They're obviously worried that something is in the wild that is hard-coded to attack WindowsUpdate.com, else there would be no point in abandoning that domain and moving to another.
Because it happens natually no matter what we do. It's happened many times in the past, and will happen again and again until our solar system itself dies...
If Seatlle gets submerged then maybe the US will finally realize that they have a responsibility to the environment just as all the other nations in the world.
So when the SOUTH POLE melts, then they'll worry. The north pole melting won't add any to the global sea level.
Many of you expect so much, but have no idea how hard it is/was to create...
These billion-transistor CPU's that people use every day go unnoticed. Do you know how much genious was poured into it's creation?
And you go on to ask for voice recognition and perfect speech generation? Why not perfect AI while you're at it?
Be greatful and don't ask for much... until you go out and contribute to the development of this technology you ask for then you have not right to complain when you don't get it.
Rather than continuing to promote specialization over those 200 years, I'd like to see people branch out in to new fields.
That's the way to go for the working class, but what about the scientists or that make the discoveries that form the back-bone of tomorrows technology in which the engineers design and take to it's limit?
Take specialists from multiple fields with 150+ years of research behind them, have them work together and share ideas freely... just imagine the type of genious that would be it's output.
I myself wouldn't want to be stuck in the same job for over 200+ years. My passion is knowledge and would naturally span over as many different type of work and study as I could find.
Another possibility that would arise from that kind of lifespan would be to colonize other planets in our solar system or beyond. I'd gladly spend 50 years on a ship (not those little capsules... I gotta live there, ya know) to help out in setteling around a neighboring star.
What will happen to the political arena? Such large numbers of century-old idealism against the "younger" (
Would our society adapt where people would be open-minded and could reasonably change their views based on current economic and social situation, or would the whole world be thrown into:
- Century old stalemates in congress? - Violent protests to the point of revolution every 100 years? - Wars?
I think this could cause a problem greater than just food supply and living space... but, if humans became rational and could live like this in harmony, then what a world it would be.
and who is going to pay for 240 years of retirement?
No one... that's why they're not going to retire for 240 years, but work for at least 200.
Imagine the type of skilled labor you could obtain over 200 years... More and more people will become highly (and i mean highly) trained specialists in whatever they do. This would allow for ever-increasing advanced in science, medecine, and technology which would appear to "boom" in the first century of this kind of "immortality".
I, for one, would love to see this kind of thing happen.
I work at a small software company that writes medical billing software (along with office management, appointment book, etc). Along with all the other piddly tasks I do, I mainly go out and do tech-support, or do it on the phone.
Boy do I have some interesting experiences. The main problem that I have is people thinking they know what they're doing, and then they try to tell me what they're doing but use the WRONG WORDS. (One humerous one is a lady that insists on calling Floppy Disks "Tapes"). It's basically like getting on the phone with someone who speaks computer gibberish.
Because most of our program runs in DOS, we often have to tell people what to put in the DOS prompt. It easily gets frusterating when people don't know the difference between a foreward and a back slash.
Most people, though, can't tell the difference between the Windows Desktop and the main menu of our program. Some don't know how to restart their computer. And when we told one to turn her computer off and then on again (because it froze), all she did was turn the MONITOR off and on. That wasted a good 10 minutes trying to figure out what the hell she was doing.
But our problems don't end with our customers. Many times they get computer upgrades from their local computer dealer. Usually we have to talk to them on the phone to re-configure our program, and most of the ones I've talked to are completely helpless too! Not knowing what a DOS Prompt is or any commands in it like "copy" or "cd".
Recently one of our customers shipped a computer to us so we could fix it. Their problem was that they recently got a computer upgrade from a local place and now they're running out of disk space on their C drive... the problem, and the most screwed-up computer setup I've ever seen:
- 4 Partitions -
1) 2.5gig FAT (no... not FAT32 or even FAT16... FAT!) with the original WinXP Pro install on it (I didn't think that was even possible to do on anything less than FAT32). This has the pagefile, and our program on it with 0 bytes of free space!
