I'm almost more concerned that you can't
recall "how many times [you've] been
sitting silently in a room with no windows
in the middle of no where on the map."
Is, uh, is there something you find
particlularly rewarding in this?:-)
Well... Sedan, Cabriolet, Coupe amd Limousine were all types of horse-drawn carriages that we still apply to types of cars.
One still flies (or some trains) coach.
Though it's also still technically appropriate, Wireless networking in some sense borrows the name from early radio.
Some (old fogies, undoubtedly) still call mobile phones "Cellular" though in many cases the technology is *not* cellular any more.
And so on. There are many *many* more examples of this. Photography is not unique at all in this respect.
Old terms live for a long time. Not because they're technically correct, but because they name a thing and the ability for a groupd to identify what another means is more important than staying up to date. The new comers must learn the "old" termonology.
Oh, and if you don't know the terms.... you're not a Photographer, you're just some one who takes digital pictures. Not the same thing.:-)
Preface: You are completely correct. I'll not dispute that.
But, if you have "a problem" there *may* be a $19.95 solution that will work perfectly. But, just because it's $19.95 and neatly packaged doesn't mean it'll necessarily be any
a) easier to find (might still take an hour search just to find it amid the chaff of adware/junk out there) or
b) easy to use (installing a "nice package" may be quick, but using said program to solve "the problem" could still be complicated and time consuming).
Commercial or OSS doesn't make or break any solution. You should always use the solution that works and leave idealogical hangups at the door if your interest is in solving "the problem".
Or, to put it another way, paying someone $19.95 to research and package a solution for you doesn't guarantee they did it right. You'll still have to "spend" time to verify that yourself.
Maybe that's what you meant, and if so I please disregard this post.
None of my close friends give any credit to creationism or ID, but we're all well educated athiests so I guess that's to be expected. Maybe I've been blind to the views of the majority in this proudly secular country?
You associate with people who think like you do. You therefore assume "everyone" must be the same as everyone you know is like this.
Most people make the same mistake. Believing that those around themselves are a representative sample of the city/state/province/country/world at large. But, it isn't, and well executed surveys of larger populations usually show depressing levels of idiocy/people not like you.
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These are after taxes numbers. Now try adding in expenses for two, or kids and I can't see how anyone with kids can get by on less than $80,000US a year.
So is *every* American responsible for President Cheney and his puppets and their personal war^h^h^h^h power grab? (hears resounding yes from international community)
Is every German alive during WWII responsible for Hitler and his war?
Is every Muslim responsible for the Taliban?
Is every French/English/Belgan responsible for atrocities in colonial Africa (during that time, which wasn't so long ago) and the aftermath they're still dealing with now?
Is every Russian (or former memeber of the Soviet Union) responsible for Stalin? Their Afghanistan?
Is every Catholic responsible for pedophile priests?
Is every Christian responsible for Jerry Falwell?
Is every Japanese responsible for Pearl Harbor?
Atrocities in occupied China?
Is every Canadian responsible for Celine Dion? (hears resounding yes from international community)
Just be careful in overly broad assiging of blame.If you aren't, then you're probably guilty and should be executed along with the rest of us.
Or that there is enough overcapacity that *some* damage can be compensated for. If you still damage it enough, you will lose something eventually. Or if you just damage the right parts you will also.
Performing one action and *not* having any side effects does not prove there is no connection. It merely proves you got no results.
I can press the edge of a knife across my throat and not get cut. That doesn't mean knives aren't dangerous... just that I ran the dull back of the knife across my throat and not the sharp edge.
Lack of evidence only proves you lack evidence, where as one piece of evidence requiring an opposite conclusion is.... pretty conclusive. As long as you get *no* contradictory evidence, an hypothesis may stand, but once any conditions refuting the hypothesis are observed, the hypothesis must change to account for the evidence, or fail.
