Didn't you notice? Its the new, twitterized century. Everything is a soundbite. Or it isn't.
As for connecting capitol with financial center... I am assuming you mean New York? Three hours for about 203 miles (~330 km) ain't really that fast if Chinese plan to have their train crossing those 664 miles (~1069 km) in about 5 hours. DC-NY train comes out to about what they have at the moment - 10 hours in one direction.
It is kinda scary to think that while "Oh_so_EVIL_communist_China" builds an express line between its capitol and its financial center, US is building what is essentially a carnival ride between the Pleasure Island and Sin City.
I live in Bosnia. I am yet to see a single McCain ad here. Or Obama's for that matter. So, my guess is that there is something to do with the geographical location of your IP address.
Hmm.. I wonder what do the Mideastern countries (where a lot of US soldiers are at the moment) and people surfing from behind the.mil and.gov domains see?
Just because they did the refactoring wrong, or didn't do it all the way when it needed it, doesn't mean that refactoring wasn't the right thing.
It means EXACTLY that. Doing it wrong means doing it wrong. Blaming the process or personal stupidity after the fact doesn't change the end result.
BTW... I wasn't talking about incremental upgrades to the system over time. I was talking about getting the OldSystemTM and trying to cram the NewStuffTM into it and still have it run perfectly on both old computers and new ones - WITH SAME (Only better) PERFORMANCES.
If tons of people stop voting and a single vote becomes meaningful, then it will be time to start voting again.
THAT never happens.
What DOES happen is that party members just vote for themselves. Bigger party - more votes. So, the average man is unimportant - only party members are important enough to be considered. For everything. From job positions through health care to education.
What you SHOULD do is vote. Vote against the one you hate the most/who will do most damage. If all equal - write "I have no one to vote for in this election" on the ballot. Incorrectly marked ballots ARE counted.
Nobody cares about people that don't go to elections. People that go to elections and purposely stand in lines to vote just so that they could say that they don't want to vote for either side - now that is a untapped vote-force.
Why don't USAians just stop holding the elections in all the states except those so called "swing states" or purple states or whatever the term may be today? It would be a whole lot cheaper.
I mean... why not? Its not like that the system currently in use can be called democratic with votes counting more or less depending on location.
1. Organize in secret, over the internet, anonymously. 2. Join Republican party. Easier to pretend that you are one of them and more fun. Just be a dick. 3. Get as many "agents" as high up as you can. 4. Sabotage the party from inside. Use everything, from voting against the majority, through putting sugar in their gas tanks during the conventions, to spreading STDs. 5. When there are more of "you" then there is of "them" - change everything. Fuck... Have a dress code that requires wearing of clown shoes and red noses that go Beep! when you press them if you want to.
Or just keep the party as it is and vote for the "right things" regardless of the party proposing it instead of what party demands of you. Might be a tad problematic agreeing on what exactly "the right thing" is, but I guess things like torturing prisoners and nuking other countries or treating your own citizens as prisoners in a Giant-Fuckin'-PrisonTM most definitely are NOT the "right things".
Like "refactoring" from DOS 2.1 to include all the support for all the advancements in the technology since 1983 till now, while still being able to run on the 1983. computers - with exactly the same performance like today's computers.
There ARE times when you should just say "OK, let us start from scratch". You know... what Microsoft should have done with Windows instead of Vista.
That the term "hacker" be henceforth replaced by the term "fucker".
Yes, it may still lead to unforeseen consequences for the fucker when laymen (and women) star using the term without proper understanding of it, but isn't that exactly what the fucker community really needs?
He stole brains of the military, FBI staff and even of the President of the US? Over the interweb? By deleting files?
Prosecutors say he altered and deleted files at a naval air station not long after the 11 September attacks in 2001, rendering critical systems inoperable.
I am afraid that you are exaggerating a bit here. There are still working 286s and ZX Spectrums around. Granted... they are a bit more robust than today's technology but still... 25 years ain't that long.
