Compare it to child pornography. No reasonable man would lend his children for something like that too. But when you have more children than money, maybe people tend to become unreasonable.
A major news site apologizing for being wrong doesn't surprise you?
As someone else pointed out before, this isn't the first time for the BBC. And I agree with the GP. It is newsworthy to know there is a new series, maybe even that the actor will only participate for one season. But are these apologies relevant news? They guy IS still leaving afaik.
Hitachi (ah, see, I remembered the brand) has succeeded in getting everyone to believe that they are on the cutting edge of hard drive technology. While that may or may not be true
How, 'may or may not be true'. You saw the bits, didn't you?!? Clearly this is true!
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Easy enough, '42' for example. Or this thing about 'the Force'... or the One or something. Or was it... whatever... getting mixed up here. Now for something completely different. d'OH.
it occurs to me that switching off these computers would be
Where I work (ehm...) at the univ all PCs are on at night such that others can log in remotely if they need to do distribute their load. And then there are some dedicated number crunching machines. I am not sure if it is appreciated to run SETI-at-home-stuff etc.
Hey - so it basically means that they do NOT have made an invention, but have a patent to get all the profit, when some real inventor makes it real 10 years later ?
Time to patent my own stuff:
Prior art: none
Description: generic device that makes people happy, feel good, have a good sex life, be smarter, stronger and have any benefit anyone could ever have hoped for.
Technology: any current existing or nonexisting, imaginable or unimaginable, human, extraterrestrial, extraplanar outsider or other.
Goal: SUE!!!
A few years ago we had a master's thesis (jointly with the military school) evaluating the design of such a vehicle. These vehicles are mostly meant for observation, and can even be equipped with a radar (which was the case).
The main challenge is, not surprisingly, the weight. One of the trade-offs we were faced with was wether to do signal processing on the plane (requiring more CPU), or on the ground (requiring more link capacity). Another problem is that, because it is so small, it is very prone to wind, vibrations etc which have to be taken into account when post-processing
It always puzzles me that a country which recruits hundreds of thousands of soldiers and spends hundreds of billions of dollars to go to wars with guaranteed casualties (and not all die in action) are so timid in losing a relatively small percentage of lives/dollars to go to space.
Because war is about killing people and spacetravel is not. (although I agree with your point, which has been raised on/. more than once)
Why should everything in the whole world be dumbed down for the lowest common denominator?
Exactly because people are afraid. They don't want to be 'behind', or asking 'stupid questions'. Also, they don't realise it's not 'all just a game', but this computing stuff is real. The stolen money when they obtain your CC number is real. Not everyone realises this.
Compare it to the use of condoms in third-world countries. People maybe never heard about virii. A condom is something strange. Maybe 'better not use it' and rely on age-old techniques. They don't realise that it is not because they cannot understand it (completely) that the effect isn't real. (no flaming at third world intended, just an analogy)
Incremental costs of running them must be a bargain. Great to see how well these things were made.
Well, it's not that they would be getting them back for repair, is it? Probably the cost will be mostly personnel looking at the pictures and pressing buttons. The article is somewhat vague on this.
The question isn't whether it's good to keep both cool. The question is, which makes more financial sense? Cooling the whole room? Spending the money to purchase servers with a low heat-to-computation ratio?
In that case, I would say: cool the room. The room is forever (on this timescale), the servers maybe change every 5 years. Of course, start by NOT choosing the hottest server too, but I would invest in the room.
Also I don't expect room cooling techniques to improve significantly in the next few years. Servers hopefully will.
And in that regard, the fact that their agents are such able individuals is really just sad: think of what they might accomplish if only they were not busy hatching plans to penetrate my tinfoil hat?
In that case they would probably be called nerds and be hatching plans to hack the FBI...
To you and other replies making fun of him, IMHO parent was right.
Maybe in this case, where you can download the source etc, his suspicion was unnecessary, but the reason why people ever get in security problems is exactly by _not_ thinking like him. Especially in this case: I would NEVER let my password leak out in such a foolish way as letting it be generated by an (unchecked) on-line source. Best way to let someone else know your password before you even do.
