They can of course break it any time they want but since 1 gigabyte in storage space costs, what, a handful of glass beads nowadays, do you really think enough people will bother with this to cause serious scalability problems for a search engine company that handles a hundred million hits per day?
Yeah, 1 gigabyte of storage costs a handful of glass beads. But do you really think it will stay 1 gigabyte of storage? It took this guy only 3 days to hack up this program in python. Give him another three days and he could make it register a dozen accounts and link them together transparently into one filesystem. In fact, it scales pretty easily to the point where I could have unlimited storage on Google's servers--and then it would be a problem for them, and they would have to break it.
a purely benevolent...society where the only people who work to produce things are those who choose to, then they willingly provide the fruits of their labor back to the collective.
Dude if you're going to try to google bomb 'http' (I don't know why you'd want to anyway) at least link it to www.w3.org instead of just http://w3.org, because the one with the www is what shows up near the top in a google search already.
The nvidia binary drivers seem to have trouble making the switch. It seems weird that with essentially the same code base they would just stop working, but I don't know how else to interpret "No Devices Detected" from the X server, when it works fine with the open source drivers.
Capitalists are not about making money, they are about destroying it. A capitalist wants to concentrate all of the wealth in one person.
I'm sorry, but the idea that anybody would want to destroy money is ridiculous--what would be the purpose? To some degree you're correct that capitalism tends to concentrate wealth, but you're missing the point: capitalism concentrates wealth in the places where it is most useful, the places where it is most capable of creating more wealth. People who create money, get money so that they can use it to create more money. People who squander money don't get any more.
And, since we're a democracy, and the standards are not curtailing any personal rights (only the rights of corporations!), I'm not sure why all of/. hates them.
So the rights of corporations can be infringed with no problem? It's not like corporations are everyone's enemy, you know. The freedom of corporations to operate independently of government regulations is what gives us technology, jobs, production, etc. and we need to preserve their rights to conduct business almost as much as we need to preserve our right to conduct our lives.
And worst of all what are currently blockable popup ads will be replaced with Flash overlays that fly around screen.
I saw one of those on MSN once (while using IE on someone else's machine). I actually thought it was pretty cool. Almost worth the annoyance just for the eye candy.
I saw this headline and was like, whoa, I could have sworn there was an article about this yesterday. But this one is much cooler than yesterday's enormously high-resolution camera--it's in space. Pretty good progress for 24 hours.
Me: My ethernet isn't working. TS: Are you using windows? Me: I'm using Linux. TS: What kind of Linux? Me: SuSE 8.1 Professional. TS: I'm sorry, we only support KDE and Gnome.
I was actually using KDE at the time, but I didn't even bother trying to explain that. I just hung up.
unless the rescue team is a volunteer organization, you are already paying for the service.
Almost all rescue teams are volunteer organizations, with the exception of some of the national parks. The SAR units receive some funding from the government, often, but the people in charge of the rescuing, and quite likely the people in charge of the monitoring systems, are doing it for free. So no, you are not already paying for this service. It is being given to you in spite of the rescuers' risk of injury. Is it really fair to tell the searchers that they can't put a system in place to make the rescue more efficient?
I see your point, but the analogy is somewhat ridiculous. When I first learned to type, it took me two years. When I switched from QWERTY to Dvorak, it took less than two months to reach the same speed and accuracy. I have a lot of trouble believing that that's just because my fingers were physically better able to make the motions.
Actually, that's more than a little optimistic. Theoretically, having a single space elevator might drop the price for lifting material to geosync to under a thousand dollars a kilogram. That's still a big improvement over tens of thousands, but it doesn't mean you'll be sending up your kids' science projects anytime soon.
My dad has worked with Brad Edwards on the Space Elevator extensively, and I can tell you from experience that it is not wacky science fiction. It is a six billion dollar investment that isn't likely to appear anytime soon. However, it is almost certain to happen within the next thirty to forty years. While it is nice that the government can handle that kind of long-range vision occasionally, if they are the only ones providing investment into technologies like this one then they will end up controlling those technologies. What would really be nice is if the private sector could see into the future too and fund some of this kind of stuff without NASA's help.
