If you don't like your freedoms taken away, I urge you to look into the Free State Project.
I struggle with the pro-drug perception (I should say anti-drug-regulation views) of the Libertarian Party. But it's hard to argue with a platform that wants MORE freedom - and no other party is promising this. Unfortunately, I still feel obligated to cast my votes for the most freedom-oriented Republicans (or Democrats), until the Libertarian Party has a chance of winning, but how can you knock the party that advocates more FREEDOM?
OK, so if I have this right: Life is less random, and more predictible (more compressable)than non-life.
So that tells me that life contains less data then non-life.
Perhaps sophisticated life (human life?) contains even less data than non-sophisticated life. So the smarter we get, the more predictable we get, and the less data we contain.
Perhaps we will someday get smart enough to be totally compressed to one bit. In the time I thought about this concept, I think my gzip file got even more compressed. Hmm....
Unless you happen to like the idea of competition, that is.
There's plenty of room for competition. As suggested in many other posts, some printer manufacturers charge more for the printer and freely permit refills and clone cartridges - playing the "low total cost of ownership" angle.
And you are free to manufacture a competing printer. Where's the problem with competition? Because some whiney cartridge-clone manufacturer wants to gripe, we should make EVERYONE pay? Personally, I like being able to buy a cheap printer for the LOW VOLUME that I print. I got an inkjet printer 18 months ago "free with purchase" of a PC, and haven't even finished using the half-filled cartridge that came with it.
In my book, Dell is free to do what they want in this regard.
(I also use "free" razors that manufacturers give away, and don't buy replacement blades. Don't take away my rights to do so.)
OK, so we'll debate whether Pluto's a planet or not. But we know that Pluto is Mickey's dog. My question is, what is Goofy? A wolf? A dog? Certainly not a planet!
All we need to do is pay attention to what the Internet really is. It's not hard. The Net isn't rocket science.
Wasn't the internet invented as part of a military Advanced Research Project Agency, and include a mechanism for redundancy to keep communications going in case of a military attack (often delivered by rockets and missles).
I had a conversation with my friends R Kelly, Pee Wee and the principal from Ferris Buehler's Day Off, and they didn't agree! Michael Jackson was undecided.
this sort of approach starts us down a slipperly slope
I DO love pron with slippery slopes.. what's the URL?
Not sure what "slipperly" means... is Hugh Hefner "slipperly" when he is in his robe?
Those bank questions are modded up to a 5????
The answer is that it DOESN'T cost $10 to push electrons on a wire transfer! The banks have some fixed costs and some variable costs, and they try to dole out meaningful charges to cover their costs and to make a profit. And last time I checked, there aren't a whole lot of banks making HUGE profits (as compared to other businesses). I would hope you'd agree that a fair profit is, well, fair. You don't expect banks to be non-profit, do you?
Your somewhat naive questions remind me of the person in line at the driver's license bureau complaining as follows: "I believe that last year's metal plate costs $50, but you're just selling me a sticker this year... why is it still $50?" The answers are A) Metal Plates are made by cheap labor and cost about a dime. B) You are paying a tax which may or may not be helping to fund the roads. But you are definitely NOT paying just for the metal plate.
In the case of banks, you are paying for a lot of infrastructure. You are paying for tellers. (I don't imagine the banks let YOU push the electrons in a wire transfer, do they? I'm sure you had to interact with SOMEONE to do that transaction.)
And you should look at ATM fees as a tax on ignorance. Many banks charge fees for using the wrong ATM. Learn the fee structure, and you should never have to pay a fee again. Personally, I like the banks taking their profits from people too dumb to learn the rules. It allows the banks to make a fair profit, while keeping MY banking cheaper!
It goes in the same category as paying interest on credit cards. The foolish are carrying balances, and funding the 30 day float for the wise who pay off their bills every month. And I for one thank you.
Seems like pre-press releases are the way to hype new movies these days! Hollywood has it all figured out. Create some plot that involves something far-fetched but science based.
Then have a few "scientists" release articles that talk about the phenomenom. Then leak it to slashdot. Then release a movie. It becomes a hit.
