I wonder how many teraflops Deep Thought could have done?"
Who cares, I wonder what the fps in quake 3 would be!:)
You wouldn't like the result...
Deep thought, I want to play qua....
Done! You would have gotten 32 frags and your friend would have gotten 38. You would lose. Would you like to play again? No, don't answer that, I already know. DONE! This time you would have beaten your friend by 4 frags.
For example, you won't see some Japanese Guy driving around in an Escalade with his girlfriend, "just cause".
Ironically, it's quite a common sight to see Japanese kids driving around in huge American monsters -- with the steering wheel on the wrong side for Japan even! -- "just cause" they think it looks cool.
I wonder what exactly defines a "supercomputer". Wouldn't SETI@Home count? Or in a more abstract sense, all of Slashdot... Except, I suppose, where normal supercomputers are designed to model the destruction of the universe, the "Slashdot machine" is designed to cause it.
4) Hubristic scientists playing God calling down the wrath of Heaven
You call this a scientifically valid reason?
In fact, it's the exact opposite of a reason. We humans were given the gift of genetic manipulation by the almighty and to NOT use it would be an affront to God!
Get plenty of responses. But I think your argument is a little one sided. My point would be we are all ignorant of the long term effects of rampant and unchecked use of genetic modifacation. And that alone is enough reason to consider moving carefully. Progress, sure but don't deny your own ignorance.
I, for one, don't deny the ignornace of man... but I'm willing to bet the farm that the adaptability and inginuity of man will always be able stay one step ahead of whatever environmental catastrophy we cause.
If you don't believe that, then what's the point of humanity anyway? i.e. If we can't handle our own creations we certianly aren't capable of handling natural catastrophies and are thus doomed anyway.
Can you imagine what kind of world we would be living in if the early industrialists concerned themselves with the harm that would be caused by thier machines? We'd all be starving in huts and dying of small pox. I'd take death by genetic glowing zebra fish over that any day.
'Flamebait'? Not really; it's the way things are done in China. Sometimes people get so blinded that they assume any culture (i.e. Chinese) that differs to American culture is automatically "evil" and "oppressed", rather than actually practising tolerance for the fact that other cultures are different and not automatically better or worse. Perhaps we could have a bit more genuine tolerance here?
'Flamebait'? Not really, it's the way I do things in my head. Sometimes people get so blinded that they assume any person (i.e. Child molesting murderer) that differs to Normal people is automatically "evil" and "oppressive", rather than actually practising tolerance for the fact that other people are different and not automatically better or worse. Perhaps we could have a bit more genuine tolerance here?
Mirror in case it's slashdotted and removed Mirror in case it's slashdotted and removed (Score:1) by jsse (254124) on Friday March 14, @12:09AM (#5509874) (http://slashdot.org/)
Here is the content I shamelessly mirrored without the permission from the original author. Now all those meta-karma-whore flamers can jump up to my ass and sue me for plaigarism.
Caching Content and the Shrinking Web? Posted by Cliff on 02:55 AM -- Friday March 14 2003 from the keeping-the-context-intact dept.
kill-hup asks: "I know the issue of caching linked pages has been discussed many times here on Slashdot, but the majority of those discussions centered around the 'Slashdot Effect' knocking remote content servers off-line. How does the ethic/legality issue change, if any, when we're talking about information that once was available but now has moved or disappeared from the provider's site?"
"I run a small discussion-oriented site patterned after Slashdot; small story blurbs and discussion center around links to external content. From time to time we post our own content, but the vast majority involves links to articles on other sites. This structure obviously relies heavily on the external pages being available for our visitors so they can understand the issue or viewpoint being highlighted.
Just before the new year, I took a look back at story entries that had been posted throughout 2002 and found it interesting to note that a large portion of the linked content was no longer available/had moved/etc. In the short term, this is not an issue; most outside material tends to remain available for the length of an active discussion. The problem I see is visitors coming to the site by way of search engines to stories whose linked content no longer exists. Without the background provided by the referenced story link, the discussion or quick blurb may not make sense or may not fulfill the request that brought the visitor to us.
I know I am not alone in this quandary and that others must have run into this before. While I respect the copyright of the external content providers and do not wish to get into the whole issue of lost advertising revenue for them if I were to cache a local copy, I'm curious what other users are doing to mitigate this problem." [ Reply to This ]
If your discussion were around the coffee table about a magazine article, and you were writing down your notes on paper and the paper-clipping them to the article (cut out from the magazine, of course) and storing them away in a binder, would you have any qualms about this at all? At ALL?
