Oh man I can imagine Spinal Tap getting hold of some of these......
"Hey, look man - we ordered a frigging 40 foot deathstar, not 40 inch. It looks like a glitter ball but without the glitter. And what the fuck are they? We wanted chewbacca's , not motherfucking Ewoks"
Heck, this may be offtopic - but is the world getting richer? Is this a side effect of a more balanced globe?
I recently read that obesity is now a bigger world health problem than starvation. Maybe this is linked to big fat fibre optics becoming more common than shitty little modems.
Heck, half the US is now apparantly broadband. Despite all the negative publicity recently, it does feel like the net is a big old snowball that just wont stop rolling.....
This is really a very, very, mammoth task. Most species arent real obvious like gorillas or rhinos. Most of these 10-100 million species are prokaryotes or insects or whatever (apparantly, the most successful group of animals is the beetle, go figure!). These arent easy to discover, identify and characterise. Therefore this is not an easy task, and it could take a long frigging time.
So why not sit back, relax and watch that mass extinction. Apparantly, extinction rates are around 27,000 species per year (although this is - of course - highly speculative). As long as humans carry on with their fantastically cool ability of destroying stuff (lets not get into the environmental debate guys, just go with me here), this should hold up for a few thousand years.
Therefore, lets presume their are 50 million species:
50,000,000 - 2,000,000 = 48,000,000 species yet to be discovered.
48,000,000 / 27,000 = 1777.7 years untill destroy all unknown species.
Not long, huh? Wait a few years longer and we will be down to 1 species. Dont worry folks, by then we will have biosynthetic foodstuff, terraforming units and day trips to jupiter moon.
Seriously though, this does raise an interesting point about preservation of species. There is ALOT of cool stuff out there in nature that is darn useful (chemical processess, drugs, food etc). Maybe we should think about discovering them before they go extinct.
Therefore, I can access the router/switch. Maybe I have to break some glass cabinet first..... but that is probably about as noticeable as putting a great big frigging light detection source right in front of the glass cabinet.
OK, so I can see the lights, therefore I can access the device. Can you think of an easier way of accessing data than blinking LEDs?
There was a recent spate in the UK with abuse of "remote control watches". Basically, these watches let you beam in the signal form your remote control for the TV or whatever. The watch then remebers this signal and you can then use the watch as a remote control. However, some cars which use IR keys were susceptible to this....
Theif goes to car showroom, asks to take car in foyer out for a drive. Surreptisously beams IR signal from key into watch. Hey presto - come back later and drives offf with car.
To be honest, I dont see how this differs from cloning credit cards. I know a few people who have been to dosgy restaraunts in Easter Europe (honestly, they were restaurants!). Card got swiped twice when they payed. Credit card bill shows prolific activity in the balkans.....
Whatever monetary system you use, there will allways be fraud. Like whatever media you devise, it will allways be used for pr0n. Human nature, I guess.....
Er, sorry to actually get all serious on you - but I think on the basis of your arguments there is no option but to go with weather balloons:
You cant shoot them down!
There was a "rogue" weather balloon a while back, which two Canadian air force CF-18 fighters fired more than 1,000 rounds of cannon shells into it, and the blinking thing still wouldnt come down. I really cant see some yokel with a blunderbuss even scratching these things.
Yes, causation is a well known problem in science. In particular, so-called "confounding factors". To illustrate the point, I shall use an example:
A few years ago it was widely publicised that that drinking red wine was healthy and made you live longer. The research was published and looked solid. However, the researchers had not accounted for the confounding factor of lifestyle. People who drink red wine tend to be richer, live healthier lifestyles and drink in moderation (e.g. like the french - a glass or two of wine with dinner every day). However, beer drinkers tend to "binge-drink", and although they may drink the same units of alcohol as a wine drinker, they tend to consume them all in one sitting.
In fact, it turns out that drinking a small amount of alcohol every day is good for you (which red wine drinkers do), wherease too much alcohol is obviously bad.
These types of mistakes in science still occur with alarming regularity, especially as sometimes the confounding factors can be subtle, confusing and unexpected. However, the researchers who conducted this study seem well aware of the problem. The last sentance of their abstract reads:
"Causality is unproven."
