I once did a distrobuted computing project whom wouldn't allow a linux version of their software to be created due to the software people somewhere in the system having such control as that the code could not be shared by a lower company. (Bit weird but stick with me).
It wasn't nuclear anything, it was cancer research, ~(stick with me some more)~ but still it all comes down to lots of data to process in the end. Distrobuted computing projects do this extrely well (As we all know). And so if they ever need someone to help crunch their data, i hope they dont try and use this excuse to block out the linux (and mac, and os/2 etc etc) comunities from helping man kind!
I was just thinking about this on a more... scientific note.
Which would people have it on? A boat which sinks (its GONE NOW) or in a plane, which when it blows up.... like we have seen happen twice in the last month will proberly end up spraying it everywhere...
Or just incase this wasn't amusing enough for you, i heard n.a.s.a has fitted it with parachutes in case of falling.... who wants to be the first to jump out a helicopter and catch this one?!
I think he means, in the UK awhile back this was brought up.
People found they had sex offenders living in the same flats as them (all of this was named by one news paper).
This then caused angry mob mentality. Instead of children getting abused, the children were seeing their parents go out and abuse another human (if thats what you call them.)
Also the problem with getting a name wrong is high. Imagine someone thought you were someone else?
Im not being funny here, i always thought that OGC was the hax bot that existed for counter-strike (ewww). As i ran a lan gaming center and thats what they would always be claiming was being used.
As im from the same(ish) background as most other slashdot users, i went walkies on google and found:
"Welcome to OGC The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) is a non-profit, international, voluntary consensus standards organization that is leading the development of standards for geospatial and location based services. Through our member-driven consensus programs, OGC works with government, private industry, and academia to create open and extensible software application programming interfaces for geographic information systems (GIS) and other mainstream technologies. Adopted specifications are available for the public's use at no cost. Learn More." http://www.opengeospatial.org/
So anyone that thought that CS had finally made its way onto slashdot, think again! (and praise the lord!).
P.S. Not going to post AC as im not taking the mick, just hope i dont get modded down for it =/
These are problems which i think are the reasoning that they didn't apply this method, one which i haven't yet worked out a cure for.
How ever, i started thinking over a new way of running DC projects, with the idea of very small work units (10min ~) each. These would work really well with any computer thats online all the time. I think you can see where this would be going. More of a on demand computing set.
Shame that it seems most DC users dont have machines yet upto this standard. (i.e. dsl lines etc).
Now i know theres problems with this. They were using a more powerful computer than any of us have in our homes, plus the problems with simulations going wrong but overall its possible i think.
"Your other loud sounds are noisy, in the spectrum sense. Only music (that I can plausibly think of as a routine occurance) will blast all the energy into a relatively tight frequency distribution"
Pnumatic drills / hammers also do this? Incredablely fast?
i know that the workmen using theses in the UK must ware ear protection, but now it seems they might need to ware airpressured suits before use too?
Btw, tbh i been to a fair few concerts, its kinda ovious that its BAD idea to stand near speakers, if anyone ever tries to sue over this fact, ill be amazed.
Also sorry for my bad spelling, its night time and im off to bed =)
We have known for a long time that, red, and the combonation of yellow / black has been a warning sign.
We also know that some people react better in stressful situations.
Has anyone tested to see if the same people that react well in stressful situations are more (or less) effected by these color schemes?
I know the artical says "different people", but im wondering on a indivual basis, if this holds true in the other sense.
I.e. Does a person who will stand and fight, match with the same colour scheme as someone else who stands and fights, or does the "way" your mind interpets colours change indenpently of this?
"Nobody has ever brought together the world of documents, media and structured information in giving you one simple set of verbs that lets you richly find, move around and replicate those things."
Wasn't this the whole idea behind meta-tags for files? I thought thats why we had such tags in windows media too?
Or is this the same tags that winFS will use to search with?
