This reminds me of when I took my A+ certs back in the 90's when you still had to memorize the acroynyms and what they stood like PCI, ISA, SCSI, and EISA,that other properietary standard IBM used (that I can't remember even the acronym...I remember what they looked like... those special blue slot cards), and maybe a dozen other legacy technology names and things.
I read a lot about it in Byte, but I never actually say a machine with one in.
But yet during my job at any place... Anywhere... No one ever questioned about what the actual acronym but rather what the difference was... As in... PCI was the new faster standard on ATX motherboards and ISA was the long black slots for older systems (even though you couldn't buy a new computer at that point without both).
These days I can't remember any of them except International Standards Association and I'm assuming EISA is Enchandced? (I even kept an EISA card around to show off to people).
So I think people don't really need to remember what the acronym really says, but what the technology does, because otherwise its a waste of space in your brain in 5 years when the technology is no longer in use.
IANALA (I am *not* a language analyst) but I'm pretty sure that since as long as language exists those who have the ability to make up new words or to grasp the meaning of a new word without a lot of explanation belonged to the smarter segment of the population. The faster our development becomes the more important these skills are. We've now reached a point in time where it won't be long before the rate of development has become so great that it is possible for two people to no longer be able to communicate with each other even though they share a common language due to this vocabulary development gap.
If you don't believe that try to decipher an SMS message sent by one 13 year old to another:)
So that would make Mark Foley some kind of genius.
Windows XP Professional will have security updates until 2013 - 2016. I.e. another 7-10 years.
from http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060103-5891 .html Mainstream and Extended support are virtually identical, with both carrying security updates, service packs, online support, and the availability of paid support. However, the transition to the Extended Support phase means that hotfixes that are not security related will be made available by a (paid) commercial contract, warranty claims can no longer be made, and Microsoft will not entertain adding any new features or design elements to the OS.
Based on the current timeline and our own expectations for the launch of Windows Vista, we estimate Windows XP Professional Mainstream Support ending in late December 2008, with Extended Support ending in December of 2013. It could stretch out longer, but we don't expect the window to be more than two to three additional years. After the Extended Support phase is finished, online support (knowledge base, FAQ, etc.) will continue for 10 years.
I reckon Windows 2000 will get security updates for a fair while yet, since virtually all big companies seem to still use it. Of course, if you run behind a firewall with antivirus software and Internet Explorer locked down with Group Policy and users running with no admin privileges the way most big companies do, security updates are less of an issue.
Your faith in George Lucas is your greatest weakness. He has long served the Dark Side. Look at your lunchboxes and action figures. Are they the work of a master filmaker? Don't you feel the hate swelling inside you?
I see you looking the the Episode I-VI: Special Edition Anamorphic DVD Edition in the limited edition Jar Jar binks shaped titanium collectors box on Amazon. Take out your Return of the Jedi credit card and buy it!
> How long was the procedure? You know, the one where they surgically removed your sense of humor.
I don't think it's possible to surgically remove a sense of humour. A person's sense of humour is spread of a large volume of brain matter, shared with many other vital functions. It's very unlikely that a subject would even survive such an operation. Since the American Handbook of Neurosurgery contains no approved procedures, it would be hard for the surgeon to obtain malpractice insurance. Indeed attempting a non approved procedure has been held by the courts to constiute de jure malpractice on every occasion that Health Care Providers have unwisely elected to allow the matter to reach them.
Your post is highly illogical, asking a non neurosurgeon the duration of an impossible surgical procedure. Perhaps you should read Wikipedia on the basics of a discipline, rather than attempting to learn about by asking about fundamentally flawed questions on an inappropriate forum, such as this.
>> lots of highly unenlightened Earth societies did develop them (Russians, Chinese) > Wow. Just wow.
What are you wowing about. Both the Russians and the Chinese were ruled by governments that killed tens of millions of their own civilians in peacetime, and invaded their neighbours to spread the regime. If that's not unenlightened, I don't know what is.
>> American empire > Here we go.
You realise that I'm saying that a transition from a republic to an empire is a bad thing, comparable to the transition from Weimar to the Nazis, right? Or do you just flame bad word combinations without bothering to check their context.
>> development in the US that went from V2s to ICBMs in a few years >Absolutely the best, of course....
