Well on a modern system I guess you could treat the cache memory of the CPUs as RAM and then map each of the others CPUs to the address bus but just think with a 64 bit address buss you could have 32 bits of CPUs each with 4GBs of local ram.
If each was a single core CPU and cost 20 dollars it would only cost as much as an aircraft carrier for the CPUs.
Not only that but let's take their example. The Human brain is really good at some tasks but really not as good as a computer for a lot of other tasks. A computer is much faster at calculations than a brain but a human brain is much better at pattern recognition. However massive numbers of cores is an interesting concept.
Less of a guess than from experience doing a little testing myself. Sometimes people do the unexpected. A software example happened to my company many years ago. This was back in the DOS days. Our software had a file manager. There was a function to copy the file to the floppy and from the floppy. We where getting complaints that files where "unediting" themselves. This was actually impossible with the file structure we where using. We zeroed out the free sections of the file to help prevent curruption. Well the keyboard commands where crtl f crtl f to copy from the floppy and ctrl f ctrl t to copy to the foppy. We finally figured out that some people thought that they had to hit the ctrl f and t all at the same time. They where holding the f down long enough for the auto repeat to cause them to copy from the floppy and they never noticed the message. We "fixed" the issue by changing the hot keys in later versions and by adding a lot more warnings if you tried to copy an old file over a new file. Just figuring out what caused the unediting was a challenge since the support was all phone based. It is hard to make things easy.
My guess is they did testing in an RF chamber. They never had anyone hold the phone during testing and then they put test phones in cases as a disguise. They just never did a valid real world test. More than one company has made that mistake. What is so funny is how everybody now is going duh...
I really don't like Flash but this does point out some interesting points. Also do we want HTML to have all the features of Flash? Things like camera and microphone control? Or even the ability to go full screen? And DRM? I don't like DRM but I do know that for somethings the choice will be DRM or nothing. Just a lot of really good points. It also shows how W3C really has blown it. They move to slow with adding features to browsers. I mean really we are just NOW adding video support to HTML? Really? How long ago did we start streaming video on the Web?
It also depends on the type of business. If it is a programmer than yea. Car dealer also iffy. A guy that does tile work... I know a really good guy that does that and uses hotmail for now. He just isn't a techie at all. But man can he put down some good tile.
Actually I still find it odd. Yep the fashion will change again I am sure hopefully when they go out of fashion it will not be hard on those that have tattoos. Frankly anything that becomes a "lifestyle" like tattoos, piercings, Harley's I find a little deeply disturbing. All these people trying be show how individual they are just like everyone else in their group. Just really kinda of silly and sad.
Well Microsoft didn't really break Java. They extended it so that you could have more control but at the same time make your apps less portable. So they broke it by extending it. Too bad really because I really like java and it would be really nice if it was installed standard with Windows IMHO. Yes others will disagree but hey.
Or it could be that they are at best the equivalent of Elvis on black velvet and or dogs playing poker. With health risks and being very hard to remove. If you like it fine but it is also stupid to demand acceptance. If chose to put it in the same class as art then people like different art for different reasons. However to pay someone to wound and in effect scare you for arts sake? Which is what getting at tattoo is I find silly. You may try and justify it but in the end you are arguing that putting a picture on your body has some meaning that is more important than your health. Your choice but you are the one that seems to need some validation of this. I have no problem with people acting foolish. I see it all the time. Sometimes they even have fun doing it which is fine. However if your going to try to tell me that some picture on your skin is some artistic master peace of art with some deep meaning that I just don't get. I will shake my head and chuckle just as I do when someone tells me Lady GaGa's music is so original and has changed their life. Whatever.
And yet MP3 beat out Vorbis Ogg which is free and offers better sound quality. Cheap enough and good enough often wins. In this case H.264 fits that. Do I like it? heck no. Do I think it the best of all possible worlds? no. Heck people bought and developed for the PC running MS-DOS when you could buy an Atari ST and or an Amiga for less both of which where far better platforms than MS-DOS, best doesn't always win.
