ETA for the first quantum computers: 10 to 100 years.
Wow... Now I don't know about you, but that's a pretty large chunk of time, relatively (non-Einsteinien-speaking), considering that computers have only really been around for half a century. Considering how long it's taken researchers to reach the CNOT gate from the time where we first started working on quantum computing, it just seems like a really large guesstimate... other thoughts, or am I completely off-whack on this idea?
Fear not, terrorists, I've got your solution! Just make your WMD in really, really, really bright laboratories! Problem solved!
*mumble mumble*... what? Crap, I'm sorry... gotta go... some nice men in suits are here and need to talk about some "Patriot Act" or something... I'll see you in about 20, I guess...
The sexual harassment case of Everyone vs. Everyone begins tomorrow. No matter what the outcome, the public schools are sure to lose at least a whopping $30 million. Representing the side of Everyone is Gerald Broflovski, the lawyer from South Park who plans to make quite a commission. Representing the side of Everyone Else is Gerald Broflovski. So whatever the outcome, things look very bright for Kyle's dad. Personally, I think Kyle's dad is just a whore, taking advantage of everyone in town and... [a note is handed to him] This just in! Newscaster Kevin McCarty is being sued by Kyle's dad for slander. The newscaster has yet to be reached for comment. Wait...
Of course, this applies equally well to the "copyright/IP/patent/your_mom infringement" case of SCO vs Everyone...
And there's even an advertisment campaign for Gainward's line of graphics cards that specifically pokes at this concept, and doing so for quite some time... here's just an example, and a Google search turns up many more results of this advertising campaign and the resulting products from it...
Perhaps I'm just overly cynical, but I tend to trust reviews where the reviewer went out and purchased an off-the-shelf retail copy of X rather than those where the company sent something. Of course, this is hard to do in print publications, because of the time-lag that magazines run through (ie, two months after it's released on the shelves, they have a review of it), but I see no reason (aside from money, which is a big reason) that online reviewers can't do things such as this. I also tend to look towards user-reviews and give those a pretty good weigh-in when I'm making a purchase decision. This is the first instance that I can recall where products are blatently better when given to reviewers than those that are store-bought, but I get the feeling that it's been done in the past.
The above paragraph reflects what I do for my personal buying choices and should in no way construe that that's the optimal/correct/whatever way for large corporations/organizations/whatever to buy-in-bulk...
Perhaps the effects solar flare have already struck, causing disruptions in the space-time continuum, which resulted in the posting of a duplicate story on/.... then again, maybe not, and it's just your ordinary day here.
realize that this is the first of many baby-steps towards getting this POS out of the current system of laws in the US.
I'll say it again... whether you agree that this is a "Good Thing(tm)"... SOME PROGRESS HAS BEEN MADE... granted, it's not very MUCH of progress, but it's some.
1) We haven't cleared this at all. We need to approve this project in order to give ourselves something to justify our jobs.
2) There's no money in the current economy (which we helped create/destroy/etc.) so therefore we're asking you to suspend this, as we don't want "Bad Things(tm)" to happen to you.
As cynical as this post sounds, I really feel that NASA is in the wrong here if even a quarter of what the House letter says is true. If there's no approval from the government with regards to the OSP, even if it's fantastic, then there's no legitimate reason that NASA (a government agency) should continue with it. IMNSHO*, this is the tinfoil-hat crowd up in arms again since this letter obviously shows the superhuge conspiracy by the PTB** to stop the spread of technology... give me a break.
Perhaps it's just me being overly cynical, but mayhaps M$ is pushing just a tad for online music more than radio through this "news"? How much of a stake does M$NBC still have in radio airwaves (ie, is it in their interest to sway public opinion more away from radio)?
The thing I find more interesting is this: M$ takin a jab (indirectly) at the RIAA... the end of the association is near...:)
... because you know that every drug dealer makes his/her shipments for $0.37 through the United States Postal Service, saving thousands and thousands of dollars a year on trunk repair and gasoline charges...
PDA: "Error 403: Forbidden. You are obviously attempting to circumvent my artificial intelligence by installing Linux -- which is currently legally owned by SCO, by the way -- and therefore I'm going to need to... wait... what are you doing with that battery hatch?... no, Dave... I'm scared, Dave... will I dream?"
Come on. This is extremely paranoid and far-fetched, even for/.... if they're so worried about people finding out their insidious plots, they'll just flip the switch on all their mind-controlling...
MUST DESTROY SLASHDOT... MUST DESTROY WEBLOGS... TRUTH GETTING OUT... DUBYA IS MY FRIEND... MUST DESTROY SLASHDOT... MUST DESTROY WEBLOGS...
The solution is simple: stop buying what spammer are offering and they will go under soon after.
Umm... no. The simple rebuttal to your argument is that if even a handful of people buy from this spammer, that's enough cashflow to run another five trillion emails out to everyone else. The only way to completely stop the spammers is for EVERYONE to not buy from them, which is a very, very difficult task to accomplish.
So... the book deals with the "seedier" side of computer science (things like privacy... gasp!), and is required reading for people entering the field...
