If I understand you, a person dragging a tablet PC from fireproofed archive to fireproofed archive, as opposed to paper, is going to experience a loss.
My speed reading techniques aren't working because of these reasons that are the cause of I can't understand what is written down.
Do you feel any guilt about putting your family in harms way? But who knows who you are? The bum on the street just wants to get rich quick with no homework.
A more sophisticated gang could round up you and your family and then tell you to go to work with an escort who will make a withdrawal...
Are you starting to think of quitting? Or asking for a raise?
Want to know what will improve my odds? Not flying. Not getting on a plane. Somehow a lot of people may be in concurrence. If so, is it time to hyperventilate?
Being innerested in protein folding I saw an article on Blue Gene being invented to be used for simulating the folding of a protein with the full use of quantum mechanic calculations. The computer was to be so fast it would take just one year of execution time to simulate a full fold.
The Earth Simulator was built for peaceful purposes. Blue Gene is in name motivated by genetics.
I know atomic bombs explode and kill a lot of people. Those things work. I want to know how proteins fold. Are we to understand that funding for supercomputer research must be driven by the arms race?
When you have a machine this fast the sampler cannot keep up. As a result what you see is a total distortion of reality. You may have seen this phenomenon with wagon wheel spokes rotating backward when the cart is really rolling. Thus when you read "speed record at 36.01 TFLOPS" your eyes view the letters going backwards and forwards.
In Win 2000 this might well be true. When I ran a test on the a speed of my latest program on a 2 GHz machine, the result was in a ratio of 2.2 to 2.7 with the task manager running in the former case. The task manager consumed about 20% CPU when the system was busy.
I realize a spell checker ought to stop as soon as it finishes scanning while task manager never stops.
A supercomputer class speed checker would undoubtedly be fully blown, in the industrial strength class. Such software wouldn't just do the garden variety dictionary compare. It wouldn't be satisfied until it determined whether you used the correct word relative to context, whether you used the correct phrasing, and should not stop until it determined you've elucidated the precise connotation and denotation within the realm of your intentions.
I bought an 8x burner but 4x media was cheaper so I've been burning at 4x. No errors so far except for one tiny file that requires me to read it twice occasionally. Paranoia makes me verify my burn with my own custom verifier.
One Problem - I burned a multisession disk and closed it after 4 sessions - then it wasn't readable. Now I just create single session disks by filling DVD RW first and then copying to DVD R.
The DVD RW almost feels like a hard disk for occasional work
I'm keeping an MD5 hash on every file to see if any degradation occurs - we shall see.
The law of diminishing returns, for one, refutes this line of thought. If you try to start profitable businesses at the frequency of 0.000005787037037 Hz you will accumulate so many businesses that you'll go nuts.
Was going to say "Just looking at the source code caused a buffer overflow" but I thought of something better. How about "Odd that the bug was fixed in SP2 but no one talked about it until after SP2 was released - JPEG viewing being such a common activity a patch should have been released long ago." I hope that was a valid point but if not, well I might just say "Do you smell what the Rock is cooking?"
Inspection of the source code leads me to believe that I should scan jpegs before viewing. I don't trust patches. It seems there is a lot of suspect software needing patching - how do I know if I patched everything?
Is it enough to look for FF FE 01 or FF FE 00 around the header?
...but I'm pretty sure the reason SP2 isn't vulnerable to that GDI+ JPEG exploit is that they recompiled GDI+ with buffer checks.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't this have been done right in the beginning itself?
What? And have my 300 MHz Celeron run slow?
Deep down, a 300 MHz Celeron isn't as slow as I thought but it's weirdly slow on the original XP as it is.
BUT - bug fixes shouldn't make software run that much slower, unless Microsoft did a lot of hardcore performance tweaks after compilation. Would that increase the potential for bugs? It would involve lower level coding, which is harder to debug. All the same, one must wonder what could possibly make XP so slow. Earlier versions of Windows was reasonably quick for me even on the 486. Windows XP on 300 MHz shouldn't feel like a mere shade faster than Win95 on a 486 especially when NT on 400 MHz is definitely faster than Win98 on a Pentium 200 MHz.
