I have to curb myself from saying "What part of no such file or direcory do you not understand!?!?!?"
Probably the "file" or "directory". The average person when told to double click on the file will probably go to their filing cabinet, pull out a file, and put the mouse on it.
"File" or "Directory" is still tech lingo to them.
On that note, I claim to hold the patent on dihydrogen monoxide. So all governments, companies, or any living organism must purchase a license from me before using my patented chemical compound. If you are found to be in violation of this, I will sue you for $1,000 per molecule found in your body.
More seriously, could this "patent" be voided is nanotubes are found to occur in nature or as a biproduct from another chemical process?
I would think that you couldn't patent nature or accidental biproducts... but this is kinda rediculous so I could be wrong.
In another thought... who are these idiots who keep handing out rediculous patents? Shouldn't there be moderation?
...is located about 13,230 million light-years away. It is therefore seen at a time when the Universe was merely 470 million years young
Assuming that the universe is 13.5 billion years old and that we've been moving away from that galaxy near the speed of light (around 0.965c if my math is correct).
I would think that finding such a thing would tend to make people think the universe is older.
So it looks like the reason Intel was vague about their announcement is that they didn't want the WORLD TO KNOW THAT THEY WERE COPYING AND FOLLOWING AMD rather than developing some new thing on their own. Slashdot is proud to help Intel in this quest; wouldn't want the public to know that INTEL WAS SIMPLY FOLLOWING IN AMD'S FOOTSTEPS. Hope this helps.
right... let's bring bias into news! yippie!
From the summary, it doesn't seem like that at all.
Right... and cracking a Linux box just opens up a plethora of useful data and applications!
No one cracks a "box" for it's usefulness (unless there's sensitive data on there that they want). It's not like you gain control over a server and can do what you wish. There's still a plug on the other end of the Cat5 line that someone can pull.
I went to ITT tech... I feel like I'm finaly in control of my life, and my paren't couldn't be prouder.
ya know, this is really really old news
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Complete car computer systems have been sold for years. You can easily hook up to your laptop and control the timings, fule flow, boost (if you have a super/turbo charger), suspension (if you have fancy ones), and get very nice and detailed readings for fuel efficiency, torque (or HP) vs RPM's, etc. etc....
My brother almost got one for his little escort a while back. They're not that expensive (less than 1grand), and very useful. Really good for diagnosing car problems too (if you get that with it).
I guess car's are new to a lot of computer geeks though:)
I _really_ hate the implication that we should just sit on the information until we're sure, simply because it's hard to prove.
Yea... let's start making guesses as to how we should "fix" the problem (because we're so sure it needs to be fixed because it IS an actual problem, right?). Let's try terraforming out planet as to how we *think* it should be.
Real smart. Start shootin in the dark when trying to "fix" our own habitat.
I'm sorry, but it's just not something you want to screw with until you're 100% sure. Or can't you realize that our atmosphere is too important to us to start making wild guesses?
My girlfriend makes $150k a year as corporate trainer, and (since she owns her own company) only works on average 2-3 days per week. And she has friends in her line of work who actually have the temerity to ask her "How can you work for so little income?".
And she should feel horrible. She's in a stupid, anyone-with-a-peanut-could-do-it job getting grosely overpaid...
These guys keep talking about superconductors but the fact remains that this is fundamental research with no real applications now or even in the near future.
Wanna talk about pointless research, I heard about these zany scientists that were looking into interactions between electicity and magnetism (like anything good could come of that). I think they were trying to make something called a "Cathode Ray". I mean, what good would that do the general public? Are we going to zap things with this mysterious "Cathode Ray" or something? It sounds like something from a bad sci-fi movie.
These people should be cut from funding... they're just waisting tax payers money. Who ever heard of a Cathode Ray anyway?
people keep using Windows and Outlook even though every few months we're shown once more that both have all the security of an open barn door.
Not really. A system is as secure as the person using it (with admin/root privs, of course).
