All of these give an edge to the poor slob on the couch who only has reflexes in tens of milliseconds. I cannot see how making an actual explicit mode is dissimilar to any of these.
A few of my relatives were almost taken in by Multi Level Marketers. These companies too are trying to grow via social internet means
These are barely legal organisations who sit _just_ on the legal side of the Pyramid definition.
Basically they try to sell overpriced financial restructuring products to people. Then if the customer does not want to become a purchaser, they try to convert the customer into selling the same products.
MLM people at the top earn more than people at the bottom.
It is quite fashionable for failing businesses to ignore their own poor performance. Instead they blame it on unforseen circumstances and present themselves as innocent victims of a global cataclysm.
A side effect of this fashion is that some commenators, like this article, are writing off whole industries and business models. They augur from the business collapses. Unfortunately these auguries ignore the more mundane reasons, too much debt, bad profit projections, in favour of some system wide collapse.
IMO the last few years, say 2005 have been mainly credit driven. So although there is undeniable shrinking of advertising revenues, this shrinking is dwarfed by the awful reality of spending shrinking back to sensible levels.
Surely this list is an enumeration of ALL
communication possibilities? Twitter has communication possibility, therefore deserves to be on the list amongst:
The cloud computing does not solve every problem going. Nor does map/reduce or XML.
As a side affair I run a DTP Software as a Service (Service). This makes extensive use of 'Cloud' stuff.
Use neutral technologies that work on many cloud computing platforms. Postgres, Java, and Linux Image. As a quick startup, run VitualBox on each of the Cloud infrastructures, and then only code for your VirtualBox instance.
You have to write all the bridging, bootstrapping and aliveness code for the idosyncracies of each Cloud platform. But you always have to do some of this work, right?
And then of course you rent some dedicated servers which act as the common case and have an SLA. If you get the VirtualBox stuff right, you can simply deploy your cloud image to these dedicated boxes. When load gets too much, send it to someone elses cloud.
None of this is rocket-science. You get very little 'for free' like the marketting hype suggests.
It is my opinion that with Cloud Computing services, you must have in-office snapshots of your filesystems/databases. Access to these should not be reliant on any 3rd party. Also have off site, but physical backup (tapes)
To comment further, an Exchange is basically a message processing system. Upon crash or outage, it is not possible to simply "reboot" the architecture.
The messages have to be replayed in the correct order. This can be very, very, very difficult because Exchanges get data from thousands of sources. So getting something out of order, say at the start of the day, can ruin the whole day.
I work as a contractor in London, which has a trading platform (not LSE).
"Complete" is an industry term. They use "complete", "cross" and "trade" in the same way.
What it means is:
* that there is currently a set of offers and asks on the exchange. Other people have submitted those already
* you want to buy/sell one of these as appropriate
* you send down your legally binding request for selling/buying that amount
* the matching algorithm sees that your sell/buy matches the buy/sell on the exchange
* that particular offer is then "yours" and no-one else can have it.
* you are notified of the success of your "trade"/"cross" which is "complete"
So the "match" occurs in 3ms. This is important, because otherwise you have to wait longer to know if you need to look elsewhere. There's more to it of course, this is just a mega-simple case.
I got a Core 64GB. I build large java projects. This is for my workstation, not a laptop. Power and quiet were not the reasons for my experimental purchase.
I aimed to slash my build time for complex scenarios.
I thought the Compile -> Jar -> War -> Deploy -> Expand -> Launch would be greatly spead up as the files would be accessed quickly.
I hoped effectively for a much more targeted and capacious file cache/ RAM disk.
Unfortunately, the hype does not turn out to be true.
The enormous time cost of writing files smaller than 8MB (!) [see footnotes] completely counters any read speed increase. Building a proect is making thousands of 2KiB files : one of the most pathological cases for these drives.
So is it slow? No, it's just as quick as a sluggish 7K250, but then again I just coughed up £179 for the privelege of the same speed.
So I'm ebaying mine to someone who wants it for a light and quiet laptop, perfect.
-----------------
Some "Terrible small write performance" links I found during research:
When you define perfection(tm), you can acheive it. Then you realise your perfection(tm) is not actual perfection, but some management person's project signoff of perfection.
Seems like the same old consultant $$$ trick. The dificult portion is picking to best heuristics, and is trivial to game.
My girlfriend at the time was one of the techies in the Sydney Olympics opening ceremony.
After connecting up the wires to that "Little Girl who Sings then Flies", she got called to an emergency.
