I was more bothered by the fact that the summary used dollars, pounds, and euros, and then didn't bother to specify if the dollars were Australian or US.
Just to reply to the parents:
-Just because you run the system for 6/12/18 months without a crash does not mean its stable. Most apps won't crash if 1+1=1.9999. You're not likely to notice if a single pixel in a single frame in a YouTube video is the wrong color.
-Just because your system is stable, then has a crash doesn't mean that the silicon is degrading. Even a "perfect" chip will have a fault or two every few 10^x calculations (where x is some large number).
A similar thing has occurred over the last 30 years in the physics sub-field of quantum Monte Carlo. I forget what the numbers are, but it's something similar with the algorithmic improvements being like an order of magnitude greater than the CPU improvements.
That's why there's Twitter:
"@911, need help, was watching football game, now choking on a pretzel, my address is 1600 penn" [140 char maximum reached]
I love all of these FF is so slow stories. It has actually gotten faster and faster with each release, but the damn websites just keep piling on the Javascript. The FF4 should be as fast as any other browser out there (eg, Chrome), but until the webmasters decide to start playing nice with the amount of Flash/JS/etc they add, the browsers are going to be losing ground.
Here's one graph showing FF3.5 vs FF3.6, with 3.6 being the faster. And in a test I did at one point, I found that 3.5 was roughly twice as fast as 3.0.
But if my password is SSL-encrypted between me and the bank, for instance, then what's the risk?
I get the feeling that this only applies to some particular version of enterprise-grade wi-fi, like the Thawte keys that I have to use on the corporate net.
It had dirt, rocks, Flynn's arcade, etc. Basically it didn't resemble the cold, sterile and surreal computer world (clean, angular, energy beams on the horizon, floating block "clouds", etc.) of the original film.
30 real world years have passed since the original and during that time was a period when Flynn, Clu, and Tron were trying to make the perfect world. Also, technology improved and whatever server they were on presumably got a number of upgrades. The result is that the Tron world became closer to the real world.
Hell, they had a fucking banquet that included a whole roast pig at Flynn's house of Zen meditation
Flynn is both a user and the designer. He is God. If God wants bacon, then he should be able to have it, as long is it obeys the rules of the world. I agree, it was a little jarring to see though. But in the first film, they drank "water" to refresh themselves. Why would there be water in a computer system? Water is the enemy of all electronics. The water represented the nourishment that those programs needed. In the time since the last movie, Flynn has figured out how to make the nourishment look like a banquet, instead of just a glass of water.
They never really explain why Clu attacked Flynn and converted Tron/Rinzler. Supposedly it was because he wanted to make a perfect world, but at the time of the attack, Flynn hadn't come across his revelation ("perfection is unknowable and in front of you at the same time") because he hadn't become stuck in the computer world yet.
It was explained. The ISO's, a form of synthetic life (not just a program, but actually alive) came into being. CLU saw these unpredictable elements as imperfections in his system. Flynn saw them as the next step in evolution. This is why CLU attacked - there was a danger and Flynn was promoting it.
Was Clu a power hungry megalomaniac or was he just following his programming?
Mostly the latter, but definitely aspects of both. He was programmed to create perfection. He had done as much as he could from within the system and he wanted to continue his goal from outside of the system. He wasn't "power hungry" because he was just a program (however, he was programmed to act in a way that could be perceived as power hungry). The reason why CLU looks like Flynn is that CLU represents Flynn's ambitions and desires (at the time he was created). There's a whole message of learning from your mistakes and self-discovery in this.
What happened to Tron
Presumably, he died. Although I think it was intentional to leave it like that so that we have room for a sequel. Also, not to be too much of a spoiler, but that's probably why we don't get any confirmation as to what happened to Flynn and CLU either.
And for the record, I hope this doesn't become a Hollywood sequel-every-two-years franchise.
where Quorra was brought out into the real world. That was a bit too Weird Science for me.
