Your assertion is not unlike suggesting that I have no expectation of privacy in postal mail because for a length of time it was in the posession of a Federal agency, the US Post Office.
IBM BlueGene, closing in on the petaflop. You bet yer sweet bippie we're pushin' those processors 'til they SCREAM, and believe me it's a thing of beauty to behold (when it works - after all, it is a development project, a "work in progress" you might say).
Uh, help me see it - so the guys at Opera are going to mass-produce a parallel product, OOLPC (One Opera Laptop Per Child), for which they will maintain identical standards to the competition's OLPC until their OOLPC machine becomes the standard, which they will then use to eliminate all competing laptop manufacturers? After that, I presume they will force all the OOLPC users to upgrade their hardware regularly, in accordance with some onerous and despicable "click-wrap" license?
Sorry, dude - I followed you right up to the point where you said "Just like IBM" - after that, you lost me!
The goal was never to send these things to developing nations.
At some point, somebody realized that a super-cheap laptop could do 90% of what people want to do with laptops. How to get them made? Try to make it yourself, you'll end up like DeLorean - the industry'll see to it that you fail before you can upset their applecarts! So . . . yeah! Pretend you're trying to make it for third world children! Think of the children!
CEO's, captains of industry, unaware of what they're doing begin working to be involved in making the last thing in the world they want to make - exactly what the consuming public really wants - a tough, reliable laptop computer suitable for on-the-go use at rock-bottom (true commodity) prices! I wonder if any of them are stopping to think that these things will have an impact on how we (collectively) see computers and computing, and the price associated with them? Just look around this post - half the comments are "I'd like one of those!". If I knew that the manufacturer was able to make 'em and sell 'em for $100.00, it'd sure make me think twice about plunking down $700.00 for a machine which, while shinier, is unlikely to do a lot more for me as a mobile computing platform.
In a way, this could be vaguely akin to Henry Ford's contribution to the automotive industry - utility and pricing set to put one in every garage (on every laptop). You can have it any color you like - as long as it's green!
Back then, I was a lowly PFC on station at Fort Stewart, GA. I have to admit, I wasn't directly involved in what was going on (I was a computer operator at the time), but I do remember a lot of the programmers in our section working on communications protocols for data transfer between posts, often among disparate computing platforms. Personally, I thought they were chasing a pipe-dream - after all, even I knew that at best you might be able to cobble together protocols for, say 360/20 to VMS communication, but all architectures, transparently? I was certain those guys were nuts!
Fast forward to the 21st century. No, I'm no expert on things Internet, but I was there. In an outsider's kind of way, I remember all of the testing in the early 80's to get this "inter-network connection" thing working - I remember the programmers beating each other on the back because they had successfully gotten data off the MF at Fort Benjamin Harrison, IN. Maybe it was pr0n, but I couldn't tell ya what kind.
Amazing, considering what DARPA had to work with back then - funny thing is, they could never really get their own telephone systems (autovon, autosecvon) to work very well, but I guess the heavy involvement of University resources in the early phases of internetworking made the difference there. Too bad, really; but of course, wired telephony is going the way of the horse and buggy nowadays, so it's no big loss to the military.
Not so much because of the perceived dishonesty (after all, anybody who believes that advertisers always tell the absolute truth deserve what they get, which is hopefully eliminated from the gene pool), but because of the insult. I've been lied to plenty of times, please don't insult my intelligence.
Put it another way: you want to play dumb, that's fine - just don't act like I am.
it takes eight minutes tops for the warning to get from the Sun to the Earth.
Current situation: monitoring nearer the Sun may get is a day or less warning; new situation: prediction potentially gives us days or even weeks to react.
TFA isn't about monitoring the sun and radioing warnings of CME's/flares/etc. TFA is about predicting CME's/flares/etc. and taking appropriate action before it's too late. The fact that the solar wind only moves at something like.001c only buys us eight minutes tops to get a warning out. Predictive science, however, may give us a day, days or even weeks to "batten down the space-hatches".
(1) Get an ISP that isn't currently doing "traffic shaping" (you hear me, Charter Communications? Qwest gave me what you couldn't - a "not shaped" connection to the internet).
(2) Run *NIX on (at least) one machine in your LAN.
(3) Run Sendmail on that machine (or postfix, or whatever MTA you like).
(4) Listen to your wife and kids complain that their family/friends aren't getting e-mails from them.
(5) Correct the configuration on your MTA (oops - mea culpa).
(6) Listen to your wife and kids complain that they're not getting e-mails from their family/friends.
(7) Correct the configuration of your MTA (again).
(8) Listen to your wife and kids complain that they're still getting spammed into oblivion.
(9) Configure mail filters to hold the spam.
