Oh, D'oh. I'm still on the Solaris hosting so I havn't kept up with the Linux prices. I've been meaning to call them to move me over, but I keep forgetting.
Hehe, good call on netmar, they do rock. If you give them your credit card, they knock $2 off the monthly fee too, so it's more like $6 a month if you trust them.
I've thought of this myself. I know I don't do nearly as much "surfing" between related sites now that Google is here and works. I usually hit Google up, then if that site isn't what I want, I don't bother clicking their links section, I just go straight back to Google.
The one thing that may save us though is AOLers. Bear with me here.:) I think that maybe we have found the most efficient way to get the information we want, mostly because the novelty of the Internet has mostly worn off for us. We no longer spend hours bouncing from site to site, just reading random stuff. We use the Internet as a tool to expand our effective knowledge and intelligence.
This is obvious with the various Googlebots that have sprung up in lots of IRC chat rooms. This happens a lot in help rooms, if no one knows the answer, or doesn't want to take the time to explain it fully, they just !google and the bot returns the first link in the search.
So while people like us, if we were the only people on the net, would cause Google to fail, so long as there are still "surfers" out there, it should allow Google to remain meaningful.
I don't know, watching people stare at each other for 5 minutes at a time (a cheesy way to get out of animating very many frames), with sporadic voice over "thoughs" isn't my idea of entertainment.
It's probably just trolling (not the way slashdot people use trolling).
Icopyrgight.com probably just fishes for suckers to pay the fee. If someone links to the site who is a little guy, they will just pay the $50 rather than try to fight it in court. Inethical business model, hope to see them sued into oblivion. Bastards.
Deep Blue is a stupid comparison. The ASCI series is built with general purpose processors. ASCI Red was made with Pentium 200s if I recall correctly. Something like 6 or 8 thousand of them.
Deep Blue used ASICs to boost operations that were specific to chess. Anyway, I guess their PR department needed an easy comparison.
Not to increase conspiracy paranoia, but it's entirely possible that the government has their own completely seperate design, fab, etc on a whole line of top secret processors that is all top secret. And also, who's to say that the government hasn't approached Intel, and convinced them to lag their releases one generation behind what they make available to the government, all top secret.
That's the thing about secrecy, you never know!
It's not likely, but it is possible. BTW- Moore's law is no more a law than Murphey's law. It's just a prediction that is uncannily true so far. If we stopped developing all new processors, I guess that would disprove Moore's law? Suppose AMD hadn't made an end run on Intel. do you think processors would be as fast as they are today? My point is, the rate of processor speed (or transistor density for the purist), isn't dictated by any law, it's dictated by how much effort we put into it, which is dictated in part by market forces when you are tlaking about corporations.
Assuming the job is easily distributable, without things like large bandwidth requirements between nodes, then it's just arithmatic. 750 home computer years, 750 home computers take around one year, plus a year or two for efficiency loss. Now you know why the college computer labs freak out when you install things like dnet or seti on them.....
They just don't want to have to comply with the "military grade computer" requirements!:)
It's easy to see how popular any search word is on google
Just open an adwords account, and then go through the first step of adding a keyword to your ad campaign. It will tell you how many hits that keyword got in the last week or month or something. Pretty cool actually.
Sneakers was a little bit of a stretch, but pretty accurate, if you suspend disbelief long enough to assume a device could be created that would do the instant decryption thing. I think Sneakers embraces more of the hacker spirit, in that they were creative, smart, and did a lot of homework before hacking their way into something.
As far as most technologically correct, I'd have to say Antitrust is the most accurate. The first movie I know of to use valid IP addresses in it, and even smart enough to put them in 10.X.X.X, which is much like the well known 555 exchange for phones, for all intents and purposes. As far as whether his half-brained plans would have gotten them as far as they did, that is a different issue.
Well, they don't need to sue for every story, they could sue for Katz stories, or editorials, or something like that. They really only need to find a few examples of violations to be able to file an injunctive order. Besides, alterslash will probably cave in after the first cease and desist letter. Slashdot has learned from the megacorps well.
That's true, but Slashdot can still sue Alterslash, because Alterslash also used the actual stories without permission, which Slashdot does hold the copyright on.
That much is correct, I don't know what the hell hemos is talking about regarding Slashdot being liable if they don't protect someone else's copyright, though.
"Twenty-five years is one human generation," he said, "but it's six generations of students." If each successive student generation inspires similar growth in the next, "at the end of that pyramid you could have several hundred thousand new taxonomists."
Just classify a bug and send this email to 10 of your friends, and put your name at the bottom of the list, and remove the person at the top of the list!
Slashdot Mirror
Uh, no.
I work at a lithographic printing company, and our full resolution images that go on the press are 300dpi.
Oh, D'oh. I'm still on the Solaris hosting so I havn't kept up with the Linux prices. I've been meaning to call them to move me over, but I keep forgetting.
Hehe, good call on netmar, they do rock. If you give them your credit card, they knock $2 off the monthly fee too, so it's more like $6 a month if you trust them.
It is a little too simplistic, but it is totally feasible.
What about when a vigilante emails a bunch of sites flaming them and telling to take their stuff down?
This happens a lot in the spam/antispam world, antispammers probably trade more email with spammers than other antispammers.
I've thought of this myself. I know I don't do nearly as much "surfing" between related sites now that Google is here and works. I usually hit Google up, then if that site isn't what I want, I don't bother clicking their links section, I just go straight back to Google.
