I think I'm the typical techy user. During the day I'll use xterm , open office, firefox and gxine. And maybe one or 2 other apps. Can someone explain to me why I need a huge resource hungry window manager, sorry - desktop enviroment - like KDE running as my machine? This is a genuine question, not an anti KDE troll. I simply don't get it.
... wake me up , I might be concerned about potential interference from hackers.
But giving false readings to the tyre pressure unit? Meh, who cares. I don't trust mine anyway and always check the pressures with a proper physical meter.
What next , a scare story about the door ajar monitering system being compromised?
Thats if they're still in business at all. You won't find a video game anywhere on the premises. The only arcade I can think of that still has them is The Trocadero in london. How thats still in business is anyones guess since the few times I've been there in recent years its got fewer people than a ham sandwich festival in tel aviv.
"reroutes access to your IP address to their site so they can do MITM attacks and access all of your data"
And how does it decide when to re-route? Or does it for every single network connection you try to make? Yeah , that'll go unnoticed for , oh , 30 seconds, when nothing works properly. And how do they decode encryption? Include another 100 gates for that? Please.
And how exactly are you going to do that in microcode or even hardwired circuits? Its the same BS as when he talks about "shipping data out". Yeah , sure you could do it , if you took up half the chip die with "secret" ROM code that ran its own networking stack, hardware drivers etc etc. If you're thinking about modifying the BIOS thats not hardware hacking, thats software.
I doubt they care much about the latest gadget having a bug to be brutally frank. Whether you like them or not they tend to deal with somewhat more important issues than Joe Sixpacks iToy getting hacked.
... but I thought entanglement meant for properties such as spin and polarisation, not position and momentum? Quite obviously 2 particles can't share the same position so measuring 1 will do you no good in finding out the position of the other but do they share momentum?
And somewhat naive to boot. Sorry if that upsets the anti government anti capitalist liberal left element on here but thats the way I see it. Who the hell is this guy to decide for a democratically elected government what should remain secret or not? I don't remember voting for him. I notice theres a distinct lack of leaks from the real unpleasent regimes around the world, just the standard issue potshots at western governments that I've come to expect from left leaning organisations. When he leaks something of importance from north korea or zimbabwe or congo THEN I might believe he's something more than just a media whore.
... to people listening to someone shouting across the street? Would the government charge these people for listening in to a "private" conversation of 2 people were shouting at each other loud enough to be heard?
I sometimes wonder if theres an IQ test politicians have to take and anyone who makes it into 3 digits can't become one.
I realise there seems to be a rather unhealthy obsession with robots in japan and korea but this is just going too far. You want some clunky pre-programmed robot to pander to your whims and stroke your ego - fine. But don't try the same shit with kids - its not fair. Get someone in to look after these children. If they're autistic they NEED to interact with people, not a glorified PC FFS.
... but the more I read about what some of these scientists got up to the more I begin to wonder if some of them weren't borderline insane or at least so totally absorbed in the narrow science they were persuing that they didn't think about or didn't care about the potential consequences if things went wrong.
Not really. No memory = no knowledge. For example you have to remember the method of how to derive quadratic roots otherwise you wouldn't be able to do it - its simply remembering starting points vs remembering whole solutions.
"they do not know how to reason, or derive, or analyse, or effectively investigate. Some of them are good at *computing* too (i.e. programming, operating the machine itself)"
Well anyone who can't reason or analyse is going to be a pretty poor coder so those sorts of people will either end up doing Window installations or will drop out of IT altogether.
I would say that most respected universities still do decent CS courses and employers know this. If one person has a first from oxbridge and another a 1st from Scunthorpe Ringroad University (or wherever) any employers with a clue will realise the first person probably has more potential.
You may have gone to some piss pot ex-college bigging itself up by putting university in its title that only cared about the number of students on a course and not what they learned but I went to a proper Uni and we were *required* to learn formal proofs, predicate logic, set theory, database theory and microprocessor design amongst other things. If you failed those modules you were out. End of.
"The only thing a degree measures is whether you can sit in a room for three-four years and learn what is told to you."
So you think knowledge is a waste of time? An interesting point of view. What are you expecting , a degree that teaches you all the skills you require to go straight into a 6 figure salary? Get real. It gives you a grounding in various parts of CS, nothing more , and also a proof of ability to potential employers.
"Try explaining what spanning-tree algorithms do and why they can be used to avoid network loops... most CS grads can't once they have left their graph theory courses"
And I doubt you'd have much lucky explaining how gouraud shading works or how 3rd normal form differs from 2nd without looking it up first. So what? So you're clued up on one small part of CS because you work in that area. BFD. That doesn't make some sort of genius.
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Its a bit late to be wishing for kennedy to be shot don't you think?
I think I'm the typical techy user. During the day I'll use xterm , open office, firefox and gxine. And maybe one or 2 other apps.
Can someone explain to me why I need a huge resource hungry window manager, sorry - desktop enviroment - like KDE running as my machine? This is a genuine question, not an anti KDE troll. I simply don't get it.
... wake me up , I might be concerned about potential interference from hackers.
But giving false readings to the tyre pressure unit? Meh, who cares. I don't trust mine anyway and always check the pressures with a proper physical meter.
What next , a scare story about the door ajar monitering system being compromised?
*yawn*
You might have a point about the seaside towns , but every service station I've been to recently is just fruit machines :(
... how many digits someone will calculate Pi too each year.
