The Beijing Number One Intermediate People's Court ordered Microsoft to stop selling versions of Windows that use the Chinese fonts, including Windows XP
So now Microsoft cannot sell Windows 95-XP in China. But wait, Microsoft stopped selling those operating system some time ago. Anywhere.
I have yet (in over a decade of tending windows and NT servers) had a single machine get infected.
Let's be clear here (and the same is true for anyone running Linux), you don't know that none of your machines were infected. You know thatyou never discovered an infection.
And you don't know that you actually posted that reply, you only saw it with your eyes.
Maybe you had sight problems or maybe you imagined it.
While the brain do has the count advantage (approx. 50 billion neurons in the cerebellum), please note the extremely slow speed of each of them.
You already said it (a few hundred times per second) - I just wanted to underline it. We are actually not that far from that computing power.
If we are to make a crude estimation 50 billion neurons with a processing speed of 200 Hz would mean 10 tera processing per second. Some may argue that they are analogous - thus able to handle infinite precision. I challenge that - there is no infinite precision - not even in the brain. So I consider a floating point operation a very equivalent way to compare.
10 Teraflops is not that much, would not even qualify as a super computer these days. We already have 1 teraflops desktops. Soon, even a personal computer will have that power.
When approaching neural networks, I was never afraid of lack of computing power or storage. A much more demanding task was finding good and enough training data. Can you estimate the amount of "training data" that a human averagely receives through all his senses(sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell) during his entire life? Now THAT is some huge sob!
Bank Clerk: How can I help you, young man?
Stan Marsh: I got a hundred-dollar check from my grandma and my dad said I need to put it in the bank so it can grow over the years.
Bank Clerk: Well that's fantastic. A really smart decision, young man. We can put that check in a money market mutual fund, then we'll re-invest the earnings into foreign currency accounts with compounding interest aaaand it's gone.
[Blank stares and silence as it goes from the Bank Clerk, to Stan, to the Bank Clerk, to Stan]
Stan Marsh: Uh... what?
Bank Clerk: It's gone, it's all gone.
Stan Marsh: What's all gone?
Bank Clerk: The money in your account. It didn't do too well, it's gone.
Stan Marsh: What do you mean? I-I have a hundred dollars!
Bank Clerk: Not any more, you don't.
[Gestures]
Bank Clerk: Poof!
Stan Marsh: Well what can I do to get back my...
Bank Clerk: [Interrupts] I'm sorry, sir, but this line is for bank members only.
Stan Marsh: I just opened an account!
Bank Clerk: Do you have any money invested with this bank?
Stan Marsh: No, you just lost it all!
Bank Clerk: Then please stand aside for people who actually have money with us. Next please!
Stan Marsh: [Getting pushed out of the way] Hey!
Bank Clerk: Hello Mrs. Farnickel. How are you, today? Making a deposit, are we? Greeeat. We can just put that into your retirement account and make it go to work for you aaaaand it's gone.
Mrs. Farnickel: Whaaat?
Bank Clerk: Sorry, yeah, it's gone. Please step aside for people who actually have money with the bank. Next please!
Stan Marsh: Dad!
Randy Marsh: Hey, I'm trying to teach my son the importance of savings. You already lost his money?
Bank Clerk: Oh, Mr. Marsh! D-d-don't worry. We can just transfer money from *your* account into a portfolio with your savings... AAAAAND IT'S GONE! This line's for people who have money with the bank, only, please step aside!
[Randy and Stan stare dumbfounded]
Don't ask for money. Ask for an arm, a leg, but not money.
People will rather watch hours of advertising and spend hours managing insane amounts of spam instead of paying a cent.
Never underestimate the power of shortsightedness in most people. After all, most people still prefer the "free"(read: ad-supported) television. Yea, I'm right and most people are wrong, go on, mod me down:P
I completely agree. People are different regarding this matter. A LOT.
I have 4-5 monstrous meals a day, with many of them involving scary(for most people) stuff like 1-2 pounds of meat/fat and tons of other unhealthy (but delicious) threats. I spend all my day in front of a computer both at work and at home, I make no exercising at all. I'm the very definition of laziness.That is my last 15 years of life, and I'm 20 pounds UNDERWEIGHT.
I guess its easy for skinny people to criticize fat/obese people. Oh, and btw, this story is an flamebait.
