seriously... i already put enough cash into my truck's gas tank. i don't understand why this is such a great way to go, especially with the comparatively highly volatile price of fuel. what happens when we run out? i know that the fuel is a natural resource and is eventually replenishable, but it's not a secret that the world's population is using fuel faster than the earth can produce it.
Anything we power with fuel cells now will probably be inoperable in a few decades when we have no more fuel.
logging onto pharmacy website to get my pain killers... but wait, my hand is in a cast! Let me try my left hand! Wait, I'm right-handed; my left will never work!....
"We have liftoff!" == "Excellent!" "Our trajectory is acceptable for re-entry"=="Accuracy!" "Our rocket landed, and it's data storage is still intact"=="Perfect!"
* luckyguesser almost dodged John_Cormack's rocket.
The only data that *doesn't* end up on a hard disk would have to be switch to switch, router to router, etc. How much of the current traffic does communication between those devices take up?
Anyway, as kind of a catch-all for everyone who has replied to me, yes RAID striping arrays will work for a while (40000 drives in 1 array!?!? good luck).
I also agree that it might be useful for large corporations such as Walmart to communicate to their warehouse, but do you think that one large, fast line would be secure or reliable?
The problem with transfer speeds is that the von-Neumann architecture promotes large bursts of simultaneous, high-volume transfer over networks. So, even though the hard drives on the transmitting computers are as slow as the HDs on the receiving end, the info being sent most likely comes out of RAM.
The only thing you're doing by moving all communication between point A and point B into one line is consolidating your area of risk.
I agree that it is rather useless. For instance, consider hard drive speeds. I did a little searching and found that the fastest hard drive on the planet ( http://radified.com/Benches/hdtach_x15_36lp_wme.ht m ) has an average speeds of 420Mbps.
So, it seems to me that for massive data transfer, we should be worrying more about the beginning and end of the line rather than the middle.
Not that I think improving network transfer speeds is bad...
...were the people selling the pickaxes. The only people who will really benefit from virus writers and their creations are anti-virus software providers.
If we were to compare this situation to the human body and real viruses, we can quickly see that, yes, some viruses can be fought down with only the immune system of the person. But for everything else, we have doctors- extremely high-salaty doctors. Do YOU wanna start getting really high anti-virus bills after a super-virus is released and only one or two companies have the "cure"?
The statement about depreciation etc. is still ambiguous. So, let's look at what they could possibly propose to tax by:
1. The hardware
We already do this. It's called sales tax.
2. Per byte
Asinine, and only possible with businesses, etc. They could never keep track of home users, etc.
Plus, this brings up the question, "If they can tax me for using the hardware that is already mine, couldn't they tax me for doing *anything* with *anything* that I own?"
Also, they mentioned 9%. I dunno about you, but MY bytes cost me -$100. Now they owe ME $9 per byte.
3. At a fixed rate, as a service.
Wait... wait for it... nope, this LAN still appears to be under MY ownership. Nice try, guys.
The article mentioned that they released this story to get people's reactions. Did they seriously just FORGET to sit down for a second, think about it, and then decide that NO ONE would agree that it would be a good idea?
It's REALLY the RIAA wanting more money for MP3's which were NO DOUBT illegally obtained. And besides, what would people send across LANs besides MP3's?!?
Is there ever a bad time for pudding?... Well?... IS there???
By admitting that.9999_ is never = to 1, you admit that they are distinct numbers, which, by definition, must have a gap between them in which can be found another real number. Taking that information back into Charbal's post,.999- is = 1.
It's not skipping over any numbers if the difference is infinitely small
A gap that is infinitely small is not a gap. However, using "fancy math";), there will always be another number between any 2 set numbers. If you insist that there is a point close to infinity where the gap is not an issue, come back to me with the 2 numbers that you measured from =). Look at it this way: half-way between 0 and 1 is 0.5. Halfway between 0.5 and 1 is 0.75. When are you going to decide that the gap is "inifnitely small" enough?
I haven't read most of the comments thus far posted, but I was wondering just how smart these little guys will be. For instance, how will they know who their peers are? i.e. you use them to monitor a patient's heart. but you have 3 cardiac patients in the same room. will each spray bottle have a "signature" on each little speck, or maybe specks in close proximity to each other will somehow learn that they are part of a larger group...? the latter seems like too much to expect from something that size.
