Yeah, but their brain _architecture_ seems to be inferior in the sense that their culture was simpler than that of homo sapiens living at the same time. E.g. look at the burials they practiced, or the art they produced.
The BBC post a trollish article about someone who was busted for selling a XBox with _80_ illegally copied games on a hard disk, with the headline "Evil capitalists ban modding!!!11!" (i've parodied here to make a point). GP poster posts a rabid kneejerk reaction. I take the piss out of GP poster. And I'm a troll whereas the GP is +4 insightful.
So now, if you read and believe that evil capitalists are preventing poor hackers playing you can read at +1 and bask in the rabid kneejerk reactions without seeing anything that distracts from them. It's like the two minute hate for hackers.
And since most of the people that stay long enough to get mod points agree with the slashdot coventional wisdom the cycle reinforces itself.
Yeah, it's simple. Put a little bit of electronics in your brain, and the computer can send the commands over an unsecure wireless link. What could possibly go wrong.
It's not like people would spend their days trying to create a Subservient Bill website.
Jerry Ramsey of Audio Magic has been offering sound cable values at a variety of price points for years. His line includes a pure silver power cord priced at $69, confirming that he is as interested in offering cost-conscious products as he is those that push the envelope of power-line performance.
e.g. Salesman: "Are you rich err serious enough to push the envelope for $1500, or will you be forced to settle for a cost conscious pure silver cable for $69?. Ah I see you are one of our serious customers"
I understand that GNU\Speak, the GNU replacement for English will solve this problem, with words like Free and Free (they look the same here, because your browser only supports Unicode, not GNUnicode, which has extra diacritical marks and meta characters). All the documentation for Hurd will be written in it. In fact, you won't be able to use the incorrect words any more, Emacs will autocorrect them.
With what don't you agree concerning this book? Do you doubt that both the rich Saudis and the Bush family have investments in oil and weapons companies? Michael Moore's movie showed network footage of George W. Bush and a Saudi holding hands. Do you doubt that Bush holds hands with Saudis? Then read these articles from The Christian Science Monitor and CBS News. The Bush family calls one of the Saudis "Bandar Bush", and believes that he is their friend; that's completely untrue of course. Fifteen of the 18 attackers of the 9/11 bombings were Saudis, and some rich Saudis have supported al Qaeda.
They also supported the Taliban (along with the Pakistani SIS), and kicked the Americans out of Saudi Arabia before the Iraq invasion. They obviously shared an enemy in Saddam, and a common interest in the oil business, but it was always one of those pacts with the devil since they were also supporting fundamentalism all over the world. Which is now pretty much over, hopefully.
Unocal, and many other oil companies, want to build a pipeline across Afghanistan, because that is the shortest route from rich oil fields to Pakistan and the ocean, with the exception of through unsafe Iran. Do you doubt this?
No, but so what. Getting capitalism running properly in Afghanistan and Iraq is something that needs to be done. The fact that American companies get contracts isn't evidence of corruption.
I'm not saying that there isn't corruption inside the US - the relationship between Cheney and Haliburton is definitely too close for my tastes, but I haven't seen evidence that anything unethical has occured. And if Cheney's smart, he'll be careful - evidence of corruption would destroy him both politically and financially since the two are so tangled.
Only on slashdot would this get modded down. You're right, he expected that he could send a letter to the CEO and they would see the error of their ways. Unfortunately, he also mentioned that he had
I have also confirmed that the Harvester source code - which I, as a Senior Programmer, am authorized to access - includes Java code which collects lists of such vulnerable computers, called "open proxies," from web sites that maintain lists of them. I have also found the Java code which uses such proxies, without the permission of their owners, to connect to the sites that HMS harvests. The offending source code was written by Rob DiMarco, Tim McCune, and Jason Franklin.... Therefore, I cannot proceed with my current project, which has as its primary purpose facilitating the loading of harvested data into the Data Pump. And in order to protect myself from the repercussions of HMS's illegal and immoral activities, I am carefully considering my legal options, including notifying the appropriate authorities.
I.e, I may tell the police that you are breaking the law, and the proof will be the copy of the code I have.
Now if you're an unprincipled scum bag, do you back down and stop your illegal money making scheme and hope that Chip doesn't go to the police, or do you zap him with legal action? That's right,legal action
Note, I'm not saying it's right, just that Chip should have expected this sort of thing. Why the hell did he work with these people anyway, I'd have been more concerned that they would stiff me on my last invoice than that someone may manage to sue them in future, or tarnish my reputation.
