based on 1GB/sec * ((3600 * 24) * 31) means over 2.5 Petabytes.
Wow.
Something like 3000 of the current ITB drives.
How long until Exabyte level storage is required for some project or another?
I am not surprised at the quantity of anti-Chavez invective from the republi-trolls that seem to infest slashdot now. Regurgitating US propaganda as fact.
One or two points.
Venezuela is a Democracy. They have elections every so often so the people get to decide who gets to run the place. They have decided that they prefer Chavez to the alternatives.
Chavez was democratically elected. And re-elected. Something like 60% of the populace want him as leader rather than the traditional oligarchies that used to run the place for their own benefit. They of course hate him for this. Almost all of the media in Venezeula are owned by the wealthy elite.
Chavez is not a communist. He is a socialist. There is a huge difference. His socialist view is that *all* of the people of Venezuela should have affordable healthcare, at very low cost, if not free. His socialist view is that *all* of the people should have low cost/free education. Ditto with affordable decent housing for all.
And he is well on the way to achieving these aims.
His policies are meant to benefit the whole country, and not just the wealthy elite oligarchies. So yes, Washington hates this, and him as a result. Washington is having conniptions with this because I suspect they are frightened that the rest of the world might look at this socialist, benefit the maximum number of the population thing, and think "Hey, maybe there is something in this." Affordable healthcare for all? Affordable Education for all? Affordable Housing for all? Why haven't we got this? This is why they have tried to back a coup to remove him from power, Against the democratically expressed wishes of majority of the country.
So, for trying to raise the standard of living of the population, he is automatically reviled and vilified. All this crap about spyware installed by the government on Linux, anti-Bush screensavers and the like is ignorant spite.
And one commenter compared him to Satan? More than one "hate his guts". I would be interested to know why exactly.
For those with an enquiring mind, there is a good book called "Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope" by Tariq Ali. It is about Chavez in Venezuela, Castro in Cuba and Morales in Bolivia. ISBN 978-1-84467-102-1. Published by Verso 2006. Read it and you may learn something.
Well then Sony, how would Japan react if you included Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in your game? Or a game mission involved the Yasukuni shrine? Or the Golden Temple of Amritsar? No wait, how about Resistance: Mission to Mecca? That'll be a good one to do. Think of the potential market in the Islamic world. Going to do that in the next version? Nah, didn't think so.
This is not about IP rights to the images of the building. This is not about freedom of expression for the game designers. This is not about the freedom of players being able to shoot the (virtual) shit out of alien nasties in whatever way seems most appropriate / effective / satisfying / amusing. This is not about censorship. This simply shows a sad lack or respect.
Sony's and the Developer's lack of respect. A complete lack of respect for an entire religion is a step up. Their rootkit fiasco only showed contempt for their customers.
Somehow I doubt that the Anglicans or Manchester citizens will be the only ones getting annoyed over this one. I suspect that this might be seized by the religious conservatives who don't like video games as something of a cause célèbre.
will be when someone figures out how to either join these fibres together, or grow a continuous nano-scale monofilament. Then we will really see what Arthur C was talking about.
The applications for "diamond" fibre are enormous.
as a starting point. These beasts are supposed to be fireproof / fire resistant, so they should protect the stuff inside, however, then there is the problem of internal heat build-up. There are peltier based coolers available designed to cool sealed boxes, but how they would cope with what sounds like a severe radiant heat source near by, who knows? You are also going to have serious problems keeping the cat-6 from melting which implies metal ducting insulated from the heat source as well. There are bound to be suppliers of extreme environment enclosures, try them for something suitable rather than re-inventing wheels.
Check out this blog for some of the weird and wonderful watches out there. Some of them costing 200K or more. (yes, two hundred thousand)
One of my favourites is the TAG Heuer V4, but I doubt I would be able to afford it.
Sigh.
A similar thing might well happen to analogue electronic engineers I suspect, with everything going digital these days. Why have a filter circuit composed of discrete components when you can program a DSP to do the same thing?
Or maybe not.
but those things are fast. From TFA 40+ GigaFlop! (Sandra 2007 Arithmetic Float) 61 Giga Integer ops (Sandra 2007 Arithmetic ALU) Wow. Seriously impressive, and that is coming from a longtime dedicated AMD fanboy.