To make the case even more clear-cut, imagine if the magazine you are cutting from was completely free to the readers and got all thier revenue from ads sold.
Would you even care if you cute the ads out along side of the article? No, you would probably even go out of your way to cut them OUT of teh real world example.
Age-Retardation would definately intensify the over population problem. People want to cheat death, ignore it. It should be a natural part of life. Eventually this situation is gonna come to a head, and then we're gonna have lotteries to determine who can have children...food and energy rations and other such nonsense.
You are circumventing the "natural" way of communication by using teh internet, you know. Unless you plan to go bakc into the forest and start eating grubs, you are not qualified to speak to us.
If people live longer, approaching forever, they will be MORE worried about the various things that can snuff out life. Crime rates will drop dramatically due to longer lived criminals (imagine spending "life" in jail when that means 500+ years!) and a stronger stance by the governments on stopping violent crime. Overcrowding, if it is really possible to overcrowd the Earth, will just give people a REASON to go and explore space. Signifigantly longer life is a very very good thing for humanity in the long run.
Well, theoretically, the spam is generating revenue for SOMEBODY right? I mean, even if nobody responds to any of it, the higher bandwidth bills are eventually paid to some ISP. Is it really true that spam costs $10billion a year?
Wouldn't the loss of mass for that planet eventually cause it's orbit to get bigger and bigger? Eventually it would reach some kind of break even point where it's no bigger than the head of small dog, no?
Why not? 27m is pocket lint to them, but it makes a big statement when it hits teh news. It says, hey guys, the Americans were SERIOUS about that little reward thing after all... GOLD RUSH!
That's why I (as a card-carrying paranoid whacko) take apart my cell-phone every night before bed.
First I was fine just removing the battery... but then I remembered that capacitors carry a residual charge, and if I remembered that, then the Man knows it. So, now I take apart each individual component, except for the LCD...
You don't think they can track me by the LCD do you?
No, but at that point, they could just look up your address in the phone book.
Which is more productive: a) Allowing your empoyee to go online, pay a bill, and check thier ballance, all in about 5 minutes, or B) Have your employye take the entire afternoon off to navigate traffic, pay a bill, drive to the bank or ATM, check thier balance, then come back to work three hours later? It has been shown time and time again that internet use at the office actually INCREASES productivity in the long run, believe it or not.
GEEZ, what am I? Some sort of pluging-in robot? You expect me to connect cables around all over the place and just be happy with that? THREE of them even...
Bah, use the traditional rule...
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Defining "Planet"
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· Score: 3, Funny
If the crew of Enterprise would use the teleporter to reach the SURFACE of it, then it's a planet, if they are teleporting to a chamber inside it, it's most likely an asteroid or something.
Most physicists probably will not be rooting for phantom energy. That is because if it exists, it will cause them all kinds of theoretical headaches. For example, Einstein's theory of gravity predicts the existence of minuscule wormholes - short cuts through space-time.
Normally they snap shut so fast we never notice them. But phantom energy's repulsive gravity would be powerful enough to hold wormholes open, and perhaps even push them wide enough apart for spacecraft to use them for faster-than-light travel. "This raises the spectre of time machines and all their paradoxes, which physicists find very uncomfortable," says Caldwell.
Ahhh, problem solved... If the wormholes are big enough to fly stuff through, then we can just grab as much matter as we can find, fling it all together towards an arbitratily chosen "center point" to the universe, and rely on good old gravity to hold it together. If we just keep grabing and hurling the matter of the universe back onto itself just a little bit faster than it can expand away from itself, we can keep the old gal together indefinitly.
Slashdot Mirror
- The Studio environment is faster to work with and has a more mature debugger than any Java IDE I've seen, including Netbeans
That's like saying:
- The new car's engine has a much more robust powerplant than any engine I've seen, including hamster-wheel powered rubber-bands.
Never, NEVER use Netbeans as your baseline Java IDE unless you want to be ridiculed for cluelessness.
I wonder how many teraflops Deep Thought could have done?"
:)
Who cares, I wonder what the fps in quake 3 would be!
You wouldn't like the result...
