Yeah.. but a single parity bit could account for a failing poker (provided you knew which poker failed) There are all kinds of error correcting codes that could be used so even multiple poker failure would be detected.
The ecc built into disk drives is not for head crashes and fried electronics.. it's in case a single bit is read wrong. Could be a cosmic ray flipped it.
To lose a cylinder at once woudl require all heads to crash at once for a complete revolution. Unlikely.
Really, ecc is designed for correcting single bit errors.
Without central control, where is the guarantee that someone isn't hijacking your namespace.
Why is central control a problem?
And keep in mind, every single individual decides how they want to peform dns resolution. Either by choosing which nameservers to use, or if you are a nameserver, by choosing which root servers to use. The only reason DNS works now is because the vast majority of people use the same root servers. I think the real question, though, is why is central control bad? What is it that we would like to see in the DNS system that icann won't do now?
Our real problem is that DNS became the way to find web pages. That's not what it was designed for. It was designed as distributed, heirarchial system. You register a.com, you have authority to hand out names below that. Same for every single other domain.
The idea was to give your organisation or network a name, and then use that heirarchy to organise all your resources.
My point is, the only reason it's such a big deal is because of the Web.
What we really need is a distributed lookup service that is more effective, and hence, more desireable, than using dns.
Where do you think your 80GB hard drive came from? 10 years ago that was unthinkable.
15 years ago a CD Rom was an unreal amount of data.
All these things are from research.
It takes 5 to 10 years to see new technologies appear on the market *provided* that they are economically viable in the first place.
Yes, we've been hearing about Holographic storage for 10 years or more now. So what? Fuck it? Who cares?
It's not economically viable for the mass market... so it's for resarch.
In 10 or 20 years, when we are tossing holocrystal storage around like it ain't no thing, with a 1 pS read/write latency and a density of 40 TB per square inch.
The idea is to get energy from the spinning of the earth, not the orbital path. You are decidedly NOT simply getting back the energy you used to put it up there; you are sapping energy from the earth spinning.
I am not a physicist.. but I am reasonably certain that, on our way to a grand unified theory.. we have unified the Electric & Weak forces, yielding what we now call the Electroweak force...
(And by 'unified' I mean we have proven them to be the same thing. The universe unified them already, we just found it)
But as far as I know, and granted, I don't know everything.. we sure haven't unified Gravity & Magnetism. Yes, we see many similarities.... but we haven't unified them. I'm not saying we won't; in fact, I believe we will, it seems logical.
But the article seems to talk about this "Gravitomagnetic" force as if it is something commonly accepted by science as real.
Open Source is such a dirty word now! Seriously, the word reeks of zealotry.
Yes, completely open development is great. It has many advantages. So what.
Money makes things happen too you know.
Open source freaks act like commercial programmers can't produce anything worthwhile. Look around you. The VAST MAJORITY of software so far is commercially produced. Yes, allright, there is some great open source stuff out there.. but in the grand scheme of things, it's not that much. Now, I'm not saying that that MEANS anything, other than... Commercial software is viable too.
presumably when you tell it a fact that doesn't jive with what it already knows, it doesn't add it to the system, and instead asks for clarification until it gets something that DOES make sense, or you give up trying to feed it bunk info.
You know, I've often wondered about that... and why we don't see more of it.
The tritium gas lights in my watch are powered by beta emissions; of course, that's by direct stimulation of a phosphor... but still. A beta emitter emits a contant stream of negative charges.. why not use it?
Hmm. Tritium is a pure beta emitter. Anyone know what happens if you supercool tritium down to a solid (yeah I know it would be unbelievably completely rediculously expensive, Tritium being hte most expensive commercially available substance by mass already)
You don't give much background information. If you are talking about a shopt hat has one or two mid-level solaris boxes and is looking at a new server for like, some application you run.. sure, look elsewhere.
IF you are talking bout BIG servers, and some heavy investment into infrastructure..
Let's say the only change you should make is to another vendor for the future.
It's not about whether not you can administer one box or the other... it's about simplicity. Don't make things more complicated than they have to be.
IPV6 will give us address space, yes.. but will it be too late? Who will allocate that space? Will it simply be handed out by the current heirarchy of control, or will we once again be able to freely get routable space assigned to us without hassle, regardless of who our ISP is?
mentions how "Overclockers think your chips can get hurt at 100 degrees, but in this plant, they heat them to several times that"
Yeah. And overclockers re right.
A solder oven heats the board assembly slowly and uniformly.
It's large thermal gradiants that kill chips... differnet parts of the chip at different temperatures introduce evil physical stresses that mess up the guts.
Just like putting a person in hot water.. I believe tests have shown that humans can endure some crazy hot temperatures if they are heated slowly.
That the Internet and the networks that happen to make up the Internet themselves are fundamentally two different animals.
