I have an idea: grow a few seconds' worth of patience.
It's not a matter of patience, it's a matter of eliminating a needlessly slow bottleneck on a system.
To expand upon the GP's point, if you could take 100GB of this stuff and slap it into your memory space you'd never, really, have to hit the hard disk for applications again. This does two things:
- Frees up your DRAM for things that actually change frequently. - Frees up your hard disk which should be holding things that need long term storage, not execution.
Pair it with 8GB of DRAM or so and I can't see any problems. Sure you'd have to design filesystems to support it, but some already exist with the basic ideas implemented.
I was under the impression that you would use the compressed air to power a turbine during times of low wind, and use excess power generated by wind turbines (or other renewable forms) to compress the air.
As opposed to what, being a good "con" and doing what?
I would like some background to what I can only parse as a retarded attempt to politicize with a statement that must've taken a whole 5 braincells to parrot.
Yes, musicians are the only concern here. Never mind the multitudes of copyrighted works that exist completely outside the realm where live performance is possible.
Please stop basing ALL of your arguments solely on MUSIC. There is more to human creativity than just music, and each follows its own set of rules.
no ip law? no problem. full steam ahead
Full steam ahead for whom, might I ask? Certainly not the actual people who create things, since they'll be out doing manual labor most of the day...
I guess he has the right to pollute all he wants, but launching yourself into orbit dwarfs the effect on the environmental most people would ever cause.
So because he's going up it's bad, even if the rocket were headed up anyway? By that logic the space program should be ended entirely. Never mind that he'll probably do it once in his life whereas millions of cars keep dumping crap into the atmosphere every day at an order of magnitude more per day.
Usually that perspective ends up happening afterward. I hope Brin gets it beforehand.
And not go. Right. Fuck that. Given the chance I'd go in a heartbeat, as would most slashdot readers. But of course they should not go. Because rocket launches are such horrible, horrible sources of pollution.
Softbank's network is GSM. Their phones can even be unlocked (mostly) and used for calling in the US and Europe. Rumor has it that Softbank has lined up the 3G iPhone for Japan, and work on CJK IME methods has been seen in the SDK firmwares.
So Apple will get to test its feet in the Japanese phone market, easily the most vicious and tumultuous in the world (with a lifecycle of any given model being 6 months, the 3G iPhone will need some serious staying power to survive there.)
attempts to un-cripple it are met with update-to-brick attacks
Statements like this are amazing, especially since few iPhones were actually bricked. Hacked ones were reverted to their pre-hacked state. The ones that did get actually bricked, well, how can Apple know what you've done to the phone?
It's asinine accusations like this that tear the whole of slashdot down a notch or two. Claims of malice without proof, decrying the fate of "victims" who do unsupported things and get them undone or burned and blame the manufacturer.
The only "benefit" that has come of having x86 processors in MIDs so far has been seeing the developers cram Vista on an already slow device, making it crawl even worse. Or they stick XP on it, packing an OS completely not designed for MID use on it.
Using ARM on mobile platforms at least offers some hope of making a clean break from all the backwards compatbility cruft that x86 has dragged along with it for decades now.
they have usurped microsoft for title of tech company most damaging to progress.
No, they would have to repeatedly dish out lies, FUD, and cripple other companies financially to the point that they have to sell to MS or someone else, and do so for 20+ years, before they could EVER hope to approach the damage Microsoft has done.
It's posts like yours that the -1 (Offtopic) moderation is for.
Your post is completely offtopic. It dismisses the fact that the contents of the conference, which contain a fair bit of useful information, are entirely relevant for a site like Slashdot with a single sentence (and in classic "DNRTFA" style.)
Then you segue off into this criticism of the site, whining about the Funny moderation. Yes this site has changed. It's still better than most of the other crap out there. If you don't find an article interesting, IGNORE IT. Don't post whiny trash like this, it just makes things you think are bad worse for everyone else or for those who might find it useful.
This is about Microsoft decreeing that "There shall be Arbitrary Limits on UMPCs" for no obvious reason except to defend their monopoly and prop up Vista sales. At the very least, they're pushing these limits to ensure that even if Linux somehow does become the dominant OS for these platforms, that they will always be crippled and limited compared to regular systems that run Vista.
It's about MS using their monopoly position, again, to cripple competition.
Indeed, this is a great way for large companies to dig up copyrighted works for a pittance.
Just find one you like, and violate the copyright. They can't hope to recover any damages cause you could easily drive potential damages into the millions, which would mean they'd owe that plus your punitive back taxes (damn them for creating things of value.) And if they try, you can just snap it up for a pittance after the government takes it away. Or have someone else get it for you.
The lesson learned here, of course, is: 1) Don't copyright works, because the copyright system is now completely twisted against itself, 2) Don't create works, cause either you'll copyright it and get screwed, or someone else will screw you anyway.
What kind of asinine, offtopic rant are you getting on about? People who play computer games are annoyed at yet another intrusive DRM scheme and you're like "OMG DON'T PLAY COMPUTER GAMES AND DON'T WHINE ITS BEEN WORSE."
