Would any of you have a problem with saying ALL Atheists are baby killers?
I can only speak for myself, but... Veal... delicious Veal Parmesagn... Oh you probably meant human babies. No, no they don't make good Parmesagn at all.
Its a heretical search engine. Don't follow the path of brimstone and eternal damnation, stick to god's one true search engine. We of/. are the Mighty GOOGs chosen ones anyway.
(Just wanted to answer in character w/ the article)
What's the difference between a desktop and a kiosk at a shopping? And a point-of-sale thin client? And a node at a beowulf configuration? Do you think we could use the same thing all the time?
Uh, yeah, thats kind of the point of a universal operating system. Dramatically lower support costs.
sacrificing performance for less latency is a worthy goal to pursue
You've got to be kidding. Why would I want a high latency server? Besides you're arguing very small percentage gains.
Buses can adapt to changing transportation needs quickly,
Privately owned / rented bus / school bus, yes. Public, Heck no. Pay attention to your local paper, you'll get 50 bureaucrats and 25 elected officials debating for hours and fighting with the mayor about exactly where to place the bus stop relative to the new condo development. That's before the lawsuit gets filed by the condo developer and it all drags on. And every two horse suburb wants to set up their own service with their own schedule and damn everyone else who doesn't want to follow their transfer schedule, after all they screwed us over on the water rights so we'll get even by not picking up their residents at the transfer station for 2 hours. Meanwhile the owner of the senior citizen apartment building was supposed to sell that building to the mayors wife at a discount, but he decided against it after all, so I guess its bus service is getting pulled (true story... until after the trial they were hiring chartering buses for the elderly residents to visit walmart etc) It just goes on and on. Its not any better, or worse, than trains. Its just train construction is a more obvious project so people think it takes longer. Both are roughly equally corrupt anemic and slow.
From personal experience the best way to use a bus is to drive from drinking establishment to drinking establishment, and those are few and far between in the kingdom of S.A... at least officially. Now in Germany where the small villages are spaced roughly 10 kilotons apart, we could go pub hopping almost faster than a bathroom break at 300 KPH.
Maybe sightseeing tours, where you can go from vegas to the hoover dam in minutes?
Finally self driving trains are technologically a bit less complicated than self driving cars.
I'm surprised no one has started outsourcing train/car/taxi driving to India. Well, I've seen the traffic in India... But the point I'm making is you could have any odd number of people cooperatively drive the vehicle. Since we're destroying the middle class intentionally we'll have nothing but ultra rich and ultra poor so we don't need self driving buses if the only thing on the road is ultra-luxury limos and for-profit prison cattle wagons, but if you demand a non-present driver it would seen teleoperation would be much simpler than hard AI.
Trains are even simpler because if you lose signal, simply apply the E-brake and its all good, unlike cars.
For those times when you want to go somewhere, but you don't want to take anything with you or bring anything back.
In other words, fine for going from your hotel to your business meeting, but that's about it. Like a limo without the privacy and quiet. I can't imagine a use for this that would justify dedicated 200km/h lanes.
I'm not a sports fan, but this sounds ideal for regional sports "away games". Faster than a plane because of no security theater, while fast enough to get to The Big Game in a reasonable amount of time.
For example the closest pro football team is a good 2 hours away at 75 MPH, but using that 2 hour criteria suddenly there's at least 4, maybe 5 within range?
Sports is pretty much just an excuse for excessive drinking, and I imagine the motion sickness would be worse at 300 KMH than 90 KMH so that might get a bit messy.
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So you'd have to give it an artifical noise, to warn passers-by that it's approaching. Like, I dunno, "Choo-choo!" or similar.
what the effects might be from a powerful solar flare, a nearby supernova, or a gamma-ray burst.
Might be a good idea to do it every July 4th, but please ramp up gradually over a couple years from "not much, zune rollout level pffft" to "full on mega solar flare" level. That way we can get our gear in line. I believe there was a nuclear program called "swords into plowshares" or something like that dedicated to using nukes to make a new larger panama canal and all that kind of stuff. This testing would seem a pretty good peaceful use of the stockpile.
