Except... where you were going... is out by the airport anyway, since the economic center of the city gradually moves that direction anyway.
You'll still need to do something with your baggage, unless you've come up with a reason that you don't need to change cloths when you ride a train.
Still need to take a taxi to your destination, unless you're going to build some super massive skyscraper ontop of the train station so that EVERYTHING in the city that people would want to come visit for happens right there...
I'm not saying trains are a bad option, but they really aren't any different than aircraft when it comes to what happens when you get to the train station or airport at your destination.
Because all of sweden that uses the rail system is contained in what... 3 major cities?
Go ahead and do the same thing in california, to 3 major cities... and you'll be far more effective... you'll also leave out what... 20 or so million of the people you included in your comparison?
The current state of the government is largely the fault of morons who turn it into a red versus blue/right versus left issue and walk into the polls and check one box on their ballot to vote en masse for their team.
The instant you say 'its because of the other team' you've already proven you don't understand the problem.
BOTH TEAMS ARE CORRUPT MONEY GRABBING ASSHOLES and they will continue to be until people like yourself stop fucking voting based on stupid shit like whos team someone is on.
Things will change when people stop voting for people based on a political party rather than what they do. If you don't know if you want to vote for one person over the other, and your choice comes down to 'well, hes a republican and so am I' or 'shes a democrat and so am I' then you need to not vote for that person because you're just contributing to the problem. Your vote is not doing any good if you just randomly give it to someone who happens to fly the same color ignoring their real actions and accomplishments.
Lots of comments and jokes here about the worth of McAfree...
And you've got it almost completely wrong. The value of McAfree isn't in their software, its in the fact that it comes preinstalled on a massive amount of computers, it has a subscription model for recurring revenue and LOTS of people use it.
The fact that their flagship product is a pile of crap is irrelevant because people buy it anyway, without hesitation.
McAfee Antivirus might suck and be next to worthless, but McAfee the company is worth a lot of money because people are too ignorant to get the first part.
Second, as far as system slow down, and this one hurts as I hate defending such shitty products... but...
ALL ON-DEMAND SCANNERS KILL PERFORMANCE. They open and scan every file (EVERY file, not just exe and dlls) before passing the result along to the actual program.
There is no way around this, the data must be check before it can be used in order to be safe. Well, no matter how fast you right code, it takes a while to scan all the files that go into making even a simple program run. There are thousands of files that get openned when an app like Firefox for Photoshop starts running, and all of those files get read into memory and checked... BEFORE they are passed along to the app calling them. Unless you invent time bending or something, this will always end up taking a very noticeable amount of time, making your computer seem slow.
Want your computer with McAfee to not run slow? Turn off on-demand scanning. Want a middle ground? Change the on-demand settings to be less agressive, but its probably not going to make much difference since the speed issue is mostly opening and reading the files in the first place.
You won't find anyone with an on-demand scanner that doesn't have these problems.
You also won't find an anti-virus company worth more other than symantec.
So yes, this was a good deal for Intel, even if most of slashdot is too blind to see the logic in the move.
I like slashdot a lot more when it was just real geeks with a clue, you know, before all the angsty idiots who happened to be socially inept and own a computer started calling it home as though they were geeks too.
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The recent addition of all six PS3 Linux users to the effort probably had no effect.
Image for a second a peice of paper, there are two overlapping circles on it. One represents the people who want to run Linux on the PS3 and are trying to hax0r it. This circle is about the size of a quarter.
The other circle is for the people who want to pirate games and cheat. The diameter of this circle is roughly 50 meters.
Running Linux now is nothing more than a side effect. Removing the Other OS option didn't 'push' much because that majority of the actual effort was there before the OtherOS option disappeared.
If this was for Linux, 'backup functionality' wouldn't be one of the first features on the thing.
You guys really need to get some perspective and soda. You REALLY need to realize that not everyone drools over Linux the same way you guys do, there are in fact people in the world who do this for practical reasons. Not just so the can have a white on black text console on their TV screen which their uneducated friends find impressive.
(the beef industry is more destructive to the planet than all the transportation industries combined).
