A talking webserver..now instead of having to guess if its overheating, has a virus, or is under a denial of service attack, it can tell you. Does this have anything to do with that emotional car that was posted a while ago? I don't want a webserver under my control crying or frowning at me...a server farm is scary enough without having talking servers..
Microsoft is not lame. It is very, very powerful. And has a lot of money. Its no coincidence, either. They can do pretty much anything they want without stepping too far out of bounds. As long as they take babysteps, they can control us. Next up: We'll have to go to a Microsoft Hospital to get our registration code implanted/branded into our skins to use the next version of Windows. And piracy will be impossible since Microsoft will be the military.
...Now who is going to write drivers to allow programming via DualShock, or write drivers to allow the DVD-ROM to be accessed. Video drivers would be nice, too.
Open Source: Good and Bad
+ Customizable
+ Non-professional support (more of it)
+ Low cost, if not free
- Can be difficult to use
- Not up to par with most commercial software
- No major funding
Closed Source: Good and Bad
+ Higher quality than most open source sofware.
+ Corporate funding and more money leads to continuing support and backwards compatibility.
- Not as customizable as open source software
- Strict licencing schemes to stay 'legal'
Wouldn't this degrade the performance of the Internet in general? Tapping the 'net also has a few more drawbacks. It only examines packets enroute. That would tend to catch people doing legitimate things more than it would catch criminals. Meaning, they could see you sending and receiving traffic from some server that could possibly have illegal things on it (which is what? 90% of servers) and then swoop down and bust you for aiding a criminal or something stupid.
It doesn't seem too practical to me. Most apps don't benefit greatly from SMP anyway. Add to that the potential heat problems caused by two cores on one chip...Why not just go with a more traditional SMP approach? At least you won't have to worry too much about heat then.
Messengers expand people's awareness, and thus, knowledge of people to exploit/attack. Microsoft is willing to blame everyone but themselves for a security flaw/hole. Maybe messengers speeded up the process of finding/exploting holes, but the holes are there because MS put them there/didn't fix them. They should also blame the Internet and telephone system for their security holes.
We're essentially making bacteria here. They're intelligent to an extent, and should probably be watched/controlled for safety reasons. Imagine if the wrong person got a hold of a vat of this stuff. He could cross one with a bacterium or similarly-sized molecule of toxin for the ultimate method of delivery for a biological/chemical attack. Otherwise, its a great idea.
If I were placed in charge of NASA right now, not only would I likely be rich, but happy as well. I would start newer, more useful projects such as finding some legitimate use for what we already have, air, sea, and land spaces. I would start difficult projects just to push along technology and to spark the industry into a new age of prosperity. As big of an organization NASA is, they still insist on spending billions on finding one microbe on Mars, when we could spend billions to make life better in every way.
It would be like patenting dirt, although many people have dirt in their house. Many people use web templates, and I can just see people who didn't use it getting sued because their pages look like they came from a template. All the poor newbies will have to pay royalties to have their useless information posted.
Its kind of like the whole Batteries Not Included scam. Except it would be things like Stability Sacrificed If You X (where X is most actions). Why would you want to buy a new engine because Ford sold you a truck with an engine that barely works? Its quite stupid if you ask me. The BBB should step in and kick major ass. If you buy something, you've bought it, its yours. Maybe you don't have the right to rip off the design (or code as in software) and sell it to other people, but the ideas should be free to use. Now we have 10 billion commandments we have to follow just to play Solitare in relative peace. And we have to patch it two and a half billion times because the company didn't release a complete version, but a pre-alpha test program that sold for $500.00.
Most Linux projects WILL be half-assed unless started by a company or someone who is otherwise funded. People with just spare time to work with but still hold a seperate job would find it hard as hell to code something for themselves (more likely to be half-assed) than to code something for everyone (pride reduces half-assedness). Be thankful we get what we get, unless you all want to code it by yourselves. Point is, don't complain if you didn't make it and can get it for free.
Bugtraq is probably one of the most-read sites to hackers and the like on the internet today. Information should be free, even if people use it for malicious purposes. Someday people will forget malice, and have no reason to use the information. Lets hope this new moderater thinks the same way.
Any time there is a signifigant change on the phonelines, DSL service can be interrupted. I can just imagine how badly this affected DSL customers in the area. And with the fragility of fiber line, I guess even more people were affected. Imagine what was to become of all the water/gas/electric lines running into the building. Our nation needs to build in redundancy for such things. Gas/electric/water lines have physical redundancy, they can be cut off at the last point. But for DSL/fiber, it doesn't automatically inform the server that the connection will be unavailable. The packets flow straight to hell.
