I never knew ye. Seriously, I can't say I've ever read a blog except as a link from here. Maybe we can go back to plan files instead. Or maybe, just maybe, we can keep our stupid opinions to ourselves. But look where I'm posting...
When security compromises functionality, you have already lost. Kinda like how Al-Qaeda won the war on terrorism.
The first idea sounds like some geek's dissertation. Bully for you, Dr. Poindexter, you get the degree, but you don't get the VC. The second is just stupid, a naive case of traffic conditioning.
Here's a novel idea for security--stop writing crappy software. This will never happen so long as profit$ = quality / time. That's why I hate programming, and why I'm now doing system administration type stuff instead. At least I can blame MY idiot users for my headaches instead of banging my head against the combined might of billions of commons-tragedic fools.
Without voicechat I can pretend I'm wreaking havoc with fellow manly men instead of playing against a bunch of prepubescent nerds. It really slays the old immersion factor when the soldier next to you is squeaking like a mallrat.
Some people doubt the existence of God, but I propose a doctrine of Intelligent Deogenesis. By postulating the existence of a creator who created God, we can account for the Intelligent Design in the characteristics of God Himself. Clearly, a being of God's infinite intelligence is the product of a being of intelligence. Theories that God evolved from monkeys or one-celled organisms fail the BS test, since God is clearly irreducible in his complexity. God simply sprang fully-formed from the mind of Man. Cogito ergo sum, lorem ipso dolor, quid pro quo, alea jacta est, et cetera.
A major difference between Google and a young MicroSoft is that Google seems to be building their evil empire from scratch rather than buying an also-ran product and using large volumes of money to push it past the good products. Does Google have a Paypal competitor yet? It will. In America, first you get the sugar, then you get the money, then you get the women. Then you shoot up your competitors, and they in turn shoot you up in your palatial mansion...damn you Ben Kingsley! What were we talking about?
Since 0 is fatter than 1, we can better utilize bandwidth by only transmitting 1s by having unary processors. This would also obviate the need for branching and so we would not have to be subject to poet laureates lauding tiresome bohemian platitutes. BTW, the world does end in fire, Bob.
This is why, as a CS guy, I wouldn't touch data mining with a 1024 foot pole. It's the CS equivalent of working on the atom bomb, except you're working for the Axis instead of the Allies. The people working on this kind of thing are either whores, evil, or so research-struck they don't care about real-world applications.
The Amiga had such a board way back when, a generic CPU emulator that used FPGAs to emulate multiple processors. It could supposedly emulate a Mac faster than a real Mac (probably using the Amiga's CPU, though). They were still trying to get 486 emulation debugged last I heard, many moons ago.
the fool who deigns to comment on said fools. Or the fool who comments on the foolishness of the aforementioned fool. Or the fool who....STACK OVERFLOW
All those academic losers in CS departments across the country can't be bothered to write a compiler to prove their pet theories? Gimme a break. Sure it may be hard, but doing hard stuff is why these big-brained Einsteins are making the big bucks. I guess expecting results from domain experts is too much to ask nowadays; much better to spend your time recompiling Linux on esoteric architectures and writing papers on what pivot is best for Quicksort.
I guess they really want to replace computers with internet devices, and make computers marginal, about like gaming consoles are doing with PC games. That way, you Linux communists can play with your uncompromised PCs while Ma and Pa Kettle are using their Microsoft Officebox plugged into the TV.
...since Longhorn doesn't actually have any substantive improvements. About like how Office hasn't substantively changed since Office 98, as far as I can tell (but I don't use Office much).
Clearly you are not rich because God hates you and loves other people, who are rich. You should give the rest of your money to these rich people, who, serving as proxies for God, will better minister to your nasty, brutish, and short temporal existence, generally by overworking you so that they may have more worldly luxuries. In doing so, they provide an example of the reward that awaits us in heaven. You, however, must toil and suffer through your days. Amen.
Wow, none of that is science fiction
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...just 1950s type monster flicks, by the sound of it. Thank you SciFi for taking the Sci out of Fi. Leaving us with Fi. I guess.
Sounds great, until you realize your antimatter catalyst needs a penning trap weighing hundreds of tons. Good news is that in space, it will weigh nothing!
There's plenty of "background radiation" on the 'net, your firewall can turn that down. Really, though, firewalls are just a hack, especially with all this tunnelling going on nowadays. Yeah, let's block all ports but HTTP, then tunnel every packet through HTTP. Smart move, Poindexter!
Ethanol and biodiesel alternatives cannot be sustained at present levels of consumption. Hydrogen-based methods are presently just lunacy, being essentially based on pre-burning hydrocarbons (either in direct conversion or in running your electrolysis getup), which of course means they are even less efficient.
The only real solutions are to make cars with tiny 20 hp high-efficiency engines and to have an effective public transportation system. I've seen the latter in Japan. I also suggest that this whole "mobile workforce" paradigm that capitalists seem to love be abandoned, since it creates a wasteful transportation burden on labor while making it easier for corporations to exploit same. We should be working in collectives, comrades. You have nothing to lose but your polluting commute.
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I never knew ye. Seriously, I can't say I've ever read a blog except as a link from here. Maybe we can go back to plan files instead. Or maybe, just maybe, we can keep our stupid opinions to ourselves. But look where I'm posting...
When security compromises functionality, you have already lost. Kinda like how Al-Qaeda won the war on terrorism.
