Open source fanatics meet religious fanatics. I have a bad feeling about this. Just kidding about the fanatics part mind you, there are some real nice people in the open source movement.
You must have been one of those children who objected to a piece of paper being called a plane (it has a very small vertical dimension too!). Making points such as this simply demonstrate that you don't understand how language is used. Generally if two dimensions of an object dwarf the remaining dimension we are inclined to call that object 2d, especially if the smallest dimension is microscopic. Likewise we call surfaces such as the top of a table "flat" even though on the microscopic scale they are actually quite hilly.
Hey, I'm not saying a Plutocracy is necessarily against the wishes of the people. After all it's probably better than communism. I'm just saying we should call it what it is and not pretend we are living in a pure and perfect democracy. Laws like this aren't aberrations, they are to be expected.
I for one welcome our wealthy overlords. In all seriousness many democratic countries are effectively ruled by the rich already. (For example consider the amount of money needed to win an election, ensuring all candidates are either independently wealthy or in the pockets of their campaign contributors) Why should it surprise anyone that the people in power are making laws that benefit themselves? See Plutocracy and tell me with a straight face that isn't almost every modern "democratic" government.
As I am reading it this really isn't a 3D technology at all, it's more like three normal planes of circuitry stacked on top of each other. Of course I know why they haven't been working on a truly "3D" implementation: even though it would cut down the distance on average between any two gates moving heat away from the inside of the structure would be exceedingly difficult, while on a 2D chip getting rid of heat from anywhere is relatively easy (large surface area / volume).
Well as the article itself says the clean room method isn't required by law. It would seem to make sense then to drop it until it is required by law, or alternately host your distribution overseas and have the developers working on the drivers be non-US residents as well, so that you are less vulnerable to US law. Wi-Fi problems are one of the reasons this laptop doesn't run Linux, although BSD is sounding cooler and cooler.
I'm still holding out for paper that can compute (probably by using rod logic) and then display the results on its surface. A little external memory interface and I can reduce my bookshelf to a harddrive and an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper.
It's to ensure that the government has the proper amount of fear regarding the citizens it governs, so that it won't be tempted to try and become a tyrrany.
Removing net neutrality might make sense, if the telecoms weren't monopolies that is. If they weren't monopolies they would be competing with each other to provide the best service to the customer, and thus wouldn't want to charge content providers for bandwidth (possibly at all), since they would want their customers to desire their services, and they would only desire their services if they could access content. However as it stands the telecommunications companies are monopolies, so there is little motivation for them to provide the best service. As a monopoly they simply want to charge as much as the market will bear, and if Google is making money off ads clearly they can afford to pay more to the telecoms. The fact that laws doing away with net neutrality might be passed is sad evidence how much our politicians are in the pockets of big companies.
Obviously solutions like this will be the way of the future, combined with a finer grained permission system. I just hope you can manually exempt programs. For example bittorrent opens a lot of network connections, and copies a lot of data around; I could see a tool such as this reasonably coming to the conclusion that it was malware. I am also curious if their system could defeat a rootkit, which will do its best to hide its activity and existence almost completely from the system.
Imagine a workplace where I am actually trying to accomplish something and then add some chatty fool who keeps trying to tell me about his personal life, preventing me from getting said work done. That is the situation I have in mind.
Ah but if you search for my name my slashdot comments won't come up. Plus I try not to say anything too stupid. However if I really wanted to troll obviously I would make a new account. Plus who says that's my blog? Maybe I just like it.
You know intelligence isn't everything when hiring. People with vapid social lives may be generally annoying to their co-workers, and thus actually be a hindrance to a group effort.
In my opinion this could be as much of a good thing as it is a bad thing. Sure if you write all sorts of useless MySpace one line "lol ponies are cute!!!!" comments then yes, you may be less likely to be hired. But then again making such comments indicates that you are a fairly shallow, and possibly annoying person, and thus may not be a good person to hire. On the other hand if you are generally insightful and have useful things to say then it would seem that you would be more likely to be hired, and I can't think of that as a bad thing. So in general if you act like an idiot you are less likely to be hired, if you act like an adult you are more likely to be hired. If we feel that this is an acceptable consequence of real life behavior why shouldn't it be an acceptable consequence of online behavior?
Hasn't running "parallel HPC applications aimed at users working on complex computations" traditionally been done under Unix, and Linux as well. Seeing how Linux is free it's hard to see how "it has been too expensive", or "too difficult" (since unlike your home user the people running these systems are rocket scientists, I am sure a little command line use doesn't stump them).
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Open source fanatics meet religious fanatics. I have a bad feeling about this. Just kidding about the fanatics part mind you, there are some real nice people in the open source movement.
I am sure Microsoft said the same thing about Red Hat. Pride goes before a fall Red Hat.
What's wrong is that the GP is jealous.
