What does Microsoft have more of in its bank account than any other company on Earth?
Cash money.
What does America have millions of now that India has learned to code?
Unemployed software engineers.
What did Microsoft get when Bush became President?
A big "job-creation" tax cut.
What are Microsoft not doing even though they have a desperate need and a mandate from the nation?
Creating jobs.
Is anyone else wondering just what that tax cut was really for? Is anyone else wondering just what Microsoft is really for? Is anyone ever going to vote for these guys or give Microsoft any monopolistic slack again?
I take my old hardware and push them to the side table and install US Agent on them and let them do more work in the last two years of their life than they did in the first two. Machines I considered unstable typically stay up more than 8 months at a stretch, with their CPUs maxed-out virtually the entire time.
I also run it as a background process on my current machine. Keep the priority below the normal process priority and it's totally transparent to any other operation.
This is the second time in two days I've had to defend Real[marcas registrada] from irrational attacks.
The free player download isn't hard to find. You go to Real, you click on the word "Free" in the big orange bubble or the "Download Realplayer" image, then you look on the next page for the words "Download Free RealPlayer" in bold, underlined, hyperlink-blue text taking up the right side of the screen, and you get your software, now (version 10) free of popups and in-yo-face (and possibly free of spyware, but I haven't collected enough sessions to know for sure).
Firewalls work because they enforce a single point of entry with a single method of entry: none.
However, once you start asking for "features" like password-based logins, tunnelling, VPN, port forwarding, etc., then you increase the complexity, and therefore the likelihood that a human being will make a mistake and leave invisible door open, or at least un-double-bolted.
There are three kinds of mistakes that can be made: 1. Forgetting to secure something in the long list of things that need to be remembered to be secured when opening that first wormhole into the firewall. 2. Never knowing to secure it (this mistake is called "ignorance" and is essentially a fraud perpetrated on the person who hired the security team). 3. Thinking it's okay to leave an invisible door open. (Comes in two flavors: being a dupe for security through obscurity, and, being a crook).
So you can either simplify by eliminating all forms of entry, or by reducing the unpoliced forms of entry to a known list of known secured features.
Uh, what neurons have clearly defined input thresholds?
What neurons even have constant input thresholds?
15 years? Maybe if you studied harder you'd get to graduate sometime.
P.S. If you know who Nick DeClaris and Stephen Grossberg are, then you know the guys who taught me. If you know who Hopfield, McCulloch and Pitts, and Amit, Gutfreund, and Sompolinksy are, then you know the papers I read in the first few days I was studying the artificial form of the science. Sadly, it hasn't changed much since then, and the natural forms are much more interesting to me now.
By "logic" I mean exactly that. Many neurons (millions) need to get involved, and they need to have a knowledge of logic impressed on them from outside.
Provided the logic impressed from the outside is correct in the first place.
I was anti-RM for a few years too, but today I DL'ed RM10 and installed it.
As far as I can tell, it doesn't try to phone home, hasn't hijacked a single file format I haven't allowed it to, and only had to reacquire AirAmericaRadio once during a 2-hour live streaming session. The UI can be reduced to a small control panel with no apparent ads on it, and I have received no spam (after nearly 8 hours!)
I'd say if they're smart, they're going to win back the streaming-audio customer base from WMP and Winamp.
However, until I'm totally convinced that Real will add more local-media usability features, Winamp will be my default audio player. And WMP will probably be the default streaming video player for a long time, because when it's in "Classic Skin" mode it operates just like it's supposed to and provides the information I need.
This isn't quite the same thing as having randomly perturbed input thresholds, which is how neurons work. And, as anyone who's tried it knows, neurons are only about 95% efficient in determining the correct result. It takes a lot of logical processing on top of the neural bitwise decisionmaking to distill the 95% to the 99% or so correct answer rate that constitutes "intelligent thought".
And, they'd better look into real-world noise margin requirements for thresholding electrical switching decisions, or "chaotic" is all their output will ever be.
Slashdot Mirror
What does it take to get software written?
Software engineers.
What does it take to get software engineers?
Cash money.
What does Microsoft have more of in its bank account than any other company on Earth?
Cash money.
What does America have millions of now that India has learned to code?
Unemployed software engineers.
What did Microsoft get when Bush became President?
A big "job-creation" tax cut.
What are Microsoft not doing even though they have a desperate need and a mandate from the nation?
Creating jobs.
Is anyone else wondering just what that tax cut was really for? Is anyone else wondering just what Microsoft is really for? Is anyone ever going to vote for these guys or give Microsoft any monopolistic slack again?
Slashdot really needs to be more considerate of small, startup-quality companies like Apple.
Think of the dropped packets.
what Bush knows about diplomacy.
Johnny Socko now works at AMD doing Linux-specific design.
I take my old hardware and push them to the side table and install US Agent on them and let them do more work in the last two years of their life than they did in the first two. Machines I considered unstable typically stay up more than 8 months at a stretch, with their CPUs maxed-out virtually the entire time.