Frankly this could have happened to any unix flavor with the right setup. It's not that hard to create a mass mailer in unix anyway (especially with sendmail/mail/whatever_you_use shell commands). Just get an idiot running unix to open the executable attatchment and you're on your way to mass mailer fun for the whole family!
MSFT got rich on selling the same product that Linus gives away for free
Uhh... no.
Same genre? Yes... same product? Hell no.
I'm not going to get into a huge debate, but both Unix systems and Windows systems have their advantages. Windows is really really easy to use. Linux is harder to use but is more reliable for servers and such. (Sure there's more for each side, but that's the general division)
Why don't you start complaining about Apple computers while you're at it? They charge a pretty penny too...
Hmm... no one here has really complained about them and the money they make...
The actually "guide" to care for your DVDs and CDs isn't 50 pages... it's about 2 pages of "do"s and "don't"s. The rest is just technical mumbojumo with the TOC, definition reference, bibliograpy, and other legal stuff at the beginning.
"WOAH 50 PAGES!" Well... yea... but the important stuff is only on a few of them.
So if you plan on printing this out for easy reference... save yourself the extra 48 pages.
Aren't there certian optimizations and, in general, better coding for most 32 bit applications (on the lowest level of the code) because people have used it for so long? Couldn't it just be that we need to refine coding for 64 bit processors?
Most "tech gurus" I've talked to at my university about the benefites of 64bit processing say that it is in part due to the increase of the number of registers (allowing you to use more at the same time, shortening the number of cycles needed). Could time allow us to write more efficient kernels, etc for 64 bit processors?
So either the code isn't good enough, or perhaps there's another physical limitation (longer pipelines, etc) on the chip itself? Correct me if I'm wrong.
...but that's the saddest excuse to link something in nature to computers.
What really gets me is how they get off calling it a form of "thinking." It's primitave chemical reactions! (Well, so is our brain to an extent, but lets not get into that)
Anyway, on a more relevant note: Most of the article is just hyped up computer mumbo-jumbo and try to link it with simple common sense about biology - Yes... organisims function through chemical reactions. Now just because something performs chemical reactions doesn't mean that you should talk about it in the sense of a computer.
Basically if you take any system of reactions you can model it somehow like a computer. After all, there is order to the reactions and it can be modeled, explored, and manipulated to give a certian outcome based on the starting environment. Put that into a system that already has self-sustaining parts to it that rely on external chemical reactions (like ants, or in this case leaves), and yes... you could call it 'distributed computing', but there's no point in doing that and you end up just looking stupid to most people.
The fact of the matter is this, if MS continues to use no-complient HTML in their browser and also continues to forces the use their IE browser in windows, then people can't choose to use linux/free BSD/Mac OS unless they use a MS based browser (which they don't always keep updated).
I'm sorry, but IE does use "complient HTML", it just adds some special features to certian things (mainly CSS). All browers have their own DDT built into them for HTML... this allows them to recognise the tags that people throw at it. If your browser doesn't have a current DDT, or can't recognise when someone declares a different, publicly available DDT (read up on XML), then it's the browsers fault for not being compliant.
Just because a lot of people chose to use these special little features that MS has graciously given to the web community (frankly, I like most of the things they've proposed to the w3c) doesn't mean you should burn MS. Just blame the people who wrote the damn website.
Not to worry, though. XML *should* solve this problem. So next time you come across a website that says "blah blah 6.0 required", just think to yourself "Well... why the hell aren't they using xhtml 1.0?"
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I have to curb myself from saying "What part of no such file or direcory do you not understand!?!?!?"
Probably the "file" or "directory". The average person when told to double click on the file will probably go to their filing cabinet, pull out a file, and put the mouse on it.
"File" or "Directory" is still tech lingo to them.
Funny... xfree86 returns adult content while "xxxfuck69" doesn't.
On that note, I claim to hold the patent on dihydrogen monoxide. So all governments, companies, or any living organism must purchase a license from me before using my patented chemical compound. If you are found to be in violation of this, I will sue you for $1,000 per molecule found in your body.
