The article makes an interesting point: her husband "keeping up a soldier's rhythm". I suffered from exactly the same problem during childhood and adolescence, until the Dutch Marines made the error of accepting me in their ranks. It totally cured me. ( Being daily kicked and yelled out of your bunk at 5 am is a sort of a horse's medicine, but Gawd - did it work !! )
If the events (being at such a speed) could be observed by someone standing on the curb, it would appear to them that you were trailing just barely behind the light beam.
I am amazed at how The Register is basically a/. with British tongue-in-cheek humoUr added. Almost every paragraph of the Register article manages to mention "boffinry" or "boffin". As is their wont. Congrats, Register.
Any time a hardware maker let design come before function, wonderful things came out, that wrote history. Computers: look at Apple. Cars: look at Saab. Aircraft: look at the Concorde. Go Asus go !
Excuse me ? Only totally incoherent data has no semantics. From any set of data having a coherence greater than zero, at least part of the semantics can be deduced by internal analysis ( you do that every time when you solve a puzzle, for example )
That is the best suggestion I've read sofar in this discussion. I can only hardly imagine he is trying to do something else.
Wait. Maybe he is an artist who tries to create fancy patterns of aligned magnetic fields on the platters in order to do something neat with it, later on ?
Tissue paper eh ? The next time I play with my secretary in the back of my car, I'll think twice before wiping our privates with Kleenex... I could be destroying vital data ( besides the DNA information contained in millions of spermatozoids )
Some years ago ( 2000-ish), I worked in the R & D department of a French software company. We were with about 20 engineers, and the company was investing its very last cash in development of the network management tool we had been working on for already 2 years. ( BTW: It was a major success: just in time, we were acquired by a major US software editor, no, thank Gawd not Microsoft ). Every evening, there would be a build of that day's version of the tool. It always involved the guy responsible for the build going downstairs to the server room; he would come up after a few minutes and run the build. After a few weeks, I grew so curious that I peeked into the server room while he was doing his trick: he was booting an old PC, built from bits of other discarded PC's, from a diskette. The diskette was in a diskette drive that dangled out of the PC, held back by the yellow-and-red electric wires. When I asked the guy about the "why" of this setup, he explained that our salaries were eating up the last of R & D funding, so he couldnot ask for a decent build server. Incredibly, the bits-and-pieces-PC held out until the acquisition by the Yanks. The day they arrived, however, we had to hide our "build server". They never knew...
The Mars exploration predictions will probably come true, and the ones on Google are quite plausible ( which IMHO is not sufficient a reason to buy Google stock )
That is ridiculously far away in the future. If we REALLY wanted,we could do it in 10 years, and the first expedition to Mars could be on its way 6 years later. If we only wanted.
This is about safety, or "sureness" as French has it. The article, very much to the point, made quoted the accounts from the American Civil War that are still readable. Why are they ? Because they are in text format. Written by human hand, but there is no basic difference between a hand-written letter and, say, an ASCII or Unicode text file, as soon as you keep the ASCII table or the Unicode tables somewhere, for reference. Even "complicated" things like UML diagrams, and entire RDBMSes, can be saved or exported in text format. What we really need, given this, is spectacularly performing text compression and transmission protocols. Who feels up to the task ?
That is not possible. You cannot make a picture of God. And if you do, he throws a bolt of lightning at your head. Gosh, these darn polytheists really know f***all about religion:-P
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The article makes an interesting point: her husband "keeping up a soldier's rhythm". I suffered from exactly the same problem during childhood and adolescence, until the Dutch Marines made the error of accepting me in their ranks. It totally cured me. ( Being daily kicked and yelled out of your bunk at 5 am is a sort of a horse's medicine, but Gawd - did it work !! )
These polar bears are farting waaaaaay too mcuh
If the events (being at such a speed) could be observed by someone standing on the curb, it would appear to them that you were trailing just barely behind the light beam.
Sigh.
Amen, bro. Or sis, for that matter.
I am amazed at how The Register is basically a /. with British tongue-in-cheek humoUr added. Almost every paragraph of the Register article manages to mention "boffinry" or "boffin". As is their wont. Congrats, Register.