Yes, and the worlds 16 largest cargo ships produce more pollution BY THEMSELVES than EVERY SINGLE AUTOMOBILE ON THE PLANET.
But hey, its not like its hard to warp statistics into proving our point if we take them completely out of context and without looking at the big picture. Leave out important details here and there, reword things slightly to sensationalize them there, next thing you know, you've got a statement that is amazingly misleading without actually lying.
Stop listening to so many politicians and get some facts for yourself.
He doesn't want to do what YOU want to do, he wants to do what HE wants to do.
Why is it YOU get your way but he doesn't get his?
I always hate when selfish fucks such as yourself same something retarded like that.
Saying he could chew nicotine gum on a train instead of smoking in his car is like saying you could stay at a homeless shelter or commune rather than living in your own home. Yes you could do it, but you won't because you don't want to.
He didn't say 'when they make it law that I can smoke on trains' he said, I want to smoke, so I'll go my way since you don't want me.
Basically, he's fine with doing his own thing so he can do what he wants to do. On the other hand, you, selfish fuck that you are, wants him to do everything the way YOU want it done with no regard to his preferences. If it doesn't suit your wishes, you aren't willing to budge, but if hit comes to his wishes, oh HE HAS TO CHANGE.
... Cities can not support themselves. They require trains, trucks and ships to get food and supplies. A city without a transportation network is a tomb.
Rural areas are generally capable of becoming self sufficient if need be in practically no time at all.
You're looking at an illusion you seem to think of as being efficient.
Cities are in no way efficient, pretty much everything about them is inefficient.
You think because its only a short distance to where YOU get your supplies that it is efficient, and that is ignorant.
You have to supply water, food and energy from the city. In rural areas where density is sustainable, one can provide all 3 for themselves. A major city on the other hand has to ship in all of those things from remote areas.
Its not that I'm going to 'get you wrong' its that you are wrong because you have no concept of how quickly your life would be over if you had to use the same set of resources as those that you are seem to think you're paying for luxuries for.
You pay a tiny increase on a phone bill to a company that is completely ripping you off... and in exchange, they get Internet and phone... and you don't die in 3 days because they stopped giving a shit about feeding your ignorant selfish ass when they stopped communicating with you.
You are so utterly disconnected from reality I'm surprised your even in the same universe as the slashdot I'm on.
I'm pretty sure you have a different definition of 'supercomputing' than the rest of the world and I.
I'm fairly sure you also don't understand what they are talking about either. They are attempting to imply they are doing the work of a super computer on the phone, and in fact the super computer is doing the brunt work of reducing it so it only leaves a tiny bit of work left for the phone to process so it looks impressive. That tiny bit just happens to be the most useful bits for a person to play with.
I don't care what you call the algorithm, I don't care what name you come up with to describe what they are doing as if its something different than the same shit we've been coding for years.
You can perform super computer calculations in real-time on a TI-85. Just like on your Android phone, the calculations run in real-time on both. The only way to not run them in real time is to use an emulator. They didn't say there were simulating in real time.
You have been scammed. You bought into a precisely worded press release designed to trick you into thinking it was something new, exciting and revolutionary.
10x10 = 100 on a supercomputer, a calculator and an Android phone. Math is math regardless of where its done. There is no calculation you can run on a 'super computer' that can't be run on an Atari 2600 assuming you gave it access to enough RAM.
The defining factor for 'supercomputing' is that is does A VERY VERY LARGE AMOUNT of calculations in tiny amounts of time. More realistically it means using more processing power than is generally easy to gain access too, so its only the fastest of the fastest that get considered to be super computers.
Most of the work is done on a super computer, then a tiny UI layer is thrown on top to play with one small tiny part of it and tweak the calculation results and display them.
And please... don't ever use the phrase 'educated guess' as if its a good thing for a computer to do. An 'educated guess' means you are in fact ignorant of information required to make an accurate calculation. Thats not really all that useful unless you're doing stock market speculations or selling home mortgages
One important reason to use it is for small devices that you really don't want to have to have a user interface to enable Static IP / Router Info / DHCP configuration on.
You do realize that if the device follows the appropriate RFCs, the exact same thing is true with IPv4 subnets... RIGHT?
