Heh. Hilarious exchange between the two of you. I didn't respond to his troll 'cause I assumed he wasn't worth my time. I was right.
Yeah, basically his whole argument is pointless and lacks logic. Of course gravity can be seen -- indeed, as you point out, it has been seen. Newton didn't have 'faith' in gravity. He saw that things that went up also came down. Newton proved gravity is real. Einstein didn't have 'faith' in gravity -- he proved it fit in with his theory of general relativity. Gravity is essentially a scientifically proven fact that requires no faith on the part of anyone who's had a high school physics course.
Blind faith requires that you simply accept what someone else has told you as you truth -- either through writing or through speech. The fact fundamentalist Christian whackos can't get around is that they believe what they believe because someone else told them it was true.
How do you find a damn good programmer? YOU DON'T. Have interesting projects that push boundaries and you (or your co.) moves into the grapevine....
That's true to a point. However, sometimes you just need good hype.
Look at Transmeta. Linus Torvalds -- undoubtedly one of these 'superstar' programmers -- went to work for Transmeta. Turns out, they didn't have anything all that interesting. The Crusoe processors turned out to suck -- badly.
Google could clear things up pretty fast with a bit of disclosure. They're probably bound by law not to say anything... what we know about it was that the DoJ asked for search records, Google said "No, that information is proprietary and protected by trade secret." and the DoJ said "This is in the interests of National Security, protecting kiddies, etc. went before a judge, got a subpoena, and Google was forced to comply. But, they cut a deal with the DoJ that said they only had to release so much information. What Google gave up to get that concession is anyone's guess, but I'm guessing that Google was told to sign an NDA in regards to the DoJ investigation.
Oh, c'mon. You're not really buying this crap are you? If this were remotely true, it would mean that Microsoft is pretty much scrapping it's entire codebase for Windows and replacing it with a Unix or Unix-like architecture. And, they're gonna ship it by late next year.
Do you also believe in Santa Claus? The Easter Bunny?
In related news, Microsoft announced today that it has hired Richard M. Stallman and Linus Torvalds, who will be working together as partners on their new UNG project. Torvalds and Stallman hugged following a speech given by Steve Ballmer, and promised to put their differences in the past.
See, the thing is that the whole idea of intellectual property is stupid.
It doesn't exist. It can't exist.
The reason 'real property' has value and is taxed is that there is a finite amount of it. No matter how you slice, there's only so much land on this planet.
With intellectual property -- particularly in the digital age -- well, there isn't a finite amount of it. In fact, it's infinite -- I can make a gazillion copies of Windows Vista without ever removing the original from anyone or devaluing it anyway. (No matter how many copies I make of Vista Ultimate, it still sells for $400)
I've never heard of pederasts walking around the streets approaching young boys for sex (I'm sure it happens, just as I'm sure there are people who walk around in rain coats flashing people for fun and excitement), but there is more FUD in your statement than reality. I see your point, but I don't agree with you.
I do believe the perceived anonymity of the Internet would make it easier for a pederast to approach and talk to young boys, and for this reason it is easier to convince a naive public that the Internet is inherently dangerous. Yes and no. You're a geek, and you've probably used the Internet for dating, and have found that getting a date online is much easier than getting one IRL if you happen to be shy. Difference here, though, is that there isn't a "Yahoo Personals for Pederasts". Sure, there are chat rooms, etc., but at some point, if they want to meet/have sex with a minor, they're gonna have to meet them IRL. There's really no way around it.
Here's the thing: for most non-geek, non-shy people, approaching someone IRL is by far the easiest way to meet them and get a date. So for the average pederast -- I don't think he has a real problem with meeting children IRL.
In fact, pederasts DO "pick up" children -- at the playground, at school, at church, at soccer practice, whatever -- try watching crime shows like 'America's Most Wanted' or, better yet, 'Nancy Grace' on CNN. It happens everyday, and no, the Internet doesn't really make it easier except for a few of the shy ones. That's it.
In case any Bright House RoadRunner customers were wondering -- this doesn't happen on Bright House (at least in the Tampa Bay area) (yet?). Can any other Bright House customers report?
Ooh... bad idea to get Firefox mixed up in this. Pretty soon you'll see statistics like "over 15% of all internet predators use Firefox to access the web." And 15% of all Internet predators drive Fords. So?
