"Hundreds of customers like and use SCO's Unix products."
I think that is a pretty good example of have "relevant" SCO is... This is like the director (?producer, someone else) of Gigli getting quoted as saying "I've seen worse movies [than Gigli]"
It would seem that the robot doing the searching would also want to download a copy of the "offending work" for evidence/verification. (Although they pretty obviously are skipping the verification step...) If this is true, then create links to a bunch of fake files in a directory named along the lines of "my_prirated_files". Then have the web server automatically redirect all 404s from that directory to a script that pipes from/dev/random indefinitely.
While this won't be very useful for those that pay for bandwidth, university students could have some fun with this
if you make enough laws then everyone can be a criminal
<paranoia> and making everyone a criminal is the first step in creating a police state </paranoia>
of course these days it seems like the police work for the corporations...
The more I learn about the laws that are passed to "protect us from terrorism" or which "no one who is not a criminal should object to", the more healthy a dose of paranoia seems.
You really have no idea how this whole getting-to-space thing works do you?
First: Escape velocity only applies to an unpowerd projectile. If you have the power source you could putter into space at any speed greater than zero, although it would take a LOT of energy at slow speeds.
Second: You can have a satellite in geostationary orbit without it being around the equator. A good example would be the GPS satellites (not going to double check that, flame me if I'm wrong...).
Third: These launches for the X-Prize are not going anywhere near geostationary orbit. It is quite a distance to get to geostationary orbit, and most satellites are not nearly so high up.
why don't they fix it? because that requires time and money...
alternative views are wonderful. just don't assume that because you have a different view that you have stumbled upon an insight that everyone else has missed.
then again, intel et al are looking to write the replacement to the bios in higher level code (C, I think. too lazy to look it up...)
if you can write the computer startup sequence in C then there isn't really any reason that you can't link your program to the files used to create the startup program and perform even low level memory and interupt procedures in C.
don't get me wrong, i love assembly and machine code, but i think that in the future we will see a lot of the complexity pushed down into the compiler. this is one issue that i think the article did not assess correctly. if we have these hugely powerful machines, then why is it that we have to spend all of the cycles running the programs? why not have a compiler that still takes an hour to compile a Linux kernel, but makes it run 10x as fast in spite of code that may be 10x as sloppy... it would seem to me that the only time that a program will need to be the cycle-sink is when the conditions that the program will run in are unknown at compile time.
well, now that i have completely diverged from my original point, time to get back to work...
wow, another random non-mathematician finding isolated patterns in a mathematically complex sequence of numbers...
the patterns they describe are likely nothing more than side effects that can be produced using a number sieve. that seems to be what most of the "prime formulas" that people come up with can be reduced to.
All I get is a DNS error now. It worked five minutes ago.
On another note: anyone know what shipping and handling are on this? And why don't they have the model number listed in the info? I couldn't find anything about either of these on their site...
i've never bitched about the moderation before, so i guess i am way overdue:
how is this (+4 informative)? it was posted at (Score 2), and the guy has a low user id, but this is a TROLL! read the post again. did you understand it? really?
no? i didn't think so. this guy has to be either a troll or an idiot. the "semi-reflective" layers that he refers to are tranparent to the wavelength of light that is used to read the other layer. the reason they look like cheese cloth is because the holes are what encodes the data!
getting to the data isn't made difficult by the layering of the disk, but instead by the fact that they don't sell the drives to read the SACD layer (although it sure sounds a lot like the DVD format... capacity sounds familiar. i imagine that if the format was actually popular then all of the DVD players would already be able to read these disks)
i still can't understand all of the other shit about mylar donuts and "frying pan"s...
oh well, congratulations on a sucessful troll, bowie
would you post it again, this time taking care with your < and > symbols? i was about to copy it when i noticed that the include was missing its argument. I could probably fix that, but who knows what else is broken...
You'll fail your networks class with math like that..
You have missed some of the subtler points of the calculation. We are measuring the bandwidth of the wagon, not the transfer rate achieved by one trip with one wagon between two arbitrary points. For comparison, by your calculations the bandwidth of a piece of wire or hunk of fiber would vary depending upon its length. This is obviously false. (neglecting any signal degredation, of course)
Of course, sustaining a 13 petabyte per second transfer would require that you have a fleet of station wagons running bumper-to-bumper down the freeway...