Thats if they're still in business at all. You won't find a video game anywhere on the premises. The only arcade I can think of that still has them is The Trocadero in london. How thats still in business is anyones guess since the few times I've been there in recent years its got fewer people than a ham sandwich festival in tel aviv.
"Maybe you lack imagination."
I'm thinking you lack a clue.
"reroutes access to your IP address to their site so they can do MITM attacks and access all of your data"
And how does it decide when to re-route? Or does it for every single network connection you try to make? Yeah , that'll
go unnoticed for , oh , 30 seconds, when nothing works properly. And how do they decode encryption? Include another
100 gates for that? Please.
" * Enable unauthorized access"
And how exactly are you going to do that in microcode or even hardwired circuits? Its the same BS as when he talks about "shipping data out". Yeah , sure you could do it , if you took up half the chip die with "secret" ROM code that ran its own networking stack, hardware drivers etc etc. If you're thinking about modifying the BIOS thats not hardware hacking, thats software.
I doubt they care much about the latest gadget having a bug to be brutally frank. Whether you like them or not they tend to deal with somewhat more important issues than Joe Sixpacks iToy getting hacked.
... but I thought entanglement meant for properties such as spin and polarisation, not position and momentum? Quite obviously 2 particles can't share the same position so measuring 1 will do you no good in finding out the position of the other but do they share momentum?
Not quite true. The UK also uses miles and mpg and I wouldn't be surprised if a few former colonies and protectorates still do too.
And somewhat naive to boot. Sorry if that upsets the anti government anti capitalist liberal left element on here but thats the way I see it. Who the hell is this guy to decide for a democratically elected government what should remain secret or not? I don't remember voting for him. I notice theres a distinct lack of leaks from the real unpleasent regimes around the world, just the standard issue potshots at western governments that I've come to expect from left leaning organisations. When he leaks something of importance from north korea or zimbabwe or congo THEN I might believe he's something more than just a media whore.
You can "get shit done" in C++ too you know. Plus you don't have to worry about which version of .SHIT your client needs to install before it'll work.
... its probably nothing that kill -9 couldn't solve.
I suspect it'll be some background daemon that kicks off some process every now and then and disables
some portion of the GUI while its at it.
... to people listening to someone shouting across the street? Would the government charge these people for listening in to a "private" conversation of 2 people were shouting at each other loud enough to be heard?
I sometimes wonder if theres an IQ test politicians have to take and anyone who makes it into 3 digits can't become one.
Bad example. A better example would be to accuse someone of listening to what you're saying when you're shouting across the street.
... and thousands dying because of some stupid nationlistic blood feud with the serbs arguing over land the size of a postage stamp.
Or at least in a tiny minority. Perhaps the fact that you seem to want to be around robots instead of people says more about you than you might like.
People need more than just food and water. If you don't understand that then theres no hope for you.
I realise there seems to be a rather unhealthy obsession with robots in japan and korea but this is just going too far. You want some clunky pre-programmed robot to pander to your whims and stroke your ego - fine. But don't try the same shit with kids - its not fair. Get someone in to look after these children. If they're autistic they NEED to interact with people, not a glorified PC FFS.
... but the more I read about what some of these scientists got up to the more I begin to wonder if some of them weren't borderline insane or at least so totally absorbed in the narrow science they were persuing that they didn't think about or didn't care about the potential consequences if things went wrong.
"Memory versus knowledge. Different things."
Not really. No memory = no knowledge. For example you have to remember the method of how to derive quadratic roots otherwise you wouldn't be able to do it - its simply remembering starting points vs remembering whole solutions.
"they do not know how to reason, or derive, or analyse, or effectively investigate. Some of them are good at *computing* too (i.e. programming, operating the machine itself)"
Well anyone who can't reason or analyse is going to be a pretty poor coder so those sorts of people will either end up doing Window installations or will drop out of IT altogether.
I would say that most respected universities still do decent CS courses and employers know this. If one person has a first from oxbridge and another a 1st from Scunthorpe Ringroad University (or wherever) any employers with a clue will realise the first person probably has more potential.
You may have gone to some piss pot ex-college bigging itself up by putting university in its title that only cared about the number of students on a course and not what they learned but I went to a proper Uni and we were *required* to learn formal proofs, predicate logic, set theory, database theory and microprocessor design amongst other things. If you failed those modules you were out. End of.
"The only thing a degree measures is whether you can sit in a room for three-four years and learn what is told to you."
So you think knowledge is a waste of time? An interesting point of view. What are you expecting , a degree that teaches you all the skills you require to go straight into a 6 figure salary? Get real. It gives you a grounding in various parts of CS, nothing more , and also a proof of ability to potential employers.
"Try explaining what spanning-tree algorithms do and why they can be used to avoid network loops... most CS grads can't once they have left their graph theory courses"
And I doubt you'd have much lucky explaining how gouraud shading works or how 3rd normal form differs from 2nd without looking it up first. So what? So you're clued up on one small part of CS because you work in that area. BFD. That doesn't make some sort of genius.
Clue - make oldconfig doesn't remove unrecognised options from the config file. The make system fails if they're left in.
Found that clue yet?
No?
Didn't think so.
"(better unpack it first)"
No , really?? I wondered what the .gz meant. Thanks for that sonny , you're a genius! Do you get extra course points from your teacher?
"everything you've said just makes it evident that you're a pretentious cunt."
Still being rude because you have a limited vocabulary? Aw, shame.
Everything you've said tells me you've never tried to build a stock kernel on some distros such as Suse and red hat.