Still not happy. You have to also add something like "within a single generation" or "within our lifetime" interstellar space travel. Actually, upon rereading the latest version of the Project Orion wikipedia article it looks like it has been estimated that it would only take about 36 days for an unmanned ship (at a near constant 1 g acceleration) to reach 0.1c. At that speed it would only take 44 years to reach Alpha Centauri within a human lifetime. So existing tech really is good enough for for interstellar travel. It's just hugely expensive and Alpha Centuari is not expected to be all that interesting. We'd much rather go to Gliese 581 d about 20 light years away and that would take about 200 years at 0.1c. Even after the ship arrived at its destination it would take another 20 years for the photo and/or video to reach us with the stunning images of the Gliese 581 system. Building an Orion ship large enough to hold enough payload to reach 0.1c would be very expensive. Dyson's estimates were for a 100 meter long vessel weighing 100,000 tons with a 300,000 ton payload. Getting all that mass into space where it can safely be launched would not be cheap. Of course if you could just launch the thing from earth that would not be a problem. And before the Nuclear Test Ban treaty that is precisely what Dyson assumed in his cost estimates.
Actually that is an interesting idea. It would at least explain why they would only target a handful of missiles instead of all of them at once or at least a large number. So then it just goes back to how implausible the whole idea of aliens being here actually is.
Huh? We are already doing space travel. Lots of it. While no human has traveled farther than the moon, lots of our unmanned ships have traveled much farther. To the edge of the solar system and beyond. Of course interstellar space travel is a very different story, but is also not impossible just very difficult and time consuming. Even Voyager, traveling at around 37000 mph, will reach Proxima Centauri in 80,000 years. An Orion style nuclear pulse driven ship could reach that system much sooner. Even with current tech I think we could launch an unmanned ship which could make it to Proxima Centauri in only 5000 years.
Since when did Reuters report on National Inquirer stories? The source is a UFO nut. The story itself is pretty implausible. Why would aliens travel many light years just to malfunction a few nuclear missiles from time to time? Nothing about it makes sense. If they are advanced enough to build an interstellar spacecraft they are probably also advanced enough to shut down or even disappear every nuclear weapon on the planet.
I've taught a few people how to use NoScript/FlashBlock - but first they have to have already been infected a few times in the past month before they get the concept and why it's important to be paranoid. Even if they screw up 5% of the time in allowing permissions, they're still far better off then not using the tool.
I just had this happen with a friend who for years resisted installing noscript. He was a big fan of javascript and web sites just working etc. He recently got totally raped by some malware that took control of his browser and desktop. It was some of the worst malware I have seen. The only reason I was able to get some control is because he had process explorer. So he finally installed noscript. He's not happy with the additional work involved, but he's grinning and bearing it because now he is aware of the alternative. Before he just didn't get it. No matter what I told him. He had to experience it for himself. I even got him to install ghostery, better privacy, and beef taco.
Actually it doesn't perfectly support 64 bit, but it will run and probably do a good enough job. You might also want to try Shadow Defender. It has fully supported 64 bit for a long time. It is paid software, but I think there are some free versions floating around if you have a parrot on your shoulder.
So you think Libertarians or Anarcho-libertarians are in favor of slavery?! Talk about a strawman. Libertarians are about the most anti-slavery people in the world. Libertarians just want to go back to the way our society worked in the 18th century, and it worked just fine thank you very much without much in the way of taxes or big daddy government. Ultimately Libertarians are the true conservatives. We want to go back to the way things used to be. The early US settlers were mostly Libertarians. If not in principle then in spirit. Anyone who would fight a war over taxes is a Libertarian through and through and a brave one at that. And I don't think most Libertarians are seeking utopia. They are seeking a political situation where human beings are more free. 99% of the human species will still be dicks and assholes. The irony is you are the one advocating slavery, albeit a legalized variety. Ever hear of Tax Freedom Day? How many months a year do you work just to support your masters with no benefit to yourself at all except that your masters will not put you in prison? So, yeah, let's talk about slavery a bit. You seem to be the one in favor of it.
Nope, that is exactly the libertarians today. They want government OUT of rich people's business and businesses' affairs.