2) A 1.5gig NTFS partition with only a couple things on it
3) Another 4.0gig FAT partition that was a copy of the 1st partition, but was the bootable partition with XP.
4) A 33gig NTFS partition with ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ON IT.
I'd write more, but seeing as how I'm at work right now and the phone is ringing, I guess I'll just go shoot myself.
Not only a new way to test tech, but also perhaps a pervasive and inexpensive way to explore remote places such as Antarctica -- or Mars.
Like many others, you seem to reverse the implementation of this technology in your head. It's primary purpose is not to "test tech", and the possibility of exploring remote places is above just a simple "perhaps". If you read the article you would realise that:
One of our first applications for a Sensor Web has been to put one in remote regions of Antarctica.
You, like many others, are continually making the mistake that all this new and grand technology is made for "tech", computing, and advances in video hardware so you can get a couple more FPS's out of your favorite first-person-shooter.... You need to see the real importance behind the technology.
//begin comical dialog
Scientist: We just developed a communication system that will allow us to instantly transfer data to and from satellites no matter what their distance is, with no data loss! Now we'll be able to control robots on Mars and even planets in other solar systems in real-time!
Computer Geek: Woah! Imagine the ping rates I'll get when playing Unreal online!::insert l33t0r talk::
Scientists at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle interviewed 1,606 women and found a 60 percent greater incidence of breast cancer among those who worked at night; the risk increased with the number of years on the night shift and night hours worked per week.
My guess would be that the reason for the boost in breast cancer is probably because of stress levels. I mean, when you have a correlation of # of hours worked and the rate of breast cancer.... you blame the lights and not physical stress???
Michael Mesuren, founder of the Toronto-based Fatal Light Awareness Program, estimates that 100 million songbirds collide with lit buildings in North America each year
So NOT being able to see the building would help??
I think the bigger problem here is windows. How many of you have large windows on the front of their house... and how many times per year do you hear a loud "thump"?
It's not about what mother nature wants or doesnt want. It's about preserving something that is about to be destroyed.
Not everything is meant to be preserved... especially when it comes to horses. They have plenty, why bother with the sickley ones? There's no point in putting embryos in them.
The most obvious use is to give a sterile animal or animals that die or can't breed because of some disease a chance to reproduce
And WHY do we want to do that? Are there morals that tell us to give every animal a chance to reproduce, or do we just like seeing weak and ill-prone beings reproduce and take a sh*t in the genetic pool?
Researchers say this could lead to a better understanding of chemical reactions and could have impact far beyond the computer industry."
Since when did all science work in the favor of just the computer industry? You make it sound like we apply all new knowledge and then worry about the rest afterward. I would think that the computer industry would be one of the last to benefit. FIRST you would go through cleaner chemical processing, better-made biodegradable materials, more advanced propulsion systems (more efficient, really), better food processing, stronger materials.... and then maybe someone will apply this to semiconductors.
The most obvious applications do not envolve computers... I hope everyone else here has a more open mind.
Scientists...now know how the universe will end...
And who says they are right? How can humans be so arrogant as to say that WE know how it's going to happen... WE know enough to make such rash statements... WE are evolved enough to grasp even 1% of the "truth" behind the universe?
Am I the only one who thinks humans are far to primitave to truely understand the universe? Sure we can guess as to how it will all come about, but I think we are using the concept of "knowledge" far to loosely in our statements... do you really know?
Before we define what time can and cannot be, we still need to determine exactly what time IS. But, instead of posting a rather lenghty argument on why this is, let me just give you a couple examples to think about:
1) If time is outside of the human mind (that we experience it and do not "create" it in our own perceptions), then would there be time if nothing changed? And if not, wouldn't that be single instance in time?