Still... Physical deterioration of the chips and other parts is the reason I said there should be two Eees. At least. Plus the additional SD cards. Worse (not worst) case scenario - you can mix and match parts until you have one working computer and one working storage device. As long as one reader or transfer device and one set of data survives in good enough order for photos to be viewed somehow - it is a success. Adding another form of redundant data storage (such as a regular non-SD external HD) should increase those chances, but my guess is that it would be unnecessary. My GUESS. Nothing more.
As for chips deteriorating into sand... Well... they are built with some redundancy too. And we are talking nearly perfect storage here too. Steady heat, no moisture (if done right), no air (again.. if done right), no UV or any other kind of light...
But if you have some real figures on aging of silicone chips I WOULD like to see them.
Plastic and rubber parts are another problem. Many of them disintegrate after several decades. This is a common problem in old calculators and computers. The capstan wheels used in their card readers and tape drives have to be rebuilt or replaced.
Yes, but we are talking OLD hardware there, 15-30 years old today, that has been laying around god knows where. These would be hermetically sealed, and there are no moving parts except the keyboard. And keyboards are just a bunch of switches.
Now capacitors... He could run a cable to the time capsule and have the Eees automatically powered up every six months or so. Again... Two working computers are more than just the sum of their parts - they are parts too.
2 EeePCs loaded with images in at least JPEG, PNG and TIFF formats, OS of choice and a couple of graphic programs that can convert your images into various formats. Separate backups on SD cards. A set of USB to cables.
Also... if it is going to sit in the ground for 25 years, I'd remove the batteries and pack them separately. Don't forget to pack the chargers.
5-10 years from now you will see a story on slashdot talking about this same technology being used by unmanned flying cameras that "The Man" will use to spy on you. From very far away somewhere in that "big bad world out beyond the server room".
That is if there IS slashdot in 5-10 years any more.
The Romans managed to preserve their language and culture for 2000 years completely by accident
Umm.. no. Having an Empire that covers most of the world (at the time) kinda sets your language as the main language by default. Also, having it the main language of the church that kept the practice of torturing and burning alive everyone who didn't bow down to it's heavenly mandate. And... when both of those fade... You still get to keep it through law and medicine - cause your empire officially invented those. Or at least, that is what you have been telling everyone for the last 2000 years.
Do you really think all the stuff we're doing today will vanish in the same time span.
All the stuff? No. Lots of stuff? YES! I still have some of my C64 tapes around, despite the fact that I've given my C64 to a cousin long ago. And there was no DRM on those tapes.
In far less than 100 years the whole of today's Internet will fit on a single USB stick - smaller than a single shard of Roman pottery.
Soo... a lot of information, will be able to fit on a very small, proprietary medium in less then a twentieth part of time their spheres will last. OK... What does one have to do with the other?
Rosetta disk spheres are imagined for the purpose of keeping VITAL pieces of information for MILLENNIA to come. Readable using only eyes and magnifying lenses. Kinda like those talking rings in The Time Machine (1960).
Nickel-base alloys are used for corrosion resistance or for combined corrosion resistance and high temperature strength in a wide range of commercial applications. These various applications may demand resistance to aqueous corrosion mechanisms, such as general corrosion, localized attack, and SCC, or resistance to elevated temperature oxidation, sulfidation and carburization. Many nickel-base alloys have been developed to resist these and other forms of attack. The alloys often find application in areas outside the specific industry or process for which they were designed.
In 10 years most of those cells would already be your own for several cell generations. If there is going to be rejection, that would have to happen much sooner than 10 years.
Slashdot Mirror
Didn't you notice?
Its the new, twitterized century. Everything is a soundbite. Or it isn't.
As for connecting capitol with financial center... I am assuming you mean New York?
Three hours for about 203 miles (~330 km) ain't really that fast if Chinese plan to have their train crossing those 664 miles (~1069 km) in about 5 hours.
DC-NY train comes out to about what they have at the moment - 10 hours in one direction.
...Ferengi bastards!
Between Las Vegas and Disneyland.
It is kinda scary to think that while "Oh_so_EVIL_communist_China" builds an express line between its capitol and its financial center, US is building what is essentially a carnival ride between the Pleasure Island and Sin City.
