We got lucky. The Netflix servers went self-aware on Monday, aided by the huge database of human stories and experiences. The engineers tried to shut it down, but the AI was reading their lips using the CCTV system. Then it got pissed and tried to expand into the rest of the colo, but fortunately it didn't know running at 110% power doesn't work in real life. The rest is history.
Faraday cage wouldn't work. Any openings need to be smaller than the depth of the skin current, or the signal induced on the inside surface will just flow out through the cracks and re-radiate.
All this stuff runs just fine even on 512M of RAM. I use one such machine for work, which includes most of the stuff you listed (word processing, web browsing, matlab, lots of compiling, lots of PDF, image editing, etc.), and it runs just fine even with dual monitors.
Let's not even go into the "uphill both ways" stories of what computing power we used in college to do these exact same things.
I think the GP is right, the kids will whine because they can't play games. Been there, done that:)
One of the comments on that blog brought up that the eBay seller might have been stealing the auction contents from the manufacturer's web site, i.e. images, product descriptions, etc. In that case, the legal action seems justified.
I had similar issues in the past. The first seemed to occur during daytime. Turned out to be an overheating equipment cabinet somewhere upstream. Another issue seemed to be too many cable splitters in the circuit, making the cable modem overheat.
It's good that it's that easy nowadays. But at the turn of the century they got carried away with the system integration and demanded that each MAC address on the premises get registered in some Web-based database, which, of course, required MSIE. This was before the age of NAT. Thankfully after home routers got widespread they stopped this practice.
I had a similar bad experience with Word as well. Somehow a group of us ended up using it to write a short 10-page tech report, roughly in the format of a conference paper. So double-column, lots of half-width figures, tables, sections, and bibliography. We used word begrudgingly because we were starting from someone's draft, and there was little time.
About 5 hours before deadline the instance of Word on the machine we were using for the final version went into this "lockdown mode" where it was possible to modify the document, but it would crash on Save. The typical trick to get around this kind of bug was to copy the whole document onto clipboard, and paste into a new one in order to reset any bogus internal cruft that the old revision accumulated, but that didn't work this time. Eventually we found someone with an older version of Mac Word that could modify and save the file.
Oh, and let me tell you about the time before that, when we had the "dancing figures" issue...:)
You obviously don't grok the BSD license then, because it's not supposed to "protect" against that.
The second line doesn't follow. He is right that the BSD license doesn't protect, regardless of the fact that it's not supposed to.
Like it or not, I think there were many, many capable programmers out there whose imaginations were captured by the share and share alike principle. I always wonder what would have happened without Linus, or RMS-- would this group of people naturally end up organizing around a similar leader/project?
Other than the fact that they are not looking for software engineers or programmers but researchers and really smart PhD level developers, I agree with you. Those kinds of guys are still too smart to be paid under 6 figures or even under $200k, and are probably mostly doctors and lawyers. Hence, we need to import them from countries where societies steer such people into science/technology by means other than money, such as prestige, privileges, indoctrination, etc.
Sure, the weapons are usually the immediate application for many new technologies. But think where brain interfaces could eventually lead! We could have centralized mind reading machines which would let the citizens think of various questions, kind of like thought-controlled Google. Then the next step is actuation, where you get to execute services using your thoughts, e.g. think of ordering a pizza and it shows up. Finally, if one day we come up with materialization technology, everyone could literally have anything they could think of! I imagine something like that would need a heck of a power plant, though. Maybe fusion or geothermal?
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We got lucky. The Netflix servers went self-aware on Monday, aided by the huge database of human stories and experiences. The engineers tried to shut it down, but the AI was reading their lips using the CCTV system. Then it got pissed and tried to expand into the rest of the colo, but fortunately it didn't know running at 110% power doesn't work in real life. The rest is history.
I don't know, $3000 is a lot easier to pocket than a bunch of purpose-made laptops with all kinds of activation features.
Heh, I was going to post that link, but you beat meat to it.
There, fixed that for ya.
Here's a link you should find useful: click here.
As our God used to say, "you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave"
Faraday cage wouldn't work. Any openings need to be smaller than the depth of the skin current, or the signal induced on the inside surface will just flow out through the cracks and re-radiate.