I also run it as a background process on my current machine. Keep the priority below the normal process priority and it's totally transparent to any other operation.
cat -vu
Doesn't everyone?
Wind3ows.
The three is--you get it.
More proof that Mozilla is a bunch of retarded script-kiddies who don't talk to their own fucking marketing department.
Yargh.
This is the second time in two days I've had to defend Real[marcas registrada] from irrational attacks.
The free player download isn't hard to find. You go to Real, you click on the word "Free" in the big orange bubble or the "Download Realplayer" image, then you look on the next page for the words "Download Free RealPlayer" in bold, underlined, hyperlink-blue text taking up the right side of the screen, and you get your software, now (version 10) free of popups and in-yo-face (and possibly free of spyware, but I haven't collected enough sessions to know for sure).
IT'S NOT THAT HARD, AUNT TILLIE!
The answer is to simplify.
Firewalls work because they enforce a single point of entry with a single method of entry: none.
However, once you start asking for "features" like password-based logins, tunnelling, VPN, port forwarding, etc., then you increase the complexity, and therefore the likelihood that a human being will make a mistake and leave invisible door open, or at least un-double-bolted.
There are three kinds of mistakes that can be made:
1. Forgetting to secure something in the long list of things that need to be remembered to be secured when opening that first wormhole into the firewall.
2. Never knowing to secure it (this mistake is called "ignorance" and is essentially a fraud perpetrated on the person who hired the security team).
3. Thinking it's okay to leave an invisible door open. (Comes in two flavors: being a dupe for security through obscurity, and, being a crook).
So you can either simplify by eliminating all forms of entry, or by reducing the unpoliced forms of entry to a known list of known secured features.
I'll send y'all a bill.
These people aren't thinking of our future reality.
Within 10 years we'll all be wearing flak-vests to go out in public.
So we might as well use batteries as the armor panels.
They'd better paint Mr. Yuck on those or a lot of geriatric astronauts are going to poison themselves.
350 Farads = 350 ampere-seconds or about 12 amps for 30 seconds. Better get the stove plug.
Uh, what neurons have clearly defined input thresholds?
What neurons even have constant input thresholds?
15 years? Maybe if you studied harder you'd get to graduate sometime.
P.S. If you know who Nick DeClaris and Stephen Grossberg are, then you know the guys who taught me. If you know who Hopfield, McCulloch and Pitts, and Amit, Gutfreund, and Sompolinksy are, then you know the papers I read in the first few days I was studying the artificial form of the science. Sadly, it hasn't changed much since then, and the natural forms are much more interesting to me now.
By "logic" I mean exactly that. Many neurons (millions) need to get involved, and they need to have a knowledge of logic impressed on them from outside.
Provided the logic impressed from the outside is correct in the first place.
I was anti-RM for a few years too, but today I DL'ed RM10 and installed it.
As far as I can tell, it doesn't try to phone home, hasn't hijacked a single file format I haven't allowed it to, and only had to reacquire AirAmericaRadio once during a 2-hour live streaming session. The UI can be reduced to a small control panel with no apparent ads on it, and I have received no spam (after nearly 8 hours!)
I'd say if they're smart, they're going to win back the streaming-audio customer base from WMP and Winamp.
However, until I'm totally convinced that Real will add more local-media usability features, Winamp will be my default audio player. And WMP will probably be the default streaming video player for a long time, because when it's in "Classic Skin" mode it operates just like it's supposed to and provides the information I need.
But you'll notice, they didn't even attempt to do The Robot.
Sorry. I should have said, "This world will look like the set of Brazil before you know it."
Couple of thoughts:
This isn't quite the same thing as having randomly perturbed input thresholds, which is how neurons work. And, as anyone who's tried it knows, neurons are only about 95% efficient in determining the correct result. It takes a lot of logical processing on top of the neural bitwise decisionmaking to distill the 95% to the 99% or so correct answer rate that constitutes "intelligent thought".
And, they'd better look into real-world noise margin requirements for thresholding electrical switching decisions, or "chaotic" is all their output will ever be.
There are those of us who don't like having "the Government" controlling the way we run our lives.
Why isn't there an Open Source legal system like there's an Open Source Software system?
(Moderators: you probably think this song is about you, don't you, don't you...)
Just when you thought CRT technology was dead, they bring it back as a memory device.
This world will look like the set of Brazil before we know it.
You don't tax the software. You tax the money spent to produce the software.
It's what happens every time I swallow my Palm Pilot.
It's a specious complaint anyway.
100W isn't that much power or heat to dissipate.
It's useless to complain that improving computing power is increasing power consumption.
It's more useful to complain that battery capacity is not increasing, or that computers come with inadequate cooling systems.
>by having factories in the U.S., they can avoid import fees.
/. will be employeed within the year.
Exactly. Government controls on business work.
Demand a 400% tax on outsourcing software work, and everyone on