Also WRT to the nuclear explosion being called "starfish" this has lead to endless jokes about Taco Bell, McDonalds, resulting in food poisoning, resulting in nuclear level pain in my starfish, etc. Could they possibly select a goofier "code word" for the next test, like maybe the codeword "uranus" test or the codeword "Goat See" test?
I suspect if Apple could find a way to ship a sub 600 dollar MacBook
Called the ipad with a bluetooth keyboard and bluetooth mouse? Its not that farfetched of a lifestyle. I use my (old?) ipad-1 with a bluetooth keyboard and a ssh app all the time at home.
My favorite new security hole is "Instead of typing a password, users can create a four-digit PIN for easy logon to the computer." That and "picture password".
Basically every boot is a hibernate, which has some interesting security implications if you get access to a drive (via removal, or via booting linux/etc off a USB/optical) containing a hibernated image. I'm guessing this is the cover story for UEFI because if you have access to a hibernated image you have the keys to the kingdom so boot control is pretty important.
Icky UEFI to permanently lock linux or anything else out of running on "windows" commodity hardware. I'm sure you'll be able to special order dells with linux compatible bios at an additional cost of only twice the cost of a MS server license.
Integrating restore into the OS for the inevitable post-p0wn restoration.
Other than that, a bunch of UI mistakes, copying some linux-y features like finally being able natively to mount isos and having something like LVM.
Its hard to call it a "new" OS. Shuffle up the UI, Borg in a bunch of previously 3rd party stuff, copy some linux features, band aid on a broken leg security improvements, eh. I'm still using XP for my gaming partition and I'll probably keep on doing so until I find a reason I have to upgrade. Just recently upgraded to SP3 or whatever its called to get GTA4 to work.
Windows 8 will RTM the first week of August, with general availability in late October.
Why does it take two months? I'm assuming they mean "release to manufacturing" not something like "register trademark" or "remember the milk" (a shopping list app, maybe it'll be released on winderz 8 then, I donno)
Do they mean general availability as in boxes printed in China on shelves in the US which means they're cheaping out on the shipping which at least makes sense, or general availability as in manufacturers gold copy chock full of bloatware is ready to be shoveled out / I mean imaged onto new device hard/flash drives, in which case 2 months is pretty pitiful, or ready for download from.torrent sites in October (oh wait, I think they'll do better than that)
The lens and F stop have nothing to do with speed, the shutter does.
Nah there are fast lenses and slow lenses. At least that's what they called them in the 90s. A fast lens can run a faster shutter speed usually because its bigger but also "insert optical magic here".
Just like you can have two telescopes with identical focus and identical field of view but the one with twice the lens surface area has a shutter speed twice as fast, because it shovels in twice as many photons per second.
Think how easy it is to make a zoom lens for sunlit outdoor work, but how hard it is to pull off a long distance candle-lit shot... you can do it with a fast lens that basically resembles a large aperture telescope, or theres some heavy optical weirdness with trading off the depth of field for light strength or something.
I know just enough optics to be really dangerous. Mostly because I know microwave RF optics better than I know visual optics.
I didn't know games for portable devices were still sold somewhere $40 - seems like a lot in the era of $4.99 premium editions from app stores and all that.
To quote the review
a group of songs from each of Final Fantasy's first 13 main series titles are available for play
13 songs is like two animated formulaic disney movies worth of music... How much would you pay for 2 DVDs and 2 soundtrack CDs? Probably end up over $40.
(Note that just shows two industries are sick and twisted, not that one industry is normal)
I have to admit, I've got great income, fat stacks of cash burning a whole in my pocket, and the DS3 looks like a cool control scheme, but.... I've got a phone, admittedly the controls on my phone are awful, but the description of the game shows its s "touch screen tapper" anyway.
