I read the article and liked it, but I thought it was more about why technology advances and how it is up to people to indicate to the designers what they want from technology. I think the article focused on games because generally gamers know what they want, i.e. a good game, a pretty game, a game with a good ui. As for technology in general its kind of like lets throw this out there and see how the public reacts, they're just guessing, nothing to really drive technology's future. We have the technology we just have to figure out what we want to do with it. I know I don't need my toaster running Java and hooked up to the internet but that might not stop someone from trying to sell it to me.
Cheap hardware clusters work fine and still protect against systems when server(s) go down, and they will. x86 is great for systems that can be clustered. I'd rather have several inexpensive servers that have less power than one super server, because one super server is still one.
"We believe that human beings are complicated machines, computers are also machines, and we should be able to do with computers what human beings can do,"
Are we just machines though? I don't know, but it will be interesting if we can prove it with computers. Will computers become consience (I doubt it) but at least this question may be answered in mylife time.
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I use AIX on a daily basis and I gladly bash it.
Just becuase Linux conf sucks doesn't give the prize to SMIT for anything grand. I've never had a toasted disk using Linux. I do like the JFS though, but wait Linux has that too.
I'm in the middle of porting my company's software apps to various UNIX flavors from NT. They decided to start with AIX, they made this decsion before I was hired, I come from a mostly Linux background and I really wished that was the first flavor they planned to port too. This is my first experience with AIX, I was more than happy to see IBM's Linux devel kit for the RS/6000 and I would be much happier if Linux would replace the rest of the system as well. I just wish my company would have had the forsight to port to Linux first, especially since the first port is like a study project anyways, we wouldn't have to spend so much $$ on test hardware. Maybe I can convince them to go with Java instead of.Net in the future so they don't make the same mistake and miss the Linux boat again.
I agree and doubt that there is FTL info. Bell however did initially agree with EPR and came up with an experiment to show them correct, but in doing so he showed the opposite. I don't think that Bell's experiment shows that FTL exists but rather agrees with Bohr and the Copenhagen Interpretation in that the act of observation collapses the state vector of Shrodenger's equation. I don't think many people grasp how important this is. It shows that reality is dependent upon the observer, Bohr knew that this happened but never answered how, no one has. I think that this it is important to ask this and answer this. I think that Bell's experiment shakes the foundation of the popular belief of reality and how we ineract with the world.
One shouldn't try to deny something because it violates everything we know. Bell did that and ended up proving (it is a theorem) that things either can travel faster than the speed of light (spooky connection) or our view of objective reality is incorrect. Either way, man's view of reality has never been the same. (If you have never heard of Bell's theorem just search for it on google)
I've been trying to persuade my company to start using open source products. My company will eventually move to.Net, I would love to get them to consider open source alternatives, but how can I convince them that open source can produce superior products when pointless arguments like this contiue and make open source look childish. I'm sure bickering goes on at Microsoft behind closed doors but we don't have that luxury. Come on guys get it together.
I've been thinking that down the road I would like to get an MBA, I currently have a BS in Electrical eng. but I've been a full time coder for about three years. My plans are to get a MS in electrical then an MBA, more fundamental understanding. And the MBA to unlock doors in the future. Hopefully I can be a CTO someday or start my own company. Being well rounded really helps out any position if anything.
Open Source / Free Software was huge for the small companies that I have worked for. We ran as many Linux servers as we could, we choose MySql for our DBs and Apache of course etc... The best part is that we could get our projects out fast becuase our tools where free/inexpensive which allowed us developers to make our own decisions without waiting for the ok to buy things from above. In the end it help our company meet its bottom line, beat our competion out the door and allowed us to produce some great systems many times less expensive than companies that where not empowered with our tools/software could.
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And IBM pledged $1 billion to help research and develop the free Linux operating system, an alternative to Microsoft Windows.
Who are you correcting? It reads correctly.
