We're constantly scanning for new ideas on the web, e-mailing people, and interacting both in video games and in online forums like this one.
But let me guess, unless it's in meat-space, it doesn't count? The "older" generation(s) will always have a problem with the "younger" ones - saying "it wasn't that way when *I* was a kid". Well, duh. And it never will be again. That's part of the unique condition that is part of life. When we're 40 years old people on slashdot will harken back to the good old days when processors were made out of silicon and we had a vast "internet". The kids of that day will laugh at us because they weren't around to see it - they'll have optical processors that interconnect to everything, and fiberoptic will be everywhere. Nanotech will be building factories that improve themselves, and we'll still be working 60 hour work-weeks while government proclaims us "Happiest Times Ever!"
It's culture-shock, and these researchers need to recognize that. Sure, according to their calculus we ARE spending less time interacting with people. But we're replacing that by interacting with people ONLINE and their IDEAS instead. Wouldja rather we go out dancing every evening and have ice cream socials?
It's my opinion that NASA hasn't been using the technology available to it to build "better, faster, cheaper" technology. There are several commercial institutions getting ready to kick off their own satellite launch programs simply because it would be cheaper for them to do it than NASA. NASA continues to use the antiquidated space shuttle even though/far/ superior technology exists. What's the most expensive component of the space shuttle? It's the main tank - and it costs a small fortune. Why not use technology from the x2 project and throw away the tank altogether? We have airplanes that for all intents and purposes can obtain low earth orbit.. add some maneuvering jets and you got a spacecraft - why does it cost a billion dollars to do THAT?!
No, NASA is wasting my taxpayer dollars, and unless they get their act together, I'm not going to be terribly sympathetic. Yes, space exploration is a worthy goal - but there are other organizations that can be created to accomodate our exploration than NASA... in my opinion, it has failed it's charter.
Those faint signals are really the Martian version of Jerry Springer being broadcast live.. it looks like Marvin the Martian wants to blow up Earth because it's obstructing his view of venus but the government insists that it's useful because it keeps sending spacecraft over for dissection and provides comic relief for the martians... so Marvin pulls out a vaporizer and #$!.. NO CARRIER
Okay, I'm seeing a pattern developing here.. but why not name the chip what it is? I propose a new chip...
Marketanium
Marketanium is a revolutionary new 13th generation Inhell(tm)(r)(c) processor capable of over 30 FudFlops per second. It also has the new MNI (Means Nothing) instruction set and boasts a 1.6 BogoHerz speed....
Bleh. I wish they'd just name them the way they used to: 8088.. 80286..386..486..586... or atleast come up with better names for their chips.. like the Sextium!
Rob, please tell the slashdot authors to stop interjecting their personal beliefs / commentary into the news posts. I've been watching this for some time and it's really starting to grate. Let ME be the judge of whether it's new and insightful (or inciteful) or not.
Put your comments down here with the rest of us if you feel the need to comment - but stop biasing things. Bruce has consistently made intelligent commentary on things and even if YOU don't think it's new, maybe some of US do. Let us make up our own mind.. instead of being like conventional media and telling us how we should think.
It's nice to be appreciated, but I'm not like Katz. For one thing, I never finished high school - I got a GED instead. Katz finished high school. Second, I know how to speel *g*. And unlike Katz, I know linux, networking, programming, and other geeky things. I'm also damned good at writing, if I do say so myself - Katz admitted he's not the best at it.
Now, if I may invent a new term, you're katzbaiting.
Sounds to me like if you open the communications channels to the masses, you lose that control.. and the war never happens.
This is not about the internet. This is not about pornography, it is not about copyright, it is not about piracy, it is not about cryptography. It's about information control.
Information is power. The internet has an unfettered flow of information. Therefore the internet is the ultimate powerbase. The people who control it effectively do what they've been doing for the past two thousand years: they control you, your reality, your neighbors, everything. The worst part is, because you don't know what is and is not truly going on, you don't even know this is occuring.
