I've been wondering for quite some time why the online/offline thing was such an issue. Currently I use foxmarks which syncs bookmarks automagically. I use autosync functions on my SideKick II all the time. Synchronization tools have been around for a long time.
The only REAL problems is trusting the online storage with your data. As far as that goes it can be encrypted with better than 128bit encryption and keys remain local only if you like. I don't think that Google Docs is competition to MS Office, it's just the new way to do things. The technology finally caught up (broadband, cheap storage etc.) and now MS Office's day in the sun is fading away. A word doc (saved in OOXML or not) will seem outdated soon when you can't access it from the cybercafe or the Apple store. Sort of the same thing as 'what good is an MP3 if you can't take it on the road with you?'
Hilary will give up her presidential bid Bush will say Iraq was a big mistake RMS will announce a new project The Torvolds Barnyard Comcast will give 50 downloads from iTunes to each of it's customers It will be declared bittorrent day in Iceland Jenna Jameson will buy Maxim and rename it Angry Inch Countrywide's Executive team will return their golden handshake money Jesus will be spotted in the snow on the side of Mount McKinley - He'll be wearing Nike branded ski gear
Well, the LOTS of people that you are talking about had ancestors that didn't care about cars, or even want cars. Times change. 40GB/s is a good rate for downloading while watching HDTV etc.Some people never saw the usefulness of a computer in the home either.. they too were wrong.
The tagging has the corruption tag... wtf? That's kind of like describing a broken window as just a little dirty? Windex isn't going to fix this broken window, unless the EU regulars are fond of dressing up kind of like superman but with Windex emblazoned on their chest.
For some reason that mental picture of that has me rolling on the floor
that GNU/Linux is actually more than a competitor to MS in the niche hacker/power user arena. It is in fact quite usable and *CAN* replace Windows. (Car analogy) It's like seeing Kia in a road rally, sort of surprizing but after a couple of years competing people begin to just accept that they have the balls to keep it up and to compete.
Or perhaps it's more like a dedicated sports fan seeing his team make the playoffs after 40 years of ridicule ?
A DDoS is a deliberately malicious attempt to harm a website. What happened to wikileaks is just that they RanOutofBandwidthDamnit, so can we start calling it ROBD from now on, huh?
What would make you think that the US Government would halt their work because someone had a patent on it? They would simply declare it a state secret and continue. They didn't need anyone's permission to invade Iraq. The whole thing is a big bizarre. I think it was just misguided thinking at the time, or perhaps those involved thought that a patent would stop the government... my how times have changed.
Every piece of data that can be corroborated will help. Sure, wiimotes shake normally, but if all of them in L.A. start shaking.. well that is something to look at. That is what the summary alludes to with the statement that with more than 2 sensors the system can be less precise.
The fact that you could have corroboration from 1500 points in a 75 square mile area is quite an improvement on what they have now, and at a much cheaper price.
If you spend time analyzing data, it's amazing what you can find. That is one of the reasons that the US government wants to monitor everyone's communications... to spot small trends... and of course to gather evidence to use against political rivals thus ensuring their unending reign of... what did the French call them ? oh yeah, terrorists
Back on track. The sensitivity of things like the wiimote add huge potential to such an endeavor. Just through sheer numbers, the size of the area shaking makes a big difference on the impact or relevance of the seismic event. It's physics, and if you are trying to see the true graph of something, the more data points you have to plot, the more informative it is. Even if some of the sensors are unreliable, they have the ability to ignore anomalous readings and use those that match others. Since you can be certain that there is an event happening (old system still in place) you can ignore or throw out data from sensors that are TOO active or not active at all, then sift through what is left to see what you find.
I'm reasonably certain that they will see a lot when they learn the true extent of the area affected by any particular event. For example, if the event stays limited to only the fault area it would be much different than if an entire area were affected outside the fault line area. Having thousands of sensors will help show that. Perhaps through this they will learn that certain geologic structures actually do redirect the energy to other areas, allowing predictions of damage to match what before were unpredictable events thus adding perhaps minutes to the warning times. That would save lives and that is what they want to do. Mapping effects through an area will help. Thousands of sensors will help achieve that despite the seemingly unreliability of the sensors themselves.