We are Google's customers in the same way a dairy cow is a farmers customer.
What you say is true but I wonder just how many people would choose to not use gmail for that reason? Also wouldn't most businesses use Google's business class service or some other business class service? I find people using gmail, hotmail or yahoo mail for formal business communications all a bit iffy. if nothing else hopefully their web host offers a redirect. In the end is that "feature" worth the risks or the effort? To me not really since I like the way gmail works but others will disagree. So is the way of the world.
Well I would never put out a jpg of my signature. Talk about making forgery easy. Corporate logo it is an email. Hey if you like that so be it. Google loosing customers over it. Well as you know gmail users are not google customers. But over all I doubt that they will loose enough to worry about. Besides do may companies use Gmail? I know some do but I think Google goes with the masses.
No but it isn't the picture we are talking about. It is the act off paying someone to inflict yourself with a wound to put a picture on your body. The act of creation is not superficial. The act of appreciation the creation also can have meaning. Paining someone to inject ink under your skin? Dude buy a print!
But not on company time. Yes you have a right to wear a Pro this or that tee shirt but not at work. Lets flip it a way that you will not like. Imagine that you boss wanted to put a sign on his door saying "Godhatesfags.com the truth is hard to hear!" How would you feel about that? Or would you want to meet with a vendor with swastika tattoos on all over his arms?
Which is why I said that it endangers your health. You are getting a wound as you yourself has said that needs treatment. Also what about the inks? Are you 100% sure that there are no risks from those? So you do agree with all my facts. It is expensive, painful, and endangers aka carries health risks. Where we differ is opinion. IMHO the costs way out way the benefits. You obviously feel differently. That is fine. However I would like to out and idea out there. Doesn't what one puts in their mind, does with their hands, and says with their mouth have far more meaning than what pictures are on their skin? Hence my feelings that tattoos are superficial in nature.
Dude that is just wrong. You yourself just made assumptions that end in a character attack. I actually know a lot of nice good people that have ink. I do think their reasons for getting ink are foolish but then many good people do things I consider foolish. Like stand in line for an iPhone or other such silliness. It is unfair to make accusations about the person that replied to me. We have a different opinion but that doesn't make him bad.
But I can choose to execute execute the attachment or not. HTML mail executes as soon as you open it. Honestly the security issues aside which can be solved right now with email settings I just do not want any more pink text on a lilac flowered background. Email should be black letters on a white background "Or what every you have your display setting set to."
An interrogated app store IS NOT a terrible thing even for a desktop. What would be terrible is if Microsoft made themselves the only app store for windows.
Take a look at Steam. It is really well loved by a lot of users but it is in effect an app store.
Here is the important part. As long as I do not have to use Microsoft's app store I don't have an issue with them having one. As long as I can install what I want from where I want I just don't have a problem with this. Now Walmart, BestBuy and GameStop will be up in arms and the say good buy to the used software market for some stuff but other than that...
You can send them as an attachment. What is really funny is while I really hate the abuses of HTML mail I do understand why some people use it. I would just rather see some way to include a link or use attachments instead of email. Yes in a perfect world it could be done right but nothing is as safe as having no executable content in the actual email. The other thing I find really funny is I really don't want to "outlaw" fonts, color, and inline pictures. What I am now king of the internet! I just really want people to stop abusing them. The amount of venom some people spend on these things is really just silly. Death to IncrediMail and all that use it. Join my Jihad to free us all from purple flowered email stationary! Really folks I am not going to take away your HTML mail. Not today anyway but you all better start showing some restraint of face my anger!!!! Silly silly people.