As the researchers are well aware, it is quite likely that this is an indirect relationship between life expectancy/sleep that we are observing.
For example (i may get flamed for this, but i'm just brainstorming), many of the great achievers I have met in my life slept very little - they were too energetic, alive and aspirational to lye in bed. They also achieved (or will achieve) great things - they are rich, have a good lifestyle and medical cover etc.
Alot of the "layabout" types I have met seemed far more interested in spending 12+ hours in bed than actually doing anything with there life.
I am sure the problem is far more complex than this, but you can see how other factors may form tentative links between cause and effect.
With a BSD base to work on, the porting process should really be a piece of piss.
But would apple really want to do this?
The strength of apple has allways been tight integration of hardware/OS. But with such diversity in the x86 world, it throws open a whole load of problems that apple have never had to deal with - support for various chips/chipsets, interdependency problems, conflicts, support for non-standard hardware, support for the latest, greatest graphics cards etc.
Quite a number of the things which apple get right but MS dont is purely because apple have allways gone their own on the hardware side. If they ported to x86, they would be in direct competition with MS, with all the drawbacks of the architecture.
Why is having enforcable ratings on video games a bad thing? After all, we have movie ratings and no one is complaining.
This is quite correct. I think most people would agree that there is certain types of content that requires a certain level of emotional maturity. In the UK, games are rated just like films, with GTA3 etc labelled "18" (18 or over). The only problem with this is enforcement. Whilst cinemas/video shops are now very strict about proof of age ID, it is trivial for a minor to get hold of a classified video game.
By virtue of owning a TV (and thereby having to pay for a mandotory TV license), a British television viewer is paying for streamed Ogg-Vorbis media to some guy in Angola?
Now I understand why my ancestors left the frigging country...
Slashdot Mirror
Oh man I can imagine Spinal Tap getting hold of some of these......
"Hey, look man - we ordered a frigging 40 foot deathstar, not 40 inch. It looks like a glitter ball but without the glitter. And what the fuck are they? We wanted chewbacca's , not motherfucking Ewoks"
glad to be of service, sir.
Consider it done :-)
So this is the product of half a billion net users, spread far and wide across the globe? Yep, now we have cross-cultural trolling.
Modded down on two continents at once, now that is what i call trolling....
Heck, this may be offtopic - but is the world getting richer? Is this a side effect of a more balanced globe?
I recently read that obesity is now a bigger world health problem than starvation. Maybe this is linked to big fat fibre optics becoming more common than shitty little modems.
Heck, half the US is now apparantly broadband. Despite all the negative publicity recently, it does feel like the net is a big old snowball that just wont stop rolling.....
Let's just hope there's no Slashdot-Asia planned for the near future. That would REALLY take the Slashdot effect to a new level....
Erm, there is dude. Check it out, its japanese.
When we get chinese slashdot, then we really start frigging worrying.
Slashdot: Yesterdays register news, today!
This is really a very, very, mammoth task. Most species arent real obvious like gorillas or rhinos. Most of these 10-100 million species are prokaryotes or insects or whatever (apparantly, the most successful group of animals is the beetle, go figure!). These arent easy to discover, identify and characterise. Therefore this is not an easy task, and it could take a long frigging time.
So why not sit back, relax and watch that mass extinction. Apparantly, extinction rates are around 27,000 species per year (although this is - of course - highly speculative). As long as humans carry on with their fantastically cool ability of destroying stuff (lets not get into the environmental debate guys, just go with me here), this should hold up for a few thousand years.
Therefore, lets presume their are 50 million species:
50,000,000 - 2,000,000 = 48,000,000 species yet to be discovered.
48,000,000 / 27,000 = 1777.7 years untill destroy all unknown species.
Not long, huh? Wait a few years longer and we will be down to 1 species. Dont worry folks, by then we will have biosynthetic foodstuff, terraforming units and day trips to jupiter moon.
Seriously though, this does raise an interesting point about preservation of species. There is ALOT of cool stuff out there in nature that is darn useful (chemical processess, drugs, food etc). Maybe we should think about discovering them before they go extinct.
I can see the light
Therefore, I can access the router/switch. Maybe I have to break some glass cabinet first..... but that is probably about as noticeable as putting a great big frigging light detection source right in front of the glass cabinet.