The first idea sounds like some geek's dissertation. Bully for you, Dr. Poindexter, you get the degree, but you don't get the VC. The second is just stupid, a naive case of traffic conditioning.
Here's a novel idea for security--stop writing crappy software. This will never happen so long as profit$ = quality / time. That's why I hate programming, and why I'm now doing system administration type stuff instead. At least I can blame MY idiot users for my headaches instead of banging my head against the combined might of billions of commons-tragedic fools.
Without voicechat I can pretend I'm wreaking havoc with fellow manly men instead of playing against a bunch of prepubescent nerds. It really slays the old immersion factor when the soldier next to you is squeaking like a mallrat.
Some people doubt the existence of God, but I propose a doctrine of Intelligent Deogenesis. By postulating the existence of a creator who created God, we can account for the Intelligent Design in the characteristics of God Himself. Clearly, a being of God's infinite intelligence is the product of a being of intelligence. Theories that God evolved from monkeys or one-celled organisms fail the BS test, since God is clearly irreducible in his complexity. God simply sprang fully-formed from the mind of Man. Cogito ergo sum, lorem ipso dolor, quid pro quo, alea jacta est, et cetera.
A major difference between Google and a young MicroSoft is that Google seems to be building their evil empire from scratch rather than buying an also-ran product and using large volumes of money to push it past the good products. Does Google have a Paypal competitor yet? It will. In America, first you get the sugar, then you get the money, then you get the women. Then you shoot up your competitors, and they in turn shoot you up in your palatial mansion...damn you Ben Kingsley! What were we talking about?
...gotta take a wizz on this fence over here.
Since 0 is fatter than 1, we can better utilize bandwidth by only transmitting 1s by having unary processors. This would also obviate the need for branching and so we would not have to be subject to poet laureates lauding tiresome bohemian platitutes. BTW, the world does end in fire, Bob.
Maybe they will come up with phones that transmit voice? You know, instead of text messages, pictures, evidence of thoughtcrime, et al.
This is why, as a CS guy, I wouldn't touch data mining with a 1024 foot pole. It's the CS equivalent of working on the atom bomb, except you're working for the Axis instead of the Allies. The people working on this kind of thing are either whores, evil, or so research-struck they don't care about real-world applications.
The Amiga had such a board way back when, a generic CPU emulator that used FPGAs to emulate multiple processors. It could supposedly emulate a Mac faster than a real Mac (probably using the Amiga's CPU, though). They were still trying to get 486 emulation debugged last I heard, many moons ago.
the fool who deigns to comment on said fools. Or the fool who comments on the foolishness of the aforementioned fool. Or the fool who....STACK OVERFLOW
Calling the blue element a pixel is fraudulent, pure and simple.
All those academic losers in CS departments across the country can't be bothered to write a compiler to prove their pet theories? Gimme a break. Sure it may be hard, but doing hard stuff is why these big-brained Einsteins are making the big bucks. I guess expecting results from domain experts is too much to ask nowadays; much better to spend your time recompiling Linux on esoteric architectures and writing papers on what pivot is best for Quicksort.
I guess they really want to replace computers with internet devices, and make computers marginal, about like gaming consoles are doing with PC games. That way, you Linux communists can play with your uncompromised PCs while Ma and Pa Kettle are using their Microsoft Officebox plugged into the TV.
It's all about the games, and for games AMD owned Intel. Besides, real haxx0rs download their warez pre-encoded.
...because Microsoft will put it everywhere for you! Think DirectX...OK, bad example.
Sounds like he needs to leverage his core competencies to promulgate synergistic market-oriented strategies.
...since Longhorn doesn't actually have any substantive improvements. About like how Office hasn't substantively changed since Office 98, as far as I can tell (but I don't use Office much).
Clearly you are not rich because God hates you and loves other people, who are rich. You should give the rest of your money to these rich people, who, serving as proxies for God, will better minister to your nasty, brutish, and short temporal existence, generally by overworking you so that they may have more worldly luxuries. In doing so, they provide an example of the reward that awaits us in heaven. You, however, must toil and suffer through your days. Amen.
...just 1950s type monster flicks, by the sound of it. Thank you SciFi for taking the Sci out of Fi. Leaving us with Fi. I guess.
They can take mah job, but they can't take away mah Bible!
...but all my cards just have a magnetic strip on the back. I'm also waiting for my flying car and robotic manservant. Or womanservant. Whatever.
Sounds great, until you realize your antimatter catalyst needs a penning trap weighing hundreds of tons. Good news is that in space, it will weigh nothing!
There's plenty of "background radiation" on the 'net, your firewall can turn that down. Really, though, firewalls are just a hack, especially with all this tunnelling going on nowadays. Yeah, let's block all ports but HTTP, then tunnel every packet through HTTP. Smart move, Poindexter!
Ethanol and biodiesel alternatives cannot be sustained at present levels of consumption. Hydrogen-based methods are presently just lunacy, being essentially based on pre-burning hydrocarbons (either in direct conversion or in running your electrolysis getup), which of course means they are even less efficient.
The only real solutions are to make cars with tiny 20 hp high-efficiency engines and to have an effective public transportation system. I've seen the latter in Japan. I also suggest that this whole "mobile workforce" paradigm that capitalists seem to love be abandoned, since it creates a wasteful transportation burden on labor while making it easier for corporations to exploit same. We should be working in collectives, comrades. You have nothing to lose but your polluting commute.