Ok so if you are at war and you kill a friendly the game is over, right?
My thought, though, was Saddam getting his hands on one of these babys; "ahhh I believe I have discovered a flaw in the strategy of the evil Americans...They will not be expecting our troops to fire back at them! Muwahahahaaaa"
"Somehow, the quote reminds me of people who think that managers and lawyers are the important part of a company, and engineers and customer service are a nuisance to be minimized."
Ok so how about this theory; someone with big bucks and a hatred for M$ goes out and buys every Xbox he can get his evil mitts on. He then goes and incinerates them.
Now noone is going to be buying games to play on them.
And M$ has spent lots of $$$ on these Xboxes hoping to recoup the losses on game sales.
Oh I just thought it would be community-spirited of me to introduce a variation on the 'imagine a beowulf cluster of these' posts!
I had no idea it'd burn any of my precious karma! But on the other hand, if karma can't be burnt as a replacement for fossil fuels, what use is it? Oooh I feel all toasty and warm!
The back of a big render wall gets extremely warm.
Even if you could fit small enough heatsinks that would let it fit into a single space rack the heat thrown out the back of a tower of, say, 32 of these would be ridiculous.
Mind you, I *guess* you could hang old pizzas around there to warm them up.
who would pay MS *not* to get it wrong in the first place!
One might think that the very fact that you pay for the software product implies that you are paying them to get it right.
Wrong; read an MS EULA sometime; they absolve themselves of all negligence and incompetence. (not that other software manufacturers don't similarly refuse to stand by their products)
"Yes, I did. sendmail listens on a port, for connections from the internet. It needs to handle the data coming in from there safely, _regardless_ of permissions on the local filesystem."
Oh ok fair enough. I was thinking in terms of local as well as network exploits, in which case file permissions would have been a duh.:)
You'll probably think this is really wierd, but I actually don't believe that the achievements of recent decades in any way reflects increasing intelligence. On the contrary, I believe that it is entirely possible that technology may allow us to evolve into a technological but unintelligent species. Remember it takes a lot of energy to run a brain. In the context of evolution a creature that doesn't need to maintain that expenditure *could* wind up more efficient than one that does ie one with a large brain. So, I believe its *possible* that I am more intelligent than some of my ancestors, I'm just saying that I don't believe its necessary.
Isn't it about time that PCMCIA were replaced so that people have to buy new laptops etc?
(I imagine it wont be long before you won't be able to buy a MB with PCI; VLB started out as a purely graphics bus (VESA local bus) and it wasn't long before it was used for SCSI, Multi IO and probably others. Were there ever VLB NICs?
With this history it is a little surprising that manufacturers arn't producing multi-AGP boards and SCSI cards etc on AGP, eventually replacing PCI.
I know its not an exact match, and maybe theres something about the AGP standard that makes this impossible, but you get the picture;
Market saturation requires forced obsolescence and upgrade fever to achieve constant economic growth. Any stability spells doom for the market for some reason; its a self destabilising system. Any trends of economic stability as opposed to economic growth causes instability and either growth or shrinkage, thereby producing instability again. I dunno about the commas in those sentences. Feel free to rearrange them to taste.
Something I always thought would be a cool creation-by-god scenario would be this;
God creates the universe, all of infinite space and time. After all, can't God create infinities?
What this scenario gives us is an infinite past and future all created by God and existing at once. In Gods perception (if it can be said that God has perception) everything that ever has or ever will exist appears together and non-sequentially.
Personally I hold the view that God is/was one and indivisible, yet needing to understand itself, God created/s all of existance from its own substance in order that everything that can be experienced is experienced and since all things are God, once all that can be experienced has been experienced, God can recombine reality and understand itself.
Or something like that, to be honest I am not exactly sure what I believe. But I know I must believe something. Anyhow, at some stage in the infinite future, all will become apparent.
Maybe my personal experience of selfhood is really God remembering my life in that infinitely far future.
Y'know I sort of agree with you on this; "wishful thinking and fabrications by the scientists who expound on the theory that somehow random mutations over the last billion years can produce sentient homo sapiens"
I like to run the following inductive argument;
base case; I am at least somewhat intelligent.
recursive case (sorta); I have no reason to believe that my father or mother are any less intelligent than me.
For any ancestor x, x has no reason to believe that their immediate predecessor, x-1, is any less intelligent than them.
Therefore I assume that I am a descendent of a lineage of intelligent organisms going all the way back to the 'primordial ooze'.
And I'm serious, this is not a troll.
(My personal philosophy coincides well with Advaita Vedanta)
How are they gonna explain this in classrooms in Alabama? (or wherever the heck it is that evolution is banned in classrooms)
"Well kids you see God just recently gave the staph bacteria a gracious gift; antibiotic resistance. Of course staph didn't *evolve* this resistance since theres no such thing as evolution, children. We just have to wonder at Gods great plan where he makes these changes in living things just to make life harder for us God fearing folk. Praise the lord. Ok now children all lne up for your lobotomy operations; you won't be needing independent thought with God looking after things."
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Ok so if you are at war and you kill a friendly the game is over, right?
My thought, though, was Saddam getting his hands on one of these babys;
"ahhh I believe I have discovered a flaw in the strategy of the evil Americans...They will not be expecting our troops to fire back at them! Muwahahahaaaa"
Hilarity ensues, and all that.
"The other tanks do not fire at you, and the only way to end the game is to run out of ammo or shoot a 'friendly' tank or helicopter"
So, uh, this is a faithful simulation of actual American war fighting methodologies?
I mean, you are in a Bradley, flying a US flag presumably.
Right, so who would *dare* to shoot at you?
"Somehow, the quote reminds me of people who think that managers and lawyers are the important part of a company, and engineers and customer service are a nuisance to be minimized."
