Great...have one ID for everything, then they'll just have to steal it once.
Although, most idiots today use the same username and password for everything anyway.
This roadster is missing a gas powered generator for the times that you need to go over 220 miles.
Of course if you're paying $90k for an electric car I'd hope that you have other gas powered cars for destinations out of range.
That is why I consider this thing a toy.
The Volt looks promising, it is all electric as long as you stay under a certain range and plug it in every night but will kick on a generator when the battery is too low.
He even pointed out a problem in doing it (GPL vs LGPL).
It is nice to have a choice in licenses. You have one framework / desktop environment in LGPL, and one in GPL. But I don't see why commercial companies don't embrace KDE.
The company needs to make a decision of framework for their application. Chances are that their application will run just fine under either KDE or Gnome whether it is written in Qt or GTK+. Their "solution" that they're selling can contain an unmodified KDE install or Gnome install...doesn't matter.
As long as they're open sourcing their software who cares if it does the same thing as another open source piece of software.
Should we flip a coin and have all people who work on MySQL or PostgreSQL switch to just one of them?
How would anything ever improve?
As far as their filesystem goes, any big company that deals with huge amounts of data does the same thing to fit their needs. I think DreamWorks, Pixar, and Facebook have their own filesystems.
Companies can't wait for the maintainers of software to accept their code.
It doesn't seem like Google is suffering from HIG syndrome to me. Their GWT uses Java and Eclipse...they created a new framework when there was nothing else like it out there and they used existing "Not invented at Google" technologies like Java and Eclipse. They didn't create their own language or IDE.
And look an android, its a framework that they invented, but it uses Java which they didn't.
It could be worse like Apple which goes and uses a language which only they use (Obj-C), and proprietary IDEs which only they use.
I saw this a year ago at JavaOne. I can see your points but I can also see some benefits too.
I work in the US for a German company. Here, just in the US, it is hard to find an empty conference room for an impromptu meeting. With this, there are unlimited "rooms".
Also, using netmeeting or Lotus Sametime, or any other software is still software that you need to run. So, to get a hold of someone to debug something or to look at something on your screen you need to make a phone call, tell them to start up some program, then give them your IP or whatever.
With this...if everyone is living in this world and working in this world, you never have to call someone up. You just bring your program with you and throw it on a wall and have a conversation about it.
I remember that. I didn't RTFA but what you're talking about is DNA computing, not DNA storage. The traveling salesman problem worked with a very, very small graph. I don't remember if the graph was even weighted. Anyway, when you analyze what was going on, they basically did a brute force search which wasn't even guaranteed to find the solution (except for statistics). They basically randomized a ton of DNA which they hoped represented every permutation of the cities the salesman could travel. Then they used a bunch of filters to find the shortest one that started and ended where they wanted.
So, the method they used was brute force, just massively parallel, but with no guarantee that all permutations were created. It didn't reduce its complexity from NP.
Right now browsers are limited to linear forward and back. Branching would be nice to see graphically too. Then maybe I wouldn't need so many darn tabs open.
Disclaimer : I copied someone's "because you liked Saw II, we recommend Chicago" line from here.
What the hell are married customers with two different tastes in movies supposed to do once you remove profiles? That was a big selling point for me and a couple of co-workers who I turned on to netflix. Will your recommendation system shit itself? If I like horror and my wife likes musicals will I start to see "Because you liked Saw II, we recommend Chicago?" This is utter crap that you're stopping this. It won't stop multiple households from using a single account either...good luck. This just looks like you're alienating your real customers.
I'm paying $18.10 a month for you guys to drag your asses shipping me 3 DVDs a month. I know you do it on purpose too. It sometimes takes a full week to get a movie after I return one. Blockbuster's pricing is looking pretty good. I can get 3 at a time for $15.99 or I can get 2 at a time plus in-store exchanges for $16.99.
Way to screw your customers for no good reason.
Also, your silly Movies on demand stuff is worthless for multiple reasons. 1, you only put crappy movies on it, and 2, it only works with Windows...what are customers who use real operating systems like Linux, Mac OSX, or Solaris to do? I was looking for a reason to stop paying for Netflix after you made it clear you only cared about the moron customers who run Windows, you just gave me another reason.
It will also screw up one of their biggest claims to fame...the ranking and recommendation. When my GF was living with me she had her own queue. I didn't want her rating chick flicks with 5 stars on my account and she didn't want me ranking my movies on her's.
What are husband and wife to do now? I have two co-workers who I introduced the feature to who now use it too.
This is really LAME!
Since you can move movies around on your queue fairly easily I hope someone comes up with an abstraction to NetFlix which lets you manage multiple queues and have that service manipulate your one real NetFlix queue to give you the same result. Although, that wouldn't solve the ratings / rankings...I guess only the main account would be able to do that.
I heard this sort of thing goes on with Disney. People grow up wanting to work for Disney and they're willing to get paid a lot less that their colleagues doing the same job at other companies.