There are millions of ants in an ant hill, kill a couple hundred and they carry on. This is the same sort of idea.
Only replying as apparently I did not explain myself well. I do not mean taxpayer funded infrastructure, and as I don't have clear plans on how, just the idea, I mean user owned like co-operatives. It does not have to be the city/municipality. It might simply be the HOA, or some other neighborhood organization that owns it. Basic use is a small amount each month if you want to use it. Internet service/content are paid for by the end user. The main point is that the content provider ISPs should not own the last mile of connectivity. It gives them a kind of monopoly over your use of the Internet which, whether you believe it or not, is becoming much more important in day to day living. Want to find something cheap? you look in the paper, I'm going to use the Internet. Want to find out something about your government? You spend all day at the courthouse and library... I'm going to find it on the Internet during a break. Yes, what you say is technically correct but pragmatically luddite-ish.
when the Browser is keeping tabs on sites visited and metadata regarding that AND making that available to the OS and other Apps there is a great many things that can become easy based on your use of the Internet. More than I can mention here, but I'd like to see it. Imagine some mashup apps run locally on what you view, or optionally what others view via a tracking service not entirely unlike del.icio.us that allows you to categorize files on your hard drive also, where the tag clouds are shared, and downloading files uses the tags to organize etc.. as a basic premise.
No, the tags do not have to be shared with the world, and files will still be files, but finding them would be easier than saving everything to the desktop. This is one area that I think has not been sufficiently explored to assist casual users. They can remember that the file was something to do with banannas, but not that it was about Costa Rica. Tags allow easier memory tracks for humans.
I can imagine cyber attacks that people don't want to hear. Some of them may already be in the wild and still dormant. While a DDoS is underway, company A is not likely to notice the discreet insertion of a specialized virus whose damage will not be apparent until it is needed. For all we know, Facebook may be a virus. While you might argue, also take the devil's side and tell me why that would not work? The ability to spread viruses is merely a test, not just for those that would spread specialized malicious attacks, but for those that are looking to use it for espionage, and nefarious things you would not think about. Collecting data on various items of interest is a long term thing, and goes handily unnoticed if needed. Say, what is the best time of year to attack the power grid in Boston? hmmm surf the net for answers or just set a bug out to find out. If it is innocent enough looking and has some useful function it can set there on the machine forever until called in to use.
The same can be true of compilers, OS software, MP3 player software.... anything. Who else by the NSA et al would be able to go all the way through with a plan to put monitoring software in an MP3 player? That downloads to your machine as music management software?
The complexities of computer software mean that no one is really watching EVERYTHING and there are holes that are big enough to drive an army through if you are patient and willing to wait for infiltration. The human factor means that any system can be compromised with enough time and effort. Some systems are worth the effort if you want to grind a country to a stand still.
Imagine that you manage after some years to get a bug on the control system of network routing for telephone systems. Then, a small wreck or bomb puts that system into play... bang, you have control of it now. That is just one scenario, there are more. None of them will make you sleepy.
The fact that humans are generally honest and fair helps us way more than we know
The reason, friend, that all religions get pulled into it is simple: The CoS is using the same snake oil that the rest use, but they are using it as cover to hide their real agendas. Most members of other churches actually believe the hype and only the top part of the cream actually does the really dirty crap.
The CoS is dirty from beginning to end, from top to bottom, from LRH to Xenu.
Find one good thing that the CoS has done and there are dozens of people reporting how that it was a trick, or not really what it was reported to be. No smoke without fire and there is a HELL of a lot of smoke here....
Some might have you believe that the CoS could have financed a large portion of the war in Iraq... we miss those tax dollars.. well, I do.
Perhaps you will be sleeping well this weekend. I will not. Now I'm going to be looking for any group anywhere on the Internet that is monitoring the source for SELinux and OpenSolaris for oddities that might just be a backdoor for the NSA.
