Obviously, but what use is verification after the fact? By the time the system figures out it's not you sitting at the console, someone has already had the chance to do the damage. And no-one will want to be forced to plug away at a word processor for an hour before they're allowed to read their email or access a file server.
Perhaps someone can gently remind these people that several thousand appalling spelled promotions for viagra has zero effect on the desire to purchase for most of the population. Particularly the female contingent.
I mean, really. Has anyone ever bought some "vi@g.ra" via one of these ridiculous messages? I can't imagine how the spammers generate enough income to make this a profitable exercise.
I'd surely like to know how these people figure out where to send invitations to spammers. I have a mailbox heaving with spam, just begging to be returned to sender...
Grid infrastructure is not just about compute time. It will also attempt to deal with the predicted "data deluge" in the various sciences (chiefly high energy physics, but genetics are also a big producer of data). Storage requirements will increase much faster than the media technology, meaning that new distributed systems will have to be developed to store and access this in a useful way.
Anyway, you can't expect this to leap straight from research papers into commercially viable systems right away. Remember that the Internet started off as a solution in a very specialised field (defence) before commerce started making use of it. Also like the Internet, the main benefits of a global Grid will only become apparent once some significant interoperable installations have been made.
The reason there are few buyers for grid computing services is because it's not ready yet. It is being designed for tomorrow's problems, and, when the time is right, it will certainly have plenty of interested parties.
Actually I like the technical aspects of the show. It's done in a way that grounds the storyline in reality (as far as is possible with a sci-fi show). I think it's human nature to try and reverse engineer a technology that isn't understood; the concept of having the gate hitched up to a giant bank of computers seems realistic to me.
After all, it's not like they understand it entirely. There's often talk of unimplemented protocols in Earth's DHD, which crops up disastrously in one of the latest episodes. This, for me, highlights one of the best aspects of the show: the fallibility. Things go wrong almost as often as they go right. There is an advancement in the plot, but in a 'two steps forward, one step back' way.
(However, lately Carter seems to have taken on Trek-like problem-solving skills: "well, we could [insert improbable but ultimately 100% accurate solution 60 seconds after being presented with problem]." That bugs me a little.)
I liked the Egyptian aspect, and the links with other past human cultures, but I think it would have been hard to spin that out over so many episodes, so I'm glad the show has evolved.
SLASHDOT is now apple.slashdot.org. Get it? Slashdot = Apple. Everything NON-Apple seems secondary. Linux stories are tolerated. Books are ignored. YRO is buried. Games are irrelevant.
Or jammer jammers... and then there'll be jammer jammer jammers, and... mmm, jam...
Eventually there'll be so much energy being thrown around that people's eyeballs will start exploding. And it would really annoy me if I'm sitting quietly in a movie theatre and some jackass' eyeballs pop. I paid to watch the movie, not you screaming in hideous agony!
There are people who challenge the system, and then there are batty old men who wander round shops in their excessive free time, harassing minimum-wagers, and then bragging about how they're Fighting the Power.
Depending on where he's going, Mann carries a few different wireless transmitters so he can connect to whatever kind of network -- Wi-Fi, cellular, old-fashioned radio -- happens to be available.
Selling products below cost, using a huge central bankroll to tide it over until everyone else is out of business. There's no way an independant can compete with that. Hence, anti-competitive.
What about the folks who owned the grocery store down the road that Wal-Mart forced out of business with it's anti-competitive prices? What can they better afford? How has their living standard been raised?
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Obviously, but what use is verification after the fact? By the time the system figures out it's not you sitting at the console, someone has already had the chance to do the damage. And no-one will want to be forced to plug away at a word processor for an hour before they're allowed to read their email or access a file server.
How many keyboard commands and misspellings do you make at the login prompt?
Another U2 album? Sounds like a pretty dire threat to me.
The picture of Mr. Gates in the article says it all, really...
Why take the risk of an outsider breaking your encryption if you can prevent their access to the signal in the first place?
