I think the big limitation against a robot "eating" living things at this point is that the energy required in harvesting anything that moves is far in excess of the energy that the robot will be able to extract from it. Bound to be an inefficient process.
In the long run, however, I think I'd be leery of giving them any sort of decision tree about whether or not "object A" is edible. Even discounting human.pet accidents, no one wants to wake up in the morning to find that a robot has eaten your picnic table.
I came in here to make just this point. File sharing is rightly low priority traffic, and if their bandwidth is getting tight during internet rush hour, I'd expect them to prioritize accordingly.
Honestly, would you rather your downloads slowed down fractionally, or your streaming music/video/phone getting unbearably choppy? Extra lag in your online games? Yuck.
Though yea, if they start throttling it all the time and just constantly saying, "Whoa boys that traffic is sure mighty high today HA HA HA," then yea, they need to pay.
(Disclaimer: I have only Cox and AT&T where I live, and I hate both of them for various reasons, but Cox is awesome compared to, for example, Comcast).
They're doing development on Midnight Commander...I doubt they thought they were going to need a ton of resources.
Still, I'm glad to see 'em back. MC is a big help when you're working on the console.
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It would have been painless too. Look how many props the fricking Matrix series got for one tiny shot of Trinity(?) using nmap.
I understand that you have to give both the kids a role, since only one of them had a role in the book, but when you cheapen it...You might as well not have made the effort in the first place.
You know how it goes. The phone will be released with the US OS, which doesn't include the stuff that is illegal here.
But you can go immediately to sites overseas and download a version that has all the good stuff pre-included. Since the phone OS is basically designed for this sort of swapping, it's hard to see how they could prevent this.
I hate this crap because my kid is camera obsessed, and, upon hearing the click, stops doing the cute crap that he was previously doing and demands to see the picture.
Just another example of the perv's ruining things for the rest of us, and I'm sure that a modified firmware will be released in like 10 minutes to take it off, so the only people who will be inconvenienced are people like me (who will...hem...not get screwed after I accidentally brick my wife's phone).
I agree, but I think that part of the reason for that is the basis on which those people were promoted to their positions. Basically they took the most obsessed, most rabid people, who made the most edits, and put them in charge.
If they picked some disinterested professionals, and put them in charge, it might work out better.
You're probably right though. Any oversight is bound to come with abuses.
I don't think broadband should be a national issue, for some of the reasons you state.
However I see no reason that it can't be a local government issue. They can raise the money with bonds, penny taxes, and property taxes. They have a much better idea of whether or not their constituency feels the need to have it.
This sort of infrastructure really is a local issue, same as water, sewer, and natural gas.
The journalists write the stuff, because they're more familiar with the subject, and then the editors come in with style/content questions, and then the copy editors hit grammar and spelling. It's the way it's always been, but 20 years ago the layout would have been done painstakingly by hand, and the errors would have been a lot more obvious. Spellchecker makes everyone lazy.
Some of the quality issues are related to cuts: fewer journalists having to fill the same space equals crappier stories. Investigative reporting is really expensive, and it requires taking a reporter away from his/her daily work for sometimes months at a time. Some beats are covered by far too few people. One person covers the two county governments in our core circulation area, which equals very scant, sloppy coverage.
Most reputable papers won't just print a press release, but there are plenty of non-reputable papers out there. Lot of newspaper companies are owned by corporations now, and corporations are about profit first and last. Even profitable papers suffer when all the papers are corporately owned: your profits are absorbed by someone elses losses
I agree largely about the decline in quality, but I lay most of the blame with corporate profit policies, and with the decline in staff numbers. It's really hard to produce good quality without any real resources...It's bad enough in some places that you can't get approval to do a FOIA request because the paperwork costs too much, and the damn government knows it, and knows that if you can't afford the paperwork, then you sure as hell can't afford to sue over it.
