We have so much computing power and yet we are forced to write detailed changelogs of what effect we have caused in the software we write. Ironically, the computer is what executes the compiled version of what we have wrote. The semantics seem to be missing... if we make source code more semantically aware, could the computer more easily figure out what we have done?
...maybe we will see some distros that come with it as standard
This would be the extra push I need to go out and buy/support the latest Mandrake distro. Red Hat's got some PR work to do, and SuSe's just too proprietary. Mandrake might become my new best friend.:)
How about emulating a Pentium 4 within a Pentium III, or visa versa? Or an Athlon 64 on a Pentium 4? There seems to be a difference between emulators, in that some emulate the hardware *and* software (ie. Commodore 64 emulators) and others create a virtual machine dependent on the actual hardware that it is running on (ie. VMware).
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We've mentioned these before.
And we'll mention these again, and again, until you ignorant consumers get it through your thick skull what the next big thing is!
Yes, I've heard of Occam's Razor (though I wouldn't say or agree that the simplest guess is always right).
Another potential reason for no tourists from the future could be that for someone to come back to our time would contaminate all human life here. They could be so inoculated that the germs they do have would kill us all. Like when the Europeans came to North America and so many Indians died as a result of their germs/diseases.
I figure this same reasoning as well as an argument against the possibility of time travel, however it could easily be possible given current events as a guide that by extension the future is totally corrupt and that people have no rights and are herded like sheep. Nobody would have access to such a machine except the ultra elite, just to further their gains in the future. If they are too far in the future, there is no reason to go 'too' far back since that wouldn't directly - at least not predictably - affect and advance their cause.
This is right on. Nobody should buy into the music cartel's "ideas". It's like the tobacco industry saying they want to help us breathe easier.
Tell me why I would want to trust their software to run on *my* computer on an operating system with security problems from hell written by a company with questionable motives all on hardware that thinks *it* is trusted, not me. Go fly a kite, morons.
We have databases in our organization (Star Schema, Red Brick) where the fact tables literally have billions of rows.
From Wintercorp:
Grand Prizes for Most Rows/Records, decision support databases, was given to AT&T, in All Environments and Unix Only, 496 billion rows. comScore Networks, Inc. received the Grand Prize for Most Rows/Records for Windows systems.
496 billion rows! That is simply amazing. Imagine how much space just an 64 bit integer primary key takes to store on that many rows (note that 32 bit unsigned integers max out at around 4 billion).
If each row only took just 64 bits of space in the index, that would amount to 3,784,179 Megabytes - almost 4 terabytes on its own! Can anyone explain how it is even possible to create a database of this size?
So, if I buy a fake passport on a street corner and then use it enter Germany, did I just "crack" Germany's security and can I get my picture on Slashdot?
Give it a try. I think that's how David Hasselhoff got his big break.
This may sound backwards, but it might make more sense to end of life Windows ME before Windows 98. Windows ME was not very popular compared with Windows 98 so has a much smaller userbase. EOL'ing Win98 doesn't seem very fair to the huge number of users using it. I wonder how many thousands or millions are still using Win95?
This is a very relevant question. I would not want my personal information tied to my slashdot account. If I wanted every crazy freak on this site to know who I was, I would change my handle to my real name. Or maybe I would like to speak out about the government, or some evil company. Why would I want my personal information tied to that?
Some people have said that if you don't trust the people who run slashdot, then why come here? It's that which I'm really worried about. It's people hacking their site and obtaining my info. It's also the government who can flash a badge and get whatever they want out of *any* company in their country if they deem it appropriate (a loosely defined condition).
If I can give anonymously to *myself*, without any link back to the one who donated it (namely, me), then maybe I'll get a subscription.
xcdroast seems to work well when burning to DVD's. It's an exciting time for Linux users. The tools are coming.
Good to hear, but I'm still disappointed with the CD burning software. XCDRoast has a zany configuration setup - I installed the software as root and IIRC couldn't start it as a user until I had configured it as root. Then when I started the program as a normal user, it made me configure the software again! Just dumb.
Then it took me about 10 minutes to figure out how the program worked for making a basic data CD. There is no integration with the KDE file manager (Konqueror) which really sucked. What's with the tabbed interface? Why not make a Nero lookalike which many people (incl. me) are used to and find to be intuitive?
I just wonder if people make these decisions because that's what they really want, or they just need to get it done and will fix it later.
But anyway, the state of things today is much better than it was a year ago and I am thankful and grateful for that.
