Have you ever used IRC? Do you have any concept of how it works, what goes on, why people choose a particular network? Your post would seem to make me think you havent. And I dont mean to be belittling at all, but it shows a serious lack of indepth knowledge of the subject medium.
Let me educate you a little. Users choose IRC Networks based on a few things.
1. It was the default server in mIRC (most popular IRC software)
2. The channel/nickname services offered
3. The pre-existing channels
4. The Users/User count
The purpose of irc is to congregate users to a place where they can interact. Splitting an irc network into "smaller networks" to lower susceptibility would defeat the purpose.
Please, before you post about something, try to figure out if you have any subject knowledge, and if your post is really worthwhile. The concepts which may make P2P work better are not going to make IRC work better. They are engineered in a completely different fashion (Speaking as someone who has been involved in the development of both)
So then the appropriate answer would be "No, quantum technology cannot be used to create some form of integrated circuits able to be used to speed up current technologies such as 3d chipsets and/or routing.
Specifically, I did not say will a quantum computer have 3d cards. Nowhere in my post did it say "Can I put an into my quantum computer so I can play games better?"
I hope this information (which should have been apparent) can clarify my original post, so you can more adequately address it.
"Quantum computers are reversible, and thus have no net energy consumption. Quantum reversibility implies that quantum computers drive themselves forward in infinitesimal (reversible) steps, much the same way that molecules of perfume diffuse from a perfume bottle. Quantum computer programs are not run, but are said to evolve, as they process a program's inputs to outputs"
So... when a quantum computer hangs, exactly how do you reboot a machine which consumes no power?
what I was always curious about was whether quantum computing could be put into non cpu environments, still processing, but not as general purpose. For example, could a quantum chip be put onto a 3d card, and make it work a million times faster? Or could it be put to use in network switches with regard to 100% optical switches pushing us into 1TBit networking?
I'd very much like to know why it is that you think that Apple will all of a sudden be larger than particularly Compaq and IBM. The Compaq series of x86 servers (DL,CL and ML) is huge, their Alphas are great, and IBMs Netfinities are highly used. Why will OSX make these entities suddenly *disappear*? Both companies support linux.
That is true. OpenSource doesnt always neccessarily mean free as well, although this sort of commercial venture hasnt seemed to fare very well. I wouldnt dissuade someone from using open source software purely because it is free; my point about money was if he wasnt paying money for it (freeside actually is free) then hopefully there *would* be money to pay the consulting fee (~$2000) charged by SISD to do the kind of work needed.
I'm not sure if the reader in question actually realised this, but SISD do offer commercial services. Yes, you have to pay for them. They include preconfigured machines, installation, customization and training. The webpage to said commercial services can be found here. If freeside is ugly to you, ask them to customize it. If you cant get freeside to install, get them to. If you dont have to pay $$$ to buy the software, then there will be room in your budget for this, wouldnt there?
Actually, the "guy" (actually guy*s*) who developed the spreadsheet released the idea into the public domain. None of them would be collecting roylaties for patents etc. Now while they persona they have employed may well have been one of the people who developed the spreadsheet, and also may well be a millionaire, the two are not tied together as closely as you imply.
So what happens when friction from interplanetary gasses happens, does solar radiation slow it down, when asteroid belts get in the way is there a carmageddon style "instant-without-killing-me-handbrake" ?
I kind agree and disagree with the whole eye candy deal. I agree that there are people who would like to use a linux distribution but are intimidated by command lines. I agree that linux distributions need to take care of these people too. However, historically, I find that when a linux distribution tries to take care of those users, they forsake the other users. ala red hat. So here's what I'd like them to do with this little eye candy bit.
RedHat already hides most of those lines and merely says "OK" or "FAILED" on the startup screen. Why not take this a step further, and have icons displayed on the screen for each service it starts up and have a tick or a cross on them, as well as a scrolling textbox of some description showing things as they happen? Admittedly this would scroll at an unbelievably fast rate, but you'd still have the little checks and crosses to show you whether it started up correctly or not...