(10) Listen to your wife and kids complain that they're missing valid e-mails.
(11) (Repeat steps (8)-(10) recursively until (8) and (10) no longer happen.)
I didn't say this would happen - I said this could happen.
Mankind's track record in bio-engineering is pretty dismal (just look at what happens almost every time we move some critter or another into a non-indiginous ecosystem).
Again, not urging a moratorium, merely advising caution!
Imagine such an organism in the wild, breaking water down into its constituent elements.
Do you believe that such an organism, once engineered, could be kept forever contained? Life has a funny way of getting around such obstacles. GM corn is one thing - even GM bacilli to, say, biodegrade plastics. GM organisms which can break water down to hydrogen and oxygen? I think we (collectively) need to reevaluate the risk factors here; such an organism in the wild could very well turn our planet into a dustbowl in such a shockingly short time we wouldn't even have time to lynch the scientists who created it (think: hours - the mathematics of unchecked reproduction are truly alarming).
Question 1: Is the activity of casting liquified lime depicted on any pictographs/heiroglyphics in Egypt? The ancient Egyptians had a marvellous habit of recording a great many things on very durable media - including how their own technology worked. I would expect to find depictions somewhere of Egyptians or their slaves engaged in the tasks of manufacturing and pouring concrete.
Question 2: Is there evidence that the Egyptians used this technology elsewhere? I find it difficult to believe that they would've evolved this kind of technology (concrete) and used it exclusively for the task of pyramid-building.
Prologue: Microsoft pumped money into SCO for whatever reason, SCO used Microsoft's support to prolong this debacle in the courts. Now Microsoft is pumping money into Novell. Novell certainly used some of that money in their defense against SCO.
Am I the only one who sees this as reminiscent the scene in Star Wars III where Anakin kills Dooku? Cast M$ as Palpatine, SCO as Dooku and Novell as Anakin.
M$: "Good. Now . . . kill him"
Novell: "I shouldn't do it. It's not our way. They're a LINUX distributor too."
M$ "Do it!"
(SCO's head flies off in appelate court)
"Always two there are - a master and an apprentice." Too bad, I really like SuSE.
Anybody here ever use a machine with the "chicklet" style keys, or worse yet, a "membrane" style keyboard? Personally, I remember getting unhappy with my first TRS-80 within about two minutes, once I got my hands on that @!*#& keyboard! For hunt-'n'-peck'ers, This'll be just fine; but for those of us from the world of the ten-fingered (touch-typists), it'll be useless.
Then again, it might be useful in certain niche applications - hospitals (as TFA suggests), shop floors (where most users aren't touch-typists and environmental conditions are less than optimal for computing equipment), quick access on the fly (the "Starbucks" example being cited elsewhere). All the same, I don't think I'll bother running out and getting one anytime soon!
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Your assertion is not unlike suggesting that I have no expectation of privacy in postal mail because for a length of time it was in the posession of a Federal agency, the US Post Office.
After all, we don't use the PS3 - we just use the GOOD part, the cell processor. Lots of 'em! At the same time.
IBM BlueGene, closing in on the petaflop. You bet yer sweet bippie we're pushin' those processors 'til they SCREAM, and believe me it's a thing of beauty to behold (when it works - after all, it is a development project, a "work in progress" you might say).
Thought so.
Uh, help me see it - so the guys at Opera are going to mass-produce a parallel product, OOLPC (One Opera Laptop Per Child), for which they will maintain identical standards to the competition's OLPC until their OOLPC machine becomes the standard, which they will then use to eliminate all competing laptop manufacturers? After that, I presume they will force all the OOLPC users to upgrade their hardware regularly, in accordance with some onerous and despicable "click-wrap" license?
Sorry, dude - I followed you right up to the point where you said "Just like IBM" - after that, you lost me!
At some point, somebody realized that a super-cheap laptop could do 90% of what people want to do with laptops. How to get them made? Try to make it yourself, you'll end up like DeLorean - the industry'll see to it that you fail before you can upset their applecarts! So . . . yeah! Pretend you're trying to make it for third world children! Think of the children!
CEO's, captains of industry, unaware of what they're doing begin working to be involved in making the last thing in the world they want to make - exactly what the consuming public really wants - a tough, reliable laptop computer suitable for on-the-go use at rock-bottom (true commodity) prices! I wonder if any of them are stopping to think that these things will have an impact on how we (collectively) see computers and computing, and the price associated with them? Just look around this post - half the comments are "I'd like one of those!". If I knew that the manufacturer was able to make 'em and sell 'em for $100.00, it'd sure make me think twice about plunking down $700.00 for a machine which, while shinier, is unlikely to do a lot more for me as a mobile computing platform.