There's nothing wrong with casual gaming, other than where is hard core gaming or has is been pushed away?
Decade(s) ago when I was playing Civilization, sim city, F-19/F-117, later F-18, Ultima series especially VI, Myst and clones, Zork and all that was Infocom, Wolf3d, doom, quake, Harpoon, the Steel Panthers series, I always wondered with anticipation what the future would bring to gaming. Amazing technological advances, huge storage, fast 3d graphics, fancy sound systems, strange and amazing UI devices, ubiquitous networking. Oddly my technology fevered imagination never strayed to "In 2012 I have a dream of being able to tap my pen along with the music".
100 times faster than existing optical microscopes
What does that mean before it went thru the journalist filter?
I haven't done film photography in twenty years, but I still thought of "fast lenses" like those weirdo F/0.3 "lenses" made outta mirrors and pretty much anything lower than F/1. You know, the lenses that cost about as much as a cheap new car. Yeah, a 35 picosecond shutter speed means you need a pretty fast lens to feed enough photons thru it, but what does that factor of 100 actually mean, like F/0.001 lens exists or something?
AC pretty much has it. Also the orthogonality where you can pretty much do any addressing mode or operation to any register on the -11, just like you can do anything to any variable name in C.
Now old fortran where the first letter of the variable name implies the variable type, is kind of like some cruder, more limited assembly languages where you can only increment certain registers and only decrement others (thinking system/user stacks / heaps here) and some CPUs where only certain registers can do memory ops and strange transfer / exchange / copy register to register rules.
Also the -11 had enough registers and addressing modes that assembly programming was not as much of a game of "how do you use the single accumulator?" like assembly programming on a -8. Programming the -8 is like programming on those ancient BASICs where you only get variable names A-Z and you've got 27 data variables to shuffle, or only have single dimensional arrays implemented in the language but 3-d of data. The -11, much like C, was more flexible.
Therefore I still don't see what she could learn from them.
I don't know how to restate it shorter and more directly... how about "both are/were masters of the process of the management process of rolling out high tech into the infotainment sector."
You don't just invent a nonlinear video editor in 2000 or a camera rails system in 1935 and it just kinda magically deploys itself. Its surprisingly hard to successfully manage the rollout of high tech to the artsy crowd and have it not turn into a complete misapplied disaster. Its not as hard as rolling out to elderly people but its pretty freaking close sometimes. Traditionally both artsies and elderly are similar, both pretty stubborn and (often intentionally) ignorant of tech but the artsies usually break down and accept modernity faster. From a people management perspective pounding the concept of a dramatic camera angle into a bunch of Shakespearean trained theater actors is probably pretty similar to pounding the concept of "the internet" into a bunch of stereotypical chainsmoking heavy drinking 1960s trained journalists.
I hope it stops everyone from using voice recognition. Very slow, incredibly error prone, completely non-private, intrusive, and dangerous. If its too dangerous to pick up the phone and dial, maybe you should be concentrating on your driving instead of talking? Non-private is eventually the supermarket cashier is going to have to recite your credit card number out loud instead of typing it, or the bank teller speak your SS number, is distinct from intrusive in that its annoying enough that I have to listen to you argue with your girlfriend on the train, I don't want to have to listen to 5 minutes of your arguing with Siri before you start arguing with your girl.
Go away, "Voice Recognition" you suck and don't come back, except for legit handicapped people.
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Would any of you have a problem with saying ALL Atheists are baby killers?
I can only speak for myself, but ... Veal... delicious Veal Parmesagn... Oh you probably meant human babies. No, no they don't make good Parmesagn at all.
What's Bing?
Its a heretical search engine. Don't follow the path of brimstone and eternal damnation, stick to god's one true search engine. We of /. are the Mighty GOOGs chosen ones anyway.
(Just wanted to answer in character w/ the article)
What's the difference between a desktop and a kiosk at a shopping? And a point-of-sale thin client? And a node at a beowulf configuration? Do you think we could use the same thing all the time?