Bullshit needs to be exposed and countered, even when propagated by well-meaning members of benevolent organizations. Yep. To paraphrase Ayn Rand: FUD is FUD. (A is A). If we call malicious organizations to the mat for spreading FUD, then we have to call even well-meaning folks on it too. The bottom line is that this "1 in 5" meme is FUD, and it's pulled out like a weapon year after year to get fascist, draconian regulations passed on the Internet. Let's put an end to the madness and launch a "open source" marketing campaign along the lines of 'Get Firefox' --> 'Stop the FUD: Your kids are no worse off on the Internet than they are out on the public streets.'
I've seen this and it lacks a WHOLE lot of data. It will take an army of volunteers dwarfing the number working on even high profile projects like the Linux kernel to ever get this thing off the ground. Can it be done? Only time will tell, I suppose, but this project is lllloooooonnnnggg ways off from being useful everywhere.
Yes, that's true. But here's the real kicker: nobody but Microsoft (and maybe Google if they really were that naive) would see Google Docs as having any possibility of hurting Microsoft where they live.
See this is why Microsoft's empire is about to crumble: Microsoft lives a state of extreme paranoia. Netscape said things about making Netscape a 'platform' for applications, making the operating system irrelevant. What did Microsoft do? For their part, they all but put Netscape out of business.
But -- what would have really happened? Netscape lives on as the Mozilla Foundation. What Netscape really had up their sleeve was what is called 'Netscape Portable Runtime" and what is now called "XUL". And indeed, Netscape (Mozilla) is a platform -- it runs an e-mail client (Thunderbird), a calendar (Sunbird), a media player (that never completely materialized), an HTML Editor (NVU/Kompozer/Mozilla Composer) and a bunch of other stuff. Did it every turn out that Netscape could have implemented an application suite that would put Microsoft out of business? No, only in Microsoft's paranoid delusions.
Same thing is happening here. Google Docs can't satisfy all needs for an office suite -- I don't even think Google is naive enough to believe it. But Microsoft is. And it's hurting them for what is their REAL core product -- operating systems.
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I gotta better one! Instead of spending time trying to beat Google at their own game, they could concentrate their efforts at improving their core products. Like, say, operating systems!
Amateur. I hacked into my high school AT&T 3B2 computer running AT&T Unix and replaced the 'login' program with my own rendition that automatically emailed me the password that was entered in the keyboard upon each successful login attempt. Heh. The teacher kept wondering why I always seemed to have his password.
Funny, I interpreted that as "cleaner with a camera and access to the Air guy's notes";)
Huh. I interpreted that as "Microsoft employee posing as a janitor with a camera and access to the Air guy's notes" or, alternatively, as "Miguel De Icaza in a janitor's suit."
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Aren't we getting a little bit ahead of ourselves, Sandia? What program would you run on this? This brings up the essential issue: what kind of program would YOU write to take advantage of this? I can only think of one: AI. Military simulations. That's what Sandia spends most of its supercomputing clock cycles doing. The Department of Energy funds supercomputing centers like Sandia National Laboratories in order to run simulations on military vehicles, nuclear weapons simulations, etc.
Seems to me that an SSD 4GB Fibre SAN might be such a novel way to go to ensuring that each node gets pretty much continuous access to large data. Seem to me the throughput would run closer to peak all the time as opposed to using a traditional HDD-based SAN. Combine that with some sort of clustering technique and I think you could achieve really good performance.
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How about Dusty Daemon?
Nahh....
Heh. Hilarious exchange between the two of you. I didn't respond to his troll 'cause I assumed he wasn't worth my time. I was right.
Yeah, basically his whole argument is pointless and lacks logic. Of course gravity can be seen -- indeed, as you point out, it has been seen. Newton didn't have 'faith' in gravity. He saw that things that went up also came down. Newton proved gravity is real. Einstein didn't have 'faith' in gravity -- he proved it fit in with his theory of general relativity. Gravity is essentially a scientifically proven fact that requires no faith on the part of anyone who's had a high school physics course.
Blind faith requires that you simply accept what someone else has told you as you truth -- either through writing or through speech. The fact fundamentalist Christian whackos can't get around is that they believe what they believe because someone else told them it was true.
That's true to a point. However, sometimes you just need good hype.
Look at Transmeta. Linus Torvalds -- undoubtedly one of these 'superstar' programmers -- went to work for Transmeta. Turns out, they didn't have anything all that interesting. The Crusoe processors turned out to suck -- badly.