The computer which controlled the flame mechanics crashed. It was a windows box.
They had a big rope attached to the flame. Hidden behind the falling water the tech crew struggled to pull the flame assembly back on to the rails.
During this time the misbehaving window box rebooted.
What no one mention was that the flame initially was a discreet gas supply, which had only a little capacity. All the tech crew thought the mini flame would extinguish before it reached the summit.
At some stage the data will almost certainly be Ethernet frames, which doesn't bear that much relation to the orginal data.
But then it is recombined to form the copyrighted work, to create the infringement.
I cannot see how this is different to that process and thus escape legal sanction.
To adapt a good quote, as in:: £20,000 bill for speeding row scientist. Quote 'In speeding [copyright] matters, it is the law of the land not the law of physics [way you split the data] that matters.'
Here is some 'compelling' comment. Lots of very important things require the scientific method.
Obvious ones are medicines and housing materials.
Important ones are accurate global warming models and electric battery efficiency tests.
This Wired jerkoff and his band of know-little acolytes think that because they can accomplish everything in _their_ day without science, that it will die out.
This myopic self centredness would not have yielded them a clear signal on their iPhone. Science did that.
I agree with you that the detection algorithms may be heavy on false positives. But it will help your case if you as an end user have 99% legal purchases to demonstrate as evidence.
As I said, let's wait and see how this pans out. If you're really worried, switch ISP now.
Surely people are at much greater danger of some knob planting kiddie-pr0n on your computer, than someone planting illegal downloads.
I think Mike the submitter is really overdoing it with his rhetoric.
"the one wire that delivers freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of assembly"
--- Mike, take an antacid and calm down. You'll save yourself a stroke.
*Why could you not legally download the songs?
* If they wanted to disconnect you, could they not just find some other trumped up reason to do so?
* There is plenty of alternate choice for broadband in places where Virgin Media is commonly available
Let's wait to see just how often this gets used before it becomes an issue.
I get throttled all the time after a few DivX downloads, and the solution is to download in non-peak times.
I'm sure slashdot will be informed once the letters actually start being posted.
Variations of background colour that work nicely and give you distinct consoles/editors:
DarkSlateBlue
Sorry I would have more, but they're on my home PC and I'm at work at the moment. If you're interested reply to this thread, i'll post them in the evening.
Whenever there is something 'supernatural' in Doctor Who, it is now always Extra Terrestrial aliens. Plots involving G-d, spirits, daemons or anything that used to be supernatural or involve a place of worship is now explained away as a parallel universe being who's away from home. It just so happens that it all occurs with alien powers that look suspiciously like possession, dragons, ghosts. Doctor Who and others conveniently take refuge in Churches, mainly because as we know they're excellent defence against ET.
So the perfect place for Dawkins:: Steering clear of any mentions of G-d as such ; but there definitely could be G-d equivalent aliens out there doing any freaky stuff that cannot be explained by evolutiuon.
Re:Artists should make the most money, not the lab
on
Must a CD Cost $15.99?
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· Score: 2, Insightful
The producer of an item should always make more money than any other person involved in the process.
Your argument breaks down in so many ways. Here is one suitable to slashdot.
Take the sale price of a computer. At what stage do you class someone the "producer"?? - who you say is the most important.
* The miner who dug the silicon out of the ground
* The refiner who turned that into wafers
* The chip designer
* The chip fabricator
* The assembler
* etc.
It's not easy to assign who should get 'the most'. In fact it is impossible without arbitration.
Slashdot Mirror
* Lives
* Power Pills
* Health Points
* Stealth Suits
* Respawn Points
* Save Games
* Freeze / Rewind Time
All of these give an edge to the poor slob on the couch who only has reflexes in tens of milliseconds. I cannot see how making an actual explicit mode is dissimilar to any of these.
These are barely legal organisations who sit _just_ on the legal side of the Pyramid definition.
Basically they try to sell overpriced financial restructuring products to people. Then if the customer does not want to become a purchaser, they try to convert the customer into selling the same products.
MLM people at the top earn more than people at the bottom.
so I don't think your judgement about what add-ons are appropriate should be considered.
22:33 UTC - Flamed on Slashdot for having TwitterBar. Why does kno1 nderstnd me?
The Tribune group collapsed because of a load of toxic debt they could not refinance.
It is quite fashionable for failing businesses to ignore their own poor performance. Instead they blame it on unforseen circumstances and present themselves as innocent victims of a global cataclysm.