We got a fleeting glance of the empowerment this medium can provide when the ISP boom occurred alittle over a year ago - and before the letters "AUP" came into being. This was a time when everybody was getting online and seeing that the world is very different depending on who you talk to...
As a result, cultural barriers collapsed, people started judging by ideas instead of the color of your skin or your age, and a private revolution took off in the homes of the average joe.
This is going to come to a screeching halt. It MUST come to a halt for society to preserve it's integrity - the RIAA, the DMCA, piracy, privacy and democracy are all intertwined. This is the ultimate battle, and right now they have 40 frags, and the home team is -1.
I say we throw in the towel on the concept of promoting change from within the system and focus on civil disobedience. The hacker ethic is antitheical to this New World Order of information control... this is the real war - it's not one of politics or mimes.. it's about the right to the truth.. the freedom of information, and the right to be left alone.
"Stop the unwashed masses! They're stealing knowledge again!"
No class notes, no real content on that page, and it's overloaded. Oh yeah, and isn't this the same university that made class notes by you THEIR property? Atleast we can count on their support for the DMCA.
No, you want to throw her in water and let her frag slowly. Lava is a quick death. Make sure she doesn't have the CTF grapple either.. or she'll be real bitchy when she gets back out of her "lava shower".:)
I gotta admit though.. I'd rather BFG10k the in-laws... Quad damage at a wedding would rule.
'twould seem a calculated move: encryption is cracked, so the RIAA fakes some fracturing of the DVD market as a result. I also note most slashdotters failed to realize the quote in the interview with the RIAA head that they already have over 300 companies signed on that "reverse-engineering is bad".
Okay, my question is simple - what's the compiler technology like for PPC? Is gcc highly optimized for it? For x86 gcc is great - but for other architectures, it seems lacking (alpha comes to mind).
Since the compiler is key to speed on a linux platform.. how good is gcc support now with the PPC instructions?
In an increasingly wired society rumors and myths propagate at incredible speeds - how do you diffuse rumors and myths. For example, if I start a rumor that Mr. Gore said he "fathered linus torvalds" - how do you diffuse that? Rumors and myths often come about as a minor distortion of the truth which then goes through the "telephone game". How do you keep the public informed about what a candidate/really/ thinks, as opposed to what other people think the candidate thinks?
I don't see why this wouldn't work.. provided it's used properly. Legal advice / forums have the slight problem of money. Even if it was done in good faith and at no cost there would still be people trying to get such a group to put time and effort into things maybe better spent elsewhere.
This isn't easy to explain, but think what would happen if it became public knowledge that there was a group of lawyers working for free for "just" cases. They'd be innundated... both with requests and with people upset they didn't make the cut. Unlike code where the product is already there - a legal forum would help push a case from start to finish. It's the "something for nothing" crowd I'm worried about here..
The second, and less important, problem I see is that unless there is a clear set of guidelines / criterion for what such a forum would - and would not do or allow is laid out, it's doomed from the start. The reason is simply that there is no focus, hence work is duplicated, petty arguements break out over what the Right Thing is (or direction), and things just never get done.
Lastly, it would take a helluva lot of lawyers to do this... and, uhh.. in our country.. they're pretty busy already.
Rather than blow of our esteemed mr. metcalfe I'd just like to point out a couple things that actually are relevant to this... because even though the article is of poor quality, the proprietary-in-an-open-source-company question does need to be addressed.
Hypothetical situation: You discover a way to make a processor 1500x faster than existing processors, zero heat output, and runs in a few milliwatts. Do you:
A) go public and tell everyone else how to do it. B) Sell it to Intel, who buries it in a landfill never to be seen again. C) Patent it, then go public. D) Don't tell anyone - Moore's Law Must Be Upheld. (Only Intel may circle this box).