Actually, at the "going from V2 to functional ICBM system" benchmark, the US is absolutely the best. Faster than the Russians or Chinese, and even if the North Korean tested an ICBM tomorrow, it would still have taken them 6x as long as the US did.
> You are very lucky that arrogance and stupidity don't hurt.
You what? Since I'm not American, how can claiming that America is better than some slave state be arrogance?
Children torment animals with sticks or stones, which aren't a particularly efficient tool for children to wipe huge numbers of other children out in a very short timescale.
Yeah, but from they're very advanced technologically and intellectually compared to the the ants. I'm just making the point that advanced != enlightened.
Consider Klingons[0] - technology and tempers like theirs simply don't mix; within minutes of any form of nuclear weapons existing on their planet, someone would have spilled someone's kha'la'xian[1] hyper-ale and they'd have blasted themselves to extinction.
Must say I agree with that. Klingons don't seem to be plausible as a technologically advanced culture for the reasons you say. Like all the StarTrek aliens, they are also far too homogenous, to they point that they are a cliche.
But with regards to Nuclear weapons, lots of highly unenlightened Earth societies did develop them (Russians, Chinese) or could have (Nazis). They were fairly vicious to undesirables inside the country, and to neighbouring countries, but they weren't as anarchic as the Klingons. But you'd be in deep shit if the aliens you contacted were anything like any of those cultures.
And even if developing technology requires some level of civilisation, it's possible that an uncivilised culture could take over and inherit the technology, like the Romans did with the Greeks, or a hypothetical American Empire could do to the American Republic. Sure they'd be somewhat stagnant, but they'd still retain the technology they inherited. In fact, I think you could make a strong argument that the Nazis were an example of inheriting technology from a more civilised democratic era - when you read about how science was in WWII under the Nazis (e.g. banning 'Jewish physics', funding expeditions to prove crazy racial theories as fact), it seems as if it would have probably stagnated if they won.
Come to think of it, if they had won, they would probably have ended up as a sort of 21st Century Roman empire, with Russian and Polish slaves toiling away for German masters, and that is a social system which is pretty much guaranteed to produce technological stagnation. But if they'd have got to the nuclear stage, all that wouldn't have mattered, since they would have the ability to deter conflict with say the US, and that sort of conflict was probably the only thing which would have threatened the regime.
Interestingly enough, when I was in Germany, someone made the same point about North Korea. He said that the Germans build V2 rockets in a few months in WWII whilst the country was being bombed to bits, but 60 years of research and development in North Korea in peacetime, funded by presumably huge sums of money, had only managed to improve Scud range marginally compared to the V2. If you compare it to the development in the US that went from V2s to ICBMs in a few years, it's almost comically slow.
Why are you stuck posting at -1 BTW?
There isn't any moderation on any of your posts as far as I can see, and none of them seem to be particularly rude or offensive. What happened? Are you a victim of oppression?
Jules Tell me about the piracy situation in Stockholm. It's legal there ain't it? Vincent: Well it's legal but it ain't 100% legal. But that don't matter because if they log your IP address connected to a tracker it's illegal for them to search your aprtment. In Stockholm that's a right the cops don't have. Jules: That's all there is to it. I'm fuckin' goin'. Vincent:I know, baby. You'd dig it the most.
"I thought we had what we needed without conducting a search. It is not permitted to carry out a search for this type of crime", she adds.
A raid on the defendant's home would have meant a thorough examination of the contents of his computer.
This ruling will make it difficult for the film industry and other interest groups to pursue the issue in the courts.
Yeah, sure, maybe FTL could happen -- but as things stand, there's no reason to believe it. And I don't. Current physics says it's impossible (read the fine print from those who suggest otherwise), and there's simply no reason to expect that to change. It's nothing but wishful thinking, and a plot device.
With the Alcubierre stuff, I agree. But Krasnikov tubes for example just sound like a really big engineering problem.
I think it's equally silly to project the barbarisms of our own past (and sometimes present) onto a more technologically advanced alien culture. Culture and technology develop in tandem; while I'd be foolish to say that it was a lock step, or that I know how an alien society would develop, I just don't buy the idea of a huge moral gap. The more advanced your technology, the more potential for self-destruction; the more potential for self-destruction, the more self-restraint you have to employ. Hotheaded cultures wouldn't make it to the stars.