The veneer of trendy is starting to wear off the geeks as people once again realize that life is not a scene out of Tron
Aside from Tron-guy I don't think I've ever seen this to be the case...
Pay cash, write a letter with cursive, and remember that not every source of entertainment must come from a computer.
An example of a massively asinine statement. Do you think people here fail to realize this? Do you think your comment bears ANY relevance to the topic at hand? If you do, I'd like to see how bent the straight lines in your world are.
And then you segue off int a rant about software pirates and software-as-a-service. If you had a point, really, it was lost in your trolling and complete lack of flow.
Wait, but according to Slashdot ALL labels are evil and serve zero purpose, and everyone should just do what Radiohead is doing now, no matter how small a band they are!
holding up this kind of neoliberal ideology Wait, so the concept that one should have the opportunity to be compensated for one's labor is a "neoliberal" ideology?
costs the live of several million people/year.
As opposed to the many millions more if said drugs were never invented.
I mean, other than an anti-copyright/anti-patent post, what's your point?
To be sure, Apple is the only one that requires signing before the application can even be loaded and run. Both Symbian and Windows Mobile will run unsigned applications, but their access to phone capabilities will be restricted to some degree.
Yes, OpenMoko, the opensource alternative that is unavailable and doesn't even work.
Oh it boots, but you can't make a phone call from in the UI. And while the command line dialer does work, no audio does. So you can call someone but not speak to or hear them.
While I have every hope for OpenMoko, don't go flinging them as some open-source solution when it doesn't even do what it's supposed to.
You can let your users manage their machines, but only to a certain extent before it gets damaging. But at the same time you have the converse, where you have so many users that your IT staff cannot hope to manage every machine.
This is why corporate and network policies are so popular at major companies. Generally the systems are set up to maintain themselves, but are still open to being wrecked by their users. Corporate policy comes into play regarding illegal materials or pirated software being on the machines, and that's usually enough to keep most machines in working order.
Where I work every user has administrative access to their machines, but the network policies enforce the presence of McAfee and various background installers that push security updates when necessary. Not that this stops the more adept users from getting around this (Task Manager running as the system account lets you bypass network policies,) but generally anyone that can do that won't be the first out of the gate spamming the internal network with a virus (that'll be the CEO!)
Government should -never- be trusted. This is a basic concept behind the founding of the United States. There is no need for a Real ID, or any form of National ID. It says something that they'll accept a passport, since passports should only be required when traveling internationally.
The federal government has no right or need to establish the identity of every person in this nation. If they need to know it is because we are passing outside of our borders. Everything else is the duty of (and ONLY of) the states in which people reside.
Or you can keep decrying those who point out the dangers in giving the federal government more of what it inevitably wants, and ignoring the warnings of those who founded this country.
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It's not a matter of patience, it's a matter of eliminating a needlessly slow bottleneck on a system.
To expand upon the GP's point, if you could take 100GB of this stuff and slap it into your memory space you'd never, really, have to hit the hard disk for applications again. This does two things:
- Frees up your DRAM for things that actually change frequently.
- Frees up your hard disk which should be holding things that need long term storage, not execution.
Pair it with 8GB of DRAM or so and I can't see any problems. Sure you'd have to design filesystems to support it, but some already exist with the basic ideas implemented.
I was under the impression that you would use the compressed air to power a turbine during times of low wind, and use excess power generated by wind turbines (or other renewable forms) to compress the air.
Essentially, a giant underground gas-battery.
As opposed to what, being a good "con" and doing what?
I would like some background to what I can only parse as a retarded attempt to politicize with a statement that must've taken a whole 5 braincells to parrot.
Have you never seen Star Trek VI!?
Yay ridiculous conclusions:
Yes, musicians are the only concern here. Never mind the multitudes of copyrighted works that exist completely outside the realm where live performance is possible.
Please stop basing ALL of your arguments solely on MUSIC. There is more to human creativity than just music, and each follows its own set of rules.
Full steam ahead for whom, might I ask? Certainly not the actual people who create things, since they'll be out doing manual labor most of the day...
Because while the hardware is mostly modern, its data network support is roughly 5 years behind the curve?
OpenMoko is nifty, but the reference hardware is severely lacking.
So because he's going up it's bad, even if the rocket were headed up anyway? By that logic the space program should be ended entirely. Never mind that he'll probably do it once in his life whereas millions of cars keep dumping crap into the atmosphere every day at an order of magnitude more per day.
And not go. Right. Fuck that. Given the chance I'd go in a heartbeat, as would most slashdot readers. But of course they should not go. Because rocket launches are such horrible, horrible sources of pollution.
I do believe that's why it's a collapsed article.
It's potentially relevant enough to warrant front-page exposure, but not enough to get a full summary display.
Flexibility, I hear it's useful.
Considering it won't be available until July 11, I'm not suprised you can't order it online yet.
That "test," unfortunately, still flies in the face of the first amendment.
But then, what good would government be if busybody groups couldn't use it to interfere needlessly in the lives of others.
Softbank's network is GSM. Their phones can even be unlocked (mostly) and used for calling in the US and Europe. Rumor has it that Softbank has lined up the 3G iPhone for Japan, and work on CJK IME methods has been seen in the SDK firmwares.