At least in a purely logical sort of way. Metaphysics (or people into metaphysics) tends to remove itself from logic. That isn't necessarily a bad thing. You can take it for what you like.
but so far there's nothing to suggest that consciousness is based within the brain, let alone is computational.
Sure there's evidence to suggest that consciousness is based within the brain.
If the brain is damaged, consciousness can be removed or reduced (level of). That alone is a strong ling that consciousness is brain based. Enough brain damage and one can die or be reduced to a vegitable, metaphorically speaking. That seems to be a distinct reduction in consciousness.
Smaller brains seem to have varying but usually lesser degrees of consciousness. Dogs have some level of conscousness, but it doesn't seem to be to same degree as, say, humans or even chimps.
Defining consciousness itself is difficult, though. Is consciousness merely intelligence? Intellectual capacity? Awareness of surroundings? Memory? A combination of these? Something else? Something else is a slippery slope, though, as one can define consciousness as something which is intentionally unmeasurable or unknowable.
Yeah, where I currently work and at previous employers we also mirrored data as a "hot" backup too, but that was only in large systems (try it on a laptop in the desert (really in the desert, on a rock next to a lizard)).... tape was still used for "real" backup and to protect against the aforementioned mirrored delete. I've seen that happen too.
That's why I didn't really include it in making my initial statement that I don't know anyone making backups at less than about 24 hour intervals... though I'm sure some exist.
Often data recovery is used because of intentional "user" actions. Such as, say, the disgruntled IT employee who tried to erase the contents of a hard drive which contained the evidence of his (insert crime or suspicious activity here) with out using a secure wipe utility (which may very well still be recoverable by the truely professional recovery shop, I dunno).
Even so, I don't know anyone one that makes backups in less than 24 hour increments. You can do an awful lot of work inbetween last night's backup and tonight's. If your computer go to the great network in the sky (ok, bad metaphore) before the next backup, there could still be a lot of data to recover.
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I've worked for Sun in the late 70s and again in the mid-80s as a contractor
Good trick, that, to work for a company in the 70's that was founded in 1982. (with only 4 employees too) Sun Getting Started
"Dad, can I have five dollars?" said the kid.
"Why?" asked the dad.
"To buy a giunea pig for a pet." answered the kid.
"Here's two dollars, son. Go find yourself a nice Irish girl."
Works better if the girl is cheaper than the pet. And, somewhere I once read that $2 suggested the cheap girl was a hooker. It was a "traditional" price for a trick... somewhere. Or something to that effect.
Down the karma tubes go.....
But even on the 400 most file operations are strictly hierarchical./Root/QIBM/UserData/some/additional/path/to/file.e xt
or/Root/home/username/whatever
or some library list or "files"
No no no:
If it were Boolean it would have NOTS
If it were Bow-lean it would have KNOTS.
(though knots are also found in things of Not-ical persuasion).
These chips (for the first few years *at least*) will be low end or mid range small servers. Small in that they won't be competing with Sun Fire 15K servers which themselves only support physical memory of up to 576GB. No one will need those extra 24 memory address lines, so why build chips or motherboards with them?
Another way of looking at it is real-estate.
Currently 1GB dimms are the normal upper end, with a few 2GB dimms around.
At that rate, can you imagine the motherboard that could actually reach the 1TB RAM limit? 512 or 1024 dimm slots?....
Slashdot Mirror
I'm almost more concerned that you can't recall "how many times [you've] been sitting silently in a room with no windows in the middle of no where on the map." Is, uh, is there something you find particlularly rewarding in this? :-)
11 years ago?
Yeah. That's about when.
This tech is really cool, but scary as hell in the wrong hands*
*Wrong hands is here defined as anybody with or without hands.
If we can get the Facebook and Antifacebook particles to collide and annihilate each other, we'll all be better off.
Well... Sedan, Cabriolet, Coupe amd Limousine were all types of horse-drawn carriages that we still apply to types of cars.
:-)
One still flies (or some trains) coach.
Though it's also still technically appropriate, Wireless networking in some sense borrows the name from early radio.