A side effect of this fashion is that some commenators, like this article, are writing off whole industries and business models. They augur from the business collapses. Unfortunately these auguries ignore the more mundane reasons, too much debt, bad profit projections, in favour of some system wide collapse.
IMO the last few years, say 2005 have been mainly credit driven. So although there is undeniable shrinking of advertising revenues, this shrinking is dwarfed by the awful reality of spending shrinking back to sensible levels.
Surely this list is an enumeration of ALL communication possibilities? Twitter has communication possibility, therefore deserves to be on the list amongst:
* Smoke signals
* Pigeon Carriers
* Coded Letters
* Invisible Ink Letters
* Text Messages
* Mobile Phone Calls
* Emails
* Slashdot posts
* Twitter
Amazon EC2 images (et alia) would find this useful.
They will come online faster.
I'm a little surprised this is even a question.
The cloud computing does not solve every problem going. Nor does map/reduce or XML.
As a side affair I run a DTP Software as a Service (Service). This makes extensive use of 'Cloud' stuff.
Use neutral technologies that work on many cloud computing platforms. Postgres, Java, and Linux Image. As a quick startup, run VitualBox on each of the Cloud infrastructures, and then only code for your VirtualBox instance.
You have to write all the bridging, bootstrapping and aliveness code for the idosyncracies of each Cloud platform. But you always have to do some of this work, right?
And then of course you rent some dedicated servers which act as the common case and have an SLA. If you get the VirtualBox stuff right, you can simply deploy your cloud image to these dedicated boxes. When load gets too much, send it to someone elses cloud.
None of this is rocket-science. You get very little 'for free' like the marketting hype suggests.
It is my opinion that with Cloud Computing services, you must have in-office snapshots of your filesystems/databases. Access to these should not be reliant on any 3rd party. Also have off site, but physical backup (tapes)
I had 3d glasses several years ago, with a wire. No headaches for me.
But designers specifically create certain scenes with the 2D look in mind. So when you actually view the scene, it does not look as intended.
These are normally the important thematic bits, and so the overall effect can be ruined.
So 2D bullet spray effects, made to look 3d in Photoshop, look like planes of sand in true 3d.
Wow! A sensible response.
To comment further, an Exchange is basically a message processing system. Upon crash or outage, it is not possible to simply "reboot" the architecture.
The messages have to be replayed in the correct order. This can be very, very, very difficult because Exchanges get data from thousands of sources. So getting something out of order, say at the start of the day, can ruin the whole day.
I work as a contractor in London, which has a trading platform (not LSE).
"Complete" is an industry term. They use "complete", "cross" and "trade" in the same way.
What it means is:
* that there is currently a set of offers and asks on the exchange. Other people have submitted those already
* you want to buy/sell one of these as appropriate
* you send down your legally binding request for selling/buying that amount
* the matching algorithm sees that your sell/buy matches the buy/sell on the exchange
* that particular offer is then "yours" and no-one else can have it.
* you are notified of the success of your "trade"/"cross" which is "complete"
So the "match" occurs in 3ms. This is important, because otherwise you have to wait longer to know if you need to look elsewhere. There's more to it of course, this is just a mega-simple case.
I got a Core 64GB. I build large java projects. This is for my workstation, not a laptop. Power and quiet were not the reasons for my experimental purchase.
I aimed to slash my build time for complex scenarios.
I thought the Compile -> Jar -> War -> Deploy -> Expand -> Launch would be greatly spead up as the files would be accessed quickly.
I hoped effectively for a much more targeted and capacious file cache/ RAM disk.
Unfortunately, the hype does not turn out to be true.
The enormous time cost of writing files smaller than 8MB (!) [see footnotes] completely counters any read speed increase. Building a proect is making thousands of 2KiB files : one of the most pathological cases for these drives.
So is it slow? No, it's just as quick as a sluggish 7K250, but then again I just coughed up £179 for the privelege of the same speed.
So I'm ebaying mine to someone who wants it for a light and quiet laptop, perfect.
-----------------
Some "Terrible small write performance" links I found during research:
* http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/ssd-iram_6.html
* http://www.alternativerecursion.info/?p=106
BORING! They could have Neural Networks, or or some upper bounded "Advanced Beginner" and acheive the same result ::
When you define perfection(tm), you can acheive it. Then you realise your perfection(tm) is not actual perfection, but some management person's project signoff of perfection.
Seems like the same old consultant $$$ trick. The dificult portion is picking to best heuristics, and is trivial to game.
My girlfriend at the time was one of the techies in the Sydney Olympics opening ceremony.