OK, so I can see the lights, therefore I can access the device. Can you think of an easier way of accessing data than blinking LEDs?
I dont see why you couldnt clone these things....
There was a recent spate in the UK with abuse of "remote control watches". Basically, these watches let you beam in the signal form your remote control for the TV or whatever. The watch then remebers this signal and you can then use the watch as a remote control. However, some cars which use IR keys were susceptible to this....
Theif goes to car showroom, asks to take car in foyer out for a drive. Surreptisously beams IR signal from key into watch. Hey presto - come back later and drives offf with car.
To be honest, I dont see how this differs from cloning credit cards. I know a few people who have been to dosgy restaraunts in Easter Europe (honestly, they were restaurants!). Card got swiped twice when they payed. Credit card bill shows prolific activity in the balkans.....
Whatever monetary system you use, there will allways be fraud. Like whatever media you devise, it will allways be used for pr0n. Human nature, I guess.....
Er, sorry to actually get all serious on you - but I think on the basis of your arguments there is no option but to go with weather balloons:
You cant shoot them down!
There was a "rogue" weather balloon a while back, which two Canadian air force CF-18 fighters fired more than 1,000 rounds of cannon shells into it, and the blinking thing still wouldnt come down.
I really cant see some yokel with a blunderbuss even scratching these things.
Yes, causation is a well known problem in science. In particular, so-called "confounding factors". To illustrate the point, I shall use an example:
A few years ago it was widely publicised that that drinking red wine was healthy and made you live longer. The research was published and looked solid. However, the researchers had not accounted for the confounding factor of lifestyle. People who drink red wine tend to be richer, live healthier lifestyles and drink in moderation (e.g. like the french - a glass or two of wine with dinner every day). However, beer drinkers tend to "binge-drink", and although they may drink the same units of alcohol as a wine drinker, they tend to consume them all in one sitting.
In fact, it turns out that drinking a small amount of alcohol every day is good for you (which red wine drinkers do), wherease too much alcohol is obviously bad.
These types of mistakes in science still occur with alarming regularity, especially as sometimes the confounding factors can be subtle, confusing and unexpected. However, the researchers who conducted this study seem well aware of the problem. The last sentance of their abstract reads:
"Causality is unproven."
As the researchers are well aware, it is quite likely that this is an indirect relationship between life expectancy/sleep that we are observing.
For example (i may get flamed for this, but i'm just brainstorming), many of the great achievers I have met in my life slept very little - they were too energetic, alive and aspirational to lye in bed. They also achieved (or will achieve) great things - they are rich, have a good lifestyle and medical cover etc.
Alot of the "layabout" types I have met seemed far more interested in spending 12+ hours in bed than actually doing anything with there life.
I am sure the problem is far more complex than this, but you can see how other factors may form tentative links between cause and effect.
As the saying goes:
"Sleeping is the practise of being dead."
Therefore our sleep-inclined brethren are probably just much more skilled, practised and well-versed in the art of dying.
With a BSD base to work on, the porting process should really be a piece of piss.
But would apple really want to do this?
The strength of apple has allways been tight integration of hardware/OS. But with such diversity in the x86 world, it throws open a whole load of problems that apple have never had to deal with - support for various chips/chipsets, interdependency problems, conflicts, support for non-standard hardware, support for the latest, greatest graphics cards etc.
Quite a number of the things which apple get right but MS dont is purely because apple have allways gone their own on the hardware side. If they ported to x86, they would be in direct competition with MS, with all the drawbacks of the architecture.
Why is having enforcable ratings on video games a bad thing? After all, we have movie ratings and no one is complaining.
This is quite correct. I think most people would agree that there is certain types of content that requires a certain level of emotional maturity. In the UK, games are rated just like films, with GTA3 etc labelled "18" (18 or over). The only problem with this is enforcement. Whilst cinemas/video shops are now very strict about proof of age ID, it is trivial for a minor to get hold of a classified video game.
So what you are saying is this:
By virtue of owning a TV (and thereby having to pay for a mandotory TV license), a British television viewer is paying for streamed Ogg-Vorbis media to some guy in Angola?
Now I understand why my ancestors left the frigging country...