...because you want to access B&N's book-buying servers to buy ebooks?
If you all think this device will be a free portable Internet connection, think again. AT&T will shortly make all traffic from the Nook only routable to the B&N servers as originally intended. At that point, all you'll have is a Nook without a warranty.
You do realize that America has over 2 million of its people in jail, with nearly zero in there for political reasons.
LOL! Fixed that for you.
99.9% of prisoners are not violating drug laws out of any sort of political statement or act of civic disobedience. The vast majority are scumbags who are trying to make an easy buck. Let's not make them all Nelson Mandela or something.
While that has happened hard disks have become only a little faster.
"A little faster" is a bit of an exaggeration...see a 1994 hard drive. 13MB/sec vs. 2009's 6000 MB/sec on SAS. In 1994, people were running what, 50Mhz PCs? They haven't improved by the same amount, nor has the speed or quantity of RAM in the typical machine.
No. Every single time I've watched a TED talk, it's been some guy who presents a half-dozen interesting observations, and then it ends. I have never seen one where the guy ties it all together into a single conclusion, presents a theory and evidence, or steps to "and then we should". It's the intellectual equivalent to some drunk at the bar telling amusing anecdotes.
Seriously, I've seen maybe 20 of them. Last one was Misha Glenny. He told four or five interesting stories highlighted wiht charts, and then stopped. There was no real structure to the thing. They ALL seem to be like that. I refuse to watch more.
Looks like U.S. military is already at least 1, if not 2 generations ahead of its allies.
Besides, its enemies still have WWII-level technologies.
Does it really need to spend so much billions on finding -yet- more advanced stealth technology?
Are you volunteering to fly missions?
Yes, the military complex creates jobs, but there are jobs in OTHER SECTORS as well, which imho are more beneficial to the overall well being of human civilization.
There is nothing as beneficial to mankind as Pax Americana.
Gear the punishment to sales. For example, in Europe the traffic fines are related to the person's income.
LOL! Not so much...
First, it's only Finland. Second, there's a minimum floor, which is set rather painful for the poor. So gee, looking a little closer, it's not quite so fair, is it? If you're poor, you still pay a minimum ($106 as I recall), but if you're rich, the sky's the limit. They talked about making it completely proportional, but then the government would lose income...
Finland's law is simply a reach for money by bureaucrats. I await your comment about The Finnish Republic of Corruption.
Every Oracle agreement includes language that Thou Shalt Not Publish Benchmarks. And they're really serious about it - if you use Oracle DB, you can't publish any benchmarks.
I wonder if this isn't someone's payback
I think you think the average idiot reads as fast as you do...
Nothing like driving down the road and seeing some chick next to you mouthing each word as she holds the phone up to her face...
Give it another 20 years and the social stigma of cellphones should go away and we should see less of shit like people complaining that a cellphone can be used anywhere, etc.
I know you want to feel alternative, alienated, and outside the mainstream, but there really is no "social stigma" of using a cellphone. Soccer moms and grandmothers have them. You're just like everyone else.
One of the comments on Schneier's site was that Serpent/Twofish was largely scored down because of speed (which was one of the design criteria). If more rounds are added to AES, its advantage over Serpent may vanish.
...if you buy a plot in a walled garden, don't be upset that the gardener is fussy what people can plant in it.
I honestly don't understand why anyone is surprised by this. How exactly did you think Apple was going to behave? Are there other situations where a big bureaucracy has to approve something based on its own changing, arbitrary, vague guidelines that have worked out well?
How to solve most of our problems: 1.Lots of nuclear plants. 2.Cure aging.
Odd. I would think that a disease that killed off some sizable percentage of the human race would be far more beneficial - eliminates overpopulation, environmental burden eliminated, people no longer have to live in marginal areas, etc. Downsides, too, but not as many as near-immortality's skyrocketing populations surely, eh?
Indeed. I've never understood the western need to demonize dog meat consumption. Granted I wouldn't eat it myself as it's just a little too ingrained as a cultural taboo for me.
To sweep up debris. He also made the universe appear 13.5 billion years old when upon creation 6000 years ago.