Anytime you get a wound you endanger your health. Don't you have to keep them bandaged for x amount of time and clean them still? Even then are you going to tell me no one every gets an infection from them? I did say endanger ones health and not ones life since the actual risk to your life is minimal. Also if it has deep meaning to you personally would you ask people on Slashdot for suggestions? I would have to say any meaning is just in your head. A tattoo doesn't by it's nature have anymore meaning to a person than say a ring or a neckless would.
They are superficial because they really don't effect anything but your appearance. It isn't or really shouldn't be a life changing act like learning something new or making some great journey. Finally to your statement. "Somehow I knew a story about tattoos on Slashdot would trot out a bunch of people who know absolutely nothing on the topic. Now everybody gets to make categorical statements they can't support with anything but opinion." All you have stated is an opinion that they have some meaning for you. Opinion is fine. I have stated that they are painful, expensive, and always have some health risks involved with them. The end result is actuality is nothing but a picture on your skin. I would honestly say that my opinion is that risk is not worth the result. Also that the money and effort could have much more meaning spent in other ways. Maybe a donation to a charity or even doing some volunteer work. Getting some equation put on your skin to me is a useless gesture. You are of course free to have a different opinion but you have no "facts" that contradict my "facts". You just have the opinion that the cost, pain, and risk are worth having some picture put on your skin. I disagree with that assumption for the vast majority of tattoos. In fact I can think of only a singular case where I could find it understandable. But I will admit that their could be more I have not thought of.
Tattoos hurt, they endanger your health, they are expensive, and most of all they are superficial. AKA they are for looks only. Gee... At one time only drunk sailors thought this was a good idea and now you want to show how geeky you are with them? Might I suggest Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica the full text of course. Bazinga!
"now if they would allow you to insert inline graphics" yea that is what we need. No thanks I wish we would go back to text only. Less chance of an exploit when you are just dealing with just text. Attachments are fine.
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Well on a modern system I guess you could treat the cache memory of the CPUs as RAM and then map each of the others CPUs to the address bus but just think with a 64 bit address buss you could have 32 bits of CPUs each with 4GBs of local ram.
If each was a single core CPU and cost 20 dollars it would only cost as much as an aircraft carrier for the CPUs.
Not only that but let's take their example. The Human brain is really good at some tasks but really not as good as a computer for a lot of other tasks.
A computer is much faster at calculations than a brain but a human brain is much better at pattern recognition.
However massive numbers of cores is an interesting concept.
Less of a guess than from experience doing a little testing myself.
Sometimes people do the unexpected.
A software example happened to my company many years ago.
This was back in the DOS days.
Our software had a file manager. There was a function to copy the file to the floppy and from the floppy.
We where getting complaints that files where "unediting" themselves. This was actually impossible with the file structure we where using. We zeroed out the free sections of the file to help prevent curruption.
Well the keyboard commands where crtl f crtl f to copy from the floppy and ctrl f ctrl t to copy to the foppy.
We finally figured out that some people thought that they had to hit the ctrl f and t all at the same time.
They where holding the f down long enough for the auto repeat to cause them to copy from the floppy and they never noticed the message.
We "fixed" the issue by changing the hot keys in later versions and by adding a lot more warnings if you tried to copy an old file over a new file.
Just figuring out what caused the unediting was a challenge since the support was all phone based.
It is hard to make things easy.
My guess is they did testing in an RF chamber. They never had anyone hold the phone during testing and then they put test phones in cases as a disguise.
They just never did a valid real world test. More than one company has made that mistake. What is so funny is how everybody now is going duh...
I really don't like Flash but this does point out some interesting points.
Also do we want HTML to have all the features of Flash?
Things like camera and microphone control?
Or even the ability to go full screen?
And DRM?
I don't like DRM but I do know that for somethings the choice will be DRM or nothing.
Just a lot of really good points. It also shows how W3C really has blown it. They move to slow with adding features to browsers. I mean really we are just NOW adding video support to HTML? Really?
How long ago did we start streaming video on the Web?
It also depends on the type of business.
If it is a programmer than yea. Car dealer also iffy.
