Actually, it mostly just opens the door for a whole host of other questions, one of the most damning being "why would God seek to mislead us, so, unless he's a fucking asshole?"
No, not really, they have "faith". That's the point. Kids may ask why God wants to mislead them, but adults will tell the kids that they have "faith", and that dinosaur bones and other 'artifacts' are tests of their faith.
By contrast power sockets and plugs differ by country.
Which is why I carry one set of adapters for my laptop, and then charge my cell, palm, blackberry, and iPod via the USB on the laptop. Sure PoE might provide enough power to run a laptop, but it wouldn't provide enough juice to recharge the laptop batteries and all the other devices I need charged.
You know what annoys me?
that all the freaking sentient aliens are pretty much the same size.
why can't we have some superdense 15 foot giants walking around talking trash.
Why are they all the same size?
Jabba is pretty big. Maybe the Hutts killed off all the other 15 foot giants to control the underworld, and thus you don't see any other giant creatures talking trash.
No, you have it backwards. If customers didn't care, they'd pick the faster AMD chip. Home users care about what's "inside"; which doesn't mean they know any better. It's just that they've seen the commercials, and their computer "expert" friend advises to get the Intel processor. So that's what they ask for when they call Dell, and that's what Dell gives them.
Maybe someday someone will invent a great, low power, fast, optically nonlinear material. Don't invest in it yet.
D'oh! How many times I have I gotten burned by calling my broker after reading just the summary! Won't I ever learn, I have to read the comments before I invest. Damn, damn, damn!
If there is none, then I'd say conventions evolve through traditions established by whomever pioneered a given technology/idea, and those conventions can and do change over time (Liebniz notation in calculus comes to mind as a mediocre example) as better ideas come up. But usually over a long period of time.
I think that the first uses are 'conventions'. There may be several conventions in use at one time by different groups, some more popular than others, but none of them are really 'standards' even if they call themselves such. Over time, one of those may become a 'de facto standard' simply because it is used by more people than other conventions. A group may be formed to define a 'standard', but it's only when all the major players agree to follow a specific convention does it become a real standard.
Sometimes I don't understand why companies would go to such an extent to come out with some nice products, then hopelessly find a way to ruin it.
It's pretty simple with Sony. On one hand you have bright engineers doing whizbang stuff with electronics. On the other, you have the SonyBMG member of the RIAA, and Sony Pictures, member of the MPAA. Imagine designing a MP3 player, then imaging having Sony music and Sony pictures legal advisors looking over your shoulder telling you to add this DRM feature and that anti-piracy feature... you can imagine how screwed up that would be, and the products definitely reflect this dichotomy.
And, as long as we are in the neighborhood... Microsoft as well. Anything which could spark a war between zealots. Ok. Now that I said it... have at me.
I mean, shit, I'm very tempted to stop reading this site.
Slashdot, the Weekly World News of tech journalism.
Seriously. I can understand if the editors don't read an article about some guy who creates a walking robot in Japan, but really, how could they post something, anything about Linus without even taking a glance at the article?
The whole reason they're doing this is VERY simple.
Release a tool that does some huge good - i.e. Busting child porn purveyors.
Make it open source, so the criminals can read the code.
The criminals can see how they're getting caught, and adapt.
Microsoft then proves that Open Source is evil, because it lets criminals get away.
All they did was find a limited-case example where releasing the code might be harmful, and implement it. This will be thoroughly epic FUD a year from now.
Get ready for it.
FUD. The criminals can read the code all they want and it's not going to help. This isn't a program that goes out and searches the internet for child porn, it's not something that browses your machine looking for images. It's not something that can be bypassed in a technical manner, because all it does is connect some databases and seach through them. It looks for arrest records, credit card purchases and cross references those with internet chat users. If you're a child porn peddler, it's not going to help you to see the source code at all since there's no technical way to bypass the program, except for not using known chat rooms.
I think computers are being sold like snake's oil elixer, as a cure to everything. Have problems, upgrade!
The reason corporations lease, and get rid of old machines like PII and PIII, is not that they are obsolete, but because it is difficult to get a PII machine working with a P4 Ghost Image with such radically different hardware. Maintaining multiple images for all your P4's would be hard enough, but to maintain a version of each image for PIII and PII would be a nightmare with 20,000 machines.
There are a lot of other reasons, but taxes and the number of images are the main concerns for large corporations.