Hmm.. I wouldnt expect so. The service is provided by agreement and payment. If there are terms of service, and you accept them, then you are bound by said terms. I dont mean to be rude, but if we stop for a second (in all seriousness) and think about that phrase, it all comes back to terms. Terms of service. You may pay for it, but you also agree to abide by the rules. What I would propose is that you would/should find some form of enforcing your own privacy, such as encrypting your mail with PGP or GPG. I havent heard of a free SSL proxy out there, but that may work, although with ISPs now using enforced proxying of http/https (does proxied https requests bother anyone *else*?) requests even that may not work. But PGP/GPG mail and news would work to some extent. I'm sure that put in the situation you would find some way to guarantee your own privacy when the corporation behind you fails to do so.
I found that Everybuddy was pretty decent. It supported a lot of different protocols (all that I used at the time) and had a decent interface.
I seem to remember some problem I had with the way it stored your password on the screen, and a protocol problem with one of the IMs. I think it was AIM, when they were (dont know if they still are) trying to get all the alternative clients off their network, it would connect, show the message of an outdated client, then disconnect, only to start connecting again *straight* away. This led to a LOT of messages coming in, and it was hard as hell to stop it... every time a new message came in you would lose the menu you just clicked... and menus were the only way to forcefully disconnect. I dont seem to remember any "Dont reconnect on disconnect" option either. There was only very rudimentory ICQ support, a large subset of features werent implemented, to keep the UI the same for all protocols I assume.
"texting" might have jumped out of the phils, but I can guarantee you for certain that at least australia has been making use of this facility of GSM Digital Cellular phones for years now. The Phills are just taking it to the extreme and sending ecerything via SMS. That doesnt mean that they're "inventive" with it. It means they found something and are having fun with it, just like everyone else. To the best of my knowledge, the form of GSM Digital being used in the phillipines originated in the UK, not the phillipines.
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What is it about this, your last paragraph and your sig, that make me think you're quite confused about the whole deal?
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Well... sort of. I'm going to be pretty straight forward here, because this is a forum where I suspect quite a lot of people are against the two things I will bring up here. And mostly because of their own advocacy for their own operating systems.
The type of advocacy the author is talking about usually takes the standpoint of denying all the other tools available to fulfill a particular job, even at the expense of the weilders time, energy, and sometimes money. But what of when the user is reacting with his advocacy to his own tools and languages to a person sharing what they use. Maybe not to convert the other person. For whatever reason. Is it just straight out flaming that results when the person forces their own advocratic responses at the newcomer, or is it something more serious which needs to be addressed? I think this is much more of a problem than advocacy as presented by the article in question.
Case study 1: (shudder) Visual Basic. I dont shudder because of the language. I shudder because of all the advocacy going through the minds of a lot of the people reading (or not reading) this post. Visual basic is supposedly bloatware at its finest (or worst), it runs on and only compiles for Microsoft Windows, which is unacceptable to some people. But Visual Basic is, believe it or not, quite useful. Quite comparative to java, in a lot of aspects, because of speed, RAD and other useful features. For someone developing for windows, wanting the application quickly and easily without regard to speed, its invaluable. Yet time and time again, I see it shot down, flame, and torn to pieces. And its especially common among linux crowds.
Case Study 2: OS
I use windows. Sometimes. I find it a useful, fun, and enjoyable experience. Yes. I LIKE windows, and am not lying. Yet merely voicing any of its strong points is liable to bring me under a barrage of fire, filled with other peoples advocacy for other operating systems. And its not just Linux people, its NT people too, to exactly the same extent, they scream "Windows 2000 is solid", while hurling insults to my intelligence for choosing linux as my preferred operating system. Yes. My preferred operating system is Linux, even though I LIKE windows.
So what can we do about this? There has to be some way that we as a community can respond responsibly to this sort of thing as a whole. Or maybe its better off responded to individually.
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Isomer of unet/coders and unet/developers?
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Have you ever used IRC? Do you have any concept of how it works, what goes on, why people choose a particular network? Your post would seem to make me think you havent. And I dont mean to be belittling at all, but it shows a serious lack of indepth knowledge of the subject medium.
Let me educate you a little. Users choose IRC Networks based on a few things.
1. It was the default server in mIRC (most popular IRC software)
2. The channel/nickname services offered
3. The pre-existing channels
4. The Users/User count
The purpose of irc is to congregate users to a place where they can interact. Splitting an irc network into "smaller networks" to lower susceptibility would defeat the purpose.
