Like we do not already have a shortage of IP adresses for one planet already. Screw IPv6, we need IPv8 now instead to deal with this! 1,3407807929942597099574024998206e+154 IP adresses ought to be enough for ever space ship, space station and coffee machine in the future! (Don't quote me on that in 20 years, PLEASE!!!)
No, the Enterprise encounters a large unchartered cloud of hydrogen, helium and various heavy elements. Further scanning concludes, without any incidents happening, that the large cloud of hydrogen, helium and various heavy elements is indeed a large cloud of hydrogen, helium and various heavy elements. Or:
The Enterprise and her crew encounter a new species, who after careful consideration and non-rash diplomatic talks agrees to sign a peace treaty with the federation. Technology and businees booms as trade starts between the federation and the new species, who aren't afflicted with some sort of plague, who aren't warlike and who don't have any custms that piss of any runaway Federation captains with ships too small for their ego. Or either:
The Enterprise and her crew suddenly realize that time has shifted ahead one hour! After several days of frantic, though conservative research and violating NO protocols regarding temporal stuff, they simply realize the Federation has instituted daylight savings and the relevant subspace message got thrown away along with the usual spam messages by the captain.
do I play ethical and just email abuse@chello.nl again
Speaking as a Chello.nl subscriber: Don't even bother. They let their members violate every little bit from the EULA, including the running of webservers, FTP servers, IRC server, other servers, NAT gateways, etcetera. And I'm talking from personal experience here;)
Scsi connectors? 'Scuse me? Wouldn't something like USB 2.0 or Firewire be a more logical choice, because it doesn't require a special card and it's far more common? Also, when will we have truly 3D RTS games? Maybe something for use with Homeworld 2?
RAID 0
Multiple developers work on the same project but none of them has any idea what the other is doing at the same time. One developer failing (caffeine dehydration, severe electrostatic shock, sex, etc) will cause the entire project to screw up and become a mess.
RAID 1
Extreme Programming.
RAID 2
Inefficient way to keep track of what developers are doing. For every 10 developers, 4 are needed to keep track of them and recover any error by the aforementioned 10 while they don't work together at all. Level of efficienty comparable to a modern goverment.
RAID 3
Equal to RAID 2, except all responsibility for checking the code is now granted to one person. The rest has been budget-cutted away. A bite more effective but considering people still don't cooperate, not too good.
RAID 4
Equal to RAID 3, escept people are finally working together now. Kinda efficient and fast, except it all still relies on that one person who checks the data.
RAID 5
Everyone knows what everyone else is doing, they all work perfectly together and they can easily miss one person because of that.
Because some IT staffs have a higher-up who went to the most recent Microsoft seminar ($25.000,- for entry & attendance, $750,- for the hotel, $2.250,- on the flight) and got amazed by MS. After budget-cutting away the drinks dispenser and replacing it with an old coffee maker (Hey, that $28.000m- is more important then employee satisfaction! *sarcasm*) hte higher up has a great idea, replacing all server with Windows 2003 Enterprise Server! All the crying and complaining from the IT staff wont convince the higher-up, because a shifty, 40b USD company that can throw a flashy seminar is far more trustworthy in his opinion then his IT staff, who worked with the company before he got there. Several budget-cuts later to accomodate the win2k3 licensing costs, the entire department switches to Win2k3. Several more budget-cuts later, mainly used on MS support, the entire company goes to hell. IT staff gets fired, along with the rest of the company while management gets scattered among several other companies, ready to ruin them anew.
I once asked an older coworker and Solaris guru what happened with the Unix-haters list. He told me that it stopped being quite so funny once Windows NT came along.
I'm certainly not blind to the faults of Unix- there have been many, many failed technologies that were more advanced than the crap we have to work with now. I think the reason so many people profess their love for Unix now is that the remaining alternative is pretty godawful, and many of us have had limited opportunity to work with anything better. You can pine for VMS all you want, but whatever made it such a badass operating system seems to have been discarded in the making of NT.
Perhaps in twenty years we'll be mocking old MS-bashing Slashdot posts as we attempt to deal with crashing PalmOS Metaverse servers and brag about how our Windows 2020 boxes are *real* computers.