2) If time was inside the human mind, then do coporeal objects really have to abide by our "rules" of time? (I wrote a small essay about this for a final exam... specifically about Kant... explaining this in more detail, but I hope others who have taken philosophy or read Kant can relise what I am talking about, and furthermore some of the flaws of Kant).
I'm glad that you have taken an interest in learning/relearning many general scientific and mathematical principles, as well as not-so-general for the sake of your own children (at least partially). Although not a parent, and really not old enough to be a parent, in my opinion, I still remember the huge impact that my father had on my life with his awesome, well-rounded education. Being a pharmacist, he helped spark my curiousity in biology and science in general (although I've strayed away and am majoring in computer and electrical engineering, ehh heh... but that passion is still there!), and being great with the handy work in the house and under the car, he gave me a very wide knowledge base at a young age, which has a priceless impact on children.
Now that I am older and can appreciate the importance of that fully, it hurts me in a way to see parents struggling in coming to their childs aid with homework, projects, or just guidance in general...
The importance of knowledge is often overlooked in today's fast-paced, pay-someone-else-to-do-it kind of world (at least the US is getting that way, I'm seeing), but gaining it at a young age, and keeping the fire strong throughout the years is one of the most important aspects of life.
"If God gave us curiosity and intelligence, we would be ungrateful if we supressed our passion to explore the universe." -Unknown
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End users are improperly using this copyrighted material, and under copyright law SCO is entitled to damages and injunctive relief
What damages?!?
What two things go better together than Star Wars and sex?
:: Don't mod me down! "I kid because I love"... errr something like that... ::
You're askin the wrong croud - Pretty much all nerds and computer geeks only have experience in ONE of those fields...
They're obviously worried that something is in the wild that is hard-coded to attack WindowsUpdate.com, else there would be no point in abandoning that domain and moving to another.
Well duh....
Why are we not freaking out about this??
Because it happens natually no matter what we do. It's happened many times in the past, and will happen again and again until our solar system itself dies...
If Seatlle gets submerged then maybe the US will finally realize that they have a responsibility to the environment just as all the other nations in the world.
So when the SOUTH POLE melts, then they'll worry. The north pole melting won't add any to the global sea level.
Many of you expect so much, but have no idea how hard it is/was to create...
These billion-transistor CPU's that people use every day go unnoticed. Do you know how much genious was poured into it's creation?
And you go on to ask for voice recognition and perfect speech generation? Why not perfect AI while you're at it?
Be greatful and don't ask for much... until you go out and contribute to the development of this technology you ask for then you have not right to complain when you don't get it.
Today I use an Athlon XP 2400...
Bet you didn't think you'd get a space heater out of your computer!
...does this mean that calling someone a "meat-head" will now be complementing their intelligence?
Now the athletes will have strength AND intelligence.... what is a nerd to do?!
Rather than continuing to promote specialization over those 200 years, I'd like to see people branch out in to new fields.
That's the way to go for the working class, but what about the scientists or that make the discoveries that form the back-bone of tomorrows technology in which the engineers design and take to it's limit?
Take specialists from multiple fields with 150+ years of research behind them, have them work together and share ideas freely... just imagine the type of genious that would be it's output.
I myself wouldn't want to be stuck in the same job for over 200+ years. My passion is knowledge and would naturally span over as many different type of work and study as I could find.
Another possibility that would arise from that kind of lifespan would be to colonize other planets in our solar system or beyond. I'd gladly spend 50 years on a ship (not those little capsules... I gotta live there, ya know) to help out in setteling around a neighboring star.
What will happen to the political arena? Such large numbers of century-old idealism against the "younger" (
Would our society adapt where people would be open-minded and could reasonably change their views based on current economic and social situation, or would the whole world be thrown into:
- Century old stalemates in congress?
- Violent protests to the point of revolution every 100 years?
- Wars?
I think this could cause a problem greater than just food supply and living space... but, if humans became rational and could live like this in harmony, then what a world it would be.
and who is going to pay for 240 years of retirement?