I agree. When does the commercial world have more rights than the gov't that does, in fact, govern them, too?
On the other hand, I don't think it's illegal for a program to send information back to the software publisher (at least I know it isn't if the user specified upon install that it was OK to do so, etc.). So, in that regard, the software publisher could take the same position that someone might when using a 'citizen's arrest'-like policy.
In conclusion, I think that:
1. It is invasion of privacy if, in fact, the software is legal AND the user specified that info. should NOT be sent.
2. Gathering information that was not explicitly proposed by the software publisher beforehand is deception.
3. In agreement with a previous post, the public *does* need some wiggle-room. Personal use of a copy of software on more than one personal computer should be allowed.
I'm personally *REALLY* glad we know where our homeless people are now.... cuz that's the most important thing the gov't can think of to do with their citizen's money.
this undermines a carefully crafted marketing image
Hmm lemme guess... it goes something like "everyone will pay for at least one ticket before finding out it SUCKS!". reaaaally carefully crafted, indeed.
If they're so mad about WORD OF MOUTH, why not attack MOVIE CRITICS? After all, IT'S THEIR JOB!
Only in America....
Haven't they come a very long way towards fixing it?
Yes, and one of the biggest ways they started fixing this problem was to cut back on activities that cause pollution! (gasp)
I think that the real solution is to figure out how to use less energy to do the same thing. Not find more and more (probably) expensive and creative ways to power things.
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For 2 cents, it seems you are able to purchase exactly 0:06 seconds of song time ;)
seriously... i already put enough cash into my truck's gas tank. i don't understand why this is such a great way to go, especially with the comparatively highly volatile price of fuel. what happens when we run out? i know that the fuel is a natural resource and is eventually replenishable, but it's not a secret that the world's population is using fuel faster than the earth can produce it.
Anything we power with fuel cells now will probably be inoperable in a few decades when we have no more fuel.
logging onto pharmacy website to get my pain killers... but wait, my hand is in a cast! Let me try my left hand! Wait, I'm right-handed; my left will never work! ....
"We have liftoff!" == "Excellent!"
"Our trajectory is acceptable for re-entry"=="Accuracy!"
"Our rocket landed, and it's data storage is still intact"=="Perfect!"
* luckyguesser almost dodged John_Cormack's rocket.
what about data that never hits the disk?
The only data that *doesn't* end up on a hard disk would have to be switch to switch, router to router, etc. How much of the current traffic does communication between those devices take up?
Anyway, as kind of a catch-all for everyone who has replied to me, yes RAID striping arrays will work for a while (40000 drives in 1 array!?!? good luck).
I also agree that it might be useful for large corporations such as Walmart to communicate to their warehouse, but do you think that one large, fast line would be secure or reliable?
The problem with transfer speeds is that the von-Neumann architecture promotes large bursts of simultaneous, high-volume transfer over networks.
So, even though the hard drives on the transmitting computers are as slow as the HDs on the receiving end, the info being sent most likely comes out of RAM.
The only thing you're doing by moving all communication between point A and point B into one line is consolidating your area of risk.
I agree that it is rather useless. For instance, consider hard drive speeds. I did a little searching and found that the fastest hard drive on the planet ( http://radified.com/Benches/hdtach_x15_36lp_wme.ht m ) has an average speeds of 420Mbps.
So, it seems to me that for massive data transfer, we should be worrying more about the beginning and end of the line rather than the middle.
Not that I think improving network transfer speeds is bad...
I'm not surprised. The whole "friendly computing" image that apple has crafted over the years is just that, an image.
Maybe they should pair up with Enron and Martha Stewart. =P
01010111011010000110000101110100001000000110110101 10000101101011011001010111001100100000011110010110 11110111010100100000011101000110100001101001011011 10011010110010000001100010011000010111001101100101 00100000001100110010000001101001011100110010000001 10010101100001011100110110100101100101011100100011 1111
... so you can have a weak system even when it's not infected! lol.
...were the people selling the pickaxes. The only people who will really benefit from virus writers and their creations are anti-virus software providers.