Ah, but being a user to QuakeNet doesn't automagically mean that they all play Quake. I know plenty of people who reg at QuakeNet yet hate Quake itself... They even hate the entire FPS genre, they're on QuakeNet just for fun or other games or what else. I'm not saying Quake isn't popular, but measuring the popularity of it against the number of users on an IRC network is kinda flawed.
Heck, online gaming communities are flawed imho anyways. If I want to game, I want to fly a spaceship and blow up stuff, trading salvages crap and doing whatnot. I want to run around with a big run, shooting people and getting shot myself. I want to run around with WW2 weapons, jump in aircraft and take the battle to the sky! If I just wanted to chat I wouldn't buy the damn game and join a random community instead.
Player takes aim with a musket, chance to hit is based on random numbers and skill, strafing in impossible and not allowed as you're to stay in formation. Reloading requires a tedious procedure and after getting hit, player is likely to still live and spend the rest of the game incapacitated, only to die of wounds later on anyways. No good game scenario here.
World War 1
Player stares are mud walls of a trench most of the game, stands up after about half and hour, jumps over various obstacles and then into the next trench with the rest of the team, or rather what remains of it as half has been mowed down by machine gun fire. Player and team take aim at incoming opponents and evacuate trench of nescesarry. Repeat until all players are dead. No good game scenario here.
Gulf War 1 & 2
Player either flies a B2 or F117 to fire cruise missiles, fires cruise missles from naval vessels or patrols the sky in an F18/A or F15. Opponents do nothing at all except pressing a few buttons, cauing a bunch of scuds to horribly miss their targets. Later stages of the game include patrol with AH64 helicopters and AH1 helicopters and driving a tank all the way to Bagdad. Opponent will finally get a chance to fight with no ammo and a jammed gun, facing two options: retreat or surrender. No good game scenario here either.
Homosexuality is as much of a disease as heterosexuality is. Instead, I believe it's a choice, something that you choose you feel comfortable with. If a man wants to have a relationship with another man, should we look at his genes for an explanation? In fact, should we look for an explanation at all? Why not just let this man make his own decisions about his own life, no one is asking heterosexuals "Why?". Be aware please, that I'm not attacking you here, you clearly stated that this isn't you opinion but this is a clear example of what might happen if the wrong person would do the wrong thing, with the wrong person being someone who thinks homosexuality is a disease. What if that someone tried to 'cure' the 'disease'?
Also, as with MPS, the fine line is defined by that which is caused by genes and that which is caused by anomalies in the human brain. I'm no expert on this, but I think it's safe to say that the human brain is IMMENSELY complex, relying on an extremely delicate harmony of electric impules and various neurotoxins, a harmony which can be disrupted by something else other then faulty genes. Genetics can be an answer to allot of diseases, but by far not all of them.
And you're raising another interesting point: loss of biodiversity. But if those risks could indeed be mitigated and like someone else noted, the enhancements would be there for everyone... Well, if that will happen, we'll have to see again by then. Untill then it's a matter of keeping an open mind about things involving genetics. Like I mentioned before, at this moment I'm not in favour of massive GM of humans, nor do I favour small scale GM. But things can change and well, who knows in a few years?
Well, there is a huge difference in a fileserver and MS file sharing. I do believe that they mean a dedicated file server, dedicated to serving files over a network, whereas normal file sharing for home users would just include the odd file transported over the network, while the main use of the computer is home/office use. Thus cramming a load of 200gB HDs in a case, installing WinXP on it and chucking it in a corner to chew away on serving files indefinitely would be illegal, while using windows file sharing on your game PC would be allowed.
As for the actual reason behind it: Win2k (soon Win2k3) Server will most likely DOES allow being set up as a file server and webserver and what not. And you WILL pay for the ability to do that, while it's basically exactly the same as the WinXP abilities. It's nothing but cold hard cash; if you want a file server, cough up the $999 required for Microsoft Windows 2000 Server compared to the $299 of Microsoft Windows XP Professional
The rights of GM humans might be an issue soon enough, sure. But what I fear most is the fact that we might lose touch with ourselves and create an upper class society of GM humans, with the new lower class being unable to afford the GM in their family. In fact, what might happen if we carry this too far and create a human that can hardly be desribed as a human any longer? Call me a doomsday prophet but this is what I fear most about GM, the division of the human race into several factions. The upper class and lower class, the new humans and the old humans, the superior humans and the lesser humans... Much like what Hitler dreamed of...
