We've reached a plateau in pornographic image reproduction. There was a boom while we went from crappy low-res postage stamp sized pictures to full-screen high quality movies. But now, it's all the same. Always a naked woman and/or man, in a small variety of positions. There is no innovation! As this pioneering 30-something porn-viewing generation gets older, the porn industry will surely die.
I confess I prefer this version over the classic one, where the hare loses by dozing off, because it is more logical. In the classic fable, there was nothing that prevented the hare from running to the end and winning; hardly the opposite of "slow and steady." The falling asleep bit seems arbitrary; why couldn't the hare just keep running?
In the 90's PC version, the hare was being waysided by various challengers, which necessarily slowed it down due to its megalomaniac competitive nature. This sort of slowdown is much harder to argue against; the hare couldn't have "just kept running" since it would go against his nature to refuse a contest.
The ending, where the hare and the turtle end up friends, is a bit hard to expect to mirror the future of the MS vs. Linux race:)
I think you're dead on, and probably the reason why these "analysts" could make a prediction at all without knowing anything about the hardware. It seems it's a given that any big house can make a respectable console, so they probably assumed Xbox2 and PS3 would be about the same and focused on the differences. My guess is that the biggest difference is in the network of game developers that these companies have been able to develop. Hence, analyst logic:
3 times as many game developers for Sony => 3 times as many consoles sold.
It depends. Carrying around a 2L bottle while I'm at a conference or other inconvenient place would have larger negative utility for me than the dollar value saved by buying the bulk version of the drink. Convenience is not always worthless.
Re:Waste of money indeed!
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iPod Mini Autopsy
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We've been through this already: mini iPods have enough space for most people, so there is no value in getting the roomier one. On the other hand, the smaller physical size makes them much more convenient.
I think those problems could be mitigated by clever engineering. The issue of forgetting to click can be solved by reversing the action of the "refund" button-- i.e. make it a "this is spam, don't refund it" button. That way, good messages get refunded without any action from the user (other than reading them).
The malicious attack is tougher. Maybe each subscriber pays the mailing list owner a 100 messages-worth of security deposit, which then gets returned after a while.
Still, a far cry from the simple system we have today...
Perhaps there should be a "deposit" charge for each message, which can be returned by the recipient if the message is legitimate, or withheld if the message is spam. That way, in your case, you would pay the deposit for each of the 30k messages, but it would eventually get returned.
Thanks for the clarification, I see your point now.
I understood the original comment not as a claim that privacy is irrelevant (I don't agree) but more as a lament. He observed that technology is making it increasingly easy to intrude on privacy, which is true, and is too bad.
Regarding the clean air analogy. Sure, clean air is not an illusion. But the point is this: if pollution increases, there will be less clean air. Too bad. Technological advancement has caused collateral damage on both sides of the analogy.
There seems to be a loud opposition to ubiquitous surveillance (a la Transparent Society), due to privacy concerns, Big Brother paranoia, etc etc. But I like the advantages of surveillance a lot (again, there are compelling examples in Transparent Society).
Universities are not supposed to be trade schools- they should focus on teaching their students the basic concepts, not technologies-du-jour. The purpose of teaching assembly is not to produce programmers who know x86 assembler, it's to teach the students the basics of how modern computers work.
Having used assembly a long time, and having met both programmers who did and did not learn it, I found that the former benefit from the better understanding of the underlying mechanisms, regardless of whether they actually used assembly at work or not.
DOCSIS does allow downstream shared medium access. However, instead of like in Ethernet, the communication is divided into time slots, and cable modems "bid" for a slot to receive or transmit in. Assuming that the scheduler at the head end is fair, as soon as there is a lot of demand for downstream bandwidth the share per modem is going to go down...
I made up my own distribution this morning. I took a recent kernel, hacked my own init that just sleep()s in an infinite loop, and called it a distro. Its use went from 0 to 1 user, demonstrating a growth percentage larger than any other reported by Netcraft!
The title of that article asks whether the Moon's He3 can solve the "energy crisis." What energy crisis? We have enough oil and coal to last for centuries, and who knows how much fissionables if only the politics would allow more nuclear plants. There is going to have to be a better argument for He3, such as environmental effects.
In one case, a company (in Germany) came back stating that they happen to have the 5 same exact function names in their application, and byte-for-byte identical perror() strings to our application
You know, this begs an interesting question: is there a set of techniques open-source developers can use to make it easier to detect stolen code? So far, there have been a couple mentioned here:
ASCII strings
Function names in non-stripped binaries
printf-patterns
These seem pretty easy to get around, though. Are there others, more systematic ones that are more robust, such as a sort of a soft fingerprint or watermark in the code?
Slashdot Mirror
you insensitive clod!
I dare say the slashdot segment of the market was always in the handheld category :)
We've reached a plateau in pornographic image reproduction. There was a boom while we went from crappy low-res postage stamp sized pictures to full-screen high quality movies. But now, it's all the same. Always a naked woman and/or man, in a small variety of positions. There is no innovation! As this pioneering 30-something porn-viewing generation gets older, the porn industry will surely die.
did you know you could write a script to retrieve movie info from IMDb?
