I suspect that certain vendors of operating systems won't be in favor of this. I think you will find that the vast majority of systems that are compromised run one of the versions of Windows.
Shutting off Windows systems will make other, competing operating system suddenly look a lot more attractive.
I heartily approve of these stunts. In fact, I wish it would happen a lot more.
We have already seen 'astroturfing' being done by political organizations to fake grassroots support for candidates, political parties, and political issues. The more of this blatant abuse we see, the more skeptical the world will be of these fabricated events.
I realize I'm dreaming here, but maybe someday, people will learn to mistrust what they see and hear in the 'media'.
Sir, you make distinctions without a difference. All of Microsoft's work is derivative.
Yes, they are hugely popular and they have the major market share. They make billions of profit, yet smaller companies like Apple seem to be the ones coming up with new products.
Microsoft has been a drag on innovation for more than two decades. Its best, and seemingly only, plays continue to be copies of new technology.
I think Microsoft sees a lot of good work going on in the open source community and it wants to tap into that source of innovation. Regardless of what they say, Microsoft is sorely lacking in true, original innovation. Their best plays have been rip-offs of established ideas.
They have the money and they have to try, but I am doubtful that they'll do much else besides foster Microsoft-centric development of tools and programs similar to the Windows Powershell IDE by Dr. Tobias Weltner.
Parent puts in a link about a wind turbine that failed due to operator error and cites it as an example of unreliability. When a wind turbine fails, a small amount of generation is lost and few people are endangered. When a nuke plant goes down, all hell breaks loose.
My friend, radioactive waste will always be dangerous.
Solar and wind are still underexploited resources in this country. Combine them with better use of the energy we currently make and we will be energy independent and cleaner.
Installation of residential solar generation is ideal. It places the generation at the place of its consumption. And the use of geothermal heat-exchange heating and cooling should be mandatory.
I know I'm a bit of a Luddite, but I, too, don't consider buying ebooks. And I would buy more CDs if they would lower the price to something reasonable. Like $5. But I do buy CDs.
But you make good points. My (baby boom) generation won't be the consumers of this new media as much as the following generations.
One of my complaints is that technology turns out to be so disposable. Today's whizzy book reader is tomorrow's broken, toxic waste. I've got old computers, old CRT monitors, old disk drives, printers, scanners, motherboards, TVs, you name it. You say that books are a waste of resources that take up space. I say books are easily recyclable and that Kindles are yet another flash-in-the-pan piece of go-seh.
You can have my books when you pry them from my cold, dead hands.;)
I buy lots of books. And when I get access to pdf files that are user manuals, I frequently print them. Sorry, but I just don't like reading from a computer screen. I do it all day already.
Yes, digital media is superior in many ways, but I find it easier to browse a printed document than a digital document. Perhaps it's merely a matter of technology; browsing on a computer is not as easy.
And, I agree that browsing through books on shelves allows for serendipity. Weird, sometimes out-of-print books show up on library shelves and turn out to have unexpected value. Doing a family genealogy in Seattle, I came across a little book about grave markers in Shelby Co, Ohio. Yup, some ancestors were in that book.
If I want I can set up two 4TB raids on my server at home (assuming I had more disk space), and issue the command dd if=/dev/mdx of=/dev/mdy bs=1M count=4000000. Then I could do a diff on the two volumes. I'd be shocked if they had any errors at all.
If you turn off the error correction and the sparing of unusable sectors, you would indeed be shocked. Here's an idea, buy some of those video disk drives that Seagate makes.
I have worked in disk storage design. This was a very cool project. This looks like a promising start and in some ways represents the future of storage; COTS parts. Others have pointed out some areas of improvement, cooling and the like.
And I think I would use dual micro ATA motherboards, perhaps in their own cases to make them replaceable in case of failure.
I realize that the layout of the drives was done with an eye toward airflow, but I personally don't like to see drives set on their edges. It's probably a personal bias, but I like to see drives set flat. The bearings seem to last longer that way. Just my personal experience.
And, one final point, storage density is reaching the point where we can jam a lot of storage into a small space. Perhaps we have reached the point where we can start to spread things out and do things like put the drives in a separate enclosure or multiple enclosures. It makes designing, installing, and servicing easier. Use eSATA ports on the SATA cards to make external storage easier.
"Not to get too far offtopic, but your sig is highly interesting. Has it occurred to you that Bill and Steve did exactly that?"
IIRC, Apple came first. And much about Microsoft is due to its aping Apple.
