May I make an elitist comment ?
I think a large portion of the/. crowd are reader of Science Fiction. I don't mean only space operas, I am talking about real anticipation here, those who question the nature of sapience, morality or the basis of human society. I am sure we are a good number here to have read a lot about it and to have thought a lot about it.
Those should know the very profound changes that a transition from "human rights" to "sapient rights" would bring. As much as I would like people embracing it all over the world, seeing adult dolphins having more rights than human foetus, I think making the transition today would bring open conflict with a lot of established (*cough* religious) moral beliefs.
We are the most visible civilization of the Solar System. And very possibly the only one. Of all the planets we have directly observed, the Earth is the only one to harbor visible life. We never managed to recreate cells spontaneously from amino acids, we don't exactly know how this occurred, we can not compute the probability of such an event. It could very well be unique to our planet's exact condition or it could be very common.
A new version is supposed to have new features, eventually at a performance cost.
A new version is supposed to have at least the same functionalities as the previous versions.
When using exactly the same functionalities as the previous version, one could expect the new version to take less resource or at least, to not take more.
No, for you only. I have an excuse : I was in Tokyo when writing this post. There you see Evangelion gigantic posters at every corner on pachinko places...:-p
These kind of articles are fairly common, and for a time they even had me look into Japan, India, Europe to find interesting research being done in my specialization field (AI) but every time, I finish up reading publications or thesis from an American university. A lot of them are written by foreign researcher (a lot of Indians I have observed) but the funds and the place are American.
Scandinavian states have a decent education and a very good IT infrastructure. If you take the infrastructure into account to have a sort of "technology" value, maybe the "per capita" value of Sweden is better than US'. But innovative researches has all to do with the universities exchanges and relations within a single entity. The Behemoth size of the US makes it the leader right now. Too many European universities don't have the habit of publishing in English instead of one of their numerous language (Disclaimer : I am French and really I can see it, many researcher write their publications to get fundings and help their career, so they naturally use their boss' language)
Of course ten years from now, it may be more important to publish in Chinese...
Surely the latency is the best advantage of solid state vs hard drives, why isn't it presented in the summary ? It must be impressive like a few usec compared to 200 ms
oh for heavens sake. In QA it is impossible to catch everything.
Well QA departments usually maintains a serie of tests and run them on various architectures and measure the time taken by each test. Trying to copy/erase/rename files seems like a basic operation you don't want regression on, so it is probably part of a test. The fact that such a thing wasn't caught on a flag product just amaze me.
Agreed, it should not *too greatly* affect anyone. But you have to admit that when you have bought Vista for a fistful of dollars, probably bought a recent computer to make it work, you have the right to be annoyed when a basic operation is slower than on an older machine, with an older OS.
In fact, on linux, I wouldn't care much and would agree with the "oops, sorry here is a fix" because I didn't pay for that, because the developer wasn't paid to write the soft and wasn't forced to release a fix, so yeah, there is a bias and it has some good justifications.
Also I don't know what kind of uses you have with your computer, but copying or moving 10+ MB files happen all the time. If you are a gamer, a creator, a film/music down... consumer, hell, even if you are a MS Office user, 10Mb is insanely easy to reach.
I am pretty sure that if someone gets physically harmed because of a negligence on Joe's computer, someone can be found liable. Maybe Joe, maybe Microsoft, maybe Dell, maybe all of them.
And here is a link to Oracle's : robots.txt. Only this line "Disallow:/support/metalink/index.html" forbids access to the support/ branch. I am not sure this is enough...
And finally the old unix guys will flame about how none of these vulnerabilites would have happened if we would have stayed away from GUIs.
I will use a GUI when it will be ready for the desktop market...
This is the most interesting point of view I have seen on/. since months. Yes, a governmental organization working to undermine constitutionnal rights would have been called communist during the Cold War...
Well suppose you were a solider, trained in soldier stuff. Obviously, there have been no classes on torture in your training. Now you have this guy who is a friend of a terrorist and your officer asked you to interrogate him. What would you do ? I guess some people just turn to their buddy who says "I dunno, we could do what they did in 24 last week...". Note that I agree with you that this is scary, but I really think that some soldiers can be influenced by that.
There are many other things (wars, diseases, maybe terrorism) which are much more likely to destroy civilization as we know it.
Considering how well money has been spent on projects like "the war to end all wars" and the "war on terrorism", I would say that a project to deflect asteroids looks very wise in comparison. Whereas, I agree, the research on diseases is an important and underfunded domain (yes, I'll consider it underfunded as long as I have a life expectancy inferior to two centuries). Anyway, it's "just" a few millions dollars spent on watching pebbles in the sky, an activity that could be useful and do no harm, and it goes back into the economy anyway...
If the computer cache revealed such browsing at a time of the day where she was alone at home, this can bring some light on the question of premeditation. Of course, she could also defend saying "it is not me, it is this tech-savvy kid I baby-sitted last night", but if she simply admits the fact that she has made some research, submitting such clues to the court effectively helps to find the truth.
And if it is a Japanese magician, this recharge can last 24 hours. Seriously though, without radio emission, you need far more less power and volume, look at the iPod nano.
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May I be the first to point out that a middle class exist in China and already has the size of the US population ?
May I make an elitist comment ? /. crowd are reader of Science Fiction. I don't mean only space operas, I am talking about real anticipation here, those who question the nature of sapience, morality or the basis of human society. I am sure we are a good number here to have read a lot about it and to have thought a lot about it.
