"Upstart" is what your TechDesk news editor calls it when 1) he doesn't use it, and 2) he doesn't like it. I guess Linux will be an "upstart" right up until Microsoft starts selling its own distro. And on that note, I'm going to trademark "Windows LX" just in case.
Readers are reminded of this/. discussion of the matter from April 7.
Regarding networks, it should be clear by now that if you build it they will come. Virii, that is. When are people going to figure that one out? Worse, the hosts in this case probably didn't even know they were vulnerable. Another technological trap, sprung. Really makes me look forward to the day when the networks are more homogenious than they already are.
Here's a fun one: If it has an Airport card installed then maybe it's waking on wireless LAN, getting a random ping from the desk lamp. But since you are already using CAT5 we can rule that one out, right?
Cultural Differences. I work with a dev team in India from San Jose, CA. They are smart guys and quick, but extremely abrupt. They communicate in English but you very well may not understand half of what they write via email or chat. And I have found them to be a furiously independent bunch. They'll do it their way, to say the least. You can make it work if you are patient, and just possibly you will be a Better Person for it. Good luck.
Joachim Kempin was thinking out loud, so they say, and nothing came of it. The truth is, these kinds of discussions go on all the time in business. Business is all about relationship building and sometimes you use a carrot and sometimes you use a stick to keep partners in line (and a lot of business people have no great skill other than creatively wielding carrot/stick, IMHO).
What gets M$ into trouble is that they have a monopoly and a one-sided advantage because of it, so their "relationship building" always looks like Hitler invading Poland. You can draw out that comparison to it's logical conclusion if you care to.
I think RIAA will *still* freak out even if it is a LAN thing rather than a WAN thing. 1) There are some really huge LANs out there with Macs on them, such at universities, and 2) It's still an MP3, it's still running on a personal computer, it's still being served over a network. I don't imagine they will go after Apple without being very careful, but they might go after end pirates...er, users. You can just imagine the RIAA "courtesy letter" univeristy IT departments will get new week.
Apple has had to split support and development across 2 Mac OS, as have many of their 3rd party developers. Now, there is one platform again. Developers who have been slow to support OSX will now have to move their asses or drop the Mac. Some will of course do that latter. It will be interesting to see what remains.
Depending on what you choose to believe, we've already been exposed to contamination. Researchers collecting meteorites in the Antarctic claim that they detect on and in the stones the fossil remains of Martian bacteria. They don't claim to have found any living ones, but think of this; if we can find fossil life inside earth rocks, and also related live life growing all over said rocks, then why not the same with Martian rocks, including meteorites? Maybe we were "contaminate" a long time ago, and it either worked ('We walk amoung you') or it didn't and would not in any case. So I guess I'm not worried, either way. Later contamination would just be a family reunion of sorts.
It's true, a majority are "true believers" in their religion of choice. And that's not just the soft sciences either, but areas like cosmology, physics and chemistry (which owes it's existence to early alchemy). A lot of technology people are hard-core Pagans and accept all kinds of trippy stuff (including ESP and spiritism, to a degree).
I long ago gave up wondering at this, though when younger I thought those people were stupid. Now I'm a pagan warlock biologist web developer, and never think twice about how odd that must look to others.
I think that so long as people are allowed to think they will ask interesting questions. And when some of the questions have no ready answer they will search. And when they search in freedom there is no way to know what they will come up with on their own, or how they will view the world afterward. And the path they take will, in the end, have made perfect sense to them and totally justify where they arrive. It's hard to look at the results and understand the journey, but really it is the journey that matters. Cliché, I know, but I've been there.
Look at the rest of the site, it drips with innocent stupidity. They are trying to shut down another web site, one they think is anti-Falwell, which if you want a parody go there; it's a total gut-buster.
Come on people, get your heads out of the sand. The Internet is crawling with stuff like this, and worse. The Fundies have Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson totally fisting us off in Washington. The 10 Commandments in the schools, give me a break.
I'd beseech the Goddess for well-placed lightning bolt, but hey, that would just play into their hands.
The author set us up for this one. Every book read in a lifetime? Every word ever written? How about every memory, every thought unspoken, every dream. How about every meaningful configuration of every neuronal region in all parts of your brain this very moment? I don't know what anyone would do with that stuff, or how they would get it out of my head (thought they come close with some kinds of diagnostic scanning.) But if they could, and if they did (and if I let them) then you know what, 100 TB would maybe hold it. And if you do rapid multiple iterations to average the data over a few seconds, you get near a few petabytes I'll wager.
We spend all our time cramming cr*p into our heads, reading and watching, and the few gifted people spend some time getting cr*p out and on paper, audio tape and video. But imagine, what entertainment or educational value can be gained from sharing the thoughts of other's directly? I look at (digital) pictures of my children from years past and remember, and I have videos I can watch on TV and I can feel close to that time again, but what if I could actually see them again, in my brain, because I saved my retinal/visual cortex signals of their birthdays when they were young, including the smells and the emotions? And if I could do that, would I then allow them to download me?
Ethical issues aside, the central nervous system is the next great hack.
