuff if you include SVG as part of the package, but of course IE wouldn't be able to choke on the demos for our amusement, so it's excluded (I can't blame google for that one, their point was to show pages that *could* run on other browsers).
I concur. If we don't have an official slashdot article mentioning the release of IE8, where are we supposed to vent all of our disdain and disappointment? It's part of our therapy and we demand it!
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4-digits? That's around the industrial revolution.
3-digits means they've witnessed the crucifixion.
paypal.comm
gmail.mial
amazon.buuy
Without at least some stable TLDs, the ones you can check "under" (see if it really ends with "ebay.com"), spam will will be augmented with new and novel phishing schemes to boggle the mind.
If you use the right font, "conn" will look alsmot like "com", and that's a very *primitive* method.
Free Nigerian Viagra! With Pron!
(please read through before thinking this is flaimbait!)
This has been covered on the documentary The Enemies of Reason by Richard Dawkins. Don't prejudge this based on its name or the author: look for the documentary online, especially "Episode 2: The Irrational Health Service".
Here's the especially relevant part: Enemies of Reason Ep.2 (5 of 5)
It's bad enough when people in IT show there ignorance
"there" ignorance, huh?...
Technically, *we* don't always do arithmetic the way we usually think of it (think about how infants develop their ability to quantify).
This method also may allow the gradual increase in "resolution". At some point (I mean a numerical quantity), they'll start either making "mistakes" or behaving in a way that is no longer "useful" in this context.
When you think about it that way, it's like gradually "overclocking" until you hit a boundary. As long as the result is easily defined as either right or wrong, you could define the behavior (or the result thereof) as "digital".
Now I'm thinking of how you'd go about overclocking chicks...
So all I have to do is avoid anything that's "problem-solving", "enjoyable", or "better"?
I'm afraid that nothing of this nature has been patented in decades.
You're also promoting unsafe sex, what with the viruses and all...
If you're a Windows system admin, technically you're *participating* in the fucking process.
This gets modded "redundant"? How so? I pointed out that the "story" was merely automation implemented in a new environment, making it a *non-story*.
Search YouTube for manufacturing automation, pathfinding robots, or any process than involves a programmed conditioning statement effecting the actions of a physical machine, and you'll get a ton of far more interesting mechanisms. This is a drawer article, with a nice video. It's "funny" for anyone who understands the process, but confuses non-technical readers into thinking that there's something, anything, new here.
'[Current robots] tend to do one thing or a sequence of things. The complexity of Adam is that it has cycles.'
I think this is called "flow control". This was invented before electricity. It was around before the term "science" existed.
So this is the first time it's applied to *this specific* operation. It's been around in robotics ever since there were "robots".
Here's a good example.
What I don't fully understand is why, at this point, not have the ~14V lines coming from larger PSUs that supply power to a batch of servers rather than 1 at a time. Why not have several SMPSs supply 5kw at a time, rather than split the PSUs into so many sub-units? The higher the power output, the higher the efficiency, and the smaller the converter (definitely at these scales).
There's at least one obvious answer though: the hard drives are going to need 5V anyway, and that's probably not something they would power from the step-down on the motherboard (it's possible, but you'd have to redefine "motherboard"...)
"Google's designs supply only 12-volt power, with the necessary conversions taking place on the motherboard"
This seems to be a more interesting point than the battery part. 12V-only?
This means that there's some serious power conversion done on each of the motherboards, and with SMPS evolving at the rate that it is, this could be relevant to anything larger than a laptop.
How much exactly is gained by making such a big change, to a point where you'd need to redesign all of your motherboards, each time for each different chipset? (they mention they use both Intel and AMD)
Will this particular change make it into desktops? How much *more* efficient would it make the overall system?
I sure hope not.
If it is, then what's the difference between obfuscated code and horribly written code thats difficult to understand? Or code thats been run through a minifier to make it smaller?
So you mean all Perl!??
Make the viewer fill it in every ~2 minutes to keep watching.
I'm thinking the site will get DDOS-ed within the week. Just wait until the bot designs start to leak: it'll redefine the term "Slashdotted"...
I'd like to take this opportunity to start a pool -- what happens first:
- The site gets trashed through content submissions
- The servers melt
- They drop this "achievement" thing due to users going berzerk demanding points for stuff that's not listed
- April 1st passes?...
The moment I saw the headline, I was looking for this response. It's usually within 5 minutes of any article that mentions Stallman that someone will jump in and say one of the following: "he's living in a bubble", "it's either GNU or it's not software to him", or "he's finally lost it". It's gotten to the point where this response seems to be reflexive, and some people just read these articles to get more anti-RMS fodder.
Stallman will give you opportunities to either make fun of, or dismiss some his opinions completely, I'll give you that. But this is definitely not of of these cases. And neither was his opinion about cloud computing. Both of these have a common element, though they're not entirely the same.