No one... that's why they're not going to retire for 240 years, but work for at least 200.
Imagine the type of skilled labor you could obtain over 200 years... More and more people will become highly (and i mean highly) trained specialists in whatever they do. This would allow for ever-increasing advanced in science, medecine, and technology which would appear to "boom" in the first century of this kind of "immortality".
I, for one, would love to see this kind of thing happen.
I work at a small software company that writes medical billing software (along with office management, appointment book, etc). Along with all the other piddly tasks I do, I mainly go out and do tech-support, or do it on the phone.
Boy do I have some interesting experiences. The main problem that I have is people thinking they know what they're doing, and then they try to tell me what they're doing but use the WRONG WORDS. (One humerous one is a lady that insists on calling Floppy Disks "Tapes"). It's basically like getting on the phone with someone who speaks computer gibberish.
Because most of our program runs in DOS, we often have to tell people what to put in the DOS prompt. It easily gets frusterating when people don't know the difference between a foreward and a back slash.
Most people, though, can't tell the difference between the Windows Desktop and the main menu of our program. Some don't know how to restart their computer. And when we told one to turn her computer off and then on again (because it froze), all she did was turn the MONITOR off and on. That wasted a good 10 minutes trying to figure out what the hell she was doing.
But our problems don't end with our customers. Many times they get computer upgrades from their local computer dealer. Usually we have to talk to them on the phone to re-configure our program, and most of the ones I've talked to are completely helpless too! Not knowing what a DOS Prompt is or any commands in it like "copy" or "cd".
Recently one of our customers shipped a computer to us so we could fix it. Their problem was that they recently got a computer upgrade from a local place and now they're running out of disk space on their C drive... the problem, and the most screwed-up computer setup I've ever seen:
- 4 Partitions -
1) 2.5gig FAT (no... not FAT32 or even FAT16... FAT!) with the original WinXP Pro install on it (I didn't think that was even possible to do on anything less than FAT32). This has the pagefile, and our program on it with 0 bytes of free space!
2) A 1.5gig NTFS partition with only a couple things on it
3) Another 4.0gig FAT partition that was a copy of the 1st partition, but was the bootable partition with XP.
4) A 33gig NTFS partition with ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ON IT.
I'd write more, but seeing as how I'm at work right now and the phone is ringing, I guess I'll just go shoot myself.
Also, why is Cisco's site the SLOWEST site on the internet?!?!
/. and Cisco then, cuz they're pretty fast.
What the hell are you talking about? You must only go to
Not only a new way to test tech, but also perhaps a pervasive and inexpensive way to explore remote places such as Antarctica -- or Mars.
//begin comical dialog
::insert l33t0r talk::
//end dialog
Like many others, you seem to reverse the implementation of this technology in your head. It's primary purpose is not to "test tech", and the possibility of exploring remote places is above just a simple "perhaps". If you read the article you would realise that:
One of our first applications for a Sensor Web has been to put one in remote regions of Antarctica.
You, like many others, are continually making the mistake that all this new and grand technology is made for "tech", computing, and advances in video hardware so you can get a couple more FPS's out of your favorite first-person-shooter.... You need to see the real importance behind the technology.
Scientist: We just developed a communication system that will allow us to instantly transfer data to and from satellites no matter what their distance is, with no data loss! Now we'll be able to control robots on Mars and even planets in other solar systems in real-time!
Computer Geek: Woah! Imagine the ping rates I'll get when playing Unreal online!
Scientists at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle interviewed 1,606 women and found a 60 percent greater incidence of breast cancer among those who worked at night; the risk increased with the number of years on the night shift and night hours worked per week.
My guess would be that the reason for the boost in breast cancer is probably because of stress levels. I mean, when you have a correlation of # of hours worked and the rate of breast cancer.... you blame the lights and not physical stress???
Michael Mesuren, founder of the Toronto-based Fatal Light Awareness Program, estimates that 100 million songbirds collide with lit buildings in North America each year
So NOT being able to see the building would help??
