Don't get me started with that or I'll have to go apeshit all over you cocksmoking teabaggers.;P Hmmm... a rather apt description of the Diebold corporation.
No. Seriously. Think about it. Printing out EVERY photo, painting, text in the world that currently exists up to this one I'm typing right now. I mean EVERYTHING. That couldn't even fit on the planet in physical form because a lot of today's information is not in hardcopy. Think of all those vacation photos that people saved to DVDs but have never printed. And even if they did print them, they'd wind up on inkjet paper which won't survive. I think you need to rethink your position.
But like evolution, it's ONLY a theory!!! The reality is that we are in a digital dark ages. Much of the important data that we hold dear to us, or that keep society running, or that even keep people alive just to name a few areas is NOT recoverable in any fashion should we have a nuclear catastrophe. All those data tapes, RAIDs, CD-Rs, DVDs, hard drives, you name it... they are NOT human readable like those scraps of information from our ancestors were. The problem we've got right now is that there is too much information to even be able to store in a physical and human readable form. So I have two proposals:
1. Using genetic engineering and/or nanotechnology we ensure that all humans born past a certain point have nanosensors that can read data in any form and process it before feeding it to the brain. Ideally this human augmentation should be completely biological. However, if nanotechnology is necessary it should be purely mechanical in nature to avoid being wiped out by EMP. 2. We find a way to back up snapshots of the molecular structure of the entire space encompassing and deliver those snapshots via encryption (ideally quantum encryption) to remote data storage facilities at multiple points outside of the solar system. Should a disaster occur, automated attendants will simply be triggered to rebuild the solar system from a recent snapshot at pre-designated locations in the universe. A message would then be sent to the appropriate people on the newly reconstructed Earth to alert them of the nature and cause of the recent devastation that befell the original Earth so that if it was a human caused destruction, the causal trajectory may be avoided. If it was natural, the nature of the event would permit the reconstructed Earth managers to make a decision to revert to an earlier copy should the natural event be too close temporally to do anything about.
You'll have to excuse me. My mind is in a different space as I've been practicing Jala Neti the past few days and my mind is expanding.
A word, a ? and an acronym: CCD + WiMax + virtual digital camera software
Thin client digital cameras anyone? Just imagine never having to reload your camera as every image you take is sent back to your camera server at home via free WiFi and Wimax connections as Google deploys them around the world. Imagine that if you want new features on your camera you just upgrade the software on the camera server. And imagine all of that running in a Linux virtual machine on top of Xen hypervisor technology on a Quad-core CPU... It's like bluetooth for quality digital cameras only better.
Oh... and I'm glad that your "new media" masters have been sensitive enough to use KY when they fuck you well and deep with that 20" CRT tube.;P Be seeing you.
My only problem with Bill Clinton is that he didn't say what I would have said, "Yes. I did have sexual relations with that woman. Much like a lot of my peers here in the beltway have been doing the same. Is it really that much of a shock that people like to have sex and sometimes it gets in the way when people apply false moral judgments on it"? But then again, people who think sticking a phallic shape inside a woman for the pleasure of both partners is disgusting very likely have no sense of just how much fun sex can be if you let go a little.
I'm going to play devil's advocate here. (NOTE: I am a conservative liberal who voted for Kerry and previously Nader. I will never again vote third party)
You bring up issues, but as all of us Bush supporters know issues aren't what count! It's CHARACTER! And it's apparent that this man lacks character by simply uttering such offensive terms. This is up there with that evil Democrat who called one of Bush's nominees to the supreme court that racist slur: Neanderthal! Anyone with a brain will see that even if the other candidate might be wrong on the issues, he has more character than this candidate and therefore deserves to be elected to office!
We now return you to your reglarly scheduled heckling.
...it's "mudslinging" when some racist asshole gets caught on tape and this horrid abberation of a human is brought to the attention of the public so they can decide if they want a racist in office? But if politician gets a BJ in his office given by some reasonably 'OK' looking fat chick and it's plastered all over the media (would have been on the net too if there were video of it) it's "fair and balanced reporting". Sayonara assholes...
