Just incase you guys didn't know - the reason fiber optic can go so fast is because it transmits analog signals. That means you can layer several hundred harmonics on a single frequency and create a very complex waveform. The trick is in the decoding - converting it to digital. That's where all the sample-rate jazz comes into play.
This isn't really revolutionary new technology.. we've known about stuff like this for awhile. There's a nearly infinite number of ways to encode frequencies, and stack things onto each other.
I find myself wanting of the ability to insert IMG tags here.:( In short, picture a sine wave. Now along the slope of one, picture another sine wave attached to it. And so on. I suspect they're doing something like that. Actually, TVs do something like this - it's how the sync pulses and whatnot work. Very facinating technology. Also very old by today's standard, but still very useful.
Who manufacturered the gyros? I find it extremelly difficult to believe half the gyros on hubble would fail in such a short time. It sounds to me like a manufacturing defect.
What are you gonna do, tell my legions of electrons to stop at the router for an inspection? You'll find they're largely negatively charged from being spammed alot, but little else...
Hey! Art is art - it's 100% taste, and nothing else. It's just like music - some people will like your band, some people won't. Deal with it. If you want to be a pop band, go right ahead - you'll be more popular, but you'll have to sell your soul for it. Witness what happened to Metallica when they switched from their classic music (no, I'm not talking mozart classic, I'm talking about their original brand of music) to 'alternative'. They got more popular, but they alienated their entire fan base.
Any serious artist already knows it's a hit or miss type of thing - you do it because it's fun, not because you're trying to make money. The former is feasible, the latter will drive you insane if you try too hard. Here's another way of looking at it - if even 1 in a 100 people like your work in the US, you have a market of 2.5 million people.
John... this is a technical community. We're generally not given to being childish. While it is true that many of the posts on slashdot were of that nature, the 15 or so we forwarded to you were not. We gave you the chance to clear up a rather dark and ominous cloud surrounding your reputation, and rather than taking advantage of that, you spit venom into the very people you claim to report on. In my book, you're selling snake oil. The only reason you're getting any attention at all is because the press likes to sensationalize. In short, you're a spoiled media brat. But it's not you I'm upset at - it's a system that ignores the fact that you are a completely untrustworthy source, and that the community you report on almost unanimiously hates you. I will have no pity on you when the day comes that you're busted down and exposed as the immature individual you are. Slashdot readers - don't bother with this person. It's proven, and I recall he's admitted, that he's not concerned about the truth. Take him for a wild ride. Let him sensationalize, make propaganda, and be an ass. Either ignore him, or have fun with him - but don't take him seriously!
*cough* How long until somebody gets clued and realizes that since there's no way to prevent information from travelling between countries (and hence have different laws!) on the 'net? These aren't physical packages, and you there isn't a single point of control.
Sounds like another 'war' on something. The war on drugs, war on crime, war on... ever noticed that every time politicians declare war another one of your rights slip away? Wierd. Why don't they just call it what it is - the war on privacy, the war on human rights....
I wish I could have had the opportunity to e-mail you. Just wanted to compliment you on arriving at that conclusion - that was essentially what I was driving at, although you put it much better than I.
Yesterday the hubbub was about slashdotters reacting.. how the IETF was only investigating the feasibility of this, yadda yadda yadda. Gee... what a difference 24 hours make, hmm? Apparently the paranoid on slashdot (*cough* me *cough*) were right. The IETF shot it down.
Hey, look on the bright side. You saw what kinds of problems lack of interoperability caused in the early UN*X products - remember how fractured that was, and how hard it was to get anything working? *evil grin* Now the FBI gets to get some of that. Hope they find a solution.. they got a few trillion to waste on developing ways to get around incompatible standards, right? *very evil grin*
Contary to the belief of Fred Moody (as pointed out by another reader) - merely observing a black hole will not create one. Only stupid people generate black holes. Fortunately those are kept between their two ears, and they are buried with them. Relax, Fred. Just don't go near stupid people - they have a tendancy to suck.