True, but thanks to the ease of changing keyboard layouts in software there is a loyal, but small (growing?), group of uber-geeks that refuse to use the hand-wrenching monstrosity that is the qwerty keyboard layout. (I doubt that you could find a similar set of users for BETAMAX or 8-tracks.) Unfortunately there isn't anyone making any real money off of dvorak so it hasn't/won't be taking the world by storm. I do plan to have my kids start out with the dvorak layout, though, and save them the misery of qwerty...
BTW, I use the dvorak layout at home and work, and on my linux boxes I actually use a modified dvorak layout. Since I spend a significant amount of time in the console and my right pinky dislikes going up and over I move the '/' back to its qwerty position and shifted the 'z' and '-' keys up. Try it and I think you will prefer it.
I can't think of a good reason why the silver dots this thing tracks have to be restricted to being placed on the head. I would put them on my palm just so I could wave my hand and say "this is not the web page I am looking for" and have it work. Could also be useful for when I am lacking a flat surface for my mouse.
Then why have they had so much trouble turning a profit. If they made a deal with the devil then MS should be crushed by now... Or is the Apple/Satan conglomerate held at bay by all of those god-faring christians that use MS?
Only this story, but every single time... even if I save it to disk and then open it.
I was forced to use Konqueror (the textarea-fscking little turd it is... how hard is it to put a scrollbar on the bottom if the text is wider than the box!)
Did my apt-get upgrade this morning and now my random crashes have been replaced with consistant ones... is this an improvement?
i feel better now. feel free to mod this into a blackhole...
but the main one is that most normal applications are written for a single thread.
Sorry, but current video games do not fit your definition of a 'normal application'. The PS2 is actually a highly parallel machine. It is also quite different from any platform that game developers had ever programmed before. In fact Sony's delays in getting out a good set of programming tools to developers so that the PS2 could be fully utilized is a large part of the reason why it took so long for games to start coming out for it. GT3 is a bit of an exception, but that one game had to carry the console for quite a while...
Perhaps a few years ago I would have accepted your argument, but not today...
Did you read what you wrote? Do you know that there is a difference between 1000-times (article) and 1000-fold (you, skippy)?
First lets see if the article is correct... 1000 times increase in 15 years is the claim:
Assumptions:
-processing speed doubles every 18 months
-1000 times increase approximately equals 1024 = 2^10 (a TEN FOLD increase, for the record...)
-12 months in a year
Hmmm, it is right on. So what prompted your lame referrence to the old FDIV bug in the original Pentium?
As for the -fold versus -times increase, lets look at what 1000-fold really means. Imagine you have a piece of paper (or just get some...) and fold it in half. After one fold you have twice the thickness of the original. If you fold it again (2-fold) you get four times the thickness of the original. Generalizing this shows that n folds produce a 2^n times increase.
According to our calculation above your 1000-fold increase (2^1000 times!!) will occur in 1500 years (assuming that thermodynamic laws aren't a limiting factor, etc, etc).
Is it bad that the only thing I can think of that I would want to do with this robot is stand it on a table and see how hard I could poke at it without it losing its footing? ("hmmm. looks like it is more succeptible(sp) from the back-left...) What more practical use does this thing have?
from the source of the slashdotted page (after it says that you need a frames capable browser...):
We support Netscape Navigator 4.74 and 5.0 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 with SP2, 5.0, and 5.5.
and here i thought that Netscape skipped a number and went straight to 6.0... </sarcasm>
btw, they are trying to avoid the slashdotting they are getting by changing the frames to all be about:blank. seems sloppy to me, especially since they are still having you download three javascript files at the top of the page. oh well...
here's a link to their 'news' page on the mozilla stuff (not the demo): http://www.geodesic.com/news/2002/gc_demo_ release. html
Slashdot Mirror
"Hundreds of customers like and use SCO's Unix products."