Please, before you post about something, try to figure out if you have any subject knowledge, and if your post is really worthwhile. The concepts which may make P2P work better are not going to make IRC work better. They are engineered in a completely different fashion (Speaking as someone who has been involved in the development of both)
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So then the appropriate answer would be "No, quantum technology cannot be used to create some form of integrated circuits able to be used to speed up current technologies such as 3d chipsets and/or routing.
Specifically, I did not say will a quantum computer have 3d cards. Nowhere in my post did it say "Can I put an into my quantum computer so I can play games better?"
I hope this information (which should have been apparent) can clarify my original post, so you can more adequately address it.
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consider:
2 x 2 = 4 = 2^2
4 x 4 = 8 = 2^4
8 x 8 = 64 = 2^6
64 x 64 = 4096 = 2^12
is not an exponential pattern?
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- "Quantum computers are reversible, and thus have no net energy consumption. Quantum reversibility implies that quantum computers drive themselves forward in infinitesimal (reversible) steps, much the same way that molecules of perfume diffuse from a perfume bottle. Quantum computer programs are not run, but are said to evolve, as they process a program's inputs to outputs"
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Whats even funnier is that the ads at the moment are showing to me "Cannot find server or DNS error" ... no ad revenue =)
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what I was always curious about was whether quantum computing could be put into non cpu environments, still processing, but not as general purpose. For example, could a quantum chip be put onto a 3d card, and make it work a million times faster? Or could it be put to use in network switches with regard to 100% optical switches pushing us into 1TBit networking?
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I'd very much like to know why it is that you think that Apple will all of a sudden be larger than particularly Compaq and IBM. The Compaq series of x86 servers (DL,CL and ML) is huge, their Alphas are great, and IBMs Netfinities are highly used. Why will OSX make these entities suddenly *disappear*? Both companies support linux.
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That is true. OpenSource doesnt always neccessarily mean free as well, although this sort of commercial venture hasnt seemed to fare very well. I wouldnt dissuade someone from using open source software purely because it is free; my point about money was if he wasnt paying money for it (freeside actually is free) then hopefully there *would* be money to pay the consulting fee (~$2000) charged by SISD to do the kind of work needed.
I hope this clarifies my original post.
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I'm not sure if the reader in question actually realised this, but SISD do offer commercial services. Yes, you have to pay for them. They include preconfigured machines, installation, customization and training. The webpage to said commercial services can be found here. If freeside is ugly to you, ask them to customize it. If you cant get freeside to install, get them to. If you dont have to pay $$$ to buy the software, then there will be room in your budget for this, wouldnt there?
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Actually, the "guy" (actually guy*s*) who developed the spreadsheet released the idea into the public domain. None of them would be collecting roylaties for patents etc. Now while they persona they have employed may well have been one of the people who developed the spreadsheet, and also may well be a millionaire, the two are not tied together as closely as you imply.
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Hmmm. so much for slashdot's mantra of "We never delete comments"
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So what happens when friction from interplanetary gasses happens, does solar radiation slow it down, when asteroid belts get in the way is there a carmageddon style "instant-without-killing-me-handbrake" ?
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I kind agree and disagree with the whole eye candy deal. I agree that there are people who would like to use a linux distribution but are intimidated by command lines. I agree that linux distributions need to take care of these people too. However, historically, I find that when a linux distribution tries to take care of those users, they forsake the other users. ala red hat. So here's what I'd like them to do with this little eye candy bit.
RedHat already hides most of those lines and merely says "OK" or "FAILED" on the startup screen. Why not take this a step further, and have icons displayed on the screen for each service it starts up and have a tick or a cross on them, as well as a scrolling textbox of some description showing things as they happen? Admittedly this would scroll at an unbelievably fast rate, but you'd still have the little checks and crosses to show you whether it started up correctly or not...
just a thought..