A great deal of windows piracy is by people who have absolutely no idea what they're doing. Other people do the pirating for them, and they just use the OS the same as if they had bought it.
These people have pirated the software. == no support == no upgrades. Sure, it would help the rest of the net if they weren't spreading the worm, but since when has M$ considered the well-being of the internet their responsibility?
I used to think exactly the same thing--and I still do, in a lot of cases. But there is a great deal of obscure information that simply isn't available on the internet, no matter how long you spend searching.
I decided to write a research paper this year on the involvement of the government in the economic decline of the Roman Empire. Naturally, the first place I went was to Google. I spent 4 hours searching and couldn't find much more than lists of emperors.
Then I went to the UW library with my class. After 2 hours of browsing the thousands of books in the "Ancient Rome" section, I walked away with 10 or 15 books on my topic. So yes, the internet is better for many kinds of research, but don't write off the libraries just yet, especially for research-paper style information.
A friend of mine took the C++ exam two years ago, and got a 3. This year, he took the Java exam with us, and he's pretty darn sure he got a 5. Java, and the emphasis on object oriented code instead of just using what is provided by the language, made all the difference.
I learned C++ before taking the AP Java class, and I really don't see any of the benefits you're pointing out. I still don't understand memory allocation and deallocation, and I see no reason why I would ever want to--the computer can do that better than I will ever be able to. Furthermore, we never got far enough through the C syntax (pointers, etc.) to even think about doing any OOP. When I first started in Java, the only reason I knew what classes were for is that I had seen some C# before.
But if you want to complain about a first language, try VB. That was my first, and second, and it really doesn't teach any programming skills at all. It gives a new programmer the idea that software design is all about making pretty forms and knowing which kind of button to use. Yet, for some reason, schools seem to think it's what ought to come first.
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Yeah, 1 gigabyte of storage costs a handful of glass beads.
But do you really think it will stay 1 gigabyte of storage?
It took this guy only 3 days to hack up this program in python. Give him another three days and he could make it register a dozen accounts and link them together transparently into one filesystem. In fact, it scales pretty easily to the point where I could have unlimited storage on Google's servers--and then it would be a problem for them, and they would have to break it.
wasn't there a previous article that covered this?
a purely benevolent...society where the only people who work to produce things are those who choose to, then they willingly provide the fruits of their labor back to the collective.
Wow, you just defined communism.
What is a (US) metric ton?
I thought the US hadn't switched yet...
Dude if you're going to try to google bomb 'http' (I don't know why you'd want to anyway) at least link it to www.w3.org instead of just http://w3.org, because the one with the www is what shows up near the top in a google search already.
Ulch - that meat was tainted! You feel deathly sick.
Hmm. How appropriate.
The nvidia binary drivers seem to have trouble making the switch. It seems weird that with essentially the same code base they would just stop working, but I don't know how else to interpret "No Devices Detected" from the X server, when it works fine with the open source drivers.
Capitalists are not about making money, they are about destroying it. A capitalist wants to concentrate all of the wealth in one person.
I'm sorry, but the idea that anybody would want to destroy money is ridiculous--what would be the purpose? To some degree you're correct that capitalism tends to concentrate wealth, but you're missing the point: capitalism concentrates wealth in the places where it is most useful, the places where it is most capable of creating more wealth. People who create money, get money so that they can use it to create more money. People who squander money don't get any more.
And, since we're a democracy, and the standards are not curtailing any personal rights (only the rights of corporations!), I'm not sure why all of /. hates them.
So the rights of corporations can be infringed with no problem? It's not like corporations are everyone's enemy, you know. The freedom of corporations to operate independently of government regulations is what gives us technology, jobs, production, etc. and we need to preserve their rights to conduct business almost as much as we need to preserve our right to conduct our lives.
And worst of all what are currently blockable popup ads will be replaced with Flash overlays that fly around screen.
I saw one of those on MSN once (while using IE on someone else's machine). I actually thought it was pretty cool. Almost worth the annoyance just for the eye candy.
