Seriously, is there nothing more interesting going on in the world right now? If this is indeed the case, that employees don't get paid before they log in, then go and buy a friggin' timer, or get a mac or linux, where these things are easy. Better yet, keep the machine running all night long at the expense of your employer! BETTER YET: hire somebody to walk around and turn on all the machines PRIOR to all the regular employees coming in!
Disappointingly uninteresting story.
I am a scientist, and I know a lot of scientists. The majority of them are hard-working people who love what they do - they are fun, interesting, intelligent and very motivating people. I find that they have more integrity that your average joe, they are ethically concerned about what they do, and they're not in it for the mighty $ (trust me on this one).
Go watch yourself in the mirror before you throw another hurtful comment out about something which you know very little. Sheesh.
You sound like my mom. She says that "Why should I be afraid of , as long as I'm not doing anything wrong...?" in reply to my concerns about our decaying civil liberties. You cannot accept the possibility of your private affairs being surveilled, read or gathered by anybody, unless you're perfectly happy with living in what can very easily turn into a dictatorial police state.
But there's something fishy going on. Microsoft is doing its best to stall the document, and to ensure that it doesn't apply to Vista, Microsoft's next-generation operating system.
Interesting article, but I'm not quite sure that it's worth while the author's trouble to speculate on "fishy Microsoft-related news". The fact is that when Vista is released, it'll ship with every new desktop and every new laptop that's sold, basically anywhere around the world, and nobody will give a hoot about a speculative paper released before the OS was. Vista will most likely be much more secure than 2000 and XP, and that is plenty enough for Joe User.
The excitement over this paper, or "treatment" is perhaps a bit premature. Scaling treatment is a common and quite popular approach in many growth phenomena, and has been investigated to death in the context of crystal growth (MBE, molecular beam epitaxy), but ironically, the equation that bears the name "MBE equation" does not actually describe MBE growth correctly (in my view). Therefore, saying that equation (2) in the original paper describes the physical process of "surface diffusion" in the case of MBE or surface cancer cells is highly suspect. The growth of the cancer cells might be well approximated by the growth MBE equation (2), but this is mere curve fitting, and a closer look at the underlying physical mechanisms is more important than getting good fits.
My name is Andrew Tanenbaum. I am one of the 7 million U.S. citizens living abroad. I am a professor of computer science at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
The situation in Iraq is getting worse by the day, and since complete and immediate withdrawal of all American troops is not an option, it seems likely that Bush will reinstate the draft in order to get enough troops to solve this quagmire.
Why don't you emphasize this more in your campaign? Do young people realize that Bush will send them to war?
Such a realization could be a real test of people's faith in the Bush-administration's war-mongering.
Maybe this realization will awaken those who still think that Saddam had anything to do with 9/11 and other attacks on America.
You're joking, right? I love Linux as much as the next guy here, but may I remind you how long it took to learn all about Linux administration, the late evenings spent tinkering with the firewall, and how fucking hard it seemed to be to get the sound to work over ltsp?
Linux is good, no, great, but there was certainly a time when nothing seemed to work. I guess that's what you mean. With Windows it's opposite: everything APPEARS to work right off the bat, and then things just go downhill from there...
Even the early captialist economists thought that monopolies were a bad idea and nullfied the advantages of capitalism.
Funny you should mention this: didn't Marx say something to the effect that capitalism, if let run wild, would eventually lead to monopolies? He had a name for it... don't remember. Makes sense, though: capitalism is unstable, in the mathematical sense.
OK, maybe I'm way off here, but Intel has made 10nm transistors running at 2THz in the lab. Granted, the leakage current is big, and the power loss is larger than the power used by the transistor, but the proof of concept is there. I don't see why 90nm should be such a big deal. I don't know if the transistor speed translates directly into processor speed; anyone?
You're bringing about some very good points, things I hadn't thought about! Sure, for resources, you'd have to go "locally", i.e. close by, within our own solar system, which we can very well reach.
I do not, however, agree that we're "fossils already" if we stop manned space-flight: on the contrary! we can get muuch more bang-for-the-buck with radio-telescopy-physics than with manned-spaced-flight, again assuming that we're not talking about resources, but the search for extra-terrestial life, or the possibility of inhabiting another planet. We really have very limited range in terms of rocket-flight, and I doubt very much that we have the foresight or patience to wait for generations for a long-haul manned flight beyond the edge of our solar system in order to find possible candidates for Earth 2.
Judging by how things change down here, we need a real and imminent threat before change is investigated: combustion engine, anyone? (I'm not even sure that electric vehicles or fuel-cell is the way to go: it seems that added effort into higher-mileage gas-engines might be more cost-effective for now: stop driving those stupid SUVs already! Isn't this just a political straw-man?); smoking? (only now looked at because the cost of treating the sick people is higher than the tax revenues from tobacco sales).
This is where the background of Slashdot's readers becomes clear: somehow IT people seem to find space travel very exotic and compare it to Columbus and Magellan, I mean, what's with that? As a physicist, I have to say that Van Allen is right on: manned space travel is way too expensive, and the real returns are questionable. Life, if that's what we're looking for, is far away, and radio-telescopy is the way to go. And, while we're at it: I know people who have sent experiments up with the Space Shuttle: again, I find this to be highly suspect: you lose gravity, and that's it: big deal.
My friends working in American hi-tech companies in Canada aren't even allowed to use SSH, and anything that requires changing the registry (in their stupid Windows machines) requires a visit from the IT-guru.I doubt they'll be able to use instant messengers.
This is becoming a weekly occurence now, and still my co-workers that run Windoze swear by IE ""for their plug-in capabilities", whatever. Mozilla/Firefox runs everything that I need just fine, and I don't see what advanced websites they visit could possibly require anything else.
