Human beings can and do think heirarchically, but that doesn't mean it's the end-all-and-be-all of organization.
I think the examples he shows are pretty good. In my mp3 collection, I would like to see "All bluegrass songs" or "all remixes of Parliament Funkadelic stuff". How do you propose to do this in a hierarchical filesystem? Most of my bluegrass artists are under 'bluegrass', but then there are some bluegrass songs that were in non-bluegrass artists and albums folders.
In my workplace we are having the same problems. On our shared folders, we have shipping documents in each clients' folder. But then, what if we what to see all shipping documents from a particular vendor? Currently, we would have to go into each customers' folder (which are also broken down by year archives) and grab all documents which *might* be from said supplier, and then open each one, and look to see, because the supplier name isn't in the filename. It's horribly broken, which is why we are moving to a database storage system for such documents.
Nobody should be distributing 180 - 190 F liquids to the public FOR ANY REASON, ESPECIALLY AS A FOOD PRODUCT!
This is not just 'hot coffee', this is scalding liquids which caused 3rd degree burns.
If you had to work with 180 liquids as a part of your job, you would have protective gear and OSHAA regulations all over the place.
Why do people think McDonalds should get away with handing this stuff out to people in the drive through?
All of the spaceships and space dogfighting were done with computer animation. I didn't realize it when I first saw it, but now it stands out like a sore thumb.
How about the fact that AI from a top-down approach (i.e. trying to make a human-like brain) has been failing miserably for the past 50 years, and that building small, simple things has been pretty successful, and is the very mechanism that nature used to make the human brain (making small, incremental improvements on simpler systems).
We covered facial reconstructions in one of my archaeology classes. Basically it's guesswork and artistic interpretation.
Sure you have the facial bones, but you have no idea how thick their muscles were, how fleshy their skin was, lip size, what their eyebrows were like, eye color, eyelid characteristics.
There was one study where they gave the same skull model to five different artists and they got back 5 very different heads.
The only way you could to this accurately would be to decode any DNA you find and grow their face, virtually (or in some vat -- yech). The technology is a long way off, needless to say.
When we absolutely cannot put anymore transistors on a chip, we will start making computers that are massively parrallel. In the future, you will have a desktop computer that will have 2, 4, 8, 16, etc chips on them.
All these other things they are talking about are vaporware. Parallel computing is here and in use now.
As I read in a previous Slashdot posting, all this system will do is make it very easy to create a scapegoat.
As we all know, eyewitnesses are *terrible* at reporting facts. (Google it if you don't believe me).
So, if you're looking for an Arab male, 20-30, in the LA area, driving a red pick-up truck, this database will turn up 20 matches. Found your guy, right?
Wrong. While you're rounding up innocents for heat-lamp questioning, the 25-year-old Phillipino has ditched the stolen truck and is hightailing it to another state.
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Making reference to /usr/sbin is just another query to the RBD filesystem, which will return the correct files when properly setup.
I think the examples he shows are pretty good. In my mp3 collection, I would like to see "All bluegrass songs" or "all remixes of Parliament Funkadelic stuff". How do you propose to do this in a hierarchical filesystem? Most of my bluegrass artists are under 'bluegrass', but then there are some bluegrass songs that were in non-bluegrass artists and albums folders.
In my workplace we are having the same problems. On our shared folders, we have shipping documents in each clients' folder. But then, what if we what to see all shipping documents from a particular vendor? Currently, we would have to go into each customers' folder (which are also broken down by year archives) and grab all documents which *might* be from said supplier, and then open each one, and look to see, because the supplier name isn't in the filename. It's horribly broken, which is why we are moving to a database storage system for such documents.
Nobody should be distributing 180 - 190 F liquids to the public FOR ANY REASON, ESPECIALLY AS A FOOD PRODUCT! This is not just 'hot coffee', this is scalding liquids which caused 3rd degree burns. If you had to work with 180 liquids as a part of your job, you would have protective gear and OSHAA regulations all over the place. Why do people think McDonalds should get away with handing this stuff out to people in the drive through?
I understand the Reiser file-system is ultimately supposed to be like this.
And I heard that MS will incorporate this in Longhorn. I imagine Linux will play catch-up to this.
And they have diamond testing machines right there in the store.
All of the spaceships and space dogfighting were done with computer animation. I didn't realize it when I first saw it, but now it stands out like a sore thumb.
How about the fact that AI from a top-down approach (i.e. trying to make a human-like brain) has been failing miserably for the past 50 years, and that building small, simple things has been pretty successful, and is the very mechanism that nature used to make the human brain (making small, incremental improvements on simpler systems).
Sure you have the facial bones, but you have no idea how thick their muscles were, how fleshy their skin was, lip size, what their eyebrows were like, eye color, eyelid characteristics.
There was one study where they gave the same skull model to five different artists and they got back 5 very different heads.
The only way you could to this accurately would be to decode any DNA you find and grow their face, virtually (or in some vat -- yech). The technology is a long way off, needless to say.
All these other things they are talking about are vaporware. Parallel computing is here and in use now.
How about not asking questions that are already answered on her site?
I don't know, have you see these hand-held gadgets? Palm, Zaurus, et al?
This has to be a hoax. Rabbits are mammals and give live birth.
Keep a printout of your DNA on a CD backup and have viruses injected every so often to remove any errors that may have collected.
When did reporting stop being investigation and become simply echoing competitor's soundbites?
[x] often wears ThinkGeek clothing
[x] has a blog
[x] reads Slashdot
[x] knows how to run Linux
[x] Has cute chick on website.
He's got the geek vote!
I think 'not starving to death' is rather their motivation for eating chimpanzees and gorillas. Bushmeat is whatever you can get your hands on.
Cows, chickens, etc. are 'near-human' compared to insects and amoebas.
"How exactly did they steal them?"
"They implanted radio transceivers in my skull while I was sleeping, and listened to my thoughts, your honor."
"How do you know this?"
"I used to work for the CIA."
I'll bet he was serving as his own council, too.
You can share it with your grandchildren then.
As we all know, eyewitnesses are *terrible* at reporting facts. (Google it if you don't believe me).
So, if you're looking for an Arab male, 20-30, in the LA area, driving a red pick-up truck, this database will turn up 20 matches. Found your guy, right?
Wrong. While you're rounding up innocents for heat-lamp questioning, the 25-year-old Phillipino has ditched the stolen truck and is hightailing it to another state.
I guess I don't have the patience to be a real hacker.
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Link.
They have one of the largest earthen mounds in the world.
how much did you pay for this 'undercover' internet marketing blitz?
Let's hope they fire off a few units before their mailbox gets DDOS'ed by RIAA lawyers.
And they probably haven't yet developed the ability to see through corporate BS to know when they're getting screwed.
This company just wants to break in newbies.
Don't forget the Cahokians, whose temple mound neat St. Louis is larger than the Aztec Sun Temple.