Have you EVER seen a leopard change its spots?... hmmm... didn't think so. Perhaps that is why the saying came to be. The NSA is the NSA, and they won't be changing their spots. IF, and I really mean IF they had valuable contributions to commercial software or F/OSS regarding security of the system for personal or commercial use, they would be using their OWN FUCKING OS software. Did I say that loudly enough that it's still rattling around in your head? IF they knew how to make OS software safe, they would be using it, not someone else's software. UHHH, why put security enhancements in everyone else's software instead of just making the US government safe?
What they are saying goes contrary to security practices, I don't care how they say it. If you have a secret weapon, you keep it secret. Special security would be a secret. Left hand says we are helping US businesses, right hand says we are helping ourselves to the rest of the world's businesses. It's only a few words different, but a world of difference.
This very reason is why MS should be losing out all over the world to F/OSS. Any country can set up their own development company and take GNU/Linux and make it their own. There will be no back doors, no NSA visits, no sharing among friends without some sort of fair arrangements. If the co-operative efforts are for open software, where is the list of what changes were suggested?
The compiler should be watched too.... sigh
Don't trust someone that doesn't trust you as much as they want your trust. "Trading sight unseen" with the NSA is just about as risky as it gets, unless you are a Tibetan pleading with the Chinese government... that's not saying much really.
oh yeah, no car analogy but "letting the fox guard the hen house" seems to fit here
ferchrisakes! That's why they invented happy hour... oh wait, you don't have happy hour in your mom's basement?
Secondly, just how is that different than any other time in history? If I ask you to tell me the initials of the person you know that believe everything they read or hear, I'm willing to bet that 99% of those that read this post will be able to. That person will tell their friends whatever they hear about as if it were written below the 10th commandment when moses came down off the mount. And so the wrong news spreads. Despite, or because of it, a couple of months ago my (not near me) family had not heard of Obama or Paul. If the MSM actually does start picking up on what is spreading via the intarwebtubes, perhaps people will get to hear more varied information? They thought the race was going to be between huckabee and *HER*.
The simple truth is that there is NO reliable steady source of information when it comes to news. Informed people will always seek multiple sources of stories and read multiple sources for variance. (still waiting for a lolcat to attack Colbert live on tv).
Ever hear your grandma tell you not to believe everything you hear or read? There is a reason for that. No matter what you use for news source, it cannot be the A-Z of news. period. ever. I mean it. Whether you get it from TV or the Internet or the radio or your friends and family.
Personally, the Internet makes me happy. I can get BBC and other European news sources too, not just the Whitehouse propaganda that much of the US seems to thrive on.
I've said the same thing. Connectivity should be somewhat socialistic, services should be market based. As long as the content providers are giving you the connection there can be no fairness in it. When having the internet was similar to dial-up=beater car and broadband=luxury SUV perhaps the market was handling it. Now we have a need for ALL people to have broadband access to the Internet. The market fell behind. The 'market' in this case fell behind not because of some magic, but because of greed.
If the infrastructure that your home machine connects to is a co-op infrastructure (owned by the users) and you buy services from ISPs like email, Internet connectivity etc. then their view of and version of the Internet is no matter to you, you can switch on a whim. If they start dropping p2p connections, you just switch to a competitor. All competitors for your business connect into the user-owned infrastructure and billing choices determine your packets route from the user owned infrastructure to the outside world. At this point, all ISPs are equal players... even little ones, and they will have to compete on services offered and price. In that way, yes, the market will fix things.
Such things right now are done with co-ops or via the local municipality as they have the funds to pool together and build out local infrastructure.
I'm not being paid to investigate further than the idea, but I know that it can be done. We just need a little governmental coercion to get the ball rolling really... well, more or less.
Actually I've already commented on this. By making a pc that supports maybe 8 plug-in systems-on-a-card (blade style as was pointed out) and one main cpu to supervise the processor/boards and some raid storage with digital storage on the cards you can have the equivalent of 8 pc's running on your one desktop with one interface, near zero bottlenecks. A real click and rip situation.