Oh, c'mon. You're not really buying this crap are you? If this were remotely true, it would mean that Microsoft is pretty much scrapping it's entire codebase for Windows and replacing it with a Unix or Unix-like architecture. And, they're gonna ship it by late next year.
Do you also believe in Santa Claus? The Easter Bunny?
In related news, Microsoft announced today that it has hired Richard M. Stallman and Linus Torvalds, who will be working together as partners on their new UNG project. Torvalds and Stallman hugged following a speech given by Steve Ballmer, and promised to put their differences in the past.
Next thing you're gonna say is that a black man and a white woman are both viable contenders for the U.S. presidency in 2008....oh, wait...
UCLA, ACLU, potato, potahto...
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Although, I'm not altogether certain what why the United Crazy Lunatics' Association is involved in this case
See, the thing is that the whole idea of intellectual property is stupid.
It doesn't exist. It can't exist.
The reason 'real property' has value and is taxed is that there is a finite amount of it. No matter how you slice, there's only so much land on this planet.
With intellectual property -- particularly in the digital age -- well, there isn't a finite amount of it. In fact, it's infinite -- I can make a gazillion copies of Windows Vista without ever removing the original from anyone or devaluing it anyway. (No matter how many copies I make of Vista Ultimate, it still sells for $400)
And that is the difference.
Here's the thing: for most non-geek, non-shy people, approaching someone IRL is by far the easiest way to meet them and get a date. So for the average pederast -- I don't think he has a real problem with meeting children IRL.
In fact, pederasts DO "pick up" children -- at the playground, at school, at church, at soccer practice, whatever -- try watching crime shows like 'America's Most Wanted' or, better yet, 'Nancy Grace' on CNN. It happens everyday, and no, the Internet doesn't really make it easier except for a few of the shy ones. That's it.
In case any Bright House RoadRunner customers were wondering -- this doesn't happen on Bright House (at least in the Tampa Bay area) (yet?). Can any other Bright House customers report?
I've seen this and it lacks a WHOLE lot of data. It will take an army of volunteers dwarfing the number working on even high profile projects like the Linux kernel to ever get this thing off the ground. Can it be done? Only time will tell, I suppose, but this project is lllloooooonnnnggg ways off from being useful everywhere.
Ah, an AC with a clue.
Yes, that's true. But here's the real kicker: nobody but Microsoft (and maybe Google if they really were that naive) would see Google Docs as having any possibility of hurting Microsoft where they live.
See this is why Microsoft's empire is about to crumble: Microsoft lives a state of extreme paranoia. Netscape said things about making Netscape a 'platform' for applications, making the operating system irrelevant. What did Microsoft do? For their part, they all but put Netscape out of business.
But -- what would have really happened? Netscape lives on as the Mozilla Foundation. What Netscape really had up their sleeve was what is called 'Netscape Portable Runtime" and what is now called "XUL". And indeed, Netscape (Mozilla) is a platform -- it runs an e-mail client (Thunderbird), a calendar (Sunbird), a media player (that never completely materialized), an HTML Editor (NVU/Kompozer/Mozilla Composer) and a bunch of other stuff. Did it every turn out that Netscape could have implemented an application suite that would put Microsoft out of business? No, only in Microsoft's paranoid delusions.
Same thing is happening here. Google Docs can't satisfy all needs for an office suite -- I don't even think Google is naive enough to believe it. But Microsoft is. And it's hurting them for what is their REAL core product -- operating systems.
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I gotta better one! Instead of spending time trying to beat Google at their own game, they could concentrate their efforts at improving their core products. Like, say, operating systems!
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Amateur. I hacked into my high school AT&T 3B2 computer running AT&T Unix and replaced the 'login' program with my own rendition that automatically emailed me the password that was entered in the keyboard upon each successful login attempt. Heh. The teacher kept wondering why I always seemed to have his password.
Funny, I interpreted that as "cleaner with a camera and access to the Air guy's notes" ;)
Huh. I interpreted that as "Microsoft employee posing as a janitor with a camera and access to the Air guy's notes" or, alternatively, as "Miguel De Icaza in a janitor's suit."
Seems to me that an SSD 4GB Fibre SAN might be such a novel way to go to ensuring that each node gets pretty much continuous access to large data. Seem to me the throughput would run closer to peak all the time as opposed to using a traditional HDD-based SAN. Combine that with some sort of clustering technique and I think you could achieve really good performance.