I always have this feeling that some damping code is used to slow Windows down. XP has more features and is more pleasant to use than NT, but that shouldn't make it that much slower. I just don't get it.
The powers will not store all our conversations because that would be too boring. Computers will attain creativeness. Then storage will be used to store synthesized ideas, which will be far more profound.
People will become the manipulated. They may or may not believe they have free will any more. Their goals will be preplanned by artificial intelligence. People may have fascinating lifestyles but computers will leap farther and farther ahead.
Surveillance is used to stop people from doing something undesirable. In the future, computers control the desires of people, perhaps not directly, just through subtle placements of goodies, distractions, situations, whatever. Like a train on tracks, people will not be able to really do anything undesirable even if they really really really want to.
Most of the time, computers will present obvious solutions to problems in order to prophylactically prevent any conundrum a person could have. Even if someone wanted to go on a rampage, the computers would simply offer a path of least resistance to an artificial scenario where the emotions are vented. People wouldn't even know the difference between the real and the artificial.
Anyone who wants to leave the control of computers behind will be able to. People will be relatively powerless to mean much.
Computer versus computer then? But why? At the level computers will be, the effort required to get there will urge people to a direction opposite to computer wars.
What is left are forces outside humanity. Someone else may speculate here.
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If I understand you, a person dragging a tablet PC from fireproofed archive to fireproofed archive, as opposed to paper, is going to experience a loss.
My speed reading techniques aren't working because of these reasons that are the cause of I can't understand what is written down.
Easy enough to achieve!
Use google to search for every occurrence of "slashdot".
The solution is to reduce to an equivalent problem.
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Do you feel any guilt about putting your family in harms way? But who knows who you are? The bum on the street just wants to get rich quick with no homework.
...
A more sophisticated gang could round up you and your family and then tell you to go to work with an escort who will make a withdrawal
Are you starting to think of quitting? Or asking for a raise?
And no more flirting!?
Want to know what will improve my odds? Not flying. Not getting on a plane. Somehow a lot of people may be in concurrence. If so, is it time to hyperventilate?
Well what do you know? I've been looking at the world through rose colored glasses all my life.
I have two words for you.
Raster. Scan.
Car drivers are vulnerable too. Let's make windowless cars.
Pedestrians are vulnerable. They should wear helmets.
Random violence is making me paranoid.
I'm always taking a hit when I pay my taxes, with no help from anyone.
Being innerested in protein folding I saw an article on Blue Gene being invented to be used for simulating the folding of a protein with the full use of quantum mechanic calculations. The computer was to be so fast it would take just one year of execution time to simulate a full fold.
A few years the fastest supercomputers were being built to simulate atomic explosions including the first computer to break the teraflops barrier.
The Earth Simulator was built for peaceful purposes. Blue Gene is in name motivated by genetics.
I know atomic bombs explode and kill a lot of people. Those things work. I want to know how proteins fold. Are we to understand that funding for supercomputer research must be driven by the arms race?
When you have a machine this fast the sampler cannot keep up. As a result what you see is a total distortion of reality. You may have seen this phenomenon with wagon wheel spokes rotating backward when the cart is really rolling. Thus when you read "speed record at 36.01 TFLOPS" your eyes view the letters going backwards and forwards.
In Win 2000 this might well be true. When I ran a test on the a speed of my latest program on a 2 GHz machine, the result was in a ratio of 2.2 to 2.7 with the task manager running in the former case. The task manager consumed about 20% CPU when the system was busy.
I realize a spell checker ought to stop as soon as it finishes scanning while task manager never stops.