No. I don't think they are wrong. I'm just not arrogant enough to think I'm right. I only think that I'm right to myself and those who agree with me. I very well may be wrong in the bigger scheme but I have enough reasons to think that I'm not. However I'm not going to tell someone else that they're wrong because I really don't care to argue about it. I'm not here to debate. Just to help and be kind to others.
...I really don't like the web in it's current form. Even with all the Web 2.0 crap, it's still too slow, too restrictive from both a design and content angle and too mired in the original foundations of markup languages. What is needed is actually a new computing platform that is Internet-centric, but not bound by OS, or computer language limitations. Content design should be more of an intuitive and artistic/creative activity instead of mostly a technical one. Take Flash for example. Flash is not something that a kid can pick up and use to create content like they can with crayons and paper, or sitting down at a piano. Even though you can make some really nice looking things with Flash, it still highly restrictive in terms of point of entry for a non-technical person. And in all honesty the most creative and artistic people are not techincally inclined. Those who happen to be gifted with technical ability and true creativity are rare. And those who THINK they are creative or artistic but really aren't are all too common. However, I'm also a realist and know that the web is here to stay. This seems to have something to do with humans always going with the lowest quality products and services simply because of low cost. In this case the "low cost" is the familiarity of the web.
I'm just using hyperbole to illustrate just how great hypervisor based virtualization is vs the standard typical host-based virtualization. Plus, with the hypervisor, there is no OS managing access to the hardware, it's all done in the hypervisor. The only reason there is an OS sitting there is just to interact with the hypervisor. It's not really needed and will likely go away as hypervisor technologies are developed further.
Well I always wind up getting into semantic arguments with people.;P Being 36, five years goes by very quickly for me, so I think that I would prefer to use the same machine for longer and still be able to use current software on it. I remember back in my late teens and 20s when I had my Atari ST, it lasted from 1985 to 1994 and I rarely had to upgrade software and there were no hardware upgrades required. Just optional upgrades. When I moved to Windows, it seemed that you always had to be on the lastest version of something which pushed OS and hardware upgrades. I hated it. The big difference though is that when I was in my teens and 20s even the four years of college looming ahead seemed like a lifetime. Now, if I think about the past four years, it feels like the blink of an eye. With that shift in the perception of the passage of time, I still want a machine to last more than five years.
The ONLY reason Microsoft is doing this is to try and make themselves look less "evil" compared to the flap with Google working within the constructs of the Chinese government's rules (ie. censoring). If Google weren't around or weren't as successful as it is, any reasonable person knows that Microsoft would NEVER pull out of anyplace where they even get the slightest revenue. Even if it were a factory using.Net and SQL server to keep a database of how many babies they've cooked and served to an oppressive regime's administration. Like the Bush administration. Ooops! Did I say that out loud?!! In other words, nothing to see here, move along.
Picking a fight eh??? Do you have a gaming system? More than one? Then total those up and add them to the tally. Do you have an outboard digital sampler or synthesizer with MIDI capabilities? Total those units up and add them to the tally. What about digital cameras? Add those up too. They can all run Linux, so in my mind they're all "boxes". (When is anyone on Slashdot going to learn that to reply to eno2001 is to deal with a highly unstable mind?);P
Five years is a very short period of time for computer hardware when you're talking the Windows world. If you buy entry-level today, your system won't be viable in about a year and a half. And what I mean by that is that if you want to run the latest whiz-bang OS or Office suite from MS, all I can say is good luck trying. If you want a machine to last five years and you are a Windows user, you MUST pay the $2000+ pricetag for mid-level computing. If you buy an $800 box now with Windows XP and it runs OK, I can guarantee you that you'll be spending a lot more money trying to upgrade it to run Vista or whatever comes after vista than you would have had you just plunked down the extra $1200. My main point being that computers should NOT be that disposable. Buying a new machine every year or two is bad practice.
Since I run Linux, I like and actually get to keep my boxes that I spend $2000+ on for closer to a decade and can still run nearly all but the most graphic intensive current software. Just to give you an example, I have a PVR system based around a PIII that I got circa 2000. It's a VERY busy box and it runs like a top. The only sacrifice I had to make (this replaced a P4 that got killed by a power spike) when I downgraded to the PIII was losing realtime de-interlacing. Beyond that, this system plays DVDs, re-encodes video files, can be used for video editing, is an NFS file server, can stream video and even DVDs over the network, and all to a 1920x1080 LCD widescreen display. But the system wasn't a cheap $800 machine when I bought it. It cost me $1980 not including tax which pushed me just over $2000. And I expect this system to still be doing something useful in 2009...