A guy that does tile work... I know a really good guy that does that and uses hotmail for now. He just isn't a techie at all. But man can he put down some good tile.
Actually I still find it odd. Yep the fashion will change again I am sure hopefully when they go out of fashion it will not be hard on those that have tattoos.
Frankly anything that becomes a "lifestyle" like tattoos, piercings, Harley's I find a little deeply disturbing.
All these people trying be show how individual they are just like everyone else in their group.
Just really kinda of silly and sad.
Well Microsoft didn't really break Java. They extended it so that you could have more control but at the same time make your apps less portable.
So they broke it by extending it.
Too bad really because I really like java and it would be really nice if it was installed standard with Windows IMHO.
Yes others will disagree but hey.
Or it could be that they are at best the equivalent of Elvis on black velvet and or dogs playing poker.
With health risks and being very hard to remove.
If you like it fine but it is also stupid to demand acceptance. If chose to put it in the same class as art then people like different art for different reasons. However to pay someone to wound and in effect scare you for arts sake? Which is what getting at tattoo is I find silly. You may try and justify it but in the end you are arguing that putting a picture on your body has some meaning that is more important than your health.
Your choice but you are the one that seems to need some validation of this. I have no problem with people acting foolish. I see it all the time. Sometimes they even have fun doing it which is fine.
However if your going to try to tell me that some picture on your skin is some artistic master peace of art with some deep meaning that I just don't get. I will shake my head and chuckle just as I do when someone tells me Lady GaGa's music is so original and has changed their life.
Whatever.
And yet MP3 beat out Vorbis Ogg which is free and offers better sound quality. Cheap enough and good enough often wins.
In this case H.264 fits that.
Do I like it? heck no. Do I think it the best of all possible worlds? no.
Heck people bought and developed for the PC running MS-DOS when you could buy an Atari ST and or an Amiga for less both of which where far better platforms than MS-DOS, best doesn't always win.
We are Google's customers in the same way a dairy cow is a farmers customer.
What you say is true but I wonder just how many people would choose to not use gmail for that reason? Also wouldn't most businesses use Google's business class service or some other business class service?
I find people using gmail, hotmail or yahoo mail for formal business communications all a bit iffy. if nothing else hopefully their web host offers a redirect.
In the end is that "feature" worth the risks or the effort? To me not really since I like the way gmail works but others will disagree.
So is the way of the world.
Well I would never put out a jpg of my signature. Talk about making forgery easy.
Corporate logo it is an email.
Hey if you like that so be it. Google loosing customers over it. Well as you know gmail users are not google customers. But over all I doubt that they will loose enough to worry about. Besides do may companies use Gmail?
I know some do but I think Google goes with the masses.
No but it isn't the picture we are talking about.
It is the act off paying someone to inflict yourself with a wound to put a picture on your body.
The act of creation is not superficial.
The act of appreciation the creation also can have meaning.
Paining someone to inject ink under your skin? Dude buy a print!
well if you think of space time as a single 4 dimensional construct with in a larger multi dimensional space then everything is forever.
But not on company time.
Yes you have a right to wear a Pro this or that tee shirt but not at work.
Lets flip it a way that you will not like.
Imagine that you boss wanted to put a sign on his door saying "Godhatesfags.com the truth is hard to hear!"
How would you feel about that?
Or would you want to meet with a vendor with swastika tattoos on all over his arms?
Even freedom of speech has it's limits.
Which is why I said that it endangers your health. You are getting a wound as you yourself has said that needs treatment.
Also what about the inks? Are you 100% sure that there are no risks from those?
So you do agree with all my facts.
It is expensive, painful, and endangers aka carries health risks.
Where we differ is opinion. IMHO the costs way out way the benefits. You obviously feel differently.
That is fine.
However I would like to out and idea out there.
Doesn't what one puts in their mind, does with their hands, and says with their mouth have far more meaning than what pictures are on their skin?