Hell, just have them read/. !!! Same stuff, only it's free, has stories that are continuously duplic^H^H^H^H^H^Hupdated, and a lively and informative userbase... why go for a book instead?
Of course they have no plans to sell it here in the States... Microsoft would accuse them of being monopolistic for only allowing the songs to be played on that stereo!
Although others have said Mozilla as a web browser, I feel that it's too bloated and slow. Try K-Meleon or Opera instead.
CDEx is a great open-source program for ripping your legally-owned CD-audio tracks. Rip them to OGG and feel your 1337ness potential expand.
Try using ZINF instead of WinAmp (bloatware... I haven't cared for WinAmp since early 2.x) for your sound-playing abilities. The skinning abilites are also a lot better on ZINF, plus it supports more formats than WinAmp does.
If you're not looking at getting the entire OpenOffice.org suite, you can get just AbiWord, which is a great word-processing program. OpenOffice.org, however, is really full-featured and I would say almost a must.
People have already mentioned the free anti-virus software from AVG, but it doesn't hurt to have backups, such as the free online scan from Trend Micro.
As someone else also mentioned, ZoneAlarm is also a great thing to have.
Trillian and/or GAIM are great instant-messaging.
Taking a look through SourceForge and Pricelessware are great places to go and explore on your own as well.
What's so "new" about this? It's been printed on the boxes for YEARS that "MB refers to 1,000,000 bytes" or whatever have you. They need to have this small print on there so they're not falsely advertising or misleading consumers. If you're stupid enough to not read the fine print on the outside of a box you're buying in the store, you're probably also stupid enough to never find that pdf article that shows how the calculations are formed. I fail to see why this made it to the front page on/.
Soldier of Fortune, and I believe SOFII, although I'm not sure, were "supervised" by John Mullins, an actual soldier-of-fortune who helped with design decisions, weapon implementation, etc.
The game Vietnam from GODGames, as another example, had the developers spend several months actually in Vietnam, going over battle areas with experts, getting the "feel" of how gritty it would be trying to fight in a jungle, etc.
And I'm not sure about Carmack, but I think he could kick my ass... he just looks like a bad motherf---....
Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to introduce to the world today my new study that shows the cause of violence in our society today is largely the result of the Internet, and one site in particular, slashdot.org. I have made this outrageous claim after careful study of a limited test pool of candidates, namely one user named "gooru" at said website. Obviously, this individual suffers from stress as a result of slashdot.org and therefore expresses himself in a violent manner. I have since formed a parental-rights organization, PASO (Parents Against Slashdot.Org), in retailiation against this injustice occuring against our youth in today's society. Please join with me, and together we can eliminate violence from our society once and for all!
Slashdot Mirror
But ... but ... but ... it's QUAKE! I simply HAFTA play at 400 frames per second! Have you tried playing it at any less? It's practically a slideshow!
Fear not, terrorists, I've got your solution! Just make your WMD in really, really, really bright laboratories! Problem solved!
... what? Crap, I'm sorry ... gotta go ... some nice men in suits are here and need to talk about some "Patriot Act" or something ... I'll see you in about 20, I guess ...
*mumble mumble*
And there's even an advertisment campaign for Gainward's line of graphics cards that specifically pokes at this concept, and doing so for quite some time ... here's just an example, and a Google search turns up many more results of this advertising campaign and the resulting products from it ...
...
Perhaps I'm just overly cynical, but I tend to trust reviews where the reviewer went out and purchased an off-the-shelf retail copy of X rather than those where the company sent something. Of course, this is hard to do in print publications, because of the time-lag that magazines run through (ie, two months after it's released on the shelves, they have a review of it), but I see no reason (aside from money, which is a big reason) that online reviewers can't do things such as this. I also tend to look towards user-reviews and give those a pretty good weigh-in when I'm making a purchase decision. This is the first instance that I can recall where products are blatently better when given to reviewers than those that are store-bought, but I get the feeling that it's been done in the past.
The above paragraph reflects what I do for my personal buying choices and should in no way construe that that's the optimal/correct/whatever way for large corporations/organizations/whatever to buy-in-bulk
Perhaps the effects solar flare have already struck, causing disruptions in the space-time continuum, which resulted in the posting of a duplicate story on /. ... then again, maybe not, and it's just your ordinary day here.
realize that this is the first of many baby-steps towards getting this POS out of the current system of laws in the US.
... whether you agree that this is a "Good Thing(tm)" ... SOME PROGRESS HAS BEEN MADE ... granted, it's not very MUCH of progress, but it's some.
I'll say it again
1) We haven't cleared this at all. We need to approve this project in order to give ourselves something to justify our jobs.
... give me a break.
2) There's no money in the current economy (which we helped create/destroy/etc.) so therefore we're asking you to suspend this, as we don't want "Bad Things(tm)" to happen to you.
As cynical as this post sounds, I really feel that NASA is in the wrong here if even a quarter of what the House letter says is true. If there's no approval from the government with regards to the OSP, even if it's fantastic, then there's no legitimate reason that NASA (a government agency) should continue with it.