I think the bigger problem here is windows. How many of you have large windows on the front of their house... and how many times per year do you hear a loud "thump"?
It's not about what mother nature wants or doesnt want. It's about preserving something that is about to be destroyed.
Not everything is meant to be preserved... especially when it comes to horses. They have plenty, why bother with the sickley ones? There's no point in putting embryos in them.
This isn't us screwing up the gene pool, it's an attempt to fix it
By letting animals that naturally shouldn't have offspring... breed? Sounds like a good idea to me, since mother nature WANTED them to breed...
The most obvious use is to give a sterile animal or animals that die or can't breed because of some disease a chance to reproduce
And WHY do we want to do that? Are there morals that tell us to give every animal a chance to reproduce, or do we just like seeing weak and ill-prone beings reproduce and take a sh*t in the genetic pool?
Researchers say this could lead to a better understanding of chemical reactions and could have impact far beyond the computer industry."
Since when did all science work in the favor of just the computer industry? You make it sound like we apply all new knowledge and then worry about the rest afterward. I would think that the computer industry would be one of the last to benefit. FIRST you would go through cleaner chemical processing, better-made biodegradable materials, more advanced propulsion systems (more efficient, really), better food processing, stronger materials.... and then maybe someone will apply this to semiconductors.
The most obvious applications do not envolve computers... I hope everyone else here has a more open mind.
...adding it afterwards would be a pain if bend radius has to be that big
But it's not that big. You can do a 45degree angle within a couple inches of arc length... just don't kink the damn things.
I just ran Cat5e throughout my house to drops and such... plenty of room for optical cabling to run in its place... just handle it carefully.
Scientists...now know how the universe will end...
And who says they are right? How can humans be so arrogant as to say that WE know how it's going to happen... WE know enough to make such rash statements... WE are evolved enough to grasp even 1% of the "truth" behind the universe?
Am I the only one who thinks humans are far to primitave to truely understand the universe? Sure we can guess as to how it will all come about, but I think we are using the concept of "knowledge" far to loosely in our statements... do you really know?
How the hell do you have HALF of a hydrogen nucleus? .5 protons? ...so it's being reduced to quarks for a little while now?!
Before we define what time can and cannot be, we still need to determine exactly what time IS. But, instead of posting a rather lenghty argument on why this is, let me just give you a couple examples to think about:
1) If time is outside of the human mind (that we experience it and do not "create" it in our own perceptions), then would there be time if nothing changed? And if not, wouldn't that be single instance in time?
2) If time was inside the human mind, then do coporeal objects really have to abide by our "rules" of time? (I wrote a small essay about this for a final exam... specifically about Kant... explaining this in more detail, but I hope others who have taken philosophy or read Kant can relise what I am talking about, and furthermore some of the flaws of Kant).
I'm glad that you have taken an interest in learning/relearning many general scientific and mathematical principles, as well as not-so-general for the sake of your own children (at least partially). Although not a parent, and really not old enough to be a parent, in my opinion, I still remember the huge impact that my father had on my life with his awesome, well-rounded education. Being a pharmacist, he helped spark my curiousity in biology and science in general (although I've strayed away and am majoring in computer and electrical engineering, ehh heh... but that passion is still there!), and being great with the handy work in the house and under the car, he gave me a very wide knowledge base at a young age, which has a priceless impact on children.
Now that I am older and can appreciate the importance of that fully, it hurts me in a way to see parents struggling in coming to their childs aid with homework, projects, or just guidance in general...
The importance of knowledge is often overlooked in today's fast-paced, pay-someone-else-to-do-it kind of world (at least the US is getting that way, I'm seeing), but gaining it at a young age, and keeping the fire strong throughout the years is one of the most important aspects of life.
"If God gave us curiosity and intelligence, we would be ungrateful if we supressed our passion to explore the universe." -Unknown