You should also be able to choose the number of processors you wish to have running so others can power down when not in use. There are many advantages to this when you are trying to run multiple cpu intensive applications at once. Even though a p2p download runs in the background, it's still taking up cpu cycles. It only needs say 1GHz cpu to do its thing, and a 1GHz cpu is just fine for you to surf pr0n while it's downloading etc...
By specializing some hardware in the CPU architecture beyond what we have today, there can be many benefits. With ethernet in more common use, it will be able to tie them all together on several layers if need be. Shove all the video over internal ethernet, let the supervisor cpu mangle it onto the screen, or have multiple GPUs and displays... whatever you like or want, or can afford to upgrade to. I think that is the next worthy big and powerful pc architecture.
Look at the hardware in a DVD player, it's not all that special. Why not support multimedia on a custom built cpu board just for such things instead of trying to make generic hardware do EVERYTHING? Well, the list goes on, but by adding clever resources and eliminating duplication within your system much more can be accomplished.
Yep the phrase "the next big thing in tech" is something uttered by people who are no longer allowed to work on Wall Stree.
Here's a clue for you "Ultra cheap computers" is the next big thing in tech, or haven't you heard about the impending financial crises that is about the consume the world's economies? That's right kiddies, no shiny new computers for your christmas... just new ISOs from Linux
Meh, can't blame him for trying to drum up business I guess
Absolutely. I don't think that code for multicore cpus is fully baked yet nor near the end of what can be done with it. FPGAs are improving and we still have not seen that component type hit saturation yet. We are nowhere near done doing all that can be done with the silicon we already have never mind what is coming down the pipe in the next few years.
It's hype, nothing but.
I'd like to see something that is vastly better, cheaper, more energy efficient, and capable of greater performance... but until that comes along silicon is going nowhere.
so they say, and there sure is a lot of smoke surrounding this standards voting process. There must be some fire somewhere, and using Occam's razor in connection with the history of Microsoft business practices and I'd put money on the 'Microsoft is perverting the process' side of the bet.
PJ seems to think that what is happening 'not quite normal' and right now, if PJ says it, it's good enough for me. Her reputation is several orders of magnitude better than Microsoft's, to be kind to Microsoft.
Sure, perhaps the Poles do muck things up now and again but it's not *just* the poles. Things are 'not quite normal' with this process the world over.
If it were up to me (yeah right) now that there is so much mess, I'd say it will never be a standard until there is > 85% support for it to become one, and all dissenting voices' questions MUST be answered in full and to the satisfaction of > 85% of the voting body. I'd take the cat and mouse politics out of it so that there no longer remains any doubt about the politics pushing a bad standard or not.
I do. Also contribute to EFF, Chronix Radio, Ubuntu, and several other F/OSS applications. I don't think everything should be free, but I feel damned comfortable paying what feels comfortable to me in a value for dollar kind of way. I happened to pay $45 for OOo and think it was a damned good deal at that price.
Those standard shortcuts work fine for me. I'd miss those too if they didn't work. I type faster than quite a few people who are hired partly on their typing speed... shortcuts are very fast if you have the 'skilz' for it:)
The point is that they and everyone else has no 'legal' way to download it and watch. They are siding with john q. here. If there is no legal way, then everything else must be illegal.
It's not like South Park and The Daily Show are shows that no one has ever heard of before, so it's good to see that mainstream content producers are in agreement with pretty much all the consumers of that content. I hope that it catches on, and with widespread attention in the MSM. There is nothing like some very popular people telling the world that *Hey, this should not be illegal!* to get the ball rolling.
I'm sure there will be more support for such activity when the RIAA finally admits they wasted all the money from the Napster case suing grannies and basically ruining all the good will that the recording industry ever had. Not many artists will continue to support that kind of stupidity when it gets rubbed in their face harshly like that.
woot! I'd like to see an entire network follow suit... say SciFi or Commedy Central or you pick... but one whole network that just says fuck it, lets let them download the stuff...
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I've been wondering for quite some time why the online/offline thing was such an issue. Currently I use foxmarks which syncs bookmarks automagically. I use autosync functions on my SideKick II all the time. Synchronization tools have been around for a long time.
