Wow. Good thing slashdot has so many lit majors and so few computer scientists. Lull those students into complacency, so when the good doctor builds his functioning cross-referencing system, they'll never see it coming.
Here are three reasons why you're wrong: 1. 2.6E06 combinations is not *that* big a deal if you're willing to let this program run for a little while. Especially if you're running on the computer hardware that will be common ten years from now. 2. you don't have to re-read each old paper in its entirety. Instead, you build an index of six-word phrases. 3. you don't have to use the full text of the six-word phrases -- you compress them using a dictionary.
Your database of old papers should easily fit in a gig, even assuming that they're all in MS Word. Assuming a 65k word vocabulary for these papers (rather generous) we can allow, oh 128 bits per phrase on average, assuming very little overlap, and about 1000 phrases per paper. That's a little over 1 GB of index. Give yourself an extra gig of RAM so that everything fits in memory, if you want it to run really fast. You can work the rest out from here. Piece of cake.
I think you've misunderstood -- which is easy to do given the way they represent the data. Those color bands are like countour lines on a topographical map. There is 1 cm of uplift from one red line to the next, and another 1 cm to the subsequent red line, and so on. So what you're seeing is not a set of ripples radiating out from a central impact, but is a series of lines painted on a bulge, as if someone pushed their fingers up through a balloon.
In a few hundred years some more advanced, somewhat technological society might arise, but it will never approach today. The resources needed are already gone.
Precisely. A hundred years ago, oil bubbled up out of the ground. You could dig up coal with a hand shovel. Nowadays, it takes so much technology just to extract fuel and ores that, if the technology were unusable, there would be no way to get the fuel and raw materials needed to build the technology. Catch-22.
The pilots of Alaska Airlines flight 261 had their MD80 flying inverted for a while. They had problems with the horizontal stabilizers, and it turned out the plane was more stable upside down.
Trouble is, while you may be able to fly the plane inverted, you sure as hell can't land it that way.
CD-ROM drives have been known to fail in such a way that the laser stays on while the motor does not. After a few days, maybe a week of that, the plastic on the CDR starts to bubble.
I am holding a cooked piece of media in my hand right now. Oh, it's a CDRW. Same difference. Fortunately, it just had legally ripped MP3s on it, so I can recreate it. Lesson: always backup your irreplaceable CD media.
The posters who argue that Microsoft's monopoly is so strong that no one can damage it, so strong that there is in effect no choice for the poor dumb schmuck consumer, are completely neglecting Apple.
Apple began to suffer when most of the PCs being purchased were for use in the business environment. There was a certain amount of fashion involved, a certain amount of price sensitivity, a certain amount of incompatibility with Microsoft Flight Simulator (which was hot in executive's offices at the time), and a definite requirement to support the same file formats as the office productive tools used by one's coworkers.
Now, the business market is saturated, most every American home has a PC, but where is the growth going to come from? Second computers. Computers for the kids. And do the kids give a flying window about Powerpoint? I think not. The kids care about pop culture. This is a growth market, and Microsoft will lose it if they drive the kids to Apple. Jobs knows it, that's what "Rip...Burn" is all about.
How does this make money for Microsoft? I'm not a direct shareholder anymore, but if I were, I would definitely want to hear from the honchos an answer as to why they are weakening their monopoly to fight somone else's war.
You don't want to drop the bearings, they fall to the ground and you have to pick them up again. They land on your houses, and your buildings, and they land in your lawns, where they become projectiles on Saturdays when you run over them with lawnmowers. You want something like "sky mines". Or invisible high-altitude balloons with large spider webs strung between them.
They said his actions were "beyond the pale" which is a racial slur used to refer to the Irish. The Pale was a defensive perimeter around Dublin when the English occupied the city. To be "beyond the pale" came to mean uncivilized and barbaric and was synonymous with "wild Irish," one of the slurs the English used.
naturally, one side effect of this technology would be slowing the earth's rotation, resulting in distinctly longer days after, oh, a million years or so.
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It was a troll because it was quite evidently an attempt to start an extremely off-topic operating system religion flamewar. Despite being modded down (apparently, it didn't get modded down quickly enough), the troll succeeded. All these posts (including mine) are off-topic, and should be modded down.
but for college students and others who might not have that much money, an extra $20-$50 bucks a month can be quite helpful.
'course, if you don't have much money, why would I want to advertise to you? Employ you, maybe, but try to sell you stuff? No thanks, I'll stick to selling things to people who HAVE money, thank you.
TRY GOOGLE !!! Indeed. Once again, AskSlashdot is used as an excuse to avoid doing even the tiniest bit of legwork. Well, OP, you have succeeded. I did it for you. Since your time is more valuable than anyone else's, you should be pleased to learn that there is an X-terminal (ok, sans monitor and keyboard, but you can fix that) for sale on EBay right at this very moment. Asking $10.50. Go for it. Also, Google would tell you that there are some listed for sale here: http://www.spacestar.net/users/pvaske/TERMINAL.HTM and here: http://209.87.105.213/scripts/category.asp?SearchS tring=XTERM
The story of the kid and the screen identity is kind of heart-wrenching...at least how its told.
