i meet a lot of stupid people... the world is full of them
the post i was replying to was funny because even though a machine may be approaching the operational speed of the human brain, the software running on it will never be comparable to the synaptic pathways of the human brain (which aren't even very well understood to begin with).
you may be able to calculate pi to the millionth decimal place in a fraction of a second with one of these exaflop machines when they come out, but how long will it take for it to have an idea?
most desktop grunt is wasted... may be one of the biggest source of energy wastage on the planet (along with things like cars sitting at traffic lights)
there are certainly applications where a grunty desktop workstation is a must (such as 3D CAD) but by far most desktop users don't need the grunt that has been forced on them by the wintel upgrade cycles
most movies released nowadays are full of over the top computer generated effects (michael bay films should come with a warning for people with epilepsy) and empty plots
i think the last one that actually held my interest through the whole movie was avatar, mainly because it had the pretty night time fluorescent scenes and it had Michelle Rodriguez in her classic kick ass role... i'm also a bit of a movie score junkie (unfortunately only one or two avatar tracks are worth listening to more than once)
as much as the op is pretty funny (from a linux user's perspective), i bet microsofties wouldn't laugh at a similar joke about anecdotes by certain microsoft executives
You know, it's comment like this is why I rarely bother coming back to slashdot anymore.
You know, it's comments like this is why i think you're a total dweeb, and everyone knows you really can't get enough of/. while you're sitting there cooped up in your "command center" in your mom's basement stuffing your pizza face with McDonald's fries.
And no doubt behind Slashdot you have a bunch of tabs with Google image searches for "boobies".
slashdot has one thing going for it... full of egos desperate to prove something, which means that there is plenty of qualified intellect spewing advice that would otherwise cost thousands
what brings it down... the good advice is mixed up with a huge load of shit that makes finding the good advice almost a pointless exercise... almost
Cochrane didn't do shit except get extremely drunk... it was all La Forge who saved his ass... Cochrane just pressed the 'go' button and took all the credit at the end
but a byte is just a series of electronic gates made up of doped silicon with electric current running through them... if we etched our messages in stone rather than sand the NSA would have no fucking idea what we were talking about
SCO probably thinks just because they use wingdings to correspond with their lawyers that the Linux kernel must be violating their copyright because actual source code to them just looks the same as wingdings to everyone else
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reminds me of that dude that created the t-virus to cure his daughter... and instead created... Milla Jovovich... fucking genius!
i meet a lot of stupid people... the world is full of them
the post i was replying to was funny because even though a machine may be approaching the operational speed of the human brain, the software running on it will never be comparable to the synaptic pathways of the human brain (which aren't even very well understood to begin with).
you may be able to calculate pi to the millionth decimal place in a fraction of a second with one of these exaflop machines when they come out, but how long will it take for it to have an idea?
you don't honestly think obama got himself elected do you? BWAHAHAHA!!!!
most desktop grunt is wasted... may be one of the biggest source of energy wastage on the planet (along with things like cars sitting at traffic lights)
there are certainly applications where a grunty desktop workstation is a must (such as 3D CAD) but by far most desktop users don't need the grunt that has been forced on them by the wintel upgrade cycles
go fork yourself
most movies released nowadays are full of over the top computer generated effects (michael bay films should come with a warning for people with epilepsy) and empty plots
i think the last one that actually held my interest through the whole movie was avatar, mainly because it had the pretty night time fluorescent scenes and it had Michelle Rodriguez in her classic kick ass role... i'm also a bit of a movie score junkie (unfortunately only one or two avatar tracks are worth listening to more than once)
the start menu wouldn't have saved Windows 8... it was always still infected out-of-the-box by the W64/Microsoft virus
as much as the op is pretty funny (from a linux user's perspective), i bet microsofties wouldn't laugh at a similar joke about anecdotes by certain microsoft executives
time to replace icann with.... fuck, just about anything would be better... even microsoft, and that's saying a lot
That reminds me, what exactly IS that top secret program they use the Department of Energy's super computer for?
virtual porn... the government felt it would be a little unethical to use pixar's infrastructure
So, you are claiming that Obama is really a puppet animated by a DoE supercomputer, running software written by the NSA?
fuck no... obama isn't that smart... he's more like a commodore 64 with a virus
Those are called "sheeple" by those who truly understand the distinction
no, they're called apple customers
You know, it's comment like this is why I rarely bother coming back to slashdot anymore.
You know, it's comments like this is why i think you're a total dweeb, and everyone knows you really can't get enough of /. while you're sitting there cooped up in your "command center" in your mom's basement stuffing your pizza face with McDonald's fries.
And no doubt behind Slashdot you have a bunch of tabs with Google image searches for "boobies".
artificial intelligence will never match natural stupidity
i think the discussion is about who has the most niggaflops
slashdot has one thing going for it... full of egos desperate to prove something, which means that there is plenty of qualified intellect spewing advice that would otherwise cost thousands
what brings it down... the good advice is mixed up with a huge load of shit that makes finding the good advice almost a pointless exercise... almost
maybe they're going for "year of the windows server"?
at least they didn't smack us in the eye with a monolith
tcp over warp?
that would be just fucking fantastic... popup ads at warp speed
Cochrane didn't do shit except get extremely drunk... it was all La Forge who saved his ass... Cochrane just pressed the 'go' button and took all the credit at the end
Time, funny thing.
time has a sick, twisted sense of humor
isn't there a borg transwarp conduit near earth somewhere we can hijack?
better yet... if i'm assimilated i might get to hang out with the borg queen... rawr :)
i love how idiots get on the interwebz and have a go at people for something they themselves know nothing about
but a byte is just a series of electronic gates made up of doped silicon with electric current running through them... if we etched our messages in stone rather than sand the NSA would have no fucking idea what we were talking about
SCO probably thinks just because they use wingdings to correspond with their lawyers that the Linux kernel must be violating their copyright because actual source code to them just looks the same as wingdings to everyone else