The human genes are one of the few things we should not muck around with too much, except perhaps to remove "bugs" in our genetics which allow for horrible diseases like parkinson and thousands of others. Repairing our DNA? Fine with me, if controlled properly. Enhancing our DNA to give us abilities beyond those of normal humans? No way, imho.
Why do MS employees need to be innovative then? I thought that was only required if you were to join the Marketing & Legal Department where innovation involves selling out smaller companies?
That's the reason I keep a windows box around. If anyone comes knocking then it was a hacker that downloaded those Britney Spears tracks.
Then again, if you download Britney Spears MP3s you don't need to go to jail, you need to go to an institution for the mentally & audibly handicapped instead...
Hmm, yes, but you're prolly looking at motherboards aimed at the individual computer users for personal uses. 4+gB amounts of memory are mianly needed in the server and clustering bit of computing, not for home/office use. (Well, with Win2k3 coming upon us, we might never know.) Although the video/photoediting branche of computing might have a use for that much memory, I doubt they are in favour of the x32 architecture anyways, considering Apple's strength and foothoold in the video/photo editing branche...
And like it's been stated before, if you really do need that much memory on a single machine, you might be better of with a different architecture anyways, possibly a whole different solution to the problem.
I'm in a quaint little bubble of civilization amongst farms, forests, plains and various inbred hamlets where sewage systems, cable TV and tarmac are considered a luxury. Major nearby cities are Arnhem and Utrecht, both 30m by car (if you're lucky) and 20m by train. (if you're REALLY lucky) The local goverment and police force are too corrupt but fortunately also too stupid and divided to be a real nuisance to anyone other then eachother. If you want to have fun, we got a nice little square for going out in the weekend where you can have fun buying ridiculously expensive and warm drinks until minorities beat you up the second you're alone for a nanosecond. Also, large portions of this town's population seems to be stuck in time somewhere and are too religious for my comfort, especially the girls. This seriously distorted the male-female ratio in this place and I suggest you bring along your g/f or else get some wrist exercises; even the ugly girls are already taken by people more desperate then me. Have I mentioned yet I hate this place?
What else, hmm... Nothing to do, nothing to see other then the odd war memorial, (This is the area where Market Garden happened, after all) nothing interesting to buy either... At least the goverment doesn't spy on us yet. Heck, they might be trying to do so but we haven't had a stable goverment in two years and even if we had one, they'd be too incompetent and divided on matters to actually do anything complicated like that. We don't have any ridiculous patriots and our kids don't have to swear allegiance to a material symbol, a dying ideology and a corporate muppet under the name of a certain deity either. And you get to pick on German & French tourists, I heard you US people seem to enjoy such acticities lately.:)
Tell you what, if you can get me in Portland or at least NEAR Portland, we have a deal!
It's basically a dollar a GIG, or less... a 200 gig HD costs 200 bucks.
Grrr, a 200gB HD would cost me at least 275 Euro around here (The Netherlands), which is about 285 to 300 USD. If I could get my hands on a 200gB Maxtor for 200 Euro I'd buy two of em. Rawr, 400gB!
Though, SSDs would prolly be extremely lovely. Less noisy, no annoying spin-up times, faster, more stable (no moving parts) and not to mention a certain "novelty" factor. Besides, it would (imho) be an evolutionary step in the right direction for computing. Now all we need is to get rid of floppies (how about those 1gB or so credit card HDs? Make them solid state as well!) and upgrade stuff to PCI Express, USB 2.0 and what have ye.