CK
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Hmm.. I wouldnt expect so. The service is provided by agreement and payment. If there are terms of service, and you accept them, then you are bound by said terms. I dont mean to be rude, but if we stop for a second (in all seriousness) and think about that phrase, it all comes back to terms. Terms of service. You may pay for it, but you also agree to abide by the rules. What I would propose is that you would/should find some form of enforcing your own privacy, such as encrypting your mail with PGP or GPG. I havent heard of a free SSL proxy out there, but that may work, although with ISPs now using enforced proxying of http/https (does proxied https requests bother anyone *else*?) requests even that may not work. But PGP/GPG mail and news would work to some extent. I'm sure that put in the situation you would find some way to guarantee your own privacy when the corporation behind you fails to do so.
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Why not stick with Gopher, it does almost the same thing, and all the standards are in place.
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I found that Everybuddy was pretty decent. It supported a lot of different protocols (all that I used at the time) and had a decent interface.
I seem to remember some problem I had with the way it stored your password on the screen, and a protocol problem with one of the IMs. I think it was AIM, when they were (dont know if they still are) trying to get all the alternative clients off their network, it would connect, show the message of an outdated client, then disconnect, only to start connecting again *straight* away. This led to a LOT of messages coming in, and it was hard as hell to stop it... every time a new message came in you would lose the menu you just clicked... and menus were the only way to forcefully disconnect. I dont seem to remember any "Dont reconnect on disconnect" option either. There was only very rudimentory ICQ support, a large subset of features werent implemented, to keep the UI the same for all protocols I assume.
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"texting" might have jumped out of the phils, but I can guarantee you for certain that at least australia has been making use of this facility of GSM Digital Cellular phones for years now. The Phills are just taking it to the extreme and sending ecerything via SMS. That doesnt mean that they're "inventive" with it. It means they found something and are having fun with it, just like everyone else. To the best of my knowledge, the form of GSM Digital being used in the phillipines originated in the UK, not the phillipines.
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and where did you read that article at?
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it was a joke. that's why it was moderated funny. never mind =)
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Cornflake Stories/articles. Cornflake posts say "FP!", "Frist Psot!", "F1r57 P057!" or the like. (texts of hot grits, petrified hot grits and naked N Portman pictures inserted within quotes). Either that, or "INSERT_NON_LINUX_PRODUCT_HERE sucks"
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Havent I seen this story before somewhere? =)
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Well... sort of. I'm going to be pretty straight forward here, because this is a forum where I suspect quite a lot of people are against the two things I will bring up here. And mostly because of their own advocacy for their own operating systems.
The type of advocacy the author is talking about usually takes the standpoint of denying all the other tools available to fulfill a particular job, even at the expense of the weilders time, energy, and sometimes money. But what of when the user is reacting with his advocacy to his own tools and languages to a person sharing what they use. Maybe not to convert the other person. For whatever reason. Is it just straight out flaming that results when the person forces their own advocratic responses at the newcomer, or is it something more serious which needs to be addressed? I think this is much more of a problem than advocacy as presented by the article in question.
Case study 1: (shudder) Visual Basic. I dont shudder because of the language. I shudder because of all the advocacy going through the minds of a lot of the people reading (or not reading) this post. Visual basic is supposedly bloatware at its finest (or worst), it runs on and only compiles for Microsoft Windows, which is unacceptable to some people. But Visual Basic is, believe it or not, quite useful. Quite comparative to java, in a lot of aspects, because of speed, RAD and other useful features. For someone developing for windows, wanting the application quickly and easily without regard to speed, its invaluable. Yet time and time again, I see it shot down, flame, and torn to pieces. And its especially common among linux crowds.
Case Study 2: OS
I use windows. Sometimes. I find it a useful, fun, and enjoyable experience. Yes. I LIKE windows, and am not lying. Yet merely voicing any of its strong points is liable to bring me under a barrage of fire, filled with other peoples advocacy for other operating systems. And its not just Linux people, its NT people too, to exactly the same extent, they scream "Windows 2000 is solid", while hurling insults to my intelligence for choosing linux as my preferred operating system. Yes. My preferred operating system is Linux, even though I LIKE windows.
So what can we do about this? There has to be some way that we as a community can respond responsibly to this sort of thing as a whole. Or maybe its better off responded to individually.
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woohoo! Perl's "TIMTOWTDI"! (affectionately known as Tim Toady).
heh. anyways.
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