I think that is a pretty good example of have "relevant" SCO is... This is like the director (?producer, someone else) of Gigli getting quoted as saying "I've seen worse movies [than Gigli]"
It would seem that the robot doing the searching would also want to download a copy of the "offending work" for evidence/verification. (Although they pretty obviously are skipping the verification step...) If this is true, then create links to a bunch of fake files in a directory named along the lines of "my_prirated_files". Then have the web server automatically redirect all 404s from that directory to a script that pipes from /dev/random indefinitely.
While this won't be very useful for those that pay for bandwidth, university students could have some fun with this
if you make enough laws then everyone can be a criminal
<paranoia>
and making everyone a criminal is the first step in creating a police state
</paranoia>
of course these days it seems like the police work for the corporations...
The more I learn about the laws that are passed to "protect us from terrorism" or which "no one who is not a criminal should object to", the more healthy a dose of paranoia seems.
... At the very least no one will want to get the pieces out.
You really have no idea how this whole getting-to-space thing works do you?
First: Escape velocity only applies to an unpowerd projectile. If you have the power source you could putter into space at any speed greater than zero, although it would take a LOT of energy at slow speeds.
Second: You can have a satellite in geostationary orbit without it being around the equator. A good example would be the GPS satellites (not going to double check that, flame me if I'm wrong...).
Third: These launches for the X-Prize are not going anywhere near geostationary orbit. It is quite a distance to get to geostationary orbit, and most satellites are not nearly so high up.
about 2 years ago, at that.
why don't they fix it? because that requires time and money...
alternative views are wonderful. just don't assume that because you have a different view that you have stumbled upon an insight that everyone else has missed.
then again, intel et al are looking to write the replacement to the bios in higher level code (C, I think. too lazy to look it up...)
if you can write the computer startup sequence in C then there isn't really any reason that you can't link your program to the files used to create the startup program and perform even low level memory and interupt procedures in C.
don't get me wrong, i love assembly and machine code, but i think that in the future we will see a lot of the complexity pushed down into the compiler. this is one issue that i think the article did not assess correctly. if we have these hugely powerful machines, then why is it that we have to spend all of the cycles running the programs? why not have a compiler that still takes an hour to compile a Linux kernel, but makes it run 10x as fast in spite of code that may be 10x as sloppy... it would seem to me that the only time that a program will need to be the cycle-sink is when the conditions that the program will run in are unknown at compile time.
well, now that i have completely diverged from my original point, time to get back to work...
wow, another random non-mathematician finding isolated patterns in a mathematically complex sequence of numbers...
the patterns they describe are likely nothing more than side effects that can be produced using a number sieve. that seems to be what most of the "prime formulas" that people come up with can be reduced to.
sorry, couldn't resist...
... and i got glasses and noticed that S&H is $8.95... i still don't see a model number, though
well, its back... i guess i'm not patient enough to wade through a few dns errors and wait 10 minutes. the site is still plenty responsive, though...
All I get is a DNS error now. It worked five minutes ago.
On another note: anyone know what shipping and handling are on this? And why don't they have the model number listed in the info? I couldn't find anything about either of these on their site...
but it does work in Netscape 6. guess they didn't go over the code very carefully when adding all of the links to AOL...
devoid of content, no useful information, etc...
i've never bitched about the moderation before, so i guess i am way overdue:
how is this (+4 informative)? it was posted at (Score 2), and the guy has a low user id, but this is a TROLL! read the post again. did you understand it? really?
no? i didn't think so. this guy has to be either a troll or an idiot. the "semi-reflective" layers that he refers to are tranparent to the wavelength of light that is used to read the other layer. the reason they look like cheese cloth is because the holes are what encodes the data!
getting to the data isn't made difficult by the layering of the disk, but instead by the fact that they don't sell the drives to read the SACD layer (although it sure sounds a lot like the DVD format... capacity sounds familiar. i imagine that if the format was actually popular then all of the DVD players would already be able to read these disks)
i still can't understand all of the other shit about mylar donuts and "frying pan"s...
oh well, congratulations on a sucessful troll, bowie
would you post it again, this time taking care with your < and > symbols? i was about to copy it when i noticed that the include was missing its argument. I could probably fix that, but who knows what else is broken...
You'll fail your networks class with math like that..