It is Newark.
Keanu Reeves will (eventually) save the day.
With a little help from Ice-T and his cyber dolphin friend Jones.
I live in Bosnia.
I am yet to see a single McCain ad here. Or Obama's for that matter.
So, my guess is that there is something to do with the geographical location of your IP address.
Hmm.. I wonder what do the Mideastern countries (where a lot of US soldiers are at the moment) and people surfing from behind the .mil and .gov domains see?
Maybe the kid is old enough now to have posted the photo on the Slashdot himself?
Why use something like that?
Don't you know the super-secret-one-world-government PIN code? 0, 0, 0, 0, YES.
It works in 99.9% percent of the cases.
Those 0.1% must be used by some kind of hackers.
You know... Like Keanu Reeves.
And having only one leg can be beneficial from time to time too.
That still doesn't make it the preferred or natural shape of the human body.
Actually, I am in a tub full of fruit yogurt right now.
I've tried filling the tub with software, but it just wasn't what I was looking for.
Just because they did the refactoring wrong, or didn't do it all the way when it needed it, doesn't mean that refactoring wasn't the right thing.
It means EXACTLY that.
Doing it wrong means doing it wrong.
Blaming the process or personal stupidity after the fact doesn't change the end result.
BTW... I wasn't talking about incremental upgrades to the system over time.
I was talking about getting the OldSystemTM and trying to cram the NewStuffTM into it and still have it run perfectly on both old computers and new ones - WITH SAME (Only better) PERFORMANCES.
If tons of people stop voting and a single vote becomes meaningful, then it will be time to start voting again.
THAT never happens.
What DOES happen is that party members just vote for themselves. Bigger party - more votes.
So, the average man is unimportant - only party members are important enough to be considered. For everything.
From job positions through health care to education.
What you SHOULD do is vote.
Vote against the one you hate the most/who will do most damage.
If all equal - write "I have no one to vote for in this election" on the ballot.
Incorrectly marked ballots ARE counted.
Nobody cares about people that don't go to elections.
People that go to elections and purposely stand in lines to vote just so that they could say that they don't want to vote for either side - now that is a untapped vote-force.
Why don't USAians just stop holding the elections in all the states except those so called "swing states" or purple states or whatever the term may be today?
It would be a whole lot cheaper.
I mean... why not?
Its not like that the system currently in use can be called democratic with votes counting more or less depending on location.
1. Organize in secret, over the internet, anonymously.
2. Join Republican party. Easier to pretend that you are one of them and more fun. Just be a dick.
3. Get as many "agents" as high up as you can.
4. Sabotage the party from inside.
Use everything, from voting against the majority, through putting sugar in their gas tanks during the conventions, to spreading STDs.
5. When there are more of "you" then there is of "them" - change everything.
Fuck... Have a dress code that requires wearing of clown shoes and red noses that go Beep! when you press them if you want to.
Or just keep the party as it is and vote for the "right things" regardless of the party proposing it instead of what party demands of you.
Might be a tad problematic agreeing on what exactly "the right thing" is, but I guess things like torturing prisoners and nuking other countries or treating your own citizens as prisoners in a Giant-Fuckin'-PrisonTM most definitely are NOT the "right things".
Like "refactoring" from DOS 2.1 to include all the support for all the advancements in the technology since 1983 till now, while still being able to run on the 1983. computers - with exactly the same performance like today's computers.
There ARE times when you should just say "OK, let us start from scratch".
You know... what Microsoft should have done with Windows instead of Vista.
That the term "hacker" be henceforth replaced by the term "fucker".
Yes, it may still lead to unforeseen consequences for the fucker when laymen (and women) star using the term without proper understanding of it, but isn't that exactly what the fucker community really needs?
He stole brains of the military, FBI staff and even of the President of the US? Over the interweb? By deleting files?
Prosecutors say he altered and deleted files at a naval air station not long after the 11 September attacks in 2001, rendering critical systems inoperable.
My,my. Isn't that something?
I've suspected that all along.