I honest to god was speaking to a friend just yesterday about this very issue. I wanted to take a laser, shoot it several miles down a tunnel, and put a large magnet to answer the question "is light matter or energy"? Damn. Guess that's one less experiment for me to worry about. Freaky. Very freaky. Deja vu freaky.
Irrelevant. Looking into the future more than a miniscule amount is a pointless endeavor. You don't even know what'll happen in the industry 3 months down the road, let alone the probability of this world occurring!
I prefer the scientific method, and the engineering way of arriving at a conclusion - it's clear and concise. Nothing else is. Since I might get some complaints over this being vague - let me clarify: There are too many factors to even begin an analysis on the probability of any of these questions becoming an issue. Question 11 is particularily hard to determine because it assumes that an unnamed aircraft would be flying over a militaristic regime dropping computers. For what reason? Why would somebody do this, as opposed to dropping food? It's completely illogical! As such, I can't even begin to tell you the probability of such a thing happening - I can only tell you it never has happened before.
Sorry, but if this guy is serious about addressing the future of computing, he'd better start with the present, and look to the past for clues on where the future may be heading. The probability of him successfully guessing anywhere even near where it really will be is remote.. but I'm not gonna stop him or anyone else. As for myself - I have more useful things to do than go on vision quests.
This is an interesting essay, however atleast half the questions posed aren't relevant to today's 'net. Number 11 simply cannot occur. Provided it did occur, there would be precious little time to spend making pleas on usenet or elsewhere. Computers are used by those who have spare time, or a job that requires it. It is not a tool like a hammer, or a pole and some fishing line. In the unlikely event you could arouse sympathy on usenet, or even across the 'net, the most you would likely accomplish is a condemnation of your country. Your daughter would still starve to death.. because any food shipments would be denied by a government that tyrannical.
That's my 30-second-or-less essay answer. It probably won't get an 'A', but atleast it'll get moderated up a point, maybe even two.
I'm not sure whether this is the best forum to address this.. but I'm always alittle miffed about how the initial release of most software is in the form of a tarball. This is fine - I know how to use them. My problem is that alot of stuff under RH6 and other distros use RPM, or dpkg, or other such utilities. That makes life difficult for me, because then I need to uninstall the old package (making sure to backup the config files) and then install the tar. If I later get the packaged release (usually a few weeks later), then I gotta do that all over again! Man... it's times like these I wish linux was alittle more standardized for some things. Packaging should not be this difficult.
Passwords can be secure. Keep in mind that if the user picks a 'good' password and the system the user is logging into is trusted (read: it doesn't have any gaping holes!!), there likely will not be a problem.
Let's reverse things alittle... how secure are telephones? How secure are passwords sent via encrypted https? I'm willing to bet you money the latter is widely considered more secure than the former. Guess which one is under scrutiny. Funny, huh?
I'm not a security expert, although I do take an interest in security. My advice, given that fact, is that strong username/password combos would work well. Most people don't choose strong passwords... so your question really is "Should we care if the user(s) give away their personal information and then try to sue us?" This is more a legal question than a one of technology.
It does sound alittle fishy, doesn't it? But if it's true, ESR does not speak for me, nor I suspect alot of my fellow geeks. I'm all for anything that could get China moving towards a 'free' society more quickly. Using linux probably isn't going to spark a revolution out there, but it may open their citizen's eyes up alittle more to alternative ways to doing things. And in an ironic way, this is an admission by their government that they weren't 'on the ball' - they were afterall using Windows long after linux had been proven as a technically superior platform. The thought of freeing 1/6th of the world population in one fell swoop is enticing.. but if there's one thing I've learned about governments and societies it's that change occurs slowly. There will be no slashdot effect in China.
I prefer to spread my icons out to get the maximum amount of screen realestate. I also run my refresh rates low, because my system gets very upset when I refresh too quickly; It can lockup and become unresponsive for several hours.