Since Print Screen can be used to thwart copy protection, isn't Microsoft in voilation of the DMCA? You can't make devices that crack copyright protection!
You young whippersnappers don't appreciate the past. Computers and languages were here long before you were, and trust me, Slashdot wouldn't even exist, if it weren't for the pioneers working in Fortran and Cobol, and Grace Hopper running around with her 12 inch wire telling us what a nanosecond is.
Those who don't learn from the past are condemed to repeat it. So learn to appreciate it, or your next job is going to be coding in Fortran 2000.
Six weeks without crashing! That might be a new record!
I remember when NT first came out, and Microsoft was pushing it as an Enterprise Server. One of their top engineers was involved in the press announcement, and made the comment with pride that some of the systems in the lab have been running for six weeks without crashing.
The analysts and large customers ROASTED him: "We've had AS400's and HP 3000's and 9000's and Dec Vax's that haven't crashed EVER for YEARS."
Somehow, Gates wiggled his way into the data center. Those Vax's and 3000's are probably still running without crashing, ten years later, if they're still there....
...And Microsoft learned to never reward a top engineer by letting him speak at a press announcement.
Regardless of whether one considers AMD plural or singular, there's an inconsistency. The headline says "AMD Makes..." and the body of the article says "AMD are".
PS. it's singular, and the headline is correct. But I hates the nit-pickers.
ok, now it's up to Bill Gates to take away what technology has given us. How fast can we consume all those bits?
Let's see... what are the implications?...
- Buffer overruns can REALLY clobber something important - not just create security problems. Now a buffer overrun might overwrite your entire collection of illegal MP3's stored in memory.
- You can now fit millions of pr0n mpegs onto the head of a...
- The DNA mapping of the human genome can now be contained onto something the size of a human hair (isn't it already?)
And I thought Carley was just a little dense. Now she is densest!
This is interesting - out of HP labs comes artificially generated animals.
Do you think HP is trying to build themselves a new CEO? "So far, none of the virtual creatures has grown the equivalent of a brain." Hmmm.. looks like Carly should be nervous!
But by using blending techniques, the company can display 58,621 "color combinations -- approximately 11 percent fewer color combinations than we had originally believed" on the m130 handheld, said Palm spokeswoman Marlene Somsak.
I wonder if those blending techniques amount to bleed from one pixel to another, and it's actually poor quality and the user's eyes that are doing the blending.
I imagine those SAME blending techniques would yield 65536 x 65536 colors in 16-bits, and so they are actually significantly more than 99% off the specification.
ok, graphics geeks... factor 58,621. You get 31 x 31 x 61. Looks like 5-bits, 5-bits, and 6-bits, blended. I'm wondering how they came up with that number of colors! Any ideas?
I stand by my post. I was trying to answer the original question: What are practical, everyday use? (besides breaking incredibly big and long keys to steal identities)
Seems that integer factorization was NOT an option given the way the question was worded! Am I missing something? Or are there practical everyday uses for integer factorization besides cracking encryption (aside from being to tell girls in a bar that you can factor a 128-bit number...)?
The obvious problem that will be solved with a Quantum Computer is AI (I doubt that a 1 mega-Qubit 1 MHz machine is good enough yet...)
Imagine a computer that can REALLY interact with the outside world. Imagine one that can "see" by interpreting light impulses as your eyes do. Or one that can "hear" by translating sound waves in real time. One that can understand language.
Imagine the "computer" on star trek that you can jut speak instructions to.
There are plenty of tough problems that just can't be solved fast enough with today's architecture, and Quantum Computing offers a Quantum leap in technology that is like massive parallel processing of current machines! The future just can't get here fast enough!
Is there a Space Exploration equivalent of Moore's Law? If not, I hereby claim one, and call it "Hugesmile's Law". Something to the effect of:
Every decade, Man will extend its reach into outerspace by a factor of 100.
(ok, I still need to work out the details, but I bet if you examined the Eurpoean exploration of the earth over the past millennium, you could come up with an earth-bound equivalent.)