I read the article and liked it, but I thought it was more about why technology advances and how it is up to people to indicate to the designers what they want from technology. I think the article focused on games because generally gamers know what they want, i.e. a good game, a pretty game, a game with a good ui. As for technology in general its kind of like lets throw this out there and see how the public reacts, they're just guessing, nothing to really drive technology's future. We have the technology we just have to figure out what we want to do with it. I know I don't need my toaster running Java and hooked up to the internet but that might not stop someone from trying to sell it to me.
Cheap hardware clusters work fine and still protect against systems when server(s) go down, and they will. x86 is great for systems that can be clustered. I'd rather have several inexpensive servers that have less power than one super server, because one super server is still one.
I wonder how much a secure version of windows would cost. Oh, and a machine without a power supply or unplugging the machine doesn't
count.
Their products work by scanning incoming network traffic and searching for signs of packet floods.
Won't sniffing all those packets slow your connection to a crawl?
I agree,but how do you bitch slap a cyberbitch though?
"We believe that human beings are complicated machines, computers are also machines, and we should be able to do with computers what human beings can do," Are we just machines though? I don't know, but it will be interesting if we can prove it with computers. Will computers become consience (I doubt it) but at least this question may be answered in mylife time. Check out www.kurzweilai.net
I do administer it. And I didn't bash it, I just sad I would.
I use AIX on a daily basis and I gladly bash it.
Just becuase Linux conf sucks doesn't give the prize to SMIT for anything grand. I've never had a toasted disk using Linux. I do like the JFS though, but wait Linux has that too.
IBM ported the JFS to Linux already. And I like flat files.
I'm in the middle of porting my company's software apps to various UNIX flavors from NT. They decided to start with AIX, they made this decsion before I was hired, I come from a mostly Linux background and I really wished that was the first flavor they planned to port too. This is my first experience with AIX, I was more than happy to see IBM's Linux devel kit for the RS/6000 and I would be much happier if Linux would replace the rest of the system as well. I just wish my company would have had the forsight to port to Linux first, especially since the first port is like a study project anyways, we wouldn't have to spend so much $$ on test hardware. Maybe I can convince them to go with Java instead of .Net in the future so they don't make the same mistake and miss the Linux boat again.
I agree and doubt that there is FTL info. Bell however did initially agree with EPR and came up with an experiment to show them correct, but in doing so he showed the opposite. I don't think that Bell's experiment shows that FTL exists but rather agrees with Bohr and the Copenhagen Interpretation in that the act of observation collapses the state vector of Shrodenger's equation. I don't think many people grasp how important this is. It shows that reality is dependent upon the observer, Bohr knew that this happened but never answered how, no one has. I think that this it is important to ask this and answer this. I think that Bell's experiment shakes the foundation of the popular belief of reality and how we ineract with the world.
One shouldn't try to deny something because it violates everything we know. Bell did that and ended up proving (it is a theorem) that things either can travel faster than the speed of light (spooky connection) or our view of objective reality is incorrect. Either way, man's view of reality has never been the same. (If you have never heard of Bell's theorem just search for it on google)
What or who is the AOC?
Ok paying a M$ tax does suck. Can you get them without an OS? --
I've been trying to persuade my company to start using open source products. My company will eventually move to .Net, I would love to get them to consider open source alternatives, but how can I convince them that open source can produce superior products when pointless arguments like this contiue and make open source look childish. I'm sure bickering goes on at Microsoft behind closed doors but we don't have that luxury. Come on guys get it together.
I've been thinking that down the road I would like to get an MBA, I currently have a BS in Electrical eng. but I've been a full time coder for about three years. My plans are to get a MS in electrical then an MBA, more fundamental understanding. And the MBA to unlock doors in the future. Hopefully I can be a CTO someday or start my own company. Being well rounded really helps out any position if anything.
Open Source / Free Software was huge for the small companies that I have worked for. We ran as many Linux servers as we could, we choose MySql for our DBs and Apache of course etc ... The best part is that we could get our projects out fast becuase our tools where free/inexpensive which allowed us developers to make our own decisions without waiting for the ok to buy things from above. In the end it help our company meet its bottom line, beat our competion out the door and allowed us to produce some great systems many times less expensive than companies that where not empowered with our tools/software could.