Ah well, they need an equal audience and without a share of sexuality to attract the guys, the overly present shades of pink would make most guys run away screaming. At least. To be perfectly honest, I just skimmed the linked article a bit, disregarded it as over-analyzed, mildly feminist propaganda which can be summed up in 5 lines of text. Then I just clicked the link with the word "vibrator" in it. So, cheap pushing of their site... Worked on me at least:(
I hope it doesn't become a hit. I would NOT like to see a picture of CBN in his underwear showing off a new AMP XP 3xxx. (While wearing Intel boxers, hah! I have a warped mind...)
I suggest we cruise missile spam servers and their owners into kingdom come. Someone just convince US congress of the fact that spammers are terrorists (the truth is relative, people) who violate the DMCA in their spare time and then we'll just have to sit back and watch the US military solve the spam problem for us. Ralsky won't be able to spam once all of his servers have become a delightful mix of burned plastic, twisted metal and shattered eletronics, now can he?
How about Hyperthreading? That's kinda cool, at least it uses "hyper" in the name like hyperdrive, hyperspace, hyper girlfriend and other nifty things...
Give them both, preferably. I'm just saying the Internet isn't as worthless as you seem to think it is. Sheesh, follow my advice and most of the links you will find will need nothing more complicated than a plastic cup to contain the filter in.
And where, pray tell, would they get a plastic cup? Mind you, were talking mostly about people who live in mud huts in a country most likely torn by civil war, dictatorships and former colonization. The internet isn't worthless, it's a great place for exchanging ideas and opinions (like what I'm doing right now) but a person whose dying of hunger, thirst and an unknown disease couldn't care less about another person's opinions, even if he could read them.
As for learing to read on a written medium: most villiages will probably have at least one person who is mildly literate. Give them access, and they can (and will, since it will be something they can sell to the rest) improve their reading. They may even teach others (if only as apprentances).
Add a classroom & more books and you've got a school. Far more useful, far more effective.
As I said, you may be surprized at how useful and practical they would find it. If nothing else, they can exchange gripes, solutions, and problems with the next village over.
Essentially nothing wrong with that, if we ditch the illeteracy bit. Still though, do you really think it's a good idea for people to start calling eachother "n00bs" in areas where civil wars are more common then not? Nice idea, but I think the situation is a bit too volatile atm.
Slashdot Mirror
Like we do not already have a shortage of IP adresses for one planet already. Screw IPv6, we need IPv8 now instead to deal with this! 1,3407807929942597099574024998206e+154 IP adresses ought to be enough for ever space ship, space station and coffee machine in the future! (Don't quote me on that in 20 years, PLEASE!!!)
Sorry, that's just the way they make those Mac cases... *ducks*
No, the Enterprise encounters a large unchartered cloud of hydrogen, helium and various heavy elements. Further scanning concludes, without any incidents happening, that the large cloud of hydrogen, helium and various heavy elements is indeed a large cloud of hydrogen, helium and various heavy elements. Or:
The Enterprise and her crew encounter a new species, who after careful consideration and non-rash diplomatic talks agrees to sign a peace treaty with the federation. Technology and businees booms as trade starts between the federation and the new species, who aren't afflicted with some sort of plague, who aren't warlike and who don't have any custms that piss of any runaway Federation captains with ships too small for their ego. Or either:
The Enterprise and her crew suddenly realize that time has shifted ahead one hour! After several days of frantic, though conservative research and violating NO protocols regarding temporal stuff, they simply realize the Federation has instituted daylight savings and the relevant subspace message got thrown away along with the usual spam messages by the captain.
Speaking as a Chello.nl subscriber: Don't even bother. They let their members violate every little bit from the EULA, including the running of webservers, FTP servers, IRC server, other servers, NAT gateways, etcetera. And I'm talking from personal experience here ;)
Scsi connectors? 'Scuse me? Wouldn't something like USB 2.0 or Firewire be a more logical choice, because it doesn't require a special card and it's far more common? Also, when will we have truly 3D RTS games? Maybe something for use with Homeworld 2?
RAID -- Redundant Array of Inexpensive Developers
RAID 0
Multiple developers work on the same project but none of them has any idea what the other is doing at the same time. One developer failing (caffeine dehydration, severe electrostatic shock, sex, etc) will cause the entire project to screw up and become a mess.