You're okay with people in computer world, but not programs in the real world?
While we're at it, why isn't "internet" capitalized? "Internet" is a proper noun, thus is capitalized. Even my browser is smart enough to stick a wavy red line underneath it if I spell it with a lowercase 'i'.
This is America - even on purely electronic transactions, the bank withdraws it from your account on day 1 and then submits it to the recipient's account on day 3/4/5. In between, they have extra money in their account, which they use (in the form of loans, etc) to make extra money.
Meanwhile, banks only want to do business with you if you have direct deposit and if you use online banking, because the last thing that they want you to do is use cash.
All the cell phones are doing is adding to the efficiency of the market. And most economists would agree that this is a good thing. Retailers that profit by inefficiencies in the market are doomed to failure eventually, at least if you believe in free market principles.
One advantage that retailers will have for the foreseeable future is in letting the customer experience the product prior to sale. That's a big reason why the Apple company stores are such a good idea. And the reason why Target recently re-did their video game section to allow the customer to hold the game prior to purchase, instead of looking at it behind glass, as was the case before.
Retailers do have a major disadvantage with regard to sales tax. In Chicago, the sales tax rate is currently 10.25%, which means that a $999 TV has over $100 tax applied. This more than negates the cost of shipping by buying online. If I was a Best Buy or a Walmart, I would be arguing for an Oregon-like tax structure, with no sales tax.
After a terrible Linux driver experience a few years ago with AMD, I switched to NVidia and have been fairly happy ever since. But these latest cards have me thinking of switching back on my next upgrade. How is the AMD Linux driver?
I currently have two NVidia cards driving three monitors; does anyone have experience doing the same thing with the AMD driver?
Except, you would normally hold shift to write that, because if you use caps-lock, then you're tapping shift for every underscore you want to add. Holding shift is just easier.
How do we know that all of the "Barack Obama sucks" websites out there won't make it harder to search for the White House? Just one example of where semantic inclusion may not work.
Noscript and "no cookies" are a start, but there's been plenty of evidence that the marketers are starting to dig even deeper than that. For example, linking all of the pages you visit (on their ad network) via IP address and Flash cookies.
And so many sites are using Javascript for the simplest things (like displaying images) and benefit from logons (Slashdot included) that it's really hard to just surf anonymously like we did 15 years ago.
I can only imagine that this is going to get much, much worse before it gets better.
Considering how long it takes to get a patent...
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Considering how long it takes to get a patent, he must have been in diapers when he submitted it. Kudos to him.
And the invention is a good idea too. My cell usually rests on the kitchen floor while it charges.
The author of the editorial is Peter Rez, a physicist at Arizona State. As someone who has had an opportunity to take a couple of classes from this guy, let me say that he is very smart and reasonable, and while I don't always agree with what he has to say, I think it's definitely worth a bit of your time to read what he has written.
Surfing without encryption opens you up to eavesdropping and spoofing.
Surfing with encryption protects you from eavesdropping and spoofing.
Surfing with a self-signed encryption protects you from eavesdropping, but not spoofing, since you don't know who the signer is.
Yet, Firefox treats self-signed certificates as if they were worse than no encryption at all. The default behavior should be to treat self-signed certificates as if there was no encryption at all (from a user perspective). To give users these dire warnings, when in fact they are better protected, is just silly.
Is anyone else getting re-directed to Epoclick.com after clicking the link in this story?
A few days ago, sometimes when I click on a link, I get sent to Epoclick.com in a popup window. This has only been happening with Slashdot and links going to gizmodo or gizmag and only on this laptop. I can't figure out which website is to blame, or if maybe I have a virus or malicious javascript code running.
Slashdot Mirror
I was more bothered by the fact that the summary used dollars, pounds, and euros, and then didn't bother to specify if the dollars were Australian or US.
