If I can read my email comfortably and actually _write_ a response (pressing 4433555555666 just to write "hello" is unacceptable!!) then I might have a use for it.
So get a real phone. On mine I just type 43556 and the thing figures it out based on context.
Unfortunately I'm a pathetic loser, and do not know anyone else with Text message service on my providers crappy-ass TDMA network. If I did, I'd probably be able to send them pretty fast.
You can really do a lot with a 12key keypad if you have the right software. Hell, people in Japan send messages in Kanji
And even if 3gio did work at 2.5ghz (which I really doubt, the fastest clock in any PC these days is no where near that, other then in ultra-high-end CPU cores) PC put out that much interference, then you'd still have the 1.75-85ghz band.
So in other words, I think it's just a misunderstanding of terms.
AT&T broadband customers, though, will be moving to another service -- AT7T dropped out of the negotiations to keep @Home for their customers
Wow, do you guys even glance at the story before you post these days?
Anyway. I always knew these giant corporations would settle their diffrences and come through for the little guy in the end. Wait. No I didn't, this is a complete shock!
Thats a huge amount of redundancy
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I mean really, it's like he's building a space probe or something. I suppose you wouldn't want to have the thing die and nock you over, though. But I suspect that as time passes some (a lot) of that redundancy is going to go away in the name of price.
I suppose we can hope for the best. We know this guy wasn't responsible for the code itself, but rather M$'s IT infrastructure. And Microsoft's has been pretty good at not being hacked, (or at least having their websites defaced) Although one intrusion did take place (and it was major)
Aside from that, though, what bothers me is the security ideology espoused by Microsoft (and as others mentioned, this guy), the whole 'security-through-obscurity' thing. These people seem to think that building software is like building a house, it can't really be secure, just tight enough so that you don't have to worry, but we know that isn't the case. I mean, Microsoft is a successful company, but they're security is just crap. And when they're called on it they blame others. This is not the kind of attitude that we need to manage a secure government system. I mean we can't just send the FBI in to confiscate the computers of 'suspected' hackers if they're funded by another country.
Bleh, this government sucks. 9/11 has just made them more paranoid and retarded.
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think it'll be fun to watch an IT malfunction (perhaps as a result of a bug in the firmware) or run out of juice while someone is riding it
Um, it would be entirely possible for the thing to slow down to a stop as it runs out of juice, thereby avoiding user failures.
First of all, I don't think its fair to call what you're talking about 'Linux'. In the strictest sense Linux is just a kernel. But, even if you take the canonical meaning of "all the software that comes with my distro" you still can't really include the 3d software. That stuff is proprietary and expensive. It's well designed for the simple fact that people are paid to make it, and paid a lot of money (and they're a lot of competition in that arena as well)
And lets not forget that there are a lot of competing companies and products out there for high-end graphic synthesis. The difference is that they are in 'traditional' competition with each other, I mean, you could argue using the same logic that if all the major graphic companies merged and worked together you'd end up with something truly amazing, but I doubt that. I think you'd end up becoming stagnant. (and don't forget that these products aren't even Linux exclusives or open source. You can get a lot of these programs for windows or other UNIXs)
And there's another reason that we have competing standards, people have different visions for software, and since they're working for free, they are going to do what they want to do. Who knows of KDE people would be working on GENOME if there was no KDE or vise versa? How do you know it would result in a Super-gui and not some boring half-done shell whose developers are complacent in their lack of competition?
Linux is free. It delivery's an unlimited price performance.
That's not true at all (actually you would say the price/performance ratio is zero if it were). I Linux takes time to install and get running. If you're just a student with some free time then it is free. But if you're running a company with pay by the hour, or actually has work for salaried employees, then Installing and running Linux does cost money. It may be less money then the cost of installing and running windows (even without purchase costs) but you can't just say that Linux has a zero price/performance ratio.
here's a link saying why that's crap. Basically, the vaccine makers never used chimps in their research (there's no chimp DNA in the results). There is no SIV in the results.
The most telling line is this one though: Hooper argues that that theory lacks scientific proof and that no one has as yet produced scientific evidence to contradict his theory
In other words, "no one can disprove this, so it must be true!", or, in other words "It's total crap!". No legitimate scientist would ever say that, Its the same kind of crap spouted by people who don't believe in evolution or global warming.
meltdown was due to operator error, not poor reactor design
Um, if a reactor can melt down to operator error, then it is a poor design. There are designs that cannot melt down without violating the laws of physics (IE excess heat causes the reaction to stop working).
Depending on an operator, fallible by the fact of being human, in a situation where many human lives may be at stake, is a horrendous design flaw.
I find this disturbing. And I'm one of the people who can't understand at all why people are bothered by the idea of 'regular' cloning; I mean it really makes no sense to me. But allowing chimeras to be created? That's just something I never thought anyone would do.