Chip Salzenberg is fucked. You would be fucked if you tried to right off your little hidden system with that excuse, and you'd probably get charged for trying to interfere with the investigation and giving false information to the police if you used it.
Well said. Otoh, I sense that something very nasty happened to you to teach you how expensive and time consuming the legal system is once people get to stage of threatening law suits.
What can say. Chips's about to learn this for himself, poor bastard.
Many Americans don't want to know that their government has become corrupt, so you can expect hostile comments if you try to talk about corruption.
Many Michael Moore fans don't want to know that he's a lying bastard. So I'll expect hostile comments when I post this.
See, ad hominem attacks are not too helpful are they?
"Hey I'll just post my web page with my world view. If you agree then you're obviously a good person. If you disagree then it's because you don't want to know the truth, or have been paid off by big business, either way I don't need to listen to you"
My Firefox comes to a grinding halt on pdf docs. Or it least it has started to recently. Quicktime too.
Just use the Open In IE extension to open them there. Or ditch Firefox for CrazyBrowser or similar.Then you can have a browser with tabs and pop up blocking but that actually manages to handle pdf and video.
Mod me troll if you like, but, assuming he is innocent of these fairly obviously fabricated accusations, what happened to him is a crime bordering on assault or rape.
And if this happened to me, and the perpetrators weren't thrown in jail, I'd be out shopping for ammunition^H^H^H^H^H writing my congressman
Yeah, hope the perpetrators get sent to a federal take-away-wireless-router-and-cable-modem prison.
I know plenty of judges in a number of countries, and have been employed by one at a court. Invariably they are horrified by the system of election of judges. Basically: they cannot see how many elected judges would feel comfortable taking an unpopular decision. Unpopular decisions being ones that (i) are against the prevailing mob mentality at the time and (ii) invariably turn out to be correct when viewed after the event, when passion and emotion has cooled, and what is left is the objective facts.
I'm sure unelected kings would have used the same argument about electing presidents back in the 18th Century.
Unpopular decisions being ones that (i) are against the prevailing mob mentality at the time and (ii) invariably turn out to be correct when viewed after the event, when passion and emotion has cooled, and what is left is the objective facts.
You're working on the assumption that there is a small group of people who can see the objective facts, and a mob of people who can't aren't you? I think this is elitist crap. No group has more insight than any other group, they just think they do. Even worse, the better educated tend to have more of a weakness for fashionable but impractical ideas, so they may well have less. E.g. look at the reaction to Stalinism by British Intellectuals. You're far better off giving everyone a say and letting the errors average out.
We've seen what playing to voters does to politicians.
Yeah, it makes them equate happy voters with keeping their job. You're a voter too remember.
You realise you're vulnerable to someone posting your personal Gödel sequence in a sig, right? - one that you'd spend forever trying to find a pattern in.
Actually I was joking about fanboys and meaningless benchmarks.
E.g. when game x comes out which favours Nvidia, all the Nvidia crow about it. When game y comes out that favours ATI, all the ATI fan boys crow about it.
But when you look at it, most of the time they are talking about +20% on framerates that are already twice the refresh rate. It's completely artificial - in the FPS benchmark they turn off the Vsync to be a more informative test, but not in the game. In the game, the drawing code will wait for a Vsync before drawing a new frame, so both cards will end up rendering the same frame rate when you actually play the game.
The only time it made any difference was with Doom 3, which would drop beneath my subjective acceptable frame rate on ATI, and run above it on Nvidia. Most of the time, once things got hectic NVidia cards would be jerky too. But who actually plays Doom 3 anyway - it was just a tech demo.
Probably the reasons why GPU's are fast for the task they are designed for - a small amount of very fast (assuming you access in the right order) non paged memory and a very simple (no Out of order execution) but highly parallel processor make them bad at general purpose stuff.
On the other hand, I can imagine that you could build a sort coprocesseor in an FPGA - the fact that it was optimised for the algorithm might be able to outweigh the fact that FPGA implementations of a given piece of hardware will have a lower clock rate than customer silicon ones.
But no one seems to be doing it, and there's probably a good reason for that. Maybe in SSE5 or something. You have to wonder if the cost in chip real estate for a big chunk of programmable logic is going to bring more benefits than more cache, or ALUs and so on.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, but their brain _architecture_ seems to be inferior in the sense that their culture was simpler than that of homo sapiens living at the same time. E.g. look at the burials they practiced, or the art they produced.
Legal threats followed by job offers?
Pussies. Microsoft would have just hired hitmen to kill the guy.
