You can have huge desks where everyone get together if you want to save space. Alternatively, allow your employees to work a few days per week on their homes.
I guess I'll dissect your comment before going to bed.
Unlike those kids at Anonymous, the perpetrators of stuxnet are showing who are the real hacktivists.
If you define real hacktivism merely in terms of access to the resources to pull off an attack, then I call bullshit on your definition: you do what you can with what you have. If you define it merely in terms of the chosen target, I'll point out your bias and disregard your statement.
Targeted precise strike on Iran's nuclear capabilities, this is a bigger win for freedom and security in the free world and anything wikileaks or their supporters could dream of doing.
Yeah, messing up with the nuclear facilities of any country surely leads to a safer world (hint: there's sarcasm). As if it weren't bad enough with all the people advocating against nuclear, now everyone will be paranoid because nuclear plants aren't secure. A few friends of mine work on such a facility, and they still hear people afraid of a second Chernobyl. The conclusion they would draw is simple: nuclear power is unsafe and we are literally sitting on top of a nuclear bomb.
Finally, why mention Wikileaks? Aren't you biased enough? I've read the few cables related to my country, and I think that only something good would come out of those leaks: more honest diplomacy, and maybe the US will stop committing so many international crimes. Also, at least for those leaks I read, no one is at risk of dying or being hurt (well, to be honest, a lot of pride has been hurt;) ).
I commend these hackers for slowing down the evil Iranian government's nuclear ambitions.
You must be crazy if you think that this was done by a few freelancers. Have you read how Stuxnet works? Given the amount of intelligence required to pull this one off, at least one big government was behind it. That's cyber warfare, if you ask me. What's commendable in waging war, I do not know.
A one time shot would be great, it may be even more useful than a fraction of that.
Let's say you invest all your money. You can take risks, so 5% a year is a reasonable expectation. You can assume, in a nothing-goes-wrong scenario (cough *2008 crisis* cough), that you give away that amount on a 20 year lapse. You don't consider inflation, or that you may lose money. You don't consider that a problem, left unattended, continues to grow. You don't consider that a problem not addressed today properly requires more effort later. This is specially so with pests like rats or mosquitoes.
Can you see the problem with your statement? Pissing off the money in a year may also mean solving the problem in a year.
To claim prior art, it's not enough to have a program that has most of the functionality of the one that is patented: you must have a program that does "everything" that's stated on the patent. If there's a single feature that is stated on the patent, but is not implemented on your prior art example, then it doesn't count. That's why prior art is not the best course of action on litigations.
I saw a good article on the intertubes that explained this very well, but I lost the link. Other slashdotters may deliver...
You are allowed to use hardware-specific features and change the algorithm for this benchmark. That way, any optimization is used and innovation, as you call it, emerges.
Besides, scalability *is* the most desired quality for a supercomputer that doesn't aim for space, power and cost... like the ones most likely to be in TOP500. You have Green500 for the other things you mentioned.
Indeed, they are catastrophic. I would gamble that you would become a robot devoid of emotion processing and recalling. The amygdala is much more than fear processing.
You would have to prove a strong correlation between being an online gamer and being a file-sharer. I presume there is one, but wouldn't be necessarily so.
I didn't know Hulk Hogan was such a cultured guy! All I knew about him is that he wrestled.
Alright, alright, I'll let you talk about it...
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I read the summary, and all I see is someone looking for excuses to talk about Drupal. Please, talk a bit more about the beta! I'll read the article, don't worry, but please give me something tangible.
I dislike unions, but, in this case, I must agree with them and support their decision. The government can't interfere with scientists the way it does!
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Some people actually *enjoy* their profession, and do not need to be paid for *everything* they do (e.g. open source?).
So your argument is that people will compete for a cash prize because they aren't motivated by money?
More likely because they like to build things and to compete.
A subtle joke. :D
Man, I wish I could mod you up!
The translation from English to Spanish is pretty shitty.
You can have huge desks where everyone get together if you want to save space. Alternatively, allow your employees to work a few days per week on their homes.
Even if you are right on your urbanising level, it smells like an average with a huge standard deviation.
You can't really compare those two countries! Just the size difference skews all the statistics.
that is the plot for the story Makers by Cory Doctorow.
Damn, I don't have mod points when I need them. But yeah, I was going to say that.
Link here: http://craphound.com/makers/download/
I guess I'll dissect your comment before going to bed.
