[After learning of the Doomsday Machine] President Merkin Muffley: But this is absolute madness, Ambassador! Why should you *build* such a thing?
Ambassador de Sadesky: There were those of us who fought against it, but in the end we could not keep up with the expense involved in the arms race, the space race, and the peace race. At the same time our people grumbled for more nylons and washing machines. Our doomsday scheme cost us just a small fraction of what we had been spending on defense in a single year. The deciding factor was when we learned that your country was working along similar lines, and we were afraid of a doomsday gap.
President Merkin Muffley: This is preposterous. I've never approved of anything like that.
Ambassador de Sadesky: Our source was the New York Times.
Apparently I'm going to have to stop posting to Slashdot entirely. I should have kept quiet since it's been a couple of years since I read that book and I don't even remember Atanasoff being mentioned at all.
Accoring to this site from the university where he did his work, Atanasoff is the inventor of the digital electronic computer:
On October 19, 1973, US Federal Judge Earl R. Larson signed his decision following a lengthy court trial which declared the ENIAC patent of Mauchly and Eckert invalid and named Atanasoff the inventor of the electronic digital computer -- the Atanasoff-Berry Computer or the ABC.
The NY Times story doesn't mention Macauly and Eckert at all. If you read the book "Eniac"....
Agreed. That was an interesting book. However, I later discovered that John Atanasoff should more likely be considered the builder/inventor of the first computer, especially as we know them. The ENIAC was a base ten computer, while the Atanasoff Berry Computer was base two.
Consider though that your social security number is protected by the world's most powerful government with databases backed by thousands of staff whose sole job it is to ensure your number isn't stolen....
Well, sort of. I originally thought this as well, but then I quickly realized that most of my life I've filled in my SSN for every bank account, school form or medical questionnaire (to name a few). Your SSN is floating around all over the place, albeit in supposedly protected databases, but definitely not just being protected by the U.S. government.
Regarding MyUID, I'd rather not. If we're really supposed to be fighting the war on terror this would be a good place to start, by not centralizing so much information. Our power grid is a perfect example of a very vulnerable system. It doesn't seem like a good idea to emulate that in an information system if you're concerned about security.
Then again, it's not like state secrets would be held in this thing.
I recently went back to school for CS, having avoided math while getting my first degree. The 'C' part is fun, but the math.... Let me just say that calculus is testing my limits.
And don't knock drama. Acting is apparently just a stepping stone to political office anymore.:-)
The coffee was worse, but they had WiFi, so I stayed for three hours!
I see your point about wi-fi getting you to go there in the first place, but I would think that any shop selling coffee drinks might be more interested in getting you out as well as in. You may have hung out for three hours, but did you buy more than one thing during that time?
It seems like the negatives could equal the benefits for the coffee shop. People come in but they hang out, taking up seating space and preventing new customers from coming in if they need a place to sit and drink their coffee. Unless, of course, the coffee shop is getting a percentange of the wireless access, but everyone apparently wants that for free.
I can't tell how old this article is, but it indicates that RBC was an IBM customer. WebSphere MQ, whatever that entails. It is a multi-platform product according to this page, and they have a Linux version as well as an XP version. I guess the multi-platform part comes in at the client level.
Depending on their support package it might mean RBC's IT department won't catch all the heat for this.
Slashdot is more of a news site where users can post commets.
I think of Slashdot more as a comment site where users can post news. Sure, the news blurbs are the starter, but the meat of the action is in the insightful, interesting, flamebait, troll posting that occurs after. The news stories that have little potential for political/social commentary get far fewer comments than anything to do with YRO, black-box voting, etc.
In this respect, I don't think of Slashdot as a blog, but more of an indicator(s) of what the Slashdot-reading crowd, which is a tech-heavy bunch, is thinking. This is closer to a BBS than a Blog.
Excuse me, but whatever your feelings about AI are, they do not fund anyone. Not communists, not capitalists. AI's guiding principles are human rights and the abolition of torture. It is AI's policy not to take sides in any conflict.
I couldn't decide whether to mod you up or reply. Reply won. Sorry.
$4000 seems a little low in some respects, especially if you want to be digital. However, the guy that replied to you stating that a single lens would be $4000 is a little off base. You don't have to have the fastest, most low dispersion lenses to start with. It all depends on the kind of photography you want to do. I have friends that shoot professionally, and believe it or not they sometimes use plastic toy cameras. Of course, this is the exception, but it does show that creative endeavors (commercial ones at that) don't have to cost a fortune. And, you can have all the gear in the catalog and stil be a crappy shooter.