Light pollution? We LIKE light, we CHOOSE to light up things around us. Looking once at the sky and noticing the milky way may seem amazing first few times, but seeing it every day will not improve your life in any way at all - unless this is your profession(astronomy). It just gets boring. Light around you HELPS.
Do you realize how much natural "light pollution" happens by just moving to a location 5 degrees latitude higher?
There is a very significant percent of human population living on locations over 50 degrees latitude, where the night sky during the summer is close to non existent - and no, they don't get cancer or sick because of it, you just get used to it.
My 3 years old Windows XP PC boots in 6 seconds (from power button to desktop usable and hard drive has stopped being busy!). No fancy hardware except maybe a dumb stripping raid0 from 2x250gb SATA2 drives and a customized/optimized OS configuration. This is a computer used for large range of activities: gaming, movies, music, internet, programming. On a modern/good/sshd PC and if I put my hands on it seriously I bet I can reduce it under 4 seconds.
I remember a guy who customized his Gentoo 6 years ago to boot under 10 seconds as well.
So whats with this hype for a lousy 21.4 on today's hardware?
If anyone didn't read TFA, I can summarize it for you: its half bombastic, half of half fatalistic, half of half random no clue tech words and statistics 95% invented on the spot. Richard does a pure cry for attention and a weak troll at best. The article does not deserve any analysis or argument because there is nothing to hang on to, it's all a big ball of slime.
I only have one decade notch on my netadmin belt, but if you find me dead drunk in a bar at 5am I couldn't spit out more ludicrous stuff. I wouldn't want to share the kind of attention he got now.
Now to the core of the issue: I'm not a big fun of BitTorent lately for two reasons:
1. its architecture causes a very big TCP/IP overhead of control packets, which makes packet shaping a mess. For this, I salute their initiative to take matters in their hands and handle packet flow instead of relying on the one implemented in TCP. For the tech un-aware, UDP does not mean higher speed or priority, it only means you give up on the control and security offered by TCP. Go on, be un-polite and send 1000 packets per second to your ISP and say hello to auto-ban on flood scripts that any ISP on this planet have.
2. its being abused by kids(of all ages) who have not learned yet that nothing is free. I stopped using BT 2 years ago and I switched to a pay-oriented solution for my download needs and I could never go back to BT. Even a die-hard BT user realizes that the key of a successful/good speed BT transfer is the use of private trackers, that counts your bytes instead relying of the pure heart and kindness of the random user. Public BT was always a big fail - you end up paying more because of the time and lack of reliability.
Even as a convinced anti-BT, and even at the risk of getting down-modded, I cannot stand aside and look at the article author spitting that BS.
Indeed, neither a conversation tricks program and neither a chess program have anything to do with artificial intelligence.
But that will not stop natural stupidity to jump on the AI bandwagon and beg for attention using 2 decades old trends that most people don't understand not even now. This reminds me of that article with those "AI" cameras that turned towards a sound. LAWL
I think the bad summary is on purpose to start a classic AI flame war. Slow news day?
I believe the right question is: in the world we live today, when games are becoming so complicated and give a genuine feeling of constructive means of wasting your time, do we need more excuses to play?
Entertainment doesn't have to be constructive, it's just fun.
"reduce the "communication overhead" of route computation - by an order of magnitude" is an overstatement.
They only reduced topology changes traffic, not the regular traffic. Topology changes are an insignificant (less than 0.1%) part of total trafic.
After reading TFA carefully, I realized that they didn't said anything. AT ALL. A dumb photo camera or sound recorder performs exactly as their described "genius" invention. It doesn't need to have anything to do with the brain. Harry Potter references, are you for real??
At first, I thought its April fools, but wait... it's not 1 April. So my question is: WTF ?
How is the web staying healthy, when there is this humongous cloud of smug coming from article. I would never employ a man with such blind arrogance.
And all this coming from a project that had the chance to "discover" the miracle of multi-threading in 3 major releases, and the future plans for Firefox 4.0 explicitly refuses multi threading, despite the world we are living in is dominated by multi-core personal computers. Have fun waiting on a tab to forever execute that rogue script. I guess solving multi threading specific problems require too high level of software engineering for you guys.
Yea, I dare to disagree with this on/. , have fun modding me down:P
It was so obvious, we know ISP's are the worst kinds of businesses, they oversell the bandwidth massively on the customer end and yet their backbones are pretty hardly ever used so they just end up cheating the consumer. It's basically extortion.