Deep thought, I want to play qua....
Done! You would have gotten 32 frags and your friend would have gotten 38. You would lose. Would you like to play again? No, don't answer that, I already know. DONE! This time you would have beaten your friend by 4 frags.
For example, you won't see some Japanese Guy driving around in an Escalade with his girlfriend, "just cause".
Ironically, it's quite a common sight to see Japanese kids driving around in huge American monsters -- with the steering wheel on the wrong side for Japan even! -- "just cause" they think it looks cool.
I wonder what exactly defines a "supercomputer". Wouldn't SETI@Home count? Or in a more abstract sense, all of Slashdot... Except, I suppose, where normal supercomputers are designed to model the destruction of the universe, the "Slashdot machine" is designed to cause it.
for (int i=0;i sendRandomInstantMessage(new Size(300MB));
}
Oh, what? You can't warehouse 400 million terabytes of information a week? My bad.
4) Hubristic scientists playing God calling down the wrath of Heaven
You call this a scientifically valid reason?
In fact, it's the exact opposite of a reason. We humans were given the gift of genetic manipulation by the almighty and to NOT use it would be an affront to God!
Get plenty of responses. But I think your argument is a little one sided. My point would be we are all ignorant of the long term effects of rampant and unchecked use of genetic modifacation. And that alone is enough reason to consider moving carefully. Progress, sure but don't deny your own ignorance.
I, for one, don't deny the ignornace of man... but I'm willing to bet the farm that the adaptability and inginuity of man will always be able stay one step ahead of whatever environmental catastrophy we cause.
If you don't believe that, then what's the point of humanity anyway? i.e. If we can't handle our own creations we certianly aren't capable of handling natural catastrophies and are thus doomed anyway.
Can you imagine what kind of world we would be living in if the early industrialists concerned themselves with the harm that would be caused by thier machines? We'd all be starving in huts and dying of small pox. I'd take death by genetic glowing zebra fish over that any day.
'Flamebait'? Not really; it's the way things are done in China. Sometimes people get so blinded that they assume any culture (i.e. Chinese) that differs to American culture is automatically "evil" and "oppressed", rather than actually practising tolerance for the fact that other cultures are different and not automatically better or worse. Perhaps we could have a bit more genuine tolerance here?
'Flamebait'? Not really, it's the way I do things in my head. Sometimes people get so blinded that they assume any person (i.e. Child molesting murderer) that differs to Normal people is automatically "evil" and "oppressive", rather than actually practising tolerance for the fact that other people are different and not automatically better or worse. Perhaps we could have a bit more genuine tolerance here?
Mirror in case it's slashdotted and removed
Mirror in case it's slashdotted and removed (Score:1)
by jsse (254124) on Friday March 14, @12:09AM (#5509874)
(http://slashdot.org/)
Here is the content I shamelessly mirrored without the permission from the original author. Now all those meta-karma-whore flamers can jump up to my ass and sue me for plaigarism.
Caching Content and the Shrinking Web?
Posted by Cliff on 02:55 AM -- Friday March 14 2003
from the keeping-the-context-intact dept.
kill-hup asks: "I know the issue of caching linked pages has been discussed many times here on Slashdot, but the majority of those discussions centered around the 'Slashdot Effect' knocking remote content servers off-line. How does the ethic/legality issue change, if any, when we're talking about information that once was available but now has moved or disappeared from the provider's site?"
"I run a small discussion-oriented site patterned after Slashdot; small story blurbs and discussion center around links to external content. From time to time we post our own content, but the vast majority involves links to articles on other sites. This structure obviously relies heavily on the external pages being available for our visitors so they can understand the issue or viewpoint being highlighted.
Just before the new year, I took a look back at story entries that had been posted throughout 2002 and found it interesting to note that a large portion of the linked content was no longer available/had moved/etc. In the short term, this is not an issue; most outside material tends to remain available for the length of an active discussion. The problem I see is visitors coming to the site by way of search engines to stories whose linked content no longer exists. Without the background provided by the referenced story link, the discussion or quick blurb may not make sense or may not fulfill the request that brought the visitor to us.
I know I am not alone in this quandary and that others must have run into this before. While I respect the copyright of the external content providers and do not wish to get into the whole issue of lost advertising revenue for them if I were to cache a local copy, I'm curious what other users are doing to mitigate this problem."