Or am I misunderstanding what's actually going on. Are they simply doing things like creating human hearts in monkeys and the like? As with the tobacco plants we rigged up to create hemoglobin or insulin or whatever? I don't really see a problem with that, I guess.
I do see that they plan to ban 'regular' cloning, so I guess they don't want the whole 'mad scientist' thing going on. If it could really be used to ultimately cure sick people and make people more healthy then really (imo) it would be unethical to disallow it.
Here is my entry [tripod.com]. At 45 mph cross-country I can give the horse a good run for the money, even before I start shooting.
With a giant internal combustion engine and treds (not wheeles). You're using far, far more energy to move that tank then to move that horse.
Now, if you could do it on a mountain bike, you might have a point. But I think The real issue is that speed isn't the only optimizing factor. There are a lot of other things involved as well, and energy efficiency is one of the most important.
I found this quote to be interesting:
And don't EVER make the mistake that you can design something better than
what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a
feedback cycle. That's giving your intelligence _much_ too much credit.
Quite frankly, Sun is doomed. And it has nothing to do with their
engineering practices or their coding style.
--Linus
I mean he's just so right There's no way that Sn could outlive companies like VALinux or penguin computing!
Re:wrong use of word 'hacker'
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Bleh - im tired of hearing the word 'Hacker' being used the wrong way - and you all probably know what i mean by that.
Language is defined by the way it is used, not by the personal desires of various factions.
Yes, if you happen to buy ESR's ridiculous revisionist history. Words are defined by the way they're used. When people say "hacker" they probably mean someone who breaks into computers. Up until ESR's campaign "cracker" meant someone who broke software copy protection.
The fact that people would like the word hacker to mean a certain thing doesn't mean it will.
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If I can read my email comfortably and actually _write_ a response (pressing 4433555555666 just to write "hello" is unacceptable!!) then I might have a use for it.
So get a real phone. On mine I just type 43556 and the thing figures it out based on context.
Unfortunately I'm a pathetic loser, and do not know anyone else with Text message service on my providers crappy-ass TDMA network. If I did, I'd probably be able to send them pretty fast.
You can really do a lot with a 12key keypad if you have the right software. Hell, people in Japan send messages in Kanji
according to this 3gio transfers 2.5gb/sec using 8bit encoding (they also mention 10bit encoding in the doc). (I think), they don't give an exact MHz rating, but it works out to about 312mhz. (or 250mhz with 10bit) According to the FCC, 3g uses 2.5 to 2.69ghz and 1.75-1.85ghz. So, 3gio might cause some problems if it was sending one bit at a time, but I don't think it is.
And even if 3gio did work at 2.5ghz (which I really doubt, the fastest clock in any PC these days is no where near that, other then in ultra-high-end CPU cores) PC put out that much interference, then you'd still have the 1.75-85ghz band.
So in other words, I think it's just a misunderstanding of terms.
I'm one of those brave souls that has _no_ copper into the home
Do you know what cable cables are made out of?
AT&T broadband customers, though, will be moving to another service -- AT7T dropped out of the negotiations to keep @Home for their customers
Wow, do you guys even glance at the story before you post these days?
Anyway. I always knew these giant corporations would settle their diffrences and come through for the little guy in the end. Wait. No I didn't, this is a complete shock!
Those words do have meaning. And while they can be used for empty hype, there existance alone is not an indicator of vapiedness.
And besides how can you consider "implementation" and "complex" buzzwords but not 'dynamic', 'peer nodes' or 'downloading'?
Dude, what the fuck are you talking about?
I mean really, it's like he's building a space probe or something. I suppose you wouldn't want to have the thing die and nock you over, though. But I suspect that as time passes some (a lot) of that redundancy is going to go away in the name of price.
IIS has some of the same error messages as IE, but either way it's pretty weird...
What does Gore's (supposed) affinity for potted plants have to do with 9/11?
Gore had a hell of a lot more experience then Bush Jr before the election, which was the point of the above poster.
I suppose we can hope for the best. We know this guy wasn't responsible for the code itself, but rather M$'s IT infrastructure. And Microsoft's has been pretty good at not being hacked, (or at least having their websites defaced) Although one intrusion did take place (and it was major)
Aside from that, though, what bothers me is the security ideology espoused by Microsoft (and as others mentioned, this guy), the whole 'security-through-obscurity' thing. These people seem to think that building software is like building a house, it can't really be secure, just tight enough so that you don't have to worry, but we know that isn't the case. I mean, Microsoft is a successful company, but they're security is just crap. And when they're called on it they blame others. This is not the kind of attitude that we need to manage a secure government system. I mean we can't just send the FBI in to confiscate the computers of 'suspected' hackers if they're funded by another country.