Hence my feelings that tattoos are superficial in nature.
Dude that is just wrong.
You yourself just made assumptions that end in a character attack.
I actually know a lot of nice good people that have ink.
I do think their reasons for getting ink are foolish but then many good people do things I consider foolish. Like stand in line for an iPhone or other such silliness.
It is unfair to make accusations about the person that replied to me. We have a different opinion but that doesn't make him bad.
The paints have meaning to the artist. Not the canvas.
But I can choose to execute execute the attachment or not. HTML mail executes as soon as you open it.
Honestly the security issues aside which can be solved right now with email settings I just do not want any more pink text on a lilac flowered background.
Email should be black letters on a white background "Or what every you have your display setting set to."
An interrogated app store IS NOT a terrible thing even for a desktop.
What would be terrible is if Microsoft made themselves the only app store for windows.
Take a look at Steam. It is really well loved by a lot of users but it is in effect an app store.
Here is the important part.
As long as I do not have to use Microsoft's app store I don't have an issue with them having one.
As long as I can install what I want from where I want I just don't have a problem with this.
Now Walmart, BestBuy and GameStop will be up in arms and the say good buy to the used software market for some stuff but other than that...
You can send them as an attachment.
What is really funny is while I really hate the abuses of HTML mail I do understand why some people use it.
I would just rather see some way to include a link or use attachments instead of email. Yes in a perfect world it could be done right but nothing is as safe as having no executable content in the actual email.
The other thing I find really funny is I really don't want to "outlaw" fonts, color, and inline pictures. What I am now king of the internet!
I just really want people to stop abusing them. The amount of venom some people spend on these things is really just silly.
Death to IncrediMail and all that use it.
Join my Jihad to free us all from purple flowered email stationary!
Really folks I am not going to take away your HTML mail. Not today anyway but you all better start showing some restraint of face my anger!!!!
Silly silly people.
Anytime you get a wound you endanger your health. Don't you have to keep them bandaged for x amount of time and clean them still? Even then are you going to tell me no one every gets an infection from them?
I did say endanger ones health and not ones life since the actual risk to your life is minimal.
Also if it has deep meaning to you personally would you ask people on Slashdot for suggestions?
I would have to say any meaning is just in your head. A tattoo doesn't by it's nature have anymore meaning to a person than say a ring or a neckless would.
They are superficial because they really don't effect anything but your appearance. It isn't or really shouldn't be a life changing act like learning something new or making some great journey.
Finally to your statement.
"Somehow I knew a story about tattoos on Slashdot would trot out a bunch of people who know absolutely nothing on the topic. Now everybody gets to make categorical statements they can't support with anything but opinion."
All you have stated is an opinion that they have some meaning for you. Opinion is fine.
I have stated that they are painful, expensive, and always have some health risks involved with them. The end result is actuality is nothing but a picture on your skin.
I would honestly say that my opinion is that risk is not worth the result. Also that the money and effort could have much more meaning spent in other ways. Maybe a donation to a charity or even doing some volunteer work.
Getting some equation put on your skin to me is a useless gesture.
You are of course free to have a different opinion but you have no "facts" that contradict my "facts".
You just have the opinion that the cost, pain, and risk are worth having some picture put on your skin. I disagree with that assumption for the vast majority of tattoos. In fact I can think of only a singular case where I could find it understandable. But I will admit that their could be more I have not thought of.
Yep and fonts, inline graphics, and executable content like javascript are not required for effective communication IMHO.
Tattoos hurt, they endanger your health, they are expensive, and most of all they are superficial. AKA they are for looks only.
Gee... At one time only drunk sailors thought this was a good idea and now you want to show how geeky you are with them?
Might I suggest Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica the full text of course.
Bazinga!
"now if they would allow you to insert inline graphics"
yea that is what we need.
No thanks I wish we would go back to text only. Less chance of an exploit when you are just dealing with just text.
Attachments are fine.