"Since there's no resistivity, that means that calculations will be almost instantaneous, right?"
Wrong, it would be the case if electricity was flowing infinitely fast. See the lack of resistivity as electricity flowing infinitely well (but still flowing at the speed of light). Actually, the speed of electricity is a little less than the speed of light in silicon, but it's insignificant.
"And it will have very low power consumption, no waste heat, and be incredibly small?"
Many U.S. folks take the 1st amendment for granted. However, freedom of speech, embedded in the U.S. constitution, is a fairly unique gem in this world.
In France for example, you can easily go to jail if you say anything about the Jews : for example, if your opinion is that most banking establishments are run by Jews and you voice it publicly, you open yourself to antisemitic lawsuits against you, and most likely lost by you as well. That opinion isn't particularly antisemitic, and is frankly quite dumb (IMHO), but it's your right to have it. Just don't say it otherwise you could be in trouble.
If the same laws were even proposed in the U.S., people would scream bloody murder, and it's good. But in Europe, things like that happen all the time and people don't even notice.
So, what is surprising here ? nothing. This is a piece of non-news (for Europeans) reported by the US-centric Slashdot team. It's exactly like the Nazi memorabilia ban France tried to impose on Yahoo.
Yes, it's a bug in the new slashcode with the tag (possibly a case sensitivity issue). I noticed that on one of my last posts and got promptly flamed for not closing my tags, which I did.
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"Despite those concerns, Oracle's Ellison was the first to push ID cards, suggesting that his company's database software should be used. Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy was next, and earlier Wednesday, Siebel Systems announced "Homeland Security" software."
Does the word "vulture" come to mind ?
Clever way of disguising the radio transmission !
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From the article : "The tail was used as an antenna."
So, let's see : if they wired a kitten, it would emit short waves. Then, as the kitty grows up, the frequency would slowly shift to the long wave band. Kind of like a very slow naturally occuring frequency-hopping encoding : if the Russian had picked up the transmission and went back to it several week after, they wouldn't have been able to find it again !
Actually, she's right, the works of "artists" is valuable... to the RIAA : how else would they milk so much money from today's masses of artistically-challenged teenagers ?
Your university is not there to help you have fun and turn you into a Ubergeek, it's there for the exact opposite : chiefly, it teaches you methodologies (because your future boss is very unlikely to appreciate your geek powers, but he *will* appreciate your methods) and it is boring because IMHO schooling is as much about testing is students are patient and brave enough to finish their classes as it is about teaching them something (What I mean is, if you finish a tough school, you'll be proud of it and your future boss will be impressed. If your school was fun and easy, the diploma wouldn't be worth much).
The other thing is, the reason why you enjoy working on your own projects after hours in your dorm room so much is precisely because the rest of your day was boring : imagine if you had fun at school, would you be that compelled to do something new and exciting on your own time ?
Enjoy your school years : they sure don't seem interesting to you right now, but (unfortunately) you'll probably look back fondly at them later when you realize your work doesn't leave you any time for anything fun anymore (don't get me wrong, many people manage to do projects beside their work, but a lot more people get devoured by their work or simply just loose the flame).
Actually, before 9/11, Nasdaq would, in theory, delist a company if it traded for under $1 for more than 30 days. In reality, they did allow many companies trading for under a buck to be listed for a lot longer (like Caldera for example).
... is only the first of a slew of revolutionary match-making games. Soon, the following titles will appear :
- The Sims Warm Feeling : you have to prepare the ceremony. Choose the right cake, find an affordable ring, discover friends to invite who aren't drinking buddies, select an appropriate church (avoid the ever treacherous Vegas drive-in wedding !) : will your marriage be successful, or will she say no ?
- The Sims Hot Waters : your mistress and you are busted ! dodge flying plates, try to watch the ball game amidst the shrieks : can you manage to stay married, or will you join the legions of single men again ?
- The Sims Cold Feet : you can't take it anymore, your family urges you to take a decision. Work harder to pay attorney fees : can you make enough money to win your divorce ?
Okay, obviously this is not a product Microsoft will help thrive. Which leads me to that question.