Not at all. Our body has sensors all over it - we can feel when something touches us with a pretty precise resolution. We also sense heat/cold, wind, wetness, and so on. Amazing.
We are the ultimate "machine." Emulating ourselves and nature is a smart way to go.
Where we seek to overcome our weaknesses will turn into specialization. Computers can crunch numbers and correlate raw data faster than we can, but that's their specialized purpose. We, on the other hand, could be dropped on Mars with sufficient of supplies and automatically adapt and survive. We might stub our toes sometimes, but for that weakness we gain in other areas. Someday computers may stub their "toes", too, in order to gain some of our special qualities.
Turrican (BEST C64 game ever made!) Aztech challenge (a challenge, addictive music) Space taxi ("Pad 4 please!") Destroyer (awesome submarine game) Test Drive (better than the PC version IMO) RoboCop Mission Impossible (extremely hard, "stay awhile, stay foreverrr!!") BC's Quest for Tires Super Mario Bros (of course)... and countless other great games. Check out the comp.emulators.cbm newsgroup for active discussion that continues every day.
I'm in favour of *not* regulating VOIP, but as a middle ground why not at least give a certain number of years before implementing regulations or taxes?
Anyway, right now long distance over IP is not much cheaper than using are regular phone line. Adding more burden might kill VOIP.
The part about this story that gets to me is that the researcher didn't alert Microsoft before posting to a public mailing list.
For some people, this will be their 15 minutes of fame. In the large scale of things - being that there will be more holes found in the future anyway and new buggy products coming out - I can't say I blame him.
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We have so much computing power and yet we are forced to write detailed changelogs of what effect we have caused in the software we write. Ironically, the computer is what executes the compiled version of what we have wrote. The semantics seem to be missing... if we make source code more semantically aware, could the computer more easily figure out what we have done?
...maybe we will see some distros that come with it as standard
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This would be the extra push I need to go out and buy/support the latest Mandrake distro. Red Hat's got some PR work to do, and SuSe's just too proprietary. Mandrake might become my new best friend.
...then a real comparisson could have been made between the office platforms based merit rather than lock-in.
Don't you think lock-in affects merit? Lock-in to me means less merit.
Is Blockbuster big enough to complain loud enough?
Not to be naive, but is that really the issue? If Blockbuster's argument is good, why wouldn't the MPAA listen?
How about emulating a Pentium 4 within a Pentium III, or visa versa? Or an Athlon 64 on a Pentium 4? There seems to be a difference between emulators, in that some emulate the hardware *and* software (ie. Commodore 64 emulators) and others create a virtual machine dependent on the actual hardware that it is running on (ie. VMware).
We've mentioned these before.
And we'll mention these again, and again, until you ignorant consumers get it through your thick skull what the next big thing is!
Did I say that out loud?
Yes, I've heard of Occam's Razor (though I wouldn't say or agree that the simplest guess is always right).
Another potential reason for no tourists from the future could be that for someone to come back to our time would contaminate all human life here. They could be so inoculated that the germs they do have would kill us all. Like when the Europeans came to North America and so many Indians died as a result of their germs/diseases.
I figure this same reasoning as well as an argument against the possibility of time travel, however it could easily be possible given current events as a guide that by extension the future is totally corrupt and that people have no rights and are herded like sheep. Nobody would have access to such a machine except the ultra elite, just to further their gains in the future.
If they are too far in the future, there is no reason to go 'too' far back since that wouldn't directly - at least not predictably - affect and advance their cause.
The site is quite slow (although they do have enough bandwidth), probably because it's all done in PHP. Mega-bandwidth doesn't help there..
So what's this, a troll against PHP users? What would you rather use? PHP is damn fast.
I'm so curious why there has been so little discussion about when life/death happens. There's all sorts of funny stuff going on out there.
Don't waste your time worrying about when life happens.
When does Love happen?
This is right on. Nobody should buy into the music cartel's "ideas". It's like the tobacco industry saying they want to help us breathe easier.
Tell me why I would want to trust their software to run on *my* computer on an operating system with security problems from hell written by a company with questionable motives all on hardware that thinks *it* is trusted, not me. Go fly a kite, morons.
We have databases in our organization (Star Schema, Red Brick) where the fact tables literally have billions of rows.
From Wintercorp:
Grand Prizes for Most Rows/Records, decision support databases, was given to AT&T, in All Environments and Unix Only, 496 billion rows. comScore Networks, Inc. received the Grand Prize for Most Rows/Records for Windows systems.
