"We Don't Want Aero-Optimized GPU's!" (We = Those of us who do _not_ run Windows.)
That would be the end of all. First, all graphics chip vendors would begin shipping binary blob drivers for their chips, next they would start requiring payment for GLX/DRI/DualHead/whatever "feature enhanced" versions of same.
What we want is power management optimized GPU's, with high quality source code and documentation for their drivers.
Not just that, for filesystems, using more than one glob '*' in a row is redundant and may also match more than one character. Filesystem standard way would be to write 'f?ck' and 's??t'. Geek way would be to write a fancy and convoluted regex, left as an exercise to the reader.
What happened to the notion of 'motive'? What happened to the notion of 'means' (to actually commit the crime)? I guess the dog ate those two pages from the dictionary...
Soon they will just compute 32 bit checksums of surveillance camera snapshots and match them with the criminal mugshot database with a fuzz factor of 20% "because facial recognition is too damn difficult." That's a joke, obviously. How about this one: what if you get yanked off the street and shoved in a van because some crook 'cloned' your RealID card and you happened to walk past that traffic light (containing a RFID scanner) at the wrong time?
Apparently the calculation is doing more than just figuring out file transfer size. Like maybe MD5ing your files and running them by several (online and offline) forensic file signature databases trying to find out whether they're not legit?
If even a tenth of the money Microsoft probably spent on developing (and promoting!) Vista were dropped into KDE or GNOME theme maker's hats we'd have 'bout 500 such themes to choose from, me thinks.
I could go off making some snide reply to your post but I'll suffice with a summary.
1. Have you ever considered the possibility of a banker's son becoming a successful IT professional? At his fathers' bank? 2. Every man, no matter his age, is someone's son (unless he is an extraterrestrial humanoid whose species has some other method of procreation).
I hope you factored energy bills and replacement parts (failing hard drives, failing processor and PSU fans causing a cascade of other failures) into your cost estimate. Considering these costs made me stay away from your solution for the moment (until I find time and money to build a low-power, preferrably diskless Asterisk box).
Spoon boy: Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth. Neo: What truth? Spoon boy: There is no spoon. Neo: There is no spoon? Spoon boy: Then you'll see, that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.
"I would say that you misread Einstein, Dr. Powell. May I call you Mark? You see Mark, what Einstein actually said was that nothing can accelerate to the speed of light because its mass would become infinite. Einstein said nothing about entities already traveling at the speed of light or faster."
No matter how hard you try, you simply cannot stop people from wreaking havoc unless they decide they don't want to, period. I think studying decennia of guerrilla warfare tactics should have taught us that by now.
WP 5.1 on XTM PC emulator (running MS-DOS 6.22) on a Psion Revo (that calculator sized thingy that you forgot you put in your coat pocket). The little gadget has 8MB and cost me all of 5 Euros (about $6.57) used. Too bad it has no CF slot and backlight like the 5MX. but it works like a charm. Much longer battery life than my PDA running Windows Mobile, too.
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"We Don't Want Aero-Optimized GPU's!"
(We = Those of us who do _not_ run Windows.)
That would be the end of all. First, all graphics chip vendors would begin shipping binary blob drivers for their chips, next they would start requiring payment for GLX/DRI/DualHead/whatever "feature enhanced" versions of same.
What we want is power management optimized GPU's, with high quality source code and documentation for their drivers.
India rejected OLPC as "a waste of resources that can be better used for more urgent needs." Broadband Internet, perhaps?
Ah, something like the Golgafrincham B Ark...
Not just that, for filesystems, using more than one glob '*' in a row is redundant and may also match more than one character. Filesystem standard way would be to write 'f?ck' and 's??t'. Geek way would be to write a fancy and convoluted regex, left as an exercise to the reader.
Pleading the Fifth:
Judge: "How do you plead?"
Defendant: "Ta-da-da-daaaaaa, ta-da-da-daaaaaa..."
(sorry, couldn't resist...)
Bulletproof evidence, yeah right.
What happened to the notion of 'motive'? What happened to the notion of 'means' (to actually commit the crime)?
I guess the dog ate those two pages from the dictionary...
Soon they will just compute 32 bit checksums of surveillance camera snapshots and match them with the criminal mugshot database with a fuzz factor of 20% "because facial recognition is too damn difficult."
That's a joke, obviously. How about this one: what if you get yanked off the street and shoved in a van because some crook 'cloned' your RealID card and you happened to walk past that traffic light (containing a RFID scanner) at the wrong time?
More like Yet Another Wireless Novelty.
Go figure the acronym.
"One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces!"
Blessed are the days when people remembered what song that line came from instead of reporting one to the authorities on terrorism(sic) charges.
Even fewer will remember the day that someone who made that band famous passed away quietly in Cambridge.
Not even his former bandmates showed up at his funeral anyway, they were too busy making money off him.
If even a tenth of the money Microsoft probably spent on developing (and promoting!) Vista were dropped into KDE or GNOME theme maker's hats we'd have 'bout 500 such themes to choose from, me thinks.
And so does Tagged.com.
...but they're not able to keep the lid on their extremely cruel treatment! (Warning: this is not for the faint-hearted.)
caching proxies? Wouldn't they skew the collected data?
I could go off making some snide reply to your post but I'll suffice with a summary.
1. Have you ever considered the possibility of a banker's son becoming a successful IT professional? At his fathers' bank?
2. Every man, no matter his age, is someone's son (unless he is an extraterrestrial humanoid whose species has some other method of procreation).
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I doubt that the GFC* will just pass-thru VoIP to some random internet-enabled hotel room or wireless hotspot without some currency changing hands...
*) Great Firewall of China
I hope you factored energy bills and replacement parts (failing hard drives, failing processor and PSU fans causing a cascade of other failures) into your cost estimate. Considering these costs made me stay away from your solution for the moment (until I find time and money to build a low-power, preferrably diskless Asterisk box).
Spoon boy: Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Spoon boy: There is no spoon.
Neo: There is no spoon?
Spoon boy: Then you'll see, that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.
Gives a whole different twist to the saying: When the shit hits the fan...
And you think we all post stuff on Slashdot just for the karma?
In Soviet Russia, Karma whores You!
In Korea, only old people are karma whores.
All your karma are belong to us!
I don't need any karma. To post or not to post, that's the question...
Properties to tap into...a naked singularity perhaps? Sure that would be the scientific equivalent of the hottest pr0n in the Universe!
Quoting prot (from K-PAX)
"I would say that you misread Einstein, Dr. Powell. May I call you Mark? You see Mark, what Einstein actually said was that nothing can accelerate to the speed of light because its mass would become infinite. Einstein said nothing about entities already traveling at the speed of light or faster."
Catching and neutralizing them...after the fact?
No matter how hard you try, you simply cannot stop people from wreaking havoc unless they decide they don't want to, period.
I think studying decennia of guerrilla warfare tactics should have taught us that by now.
...we could go communist. Capitolism works best.
There are lots of shades between pure Communism and pure Capitalism, you know...
"Only a Sith deals in absolutes."
WP 5.1 on XTM PC emulator (running MS-DOS 6.22) on a Psion Revo (that calculator sized thingy that you forgot you put in your coat pocket). The little gadget has 8MB and cost me all of 5 Euros (about $6.57) used. Too bad it has no CF slot and backlight like the 5MX. but it works like a charm. Much longer battery life than my PDA running Windows Mobile, too.