You mean like Microsoft?
Or most ISPs?
Was that ROT13 or Dutch?
you know, on the TV screen...
Ok so how about this theory;
;)
someone with big bucks and a hatred for M$ goes out and buys every Xbox he can get his evil mitts on.
He then goes and incinerates them.
Now noone is going to be buying games to play on them.
And M$ has spent lots of $$$ on these Xboxes hoping to recoup the losses on game sales.
Every Xbox you burn is a hole in M$ pocket!!!
Well duh, thats why I said and turn them into Linux servers; so M$ won't make a cent on games.
we could drive M$ to bankruptcy by buying BULK xboxes and using them as Linux servers?
in cygwin under wine?? :)
Oh I just thought it would be community-spirited of me to introduce a variation on the 'imagine a beowulf cluster of these' posts!
I had no idea it'd burn any of my precious karma!
But on the other hand, if karma can't be burnt as a replacement for fossil fuels, what use is it? Oooh I feel all toasty and warm!
I'd forgotten that one,
as soon as I get this pineapple up my ass I'll be on it!
a beowulf cluster to simulate one of those!!!
Is there any reason, aside from debugging and diagnostics, to present the world with accurate information about the versions I run?
I sure as hell can't think of any.
In fact I am going to go over my system here and make damn sure that I stop any such foolishness...
not without buckets of dry ice in front of it.
The back of a big render wall gets extremely warm.
Even if you could fit small enough heatsinks that would let it fit into a single space rack the heat thrown out the back of a tower of, say, 32 of these would be ridiculous.
Mind you, I *guess* you could hang old pizzas around there to warm them up.
be good in a flamewar?
who would pay MS *not* to get it wrong in the first place!
One might think that the very fact that you pay for the software product implies that you are paying them to get it right.
Wrong; read an MS EULA sometime; they absolve themselves of all negligence and incompetence.
(not that other software manufacturers don't similarly refuse to stand by their products)
"Yes, I did. sendmail listens on a port, for connections from the
:)
internet. It needs to handle the data coming in from there safely,
_regardless_ of permissions on the local filesystem."
Oh ok fair enough. I was thinking in terms of local as well as network exploits, in which case file permissions would have been a duh.
thats going to worry a few people I bet.
You'll probably think this is really wierd, but I actually don't believe that the achievements of recent decades in any way reflects increasing intelligence.
On the contrary, I believe that it is entirely possible that technology may allow us to evolve into a technological but unintelligent species.
Remember it takes a lot of energy to run a brain. In the context of evolution a creature that doesn't need to maintain that expenditure *could* wind up more efficient than one that does ie one with a large brain.
So, I believe its *possible* that I am more intelligent than some of my ancestors, I'm just saying that I don't believe its necessary.
Isn't it about time that PCMCIA were replaced so that people have to buy new laptops etc?
(I imagine it wont be long before you won't be able to buy a MB with PCI; VLB started out as a purely graphics bus (VESA local bus) and it wasn't long before it was used for SCSI, Multi IO and probably others. Were there ever VLB NICs?
With this history it is a little surprising that manufacturers arn't producing multi-AGP boards and SCSI cards etc on AGP, eventually replacing PCI.
I know its not an exact match, and maybe theres something about the AGP standard that makes this impossible, but you get the picture;
Market saturation requires forced obsolescence and upgrade fever to achieve constant economic growth. Any stability spells doom for the market for some reason; its a self destabilising system. Any trends of economic stability as opposed to economic growth causes instability and either growth or shrinkage, thereby producing instability again.
I dunno about the commas in those sentences. Feel free to rearrange them to taste.
if the NSA approved of something that they didn't *KNOW* they could hack into...
Something I always thought would be a cool creation-by-god scenario would be this;
God creates the universe, all of infinite space and time.
After all, can't God create infinities?
What this scenario gives us is an infinite past and future all created by God and existing at once. In Gods perception (if it can be said that God has perception) everything that ever has or ever will exist appears together and non-sequentially.
Personally I hold the view that God is/was one and indivisible, yet needing to understand itself, God created/s all of existance from its own substance in order that everything that can be experienced is experienced and since all things are God, once all that can be experienced has been experienced, God can recombine reality and understand itself.
Or something like that, to be honest I am not exactly sure what I believe. But I know I must believe something.
Anyhow, at some stage in the infinite future, all will become apparent.
Maybe my personal experience of selfhood is really God remembering my life in that infinitely far future.
Y'know I sort of agree with you on this;
"wishful thinking and fabrications by the scientists who expound on the theory that somehow random mutations over the last billion years can produce sentient homo sapiens"
I like to run the following inductive argument;
base case; I am at least somewhat intelligent.
recursive case (sorta); I have no reason to believe that my father or mother are any less intelligent than me.
For any ancestor x, x has no reason to believe that their immediate predecessor, x-1, is any less intelligent than them.
Therefore I assume that I am a descendent of a lineage of intelligent organisms going all the way back to the 'primordial ooze'.
And I'm serious, this is not a troll.
(My personal philosophy coincides well with Advaita Vedanta)
Ok fair enough.
I've always felt that the only way one could disbelieve in evolution would be if one didn't know how sexual reproduction works!
How are they gonna explain this in classrooms in Alabama? (or wherever the heck it is that evolution is banned in classrooms)
"Well kids you see God just recently gave the staph bacteria a gracious gift; antibiotic resistance. Of course staph didn't *evolve* this resistance since theres no such thing as evolution, children.
We just have to wonder at Gods great plan where he makes these changes in living things just to make life harder for us God fearing folk. Praise the lord.
Ok now children all lne up for your lobotomy operations; you won't be needing independent thought with God looking after things."