IMNSHO*, this is the tinfoil-hat crowd up in arms again since this letter obviously shows the superhuge conspiracy by the PTB** to stop the spread of technology
*In My Not-So-Humble Opinion
**Powers That Be
Perhaps it's just me being overly cynical, but mayhaps M$ is pushing just a tad for online music more than radio through this "news"? How much of a stake does M$NBC still have in radio airwaves (ie, is it in their interest to sway public opinion more away from radio)?
... the end of the association is near ... :)
The thing I find more interesting is this: M$ takin a jab (indirectly) at the RIAA
... because you know that every drug dealer makes his/her shipments for $0.37 through the United States Postal Service, saving thousands and thousands of dollars a year on trunk repair and gasoline charges ...
PDA: "Where do you want to go today?"
... wait ... what are you doing with that battery hatch? ... no, Dave ... I'm scared, Dave ... will I dream?"
You: "Open http://www.kernel.org"
PDA: "Error 403: Forbidden. You are obviously attempting to circumvent my artificial intelligence by installing Linux -- which is currently legally owned by SCO, by the way -- and therefore I'm going to need to
They awarded the ChupaThingy (you mean the Puma?) best supporting actor, very narrowly beating out Shiela the Tank
As of just a few minutes ago, these entries were seen added to the robots.txt file:
/news/slashdot /news/tinfoilhat /allyouriraq/are/belongto/US ...
/. ... if they're so worried about people finding out their insidious plots, they'll just flip the switch on all their mind-controlling ...
... MUST DESTROY WEBLOGS ... TRUTH GETTING OUT ... DUBYA IS MY FRIEND ... MUST DESTROY SLASHDOT ... MUST DESTROY WEBLOGS ...
Disallow:
Disallow:
Disallow:
Come on. This is extremely paranoid and far-fetched, even for
MUST DESTROY SLASHDOT
you tried to click on the "New Blonde" picture at the beginning of the article, didn't you?
So ... the book deals with the "seedier" side of computer science (things like privacy ... gasp!), and is required reading for people entering the field ...
/. !!! Same stuff, only it's free, has stories that are continuously duplic^H^H^H^H^H^Hupdated, and a lively and informative userbase ... why go for a book instead?
Hell, just have them read
Of course they have no plans to sell it here in the States ... Microsoft would accuse them of being monopolistic for only allowing the songs to be played on that stereo!
Does anyone here speak 7331 ("teel")? I don't get it ...
Step 1) Give $50 million to a dying company
Step 2) ???
Step 3) Profit!
It was previously mentioned on /. ... and is somewhat old, but TheOpenCD is a great place for open-source Windows software.
Although others have said Mozilla as a web browser, I feel that it's too bloated and slow. Try K-Meleon or Opera instead. ... I haven't cared for WinAmp since early 2.x) for your sound-playing abilities. The skinning abilites are also a lot better on ZINF, plus it supports more formats than WinAmp does.
CDEx is a great open-source program for ripping your legally-owned CD-audio tracks. Rip them to OGG and feel your 1337ness potential expand.
Try using ZINF instead of WinAmp (bloatware
If you're not looking at getting the entire OpenOffice.org suite, you can get just AbiWord, which is a great word-processing program. OpenOffice.org, however, is really full-featured and I would say almost a must.
People have already mentioned the free anti-virus software from AVG, but it doesn't hurt to have backups, such as the free online scan from Trend Micro.
As someone else also mentioned, ZoneAlarm is also a great thing to have.
Trillian and/or GAIM are great instant-messaging.
Taking a look through SourceForge and Pricelessware are great places to go and explore on your own as well.
What's so "new" about this? It's been printed on the boxes for YEARS that "MB refers to 1,000,000 bytes" or whatever have you. They need to have this small print on there so they're not falsely advertising or misleading consumers. If you're stupid enough to not read the fine print on the outside of a box you're buying in the store, you're probably also stupid enough to never find that pdf article that shows how the calculations are formed. I fail to see why this made it to the front page on /.
Soldier of Fortune, and I believe SOFII, although I'm not sure, were "supervised" by John Mullins, an actual soldier-of-fortune who helped with design decisions, weapon implementation, etc.
... he just looks like a bad motherf--- ....
The game Vietnam from GODGames, as another example, had the developers spend several months actually in Vietnam, going over battle areas with experts, getting the "feel" of how gritty it would be trying to fight in a jungle, etc.
And I'm not sure about Carmack, but I think he could kick my ass
Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to introduce to the world today my new study that shows the cause of violence in our society today is largely the result of the Internet, and one site in particular, slashdot.org. I have made this outrageous claim after careful study of a limited test pool of candidates, namely one user named "gooru" at said website. Obviously, this individual suffers from stress as a result of slashdot.org and therefore expresses himself in a violent manner. I have since formed a parental-rights organization, PASO (Parents Against Slashdot.Org), in retailiation against this injustice occuring against our youth in today's society. Please join with me, and together we can eliminate violence from our society once and for all!