The "mother" was bull-shitting the AOL rep. Scamming, lying, social-engineering. Mark my words -- you'd have heard about the AOL-stalking child-abducter otherwise. The caller was almost certainly not actually a mother, and was just trying to extract someone else's identity from a trusting AOL staffer. It burns me to see people who ought to be tech-savvy still perpetuating the myth that the Internet is overrun with pedophiles and child abusers, when the reality is that it's overrun by petty, vindictive, malicious, lying adults.
I should know because I worked that job and others for AOL from 1995 until 1998
...during that time, I learned how to use the CapsLock key, but I still haven't figured out why you guys leave all those blank lines in your posts, or how -- is there some kind of a blank line key or something?
As for censorware that was mentioned above, I have also resisted installing on my in-laws computer. They have a 16 year old who is turning into a real slut, because even the best censorware is not perfect.
Well, what's her screen name? Don't be such a tease!
I don't believe that it was entirely tongue-in-cheek. When I last studied the customs laws, in the context of exporting and importing cryptographic "munitions", I noted that there was an exception provided for both the export, and import, of rockets which are launched from within the US borders. IOW, if you launch a rocket from Florida into outer space and it re-enters in Albequerque, no import declaration need be filed.
Email existed before the PC. They could handle email with 80486-class systems, or old Macintoshes, or scrounged Sun-2s. They might have trouble with the 5:30 Quake game.
So outsource it. Last I heard, there were lots of English-speaking people in India who would be happy to work for $8K/year sorting email. Use one of your in-house staffers to conduct random statistical analyses for QA purposes.
Ok, politically, that might be tricky. But I promise you that there are regions of the US with >15% unemployment and low costs of living, to which email sorting and analysis could be easily off-loaded. Hm, I think I smell a business.
Oh noooo! Then they'd be accountable for a consistent position! That would never, never, never fly. The important thing for an elected official is to be able to lie^H^H^Hadjust their message for selected constituencies. They absolutely thrive on hiding information, spinning, prevaricating and double-talking. Do you think they want to tell the public "the reason I voted NO on SB 109837 was because Strom promised me he'd put in a good word for SB 109900 with Dick, if I agreed to help kill 109837. I need 109900 because the cattle lobbyists put on that big party for me last month that raked in $1M for my campaign."
Oh, no. RTFM is not going to happen, because there will never be an FM.
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Wow. Good thing slashdot has so many lit majors and so few computer scientists. Lull those students into complacency, so when the good doctor builds his functioning cross-referencing system, they'll never see it coming.
Here are three reasons why you're wrong:
1. 2.6E06 combinations is not *that* big a deal if you're willing to let this program run for a little while. Especially if you're running on the computer hardware that will be common ten years from now.
2. you don't have to re-read each old paper in its entirety. Instead, you build an index of six-word phrases.
3. you don't have to use the full text of the six-word phrases -- you compress them using a dictionary.
Your database of old papers should easily fit in a gig, even assuming that they're all in MS Word. Assuming a 65k word vocabulary for these papers (rather generous) we can allow, oh 128 bits per phrase on average, assuming very little overlap, and about 1000 phrases per paper. That's a little over 1 GB of index. Give yourself an extra gig of RAM so that everything fits in memory, if you want it to run really fast. You can work the rest out from here. Piece of cake.
I think you've misunderstood -- which is easy to do given the way they represent the data. Those color bands are like countour lines on a topographical map. There is 1 cm of uplift from one red line to the next, and another 1 cm to the subsequent red line, and so on. So what you're seeing is not a set of ripples radiating out from a central impact, but is a series of lines painted on a bulge, as if someone pushed their fingers up through a balloon.
In a few hundred years some more advanced, somewhat technological society might arise, but it will never approach today. The resources needed are already gone.
Precisely. A hundred years ago, oil bubbled up out of the ground. You could dig up coal with a hand shovel. Nowadays, it takes so much technology just to extract fuel and ores that, if the technology were unusable, there would be no way to get the fuel and raw materials needed to build the technology. Catch-22.
The pilots of Alaska Airlines flight 261 had their MD80 flying inverted for a while. They had problems with the horizontal stabilizers, and it turned out the plane was more stable upside down.
Trouble is, while you may be able to fly the plane inverted, you sure as hell can't land it that way.
CD-ROM drives have been known to fail in such a way that the laser stays on while the motor does not. After a few days, maybe a week of that, the plastic on the CDR starts to bubble.
I am holding a cooked piece of media in my hand right now. Oh, it's a CDRW. Same difference. Fortunately, it just had legally ripped MP3s on it, so I can recreate it. Lesson: always backup your irreplaceable CD media.
Or another one-time password scheme. Other posters have suggested SSH, which misses the point.
Which wouldn't remove the justification for DeCSS. The Supreme Court would just be wrong, and not for the first time.
The posters who argue that Microsoft's monopoly is so strong that no one can damage it, so strong that there is in effect no choice for the poor dumb schmuck consumer, are completely neglecting Apple.