Sorry I have to say this: I feel like puking at the thought that/.ers actually find the above troll statement as informative. This is where public moderation fails in a horrible way: this is a popularity content, not moderation
Regarding the original issue, I worked for a few years as an admin on an ISP and I can tell you torrents have some nasty impact on the routers. Bell just really sucks on presenting the issue. Torrents are basically DOS, and deep down you know it. All ISPs are hating it, and not because of the copyright issue (they don't care about WTF you steal), its because of technical reasons(they care about you smashing their routers/lines).
To get shock attention: if there are no limits on this, you would not be able to do it anymore, since all "curse" words would be totally boring
To hurt someone's feelings: no control on it is like asking no control on violence - anarchy
See, its not that hard after you actually try to understand why the world goes round.
You see, for me your kind of childishness doesn't piss me off:)
Now go play in your room, shoo kiddo!
Yea, both are "purely for legal and non-copyright-violating purposes, of course". Mhyeeeeaaaa, suuuure:P
An year ago I discovered Rapidshare. Since that moment I never started any torrent and I will never again.
Torrents are a desperate way to get data from Internet, crushing the TCP/IP stack on all poor SOB routers that are unlucky to get crossed by its flow. Do you wonder why ISPs try to limit it? Its not because of copyright violations - they don't give a fsck about that, its because its stupidly hard to shape it properly. You have to reserve insane amounts of bandwidth for a figures like 30% overhead of flow control packets. When you have so much overhead it should fully qualify as denial of service attack by any routers along the way - because that is what you are doing!
Stop trying to find complicated ways to get FREE stuff and fkin pay for it. Nothing is free. There are only different ways to pay for it. Are you sure a fancy router is the lowest?
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The Beijing Number One Intermediate People's Court ordered Microsoft to stop selling versions of Windows that use the Chinese fonts, including Windows XP
So now Microsoft cannot sell Windows 95-XP in China. But wait, Microsoft stopped selling those operating system some time ago. Anywhere.
Its Denmark. I live here and I see the males completely emasculated - sorry guys but it’s the truth. It’s a feminist society.
For details read:
http://www.rense.com/general79/brave.htm
http://www.city-data.com/forum/world/398666-denmark-sucks-happiest-nation-my-ass.html
Let's be clear here (and the same is true for anyone running Linux), you don't know that none of your machines were infected. You know thatyou never discovered an infection.
And you don't know that you actually posted that reply, you only saw it with your eyes.
Maybe you had sight problems or maybe you imagined it.
Cut the BS, please!
Firefox also passed IE5, and IE4 ...
I read TFA and all there is are feelings of some people that its faster, no numbers. I guess that is what "reportedly" means. Weasel words.
While the brain do has the count advantage (approx. 50 billion neurons in the cerebellum), please note the extremely slow speed of each of them.
You already said it (a few hundred times per second) - I just wanted to underline it. We are actually not that far from that computing power.
If we are to make a crude estimation 50 billion neurons with a processing speed of 200 Hz would mean 10 tera processing per second. Some may argue that they are analogous - thus able to handle infinite precision. I challenge that - there is no infinite precision - not even in the brain. So I consider a floating point operation a very equivalent way to compare.
10 Teraflops is not that much, would not even qualify as a super computer these days. We already have 1 teraflops desktops. Soon, even a personal computer will have that power.
Some examples:
4 Teraflops workstation: http://digg.com/hardware/Supermicro_GPU_Workstation_Hits_4_Teraflops
20 Petaflops Sequoia: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/feb/03/fastest-supercomputer-ibm-sequoia
When approaching neural networks, I was never afraid of lack of computing power or storage. A much more demanding task was finding good and enough training data. Can you estimate the amount of "training data" that a human averagely receives through all his senses(sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell) during his entire life? Now THAT is some huge sob!
Bank Clerk: How can I help you, young man?
Stan Marsh: I got a hundred-dollar check from my grandma and my dad said I need to put it in the bank so it can grow over the years.
Bank Clerk: Well that's fantastic. A really smart decision, young man. We can put that check in a money market mutual fund, then we'll re-invest the earnings into foreign currency accounts with compounding interest aaaand it's gone.
[Blank stares and silence as it goes from the Bank Clerk, to Stan, to the Bank Clerk, to Stan]
Stan Marsh: Uh... what?