Unlike those kids at Anonymous, the perpetrators of stuxnet are showing who are the real hacktivists.
If you define real hacktivism merely in terms of access to the resources to pull off an attack, then I call bullshit on your definition: you do what you can with what you have. If you define it merely in terms of the chosen target, I'll point out your bias and disregard your statement.
Targeted precise strike on Iran's nuclear capabilities, this is a bigger win for freedom and security in the free world and anything wikileaks or their supporters could dream of doing.
Yeah, messing up with the nuclear facilities of any country surely leads to a safer world (hint: there's sarcasm). As if it weren't bad enough with all the people advocating against nuclear, now everyone will be paranoid because nuclear plants aren't secure. A few friends of mine work on such a facility, and they still hear people afraid of a second Chernobyl. The conclusion they would draw is simple: nuclear power is unsafe and we are literally sitting on top of a nuclear bomb.
Finally, why mention Wikileaks? Aren't you biased enough? I've read the few cables related to my country, and I think that only something good would come out of those leaks: more honest diplomacy, and maybe the US will stop committing so many international crimes. Also, at least for those leaks I read, no one is at risk of dying or being hurt (well, to be honest, a lot of pride has been hurt ;) ).
I commend these hackers for slowing down the evil Iranian government's nuclear ambitions.
You must be crazy if you think that this was done by a few freelancers. Have you read how Stuxnet works? Given the amount of intelligence required to pull this one off, at least one big government was behind it. That's cyber warfare, if you ask me. What's commendable in waging war, I do not know.
A one time shot would be great, it may be even more useful than a fraction of that.
Let's say you invest all your money. You can take risks, so 5% a year is a reasonable expectation. You can assume, in a nothing-goes-wrong scenario (cough *2008 crisis* cough), that you give away that amount on a 20 year lapse. You don't consider inflation, or that you may lose money. You don't consider that a problem, left unattended, continues to grow. You don't consider that a problem not addressed today properly requires more effort later. This is specially so with pests like rats or mosquitoes.
Can you see the problem with your statement? Pissing off the money in a year may also mean solving the problem in a year.
75% of a person!
the Y is a Y because its an X missing a bit, and when creating a person the missing it on the Y just defaults to the bit on the X
Perhaps "bit" is an understatement: the Y have roughly 80 genes, while the X has around 2000; the Y is about 4 times smaller than the X.
[...] grandparents who're new to the Internet,[...]
Seriously, "who're"? That must be the worst abbreviation ever. :P
Since EasyDNS couldn't handle them anymore. Oh wait, wasn't there a problem with Amazon to start with?
Yeah, I thought that too. They announced this just after kicking Wikileaks out. It does give you an idea of how reliable that DNS service is.
Screw them.
I thought it was called "being slashdotted".
I saw a good article on the intertubes that explained this very well, but I lost the link. Other slashdotters may deliver...
int i = 0; while(i infinite) { i++; }
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Whatever computer finishes first is clearly the fastest supercomputer.
Just wait for the RAM to collapse. ;)
You are allowed to use hardware-specific features and change the algorithm for this benchmark. That way, any optimization is used and innovation, as you call it, emerges. Besides, scalability *is* the most desired quality for a supercomputer that doesn't aim for space, power and cost... like the ones most likely to be in TOP500. You have Green500 for the other things you mentioned.
Indeed, they are catastrophic. I would gamble that you would become a robot devoid of emotion processing and recalling. The amygdala is much more than fear processing.
Let me guess... it correlates with listening to Lady Gaga instead of Iron Maiden or ACDC.
Just tell them that instead of open source software, you are using free software. :P
For a second I thought they were merely using VSM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_space_model . As I read further, I was happily proven wrong. :)
In 2010 that suggested that somewhere around 1-4% of everyone's DNA is Neanderthal ish?
My cousin must have a decent 20% or 30% percent. It's the only explanation I've got for some of the things he does.
They want to replace it with the Pound (badum tss)
You would have to prove a strong correlation between being an online gamer and being a file-sharer. I presume there is one, but wouldn't be necessarily so.
I didn't know Hulk Hogan was such a cultured guy! All I knew about him is that he wrestled.
I read the summary, and all I see is someone looking for excuses to talk about Drupal. Please, talk a bit more about the beta! I'll read the article, don't worry, but please give me something tangible.
I dislike unions, but, in this case, I must agree with them and support their decision. The government can't interfere with scientists the way it does!