Some (old fogies, undoubtedly) still call mobile phones "Cellular" though in many cases the technology is *not* cellular any more.
And so on. There are many *many* more examples of this. Photography is not unique at all in this respect.
Old terms live for a long time. Not because they're technically correct, but because they name a thing and the ability for a groupd to identify what another means is more important than staying up to date. The new comers must learn the "old" termonology.
Oh, and if you don't know the terms.... you're not a Photographer, you're just some one who takes digital pictures. Not the same thing.
But, if you have "a problem" there *may* be a $19.95 solution that will work perfectly. But, just because it's $19.95 and neatly packaged doesn't mean it'll necessarily be any
Commercial or OSS doesn't make or break any solution. You should always use the solution that works and leave idealogical hangups at the door if your interest is in solving "the problem".
Or, to put it another way, paying someone $19.95 to research and package a solution for you doesn't guarantee they did it right. You'll still have to "spend" time to verify that yourself.
Maybe that's what you meant, and if so I please disregard this post.
Most people make the same mistake. Believing that those around themselves are a representative sample of the city/state/province/country/world at large. But, it isn't, and well executed surveys of larger populations usually show depressing levels of idiocy/people not like you. ---- spelling errors painstakingly added for your reading pleasure.
he he he. Nematodes are people too.
It's not difficult for expenses to add up.
High (est) Estimate
Rent: $1500
Car Payment: $600 (or two @ $300)
Car Insurance: $300
Gasoline: $250 (SUV)
Utilities: $200
Broad(band): $50
Food: $800 (eat out more)
Entertainment: $500
Student Loans: $200
Total: $4400
High(er) Estimate
Rent: $1200
Car Payment: $300 (nothing expensive)
Car Insurance: $100
Gasoline: $100
Utilities: $200
Broad(band): $50
Food: $400
Entertainment: $250
Total: $2600
Low Estimate:
Rent: $600
Car Payment: $0 (it's paid off)
Gasoline: $100
Utilities: $150
Broad(band): $50
Food: $200
Entertainment: $100
Total: $1200
These are after taxes numbers.
Now try adding in expenses for two, or kids and I can't see how anyone with kids can get by on less than $80,000US a year.
Isaac Asimov's "The Last Question"
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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=asimov+%22th
Hmmm?
So is *every* American responsible for President Cheney and his puppets and their personal war^h^h^h^h power grab? (hears resounding yes from international community)
Is every German alive during WWII responsible for Hitler and his war?
Is every Muslim responsible for the Taliban?
Is every French/English/Belgan responsible for atrocities in colonial Africa (during that time, which wasn't so long ago) and the aftermath they're still dealing with now?
Is every Russian (or former memeber of the Soviet Union) responsible for Stalin?
Their Afghanistan?
Is every Catholic responsible for pedophile priests?
Is every Christian responsible for Jerry Falwell?
Is every Japanese responsible for Pearl Harbor?
Atrocities in occupied China?
Is every Canadian responsible for Celine Dion? (hears resounding yes from international community)
Just be careful in overly broad assiging of blame.If you aren't, then you're probably guilty and should be executed along with the rest of us.
Or that there is enough overcapacity that *some* damage can be compensated for. If you still damage it enough, you will lose something eventually. Or if you just damage the right parts you will also.
.... pretty conclusive. As long as you get *no* contradictory evidence, an hypothesis may stand, but once any conditions refuting the hypothesis are observed, the hypothesis must change to account for the evidence, or fail.
Performing one action and *not* having any side effects does not prove there is no connection. It merely proves you got no results.
I can press the edge of a knife across my throat and not get cut. That doesn't mean knives aren't dangerous... just that I ran the dull back of the knife across my throat and not the sharp edge.