Planets don't have a job. They aren't there to act as a debris sweep even if they do sweep debris.
Wow. You infer fundamentalism, creationism, and a whole lot of other things from just the rather mild comment that gas giants "are there to act as a magnet for comet/asteroids so they don't end up near us". I don't recall the GP saying that God created the Earth in 7 days, that he believes Bishop Usher's creationist timeline, or even that he believes in intelligent design, much less God.
You think maybe, just maybe, he was speaking colloquially? Humorously? Not intending to make a profound statement but rather just shooting the breeze?
How big exactly is that chip on your shoulder? You might want to wipe the foam off your mouth and have a beer or drop a tranq, because you're kind of on hair trigger overload.
And honestly I'm not all that worried about backing up with modern operating systems.
Modern operating systems don't protect you from:
Oops. Didn't mean to delete that.
Oops, my wife/kids didn't mean to delete that.
A bug in the new release of Gnomovision ate my existing Gnomovision files.
Break-ins, electronic or otherwise.
Your hard drive eats itself.
Fire, flood, etc.
Best thing at the moment for home backup is to mount an encrypted external hard drive and copy to it, then take it off-site. If you think that sounds over the top, then I predict one day you'll be sitting at your terminal saying "aw, shit".
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And suddenly, I want a nook.
...because you want to access B&N's book-buying servers to buy ebooks? If you all think this device will be a free portable Internet connection, think again. AT&T will shortly make all traffic from the Nook only routable to the B&N servers as originally intended. At that point, all you'll have is a Nook without a warranty.
Well, saying that he 'needs to STFU' could be interpreted as meaning you want him to STFU.
After hearing this, I certainly do want him to STFU. Why Cooperation With RMS Is Impossible
You do realize that America has over 2 million of its people in jail, with nearly zero in there for political reasons.
LOL! Fixed that for you. 99.9% of prisoners are not violating drug laws out of any sort of political statement or act of civic disobedience. The vast majority are scumbags who are trying to make an easy buck. Let's not make them all Nelson Mandela or something.
While that has happened hard disks have become only a little faster.
"A little faster" is a bit of an exaggeration...see a 1994 hard drive. 13MB/sec vs. 2009's 6000 MB/sec on SAS. In 1994, people were running what, 50Mhz PCs? They haven't improved by the same amount, nor has the speed or quantity of RAM in the typical machine.
Watch Amory Lovin's TED talk.
No. Every single time I've watched a TED talk, it's been some guy who presents a half-dozen interesting observations, and then it ends. I have never seen one where the guy ties it all together into a single conclusion, presents a theory and evidence, or steps to "and then we should". It's the intellectual equivalent to some drunk at the bar telling amusing anecdotes. Seriously, I've seen maybe 20 of them. Last one was Misha Glenny. He told four or five interesting stories highlighted wiht charts, and then stopped. There was no real structure to the thing. They ALL seem to be like that. I refuse to watch more.
Looks like U.S. military is already at least 1, if not 2 generations ahead of its allies. Besides, its enemies still have WWII-level technologies.
Does it really need to spend so much billions on finding -yet- more advanced stealth technology?
Are you volunteering to fly missions?
Yes, the military complex creates jobs, but there are jobs in OTHER SECTORS as well, which imho are more beneficial to the overall well being of human civilization.
There is nothing as beneficial to mankind as Pax Americana.
I'm not sure why you're all talking about RAID - the article is about file formats.
This truly is the filesystem every other one is playing catchup with.
My fanboi meter is pegged.
You have just taken the stylish word 'boxen' to new heights!
Fixed that for you.
Gear the punishment to sales. For example, in Europe the traffic fines are related to the person's income.
LOL! Not so much...
First, it's only Finland. Second, there's a minimum floor, which is set rather painful for the poor. So gee, looking a little closer, it's not quite so fair, is it? If you're poor, you still pay a minimum ($106 as I recall), but if you're rich, the sky's the limit. They talked about making it completely proportional, but then the government would lose income...
Finland's law is simply a reach for money by bureaucrats. I await your comment about The Finnish Republic of Corruption.
