There should be a large number of returned laptops. Will all of them be repaired? Or will there soon be a few thousand flawed (cheap) VAIOs on the 2nd hand market? (actually, they will probably be destroyed as a health hazard). I want one. How can I get one?
To clarify on the AC, ".com" _is_ the top level US business domain. ".gov" always signifies American governmment, after all. It's a historical thing, from before the web was world-wide.
That many international companies choose to use it, believing it to be easier or more respectable, is just silly.
Here's what I'm worried about--what will we do in 3-4 years when new computers stop coming with ps/2 ports? Are there usb to ps/2 adaptors? If not, there's a business for you.
Me, I grew up on these key boards, never used anything different until college. Didn't realize it until sophomore year, when I was typing and suddenly realized my keyboard.. sucked. really sucked.
Bought a lot of 5 off ebay the next day.
Working at IBM now, you should see the surplus store...
In the poorer parts of mexico, everyone shares. It's not like here, where we all need our own TV. If your neighbor has one and you don't, you just walk in and watch too. And if you're a kid, you don't really have school and your parents can't be bothered to take care of you--they just run free through the neighborhood (which is quite safe). It seems quite possible to me that they might watch that much TV, and easily.
Last summer I had the opportunity to hike up to a remote thai village near Chaing Rai; every now and then they would fire up a generator and power the lights at the meeting house / church or watch TV at night when everyone came back from the fields. Everyone came and watched. Nursing children, adults, elderly, everyone. Really stupid dramas and commercials; and though I'm not sure what it means, I'd like to point out that there was an intensity to it that was a little disturbing. I mean, people reacted to every little thing; lots shocked reactions, maybe it was a little more real to them than it would have been to me. I dunno, I didn't speak the language.
Pardon me, but did you just say that white-collar jobs are what blue collar workers rely on as a backup when their normal jobs are exported overseas? Isn't it the other way around?
I want to second the parent post's parent. Let's not roll over in self-pity just because we can't afford as fast a car as before. Large segments of america--larger segments of the world--face the same problems without expectation of economic recovery or 50k jobs.
Seriously. In summery:
1).la has been around for abour 5 years.
2).la is still laos, they just "sold" it to
3) a private company, and not L.A.
4) Vatican City and Hong Kong already had top level domains.
5) This is linked to DMNews, or "The Online Newspaper of Records for Online Marketers"
This does not mean slashdot does not have many many articles that are interesting, thought-provoking, and true. Many other articles.
RE: 1) You're right that it would be best for the community to give everyone a sharing node, but for the individual it would still be best to hack their node / buy a pirate node so that they didn't have to waste electricity and bandwidth in sharing. For that matter, it would be best if they didn't conrtibute in the buying of a node either--example: it's for the best that we have taxes to pay for roads,etc.. but if taxes were optional...
RE: 2) The cache idea is a very good one; didn't think about it. But it takes 2 days to get a DNS around the globe, and that's on relatively sparse landlines and a routable infrastucture. It would be the death of anything besides static webtrafic. 10-day old blogs, SCO posts on/. forever, ecommerce dies instantly, and US post would beat email. On the other hand, we could all download the next matrix movie.
A free wireless network isn't happening anytime soon, for reasons mentioned by.. everybody. I'd like to also pull attention to the routing problem, which is just as big (larger?) than the huge-gap problem.
The best solution is not getting rid of infrastucture, but making it invisiable and if not free.. very close to that and with hidden costs. Call it Iridium2.
Assume the following technological advances, none which are fundemental breakthorughs (a la telepathy and anti-grav): - cheap hardware - cheap space launch - incredible wireless bandwidth (compression, or other methods) - incredible wireless range from improved antennae, etc.
Have the government(s) launch a shell of uber bandwidth sats. Ignore the concentration of power we just gave big brother. Assume that the gov gives universal free access and no one notices the additional $5 on their tax bill. (precedents: GPS nav system; the internet).
Now we have routable, free internet and phone for everyone with no coverage gaps and no ugly wires. The costs are dispersed/hidden and maintainance is low. But its highly centralized and control is possible. Pick one.
1. freeloader problem--your privately designed cell phones will be replaced with bandwidth suckers that don't do replays. No controlling body, so can't stop it.
2. no "backbone"--hopping accross phones works around the city (maybe), but how many hops will it take to get to.. japan? and don't forget that there's some countable amount of milliseconds per transfer--to get accross the nation is a lot of cell-phone coverage sized hops. Plus, we have to go around the grand canyon.
Sure, you would take your business elsewhere.. but didn't he already say somethings were more important than money? If he puts ethics before cash, what's wrong with that? (it's not like you can't get your pork rinds elsewhere)
I think it will be safe. It makes me feel better to know that cosmic rays do this all the time. On the other hand.. well, we've never observed cosmic rays doing this, the same theory just points it out.
Only in a system that resets itself. In _this_ system, if you give the monkeys infinate time, they'll succeed is breaking the computer before they type their first word. Probability was very small, now is zero. Game over dudes.
Maybe.. but as they say, with physical access you can break anything. Viruses actually insert in extra code.