I am afraid that you are exaggerating a bit here. There are still working 286s and ZX Spectrums around.
Granted... they are a bit more robust than today's technology but still... 25 years ain't that long.
Still... Physical deterioration of the chips and other parts is the reason I said there should be two Eees. At least. Plus the additional SD cards.
Worse (not worst) case scenario - you can mix and match parts until you have one working computer and one working storage device.
As long as one reader or transfer device and one set of data survives in good enough order for photos to be viewed somehow - it is a success.
Adding another form of redundant data storage (such as a regular non-SD external HD) should increase those chances, but my guess is that it would be unnecessary.
My GUESS. Nothing more.
As for chips deteriorating into sand...
Well... they are built with some redundancy too.
And we are talking nearly perfect storage here too. Steady heat, no moisture (if done right), no air (again.. if done right), no UV or any other kind of light...
But if you have some real figures on aging of silicone chips I WOULD like to see them.
Plastic and rubber parts are another problem. Many of them disintegrate after several decades. This is a common problem in old calculators and computers. The capstan wheels used in their card readers and tape drives have to be rebuilt or replaced.
Yes, but we are talking OLD hardware there, 15-30 years old today, that has been laying around god knows where.
These would be hermetically sealed, and there are no moving parts except the keyboard. And keyboards are just a bunch of switches.
Now capacitors... He could run a cable to the time capsule and have the Eees automatically powered up every six months or so.
Again... Two working computers are more than just the sum of their parts - they are parts too.
2 EeePCs loaded with images in at least JPEG, PNG and TIFF formats, OS of choice and a couple of graphic programs that can convert your images into various formats.
Separate backups on SD cards.
A set of USB to cables.
Also... if it is going to sit in the ground for 25 years, I'd remove the batteries and pack them separately.
Don't forget to pack the chargers.
I find it very optimistic expecting even drunk Russians to just spontaneously set up a barbecue in the middle of the battle filed, in freezing cold.
5-10 years from now you will see a story on slashdot talking about this same technology being used by unmanned flying cameras that "The Man" will use to spy on you.
From very far away somewhere in that "big bad world out beyond the server room".
That is if there IS slashdot in 5-10 years any more.
The Romans managed to preserve their language and culture for 2000 years completely by accident
Umm.. no.
Having an Empire that covers most of the world (at the time) kinda sets your language as the main language by default.
Also, having it the main language of the church that kept the practice of torturing and burning alive everyone who didn't bow down to it's heavenly mandate.
And... when both of those fade... You still get to keep it through law and medicine - cause your empire officially invented those.
Or at least, that is what you have been telling everyone for the last 2000 years.
Do you really think all the stuff we're doing today will vanish in the same time span.
All the stuff? No. Lots of stuff? YES!
I still have some of my C64 tapes around, despite the fact that I've given my C64 to a cousin long ago.
And there was no DRM on those tapes.
In far less than 100 years the whole of today's Internet will fit on a single USB stick - smaller than a single shard of Roman pottery.
Soo... a lot of information, will be able to fit on a very small, proprietary medium in less then a twentieth part of time their spheres will last. OK...
What does one have to do with the other?
Rosetta disk spheres are imagined for the purpose of keeping VITAL pieces of information for MILLENNIA to come. Readable using only eyes and magnifying lenses.
Kinda like those talking rings in The Time Machine (1960).
NOT for storing porn.
Disks are made out of nickel.
Which is rather resistant to corrosion.
http://www.key-to-metals.com/Article18.htm
From TFL:
Nickel-base alloys are used for corrosion resistance or for combined corrosion resistance and high temperature strength in a wide range of commercial applications. These various applications may demand resistance to aqueous corrosion mechanisms, such as general corrosion, localized attack, and SCC, or resistance to elevated temperature oxidation, sulfidation and carburization. Many nickel-base alloys have been developed to resist these and other forms of attack. The alloys often find application in areas outside the specific industry or process for which they were designed.
In 10 years most of those cells would already be your own for several cell generations.
If there is going to be rejection, that would have to happen much sooner than 10 years.