Bleh, this government sucks. 9/11 has just made them more paranoid and retarded.
think it'll be fun to watch an IT malfunction (perhaps as a result of a bug in the firmware) or run out of juice while someone is riding it
Um, it would be entirely possible for the thing to slow down to a stop as it runs out of juice, thereby avoiding user failures.
First of all, I don't think its fair to call what you're talking about 'Linux'. In the strictest sense Linux is just a kernel. But, even if you take the canonical meaning of "all the software that comes with my distro" you still can't really include the 3d software. That stuff is proprietary and expensive. It's well designed for the simple fact that people are paid to make it, and paid a lot of money (and they're a lot of competition in that arena as well)
And lets not forget that there are a lot of competing companies and products out there for high-end graphic synthesis. The difference is that they are in 'traditional' competition with each other, I mean, you could argue using the same logic that if all the major graphic companies merged and worked together you'd end up with something truly amazing, but I doubt that. I think you'd end up becoming stagnant. (and don't forget that these products aren't even Linux exclusives or open source. You can get a lot of these programs for windows or other UNIXs)
And there's another reason that we have competing standards, people have different visions for software, and since they're working for free, they are going to do what they want to do. Who knows of KDE people would be working on GENOME if there was no KDE or vise versa? How do you know it would result in a Super-gui and not some boring half-done shell whose developers are complacent in their lack of competition?
Linux is free. It delivery's an unlimited price performance.
That's not true at all (actually you would say the price/performance ratio is zero if it were). I Linux takes time to install and get running. If you're just a student with some free time then it is free. But if you're running a company with pay by the hour, or actually has work for salaried employees, then Installing and running Linux does cost money. It may be less money then the cost of installing and running windows (even without purchase costs) but you can't just say that Linux has a zero price/performance ratio.
here's a link saying why that's crap. Basically, the vaccine makers never used chimps in their research (there's no chimp DNA in the results). There is no SIV in the results.
The most telling line is this one though: Hooper argues that that theory lacks scientific proof and that no one has as yet produced scientific evidence to contradict his theory
In other words, "no one can disprove this, so it must be true!", or, in other words "It's total crap!". No legitimate scientist would ever say that, Its the same kind of crap spouted by people who don't believe in evolution or global warming.
This is horrendous moderation.
meltdown was due to operator error, not poor reactor design
Um, if a reactor can melt down to operator error, then it is a poor design. There are designs that cannot melt down without violating the laws of physics (IE excess heat causes the reaction to stop working).
Depending on an operator, fallible by the fact of being human, in a situation where many human lives may be at stake, is a horrendous design flaw.
I find it fascinating that in America, people freak out when they hear about human cells being cloned. But in Japan...
Read the article, they are banning outright 'normal' human cloning. So obviously they share the same fears that people here do.
They wern't really using giant robots in evangelion, you know...
And only a crisp 90 minutes long!
I guess jon katz's attention span has been impared by all that crack he's been smoking (and no, I wasn't a katz hater untill that artical, fyi)
I find this disturbing. And I'm one of the people who can't understand at all why people are bothered by the idea of 'regular' cloning; I mean it really makes no sense to me. But allowing chimeras to be created? That's just something I never thought anyone would do.
Or am I misunderstanding what's actually going on. Are they simply doing things like creating human hearts in monkeys and the like? As with the tobacco plants we rigged up to create hemoglobin or insulin or whatever? I don't really see a problem with that, I guess.
I do see that they plan to ban 'regular' cloning, so I guess they don't want the whole 'mad scientist' thing going on. If it could really be used to ultimately cure sick people and make people more healthy then really (imo) it would be unethical to disallow it.
Here is my entry [tripod.com]. At 45 mph cross-country I can give the horse a good run for the money, even before I start shooting.
With a giant internal combustion engine and treds (not wheeles). You're using far, far more energy to move that tank then to move that horse.
Now, if you could do it on a mountain bike, you might have a point. But I think The real issue is that speed isn't the only optimizing factor. There are a lot of other things involved as well, and energy efficiency is one of the most important.
s/Sn/Sun.
rrr.
I found this quote to be interesting: And don't EVER make the mistake that you can design something better than what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a feedback cycle. That's giving your intelligence _much_ too much credit.
Quite frankly, Sun is doomed. And it has nothing to do with their engineering practices or their coding style.
--Linus
I mean he's just so right There's no way that Sn could outlive companies like VALinux or penguin computing!
Bleh - im tired of hearing the word 'Hacker' being used the wrong way - and you all probably know what i mean by that.
Language is defined by the way it is used, not by the personal desires of various factions.
The true term for that is "cracking"
Yes, if you happen to buy ESR's ridiculous revisionist history. Words are defined by the way they're used. When people say "hacker" they probably mean someone who breaks into computers. Up until ESR's campaign "cracker" meant someone who broke software copy protection.
The fact that people would like the word hacker to mean a certain thing doesn't mean it will.