RAID 1
Extreme Programming.
RAID 2
Inefficient way to keep track of what developers are doing. For every 10 developers, 4 are needed to keep track of them and recover any error by the aforementioned 10 while they don't work together at all. Level of efficienty comparable to a modern goverment.
RAID 3
Equal to RAID 2, except all responsibility for checking the code is now granted to one person. The rest has been budget-cutted away. A bite more effective but considering people still don't cooperate, not too good.
RAID 4
Equal to RAID 3, escept people are finally working together now. Kinda efficient and fast, except it all still relies on that one person who checks the data.
RAID 5
Everyone knows what everyone else is doing, they all work perfectly together and they can easily miss one person because of that.
Because some IT staffs have a higher-up who went to the most recent Microsoft seminar ($25.000,- for entry & attendance, $750,- for the hotel, $2.250,- on the flight) and got amazed by MS. After budget-cutting away the drinks dispenser and replacing it with an old coffee maker (Hey, that $28.000m- is more important then employee satisfaction! *sarcasm*) hte higher up has a great idea, replacing all server with Windows 2003 Enterprise Server! All the crying and complaining from the IT staff wont convince the higher-up, because a shifty, 40b USD company that can throw a flashy seminar is far more trustworthy in his opinion then his IT staff, who worked with the company before he got there. Several budget-cuts later to accomodate the win2k3 licensing costs, the entire department switches to Win2k3. Several more budget-cuts later, mainly used on MS support, the entire company goes to hell. IT staff gets fired, along with the rest of the company while management gets scattered among several other companies, ready to ruin them anew.
Welcome to the modern economic system.
Karma shouldn't be in the hands of stupid people anyways.
I will admit it soon :P
I once asked an older coworker and Solaris guru what happened with the Unix-haters list. He told me that it stopped being quite so funny once Windows NT came along.
I'm certainly not blind to the faults of Unix- there have been many, many failed technologies that were more advanced than the crap we have to work with now. I think the reason so many people profess their love for Unix now is that the remaining alternative is pretty godawful, and many of us have had limited opportunity to work with anything better. You can pine for VMS all you want, but whatever made it such a badass operating system seems to have been discarded in the making of NT.
Perhaps in twenty years we'll be mocking old MS-bashing Slashdot posts as we attempt to deal with crashing PalmOS Metaverse servers and brag about how our Windows 2020 boxes are *real* computers.
Ah, but being a user to QuakeNet doesn't automagically mean that they all play Quake. I know plenty of people who reg at QuakeNet yet hate Quake itself... They even hate the entire FPS genre, they're on QuakeNet just for fun or other games or what else. I'm not saying Quake isn't popular, but measuring the popularity of it against the number of users on an IRC network is kinda flawed.
Heck, online gaming communities are flawed imho anyways. If I want to game, I want to fly a spaceship and blow up stuff, trading salvages crap and doing whatnot. I want to run around with a big run, shooting people and getting shot myself. I want to run around with WW2 weapons, jump in aircraft and take the battle to the sky! If I just wanted to chat I wouldn't buy the damn game and join a random community instead.
Well, how about other great wars then?
Player takes aim with a musket, chance to hit is based on random numbers and skill, strafing in impossible and not allowed as you're to stay in formation. Reloading requires a tedious procedure and after getting hit, player is likely to still live and spend the rest of the game incapacitated, only to die of wounds later on anyways. No good game scenario here.
Player stares are mud walls of a trench most of the game, stands up after about half and hour, jumps over various obstacles and then into the next trench with the rest of the team, or rather what remains of it as half has been mowed down by machine gun fire. Player and team take aim at incoming opponents and evacuate trench of nescesarry. Repeat until all players are dead. No good game scenario here.
Player either flies a B2 or F117 to fire cruise missiles, fires cruise missles from naval vessels or patrols the sky in an F18/A or F15. Opponents do nothing at all except pressing a few buttons, cauing a bunch of scuds to horribly miss their targets. Later stages of the game include patrol with AH64 helicopters and AH1 helicopters and driving a tank all the way to Bagdad. Opponent will finally get a chance to fight with no ammo and a jammed gun, facing two options: retreat or surrender. No good game scenario here either.