The only REAL problems is trusting the online storage with your data. As far as that goes it can be encrypted with better than 128bit encryption and keys remain local only if you like. I don't think that Google Docs is competition to MS Office, it's just the new way to do things. The technology finally caught up (broadband, cheap storage etc.) and now MS Office's day in the sun is fading away. A word doc (saved in OOXML or not) will seem outdated soon when you can't access it from the cybercafe or the Apple store. Sort of the same thing as 'what good is an MP3 if you can't take it on the road with you?'
Anyway, MS, good luck with that...
Yes, it's not a pun
http://mistupid.com/holidays/weekdays.htm
Hilary will give up her presidential bid
Bush will say Iraq was a big mistake
RMS will announce a new project The Torvolds Barnyard
Comcast will give 50 downloads from iTunes to each of it's customers
It will be declared bittorrent day in Iceland
Jenna Jameson will buy Maxim and rename it Angry Inch
Countrywide's Executive team will return their golden handshake money
Jesus will be spotted in the snow on the side of Mount McKinley
- He'll be wearing Nike branded ski gear
Yes, but only on Thursdays!
I'm waiting for the final explanation that shows dark matter particles cause lighting bolts...
Well, the LOTS of people that you are talking about had ancestors that didn't care about cars, or even want cars. Times change. 40GB/s is a good rate for downloading while watching HDTV etc.Some people never saw the usefulness of a computer in the home either.. they too were wrong.
The tagging has the corruption tag... wtf? That's kind of like describing a broken window as just a little dirty? Windex isn't going to fix this broken window, unless the EU regulars are fond of dressing up kind of like superman but with Windex emblazoned on their chest.
For some reason that mental picture of that has me rolling on the floor
If I could mod you funny I would LOL... didn't mean to compare to kia, just that the juxtapositions of both in their respective arenas is similar
that GNU/Linux is actually more than a competitor to MS in the niche hacker/power user arena. It is in fact quite usable and *CAN* replace Windows. (Car analogy) It's like seeing Kia in a road rally, sort of surprizing but after a couple of years competing people begin to just accept that they have the balls to keep it up and to compete.
Or perhaps it's more like a dedicated sports fan seeing his team make the playoffs after 40 years of ridicule ?
A DDoS is a deliberately malicious attempt to harm a website. What happened to wikileaks is just that they RanOutofBandwidthDamnit, so can we start calling it ROBD from now on, huh?
What would make you think that the US Government would halt their work because someone had a patent on it? They would simply declare it a state secret and continue. They didn't need anyone's permission to invade Iraq. The whole thing is a big bizarre. I think it was just misguided thinking at the time, or perhaps those involved thought that a patent would stop the government... my how times have changed.
Every piece of data that can be corroborated will help. Sure, wiimotes shake normally, but if all of them in L.A. start shaking.. well that is something to look at. That is what the summary alludes to with the statement that with more than 2 sensors the system can be less precise.
... what did the French call them ? oh yeah, terrorists
The fact that you could have corroboration from 1500 points in a 75 square mile area is quite an improvement on what they have now, and at a much cheaper price.
If you spend time analyzing data, it's amazing what you can find. That is one of the reasons that the US government wants to monitor everyone's communications... to spot small trends... and of course to gather evidence to use against political rivals thus ensuring their unending reign of
Back on track. The sensitivity of things like the wiimote add huge potential to such an endeavor. Just through sheer numbers, the size of the area shaking makes a big difference on the impact or relevance of the seismic event. It's physics, and if you are trying to see the true graph of something, the more data points you have to plot, the more informative it is. Even if some of the sensors are unreliable, they have the ability to ignore anomalous readings and use those that match others. Since you can be certain that there is an event happening (old system still in place) you can ignore or throw out data from sensors that are TOO active or not active at all, then sift through what is left to see what you find.
I'm reasonably certain that they will see a lot when they learn the true extent of the area affected by any particular event. For example, if the event stays limited to only the fault area it would be much different than if an entire area were affected outside the fault line area. Having thousands of sensors will help show that. Perhaps through this they will learn that certain geologic structures actually do redirect the energy to other areas, allowing predictions of damage to match what before were unpredictable events thus adding perhaps minutes to the warning times. That would save lives and that is what they want to do. Mapping effects through an area will help. Thousands of sensors will help achieve that despite the seemingly unreliability of the sensors themselves.