Just to reply to the parents: -Just because you run the system for 6/12/18 months without a crash does not mean its stable. Most apps won't crash if 1+1=1.9999. You're not likely to notice if a single pixel in a single frame in a YouTube video is the wrong color. -Just because your system is stable, then has a crash doesn't mean that the silicon is degrading. Even a "perfect" chip will have a fault or two every few 10^x calculations (where x is some large number).
A similar thing has occurred over the last 30 years in the physics sub-field of quantum Monte Carlo. I forget what the numbers are, but it's something similar with the algorithmic improvements being like an order of magnitude greater than the CPU improvements.
Disregard my previous post. I expected the outage on Wednesday story to have been posted on Wednesday, not this morning. My mistake.
That's why there's Twitter: "@911, need help, was watching football game, now choking on a pretzel, my address is 1600 penn" [140 char maximum reached]
They're posting about the fact that it's back up, but I never saw a story saying anything about it going down.
Here's one graph showing FF3.5 vs FF3.6, with 3.6 being the faster. And in a test I did at one point, I found that 3.5 was roughly twice as fast as 3.0.
Graph
But if my password is SSL-encrypted between me and the bank, for instance, then what's the risk?
I get the feeling that this only applies to some particular version of enterprise-grade wi-fi, like the Thawte keys that I have to use on the corporate net.
Why did you post all of that as an AC? Oh well...
It had dirt, rocks, Flynn's arcade, etc. Basically it didn't resemble the cold, sterile and surreal computer world (clean, angular, energy beams on the horizon, floating block "clouds", etc.) of the original film.
30 real world years have passed since the original and during that time was a period when Flynn, Clu, and Tron were trying to make the perfect world. Also, technology improved and whatever server they were on presumably got a number of upgrades. The result is that the Tron world became closer to the real world.
Hell, they had a fucking banquet that included a whole roast pig at Flynn's house of Zen meditation
Flynn is both a user and the designer. He is God. If God wants bacon, then he should be able to have it, as long is it obeys the rules of the world. I agree, it was a little jarring to see though. But in the first film, they drank "water" to refresh themselves. Why would there be water in a computer system? Water is the enemy of all electronics. The water represented the nourishment that those programs needed. In the time since the last movie, Flynn has figured out how to make the nourishment look like a banquet, instead of just a glass of water.
They never really explain why Clu attacked Flynn and converted Tron/Rinzler. Supposedly it was because he wanted to make a perfect world, but at the time of the attack, Flynn hadn't come across his revelation ("perfection is unknowable and in front of you at the same time") because he hadn't become stuck in the computer world yet.
It was explained. The ISO's, a form of synthetic life (not just a program, but actually alive) came into being. CLU saw these unpredictable elements as imperfections in his system. Flynn saw them as the next step in evolution. This is why CLU attacked - there was a danger and Flynn was promoting it.
Was Clu a power hungry megalomaniac or was he just following his programming?
Mostly the latter, but definitely aspects of both. He was programmed to create perfection. He had done as much as he could from within the system and he wanted to continue his goal from outside of the system. He wasn't "power hungry" because he was just a program (however, he was programmed to act in a way that could be perceived as power hungry). The reason why CLU looks like Flynn is that CLU represents Flynn's ambitions and desires (at the time he was created). There's a whole message of learning from your mistakes and self-discovery in this.
What happened to Tron
Presumably, he died. Although I think it was intentional to leave it like that so that we have room for a sequel. Also, not to be too much of a spoiler, but that's probably why we don't get any confirmation as to what happened to Flynn and CLU either.
And for the record, I hope this doesn't become a Hollywood sequel-every-two-years franchise.
where Quorra was brought out into the real world. That was a bit too Weird Science for me.
You're okay with people in computer world, but not programs in the real world?
So what's the attack scenario? I'm at work and a malicious co-worker can use this against me, how?