It's not because of the journalists. The primary skill for a journalist is the ability to gossip at on olympic level: many of them are poor writers, because writing is secondary to being able to find things out. Some of the best journalists I know are terrible writers, but they have the ability to get people to say things on the record that they wouldn't tell their shrink.
The reason the writing seems worse is because the copy editing and editorial positions have been hit harder than the positions for the actual journalists, so there are fewer people doing grammar, etc.
It's a reference to this(SFW) picture. I've seen a lot of instances (usually on fark) where this gets posted to mock overly partisan sniping (e.g. by inferring that the snipers are basically like the dog in the picture).
I was going to be snarky, but your line about changing the columns made me scratch my head and actually LOOK at the options for the first time in a decade, and I'll be goddamned if there isn't a way to add every bit of data I've ever wanted to the stupid little process tab.
Thanks a bunch, that's the coolest thing I've learned about windows in a couple of years at least. (Not my primary OS, obviously, but still damn useful to know)
And when it turns out to be svchost.exe, send a nasty email to Balmer.
I've seen systems start crawling on stupid windows background crap that only shows up in the process tab as "System Idle Process."
Compared to using ps or top, I'm not a fan of the scanty process tools in windows. The only decent one is perfmon; it's "Performance" under "Administrative Tools."
Open it up, go down to the bottom, right click on the little window under the graph and choose "add counters." Go ahead and add them all, and start the monitor.
Okay, now that your brain is bleeding, stop it, remove all the counters, and actually read the names and add only the ones you think you need.
Pretty much everything that's going on in the system is measured there, so you can get a pretty good idea of what the problem is, and that may point you in the direction of solving it.
Just as an fyi: if you're dumping to a log, make sure you have an idea of how much space it's eating up. A big perf log can eat up your whole harddrive if you leave it running.
Yea, I use my Windows box for games and the occasional access/.net thing. I don't check my email, I don't check my bank account, I don't browse the web, nothing.
I find I don't know what to tell people who say, "Well how can I be sure it's gone, so I can go back to entering my personal information on my insecure windows machine." You simply can't be sure. I'm not sure with my Linux box. I've taken a lot of precautions, but that's not even remotely the same as being sure.
Not a lot to go on, though as a freebie, XP doesn't do jack with that extra gig of RAM...You could put in 100gigs and it won't use any more than 3 (less you're using the 64 bit version, iirc).
Rootkits can run "under the radar". Might want to try software like RootKitRevealer, or Blacklight. A crappy one might grab a ton of cycles for a minute, but most of them are less intrusive.
Everything spiking at once sounds like that stupid "System Restore" process, or maybe a big swap dump (which is weird with that much RAM, but you know, it's windows.) Stupid programs like Norton can grab a huge chunk of resources every now and then for no discernable reason. Maybe some peripheral is crapping out?
Barring malware, I'd start writing down what's running when it spikes, and see if that tells you anything. Lot of programs can cause momentary spikes, but background processes usually don't. You could try testing some of the hardware but without anything specific to look for, you're going to have a hell of a time finding something.
The government has strict rules about the content they put up; it has to be 100% accessible to people with disabilities, and javascript causes a lot of problems with that.
On the one hand, this is obviously a no-brainer, because the gov't should be accessible to everyone. On the other hand, it means that developing websites is so expensive that they don't do it often, so even agencies that might be inclined to put things online don't do it because of the hassle.
No point in reinventing the wheel. YouTube is the thing for videos right now, so why not use it? People who keep sniping about gov't waste should be happy about this stuff.
All recessions are psychological. That doesn't mean they're not real. There is a reason that "Consumer Confidence" is a respected economic indicator.
So yea, don't spend like an idiot, but don't switch to an all ramen diet either. Don't pull out of all your investments. Don't hunker down and put your life on hold and wait for it to go away.
Well, I'd go far as to say that no decision affects only individuals...Economic activity is like the weather, and even the smallest consumer is like the proverbial butterfly flapping his wings.