496 billion rows! That is simply amazing. Imagine how much space just an 64 bit integer primary key takes to store on that many rows (note that 32 bit unsigned integers max out at around 4 billion).
If each row only took just 64 bits of space in the index, that would amount to 3,784,179 Megabytes - almost 4 terabytes on its own! Can anyone explain how it is even possible to create a database of this size?
So, if I buy a fake passport on a street corner and then use it enter Germany, did I just "crack" Germany's security and can I get my picture on Slashdot?
Give it a try. I think that's how David Hasselhoff got his big break.
I tend to think that Mozilla chrome has nothing to do with this patent. Most importantly, they aren't HTML.
Good, then. The patent is irrelevant. XUL-like technology is the way to go.
Shit, I wonder what would happen if you threw Emacs into an mp3 player? Hehe
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Would that be sort of the opposite of this?
Well now I've seen it all. I'm going to become a tour guide next...
Windows 98? But they are on XP now...
This may sound backwards, but it might make more sense to end of life Windows ME before Windows 98. Windows ME was not very popular compared with Windows 98 so has a much smaller userbase. EOL'ing Win98 doesn't seem very fair to the huge number of users using it. I wonder how many thousands or millions are still using Win95?
Shit, I wonder what would happen if you threw Emacs into an mp3 player? Hehe
Linux *is* a power tool. So what are "Linux power tools"?
This is a very relevant question. I would not want my personal information tied to my slashdot account. If I wanted every crazy freak on this site to know who I was, I would change my handle to my real name. Or maybe I would like to speak out about the government, or some evil company. Why would I want my personal information tied to that?
Some people have said that if you don't trust the people who run slashdot, then why come here? It's that which I'm really worried about. It's people hacking their site and obtaining my info. It's also the government who can flash a badge and get whatever they want out of *any* company in their country if they deem it appropriate (a loosely defined condition).
If I can give anonymously to *myself*, without any link back to the one who donated it (namely, me), then maybe I'll get a subscription.
xcdroast seems to work well when burning to DVD's. It's an exciting time for Linux users. The tools are coming.
Good to hear, but I'm still disappointed with the CD burning software. XCDRoast has a zany configuration setup - I installed the software as root and IIRC couldn't start it as a user until I had configured it as root. Then when I started the program as a normal user, it made me configure the software again! Just dumb.
Then it took me about 10 minutes to figure out how the program worked for making a basic data CD. There is no integration with the KDE file manager (Konqueror) which really sucked. What's with the tabbed interface? Why not make a Nero lookalike which many people (incl. me) are used to and find to be intuitive?
I just wonder if people make these decisions because that's what they really want, or they just need to get it done and will fix it later.
But anyway, the state of things today is much better than it was a year ago and I am thankful and grateful for that.
Is this idea all that original?
Not at all. Our body has sensors all over it - we can feel when something touches us with a pretty precise resolution. We also sense heat/cold, wind, wetness, and so on. Amazing.
We are the ultimate "machine." Emulating ourselves and nature is a smart way to go.
Where we seek to overcome our weaknesses will turn into specialization. Computers can crunch numbers and correlate raw data faster than we can, but that's their specialized purpose. We, on the other hand, could be dropped on Mars with sufficient of supplies and automatically adapt and survive. We might stub our toes sometimes, but for that weakness we gain in other areas. Someday computers may stub their "toes", too, in order to gain some of our special qualities.
Also:
... and countless other great games. Check out the comp.emulators.cbm newsgroup for active discussion that continues every day.
Turrican (BEST C64 game ever made!)
Aztech challenge (a challenge, addictive music)
Space taxi ("Pad 4 please!")
Destroyer (awesome submarine game)
Test Drive (better than the PC version IMO)
RoboCop
Mission Impossible (extremely hard, "stay awhile, stay foreverrr!!")
BC's Quest for Tires
Super Mario Bros (of course)
I'm in favour of *not* regulating VOIP, but as a middle ground why not at least give a certain number of years before implementing regulations or taxes?
Anyway, right now long distance over IP is not much cheaper than using are regular phone line. Adding more burden might kill VOIP.
I'd be surprised if he signed up for another season.
It would be too ironic to see his resume on Monster.com.
The part about this story that gets to me is that the researcher didn't alert Microsoft before posting to a public mailing list.
For some people, this will be their 15 minutes of fame. In the large scale of things - being that there will be more holes found in the future anyway and new buggy products coming out - I can't say I blame him.