In school i was always the geek, the odd one out etc... Just check http://djsmiley.blogdns.com to see.
Sometimes i would play on this fact and i 1st made a keyring out of some old ram i found in the computer room. (now i find its been done before =[ )
Then, i found a LARGE ISA card and stuck that on a keyring, to take the piss. The 1st years were loving it, til i hit one of them over the head with it and split it in half =/
Over time this story of this keyring got around, with people asking to see it... Eventually i got bored and dumped it.
Then i saw hackers (the film people, the film!) and decided i wanted a new keyboard, for some cheap pc i brought of a friends uncle, i had 2 cans of spray paint... I just forgot to mask the letters off. So then i ended up with a keyboard, only i could use... It became the most "bling" necklace ever, as i walked into 6th form waring it around my neck!. (using the cable as a string).
This was the high light, but i also decided after we tried to fix the school computers (taking them apart and putting the working parts in the same one), and finding it still didn't work, that if i took lots of NON-working parts, and placed them in a broken machine, it might just work...
how ever it just got attacked by the mobs and left on a bus somewhere.
So, paint your keyboards and go hang out on the west side...
If your honest and you didn't steal this idea, have you thought about selling it to somewhere like thinkgeek? I know they wouldn't give much for it, but its worth a try? (Looks good on any reference).
im hoping this wasn't an attempt at a first post, and rather something about being the first ever purple octopus to ever make it to his sofa without being disassembled and stuck back together with industial glue. (What type of glue is that anyway?, super?)
Movies are the largest file type (cept Isos etc of course) which the adverage home user downloads.
We have nearly enough speed behind our net connections now (in most places anyway, the UK seems to lag) that you can stream any type of media accross the net and not have any problems.
When everyone has this almost perfect net, it will mean there will be no more need for FASTER networks. Hopefully then, they will start working once again on the backbone, making it more secure, making it less error prone.
Only reason we need much faster networks at all, is for industial and scientific uses. Both of which can deal with MASSIVE data tranfers, how ever, these have already over come this problem, by having their own deicated networks (such as Internet2 for the education system).
Disclaimer: Im from the UK, the prices here for boardband really suck. The cables are all owned by one company.
But imagine for a second you go to work, you save that vital infomation to your desktop. You go home, its already on your desktop.
A new patch comes out, its already installed on every machine you use, doesn't matter if the rest of those "Lusers" who dont patch do it or not. YOUR setup is safe.
If your a lan party goer, you can turn up and "byos" (Bring your own setup), meaning you dont need to bring your PC with you.
Now imagine you also have a shared workspace in this, another desktop *(maybe even two monitors)*. You and aload of other people could all be working, on ONE desktop, one which you all share.
This idea, i think is a great one, just going to take LOTS of planning, something which some programmers these days seem to forget.
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Semi off topic but here goes.
I once did a distrobuted computing project whom wouldn't allow a linux version of their software to be created due to the software people somewhere in the system having such control as that the code could not be shared by a lower company. (Bit weird but stick with me).
It wasn't nuclear anything, it was cancer research, ~(stick with me some more)~ but still it all comes down to lots of data to process in the end. Distrobuted computing projects do this extrely well (As we all know). And so if they ever need someone to help crunch their data, i hope they dont try and use this excuse to block out the linux (and mac, and os/2 etc etc) comunities from helping man kind!
There is no such thing as a 2D card?
Unless your imagining it!
in soviet russia YOU are Outsourced!
I was just thinking about this on a more... scientific note.
Which would people have it on? A boat which sinks (its GONE NOW) or in a plane, which when it blows up.... like we have seen happen twice in the last month will proberly end up spraying it everywhere...
Or just incase this wasn't amusing enough for you, i heard n.a.s.a has fitted it with parachutes in case of falling.... who wants to be the first to jump out a helicopter and catch this one?!
You know, i always thought redundent posts were when something was repeated.
The number of times people replying to this have repeated them selfs is unbelivable.