But every decision is an individual decision. All those bad loans were made by hundreds and thousands of people, one at a time. They were bought up, because loans are a reliable investment, and, indeed, they'll probably make money in the long run: a loan has to lose 80% of it's value before you actually start losing money on it. Eighty percent!
The debtor has to default, and then the house has to burn down, and the property get used as a medical waste dumping ground. Most of those loans are at least going to break even, so it looked like a good investment to the banks. So individual managers started buying up RMBS, and they were being aggressively traded, so the value went up, so people bought more, etc.
At no point is there some monolithic entity that is making unilateral decisions. It's all individuals.
So tell me, genius, who gets the job of finding the exact people whose decisions get over-ridden? Who gets to decide which decisions should be overridden? Who gets to look into the future and stop the future downturn before it starts?
No, I'm not. If you think individuals are unfit to make their own economic decisions, you're arguing for a government controlled economy. Period. End of story. And a government controlled economy entails all the consequences I've laid out.
Now if you're talking regulation, that is a wholly different animal. Regulation lays out a list of things that you can't do, or can only do if you also do some other thing, but leaves all the actual decision making up to the individual.
I have absolutely no problem with regulation, as long as it's sensible regulation, and the current banking fiasco can be directly linked to the drop of certain finance restrictions by the SEC in 2006, and more generally, to some sloppy money policies from the fed going back 10 years.
As for the loan situation, yea, it's a screw up. When people are free to choose, sometimes they choose poorly. Such people and companies should be allowed to fail, to be replaced by people who make better choices. You seem to be advocating a system where only good choices are made, which may work perfectly well in Fairyland, but has no place in the real world.
Historically the system that has always worked best is the system that allows individuals to make their own choices. It's not a perfect system, but it's not a perfect world.
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I think the big limitation against a robot "eating" living things at this point is that the energy required in harvesting anything that moves is far in excess of the energy that the robot will be able to extract from it. Bound to be an inefficient process.
In the long run, however, I think I'd be leery of giving them any sort of decision tree about whether or not "object A" is edible. Even discounting human.pet accidents, no one wants to wake up in the morning to find that a robot has eaten your picnic table.
I bet the Amish could apply for the "organic" label.
If a machine only eats "organic" people, do you think they'd be eligible for tax breaks as a "green" consumer?
I came in here to make just this point. File sharing is rightly low priority traffic, and if their bandwidth is getting tight during internet rush hour, I'd expect them to prioritize accordingly.
Honestly, would you rather your downloads slowed down fractionally, or your streaming music/video/phone getting unbearably choppy? Extra lag in your online games? Yuck.
Though yea, if they start throttling it all the time and just constantly saying, "Whoa boys that traffic is sure mighty high today HA HA HA," then yea, they need to pay.
(Disclaimer: I have only Cox and AT&T where I live, and I hate both of them for various reasons, but Cox is awesome compared to, for example, Comcast).
I think trying to xerox the dog kinda misses the point. You're going to spend the entire dogs life wondering why he's not exactly like his progenitor.
Get a new dog, and you can keep your good memories of the previous dog untainted.
They're doing development on Midnight Commander...I doubt they thought they were going to need a ton of resources.
Still, I'm glad to see 'em back. MC is a big help when you're working on the console.
It would have been painless too. Look how many props the fricking Matrix series got for one tiny shot of Trinity(?) using nmap.
I understand that you have to give both the kids a role, since only one of them had a role in the book, but when you cheapen it...You might as well not have made the effort in the first place.
And a phone without a speaker is useful for...What exactly?
You know how it goes. The phone will be released with the US OS, which doesn't include the stuff that is illegal here.
But you can go immediately to sites overseas and download a version that has all the good stuff pre-included. Since the phone OS is basically designed for this sort of swapping, it's hard to see how they could prevent this.
I hate this crap because my kid is camera obsessed, and, upon hearing the click, stops doing the cute crap that he was previously doing and demands to see the picture.