1. Buy Pringles Can.
2. Eat Pringles.
3. Spray Paint Flat Black.
4. Sell to FBI for $$$$
5. Profit!
Maybe you need to stencil some warnings in yellow, and maybe do a 7-pass wipe of the interior just to ensure it's clean, but I think there's a lot of profit to be made here.
Is this going to produce AI as in "I am bender, please insert girder"? Or as in, "Maybe the blue fairy will make me into a real boy so my mommy will love me". I eagerly await the former, and I dread the latter, since it will take us two seconds to pervert it into "Im gigolo Joe, Waddaya know?" Artificial intelligence for menial tasks is great. Artifical humanity will be perverted so fast it will make your head spin.
When can we start up KidNappster? I want my LiuBot!
Cut a port on the side of the fridge[1], operated by a pushbutton. Robo pushes the button, a beer slides out, he obiediently brings it to me.
Cool idea, but
1. Robosapien is slow. By the time he got back your beer would be warm.
2. Ever see how Robosapien walks? The beer would explode as soon as you tried to open it.
Maybe you could arm Robosapien with a cattle prod, and tell it "Robosapien! Tell my wife to get me a beer!"
I figure my thumb will implode by the time the poor dwarves get taunted at Rivendell.
Which is why e-books have auto scroll and/or autopage features; the Palm ebook readers have had auto-scroll for years.
e-books are convenient. They're difficult to read, but the one thing I found annoying was that it's very hard to flip back in the book to find some reference you might have missed. Like reading Anna Karenina, there's so many people coming and going you have to keep going back to see who all these people are and how they're related, and it's really a nightmare in e-book form.
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Actually, it mostly just opens the door for a whole host of other questions, one of the most damning being "why would God seek to mislead us, so, unless he's a fucking asshole?"
No, not really, they have "faith". That's the point. Kids may ask why God wants to mislead them, but adults will tell the kids that they have "faith", and that dinosaur bones and other 'artifacts' are tests of their faith.
By contrast power sockets and plugs differ by country.
Which is why I carry one set of adapters for my laptop, and then charge my cell, palm, blackberry, and iPod via the USB on the laptop. Sure PoE might provide enough power to run a laptop, but it wouldn't provide enough juice to recharge the laptop batteries and all the other devices I need charged.
Looks like dust kicked up by aerial machine gun fire. Maybe the martians are using the rover as a training target.
600 Megs a second. I'd be interested in seeing what sort of disk technology can handle that level of throughput.
/dev/null. It's not you can't measure throughput without saving the data.
Maybe they're just piped to
Now my inbox is going to be filled by spam with subjects like "Raise your IQ 10 points!"
I will sum up the last 10 years of ads in 2 words: Increasingly annoying.
And the marketing division of DoubleClick as "a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes."
You know what annoys me? that all the freaking sentient aliens are pretty much the same size. why can't we have some superdense 15 foot giants walking around talking trash. Why are they all the same size?
Jabba is pretty big. Maybe the Hutts killed off all the other 15 foot giants to control the underworld, and thus you don't see any other giant creatures talking trash.
3. Most end user's don't care
No, you have it backwards. If customers didn't care, they'd pick the faster AMD chip. Home users care about what's "inside"; which doesn't mean they know any better. It's just that they've seen the commercials, and their computer "expert" friend advises to get the Intel processor. So that's what they ask for when they call Dell, and that's what Dell gives them.
That the first permanent base on the Moon will be built by the Chinese?
Maybe someday someone will invent a great, low power, fast, optically nonlinear material. Don't invest in it yet.
D'oh! How many times I have I gotten burned by calling my broker after reading just the summary! Won't I ever learn, I have to read the comments before I invest. Damn, damn, damn!
To the IRS. Via USPS. Only an idiot would file his tax return via the Web.
Ha ha, good one! I trust the USPS about as much as I trust Intuit.
If there is none, then I'd say conventions evolve through traditions established by whomever pioneered a given technology/idea, and those conventions can and do change over time (Liebniz notation in calculus comes to mind as a mediocre example) as better ideas come up. But usually over a long period of time.
I think that the first uses are 'conventions'. There may be several conventions in use at one time by different groups, some more popular than others, but none of them are really 'standards' even if they call themselves such. Over time, one of those may become a 'de facto standard' simply because it is used by more people than other conventions. A group may be formed to define a 'standard', but it's only when all the major players agree to follow a specific convention does it become a real standard.