Now that really is wishful thinking. Children don't have any reason to torment animals, and yet they do. If ants were conscious and hadn't met any children they'd likely make the same sort of arguments you make about more advanced creatures likely being more englightened.
In fact it reminds me of Mars Attacks. The smug intellectual Pierce Brosnan character says something similar. The joke being that the martians don't seem to have any reason for attacking, except for a sick sense of humour. And the rabid general who seems like a liability at the start turns out to have been spot on all along.
How do you know there's no FTL? Maybe with a bit more advanced physics and a lot more advanced engineering it could be done. Maybe someone did it a log time ago, and spacefaring imperialistic civilisations can use their prebuilt system, or maybe something like an Alcubierre drive can be built to allow them to travel anywhere. And maybe the aliens are at the conquistador stage and have some economic/religious justification for imperialism, just like the conquistadors did. Or maybe they're at the V phase where a military government has a bunch of ships left over from wars and needs a new enemy to justify it's monopoly on power. Hell, maybe they're something like the 21st Century US phase, where the military has a bunch of hardware, and needs new enemies to avoid funding cuts, and the politicians have some benign but impractical ideas about spreading their political system to the universe.
And in any case, imperialism is never rational for a whole society. But it may be rational for the individuals who get the state funds for the conquest, and a privileged place back home when it's complete.
But we're talking about aliens so making assumptions about their reaction to discovering a less advanced culture is dangerous. By definition, their culture is possibly very different to ours. Still, even if they are very like us, human history has many examples of less advanced cultures being obliterated by their first contact with more advanced ones.
Seems to me, sitting on a small planet and part of a relatively young and relatively enlightened civilisation, it's just not a very good idea to assume that you know anything about what's around in the rest of the universe. Or for that matter the rest of the planet.
Which makes me wonder why. I mean, we don't start discussing whether Santa Claus exists every time a Christmas related story pops up, why do we talk about creationism?
Because if you cast doubt on the existence of Santa, he won't bring you an iPod.
If your hard disk doesn't have enough bandwidth a ram buffer won't help, you'll still have the same sustained write speed limitation. A ram buffer would help if you needed to handle high burst rates but a low average bandwidth. But if you stream with a higher bit rate than the drive can keep up with it doesn't.
Typical SATA drives top out at 100MBytes/sec, or 1Gbit/sec. There's a long way from that to 1.4Tbit's sec. Even capturing one of the 111Gbit/sec channels would require an implausibly large RAID array. And capturing the data is the first stage toward piracy.
And I'm not suggesting that you bloat video, more that you devise some new entertainment medium that's inherently high bandwidth, holograms being a possible option.
Yeah, I know. But it still gives me an excuse to make the point that storage speeds may well lag behind communications speeds in the near future. You can see it a bit now, since most machines with Gigabit Ethernet would struggle to handle a sustained read or write at one Gigabit. That's no problem of course, since the network should be fast enough to handle all the machines on a segment talking as fast as they can. But it is a new phenomenon, since local storage has been higher bandwidth than remote on every system I've ever used. And it will continue in the future I think, since there's probably no hard limit on the speed you can push bits down a bundle of fibres in the near future - it's always possible to add more fibres, or more wavengths or smarter modulation, whereas hard disk speeds seem to be levelling off.
And if you're a telco, you can buy some very expensive system to keep those fibres busy, but 99% of home PCs won't be able to store them. Which changes the power balance somewhat.
That's an interesting idea. Let's suppose that you're a big studio, worried about piracy.
One solution would be to find some compelling use of ultra high bandwidth, streaming connections. Holograms would be possible - I can imagine a room sized, full motion hologram with no compression at all would require absolutely enormous bandwidth. And the great thing is, even if someone cracked the DRM it would require vastly expensive and presumably illegal hardware to store it.
But the illegal part doesn't really help you in the long run. The fact that the components are very expensive and piracy would be highly user unfriendly would though.
A link that fast wouldn't help you. There isn't enough seed bandwidth on TPB to give you 14Tbits/sec, nor is there the backbone bandwidth. And you'd need a hell of a RAID subsystem to manage handle writing at 14Tbits/sec sustained.