You have missed some of the subtler points of the calculation. We are measuring the bandwidth of the wagon, not the transfer rate achieved by one trip with one wagon between two arbitrary points. For comparison, by your calculations the bandwidth of a piece of wire or hunk of fiber would vary depending upon its length. This is obviously false. (neglecting any signal degredation, of course)
Of course, sustaining a 13 petabyte per second transfer would require that you have a fleet of station wagons running bumper-to-bumper down the freeway...
True, but thanks to the ease of changing keyboard layouts in software there is a loyal, but small (growing?), group of uber-geeks that refuse to use the hand-wrenching monstrosity that is the qwerty keyboard layout. (I doubt that you could find a similar set of users for BETAMAX or 8-tracks.) Unfortunately there isn't anyone making any real money off of dvorak so it hasn't/won't be taking the world by storm. I do plan to have my kids start out with the dvorak layout, though, and save them the misery of qwerty...
BTW, I use the dvorak layout at home and work, and on my linux boxes I actually use a modified dvorak layout. Since I spend a significant amount of time in the console and my right pinky dislikes going up and over I move the '/' back to its qwerty position and shifted the 'z' and '-' keys up. Try it and I think you will prefer it.
I can't think of a good reason why the silver dots this thing tracks have to be restricted to being placed on the head. I would put them on my palm just so I could wave my hand and say "this is not the web page I am looking for" and have it work. Could also be useful for when I am lacking a flat surface for my mouse.
Then why have they had so much trouble turning a profit. If they made a deal with the devil then MS should be crushed by now... Or is the Apple/Satan conglomerate held at bay by all of those god-faring christians that use MS?
Only this story, but every single time... even if I save it to disk and then open it.
I was forced to use Konqueror (the textarea-fscking little turd it is... how hard is it to put a scrollbar on the bottom if the text is wider than the box!)
Did my apt-get upgrade this morning and now my random crashes have been replaced with consistant ones... is this an improvement?
i feel better now. feel free to mod this into a blackhole...
but the main one is that most normal applications are written for a single thread.
Sorry, but current video games do not fit your definition of a 'normal application'. The PS2 is actually a highly parallel machine. It is also quite different from any platform that game developers had ever programmed before. In fact Sony's delays in getting out a good set of programming tools to developers so that the PS2 could be fully utilized is a large part of the reason why it took so long for games to start coming out for it. GT3 is a bit of an exception, but that one game had to carry the console for quite a while...
Perhaps a few years ago I would have accepted your argument, but not today...
Did you read what you wrote? Do you know that there is a difference between 1000-times (article) and 1000-fold (you, skippy)?
First lets see if the article is correct... 1000 times increase in 15 years is the claim:
Assumptions:
-processing speed doubles every 18 months
-1000 times increase approximately equals 1024 = 2^10 (a TEN FOLD increase, for the record...)
-12 months in a year
Results:
(18 months) * (10 doublings) / (12 months/year) = 15 years
Hmmm, it is right on. So what prompted your lame referrence to the old FDIV bug in the original Pentium?
As for the -fold versus -times increase, lets look at what 1000-fold really means. Imagine you have a piece of paper (or just get some...) and fold it in half. After one fold you have twice the thickness of the original. If you fold it again (2-fold) you get four times the thickness of the original. Generalizing this shows that n folds produce a 2^n times increase.
According to our calculation above your 1000-fold increase (2^1000 times!!) will occur in 1500 years (assuming that thermodynamic laws aren't a limiting factor, etc, etc).
Is it bad that the only thing I can think of that I would want to do with this robot is stand it on a table and see how hard I could poke at it without it losing its footing? ("hmmm. looks like it is more succeptible(sp) from the back-left...) What more practical use does this thing have?
and here i thought that Netscape skipped a number and went straight to 6.0...
</sarcasm>
btw, they are trying to avoid the slashdotting they are getting by changing the frames to all be about:blank. seems sloppy to me, especially since they are still having you download three javascript files at the top of the page. oh well...
here's a link to their 'news' page on the mozilla stuff (not the demo):
http://www.geodesic.com/news/2002/gc_demo
come on, at least click on the link!
sheesh.
(btw, 10-bit each RGB + 8-bit alpha)