The question is, do we need this much processing grunt? My current AMD64 3500 is only exercised when I play with Fractal Explorer or Games; It spends most of its life at
There is an interesting take on this regarding P2P and OSS here: http://soufron.typhon.net/spip.php?article150
Summary:
OSS bad
Fair use bad
Copying very bad
P2P very very bad
Penalties for same, insane.
Is it just me, or is the world going completely nuts? 5 years and 500 000 euros? Nuts.
The law hasn't changed to make it legal to copy your own music. It is just them saying that they won't enforce the law and sue you. Big difference. The weasel words are "music that you own." So borrowing a CD from a friend and ripping that is still a no-no. The record industry apparently feels it is essential to increase the copyright period from 50 to 95 years as well.
Thanks for the feedback guys. I shall have a look and experiment. Apart from the vi derivatives. I know I will end up as a smoking pair of boots for this, but I always thought that vi was short for Vile.
Medic!
Looks interesting, but does it fold?
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Acme for Windows
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· Score: 3, Interesting
This looks like it could be fun. Certainly a new and baroque method of blowing your own feet off. I have skimmed the pdf and this looks like a fun tool to play with.
On a vaguely related matter.. I have been looking for an editor that does folds.
If I have to scroll through hundreds or thousands of lines or code, I would love to be able to take a chunk of code that I am not interested in seeing right now and fold it out of sight, with an indicator that there is a fold in the text. Functions that has been tested, comment blocks etc etc. What else you could do with folded blocks (cut, copy...) ? Not really botherd, but I would still love an editor that let me fold. (I can do the spindle and mutilate just fine already)
I know the Occam development system for Transputers had an editor that folded but I have not seen one since.
Regarding the last one with an email: What if the password exists, but you don't have and were never in possession of them? How do you prove you never knew a password?
That is the question. Very difficult to prove.
I guess it is right along side if someone sends you some pedophile pictures and you delete them - how do you prove you never requested them and have nothing to do with them?
Again, very difficult to prove.
In this country if any paedophile images are found on your machine, that is it. The law does not consider the possibility that paedophile images could end up on your machine in innocent way at all. Received in error and deleted? You Are Going Down.
Sent mailiciously and deleted? You Are Going Down.
Appeared there via some trojan? You Are Going Down.
Never mind that you might have wandered onto a dodgy website and the images are in your browser cache? You Are Going Down.
No matter how they got there, You Are Going Down.
What if someone is totally innocent, has a bunch of different encryption programs and passphrases, and is raided by law enforcement.
What if they cannot recall every single passphrase? If they forget just one, are they going to jail until they can remember?
Potentially yes they are.
Think about that, I've got PCs sitting around from years back. I've used different password systems over time, and often I cannot remember very old passwords. If I were living in the UK and were to get raided (I have no reason to, I don't even download TV shows or have MP3, just OGGs of stuff I own, so move along), I'd be sitting in jail, I suppose.
You suppose right.
What if, because you cannot recall a password, you reformat a hard drive? Then they find the drive and want the password because they can recover the data?
You are SOL, unless you can prove your innocence.
That is one of the problems with this law. You have to prove that you are innocent and have forgotten your passphrase or key.
Kinda tricky.
What if someone send you an email with an encrypted content (whatever the method), and you don't legitimately have the means to decrypt it? Sounds like a great way to set up a suspected criminal. "Yes, we see you have several emails in your trash with encrypted contents. Tell us how to decrypt it or you're going to rot in jail."
See previous comments.
How about amnesia?
Prove it, or you are going to become a guest of Her Majesty's Government.
Then all a real criminal has to do is play ignorant.
And end up inside for a couple of years. Remember, you have to prove you are innocent. If you refuse to hand over the keys - automatic jail time. After that and they ask you again - Refuse again, back inside for another term.
If the keys did not exist, as per your example with dodgy e-mails, and obviously you couldn't hand the keys over - Jail time unless you can prove they didn't exist.
This is a particularly nasty bit of legislation.
You have to prove that you are innocent.
Forgotten your PGP passphrase, or other passwords?
Tough. That will be a jail sentence.
Still forgot it at the end of the sentence?
Back inside.
Rinse, repeat until you do remember it.
I think I will have to change my PGP passphrase to:
"the government are evil fascist bastards and the police are their willing servants"
Slashdot Mirror
.. a while back. here
Just 'cause M$ say it isn't covered by GPL3 doesn't necessarily make it true.
