Or it could be dangerous as in my case when someone accidentally pressed scroll lock on a university mail server on the console that was displaying logs and several days later the swap was full of log messages that were buffered (in the kernel?).
If you ask people what do they think about the making of a certain computer application they will probably say that they thing you "told" the computer what to do and it went ahead and did it.
Same goes with computer graphics. They think you say "get me a field with such and such things in it" and it does. And while in some cases that's true it certainly isn' t the general truth.
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Or it could be dangerous as in my case when someone accidentally pressed scroll lock on a university mail server on the console that was displaying logs and several days later the swap was full of log messages that were buffered (in the kernel?).
"This is chubacka"
The guy at the webpage says that since he has been slashdoted tha attempts to delete the document (created with
What does that say about the slashdot community as netizens.
(Granted, perhaps his traffic was also increased proportionately, though that is most unlikely.)
If you ask people what do they think about the making of a certain computer application they will probably say that they thing you "told" the computer what to do and it went ahead and did it.
Same goes with computer graphics. They think you say "get me a field with such and such things in it" and it does. And while in some cases that's true it certainly isn' t the general truth.
I guess though that when you DO have a working, well tempered self-driving car that you could then take his "brain" and mass-produce it verbatim.
I was halfway through "Mostly Harmless"
I don't think I can finish the book now and laugh at a joke.