Just another example of the perv's ruining things for the rest of us, and I'm sure that a modified firmware will be released in like 10 minutes to take it off, so the only people who will be inconvenienced are people like me (who will...hem...not get screwed after I accidentally brick my wife's phone).
I agree, but I think that part of the reason for that is the basis on which those people were promoted to their positions. Basically they took the most obsessed, most rabid people, who made the most edits, and put them in charge.
If they picked some disinterested professionals, and put them in charge, it might work out better.
You're probably right though. Any oversight is bound to come with abuses.
I don't think broadband should be a national issue, for some of the reasons you state.
However I see no reason that it can't be a local government issue. They can raise the money with bonds, penny taxes, and property taxes. They have a much better idea of whether or not their constituency feels the need to have it.
This sort of infrastructure really is a local issue, same as water, sewer, and natural gas.
The journalists write the stuff, because they're more familiar with the subject, and then the editors come in with style/content questions, and then the copy editors hit grammar and spelling. It's the way it's always been, but 20 years ago the layout would have been done painstakingly by hand, and the errors would have been a lot more obvious. Spellchecker makes everyone lazy.
Some of the quality issues are related to cuts: fewer journalists having to fill the same space equals crappier stories. Investigative reporting is really expensive, and it requires taking a reporter away from his/her daily work for sometimes months at a time. Some beats are covered by far too few people. One person covers the two county governments in our core circulation area, which equals very scant, sloppy coverage.
Most reputable papers won't just print a press release, but there are plenty of non-reputable papers out there. Lot of newspaper companies are owned by corporations now, and corporations are about profit first and last. Even profitable papers suffer when all the papers are corporately owned: your profits are absorbed by someone elses losses
I agree largely about the decline in quality, but I lay most of the blame with corporate profit policies, and with the decline in staff numbers. It's really hard to produce good quality without any real resources...It's bad enough in some places that you can't get approval to do a FOIA request because the paperwork costs too much, and the damn government knows it, and knows that if you can't afford the paperwork, then you sure as hell can't afford to sue over it.
It's not because of the journalists. The primary skill for a journalist is the ability to gossip at on olympic level: many of them are poor writers, because writing is secondary to being able to find things out. Some of the best journalists I know are terrible writers, but they have the ability to get people to say things on the record that they wouldn't tell their shrink.
The reason the writing seems worse is because the copy editing and editorial positions have been hit harder than the positions for the actual journalists, so there are fewer people doing grammar, etc.
It's a reference to this(SFW) picture. I've seen a lot of instances (usually on fark) where this gets posted to mock overly partisan sniping (e.g. by inferring that the snipers are basically like the dog in the picture).
I was going to be snarky, but your line about changing the columns made me scratch my head and actually LOOK at the options for the first time in a decade, and I'll be goddamned if there isn't a way to add every bit of data I've ever wanted to the stupid little process tab.
Thanks a bunch, that's the coolest thing I've learned about windows in a couple of years at least. (Not my primary OS, obviously, but still damn useful to know)
Yup yup. I've just never tested extra ram on XP 64 so I didn't want to give crap advice.
And when it turns out to be svchost.exe, send a nasty email to Balmer.
I've seen systems start crawling on stupid windows background crap that only shows up in the process tab as "System Idle Process."
Compared to using ps or top, I'm not a fan of the scanty process tools in windows. The only decent one is perfmon; it's "Performance" under "Administrative Tools."
Open it up, go down to the bottom, right click on the little window under the graph and choose "add counters." Go ahead and add them all, and start the monitor.
Okay, now that your brain is bleeding, stop it, remove all the counters, and actually read the names and add only the ones you think you need.
Pretty much everything that's going on in the system is measured there, so you can get a pretty good idea of what the problem is, and that may point you in the direction of solving it.
Just as an fyi: if you're dumping to a log, make sure you have an idea of how much space it's eating up. A big perf log can eat up your whole harddrive if you leave it running.