Windows has been doing this for years, thats how you end up with a 169.whatever address. Its the address space reserved for hosts without using auto configuration. If you setup a router at whatever the RFC says the machine will use for default then the machine will be fully capable of communicating in its own little world, just like IPv6.
I'd also be lobbying the school board, and or local parents to replace the entire school board, and then replace the entire administration and staff that were privy to this.
You do realize the end result of this would be that the people who were fired would just get a job somewhere else, and everyone in your school district would just end up paying higher taxes to pay for the court costs and payout you got out of the deal.
In the end, all you end up doing is paying off some lawyers in a civil case against a school board. Your suing yourself and too stupid to realize it.
And that my friends is whats fucked up about America's legal system... the response is not 'punish those who commited a crime' it turns into 'I'm going to get all the money I can out of those bastards for just standing near them regardless of any wrong doing against me or mine.'
While you are partially correct, the prosecutor can opt out if you do not file a complaint.
Once a complaint has been filed it must be acted upon, of course it has to meet certain prerequisites like having some actual likely hood of being true and a crime having been committed.
The prosecutor simply has the option of filing a complaint themselves if you don't.
Yes yes, we know you're angsty, we get it, we just don't actually care.
Don't worry, after puberty you'll realize you've turned into one of the evil bastards that were imposing rules on you... and you'll finally realize why.
Cause you know... you're unique and shit and no generation before you has felt the exact same way or anything. Funny, aren't those hippies you're referring too the guys now running the country doing what you're rebelling about this week?
I'm guessing you're either fairly young or new to computers.
PC's have had these for years. Maybe you've heard of them? POST codes? The beeps your PC makes when it detects a hardware failure or utterly invalid configuration?
Before the Internet there were several things that did this, some things were basically loosely coupled modems. Only goes in one direction.
Pretty much every high end server, disk array, UPS, (insert any other computerized equipment, including industrial machinary of pretty much every type) phones home when it needs help.
The only surprising part is that everything in your home isn't already like this... until you take into account the fortune made having an over priced repairman come out and replace your AC starter capacitor because its illegal to sell them locally to someone without an electrical license...
Did I mention my fucking AC went out yesterday and I can't get a damn capacitor because of retarded laws meant to protect morons that don't deserve protecting.
There was a story on slashdot that I'm too lazy to find that talked about a distributed project that was Nessus scanning the entire usable Internet address space, which is under 4 billion addresses.
You and I define fair price a lot differently I think.
How many years did this book take to create? Figure in an appropriate salary, which is certainly less than 75k/year (if you live in some area where thats not a good salary then you need to move, dumbass), and take into account how many copies (copies here, costs them next to nothing to produce after the first one is printed) they've sold at a ridiculous price to students...
College isn't about an education anymore, its about how much everyone in the business can milk you for, and how many loans they can convince you to take out so they can milk you some more.
The book wouldn't be worth $170 if each copy was hand written by God himself, although I'd probably pay that much for it if you could prove it was God that inked it.
Sad part is, they didn't bring it to your attention it appears. Good old CmdrTaco and the poster (Albert) thought it'd be more effective to not tell you and sensationalize it a bit here in some sort of attempt to turn this into yet another GPL war.
Bringing it to your attention properly would have simply meant they clicked on the link on your website to report it.
I appreciate you taking the high road here and trying to say thanks, but lets call it what it is, this is a bunk story written for ad clicks by a couple of douche bags trying to get more page views from the angsty slashdot teenagers.
So... you know nothing about security at all I take it.
All computer security is through obscurity (passwords, encryption, both just security through obscurity). The lock on your homes door is security through obscurity (knowing the obscure key pattern).
I always love when someone talks about security through obscurity like they know what they are talking about.
The instant someone like yourself makes such a retarded comment you picked up from someone else or Wikipedia, those of us who DO know about it start chuckling inside.
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Except ... where you were going ... is out by the airport anyway, since the economic center of the city gradually moves that direction anyway.
You'll still need to do something with your baggage, unless you've come up with a reason that you don't need to change cloths when you ride a train.
Still need to take a taxi to your destination, unless you're going to build some super massive skyscraper ontop of the train station so that EVERYTHING in the city that people would want to come visit for happens right there ...