PJ has, as ever, done a thoughtful piece.
based on 1GB/sec * ((3600 * 24) * 31) means over 2.5 Petabytes.
Wow.
Something like 3000 of the current ITB drives.
How long until Exabyte level storage is required for some project or another?
I am not surprised at the quantity of anti-Chavez invective from the republi-trolls that seem to infest slashdot now. Regurgitating US propaganda as fact.
/free education.
One or two points.
Venezuela is a Democracy. They have elections every so often so the people get to decide who gets to run the place. They have decided that they prefer Chavez to the alternatives.
Chavez was democratically elected. And re-elected. Something like 60% of the populace want him as leader rather than the traditional oligarchies that used to run the place for their own benefit. They of course hate him for this. Almost all of the media in Venezeula are owned by the wealthy elite.
Chavez is not a communist. He is a socialist. There is a huge difference.
His socialist view is that *all* of the people of Venezuela should have affordable healthcare, at very low cost, if not free.
His socialist view is that *all* of the people should have low cost
Ditto with affordable decent housing for all.
And he is well on the way to achieving these aims.
His policies are meant to benefit the whole country, and not just the wealthy elite oligarchies.
So yes, Washington hates this, and him as a result.
Washington is having conniptions with this because I suspect they are frightened that the rest of the world might look at this socialist, benefit the maximum number of the population thing, and think "Hey, maybe there is something in this." Affordable healthcare for all? Affordable Education for all? Affordable Housing for all? Why haven't we got this?
This is why they have tried to back a coup to remove him from power, Against the democratically expressed wishes of majority of the country.
So, for trying to raise the standard of living of the population, he is automatically reviled and vilified. All this crap about spyware installed by the government on Linux, anti-Bush screensavers and the like is ignorant spite.
And one commenter compared him to Satan?
More than one "hate his guts".
I would be interested to know why exactly.
For those with an enquiring mind, there is a good book called "Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope" by Tariq Ali. It is about Chavez in Venezuela, Castro in Cuba and Morales in Bolivia. ISBN 978-1-84467-102-1. Published by Verso 2006. Read it and you may learn something.
Sigh. Bye bye karma.
Well then Sony, how would Japan react if you included Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in your game?
Or a game mission involved the Yasukuni shrine?
Or the Golden Temple of Amritsar?
No wait, how about Resistance: Mission to Mecca? That'll be a good one to do. Think of the potential market in the Islamic world.
Going to do that in the next version?
Nah, didn't think so.
This is not about IP rights to the images of the building. This is not about freedom of expression for the game designers. This is not about the freedom of players being able to shoot the (virtual) shit out of alien nasties in whatever way seems most appropriate / effective / satisfying / amusing. This is not about censorship. This simply shows a sad lack or respect.
Sony's and the Developer's lack of respect.
A complete lack of respect for an entire religion is a step up.
Their rootkit fiasco only showed contempt for their customers.
Somehow I doubt that the Anglicans or Manchester citizens will be the only ones getting annoyed over this one. I suspect that this might be seized by the religious conservatives who don't like video games as something of a cause célèbre.
Nice work Sony.
will be when someone figures out how to either join these fibres together, or grow a continuous nano-scale monofilament.
Then we will really see what Arthur C was talking about.
The applications for "diamond" fibre are enormous.
as a starting point. These beasts are supposed to be fireproof / fire resistant, so they should protect the stuff inside, however, then there is the problem of internal heat build-up.
There are peltier based coolers available designed to cool sealed boxes, but how they would cope with what sounds like a severe radiant heat source near by, who knows?
You are also going to have serious problems keeping the cat-6 from melting which implies metal ducting insulated from the heat source as well.
There are bound to be suppliers of extreme environment enclosures, try them for something suitable rather than re-inventing wheels.
Check out this blog for some of the weird and wonderful watches out there. Some of them costing 200K or more. (yes, two hundred thousand) One of my favourites is the TAG Heuer V4, but I doubt I would be able to afford it.
Sigh.
A similar thing might well happen to analogue electronic engineers I suspect, with everything going digital these days. Why have a filter circuit composed of discrete components when you can program a DSP to do the same thing?
Or maybe not.
but those things are fast.
From TFA
40+ GigaFlop! (Sandra 2007 Arithmetic Float)
61 Giga Integer ops (Sandra 2007 Arithmetic ALU)
Wow.
Seriously impressive, and that is coming from a longtime dedicated AMD fanboy.