You are thinking of Republicans actually. The Republicans and Democrats (you are obviously one of those) are the ones who frame the debate in terms of class conflict. Libertarians know that is rubbish. They want the government out of poor people's affairs just as much (or more) than out of the affairs of the rich. Speaking as a Libertarian (or even anarcho-libertarian depending on my mood) I can tell you that I personally don't much care what happens to the rich. The biggest coup the Libertarian party could have would be eliminating income taxes for everyone who makes under 100k per year. Even 50k would be nice. That would be the vast majority of the people in the US. For me, that would be good enough. In a sense it wouldn't be fair, but so what. It is better than nothing and would help to appease the class warfare segment of the population. How would this scheme sound for you? No taxes for everyone who makes less than 100k, but everything else is taxed at 70%. You see that is an example of a Libertarian idea. Most of us are not rich ourselves and we have no horse in the class race. The bottom line is 99.9% of the population would go back to not having any income taxes at all. I would also advocate abolishing every "regressive" tax we've got. No more sales tax or petrol tax or property tax (not every home owner is fabulously rich). If the property tax thing bothered you you could just make an exception for everyone who earned less than 100k per year or whose house is worth less than a certain amount. I've never understood how groups that claim to be for the proletariat never advocate the one thing that really would make a difference and that is abolishing income tax for the bottom 10% (or whatever) of wage earners. That would be a lot more effective than welfare or make-work schemes and I would imagine that it should be very popular.
Actually, I bet you *could* make some money with that idea by selling DVDs or direct downloads. Don't be so quick to dismiss it. But your analysis is still correct. Even if you sold the videos from your website for a reasonable cost, people may still upload torrents of them. In fact it is even worse, because by selling the very knowledge that makes your time valuable you are decreasing your value in the labor market by decreasing the scarcity of your knowledge. OTOH, there would always be a market for auto mechanics because most people don't have the time or the inclination to spend hours working underneath their car. I have fixed stuff on my car before and I hated it. I would definitely be willing to pay someone to do it for me. What makes the market for your videos so big, at least in the US, is that the hourly rate for car repair is orders of magnitude higher than the hourly wage of many people, including myself. There are countries where this is not the case, and where I would never dream of trying to fix my own vehicle. You have to ask yourself whether the distaste of dealing with the free rider problem inherent in selling any kind of information is stronger than your desire to make some extra money. And also whether money is the only reason you would make such videos. I would imagine that being the first to do something like that would make you relatively netfamous and that name recognition might help you in the job market, but that is very speculative. Also I think you may be overestimating production costs. All you need is a friend to aim a video camera at you and some time underneath a car. One problem might be the availability of different car models. I wonder if it might make sense to cut a profit sharing deal with some garage where you are allowed to video tape the repair for, say, a 20% cut of any profits from it in addition to some fame/advertising for being the AutoRepairVideoGuide garage.
Some of their games simply could not be found anywhere else. Not even on TPB. They had a version of Arx Fatalis that was integrated with the latest patch that played nice with modern graphics cards. A sort of hacked patch that tries to accomplish the same thing is available, but it is hard to find and the developers claim it is buggy and unsupported. I guess it needed to be integrated into the source code directly in order to function properly. My understanding is that they worked with some of the developers directly to get their old games working on modern hardware and OSes. They made a big mistake IMO in not having a separate category for truly custom binaries that are more than just a dosbox install with tested-as-working settings. I never knew whether they were just selling a DRM free version that could be found on TPB/Emule or whether they had actually worked with a developer to modify source code or produce a custom patch. Does anyone know of a comprehensive list of all of their games that were sold with custom binaries which can't be found anywhere else? Was Arx Fatalis the only one?
Actually you are wrong. Technical people make bombs. Instead of killing you with a bomb though, they may shoot you in the eyes with a laser. Your generalizations are just wrong. No one is sending mail bombs to Aiplex because it would be what you call overreacting. They are DOSing, so we of the internet DDOS them back, but they haven't killed anyone. All they have done is slow down some famous torrent sites and make it a little bit more difficult for us to get free stuff. I have had to resort to magnet links on TPB recently and that didn't always work for me, but I was still able to get every torrent I wanted. They annoyed us. So we annoy them a little. Turnabout is fair play. Killing them would *not* be fair play and since there is money to be made some other Indian will just take his place. It would accomplish nothing. OTOH mail bombs and anthrax in every MPAA executive's mailbox might make a difference. It takes technical people to make those things though.