I was educated by foreigners. (just kidding)
You must have been one of those children who objected to a piece of paper being called a plane (it has a very small vertical dimension too!). Making points such as this simply demonstrate that you don't understand how language is used. Generally if two dimensions of an object dwarf the remaining dimension we are inclined to call that object 2d, especially if the smallest dimension is microscopic. Likewise we call surfaces such as the top of a table "flat" even though on the microscopic scale they are actually quite hilly.
Impossible! Go USA! Go USA! We can win the spam race!
Hey, I'm not saying a Plutocracy is necessarily against the wishes of the people. After all it's probably better than communism. I'm just saying we should call it what it is and not pretend we are living in a pure and perfect democracy. Laws like this aren't aberrations, they are to be expected.
I for one welcome our wealthy overlords. In all seriousness many democratic countries are effectively ruled by the rich already. (For example consider the amount of money needed to win an election, ensuring all candidates are either independently wealthy or in the pockets of their campaign contributors) Why should it surprise anyone that the people in power are making laws that benefit themselves? See Plutocracy and tell me with a straight face that isn't almost every modern "democratic" government.
As I am reading it this really isn't a 3D technology at all, it's more like three normal planes of circuitry stacked on top of each other. Of course I know why they haven't been working on a truly "3D" implementation: even though it would cut down the distance on average between any two gates moving heat away from the inside of the structure would be exceedingly difficult, while on a 2D chip getting rid of heat from anywhere is relatively easy (large surface area / volume).
Well as the article itself says the clean room method isn't required by law. It would seem to make sense then to drop it until it is required by law, or alternately host your distribution overseas and have the developers working on the drivers be non-US residents as well, so that you are less vulnerable to US law. Wi-Fi problems are one of the reasons this laptop doesn't run Linux, although BSD is sounding cooler and cooler.
I was thinking more of long PDFs and eye-strain, but yeah ads are a problem too.
I suppose you have never heard of batteries before?
Have you ever tried to read long articles on a computer screen? It's nearly impossible.
I'm still holding out for paper that can compute (probably by using rod logic) and then display the results on its surface. A little external memory interface and I can reduce my bookshelf to a harddrive and an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper.
It's to ensure that the government has the proper amount of fear regarding the citizens it governs, so that it won't be tempted to try and become a tyrrany.
Removing net neutrality might make sense, if the telecoms weren't monopolies that is. If they weren't monopolies they would be competing with each other to provide the best service to the customer, and thus wouldn't want to charge content providers for bandwidth (possibly at all), since they would want their customers to desire their services, and they would only desire their services if they could access content. However as it stands the telecommunications companies are monopolies, so there is little motivation for them to provide the best service. As a monopoly they simply want to charge as much as the market will bear, and if Google is making money off ads clearly they can afford to pay more to the telecoms. The fact that laws doing away with net neutrality might be passed is sad evidence how much our politicians are in the pockets of big companies.
Obviously solutions like this will be the way of the future, combined with a finer grained permission system. I just hope you can manually exempt programs. For example bittorrent opens a lot of network connections, and copies a lot of data around; I could see a tool such as this reasonably coming to the conclusion that it was malware. I am also curious if their system could defeat a rootkit, which will do its best to hide its activity and existence almost completely from the system.
Imagine a workplace where I am actually trying to accomplish something and then add some chatty fool who keeps trying to tell me about his personal life, preventing me from getting said work done. That is the situation I have in mind.
Ah but if you search for my name my slashdot comments won't come up. Plus I try not to say anything too stupid. However if I really wanted to troll obviously I would make a new account. Plus who says that's my blog? Maybe I just like it.
You know intelligence isn't everything when hiring. People with vapid social lives may be generally annoying to their co-workers, and thus actually be a hindrance to a group effort.
That is why people don't make their username their real life name, or allow their real email to be shown publicly next to it. (duh)
In my opinion this could be as much of a good thing as it is a bad thing. Sure if you write all sorts of useless MySpace one line "lol ponies are cute!!!!" comments then yes, you may be less likely to be hired. But then again making such comments indicates that you are a fairly shallow, and possibly annoying person, and thus may not be a good person to hire. On the other hand if you are generally insightful and have useful things to say then it would seem that you would be more likely to be hired, and I can't think of that as a bad thing. So in general if you act like an idiot you are less likely to be hired, if you act like an adult you are more likely to be hired. If we feel that this is an acceptable consequence of real life behavior why shouldn't it be an acceptable consequence of online behavior?
Hasn't running "parallel HPC applications aimed at users working on complex computations" traditionally been done under Unix, and Linux as well. Seeing how Linux is free it's hard to see how "it has been too expensive", or "too difficult" (since unlike your home user the people running these systems are rocket scientists, I am sure a little command line use doesn't stump them).
Yes! More ads please! Whoo hoo! It's time to break out the good stuff.