[ Reply to This ]
If your discussion were around the coffee table about a magazine article, and you were writing down your notes on paper and the paper-clipping them to the article (cut out from the magazine, of course) and storing them away in a binder, would you have any qualms about this at all? At ALL?
To make the case even more clear-cut, imagine if the magazine you are cutting from was completely free to the readers and got all thier revenue from ads sold.
Would you even care if you cute the ads out along side of the article? No, you would probably even go out of your way to cut them OUT of teh real world example.
Why is it different when it is on the internet?
Thanks for agreeing with me... perhaps you meant this for the PARENT post?
Age-Retardation would definately intensify the over population problem. People want to cheat death, ignore it. It should be a natural part of life. Eventually this situation is gonna come to a head, and then we're gonna have lotteries to determine who can have children...food and energy rations and other such nonsense.
You are circumventing the "natural" way of communication by using teh internet, you know. Unless you plan to go bakc into the forest and start eating grubs, you are not qualified to speak to us.
I TOLD them to keep off the lawn...
If people live longer, approaching forever, they will be MORE worried about the various things that can snuff out life. Crime rates will drop dramatically due to longer lived criminals (imagine spending "life" in jail when that means 500+ years!) and a stronger stance by the governments on stopping violent crime. Overcrowding, if it is really possible to overcrowd the Earth, will just give people a REASON to go and explore space. Signifigantly longer life is a very very good thing for humanity in the long run.
Well, theoretically, the spam is generating revenue for SOMEBODY right? I mean, even if nobody responds to any of it, the higher bandwidth bills are eventually paid to some ISP. Is it really true that spam costs $10billion a year?
Wouldn't the loss of mass for that planet eventually cause it's orbit to get bigger and bigger? Eventually it would reach some kind of break even point where it's no bigger than the head of small dog, no?
North American Gov't Offices that Won't Move to Linux?
Posted by Cliff on Tuesday March 11, @01:50PM
from the not-down-with-da-penguin dept.
I got the impression that "down with da penguin!" is exactly what this article implies...
Meow meow The President meow meow meow France meow meow oil meow meow meow nuclear bomb meow meow flatten meow meow Thurdsay.
Why not? 27m is pocket lint to them, but it makes a big statement when it hits teh news. It says, hey guys, the Americans were SERIOUS about that little reward thing after all... GOLD RUSH!
That's why I (as a card-carrying paranoid whacko) take apart my cell-phone every night before bed.
First I was fine just removing the battery... but then I remembered that capacitors carry a residual charge, and if I remembered that, then the Man knows it. So, now I take apart each individual component, except for the LCD...
You don't think they can track me by the LCD do you?
No, but at that point, they could just look up your address in the phone book.
Which is more productive: a) Allowing your empoyee to go online, pay a bill, and check thier ballance, all in about 5 minutes, or B) Have your employye take the entire afternoon off to navigate traffic, pay a bill, drive to the bank or ATM, check thier balance, then come back to work three hours later? It has been shown time and time again that internet use at the office actually INCREASES productivity in the long run, believe it or not.
...and when you put your hand into a pile of goo, and that goo used to be your best friend's user interface... you'll know what to do...
GEEZ, what am I? Some sort of pluging-in robot? You expect me to connect cables around all over the place and just be happy with that? THREE of them even...
If the crew of Enterprise would use the teleporter to reach the SURFACE of it, then it's a planet, if they are teleporting to a chamber inside it, it's most likely an asteroid or something.
Most physicists probably will not be rooting for phantom energy. That is because if it exists, it will cause them all kinds of theoretical headaches. For example, Einstein's theory of gravity predicts the existence of minuscule wormholes - short cuts through space-time.
Normally they snap shut so fast we never notice them. But phantom energy's repulsive gravity would be powerful enough to hold wormholes open, and perhaps even push them wide enough apart for spacecraft to use them for faster-than-light travel. "This raises the spectre of time machines and all their paradoxes, which physicists find very uncomfortable," says Caldwell.
Ahhh, problem solved... If the wormholes are big enough to fly stuff through, then we can just grab as much matter as we can find, fling it all together towards an arbitratily chosen "center point" to the universe, and rely on good old gravity to hold it together. If we just keep grabing and hurling the matter of the universe back onto itself just a little bit faster than it can expand away from itself, we can keep the old gal together indefinitly.