Uh, yeah, thats kind of the point of a universal operating system. Dramatically lower support costs.
sacrificing performance for less latency is a worthy goal to pursue
You've got to be kidding. Why would I want a high latency server? Besides you're arguing very small percentage gains.
Buses can adapt to changing transportation needs quickly,
Privately owned / rented bus / school bus, yes. Public, Heck no. Pay attention to your local paper, you'll get 50 bureaucrats and 25 elected officials debating for hours and fighting with the mayor about exactly where to place the bus stop relative to the new condo development. That's before the lawsuit gets filed by the condo developer and it all drags on. And every two horse suburb wants to set up their own service with their own schedule and damn everyone else who doesn't want to follow their transfer schedule, after all they screwed us over on the water rights so we'll get even by not picking up their residents at the transfer station for 2 hours. Meanwhile the owner of the senior citizen apartment building was supposed to sell that building to the mayors wife at a discount, but he decided against it after all, so I guess its bus service is getting pulled (true story... until after the trial they were hiring chartering buses for the elderly residents to visit walmart etc) It just goes on and on. Its not any better, or worse, than trains. Its just train construction is a more obvious project so people think it takes longer. Both are roughly equally corrupt anemic and slow.
From personal experience the best way to use a bus is to drive from drinking establishment to drinking establishment, and those are few and far between in the kingdom of S.A. .. at least officially. Now in Germany where the small villages are spaced roughly 10 kilotons apart, we could go pub hopping almost faster than a bathroom break at 300 KPH.
Maybe sightseeing tours, where you can go from vegas to the hoover dam in minutes?
Finally self driving trains are technologically a bit less complicated than self driving cars.
I'm surprised no one has started outsourcing train/car/taxi driving to India. Well, I've seen the traffic in India... But the point I'm making is you could have any odd number of people cooperatively drive the vehicle. Since we're destroying the middle class intentionally we'll have nothing but ultra rich and ultra poor so we don't need self driving buses if the only thing on the road is ultra-luxury limos and for-profit prison cattle wagons, but if you demand a non-present driver it would seen teleoperation would be much simpler than hard AI.
Trains are even simpler because if you lose signal, simply apply the E-brake and its all good, unlike cars.
For those times when you want to go somewhere, but you don't want to take anything with you or bring anything back.
In other words, fine for going from your hotel to your business meeting, but that's about it. Like a limo without the privacy and quiet. I can't imagine a use for this that would justify dedicated 200km/h lanes.
I'm not a sports fan, but this sounds ideal for regional sports "away games". Faster than a plane because of no security theater, while fast enough to get to The Big Game in a reasonable amount of time.
For example the closest pro football team is a good 2 hours away at 75 MPH, but using that 2 hour criteria suddenly there's at least 4, maybe 5 within range?
Sports is pretty much just an excuse for excessive drinking, and I imagine the motion sickness would be worse at 300 KMH than 90 KMH so that might get a bit messy.
So you'd have to give it an artifical noise, to warn passers-by that it's approaching. Like, I dunno, "Choo-choo!" or similar.
Thomas the tank engine theme song?
Whats the difference between desktop and server other than what marketing has tried to create?
Imagine having to support two versions of mysql, one on the KDE desktops and one on the backend server. Lovely.
another device for science fiction.
Also survivalist fiction, typically with no bearing on the reality.
what the effects might be from a powerful solar flare, a nearby supernova, or a gamma-ray burst.
Might be a good idea to do it every July 4th, but please ramp up gradually over a couple years from "not much, zune rollout level pffft" to "full on mega solar flare" level. That way we can get our gear in line. I believe there was a nuclear program called "swords into plowshares" or something like that dedicated to using nukes to make a new larger panama canal and all that kind of stuff. This testing would seem a pretty good peaceful use of the stockpile.