I think a large portion of the
Those should know the very profound changes that a transition from "human rights" to "sapient rights" would bring. As much as I would like people embracing it all over the world, seeing adult dolphins having more rights than human foetus, I think making the transition today would bring open conflict with a lot of established (*cough* religious) moral beliefs.
I don't know about this one, but the regular, everyday TGV that goes at 270 km/h is on free wheel most of the time during a travel.
We are the most visible civilization of the Solar System. And very possibly the only one. Of all the planets we have directly observed, the Earth is the only one to harbor visible life. We never managed to recreate cells spontaneously from amino acids, we don't exactly know how this occurred, we can not compute the probability of such an event. It could very well be unique to our planet's exact condition or it could be very common.
;-)
Don't call faith common sense
A new version is supposed to have new features, eventually at a performance cost.
A new version is supposed to have at least the same functionalities as the previous versions.
When using exactly the same functionalities as the previous version, one could expect the new version to take less resource or at least, to not take more.
In my company that's what our clients require.
30 cents more expensive ? Well, that is a shame but I'll buy it anyway. Vote with your wallet against DRM !
I wonder if we will be able to buy them in France though...
No, for you only. I have an excuse : I was in Tokyo when writing this post. There you see Evangelion gigantic posters at every corner on pachinko places... :-p
These kind of articles are fairly common, and for a time they even had me look into Japan, India, Europe to find interesting research being done in my specialization field (AI) but every time, I finish up reading publications or thesis from an American university. A lot of them are written by foreign researcher (a lot of Indians I have observed) but the funds and the place are American.
Scandinavian states have a decent education and a very good IT infrastructure. If you take the infrastructure into account to have a sort of "technology" value, maybe the "per capita" value of Sweden is better than US'. But innovative researches has all to do with the universities exchanges and relations within a single entity. The Behemoth size of the US makes it the leader right now. Too many European universities don't have the habit of publishing in English instead of one of their numerous language (Disclaimer : I am French and really I can see it, many researcher write their publications to get fundings and help their career, so they naturally use their boss' language)
Of course ten years from now, it may be more important to publish in Chinese...
AT field detected on Saturn's surface ! Code Orange ! Launch all EVA units, and someone go fetch me the Longinus Spear !
Surely the latency is the best advantage of solid state vs hard drives, why isn't it presented in the summary ? It must be impressive like a few usec compared to 200 ms
Internet is now an university inside a shop mall inside a war zone inside a fundamentalist country.
oh for heavens sake. In QA it is impossible to catch everything.
Well QA departments usually maintains a serie of tests and run them on various architectures and measure the time taken by each test. Trying to copy/erase/rename files seems like a basic operation you don't want regression on, so it is probably part of a test. The fact that such a thing wasn't caught on a flag product just amaze me.
Agreed, it should not *too greatly* affect anyone. But you have to admit that when you have bought Vista for a fistful of dollars, probably bought a recent computer to make it work, you have the right to be annoyed when a basic operation is slower than on an older machine, with an older OS.
In fact, on linux, I wouldn't care much and would agree with the "oops, sorry here is a fix" because I didn't pay for that, because the developer wasn't paid to write the soft and wasn't forced to release a fix, so yeah, there is a bias and it has some good justifications.
Also I don't know what kind of uses you have with your computer, but copying or moving 10+ MB files happen all the time. If you are a gamer, a creator, a film/music down... consumer, hell, even if you are a MS Office user, 10Mb is insanely easy to reach.
I suspect he was speaking about RIAA potential crime of extortion...
I just know that you have to cross 42 roads.
I think you, creationists, will be less confident once Godzilla will have waken up !
I am pretty sure that if someone gets physically harmed because of a negligence on Joe's computer, someone can be found liable. Maybe Joe, maybe Microsoft, maybe Dell, maybe all of them.
And here is a link to Oracle's : robots.txt. Only this line "Disallow: /support/metalink/index.html" forbids access to the support/ branch. I am not sure this is enough...
And finally the old unix guys will flame about how none of these vulnerabilites would have happened if we would have stayed away from GUIs.
I will use a GUI when it will be ready for the desktop market...
This is the most interesting point of view I have seen on /. since months. Yes, a governmental organization working to undermine constitutionnal rights would have been called communist during the Cold War...
... "could"
Well suppose you were a solider, trained in soldier stuff. Obviously, there have been no classes on torture in your training. Now you have this guy who is a friend of a terrorist and your officer asked you to interrogate him. What would you do ? I guess some people just turn to their buddy who says "I dunno, we could do what they did in 24 last week...". Note that I agree with you that this is scary, but I really think that some soldiers can be influenced by that.
There are many other things (wars, diseases, maybe terrorism) which are much more likely to destroy civilization as we know it.
Considering how well money has been spent on projects like "the war to end all wars" and the "war on terrorism", I would say that a project to deflect asteroids looks very wise in comparison. Whereas, I agree, the research on diseases is an important and underfunded domain (yes, I'll consider it underfunded as long as I have a life expectancy inferior to two centuries). Anyway, it's "just" a few millions dollars spent on watching pebbles in the sky, an activity that could be useful and do no harm, and it goes back into the economy anyway...
Another theory states that he is angry to be the only person on earth not having received a gmail invite...
If the computer cache revealed such browsing at a time of the day where she was alone at home, this can bring some light on the question of premeditation. Of course, she could also defend saying "it is not me, it is this tech-savvy kid I baby-sitted last night", but if she simply admits the fact that she has made some research, submitting such clues to the court effectively helps to find the truth.
And if it is a Japanese magician, this recharge can last 24 hours. Seriously though, without radio emission, you need far more less power and volume, look at the iPod nano.