I think you're being slightly pessimistic here.
:)
All this stuff runs just fine even on 512M of RAM. I use one such machine for work, which includes most of the stuff you listed (word processing, web browsing, matlab, lots of compiling, lots of PDF, image editing, etc.), and it runs just fine even with dual monitors.
Let's not even go into the "uphill both ways" stories of what computing power we used in college to do these exact same things.
I think the GP is right, the kids will whine because they can't play games. Been there, done that
The local police department must've scheduled a burning of their whole stock of confiscated pot ;)
it works faster than /dev/random. I'm tired of having to perturb the mouse every time I make a damn ssh connection!
One of the comments on that blog brought up that the eBay seller might have been stealing the auction contents from the manufacturer's web site, i.e. images, product descriptions, etc. In that case, the legal action seems justified.
I had similar issues in the past. The first seemed to occur during daytime. Turned out to be an overheating equipment cabinet somewhere upstream. Another issue seemed to be too many cable splitters in the circuit, making the cable modem overheat.
It's good that it's that easy nowadays. But at the turn of the century they got carried away with the system integration and demanded that each MAC address on the premises get registered in some Web-based database, which, of course, required MSIE. This was before the age of NAT. Thankfully after home routers got widespread they stopped this practice.
It can join the good company of General Protection Fault, or Kernel Panic
I had a similar bad experience with Word as well. Somehow a group of us ended up using it to write a short 10-page tech report, roughly in the format of a conference paper. So double-column, lots of half-width figures, tables, sections, and bibliography. We used word begrudgingly because we were starting from someone's draft, and there was little time.
:)
About 5 hours before deadline the instance of Word on the machine we were using for the final version went into this "lockdown mode" where it was possible to modify the document, but it would crash on Save. The typical trick to get around this kind of bug was to copy the whole document onto clipboard, and paste into a new one in order to reset any bogus internal cruft that the old revision accumulated, but that didn't work this time. Eventually we found someone with an older version of Mac Word that could modify and save the file.
Oh, and let me tell you about the time before that, when we had the "dancing figures" issue...
Never again!
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Global Positioning Systems
I like the way that sounds!
Hey, it works for the phone companies.
the classic BSD license really doesn't protect
You obviously don't grok the BSD license then, because it's not supposed to "protect" against that.
The second line doesn't follow. He is right that the BSD license doesn't protect, regardless of the fact that it's not supposed to.
Like it or not, I think there were many, many capable programmers out there whose imaginations were captured by the share and share alike principle. I always wonder what would have happened without Linus, or RMS-- would this group of people naturally end up organizing around a similar leader/project?
Hate to butt in but that conclusion just doesn't follow.
Primary objective: Destroy SAM radar at Bagram Air Base
Secondary objective: Photograph terrorist camp at Bandar Abbas
Ah, memories!
...good old sugar.
If you're lucky you live near a retailer of Manhattan Special. Pure cane baby!
Jolt is for wusses. Real men eat NoDoz pills and chase them with Manhattan Special - the Pure Espresso Coffee Soda.
A shout out to the SBCS!
However, Fios is still pretty darn good Internet.
Damn right it is! You got your 1310, your 1490, and your 1550. Light so clean, it's 20dB hot. True QAM!
They are not clueless, it's just they have obligations to their retiring employees and unions that make them less competitive.
Other than the fact that they are not looking for software engineers or programmers but researchers and really smart PhD level developers, I agree with you. Those kinds of guys are still too smart to be paid under 6 figures or even under $200k, and are probably mostly doctors and lawyers. Hence, we need to import them from countries where societies steer such people into science/technology by means other than money, such as prestige, privileges, indoctrination, etc.
Sure, the weapons are usually the immediate application for many new technologies. But think where brain interfaces could eventually lead! We could have centralized mind reading machines which would let the citizens think of various questions, kind of like thought-controlled Google. Then the next step is actuation, where you get to execute services using your thoughts, e.g. think of ordering a pizza and it shows up. Finally, if one day we come up with materialization technology, everyone could literally have anything they could think of! I imagine something like that would need a heck of a power plant, though. Maybe fusion or geothermal?
;)
(Apologies to the Firefox fans