Don't think of it as a sky-is-falling article then. Think of it as a NAND-flash-has-some-process-size-limitations article. For NAND flash larger process sizes are simply better. I know that seems counter-intuitive but it's true. We just aren't used to the idea. Despite that fact the manufacturers still want to shrink because it saves them money. Usually it helps the consumer as well, but that is simply not true with NAND flash tech. Maybe a year or two from now larger process sizes will be a value add attribute. "Now available in more reliable 50 nanometer sizes! Keep your valuable data safe!".
Actually you are wrong. At least single threaded performance has seen comparatively feeble increases with each tick and tock. Usually less than 10%. Small little optimizations. Nothing like it used to be with massive clock speed increases every year. It's actually weird that there was ever a time when "there is no good time to upgrade" was true. Anytime is a good time to upgrade now, because CPU performance is dead in its tracks aside from increasing the core count and relying on SMP tactics in software to increase your speed. Granted a jump in core count can lead to massive performance gains for the right sort of application in the right problem domain. But we have had SMP for a long time. Software just wasn't written to support it very often.
We lowered the wavelength of the laser instead of go to 56x CDs.
How long did it take us to go from a red laser to a blue laser? And speaking of CDs, how much faster are CD-ROM drives now then they were 10 years ago? I still have one of those 72x TrueX Kenwood CD-ROM drives with multiple lasers reading the disc in parallel. Can you point to a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM or BD-ROM drive that can read my CD-ROMs faster than 72x? How many years has it been since CPUs hit 3 Ghz? The first Core Duo was released almost 4 years ago. How much faster are CPUs now? Technology doesn't always advance smoothly and steadily. Sometimes it stagnates for a while before it can move forward again.
The smaller the NAND flash process size the shorter the write endurance and data retention times. A 25nm NAND flash SSD will have a much shorter lifespan and hold data for a much shorter period of time than current 34nm tech. Does this mean that 2010 NAND flash SSDs will be better than 2011 ones? Well I guess that depends on how much you value reliability and longevity in your storage devices. Lower cost and shorter life is a win/win for the manufacturers. This limit on NAND flash technology has been known since the start. I don't see the big deal. Just stop at 34nm and work at other technologies that are faster or scale in size better. We usually think of larger process size as being better, but in this case it's not.
Maybe for silicon, but for Intel/AMD CPUs the limit seems to be around 3.3 Ghz. Unless you overclock. Then you can expect anywhere from about 4 to 4.5 Ghz with good air or water cooling or 5+ Ghz with phase change. Didn't the Intel roadmaps from around 10 years ago predict 6 or 7 Ghz CPUs by now? Python programmers may want to start brushing up on their assembly skills. Unless there is some kind of major scientific breakthrough single threaded apps and/or non-parallel tasks won't be getting much faster. Luckily GPUs, RAM, and hard drives are still moving ahead as usual. Well, hard drives are slightly stalled at the moment with some manufacturers not even offering their high capacity drives at 7200 RPM (*cough* Samsung *cough*) and others charging a huge premium just to get the same rotational speeds that we have been getting since about 1992.
What we really need is a screensaver application to DDOS these bastards. Maybe Lycos could help code it. I agree that we have to keep our attacks up for at least as long as Aiplex does. Aiplex is an international Cyber-terrorist. Where are all of our so called cyber-warriors when we need them? If only the CIA were one of the good guys, the president of Aiplex would find himself facing multiple kiddie rape charges. Then the charges would be dropped and then reinstated again just to add to the publicity. Child rape is illegal in India, right?
How is it giving them ammo? Neither website was an important part of their respective business. They didn't lose any money over it. It's more symbolic than anything else. What we really need to do is figure out the IP addresses of the machines doing the DOSing of TPB and send them a few trillion nastygrams. DDOSes need to be responded to in kind. If it brings down half the internet (as in the Make Love Not Spam debacle), well good! That is the fucking point. This kind of behavior should not be tolerated.