When I tried to install a whole slew of applications under Wine about 6 months ago, it proved to be :
1 - A pain in the majority of cases : I assume the Lindows product will come with pre-chewed install scripts, so I don't worry about that
2 - Impossible in a lot of cases : I guess Lindows will have to come with "approved to run xxx" stickers, or maybe with a list of supported applications. Again, not really a problem if they market it well.
3 - Possible in many case, provided I used one or more native DLLs ripped from the real Windows from the C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory. These were either DLLs that Wine didn't emulate, or DLLs that Wine didn't emulate correctly. Without those native DLLs, many important apps wouldn't have worked at all.
So, without some Windows DLLs, the Lindows guys will have to cut their already reduced set of working apps : how are they going to get around this ? I can't think they'll manage to license the DLLs from M$. Will they do additional engineering work to complete/fix the DLL emulations in Wine ?
"the Internet will be the equivalent of the moving assembly line of the 21st Century."
Reactions to that statement from computer-savvy Ford employees are probably ranging from "I'm glad they stopped the giveway program" to "what are they smoking ?".
"It is really, really nice work that will influence the field a lot," said Dr. James M. Tour, a professor of chemistry at Rice University. "They hit on something really big."
I've seen telco people install fiber in our offices, and they had to brind a hugely expensive machine with some kind of microscope and mounts to splice and "weld" 2 fiber optic cables together (sort of like how audio tapes were spliced and glue together in the old days). On top of the price of the machine (100000 GPB if I remember), the procedure looked delicate and required quite a lot of skill from the technicians.
So, in a totally optical computer, how are they going to solve the problem of extension cards ? if the optical signals are converted back to electric signals so people can connects daughterboards, I assume it would defeat the purpose. If the optical signals are kept optical, are they going to invent some kind of optical connector to pass it across the "bus" ? I can't see people doing what those BT guys did in our office.
I am the only one to think this guy's name is awfully similar to Judge Dredd ?
IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM, THE WORLD CHANGED. CLIMATE, NATIONS, ALL WERE IN UPHEAVAL...THE
INTERNET TRANSFORMED INTO A POISONOUS SCORCHED DESERT, KNOWN AS "THE CURSED EARTH"
MILLIONS OF SLASHDOTTERS CROWDED INTO A FEW MEGA ISPS. ISPS WHERE ROVING BANDS OF HACKERS CREATED VIOLENCE THE JUSTICE SYSTEM COULD NOT CONTROL. LAW AS WE KNOW IT COLLAPSED. FROM THE DECAY ROSE A NEW ORDER. A SOCIETY RULED BY A NEW 31337 FORCE.....A FORCE WITH THE POWER TO DISPENSE BOTH JUSTICE AND PUNISHMENT.... THEY WERE THE POLICE. JURY AND EXECUTIONER ALL IN ONE.
Instead of hoping Jack Ryan would understand he was defecting, and instead of goofing around with morse code messages and sonar pings in the middle of nowhere in the sea, Cpt. Ramius could have simply popped the periscope in Maine's coastal waters, connected to the local 802.11 network and emailed jack@cia.gov "huh, we're just defectors really, just you guys don't get your blood pressure up now..."
In theory, governments need to know where you live and what you do (and a couple of other things) to adjust the taxation system and to distribute aids more fairly, amongst other things. However, I bet many people fail to understand why the government needs to know their faith (unless some major Churches are subsidized by the state, but I don't know if that's the case in the UK). They can even be offended by some questions in the census form, like the racist piece of work the 2000 US census was.
So frankly I'm not too surprised that people answer bullshit when they see such questions : many of the people who answered "Jedi Knight" at the religious affiliation question probably felt the government had no business knowing it, and maybe the answer was in fact a way for these people to express their disapproval.
"As we all know, optical fibers build the (cronically overloaded) backbone of our beloved Net.
Hmm, and same Timothy posted this article on June 25th about a lot of fiberoptic cables that have been put into the ground but haven't been put to work.
You gotta love the consistency of Slashdot posts:)
"Really? So I take it you've never heard of a scanner?"
What I meant is, you don't (yet) hear Kodak or Polaroid moan and whine about how easy it is to scan argentic photographs with a scanner to view them on your screen, proposing that photo prints be moired to avoid scanning, or asking scanner manufacturers to embed watermark recognition in scanner's firmware to block scanning of copyrighted photos. The truth is, a photo print still is the best way of viewing a photo, until flat monitors with resolutions of 3000dpi or more are available for purchase by the average Joe Blow for cheap. Digital music on the other hand is as good from a CD player as it is from a $50 computer with a sound card, which is at the heart of the RIAA's complaints.