By using less power, one would imagine less heat would be generated as well. But depending on the materials and processes used, will these Transmeta chips follow the same 'faster, hotter, more expensive' trend that AMD is following?
You'd think this would have been one of the first few 'features' of the Linux core. If the latency were high, it would screw programs and things that rely on low latencies to compute. Better late than never.
A lottery for domain names is both good and bad. Needless to say, lots of hungry squatters are looking to snap up millions of company names...But millions of companies are looking to snap up their names. Other than that, why the hell would he nix that lottery? People paid for it fair and square...same with gambling. Netgambling is legal, why shouldn't this? Isn't it gambling as well?
Flamebait? I'm not saying Windows is the best OS, or that Microsoft's business practices are totally legal, but think of a world with many OSes for the home user. Sure, there are the *nix OSes, but imagine more. Imagine if there were say, 10 different OS classes besides Mac and *nix. The Internet would be a much different place..maybe not in a good way. Even though Windows is forced down our throats, it gives us a familiar base on which to plan/develop.
Bill Gates should win an award for making a good number of PCs Windows based, as without Windows, us tech support guys would have to support 24125812 different operating systems and Mac's would reign supreme.
"Ellula's speakers resemble brightly coloured audio beach balls and are aimed at the home, for use with portable stereos and computers."
They're ones to talk about things being awkward..imagine having beachballs for speakers. As if our desks weren't unstable and crowded enough already, we now have the option of using brightly colored beach balls for speakers..just great if you have kids..they'd spike the 'beach ball' into another room!
Inflatable loud speakers are great for things like parties involving drugs or alcohol. Now when you pass out you won't take out a speaker (or a hip) when you fall to the ground, but land safely on an inflatable speaker. Might deafen you though if you're out for too long...
Other uses could include 'stimulation' of various parts which I won't mention. Mainly pertains to females, though.
Most people I've met can't even use most of the features on their 'sporty' new watch, such as the calendar, timer, or otherwise. What makes the creator of this watch thing people are going to be able to use Linux with it? "I just want to know what time it is, damn it! I don't want to compile anything!"
Imagine it! No more long pr0n downloads..just leave your laptop in your briefcase under the table for a few hours while you discuss 'business'. The pr0n is downloaded, you have a raise, what could be better?!
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A talking webserver..now instead of having to guess if its overheating, has a virus, or is under a denial of service attack, it can tell you. Does this have anything to do with that emotional car that was posted a while ago? I don't want a webserver under my control crying or frowning at me...a server farm is scary enough without having talking servers..
Microsoft is not lame. It is very, very powerful. And has a lot of money. Its no coincidence, either. They can do pretty much anything they want without stepping too far out of bounds. As long as they take babysteps, they can control us. Next up: We'll have to go to a Microsoft Hospital to get our registration code implanted/branded into our skins to use the next version of Windows. And piracy will be impossible since Microsoft will be the military.
...Now who is going to write drivers to allow programming via DualShock, or write drivers to allow the DVD-ROM to be accessed. Video drivers would be nice, too.
Open Source: Good and Bad + Customizable + Non-professional support (more of it) + Low cost, if not free - Can be difficult to use - Not up to par with most commercial software - No major funding Closed Source: Good and Bad + Higher quality than most open source sofware. + Corporate funding and more money leads to continuing support and backwards compatibility. - Not as customizable as open source software - Strict licencing schemes to stay 'legal'
Wouldn't this degrade the performance of the Internet in general? Tapping the 'net also has a few more drawbacks. It only examines packets enroute. That would tend to catch people doing legitimate things more than it would catch criminals. Meaning, they could see you sending and receiving traffic from some server that could possibly have illegal things on it (which is what? 90% of servers) and then swoop down and bust you for aiding a criminal or something stupid.
It doesn't seem too practical to me. Most apps don't benefit greatly from SMP anyway. Add to that the potential heat problems caused by two cores on one chip...Why not just go with a more traditional SMP approach? At least you won't have to worry too much about heat then.
Messengers expand people's awareness, and thus, knowledge of people to exploit/attack. Microsoft is willing to blame everyone but themselves for a security flaw/hole. Maybe messengers speeded up the process of finding/exploting holes, but the holes are there because MS put them there/didn't fix them. They should also blame the Internet and telephone system for their security holes.
I stand corrected after being flamed straight to Hell. Thanks for the insight, but it could have been given without such sharp remarks.
We're essentially making bacteria here. They're intelligent to an extent, and should probably be watched/controlled for safety reasons. Imagine if the wrong person got a hold of a vat of this stuff. He could cross one with a bacterium or similarly-sized molecule of toxin for the ultimate method of delivery for a biological/chemical attack. Otherwise, its a great idea.