Lack of evidence only proves you lack evidence, where as one piece of evidence requiring an opposite conclusion is
At least in a purely logical sort of way. Metaphysics (or people into metaphysics) tends to remove itself from logic. That isn't necessarily a bad thing. You can take it for what you like.
but so far there's nothing to suggest that consciousness is based within the brain, let alone is computational. Sure there's evidence to suggest that consciousness is based within the brain. If the brain is damaged, consciousness can be removed or reduced (level of). That alone is a strong ling that consciousness is brain based. Enough brain damage and one can die or be reduced to a vegitable, metaphorically speaking. That seems to be a distinct reduction in consciousness. Smaller brains seem to have varying but usually lesser degrees of consciousness. Dogs have some level of conscousness, but it doesn't seem to be to same degree as, say, humans or even chimps. Defining consciousness itself is difficult, though. Is consciousness merely intelligence? Intellectual capacity? Awareness of surroundings? Memory? A combination of these? Something else? Something else is a slippery slope, though, as one can define consciousness as something which is intentionally unmeasurable or unknowable.
Still, we are slaves to our machines...
No, we are slaves to the programers who program the software that runs on our machines.
You're my slave?
Cool.
What, specifically, does that entail? Can I order you to fetch me some peeled grapes?
As I head down the Karma tubes: 581 (kilometers per hours) = 970,412.789 furlongs per fortnight.
Luxury.
What I wouldn't have done for a pile of stock options.
All we got was the bag the stock options came in.
Yeah, where I currently work and at previous employers we also mirrored data as a "hot" backup too, but that was only in large systems (try it on a laptop in the desert (really in the desert, on a rock next to a lizard)).... tape was still used for "real" backup and to protect against the aforementioned mirrored delete. I've seen that happen too.
That's why I didn't really include it in making my initial statement that I don't know anyone making backups at less than about 24 hour intervals... though I'm sure some exist.
Often data recovery is used because of intentional "user" actions. Such as, say, the disgruntled IT employee who tried to erase the contents of a hard drive which contained the evidence of his (insert crime or suspicious activity here) with out using a secure wipe utility (which may very well still be recoverable by the truely professional recovery shop, I dunno).
Even so, I don't know anyone one that makes backups in less than 24 hour increments. You can do an awful lot of work inbetween last night's backup and tonight's. If your computer go to the great network in the sky (ok, bad metaphore) before the next backup, there could still be a lot of data to recover.
I've worked for Sun in the late 70s and again in the mid-80s as a contractor
Good trick, that, to work for a company in the 70's that was founded in 1982. (with only 4 employees too) Sun Getting Started
Wheeeee.........Ah, I see that was an AC.
...the burner in sanctified with the blood of a virgin...
Well, that shouldn't be difficult to find (here).
"Dad, can I have five dollars?" said the kid. "Why?" asked the dad. "To buy a giunea pig for a pet." answered the kid. "Here's two dollars, son. Go find yourself a nice Irish girl." Works better if the girl is cheaper than the pet. And, somewhere I once read that $2 suggested the cheap girl was a hooker. It was a "traditional" price for a trick... somewhere. Or something to that effect. Down the karma tubes go.....
But even on the 400 most file operations are strictly hierarchical. /Root/QIBM/UserData/some/additional/path/to/file.e xt
or /Root/home/username/whatever
or some library list or "files"
No no no: If it were Boolean it would have NOTS If it were Bow-lean it would have KNOTS. (though knots are also found in things of Not-ical persuasion).
To truely avoid confusion: Bruce
Or just paint it yellow for the same effect.
Cost.
These chips (for the first few years *at least*) will be low end or mid range small servers. Small in that they won't be competing with Sun Fire 15K servers which themselves only support physical memory of up to 576GB. No one will need those extra 24 memory address lines, so why build chips or motherboards with them?
Another way of looking at it is real-estate.
Currently 1GB dimms are the normal upper end, with a few 2GB dimms around.
At that rate, can you imagine the motherboard that could actually reach the 1TB RAM limit? 512 or 1024 dimm slots?....
Would that fit into the ATX form factor?