First of all, in a nuclear war, how many nuclear bombs you have is probably the most important thing.
Secondly, tactics and coordination are important, as is armament. Think of Russia in WWI. Lots of people, poorly armed and trained, led to defeat.
Thirdly, even if they have lots of people, how will China get them over the ocean? In WWII, the Americans were able to use Britain as a waypoint for their invasion. The chinese have no such option. They would have to bring people across the entire Pacific Ocean by the teaspoonful, so to speak. Meanwhile the U.S. navy and the air force would have a field day.
Meanwhile we could probably cover every square mile of China with nuclear fallout. Of course, they would probably do the same to us, in spite of Bush's nuclear shield fantasies. But the point is, more people doesn't automatically translate into winning.
It's true, Microsoft has the money and the market share to crush anyone who tries to take a slice of the OS market. Think about Be.
Apple, I believe, is only kept alive to create the illusion of choice. They have made deals with Microsoft before. Microsoft knows that by and large, they have little to fear from an os running on expensive proprietary hardware. Meanwhile, any advantages Mac might once have had are long gone.
Linux is a greater threat to microsoft than anything apple might do. However, technical hurdles will probably keep linux right where it is now... marginal. Applications developers have no real reason to support it, even if hardware companies like AMD are interested.
Network services pretty much will belong to megacorporations in any case. Only large companies have the clout to bring these plans to fruition. In any case, the idea isn't as great as the hype surrounding it would lead you to believe.
Btw, the AC who responded to this earlier is just sexually frustrated. Don't pay any attention to him.
CDROMs basically use the same technology. Optically scanning a flat surface. Sorry, but there doesn't seem to be any need to reinvent the wheel... or disc as it may be.
What I'm looking for is a storage medium that doesn't decay with time. Paper burns and yellows, floppies and hard drives lose their can get erased. Maybe CDs are ok, but I don't know what the lifespan is.
Otherwise, you can just stop moaning about something that probably won't hurt you at all.
After all the nuclear tests, chemical contamination, car exhaust, and unnatural living conditions we experience in modern life, the best thing you can come up with to complain about is radio waves? Give me a break.
If you really think radio waves are going to "heat up your noggin" you can wear a metal helmet. The electromagnetic shielding effect is the same thing that keeps your radio from working in a tunnel. And after that, I suggest you pour yourself a nice stiff drink and worry about something that actually has been proven to hurt you... like all that car exhaust you breathe every day.
No. Java is slow. There are fundamental reasons for this, such as the fact that it uses covariant subtyping and is effectively interpreted.
Oh, and did I mention that it's interpreted (yes I know it is also compiled too, that's not the point here.) Interpreted languages are slow. Think BASIC.
I suspect that the equipment needed to produce anything on the scale of a modern chip fab will not hit the shelves for a long time. And when it does, the chips they use will be exponentially more powerful.
After all, you can theoretically make your own computer even today using off-the-shelf chips. The problem is, it would be the size of a room because you don't have a fab!
Bacteria are not simple creatures; they require many conditions to live. Sometimes they need oxygen (or lack of it), sometimes other chemicals like water. And ALWAYS they need FOOD to live and reproduce. Copper and silicon really don't cut it. In addition, high voltage isn't good for them, or at least the ones we have now.
Besides, if someone did try to breed a form that would damage pure copper somehow, there are plenty of ways for humans to work around the problem. There are other alloys and elements that have similar electrical properties but are different chemically.
Bacteria are never 100% effective anyway because they always have problems with reaching their targets.
If you really want to stop "computers" you are probably out of luck. You might as well try to stop "the wheel." But if you really want to disable a substantial fraction of a nation's infrastructure, take out power plants and telephone company centers. These are the real nerve centers of many things we have come to take for granted.
are just common sense. And yes, the author is correct.
It should be obvious that with a network of N nodes, to send a request to all of them will take N! time. (Yes, I know, we don't send to all of them, but even sending to a large portion is difficult.)