Any time a hardware maker let design come before function, wonderful things came out, that wrote history. Computers: look at Apple. Cars: look at Saab. Aircraft: look at the Concorde. Go Asus go !
Bangalore. Microsoft has a big shiny glass box of an office there. I am deeply sympathetic with your fate and hope you will survive it.
FIRST POST !
Ha, my Karma shall be everlastingly ... uhm... well.. yeah... green ?
This is the funniest comment I read on /. in a long, long time ! Almost choked on my wine while reading it.
I like to think that those first human artists were not so different from those today.
Hm. I am a poet, and therefore an artist. Are you saying that I still shit in a cave ?
And since data has no semantics
Excuse me ? Only totally incoherent data has no semantics. From any set of data having a coherence greater than zero, at least part of the semantics can be deduced by internal analysis ( you do that every time when you solve a puzzle, for example )
That is the best suggestion I've read sofar in this discussion. I can only hardly imagine he is trying to do something else.
Wait. Maybe he is an artist who tries to create fancy patterns of aligned magnetic fields on the platters in order to do something neat with it, later on ?
Exactly. You could use raw devices on your *Nix, but that is as far as you can possibly go. Ergo: it can not be done.
Did William of Ockham have a beard ?
- Hey dude, you want a beer ?
- Â&30xFB6745 Â$! KZZRGT
- PSSSSSHOOOOM !! ...
- Aww, so sorry mate for the mess it made in the vacuum you live in.
And there we are, facing 5 more billion years until the next encounter....
Do what I did: code for some time like an idiot for stupid bosses, then realize you are being exploited, and become a monk. I'm serious.
No, not a low sperm count. 99% of the information i.e. of the spermatozoids is still *inside* of the secretary when I wipe.
Tissue paper eh ? The next time I play with my secretary in the back of my car, I'll think twice before wiping our privates with Kleenex... I could be destroying vital data ( besides the DNA information contained in millions of spermatozoids )
Some years ago ( 2000-ish), I worked in the R & D department of a French software company. We were with about 20 engineers, and the company was investing its very last cash in development of the network management tool we had been working on for already 2 years. ( BTW: It was a major success: just in time, we were acquired by a major US software editor, no, thank Gawd not Microsoft ). Every evening, there would be a build of that day's version of the tool. It always involved the guy responsible for the build going downstairs to the server room; he would come up after a few minutes and run the build. After a few weeks, I grew so curious that I peeked into the server room while he was doing his trick: he was booting an old PC, built from bits of other discarded PC's, from a diskette. The diskette was in a diskette drive that dangled out of the PC, held back by the yellow-and-red electric wires. When I asked the guy about the "why" of this setup, he explained that our salaries were eating up the last of R & D funding, so he couldnot ask for a decent build server. Incredibly, the bits-and-pieces-PC held out until the acquisition by the Yanks. The day they arrived, however, we had to hide our "build server". They never knew...
The Mars exploration predictions will probably come true, and the ones on Google are quite plausible ( which IMHO is not sufficient a reason to buy Google stock )
That is ridiculously far away in the future. If we REALLY wanted,we could do it in 10 years, and the first expedition to Mars could be on its way 6 years later. If we only wanted.
I wonder what its strength is, in Tesla ? The article doesnot say that
Hmm. Mass may not be an inherent property of being, but inertia must be, no ?
This is about safety, or "sureness" as French has it. The article, very much to the point, made quoted the accounts from the American Civil War that are still readable. Why are they ? Because they are in text format. Written by human hand, but there is no basic difference between a hand-written letter and, say, an ASCII or Unicode text file, as soon as you keep the ASCII table or the Unicode tables somewhere, for reference. Even "complicated" things like UML diagrams, and entire RDBMSes, can be saved or exported in text format. What we really need, given this, is spectacularly performing text compression and transmission protocols. Who feels up to the task ?
... but I need to run to the toilet first.
That is not possible. You cannot make a picture of God. And if you do, he throws a bolt of lightning at your head. Gosh, these darn polytheists really know f***all about religion :-P