Let's see here
The BBC post a trollish article about someone who was busted for selling a XBox with _80_ illegally copied games on a hard disk, with the headline "Evil capitalists ban modding!!!11!" (i've parodied here to make a point). GP poster posts a rabid kneejerk reaction. I take the piss out of GP poster. And I'm a troll whereas the GP is +4 insightful.
So now, if you read and believe that evil capitalists are preventing poor hackers playing you can read at +1 and bask in the rabid kneejerk reactions without seeing anything that distracts from them. It's like the two minute hate for hackers.
And since most of the people that stay long enough to get mod points agree with the slashdot coventional wisdom the cycle reinforces itself.
Judging from the TONE of your post, I don't think you should be allowed to have sharp things, let alone a handgun.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
It was
He posted, INFORMATIVELY.
Yeah, it's simple. Put a little bit of electronics in your brain, and the computer can send the commands over an unsecure wireless link. What could possibly go wrong.
It's not like people would spend their days trying to create a Subservient Bill website.
e.g from
http://www.soundstage.com/revequip/audiomagic_cla
e.g.
Salesman: "Are you rich err serious enough to push the envelope for $1500, or will you be forced to settle for a cost conscious pure silver cable for $69?. Ah I see you are one of our serious customers"
It's sad people fall for this stuff really.
So humans are just a lean'n'mean RISC version of rice?
I understand that GNU\Speak, the GNU replacement for English will solve this problem, with words like Free and Free (they look the same here, because your browser only supports Unicode, not GNUnicode, which has extra diacritical marks and meta characters). All the documentation for Hurd will be written in it. In fact, you won't be able to use the incorrect words any more, Emacs will autocorrect them.
Dude, you should own all the boxes on the internet, script 'em them together into one kick ass rig, solve Seti and date some hot green chick.
Hell, if there are no alien chicks, date the rig.
If they had the same idea independently, I think they can claim prior art.
If it's an obvious patent, it shouldn't have been granted.
With what don't you agree concerning this book? Do you doubt that both the rich Saudis and the Bush family have investments in oil and weapons companies? Michael Moore's movie showed network footage of George W. Bush and a Saudi holding hands. Do you doubt that Bush holds hands with Saudis? Then read these articles from The Christian Science Monitor and CBS News. The Bush family calls one of the Saudis "Bandar Bush", and believes that he is their friend; that's completely untrue of course. Fifteen of the 18 attackers of the 9/11 bombings were Saudis, and some rich Saudis have supported al Qaeda.
They also supported the Taliban (along with the Pakistani SIS), and kicked the Americans out of Saudi Arabia before the Iraq invasion. They obviously shared an enemy in Saddam, and a common interest in the oil business, but it was always one of those pacts with the devil since they were also supporting fundamentalism all over the world. Which is now pretty much over, hopefully.
Unocal, and many other oil companies, want to build a pipeline across Afghanistan, because that is the shortest route from rich oil fields to Pakistan and the ocean, with the exception of through unsafe Iran. Do you doubt this?
No, but so what. Getting capitalism running properly in Afghanistan and Iraq is something that needs to be done. The fact that American companies get contracts isn't evidence of corruption.
I'm not saying that there isn't corruption inside the US - the relationship between Cheney and Haliburton is definitely too close for my tastes, but I haven't seen evidence that anything unethical has occured. And if Cheney's smart, he'll be careful - evidence of corruption would destroy him both politically and financially since the two are so tangled.
Only on slashdot would this get modded down. You're right, he expected that he could send a letter to the CEO and they would see the error of their ways. Unfortunately, he also mentioned that he had
...
I have also confirmed that the Harvester source code - which I, as a Senior Programmer, am authorized to access - includes Java code which collects lists of such vulnerable computers, called "open proxies," from web sites that maintain lists of them. I have also found the Java code which uses such proxies, without the permission of their owners, to connect to the sites that HMS harvests. The offending source code was written by Rob DiMarco, Tim McCune, and Jason Franklin.
Therefore, I cannot proceed with my current project, which has as its primary purpose facilitating the loading of harvested data into the Data Pump. And in order to protect myself from the repercussions of HMS's illegal and immoral activities, I am carefully considering my legal options, including notifying the appropriate authorities.
I.e, I may tell the police that you are breaking the law, and the proof will be the copy of the code I have.
Now if you're an unprincipled scum bag, do you back down and stop your illegal money making scheme and hope that Chip doesn't go to the police, or do you zap him with legal action? That's right,legal action
Note, I'm not saying it's right, just that Chip should have expected this sort of thing. Why the hell did he work with these people anyway, I'd have been more concerned that they would stiff me on my last invoice than that someone may manage to sue them in future, or tarnish my reputation.