There are millions of ants in an ant hill, kill a couple hundred and they carry on. This is the same sort of idea.
Only replying as apparently I did not explain myself well. I do not mean taxpayer funded infrastructure, and as I don't have clear plans on how, just the idea, I mean user owned like co-operatives. It does not have to be the city/municipality. It might simply be the HOA, or some other neighborhood organization that owns it. Basic use is a small amount each month if you want to use it. Internet service/content are paid for by the end user. The main point is that the content provider ISPs should not own the last mile of connectivity. It gives them a kind of monopoly over your use of the Internet which, whether you believe it or not, is becoming much more important in day to day living. Want to find something cheap? you look in the paper, I'm going to use the Internet. Want to find out something about your government? You spend all day at the courthouse and library... I'm going to find it on the Internet during a break. Yes, what you say is technically correct but pragmatically luddite-ish.
I don't want huge OS/browser integration either, but there are some things that I would like regarding browser oriented services. http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Feature_Brainstorming:Bookmarks#Bookmark_tags_and_keywords
when the Browser is keeping tabs on sites visited and metadata regarding that AND making that available to the OS and other Apps there is a great many things that can become easy based on your use of the Internet. More than I can mention here, but I'd like to see it. Imagine some mashup apps run locally on what you view, or optionally what others view via a tracking service not entirely unlike del.icio.us that allows you to categorize files on your hard drive also, where the tag clouds are shared, and downloading files uses the tags to organize etc.. as a basic premise.
No, the tags do not have to be shared with the world, and files will still be files, but finding them would be easier than saving everything to the desktop. This is one area that I think has not been sufficiently explored to assist casual users. They can remember that the file was something to do with banannas, but not that it was about Costa Rica. Tags allow easier memory tracks for humans.
I can imagine cyber attacks that people don't want to hear. Some of them may already be in the wild and still dormant. While a DDoS is underway, company A is not likely to notice the discreet insertion of a specialized virus whose damage will not be apparent until it is needed. For all we know, Facebook may be a virus. While you might argue, also take the devil's side and tell me why that would not work? The ability to spread viruses is merely a test, not just for those that would spread specialized malicious attacks, but for those that are looking to use it for espionage, and nefarious things you would not think about. Collecting data on various items of interest is a long term thing, and goes handily unnoticed if needed. Say, what is the best time of year to attack the power grid in Boston? hmmm surf the net for answers or just set a bug out to find out. If it is innocent enough looking and has some useful function it can set there on the machine forever until called in to use.
The same can be true of compilers, OS software, MP3 player software.... anything. Who else by the NSA et al would be able to go all the way through with a plan to put monitoring software in an MP3 player? That downloads to your machine as music management software?
The complexities of computer software mean that no one is really watching EVERYTHING and there are holes that are big enough to drive an army through if you are patient and willing to wait for infiltration. The human factor means that any system can be compromised with enough time and effort. Some systems are worth the effort if you want to grind a country to a stand still.
Imagine that you manage after some years to get a bug on the control system of network routing for telephone systems. Then, a small wreck or bomb puts that system into play... bang, you have control of it now. That is just one scenario, there are more. None of them will make you sleepy.
The fact that humans are generally honest and fair helps us way more than we know
The reason, friend, that all religions get pulled into it is simple: The CoS is using the same snake oil that the rest use, but they are using it as cover to hide their real agendas. Most members of other churches actually believe the hype and only the top part of the cream actually does the really dirty crap.
The CoS is dirty from beginning to end, from top to bottom, from LRH to Xenu.
Find one good thing that the CoS has done and there are dozens of people reporting how that it was a trick, or not really what it was reported to be. No smoke without fire and there is a HELL of a lot of smoke here....
Some might have you believe that the CoS could have financed a large portion of the war in Iraq... we miss those tax dollars.. well, I do.