If we were to compare this situation to the human body and real viruses, we can quickly see that, yes, some viruses can be fought down with only the immune system of the person. But for everything else, we have doctors- extremely high-salaty doctors. Do YOU wanna start getting really high anti-virus bills after a super-virus is released and only one or two companies have the "cure"?
The statement about depreciation etc. is still ambiguous. So, let's look at what they could possibly propose to tax by:
1. The hardware
We already do this. It's called sales tax.
2. Per byte
Asinine, and only possible with businesses, etc. They could never keep track of home users, etc.
Plus, this brings up the question, "If they can tax me for using the hardware that is already mine, couldn't they tax me for doing *anything* with *anything* that I own?"
Also, they mentioned 9%. I dunno about you, but MY bytes cost me -$100. Now they owe ME $9 per byte.
3. At a fixed rate, as a service.
Wait... wait for it... nope, this LAN still appears to be under MY ownership. Nice try, guys.
The article mentioned that they released this story to get people's reactions. Did they seriously just FORGET to sit down for a second, think about it, and then decide that NO ONE would agree that it would be a good idea?
It's REALLY the RIAA wanting more money for MP3's which were NO DOUBT illegally obtained. And besides, what would people send across LANs besides MP3's?!? Is there ever a bad time for pudding? ... Well? ... IS there???
By admitting that .9999_ is never = to 1, you admit that they are distinct numbers, which, by definition, must have a gap between them in which can be found another real number. Taking that information back into Charbal's post, .999- is = 1.
It's not skipping over any numbers if the difference is infinitely small
;), there will always be another number between any 2 set numbers. If you insist that there is a point close to infinity where the gap is not an issue, come back to me with the 2 numbers that you measured from =). Look at it this way: half-way between 0 and 1 is 0.5. Halfway between 0.5 and 1 is 0.75. When are you going to decide that the gap is "inifnitely small" enough?
A gap that is infinitely small is not a gap. However, using "fancy math"
I haven't read most of the comments thus far posted, but I was wondering just how smart these little guys will be. For instance, how will they know who their peers are? i.e. you use them to monitor a patient's heart. but you have 3 cardiac patients in the same room. will each spray bottle have a "signature" on each little speck, or maybe specks in close proximity to each other will somehow learn that they are part of a larger group...? the latter seems like too much to expect from something that size.
I agree. When does the commercial world have more rights than the gov't that does, in fact, govern them, too? On the other hand, I don't think it's illegal for a program to send information back to the software publisher (at least I know it isn't if the user specified upon install that it was OK to do so, etc.). So, in that regard, the software publisher could take the same position that someone might when using a 'citizen's arrest'-like policy. In conclusion, I think that: 1. It is invasion of privacy if, in fact, the software is legal AND the user specified that info. should NOT be sent. 2. Gathering information that was not explicitly proposed by the software publisher beforehand is deception. 3. In agreement with a previous post, the public *does* need some wiggle-room. Personal use of a copy of software on more than one personal computer should be allowed.
However, I think it's safe to apply the "everything that has a beginning has an end" rule to this "law"... as opposed to the laws of physics. ;)
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You figure it would drive innovation, instead of driving CPU manufacturers take advantage of
You'd figure teachers would drive correct grammar into our heads before letting us into the real world.
I'm personally *REALLY* glad we know where our homeless people are now.... cuz that's the most important thing the gov't can think of to do with their citizen's money.
this undermines a carefully crafted marketing image
Hmm lemme guess... it goes something like "everyone will pay for at least one ticket before finding out it SUCKS!". reaaaally carefully crafted, indeed.
If they're so mad about WORD OF MOUTH, why not attack MOVIE CRITICS? After all, IT'S THEIR JOB!
Only in America....
There are a good number of windows updates that are already unnecessary for my personal needs, OR that are more hinderance than help!
Its called nuclear I'ts nucular, stupid. The S is silent.
Haven't they come a very long way towards fixing it? Yes, and one of the biggest ways they started fixing this problem was to cut back on activities that cause pollution! (gasp)
natural sources of energy aren't enough
I think that the real solution is to figure out how to use less energy to do the same thing. Not find more and more (probably) expensive and creative ways to power things.