Well, if you're having trouble booting you should check for several things, including:
Have you plugged it into the proper recepticle yet? This is the most common reason people cannot boot their systems.
Did you try booting from floppy? You need to remove the floppy from the drive and boot using the hard drive.
No RAM or insufficient RAM can be a problem, however in modern systems this usually isn't an issue - older systems may have this problem. A RAM upgrade (contact your local vendor) can usually resolve this issue.
My tongue is firmly planted in my cheek right now..
Hey semantic boy - you didn't need that extra comma in your last sentence, and putting those parenthesis in your last sentence is illegal. Your use of a period inside the parenthesis is also illegal syntax. =)
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This isn't really revolutionary new technology.. we've known about stuff like this for awhile. There's a nearly infinite number of ways to encode frequencies, and stack things onto each other.
I find myself wanting of the ability to insert IMG tags here. :( In short, picture a sine wave. Now along the slope of one, picture another sine wave attached to it. And so on. I suspect they're doing something like that. Actually, TVs do something like this - it's how the sync pulses and whatnot work. Very facinating technology. Also very old by today's standard, but still very useful.
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Who manufacturered the gyros? I find it extremelly difficult to believe half the gyros on hubble would fail in such a short time. It sounds to me like a manufacturing defect.
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Precisely my point - with a single mouse click, you could be in Australia and not even know it. How, exactly, is customs going to stop that, hmmm?
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*click* *click*
I'm outside the US!
*click* *click*
Now I'm back in!
*click* *click*
Outside the US again!
What are you gonna do, tell my legions of electrons to stop at the router for an inspection? You'll find they're largely negatively charged from being spammed alot, but little else...
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Great. Now MS will just move in and define "slow" as the industry standard.........
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*bzzzt!* Stupid slashdot effect....
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Any serious artist already knows it's a hit or miss type of thing - you do it because it's fun, not because you're trying to make money. The former is feasible, the latter will drive you insane if you try too hard. Here's another way of looking at it - if even 1 in a 100 people like your work in the US, you have a market of 2.5 million people.
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If I find Clippy in this thing....
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John... this is a technical community. We're generally not given to being childish. While it is true that many of the posts on slashdot were of that nature, the 15 or so we forwarded to you were not. We gave you the chance to clear up a rather dark and ominous cloud surrounding your reputation, and rather than taking advantage of that, you spit venom into the very people you claim to report on. In my book, you're selling snake oil. The only reason you're getting any attention at all is because the press likes to sensationalize. In short, you're a spoiled media brat. But it's not you I'm upset at - it's a system that ignores the fact that you are a completely untrustworthy source, and that the community you report on almost unanimiously hates you. I will have no pity on you when the day comes that you're busted down and exposed as the immature individual you are. Slashdot readers - don't bother with this person. It's proven, and I recall he's admitted, that he's not concerned about the truth. Take him for a wild ride. Let him sensationalize, make propaganda, and be an ass. Either ignore him, or have fun with him - but don't take him seriously!
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*cough* How long until somebody gets clued and realizes that since there's no way to prevent information from travelling between countries (and hence have different laws!) on the 'net? These aren't physical packages, and you there isn't a single point of control.
Sounds like another 'war' on something. The war on drugs, war on crime, war on... ever noticed that every time politicians declare war another one of your rights slip away? Wierd. Why don't they just call it what it is - the war on privacy, the war on human rights....
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I wish I could have had the opportunity to e-mail you. Just wanted to compliment you on arriving at that conclusion - that was essentially what I was driving at, although you put it much better than I.
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Hey, look on the bright side. You saw what kinds of problems lack of interoperability caused in the early UN*X products - remember how fractured that was, and how hard it was to get anything working? *evil grin* Now the FBI gets to get some of that. Hope they find a solution.. they got a few trillion to waste on developing ways to get around incompatible standards, right? *very evil grin*
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Contary to the belief of Fred Moody (as pointed out by another reader) - merely observing a black hole will not create one. Only stupid people generate black holes. Fortunately those are kept between their two ears, and they are buried with them. Relax, Fred. Just don't go near stupid people - they have a tendancy to suck.