You see, if Transmeta released it's internal chip specifications now they'd be hosed because other manufacturers would then be able to produce clones... given Intel's vast resources this was Transmeta's only option. It was either that, or put up with an Intel chip that did code morphing but got floating point wrong 99.999938471% of the time. This is also Transmeta's way of protecting revenue - software is run by a different set of rules... try to keep this in mind when judging them.
Right on. I noticed that immediately in the study as well - for all we know one of those machines was kept in one of the tech's homes w/o AC down south over a hot summer while the other one was in a proper climate-controlled environment. The results would most definately differ in such a situation.
I'd have to agree with another poster - the signalling on ethernet is not like SCSI where you can have multiple devices communicating at different speeds - you have to run at the lowest speed or you get collisions, data corruption, and other nastiness. Plus the card may not even work because it can't get a link "beat" from the hub. Very bad - you NEED collision detection.
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But let me guess, unless it's in meat-space, it doesn't count? The "older" generation(s) will always have a problem with the "younger" ones - saying "it wasn't that way when *I* was a kid". Well, duh. And it never will be again. That's part of the unique condition that is part of life. When we're 40 years old people on slashdot will harken back to the good old days when processors were made out of silicon and we had a vast "internet". The kids of that day will laugh at us because they weren't around to see it - they'll have optical processors that interconnect to everything, and fiberoptic will be everywhere. Nanotech will be building factories that improve themselves, and we'll still be working 60 hour work-weeks while government proclaims us "Happiest Times Ever!"
It's culture-shock, and these researchers need to recognize that. Sure, according to their calculus we ARE spending less time interacting with people. But we're replacing that by interacting with people ONLINE and their IDEAS instead. Wouldja rather we go out dancing every evening and have ice cream socials?
No, NASA is wasting my taxpayer dollars, and unless they get their act together, I'm not going to be terribly sympathetic. Yes, space exploration is a worthy goal - but there are other organizations that can be created to accomodate our exploration than NASA... in my opinion, it has failed it's charter.
The tuition for the school of hard knocks isn't cheap.. but it has alot of students anyway...
Those faint signals are really the Martian version of Jerry Springer being broadcast live.. it looks like Marvin the Martian wants to blow up Earth because it's obstructing his view of venus but the government insists that it's useful because it keeps sending spacecraft over for dissection and provides comic relief for the martians... so Marvin pulls out a vaporizer and #$!.. NO CARRIER
Okay, I'm seeing a pattern developing here.. but why not name the chip what it is? I propose a new chip...
Marketanium
Marketanium is a revolutionary new 13th generation Inhell(tm)(r)(c) processor capable of over 30 FudFlops per second. It also has the new MNI (Means Nothing) instruction set and boasts a 1.6 BogoHerz speed....
Bleh. I wish they'd just name them the way they used to: 8088.. 80286..386..486..586... or atleast come up with better names for their chips.. like the Sextium!
Was there a point to your post, or did you just want to highlight the fact that in any large group a large percentage will be idiots?
weel, if ya'all er thinkin' dat dem author's em slashdoot er doin' all yer thinkin' maybe dem's better idears fer ya!
It WILL be cracked, it's just a matter of time.. client-side security doesn't mean much anymore.
Put your comments down here with the rest of us if you feel the need to comment - but stop biasing things. Bruce has consistently made intelligent commentary on things and even if YOU don't think it's new, maybe some of US do. Let us make up our own mind.. instead of being like conventional media and telling us how we should think.
(Score: -1, un-pc)
Not to be picky, but for "packaging" and an editorial on required components, it's ironic you forgot the "dept" tag for this post. ;)
Damn! I can't look up the entry for "Slashdot Effect"... the site's down. *g*
AUP means "Acceptable Use Policy".
Now, if I may invent a new term, you're katzbaiting.
This is not about the internet. This is not about pornography, it is not about copyright, it is not about piracy, it is not about cryptography. It's about information control.
Information is power. The internet has an unfettered flow of information. Therefore the internet is the ultimate powerbase. The people who control it effectively do what they've been doing for the past two thousand years: they control you, your reality, your neighbors, everything. The worst part is, because you don't know what is and is not truly going on, you don't even know this is occuring.