Perhaps you will be sleeping well this weekend. I will not. Now I'm going to be looking for any group anywhere on the Internet that is monitoring the source for SELinux and OpenSolaris for oddities that might just be a backdoor for the NSA.
... hmmm... didn't think so. Perhaps that is why the saying came to be. The NSA is the NSA, and they won't be changing their spots. IF, and I really mean IF they had valuable contributions to commercial software or F/OSS regarding security of the system for personal or commercial use, they would be using their OWN FUCKING OS software. Did I say that loudly enough that it's still rattling around in your head? IF they knew how to make OS software safe, they would be using it, not someone else's software. UHHH, why put security enhancements in everyone else's software instead of just making the US government safe?
Have you EVER seen a leopard change its spots?
What they are saying goes contrary to security practices, I don't care how they say it. If you have a secret weapon, you keep it secret. Special security would be a secret. Left hand says we are helping US businesses, right hand says we are helping ourselves to the rest of the world's businesses. It's only a few words different, but a world of difference.
This very reason is why MS should be losing out all over the world to F/OSS. Any country can set up their own development company and take GNU/Linux and make it their own. There will be no back doors, no NSA visits, no sharing among friends without some sort of fair arrangements. If the co-operative efforts are for open software, where is the list of what changes were suggested?
The compiler should be watched too.... sigh
Don't trust someone that doesn't trust you as much as they want your trust. "Trading sight unseen" with the NSA is just about as risky as it gets, unless you are a Tibetan pleading with the Chinese government... that's not saying much really.
oh yeah, no car analogy but "letting the fox guard the hen house" seems to fit here
ferchrisakes! That's why they invented happy hour... oh wait, you don't have happy hour in your mom's basement?
Secondly, just how is that different than any other time in history? If I ask you to tell me the initials of the person you know that believe everything they read or hear, I'm willing to bet that 99% of those that read this post will be able to. That person will tell their friends whatever they hear about as if it were written below the 10th commandment when moses came down off the mount. And so the wrong news spreads. Despite, or because of it, a couple of months ago my (not near me) family had not heard of Obama or Paul. If the MSM actually does start picking up on what is spreading via the intarwebtubes, perhaps people will get to hear more varied information? They thought the race was going to be between huckabee and *HER*.
The simple truth is that there is NO reliable steady source of information when it comes to news. Informed people will always seek multiple sources of stories and read multiple sources for variance. (still waiting for a lolcat to attack Colbert live on tv).
Ever hear your grandma tell you not to believe everything you hear or read? There is a reason for that. No matter what you use for news source, it cannot be the A-Z of news. period. ever. I mean it. Whether you get it from TV or the Internet or the radio or your friends and family.
Personally, the Internet makes me happy. I can get BBC and other European news sources too, not just the Whitehouse propaganda that much of the US seems to thrive on.
I've said the same thing. Connectivity should be somewhat socialistic, services should be market based. As long as the content providers are giving you the connection there can be no fairness in it. When having the internet was similar to dial-up=beater car and broadband=luxury SUV perhaps the market was handling it. Now we have a need for ALL people to have broadband access to the Internet. The market fell behind. The 'market' in this case fell behind not because of some magic, but because of greed.
If the infrastructure that your home machine connects to is a co-op infrastructure (owned by the users) and you buy services from ISPs like email, Internet connectivity etc. then their view of and version of the Internet is no matter to you, you can switch on a whim. If they start dropping p2p connections, you just switch to a competitor. All competitors for your business connect into the user-owned infrastructure and billing choices determine your packets route from the user owned infrastructure to the outside world. At this point, all ISPs are equal players... even little ones, and they will have to compete on services offered and price. In that way, yes, the market will fix things.
Such things right now are done with co-ops or via the local municipality as they have the funds to pool together and build out local infrastructure.
I'm not being paid to investigate further than the idea, but I know that it can be done. We just need a little governmental coercion to get the ball rolling really... well, more or less.
Actually I've already commented on this. By making a pc that supports maybe 8 plug-in systems-on-a-card (blade style as was pointed out) and one main cpu to supervise the processor/boards and some raid storage with digital storage on the cards you can have the equivalent of 8 pc's running on your one desktop with one interface, near zero bottlenecks. A real click and rip situation.