Every Oracle agreement includes language that Thou Shalt Not Publish Benchmarks. And they're really serious about it - if you use Oracle DB, you can't publish any benchmarks. I wonder if this isn't someone's payback
Worth watching, if for no other reason than the quality of production.
George Lucas tricked me with that line, and I still have nightmares...
I think you think the average idiot reads as fast as you do... Nothing like driving down the road and seeing some chick next to you mouthing each word as she holds the phone up to her face...
Give it another 20 years and the social stigma of cellphones should go away and we should see less of shit like people complaining that a cellphone can be used anywhere, etc.
I know you want to feel alternative, alienated, and outside the mainstream, but there really is no "social stigma" of using a cellphone. Soccer moms and grandmothers have them. You're just like everyone else.
One of the comments on Schneier's site was that Serpent/Twofish was largely scored down because of speed (which was one of the design criteria). If more rounds are added to AES, its advantage over Serpent may vanish.
That's only because my last boss hasn't worked in cryptanalysis (yet). If he ever does, we will all be safe again.
Are you trying to impress us by being mysterious? Or do you often write online posts that only you understand?
Not all schools have it as required reading.
"Not all" as in 90%+. 1984 is an entertaining popular read, but hardly one of the great classics for the ages.
They are five attempted proofs that have all been refuted quite substantially... by philosophers.
Pop philosophers, maybe. The ill-educated Dawkins of the world, perhaps. Men of learning...not so much.
The cosmological argument, more commonly insists that everything must have a first cause, therefore god - yet ignore the special pleading for gods.
And already you're lost.
On top of this they are all deistic, not theistic, proofs. And deism is, for practical purposes, indistinguishable from atheism.
If you seriously think that, then you're too confused to bother with.
...if you buy a plot in a walled garden, don't be upset that the gardener is fussy what people can plant in it.
I honestly don't understand why anyone is surprised by this. How exactly did you think Apple was going to behave? Are there other situations where a big bureaucracy has to approve something based on its own changing, arbitrary, vague guidelines that have worked out well?
How to solve most of our problems: 1.Lots of nuclear plants. 2.Cure aging.
Odd. I would think that a disease that killed off some sizable percentage of the human race would be far more beneficial - eliminates overpopulation, environmental burden eliminated, people no longer have to live in marginal areas, etc. Downsides, too, but not as many as near-immortality's skyrocketing populations surely, eh?
The onus is on religious people to probe there is a god: http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/Negative_proof
So far, they have failed miserably.
I can think of five good proofs right off the top of my head...
Of course, you'd need a bit of training in philosophy to understand them.
But so many atheists here are blaming Religion.
Arguing in the Internet is all atheists have.
Which is perhaps why it's not surprising that they are a tiny minority in the world. 92% of the world is non-atheistic.
Indeed. I've never understood the western need to demonize dog meat consumption. Granted I wouldn't eat it myself as it's just a little too ingrained as a cultural taboo for me.
Asked and answered.
To sweep up debris. He also made the universe appear 13.5 billion years old when upon creation 6000 years ago.
Planets don't have a job. They aren't there to act as a debris sweep even if they do sweep debris.
Wow. You infer fundamentalism, creationism, and a whole lot of other things from just the rather mild comment that gas giants "are there to act as a magnet for comet/asteroids so they don't end up near us". I don't recall the GP saying that God created the Earth in 7 days, that he believes Bishop Usher's creationist timeline, or even that he believes in intelligent design, much less God.
You think maybe, just maybe, he was speaking colloquially? Humorously? Not intending to make a profound statement but rather just shooting the breeze?
How big exactly is that chip on your shoulder? You might want to wipe the foam off your mouth and have a beer or drop a tranq, because you're kind of on hair trigger overload.
And honestly I'm not all that worried about backing up with modern operating systems.
Modern operating systems don't protect you from:
Best thing at the moment for home backup is to mount an encrypted external hard drive and copy to it, then take it off-site. If you think that sounds over the top, then I predict one day you'll be sitting at your terminal saying "aw, shit".