That's not a good suggestion considering so many of the/. crowd will be under that bridge in the near future when their unemployment/savings runs out;)
homeless areas could look good thanks to the self-repair process
Homeless people don't have houses, so what's to repair? And even if you meant low-income areas, they couldn't afford the paint to begin with. I'm betting the cost to paint a tank with this stuff would be equal to the cost of providing aluminum siding for an entire block.
So the computer was supose to correctly interpret the erroneous number that was entered by a human? I don't think it was really a programming error per se, at least not in the context of the story.
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Any idea if there's any performance difference using TCP/IP rather than CompaqPCI?
Just because the source is there doesn't mean people are going to look at it. A lot of open source developers develop for fun. Unit testing string conversion functions is not fun, therefore it won't be willingly done.
There a books containing all the laws for your town/county/state/country. How many people have really read them?
You're absolutely correct. People need a place to discuss topics ranging from the great tasting new Pepsi Twist to the new Chicago Style Deep Dish Pizza from Pizza Hut that's so deep, you'll need to eat it with a fork.
Without blogging capabilities we would be just like animals you would see on The Crocodile Hunter on Animal Planet, Wed. and Sat at 8pm, 11pm, and 3am.
All in all, blogging gives us purpose, and gives us a sense of comfort, similar to the new E-Class from Mercedes-Benz
I think maybe PhysicsGenius may not be 100% accurate, but I don't think he's trolling.
Here's a quote from an article claiming that this quote was a response from a patent officer about the patent application from Leo Szilard, which was applied for in 1928:
"Patents can be given only for inventions that permit a commercial use. However, the submitted procedure apparently has only a scientific value. Whether, in accordance with the invention, any commercially useful material can be produced by accelerating artificially- produced positively-charged corpuscles, appears from our present knowledge ruled out. In the whole application, no hint is found that the applicant has produced, or can produce, such material. Obviously the yield would be so tiny, as with atomic disintegration from the natural alpha rays of radioactive substances, that even in the future the prospect of using the invention in commerce has the highest degree of improbability.
So it was initially rejected, maybe not for the same reason the parent though, but the patent office gave him a hard time about getting the parent.
Moderators, please mod the parent of my post down as a troll. You can mod me as informative though;)
Our server room has wobbly floors and tower cases stacked 2 high sitting in the middle of a 16'x16' room, with the more important servers sitting on the top.
We also got a new air conditioner that has an electronic switch and we have problems with brown outs. So in the middle of the summer, the power goes out and the A/C doesn't come back on, usually on a weekend too.
Yeah, same thing here. For those that don't want to bother reading it, I'll offer my own interpretation of what I could stand to read.
Page 1. The cult style writing of the first page was a little over the top in trying to rally programmers to unite with computer scientists that are already programmers, but are isolated from computer science and vice versa (I didn't understand it either).
Page 2. Then the second page starts out by saying that nobody seems to know what postmodern computer science actually is, but the authors do, but it takes too much room to explain it, so they won't, instead they'll just reference a bunch of other works that might explain it, because they don't really know either, they're just trying to make the paper look good enough for a decent grade. In the third paragraph they also imply they are programming gurus are that you may get some recognition by simply noticing similarities between what you, as a real programmer already know, and what they are copying from other peoples books.
Page 3. Third page was some obvious examples that programming is not the root of all evil and that CEOs are. Then there was a confusing paragraph at the end stating that we should respect the limitation of software so we can be happy little zombies.
Page 4. Somehow the term "program" has become a paradox in several ways, it's big and small, and also has had a dozen processes used to create it but yet it was still somehow ignored, by someone. Then they define a couple very common words like component and system which are obvious even if you're a 90 year old WebTV user. But they still don't define what they consider post modern CS to be, nor do they state what their perception of computer science and programming are.
Page 5. You should be able to unplug your computer, but then you'll miss your the important messages from your IM buddies. And when different systems communicate, they don't have any common protocol between them, so apparently they have found a way to magically turn TCP/IP packets into NetBEUI packets at some magical location in the CAT5.
