The problem would be how to make a distributed system that can't be poisoned or decieved by an attacker.
One of the nice attributes of having a central server is that BlueSecurity could validate that the site was a legitimate target before unleashing the flurry of opt-out requests.
The word you intended was 'Converse', not 'Contrapositive'. If a conditional statement is true, then the contrapositive is always true. The truth value of the converse is undetermined.
When theory and practice disagree, the theory is wrong.
You've got it backwards. Historically, especially in medicine, but in other fields as well, practice never matches theory until the generation that was practicing before the theory was developed is replaced by the generation that was learning to practice once the theory was mature.
Generally speaking, then theory and practice disagree, it's because the practitioners are resistant to re-learning how to apply their craft.
If a theory is in fact wrong, it generally gets replaced by a new theory before the practitioners get a chance to adopt it.
By releasing the PS3 at this initially high price, then the machine will always be perceived as having a higher value even once the price has been reduced to a level closer to that as the 360.
Sony will have no trouble selling all their first PS3s to the early adopters who've already spent $4k for an HDTV. Then the price will come down and they'll sell to the next tier of consumers. By the time the PS3 is in the $300 range, Sony will have reduced production costs and will be making money on it, and MS will still be selling the 360 for $200+ and, probably, at a loss.
Nintendo will have been making money hand over fist since the beginning, and we'll all laugh at how the 360 failed to get world-wide traction exactly like the XBox did.
The 360 might look like a good deal now, but it'll be treated like a budget machine compared to the PS3 3 years from now.
That said, I'm still probably going to get the nintendo.
I play my console most of the time, but every couple of months I burn out on it and end up playing nethack for a couple of weeks until I'm ready to play the console again.
Sometimes I'll play ADOM or Zangband, but usually it's nethack.
If the console had more turn-based games, I probably wouldn't burn out as often.
I can send a signal via spread spectrum or ultra wide band (yes, I realize they're not the same thing) for very little energy. The amount of energy it would require for you to jam my signal would be astronomical. The best you could hope for is to degrade my signal to reduce my throughput.
This is why the military likes these technologies so much (especially ultra wide band).
It's my understanding that planes get hit by lightning all the time and are largely uneffected by it. Something about charge staying on the outside of a conductor (wonder what happens to the airplane if it doesn't have a conductive outer shell?).
At least Intel makes documentation available so that open source drivers can be written for their kit. I'll take that over ATI-blob supported hardware.
The controller for the 360 gives me problems if I play too long. The problem is that there's only one way to hold the controller that lets you use the trigger buttons and the analog stick at the same time (I suppose this might depend on hand size).
At least with the PS2 controller, I can adjust my grip on the controller without having problems using the buttons. This lets me play all night without any hand fatigue. I start getting tired with the 360 controller in less than an hour.
Exactly.. when you have a warrant or subpoena. Neither of which they have now.
We don't know what they have yet. This is all purely rumor and speculation. Wait until we get some facts before jumping to conclusions about what's going on.
Before migrating my wife to an iBook, I had a couple of occasions to use the restore disc that came with her old HP. Both times it restored the OS to the default state (the way it was configured when she bought the machine) and left her data alone. We never lost any data at all.
That's because you can't outsource construction to another country unless you're willing to relocate whatever it is you're building.
The same goes for teachers and government workers. Oh, and probably truckers, although it's my understanding that the Teamster's union is basically on life-support since most truckers have figured out they can make more on their own than they can in the union.
No, people have always been stupid. Oddly, that seems to have little bearing on the strength of the economy.
High personal debt actually can strengthen the economy as long as jobs are available since people are more motivated to go out and earn something when they owe money (therefore high personal debt, low unemployement is actually a good sign to some). It's only when there's high personal debt and high unemployment that things are bad.
But can't you attach external storage (or transfer stuff to another computer via the network or memory sticks/cards/whatever) for the stuff you no longer need to keep right there on your hard drive?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the only differences between the core and the premium were smaller hard drive, no card media reader, no wifi, and different TV-out.
20G hard drive is huge by console standards (don't know what 60G would be used for. USB wifi and card readers are readily accessible if you decide you need one later on (the core PS3 still has 4 USB ports).
The only way that "Linux is cheaper" is if you go with free community-supported distributions, which don't have the support lifecycle, probably can't support a large userbase of freeloaders, and IMO are already falling way behind RedHat etc.
Would you care to explain where the community-supported distros are falling behind the commercial distros like RedHat?
I would rather have a gun and not need it than find myself without one when the safety of my family is threatened by someone with larcenous or homicidal intent.
Is it your position that I should not have the means to defend myself against someone who is physically more powerful than myself? Seems unfair that only the biggest and the strongest should feel safe from the threats of others.
Having a gun in the house is no more dangerous than having a kitchen knife in the house. Having a gun in my hand is an excellent deterrant to those who might want to take advantage of me or my property.
If everybody were armed, society would be a lot more polite.
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The problem would be how to make a distributed system that can't be poisoned or decieved by
an attacker.
One of the nice attributes of having a central server is that BlueSecurity could validate
that the site was a legitimate target before unleashing the flurry of opt-out requests.
Can you please explain your sig?
The word you intended was 'Converse', not 'Contrapositive'. If a conditional statement
is true, then the contrapositive is always true. The truth value of the converse is
undetermined.
When theory and practice disagree, the theory is wrong.
You've got it backwards. Historically, especially in medicine, but
in other fields as well, practice never matches theory until the
generation that was practicing before the theory was developed is
replaced by the generation that was learning to practice once the
theory was mature.