A better example of an exploit would be telling someone to take their right hand and pat their head, take their left and rub their tummy.. and then laugh as the buffer overflow makes them fall on their arse.
I was actually _at_ the presentation and the speaker was aware of this. He pointed out that the adapation of new storage media was not driven just by an absolute cost/meg measure, but more of an absolute point; specifically, when the cost of the storage shrinks below the cost of text on paper.
As an example, he pointed out that despite being insanely cheap per gig, tape media is rarely used except for what can be considered really big, really slow files (backup images).
Prediction: It'll not be cheapest, but cheap enough.
Last note: Conquest is a transition model to fill the gap until solid state takes over completely. The breakpoint for small files will be hit much sooner than the breakpoint for everything.
Reading the article (I know, I know..), gives a much more subtle point then in the article's synopsis. She doesn't want politically correct games, but correct games.. ones that realistically and deeply portray gender. I can't say it as well as her, but note that she liked Dead or Alive Volleyball.
It's not just about whether convicted felons can be trusted--M. seems to argue that it's actually _better_ to hire someone who's been on the shady side of the law.
And as most crackers look for unsecured systems rather than attacking or defending a specific one, I don't think the "special skills" argument holds much weight.
Ex-druggies make great recovery therapists but bad customs agents..
Or made me a CS major, anyway. My very first programming experience was with the scripting language for the Duke3D config files back when I was 15. It had a little bit of open source in the config files, see...
Back then, I didn't know _anything_. Virtually no documentation (hell, we were on CompuServe!), no experience at all. I remember being massively confused by the #define file (why are there so many numbers?!) and having no conception of "pseudorandom". I'd want something to be really random, and would layer 10-13 rand(256) calls together. Everything I learned was from analyzing the code for other routines and reading the comments.. ah, those were the days. I don't like programming half as much or do it half as well these days.
Anyone ever download my config? You'd start as different colors and have super powers to use in battle--there was a green guy with unlimited jetpack (shoot him twice and he'd fall); a blue guy that turned into a giant red guy when the ceiling was high enough and be able to stomp on everyone else; a matte black translucent guy who could crouch and turn invisable; a guy who pooped explosive poo mines..
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Wasn't the NASA program created by a genetic algorithm? It's bad style yes, but fairly decent for an automated programmer.
If you're an AI, why are there sausages strapped to your fingers?
There should be a large number of returned laptops. Will all of them be repaired? Or will there soon be a few thousand flawed (cheap) VAIOs on the 2nd hand market? (actually, they will probably be destroyed as a health hazard). I want one. How can I get one?
To clarify on the AC, ".com" _is_ the top level US business domain. ".gov" always signifies American governmment, after all. It's a historical thing, from before the web was world-wide.
That many international companies choose to use it, believing it to be easier or more respectable, is just silly.
Here's what I'm worried about--what will we do in 3-4 years when new computers stop coming with ps/2 ports? Are there usb to ps/2 adaptors? If not, there's a business for you.
Me, I grew up on these key boards, never used anything different until college. Didn't realize it until sophomore year, when I was typing and suddenly realized my keyboard.. sucked. really sucked.
Bought a lot of 5 off ebay the next day.
Working at IBM now, you should see the surplus store...
I didn't switch to IE until I discovered shift-click
I'm at IBM right now, and I picked up a model M for this workstation about a month ago. Like many others, it was just lying in the hall.
Give me a key to your house!! I know a secret way into your house!! IF YOU GIVE ME A KEY I WILL NOT BREAK INTO YOUR HOUSE!
In the poorer parts of mexico, everyone shares. It's not like here, where we all need our own TV. If your neighbor has one and you don't, you just walk in and watch too. And if you're a kid, you don't really have school and your parents can't be bothered to take care of you--they just run free through the neighborhood (which is quite safe). It seems quite possible to me that they might watch that much TV, and easily. Last summer I had the opportunity to hike up to a remote thai village near Chaing Rai; every now and then they would fire up a generator and power the lights at the meeting house / church or watch TV at night when everyone came back from the fields. Everyone came and watched. Nursing children, adults, elderly, everyone. Really stupid dramas and commercials; and though I'm not sure what it means, I'd like to point out that there was an intensity to it that was a little disturbing. I mean, people reacted to every little thing; lots shocked reactions, maybe it was a little more real to them than it would have been to me. I dunno, I didn't speak the language.
Pardon me, but did you just say that white-collar jobs are what blue collar workers rely on as a backup when their normal jobs are exported overseas? Isn't it the other way around?
I want to second the parent post's parent. Let's not roll over in self-pity just because we can't afford as fast a car as before. Large segments of america--larger segments of the world--face the same problems without expectation of economic recovery or 50k jobs.
Seriously. In summery: 1) .la has been around for abour 5 years.
2) .la is still laos, they just "sold" it to
3) a private company, and not L.A.
4) Vatican City and Hong Kong already had top level domains.
5) This is linked to DMNews, or "The Online Newspaper of Records for Online Marketers"
This does not mean slashdot does not have many many articles that are interesting, thought-provoking, and true. Many other articles.
