At least in the Texas area, the Grande internet service provider includes Usenet access with all accounts, and they use Giganews. Each user can have two 1024 kbps connections to the server.
You think the publisher is going to charge significantly less for the material if it's delivered online? The cost of textbooks is high largely because they take a lot of time to write
And the updates between each year's version cost just as much as writing the first edition. No, the answer is that the market will bear the high cost.
Yes, exactly; computers might have been a key aspect of this crash, but so are they a key aspect of modern safe air travel. It's silly to expect that some major aspect of modern designs, even when it's sound, won't be a factor in many malfunctions.
I sometimes wonder that, back when search sucked (right around the time of Northern lights / AltaVista) I could find anything. It wasn't persistence - it was putting the right terms in. [...] google is not processing data that way any more. We have to re-learn how to do our specific searches. I don't have an answer for you tho, still figuring it out.
This is the problem. AltaVista worked in a predictable way: you typed search terms joined with boolean operators. It searched pages for those terms. It was a tool. Now Google seems to be trying to guess what I wanted to do, and its "intelligence" is being constantly updated. Thus, I can't use it as a tool anymore that has a predictable, consistent response to a particular action on my part. This is my problem with all software that tries to be smart. Either it really is smart, and does what I want all the time, or it needs to fucking take its place as a tool and do exactly what it is told, like all good software tools. Anything inbetween is madening to use. I hate it, but Google is become less and less enjoyable to use as time passes (all the fucking spam blogs and sites don't help, and I don't blame Google for that).
Perhaps you're focusing on the particular example while ignoring the fact that indeed Google was doing as I said, ignoring the quotes around "generic.h"?
Agreed; Google is getting more on my nerves every day, partly because it doesn't do as told. I search for "foo bar" and it shows pages without any mention of "bar". OK, so search for "+foo +bar", and get my hits. Then try searching for "generic.h" and it returns pages with the string "generic" (no.h). Even adding a + doesn't avoid this. And then it regularly "corrects" my "misspellings", causing the wrong search. Once I finally get it searching for what I asked it to, it puts lots of irrelevant hits first.
The sad truth is that most American cities are ill-suited to public transportation at the fundamental design level. It would be like trying to make MS-DOS function as an enterprise server environment, the impedance mismatch is extreme.
Hmmm, do you have a car analogy for that? Oh, wait...
And the chance that there's a remote kill switch in it that would disable all of your war machines. The government does/should check for those in their weapons and there's no excuse why they don't take the effort to do the same with electronic voting.
Again, the difference is that said weapons have been put to actual use, and they've worked well enough. Voting machines have been put to actual use as well, but who knows whether they worked? Nobody can know!
So you're going to buy machines from a company but then have to get the latest source from them, compile it, upload it to the machines, then do testing?
The machines that protect democracy include jet fighters, naval warcraft, guns, rockets, bombs ---- and voting machines. The US Government wouldn't buy a any of those other things without a massive effort to make sure they were secure, why not voting machines as well? If you can compromise those, the rest are easy.
Excellent point, but the only voting machines that can be provably trustable are a pencil and paper. With war machines, it's easy enough to determine that they aren't working: they don't fly, weapons don't detonate, etc. But with voting machines, because voting is secret, you can't know that they are failing or compromised, even after an election or two have been rigged Thus, you must use a technology that you can prove is secure without having to know citizens' votes.
You want me to use your machine for my elections? Hand it all over. All. Source, blueprints, all. I want to audit it.
How do you know that the source you see was used to build the machine in front of you? And that the compiler didn't insert any easter eggs? The correct response is "If you machine is a #2 pencil and paper, fine, otherwise, hell no."
It always reminds me of a friend who tells he saved 1EUR by running after the bus instead of taking it. I always say he is an idiot and he should run after a taxi. That way he would save much more.
You're both dumb; I run after airplanes and save a bundle (and don't have to wait for hours getting strip-searched).
I have no idea why this is modded as funny. I am not Russian, nor Chinese, but Western (grew up in Europe, Canada, and the States). And jokes like these is what made us inferior. Remember those jokes in the 1970's regarding Japanese cars! What could wrong! HA! We know what went wrong...
Oh come on, I don't think people actually believe this now; it's just joking around using caricatures. Most people know that USA-made goods are just as crappy as other ones (perhaps moreso), and that most of it is made in China anyway, good and bad.
On the other hand, if what you "bought" was shallow crap that you will have lost interest in in six months, who cares if the DRM servers shut down after a year?
Anyone who wants to resale the item to someone else who is interested in it.