The new goal of gnutella developers should be to figure out some way of reducing the amount of poking around on the network you have to do.
Basically, sending a request to so many people is like knocking on every door in New York city to find your apartment. Use a telephone book man!
The importance of a degree depends on what kind of degree it is. If you are going to be a programmer, a B.S. is all you need. (Some would suggest more than you need, but I think going to college is a good experience for almost anyone.) Likewise, architecture, art, and business aren't really necessary.
If you are going to be an engineer, you damn well better attend college. Show me the man who can become a competant electrical engineer without classes, and I'll show you a man who has wasted five times the time he would have used in class. Show me a modern physicist who never attended college... or a mathematician.
So the moral of this story, kids, is some fields are technically demanding and others rely more on artistic talent etc.
Bush will try to enforce laws that are now on the books, like the DMCA. (Kind of like Clinton did.) But Bush will be evil and conservative and nasty while he does it!
The trial against microsoft will go on forever and nothing will happen! (Kind of like it did under Clinton.) But Bush will be evil and conservative and nasty because of it!
One thing is certain: under Bush, corporations will often make money, undermining the open source model through their existence.
How long until we no longer enjoy the freedoms we have come to take for granted, like the right to read crappy leftist propaganda from Jon Katz? Nobody knows....
Second of all, all any legitimate site blocked by MAPS has to do is to change ISPs to be seen again by RBL subscribers.
MAPS is a tool for exerting pressure on ISPs. I remember a few posts here a while back, all of which basically said something like "too bad there's no way to make ISPs care about ___ (insert issue here.) Well there is! And the RBL is it.
I had to chuckle at points throughout the article. I spoke with Joe Hayes at Media3, and he told me that the company does not tolerate websites which promote themselves through spam. Of course not! But software to spam the customers of other ISPs, well that's just fine!
The whole goal of MAPS is to make ISPs accountable for spreading SPAM. And none of their actions have deviated from this throughoughly non-political goal.
If you really think you're being oppressed by MAPS, switch to an ISP that doesn't use the RBL. However, most people probably would rather not live in the garbage.
The truth is, spamming will probably be around forever in one form or another as long as the internet is around. But people can take some steps to block the worst offenders.
These techniques would have all been possible without transistor size advances beyond the original 8088 level. And you could probably name a few more but I don't know that many yet.
Realistically speaking, we don't know what the future will hold for computing. People are talking about quantum devices (have interesting mathematical properties) and optical devices (good for fiber optics)
Some people are going to be _very_ surprised when MS crashes and burns... WHAT?
Microsoft is stronger recently than it ever has been before, both in terms of stock price and liquidity. First of all, Gates always keeps enough liquidity on hand to run the company for a year with no revenues. Secondly, M$ products, like them or not, have spread to almost every corner of the software industry. Remember back when Apple was the big threat to MS? Remember back when Netscape was...
.NET may or may not be a technological failure, but as long as the 900-lb gorilla pushes it, it will acheieve something... even if it is only the same level of functionality we have today.
I feel sorry for Bill G. He is a typical autist, with a good intelligence but extremely poor social skills. And as a result, he is hated more than anyone on the internet, with the possible exception of Hitler.
However, the truth is that Microsoft knows the software business very well. Nobody understands the importance of controlling industry standards quite as well as gates, even when he rubs it in their noses.
As for linux, it will always survive, just as breadboards will always survive... because people love to do things their own way.
Some people, driven doubtless by the monotony and unrelenting drollity of their lives, have impugned the good name of SPAM. Needless to say, THIS MUST STOP!
I love spam. Spam is my favorite food. Its light and understated taste refreshes and cleanses the palette after a dish of caviar. Its airy and delicate flavor compliments truffles, eggplant, and parmesan.