A supercomputer class speed checker would undoubtedly be fully blown, in the industrial strength class. Such software wouldn't just do the garden variety dictionary compare. It wouldn't be satisfied until it determined whether you used the correct word relative to context, whether you used the correct phrasing, and should not stop until it determined you've elucidated the precise connotation and denotation within the realm of your intentions.
That's spelled "thruster"
Oddly you can't remove anything from your hard drive with single layer disks.
I bought an 8x burner but 4x media was cheaper so I've been burning at 4x. No errors so far except for one tiny file that requires me to read it twice occasionally. Paranoia makes me verify my burn with my own custom verifier.
One Problem - I burned a multisession disk and closed it after 4 sessions - then it wasn't readable. Now I just create single session disks by filling DVD RW first and then copying to DVD R.
The DVD RW almost feels like a hard disk for occasional work
I'm keeping an MD5 hash on every file to see if any degradation occurs - we shall see.
Every two days ...
How red is this herring?
The law of diminishing returns, for one, refutes this line of thought. If you try to start profitable businesses at the frequency of 0.000005787037037 Hz you will accumulate so many businesses that you'll go nuts.
selling insurance for damage done by Toutatis, expiring Dec 31, 2005
Still, it's an easy life when you handle angles
Was going to say "Just looking at the source code caused a buffer overflow" but I thought of something better. How about "Odd that the bug was fixed in SP2 but no one talked about it until after SP2 was released - JPEG viewing being such a common activity a patch should have been released long ago." I hope that was a valid point but if not, well I might just say "Do you smell what the Rock is cooking?"
Inspection of the source code leads me to believe that I should scan jpegs before viewing. I don't trust patches. It seems there is a lot of suspect software needing patching - how do I know if I patched everything?
Is it enough to look for FF FE 01 or FF FE 00 around the header?
What? And have my 300 MHz Celeron run slow?
Deep down, a 300 MHz Celeron isn't as slow as I thought but it's weirdly slow on the original XP as it is.
BUT - bug fixes shouldn't make software run that much slower, unless Microsoft did a lot of hardcore performance tweaks after compilation. Would that increase the potential for bugs? It would involve lower level coding, which is harder to debug. All the same, one must wonder what could possibly make XP so slow. Earlier versions of Windows was reasonably quick for me even on the 486. Windows XP on 300 MHz shouldn't feel like a mere shade faster than Win95 on a 486 especially when NT on 400 MHz is definitely faster than Win98 on a Pentium 200 MHz.
I always have this feeling that some damping code is used to slow Windows down. XP has more features and is more pleasant to use than NT, but that shouldn't make it that much slower. I just don't get it.
This is the age of gigabytes and gigahertz. That means a billion may err by plus or minus 10 percent.
We will phase out the WWW and replace it with the XXX. I'm always ready for new technology.
Let's predict.
The powers will not store all our conversations because that would be too boring. Computers will attain creativeness. Then storage will be used to store synthesized ideas, which will be far more profound.
People will become the manipulated. They may or may not believe they have free will any more. Their goals will be preplanned by artificial intelligence. People may have fascinating lifestyles but computers will leap farther and farther ahead.
Surveillance is used to stop people from doing something undesirable. In the future, computers control the desires of people, perhaps not directly, just through subtle placements of goodies, distractions, situations, whatever. Like a train on tracks, people will not be able to really do anything undesirable even if they really really really want to.
Most of the time, computers will present obvious solutions to problems in order to prophylactically prevent any conundrum a person could have. Even if someone wanted to go on a rampage, the computers would simply offer a path of least resistance to an artificial scenario where the emotions are vented. People wouldn't even know the difference between the real and the artificial.
Anyone who wants to leave the control of computers behind will be able to. People will be relatively powerless to mean much.
Computer versus computer then? But why? At the level computers will be, the effort required to get there will urge people to a direction opposite to computer wars.
What is left are forces outside humanity. Someone else may speculate here.
What we're seeing is some dandruff buildup orbiting Saturn.