(and please try to put a summary of your post in the subject, rather than just the beginning of the first sentence; thanks)
How about a deal? If you release your content in an encrypted/restricted format, you lose copyright protection. You're taking matters into your own hands. You're not benefiting society.
And as part of this deal, you would also not be able to prosecute people who successfully break your protection system. If only...
the manufacturing process is the most ecologically unfriendly aspect of computer manufacture
Is it really?
Yes, though it's both the most unfriendly and most friendly aspect of computer manufacturing. It's also both the most and least costly aspect of computer manufacturing. And so on...
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I think the RIAA might be very interested in this, as they could finally prevent everyone from ever hearing music again.
Would be nice if the term "tweet" hurries up and finishes its one-hit wonder cycle, going back to what it used to mean: the sound a bird makes.
Good luck finding that in the average Slashdotter's subterranean dwelling...
So is this Monster Patch gold-plated and guaranteed to improve the sharpness of pixels on screen??
At least in the Texas area, the Grande internet service provider includes Usenet access with all accounts, and they use Giganews. Each user can have two 1024 kbps connections to the server.
And the updates between each year's version cost just as much as writing the first edition. No, the answer is that the market will bear the high cost.
Yes, exactly; computers might have been a key aspect of this crash, but so are they a key aspect of modern safe air travel. It's silly to expect that some major aspect of modern designs, even when it's sound, won't be a factor in many malfunctions.
This is the problem. AltaVista worked in a predictable way: you typed search terms joined with boolean operators. It searched pages for those terms. It was a tool. Now Google seems to be trying to guess what I wanted to do, and its "intelligence" is being constantly updated. Thus, I can't use it as a tool anymore that has a predictable, consistent response to a particular action on my part. This is my problem with all software that tries to be smart. Either it really is smart, and does what I want all the time, or it needs to fucking take its place as a tool and do exactly what it is told, like all good software tools. Anything inbetween is madening to use. I hate it, but Google is become less and less enjoyable to use as time passes (all the fucking spam blogs and sites don't help, and I don't blame Google for that).
Perhaps you're focusing on the particular example while ignoring the fact that indeed Google was doing as I said, ignoring the quotes around "generic.h"?
15 km version: Ten years of world's helium production
200 km version: Half of world's total helium reserves
World effect when it bursts: Priceless
Oh I was putting it in quotes all right. Here's one of the searches where it matches the word "generic" even though I'm searching for
+"generic.h" C++ reference stroustrup
Look how it's treating the search as having "generic" and "h" as two separate words.
Agreed; Google is getting more on my nerves every day, partly because it doesn't do as told. I search for "foo bar" and it shows pages without any mention of "bar". OK, so search for "+foo +bar", and get my hits. Then try searching for "generic.h" and it returns pages with the string "generic" (no .h). Even adding a + doesn't avoid this. And then it regularly "corrects" my "misspellings", causing the wrong search. Once I finally get it searching for what I asked it to, it puts lots of irrelevant hits first.
Are you pulling my leg? That sounds like a fantasy of how it could be done (even though it's still not as trustable as pen and paper).
Hmmm, do you have a car analogy for that? Oh, wait...
Again, the difference is that said weapons have been put to actual use, and they've worked well enough. Voting machines have been put to actual use as well, but who knows whether they worked? Nobody can know!
So you're going to buy machines from a company but then have to get the latest source from them, compile it, upload it to the machines, then do testing?
Excellent point, but the only voting machines that can be provably trustable are a pencil and paper. With war machines, it's easy enough to determine that they aren't working: they don't fly, weapons don't detonate, etc. But with voting machines, because voting is secret, you can't know that they are failing or compromised, even after an election or two have been rigged Thus, you must use a technology that you can prove is secure without having to know citizens' votes.
How do you know that the source you see was used to build the machine in front of you? And that the compiler didn't insert any easter eggs? The correct response is "If you machine is a #2 pencil and paper, fine, otherwise, hell no."
You're both dumb; I run after airplanes and save a bundle (and don't have to wait for hours getting strip-searched).
Oh come on, I don't think people actually believe this now; it's just joking around using caricatures. Most people know that USA-made goods are just as crappy as other ones (perhaps moreso), and that most of it is made in China anyway, good and bad.
Anyone who wants to resale the item to someone else who is interested in it.
(and please try to put a summary of your post in the subject, rather than just the beginning of the first sentence; thanks)
And as part of this deal, you would also not be able to prosecute people who successfully break your protection system. If only...
Fixed that for you.
Yes, though it's both the most unfriendly and most friendly aspect of computer manufacturing. It's also both the most and least costly aspect of computer manufacturing. And so on...
Because before the Internet, when we just had home computers and tape recorders, there was none.