* make Linux and free software straightforward to use for everyone;
* provide integrated system configuration tools;
* keep a high-level of integration between the base system, the desktop (KDE/GNOME) and applications; especially improve third-parties (be it free of proprietary software) integration;
* target new architectures and form-factors;
* improve our understanding of computers and electronics devices users.
How is this different from lots of other distros we already have? PCLinuxOS, Mint Linux, Kubuntu/Ubuntu...? They should call it YADL (Yet Another Desktop Linux). Shouldn't they be trying to do something different? How about a user friendly version of a fast/lite Linux. Something like Arch Linux or Gentoo with a GUI installer maybe? Or a mandriva fast and lite distro? The Mandriva-like equivalent of something like Lubuntu. If someone wants bloated, slow, but easy to use they can just install Windows 7, or Windows XP for that matter. I really don't get the point of all these Linux distros that want to install every Linux app ever written. That's the Microsoft Way. IMO, lite/fast or custom installs are the way. As Windows continues to grow exponentially larger and slower (Win7 requires a 40 GB partition), people may eventually throw up their hands and install a more sensible alternative that does what an operating system is supposed to do: run other programs, and that's all. And if they really, really want to go for Windows market share they could start by writing a GUI that is indistinguishable from Windows XP. IOW, something people are already used to. Then the only difference would be what applications they can (or can't) run and how much faster and more secure it is.
Does the US Military have sniper training? I'd like to nuclear bid on it and then retract my bid at the end. It would be worth the negative feedback just to get into a bidding war with the US Military and actually win!
I think our government should just abolish the first amendment. They clearly don't believe in it. This just makes me so sick. Where is wikileaks when you need them?
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I don't go to any of those sites you insensitive clod. It seems plausible to assume that some people will not realize the site is back again.
Still not happy. You have to also add something like "within a single generation" or "within our lifetime" interstellar space travel. Actually, upon rereading the latest version of the Project Orion wikipedia article it looks like it has been estimated that it would only take about 36 days for an unmanned ship (at a near constant 1 g acceleration) to reach 0.1c. At that speed it would only take 44 years to reach Alpha Centauri within a human lifetime. So existing tech really is good enough for for interstellar travel. It's just hugely expensive and Alpha Centuari is not expected to be all that interesting. We'd much rather go to Gliese 581 d about 20 light years away and that would take about 200 years at 0.1c. Even after the ship arrived at its destination it would take another 20 years for the photo and/or video to reach us with the stunning images of the Gliese 581 system. Building an Orion ship large enough to hold enough payload to reach 0.1c would be very expensive. Dyson's estimates were for a 100 meter long vessel weighing 100,000 tons with a 300,000 ton payload. Getting all that mass into space where it can safely be launched would not be cheap. Of course if you could just launch the thing from earth that would not be a problem. And before the Nuclear Test Ban treaty that is precisely what Dyson assumed in his cost estimates.
Actually that is an interesting idea. It would at least explain why they would only target a handful of missiles instead of all of them at once or at least a large number. So then it just goes back to how implausible the whole idea of aliens being here actually is.
Huh? We are already doing space travel. Lots of it. While no human has traveled farther than the moon, lots of our unmanned ships have traveled much farther. To the edge of the solar system and beyond. Of course interstellar space travel is a very different story, but is also not impossible just very difficult and time consuming. Even Voyager, traveling at around 37000 mph, will reach Proxima Centauri in 80,000 years. An Orion style nuclear pulse driven ship could reach that system much sooner. Even with current tech I think we could launch an unmanned ship which could make it to Proxima Centauri in only 5000 years.
Since when did Reuters report on National Inquirer stories? The source is a UFO nut. The story itself is pretty implausible. Why would aliens travel many light years just to malfunction a few nuclear missiles from time to time? Nothing about it makes sense. If they are advanced enough to build an interstellar spacecraft they are probably also advanced enough to shut down or even disappear every nuclear weapon on the planet.
