If Engineers are making skyscrapers, programmers are still stacking rocks on top of one another, except the 4gl people who are packing mud between the rocks.
They'd want to get paid.
on
AI in Sci-Fi
·
· Score: 1
We're living in the golden age of cheap computing right now.
With Robert Mitchum, the guy who was smoking Mary Jane back when only Black musicians did it.
This guy and girl go into a Mexican bar full of Banditos. In one minute the Banditos are trying to hang the guy and rape the girl. Then they freeze as a PRIEST walks in. It's Mitchum with a carpet bag. He puts the bag down, opens it and....
Well, you'd kill me if I told you. Go see the movie.
I'd expect from someone who'd patent a straw with a one-way valve in it to prevent little kids from blowing bubbles in their milk - or a way to make Oreo cookies stick together so you can't twist them open....
I hear that in oil immersion based cooling the oil tends to seep in and interrupt any less than perfect soldering connections, causing mysterious errors.
In Crypto there's the NSA and there's everybody else. It's also well known they're years ahead of the pack etc.
My first question is, how confident are you, as a crypto person, that you're not inadvertently peddling snake oil, that is, crypto the NSA has already cracked?
Second, the NSA allegedly has secret patents it uses to suppress new crypto. Do you think this is a significant inhibiter on research or am I worried for nothing?
I've lost my source of this, but AIR under computer properties | file systems | troubleshooting - disable simultaneous buffer commits is an option in win 95/98. Look around for it.
Check the box and reboot - see - under the default it tries to write multiple files at once, each fragment requiring a FAT update, without it it does one file, updates FAT, does another etc....
In the same vien as your excellent comment, why is it that in MS Windows 95/98 there is a default for simultainous buffer commits that cause the disk heads to go crazy?
When I turned that off I got a certain Clarion report to go from 45 minutes of thrashing to 5 SECONDS of purring...
Slashdot Mirror
We have these things called 'speakers' that do this now.
We *want* to be Engineers, but we're not.
If Engineers are making skyscrapers, programmers are still stacking rocks on top of one another, except the 4gl people who are packing mud between the rocks.
We're living in the golden age of cheap computing right now.
What does this code do?
Why can't I get laid?
What does this code do?
Why can't I get laid?
etc etc
I have got bad news for you. The shuttle is as doomed as Saddam.
Sorry.
John Belushi in a Virus Suit walk in and start acting tough?
approved the design of the orignal VW bug and HITLER was an alien from outer space who arrived on a meteor!
Excuse me, I have to go take my meds now.
anywhere near the ladies's shower on base, right?
Yeah I noticed it got a rise out of the crowd. Even the idiots.
This is just another job for good encyption.
It's a done deal.
You are correct. I'd still buy stock in MS, it'll be great for a while yet, unless anything happens to Bill.
Now that Palladium is going to lock me into Windows, I'm switching to OpenBSD with some GUI on it.
And I've been a windows guy forever...
When even guys like me leave, that's it.
Mind you, this'll take some years yet...
With Robert Mitchum, the guy who was smoking Mary Jane back when only Black musicians did it.
....
This guy and girl go into a Mexican bar full of Banditos. In one minute the Banditos are trying to hang the guy and rape the girl. Then they freeze as a PRIEST walks in. It's Mitchum with a carpet bag. He puts the bag down, opens it and
Well, you'd kill me if I told you. Go see the movie.
I'd expect from someone who'd patent a straw with a one-way valve in it to prevent little kids from blowing bubbles in their milk - or a way to make Oreo cookies stick together so you can't twist them open....
I have to say you Americans are doing the right thing.
A lot of Iraqies ARE asking for war as it is the only way to get rid of that cancer Saddam.
You didn't finish the job last time, but this time for sure, right?
I can think of a few legacy projects I'd like to see released like that - Clipper for one.
A bit of an exaggeration, but I am pretty sure the unlimited PC will go the way of cocaine in Coca-Cola in 10 years tops.
Then I'll be part of the digital underground! Whuffies at last! Girls might even talk to me!
I hear that in oil immersion based cooling the oil tends to seep in and interrupt any less than perfect soldering connections, causing mysterious errors.
Any word on this?
I think it is the strength of the weaker hash, which is MD5.
Don't know how weak MD5 is, but Applied Cryptography disses it.
In Crypto there's the NSA and there's everybody else. It's also well known they're years ahead of the pack etc.
My first question is, how confident are you, as a crypto person, that you're not inadvertently peddling snake oil, that is, crypto the NSA has already cracked?
Second, the NSA allegedly has secret patents it uses to suppress new crypto. Do you think this is a significant inhibiter on research or am I worried for nothing?
Does this cadging for subscribers mean Slashdot is hurting for money and might soon join the ranks of dot coms jeered at on www.fuckedcompany.com ?
I've lost my source of this, but AIR under computer properties | file systems | troubleshooting - disable simultaneous buffer commits is an option in win 95/98. Look around for it.
Check the box and reboot - see - under the default it tries to write multiple files at once, each fragment requiring a FAT update, without it it does one file, updates FAT, does another etc....
Buy 'Microsoft' and 'Oracle'
In the same vien as your excellent comment, why is it that in MS Windows 95/98 there is a default for simultainous buffer commits that cause the disk heads to go crazy?
When I turned that off I got a certain Clarion report to go from 45 minutes of thrashing to 5 SECONDS of purring...
If this is so simple, how come it wasn't done a long time ago?