I don't normally complain to people like you about your ugly, pretentious neologisms, but 'sticky eyeballs' reminds of that scene in Temple of Doom.
You don't need to say 'monetize the sticky eyeballs with dynamic, microtargeted ad units either'. It makes your painful simple idea, that of advertising on a popular website to make money, seem a bit less simple, but why bother? Sometimes a simple business model is a good one, and more complex ones turned out to be flawed.
First they came for the theologians, and I said nothing because I am not a theologian.
Then they came for the astrologers, and I said nothing because I was not an astrologer.
Then they came for the business process consultants, and I said nothing because I hate those smug fuckers.
Now they are coming for the software refactoring consultants, and there is no one left to speak up for me. Christ, I might have to get a real job with deadlines. I might have to produce something.
I think I speak for everyone here when I say that useless, pretentious, pseudoscientific professions should be protected.
(I can't count how many times I've changed the langauge, switched the window, then started typing only to find that Windows is using the previously selected language)
E.g.
Start with Process A. Change the language in Process A to 2, switch to Process B. Process B should have whatever language it had before.
This behaviour, the one that annoys you, is by design, because each process has its own locale.
Works with all the stuff I've used, on all the machines, so it's unlikely to be a windows bug.
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This reminds me of when I took my A+ certs back in the 90's when you still had to memorize the acroynyms and what they stood like PCI, ISA, SCSI, and EISA,that other properietary standard IBM used (that I can't remember even the acronym...I remember what they looked like... those special blue slot cards), and maybe a dozen other legacy technology names and things.
Micro Channel Architecture (MCA)
I read a lot about it in Byte, but I never actually say a machine with one in.
But yet during my job at any place... Anywhere... No one ever questioned about what the actual acronym but rather what the difference was... As in... PCI was the new faster standard on ATX motherboards and ISA was the long black slots for older systems (even though you couldn't buy a new computer at that point without both).
These days I can't remember any of them except International Standards Association and I'm assuming EISA is Enchandced? (I even kept an EISA card around to show off to people).
Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) and Extended Industry Standard Archiecture
So I think people don't really need to remember what the acronym really says, but what the technology does, because otherwise its a waste of space in your brain in 5 years when the technology is no longer in use.
Actually it's more like 20 years. D'oh.
IANALA (I am *not* a language analyst) but I'm pretty sure that since as long as language exists those who have the ability to make up new words or to grasp the meaning of a new word without a lot of explanation belonged to the smarter segment of the population. The faster our development becomes the more important these skills are. We've now reached a point in time where it won't be long before the rate of development has become so great that it is possible for two people to no longer be able to communicate with each other even though they share a common language due to this vocabulary development gap.
:)
If you don't believe that try to decipher an SMS message sent by one 13 year old to another
So that would make Mark Foley some kind of genius.
Windows XP Professional will have security updates until 2013 - 2016. I.e. another 7-10 years.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060103-589
Mainstream and Extended support are virtually identical, with both carrying security updates, service packs, online support, and the availability of paid support. However, the transition to the Extended Support phase means that hotfixes that are not security related will be made available by a (paid) commercial contract, warranty claims can no longer be made, and Microsoft will not entertain adding any new features or design elements to the OS.
Based on the current timeline and our own expectations for the launch of Windows Vista, we estimate Windows XP Professional Mainstream Support ending in late December 2008, with Extended Support ending in December of 2013. It could stretch out longer, but we don't expect the window to be more than two to three additional years. After the Extended Support phase is finished, online support (knowledge base, FAQ, etc.) will continue for 10 years.
I reckon Windows 2000 will get security updates for a fair while yet, since virtually all big companies seem to still use it. Of course, if you run behind a firewall with antivirus software and Internet Explorer locked down with Group Policy and users running with no admin privileges the way most big companies do, security updates are less of an issue.
Your faith in George Lucas is your greatest weakness. He has long served the Dark Side. Look at your lunchboxes and action figures. Are they the work of a master filmaker? Don't you feel the hate swelling inside you?
I see you looking the the Episode I-VI: Special Edition Anamorphic DVD Edition in the limited edition Jar Jar binks shaped titanium collectors box on Amazon. Take out your Return of the Jedi credit card and buy it!