Bank Clerk: It's gone, it's all gone.
Stan Marsh: What's all gone?
Bank Clerk: The money in your account. It didn't do too well, it's gone.
Stan Marsh: What do you mean? I-I have a hundred dollars!
Bank Clerk: Not any more, you don't.
[Gestures]
Bank Clerk: Poof!
Stan Marsh: Well what can I do to get back my...
Bank Clerk: [Interrupts] I'm sorry, sir, but this line is for bank members only.
Stan Marsh: I just opened an account!
Bank Clerk: Do you have any money invested with this bank?
Stan Marsh: No, you just lost it all!
Bank Clerk: Then please stand aside for people who actually have money with us. Next please!
Stan Marsh: [Getting pushed out of the way] Hey!
Bank Clerk: Hello Mrs. Farnickel. How are you, today? Making a deposit, are we? Greeeat. We can just put that into your retirement account and make it go to work for you aaaaand it's gone.
Mrs. Farnickel: Whaaat?
Bank Clerk: Sorry, yeah, it's gone. Please step aside for people who actually have money with the bank. Next please!
Stan Marsh: Dad!
Randy Marsh: Hey, I'm trying to teach my son the importance of savings. You already lost his money?
Bank Clerk: Oh, Mr. Marsh! D-d-don't worry. We can just transfer money from *your* account into a portfolio with your savings... AAAAAND IT'S GONE! This line's for people who have money with the bank, only, please step aside!
[Randy and Stan stare dumbfounded]
Don't ask for money. Ask for an arm, a leg, but not money.
:P
People will rather watch hours of advertising and spend hours managing insane amounts of spam instead of paying a cent.
Never underestimate the power of shortsightedness in most people. After all, most people still prefer the "free"(read: ad-supported) television. Yea, I'm right and most people are wrong, go on, mod me down
Custom fonts on web pages were possible 10 years ago.
Someone is trying to squeeze money out of an old technology that was not used too much.
I completely agree. People are different regarding this matter. A LOT.
I have 4-5 monstrous meals a day, with many of them involving scary(for most people) stuff like 1-2 pounds of meat/fat and tons of other unhealthy (but delicious) threats. I spend all my day in front of a computer both at work and at home, I make no exercising at all. I'm the very definition of laziness.That is my last 15 years of life, and I'm 20 pounds UNDERWEIGHT.
I guess its easy for skinny people to criticize fat/obese people. Oh, and btw, this story is an flamebait.
Light pollution? We LIKE light, we CHOOSE to light up things around us. Looking once at the sky and noticing the milky way may seem amazing first few times, but seeing it every day will not improve your life in any way at all - unless this is your profession(astronomy). It just gets boring. Light around you HELPS.
Do you realize how much natural "light pollution" happens by just moving to a location 5 degrees latitude higher?
There is a very significant percent of human population living on locations over 50 degrees latitude, where the night sky during the summer is close to non existent - and no, they don't get cancer or sick because of it, you just get used to it.
Sorry guys, but this ton of BS just got me angry.
My 3 years old Windows XP PC boots in 6 seconds (from power button to desktop usable and hard drive has stopped being busy!). No fancy hardware except maybe a dumb stripping raid0 from 2x250gb SATA2 drives and a customized/optimized OS configuration. This is a computer used for large range of activities: gaming, movies, music, internet, programming. On a modern/good/sshd PC and if I put my hands on it seriously I bet I can reduce it under 4 seconds.
I remember a guy who customized his Gentoo 6 years ago to boot under 10 seconds as well.
So whats with this hype for a lousy 21.4 on today's hardware?
I agree with you.
If anyone didn't read TFA, I can summarize it for you: its half bombastic, half of half fatalistic, half of half random no clue tech words and statistics 95% invented on the spot. Richard does a pure cry for attention and a weak troll at best. The article does not deserve any analysis or argument because there is nothing to hang on to, it's all a big ball of slime.
I only have one decade notch on my netadmin belt, but if you find me dead drunk in a bar at 5am I couldn't spit out more ludicrous stuff. I wouldn't want to share the kind of attention he got now.
Now to the core of the issue: I'm not a big fun of BitTorent lately for two reasons:
1. its architecture causes a very big TCP/IP overhead of control packets, which makes packet shaping a mess. For this, I salute their initiative to take matters in their hands and handle packet flow instead of relying on the one implemented in TCP. For the tech un-aware, UDP does not mean higher speed or priority, it only means you give up on the control and security offered by TCP. Go on, be un-polite and send 1000 packets per second to your ISP and say hello to auto-ban on flood scripts that any ISP on this planet have.