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"Upstart" is what your TechDesk news editor calls it when 1) he doesn't use it, and 2) he doesn't like it. I guess Linux will be an "upstart" right up until Microsoft starts selling its own distro. And on that note, I'm going to trademark "Windows LX" just in case.
Readers are reminded of this /. discussion of the matter from April 7.
Regarding networks, it should be clear by now that if you build it they will come. Virii, that is. When are people going to figure that one out? Worse, the hosts in this case probably didn't even know they were vulnerable. Another technological trap, sprung. Really makes me look forward to the day when the networks are more homogenious than they already are.
Here's a fun one: If it has an Airport card installed then maybe it's waking on wireless LAN, getting a random ping from the desk lamp. But since you are already using CAT5 we can rule that one out, right?
Cultural Differences. I work with a dev team in India from San Jose, CA. They are smart guys and quick, but extremely abrupt. They communicate in English but you very well may not understand half of what they write via email or chat. And I have found them to be a furiously independent bunch. They'll do it their way, to say the least. You can make it work if you are patient, and just possibly you will be a Better Person for it. Good luck.
Joachim Kempin was thinking out loud, so they say, and nothing came of it. The truth is, these kinds of discussions go on all the time in business. Business is all about relationship building and sometimes you use a carrot and sometimes you use a stick to keep partners in line (and a lot of business people have no great skill other than creatively wielding carrot/stick, IMHO).
What gets M$ into trouble is that they have a monopoly and a one-sided advantage because of it, so their "relationship building" always looks like Hitler invading Poland. You can draw out that comparison to it's logical conclusion if you care to.
I think RIAA will *still* freak out even if it is a LAN thing rather than a WAN thing. 1) There are some really huge LANs out there with Macs on them, such at universities, and 2) It's still an MP3, it's still running on a personal computer, it's still being served over a network. I don't imagine they will go after Apple without being very careful, but they might go after end pirates...er, users. You can just imagine the RIAA "courtesy letter" univeristy IT departments will get new week.
Apple has had to split support and development across 2 Mac OS, as have many of their 3rd party developers. Now, there is one platform again. Developers who have been slow to support OSX will now have to move their asses or drop the Mac. Some will of course do that latter. It will be interesting to see what remains.
Depending on what you choose to believe, we've already been exposed to contamination. Researchers collecting meteorites in the Antarctic claim that they detect on and in the stones the fossil remains of Martian bacteria. They don't claim to have found any living ones, but think of this; if we can find fossil life inside earth rocks, and also related live life growing all over said rocks, then why not the same with Martian rocks, including meteorites? Maybe we were "contaminate" a long time ago, and it either worked ('We walk amoung you') or it didn't and would not in any case. So I guess I'm not worried, either way. Later contamination would just be a family reunion of sorts.
It's true, a majority are "true believers" in their religion of choice. And that's not just the soft sciences either, but areas like cosmology, physics and chemistry (which owes it's existence to early alchemy). A lot of technology people are hard-core Pagans and accept all kinds of trippy stuff (including ESP and spiritism, to a degree).
I long ago gave up wondering at this, though when younger I thought those people were stupid. Now I'm a pagan warlock biologist web developer, and never think twice about how odd that must look to others.
I think that so long as people are allowed to think they will ask interesting questions. And when some of the questions have no ready answer they will search. And when they search in freedom there is no way to know what they will come up with on their own, or how they will view the world afterward. And the path they take will, in the end, have made perfect sense to them and totally justify where they arrive. It's hard to look at the results and understand the journey, but really it is the journey that matters. Cliché, I know, but I've been there.
Blessed Be.
Look at the rest of the site, it drips with innocent stupidity. They are trying to shut down another web site, one they think is anti-Falwell, which if you want a parody go there; it's a total gut-buster.
Come on people, get your heads out of the sand. The Internet is crawling with stuff like this, and worse. The Fundies have Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson totally fisting us off in Washington. The 10 Commandments in the schools, give me a break.
I'd beseech the Goddess for well-placed lightning bolt, but hey, that would just play into their hands.
The author set us up for this one. Every book read in a lifetime? Every word ever written? How about every memory, every thought unspoken, every dream. How about every meaningful configuration of every neuronal region in all parts of your brain this very moment? I don't know what anyone would do with that stuff, or how they would get it out of my head (thought they come close with some kinds of diagnostic scanning.) But if they could, and if they did (and if I let them) then you know what, 100 TB would maybe hold it. And if you do rapid multiple iterations to average the data over a few seconds, you get near a few petabytes I'll wager.
We spend all our time cramming cr*p into our heads, reading and watching, and the few gifted people spend some time getting cr*p out and on paper, audio tape and video. But imagine, what entertainment or educational value can be gained from sharing the thoughts of other's directly? I look at (digital) pictures of my children from years past and remember, and I have videos I can watch on TV and I can feel close to that time again, but what if I could actually see them again, in my brain, because I saved my retinal/visual cortex signals of their birthdays when they were young, including the smells and the emotions? And if I could do that, would I then allow them to download me?
Ethical issues aside, the central nervous system is the next great hack.
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