That Apple still survives is an artifact of anti-competitive laws. In this case, those laws have worked famously.
This could be the end of that little experiment. Rule 1 is don't say anything good about your competitor. I wonder how much air time this will get in the media. And I can see the Apple vs. Microsoft ads now. Sucks to be a 'softie right about now.
"I honestly don't know what the heck is going on in the US!"
If you just woke up from a coma, America went through 8 years of voodoo economics, record deficit spending by a runaway congress, a jobless recovery, and an economy propped up with record low interest rates that lead to a housing bubble. Combine that with a failure to monitor the largest financial institutions because of an ideological aversion to regulation, and you have a perfect financial storm.
Meanwhile, Americas's financial frenemies are exploiting an arbitrage on labor and environmental costs, along with currency manipulation and protectionism, to supercharge their economies.
Now that you're up to date, we have a new American President who is not beholden to special interests, especially energy interests, who has some vision for a clean energy future. Japan has just announced a bold new project to generate photovoltaic energy and some Americans are very curious.
All of that was sardonic. What do you not understand?
Ok to get together with your friends...as long as you tweet about it.
Seriously, this whole auto-tweeting thing has a lot of useful applications; a real-time life logger. Now we need to make triggers based on the tweets that start other activities. Tweet my dog when I get into my car at the end of the work day. Actually, that dog knows when I'm coming home, so that's a waste. Some sort of weird, semi-obsessive dog radar.
How about tweeting when my mother-in-law pulls into my street? I can turn out the lights.
Cyrix! I had one of those. A DRX 50, IIRC. I upgraded and overclocked my 16MHz 386 HP Vectra to 50MHz with one of those. Those were the days.
I running a funky AMD four core with a TLB bug. Works fine on Windows XP. I own Intel stock but use AMD chips. I'm looking forward to using one of these low power chips on a HTPC.
I'm not sure but you seem to be agreeing with me. Disney was and is mainstream Amerika; conformist, sanitized, shallow.
Comics (Graphic Novels) were very non-conformist; sensational, graphic, violent, and celebrating the anti-hero. I have no doubt Disney was aware of Graphic Novels, but their approach to medias was orthogonal to the approach by Marvel, et al, and Disney did not seem to try to compete with the themes of comics.
For Disney to now take ownership of those very sources of alternative media is to see that alternative media co-opted, and to lose access to those themes.
These comics came of age in the time of existentialism right after WWII. Many of the original themes, especially for the better comics, were those very adult issues of moral relativism, personal responsibility vis-a-vis society, and other challenges to society.
We can't expect Disney to extend these adult issues in a format that might appeal to younger audiences. Indeed, we can't really expect Disney to even appreciate the history of comics from that era.
I hate Fox and Rupurt Murdoch, but they were the ones to push the envelope with media. It's too bad Fox didn't have the foresight to buy properties like Marvel so that the seriously adult themes in comics can be fully developed.
My wife, bless her heart, didn't know how many states there are. She thought there were 52 states. She's 56 and she's finally wanting to learn about the world. She wouldn't have a clue about Alan Turing or any of the details of WWII, despite the fact that her father served in combat.
The upside? She now gets a lot of history by watching television. In fact, I know about the persecution of Alan Turing because of a Television show.
I see a few tags that cast doubt on the prediction. Why? I'll bet there were skeptics of Moore's Law when that became widely disseminated.
What troubles me is that this sort of cell GPU is not more widely used in everyday applications. We who program for a living are feeling like we have been engaging in 'self stimulation' for years and wish there were some new target platform/market that we could so some interesting work in.
"...an untrusted search engine is an unused search engine. Just ask Microsoft."
LOL, I was already thinking of Microsoft's failures while reading your response when I read that line. Too funny.
I think this might turn out to be why Microsoft will never be competitive with Google; the whole trust thing. Even if a person or company does not have any history with Microsoft, they'll quickly come to realize that you have to pay to play with Microsoft. And there goes credibility.
A big difference between Italian politics and American politics is that the corruption and self-interest is much more transparent in Italy. They aren't ashamed of it, it's part of the human condition. Only in America do a people believe that there is something akin to morality in the operation of government.
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I suspect that certain vendors of operating systems won't be in favor of this. I think you will find that the vast majority of systems that are compromised run one of the versions of Windows.
Shutting off Windows systems will make other, competing operating system suddenly look a lot more attractive.
I heartily approve of these stunts. In fact, I wish it would happen a lot more.