I'm not saying trains are a bad option, but they really aren't any different than aircraft when it comes to what happens when you get to the train station or airport at your destination.
Because all of sweden that uses the rail system is contained in what ... 3 major cities?
Go ahead and do the same thing in california, to 3 major cities ... and you'll be far more effective ... you'll also leave out what ... 20 or so million of the people you included in your comparison?
The current state of the government is largely the fault of morons who turn it into a red versus blue/right versus left issue and walk into the polls and check one box on their ballot to vote en masse for their team.
The instant you say 'its because of the other team' you've already proven you don't understand the problem.
BOTH TEAMS ARE CORRUPT MONEY GRABBING ASSHOLES and they will continue to be until people like yourself stop fucking voting based on stupid shit like whos team someone is on.
Things will change when people stop voting for people based on a political party rather than what they do. If you don't know if you want to vote for one person over the other, and your choice comes down to 'well, hes a republican and so am I' or 'shes a democrat and so am I' then you need to not vote for that person because you're just contributing to the problem. Your vote is not doing any good if you just randomly give it to someone who happens to fly the same color ignoring their real actions and accomplishments.
I downloaded it for free as well, and I'm glad, I would have been pretty pissed had I paid money for it.
Lots of comments and jokes here about the worth of McAfree ...
And you've got it almost completely wrong. The value of McAfree isn't in their software, its in the fact that it comes preinstalled on a massive amount of computers, it has a subscription model for recurring revenue and LOTS of people use it.
The fact that their flagship product is a pile of crap is irrelevant because people buy it anyway, without hesitation.
McAfee Antivirus might suck and be next to worthless, but McAfee the company is worth a lot of money because people are too ignorant to get the first part.
Second, as far as system slow down, and this one hurts as I hate defending such shitty products ... but ...
ALL ON-DEMAND SCANNERS KILL PERFORMANCE. They open and scan every file (EVERY file, not just exe and dlls) before passing the result along to the actual program.
There is no way around this, the data must be check before it can be used in order to be safe. Well, no matter how fast you right code, it takes a while to scan all the files that go into making even a simple program run. There are thousands of files that get openned when an app like Firefox for Photoshop starts running, and all of those files get read into memory and checked ... BEFORE they are passed along to the app calling them. Unless you invent time bending or something, this will always end up taking a very noticeable amount of time, making your computer seem slow.
Want your computer with McAfee to not run slow? Turn off on-demand scanning. Want a middle ground? Change the on-demand settings to be less agressive, but its probably not going to make much difference since the speed issue is mostly opening and reading the files in the first place.
You won't find anyone with an on-demand scanner that doesn't have these problems.
You also won't find an anti-virus company worth more other than symantec.
So yes, this was a good deal for Intel, even if most of slashdot is too blind to see the logic in the move.
I like slashdot a lot more when it was just real geeks with a clue, you know, before all the angsty idiots who happened to be socially inept and own a computer started calling it home as though they were geeks too.
The recent addition of all six PS3 Linux users to the effort probably had no effect.
Image for a second a peice of paper, there are two overlapping circles on it. One represents the people who want to run Linux on the PS3 and are trying to hax0r it. This circle is about the size of a quarter.
The other circle is for the people who want to pirate games and cheat. The diameter of this circle is roughly 50 meters.
Running Linux now is nothing more than a side effect. Removing the Other OS option didn't 'push' much because that majority of the actual effort was there before the OtherOS option disappeared.
If this was for Linux, 'backup functionality' wouldn't be one of the first features on the thing.
You guys really need to get some perspective and soda. You REALLY need to realize that not everyone drools over Linux the same way you guys do, there are in fact people in the world who do this for practical reasons. Not just so the can have a white on black text console on their TV screen which their uneducated friends find impressive.
Yes, and the worlds 16 largest cargo ships produce more pollution BY THEMSELVES than EVERY SINGLE AUTOMOBILE ON THE PLANET.
But hey, its not like its hard to warp statistics into proving our point if we take them completely out of context and without looking at the big picture. Leave out important details here and there, reword things slightly to sensationalize them there, next thing you know, you've got a statement that is amazingly misleading without actually lying.