It contains partial supplies of 2 vitamins and minerals! It even- imagine this- stays crunchy in milk. If you ask the finest chiefs in the world which pink meat product they prefer, there can be only one choice.... S P A M
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>express our software musically than in C++.
excellent idea.
Windows 98: BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRPPP
Visual Basic: [EXTREMELY LOUD FART]
Quake III: [toilet flushing]
And remember:
The cigarette does the smoking; you're just the sucker.
Hehehe....
Secondly, tactics and coordination are important, as is armament. Think of Russia in WWI. Lots of people, poorly armed and trained, led to defeat.
Thirdly, even if they have lots of people, how will China get them over the ocean? In WWII, the Americans were able to use Britain as a waypoint for their invasion. The chinese have no such option. They would have to bring people across the entire Pacific Ocean by the teaspoonful, so to speak. Meanwhile the U.S. navy and the air force would have a field day.
Meanwhile we could probably cover every square mile of China with nuclear fallout. Of course, they would probably do the same to us, in spite of Bush's nuclear shield fantasies. But the point is, more people doesn't automatically translate into winning.
Apple, I believe, is only kept alive to create the illusion of choice. They have made deals with Microsoft before. Microsoft knows that by and large, they have little to fear from an os running on expensive proprietary hardware. Meanwhile, any advantages Mac might once have had are long gone.
Linux is a greater threat to microsoft than anything apple might do. However, technical hurdles will probably keep linux right where it is now... marginal. Applications developers have no real reason to support it, even if hardware companies like AMD are interested.
Network services pretty much will belong to megacorporations in any case. Only large companies have the clout to bring these plans to fruition. In any case, the idea isn't as great as the hype surrounding it would lead you to believe.
Btw, the AC who responded to this earlier is just sexually frustrated. Don't pay any attention to him.
What I'm looking for is a storage medium that doesn't decay with time. Paper burns and yellows, floppies and hard drives lose their can get erased. Maybe CDs are ok, but I don't know what the lifespan is.
Otherwise, you can just stop moaning about something that probably won't hurt you at all.
After all the nuclear tests, chemical contamination, car exhaust, and unnatural living conditions we experience in modern life, the best thing you can come up with to complain about is radio waves? Give me a break.
If you really think radio waves are going to "heat up your noggin" you can wear a metal helmet. The electromagnetic shielding effect is the same thing that keeps your radio from working in a tunnel. And after that, I suggest you pour yourself a nice stiff drink and worry about something that actually has been proven to hurt you... like all that car exhaust you breathe every day.
Some people!
Oh, and did I mention that it's interpreted (yes I know it is also compiled too, that's not the point here.) Interpreted languages are slow. Think BASIC.
After all, you can theoretically make your own computer even today using off-the-shelf chips. The problem is, it would be the size of a room because you don't have a fab!
Get used to it. Software is a big business. If microsoft wasn't around, something else would be which would probably be just as bad.
Frankly, I feel sorry for Bill Gates. He has even less social skills than the usual geek :)
Besides, if someone did try to breed a form that would damage pure copper somehow, there are plenty of ways for humans to work around the problem. There are other alloys and elements that have similar electrical properties but are different chemically.
Bacteria are never 100% effective anyway because they always have problems with reaching their targets.
If you really want to stop "computers" you are probably out of luck. You might as well try to stop "the wheel." But if you really want to disable a substantial fraction of a nation's infrastructure, take out power plants and telephone company centers. These are the real nerve centers of many things we have come to take for granted.
It should be obvious that with a network of N nodes, to send a request to all of them will take N! time. (Yes, I know, we don't send to all of them, but even sending to a large portion is difficult.)
The new goal of gnutella developers should be to figure out some way of reducing the amount of poking around on the network you have to do.
Basically, sending a request to so many people is like knocking on every door in New York city to find your apartment. Use a telephone book man!
If you are going to be an engineer, you damn well better attend college. Show me the man who can become a competant electrical engineer without classes, and I'll show you a man who has wasted five times the time he would have used in class. Show me a modern physicist who never attended college... or a mathematician.
