Two points A and B. An actor at A causes a result at point B, which in turn causes a result back at A. Event at B precedes action at A, and the event at A precedes the subsequent action at B. Now what happens?
Exactly. If a change is observed in the other beam, before the actual change has been made in the first beam, simply decide not to make the change in the first place, thereby causing an explosion of the scientists head and the implosion of the entire Universe due to catastrophic logic failure.
Unless you'd like to avoid this, of course, in which case I take payment in Visa, Mastercard, or hookers.
Though I'm moderately good and enjoy a challenge, I find the idea of working to live much more appealing than living to work. Perhaps it's only those who don't have any life who are the "great hackers".
And here I am posting on slashdot about it, I must be a great hacker, then...
Most importanly, as this article alludes to, this new approach valdiates some of the science surrounding cryonics. As far as I can tell, cryonics is the only possible way for any of us to get our selves and our memories to the distant future where we can live superlong lives, or maybe even forever. Hey, that sounds like a great idea! Let's freeze all of humanity and wait for science to progress.
The worst that happens if you make mistakes in running a country? Too terrible to even imagine. And just who are making those mistakes running the country(ies) right now?
So, using your logic, anyone who develops programs using Microsoft's Visual Studio should designate their app as a MSVS/You-App-Name. If they distribute that software along with a large chunk of MS Windows, then yes, yes they most definitely should.
Sure, I'm mostly thinking of high popularity content that is known to get massive hits from all over the place. Low popularity content (relatively) doesn't need to be replicated, since it's not sucking up bandwidth anyway. Youtube could be one candidate: have main servers, but if some video rises above a threshold, duplicate the.flv to local-ish caches. In this case, high customer<->ISP bandwidth can be just as valuable as customer<->Rest of Internet bandwidth.
You're right, but this would be less of an issue with proper multicasting and things like Akamai. Just as long as there's a server cluster inside each ISP "cell" that can handle all the popular stuff, most people will be fine. I wouldn't do much with a 40Gbps connection to, say, Andorra, or any other place in particular for that matter. Intelligent distribution of content can make issues and problems with the backbone less issue-ful and problematic.
This is a scare article... Why don't they publish an article on how you are being RADIATED every time you fly in an airplane? Or how about every time you go to the airport, you get NUKED by the metal detector!! Oh my we should ban all RADIATION it's going to be made into DIRTY BOMBS by terrorists and the Bush/Republicans/White Male Americans who are complicit since they caused 9/11!!!!!!eleven1!12! Indeed. I hereby propose renaming 9/11 to 9/!!. It makes much more sense like that.
Indeed, I just tried out the World Wind and Quake2 web start things, and they're practically flying along. Of course, those are not that complex, but then again it's running on an Intel 82865G, which I suspect is not so hot on performance. In other words, Java apparently works beautifully for these tasks.
Oh but the joke was in reference to the "original" funnay post, which said:
Using up 99% of the CPU's easy! "CPU's" is quite correct ( -> "..of the CPU is easy."), but the reply moaned about there not being a noun in between there.
That's still a molecule in a drop in the sea compared to other sources of power wastage. Besides, as you say, people pay for it. If power was more expensive, people would turn devices off if they consumed power unduly, and manufacturers would emphasise low-power designs (more) since there'd be a large(r) market for it.
I'd say power consumption goes up very slowly on average. First it goes up fast, but so far there's always been some design breakthrough that drops it down to manageable levels again. Case in point: my X2 4400+ uses power roughly on the same level as my previous 2400+ XP, and significantly less when it drops down to idle usage (due to C'n'Q). I previously had a rather slow GF 6200, that had a passive heatsink. My current 7800GT uses a bit more power, but not so much it couldn't survive with just a heatpipe with no active cooling even when in heavy use, and it's much more powerful in terms of processing power.
What do you mean? I'm non-english, I've never heard that expression before, and I immediately understood the meaning behind it. That's the best kind of metaphor!
Subusers: ordinary users should be able to create 'subusers' with subsets of their privileges. That would make it easy for ordinary users to run applications in sandboxes. This sounds great, a hierarchy of users instead of a flat-file society. It couldn't even be that difficult to implement, I would guess?
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Two points A and B. An actor at A causes a result at point B, which in turn causes a result back at A. Event at B precedes action at A, and the event at A precedes the subsequent action at B. Now what happens?
Unless you'd like to avoid this, of course, in which case I take payment in Visa, Mastercard, or hookers.
And here I am posting on slashdot about it, I must be a great hacker, then...
"Relaxing" is my name for that position. Good hunting to you.
So, there are only two missing now: are gas and/or plasma capacitors possible to construct?
Sure, I'm mostly thinking of high popularity content that is known to get massive hits from all over the place. Low popularity content (relatively) doesn't need to be replicated, since it's not sucking up bandwidth anyway. Youtube could be one candidate: have main servers, but if some video rises above a threshold, duplicate the .flv to local-ish caches. In this case, high customer<->ISP bandwidth can be just as valuable as customer<->Rest of Internet bandwidth.
Who's to say software patents won't be needed in the future though, as the software industry changes?
You're right, but this would be less of an issue with proper multicasting and things like Akamai. Just as long as there's a server cluster inside each ISP "cell" that can handle all the popular stuff, most people will be fine. I wouldn't do much with a 40Gbps connection to, say, Andorra, or any other place in particular for that matter. Intelligent distribution of content can make issues and problems with the backbone less issue-ful and problematic.
That's 11/111/1111/11111 Ethernet for you, mister.
Indeed, I just tried out the World Wind and Quake2 web start things, and they're practically flying along. Of course, those are not that complex, but then again it's running on an Intel 82865G, which I suspect is not so hot on performance. In other words, Java apparently works beautifully for these tasks.
Let the stadium rebuild itself, damnit! :)
Grammar Nazis the world over, today you failed your mission. Let us give one minute of silence for remembrance.
That's still a molecule in a drop in the sea compared to other sources of power wastage. Besides, as you say, people pay for it. If power was more expensive, people would turn devices off if they consumed power unduly, and manufacturers would emphasise low-power designs (more) since there'd be a large(r) market for it.
I'd say power consumption goes up very slowly on average. First it goes up fast, but so far there's always been some design breakthrough that drops it down to manageable levels again. Case in point: my X2 4400+ uses power roughly on the same level as my previous 2400+ XP, and significantly less when it drops down to idle usage (due to C'n'Q). I previously had a rather slow GF 6200, that had a passive heatsink. My current 7800GT uses a bit more power, but not so much it couldn't survive with just a heatpipe with no active cooling even when in heavy use, and it's much more powerful in terms of processing power.
The folder icon for the current folder is up in the left corner, you can right-click there. It always was there, AFAIK.
What do you mean? I'm non-english, I've never heard that expression before, and I immediately understood the meaning behind it. That's the best kind of metaphor!
It's not a shock site...
Well, open mike night would be an entirely spontaneous show of music, but my understanding is that these are sceduled events with local musicians.
Slashdot has always been turning for the worse. In fact, it never was any better in the first place.