You should also be able to choose the number of processors you wish to have running so others can power down when not in use. There are many advantages to this when you are trying to run multiple cpu intensive applications at once. Even though a p2p download runs in the background, it's still taking up cpu cycles. It only needs say 1GHz cpu to do its thing, and a 1GHz cpu is just fine for you to surf pr0n while it's downloading etc...
By specializing some hardware in the CPU architecture beyond what we have today, there can be many benefits. With ethernet in more common use, it will be able to tie them all together on several layers if need be. Shove all the video over internal ethernet, let the supervisor cpu mangle it onto the screen, or have multiple GPUs and displays... whatever you like or want, or can afford to upgrade to. I think that is the next worthy big and powerful pc architecture.
Look at the hardware in a DVD player, it's not all that special. Why not support multimedia on a custom built cpu board just for such things instead of trying to make generic hardware do EVERYTHING? Well, the list goes on, but by adding clever resources and eliminating duplication within your system much more can be accomplished.
Yep the phrase "the next big thing in tech" is something uttered by people who are no longer allowed to work on Wall Stree.
Here's a clue for you "Ultra cheap computers" is the next big thing in tech, or haven't you heard about the impending financial crises that is about the consume the world's economies? That's right kiddies, no shiny new computers for your christmas... just new ISOs from Linux
Meh, can't blame him for trying to drum up business I guess
Absolutely. I don't think that code for multicore cpus is fully baked yet nor near the end of what can be done with it. FPGAs are improving and we still have not seen that component type hit saturation yet. We are nowhere near done doing all that can be done with the silicon we already have never mind what is coming down the pipe in the next few years.
It's hype, nothing but.
I'd like to see something that is vastly better, cheaper, more energy efficient, and capable of greater performance... but until that comes along silicon is going nowhere.
so they say, and there sure is a lot of smoke surrounding this standards voting process. There must be some fire somewhere, and using Occam's razor in connection with the history of Microsoft business practices and I'd put money on the 'Microsoft is perverting the process' side of the bet.
PJ seems to think that what is happening 'not quite normal' and right now, if PJ says it, it's good enough for me. Her reputation is several orders of magnitude better than Microsoft's, to be kind to Microsoft.
Sure, perhaps the Poles do muck things up now and again but it's not *just* the poles. Things are 'not quite normal' with this process the world over.
If it were up to me (yeah right) now that there is so much mess, I'd say it will never be a standard until there is > 85% support for it to become one, and all dissenting voices' questions MUST be answered in full and to the satisfaction of > 85% of the voting body. I'd take the cat and mouse politics out of it so that there no longer remains any doubt about the politics pushing a bad standard or not.
I do. Also contribute to EFF, Chronix Radio, Ubuntu, and several other F/OSS applications. I don't think everything should be free, but I feel damned comfortable paying what feels comfortable to me in a value for dollar kind of way. I happened to pay $45 for OOo and think it was a damned good deal at that price.
Those standard shortcuts work fine for me. I'd miss those too if they didn't work. I type faster than quite a few people who are hired partly on their typing speed... shortcuts are very fast if you have the 'skilz' for it :)
The point is that they and everyone else has no 'legal' way to download it and watch. They are siding with john q. here. If there is no legal way, then everything else must be illegal.
It's not like South Park and The Daily Show are shows that no one has ever heard of before, so it's good to see that mainstream content producers are in agreement with pretty much all the consumers of that content. I hope that it catches on, and with widespread attention in the MSM. There is nothing like some very popular people telling the world that *Hey, this should not be illegal!* to get the ball rolling.
I'm sure there will be more support for such activity when the RIAA finally admits they wasted all the money from the Napster case suing grannies and basically ruining all the good will that the recording industry ever had. Not many artists will continue to support that kind of stupidity when it gets rubbed in their face harshly like that.
woot! I'd like to see an entire network follow suit... say SciFi or Commedy Central or you pick... but one whole network that just says fuck it, lets let them download the stuff...