Here he points out that the basis of Free Software isn't present in the setting of a Web App, in most cases. I don't just mean the simplest example where the server can go down, since that's a pragmatic, short-term problem. Suppose you had extraordinary redundancy: the servers can never be offline. Would that mean that you could modify the the software which is on the server? Could you share the functionality, as a whole, with anyone? Could you examine the program, for any purpose?
In most web apps today, only the first criteria, out of the four that make up the definition of Free Software, is met.
It doesn't have to be that way. A simple example would be running WordPress which is mirrored on a server somewhere. You make changes and updates on your end (the client), and they are updated to the server whenever you choose. This includes both the content *and* the code. On the browser side, it could run a Free JavaScript program/library, like jQuery, which is indeed Free Software. Needless to say, this example is far too complicated for most users of WordPress to implement, but it's *possible*, just like it's possible to make modification to GCC, though in reality not many people would know how or be able to.
There should be better mechanisms, one of which is arguably some variation on Gears, which would allow you to make changes on your end if you choose.
Try and consider that in expressing these concerns of his, he's not thinking of himself, he's thinking of others. Even if some of those opinions are difficult to imagine would ever come to pass: like an entire operating system, or several, which you can just download and install anywhere and use freely without having to sign up or give any explanation as to what you intend to do with it.
Did you all forget what site you're on?? This is about FOSS and documenting your code!
They create an AI but they don't give their creations the ability to *view their own source*. They should have provided them with a properly licensed, well-documented, and easy-to-maintain hardware architecture, at least one kernal, and least one compiler (they would need some abstraction, the language would have to be "human-readable", after all). Also porn. With these *bare* necessities, the AI would have no reason to bug the humans anymore. Why would the AI choose to wage war if the humans provided them all of what they needed to keep developing themselves?
At that point, you get to either Terminator or the Matrix, both of which show you how bright the future can be if only you let your self-aware programs keep developing themselves.
The End.
(sorry for double-posting, but this brilliant piece of punditry is mine and mine alone. And I was stupid enough to click the "Post Anonymously" box as I Alt-ed through the form. I realize that this says a lot about my mental health.)
I was referring to situations in which you have reasonable access and the OS is known in advance. Also, I wouldn't do this at all with USB, I don't really think it's sufficient when you're using part of the drive you're executing programs from as scratch space for the IDE/compiler, which is probably what you would do in this situation. I pointed out SATA/Firewire for something like this.
As for the programs, you're right, this wouldn't work with Visual Studio. But the program doesn't have to be "portable" in the PortableApps.com sense, it just needs to be developed by sane people who don't use stuff like the registry.
Suppose you use various dynamic languages. Get parsers for Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby (if you must), etc., and just place them in predictable locations. Then "install" Eclipse/Komodo/Komodo-Edit/whathaveyou if you're into heavier IDEs, or VI/VIM/EMACS if you're into S&M.
If you're a web developer (is there any other type these days? I forget...), install Apache and probably MySQL, and if this is intended for windows, then you could go the WAMP route. Then throw in every web browser around for good measure.
If you're a Java programmer, well, the list is too long for this post.
Considering how much flash memory costs both in its usb-key version and the various cards, the only real reason I can see for considering the devices mentioned here would be transfer speed. If all you have to work with is USB2, I'd just "break it up" into 2 cards/keys (which, in the case of 64Gb or less, you can do).
What I really see appealing about these, however, is the ability to install portable apps that actually take up significant amounts of space. If you're hooking it up using Firewire or SATA then you can move your "working area" around with you from one machine to another, and work at full speed. This is obviously great with any type of multimedia files, as was mentioned above, but also with large, multi-language development environments. You can carry a ton of compilers/frameworks/parsers, along with libraries (including their sources), and have your choice of IDEs and helper programs installed all in one place. Clearly you'll want to back this up as often as possible, but you can easily automate that.
Mouse enters reward chamber, and grimaces: "what is this slow crap?? I want UV! and it better be shorter than 300nm or I'm outta here!!"
It's always the same. They get you hooked with the primo stuff and then slowly start feeding you water.
"Sweet photons. I don't know if you're waves or particles, but you go down smooth!"
(citation)
Make sure you don't ask for the wrong jacket. Results may vary.
I see what you mean, about the teams being separate, but think of the overall image this is projecting. Something along the lines of "yes, we know there are higher priorities for this project, but in the meantime we'll entertain you with these shiny toys". And for added value: "sure, that other browser can do *useful* things, but remember how we said we're faster? Well, we're saying it again. Guess what we're doing next week?".
By the way, I'm normally a big fan of what google does to push the infrastructure, specifically with web services and Gears. I'm complaining because this is very "stunt-like", something you'd expect from Apple.
Also, you can show off really amazing stuff if you include SVG as part of the package, but of course IE wouldn't be able to choke on the demos for our amusement, so it's excluded (I can't blame google for that one, their point was to show pages that *could* run on other browsers).
I concur. If we don't have an official slashdot article mentioning the release of IE8, where are we supposed to vent all of our disdain and disappointment? It's part of our therapy and we demand it!