Hence the abundance of WW2 games.
Homosexuality is as much of a disease as heterosexuality is. Instead, I believe it's a choice, something that you choose you feel comfortable with. If a man wants to have a relationship with another man, should we look at his genes for an explanation? In fact, should we look for an explanation at all? Why not just let this man make his own decisions about his own life, no one is asking heterosexuals "Why?". Be aware please, that I'm not attacking you here, you clearly stated that this isn't you opinion but this is a clear example of what might happen if the wrong person would do the wrong thing, with the wrong person being someone who thinks homosexuality is a disease. What if that someone tried to 'cure' the 'disease'?
Also, as with MPS, the fine line is defined by that which is caused by genes and that which is caused by anomalies in the human brain. I'm no expert on this, but I think it's safe to say that the human brain is IMMENSELY complex, relying on an extremely delicate harmony of electric impules and various neurotoxins, a harmony which can be disrupted by something else other then faulty genes. Genetics can be an answer to allot of diseases, but by far not all of them.
And you're raising another interesting point: loss of biodiversity. But if those risks could indeed be mitigated and like someone else noted, the enhancements would be there for everyone... Well, if that will happen, we'll have to see again by then. Untill then it's a matter of keeping an open mind about things involving genetics. Like I mentioned before, at this moment I'm not in favour of massive GM of humans, nor do I favour small scale GM. But things can change and well, who knows in a few years?
Well, there is a huge difference in a fileserver and MS file sharing. I do believe that they mean a dedicated file server, dedicated to serving files over a network, whereas normal file sharing for home users would just include the odd file transported over the network, while the main use of the computer is home/office use. Thus cramming a load of 200gB HDs in a case, installing WinXP on it and chucking it in a corner to chew away on serving files indefinitely would be illegal, while using windows file sharing on your game PC would be allowed.
As for the actual reason behind it: Win2k (soon Win2k3) Server will most likely DOES allow being set up as a file server and webserver and what not. And you WILL pay for the ability to do that, while it's basically exactly the same as the WinXP abilities. It's nothing but cold hard cash; if you want a file server, cough up the $999 required for Microsoft Windows 2000 Server compared to the $299 of Microsoft Windows XP Professional
The rights of GM humans might be an issue soon enough, sure. But what I fear most is the fact that we might lose touch with ourselves and create an upper class society of GM humans, with the new lower class being unable to afford the GM in their family. In fact, what might happen if we carry this too far and create a human that can hardly be desribed as a human any longer? Call me a doomsday prophet but this is what I fear most about GM, the division of the human race into several factions. The upper class and lower class, the new humans and the old humans, the superior humans and the lesser humans... Much like what Hitler dreamed of...
The human genes are one of the few things we should not muck around with too much, except perhaps to remove "bugs" in our genetics which allow for horrible diseases like parkinson and thousands of others. Repairing our DNA? Fine with me, if controlled properly. Enhancing our DNA to give us abilities beyond those of normal humans? No way, imho.
Why do MS employees need to be innovative then? I thought that was only required if you were to join the Marketing & Legal Department where innovation involves selling out smaller companies?
Then again, if you download Britney Spears MP3s you don't need to go to jail, you need to go to an institution for the mentally & audibly handicapped instead...
Hmm, yes, but you're prolly looking at motherboards aimed at the individual computer users for personal uses. 4+gB amounts of memory are mianly needed in the server and clustering bit of computing, not for home/office use. (Well, with Win2k3 coming upon us, we might never know.) Although the video/photoediting branche of computing might have a use for that much memory, I doubt they are in favour of the x32 architecture anyways, considering Apple's strength and foothoold in the video/photo editing branche...
And like it's been stated before, if you really do need that much memory on a single machine, you might be better of with a different architecture anyways, possibly a whole different solution to the problem.