While we're at it, why isn't "internet" capitalized? "Internet" is a proper noun, thus is capitalized. Even my browser is smart enough to stick a wavy red line underneath it if I spell it with a lowercase 'i'.
This is America - even on purely electronic transactions, the bank withdraws it from your account on day 1 and then submits it to the recipient's account on day 3/4/5. In between, they have extra money in their account, which they use (in the form of loans, etc) to make extra money.
Meanwhile, banks only want to do business with you if you have direct deposit and if you use online banking, because the last thing that they want you to do is use cash.
All the cell phones are doing is adding to the efficiency of the market. And most economists would agree that this is a good thing. Retailers that profit by inefficiencies in the market are doomed to failure eventually, at least if you believe in free market principles.
One advantage that retailers will have for the foreseeable future is in letting the customer experience the product prior to sale. That's a big reason why the Apple company stores are such a good idea. And the reason why Target recently re-did their video game section to allow the customer to hold the game prior to purchase, instead of looking at it behind glass, as was the case before.
Retailers do have a major disadvantage with regard to sales tax. In Chicago, the sales tax rate is currently 10.25%, which means that a $999 TV has over $100 tax applied. This more than negates the cost of shipping by buying online. If I was a Best Buy or a Walmart, I would be arguing for an Oregon-like tax structure, with no sales tax.
After a terrible Linux driver experience a few years ago with AMD, I switched to NVidia and have been fairly happy ever since. But these latest cards have me thinking of switching back on my next upgrade. How is the AMD Linux driver?
I currently have two NVidia cards driving three monitors; does anyone have experience doing the same thing with the AMD driver?
Except, you would normally hold shift to write that, because if you use caps-lock, then you're tapping shift for every underscore you want to add. Holding shift is just easier.
I think the OP was referring to Oracle's hardware offerings. Yes, Java, mySQL, and OpenOffice will be around for a long time.
I'm a little concerned - that button may be all that SkyNet needs to begin.
In the video attached to the story, look at the user interface on the robot - It has a big red button marked "First Blood". Why??
How do we know that all of the "Barack Obama sucks" websites out there won't make it harder to search for the White House? Just one example of where semantic inclusion may not work.
Noscript and "no cookies" are a start, but there's been plenty of evidence that the marketers are starting to dig even deeper than that. For example, linking all of the pages you visit (on their ad network) via IP address and Flash cookies.
And so many sites are using Javascript for the simplest things (like displaying images) and benefit from logons (Slashdot included) that it's really hard to just surf anonymously like we did 15 years ago.
I can only imagine that this is going to get much, much worse before it gets better.
Considering how long it takes to get a patent, he must have been in diapers when he submitted it. Kudos to him.
And the invention is a good idea too. My cell usually rests on the kitchen floor while it charges.
Used in a sentence: "When Timothy breaks the rules of English, it makes me not want to brake when he is in front of my car."
j/k - I mean you no harm.
The author of the editorial is Peter Rez, a physicist at Arizona State. As someone who has had an opportunity to take a couple of classes from this guy, let me say that he is very smart and reasonable, and while I don't always agree with what he has to say, I think it's definitely worth a bit of your time to read what he has written.
Surfing without encryption opens you up to eavesdropping and spoofing.
Surfing with encryption protects you from eavesdropping and spoofing.
Surfing with a self-signed encryption protects you from eavesdropping, but not spoofing, since you don't know who the signer is.
Yet, Firefox treats self-signed certificates as if they were worse than no encryption at all. The default behavior should be to treat self-signed certificates as if there was no encryption at all (from a user perspective). To give users these dire warnings, when in fact they are better protected, is just silly.
Is anyone else getting re-directed to Epoclick.com after clicking the link in this story?
A few days ago, sometimes when I click on a link, I get sent to Epoclick.com in a popup window. This has only been happening with Slashdot and links going to gizmodo or gizmag and only on this laptop. I can't figure out which website is to blame, or if maybe I have a virus or malicious javascript code running.