Slashdot Mirror
Seems like a quartz would do better than that!
Overengineered.
I struggle with the pro-drug perception (I should say anti-drug-regulation views) of the Libertarian Party. But it's hard to argue with a platform that wants MORE freedom - and no other party is promising this. Unfortunately, I still feel obligated to cast my votes for the most freedom-oriented Republicans (or Democrats), until the Libertarian Party has a chance of winning, but how can you knock the party that advocates more FREEDOM?
I liked their Quiz to see where your beliefs lie.
Unfortunately, this post will probably be added to my FBI file. :(
<meta name="DC.title" content="THE NAME OF YOUR SITE">
I don't think I want an Inter- Continental Ballistic Missle aimed at my webpage, do you?
I've coded it for error detection, but not for worst-case scenario.
OK, so if I have this right: Life is less random, and more predictible (more compressable)than non-life.
So that tells me that life contains less data then non-life.
Perhaps sophisticated life (human life?) contains even less data than non-sophisticated life. So the smarter we get, the more predictable we get, and the less data we contain.
Perhaps we will someday get smart enough to be totally compressed to one bit. In the time I thought about this concept, I think my gzip file got even more compressed. Hmm....
Unless you happen to like the idea of competition, that is.
There's plenty of room for competition. As suggested in many other posts, some printer manufacturers charge more for the printer and freely permit refills and clone cartridges - playing the "low total cost of ownership" angle.
And you are free to manufacture a competing printer. Where's the problem with competition? Because some whiney cartridge-clone manufacturer wants to gripe, we should make EVERYONE pay? Personally, I like being able to buy a cheap printer for the LOW VOLUME that I print. I got an inkjet printer 18 months ago "free with purchase" of a PC, and haven't even finished using the half-filled cartridge that came with it.
In my book, Dell is free to do what they want in this regard.
(I also use "free" razors that manufacturers give away, and don't buy replacement blades. Don't take away my rights to do so.)
OK, so we'll debate whether Pluto's a planet or not. But we know that Pluto is Mickey's dog. My question is, what is Goofy? A wolf? A dog? Certainly not a planet!
All we need to do is pay attention to what the Internet really is. It's not hard. The Net isn't rocket science.
Wasn't the internet invented as part of a military Advanced Research Project Agency, and include a mechanism for redundancy to keep communications going in case of a military attack (often delivered by rockets and missles).
Sounds a lot like rocket science to me...
I saw a news story about a light bulb that must have outlasted its manufacturer! How can you make a bulb that lasts 100 years and make any money?
While we can all agree that child porn is bad
I had a conversation with my friends R Kelly, Pee Wee and the principal from Ferris Buehler's Day Off, and they didn't agree! Michael Jackson was undecided.
this sort of approach starts us down a slipperly slope
I DO love pron with slippery slopes.. what's the URL?
Not sure what "slipperly" means... is Hugh Hefner "slipperly" when he is in his robe?
Those bank questions are modded up to a 5???? The answer is that it DOESN'T cost $10 to push electrons on a wire transfer! The banks have some fixed costs and some variable costs, and they try to dole out meaningful charges to cover their costs and to make a profit. And last time I checked, there aren't a whole lot of banks making HUGE profits (as compared to other businesses). I would hope you'd agree that a fair profit is, well, fair. You don't expect banks to be non-profit, do you? Your somewhat naive questions remind me of the person in line at the driver's license bureau complaining as follows: "I believe that last year's metal plate costs $50, but you're just selling me a sticker this year... why is it still $50?" The answers are A) Metal Plates are made by cheap labor and cost about a dime. B) You are paying a tax which may or may not be helping to fund the roads. But you are definitely NOT paying just for the metal plate. In the case of banks, you are paying for a lot of infrastructure. You are paying for tellers. (I don't imagine the banks let YOU push the electrons in a wire transfer, do they? I'm sure you had to interact with SOMEONE to do that transaction.) And you should look at ATM fees as a tax on ignorance. Many banks charge fees for using the wrong ATM. Learn the fee structure, and you should never have to pay a fee again. Personally, I like the banks taking their profits from people too dumb to learn the rules. It allows the banks to make a fair profit, while keeping MY banking cheaper! It goes in the same category as paying interest on credit cards. The foolish are carrying balances, and funding the 30 day float for the wise who pay off their bills every month. And I for one thank you.