I'm in a quaint little bubble of civilization amongst farms, forests, plains and various inbred hamlets where sewage systems, cable TV and tarmac are considered a luxury. Major nearby cities are Arnhem and Utrecht, both 30m by car (if you're lucky) and 20m by train. (if you're REALLY lucky) The local goverment and police force are too corrupt but fortunately also too stupid and divided to be a real nuisance to anyone other then eachother. If you want to have fun, we got a nice little square for going out in the weekend where you can have fun buying ridiculously expensive and warm drinks until minorities beat you up the second you're alone for a nanosecond. Also, large portions of this town's population seems to be stuck in time somewhere and are too religious for my comfort, especially the girls. This seriously distorted the male-female ratio in this place and I suggest you bring along your g/f or else get some wrist exercises; even the ugly girls are already taken by people more desperate then me. Have I mentioned yet I hate this place?
What else, hmm... Nothing to do, nothing to see other then the odd war memorial, (This is the area where Market Garden happened, after all) nothing interesting to buy either... At least the goverment doesn't spy on us yet. Heck, they might be trying to do so but we haven't had a stable goverment in two years and even if we had one, they'd be too incompetent and divided on matters to actually do anything complicated like that. We don't have any ridiculous patriots and our kids don't have to swear allegiance to a material symbol, a dying ideology and a corporate muppet under the name of a certain deity either. And you get to pick on German & French tourists, I heard you US people seem to enjoy such acticities lately. :)
Tell you what, if you can get me in Portland or at least NEAR Portland, we have a deal!
Grrr, a 200gB HD would cost me at least 275 Euro around here (The Netherlands), which is about 285 to 300 USD. If I could get my hands on a 200gB Maxtor for 200 Euro I'd buy two of em. Rawr, 400gB!
Though, SSDs would prolly be extremely lovely. Less noisy, no annoying spin-up times, faster, more stable (no moving parts) and not to mention a certain "novelty" factor. Besides, it would (imho) be an evolutionary step in the right direction for computing. Now all we need is to get rid of floppies (how about those 1gB or so credit card HDs? Make them solid state as well!) and upgrade stuff to PCI Express, USB 2.0 and what have ye.
Ah well, they need an equal audience and without a share of sexuality to attract the guys, the overly present shades of pink would make most guys run away screaming. At least. To be perfectly honest, I just skimmed the linked article a bit, disregarded it as over-analyzed, mildly feminist propaganda which can be summed up in 5 lines of text. Then I just clicked the link with the word "vibrator" in it. So, cheap pushing of their site... Worked on me at least :(
I hope it doesn't become a hit. I would NOT like to see a picture of CBN in his underwear showing off a new AMP XP 3xxx. (While wearing Intel boxers, hah! I have a warped mind...)
Interviewer: Well then, mister fish, if you could please start...?
Fish: Yes, first some domestic matters though, could you call that scientist over please?
Interviewer: Uh, the guy with blonde hair holding a notepad?
Fish: Yes him, bring him over please!
Interviewer: Sure thing...
Scientist: Uh, hello?
Fish: STOP PISSING IN MY AQUARIUM EVERY NIGHT, BITCH!
Oh noes :(
I suggest we cruise missile spam servers and their owners into kingdom come. Someone just convince US congress of the fact that spammers are terrorists (the truth is relative, people) who violate the DMCA in their spare time and then we'll just have to sit back and watch the US military solve the spam problem for us. Ralsky won't be able to spam once all of his servers have become a delightful mix of burned plastic, twisted metal and shattered eletronics, now can he?
How about Hyperthreading? That's kinda cool, at least it uses "hyper" in the name like hyperdrive, hyperspace, hyper girlfriend and other nifty things...
And where, pray tell, would they get a plastic cup? Mind you, were talking mostly about people who live in mud huts in a country most likely torn by civil war, dictatorships and former colonization. The internet isn't worthless, it's a great place for exchanging ideas and opinions (like what I'm doing right now) but a person whose dying of hunger, thirst and an unknown disease couldn't care less about another person's opinions, even if he could read them.
Add a classroom & more books and you've got a school. Far more useful, far more effective.
Essentially nothing wrong with that, if we ditch the illeteracy bit. Still though, do you really think it's a good idea for people to start calling eachother "n00bs" in areas where civil wars are more common then not? Nice idea, but I think the situation is a bit too volatile atm.