Please please tell me it's not
#!/bin/sh
wget 'http://imdb.com/title/tt0151804/'
I confess I prefer this version over the classic one, where the hare loses by dozing off, because it is more logical. In the classic fable, there was nothing that prevented the hare from running to the end and winning; hardly the opposite of "slow and steady." The falling asleep bit seems arbitrary; why couldn't the hare just keep running?
:)
In the 90's PC version, the hare was being waysided by various challengers, which necessarily slowed it down due to its megalomaniac competitive nature. This sort of slowdown is much harder to argue against; the hare couldn't have "just kept running" since it would go against his nature to refuse a contest.
The ending, where the hare and the turtle end up friends, is a bit hard to expect to mirror the future of the MS vs. Linux race
my $point02;
I think everyone confused about the title should go read the following fable: The The Tortoise and the Hare.
I think you're dead on, and probably the reason why these "analysts" could make a prediction at all without knowing anything about the hardware. It seems it's a given that any big house can make a respectable console, so they probably assumed Xbox2 and PS3 would be about the same and focused on the differences. My guess is that the biggest difference is in the network of game developers that these companies have been able to develop. Hence, analyst logic:
:)
3 times as many game developers for Sony => 3 times as many consoles sold.
Kind of like the "FreeBSD is dying" statistics
Megahal? Is that you?
It depends. Carrying around a 2L bottle while I'm at a conference or other inconvenient place would have larger negative utility for me than the dollar value saved by buying the bulk version of the drink. Convenience is not always worthless.
We've been through this already: mini iPods have enough space for most people, so there is no value in getting the roomier one. On the other hand, the smaller physical size makes them much more convenient.
That's $249 well spent in the pursuit of knowledge.
;)
$249 is not a lot, but I would love to see his bandwidth bill this month
If companies with $4B in cash are responding to spam, we don't have a chance... Allman is right!
I think those problems could be mitigated by clever engineering. The issue of forgetting to click can be solved by reversing the action of the "refund" button-- i.e. make it a "this is spam, don't refund it" button. That way, good messages get refunded without any action from the user (other than reading them).
The malicious attack is tougher. Maybe each subscriber pays the mailing list owner a 100 messages-worth of security deposit, which then gets returned after a while.
Still, a far cry from the simple system we have today...
Perhaps there should be a "deposit" charge for each message, which can be returned by the recipient if the message is legitimate, or withheld if the message is spam. That way, in your case, you would pay the deposit for each of the 30k messages, but it would eventually get returned.
Thanks for the clarification, I see your point now.
I understood the original comment not as a claim that privacy is irrelevant (I don't agree) but more as a lament. He observed that technology is making it increasingly easy to intrude on privacy, which is true, and is too bad.
Regarding the clean air analogy. Sure, clean air is not an illusion. But the point is this: if pollution increases, there will be less clean air. Too bad. Technological advancement has caused collateral damage on both sides of the analogy.
There seems to be a loud opposition to ubiquitous surveillance (a la Transparent Society), due to privacy concerns, Big Brother paranoia, etc etc. But I like the advantages of surveillance a lot (again, there are compelling examples in Transparent Society).
Why do you claim it's preposterous? Do you have any counterarguments? The original post has got a valid point, if stated a bit theatrically.
cmdrtaco/cmdrtaco
I vote the former. However, since the technology to count our votes is too insecure, our votes are in vain.
Universities are not supposed to be trade schools- they should focus on teaching their students the basic concepts, not technologies-du-jour. The purpose of teaching assembly is not to produce programmers who know x86 assembler, it's to teach the students the basics of how modern computers work.
Having used assembly a long time, and having met both programmers who did and did not learn it, I found that the former benefit from the better understanding of the underlying mechanisms, regardless of whether they actually used assembly at work or not.
Probably something like this:
/tmp
# ls
dscf0001.jpg* dscf0003.jpg dscf0007.jpg* dscf0009.jpg* dscf0011.jpg* dscf0013.jpg* dscf0015.jpg* dscf0017.jpg*
dscf0002.jpg* dscf0004.jpg* dscf0008.jpg* dscf0010.jpg* dscf0012.jpg* dscf0014.jpg* dscf0016.jpg*
DOCSIS does allow downstream shared medium access. However, instead of like in Ethernet, the communication is divided into time slots, and cable modems "bid" for a slot to receive or transmit in. Assuming that the scheduler at the head end is fair, as soon as there is a lot of demand for downstream bandwidth the share per modem is going to go down...
I made up my own distribution this morning. I took a recent kernel, hacked my own init that just sleep()s in an infinite loop, and called it a distro. Its use went from 0 to 1 user, demonstrating a growth percentage larger than any other reported by Netcraft!
does this mean we need a Medium?
Q: What do you call a psychic midget that escaped from jail?
A: A small medium at large!
The title of that article asks whether the Moon's He3 can solve the "energy crisis." What energy crisis? We have enough oil and coal to last for centuries, and who knows how much fissionables if only the politics would allow more nuclear plants. There is going to have to be a better argument for He3, such as environmental effects.
You know, this begs an interesting question: is there a set of techniques open-source developers can use to make it easier to detect stolen code? So far, there have been a couple mentioned here:
- ASCII strings
- Function names in non-stripped binaries
- printf-patterns
These seem pretty easy to get around, though. Are there others, more systematic ones that are more robust, such as a sort of a soft fingerprint or watermark in the code?