Diebold is headquartered in the Akron-Canton area, which is a mere 40 miles down I-77 from Cleveland. Cleveland and surrounding Cuyahoga county make widespread use of Diebold voting machines.
My tinfoil hat is telling me that there might be some local interests involved here....
Great post. I too have a Christian -- in fact, Catholic -- upbringing, yet I've at least been enlightened to realize the difference between faith and evidence. My belief is that faith is entirely relevant within the context of religious or spiritual dialog, as it does attempt to answer a different question than that which is examined in science class.
What I have a real problem with are people that can not or will not differentiate between the two, and force the use of faith as a legitimate scientific method for determining the validity of hypotheses and theorems. It's a misappropriation of resources by schools to force the teaching of belief within a secular environment. But worse yet, any challenge to the idea of "intelligent design" is met by these people as heresy. You can't logically deny the possibility of the existence of a Flying Spaghetti Monster if you allow a concept like ID to be accepted as a valid theory. No one is actually suggesting that there actually is a FSM, but you can't deny its possibility under ID either. It's entirely hypocritical.
So remember when your feeling very small and insecure, How amazingly unlikely is your birth, And pray that there intelligent life somewhere up in space, Cause theres bugger all down here on Earth.
I've seen this kind of tactic before, I think. Something to the effect of "Click here to verify your account now, or it will be suspended within 24 hours...."
I think it's safe to say that all candidates will, at some point in their lives, have heard the words "milllions of years ago". That ought to serve as an incredibly incorrect, but still minimally valid baseline to separate creationists from evolutionists. Therefore, I wouldn't necessarily disqualify a candidate who was even 3 orders of magnitude short of the accepted age of the planet, although I would question his or her intelligence to some degree.
The write-up may be a bit confusing, but I'm pretty sure they're referring to the Semantic Web as an extension of the web as proposed by W3C director Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and not trying to hijack the acronym for themselves.
Kent Brockman: "Also in the news today, a team of researchers has found that the amount of email spam has increased over 300% since the early part of this decade. Scientists are still searching for the cause of this increase."
I'm surprised no one's has mentioned Sun as a potential target, as they've open sourced a great deal of their code, including Solaris, Java, and Open Office. All three continue either already are or have the potential to be big competitors to mainline Microsoft products.
I don't think taking up arms is the correct thing to do at this point, but I do believe that the citizens of the United States need to enact our First Amendment right to petition the government for a redress of grievances. What's less clear is whether US citizens have a right to revolution as that was conveniently left out of the US Constitution, despite its significance in the US Declaration of Independence as a means of formally declaring our intent to form a new government apart from Great Britain.
And it's also really a matter of target markets. Sun's biggest customer segments are the US gov't and large financial institutions, and it's likely that those two customer bases comprise at least 1/3 of Sun's revenues. For them, $20k/server is par for the course, and also inline with what competitors are charging for similar gear.
The other point made above is that Sun realized a long time ago that they can't compete margin-wise with Intel on the desktop CPU market. Way back when, Sun's revenue used to be workstation driven (hence, the stock ticker....SUNW, W=workstation). But then the Microsoft marketing engine of the 90's allowed Intel to kill the viability of that market for them, and they've since concentrated on the server market.
Truth be told, they struggled mightily throughout the late 90's and early 00's due to this, but this new architecture really holds promise, and is way ahead of anything that Intel or AMD have out now. Like the original synopsis says, their only real competition is IBM's Power 6, which is a beast of a chip in its own right.
Yet another in a long line of examples of when management understands neither the product nor the competition. Ignorance of this sort is almost guaranteed to end badly.
I'd guess that it is highly likely that well in excess of 95% of the general computer-buying public is similarly ignorant.
I know this thread is dead and all, but just wanted to contribute one more tangential piece of info that Slashdotters need when considering our level of expertise vs. the general public. The ratio of tech-knowledgable people is much more exclusive that even 95% -- I would venture to say that it's more like 99.9%.
For example, assuming the requisite knowledge required to understand the Intel errata would be gained either by taking a university-level course, like Ohio State's CSE 675 Intro to Computer Architecture class, or by doing some very highly directed self-study, and given that the class is offered 4x/year with an average class of 25 students, then roughly 100 students/year gain that knowledge. Let's also assume that 50% forget that knowledge within 5 years, so over the course of those 5 years, 250 people become capable of reading those errata.
With OSU's Columbus campus enrollment at roughly 51,000/yr, with roughly 10,000 turnover/year due to graduation and withdrawal, then over 5 years, approximately 100,000 students will have had the opportunity at taking that class and retaining the knowledge.
So, simple math tells us that only 0.25% of a college-level population will obtain and retain the requisite skills. Now extrapolate that the the general population that doesn't attend college, which is roughly 60% in the US, and you get a final percentage of about 0.1% overall that can read the Intel errata, and even that may be a stretch, IMHO.
Bottom line -- Slashdotters need to realize that very few people overall understand technology, and even fewer care.
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I read the above statement as:
There are 2 people who actually believe him.
Was hoping my dyslexia had subsided for a moment...
Enforcing this would require constant monitoring of all communication over the net.
Welcome to the United Kingdom of America.
Diebold is headquartered in the Akron-Canton area, which is a mere 40 miles down I-77 from Cleveland. Cleveland and surrounding Cuyahoga county make widespread use of Diebold voting machines.
My tinfoil hat is telling me that there might be some local interests involved here....