More seriously, could this "patent" be voided is nanotubes are found to occur in nature or as a biproduct from another chemical process?
I would think that you couldn't patent nature or accidental biproducts... but this is kinda rediculous so I could be wrong.
In another thought... who are these idiots who keep handing out rediculous patents? Shouldn't there be moderation?
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I didn't think either rover had any instruments designed for detecting any form of life.
Along with it's drilling tools and such, it carried a spectrometer (or something of the sort) to detect mineral and chemical composition.
That's all you need for a "life detector."
correction: ...assuming it's 13.7 billion years old ;)
That would make it around 0.966c though.
...is located about 13,230 million light-years away. It is therefore seen at a time when the Universe was merely 470 million years young
Assuming that the universe is 13.5 billion years old and that we've been moving away from that galaxy near the speed of light (around 0.965c if my math is correct).
I would think that finding such a thing would tend to make people think the universe is older.
The chair of nanotechnology at my university was taken over by some guy named Squarepants.... Bob Squarepants a few months ago.
Hmph... wonder if it's related.
So it looks like the reason Intel was vague about their announcement is that they didn't want the WORLD TO KNOW THAT THEY WERE COPYING AND FOLLOWING AMD rather than developing some new thing on their own. Slashdot is proud to help Intel in this quest; wouldn't want the public to know that INTEL WAS SIMPLY FOLLOWING IN AMD'S FOOTSTEPS. Hope this helps.
right... let's bring bias into news! yippie!
From the summary, it doesn't seem like that at all.
it never produced an operational helicopter.
Bull huckey... I saw one flying around toward Mackinac Island in Michigan.
Right... and cracking a Linux box just opens up a plethora of useful data and applications!
No one cracks a "box" for it's usefulness (unless there's sensitive data on there that they want). It's not like you gain control over a server and can do what you wish. There's still a plug on the other end of the Cat5 line that someone can pull.
I wonder how many users and administrators will get the false impression that if they just switch to another platform they will have done their job.
Well if they think that, then they really shouldn't be admins, should they?
I went to ITT tech... I feel like I'm finaly in control of my life, and my paren't couldn't be prouder.
Complete car computer systems have been sold for years. You can easily hook up to your laptop and control the timings, fule flow, boost (if you have a super/turbo charger), suspension (if you have fancy ones), and get very nice and detailed readings for fuel efficiency, torque (or HP) vs RPM's, etc. etc....
:)
My brother almost got one for his little escort a while back. They're not that expensive (less than 1grand), and very useful. Really good for diagnosing car problems too (if you get that with it).
I guess car's are new to a lot of computer geeks though
I _really_ hate the implication that we should just sit on the information until we're sure, simply because it's hard to prove.
Yea... let's start making guesses as to how we should "fix" the problem (because we're so sure it needs to be fixed because it IS an actual problem, right?). Let's try terraforming out planet as to how we *think* it should be.
Real smart. Start shootin in the dark when trying to "fix" our own habitat.
I'm sorry, but it's just not something you want to screw with until you're 100% sure. Or can't you realize that our atmosphere is too important to us to start making wild guesses?
My girlfriend makes $150k a year as corporate trainer, and (since she owns her own company) only works on average 2-3 days per week. And she has friends in her line of work who actually have the temerity to ask her "How can you work for so little income?".
And she should feel horrible. She's in a stupid, anyone-with-a-peanut-could-do-it job getting grosely overpaid...
I blame people like her for the shitty economy.
These guys keep talking about superconductors but the fact remains that this is fundamental research with no real applications now or even in the near future.
...oh wait...
Wanna talk about pointless research, I heard about these zany scientists that were looking into interactions between electicity and magnetism (like anything good could come of that). I think they were trying to make something called a "Cathode Ray". I mean, what good would that do the general public? Are we going to zap things with this mysterious "Cathode Ray" or something? It sounds like something from a bad sci-fi movie.
These people should be cut from funding... they're just waisting tax payers money. Who ever heard of a Cathode Ray anyway?
Quote from Jin in the article:
Or superconductors could allow for the invention of magnetically levitated trains, she added.