After connecting up the wires to that "Little Girl who Sings then Flies", she got called to an emergency.
The computer which controlled the flame mechanics crashed. It was a windows box.
They had a big rope attached to the flame. Hidden behind the falling water the tech crew struggled to pull the flame assembly back on to the rails.
During this time the misbehaving window box rebooted.
What no one mention was that the flame initially was a discreet gas supply, which had only a little capacity. All the tech crew thought the mini flame would extinguish before it reached the summit.
What a close call!
At some stage the data will almost certainly be Ethernet frames, which doesn't bear that much relation to the orginal data.
:: £20,000 bill for speeding row scientist. Quote 'In speeding [copyright] matters, it is the law of the land not the law of physics [way you split the data] that matters.'
But then it is recombined to form the copyrighted work, to create the infringement.
I cannot see how this is different to that process and thus escape legal sanction.
To adapt a good quote, as in
Here is some 'compelling' comment. Lots of very important things require the scientific method.
Obvious ones are medicines and housing materials.
Important ones are accurate global warming models and electric battery efficiency tests.
This Wired jerkoff and his band of know-little acolytes think that because they can accomplish everything in _their_ day without science, that it will die out.
This myopic self centredness would not have yielded them a clear signal on their iPhone. Science did that.
I am very sorry that Stan Winston has passed away.
He won an Academy Award for Aliens in 1986.
The UK Lords may send their dry message via youtube, but only American Judges send pr0n.
I agree with you that the detection algorithms may be heavy on false positives. But it will help your case if you as an end user have 99% legal purchases to demonstrate as evidence.
As I said, let's wait and see how this pans out. If you're really worried, switch ISP now.
Surely people are at much greater danger of some knob planting kiddie-pr0n on your computer, than someone planting illegal downloads.
"the one wire that delivers freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of assembly"
--- Mike, take an antacid and calm down. You'll save yourself a stroke.
*Why could you not legally download the songs?
* If they wanted to disconnect you, could they not just find some other trumped up reason to do so?
* There is plenty of alternate choice for broadband in places where Virgin Media is commonly available
Let's wait to see just how often this gets used before it becomes an issue.
I get throttled all the time after a few DivX downloads, and the solution is to download in non-peak times.
I'm sure slashdot will be informed once the letters actually start being posted.
Monkeys, mind-control, robots, maths and electronics
-- just what is this doing on Slashdot?
Back when RedHat still came on floppies, someone developer left their .emacs in the distro. It had some very nice colour combinations.
Over time I have come to realise that they mimic an old chalk board.
set-background-color DarkSlateGrey
set-foreground-color Wheat
set-cursor-color Orchid
Variations of background colour that work nicely and give you distinct consoles/editors:
DarkSlateBlue
Sorry I would have more, but they're on my home PC and I'm at work at the moment. If you're interested reply to this thread, i'll post them in the evening.
"coo-ie! Lookie here, I'm being pious!"?
;)
:'G-d', is mainly an affectation as the prohibition relates specifically to the Tetragrammaton.
Sorta... I'm Jewish and there's a stigma about putting the name-of-the-lord anywhere but in hallowed places. Slashdot doesn't cut it
Note that this Anglicization
Whenever there is something 'supernatural' in Doctor Who, it is now always Extra Terrestrial aliens. Plots involving G-d, spirits, daemons or anything that used to be supernatural or involve a place of worship is now explained away as a parallel universe being who's away from home. It just so happens that it all occurs with alien powers that look suspiciously like possession, dragons, ghosts. Doctor Who and others conveniently take refuge in Churches, mainly because as we know they're excellent defence against ET.
:: Steering clear of any mentions of G-d as such ; but there definitely could be G-d equivalent aliens out there doing any freaky stuff that cannot be explained by evolutiuon.
So the perfect place for Dawkins
The producer of an item should always make more money than any other person involved in the process.
Your argument breaks down in so many ways. Here is one suitable to slashdot.
Take the sale price of a computer. At what stage do you class someone the "producer"?? - who you say is the most important.
* The miner who dug the silicon out of the ground
* The refiner who turned that into wafers
* The chip designer
* The chip fabricator
* The assembler
* etc.
It's not easy to assign who should get 'the most'. In fact it is impossible without arbitration.
if("Microsoft".equals(patent.client.name) ) {
approve(); return;
}
else if ("Google".equals(patent.client.name)) {
approve(); return;
}
else if ("IBM".equals(patent.client.name)) {
approve(); return;
}
else {
inspect(); return;
}