On the ocean shore there are crabs Scavengers pick them for a nice grab All they need is a bucket they don't even need to lock it For the ones below will keep the ones above from leaping
So you crabs at the bottom leave this one alone as his red hat will keep him high on the lip of the bucket
Wrong analogy. Linking to a website sends you straight to the source. There's not much like it in a non-electronic form. That's why the Hypertext method of formatting information is so innovative. Because it *is* innovative.
It would be like you're writing a book, you mention a topic and provide the reference embedded entirely within that book. Except that embedded copy is a valid copy because it is the true and original copy.
You forget that 80% of the world writes it in MS Word and then uploads it to some server that's hosted in another location without the root password or access to htconf.
Linking is a mechanism to increase the knowledge and understanding about a particular area of interest that a user is currently browsing. Spam is utter trash that means nothing to most.
Linking benefits all, whereas Spam benefits few. Both maybe unsolicited, but the increase in interconnections between ideas that linking provides outweighs this "weakness" by far.
I find no difficulty in rationalizing or arguing the benefits of linking as compared to arguing against spam. Remember one rule of thumb about rationalizing: "The world is grey." Then you won't have any problems.
I would like to see several of the recent "Desktop" Distros to come together and invest some resources to put together a viable free solution for the open source community. I'd bet Lindows, et al, installs these fonts to make the desktop look prettier. Now with this avenue of eye-candy drying up, they may need to either look elsewhere or come up with their own gig.
As a software engineer/lead dude in Taiwan, i feel that the more fabs outputting the merrier. I keep my job and everyone stays happy -- obviously the customer will benefit the most from such a competitive environment. Kinda like the RAM market was a few years back.
Right now I'm working on Acer-Unipac Line 8 which is a 5G (fifth generation) outfit that put's out glass beginning in the 21" form-factor. The previous fabs like L6/L5 will pick up speed in the 17" arena. I think Samsung's newest place in Korea is also 5G and was up and running well before Acer.
The next 5G fab coming up is Chimei Fab 3 in Tainan . Both the Acer and Chimei fabs will be rolling full production by next spring. This will bring TV-class LCD panel prices down quite a bit.
The carrier sizes for these babies are huge -- I mean like the size of your regular cubicle. Good ole wafer fabs you used to be able to hand-carry the product around. These you need a forklift. But since they don't have any "clean" forklifts they have to use these funky $60,000 USD handcarts that move them around.
Anyway, I'm blabbing... but just remember AUO Fab 8 and Chimei Fab 3 in Taiwan coming up soon. LG / Samsung has one 5G running as we speak and probably another one coming soon. In fact, I heard AUO Fab 9 will be done by the end of next year...
So, I probably said too much, but I didn't sign any NDA, so I don't care...
You know, I believe in liberty. But that doesn't mean I immediately grasp blindly to anyone's political agenda. Now I am not being condescending on anyone here, but would like to get a broader perspective here.
There may be a scale issue here, where I just don't belong on that far side of the scale. What should I do?
And, please, give me some counter-arguments too. Why should I *not* join the EFF?
I'd hate to join a group where I can't agree with 100% of their political agenda. I'd rather not debate the issues, but want a perspective from all sides on the scale... Of course, this site might well be one-sided on the issue.
Let's compute this long time, just for fun. Let's see, we've got to assume a bunch of crap before we can compute a specific time for this. Using data from this and this, let's assume that the current largest hard drive size on the market is 180GB with a doubling rate now at 9 months. (The 80s saw 30% growth annually, 60% in the 90s and 130% now.) Unlike processors, which have been steadily doubling every 18 months thanks to Mr. Moore, it appears that the growth rate itself for storage capacity is doubling every 10 years. Go figure.
Let's use this, blow some hot air and molest these numbers a little bit.
180 * 2 ^ p = 8 billion TB
p = periods of doubling = 36
Using a flat constant growth of 130% this would equal to
36 * 9 = 324 months / 12 = 27 years
Now, we see crossed 2 periods of doubling in growth, but can storage technology really experience growths of 260% or 520% annually. I'd have to say not, so I'll just give up computing the time given the growth of the growth right now. That's an assignment left to the reader -- I'd say it has to do with "e".