Perhaps someone can gently remind these people that several thousand appalling spelled promotions for viagra has zero effect on the desire to purchase for most of the population. Particularly the female contingent.
I mean, really. Has anyone ever bought some "vi@g.ra" via one of these ridiculous messages? I can't imagine how the spammers generate enough income to make this a profitable exercise.
I'd surely like to know how these people figure out where to send invitations to spammers. I have a mailbox heaving with spam, just begging to be returned to sender...
Grid infrastructure is not just about compute time. It will also attempt to deal with the predicted "data deluge" in the various sciences (chiefly high energy physics, but genetics are also a big producer of data). Storage requirements will increase much faster than the media technology, meaning that new distributed systems will have to be developed to store and access this in a useful way.
Anyway, you can't expect this to leap straight from research papers into commercially viable systems right away. Remember that the Internet started off as a solution in a very specialised field (defence) before commerce started making use of it. Also like the Internet, the main benefits of a global Grid will only become apparent once some significant interoperable installations have been made.
The reason there are few buyers for grid computing services is because it's not ready yet. It is being designed for tomorrow's problems, and, when the time is right, it will certainly have plenty of interested parties.
Can't find the 'on' button though.
Your lawsuit is in the mail.
Since the premise of the new show is (according to the writers) non-military, I'd imagine that SG-1 plots or lack thereof would not apply.
Then again, I don't think SG-1 has a significant problem with plots.
Actually I like the technical aspects of the show. It's done in a way that grounds the storyline in reality (as far as is possible with a sci-fi show). I think it's human nature to try and reverse engineer a technology that isn't understood; the concept of having the gate hitched up to a giant bank of computers seems realistic to me.
After all, it's not like they understand it entirely. There's often talk of unimplemented protocols in Earth's DHD, which crops up disastrously in one of the latest episodes. This, for me, highlights one of the best aspects of the show: the fallibility. Things go wrong almost as often as they go right. There is an advancement in the plot, but in a 'two steps forward, one step back' way.
(However, lately Carter seems to have taken on Trek-like problem-solving skills: "well, we could [insert improbable but ultimately 100% accurate solution 60 seconds after being presented with problem]." That bugs me a little.)
I liked the Egyptian aspect, and the links with other past human cultures, but I think it would have been hard to spin that out over so many episodes, so I'm glad the show has evolved.
In the past week...
apple: 4 stories
books: 3 stories
yro: 21 stories
games: 31 stories
Or jammer jammers... and then there'll be jammer jammer jammers, and... mmm, jam...
Eventually there'll be so much energy being thrown around that people's eyeballs will start exploding. And it would really annoy me if I'm sitting quietly in a movie theatre and some jackass' eyeballs pop. I paid to watch the movie, not you screaming in hideous agony!
Why would you have your jammer switched on in your own car?
Xcode.
Oops. If you went into a computer science degree expecting to learn about business, no wonder you were disappointed.
Also, a store is private property, which means they can cover the walls with cameras and still tell him to turn his off.
I mean, what does he expect them to say? "Ack, caught out by our own rules! Now we'll have to throw all our cameras away!"
There are people who challenge the system, and then there are batty old men who wander round shops in their excessive free time, harassing minimum-wagers, and then bragging about how they're Fighting the Power.
I'm sure he only did it to crack some corny "Hey baby, check out the size of my hard drive"-style pick up line.
Since the device only covers one eye, it would surely lead to asymmetrical vision problems. Rather quickly, I'd imagine, given how close the image is.
Selling products below cost, using a huge central bankroll to tide it over until everyone else is out of business. There's no way an independant can compete with that. Hence, anti-competitive.
Except the Wal-Mart store by then has driven all other shops in the area out of business.
What about the folks who owned the grocery store down the road that Wal-Mart forced out of business with it's anti-competitive prices? What can they better afford? How has their living standard been raised?
The old capitalist equation. "Everyone" == "Me".