The question is, do we need this much processing grunt? My current AMD64 3500 is only exercised when I play with Fractal Explorer or Games; It spends most of its life at
There is an interesting take on this regarding P2P and OSS here:
http://soufron.typhon.net/spip.php?article150
Summary:
OSS bad
Fair use bad
Copying very bad
P2P very very bad
Penalties for same, insane.
Is it just me, or is the world going completely nuts? 5 years and 500 000 euros? Nuts.
The law hasn't changed to make it legal to copy your own music. It is just them saying that they won't enforce the law and sue you.
Big difference.
The weasel words are "music that you own."
So borrowing a CD from a friend and ripping that is still a no-no.
The record industry apparently feels it is essential to increase the copyright period from 50 to 95 years as well.
The record industry hasn't changed.
Thanks for the feedback guys. I shall have a look and experiment.
Apart from the vi derivatives. I know I will end up as a smoking pair of boots for this, but I always thought that vi was short for Vile.
Medic!
This looks like it could be fun. Certainly a new and baroque method of blowing your own feet off. I have skimmed the pdf and this looks like a fun tool to play with.
On a vaguely related matter..
I have been looking for an editor that does folds.
If I have to scroll through hundreds or thousands of lines or code, I would love to be able to take a chunk of code that I am not interested in seeing right now and fold it out of sight, with an indicator that there is a fold in the text.
Functions that has been tested, comment blocks etc etc.
What else you could do with folded blocks (cut, copy...) ? Not really botherd, but I would still love an editor that let me fold. (I can do the spindle and mutilate just fine already)
I know the Occam development system for Transputers had an editor that folded but I have not seen one since.
Anyone?
Regarding the last one with an email: What if the password exists, but you don't have and were never in possession of them? How do you prove you never knew a password?
That is the question. Very difficult to prove.
I guess it is right along side if someone sends you some pedophile pictures and you delete them - how do you prove you never requested them and have nothing to do with them?
Again, very difficult to prove.
In this country if any paedophile images are found on your machine, that is it. The law does not consider the possibility that paedophile images could end up on your machine in innocent way at all.
Received in error and deleted? You Are Going Down.
Sent mailiciously and deleted? You Are Going Down.
Appeared there via some trojan? You Are Going Down.
Never mind that you might have wandered onto a dodgy website and the images are in your browser cache? You Are Going Down.
No matter how they got there, You Are Going Down.
What if someone is totally innocent, has a bunch of different encryption programs and passphrases, and is raided by law enforcement.
What if they cannot recall every single passphrase? If they forget just one, are they going to jail until they can remember?
Potentially yes they are.
Think about that, I've got PCs sitting around from years back. I've used different password systems over time, and often I cannot remember very old passwords. If I were living in the UK and were to get raided (I have no reason to, I don't even download TV shows or have MP3, just OGGs of stuff I own, so move along), I'd be sitting in jail, I suppose.
You suppose right.
What if, because you cannot recall a password, you reformat a hard drive? Then they find the drive and want the password because they can recover the data?
You are SOL, unless you can prove your innocence.
That is one of the problems with this law. You have to prove that you are innocent and have forgotten your passphrase or key.
Kinda tricky.
What if someone send you an email with an encrypted content (whatever the method), and you don't legitimately have the means to decrypt it? Sounds like a great way to set up a suspected criminal. "Yes, we see you have several emails in your trash with encrypted contents. Tell us how to decrypt it or you're going to rot in jail."
See previous comments.
How about amnesia?
Prove it, or you are going to become a guest of Her Majesty's Government.
Then all a real criminal has to do is play ignorant.
And end up inside for a couple of years. Remember, you have to prove you are innocent. If you refuse to hand over the keys - automatic jail time. After that and they ask you again - Refuse again, back inside for another term.
If the keys did not exist, as per your example with dodgy e-mails, and obviously you couldn't hand the keys over - Jail time unless you can prove they didn't exist.
This is a particularly nasty bit of legislation. You have to prove that you are innocent. Forgotten your PGP passphrase, or other passwords? Tough. That will be a jail sentence. Still forgot it at the end of the sentence? Back inside. Rinse, repeat until you do remember it. I think I will have to change my PGP passphrase to: "the government are evil fascist bastards and the police are their willing servants"
Try the BBC for the article and links to some video of the aftermath. (Real and wmv streams available)