I have to disagree. Look around you. Life doesn't reproduce at the expense of all else; it goes until a balance is obtained with other living things. However, sometimes things get out of hand and you get exhaustion of natural resources and the species dies back some or entirely.
I suspect that once computer viruses start exhibiting evolutionary-like behavior they will behave just like their biological cousins; sometimes reproducing at a frenetic pace and crippling and destroying everything in their wake, and lots of dormant viruses stuck on the wrong sort of OS, or small viruses that reproduce at low rates and aren't malicious.
Hardly a fair comparrison, when the Pentium rigs are using RDRAM instead of PC100 SDRAM(Athalons). At $1000/128M simm. Check the specs and comments by the authors at sharkey.. anandtech.com has a different set of comparrison systems that put the two systems neck and neck.
Besides, for $1000 you could get a 1GHz kryo cooled system and put a big gap between the Athalon and Pentium systems.
But eventually it will be more profitable to jump to new technologies. Look at monitors; there have been dozens of new display technologies over the past 20-30 years aimed at replacing crts and similar to CPUs, manufacturers keep refining the current technology to keep pace, but LCD displays have finally broke through onto desktops and they're starting to appear everywhere.
Sure, computer technologies die hard, but they do die eventually.:)
I agree, this is one of the funniest interviews I've ever read on wired. I'm curious how this interview was conducted, because it sounds like they got Rob on the phone and talked with him for 5 minutes and copied it word for word onto the web.
I love the responses to the question about being a millionaire:
WN: Yeah. "With the acquisition, Slashdot founder Rob Malda becomes the Internet's latest 23-year-old millionaire." Is that right?
Same here, I've been using RedHat since 4.2, but when I went to by a new installation cd with the 2.2 kernel I just couldn't stomach spending $79.99 for RedHat, when SuSE(6.1) was only $29.99, so I gave it a spin. I like some things about it, but I was used to some of the ways Redhat did things. Little things, but they add up; e.g. if you have a dynamic ip, Redhat sets your machine domainname using reverse lookup automatically, SuSE has no such builtin script, etc.
But overall I think it's a nice package and it has everything I need. And color ANSI kicks ass!;)
Think about it. If you were an AI made of electronics wouldn't you want/need humans around to take care of you and do things you couldn't yet do yourself?
You can grow neurons from just about any species in culture (in a petri dish) from immortal cell lines. Seems like that's how you would grow them for a real world application (not pulling them out of leeches one at a time.;). I think I can sleep at night with a cultured plate of neurons in my computer.:)
of course, there are lots of examples of things that human brains are really good at, but there are also lots of simple everyday things human brains aren't very good at.
example, plain old math. Start a stop watch running and time how long it takes you to multiply these two numbers together (without using any outside aids like paper and pencil).
3456 x 78 =?
It take a while doesn't it? most people have trouble remembering passwords, phone numbers, account numbers, license plates, etc, etc. There are lots of things brains are really good at, and there are lots that they aren't.(btw the answer is 269568)
If you reread the article you'll notice they really haven't taken a step backwards between the K6-3 and K7, they both have large 128KB full speed caches on the die (compared to 32KB on the Pentium II/III), the 1/2 vs 1/3 speed backside cache will probably not slow things down much.
-P
Netscape is pretty stable for me
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I am running netscape 4.51 and 4.07 (I think) and they are both pretty stable considering how much I use them. Generally I only crash them once a week, if that often, and generally it's something weird about the page.. I'm having a hard time believing you guys are crashing netscape every few minutes.:) Although a couple versions crashed on me whenever I hit a "mailto" link, but they're gone now.
sorry about that extra post, I was trying to get less then and greater then signs to show up and accidentally hit submit instead of preview. If you can't figure it out the password is the leading html tag in an html document.
Ick, what a way to mention your html editor when you can't even generate readable html in your post. I'm going back to bed.
I know exactly what you're looking for, and the closest thing is a simple Perl/javascript based HTML editor and site management tool I wrote a few years ago named QuickEdit for the University of Rochester. It allows you to edit a web site as you browse it, preview changes, upload images, rename files, automatically keeps backups, spellchecker, etc. It can be set up to allow multiple people to maintain a site from any web browser that supports frames and javascript.