RE: 1) You're right that it would be best for the community to give everyone a sharing node, but for the individual it would still be best to hack their node / buy a pirate node so that they didn't have to waste electricity and bandwidth in sharing. For that matter, it would be best if they didn't conrtibute in the buying of a node either--example: it's for the best that we have taxes to pay for roads,etc.. but if taxes were optional...
/. forever, ecommerce dies instantly, and US post would beat email. On the other hand, we could all download the next matrix movie.
RE: 2) The cache idea is a very good one; didn't think about it. But it takes 2 days to get a DNS around the globe, and that's on relatively sparse landlines and a routable infrastucture. It would be the death of anything besides static webtrafic. 10-day old blogs, SCO posts on
my 0.02
Okay, I'll bite.
A free wireless network isn't happening anytime soon, for reasons mentioned by.. everybody. I'd like to also pull attention to the routing problem, which is just as big (larger?) than the huge-gap problem.
The best solution is not getting rid of infrastucture, but making it invisiable and if not free.. very close to that and with hidden costs. Call it Iridium2.
Assume the following technological advances, none which are fundemental breakthorughs (a la telepathy and anti-grav):
- cheap hardware
- cheap space launch
- incredible wireless bandwidth (compression, or other methods)
- incredible wireless range from improved antennae, etc.
Have the government(s) launch a shell of uber bandwidth sats. Ignore the concentration of power we just gave big brother. Assume that the gov gives universal free access and no one notices the additional $5 on their tax bill. (precedents: GPS nav system; the internet).
Now we have routable, free internet and phone for everyone with no coverage gaps and no ugly wires. The costs are dispersed/hidden and maintainance is low. But its highly centralized and control is possible. Pick one.
1. freeloader problem--your privately designed cell phones will be replaced with bandwidth suckers that don't do replays. No controlling body, so can't stop it.
2. no "backbone"--hopping accross phones works around the city (maybe), but how many hops will it take to get to.. japan? and don't forget that there's some countable amount of milliseconds per transfer--to get accross the nation is a lot of cell-phone coverage sized hops. Plus, we have to go around the grand canyon.
Sure, you would take your business elsewhere.. but didn't he already say somethings were more important than money? If he puts ethics before cash, what's wrong with that? (it's not like you can't get your pork rinds elsewhere)
agreed, don't know if parent is lying, but it;s a good point that the cosmic ray thing is also just theory.
I think it will be safe. It makes me feel better to know that cosmic rays do this all the time. On the other hand.. well, we've never observed cosmic rays doing this, the same theory just points it out.
that better be a good theory..
Only in a system that resets itself. In _this_ system, if you give the monkeys infinate time, they'll succeed is breaking the computer before they type their first word. Probability was very small, now is zero. Game over dudes.
Bump.
Maybe.. but as they say, with physical access you can break anything. Viruses actually insert in extra code.
A better example of an exploit would be telling someone to take their right hand and pat their head, take their left and rub their tummy.. and then laugh as the buffer overflow makes them fall on their arse.
I was actually _at_ the presentation and the speaker was aware of this. He pointed out that the adapation of new storage media was not driven just by an absolute cost/meg measure, but more of an absolute point; specifically, when the cost of the storage shrinks below the cost of text on paper.
As an example, he pointed out that despite being insanely cheap per gig, tape media is rarely used except for what can be considered really big, really slow files (backup images).
Prediction:
It'll not be cheapest, but cheap enough.
Last note: Conquest is a transition model to fill the gap until solid state takes over completely. The breakpoint for small files will be hit much sooner than the breakpoint for everything.
You need more monitors. I have four. You're right though. The bottleneck is now on the human/computer bus.
Reading the article (I know, I know..), gives a much more subtle point then in the article's synopsis. She doesn't want politically correct games, but correct games.. ones that realistically and deeply portray gender. I can't say it as well as her, but note that she liked Dead or Alive Volleyball.
It's not just about whether convicted felons can be trusted--M. seems to argue that it's actually _better_ to hire someone who's been on the shady side of the law.
And as most crackers look for unsecured systems rather than attacking or defending a specific one, I don't think the "special skills" argument holds much weight.
Ex-druggies make great recovery therapists but bad customs agents..
Or made me a CS major, anyway. My very first programming experience was with the scripting language for the Duke3D config files back when I was 15. It had a little bit of open source in the config files, see...
Back then, I didn't know _anything_. Virtually no documentation (hell, we were on CompuServe!), no experience at all. I remember being massively confused by the #define file (why are there so many numbers?!) and having no conception of "pseudorandom". I'd want something to be really random, and would layer 10-13 rand(256) calls together. Everything I learned was from analyzing the code for other routines and reading the comments.. ah, those were the days. I don't like programming half as much or do it half as well these days.
Anyone ever download my config? You'd start as different colors and have super powers to use in battle--there was a green guy with unlimited jetpack (shoot him twice and he'd fall); a blue guy that turned into a giant red guy when the ceiling was high enough and be able to stomp on everyone else; a matte black translucent guy who could crouch and turn invisable; a guy who pooped explosive poo mines..
yeah.