I mean, you don't need a 1thz processor for a car's ECU, or for a garage door opener.
absolutely positively undeniably 100% wrong
Just because your garage door opener can't "solve" Folding@Home doesn't mean that we can't dream. I mean, at some point we truly need to be able to say something like "well my garage door opener has more processing power than BlueGene/L did in 2008"
I tend to agree with you, but you are also assuming that there isn't going to be new tech that makes the touchscreen more usable for touch typists.
Different but somewhat related is the Optimus Maximus. Yes, it still has physical keys, but they can each change/remap at any time based on what task you are doing. So just because we can't envision how something would work with our current technology doesn't mean it is necessarily a stupid idea.
First, if you want to be secure you just create a ramdisk for your ramdisk. But then you ask the same question again. Answer? You just simply create a ramdisk for your ramdisks for your ramdisks. You could ask the same question again but at that point I'd just slap you...trust me, it would be secure then.
Who in the mainstream public goes 125mph and 0-60 in 8 seconds?
I for one do 0-60 in less than 8 seconds...no comment on the speed.
Anyway, it was brought up in another response but if people do travel (as you admit) 80mph then they need to be able to sustain that speed while also going up hills, therefore 100mph isn't a ridiculous requirement. I get really annoyed at people who are constantly speeding up/slowing down as they go up and down hills...use the cruise control.
You obviously aren't mainstream;
I don't know if I ever really want to be mainstream either, haha. No, I'm not one of those jerks who is flying by people at insane speeds, especially when the traffic is heavy. But I will if I can find a group moving "faster" join in.
Why don't they also drop the MPG requirements to 50mpg as well, then give the money to charity?
Look, they are the ones ponying up $10M, so they should be able to set whatever arbitrary rules they want. Just because you personally don't want (or think you want) that extra power or speed doesn't mean that they aren't worthwhile. I would rather 75MPG, 125mph 0-60 in under 8 seconds. Bottom line, they had to make some tradeoffs here and there, but since this is targeting the mainstream public then it will always come down to that...tradeoffs.
Exactly, there is no correct answer for all scenarios because there are just so many variables.
There may or may not be that much performance gain from compiling from source, but depending on what your sysadmins cost, having the ability to run
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
and have your system be automatically updated could end up being more cost effective than additional support even if that means that you have to buy more/bigger hardware.
Personally I use the package management system for all of the core subsystems/libs and only compile from source my main applications (apache, php, postgres, and mod_perl). There may be a point when I find it necessary to compile my own kernels and do other optimizations, but for me this is the ideal scenario.
I personally don't care. But at least we won't have to worry about slashdot going under since they will be carrying news about this subject no matter which way it goes.
Yeah, shiny new things are nice and it takes some time for the "new" to wear off. You could argue that it was a gigantic waste of money since it does the *exact* same thing as the TV that it replaced, but then again does your new Maytag do anything different than your old washer/dryer? The answer will depend on your point of view, just don't expect everyone to see things from exactly your point of view, I don't.
HDTV's do cost more but they aren't "required" to be large. However, there is some science to back up why people are buying larger TV's than in the past (other than ego).
I'm not 100% sure, but the reason that DVD isn't capable of doing HD has nothing to do with filesize, but the codecs. Most DVDs are "stored at a resolution of 720×480" or 345,600 pixels, whereas 1080p HD is 1920×1080, or 2,073,600 pixels...or 6 times the resolution. So, I think your filesize complaint is also wrong/invalid.
Don't know if you are misinformed about the fancy "Digital TV" thing either. If you have cable, then they can track what you are watching whether digital or analog. If you were referring to broadcast TV, then they can't track what you are watching whether digital or analog, PLUS analog broadcasts are going away in 2009. So your fantasy about watching non-traceable analog TV is about to crumble before your eyes.
Bottom line, you sound like you have a chip on your should and are just blabbering away on topics you have little to zero "factual" information about. I enjoy my HDTV and you are scared/angry at it. I wash my clothes and put them in the closet or the drawer, you are popping popcorn and watching it as your form of entertainment because big brother can't track you doing that.
Which *kinda* reinforces that when inefficiencies exist in markets then new markets will be created to capitalize on those inefficiencies.
What is funny is that if eBay did update the site to disallow sniping, then all of the companies that were there solely for that purpose will be gone overnight and we'll have to read another article about how many jobs were lost.