Right On Jon! I already paid for the DVD I don't see why I should be forced to sit though adverts after that.
Yes and no: you also pay for a magazine, and have to look for the content you WANT in between the advertisemements. Admitted, you aren't FORCED to look at the advertisements, but still...
Would the price of DVDs go up it they had no advertisements (in case of magazines: definitely). Would you be prepared to pay more?
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You can still threaten them with being outsourced...
Compare it to child pornography. No reasonable man would lend his children for something like that too. But when you have more children than money, maybe people tend to become unreasonable.
As someone else pointed out before, this isn't the first time for the BBC. And I agree with the GP. It is newsworthy to know there is a new series, maybe even that the actor will only participate for one season. But are these apologies relevant news? They guy IS still leaving afaik.
you will be afterwards.
How, 'may or may not be true'. You saw the bits, didn't you?!? Clearly this is true!
Easy enough, '42' for example. Or this thing about 'the Force'... or the One or something. Or was it... whatever... getting mixed up here. Now for something completely different. d'OH.
"see, this is what happens when you outsource"
One down, zillions of (-1: Redundant) to go.
Does this also mean: no swap?
Where I work (ehm...) at the univ all PCs are on at night such that others can log in remotely if they need to do distribute their load. And then there are some dedicated number crunching machines. I am not sure if it is appreciated to run SETI-at-home-stuff etc.
Yes, but IIRC that story is set in the future. So I can sue him too...
Because someone would copy it and call it Banana OS?
Time to patent my own stuff:
Prior art: none
Description: generic device that makes people happy, feel good, have a good sex life, be smarter, stronger and have any benefit anyone could ever have hoped for.
Technology: any current existing or nonexisting, imaginable or unimaginable, human, extraterrestrial, extraplanar outsider or other.
Goal: SUE!!!
The main challenge is, not surprisingly, the weight. One of the trade-offs we were faced with was wether to do signal processing on the plane (requiring more CPU), or on the ground (requiring more link capacity). Another problem is that, because it is so small, it is very prone to wind, vibrations etc which have to be taken into account when post-processing
Because war is about killing people and spacetravel is not. (although I agree with your point, which has been raised on /. more than once)
Those foul cocain-junkie astronauts!
When I was young, I had a severe DNS poisoning at school, and the teacher allowed me to go home.
Exactly because people are afraid. They don't want to be 'behind', or asking 'stupid questions'. Also, they don't realise it's not 'all just a game', but this computing stuff is real. The stolen money when they obtain your CC number is real. Not everyone realises this.
Compare it to the use of condoms in third-world countries. People maybe never heard about virii. A condom is something strange. Maybe 'better not use it' and rely on age-old techniques. They don't realise that it is not because they cannot understand it (completely) that the effect isn't real. (no flaming at third world intended, just an analogy)
Well, it's not that they would be getting them back for repair, is it? Probably the cost will be mostly personnel looking at the pictures and pressing buttons. The article is somewhat vague on this.
In that case, I would say: cool the room. The room is forever (on this timescale), the servers maybe change every 5 years. Of course, start by NOT choosing the hottest server too, but I would invest in the room.
Also I don't expect room cooling techniques to improve significantly in the next few years. Servers hopefully will.
More specifically: from the previous story.
(I know, it's irony)
Silicosis: the decrease in lung capacity as a result of excessive pressure due to silicone implants.
In that case they would probably be called nerds and be hatching plans to hack the FBI...
Maybe in this case, where you can download the source etc, his suspicion was unnecessary, but the reason why people ever get in security problems is exactly by _not_ thinking like him. Especially in this case: I would NEVER let my password leak out in such a foolish way as letting it be generated by an (unchecked) on-line source. Best way to let someone else know your password before you even do.
Maybe not
1) if he fails at univm that's not going to do him any good
2) now he's the guy who quit school because 'the industry bought him'
Who is going to like him more because he has a university degree?
Yes and no: you also pay for a magazine, and have to look for the content you WANT in between the advertisemements. Admitted, you aren't FORCED to look at the advertisements, but still...
Would the price of DVDs go up it they had no advertisements (in case of magazines: definitely). Would you be prepared to pay more?