Yea, I use my Windows box for games and the occasional access/.net thing. I don't check my email, I don't check my bank account, I don't browse the web, nothing.
I find I don't know what to tell people who say, "Well how can I be sure it's gone, so I can go back to entering my personal information on my insecure windows machine." You simply can't be sure. I'm not sure with my Linux box. I've taken a lot of precautions, but that's not even remotely the same as being sure.
Not a lot to go on, though as a freebie, XP doesn't do jack with that extra gig of RAM...You could put in 100gigs and it won't use any more than 3 (less you're using the 64 bit version, iirc).
Rootkits can run "under the radar". Might want to try software like RootKitRevealer, or Blacklight. A crappy one might grab a ton of cycles for a minute, but most of them are less intrusive.
Everything spiking at once sounds like that stupid "System Restore" process, or maybe a big swap dump (which is weird with that much RAM, but you know, it's windows.) Stupid programs like Norton can grab a huge chunk of resources every now and then for no discernable reason. Maybe some peripheral is crapping out?
Barring malware, I'd start writing down what's running when it spikes, and see if that tells you anything. Lot of programs can cause momentary spikes, but background processes usually don't. You could try testing some of the hardware but without anything specific to look for, you're going to have a hell of a time finding something.
The government has strict rules about the content they put up; it has to be 100% accessible to people with disabilities, and javascript causes a lot of problems with that.
On the one hand, this is obviously a no-brainer, because the gov't should be accessible to everyone. On the other hand, it means that developing websites is so expensive that they don't do it often, so even agencies that might be inclined to put things online don't do it because of the hassle.
No point in reinventing the wheel. YouTube is the thing for videos right now, so why not use it? People who keep sniping about gov't waste should be happy about this stuff.
Clearly you don't have my job =P
All recessions are psychological. That doesn't mean they're not real. There is a reason that "Consumer Confidence" is a respected economic indicator.
So yea, don't spend like an idiot, but don't switch to an all ramen diet either. Don't pull out of all your investments. Don't hunker down and put your life on hold and wait for it to go away.
Well, I'd go far as to say that no decision affects only individuals...Economic activity is like the weather, and even the smallest consumer is like the proverbial butterfly flapping his wings.
But every decision is an individual decision. All those bad loans were made by hundreds and thousands of people, one at a time. They were bought up, because loans are a reliable investment, and, indeed, they'll probably make money in the long run: a loan has to lose 80% of it's value before you actually start losing money on it. Eighty percent!
The debtor has to default, and then the house has to burn down, and the property get used as a medical waste dumping ground. Most of those loans are at least going to break even, so it looked like a good investment to the banks. So individual managers started buying up RMBS, and they were being aggressively traded, so the value went up, so people bought more, etc.
At no point is there some monolithic entity that is making unilateral decisions. It's all individuals.
So tell me, genius, who gets the job of finding the exact people whose decisions get over-ridden? Who gets to decide which decisions should be overridden? Who gets to look into the future and stop the future downturn before it starts?
No, I'm not. If you think individuals are unfit to make their own economic decisions, you're arguing for a government controlled economy. Period. End of story. And a government controlled economy entails all the consequences I've laid out.
Now if you're talking regulation, that is a wholly different animal. Regulation lays out a list of things that you can't do, or can only do if you also do some other thing, but leaves all the actual decision making up to the individual.
I have absolutely no problem with regulation, as long as it's sensible regulation, and the current banking fiasco can be directly linked to the drop of certain finance restrictions by the SEC in 2006, and more generally, to some sloppy money policies from the fed going back 10 years.
As for the loan situation, yea, it's a screw up. When people are free to choose, sometimes they choose poorly. Such people and companies should be allowed to fail, to be replaced by people who make better choices. You seem to be advocating a system where only good choices are made, which may work perfectly well in Fairyland, but has no place in the real world.
Historically the system that has always worked best is the system that allows individuals to make their own choices. It's not a perfect system, but it's not a perfect world.