But even if I ran Windows (which I used to), I know that this box could be made capable of running Windows Vista without a lot of expensive upgrading. I'd have to add some RAM to it (it has 512M) for it to run reasonably, and the HD space would need to be increased on the system drive to house the OS and all the apps I'd need to duplicate functionality of my current PVR. So it's still a viable box. However, had I opted to buiy one of the ubiquitous $400 machines in 2000, it would have been useless by 2001/2002. Where is the sense in buying a $400 machine every year and a half vs buying a $2000+ machine closer to every decade?
...that many people won't need quad-core machines. They will be entry-level within five years. With the advent of hypervisor based virtualization, computing is going to make a huge change for all OSes. We will no longer be running on bare metal at the OS level and we'l see performance that actually can exceed running on bare metal thanks to hypervisors on the x86 platform. If I had the cash, I'd be getting one of these or whatever AMD releases in response as I'd really like to turn my 16 boxes at home into one or two giant boxes that provide the services of 16 boxes in isolated virtual machines. And if you don't think most people don't have 16 boxes at home, think again...
Actually, I don't think working for a non-profit is morally superior. I don't attach a value judgment to the kind of work that people do. I just personally feel that if I am doing work for citizens rather than businesses, *I* fell better about it. Regarding communism, I think it's a great system as long as we're not dealing with animal species of any kind (humans included). In other words, it's ideal but it can never work due to the inherent flaw of selfishness in biological systems. Regarding capitalism, I feel it's subject to the same flaw that communism is. As long as one person who is in a higher position than another person wants more than they actually need and to the detriment of the other person, both communism and capitalism fail. I'm here on this planet to help people and I believe that is why everyone else is here to. It's obvious that others don't feel the same way.
These guys do more than push brooms. They are skilled workers. They deserve better treatment than society is willing to give them. You should really make friends with some maintenance guys. They are pretty smart.
Of course... reading 64% of your posts for about.003% of the time I've spent on Slashdot I'd have to concur on the comment about statistics. But then again, they're all just ++damnlies. My point though is that most business people are fine. Most businesses are not because they ignore their social responsibilities. Just as an example, take a look at the mad cow situation. It wouldn't have happened if agribusiness wasn't pushing for maximal profits which translates to maximal meat output, which forces unsound farming techniques (ie. feeding animals with animals) to up the production. It's hard to pin that decision down to one person, but that doesn't mean it's not a bad or corrupt thing. And it also means that anyone who participates in that crime against humanity should be made to pay the price.
I work for a non-profit organization so as to keep my karma clean. And, yes public service is a HUGE factor in what I do. I could make a ton more money doing IT in the corporate world, but I wouldn't be able to live with myself. Hell, even here I feel bad that the maintenance staff get less pay than I do. They do a hell of a lot of really important work and I would say they're MORE essential than IT.
Actually, the only people who deserve to be BOMBED are the people in corporations and businesses who perpetrate crimes against humanity on a daily basis in the name of profit. (And before you go there, I'm not a "commie" or a "socialist" I believe in GOOD business, I just happen to think that 98% of business is corrupt) The trouble is discerning who those people are, since they're all a bunch of slimy and cunning bastards. I call for an all out war on corruption in government and business. If profits are put ahead of the needs of the customers, or if the customers are treated as products instead of human beings, wage that war folks!
Only True(tm) for the primitive morons that inhabit the "Red State" in the U.S. Otherwise, cheaper and "good enough" is like saying, "I don't really want to be sodomized, but if I have to it's better to have grape jelly as lubricant if KY isn't being offered". At least, that's MY take on it. So when someone asks you which OS you want to be sodomized by, tell them Mac OS since they have the common decency to use KY unlike those creepy assholes at Microsoft who never outgrew PBJ sandwiches. The dirty bastards!!! (a wink to the very talented Catherine Tate)
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Don't get me started with that or I'll have to go apeshit all over you cocksmoking teabaggers. ;P Hmmm... a rather apt description of the Diebold corporation.