Chip Salzenberg is fucked. You would be fucked if you tried to right off your little hidden system with that excuse, and you'd probably get charged for trying to interfere with the investigation and giving false information to the police if you used it.
Well said. Otoh, I sense that something very nasty happened to you to teach you how expensive and time consuming the legal system is once people get to stage of threatening law suits.
What can say. Chips's about to learn this for himself, poor bastard.
Many Americans don't want to know that their government has become corrupt, so you can expect hostile comments if you try to talk about corruption.
Many Michael Moore fans don't want to know that he's a lying bastard. So I'll expect hostile comments when I post this.
See, ad hominem attacks are not too helpful are they?
"Hey I'll just post my web page with my world view. If you agree then you're obviously a good person. If you disagree then it's because you don't want to know the truth, or have been paid off by big business, either way I don't need to listen to you"
My Firefox comes to a grinding halt on pdf docs. Or it least it has started to recently. Quicktime too.
Just use the Open In IE extension to open them there. Or ditch Firefox for CrazyBrowser or similar.Then you can have a browser with tabs and pop up blocking but that actually manages to handle pdf and video.
Mod me troll if you like, but, assuming he is innocent of these fairly obviously fabricated accusations, what happened to him is a crime bordering on assault or rape.
And if this happened to me, and the perpetrators weren't thrown in jail, I'd be out shopping for ammunition^H^H^H^H^H writing my congressman
Yeah, hope the perpetrators get sent to a federal take-away-wireless-router-and-cable-modem prison.
I know plenty of judges in a number of countries, and have been employed by one at a court. Invariably they are horrified by the system of election of judges. Basically: they cannot see how many elected judges would feel comfortable taking an unpopular decision. Unpopular decisions being ones that (i) are against the prevailing mob mentality at the time and (ii) invariably turn out to be correct when viewed after the event, when passion and emotion has cooled, and what is left is the objective facts.
I'm sure unelected kings would have used the same argument about electing presidents back in the 18th Century.
Unpopular decisions being ones that (i) are against the prevailing mob mentality at the time and (ii) invariably turn out to be correct when viewed after the event, when passion and emotion has cooled, and what is left is the objective facts.
You're working on the assumption that there is a small group of people who can see the objective facts, and a mob of people who can't aren't you?
I think this is elitist crap. No group has more insight than any other group, they just think they do. Even worse, the better educated tend to have more of a weakness for fashionable but impractical ideas, so they may well have less. E.g. look at the reaction to Stalinism by British Intellectuals. You're far better off giving everyone a say and letting the errors average out.
We've seen what playing to voters does to politicians.
Yeah, it makes them equate happy voters with keeping their job. You're a voter too remember.
Off course not, that would be underhanded.
Mod parent up!
You realise you're vulnerable to someone posting your personal Gödel sequence in a sig, right? - one that you'd spend forever trying to find a pattern in.
(Couldn't think of one offhand, too busy working)
L Ron Hubbard is a pseudonym. His real name was Sauron Hubbard.
For $4000 I'd not only agree with someone, I'd provide a cunningly commissioned survey from a market research company to 'prove' their theory.
Actually I was joking about fanboys and meaningless benchmarks.
E.g. when game x comes out which favours Nvidia, all the Nvidia crow about it. When game y comes out that favours ATI, all the ATI fan boys crow about it.
But when you look at it, most of the time they are talking about +20% on framerates that are already twice the refresh rate. It's completely artificial - in the FPS benchmark they turn off the Vsync to be a more informative test, but not in the game. In the game, the drawing code will wait for a Vsync before drawing a new frame, so both cards will end up rendering the same frame rate when you actually play the game.
The only time it made any difference was with Doom 3, which would drop beneath my subjective acceptable frame rate on ATI, and run above it on Nvidia. Most of the time, once things got hectic NVidia cards would be jerky too. But who actually plays Doom 3 anyway - it was just a tech demo.
I think it's just fun.
Probably the reasons why GPU's are fast for the task they are designed for - a small amount of very fast (assuming you access in the right order) non paged memory and a very simple (no Out of order execution) but highly parallel processor make them bad at general purpose stuff.
On the other hand, I can imagine that you could build a sort coprocesseor in an FPGA - the fact that it was optimised for the algorithm might be able to outweigh the fact that FPGA implementations of a given piece of hardware will have a lower clock rate than customer silicon ones.
But no one seems to be doing it, and there's probably a good reason for that. Maybe in SSE5 or something. You have to wonder if the cost in chip real estate for a big chunk of programmable logic is going to bring more benefits than more cache, or ALUs and so on.