I dunno, Howard the Duck had better acting from Lea Thompson and Jeffrey Jones than anything in Episode 1-3.
Search your feelings. You know it to be true.
> How long was the procedure? You know, the one where they surgically removed your sense of humor.
I don't think it's possible to surgically remove a sense of humour. A person's sense of humour is spread of a large volume of brain matter, shared with many other vital functions. It's very unlikely that a subject would even survive such an operation. Since the American Handbook of Neurosurgery contains no approved procedures, it would be hard for the surgeon to obtain malpractice insurance. Indeed attempting a non approved procedure has been held by the courts to constiute de jure malpractice on every occasion that Health Care Providers have unwisely elected to allow the matter to reach them.
Your post is highly illogical, asking a non neurosurgeon the duration of an impossible surgical procedure. Perhaps you should read Wikipedia on the basics of a discipline, rather than attempting to learn about by asking about fundamentally flawed questions on an inappropriate forum, such as this.
>> lots of highly unenlightened Earth societies did develop them (Russians, Chinese)
...
> Wow. Just wow.
What are you wowing about. Both the Russians and the Chinese were ruled by governments that killed tens of millions of their own civilians in peacetime, and invaded their neighbours to spread the regime. If that's not unenlightened, I don't know what is.
>> American empire
> Here we go.
You realise that I'm saying that a transition from a republic to an empire is a bad thing, comparable to the transition from Weimar to the Nazis, right? Or do you just flame bad word combinations without bothering to check their context.
>> development in the US that went from V2s to ICBMs in a few years
>Absolutely the best, of course.
Actually, at the "going from V2 to functional ICBM system" benchmark, the US is absolutely the best. Faster than the Russians or Chinese, and even if the North Korean tested an ICBM tomorrow, it would still have taken them 6x as long as the US did.
> You are very lucky that arrogance and stupidity don't hurt.
You what? Since I'm not American, how can claiming that America is better than some slave state be arrogance?
I don't mean to worry the Democrats, but being launched into orbit with a railgun is on Alberto Gonzales latest list of things-that-are-not-torture.
Children torment animals with sticks or stones, which aren't a particularly efficient tool for children to wipe huge numbers of other children out in a very short timescale.
Yeah, but from they're very advanced technologically and intellectually compared to the the ants. I'm just making the point that advanced != enlightened.
Consider Klingons[0] - technology and tempers like theirs simply don't mix; within minutes of any form of nuclear weapons existing on their planet, someone would have spilled someone's kha'la'xian[1] hyper-ale and they'd have blasted themselves to extinction.
Must say I agree with that. Klingons don't seem to be plausible as a technologically advanced culture for the reasons you say. Like all the StarTrek aliens, they are also far too homogenous, to they point that they are a cliche.
But with regards to Nuclear weapons, lots of highly unenlightened Earth societies did develop them (Russians, Chinese) or could have (Nazis). They were fairly vicious to undesirables inside the country, and to neighbouring countries, but they weren't as anarchic as the Klingons. But you'd be in deep shit if the aliens you contacted were anything like any of those cultures.
And even if developing technology requires some level of civilisation, it's possible that an uncivilised culture could take over and inherit the technology, like the Romans did with the Greeks, or a hypothetical American Empire could do to the American Republic. Sure they'd be somewhat stagnant, but they'd still retain the technology they inherited. In fact, I think you could make a strong argument that the Nazis were an example of inheriting technology from a more civilised democratic era - when you read about how science was in WWII under the Nazis (e.g. banning 'Jewish physics', funding expeditions to prove crazy racial theories as fact), it seems as if it would have probably stagnated if they won.
Come to think of it, if they had won, they would probably have ended up as a sort of 21st Century Roman empire, with Russian and Polish slaves toiling away for German masters, and that is a social system which is pretty much guaranteed to produce technological stagnation. But if they'd have got to the nuclear stage, all that wouldn't have mattered, since they would have the ability to deter conflict with say the US, and that sort of conflict was probably the only thing which would have threatened the regime.
Interestingly enough, when I was in Germany, someone made the same point about North Korea. He said that the Germans build V2 rockets in a few months in WWII whilst the country was being bombed to bits, but 60 years of research and development in North Korea in peacetime, funded by presumably huge sums of money, had only managed to improve Scud range marginally compared to the V2. If you compare it to the development in the US that went from V2s to ICBMs in a few years, it's almost comically slow.