Also WRT to the nuclear explosion being called "starfish" this has lead to endless jokes about Taco Bell, McDonalds, resulting in food poisoning, resulting in nuclear level pain in my starfish, etc. Could they possibly select a goofier "code word" for the next test, like maybe the codeword "uranus" test or the codeword "Goat See" test?
Why would anyone choose to be under Microsoft's oppressive thumb if they didn't have to be?
Hoping for corporate purchases of tablets? In other words we'll be stuck with them because the MS sales rep gives the CIO season sports tickets?
I suspect if Apple could find a way to ship a sub 600 dollar MacBook
Called the ipad with a bluetooth keyboard and bluetooth mouse? Its not that farfetched of a lifestyle. I use my (old?) ipad-1 with a bluetooth keyboard and a ssh app all the time at home.
Since when "RTM" has become a verb?
Was it that difficult to write " Windows 8 will be Ready To Market the first week of August"?
Release to market... didn't even think of that one. I assumed it meant release to manufacturing. A kind of crucial distinction.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_8
My favorite new security hole is "Instead of typing a password, users can create a four-digit PIN for easy logon to the computer." That and "picture password".
Basically every boot is a hibernate, which has some interesting security implications if you get access to a drive (via removal, or via booting linux/etc off a USB/optical) containing a hibernated image. I'm guessing this is the cover story for UEFI because if you have access to a hibernated image you have the keys to the kingdom so boot control is pretty important.
Icky UEFI to permanently lock linux or anything else out of running on "windows" commodity hardware. I'm sure you'll be able to special order dells with linux compatible bios at an additional cost of only twice the cost of a MS server license.
Integrating restore into the OS for the inevitable post-p0wn restoration.
Other than that, a bunch of UI mistakes, copying some linux-y features like finally being able natively to mount isos and having something like LVM.
Its hard to call it a "new" OS. Shuffle up the UI, Borg in a bunch of previously 3rd party stuff, copy some linux features, band aid on a broken leg security improvements, eh. I'm still using XP for my gaming partition and I'll probably keep on doing so until I find a reason I have to upgrade. Just recently upgraded to SP3 or whatever its called to get GTA4 to work.
Windows 8 will RTM the first week of August, with general availability in late October.
Why does it take two months? I'm assuming they mean "release to manufacturing" not something like "register trademark" or "remember the milk" (a shopping list app, maybe it'll be released on winderz 8 then, I donno)
Do they mean general availability as in boxes printed in China on shelves in the US which means they're cheaping out on the shipping which at least makes sense, or general availability as in manufacturers gold copy chock full of bloatware is ready to be shoveled out / I mean imaged onto new device hard/flash drives, in which case 2 months is pretty pitiful, or ready for download from .torrent sites in October (oh wait, I think they'll do better than that)
The lens and F stop have nothing to do with speed, the shutter does.
Nah there are fast lenses and slow lenses. At least that's what they called them in the 90s. A fast lens can run a faster shutter speed usually because its bigger but also "insert optical magic here".
Just like you can have two telescopes with identical focus and identical field of view but the one with twice the lens surface area has a shutter speed twice as fast, because it shovels in twice as many photons per second.
Think how easy it is to make a zoom lens for sunlit outdoor work, but how hard it is to pull off a long distance candle-lit shot... you can do it with a fast lens that basically resembles a large aperture telescope, or theres some heavy optical weirdness with trading off the depth of field for light strength or something.
I know just enough optics to be really dangerous. Mostly because I know microwave RF optics better than I know visual optics.
Here I found the lens speed article on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lens_speed
Its a LIDAR ! More or less?
... stupid pointless apostrophe
That would work. But why live scared of apostrophes?
Oh wait I meant to write:
That would work. But why live scared of apostrophese's?
(Sorry had to do it; here I'll use one correctly to restore the balance of The Force:)
Life's too short to live in fear.
I didn't know games for portable devices were still sold somewhere $40 - seems like a lot in the era of $4.99 premium editions from app stores and all that.