:) I think that maybe we have found the most efficient way to get the information we want, mostly because the novelty of the Internet has mostly worn off for us. We no longer spend hours bouncing from site to site, just reading random stuff. We use the Internet as a tool to expand our effective knowledge and intelligence.
The one thing that may save us though is AOLers. Bear with me here.
This is obvious with the various Googlebots that have sprung up in lots of IRC chat rooms. This happens a lot in help rooms, if no one knows the answer, or doesn't want to take the time to explain it fully, they just !google and the bot returns the first link in the search.
So while people like us, if we were the only people on the net, would cause Google to fail, so long as there are still "surfers" out there, it should allow Google to remain meaningful.
Just my two cents.
This is probably the most insightful comment in this thread so far.
Turn off AA, and things are a lot smoother again.
Haha, did you ever realize the word play there?
We are talking about reconstructing data by catching the indivdual pixels as they get painted. You are talking about something a lot more trivial.
I don't know, watching people stare at each other for 5 minutes at a time (a cheesy way to get out of animating very many frames), with sporadic voice over "thoughs" isn't my idea of entertainment.
This is great.
It's probably just trolling (not the way slashdot people use trolling).
Icopyrgight.com probably just fishes for suckers to pay the fee. If someone links to the site who is a little guy, they will just pay the $50 rather than try to fight it in court. Inethical business model, hope to see them sued into oblivion. Bastards.
What use would it be to anyone? Even if a rival country got it, it probably would only be useful for simulating OUR bombs, not theirs.
Damn dude, less LSD next time.
Deep Blue is a stupid comparison. The ASCI series is built with general purpose processors. ASCI Red was made with Pentium 200s if I recall correctly. Something like 6 or 8 thousand of them.
Deep Blue used ASICs to boost operations that were specific to chess. Anyway, I guess their PR department needed an easy comparison.
Not to increase conspiracy paranoia, but it's entirely possible that the government has their own completely seperate design, fab, etc on a whole line of top secret processors that is all top secret. And also, who's to say that the government hasn't approached Intel, and convinced them to lag their releases one generation behind what they make available to the government, all top secret.
That's the thing about secrecy, you never know!
It's not likely, but it is possible. BTW- Moore's law is no more a law than Murphey's law. It's just a prediction that is uncannily true so far.
If we stopped developing all new processors, I guess that would disprove Moore's law? Suppose AMD hadn't made an end run on Intel. do you think processors would be as fast as they are today? My point is, the rate of processor speed (or transistor density for the purist), isn't dictated by any law, it's dictated by how much effort we put into it, which is dictated in part by market forces when you are tlaking about corporations.
Assuming the job is easily distributable, without things like large bandwidth requirements between nodes, then it's just arithmatic. 750 home computer years, 750 home computers take around one year, plus a year or two for efficiency loss. Now you know why the college computer labs freak out when you install things like dnet or seti on them.....
:)
They just don't want to have to comply with the "military grade computer" requirements!
It's easy to see how popular any search word is on google
Just open an adwords account, and then go through the first step of adding a keyword to your ad campaign. It will tell you how many hits that keyword got in the last week or month or something. Pretty cool actually.
Sneakers was a little bit of a stretch, but pretty accurate, if you suspend disbelief long enough to assume a device could be created that would do the instant decryption thing. I think Sneakers embraces more of the hacker spirit, in that they were creative, smart, and did a lot of homework before hacking their way into something.
As far as most technologically correct, I'd have to say Antitrust is the most accurate. The first movie I know of to use valid IP addresses in it, and even smart enough to put them in 10.X.X.X, which is much like the well known 555 exchange for phones, for all intents and purposes. As far as whether his half-brained plans would have gotten them as far as they did, that is a different issue.
Well, they don't need to sue for every story, they could sue for Katz stories, or editorials, or something like that. They really only need to find a few examples of violations to be able to file an injunctive order. Besides, alterslash will probably cave in after the first cease and desist letter. Slashdot has learned from the megacorps well.
$100-$200k per year of bandwidth at 10mbps? You're getting ** raped **.
I don't know what the hell you are smoking, but that is about normal prices for bandwidth. 10Mbps should be toward the low end of $100-200k a year.
Our 1.54Mbit T1 here at work is over $12,000 a year.
A T3 would have been about $23,000 a month, or $276k a year. A T3 is about 45Mbps.
That's true, but Slashdot can still sue Alterslash, because Alterslash also used the actual stories without permission, which Slashdot does hold the copyright on.
That much is correct, I don't know what the hell hemos is talking about regarding Slashdot being liable if they don't protect someone else's copyright, though.
Well, that's not his fault really.
Besides, once the editors are done with the IRC thing, this whole thread will be bitchslapped offtopic.
So lets see here.
:)
1. You didn't get first post, a troll beat you my a couple seconds.
2. You create even more noise, apologising for trying to get first post.
3. Your name on here is your ham radio call sign, so now everyone knows where you live, and your real name.
I think you have just qualified for idiot of the year award.
How long before the MPAA cracks down on the Elf Foundation for unauthorized public viewing of their copyrighted works?
"Twenty-five years is one human generation," he said, "but it's six generations of students." If each successive student generation inspires similar growth in the next, "at the end of that pyramid you could have several hundred thousand new taxonomists."
Just classify a bug and send this email to 10 of your friends, and put your name at the bottom of the list, and remove the person at the top of the list!
Otherwise it's still 72dpi, it's just that the inches are smaller than usual.
This has to be the most ludicrous thing I have ever read on Slashdot.
"My penis is 12 inches long, it's just that the inches are smaller than normal"