Page 6. Some crap about a cow and then cites some terms that are completely irrelevant such as an implementation of a cow.
Page 7. My head is starting to hurt at this point. They're discussing not being able to have complete requirements and have them also be consistent. I don't know what they're suppose to be consistent with, maybe they just grabbed a random 8+ character world to toss in there. Postmodern computer science also involves lying (yes they specifically said that word). I don't think I'd consider anything a science if one of the major aspects of it is telling lies. There's a couple more paragraphs of 10+ character words randomly selected from the dictionary and strung together.
Page 8. Different website are... different. Visual Basic is a low culture language;).
Page 9. They start to define postmoderism as being pretty and having nothing to do with the actual functionality. Think of it as a Flash intro to a website I guess.
I can't read anymore, it's too painful. Does anyone know the grade they got on this? If they got a good grade, was it because the professor based the grades on the average number of letters per word? Or did he just say "I don't feel like reading this shit" and give them a C?
Maybe it's a test to see if the attackers can take down the servers to begin with. The article also said that if they continued the attack more servers would have gone down and problems would have been apparent to the average surfer.
Nobody has created a KarmaBot yet that would constantly refresh the slashdot homepage, and as soon as it detects a new article, goes to the linked site, grabs the article text and then posts it as a comment?
Slashdot Mirror
Hmmmm. No wonder I'm not married.
;)
Because you're smart enough to know better?
Laziness is a virtue
Sounds like a new form of vigilante justice against spammers.
A real geek would use a Perl script to satisfy his wife:
for ($i=0;$i<10000;$i++) { &lick(); }
That's not a good suggestion considering so many of the /. crowd will be under that bridge in the near future when their unemployment/savings runs out ;)
homeless areas could look good thanks to the self-repair process
Homeless people don't have houses, so what's to repair? And even if you meant low-income areas, they couldn't afford the paint to begin with. I'm betting the cost to paint a tank with this stuff would be equal to the cost of providing aluminum siding for an entire block.
Can't be a unix geek, she at least used vowels.
So the computer was supose to correctly interpret the erroneous number that was entered by a human? I don't think it was really a programming error per se, at least not in the context of the story.
Any idea if there's any performance difference using TCP/IP rather than CompaqPCI?
Hmmm, were you by any chance inspired by Green Day?
Don't be scared, if someone wants to look up your company, he is already well capable of doing it
;)
Like somebody smart enough to click on his name in the story
Any guesses on whether it was the Ellen Feiss link or the Porn link that got macfreaks.org /.ed?
Just because the source is there doesn't mean people are going to look at it. A lot of open source developers develop for fun. Unit testing string conversion functions is not fun, therefore it won't be willingly done.
There a books containing all the laws for your town/county/state/country. How many people have really read them?
You're absolutely correct. People need a place to discuss topics ranging from the great tasting new Pepsi Twist to the new Chicago Style Deep Dish Pizza from Pizza Hut that's so deep, you'll need to eat it with a fork.
Without blogging capabilities we would be just like animals you would see on The Crocodile Hunter on Animal Planet, Wed. and Sat at 8pm, 11pm, and 3am.
All in all, blogging gives us purpose, and gives us a sense of comfort, similar to the new E-Class from Mercedes-Benz
Damn, I got trolled. I feel so dirty now. Now there's a noticable red sphere next to his name so I'll know better next time.
I think maybe PhysicsGenius may not be 100% accurate, but I don't think he's trolling.
;)
Here's a quote from an article claiming that this quote was a response from a patent officer about the patent application from Leo Szilard, which was applied for in 1928:
"Patents can be given only for inventions that permit a commercial use. However, the submitted procedure apparently has only a scientific value. Whether, in accordance with the invention, any commercially useful material can be produced by accelerating artificially- produced positively-charged corpuscles, appears from our present knowledge ruled out. In the whole application, no hint is found that the applicant has produced, or can produce, such material. Obviously the yield would be so tiny, as with atomic disintegration from the natural alpha rays of radioactive substances, that even in the future the prospect of using the invention in commerce has the highest degree of improbability.