So Apple will get to test its feet in the Japanese phone market, easily the most vicious and tumultuous in the world (with a lifecycle of any given model being 6 months, the 3G iPhone will need some serious staying power to survive there.)
Statements like this are amazing, especially since few iPhones were actually bricked. Hacked ones were reverted to their pre-hacked state. The ones that did get actually bricked, well, how can Apple know what you've done to the phone?
It's asinine accusations like this that tear the whole of slashdot down a notch or two. Claims of malice without proof, decrying the fate of "victims" who do unsupported things and get them undone or burned and blame the manufacturer.
The only "benefit" that has come of having x86 processors in MIDs so far has been seeing the developers cram Vista on an already slow device, making it crawl even worse. Or they stick XP on it, packing an OS completely not designed for MID use on it.
Using ARM on mobile platforms at least offers some hope of making a clean break from all the backwards compatbility cruft that x86 has dragged along with it for decades now.
No, they would have to repeatedly dish out lies, FUD, and cripple other companies financially to the point that they have to sell to MS or someone else, and do so for 20+ years, before they could EVER hope to approach the damage Microsoft has done.
It's posts like yours that the -1 (Offtopic) moderation is for.
Your post is completely offtopic. It dismisses the fact that the contents of the conference, which contain a fair bit of useful information, are entirely relevant for a site like Slashdot with a single sentence (and in classic "DNRTFA" style.)
Then you segue off into this criticism of the site, whining about the Funny moderation. Yes this site has changed. It's still better than most of the other crap out there. If you don't find an article interesting, IGNORE IT. Don't post whiny trash like this, it just makes things you think are bad worse for everyone else or for those who might find it useful.
"Choice" is not what this is about.
This is about Microsoft decreeing that "There shall be Arbitrary Limits on UMPCs" for no obvious reason except to defend their monopoly and prop up Vista sales. At the very least, they're pushing these limits to ensure that even if Linux somehow does become the dominant OS for these platforms, that they will always be crippled and limited compared to regular systems that run Vista.
It's about MS using their monopoly position, again, to cripple competition.
Indeed, this is a great way for large companies to dig up copyrighted works for a pittance.
Just find one you like, and violate the copyright. They can't hope to recover any damages cause you could easily drive potential damages into the millions, which would mean they'd owe that plus your punitive back taxes (damn them for creating things of value.) And if they try, you can just snap it up for a pittance after the government takes it away. Or have someone else get it for you.
The lesson learned here, of course, is:
1) Don't copyright works, because the copyright system is now completely twisted against itself,
2) Don't create works, cause either you'll copyright it and get screwed, or someone else will screw you anyway.
How much is Linux worth?
Now once you figure that out, who will pay the tax on it and where?
Aside from Tron-guy I don't think I've ever seen this to be the case...
An example of a massively asinine statement. Do you think people here fail to realize this? Do you think your comment bears ANY relevance to the topic at hand? If you do, I'd like to see how bent the straight lines in your world are.
And then you segue off int a rant about software pirates and software-as-a-service. If you had a point, really, it was lost in your trolling and complete lack of flow.
Wait, but according to Slashdot ALL labels are evil and serve zero purpose, and everyone should just do what Radiohead is doing now, no matter how small a band they are!
To be sure, Apple is the only one that requires signing before the application can even be loaded and run. Both Symbian and Windows Mobile will run unsigned applications, but their access to phone capabilities will be restricted to some degree.
Yes, OpenMoko, the opensource alternative that is unavailable and doesn't even work.
Oh it boots, but you can't make a phone call from in the UI. And while the command line dialer does work, no audio does. So you can call someone but not speak to or hear them.
While I have every hope for OpenMoko, don't go flinging them as some open-source solution when it doesn't even do what it's supposed to.
You can let your users manage their machines, but only to a certain extent before it gets damaging. But at the same time you have the converse, where you have so many users that your IT staff cannot hope to manage every machine.
This is why corporate and network policies are so popular at major companies. Generally the systems are set up to maintain themselves, but are still open to being wrecked by their users. Corporate policy comes into play regarding illegal materials or pirated software being on the machines, and that's usually enough to keep most machines in working order.
Where I work every user has administrative access to their machines, but the network policies enforce the presence of McAfee and various background installers that push security updates when necessary. Not that this stops the more adept users from getting around this (Task Manager running as the system account lets you bypass network policies,) but generally anyone that can do that won't be the first out of the gate spamming the internal network with a virus (that'll be the CEO!)
And we live in it today.
Government should -never- be trusted. This is a basic concept behind the founding of the United States. There is no need for a Real ID, or any form of National ID. It says something that they'll accept a passport, since passports should only be required when traveling internationally.
The federal government has no right or need to establish the identity of every person in this nation. If they need to know it is because we are passing outside of our borders. Everything else is the duty of (and ONLY of) the states in which people reside.
Or you can keep decrying those who point out the dangers in giving the federal government more of what it inevitably wants, and ignoring the warnings of those who founded this country.