And then you lost me. Watching commercials? No HD DVR functionality? You post on/.?
Ok, before you start the petition to get my geek card revoked. I'm currently planning (read: getting parts and permission from the wife) to build a HD MythTV setup. However, with that said DiscoveryHD isn't that painful to watch commercials, as they are all in HD too and put enough meat in them to be interesting even if they are just advertising.
There's also the Science, Military, and History Channels, along with some more mainstream entertainment like TMC, Universal, and HDNET which can also have some worthwhile content.
Very true, I just named my top 3. Throw in some on-demand, hd music concerts (which will be even better once the rest of my home theater is setup), and top it off with live sports, then you've still got an entertainment resource to be reckoned with.
Hopefully with the Myth setup, I'll have the flexibility to combine both broadcast TV with internet resources to create the best entertainment experience possible even with an ever changing base of content sources (read: the internet). To get back at the GP, who knows maybe even with that setup TV will continue to lose ground to the internet and I'll eventually drop it all together. However, that day is not today even for a self-proclaimed geek.
I'll keep this short, sweet, and full of nothing but my own opinions. I've watched more TV in the past two months than I have in probably the 6 before it combined. Why? Well, I got a nice HDTV and AnimalPlanetHD, DiscoveryHD and NatGeoHD have actually pulled me back to the TV side. Whats even more interesting is that I'm watching it live (read: with commercials) instead of with TiVo.
Its possible that the new is going to wear off after I feel like I've "got my money's worth" from my TV, but between those 3 channels listed above and Sports, I've definitely watched more TV as of late.
How does your command develop war fighting doctrine in the absence of actual conflict for cyberspace?
Not to belittle you, but why does anything change because its "cyberspace"? Our military is very capable of training soldiers and preparing for scenarios during times of (real world?) peace so that they will be ready when combat does arise.
I would think that they still play training games where you basically split the group into two teams and try to kill each other, except this time instead of guns its ones and zeros.
What is interesting to think about is that in order for you to simulate an attack, you have to try to find your own weaknesses. So you have to think about how to break what you are trying to defend...
Something more humorous to picture is what is "cyberspace" PT like? Are there drill sergeants? Do they make you type till you can't type any more? What do they say instead of the standard "drop and give me 50"? "Sit and type me 50, maggot" Instead of pushups, pages of "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." Do they yell things like "My grandmother can hack better than you!"
As for the usefulness of it? I'm not totally sold yet.
I have just about zero interest in it. For one thing, now there would be one more thing (AIR runtime) to make sure that my clients would have installed and up to date on their systems.
One of the reasons the web is so useful is that it is a very well understood, open specification. Anyone from major corporations to my grandmother can (relatively) easily create content than then becomes viewable to anyone with an internet connection and a web-browser (doesn't even have to be a fancy or up-to-date one). So, why on earth would I (as a developer) want to become locked into a single companies implementation of a web browser...that only adds off-line viewing (anything else in there worth mentioning)? Granted off-line viewing is cool and a step in the right direction. But being cross-platform (to an extent) means nothing if the standards aren't open.
I'll be impressed when Adobe also ports AIR to:
My phone...every phone...every make...every model
My computer...any platform...every platform
My toaster, you know the one that runs linux (wait, they already did)
Anything else that already has a web-browser
I'm not even a die-hard FOSS person, but I can easily see how this is several steps backwards...one company trying to "control" the web with their own version of it, and then being responsible or controlling the platforms that its available for.
For now...wait a couple of years and it will be a measly 5-6. Not sure what we are going to do with all of that bandwidth, but I'm sure that we'll come up with something interesting and possibly even useful.
Sure you can. All NAT does is take one IP address, monitor connections and spread/translate the unique connections across different ports. The device doing the NAT doesn't care "where" it gets its source IP from, it just knows that it has an IP and it splits the connections to that IP. The only potential issue is that if the first NAT runs out of available ports. However, at that point its routing table would be huge and it would probably begin to degrade in performance (depending on the hardware).
First, if it is a good book, then it will be made into a movie. I mean, if it wasn't made into a movie then its not worth my time reading to begin with.