Remember the roots of the word. An internet is a network made up of a bunch of networks.
The reason the internetworking in general, and the Internet in particular, work, is because we all agreed on some standards, and a global addressing scheme that ensured unique, routable address space.
Far more important in the long run is making sure that address allocation is impartial and open to everyone. Even now this is erorded.. for reasons that seem unavoidable at present.. but it's still eroding.
You see, before, you could get a block of address space assigned to you, whether or not your network was hooked to anyone elses. Why would you do this? On the mere POSSIBILITY that one day you would hook it up. Everyone could get unique address space, and network together at will.
Now.. you ahve to prove your precise need for those addresses, and you must get them from your isp. This makes sense if you consider the increasing scarcity of addresses.. but there is a quality that is being lost.
My point is.. we have to make sure that, regardless of who is offering what, that global IP routability is still there, and that Joe Farmer, if he invents a new transmission method, can get routable address space.
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saying "Countries deciding" is kind of misleading.
Government, as an office/business that needs to use computers & software, is debating using Linux.
Saying it's "Countries" makes it sound like countries are passing laws requiring EVERYONE to use it.
Yeah.. but a single parity bit could account for a failing poker (provided you knew which poker failed)
There are all kinds of error correcting codes that could be used so even multiple poker failure would be detected.
The ecc built into disk drives is not for head crashes and fried electronics.. it's in case a single bit is read wrong. Could be a cosmic ray flipped it.
To lose a cylinder at once woudl require all heads to crash at once for a complete revolution. Unlikely.
Really, ecc is designed for correcting single bit errors.
Yes.. it's controlled.
But if you want some, and have a real reason to get it, you can purchase it.
Yes, and No.
.com, you have authority to hand out names below that. Same for every single other domain.
Without central control, where is the guarantee that someone isn't hijacking your namespace.
Why is central control a problem?
And keep in mind, every single individual decides how they want to peform dns resolution. Either by choosing which nameservers to use, or if you are a nameserver, by choosing which root servers to use.
The only reason DNS works now is because the vast majority of people use the same root servers.
I think the real question, though, is why is central control bad? What is it that we would like to see in the DNS system that icann won't do now?
Our real problem is that DNS became the way to find web pages. That's not what it was designed for. It was designed as distributed, heirarchial system. You register a
The idea was to give your organisation or network a name, and then use that heirarchy to organise all your resources.
My point is, the only reason it's such a big deal is because of the Web.
What we really need is a distributed lookup service that is more effective, and hence, more desireable, than using dns.
Where do you think your 80GB hard drive came from? 10 years ago that was unthinkable.
15 years ago a CD Rom was an unreal amount of data.
All these things are from research.
It takes 5 to 10 years to see new technologies appear on the market *provided* that they are economically viable in the first place.
Yes, we've been hearing about Holographic storage for 10 years or more now. So what? Fuck it? Who cares?
It's not economically viable for the mass market... so it's for resarch.
In 10 or 20 years, when we are tossing holocrystal storage around like it ain't no thing, with a 1 pS read/write latency and a density of 40 TB per square inch.
Of COURSE it will.
Do you think your hard drive stores bits raw? Heck no, there is an error correcting scheme in place at a low level.
The DNS problem is a simple one to solve.
There are two choices.
1) We are going to keep adding TLDs.
2) We are NOT going to keep adding TLDs.
Period.
The only other time to change a TLD is if the geopolitical world changes, and we need more (or less) cctlds.
Other than that, maintain the root servers, and leave it the hell alone.
When the US Govt. gave up what power they had over the domain system, it went to shit. Netsol messed it up, ICANN is messing it up even worse.
I say let the NSF do it again.
Not quite.
The idea is to get energy from the spinning of the earth, not the orbital path. You are decidedly NOT simply getting back the energy you used to put it up there; you are sapping energy from the earth spinning.
Right you are.
This isn't DC or AC though. And it's not a wire, it's a superconductor. Totally different.
I am not a physicist.. but I am reasonably certain that, on our way to a grand unified theory.. we have unified the Electric & Weak forces, yielding what we now call the Electroweak force...
(And by 'unified' I mean we have proven them to be the same thing. The universe unified them already, we just found it)
But as far as I know, and granted, I don't know everything.. we sure haven't unified Gravity & Magnetism. Yes, we see many similarities.... but we haven't unified them. I'm not saying we won't; in fact, I believe we will, it seems logical.
But the article seems to talk about this "Gravitomagnetic" force as if it is something commonly accepted by science as real.
Long battery life. Really long.
A versatile, multichannel, wideband radio receiver. So I can listen to the radio, shortwave, cb, watch tv, talk on the phone, etc.
Killer DSPs to go along with aforementioned radio equipment.
A killer display. High defnition gas plasma.