Anyhow, the reality is:
1) No one will ever read this comment since the article is so far down on the front page. 2) We'll have quantum computers in 10 years that will use unlimited-bit numbers to access unlimited capacity storage devices.
I'm not even a geneticist and I can create life from lifelessness... You just have to trace the composition back far enough. Hey, we're all made from dirt.
This reminds of reading about Neural Nets in the various texts on Artificial Intelligence. They always quote Shepherd and Koch 's "The Synaptic Organisation of the Brain": "The brain incorporates 10 billion neurons and 60 trillion connections."
When I think about these new network technologies I can't help to think it's our connections that we lack these days. Hopefully with more and more advanced technology we can utilize these connections to create things more intelligent. This appears to be on the right track.
Maybe "Jane" will finally come out of the closet. Well, actually we got to have Instantaneous (sp) communication before that happens... Doh, well... we're making slight progress.
Well, you're at MIT, price really doesn't matter. Innovations in cheapness usually don't come out of schools like MIT with infinite budgets.
But, you could start! I'll give you an idea, take a Nokia cell phone and let it synchronize its time with the CDMA network. Upload the time stamp from the phone to your computer via the infrared uplink. Don't use the phone to call, keep it plugged in and you've got your cheap solution to sync time.
Re:Or, if you need something even better than NTP.
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And it would be great if you could submit changes to NTP for the next version release that could improve it to the accuracy that you claim.
I know I would appreciate that a lot! (Much better than starting up another project and having people to switch over to a new system of doing things...)
> One thing is for sure though: College will be > cheaper, and University will have more depth. I'm > sorry to all the flaming college advocates, but in > general you simply will not find hard-core > mathematicians working at a community college.
So, when a College upgrades to a University (of which I've known of several), does this automatically convert the classes to have more depth when the faculty remains nearly the same?
And that he loved Americans was also an interesting aspect of big Mao (and boy he was a fat sucker... except wait, he's son was even fatter... ever read that book?)
Hmm. That's ignorant. Taiwan is far from a poor country. Just a hint, go here: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ tw.html
And look at the percentage of people below the poverty line. Ok?
I live in Taiwan and there is more BMW's / Mercedes driving around than I have ever seen. (Never been to Germany... ) Of course, the CIA world factbook actually has better measures of "wealth" than what I have stated.
I am surprised I haven't heard this yet, but let's take a look at the root of ISP costs. If anyone is going to revolt/protest, go direct to the backbone and trickle-down economics tells us that the realized prices by the Consumers will get lower. If they don't, then protest at that level.
RFH: Scrolling Causes Crash
NOTE: Moderation for this Post Sacrificed to Post this important request!
Disclaimer:
I'm not a Mozilla developer, but a loyal user that knows how to use DDD. I just don't have the time to dig in. So if you're going to flame because of not fixing it myself, stop reading right now...
History:
In pre 0.9.7 there was a bug that caused a crash of Mozilla. However, it appears to be fixed in 0.9.7. However, just a few nightly builds later the crash was reintroduced into the system. It has been crashing in 0.9.7+.
This problem occurs when dealing with any lists in Mozilla. Like TO/CC Lists, Filters lists, etc. After creating a list that scrolls off the screen, it causes a memory leak that will lead to a crash of the program.
It has become such a problem, that dozens of duplicate bugs have been tacked on to the end of the bug.
Request:
It is my hope that this bug is fixed as it is the bane to all my use of Mozilla. I fill in people I want to Mail to and it nukes the program. I create a complex filter and it nukes the program.
I am sure that Eric Vaughan will get to it some time, but this is an RFH to those that this crash bothers. Please Vote for the bug below! This, according to http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/votehelp.html will enable the priority to be edged up on an issue.
I consider this crash to be a show stopper. However, if the issue Works for You, DO NOT VOTE FOR IT. Just if it doesn't...
Slashdot Mirror
On the ocean shore there are crabs
Scavengers pick them for a nice grab
All they need is a bucket
they don't even need to lock it
For the ones below will keep
the ones above from leaping
So you crabs at the bottom
leave this one alone
as his red hat will keep him high
on the lip of the bucket
Wrong analogy. Linking to a website sends you straight to the source. There's not much like it in a non-electronic form. That's why the Hypertext method of formatting information is so innovative. Because it *is* innovative.