Apple began to suffer when most of the PCs being purchased were for use in the business environment. There was a certain amount of fashion involved, a certain amount of price sensitivity, a certain amount of incompatibility with Microsoft Flight Simulator (which was hot in executive's offices at the time), and a definite requirement to support the same file formats as the office productive tools used by one's coworkers.
Now, the business market is saturated, most every American home has a PC, but where is the growth going to come from? Second computers. Computers for the kids. And do the kids give a flying window about Powerpoint? I think not. The kids care about pop culture. This is a growth market, and Microsoft will lose it if they drive the kids to Apple. Jobs knows it, that's what "Rip...Burn" is all about.
How does this make money for Microsoft? I'm not a direct shareholder anymore, but if I were, I would definitely want to hear from the honchos an answer as to why they are weakening their monopoly to fight somone else's war.
Suicide instructions? Instructions?
gee, they must use small words, really big print and lots of pictures.
You don't want to drop the bearings, they fall to the ground and you have to pick them up again. They land on your houses, and your buildings, and they land in your lawns, where they become projectiles on Saturdays when you run over them with lawnmowers. You want something like "sky mines". Or invisible high-altitude balloons with large spider webs strung between them.
Which is fine, until one of your own guys sells the technology to the Chinese.
They said his actions were "beyond the pale" which is a racial slur used to refer to the Irish. The Pale was a defensive perimeter around Dublin when the English occupied the city. To be "beyond the pale" came to mean uncivilized and barbaric and was synonymous with "wild Irish," one of the slurs the English used.
And of course, there's vandal.
in their allegations against Aldrige. Ironic, nu? See if you can find the slur.
naturally, one side effect of this technology would be slowing the earth's rotation, resulting in distinctly longer days after, oh, a million years or so.
It was a troll because it was quite evidently an attempt to start an extremely off-topic operating system religion flamewar. Despite being modded down (apparently, it didn't get modded down quickly enough), the troll succeeded. All these posts (including mine) are off-topic, and should be modded down.
but for college students and others who might not have that much money, an extra $20-$50 bucks a month can be quite helpful.
'course, if you don't have much money, why would I want to advertise to you? Employ you, maybe, but try to sell you stuff? No thanks, I'll stick to selling things to people who HAVE money, thank you.
TRY GOOGLE !!!M and here: http://209.87.105.213/scripts/category.asp?SearchS tring=XTERM
Indeed. Once again, AskSlashdot is used as an excuse to avoid doing even the tiniest bit of legwork. Well, OP, you have succeeded. I did it for you. Since your time is more valuable than anyone else's, you should be pleased to learn that there is an X-terminal (ok, sans monitor and keyboard, but you can fix that) for sale on EBay right at this very moment. Asking $10.50. Go for it. Also, Google would tell you that there are some listed for sale here: http://www.spacestar.net/users/pvaske/TERMINAL.HT
The story of the kid and the screen identity is kind of heart-wrenching...at least how its told.
The "mother" was bull-shitting the AOL rep. Scamming, lying, social-engineering. Mark my words -- you'd have heard about the AOL-stalking child-abducter otherwise. The caller was almost certainly not actually a mother, and was just trying to extract someone else's identity from a trusting AOL staffer. It burns me to see people who ought to be tech-savvy still perpetuating the myth that the Internet is overrun with pedophiles and child abusers, when the reality is that it's overrun by petty, vindictive, malicious, lying adults.
I should know because I worked that job and others for AOL from 1995 until 1998
...during that time, I learned how to use the CapsLock key, but I still haven't figured out why you guys leave all those blank lines in your posts, or how -- is there some kind of a blank line key or something?
As for censorware that was mentioned above, I have also resisted installing on my in-laws computer. They have a 16 year old who is turning into a real slut, because even the best censorware is not perfect.
Well, what's her screen name? Don't be such a tease!
I don't believe that it was entirely tongue-in-cheek. When I last studied the customs laws, in the context of exporting and importing cryptographic "munitions", I noted that there was an exception provided for both the export, and import, of rockets which are launched from within the US borders. IOW, if you launch a rocket from Florida into outer space and it re-enters in Albequerque, no import declaration need be filed.
Email existed before the PC. They could handle email with 80486-class systems, or old Macintoshes, or scrounged Sun-2s. They might have trouble with the 5:30 Quake game.
So outsource it. Last I heard, there were lots of English-speaking people in India who would be happy to work for $8K/year sorting email. Use one of your in-house staffers to conduct random statistical analyses for QA purposes.
Ok, politically, that might be tricky. But I promise you that there are regions of the US with >15% unemployment and low costs of living, to which email sorting and analysis could be easily off-loaded.
Hm, I think I smell a business.
Oh noooo! Then they'd be accountable for a consistent position! That would never, never, never fly. The important thing for an elected official is to be able to lie^H^H^Hadjust their message for selected constituencies. They absolutely thrive on hiding information, spinning, prevaricating and double-talking. Do you think they want to tell the public "the reason I voted NO on SB 109837 was because Strom promised me he'd put in a good word for SB 109900 with Dick, if I agreed to help kill 109837. I need 109900 because the cattle lobbyists put on that big party for me last month that raked in $1M for my campaign."
Oh, no. RTFM is not going to happen, because there will never be an FM.