Well mine cost $500 and it would play ut2k4 just fine if xorg didn't fry the nvidia drivers. So there!
The comment about the French response really makes this submission. "Mais oui!"?
I saw this headline and was like, whoa, I could have sworn there was an article about this yesterday. But this one is much cooler than yesterday's enormously high-resolution camera--it's in space. Pretty good progress for 24 hours.
windows gives you an option during install. It overwrites the MBR by default, but it's easy enough to tell it not to.
Me: My ethernet isn't working.
TS: Are you using windows?
Me: I'm using Linux.
TS: What kind of Linux?
Me: SuSE 8.1 Professional.
TS: I'm sorry, we only support KDE and Gnome.
I was actually using KDE at the time, but I didn't even bother trying to explain that. I just hung up.
unless the rescue team is a volunteer organization, you are already paying for the service.
Almost all rescue teams are volunteer organizations, with the exception of some of the national parks. The SAR units receive some funding from the government, often, but the people in charge of the rescuing, and quite likely the people in charge of the monitoring systems, are doing it for free. So no, you are not already paying for this service. It is being given to you in spite of the rescuers' risk of injury. Is it really fair to tell the searchers that they can't put a system in place to make the rescue more efficient?
A nerd-less version of Slashdot.
I see your point, but the analogy is somewhat ridiculous. When I first learned to type, it took me two years. When I switched from QWERTY to Dvorak, it took less than two months to reach the same speed and accuracy. I have a lot of trouble believing that that's just because my fingers were physically better able to make the motions.
Actually, that's more than a little optimistic. Theoretically, having a single space elevator might drop the price for lifting material to geosync to under a thousand dollars a kilogram. That's still a big improvement over tens of thousands, but it doesn't mean you'll be sending up your kids' science projects anytime soon.
My dad has worked with Brad Edwards on the Space Elevator extensively, and I can tell you from experience that it is not wacky science fiction. It is a six billion dollar investment that isn't likely to appear anytime soon. However, it is almost certain to happen within the next thirty to forty years. While it is nice that the government can handle that kind of long-range vision occasionally, if they are the only ones providing investment into technologies like this one then they will end up controlling those technologies. What would really be nice is if the private sector could see into the future too and fund some of this kind of stuff without NASA's help.
Although if your smart enough to pirate windows
A great deal of windows piracy is by people who have absolutely no idea what they're doing. Other people do the pirating for them, and they just use the OS the same as if they had bought it.
These people have pirated the software. == no support == no upgrades. Sure, it would help the rest of the net if they weren't spreading the worm, but since when has M$ considered the well-being of the internet their responsibility?
I used to think exactly the same thing--and I still do, in a lot of cases. But there is a great deal of obscure information that simply isn't available on the internet, no matter how long you spend searching.
I decided to write a research paper this year on the involvement of the government in the economic decline of the Roman Empire. Naturally, the first place I went was to Google. I spent 4 hours searching and couldn't find much more than lists of emperors.
Then I went to the UW library with my class. After 2 hours of browsing the thousands of books in the "Ancient Rome" section, I walked away with 10 or 15 books on my topic. So yes, the internet is better for many kinds of research, but don't write off the libraries just yet, especially for research-paper style information.
A friend of mine took the C++ exam two years ago, and got a 3. This year, he took the Java exam with
us, and he's pretty darn sure he got a 5. Java, and the emphasis on object oriented code instead of just
using what is provided by the language, made all the difference.
I learned C++ before taking the AP Java class, and I really don't see any of the benefits you're pointing out. I still don't understand memory allocation and deallocation, and I see no reason why I would ever want to--the computer can do that better than I will ever be able to. Furthermore, we never got far enough through the C syntax (pointers, etc.) to even think about doing any OOP. When I first started in Java, the only reason I knew what classes were for is that I had seen some C# before.
But if you want to complain about a first language, try VB. That was my first, and second, and it really doesn't teach any programming skills at all. It gives a new programmer the idea that software design is all about making pretty forms and knowing which kind of button to use. Yet, for some reason, schools seem to think it's what ought to come first.