"SCO founder flounders under weight of Russian Maffia Concrete, foul play suspected, multiple suspects include Shanghai Cooporation Organisation, Novell, Redhat, IBM. More at 10"
So not only do we have premier league footballers falling over at the slightest hint of getting a penalty we'll now have robots doing the same;) but then they do say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery...
Will we also have Vinny Jones soccerbots who learn just how to kick the opposition robot so it goes off injured without themselves being sent off?
Its the sudden deacceleration when you hit something which kills;)
But seriosuly: Speed by itself does not kill. What does kill is **inapprorpriate** speed. That can be driving too fast OR too slow for the current road conditions and the flow of traffic.
Much of what we know about past days is from written material. With move towards net everything and the decline in print as the internet changes (and I do not mean just the web; email, gopher, irc, usenet, ftp archives, et al are all prone to this problem) much of our history will be lost to generations to come purely through attrition.
Then we have the problem of changing file formats, media which decays rapidly when compared to paper and decent inks, obsolescence of technology (try finding a laptop with a built in 3.5" floppy drive)...
In years to come this period will become the 2nd dark age.
For some of my own content I have a backup server. This is not reachable though from the outside world and just gives me a backup SERVER that I can fail over to if needed. Further the content side of the server (html etc inc the databases) are backed up to both my own hdd at home and to a spare tape backup array we've got at work.
To lose my data I need the main server to die, the backup server, my home (few 100 miles from servers) and my work all to get wiped out.... given the size of the area this would cover any event destroying all 3 sites is likely to render the loss of my data a very minor and mute point;)
Backing up between servers has its place - as a failover/hotstandby but not as omfg its all gone wrong type backup....
Has got into slashdot these days... this article is little more than a slashvertisment for vapourware.
How on earth can two companies which very few people, if any, outside their existing employee/customer base have heard of threaten two of the world's large corporations?
Seriously wondering whether/. belongs on my adblock list now:(
Wrong, at the moment I suspect various governments including the UK are loving the chance to be able to slip bad news out under the radar of the usually attentiveness of the media in their doings.
This story has knocked any criticism of our beloved Chancellor off the front pages....
Just thinking to the future; when we get games with direct neural interfaces or even decent force feedback systems who will want to the beta tester then?
One wrong function call and the word 'headache' could gain a whole new meaning...
I have a suspicion that for all the protests by games companies about the trade they don't clamp down too hard as those gold farmers used paid accounts and so count as paid subscriptions... then again I'm just cynical.
Well.... would you really want someone to dig a new trench using nukes? Building a new/second Panama canal is not a bad idea. Using nukes to dig the hole is.
If the Aussie gov't in the guise of a private company is providing the fibre won't that make it very very easy (least from an ownership point of view) to implement their idea of a internet blacklist (leaving aside the technological issues)...?
Would be interesting to see what happens at our stables - smallish livery yard of 19 boxes usually with one or two of the clients having radios on while we muck out etc... no paid staff on site just the other liveries..
Most stables usually have a radio playing for the staff; its just normally what the staff want and not necessarily the horses...
Slashdot Mirror
Flight 104: Pasadena control there seems to be a green light comming from space
Pasadena Control: Flight 104 what flare?
(static)
Pasadena Control: Come in flight 104, flight 104 come in... what's going on?
Temperature: factional units of a toyota expansion/concration of a toyota at standard room temperature and pressure?
Maybe then we'll finally be rid of Darl....
"SCO founder flounders under weight of Russian Maffia Concrete, foul play suspected, multiple suspects include Shanghai Cooporation Organisation, Novell, Redhat, IBM. More at 10"
And get locked into a single provider for the OS AND the Hardware... yeah right.
Agree... for my system they got alot of info right but this bit strikes me as ODD to say the least... 0.660% and use a broadband connection
So of all the people they have info on only another 0.66% of them use Broadband... :)
Me smells something...
So does this mean every evil genius lair is now only complete with sharks with freekin' light bulbs on their heads?
So not only do we have premier league footballers falling over at the slightest hint of getting a penalty we'll now have robots doing the same ;) but then they do say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery...
Will we also have Vinny Jones soccerbots who learn just how to kick the opposition robot so it goes off injured without themselves being sent off?
Its the sudden deacceleration when you hit something which kills ;)
But seriosuly: Speed by itself does not kill. What does kill is **inapprorpriate** speed. That can be driving too fast OR too slow for the current road conditions and the flow of traffic.
Much of what we know about past days is from written material. With move towards net everything and the decline in print as the internet changes (and I do not mean just the web; email, gopher, irc, usenet, ftp archives, et al are all prone to this problem) much of our history will be lost to generations to come purely through attrition.
Then we have the problem of changing file formats, media which decays rapidly when compared to paper and decent inks, obsolescence of technology (try finding a laptop with a built in 3.5" floppy drive)...
In years to come this period will become the 2nd dark age.
For some of my own content I have a backup server. This is not reachable though from the outside world and just gives me a backup SERVER that I can fail over to if needed. Further the content side of the server (html etc inc the databases) are backed up to both my own hdd at home and to a spare tape backup array we've got at work.
To lose my data I need the main server to die, the backup server, my home (few 100 miles from servers) and my work all to get wiped out.... given the size of the area this would cover any event destroying all 3 sites is likely to render the loss of my data a very minor and mute point ;)
Backing up between servers has its place - as a failover/hotstandby but not as omfg its all gone wrong type backup....
Outside tech community it is still rather obscure...
From the article summary:
Vista is not Windows 7 so.... yes we'd expect the debug command in Vista.
Not much more these days :(
20 000 British pounds = 29 966 U.S. dollars
Used to be nearer 40k USD. Then someone pulled the plug on the world's money supply...
Has got into slashdot these days... this article is little more than a slashvertisment for vapourware.
How on earth can two companies which very few people, if any, outside their existing employee/customer base have heard of threaten two of the world's large corporations?
Seriously wondering whether /. belongs on my adblock list now :(
Wrong, at the moment I suspect various governments including the UK are loving the chance to be able to slip bad news out under the radar of the usually attentiveness of the media in their doings.
This story has knocked any criticism of our beloved Chancellor off the front pages....
He's a rich asshole now. Subtle but important difference, and off the top of my head can't think of many rich business people who aren't.
3 is way too small; even for just web browsing and IM:-
1. Windows Explorer.
2. (web browser of choice)
3. Java VM
4. Anti-Virus
5. IM
Just thinking to the future; when we get games with direct neural interfaces or even decent force feedback systems who will want to the beta tester then?
One wrong function call and the word 'headache' could gain a whole new meaning...
I have a suspicion that for all the protests by games companies about the trade they don't clamp down too hard as those gold farmers used paid accounts and so count as paid subscriptions... then again I'm just cynical.
Well.... would you really want someone to dig a new trench using nukes? Building a new/second Panama canal is not a bad idea. Using nukes to dig the hole is.
Since when has /. tried to descend to the level of gutter journalism? And WTF is this to do with "news for nerds, stuff that matters."?????
And will not comply with the OP's logging requirements...
If the Aussie gov't in the guise of a private company is providing the fibre won't that make it very very easy (least from an ownership point of view) to implement their idea of a internet blacklist (leaving aside the technological issues)...?
Err... Gitmo?
Hardly a beacon of political freedom and human rights.
Would be interesting to see what happens at our stables - smallish livery yard of 19 boxes usually with one or two of the clients having radios on while we muck out etc... no paid staff on site just the other liveries..
Most stables usually have a radio playing for the staff; its just normally what the staff want and not necessarily the horses...