No. Seriously. Think about it. Printing out EVERY photo, painting, text in the world that currently exists up to this one I'm typing right now. I mean EVERYTHING. That couldn't even fit on the planet in physical form because a lot of today's information is not in hardcopy. Think of all those vacation photos that people saved to DVDs but have never printed. And even if they did print them, they'd wind up on inkjet paper which won't survive. I think you need to rethink your position.
But like evolution, it's ONLY a theory!!! The reality is that we are in a digital dark ages. Much of the important data that we hold dear to us, or that keep society running, or that even keep people alive just to name a few areas is NOT recoverable in any fashion should we have a nuclear catastrophe. All those data tapes, RAIDs, CD-Rs, DVDs, hard drives, you name it... they are NOT human readable like those scraps of information from our ancestors were. The problem we've got right now is that there is too much information to even be able to store in a physical and human readable form. So I have two proposals:
1. Using genetic engineering and/or nanotechnology we ensure that all humans born past a certain point have nanosensors that can read data in any form and process it before feeding it to the brain. Ideally this human augmentation should be completely biological. However, if nanotechnology is necessary it should be purely mechanical in nature to avoid being wiped out by EMP.
2. We find a way to back up snapshots of the molecular structure of the entire space encompassing and deliver those snapshots via encryption (ideally quantum encryption) to remote data storage facilities at multiple points outside of the solar system. Should a disaster occur, automated attendants will simply be triggered to rebuild the solar system from a recent snapshot at pre-designated locations in the universe. A message would then be sent to the appropriate people on the newly reconstructed Earth to alert them of the nature and cause of the recent devastation that befell the original Earth so that if it was a human caused destruction, the causal trajectory may be avoided. If it was natural, the nature of the event would permit the reconstructed Earth managers to make a decision to revert to an earlier copy should the natural event be too close temporally to do anything about.
You'll have to excuse me. My mind is in a different space as I've been practicing Jala Neti the past few days and my mind is expanding.
A word, a ? and an acronym: CCD + WiMax + virtual digital camera software
Thin client digital cameras anyone? Just imagine never having to reload your camera as every image you take is sent back to your camera server at home via free WiFi and Wimax connections as Google deploys them around the world. Imagine that if you want new features on your camera you just upgrade the software on the camera server. And imagine all of that running in a Linux virtual machine on top of Xen hypervisor technology on a Quad-core CPU... It's like bluetooth for quality digital cameras only better.
Oh... and I'm glad that your "new media" masters have been sensitive enough to use KY when they fuck you well and deep with that 20" CRT tube. ;P Be seeing you.
My only problem with Bill Clinton is that he didn't say what I would have said, "Yes. I did have sexual relations with that woman. Much like a lot of my peers here in the beltway have been doing the same. Is it really that much of a shock that people like to have sex and sometimes it gets in the way when people apply false moral judgments on it"? But then again, people who think sticking a phallic shape inside a woman for the pleasure of both partners is disgusting very likely have no sense of just how much fun sex can be if you let go a little.
Microsoft? Linux? Pact? Did someone leave out the word Devil? And is it really MicroFAUST? ;P
I'm going to play devil's advocate here. (NOTE: I am a conservative liberal who voted for Kerry and previously Nader. I will never again vote third party)
You bring up issues, but as all of us Bush supporters know issues aren't what count! It's CHARACTER! And it's apparent that this man lacks character by simply uttering such offensive terms. This is up there with that evil Democrat who called one of Bush's nominees to the supreme court that racist slur: Neanderthal! Anyone with a brain will see that even if the other candidate might be wrong on the issues, he has more character than this candidate and therefore deserves to be elected to office!
We now return you to your reglarly scheduled heckling.
...it's "mudslinging" when some racist asshole gets caught on tape and this horrid abberation of a human is brought to the attention of the public so they can decide if they want a racist in office? But if politician gets a BJ in his office given by some reasonably 'OK' looking fat chick and it's plastered all over the media (would have been on the net too if there were video of it) it's "fair and balanced reporting". Sayonara assholes...
No. I don't think they are wrong. I'm just not arrogant enough to think I'm right. I only think that I'm right to myself and those who agree with me. I very well may be wrong in the bigger scheme but I have enough reasons to think that I'm not. However I'm not going to tell someone else that they're wrong because I really don't care to argue about it. I'm not here to debate. Just to help and be kind to others.