It would be like you're writing a book, you mention a topic and provide the reference embedded entirely within that book. Except that embedded copy is a valid copy because it is the true and original copy.
Thanks,
You forget that 80% of the world writes it in MS Word and then uploads it to some server that's hosted in another location without the root password or access to htconf.
Kbye,
Not.
Linking is a mechanism to increase the knowledge and understanding about a particular area of interest that a user is currently browsing. Spam is utter trash that means nothing to most.
Linking benefits all, whereas Spam benefits few. Both maybe unsolicited, but the increase in interconnections between ideas that linking provides outweighs this "weakness" by far.
I find no difficulty in rationalizing or arguing the benefits of linking as compared to arguing against spam. Remember one rule of thumb about rationalizing: "The world is grey." Then you won't have any problems.
Thanks,
another site besides Slashdot? I would encourage all to post links to everything you find that you cannot link to in this thread.
FYI: These guys have a lot of trademarks: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z. And if you use one of them you'll get sued. Later,
would like to see the IOC take over. They are an .org and they love controversies!!!
I would like to see several of the recent "Desktop" Distros to come together and invest some resources to put together a viable free solution for the open source community. I'd bet Lindows, et al, installs these fonts to make the desktop look prettier. Now with this avenue of eye-candy drying up, they may need to either look elsewhere or come up with their own gig.
As a software engineer/lead dude in Taiwan, i feel that the more fabs outputting the merrier. I keep my job and everyone stays happy -- obviously the customer will benefit the most from such a competitive environment. Kinda like the RAM market was a few years back.
... but just remember AUO Fab 8 and Chimei Fab 3 in Taiwan coming up soon. LG / Samsung has one 5G running as we speak and probably another one coming soon. In fact, I heard AUO Fab 9 will be done by the end of next year...
Right now I'm working on Acer-Unipac Line 8 which is a 5G (fifth generation) outfit that put's out glass beginning in the 21" form-factor. The previous fabs like L6/L5 will pick up speed in the 17" arena. I think Samsung's newest place in Korea is also 5G and was up and running well before Acer.
The next 5G fab coming up is Chimei Fab 3 in Tainan . Both the Acer and Chimei fabs will be rolling full production by next spring. This will bring TV-class LCD panel prices down quite a bit.
The carrier sizes for these babies are huge -- I mean like the size of your regular cubicle. Good ole wafer fabs you used to be able to hand-carry the product around. These you need a forklift. But since they don't have any "clean" forklifts they have to use these funky $60,000 USD handcarts that move them around.
Anyway, I'm blabbing
So, I probably said too much, but I didn't sign any NDA, so I don't care...
You know, I believe in liberty. But that doesn't mean I immediately grasp blindly to anyone's political agenda. Now I am not being condescending on anyone here, but would like to get a broader perspective here.
There may be a scale issue here, where I just don't belong on that far side of the scale. What should I do?
And, please, give me some counter-arguments too. Why should I *not* join the EFF?
I'd hate to join a group where I can't agree with 100% of their political agenda. I'd rather not debate the issues, but want a perspective from all sides on the scale... Of course, this site might well be one-sided on the issue.
> for a very long time
Let's compute this long time, just for fun. Let's see, we've got to assume a bunch of crap before we can compute a specific time for this. Using data from this and this, let's assume that the current largest hard drive size on the market is 180GB with a doubling rate now at 9 months. (The 80s saw 30% growth annually, 60% in the 90s and 130% now.) Unlike processors, which have been steadily doubling every 18 months thanks to Mr. Moore, it appears that the growth rate itself for storage capacity is doubling every 10 years. Go figure.
Let's use this, blow some hot air and molest these numbers a little bit.
180 * 2 ^ p = 8 billion TB
p = periods of doubling = 36
Using a flat constant growth of 130% this would equal to
36 * 9 = 324 months / 12 = 27 years
Now, we see crossed 2 periods of doubling in growth, but can storage technology really experience growths of 260% or 520% annually. I'd have to say not, so I'll just give up computing the time given the growth of the growth right now. That's an assignment left to the reader -- I'd say it has to do with "e".
Anyhow, the reality is:
1) No one will ever read this comment since the article is so far down on the front page.
2) We'll have quantum computers in 10 years that will use unlimited-bit numbers to access unlimited capacity storage devices.