I've taught a few people how to use NoScript/FlashBlock - but first they have to have already been infected a few times in the past month before they get the concept and why it's important to be paranoid. Even if they screw up 5% of the time in allowing permissions, they're still far better off then not using the tool.
I just had this happen with a friend who for years resisted installing noscript. He was a big fan of javascript and web sites just working etc. He recently got totally raped by some malware that took control of his browser and desktop. It was some of the worst malware I have seen. The only reason I was able to get some control is because he had process explorer. So he finally installed noscript. He's not happy with the additional work involved, but he's grinning and bearing it because now he is aware of the alternative. Before he just didn't get it. No matter what I told him. He had to experience it for himself. I even got him to install ghostery, better privacy, and beef taco.
Actually it doesn't perfectly support 64 bit, but it will run and probably do a good enough job. You might also want to try Shadow Defender. It has fully supported 64 bit for a long time. It is paid software, but I think there are some free versions floating around if you have a parrot on your shoulder.
What needs to happen is stronger controls on how government does its job -- and I sure as hell don't claim to have an answer to this.
But who will control the controllers of the controllers?
So you think Libertarians or Anarcho-libertarians are in favor of slavery?! Talk about a strawman. Libertarians are about the most anti-slavery people in the world. Libertarians just want to go back to the way our society worked in the 18th century, and it worked just fine thank you very much without much in the way of taxes or big daddy government. Ultimately Libertarians are the true conservatives. We want to go back to the way things used to be. The early US settlers were mostly Libertarians. If not in principle then in spirit. Anyone who would fight a war over taxes is a Libertarian through and through and a brave one at that. And I don't think most Libertarians are seeking utopia. They are seeking a political situation where human beings are more free. 99% of the human species will still be dicks and assholes. The irony is you are the one advocating slavery, albeit a legalized variety. Ever hear of Tax Freedom Day? How many months a year do you work just to support your masters with no benefit to yourself at all except that your masters will not put you in prison? So, yeah, let's talk about slavery a bit. You seem to be the one in favor of it.
Nope, that is exactly the libertarians today. They want government OUT of rich people's business and businesses' affairs.
You are thinking of Republicans actually. The Republicans and Democrats (you are obviously one of those) are the ones who frame the debate in terms of class conflict. Libertarians know that is rubbish. They want the government out of poor people's affairs just as much (or more) than out of the affairs of the rich. Speaking as a Libertarian (or even anarcho-libertarian depending on my mood) I can tell you that I personally don't much care what happens to the rich. The biggest coup the Libertarian party could have would be eliminating income taxes for everyone who makes under 100k per year. Even 50k would be nice. That would be the vast majority of the people in the US. For me, that would be good enough. In a sense it wouldn't be fair, but so what. It is better than nothing and would help to appease the class warfare segment of the population. How would this scheme sound for you? No taxes for everyone who makes less than 100k, but everything else is taxed at 70%. You see that is an example of a Libertarian idea. Most of us are not rich ourselves and we have no horse in the class race. The bottom line is 99.9% of the population would go back to not having any income taxes at all. I would also advocate abolishing every "regressive" tax we've got. No more sales tax or petrol tax or property tax (not every home owner is fabulously rich). If the property tax thing bothered you you could just make an exception for everyone who earned less than 100k per year or whose house is worth less than a certain amount. I've never understood how groups that claim to be for the proletariat never advocate the one thing that really would make a difference and that is abolishing income tax for the bottom 10% (or whatever) of wage earners. That would be a lot more effective than welfare or make-work schemes and I would imagine that it should be very popular.