...I really don't like the web in it's current form. Even with all the Web 2.0 crap, it's still too slow, too restrictive from both a design and content angle and too mired in the original foundations of markup languages. What is needed is actually a new computing platform that is Internet-centric, but not bound by OS, or computer language limitations. Content design should be more of an intuitive and artistic/creative activity instead of mostly a technical one. Take Flash for example. Flash is not something that a kid can pick up and use to create content like they can with crayons and paper, or sitting down at a piano. Even though you can make some really nice looking things with Flash, it still highly restrictive in terms of point of entry for a non-technical person. And in all honesty the most creative and artistic people are not techincally inclined. Those who happen to be gifted with technical ability and true creativity are rare. And those who THINK they are creative or artistic but really aren't are all too common. However, I'm also a realist and know that the web is here to stay. This seems to have something to do with humans always going with the lowest quality products and services simply because of low cost. In this case the "low cost" is the familiarity of the web.
I'm just using hyperbole to illustrate just how great hypervisor based virtualization is vs the standard typical host-based virtualization. Plus, with the hypervisor, there is no OS managing access to the hardware, it's all done in the hypervisor. The only reason there is an OS sitting there is just to interact with the hypervisor. It's not really needed and will likely go away as hypervisor technologies are developed further.
Classic! Anyone with mod points, please mod this up as +1 Funny for me. OK? Thanks!
Well I always wind up getting into semantic arguments with people. ;P Being 36, five years goes by very quickly for me, so I think that I would prefer to use the same machine for longer and still be able to use current software on it. I remember back in my late teens and 20s when I had my Atari ST, it lasted from 1985 to 1994 and I rarely had to upgrade software and there were no hardware upgrades required. Just optional upgrades. When I moved to Windows, it seemed that you always had to be on the lastest version of something which pushed OS and hardware upgrades. I hated it. The big difference though is that when I was in my teens and 20s even the four years of college looming ahead seemed like a lifetime. Now, if I think about the past four years, it feels like the blink of an eye. With that shift in the perception of the passage of time, I still want a machine to last more than five years.
The ONLY reason Microsoft is doing this is to try and make themselves look less "evil" compared to the flap with Google working within the constructs of the Chinese government's rules (ie. censoring). If Google weren't around or weren't as successful as it is, any reasonable person knows that Microsoft would NEVER pull out of anyplace where they even get the slightest revenue. Even if it were a factory using .Net and SQL server to keep a database of how many babies they've cooked and served to an oppressive regime's administration. Like the Bush administration. Ooops! Did I say that out loud?!! In other words, nothing to see here, move along.
Picking a fight eh??? Do you have a gaming system? More than one? Then total those up and add them to the tally. Do you have an outboard digital sampler or synthesizer with MIDI capabilities? Total those units up and add them to the tally. What about digital cameras? Add those up too. They can all run Linux, so in my mind they're all "boxes". (When is anyone on Slashdot going to learn that to reply to eno2001 is to deal with a highly unstable mind?) ;P
Five years is a very short period of time for computer hardware when you're talking the Windows world. If you buy entry-level today, your system won't be viable in about a year and a half. And what I mean by that is that if you want to run the latest whiz-bang OS or Office suite from MS, all I can say is good luck trying. If you want a machine to last five years and you are a Windows user, you MUST pay the $2000+ pricetag for mid-level computing. If you buy an $800 box now with Windows XP and it runs OK, I can guarantee you that you'll be spending a lot more money trying to upgrade it to run Vista or whatever comes after vista than you would have had you just plunked down the extra $1200. My main point being that computers should NOT be that disposable. Buying a new machine every year or two is bad practice.
Since I run Linux, I like and actually get to keep my boxes that I spend $2000+ on for closer to a decade and can still run nearly all but the most graphic intensive current software. Just to give you an example, I have a PVR system based around a PIII that I got circa 2000. It's a VERY busy box and it runs like a top. The only sacrifice I had to make (this replaced a P4 that got killed by a power spike) when I downgraded to the PIII was losing realtime de-interlacing. Beyond that, this system plays DVDs, re-encodes video files, can be used for video editing, is an NFS file server, can stream video and even DVDs over the network, and all to a 1920x1080 LCD widescreen display. But the system wasn't a cheap $800 machine when I bought it. It cost me $1980 not including tax which pushed me just over $2000. And I expect this system to still be doing something useful in 2009...