Stop listening to so many politicians and get some facts for yourself.
Or ... he can drive his car and smoke.
He doesn't want to do what YOU want to do, he wants to do what HE wants to do.
Why is it YOU get your way but he doesn't get his?
I always hate when selfish fucks such as yourself same something retarded like that.
Saying he could chew nicotine gum on a train instead of smoking in his car is like saying you could stay at a homeless shelter or commune rather than living in your own home. Yes you could do it, but you won't because you don't want to.
He didn't say 'when they make it law that I can smoke on trains' he said, I want to smoke, so I'll go my way since you don't want me.
Basically, he's fine with doing his own thing so he can do what he wants to do. On the other hand, you, selfish fuck that you are, wants him to do everything the way YOU want it done with no regard to his preferences. If it doesn't suit your wishes, you aren't willing to budge, but if hit comes to his wishes, oh HE HAS TO CHANGE.
Yea, but we'll finally stop being terrorized every time we fly when the attention is focused on trains.
I have to say, there would be another war over gasoline if prices were to double for no reason ... AGAIN.
Heh, everytime someone talks about how they do it in California all I hear is 'okay, so heres what you don't want to do'
Seriously, California doesn't get to give advise to anyone ever about anything, you guys failed, epic style.
... Cities can not support themselves. They require trains, trucks and ships to get food and supplies. A city without a transportation network is a tomb.
Rural areas are generally capable of becoming self sufficient if need be in practically no time at all.
You're looking at an illusion you seem to think of as being efficient.
Cities are in no way efficient, pretty much everything about them is inefficient.
You think because its only a short distance to where YOU get your supplies that it is efficient, and that is ignorant.
You have to supply water, food and energy from the city. In rural areas where density is sustainable, one can provide all 3 for themselves. A major city on the other hand has to ship in all of those things from remote areas.
Its not that I'm going to 'get you wrong' its that you are wrong because you have no concept of how quickly your life would be over if you had to use the same set of resources as those that you are seem to think you're paying for luxuries for.
You pay a tiny increase on a phone bill to a company that is completely ripping you off ... and in exchange, they get Internet and phone ... and you don't die in 3 days because they stopped giving a shit about feeding your ignorant selfish ass when they stopped communicating with you.
You are so utterly disconnected from reality I'm surprised your even in the same universe as the slashdot I'm on.
I'm pretty sure you have a different definition of 'supercomputing' than the rest of the world and I.
I'm fairly sure you also don't understand what they are talking about either. They are attempting to imply they are doing the work of a super computer on the phone, and in fact the super computer is doing the brunt work of reducing it so it only leaves a tiny bit of work left for the phone to process so it looks impressive. That tiny bit just happens to be the most useful bits for a person to play with.
I don't care what you call the algorithm, I don't care what name you come up with to describe what they are doing as if its something different than the same shit we've been coding for years.
You can perform super computer calculations in real-time on a TI-85. Just like on your Android phone, the calculations run in real-time on both. The only way to not run them in real time is to use an emulator. They didn't say there were simulating in real time.
You have been scammed. You bought into a precisely worded press release designed to trick you into thinking it was something new, exciting and revolutionary.
10x10 = 100 on a supercomputer, a calculator and an Android phone. Math is math regardless of where its done. There is no calculation you can run on a 'super computer' that can't be run on an Atari 2600 assuming you gave it access to enough RAM.
The defining factor for 'supercomputing' is that is does A VERY VERY LARGE AMOUNT of calculations in tiny amounts of time. More realistically it means using more processing power than is generally easy to gain access too, so its only the fastest of the fastest that get considered to be super computers.
Most of the work is done on a super computer, then a tiny UI layer is thrown on top to play with one small tiny part of it and tweak the calculation results and display them.
And please ... don't ever use the phrase 'educated guess' as if its a good thing for a computer to do. An 'educated guess' means you are in fact ignorant of information required to make an accurate calculation. Thats not really all that useful unless you're doing stock market speculations or selling home mortgages
super computers, big whoop.
The phone isn't actually doing anything but functioning as a UI.
You do realize that if the device follows the appropriate RFCs, the exact same thing is true with IPv4 subnets ... RIGHT?