We have already seen 'astroturfing' being done by political organizations to fake grassroots support for candidates, political parties, and political issues. The more of this blatant abuse we see, the more skeptical the world will be of these fabricated events.
I realize I'm dreaming here, but maybe someday, people will learn to mistrust what they see and hear in the 'media'.
Sir, you make distinctions without a difference. All of Microsoft's work is derivative.
Yes, they are hugely popular and they have the major market share. They make billions of profit, yet smaller companies like Apple seem to be the ones coming up with new products.
Microsoft has been a drag on innovation for more than two decades. Its best, and seemingly only, plays continue to be copies of new technology.
I think Microsoft sees a lot of good work going on in the open source community and it wants to tap into that source of innovation. Regardless of what they say, Microsoft is sorely lacking in true, original innovation. Their best plays have been rip-offs of established ideas.
They have the money and they have to try, but I am doubtful that they'll do much else besides foster Microsoft-centric development of tools and programs similar to the Windows Powershell IDE by Dr. Tobias Weltner.
Parent puts in a link about a wind turbine that failed due to operator error and cites it as an example of unreliability. When a wind turbine fails, a small amount of generation is lost and few people are endangered. When a nuke plant goes down, all hell breaks loose.
My friend, radioactive waste will always be dangerous.
Solar and wind are still underexploited resources in this country. Combine them with better use of the energy we currently make and we will be energy independent and cleaner.
Installation of residential solar generation is ideal. It places the generation at the place of its consumption. And the use of geothermal heat-exchange heating and cooling should be mandatory.
Jeepers, this chaps my ass. Is it really so hard to find good help locally? Foreign workers are seldom the bargain that they seem to be.
Companies claim that they can't find good help domestically, but what they're really saying is that they don't want to pay for home-grown talent.
Sorry for the rant.
I know I'm a bit of a Luddite, but I, too, don't consider buying ebooks. And I would buy more CDs if they would lower the price to something reasonable. Like $5. But I do buy CDs.
;)
But you make good points. My (baby boom) generation won't be the consumers of this new media as much as the following generations.
One of my complaints is that technology turns out to be so disposable. Today's whizzy book reader is tomorrow's broken, toxic waste. I've got old computers, old CRT monitors, old disk drives, printers, scanners, motherboards, TVs, you name it. You say that books are a waste of resources that take up space. I say books are easily recyclable and that Kindles are yet another flash-in-the-pan piece of go-seh.
You can have my books when you pry them from my cold, dead hands.
I buy lots of books. And when I get access to pdf files that are user manuals, I frequently print them. Sorry, but I just don't like reading from a computer screen. I do it all day already.
Yes, digital media is superior in many ways, but I find it easier to browse a printed document than a digital document. Perhaps it's merely a matter of technology; browsing on a computer is not as easy.
And, I agree that browsing through books on shelves allows for serendipity. Weird, sometimes out-of-print books show up on library shelves and turn out to have unexpected value. Doing a family genealogy in Seattle, I came across a little book about grave markers in Shelby Co, Ohio. Yup, some ancestors were in that book.
One of the two big drivers of human effort; The first is weapons and military applications.
If I want I can set up two 4TB raids on my server at home (assuming I had more disk space), and issue the command dd if=/dev/mdx of=/dev/mdy bs=1M count=4000000. Then I could do a diff on the two volumes. I'd be shocked if they had any errors at all.
If you turn off the error correction and the sparing of unusable sectors, you would indeed be shocked. Here's an idea, buy some of those video disk drives that Seagate makes.
I have worked in disk storage design. This was a very cool project. This looks like a promising start and in some ways represents the future of storage; COTS parts. Others have pointed out some areas of improvement, cooling and the like.
And I think I would use dual micro ATA motherboards, perhaps in their own cases to make them replaceable in case of failure.
I realize that the layout of the drives was done with an eye toward airflow, but I personally don't like to see drives set on their edges. It's probably a personal bias, but I like to see drives set flat. The bearings seem to last longer that way. Just my personal experience.
And, one final point, storage density is reaching the point where we can jam a lot of storage into a small space. Perhaps we have reached the point where we can start to spread things out and do things like put the drives in a separate enclosure or multiple enclosures. It makes designing, installing, and servicing easier. Use eSATA ports on the SATA cards to make external storage easier.
"Not to get too far offtopic, but your sig is highly interesting. Has it occurred to you that Bill and Steve did exactly that?" IIRC, Apple came first. And much about Microsoft is due to its aping Apple.