Generally speaking, then theory and practice disagree, it's because
the practitioners are resistant to re-learning how to apply their craft.
If a theory is in fact wrong, it generally gets replaced by a new
theory before the practitioners get a chance to adopt it.
By releasing the PS3 at this initially high price, then the machine will
always be perceived as having a higher value even once the price has
been reduced to a level closer to that as the 360.
Sony will have no trouble selling all their first PS3s to the early
adopters who've already spent $4k for an HDTV. Then the price will
come down and they'll sell to the next tier of consumers. By the time
the PS3 is in the $300 range, Sony will have reduced production costs
and will be making money on it, and MS will still be selling the 360
for $200+ and, probably, at a loss.
Nintendo will have been making money hand over fist since the beginning,
and we'll all laugh at how the 360 failed to get world-wide traction
exactly like the XBox did.
The 360 might look like a good deal now, but it'll be treated like a
budget machine compared to the PS3 3 years from now.
That said, I'm still probably going to get the nintendo.
I play my console most of the time, but every couple of months I burn out
on it and end up playing nethack for a couple of weeks until I'm ready
to play the console again.
Sometimes I'll play ADOM or Zangband, but usually it's nethack.
If the console had more turn-based games, I probably wouldn't burn out as
often.
I can send a signal via spread spectrum or ultra wide band (yes, I realize they're not the
same thing) for very little energy. The amount of energy it would require for you to jam my
signal would be astronomical. The best you could hope for is to degrade my signal to reduce
my throughput.
This is why the military likes these technologies so much (especially ultra wide band).
It's my understanding that planes get hit by lightning all the time and are largely uneffected
by it. Something about charge staying on the outside of a conductor (wonder what happens to the
airplane if it doesn't have a conductive outer shell?).
The difference is at least partially to protect Apple for fluctuations in currency exchange.
At least Intel makes documentation available so that open source drivers can be written
for their kit. I'll take that over ATI-blob supported hardware.
The controller for the 360 gives me problems if I play too long. The
problem is that there's only one way to hold the controller that lets
you use the trigger buttons and the analog stick at the same time (I
suppose this might depend on hand size).
At least with the PS2 controller, I can adjust my grip on the controller
without having problems using the buttons. This lets me play all night
without any hand fatigue. I start getting tired with the 360 controller
in less than an hour.
Exactly.. when you have a warrant or subpoena. Neither of which they have now.
We don't know what they have yet. This is all purely rumor and speculation. Wait until
we get some facts before jumping to conclusions about what's going on.
I believe that it is exactly these types of concerns that are supposed to be addressed by
congressional oversight of the executive branch.
If there is any meat to this report, you can bet that the democrats will demand hearings.
Then we'll have something to talk about.
The intent is not to punish the journalist, but to identify the leak (and probably
punish the leak if they've broken the law).
Before migrating my wife to an iBook, I had a couple of occasions to use the restore disc that
came with her old HP. Both times it restored the OS to the default state (the way it was
configured when she bought the machine) and left her data alone. We never lost any data at all.
That's because you can't outsource construction to another country
unless you're willing to relocate whatever it is you're building.
The same goes for teachers and government workers. Oh, and probably
truckers, although it's my understanding that the Teamster's union
is basically on life-support since most truckers have figured out
they can make more on their own than they can in the union.
No, people have always been stupid. Oddly, that seems to have little
bearing on the strength of the economy.
High personal debt actually can strengthen the economy as long as jobs
are available since people are more motivated to go out and earn something
when they owe money (therefore high personal debt, low unemployement is
actually a good sign to some). It's only when there's high personal debt
and high unemployment that things are bad.
But can't you attach external storage (or transfer stuff to another
computer via the network or memory sticks/cards/whatever) for the stuff
you no longer need to keep right there on your hard drive?
the core model is far crappier than the premium
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the only differences between
the core and the premium were smaller hard drive, no card media reader,
no wifi, and different TV-out.
20G hard drive is huge by console standards (don't know what 60G would
be used for.
USB wifi and card readers are readily accessible if you decide you need one later on (the core PS3 still has 4 USB ports).
Is the TV-out difference really a big deal?
What am I missing?
The only way that "Linux is cheaper" is if you go with free community-supported distributions, which don't have the support lifecycle, probably can't support a large userbase of freeloaders, and IMO are already falling way behind RedHat etc.
Would you care to explain where the community-supported distros are
falling behind the commercial distros like RedHat?
Gentoo the distro and Gentoo the community are both bigger, stronger and
more mature than ever.
You just don't hear about it as much on slashdot because all the
fanboys have moved from Gentoo to other distros (perhaps Ubuntu?).
When was the last time you or someone in your household cut themselves
with a knife in the kitchen?
When was the last time you or someone in your household accidently
shot themselves or someone near them?
How many people do you know who've had to go to the ER for stitches
for a cut of some sort?
How many people do you know who've had to go to the ER for a gunshot wound?
Ask anyone who has ever worked in an ER which they see more of.
I would rather have a gun and not need it than find myself without one
when the safety of my family is threatened by someone with larcenous or
homicidal intent.
Is it your position that I should not have the means to defend myself
against someone who is physically more powerful than myself? Seems unfair
that only the biggest and the strongest should feel safe from the threats
of others.
If you know there's a needle in the haystack, it is trivial to find it given enough time and resources.
Having a gun in the house is no more dangerous than having a kitchen
knife in the house. Having a gun in my hand is an excellent deterrant
to those who might want to take advantage of me or my property.
If everybody were armed, society would be a lot more polite.