I don't know if you're into photography, but watch the photo industry and you'll see that these guys are busy reconverting to digital and embracing the future because they realize argentic prints will eventually be deprecated. The music industry on the other end is busy clinging to their old way of making money, which is on the go for sure.
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I mean, how biased can /. be ?
to hack : doesn't 802.11a use RC4 like 802.11b ?
Wrong, it would be the case if electricity was flowing infinitely fast. See the lack of resistivity as electricity flowing infinitely well (but still flowing at the speed of light). Actually, the speed of electricity is a little less than the speed of light in silicon, but it's insignificant.
"And it will have very low power consumption, no waste heat, and be incredibly small?"
Hopefully :-)
With a statement like that, I bet half of the Army's decision-makers are already lining up to fund these guys.
In France for example, you can easily go to jail if you say anything about the Jews : for example, if your opinion is that most banking establishments are run by Jews and you voice it publicly, you open yourself to antisemitic lawsuits against you, and most likely lost by you as well. That opinion isn't particularly antisemitic, and is frankly quite dumb (IMHO), but it's your right to have it. Just don't say it otherwise you could be in trouble.
If the same laws were even proposed in the U.S., people would scream bloody murder, and it's good. But in Europe, things like that happen all the time and people don't even notice.
So, what is surprising here ? nothing. This is a piece of non-news (for Europeans) reported by the US-centric Slashdot team. It's exactly like the Nazi memorabilia ban France tried to impose on Yahoo.
Yes, it's a bug in the new slashcode with the tag (possibly a case sensitivity issue). I noticed that on one of my last posts and got promptly flamed for not closing my tags, which I did.
:)
Oh well
where do I plug my Hercules video card ?
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Does the word "vulture" come to mind ?
So, let's see : if they wired a kitten, it would emit short waves. Then, as the kitty grows up, the frequency would slowly shift to the long wave band. Kind of like a very slow naturally occuring frequency-hopping encoding : if the Russian had picked up the transmission and went back to it several week after, they wouldn't have been able to find it again !
*cough* Britney Spear *COUGH COUGH* Backstreet Boy *COUGH RRRRAHHH* Spice Girls ...
Actually, she's right, the works of "artists" is valuable ... to the RIAA : how else would they milk so much money from today's masses of artistically-challenged teenagers ?
Your university is not there to help you have fun and turn you into a Ubergeek, it's there for the exact opposite : chiefly, it teaches you methodologies (because your future boss is very unlikely to appreciate your geek powers, but he *will* appreciate your methods) and it is boring because IMHO schooling is as much about testing is students are patient and brave enough to finish their classes as it is about teaching them something (What I mean is, if you finish a tough school, you'll be proud of it and your future boss will be impressed. If your school was fun and easy, the diploma wouldn't be worth much).
The other thing is, the reason why you enjoy working on your own projects after hours in your dorm room so much is precisely because the rest of your day was boring : imagine if you had fun at school, would you be that compelled to do something new and exciting on your own time ?
Enjoy your school years : they sure don't seem interesting to you right now, but (unfortunately) you'll probably look back fondly at them later when you realize your work doesn't leave you any time for anything fun anymore (don't get me wrong, many people manage to do projects beside their work, but a lot more people get devoured by their work or simply just loose the flame).
Good luck with your studies !
Actually, before 9/11, Nasdaq would, in theory, delist a company if it traded for under $1 for more than 30 days. In reality, they did allow many companies trading for under a buck to be listed for a lot longer (like Caldera for example).
... is only the first of a slew of revolutionary match-making games. Soon, the following titles will appear :
- The Sims Warm Feeling : you have to prepare the ceremony. Choose the right cake, find an affordable ring, discover friends to invite who aren't drinking buddies, select an appropriate church (avoid the ever treacherous Vegas drive-in wedding !) : will your marriage be successful, or will she say no ?
- The Sims Hot Waters : your mistress and you are busted ! dodge flying plates, try to watch the ball game amidst the shrieks : can you manage to stay married, or will you join the legions of single men again ?