That Apple still survives is an artifact of anti-competitive laws. In this case, those laws have worked famously.
Do'h!!
This could be the end of that little experiment. Rule 1 is don't say anything good about your competitor. I wonder how much air time this will get in the media. And I can see the Apple vs. Microsoft ads now. Sucks to be a 'softie right about now.
"I honestly don't know what the heck is going on in the US!"
If you just woke up from a coma, America went through 8 years of voodoo economics, record deficit spending by a runaway congress, a jobless recovery, and an economy propped up with record low interest rates that lead to a housing bubble. Combine that with a failure to monitor the largest financial institutions because of an ideological aversion to regulation, and you have a perfect financial storm.
Meanwhile, Americas's financial frenemies are exploiting an arbitrage on labor and environmental costs, along with currency manipulation and protectionism, to supercharge their economies.
Now that you're up to date, we have a new American President who is not beholden to special interests, especially energy interests, who has some vision for a clean energy future. Japan has just announced a bold new project to generate photovoltaic energy and some Americans are very curious.
All of that was sardonic. What do you not understand?
Or copyrighting laugh tracks. Copyright the sound of splashing water, falling rain.
Terrance and Phillip copyrighting their farts. Harley tried to sue another maker over the sound of the exhaust system, or something like that.
Ok to get together with your friends...as long as you tweet about it.
Seriously, this whole auto-tweeting thing has a lot of useful applications; a real-time life logger. Now we need to make triggers based on the tweets that start other activities. Tweet my dog when I get into my car at the end of the work day. Actually, that dog knows when I'm coming home, so that's a waste. Some sort of weird, semi-obsessive dog radar.
How about tweeting when my mother-in-law pulls into my street? I can turn out the lights.
Cyrix! I had one of those. A DRX 50, IIRC. I upgraded and overclocked my 16MHz 386 HP Vectra to 50MHz with one of those. Those were the days.
I running a funky AMD four core with a TLB bug. Works fine on Windows XP. I own Intel stock but use AMD chips. I'm looking forward to using one of these low power chips on a HTPC.
I'm not sure but you seem to be agreeing with me. Disney was and is mainstream Amerika; conformist, sanitized, shallow.
Comics (Graphic Novels) were very non-conformist; sensational, graphic, violent, and celebrating the anti-hero. I have no doubt Disney was aware of Graphic Novels, but their approach to medias was orthogonal to the approach by Marvel, et al, and Disney did not seem to try to compete with the themes of comics.
For Disney to now take ownership of those very sources of alternative media is to see that alternative media co-opted, and to lose access to those themes.
These comics came of age in the time of existentialism right after WWII. Many of the original themes, especially for the better comics, were those very adult issues of moral relativism, personal responsibility vis-a-vis society, and other challenges to society.
We can't expect Disney to extend these adult issues in a format that might appeal to younger audiences. Indeed, we can't really expect Disney to even appreciate the history of comics from that era.
I hate Fox and Rupurt Murdoch, but they were the ones to push the envelope with media. It's too bad Fox didn't have the foresight to buy properties like Marvel so that the seriously adult themes in comics can be fully developed.
My wife, bless her heart, didn't know how many states there are. She thought there were 52 states. She's 56 and she's finally wanting to learn about the world. She wouldn't have a clue about Alan Turing or any of the details of WWII, despite the fact that her father served in combat. The upside? She now gets a lot of history by watching television. In fact, I know about the persecution of Alan Turing because of a Television show.
I see a few tags that cast doubt on the prediction. Why? I'll bet there were skeptics of Moore's Law when that became widely disseminated.
What troubles me is that this sort of cell GPU is not more widely used in everyday applications. We who program for a living are feeling like we have been engaging in 'self stimulation' for years and wish there were some new target platform/market that we could so some interesting work in.
"...an untrusted search engine is an unused search engine. Just ask Microsoft."
LOL, I was already thinking of Microsoft's failures while reading your response when I read that line. Too funny.
I think this might turn out to be why Microsoft will never be competitive with Google; the whole trust thing. Even if a person or company does not have any history with Microsoft, they'll quickly come to realize that you have to pay to play with Microsoft. And there goes credibility.
A big difference between Italian politics and American politics is that the corruption and self-interest is much more transparent in Italy. They aren't ashamed of it, it's part of the human condition. Only in America do a people believe that there is something akin to morality in the operation of government.