But even if I ran Windows (which I used to), I know that this box could be made capable of running Windows Vista without a lot of expensive upgrading. I'd have to add some RAM to it (it has 512M) for it to run reasonably, and the HD space would need to be increased on the system drive to house the OS and all the apps I'd need to duplicate functionality of my current PVR. So it's still a viable box. However, had I opted to buiy one of the ubiquitous $400 machines in 2000, it would have been useless by 2001/2002. Where is the sense in buying a $400 machine every year and a half vs buying a $2000+ machine closer to every decade?
...that many people won't need quad-core machines. They will be entry-level within five years. With the advent of hypervisor based virtualization, computing is going to make a huge change for all OSes. We will no longer be running on bare metal at the OS level and we'l see performance that actually can exceed running on bare metal thanks to hypervisors on the x86 platform. If I had the cash, I'd be getting one of these or whatever AMD releases in response as I'd really like to turn my 16 boxes at home into one or two giant boxes that provide the services of 16 boxes in isolated virtual machines. And if you don't think most people don't have 16 boxes at home, think again...
Actually, I don't think working for a non-profit is morally superior. I don't attach a value judgment to the kind of work that people do. I just personally feel that if I am doing work for citizens rather than businesses, *I* fell better about it. Regarding communism, I think it's a great system as long as we're not dealing with animal species of any kind (humans included). In other words, it's ideal but it can never work due to the inherent flaw of selfishness in biological systems. Regarding capitalism, I feel it's subject to the same flaw that communism is. As long as one person who is in a higher position than another person wants more than they actually need and to the detriment of the other person, both communism and capitalism fail. I'm here on this planet to help people and I believe that is why everyone else is here to. It's obvious that others don't feel the same way.
These guys do more than push brooms. They are skilled workers. They deserve better treatment than society is willing to give them. You should really make friends with some maintenance guys. They are pretty smart.
Of course... reading 64% of your posts for about .003% of the time I've spent on Slashdot I'd have to concur on the comment about statistics. But then again, they're all just ++damnlies. My point though is that most business people are fine. Most businesses are not because they ignore their social responsibilities. Just as an example, take a look at the mad cow situation. It wouldn't have happened if agribusiness wasn't pushing for maximal profits which translates to maximal meat output, which forces unsound farming techniques (ie. feeding animals with animals) to up the production. It's hard to pin that decision down to one person, but that doesn't mean it's not a bad or corrupt thing. And it also means that anyone who participates in that crime against humanity should be made to pay the price.
I work for a non-profit organization so as to keep my karma clean. And, yes public service is a HUGE factor in what I do. I could make a ton more money doing IT in the corporate world, but I wouldn't be able to live with myself. Hell, even here I feel bad that the maintenance staff get less pay than I do. They do a hell of a lot of really important work and I would say they're MORE essential than IT.
Yes... bought the parts to make a bomb over the internet using... wait for it: PAYPAL! ;P
Actually, the only people who deserve to be BOMBED are the people in corporations and businesses who perpetrate crimes against humanity on a daily basis in the name of profit. (And before you go there, I'm not a "commie" or a "socialist" I believe in GOOD business, I just happen to think that 98% of business is corrupt) The trouble is discerning who those people are, since they're all a bunch of slimy and cunning bastards. I call for an all out war on corruption in government and business. If profits are put ahead of the needs of the customers, or if the customers are treated as products instead of human beings, wage that war folks!
Only True(tm) for the primitive morons that inhabit the "Red State" in the U.S. Otherwise, cheaper and "good enough" is like saying, "I don't really want to be sodomized, but if I have to it's better to have grape jelly as lubricant if KY isn't being offered". At least, that's MY take on it. So when someone asks you which OS you want to be sodomized by, tell them Mac OS since they have the common decency to use KY unlike those creepy assholes at Microsoft who never outgrew PBJ sandwiches. The dirty bastards!!! (a wink to the very talented Catherine Tate)