Cheers for letting me know its 6gig each, i guess i should of guessed?
Only 6gig of memory? Is it me or that that seem a stupidly low amount when dealing with a amachine of this power?
I.e. i have 1gig, (yes i do use it, i have photoshop), and yet my machines not even a 20th of the power of this baby.
I think he means, in the UK awhile back this was brought up.
People found they had sex offenders living in the same flats as them (all of this was named by one news paper).
This then caused angry mob mentality. Instead of children getting abused, the children were seeing their parents go out and abuse another human (if thats what you call them.)
Also the problem with getting a name wrong is high. Imagine someone thought you were someone else?
Im not being funny here, i always thought that OGC was the hax bot that existed for counter-strike (ewww). As i ran a lan gaming center and thats what they would always be claiming was being used.
As im from the same(ish) background as most other slashdot users, i went walkies on google and found:
"Welcome to OGC
The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) is a non-profit, international, voluntary consensus standards organization that is leading the development of standards for geospatial and location based services. Through our member-driven consensus programs, OGC works with government, private industry, and academia to create open and extensible software application programming interfaces for geographic information systems (GIS) and other mainstream technologies. Adopted specifications are available for the public's use at no cost. Learn More."
http://www.opengeospatial.org/
So anyone that thought that CS had finally made its way onto slashdot, think again! (and praise the lord!).
P.S. Not going to post AC as im not taking the mick, just hope i dont get modded down for it =/
These are problems which i think are the reasoning that they didn't apply this method, one which i haven't yet worked out a cure for.
How ever, i started thinking over a new way of running DC projects, with the idea of very small work units (10min ~) each. These would work really well with any computer thats online all the time. I think you can see where this would be going. More of a on demand computing set.
Shame that it seems most DC users dont have machines yet upto this standard. (i.e. dsl lines etc).
"a task that needed 60,000 years, the computer scientists devised a couple of tricks to reduce the amount of computations"
OR
60,000 Computers all running accrros the globe in a simulated computing project.
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/
Now i know theres problems with this. They were using a more powerful computer than any of us have in our homes, plus the problems with simulations going wrong but overall its possible i think.
http://climateprediction.net/ manage to predict the the weather (well, we think they have!).
i keep hundreds of bookmarks.
I also export them when i remmber, and back them up to a txt file too.
I have quite an extensive filing set, but not to many as to get confusing. To keep it tidy, i trim it when i back it up.
this isn't such a bad as a stupid idea.
If the user was stupid enough to share their entire drive, and allow google to index it, it could find most things in most file types.
With more support coming all the time.
"Your other loud sounds are noisy, in the spectrum sense. Only music (that I can plausibly think of as a routine occurance) will blast all the energy into a relatively tight frequency distribution"
Pnumatic drills / hammers also do this? Incredablely fast?
i know that the workmen using theses in the UK must ware ear protection, but now it seems they might need to ware airpressured suits before use too?
Btw, tbh i been to a fair few concerts, its kinda ovious that its BAD idea to stand near speakers, if anyone ever tries to sue over this fact, ill be amazed.
Also sorry for my bad spelling, its night time and im off to bed =)
We have known for a long time that, red, and the combonation of yellow / black has been a warning sign.
We also know that some people react better in stressful situations.
Has anyone tested to see if the same people that react well in stressful situations are more (or less) effected by these color schemes?
I know the artical says "different people", but im wondering on a indivual basis, if this holds true in the other sense.
I.e. Does a person who will stand and fight, match with the same colour scheme as someone else who stands and fights, or does the "way" your mind interpets colours change indenpently of this?
"I understand how cool it is to use an unsecured Wi-Fi signal,"
Only a idiot would think it "cool" to use something unsecure as a wifi point open to all anyway
(i know im offtopic and sorry.)
shame you failed so badly there.
On the other hand if anyone would like a gmail account, they could just ASK me? Its something like ask slashdot but you get a worthwhile answer.