So the moral of this story, kids, is some fields are technically demanding and others rely more on artistic talent etc.
The trial against microsoft will go on forever and nothing will happen! (Kind of like it did under Clinton.) But Bush will be evil and conservative and nasty because of it! One thing is certain: under Bush, corporations will often make money, undermining the open source model through their existence.
How long until we no longer enjoy the freedoms we have come to take for granted, like the right to read crappy leftist propaganda from Jon Katz? Nobody knows....
I took that course on viscous flow.
Honestly, I don't know what the world is coming to these days. OOP is easy in brainf*ck.
1. The kid needs to have friends who share his interests and level of intelligence. Make sure he does!
2. Pure science is a more rewarding field for a child prodigy than electrical engineering.
I don't buy it.
First of all, MAPS does not block content based on political grounds, as the article seems to suggest. It blocks groups of IP addresses that contribute to SPAM. According to Gartner analsyt Joyce Graff, "Living in an email account with lots of spam is like living in a community with trash in the streets." MAPS is more comparable to a trash collector than a censor. (Unless you think Get Rich Quick!!!!! is a political manifesto.)
Second of all, all any legitimate site blocked by MAPS has to do is to change ISPs to be seen again by RBL subscribers. MAPS is a tool for exerting pressure on ISPs. I remember a few posts here a while back, all of which basically said something like "too bad there's no way to make ISPs care about ___ (insert issue here.) Well there is! And the RBL is it.
I had to chuckle at points throughout the article. I spoke with Joe Hayes at Media3, and he told me that the company does not tolerate websites which promote themselves through spam. Of course not! But software to spam the customers of other ISPs, well that's just fine!
The whole goal of MAPS is to make ISPs accountable for spreading SPAM. And none of their actions have deviated from this throughoughly non-political goal.
If you really think you're being oppressed by MAPS, switch to an ISP that doesn't use the RBL. However, most people probably would rather not live in the garbage.
The truth is, spamming will probably be around forever in one form or another as long as the internet is around. But people can take some steps to block the worst offenders.
Wrong.
You obviously know very little about computer engineering. There have been many, many advances besides fitting more transistors on a chip.
1. Out-of-order instruction scheduling (branch prediction, pipelining, etc.)
2. RISC design 'philosophy'
3. IC Design tools (simulations, etc.)
4. Advances in vital subsystems (memory bus, RAM, controllers, etc.)
These techniques would have all been possible without transistor size advances beyond the original 8088 level. And you could probably name a few more but I don't know that many yet.
Realistically speaking, we don't know what the future will hold for computing. People are talking about quantum devices (have interesting mathematical properties) and optical devices (good for fiber optics)
yes
WHAT?
Microsoft is stronger recently than it ever has been before, both in terms of stock price and liquidity. First of all, Gates always keeps enough liquidity on hand to run the company for a year with no revenues. Secondly, M$ products, like them or not, have spread to almost every corner of the software industry. Remember back when Apple was the big threat to MS? Remember back when Netscape was...
I feel sorry for Bill G. He is a typical autist, with a good intelligence but extremely poor social skills. And as a result, he is hated more than anyone on the internet, with the possible exception of Hitler.
However, the truth is that Microsoft knows the software business very well. Nobody understands the importance of controlling industry standards quite as well as gates, even when he rubs it in their noses.
As for linux, it will always survive, just as breadboards will always survive... because people love to do things their own way.
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I love spam. Spam is my favorite food. Its light and understated taste refreshes and cleanses the palette after a dish of caviar. Its airy and delicate flavor compliments truffles, eggplant, and parmesan.
It contains partial supplies of 2 vitamins and minerals! It even- imagine this- stays crunchy in milk. If you ask the finest chiefs in the world which pink meat product they prefer, there can be only one choice.... S P A M
Thank you.