We got a fleeting glance of the empowerment this medium can provide when the ISP boom occurred alittle over a year ago - and before the letters "AUP" came into being. This was a time when everybody was getting online and seeing that the world is very different depending on who you talk to...
As a result, cultural barriers collapsed, people started judging by ideas instead of the color of your skin or your age, and a private revolution took off in the homes of the average joe.
This is going to come to a screeching halt. It MUST come to a halt for society to preserve it's integrity - the RIAA, the DMCA, piracy, privacy and democracy are all intertwined. This is the ultimate battle, and right now they have 40 frags, and the home team is -1.
I say we throw in the towel on the concept of promoting change from within the system and focus on civil disobedience. The hacker ethic is antitheical to this New World Order of information control... this is the real war - it's not one of politics or mimes.. it's about the right to the truth.. the freedom of information, and the right to be left alone.
No class notes, no real content on that page, and it's overloaded. Oh yeah, and isn't this the same university that made class notes by you THEIR property? Atleast we can count on their support for the DMCA.
I'm more interested in when that cigar is gonna be auctioned on eBay... =)
I gotta admit though.. I'd rather BFG10k the in-laws... Quad damage at a wedding would rule.
'twould seem a calculated move: encryption is cracked, so the RIAA fakes some fracturing of the DVD market as a result. I also note most slashdotters failed to realize the quote in the interview with the RIAA head that they already have over 300 companies signed on that "reverse-engineering is bad".
Since the compiler is key to speed on a linux platform.. how good is gcc support now with the PPC instructions?
In an increasingly wired society rumors and myths propagate at incredible speeds - how do you diffuse rumors and myths. For example, if I start a rumor that Mr. Gore said he "fathered linus torvalds" - how do you diffuse that? Rumors and myths often come about as a minor distortion of the truth which then goes through the "telephone game". How do you keep the public informed about what a candidate /really/ thinks, as opposed to what other people think the candidate thinks?
This isn't easy to explain, but think what would happen if it became public knowledge that there was a group of lawyers working for free for "just" cases. They'd be innundated... both with requests and with people upset they didn't make the cut. Unlike code where the product is already there - a legal forum would help push a case from start to finish. It's the "something for nothing" crowd I'm worried about here..
The second, and less important, problem I see is that unless there is a clear set of guidelines / criterion for what such a forum would - and would not do or allow is laid out, it's doomed from the start. The reason is simply that there is no focus, hence work is duplicated, petty arguements break out over what the Right Thing is (or direction), and things just never get done.
Lastly, it would take a helluva lot of lawyers to do this... and, uhh.. in our country.. they're pretty busy already.
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Hypothetical situation: You discover a way to make a processor 1500x faster than existing processors, zero heat output, and runs in a few milliwatts. Do you:
A) go public and tell everyone else how to do it.
B) Sell it to Intel, who buries it in a landfill never to be seen again.
C) Patent it, then go public.
D) Don't tell anyone - Moore's Law Must Be Upheld. (Only Intel may circle this box).
You see, if Transmeta released it's internal chip specifications now they'd be hosed because other manufacturers would then be able to produce clones... given Intel's vast resources this was Transmeta's only option. It was either that, or put up with an Intel chip that did code morphing but got floating point wrong 99.999938471% of the time. This is also Transmeta's way of protecting revenue - software is run by a different set of rules... try to keep this in mind when judging them.
Right on. I noticed that immediately in the study as well - for all we know one of those machines was kept in one of the tech's homes w/o AC down south over a hot summer while the other one was in a proper climate-controlled environment. The results would most definately differ in such a situation.
I'd have to agree with another poster - the signalling on ethernet is not like SCSI where you can have multiple devices communicating at different speeds - you have to run at the lowest speed or you get collisions, data corruption, and other nastiness. Plus the card may not even work because it can't get a link "beat" from the hub. Very bad - you NEED collision detection.