- The Sims Cold Feet : you can't take it anymore, your family urges you to take a decision. Work harder to pay attorney fees : can you make enough money to win your divorce ?
When I tried to install a whole slew of applications under Wine about 6 months ago, it proved to be :
1 - A pain in the majority of cases : I assume the Lindows product will come with pre-chewed install scripts, so I don't worry about that
2 - Impossible in a lot of cases : I guess Lindows will have to come with "approved to run xxx" stickers, or maybe with a list of supported applications. Again, not really a problem if they market it well.
3 - Possible in many case, provided I used one or more native DLLs ripped from the real Windows from the C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory. These were either DLLs that Wine didn't emulate, or DLLs that Wine didn't emulate correctly. Without those native DLLs, many important apps wouldn't have worked at all.
So, without some Windows DLLs, the Lindows guys will have to cut their already reduced set of working apps : how are they going to get around this ? I can't think they'll manage to license the DLLs from M$. Will they do additional engineering work to complete/fix the DLL emulations in Wine ?
Reactions to that statement from computer-savvy Ford employees are probably ranging from "I'm glad they stopped the giveway program" to "what are they smoking ?".
I thought it was only one molecule thick ?
Since the emotional car exists now, how about making the best of it and make it throw a fit if the driver yaks on his cellphone while driving ?
Hmm, I didn't think about that :-)
So, in a totally optical computer, how are they going to solve the problem of extension cards ? if the optical signals are converted back to electric signals so people can connects daughterboards, I assume it would defeat the purpose. If the optical signals are kept optical, are they going to invent some kind of optical connector to pass it across the "bus" ? I can't see people doing what those BT guys did in our office.
IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM, THE WORLD CHANGED. CLIMATE, NATIONS, ALL WERE IN UPHEAVAL...THE INTERNET TRANSFORMED INTO A POISONOUS SCORCHED DESERT, KNOWN AS "THE CURSED EARTH"
MILLIONS OF SLASHDOTTERS CROWDED INTO A FEW MEGA ISPS. ISPS WHERE ROVING BANDS OF HACKERS CREATED VIOLENCE THE JUSTICE SYSTEM COULD NOT CONTROL. LAW AS WE KNOW IT COLLAPSED. FROM THE DECAY ROSE A NEW ORDER. A SOCIETY RULED BY A NEW 31337 FORCE.....A FORCE WITH THE POWER TO DISPENSE BOTH JUSTICE AND PUNISHMENT.... THEY WERE THE POLICE. JURY AND EXECUTIONER ALL IN ONE.
THEY WERE THE JUDDS.
Instead of hoping Jack Ryan would understand he was defecting, and instead of goofing around with morse code messages and sonar pings in the middle of nowhere in the sea, Cpt. Ramius could have simply popped the periscope in Maine's coastal waters, connected to the local 802.11 network and emailed jack@cia.gov "huh, we're just defectors really, just you guys don't get your blood pressure up now ..."
So frankly I'm not too surprised that people answer bullshit when they see such questions : many of the people who answered "Jedi Knight" at the religious affiliation question probably felt the government had no business knowing it, and maybe the answer was in fact a way for these people to express their disapproval.
Hmm, and same Timothy posted this article on June 25th about a lot of fiberoptic cables that have been put into the ground but haven't been put to work. :)
You gotta love the consistency of Slashdot posts
What I meant is, you don't (yet) hear Kodak or Polaroid moan and whine about how easy it is to scan argentic photographs with a scanner to view them on your screen, proposing that photo prints be moired to avoid scanning, or asking scanner manufacturers to embed watermark recognition in scanner's firmware to block scanning of copyrighted photos. The truth is, a photo print still is the best way of viewing a photo, until flat monitors with resolutions of 3000dpi or more are available for purchase by the average Joe Blow for cheap. Digital music on the other hand is as good from a CD player as it is from a $50 computer with a sound card, which is at the heart of the RIAA's complaints.
I don't know if you're into photography, but watch the photo industry and you'll see that these guys are busy reconverting to digital and embracing the future because they realize argentic prints will eventually be deprecated. The music industry on the other end is busy clinging to their old way of making money, which is on the go for sure.