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I honest to god was speaking to a friend just yesterday about this very issue. I wanted to take a laser, shoot it several miles down a tunnel, and put a large magnet to answer the question "is light matter or energy"? Damn. Guess that's one less experiment for me to worry about. Freaky. Very freaky. Deja vu freaky.
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No, it's not. It's the truth.
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I prefer the scientific method, and the engineering way of arriving at a conclusion - it's clear and concise. Nothing else is. Since I might get some complaints over this being vague - let me clarify: There are too many factors to even begin an analysis on the probability of any of these questions becoming an issue. Question 11 is particularily hard to determine because it assumes that an unnamed aircraft would be flying over a militaristic regime dropping computers. For what reason? Why would somebody do this, as opposed to dropping food? It's completely illogical! As such, I can't even begin to tell you the probability of such a thing happening - I can only tell you it never has happened before.
Sorry, but if this guy is serious about addressing the future of computing, he'd better start with the present, and look to the past for clues on where the future may be heading. The probability of him successfully guessing anywhere even near where it really will be is remote.. but I'm not gonna stop him or anyone else. As for myself - I have more useful things to do than go on vision quests.
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This is an interesting essay, however atleast half the questions posed aren't relevant to today's 'net. Number 11 simply cannot occur. Provided it did occur, there would be precious little time to spend making pleas on usenet or elsewhere. Computers are used by those who have spare time, or a job that requires it. It is not a tool like a hammer, or a pole and some fishing line. In the unlikely event you could arouse sympathy on usenet, or even across the 'net, the most you would likely accomplish is a condemnation of your country. Your daughter would still starve to death.. because any food shipments would be denied by a government that tyrannical.
That's my 30-second-or-less essay answer. It probably won't get an 'A', but atleast it'll get moderated up a point, maybe even two.
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I'm not sure whether this is the best forum to address this.. but I'm always alittle miffed about how the initial release of most software is in the form of a tarball. This is fine - I know how to use them. My problem is that alot of stuff under RH6 and other distros use RPM, or dpkg, or other such utilities. That makes life difficult for me, because then I need to uninstall the old package (making sure to backup the config files) and then install the tar. If I later get the packaged release (usually a few weeks later), then I gotta do that all over again! Man... it's times like these I wish linux was alittle more standardized for some things. Packaging should not be this difficult.
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Let's reverse things alittle... how secure are telephones? How secure are passwords sent via encrypted https? I'm willing to bet you money the latter is widely considered more secure than the former. Guess which one is under scrutiny. Funny, huh?
I'm not a security expert, although I do take an interest in security. My advice, given that fact, is that strong username/password combos would work well. Most people don't choose strong passwords... so your question really is "Should we care if the user(s) give away their personal information and then try to sue us?" This is more a legal question than a one of technology.
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So? Even if he didn't say it, it's very difficult not to arrive at that conclusion. We're talking about ideas here.. not articles.
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It does sound alittle fishy, doesn't it? But if it's true, ESR does not speak for me, nor I suspect alot of my fellow geeks. I'm all for anything that could get China moving towards a 'free' society more quickly. Using linux probably isn't going to spark a revolution out there, but it may open their citizen's eyes up alittle more to alternative ways to doing things. And in an ironic way, this is an admission by their government that they weren't 'on the ball' - they were afterall using Windows long after linux had been proven as a technically superior platform. The thought of freeing 1/6th of the world population in one fell swoop is enticing.. but if there's one thing I've learned about governments and societies it's that change occurs slowly. There will be no slashdot effect in China.
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I prefer to spread my icons out to get the maximum amount of screen realestate. I also run my refresh rates low, because my system gets very upset when I refresh too quickly; It can lockup and become unresponsive for several hours.
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*cough* Goddamnit... =)
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My tongue is firmly planted in my cheek right now..
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You've officially been one-up'd by Signal 11!
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