Second, my time is valuable. I am not a blazingly fast reader (we'll just say 250wpm for arguments sake). Even though the "average" book is between 80k and 120k words, those aren't the caliber books that would get made into a movie. So, again for arguments sake, we'll use the Lord of the Rings as our example. I couldn't find an exact number, but most places say "over 300k" so in the interest of being fair I'll round down to just 300k. Meaning that it would take me 20 hours to read that book. The movie on the other hand was only 3 hours (178 minutes).
I am not going to argue that "the movie is better than the book" because I fully understand that the book is better, probably by a wide margin. However, I don't think that it is 6.6 times better.
Third, which is a different take on #2. What is the point of books/movies? Entertainment? Imagination? Invoke thought? Using the above reference, I can be exposed to over 6 times the variety of thought/ideas/ect through movies than books. Therefore by watching movies, you become a more cultured person since you are exposed to more points of view, etc.
Last, sex (take note/.'er). We are already working with a 17 hour differential here. So why not use just a couple of those hours and rent/go see a chick-flick (who knows, you might even like it). Compare that with reading, which is an inherently isolated/unsocial experience. I mean, have you ever head the dating/romance advice "just run down the library..."? If you have, promptly either ignore the advice, or punch them in the face for even suggesting such a stupid idea.
Conclusion. It is obvious that people who watch movies are smarter, more productive (therefore more wealthy), more cultured, and have an amazing sex life.
Disclaimer: I am posting somewhat sarcastically (sad that I have to actually say that) but I *personally* find some truth in my argument and actually do, in fact, prefer movies to books.
Ok, Mr. "I just learned how to curse". Are you telling me that your magical "wi-fi card" can download anything from the internets without having to open a connection to www.ihavenofriends.com and upload
GET/index.html HTTP/1.0
You sir are a douchebag of epic proportions, and one that happens to have no clue how the internet actually works.
Nope, but close. People always wrongly associate this quote. It was actually his son Franklin Relano Doosevelt, Jr.
So yeah, I realized I had made a mistake just as I was clicking Submit. Why does that happen? You can realize you screwed up the instant that you do it...
The fact is that DRM doesn't work on slashdotters, PERIOD.
There, fixed it for you. While I do agree with you to a certain extent, you are distorted by your own technical knowledge. I'm going to use my parents as examples (despite the fact that I would attempt to inform them of how to not get burned). If either of my parents purchased music through iTunes (and did not have me as a resource) then they would in fact be 100% constrained to any and all of the DRM for the tracks. My mom has dabbled with trying to learn/understand P2P, but in the end she actually prefers the convenience and intuitive interface of iTunes and some of the other on-line music stores. The only thing that she cares about is being able to either burn a CD or use it on her mp3 player.
There are so many things that we think are "easy" like things as trivial to putting attachments on emails or burning CDs, but to some they don't know how and they don't know where to turn. For those people, they just accept the DRM and its restrictions as part of the whole "computer experience." If they can't listen to their music on any/all of their devices (but be honest, those people probably have an iPod anyway), then they don't feel cheated...maybe a little frustrated, but for the most part it is just all part of the game.
Again, just because you are clever to avoid any/all DRM doesn't mean that it is completely ineffective.
I think the parent should be modded up (at least a little). For a moderate sized network having ip addresses handled by dhcp (meaning almost zero client configuration) combined with a local dns server (for internal lookups) means that you can essentially control how everyone in the network gets access to ip based resources all from a single configuration (ok, well two configurations).
Slashdot Mirror
absolutely positively undeniably 100% wrong
Just because your garage door opener can't "solve" Folding@Home doesn't mean that we can't dream. I mean, at some point we truly need to be able to say something like "well my garage door opener has more processing power than BlueGene/L did in 2008"
Seriously, get over yourself and your "reality"
I tend to agree with you, but you are also assuming that there isn't going to be new tech that makes the touchscreen more usable for touch typists.
Different but somewhat related is the Optimus Maximus. Yes, it still has physical keys, but they can each change/remap at any time based on what task you are doing. So just because we can't envision how something would work with our current technology doesn't mean it is necessarily a stupid idea.
ps. that was sarcastic
Anyway, it was brought up in another response but if people do travel (as you admit) 80mph then they need to be able to sustain that speed while also going up hills, therefore 100mph isn't a ridiculous requirement. I get really annoyed at people who are constantly speeding up/slowing down as they go up and down hills...use the cruise control. I don't know if I ever really want to be mainstream either, haha. No, I'm not one of those jerks who is flying by people at insane speeds, especially when the traffic is heavy. But I will if I can find a group moving "faster" join in.