So it was initially rejected, maybe not for the same reason the parent though, but the patent office gave him a hard time about getting the parent.
Moderators, please mod the parent of my post down as a troll. You can mod me as informative though
Pfft, we could easily stop it with a tic-tac-toe worm that will make it aware of it's own futility.
You want scary:
Our server room has wobbly floors and tower cases stacked 2 high sitting in the middle of a 16'x16' room, with the more important servers sitting on the top.
We also got a new air conditioner that has an electronic switch and we have problems with brown outs. So in the middle of the summer, the power goes out and the A/C doesn't come back on, usually on a weekend too.
One more thing: brace yourself:
We use Windows servers with IIS!!!!!!!!
Then you'll get put on Microsoft's list of supporters.
Hehe, it was late when I read the paper. I probably should have read the /. story though ;)
Yeah, same thing here. For those that don't want to bother reading it, I'll offer my own interpretation of what I could stand to read.
;).
Page 1. The cult style writing of the first page was a little over the top in trying to rally programmers to unite with computer scientists that are already programmers, but are isolated from computer science and vice versa (I didn't understand it either).
Page 2. Then the second page starts out by saying that nobody seems to know what postmodern computer science actually is, but the authors do, but it takes too much room to explain it, so they won't, instead they'll just reference a bunch of other works that might explain it, because they don't really know either, they're just trying to make the paper look good enough for a decent grade. In the third paragraph they also imply they are programming gurus are that you may get some recognition by simply noticing similarities between what you, as a real programmer already know, and what they are copying from other peoples books.
Page 3. Third page was some obvious examples that programming is not the root of all evil and that CEOs are. Then there was a confusing paragraph at the end stating that we should respect the limitation of software so we can be happy little zombies.
Page 4. Somehow the term "program" has become a paradox in several ways, it's big and small, and also has had a dozen processes used to create it but yet it was still somehow ignored, by someone. Then they define a couple very common words like component and system which are obvious even if you're a 90 year old WebTV user. But they still don't define what they consider post modern CS to be, nor do they state what their perception of computer science and programming are.
Page 5. You should be able to unplug your computer, but then you'll miss your the important messages from your IM buddies. And when different systems communicate, they don't have any common protocol between them, so apparently they have found a way to magically turn TCP/IP packets into NetBEUI packets at some magical location in the CAT5.
Page 6. Some crap about a cow and then cites some terms that are completely irrelevant such as an implementation of a cow.
Page 7. My head is starting to hurt at this point. They're discussing not being able to have complete requirements and have them also be consistent. I don't know what they're suppose to be consistent with, maybe they just grabbed a random 8+ character world to toss in there. Postmodern computer science also involves lying (yes they specifically said that word). I don't think I'd consider anything a science if one of the major aspects of it is telling lies. There's a couple more paragraphs of 10+ character words randomly selected from the dictionary and strung together.
Page 8. Different website are... different. Visual Basic is a low culture language
Page 9. They start to define postmoderism as being pretty and having nothing to do with the actual functionality. Think of it as a Flash intro to a website I guess.
I can't read anymore, it's too painful. Does anyone know the grade they got on this? If they got a good grade, was it because the professor based the grades on the average number of letters per word? Or did he just say "I don't feel like reading this shit" and give them a C?
Maybe it's a test to see if the attackers can take down the servers to begin with. The article also said that if they continued the attack more servers would have gone down and problems would have been apparent to the average surfer.
Nobody has created a KarmaBot yet that would constantly refresh the slashdot homepage, and as soon as it detects a new article, goes to the linked site, grabs the article text and then posts it as a comment?
Why would it come back?
It went away because performance got good enough in a single card that 2 cards weren't needed anymore.
Will MySQL 4.0 outdo Excel and ship with a First Person Shooter easter egg?
That's the problem. I hear the easter egg is going to be Daikatana. Apparently Romero is desperate to get somebody to install it.