Actually, I bet you *could* make some money with that idea by selling DVDs or direct downloads. Don't be so quick to dismiss it. But your analysis is still correct. Even if you sold the videos from your website for a reasonable cost, people may still upload torrents of them. In fact it is even worse, because by selling the very knowledge that makes your time valuable you are decreasing your value in the labor market by decreasing the scarcity of your knowledge. OTOH, there would always be a market for auto mechanics because most people don't have the time or the inclination to spend hours working underneath their car. I have fixed stuff on my car before and I hated it. I would definitely be willing to pay someone to do it for me. What makes the market for your videos so big, at least in the US, is that the hourly rate for car repair is orders of magnitude higher than the hourly wage of many people, including myself. There are countries where this is not the case, and where I would never dream of trying to fix my own vehicle. You have to ask yourself whether the distaste of dealing with the free rider problem inherent in selling any kind of information is stronger than your desire to make some extra money. And also whether money is the only reason you would make such videos. I would imagine that being the first to do something like that would make you relatively netfamous and that name recognition might help you in the job market, but that is very speculative. Also I think you may be overestimating production costs. All you need is a friend to aim a video camera at you and some time underneath a car. One problem might be the availability of different car models. I wonder if it might make sense to cut a profit sharing deal with some garage where you are allowed to video tape the repair for, say, a 20% cut of any profits from it in addition to some fame/advertising for being the AutoRepairVideoGuide garage.
Some of their games simply could not be found anywhere else. Not even on TPB. They had a version of Arx Fatalis that was integrated with the latest patch that played nice with modern graphics cards. A sort of hacked patch that tries to accomplish the same thing is available, but it is hard to find and the developers claim it is buggy and unsupported. I guess it needed to be integrated into the source code directly in order to function properly. My understanding is that they worked with some of the developers directly to get their old games working on modern hardware and OSes. They made a big mistake IMO in not having a separate category for truly custom binaries that are more than just a dosbox install with tested-as-working settings. I never knew whether they were just selling a DRM free version that could be found on TPB/Emule or whether they had actually worked with a developer to modify source code or produce a custom patch. Does anyone know of a comprehensive list of all of their games that were sold with custom binaries which can't be found anywhere else? Was Arx Fatalis the only one?
Actually you are wrong. Technical people make bombs. Instead of killing you with a bomb though, they may shoot you in the eyes with a laser. Your generalizations are just wrong. No one is sending mail bombs to Aiplex because it would be what you call overreacting. They are DOSing, so we of the internet DDOS them back, but they haven't killed anyone. All they have done is slow down some famous torrent sites and make it a little bit more difficult for us to get free stuff. I have had to resort to magnet links on TPB recently and that didn't always work for me, but I was still able to get every torrent I wanted. They annoyed us. So we annoy them a little. Turnabout is fair play. Killing them would *not* be fair play and since there is money to be made some other Indian will just take his place. It would accomplish nothing. OTOH mail bombs and anthrax in every MPAA executive's mailbox might make a difference. It takes technical people to make those things though.
Don't think of it as a sky-is-falling article then. Think of it as a NAND-flash-has-some-process-size-limitations article. For NAND flash larger process sizes are simply better. I know that seems counter-intuitive but it's true. We just aren't used to the idea. Despite that fact the manufacturers still want to shrink because it saves them money. Usually it helps the consumer as well, but that is simply not true with NAND flash tech. Maybe a year or two from now larger process sizes will be a value add attribute. "Now available in more reliable 50 nanometer sizes! Keep your valuable data safe!".
Actually you are wrong. At least single threaded performance has seen comparatively feeble increases with each tick and tock. Usually less than 10%. Small little optimizations. Nothing like it used to be with massive clock speed increases every year. It's actually weird that there was ever a time when "there is no good time to upgrade" was true. Anytime is a good time to upgrade now, because CPU performance is dead in its tracks aside from increasing the core count and relying on SMP tactics in software to increase your speed. Granted a jump in core count can lead to massive performance gains for the right sort of application in the right problem domain. But we have had SMP for a long time. Software just wasn't written to support it very often.
We lowered the wavelength of the laser instead of go to 56x CDs.
How long did it take us to go from a red laser to a blue laser? And speaking of CDs, how much faster are CD-ROM drives now then they were 10 years ago? I still have one of those 72x TrueX Kenwood CD-ROM drives with multiple lasers reading the disc in parallel. Can you point to a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM or BD-ROM drive that can read my CD-ROMs faster than 72x? How many years has it been since CPUs hit 3 Ghz? The first Core Duo was released almost 4 years ago. How much faster are CPUs now? Technology doesn't always advance smoothly and steadily. Sometimes it stagnates for a while before it can move forward again.