Why are you stuck posting at -1 BTW?
There isn't any moderation on any of your posts as far as I can see, and none of them seem to be particularly rude or offensive. What happened? Are you a victim of oppression?
Mods: Please mod parent up "+1 Underrated"
So any C NULL pointer value will do find then?
Jules Tell me about the piracy situation in Stockholm. It's legal there ain't it?
Vincent: Well it's legal but it ain't 100% legal. But that don't matter because if they log your IP address connected to a tracker it's illegal for them to search your aprtment. In Stockholm that's a right the cops don't have.
Jules: That's all there is to it. I'm fuckin' goin'.
Vincent:I know, baby. You'd dig it the most.
"I thought we had what we needed without conducting a search. It is not permitted to carry out a search for this type of crime", she adds.
A raid on the defendant's home would have meant a thorough examination of the contents of his computer.
This ruling will make it difficult for the film industry and other interest groups to pursue the issue in the courts.
Yeah, sure, maybe FTL could happen -- but as things stand, there's no reason to believe it. And I don't. Current physics says it's impossible (read the fine print from those who suggest otherwise), and there's simply no reason to expect that to change. It's nothing but wishful thinking, and a plot device.
With the Alcubierre stuff, I agree. But Krasnikov tubes for example just sound like a really big engineering problem.
I think it's equally silly to project the barbarisms of our own past (and sometimes present) onto a more technologically advanced alien culture. Culture and technology develop in tandem; while I'd be foolish to say that it was a lock step, or that I know how an alien society would develop, I just don't buy the idea of a huge moral gap. The more advanced your technology, the more potential for self-destruction; the more potential for self-destruction, the more self-restraint you have to employ. Hotheaded cultures wouldn't make it to the stars.
Now that really is wishful thinking. Children don't have any reason to torment animals, and yet they do. If ants were conscious and hadn't met any children they'd likely make the same sort of arguments you make about more advanced creatures likely being more englightened.
In fact it reminds me of Mars Attacks. The smug intellectual Pierce Brosnan character says something similar. The joke being that the martians don't seem to have any reason for attacking, except for a sick sense of humour. And the rabid general who seems like a liability at the start turns out to have been spot on all along.
Liberals! Intellectuals! Peacemongers! IDIOTS!
How do you know there's no FTL? Maybe with a bit more advanced physics and a lot more advanced engineering it could be done. Maybe someone did it a log time ago, and spacefaring imperialistic civilisations can use their prebuilt system, or maybe something like an Alcubierre drive can be built to allow them to travel anywhere. And maybe the aliens are at the conquistador stage and have some economic/religious justification for imperialism, just like the conquistadors did. Or maybe they're at the V phase where a military government has a bunch of ships left over from wars and needs a new enemy to justify it's monopoly on power. Hell, maybe they're something like the 21st Century US phase, where the military has a bunch of hardware, and needs new enemies to avoid funding cuts, and the politicians have some benign but impractical ideas about spreading their political system to the universe.
And in any case, imperialism is never rational for a whole society. But it may be rational for the individuals who get the state funds for the conquest, and a privileged place back home when it's complete.
But we're talking about aliens so making assumptions about their reaction to discovering a less advanced culture is dangerous. By definition, their culture is possibly very different to ours. Still, even if they are very like us, human history has many examples of less advanced cultures being obliterated by their first contact with more advanced ones.
Seems to me, sitting on a small planet and part of a relatively young and relatively enlightened civilisation, it's just not a very good idea to assume that you know anything about what's around in the rest of the universe. Or for that matter the rest of the planet.
It worked pretty well for the Aztecs, American Indians, Amazonian tribes, etc.
The security through obscurity analogy fails completely if the people that discover you are only interested in robbery, enslavement or genocide.
Which makes me wonder why. I mean, we don't start discussing whether Santa Claus exists every time a Christmas related story pops up, why do we talk about creationism?
Because if you cast doubt on the existence of Santa, he won't bring you an iPod.