2. its being abused by kids(of all ages) who have not learned yet that nothing is free. I stopped using BT 2 years ago and I switched to a pay-oriented solution for my download needs and I could never go back to BT. Even a die-hard BT user realizes that the key of a successful/good speed BT transfer is the use of private trackers, that counts your bytes instead relying of the pure heart and kindness of the random user. Public BT was always a big fail - you end up paying more because of the time and lack of reliability.
Even as a convinced anti-BT, and even at the risk of getting down-modded, I cannot stand aside and look at the article author spitting that BS.
Rest in pieces, Richard Bennett's reputation.
Indeed, neither a conversation tricks program and neither a chess program have anything to do with artificial intelligence.
But that will not stop natural stupidity to jump on the AI bandwagon and beg for attention using 2 decades old trends that most people don't understand not even now. This reminds me of that article with those "AI" cameras that turned towards a sound. LAWL
I think the bad summary is on purpose to start a classic AI flame war. Slow news day?
I believe the right question is: in the world we live today, when games are becoming so complicated and give a genuine feeling of constructive means of wasting your time, do we need more excuses to play?
Entertainment doesn't have to be constructive, it's just fun.
Posting this article on slashdot its obviously a troll action.
"reduce the "communication overhead" of route computation - by an order of magnitude" is an overstatement. They only reduced topology changes traffic, not the regular traffic. Topology changes are an insignificant (less than 0.1%) part of total trafic.
Nothing to see here, move along.
I agree, please remove idle or provide an option to customize the RSS. I read /. from RSS as well.
Seriously, idle has no place in tech news. Its not even funny, its just lame.
After reading TFA carefully, I realized that they didn't said anything. AT ALL. A dumb photo camera or sound recorder performs exactly as their described "genius" invention. It doesn't need to have anything to do with the brain. Harry Potter references, are you for real?? ... it's not 1 April. So my question is: WTF ?
At first, I thought its April fools, but wait
Is it just me?
In fact, no registration is required. I just read the article without logging in.
How is the web staying healthy, when there is this humongous cloud of smug coming from article. I would never employ a man with such blind arrogance.
/. , have fun modding me down :P
And all this coming from a project that had the chance to "discover" the miracle of multi-threading in 3 major releases, and the future plans for Firefox 4.0 explicitly refuses multi threading, despite the world we are living in is dominated by multi-core personal computers. Have fun waiting on a tab to forever execute that rogue script. I guess solving multi threading specific problems require too high level of software engineering for you guys.
Yea, I dare to disagree with this on
3G is not early adopting. 3G is old as hell. Seriously. At least in Europe it is. :)
Sorry I have to say this: I feel like puking at the thought that /.ers actually find the above troll statement as informative. This is where public moderation fails in a horrible way: this is a popularity content, not moderation
Regarding the original issue, I worked for a few years as an admin on an ISP and I can tell you torrents have some nasty impact on the routers. Bell just really sucks on presenting the issue. Torrents are basically DOS, and deep down you know it. All ISPs are hating it, and not because of the copyright issue (they don't care about WTF you steal), its because of technical reasons(they care about you smashing their routers/lines).
See, its not that hard after you actually try to understand why the world goes round. :)
Now go play in your room, shoo kiddo!
You see, for me your kind of childishness doesn't piss me off
Yea, both are "purely for legal and non-copyright-violating purposes, of course". Mhyeeeeaaaa, suuuure :P
An year ago I discovered Rapidshare. Since that moment I never started any torrent and I will never again.
Torrents are a desperate way to get data from Internet, crushing the TCP/IP stack on all poor SOB routers that are unlucky to get crossed by its flow. Do you wonder why ISPs try to limit it? Its not because of copyright violations - they don't give a fsck about that, its because its stupidly hard to shape it properly. You have to reserve insane amounts of bandwidth for a figures like 30% overhead of flow control packets. When you have so much overhead it should fully qualify as denial of service attack by any routers along the way - because that is what you are doing!
Stop trying to find complicated ways to get FREE stuff and fkin pay for it. Nothing is free. There are only different ways to pay for it. Are you sure a fancy router is the lowest?