Ok, I'm all babbled out...
I'm not even a geneticist and I can create life from lifelessness... You just have to trace the composition back far enough. Hey, we're all made from dirt.
Am I the only one who is reminded of a certain Trojan's logo? You decide.
Now who is assimilating who?
This reminds of reading about Neural Nets in the various texts on Artificial Intelligence. They always quote Shepherd and Koch 's "The Synaptic Organisation of the Brain": "The brain incorporates 10 billion neurons and 60 trillion connections."
When I think about these new network technologies I can't help to think it's our connections that we lack these days. Hopefully with more and more advanced technology we can utilize these connections to create things more intelligent. This appears to be on the right track.
Maybe "Jane" will finally come out of the closet. Well, actually we got to have Instantaneous (sp) communication before that happens... Doh, well... we're making slight progress.
Well, you're at MIT, price really doesn't matter. Innovations in cheapness usually don't come out of schools like MIT with infinite budgets.
But, you could start! I'll give you an idea, take a Nokia cell phone and let it synchronize its time with the CDMA network. Upload the time stamp from the phone to your computer via the infrared uplink. Don't use the phone to call, keep it plugged in and you've got your cheap solution to sync time.
And it would be great if you could submit changes to NTP for the next version release that could improve it to the accuracy that you claim.
I know I would appreciate that a lot! (Much better than starting up another project and having people to switch over to a new system of doing things...)
> One thing is for sure though: College will be
> cheaper, and University will have more depth. I'm
> sorry to all the flaming college advocates, but in
> general you simply will not find hard-core
> mathematicians working at a community college.
So, when a College upgrades to a University (of which I've known of several), does this automatically convert the classes to have more depth when the faculty remains nearly the same?
Anyone know of an Open source GPL'd solution?
And that he loved Americans was also an interesting aspect of big Mao (and boy he was a fat sucker ... except wait, he's son was even fatter ... ever read that book?)
the NSA is usually 5 ~ 8 years ahead in technology with regards to this stuff. Hmm...
Hmm. That's ignorant. Taiwan is far from a poor country. Just a hint, go here: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ tw.html
... ) Of course, the CIA world factbook actually has better measures of "wealth" than what I have stated.
And look at the percentage of people below the poverty line. Ok?
I live in Taiwan and there is more BMW's / Mercedes driving around than I have ever seen. (Never been to Germany
At least they could do Math before 1962.
I am surprised I haven't heard this yet, but let's take a look at the root of ISP costs. If anyone is going to revolt/protest, go direct to the backbone and trickle-down economics tells us that the realized prices by the Consumers will get lower. If they don't, then protest at that level.
Need more competition in the Backbone department.
Out.
RFH: Scrolling Causes Crash
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NOTE: Moderation for this Post Sacrificed to Post this important request!
Disclaimer:
I'm not a Mozilla developer, but a loyal user that knows how to use DDD. I just don't have the time to dig in. So if you're going to flame because of not fixing it myself, stop reading right now...
History:
In pre 0.9.7 there was a bug that caused a crash of Mozilla. However, it appears to be fixed in 0.9.7. However, just a few nightly builds later the crash was reintroduced into the system. It has been crashing in 0.9.7+.
This problem occurs when dealing with any lists in Mozilla. Like TO/CC Lists, Filters lists, etc. After creating a list that scrolls off the screen, it causes a memory leak that will lead to a crash of the program.
It has become such a problem, that dozens of duplicate bugs have been tacked on to the end of the bug.
Request:
It is my hope that this bug is fixed as it is the bane to all my use of Mozilla. I fill in people I want to Mail to and it nukes the program. I create a complex filter and it nukes the program.
I am sure that Eric Vaughan will get to it some time, but this is an RFH to those that this crash bothers. Please Vote for the bug below! This, according to http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/votehelp.html will enable the priority to be edged up on an issue.
I consider this crash to be a show stopper. However, if the issue Works for You, DO NOT VOTE FOR IT. Just if it doesn't...
Link:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108
Thanks for your help! And may the Gods bless you for your vote!
1. If other OSes released kernels in a timely fashion that Linux does, they would also get equal coverage.
2. You *can* configure your /. to ignore these posts by turning off anything related to the common topic they're released under. OK?