Is anyones elses head hurting while we wait for the 3rd link to recover?
So here is some caches...
: www.mises.org/+&hl=en
: www.tvtome.com/GilligansIsland/+&hl=en
http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:f9Bdhed8_h8J
http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:8-dfbA5SWVwJ
Also i have to say this is a rather strange artical. I've taken a quick look at it and if im honest, im totally lost!.
P.S. Sorry for the untidy formatting, its late at night.
"Nobody has ever brought together the world of documents, media and structured information in giving you one simple set of verbs that lets you richly find, move around and replicate those things."
Wasn't this the whole idea behind meta-tags for files? I thought thats why we had such tags in windows media too?
Or is this the same tags that winFS will use to search with?
Please contact me at djsmiley2k@gmail.com (im from teh UK too, and i have some ideas on where you can find old bits like you mentioned)
Having some offered to me the last week i think... Not sure as i didn't take much notice. But contact me anyway =)
In school i was always the geek, the odd one out etc...
Just check http://djsmiley.blogdns.com to see.
Sometimes i would play on this fact and i 1st made a keyring out of some old ram i found in the computer room. (now i find its been done before =[ )
Then, i found a LARGE ISA card and stuck that on a keyring, to take the piss. The 1st years were loving it, til i hit one of them over the head with it and split it in half =/
Over time this story of this keyring got around, with people asking to see it... Eventually i got bored and dumped it.
Then i saw hackers (the film people, the film!) and decided i wanted a new keyboard, for some cheap pc i brought of a friends uncle, i had 2 cans of spray paint... I just forgot to mask the letters off. So then i ended up with a keyboard, only i could use... It became the most "bling" necklace ever, as i walked into 6th form waring it around my neck!. (using the cable as a string).
This was the high light, but i also decided after we tried to fix the school computers (taking them apart and putting the working parts in the same one), and finding it still didn't work, that if i took lots of NON-working parts, and placed them in a broken machine, it might just work...
how ever it just got attacked by the mobs and left on a bus somewhere.
So, paint your keyboards and go hang out on the west side...
the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog
or something to that effect (cept i just used t twice, DAMN!)
That is f**king impressive.
If your honest and you didn't steal this idea, have you thought about selling it to somewhere like thinkgeek?
I know they wouldn't give much for it, but its worth a try? (Looks good on any reference).
im hoping this wasn't an attempt at a first post, and rather something about being the first ever purple octopus to ever make it to his sofa without being disassembled and stuck back together with industial glue. (What type of glue is that anyway?, super?)
Movies are the largest file type (cept Isos etc of course) which the adverage home user downloads.
We have nearly enough speed behind our net connections now (in most places anyway, the UK seems to lag) that you can stream any type of media accross the net and not have any problems.
When everyone has this almost perfect net, it will mean there will be no more need for FASTER networks. Hopefully then, they will start working once again on the backbone, making it more secure, making it less error prone.
Only reason we need much faster networks at all, is for industial and scientific uses. Both of which can deal with MASSIVE data tranfers, how ever, these have already over come this problem, by having their own deicated networks (such as Internet2 for the education system).
Disclaimer: Im from the UK, the prices here for boardband really suck. The cables are all owned by one company.
Ok it sounds odd.
But imagine for a second you go to work, you save that vital infomation to your desktop. You go home, its already on your desktop.
A new patch comes out, its already installed on every machine you use, doesn't matter if the rest of those "Lusers" who dont patch do it or not. YOUR setup is safe.
If your a lan party goer, you can turn up and "byos" (Bring your own setup), meaning you dont need to bring your PC with you.
Now imagine you also have a shared workspace in this, another desktop *(maybe even two monitors)*. You and aload of other people could all be working, on ONE desktop, one which you all share.
This idea, i think is a great one, just going to take LOTS of planning, something which some programmers these days seem to forget.