I use it to maintain several web sites, and one of the servers has a public login for people to try it out:
I know exactly what you're looking for, and the closest thing is a simple Perl/javascript based HTML editor and site management tool I wrote a few years ago named QuickEdit for the University of Rochester. It allows you to edit a web site as you browse it, preview changes, upload images, rename files, automatically keeps backups, etc. It can be set up to allow multiple people to maintain a site from any web browser that supports frames and javascript.
I use it to maintain several web sites, and one of the servers has a public login for people to try it out:
login: guest
pass: <html>
Don't upload warez to the site!
If you want the source code just email me and I'll give you the latest set of Perl scripts and the installer script. Just don't redistribute it.
I agree with the firewall idea, to allow amateur linux administrators to do what they want and still protect the security of your network. But as far as dictating that they can't have their linux boxes on the network unless there is a firewall wont fly at most universities. These are faculty, grads and postdocs doing research and running linux and you can't tell them they can't run linux without a firewall any more then you could tell them you can't answer the phone unless you speak in German.
Also, in general the UNIX adminstrators in a university are not the same group that runs the ethernet (telecom), so their hands may be tied in terms of what they can demand from the faculty, staff and students.
Screw Intel? No thanks. Down with AMD.
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>The K6-3 has ONBOARD L2 cache. It's going to be slightly faster. Note: I said SLIGHTLY. The >K6-3 reviews I've seen have shown they're faster than equivallent P2's by only a VERY slight >margin. A couple points one way or the other does not a spanking make. Definitely not what I'd >call "considerable".
No, the "considerable" is the difference in price. In terms of Price/Performance AMD always beats Intel. But in terms of pure performance, AMD still lags behind Intel's high end chips. But, they have never been closer then they are right now to overtaking Intel's lead.
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I have to disagree. Look around you. Life doesn't reproduce at the expense of all else; it goes until a balance is obtained with other living things. However, sometimes things get out of hand and you get exhaustion of natural resources and the species dies back some or entirely.
:)
I suspect that once computer viruses start exhibiting evolutionary-like behavior they will behave just like their biological cousins; sometimes reproducing at a frenetic pace and crippling and destroying everything in their wake, and lots of dormant viruses stuck on the wrong sort of OS, or small viruses that reproduce at low rates and aren't malicious.
Just like life; variety.
I had to wait 'til xmas to make sure I didn't buy anything I might get as a gift. Now I can get back to my new addiction. ^_^
Hardly a fair comparrison, when the Pentium rigs are using RDRAM instead of PC100 SDRAM(Athalons). At $1000/128M simm. Check the specs and comments by the authors at sharkey.. anandtech.com has a different set of comparrison systems that put the two systems neck and neck.
Besides, for $1000 you could get a 1GHz kryo cooled system and put a big gap between the Athalon and Pentium systems.
I can't believe I actually measured this.. but I had a ruler and a penny.. :)
The penny is approximately 3/4 of an inch in diameter.. so r=.375, a=pi*r^2, a=3.14*(0.375)^2
a=0.44
x/400 = 0.44
x = 400*0.44
x = 176
approximately 176/400s of an inch.
hehe.. ^_^
-Paul
But eventually it will be more profitable to jump to new technologies. Look at monitors; there have been dozens of new display technologies over the past 20-30 years aimed at replacing crts and similar to CPUs, manufacturers keep refining the current technology to keep pace, but LCD displays have finally broke through onto desktops and they're starting to appear everywhere.
:)
Sure, computer technologies die hard, but they do die eventually.
-Paul
I was thinking the exact same thing. ^_-
-Paul
I agree, this is one of the funniest interviews I've ever read on wired. I'm curious how this interview was conducted, because it sounds like they got Rob on the phone and talked with him for 5 minutes and copied it word for word onto the web.
:)
I love the responses to the question about being a millionaire:
WN: Yeah. "With the acquisition, Slashdot founder Rob Malda becomes the Internet's latest 23-year-old millionaire." Is that right?