Windows has been doing this for years, thats how you end up with a 169.whatever address. Its the address space reserved for hosts without using auto configuration. If you setup a router at whatever the RFC says the machine will use for default then the machine will be fully capable of communicating in its own little world, just like IPv6.
Do you realize how many KIDS would be in jail if thats all it took to get a kiddie porn charge?
You do realize kids are sending MMS of far more than just their chest to each other all the time now ... right?
Do you REALLY want to treat something like this as cut and dried as you make it out to be?
Intent plays a role here.
You do realize the end result of this would be that the people who were fired would just get a job somewhere else, and everyone in your school district would just end up paying higher taxes to pay for the court costs and payout you got out of the deal.
In the end, all you end up doing is paying off some lawyers in a civil case against a school board. Your suing yourself and too stupid to realize it.
And that my friends is whats fucked up about America's legal system ... the response is not 'punish those who commited a crime' it turns into 'I'm going to get all the money I can out of those bastards for just standing near them regardless of any wrong doing against me or mine.'
While you are partially correct, the prosecutor can opt out if you do not file a complaint.
Once a complaint has been filed it must be acted upon, of course it has to meet certain prerequisites like having some actual likely hood of being true and a crime having been committed.
The prosecutor simply has the option of filing a complaint themselves if you don't.
Yes yes, we know you're angsty, we get it, we just don't actually care.
Don't worry, after puberty you'll realize you've turned into one of the evil bastards that were imposing rules on you ... and you'll finally realize why.
Cause you know ... you're unique and shit and no generation before you has felt the exact same way or anything. Funny, aren't those hippies you're referring too the guys now running the country doing what you're rebelling about this week?
I'm guessing you're either fairly young or new to computers.
PC's have had these for years. Maybe you've heard of them? POST codes? The beeps your PC makes when it detects a hardware failure or utterly invalid configuration?
Before the Internet there were several things that did this, some things were basically loosely coupled modems. Only goes in one direction.
Pretty much every high end server, disk array, UPS, (insert any other computerized equipment, including industrial machinary of pretty much every type) phones home when it needs help.
The only surprising part is that everything in your home isn't already like this ... until you take into account the fortune made having an over priced repairman come out and replace your AC starter capacitor because its illegal to sell them locally to someone without an electrical license ...
Did I mention my fucking AC went out yesterday and I can't get a damn capacitor because of retarded laws meant to protect morons that don't deserve protecting.
There was a story on slashdot that I'm too lazy to find that talked about a distributed project that was Nessus scanning the entire usable Internet address space, which is under 4 billion addresses.
So yes, someone is doing it.
You do realize that Scotch isn't Whiskey ... RIGHT?
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You and I define fair price a lot differently I think.
How many years did this book take to create? Figure in an appropriate salary, which is certainly less than 75k/year (if you live in some area where thats not a good salary then you need to move, dumbass), and take into account how many copies (copies here, costs them next to nothing to produce after the first one is printed) they've sold at a ridiculous price to students ...
College isn't about an education anymore, its about how much everyone in the business can milk you for, and how many loans they can convince you to take out so they can milk you some more.
The book wouldn't be worth $170 if each copy was hand written by God himself, although I'd probably pay that much for it if you could prove it was God that inked it.
Sad part is, they didn't bring it to your attention it appears. Good old CmdrTaco and the poster (Albert) thought it'd be more effective to not tell you and sensationalize it a bit here in some sort of attempt to turn this into yet another GPL war.
Bringing it to your attention properly would have simply meant they clicked on the link on your website to report it.
I appreciate you taking the high road here and trying to say thanks, but lets call it what it is, this is a bunk story written for ad clicks by a couple of douche bags trying to get more page views from the angsty slashdot teenagers.
So ... you know nothing about security at all I take it.
All computer security is through obscurity (passwords, encryption, both just security through obscurity). The lock on your homes door is security through obscurity (knowing the obscure key pattern).
I always love when someone talks about security through obscurity like they know what they are talking about.
The instant someone like yourself makes such a retarded comment you picked up from someone else or Wikipedia, those of us who DO know about it start chuckling inside.