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you but...
Why don't they also drop the MPG requirements to 50mpg as well, then give the money to charity?
Look, they are the ones ponying up $10M, so they should be able to set whatever arbitrary rules they want. Just because you personally don't want (or think you want) that extra power or speed doesn't mean that they aren't worthwhile. I would rather 75MPG, 125mph 0-60 in under 8 seconds. Bottom line, they had to make some tradeoffs here and there, but since this is targeting the mainstream public then it will always come down to that...tradeoffs.
I heard that there was an entire valley made out of the stuff somewhere out in California.
There may or may not be that much performance gain from compiling from source, but depending on what your sysadmins cost, having the ability to run and have your system be automatically updated could end up being more cost effective than additional support even if that means that you have to buy more/bigger hardware.
Personally I use the package management system for all of the core subsystems/libs and only compile from source my main applications (apache, php, postgres, and mod_perl). There may be a point when I find it necessary to compile my own kernels and do other optimizations, but for me this is the ideal scenario.
I personally don't care. But at least we won't have to worry about slashdot going under since they will be carrying news about this subject no matter which way it goes.
I'm not sure I'm following all of your points.
Yeah, shiny new things are nice and it takes some time for the "new" to wear off. You could argue that it was a gigantic waste of money since it does the *exact* same thing as the TV that it replaced, but then again does your new Maytag do anything different than your old washer/dryer? The answer will depend on your point of view, just don't expect everyone to see things from exactly your point of view, I don't.
HDTV's do cost more but they aren't "required" to be large. However, there is some science to back up why people are buying larger TV's than in the past (other than ego).
I'm not 100% sure, but the reason that DVD isn't capable of doing HD has nothing to do with filesize, but the codecs. Most DVDs are "stored at a resolution of 720×480" or 345,600 pixels, whereas 1080p HD is 1920×1080, or 2,073,600 pixels...or 6 times the resolution. So, I think your filesize complaint is also wrong/invalid.
Don't know if you are misinformed about the fancy "Digital TV" thing either. If you have cable, then they can track what you are watching whether digital or analog. If you were referring to broadcast TV, then they can't track what you are watching whether digital or analog, PLUS analog broadcasts are going away in 2009. So your fantasy about watching non-traceable analog TV is about to crumble before your eyes.
Bottom line, you sound like you have a chip on your should and are just blabbering away on topics you have little to zero "factual" information about. I enjoy my HDTV and you are scared/angry at it. I wash my clothes and put them in the closet or the drawer, you are popping popcorn and watching it as your form of entertainment because big brother can't track you doing that.
What is funny is that if eBay did update the site to disallow sniping, then all of the companies that were there solely for that purpose will be gone overnight and we'll have to read another article about how many jobs were lost.
Very true, I just named my top 3. Throw in some on-demand, hd music concerts (which will be even better once the rest of my home theater is setup), and top it off with live sports, then you've still got an entertainment resource to be reckoned with.
Hopefully with the Myth setup, I'll have the flexibility to combine both broadcast TV with internet resources to create the best entertainment experience possible even with an ever changing base of content sources (read: the internet). To get back at the GP, who knows maybe even with that setup TV will continue to lose ground to the internet and I'll eventually drop it all together. However, that day is not today even for a self-proclaimed geek.
I'll keep this short, sweet, and full of nothing but my own opinions. I've watched more TV in the past two months than I have in probably the 6 before it combined. Why? Well, I got a nice HDTV and AnimalPlanetHD, DiscoveryHD and NatGeoHD have actually pulled me back to the TV side. Whats even more interesting is that I'm watching it live (read: with commercials) instead of with TiVo.
Its possible that the new is going to wear off after I feel like I've "got my money's worth" from my TV, but between those 3 channels listed above and Sports, I've definitely watched more TV as of late.
I would think that they still play training games where you basically split the group into two teams and try to kill each other, except this time instead of guns its ones and zeros.
What is interesting to think about is that in order for you to simulate an attack, you have to try to find your own weaknesses. So you have to think about how to break what you are trying to defend...
