Nah. The multi-verse wave function (whatever it is) should be more or less smooth enough. By killing off all your "twins" you convert your wave function into Dirac delta function. I guess at that moment the multi-verse will respond with a loud "gulp" sound (in hard vacuum) and eliminate you and entire history of our your existence (also it will edit out all./ logs, I guess).
Either you account has been compromised by your worst enemy or you had one beer too many tonight.
The above message genuinely looks like an incitement so every law-abiding Slashdotter sure will follow Militia Act of 1792 and assembly near your house
"... with a good musket or firelock, a sufficient bayonet and belt, two spare flints, and a knapsack, a pouch, with a box therein, to contain not less than twenty four cartridges, suited to the bore of his musket or firelock, each cartridge to contain a proper quantity of power and ball..."
I remember geeks denials: 1. of minicomputers when mainframes where coming to end 2. of PCs when minicomputers were dying 3. of iPad when PCs started to feel rusty 4. insert your favorite denial here
I wonder, how much one needs to beat an average geek with a hard fact over the head to make him accept it? Also, I think an (old?) geek is one of the most conservative, unimaginative and entrenched personalities in our culture (vi/gcc/gdb chain kinda proves it).
Again... Alternatively, NUMA on a single CPU (different memory channels connected to different cores). It would be a bitch to program (but fun nevertheless).
You will probably laugh but banks and finances do not: Excel spreadsheets. Microsoft HPC solution allows distribute it across many nodes. Trust me: *huge* money are there (alas, not for you, not for me and not for science). It's much cheaper for a bank to rent a supercomputer to calculate a heavy spreadsheet written by programming-challenged but money-wise CPA then to hire a money-challenged, HPC-wise guy to rewrite (and perpetually modify it on a short notice) this spreadsheet to FORTRAN.
Check out otterbox iPad cases. While not the mil-spec, they can take some punch nevertheless.
By the way, in my experience with my 2-years twin boys iPads are better protected than note/netbooks. It's just a slab of aluminum and glass. No keys, no hinges, no wires or plastic LCD.
From the above comments: 1. The customer is a fool 2. The deployment team is a bunch of morons.
Slashdot conclusion: We don't like the customer. We don't like the deployment team. Our product is perfect as is. We will wait for a new customer and new deployment team.
Would-be-commercial developer's conclusion: We can't choose our customers. We need customers' money to survive. We have to educate the deployment team or provide our own one. It is our fault that morons can't deploy and use our product. All our engineers to be switched to 60 hours-per-week schedule until even morons can deploy and use our product.
And it's bad for the rest of us the mere mortals who is sweating optimizing some mundane algorithms to allow them run on slow but power-efficient ARMs of today.
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I just wonder if Skynet can be powered by human brain cells.
Also a lot of other sci-fi stuff comes to mind, including Azimov's Foundation.
Nah. The multi-verse wave function (whatever it is) should be more or less smooth enough. By killing off all your "twins" you convert your wave function into Dirac delta function. I guess at that moment the multi-verse will respond with a loud "gulp" sound (in hard vacuum) and eliminate you and entire history of our your existence (also it will edit out all ./ logs, I guess).
Wait, to whom am I talking right now?
UploadStream: data goes to a server.
DownloadStream: data goes from the server.
Either you account has been compromised by your worst enemy or you had one beer too many tonight.
The above message genuinely looks like an incitement so every law-abiding Slashdotter sure will follow Militia Act of 1792 and assembly near your house
"... with a good musket or firelock, a sufficient bayonet and belt, two spare flints, and a knapsack, a pouch, with a box therein, to contain not less than twenty four cartridges, suited to the bore of his musket or firelock, each cartridge to contain a proper quantity of power and ball ..."
I remember geeks denials:
1. of minicomputers when mainframes where coming to end
2. of PCs when minicomputers were dying
3. of iPad when PCs started to feel rusty
4. insert your favorite denial here
I wonder, how much one needs to beat an average geek with a hard fact over the head to make him accept it?
Also, I think an (old?) geek is one of the most conservative, unimaginative and entrenched personalities in our culture (vi/gcc/gdb chain kinda proves it).
That was something...
My final successful solution:
ChiWriter -> PCL -> PCL emulator -> TIFF -> PDF -> OCR -> OCR PDF
For too young to know:
ChiWriter
That's the true reason.
Again...
Alternatively, NUMA on a single CPU (different memory channels connected to different cores).
It would be a bitch to program (but fun nevertheless).
Yes, "coded" by a specialist in the target area. A perl (or Fortran) schmuck is not a CPA specialist to trust to.
Your negative response reminds me about mini-era programmers' response to 1-2-3 and IBM-PC ;)
Welcome to the world of tomorrow!
But I sure feel your pain.
And please (re-)read "Diaspora" by Greg Egan. Those folks sure aint need no stinkin programmers! :)
Besides, I think Excel easily beats Perl in terms of MIPS/FLOPS (but probably not wisely applied Python+NumPy).
The point is to NOT have anybody to code it at all.
You will probably laugh but banks and finances do not: Excel spreadsheets.
Microsoft HPC solution allows distribute it across many nodes.
Trust me: *huge* money are there (alas, not for you, not for me and not for science).
It's much cheaper for a bank to rent a supercomputer to calculate a heavy spreadsheet written by programming-challenged but money-wise CPA then to hire a money-challenged, HPC-wise guy to rewrite (and perpetually modify it on a short notice) this spreadsheet to FORTRAN.
Check out otterbox iPad cases. While not the mil-spec, they can take some punch nevertheless.
By the way, in my experience with my 2-years twin boys iPads are better protected than note/netbooks.
It's just a slab of aluminum and glass.
No keys, no hinges, no wires or plastic LCD.
I assume paranoid emacs has a macro for that already. :P
But personally I prefer vi anyway
Hmm....
From the above comments:
1. The customer is a fool
2. The deployment team is a bunch of morons.
Slashdot conclusion:
We don't like the customer.
We don't like the deployment team.
Our product is perfect as is.
We will wait for a new customer and new deployment team.
Would-be-commercial developer's conclusion:
We can't choose our customers.
We need customers' money to survive.
We have to educate the deployment team or provide our own one.
It is our fault that morons can't deploy and use our product.
All our engineers to be switched to 60 hours-per-week schedule until even morons can deploy and use our product.
Nope, it does not yet.
But you just wait for our startup's anal probe deployment in every KFC near you!
"Heavy is good, heavy is reliable. If it doesn't work you can always hit him with it." (C) Boris-the-blade
And it's bad for the rest of us the mere mortals who is sweating optimizing some mundane algorithms to allow them run on slow but power-efficient ARMs of today.
Shut up and enjoy the ride.
You mean that SSID "very poor Mom-n-Pop shop" I use all the time for donwloading iTune HD content is not Starbucks'?
Oops!
Booting from >2TB partition. Well, and easier "hackintoshabulity" too, i guess.
For what? For 1 Mil? You are funny!
Nah... It's more like "Slashdotters are ostriches".
Hey, Jesus does it too!
Sorry, boss. The office printer is out of paper.