In a way, this could be vaguely akin to Henry Ford's contribution to the automotive industry - utility and pricing set to put one in every garage (on every laptop). You can have it any color you like - as long as it's green!
20 if RND(between_0-1) < .5 then print "IP_ADDRESS GUILTY! SUBPOENA COMPUTER DISK AND SUE OWNER." else print "We'll get 'im next time!"
30 GOTO 10
Fast forward to the 21st century. No, I'm no expert on things Internet, but I was there. In an outsider's kind of way, I remember all of the testing in the early 80's to get this "inter-network connection" thing working - I remember the programmers beating each other on the back because they had successfully gotten data off the MF at Fort Benjamin Harrison, IN. Maybe it was pr0n, but I couldn't tell ya what kind.
Amazing, considering what DARPA had to work with back then - funny thing is, they could never really get their own telephone systems (autovon, autosecvon) to work very well, but I guess the heavy involvement of University resources in the early phases of internetworking made the difference there. Too bad, really; but of course, wired telephony is going the way of the horse and buggy nowadays, so it's no big loss to the military.
(See my sig line. It's not just a cutesy blurb, I really was there!)
anything we can't figure out, we can just go ask the Vorlons (or look at leftover Shadow technology).
Why the zune would I be? 8^)
Put it another way: you want to play dumb, that's fine - just don't act like I am.
Current situation: monitoring nearer the Sun may get is a day or less warning; new situation: prediction potentially gives us days or even weeks to react.
Massively Connected Architecture, or MCA?
Petabit Connected Internet, or PCI?
High Density Datalink, or HDD?
Low-range Petabit Transmissions, or LPT:?
Further examples are left as an exercise for the reader.
TFA isn't about monitoring the sun and radioing warnings of CME's/flares/etc. TFA is about predicting CME's/flares/etc. and taking appropriate action before it's too late. The fact that the solar wind only moves at something like .001c only buys us eight minutes tops to get a warning out. Predictive science, however, may give us a day, days or even weeks to "batten down the space-hatches".
(2) Run *NIX on (at least) one machine in your LAN. (3) Run Sendmail on that machine (or postfix, or whatever MTA you like).
(4) Listen to your wife and kids complain that their family/friends aren't getting e-mails from them.
(5) Correct the configuration on your MTA (oops - mea culpa).
(6) Listen to your wife and kids complain that they're not getting e-mails from their family/friends.
(7) Correct the configuration of your MTA (again).
(8) Listen to your wife and kids complain that they're still getting spammed into oblivion.
(9) Configure mail filters to hold the spam.
(10) Listen to your wife and kids complain that they're missing valid e-mails.
(11) (Repeat steps (8)-(10) recursively until (8) and (10) no longer happen.)
(12) ???
(13) Profit!^H^H^H^H^H^H^HRelax!
But imagine the energy savings on a Beowulf cluster of those things!
Mankind's track record in bio-engineering is pretty dismal (just look at what happens almost every time we move some critter or another into a non-indiginous ecosystem).
Again, not urging a moratorium, merely advising caution!
Do you believe that such an organism, once engineered, could be kept forever contained? Life has a funny way of getting around such obstacles. GM corn is one thing - even GM bacilli to, say, biodegrade plastics. GM organisms which can break water down to hydrogen and oxygen? I think we (collectively) need to reevaluate the risk factors here; such an organism in the wild could very well turn our planet into a dustbowl in such a shockingly short time we wouldn't even have time to lynch the scientists who created it (think: hours - the mathematics of unchecked reproduction are truly alarming).
Question 2: Is there evidence that the Egyptians used this technology elsewhere? I find it difficult to believe that they would've evolved this kind of technology (concrete) and used it exclusively for the task of pyramid-building.
Not against these odds!
Somehow I hit "+1 Informative" when I was aiming at "+x Funny". meh.
Am I the only one who sees this as reminiscent the scene in Star Wars III where Anakin kills Dooku? Cast M$ as Palpatine, SCO as Dooku and Novell as Anakin.
M$: "Good. Now . . . kill him"
Novell: "I shouldn't do it. It's not our way. They're a LINUX distributor too."
M$ "Do it!"
(SCO's head flies off in appelate court)
"Always two there are - a master and an apprentice." Too bad, I really like SuSE.
Then again, it might be useful in certain niche applications - hospitals (as TFA suggests), shop floors (where most users aren't touch-typists and environmental conditions are less than optimal for computing equipment), quick access on the fly (the "Starbucks" example being cited elsewhere). All the same, I don't think I'll bother running out and getting one anytime soon!
The judge wouldn't want to endanger his primary source of r0ga1n, v1agra and c!a1is now, would he?