Something more humorous to picture is what is "cyberspace" PT like? Are there drill sergeants? Do they make you type till you can't type any more? What do they say instead of the standard "drop and give me 50"? "Sit and type me 50, maggot" Instead of pushups, pages of "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." Do they yell things like "My grandmother can hack better than you!"
One of the reasons the web is so useful is that it is a very well understood, open specification. Anyone from major corporations to my grandmother can (relatively) easily create content than then becomes viewable to anyone with an internet connection and a web-browser (doesn't even have to be a fancy or up-to-date one). So, why on earth would I (as a developer) want to become locked into a single companies implementation of a web browser...that only adds off-line viewing (anything else in there worth mentioning)? Granted off-line viewing is cool and a step in the right direction. But being cross-platform (to an extent) means nothing if the standards aren't open.
I'll be impressed when Adobe also ports AIR to:
- My phone...every phone...every make...every model
- My computer...any platform...every platform
- My toaster, you know the one that runs linux (wait, they already did)
- Anything else that already has a web-browser
I'm not even a die-hard FOSS person, but I can easily see how this is several steps backwards...one company trying to "control" the web with their own version of it, and then being responsible or controlling the platforms that its available for.For now...wait a couple of years and it will be a measly 5-6. Not sure what we are going to do with all of that bandwidth, but I'm sure that we'll come up with something interesting and possibly even useful.
Here is why I don't read books.
/.'er). We are already working with a 17 hour differential here. So why not use just a couple of those hours and rent/go see a chick-flick (who knows, you might even like it). Compare that with reading, which is an inherently isolated/unsocial experience. I mean, have you ever head the dating/romance advice "just run down the library..."? If you have, promptly either ignore the advice, or punch them in the face for even suggesting such a stupid idea.
First, if it is a good book, then it will be made into a movie. I mean, if it wasn't made into a movie then its not worth my time reading to begin with.
Second, my time is valuable. I am not a blazingly fast reader (we'll just say 250wpm for arguments sake). Even though the "average" book is between 80k and 120k words, those aren't the caliber books that would get made into a movie. So, again for arguments sake, we'll use the Lord of the Rings as our example. I couldn't find an exact number, but most places say "over 300k" so in the interest of being fair I'll round down to just 300k. Meaning that it would take me 20 hours to read that book. The movie on the other hand was only 3 hours (178 minutes).
I am not going to argue that "the movie is better than the book" because I fully understand that the book is better, probably by a wide margin. However, I don't think that it is 6.6 times better.
Third, which is a different take on #2. What is the point of books/movies? Entertainment? Imagination? Invoke thought? Using the above reference, I can be exposed to over 6 times the variety of thought/ideas/ect through movies than books. Therefore by watching movies, you become a more cultured person since you are exposed to more points of view, etc.
Last, sex (take note
Conclusion. It is obvious that people who watch movies are smarter, more productive (therefore more wealthy), more cultured, and have an amazing sex life.
Disclaimer: I am posting somewhat sarcastically (sad that I have to actually say that) but I *personally* find some truth in my argument and actually do, in fact, prefer movies to books.
You sir are a douchebag of epic proportions, and one that happens to have no clue how the internet actually works.
Nope, but close. People always wrongly associate this quote. It was actually his son Franklin Relano Doosevelt, Jr.
So yeah, I realized I had made a mistake just as I was clicking Submit. Why does that happen? You can realize you screwed up the instant that you do it...
Nah, I'm used to it.
Hillary Clinton as president, now THAT will strike fear into even the coldest of hearts!
"The only thing we have to fear is Fear itself" - FRD
There are so many things that we think are "easy" like things as trivial to putting attachments on emails or burning CDs, but to some they don't know how and they don't know where to turn. For those people, they just accept the DRM and its restrictions as part of the whole "computer experience." If they can't listen to their music on any/all of their devices (but be honest, those people probably have an iPod anyway), then they don't feel cheated...maybe a little frustrated, but for the most part it is just all part of the game.
Again, just because you are clever to avoid any/all DRM doesn't mean that it is completely ineffective.
I think the parent should be modded up (at least a little). For a moderate sized network having ip addresses handled by dhcp (meaning almost zero client configuration) combined with a local dns server (for internal lookups) means that you can essentially control how everyone in the network gets access to ip based resources all from a single configuration (ok, well two configurations).