A collection of stream processors with read access to main memory (or a large pool of memory where the scene lives) would be perfect. IBM's Cell processor does this. There are some youtube videos of realtime raytracing using PS3's
Not to mention that they have the people.
A billion people means if only 1 in a million people could hack it, then China has a thousand people that can hack it.
I think this means they weren't able to remove enough bloat for ZFS to run smoothly on a machine with less than 4GB of RAM and left it for the server only.
Sure they have laptops with 4GB of RAM but if your filesystem is using it, you have no RAM to do anything else.
Yeah, I took a class in college with a woman that lived with the Yuqui for months at a time for several years and wrote a book about them with tons of pictures, yet they're listed on Wikipedia as well.
In my opinion, once you've ate SPAM, you're no longer uncontacted.
They are probably using the term uncontacted very loosely.
These people are being driven from Peru closer to the Brazil border by loggers. You don't get driven anywhere without contact of some kind unless just the noise of whatever they're using to cut down the trees is making them move.
Maybe they just like to sleep in.
I noticed recently that Samba was deprecated in the kernel and that you're supposed to use CIFS. But this is for mounting...what about the servers.
Is there a CIFS server for Linux...I know there is one for Solaris.
Again, in the real world with a real machine with a finite amount of memory, your bigint can only be as big as your memory will allow.
I'm not saying it wouldn't take millions of years. I'm not saying that it wouldn't take more memory than you can fit on Earth.
This can be accomplished with an emulator or a VM.
Run the code you wanna test in a VM and give it the input.
If the state of the virtual machine is ever exactly the same as it was previously, you have a loop, don't you?
The virtual machine only has so many possible states, and the input is finite as well.
The machine is deterministic, so if you're at state X while after reading input Y, you do 1.23 million operations and you're back at state X again while not moving to the next chunk of input you'll hit state X again in exactly 1.23 million operations no?
I think you can solve the halting problem for finite deterministic machines. The only machines it doesn't work on are theoretical ones with infinite memory.
The problem is that to solve the halting problem for a real machine, you need a machine with more memory than particles in the known universe.
On a machine with 4gb of memory there would be 2 ^ (4 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 8) different states in memory alone.
I remember reading somewhere about brute force decryption of somethign encrypted with 1024 bit key with todays microprocessors...
Just having a chip that would sequentially count to 2 ^ 1024 would require more energy than the sun puts out in 10 years.
So having a machine do anything usefull with that would be even worse.
If the virtual machine has X bits of memory, you'll need 2 ^ X bits of memory to keep track of which states have been visited.
Then you start getting into that whole thing about the number of known particles in the universe being less than the number of bits needed.
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Great...have one ID for everything, then they'll just have to steal it once.
Although, most idiots today use the same username and password for everything anyway.
XBMC is the only reason I bought an Xbox. I stand by my decision and I'm not retarded.
This roadster is missing a gas powered generator for the times that you need to go over 220 miles.
Of course if you're paying $90k for an electric car I'd hope that you have other gas powered cars for destinations out of range.
That is why I consider this thing a toy.
The Volt looks promising, it is all electric as long as you stay under a certain range and plug it in every night but will kick on a generator when the battery is too low.
He even pointed out a problem in doing it (GPL vs LGPL).
It is nice to have a choice in licenses. You have one framework / desktop environment in LGPL, and one in GPL. But I don't see why commercial companies don't embrace KDE.
The company needs to make a decision of framework for their application. Chances are that their application will run just fine under either KDE or Gnome whether it is written in Qt or GTK+. Their "solution" that they're selling can contain an unmodified KDE install or Gnome install...doesn't matter.
As long as they're open sourcing their software who cares if it does the same thing as another open source piece of software.
Should we flip a coin and have all people who work on MySQL or PostgreSQL switch to just one of them?
How would anything ever improve?
As far as their filesystem goes, any big company that deals with huge amounts of data does the same thing to fit their needs. I think DreamWorks, Pixar, and Facebook have their own filesystems.
Companies can't wait for the maintainers of software to accept their code.
It doesn't seem like Google is suffering from HIG syndrome to me. Their GWT uses Java and Eclipse...they created a new framework when there was nothing else like it out there and they used existing "Not invented at Google" technologies like Java and Eclipse. They didn't create their own language or IDE.
And look an android, its a framework that they invented, but it uses Java which they didn't.
It could be worse like Apple which goes and uses a language which only they use (Obj-C), and proprietary IDEs which only they use.
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I wouldn't do that unless it happens to be your real name.
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Read the subject, not the content... I'd bet that it isn't his real name.
I saw this a year ago at JavaOne. I can see your points but I can also see some benefits too.
I work in the US for a German company. Here, just in the US, it is hard to find an empty conference room for an impromptu meeting. With this, there are unlimited "rooms".
Also, using netmeeting or Lotus Sametime, or any other software is still software that you need to run. So, to get a hold of someone to debug something or to look at something on your screen you need to make a phone call, tell them to start up some program, then give them your IP or whatever.