Malda: I don't know. Er, I am 23.
WN: And the millionaire part?
Malda: Yeah, I didn't know that.
hehe
-Paul
Same here, I've been using RedHat since 4.2, but when I went to by a new installation cd with the 2.2 kernel I just couldn't stomach spending $79.99 for RedHat, when SuSE(6.1) was only $29.99, so I gave it a spin. I like some things about it, but I was used to some of the ways Redhat did things. Little things, but they add up; e.g. if you have a dynamic ip, Redhat sets your machine domainname using reverse lookup automatically, SuSE has no such builtin script, etc.
;)
But overall I think it's a nice package and it has everything I need. And color ANSI kicks ass!
-Paul
Think about it. If you were an AI made of electronics wouldn't you want/need humans around to take care of you and do things you couldn't yet do yourself?
:)
That's what I will^H^H^H^H would do.
You can grow neurons from just about any species in culture (in a petri dish) from immortal cell lines. Seems like that's how you would grow them for a real world application (not pulling them out of leeches one at a time. ;). I think I can sleep at night with a cultured plate of neurons in my computer. :)
-P
of course, there are lots of examples of things that human brains are really good at, but there are also lots of simple everyday things human brains aren't very good at.
example, plain old math. Start a stop watch running and time how long it takes you to multiply these two numbers together (without using any outside aids like paper and pencil).
3456 x 78 =?
It take a while doesn't it? most people have trouble remembering passwords, phone numbers, account numbers, license plates, etc, etc. There are lots of things brains are really good at, and there are lots that they aren't.(btw the answer is 269568)
-P
If you reread the article you'll notice they really haven't taken a step backwards between the K6-3 and K7, they both have large 128KB full speed caches on the die (compared to 32KB on the Pentium II/III), the 1/2 vs 1/3 speed backside cache will probably not slow things down much.
-P
I am running netscape 4.51 and 4.07 (I think) and they are both pretty stable considering how much I use them. Generally I only crash them once a week, if that often, and generally it's something weird about the page.. I'm having a hard time believing you guys are crashing netscape every few minutes. :) Although a couple versions crashed on me whenever I hit a "mailto" link, but they're gone now.
Ja.
-Paul
sorry about that extra post, I was trying to get less then and greater then signs to show up and accidentally hit submit instead of preview. If you can't figure it out the password is the leading html tag in an html document.
Ick, what a way to mention your html editor when you can't even generate readable html in your post. I'm going back to bed.
I use it to maintain several web sites, and one of the servers has a public login for people to try it out:
Don't upload warez to the site!If you want the source code just email me and I'll give you the latest set of Perl scripts and the installer script. Just don't redistribute it.
Ja.
-Paul
I use it to maintain several web sites, and one of the servers has a public login for people to try it out:
login: guest
pass: <html>
Don't upload warez to the site!
If you want the source code just email me and I'll give you the latest set of Perl scripts and the installer script. Just don't redistribute it.
Ja.
-Paul
I agree with the firewall idea, to allow amateur linux administrators to do what they want and still protect the security of your network. But as far as dictating that they can't have their linux boxes on the network unless there is a firewall wont fly at most universities. These are faculty, grads and postdocs doing research and running linux and you can't tell them they can't run linux without a firewall any more then you could tell them you can't answer the phone unless you speak in German.
Also, in general the UNIX adminstrators in a university are not the same group that runs the ethernet (telecom), so their hands may be tied in terms of what they can demand from the faculty, staff and students.
>The K6-3 has ONBOARD L2 cache. It's going to be slightly faster. Note: I said SLIGHTLY. The >K6-3 reviews I've seen have shown they're faster than equivallent P2's by only a VERY slight >margin. A couple points one way or the other does not a spanking make. Definitely not what I'd >call "considerable".
No, the "considerable" is the difference in price. In terms of Price/Performance AMD always beats Intel. But in terms of pure performance, AMD still lags behind Intel's high end chips. But, they have never been closer then they are right now to overtaking Intel's lead.
-Paul