Time here doesn't have to run out at a speedy pace if we find out how we're speeding it up. If we put our minds to it, we could stay here forever.
If I were placed in charge of NASA right now, not only would I likely be rich, but happy as well. I would start newer, more useful projects such as finding some legitimate use for what we already have, air, sea, and land spaces. I would start difficult projects just to push along technology and to spark the industry into a new age of prosperity. As big of an organization NASA is, they still insist on spending billions on finding one microbe on Mars, when we could spend billions to make life better in every way.
It would be like patenting dirt, although many people have dirt in their house. Many people use web templates, and I can just see people who didn't use it getting sued because their pages look like they came from a template. All the poor newbies will have to pay royalties to have their useless information posted.
Its kind of like the whole Batteries Not Included scam. Except it would be things like Stability Sacrificed If You X (where X is most actions). Why would you want to buy a new engine because Ford sold you a truck with an engine that barely works? Its quite stupid if you ask me. The BBB should step in and kick major ass. If you buy something, you've bought it, its yours. Maybe you don't have the right to rip off the design (or code as in software) and sell it to other people, but the ideas should be free to use. Now we have 10 billion commandments we have to follow just to play Solitare in relative peace. And we have to patch it two and a half billion times because the company didn't release a complete version, but a pre-alpha test program that sold for $500.00.
Most Linux projects WILL be half-assed unless started by a company or someone who is otherwise funded. People with just spare time to work with but still hold a seperate job would find it hard as hell to code something for themselves (more likely to be half-assed) than to code something for everyone (pride reduces half-assedness). Be thankful we get what we get, unless you all want to code it by yourselves. Point is, don't complain if you didn't make it and can get it for free.
Bugtraq is probably one of the most-read sites to hackers and the like on the internet today. Information should be free, even if people use it for malicious purposes. Someday people will forget malice, and have no reason to use the information. Lets hope this new moderater thinks the same way.
Any time there is a signifigant change on the phonelines, DSL service can be interrupted. I can just imagine how badly this affected DSL customers in the area. And with the fragility of fiber line, I guess even more people were affected. Imagine what was to become of all the water/gas/electric lines running into the building. Our nation needs to build in redundancy for such things. Gas/electric/water lines have physical redundancy, they can be cut off at the last point. But for DSL/fiber, it doesn't automatically inform the server that the connection will be unavailable. The packets flow straight to hell.
By using less power, one would imagine less heat would be generated as well. But depending on the materials and processes used, will these Transmeta chips follow the same 'faster, hotter, more expensive' trend that AMD is following?
You'd think this would have been one of the first few 'features' of the Linux core. If the latency were high, it would screw programs and things that rely on low latencies to compute. Better late than never.
A lottery for domain names is both good and bad. Needless to say, lots of hungry squatters are looking to snap up millions of company names...But millions of companies are looking to snap up their names. Other than that, why the hell would he nix that lottery? People paid for it fair and square...same with gambling. Netgambling is legal, why shouldn't this? Isn't it gambling as well?
Flamebait? I'm not saying Windows is the best OS, or that Microsoft's business practices are totally legal, but think of a world with many OSes for the home user. Sure, there are the *nix OSes, but imagine more. Imagine if there were say, 10 different OS classes besides Mac and *nix. The Internet would be a much different place..maybe not in a good way. Even though Windows is forced down our throats, it gives us a familiar base on which to plan/develop.
Bill Gates should win an award for making a good number of PCs Windows based, as without Windows, us tech support guys would have to support 24125812 different operating systems and Mac's would reign supreme.
"Ellula's speakers resemble brightly coloured audio beach balls and are aimed at the home, for use with portable stereos and computers." They're ones to talk about things being awkward..imagine having beachballs for speakers. As if our desks weren't unstable and crowded enough already, we now have the option of using brightly colored beach balls for speakers..just great if you have kids..they'd spike the 'beach ball' into another room!
Inflatable loud speakers are great for things like parties involving drugs or alcohol. Now when you pass out you won't take out a speaker (or a hip) when you fall to the ground, but land safely on an inflatable speaker. Might deafen you though if you're out for too long... Other uses could include 'stimulation' of various parts which I won't mention. Mainly pertains to females, though.
Most people I've met can't even use most of the features on their 'sporty' new watch, such as the calendar, timer, or otherwise. What makes the creator of this watch thing people are going to be able to use Linux with it? "I just want to know what time it is, damn it! I don't want to compile anything!"
Imagine it! No more long pr0n downloads..just leave your laptop in your briefcase under the table for a few hours while you discuss 'business'. The pr0n is downloaded, you have a raise, what could be better?!