The smaller the NAND flash process size the shorter the write endurance and data retention times. A 25nm NAND flash SSD will have a much shorter lifespan and hold data for a much shorter period of time than current 34nm tech. Does this mean that 2010 NAND flash SSDs will be better than 2011 ones? Well I guess that depends on how much you value reliability and longevity in your storage devices. Lower cost and shorter life is a win/win for the manufacturers. This limit on NAND flash technology has been known since the start. I don't see the big deal. Just stop at 34nm and work at other technologies that are faster or scale in size better. We usually think of larger process size as being better, but in this case it's not.
http://features.techworld.com/storage/3212075/is-nand-flash-about-to-hit-a-dead-end/?intcmp=ft-hm-m
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1492711
Limit on clock speeds for silicon is 40 Ghz
Maybe for silicon, but for Intel/AMD CPUs the limit seems to be around 3.3 Ghz. Unless you overclock. Then you can expect anywhere from about 4 to 4.5 Ghz with good air or water cooling or 5+ Ghz with phase change. Didn't the Intel roadmaps from around 10 years ago predict 6 or 7 Ghz CPUs by now? Python programmers may want to start brushing up on their assembly skills. Unless there is some kind of major scientific breakthrough single threaded apps and/or non-parallel tasks won't be getting much faster. Luckily GPUs, RAM, and hard drives are still moving ahead as usual. Well, hard drives are slightly stalled at the moment with some manufacturers not even offering their high capacity drives at 7200 RPM (*cough* Samsung *cough*) and others charging a huge premium just to get the same rotational speeds that we have been getting since about 1992.
What we really need is a screensaver application to DDOS these bastards. Maybe Lycos could help code it. I agree that we have to keep our attacks up for at least as long as Aiplex does. Aiplex is an international Cyber-terrorist. Where are all of our so called cyber-warriors when we need them? If only the CIA were one of the good guys, the president of Aiplex would find himself facing multiple kiddie rape charges. Then the charges would be dropped and then reinstated again just to add to the publicity. Child rape is illegal in India, right?
How is it giving them ammo? Neither website was an important part of their respective business. They didn't lose any money over it. It's more symbolic than anything else. What we really need to do is figure out the IP addresses of the machines doing the DOSing of TPB and send them a few trillion nastygrams. DDOSes need to be responded to in kind. If it brings down half the internet (as in the Make Love Not Spam debacle), well good! That is the fucking point. This kind of behavior should not be tolerated.
So what was the difference between Kubuntu and Mandriva? I haven't tried either one.
* make Linux and free software straightforward to use for everyone;
* provide integrated system configuration tools;
* keep a high-level of integration between the base system, the desktop (KDE/GNOME) and applications; especially improve third-parties (be it free of proprietary software) integration;
* target new architectures and form-factors;
* improve our understanding of computers and electronics devices users.
How is this different from lots of other distros we already have? PCLinuxOS, Mint Linux, Kubuntu/Ubuntu...? They should call it YADL (Yet Another Desktop Linux). Shouldn't they be trying to do something different? How about a user friendly version of a fast/lite Linux. Something like Arch Linux or Gentoo with a GUI installer maybe? Or a mandriva fast and lite distro? The Mandriva-like equivalent of something like Lubuntu. If someone wants bloated, slow, but easy to use they can just install Windows 7, or Windows XP for that matter. I really don't get the point of all these Linux distros that want to install every Linux app ever written. That's the Microsoft Way. IMO, lite/fast or custom installs are the way. As Windows continues to grow exponentially larger and slower (Win7 requires a 40 GB partition), people may eventually throw up their hands and install a more sensible alternative that does what an operating system is supposed to do: run other programs, and that's all. And if they really, really want to go for Windows market share they could start by writing a GUI that is indistinguishable from Windows XP. IOW, something people are already used to. Then the only difference would be what applications they can (or can't) run and how much faster and more secure it is.
Does the US Military have sniper training? I'd like to nuclear bid on it and then retract my bid at the end. It would be worth the negative feedback just to get into a bidding war with the US Military and actually win!
Except all the interesting parts will be removed courtesy of Uncle Sam.
I think our government should just abolish the first amendment. They clearly don't believe in it. This just makes me so sick. Where is wikileaks when you need them?