Sometimes I don't understand why companies would go to such an extent to come out with some nice products, then hopelessly find a way to ruin it.
It's pretty simple with Sony. On one hand you have bright engineers doing whizbang stuff with electronics. On the other, you have the SonyBMG member of the RIAA, and Sony Pictures, member of the MPAA. Imagine designing a MP3 player, then imaging having Sony music and Sony pictures legal advisors looking over your shoulder telling you to add this DRM feature and that anti-piracy feature... you can imagine how screwed up that would be, and the products definitely reflect this dichotomy.
And, as long as we are in the neighborhood... Microsoft as well. Anything which could spark a war between zealots. Ok. Now that I said it... have at me.
Yeah, exactly what I was thinking.
I mean, shit, I'm very tempted to stop reading this site. Slashdot, the Weekly World News of tech journalism.
Seriously. I can understand if the editors don't read an article about some guy who creates a walking robot in Japan, but really, how could they post something, anything about Linus without even taking a glance at the article?
My new dream job!
Wishful thinking. You'd probably get to *test* if the penetration is possible, but actual penetration is probably done by your phb...
Sure...it's fast now, but just wait until it goes into its depressive phase...
What, MS has Windows running on it already?
I'll wait on buying it until Microsoft releases Xbox2SP1.
All your servers are belong to us!!! 24 comments and the site is down :(
Guess the score is:
CalTech: 6 MIT: 1 Slashdot: 1
The whole reason they're doing this is VERY simple. Release a tool that does some huge good - i.e. Busting child porn purveyors. Make it open source, so the criminals can read the code. The criminals can see how they're getting caught, and adapt. Microsoft then proves that Open Source is evil, because it lets criminals get away. All they did was find a limited-case example where releasing the code might be harmful, and implement it. This will be thoroughly epic FUD a year from now. Get ready for it.
FUD. The criminals can read the code all they want and it's not going to help. This isn't a program that goes out and searches the internet for child porn, it's not something that browses your machine looking for images. It's not something that can be bypassed in a technical manner, because all it does is connect some databases and seach through them. It looks for arrest records, credit card purchases and cross references those with internet chat users. If you're a child porn peddler, it's not going to help you to see the source code at all since there's no technical way to bypass the program, except for not using known chat rooms.
I think computers are being sold like snake's oil elixer, as a cure to everything. Have problems, upgrade!
The reason corporations lease, and get rid of old machines like PII and PIII, is not that they are obsolete, but because it is difficult to get a PII machine working with a P4 Ghost Image with such radically different hardware. Maintaining multiple images for all your P4's would be hard enough, but to maintain a version of each image for PIII and PII would be a nightmare with 20,000 machines.
There are a lot of other reasons, but taxes and the number of images are the main concerns for large corporations.
....black, ominous pringles cans?
1. Buy Pringles Can.
2. Eat Pringles.
3. Spray Paint Flat Black.
4. Sell to FBI for $$$$
5. Profit!
Maybe you need to stencil some warnings in yellow, and maybe do a 7-pass wipe of the interior just to ensure it's clean, but I think there's a lot of profit to be made here.
Is this going to produce AI as in "I am bender, please insert girder"? Or as in, "Maybe the blue fairy will make me into a real boy so my mommy will love me". I eagerly await the former, and I dread the latter, since it will take us two seconds to pervert it into "Im gigolo Joe, Waddaya know?" Artificial intelligence for menial tasks is great. Artifical humanity will be perverted so fast it will make your head spin.
When can we start up KidNappster? I want my LiuBot!
Cut a port on the side of the fridge[1], operated by a pushbutton. Robo pushes the button, a beer slides out, he obiediently brings it to me.
Cool idea, but
1. Robosapien is slow. By the time he got back your beer would be warm.
2. Ever see how Robosapien walks? The beer would explode as soon as you tried to open it.
Maybe you could arm Robosapien with a cattle prod, and tell it "Robosapien! Tell my wife to get me a beer!"
I figure my thumb will implode by the time the poor dwarves get taunted at Rivendell.
Which is why e-books have auto scroll and/or autopage features; the Palm ebook readers have had auto-scroll for years.
e-books are convenient. They're difficult to read, but the one thing I found annoying was that it's very hard to flip back in the book to find some reference you might have missed. Like reading Anna Karenina, there's so many people coming and going you have to keep going back to see who all these people are and how they're related, and it's really a nightmare in e-book form.