Tech is an answer to a technical problem, not a creative one.
From what I've seen photographers can be (mostly) divided into those who love the gadgets and know how to compute the hyperfocal distance and those who have an idea of what kind of image they want to create. By far, those in the latter category produce the most interesting stuff.
I wonder how sensitive these things will really become. Will we accidentally transfer things if we bump into someone if we've left it on (e.g. Palm receive mode)?
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President Merkin Muffley: But this is absolute madness, Ambassador! Why should you *build* such a thing?
Ambassador de Sadesky: There were those of us who fought against it, but in the end we could not keep up with the expense involved in the arms race, the space race, and the peace race. At the same time our people grumbled for more nylons and washing machines. Our doomsday scheme cost us just a small fraction of what we had been spending on defense in a single year. The deciding factor was when we learned that your country was working along similar lines, and we were afraid of a doomsday gap.
President Merkin Muffley: This is preposterous. I've never approved of anything like that.
Ambassador de Sadesky: Our source was the New York Times.
Pardon me for actually checking out the site. It seems as though you don't submit an entire shadow file after all. Only the hash of the password.
It's people like you that give squares a good name.
Actually, blue is already taken, or at least it was at one point.
It's really the process that is patented, but it still sounds funny having a patent on a color.
Accoring to this site from the university where he did his work, Atanasoff is the inventor of the digital electronic computer:
Agreed. That was an interesting book. However, I later discovered that John Atanasoff should more likely be considered the builder/inventor of the first computer, especially as we know them. The ENIAC was a base ten computer, while the Atanasoff Berry Computer was base two.
I'm sure that's not the only solution. What I suspect when I see you type that is that you like the violence.
Well, sort of. I originally thought this as well, but then I quickly realized that most of my life I've filled in my SSN for every bank account, school form or medical questionnaire (to name a few). Your SSN is floating around all over the place, albeit in supposedly protected databases, but definitely not just being protected by the U.S. government.
Regarding MyUID, I'd rather not. If we're really supposed to be fighting the war on terror this would be a good place to start, by not centralizing so much information. Our power grid is a perfect example of a very vulnerable system. It doesn't seem like a good idea to emulate that in an information system if you're concerned about security.
Then again, it's not like state secrets would be held in this thing.
And don't knock drama. Acting is apparently just a stepping stone to political office anymore. :-)
Alright, enough with the sarcasm.... I feel stupid enough already.
I see your point about wi-fi getting you to go there in the first place, but I would think that any shop selling coffee drinks might be more interested in getting you out as well as in. You may have hung out for three hours, but did you buy more than one thing during that time?
It seems like the negatives could equal the benefits for the coffee shop. People come in but they hang out, taking up seating space and preventing new customers from coming in if they need a place to sit and drink their coffee. Unless, of course, the coffee shop is getting a percentange of the wireless access, but everyone apparently wants that for free.
You mean like that "jive" and "jibe" are two very different words? Or perhaps his programming job is really funky.
Depending on their support package it might mean RBC's IT department won't catch all the heat for this.
Actually, LA is a state, L.A. is a city. Then again, L.A. is more like a state of mind so maybe it was appropriate after all.
I think of Slashdot more as a comment site where users can post news. Sure, the news blurbs are the starter, but the meat of the action is in the insightful, interesting, flamebait, troll posting that occurs after. The news stories that have little potential for political/social commentary get far fewer comments than anything to do with YRO, black-box voting, etc.
In this respect, I don't think of Slashdot as a blog, but more of an indicator(s) of what the Slashdot-reading crowd, which is a tech-heavy bunch, is thinking. This is closer to a BBS than a Blog.
$4000 seems a little low in some respects, especially if you want to be digital. However, the guy that replied to you stating that a single lens would be $4000 is a little off base. You don't have to have the fastest, most low dispersion lenses to start with. It all depends on the kind of photography you want to do. I have friends that shoot professionally, and believe it or not they sometimes use plastic toy cameras. Of course, this is the exception, but it does show that creative endeavors (commercial ones at that) don't have to cost a fortune. And, you can have all the gear in the catalog and stil be a crappy shooter.
Tech is an answer to a technical problem, not a creative one.
From what I've seen photographers can be (mostly) divided into those who love the gadgets and know how to compute the hyperfocal distance and those who have an idea of what kind of image they want to create. By far, those in the latter category produce the most interesting stuff.
Badgers? We don't need no stinking Badgers!
Excuse me, I have to get the phone....
Because pure alcohol is desperately needed elsewhere. Namely, my drink.