COULD? They're already here, Jin. Where have you been?
people keep using Windows and Outlook even though every few months we're shown once more that both have all the security of an open barn door.
Not really. A system is as secure as the person using it (with admin/root privs, of course).
Frankly this could have happened to any unix flavor with the right setup. It's not that hard to create a mass mailer in unix anyway (especially with sendmail/mail/whatever_you_use shell commands). Just get an idiot running unix to open the executable attatchment and you're on your way to mass mailer fun for the whole family!
MSFT got rich on selling the same product that Linus gives away for free
Uhh... no.
Same genre? Yes... same product? Hell no.
I'm not going to get into a huge debate, but both Unix systems and Windows systems have their advantages. Windows is really really easy to use. Linux is harder to use but is more reliable for servers and such. (Sure there's more for each side, but that's the general division)
Why don't you start complaining about Apple computers while you're at it? They charge a pretty penny too...
Hmm... no one here has really complained about them and the money they make...
This spam-related story involving a bug in a microsoft product gets posted right above another story titled "Bill Gates Forecasts Victory Over Spam"
It just can't get any better
The actually "guide" to care for your DVDs and CDs isn't 50 pages... it's about 2 pages of "do"s and "don't"s. The rest is just technical mumbojumo with the TOC, definition reference, bibliograpy, and other legal stuff at the beginning.
"WOAH 50 PAGES!" Well... yea... but the important stuff is only on a few of them.
So if you plan on printing this out for easy reference... save yourself the extra 48 pages.
Aren't there certian optimizations and, in general, better coding for most 32 bit applications (on the lowest level of the code) because people have used it for so long? Couldn't it just be that we need to refine coding for 64 bit processors?
Most "tech gurus" I've talked to at my university about the benefites of 64bit processing say that it is in part due to the increase of the number of registers (allowing you to use more at the same time, shortening the number of cycles needed). Could time allow us to write more efficient kernels, etc for 64 bit processors?
So either the code isn't good enough, or perhaps there's another physical limitation (longer pipelines, etc) on the chip itself? Correct me if I'm wrong.
...but that's the saddest excuse to link something in nature to computers.
What really gets me is how they get off calling it a form of "thinking." It's primitave chemical reactions! (Well, so is our brain to an extent, but lets not get into that)
Anyway, on a more relevant note: Most of the article is just hyped up computer mumbo-jumbo and try to link it with simple common sense about biology - Yes... organisims function through chemical reactions. Now just because something performs chemical reactions doesn't mean that you should talk about it in the sense of a computer.
Basically if you take any system of reactions you can model it somehow like a computer. After all, there is order to the reactions and it can be modeled, explored, and manipulated to give a certian outcome based on the starting environment. Put that into a system that already has self-sustaining parts to it that rely on external chemical reactions (like ants, or in this case leaves), and yes... you could call it 'distributed computing', but there's no point in doing that and you end up just looking stupid to most people.
Auburn University scientists 'realized there is already a lot of hydrogen in hydrocarbon fuel'
Wow... I wonder how long it took them to realise that...
The fact of the matter is this, if MS continues to use no-complient HTML in their browser and also continues to forces the use their IE browser in windows, then people can't choose to use linux/free BSD/Mac OS unless they use a MS based browser (which they don't always keep updated).
I'm sorry, but IE does use "complient HTML", it just adds some special features to certian things (mainly CSS). All browers have their own DDT built into them for HTML... this allows them to recognise the tags that people throw at it. If your browser doesn't have a current DDT, or can't recognise when someone declares a different, publicly available DDT (read up on XML), then it's the browsers fault for not being compliant.
Just because a lot of people chose to use these special little features that MS has graciously given to the web community (frankly, I like most of the things they've proposed to the w3c) doesn't mean you should burn MS. Just blame the people who wrote the damn website.
Not to worry, though. XML *should* solve this problem. So next time you come across a website that says "blah blah 6.0 required", just think to yourself "Well... why the hell aren't they using xhtml 1.0?"