What a farse: the largest OS by orders of magnitude is hurting its own customers, and nobody seems to pick up on it! (I'm talking about your average home-user). This should be a prime opportunity for other OS's to move in and use M$'s inherent insecure approach to their advantage!
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Seriously, is there nothing more interesting going on in the world right now? If this is indeed the case, that employees don't get paid before they log in, then go and buy a friggin' timer, or get a mac or linux, where these things are easy. Better yet, keep the machine running all night long at the expense of your employer! BETTER YET: hire somebody to walk around and turn on all the machines PRIOR to all the regular employees coming in! Disappointingly uninteresting story.
I am a scientist, and I know a lot of scientists. The majority of them are hard-working people who love what they do - they are fun, interesting, intelligent and very motivating people. I find that they have more integrity that your average joe, they are ethically concerned about what they do, and they're not in it for the mighty $ (trust me on this one). Go watch yourself in the mirror before you throw another hurtful comment out about something which you know very little. Sheesh.
Do your employees have access to your email - can they read it to make sure that you are making decisions that are in their best interest?
You sound like my mom. She says that "Why should I be afraid of , as long as I'm not doing anything wrong...?" in reply to my concerns about our decaying civil liberties. You cannot accept the possibility of your private affairs being surveilled, read or gathered by anybody, unless you're perfectly happy with living in what can very easily turn into a dictatorial police state.
The excitement over this paper, or "treatment" is perhaps a bit premature. Scaling treatment is a common and quite popular approach in many growth phenomena, and has been investigated to death in the context of crystal growth (MBE, molecular beam epitaxy), but ironically, the equation that bears the name "MBE equation" does not actually describe MBE growth correctly (in my view). Therefore, saying that equation (2) in the original paper describes the physical process of "surface diffusion" in the case of MBE or surface cancer cells is highly suspect. The growth of the cancer cells might be well approximated by the growth MBE equation (2), but this is mere curve fitting, and a closer look at the underlying physical mechanisms is more important than getting good fits.
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soon, there will be more americans behind bars than in front of them...
The situation in Iraq is getting worse by the day, and since complete and immediate withdrawal of all American troops is not an option, it seems likely that Bush will reinstate the draft in order to get enough troops to solve this quagmire.
Why don't you emphasize this more in your campaign? Do young people realize that Bush will send them to war? Such a realization could be a real test of people's faith in the Bush-administration's war-mongering.
Maybe this realization will awaken those who still think that Saddam had anything to do with 9/11 and other attacks on America.
You're joking, right? I love Linux as much as the next guy here, but may I remind you how long it took to learn all about Linux administration, the late evenings spent tinkering with the firewall, and how fucking hard it seemed to be to get the sound to work over ltsp?
Linux is good, no, great, but there was certainly a time when nothing seemed to work. I guess that's what you mean. With Windows it's opposite: everything APPEARS to work right off the bat, and then things just go downhill from there...
Funny you should mention this: didn't Marx say something to the effect that capitalism, if let run wild, would eventually lead to monopolies? He had a name for it... don't remember. Makes sense, though: capitalism is unstable, in the mathematical sense.
yeah, i agree with you: does anybody actually care about CPU speed anymore? i'm stuck with, and happy with, my XP2000. no problemo.
i have it from educated sources that the real limit for CMOS technology is 10nm.
OK, maybe I'm way off here, but Intel has made 10nm transistors running at 2THz in the lab. Granted, the leakage current is big, and the power loss is larger than the power used by the transistor, but the proof of concept is there. I don't see why 90nm should be such a big deal. I don't know if the transistor speed translates directly into processor speed; anyone?
I do not, however, agree that we're "fossils already" if we stop manned space-flight: on the contrary! we can get muuch more bang-for-the-buck with radio-telescopy-physics than with manned-spaced-flight, again assuming that we're not talking about resources, but the search for extra-terrestial life, or the possibility of inhabiting another planet. We really have very limited range in terms of rocket-flight, and I doubt very much that we have the foresight or patience to wait for generations for a long-haul manned flight beyond the edge of our solar system in order to find possible candidates for Earth 2.
Judging by how things change down here, we need a real and imminent threat before change is investigated: combustion engine, anyone? (I'm not even sure that electric vehicles or fuel-cell is the way to go: it seems that added effort into higher-mileage gas-engines might be more cost-effective for now: stop driving those stupid SUVs already! Isn't this just a political straw-man?); smoking? (only now looked at because the cost of treating the sick people is higher than the tax revenues from tobacco sales).
Thanks for the links, by the way ;)
This is where the background of Slashdot's readers becomes clear: somehow IT people seem to find space travel very exotic and compare it to Columbus and Magellan, I mean, what's with that? As a physicist, I have to say that Van Allen is right on: manned space travel is way too expensive, and the real returns are questionable. Life, if that's what we're looking for, is far away, and radio-telescopy is the way to go. And, while we're at it: I know people who have sent experiments up with the Space Shuttle: again, I find this to be highly suspect: you lose gravity, and that's it: big deal.
My friends working in American hi-tech companies in Canada aren't even allowed to use SSH, and anything that requires changing the registry (in their stupid Windows machines) requires a visit from the IT-guru.I doubt they'll be able to use instant messengers.
It's real easy on Mac's too: > sudo su > passwd
Linux and SPAMAssassin.
What a farse: the largest OS by orders of magnitude is hurting its own customers, and nobody seems to pick up on it! (I'm talking about your average home-user). This should be a prime opportunity for other OS's to move in and use M$'s inherent insecure approach to their advantage!
heheee...
Photography is 90% composition and 10% tech-specs of your camera! Learn to find something to shoot at before you get all tech-revved.