With this...if everyone is living in this world and working in this world, you never have to call someone up. You just bring your program with you and throw it on a wall and have a conversation about it.
I remember that. I didn't RTFA but what you're talking about is DNA computing, not DNA storage. The traveling salesman problem worked with a very, very small graph. I don't remember if the graph was even weighted. Anyway, when you analyze what was going on, they basically did a brute force search which wasn't even guaranteed to find the solution (except for statistics). They basically randomized a ton of DNA which they hoped represented every permutation of the cities the salesman could travel. Then they used a bunch of filters to find the shortest one that started and ended where they wanted.
So, the method they used was brute force, just massively parallel, but with no guarantee that all permutations were created. It didn't reduce its complexity from NP.
I stopped using it because it was unreliable. I would have to keep re-bookmarking web sites that would disappear.
Right now browsers are limited to linear forward and back. Branching would be nice to see graphically too. Then maybe I wouldn't need so many darn tabs open.
I'm paying $18.10 a month for you guys to drag your asses shipping me 3 DVDs a month. I know you do it on purpose too. It sometimes takes a full week to get a movie after I return one. Blockbuster's pricing is looking pretty good. I can get 3 at a time for $15.99 or I can get 2 at a time plus in-store exchanges for $16.99.
Way to screw your customers for no good reason.
Also, your silly Movies on demand stuff is worthless for multiple reasons. 1, you only put crappy movies on it, and 2, it only works with Windows...what are customers who use real operating systems like Linux, Mac OSX, or Solaris to do? I was looking for a reason to stop paying for Netflix after you made it clear you only cared about the moron customers who run Windows, you just gave me another reason.
Goodbye Netflix.
It will also screw up one of their biggest claims to fame...the ranking and recommendation. When my GF was living with me she had her own queue. I didn't want her rating chick flicks with 5 stars on my account and she didn't want me ranking my movies on her's.
What are husband and wife to do now? I have two co-workers who I introduced the feature to who now use it too.
This is really LAME!
Since you can move movies around on your queue fairly easily I hope someone comes up with an abstraction to NetFlix which lets you manage multiple queues and have that service manipulate your one real NetFlix queue to give you the same result. Although, that wouldn't solve the ratings / rankings...I guess only the main account would be able to do that.
I heard this sort of thing goes on with Disney. People grow up wanting to work for Disney and they're willing to get paid a lot less that their colleagues doing the same job at other companies.
Not to mention that they have the people. A billion people means if only 1 in a million people could hack it, then China has a thousand people that can hack it.
I think this means they weren't able to remove enough bloat for ZFS to run smoothly on a machine with less than 4GB of RAM and left it for the server only. Sure they have laptops with 4GB of RAM but if your filesystem is using it, you have no RAM to do anything else.
Yeah, I took a class in college with a woman that lived with the Yuqui for months at a time for several years and wrote a book about them with tons of pictures, yet they're listed on Wikipedia as well.
In my opinion, once you've ate SPAM, you're no longer uncontacted.
They are probably using the term uncontacted very loosely.
These people are being driven from Peru closer to the Brazil border by loggers. You don't get driven anywhere without contact of some kind unless just the noise of whatever they're using to cut down the trees is making them move.
Maybe they just like to sleep in.
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I noticed recently that Samba was deprecated in the kernel and that you're supposed to use CIFS. But this is for mounting...what about the servers. Is there a CIFS server for Linux...I know there is one for Solaris.
Again, in the real world with a real machine with a finite amount of memory, your bigint can only be as big as your memory will allow.
I'm not saying it wouldn't take millions of years. I'm not saying that it wouldn't take more memory than you can fit on Earth.
This can be accomplished with an emulator or a VM.
Run the code you wanna test in a VM and give it the input.
If the state of the virtual machine is ever exactly the same as it was previously, you have a loop, don't you?
The virtual machine only has so many possible states, and the input is finite as well.
The machine is deterministic, so if you're at state X while after reading input Y, you do 1.23 million operations and you're back at state X again while not moving to the next chunk of input you'll hit state X again in exactly 1.23 million operations no?
I think you can solve the halting problem for finite deterministic machines. The only machines it doesn't work on are theoretical ones with infinite memory.
The problem is that to solve the halting problem for a real machine, you need a machine with more memory than particles in the known universe.
On a machine with 4gb of memory there would be 2 ^ (4 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 8) different states in memory alone.
I remember reading somewhere about brute force decryption of somethign encrypted with 1024 bit key with todays microprocessors...
Just having a chip that would sequentially count to 2 ^ 1024 would require more energy than the sun puts out in 10 years.
So having a machine do anything usefull with that would be even worse.
If the virtual machine has X bits of memory, you'll need 2 ^ X bits of memory to keep track of which states have been visited.
Then you start getting into that whole thing about the number of known particles in the universe being less than the number of bits needed.
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