If your hard disk doesn't have enough bandwidth a ram buffer won't help, you'll still have the same sustained write speed limitation. A ram buffer would help if you needed to handle high burst rates but a low average bandwidth. But if you stream with a higher bit rate than the drive can keep up with it doesn't.
Typical SATA drives top out at 100MBytes/sec, or 1Gbit/sec. There's a long way from that to 1.4Tbit's sec. Even capturing one of the 111Gbit/sec channels would require an implausibly large RAID array. And capturing the data is the first stage toward piracy.
And I'm not suggesting that you bloat video, more that you devise some new entertainment medium that's inherently high bandwidth, holograms being a possible option.
Yeah, I know. But it still gives me an excuse to make the point that storage speeds may well lag behind communications speeds in the near future. You can see it a bit now, since most machines with Gigabit Ethernet would struggle to handle a sustained read or write at one Gigabit. That's no problem of course, since the network should be fast enough to handle all the machines on a segment talking as fast as they can. But it is a new phenomenon, since local storage has been higher bandwidth than remote on every system I've ever used. And it will continue in the future I think, since there's probably no hard limit on the speed you can push bits down a bundle of fibres in the near future - it's always possible to add more fibres, or more wavengths or smarter modulation, whereas hard disk speeds seem to be levelling off.
And if you're a telco, you can buy some very expensive system to keep those fibres busy, but 99% of home PCs won't be able to store them. Which changes the power balance somewhat.
That's an interesting idea. Let's suppose that you're a big studio, worried about piracy.
One solution would be to find some compelling use of ultra high bandwidth, streaming connections. Holograms would be possible - I can imagine a room sized, full motion hologram with no compression at all would require absolutely enormous bandwidth. And the great thing is, even if someone cracked the DRM it would require vastly expensive and presumably illegal hardware to store it.
But the illegal part doesn't really help you in the long run. The fact that the components are very expensive and piracy would be highly user unfriendly would though.
A link that fast wouldn't help you. There isn't enough seed bandwidth on TPB to give you 14Tbits/sec, nor is there the backbone bandwidth. And you'd need a hell of a RAID subsystem to manage handle writing at 14Tbits/sec sustained.
I think you'll find it's moose that argue stubbornly.
Check out this Wikipedia article.
Now you have been proved wrong in front of the whole Internet.
I don't normally complain to people like you about your ugly, pretentious neologisms, but 'sticky eyeballs' reminds of that scene in Temple of Doom.
You don't need to say 'monetize the sticky eyeballs with dynamic, microtargeted ad units either'. It makes your painful simple idea, that of advertising on a popular website to make money, seem a bit less simple, but why bother? Sometimes a simple business model is a good one, and more complex ones turned out to be flawed.
I don't mean to worry you, but these are not the correct answers to the interview questions posted.
Can they work with people?
I never killed a coworker. You can't do much damage with a cheap keyboard, no matter how hard you swing it.
You have Dells, right? No problem. Wow, I aced this one.
Can they dress well?
Most days, I can pull on a pair of pants and grab a T shirt off the floor as I walk out the door. I find I'm more productive barefoot.
Do they shower?
Once I got pretty wet cycling to the office on my BMX.
Are they capable of staying after normal work hours every now and then to see to something getting finished?
I'll stay till noon if I was too busy to get the work done at night.
Are they sensitive to other people and their surroundings?
You bet I'm sensitive. Hell, ask my ex boss. I'd have called him for a reference if it wasn't for the court order.
First they came for the theologians, and I said nothing because I am not a theologian.
Then they came for the astrologers, and I said nothing because I was not an astrologer.
Then they came for the business process consultants, and I said nothing because I hate those smug fuckers.
Now they are coming for the software refactoring consultants, and there is no one left to speak up for me. Christ, I might have to get a real job with deadlines. I might have to produce something.
I think I speak for everyone here when I say that useless, pretentious, pseudoscientific professions should be protected.
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(I can't count how many times I've changed the langauge, switched the window, then started typing only to find that Windows is using the previously selected language)
E.g.
Start with Process A. Change the language in Process A to 2, switch to Process B. Process B should have whatever language it had before.
This behaviour, the one that annoys you, is by design, because each process has its own locale.
Works with all the stuff I've used, on all the machines, so it's unlikely to be a windows bug.
Never tried Open Office though.