To quote the review
a group of songs from each of Final Fantasy's first 13 main series titles are available for play
13 songs is like two animated formulaic disney movies worth of music... How much would you pay for 2 DVDs and 2 soundtrack CDs? Probably end up over $40.
(Note that just shows two industries are sick and twisted, not that one industry is normal)
I have to admit, I've got great income, fat stacks of cash burning a whole in my pocket, and the DS3 looks like a cool control scheme, but.... I've got a phone, admittedly the controls on my phone are awful, but the description of the game shows its s "touch screen tapper" anyway.
There's nothing wrong with casual gaming, other than where is hard core gaming or has is been pushed away?
Decade(s) ago when I was playing Civilization, sim city, F-19/F-117, later F-18, Ultima series especially VI, Myst and clones, Zork and all that was Infocom, Wolf3d, doom, quake, Harpoon, the Steel Panthers series, I always wondered with anticipation what the future would bring to gaming. Amazing technological advances, huge storage, fast 3d graphics, fancy sound systems, strange and amazing UI devices, ubiquitous networking. Oddly my technology fevered imagination never strayed to "In 2012 I have a dream of being able to tap my pen along with the music".
100 times faster than existing optical microscopes
What does that mean before it went thru the journalist filter?
I haven't done film photography in twenty years, but I still thought of "fast lenses" like those weirdo F/0.3 "lenses" made outta mirrors and pretty much anything lower than F/1. You know, the lenses that cost about as much as a cheap new car. Yeah, a 35 picosecond shutter speed means you need a pretty fast lens to feed enough photons thru it, but what does that factor of 100 actually mean, like F/0.001 lens exists or something?
AC pretty much has it. Also the orthogonality where you can pretty much do any addressing mode or operation to any register on the -11, just like you can do anything to any variable name in C.
Now old fortran where the first letter of the variable name implies the variable type, is kind of like some cruder, more limited assembly languages where you can only increment certain registers and only decrement others (thinking system/user stacks / heaps here) and some CPUs where only certain registers can do memory ops and strange transfer / exchange / copy register to register rules.
Also the -11 had enough registers and addressing modes that assembly programming was not as much of a game of "how do you use the single accumulator?" like assembly programming on a -8. Programming the -8 is like programming on those ancient BASICs where you only get variable names A-Z and you've got 27 data variables to shuffle, or only have single dimensional arrays implemented in the language but 3-d of data. The -11, much like C, was more flexible.
Therefore I still don't see what she could learn from them.
I don't know how to restate it shorter and more directly... how about "both are/were masters of the process of the management process of rolling out high tech into the infotainment sector."
You don't just invent a nonlinear video editor in 2000 or a camera rails system in 1935 and it just kinda magically deploys itself. Its surprisingly hard to successfully manage the rollout of high tech to the artsy crowd and have it not turn into a complete misapplied disaster. Its not as hard as rolling out to elderly people but its pretty freaking close sometimes. Traditionally both artsies and elderly are similar, both pretty stubborn and (often intentionally) ignorant of tech but the artsies usually break down and accept modernity faster. From a people management perspective pounding the concept of a dramatic camera angle into a bunch of Shakespearean trained theater actors is probably pretty similar to pounding the concept of "the internet" into a bunch of stereotypical chainsmoking heavy drinking 1960s trained journalists.
I sure hope they force Apple to stop using Siri,
I hope it stops everyone from using voice recognition. Very slow, incredibly error prone, completely non-private, intrusive, and dangerous. If its too dangerous to pick up the phone and dial, maybe you should be concentrating on your driving instead of talking? Non-private is eventually the supermarket cashier is going to have to recite your credit card number out loud instead of typing it, or the bank teller speak your SS number, is distinct from intrusive in that its annoying enough that I have to listen to you argue with your girlfriend on the train, I don't want to have to listen to 5 minutes of your arguing with Siri before you start arguing with your girl.
Go away, "Voice Recognition" you suck and don't come back, except for legit handicapped people.