Built in ultrabright microprojector.
Microphone array, so I can place it on the table and it can do noise cancellation as I talk.
An option roll-out semitransparent display like those funky things on Red Planet
Bucketloads of memory. A few gigs of ram, and about a terabyte of fixed storage.
A built in stun gun.
A pocket-warmer mode for cold days.
Voice recognition & comprehension.
That's still hydrogen becoming solid. And yes, it is metallic. Remember, Hydrogen sits on both sides of the periodic table.
You will note I said "Most expensive commercially available substance."
Last I checked, you cannot purchase antimatter.
You CAN, however, easily purchase tritium.
If I had mod points today, I'd mod that up.
Man.. when are they going to release B5 on dvd? I want the whole damn series. I'll pay enormous sums of money for it.
Open Source is such a dirty word now! Seriously, the word reeks of zealotry.
Yes, completely open development is great. It has many advantages.
So what.
Money makes things happen too you know.
Open source freaks act like commercial programmers can't produce anything worthwhile. Look around you. The VAST MAJORITY of software so far is commercially produced. Yes, allright, there is some great open source stuff out there.. but in the grand scheme of things, it's not that much.
Now, I'm not saying that that MEANS anything, other than...
Commercial software is viable too.
You woudln't get cold, you use warm/hot water.
Secondly. it's for PORN YOU MORON. Why do you think its seats two?
presumably when you tell it a fact that doesn't jive with what it already knows, it doesn't add it to the system, and instead asks for clarification until it gets something that DOES make sense, or you give up trying to feed it bunk info.
It's useful NOW. We use it for things NOW.
A dumb expert system, eh?
So I assume you know exactly what would constitute real intelligence, and can show how it can NEVER arise out of this system?
Adding constraints for it to filter through. Well.
What, exactly, do you think makes up something that is actually intelligent then?
but more with posture than the keyboards.
And it generally takes a long time to develop.
A lot of people who think they have carpal tunnel syndrom have tendonitis.. and really just need some exercise.
Lift a few freeweights once or twice a week, it makes a HUGE difference to your typing endurance.
You know, I've often wondered about that... and why we don't see more of it.
The tritium gas lights in my watch are powered by beta emissions; of course, that's by direct stimulation of a phosphor... but still. A beta emitter emits a contant stream of negative charges.. why not use it?
Hmm. Tritium is a pure beta emitter. Anyone know what happens if you supercool tritium down to a solid (yeah I know it would be unbelievably completely rediculously expensive, Tritium being hte most expensive commercially available substance by mass already)
What is it you are talking about, exactly? Can you give an example of a 'thing that is completely different'?
Remmeber, that new thing MUST be able to explain everything currently explained by the 'old theory they are reluctant to give up'
You don't give much background information. If you are talking about a shopt hat has one or two mid-level solaris boxes and is looking at a new server for like, some application you run.. sure, look elsewhere.
IF you are talking bout BIG servers, and some heavy investment into infrastructure..
Let's say the only change you should make is to another vendor for the future.
It's not about whether not you can administer one box or the other... it's about simplicity. Don't make things more complicated than they have to be.
I just didn't touch on it.
IPV6 will give us address space, yes..
but will it be too late? Who will allocate that space? Will it simply be handed out by the current heirarchy of control, or will we once again be able to freely get routable space assigned to us without hassle, regardless of who our ISP is?
mentions how "Overclockers think your chips can get hurt at 100 degrees, but in this plant, they heat them to several times that"
Yeah. And overclockers re right.
A solder oven heats the board assembly slowly and uniformly.
It's large thermal gradiants that kill chips... differnet parts of the chip at different temperatures introduce evil physical stresses that mess up the guts.
Just like putting a person in hot water.. I believe tests have shown that humans can endure some crazy hot temperatures if they are heated slowly.
That the Internet and the networks that happen to make up the Internet themselves are fundamentally two different animals.
Remember the roots of the word. An internet is a network made up of a bunch of networks.
The reason the internetworking in general, and the Internet in particular, work, is because we all agreed on some standards, and a global addressing scheme that ensured unique, routable address space.
Far more important in the long run is making sure that address allocation is impartial and open to everyone. Even now this is erorded.. for reasons that seem unavoidable at present.. but it's still eroding.
You see, before, you could get a block of address space assigned to you, whether or not your network was hooked to anyone elses. Why would you do this? On the mere POSSIBILITY that one day you would hook it up.
Everyone could get unique address space, and network together at will.
Now.. you ahve to prove your precise need for those addresses, and you must get them from your isp. This makes sense if you consider the increasing scarcity of addresses.. but there is a quality that is being lost.
My point is.. we have to make sure that, regardless of who is offering what, that global IP routability is still there, and that Joe Farmer, if he invents a new transmission method, can get routable address space.