Geez, do you think this guy has enough desktop icons? Clearly he spends too much time on his hobbies!
I can't understand why people doubt the lunar landings. I mean, it's not rocket science.
Seems like pre-press releases are the way to hype new movies these days! Hollywood has it all figured out. Create some plot that involves something far-fetched but science based.
Then have a few "scientists" release articles that talk about the phenomenom. Then leak it to slashdot. Then release a movie. It becomes a hit.
See: Armageddon, Blair Witch Project, etc.
(suckers!)
Since Print Screen can be used to thwart copy protection, isn't Microsoft in voilation of the DMCA? You can't make devices that crack copyright protection!
Those who don't learn from the past are condemed to repeat it. So learn to appreciate it, or your next job is going to be coding in Fortran 2000.
10 if (you
How fast will it go when you push it off a cliff?
I remember when NT first came out, and Microsoft was pushing it as an Enterprise Server. One of their top engineers was involved in the press announcement, and made the comment with pride that some of the systems in the lab have been running for six weeks without crashing.
The analysts and large customers ROASTED him: "We've had AS400's and HP 3000's and 9000's and Dec Vax's that haven't crashed EVER for YEARS."
Somehow, Gates wiggled his way into the data center. Those Vax's and 3000's are probably still running without crashing, ten years later, if they're still there....
Regardless of whether one considers AMD plural or singular, there's an inconsistency. The headline says "AMD Makes..." and the body of the article says "AMD are".
PS. it's singular, and the headline is correct. But I hates the nit-pickers.
Let's see... what are the implications?...
- Buffer overruns can REALLY clobber something important - not just create security problems. Now a buffer overrun might overwrite your entire collection of illegal MP3's stored in memory.
- You can now fit millions of pr0n mpegs onto the head of a ...
- The DNA mapping of the human genome can now be contained onto something the size of a human hair (isn't it already?)
And I thought Carley was just a little dense. Now she is densest!
Do you think HP is trying to build themselves a new CEO? "So far, none of the virtual creatures has grown the equivalent of a brain." Hmmm.. looks like Carly should be nervous!
I wonder if those blending techniques amount to bleed from one pixel to another, and it's actually poor quality and the user's eyes that are doing the blending.
I imagine those SAME blending techniques would yield 65536 x 65536 colors in 16-bits, and so they are actually significantly more than 99% off the specification.
ok, graphics geeks... factor 58,621. You get 31 x 31 x 61. Looks like 5-bits, 5-bits, and 6-bits, blended. I'm wondering how they came up with that number of colors! Any ideas?
So you're telling me that this guy is a cannabal?
Now where's that guy who's shopping for a ring.... I got one for you cheap, buddy...
Seems that integer factorization was NOT an option given the way the question was worded! Am I missing something? Or are there practical everyday uses for integer factorization besides cracking encryption (aside from being to tell girls in a bar that you can factor a 128-bit number...)?
Imagine a computer that can REALLY interact with the outside world. Imagine one that can "see" by interpreting light impulses as your eyes do. Or one that can "hear" by translating sound waves in real time. One that can understand language.
Imagine the "computer" on star trek that you can jut speak instructions to.
There are plenty of tough problems that just can't be solved fast enough with today's architecture, and Quantum Computing offers a Quantum leap in technology that is like massive parallel processing of current machines! The future just can't get here fast enough!
Is there a Space Exploration equivalent of Moore's Law? If not, I hereby claim one, and call it "Hugesmile's Law". Something to the effect of: Every decade, Man will extend its reach into outerspace by a factor of 100. (ok, I still need to work out the details, but I bet if you examined the Eurpoean exploration of the earth over the past millennium, you could come up with an earth-bound equivalent.)