Great post. I too have a Christian -- in fact, Catholic -- upbringing, yet I've at least been enlightened to realize the difference between faith and evidence. My belief is that faith is entirely relevant within the context of religious or spiritual dialog, as it does attempt to answer a different question than that which is examined in science class.
What I have a real problem with are people that can not or will not differentiate between the two, and force the use of faith as a legitimate scientific method for determining the validity of hypotheses and theorems. It's a misappropriation of resources by schools to force the teaching of belief within a secular environment. But worse yet, any challenge to the idea of "intelligent design" is met by these people as heresy. You can't logically deny the possibility of the existence of a Flying Spaghetti Monster if you allow a concept like ID to be accepted as a valid theory. No one is actually suggesting that there actually is a FSM, but you can't deny its possibility under ID either. It's entirely hypocritical.
Believe whatever you want while within your church. Just keep it out of the science classroom.
Presumably none of these so-called "people at-large" have ever seen the movie "The Fly".
So remember when your feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there intelligent life somewhere up in space,
Cause theres bugger all down here on Earth.
Re: IGN Top 100 -- what ads?
Oh yeah, Adblock....
Carry on....
I've seen this kind of tactic before, I think. Something to the effect of "Click here to verify your account now, or it will be suspended within 24 hours...."
Guess what I do with those.....
Sure glad that this has never happened before...
I wonder how they'll ever figure out how to punish the offenders....
The preceding post is brought to you courtesy of the American Neuro-Linguistic Programming Association of America.
I think it's safe to say that all candidates will, at some point in their lives, have heard the words "milllions of years ago". That ought to serve as an incredibly incorrect, but still minimally valid baseline to separate creationists from evolutionists. Therefore, I wouldn't necessarily disqualify a candidate who was even 3 orders of magnitude short of the accepted age of the planet, although I would question his or her intelligence to some degree.
The write-up may be a bit confusing, but I'm pretty sure they're referring to the Semantic Web as an extension of the web as proposed by W3C director Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and not trying to hijack the acronym for themselves.
Kent Brockman: "Also in the news today, a team of researchers has found that the amount of email spam has increased over 300% since the early part of this decade. Scientists are still searching for the cause of this increase."
I'm surprised no one's has mentioned Sun as a potential target, as they've open sourced a great deal of their code, including Solaris, Java, and Open Office. All three continue either already are or have the potential to be big competitors to mainline Microsoft products.
I don't think taking up arms is the correct thing to do at this point, but I do believe that the citizens of the United States need to enact our First Amendment right to petition the government for a redress of grievances. What's less clear is whether US citizens have a right to revolution as that was conveniently left out of the US Constitution, despite its significance in the US Declaration of Independence as a means of formally declaring our intent to form a new government apart from Great Britain.
Whoops.....
Guess I have to hand in my Sun CSA now......
And it's also really a matter of target markets. Sun's biggest customer segments are the US gov't and large financial institutions, and it's likely that those two customer bases comprise at least 1/3 of Sun's revenues. For them, $20k/server is par for the course, and also inline with what competitors are charging for similar gear.
The other point made above is that Sun realized a long time ago that they can't compete margin-wise with Intel on the desktop CPU market. Way back when, Sun's revenue used to be workstation driven (hence, the stock ticker....SUNW, W=workstation). But then the Microsoft marketing engine of the 90's allowed Intel to kill the viability of that market for them, and they've since concentrated on the server market.
Truth be told, they struggled mightily throughout the late 90's and early 00's due to this, but this new architecture really holds promise, and is way ahead of anything that Intel or AMD have out now. Like the original synopsis says, their only real competition is IBM's Power 6, which is a beast of a chip in its own right.
Yet another in a long line of examples of when management understands neither the product nor the competition. Ignorance of this sort is almost guaranteed to end badly.
The one good thing about this /. article is that verifies that my Adblock settings are working properly. No Dvoraking for me, thankyouverymuch....
This seems like a target-rich environment for black hats to "do business" in.
I know this thread is dead and all, but just wanted to contribute one more tangential piece of info that Slashdotters need when considering our level of expertise vs. the general public. The ratio of tech-knowledgable people is much more exclusive that even 95% -- I would venture to say that it's more like 99.9%.
For example, assuming the requisite knowledge required to understand the Intel errata would be gained either by taking a university-level course, like Ohio State's CSE 675 Intro to Computer Architecture class, or by doing some very highly directed self-study, and given that the class is offered 4x/year with an average class of 25 students, then roughly 100 students/year gain that knowledge. Let's also assume that 50% forget that knowledge within 5 years, so over the course of those 5 years, 250 people become capable of reading those errata.
With OSU's Columbus campus enrollment at roughly 51,000/yr, with roughly 10,000 turnover/year due to graduation and withdrawal, then over 5 years, approximately 100,000 students will have had the opportunity at taking that class and retaining the knowledge.
So, simple math tells us that only 0.25% of a college-level population will obtain and retain the requisite skills. Now extrapolate that the the general population that doesn't attend college, which is roughly 60% in the US, and you get a final percentage of about 0.1% overall that can read the Intel errata, and even that may be a stretch, IMHO.
Bottom line -- Slashdotters need to realize that very few people overall understand technology, and even fewer care.
$1.8M in potential damages
$150k/song
That comes out to 12 songs. Sounds about right (mathematically speaking, that is.....).
Not to mention that the "Driver Downloads" and "BIOS & System Update Downloads" categories also seem to be missing now as well....
Point taken and accepted. The question now, paraphrasing another AC, is "What are we going to do about it?"
"Politicians, like underwear, should be changed regularly, and for the same reasons."