Seriously, it sounds like the power in your house is not clean. When I used to work as a field tech at a university, there was on old building on campus that we knew had bad power problems, and the MTBF for any device in that building was significantly lower than the rest of campus.
By far the worst, though, was the networking equipment and hard drives.
or does this article leave everyone else a little hungry in the "details" department? How does this mean "almost instantaneous, error-free and unlimited access to the Internet anywhere in the world...?" How will it not cost the consumer more? I feel like there's a story about breakthrough Tb switching tech every six months, and we haven't seen any of them deliver on these kinds of promises. They make it sound like you can just drop some glass in your existing switches and they magically become superpowered, whereas clearly if the technology ever actually matures to market we would be paying out the ass for these optics-enhanced switches and routers.
An early adopter "stiffed"? A technology buyer getting more stuff for less money if they just wait? No way!
While you make a very good point, when a company pulls a product right after release and almost immediately replaces it with a better, cheaper version, that does suck more than normal. I don't actually know the timeline, though, just quoting TA:
At £269 inc Vat, the Eee PC 904 also considerably cheaper than the short-lived Eee PC 900. which means some early adopters will no doubt be kicking themselves...
I'm the network, systems and phone admin for our company (medium-sized business), and we actually use AVG Network edition, which is exactly the same as the free edition except it can be controlled by a broken, crippled management console. AVG 8 came out with this feature and I turned it off the first day (at least on the clients that the management console would work on, which was not many) because it started sucking up all our bandwidth. I rolled back to 7.5 on all the important machines because their software has just become too malicious and bloated. Aside from the scanning feature, there are a zillion other little addons which all cause an error state in the program if manually disabled. On top of that, it requires restarts about once a month, and it eats our remote software (RAdmin); even if you add it to the exceptions. I've had no luck with the twenty-some emails that I've sent them about that; they keep claiming that they can't replicate it in their labs even when I show them screens of the scanner wiping a file and the exceptions list in the background showing exactly the same file with the "any location" setting enabled. This all probably makes me sound like a bad admin, I wish I could convince my boss to get a real AV solution, but instead I'm dealing with at least one problem every single day caused by AVG. Also, don't install AVG with the Netware 5.0 client (I know, I know, we're upgrading now, shut up). Bottom line: AVG used to be great for home users, but now it's a black hole of productivity, and an absolute nightmare in a business environment.
I do have the original; I could swear they mention that a fire will make fingerprints more permanent. I could be completely mistaken, though. I can't believe I missed that "s."
Is the NCNR not a particle physics lab? Sure it's only cold neutrons... none of this fancy schmancy high energy mumbo jumbo, but they're still particles right? Last time I checked it was still in operation; expanding to a new guide hall if I heard correctly.
750 megabytes/second! 750 kilobits/second sounds less like an enterprise LAN infrastructure and more like broadband. What do you mean by USB modem? Cable modem? DSL modem? Dialup modem? It sounds to me like you have cable or DSL if you're pulling 750k/sec, those speeds are physically impossible over a standard phone line (the kind the asker's parents have, and keeping in mind that DSL wasn't offered) no matter what kind of hardware you have driving it. Google "MTU dialup," and, using ping with do not fragment and payload size set, you should be able to significantly improve the speed of their connection by altering the MTU. If you really want super speed though, and totally for free, with no dish, and it comes with free pizza , you can jusafkejigf2390gfn NO CARRIER M^
...it'll produce bleach vapor Wait... like chlorine gas? Will I finally be able to make the Bender chlorine jokes while actually choking on chlorine gas? Fantastic!
Well, we do try. I'm working on legislating e^(i*pi)+1 to equal not zero, but a kajillion billion. You see, by taking the quadrangent of pi (valued at exactly 3) and the linear arc of the glayben, we obviously get a far superior answer than the old, wanting, junky answer that Euler crapped out most likely on ye olde toilet. And, best of all, you too can use the Toilet-Free Euler Identity (T-FI) for the low price of 9.95 US dollars... in your own home! Deals like this don't last forever, folks, but if you hit me up within the next twenty minutes, the identity comes with pi=3... ABSOLUTELY FREE!
from TFA:
At HD resolution we were able to achieve a frame rate of about 90 frames per second on a Dual-X5365 machine, utilizing all 8 cores of that system for rendering. The quote is referring to Quake 4. So they already can raytrace a semi-modern game at 90 FPS, and they have a graph that very clearly shows raytracing at a performance advantage as complexity increases. Just look at the damn graph (page three), the point where raster performance and raytracing performance intersect can't be more than a couple years off, and it's apparent that we may even have crossed that point already. Continue becoming tired of hearing about raytracing, the rest of us will sit patiently as the technology comes of age. Personally, I'm tired of hearing about this HD stuff, I mean, it's not like HD TVs will ever be mainstream, with their huge pricetags and short lifespans. Oh wait...
I didn't really go for HD that much until I watched A New Hope on my ultra-hip and with-it Super Beta Hi-Fi and then watched it in HD off a Comcast channel. Let me tell you, if you want to be awed by HD, going to it straight from Betamax is the way to go; screw everything else in between. Not going to throw away my beta collection just yet, though.
It should be possible to perform experiments to prove the hypothesis too. He reasons that if reality was to do something that information processing cannot, then it cannot be virtual. Well fscking duh, what a worthless statement! How about "What if God exists? It should be possible to do experiments verifying the existence of God. If we can prove that God exists, then surely... there is a God." Is this guy serious? I mean, you could say that about anything! Can I make news headlines by hypothesizing something ridiculous, and then conclude with "it should be provable, but I don't know how..."? I can't believe people get away with this hack-science BS. Now, I haven't done any research on this guy whatsoever, but he sounds like the kind of person who has a nice degree and title but just doesn't know how to do science, just a wannabe, half-assed sensationalist. It's like when Amal Graafstra http://www.amal.net/rfid.html got an RFID implant in 2005 and called himself "the first human cyborg." No. You're not the first human cyborg, you're a hack moron who figured out how to exploit today's scientifically-challenged media. Wake me up when somebody actually has a way to test this.
Download the update that they have to fix this, extract the files from the executable, and tell me how the fsck to do this. Seriously though, from a quick glance at the included files and documentation, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to apply this update other than by the manual registry edit. We just switched from Netware 4.0 (Don't make fun of me), so maybe I just don't know group policy well enough yet, but this update comes with the worst documentation I have seen yet from Microsoft. Luckily, we only have a single user that needs Lotus support, and OO.org should be able to work with any archives we have.
Still missed my main point, which is wait for the full study to be released before you dismiss it. If you want to believe that all of the test subjects were autonomously and secretly trying to subvert the results and that all scientific studies are flawed because people make mistakes, then go ahead and miss the 21st century. This has been a hotly contested area of study, filled with FUD and BS papers by underqualified individuals and then intensly magnified by the media. We finally have a real study, done by real researchers with real degrees and real qualifications. Any research can have flaws that even the most competent team can overlook, and obviously if this is the only data we ever see pertaining to this study, then it's not worth considering. Frankly, however, the points you make are irrelevant and ill-informed; you're guessing at what they did and then attacking them based on what you don't even know happened. Just take it for what it is, which is an interesting study that may lead to us finding out something new about ourselves.
They did say that the subjects were unable to "guess" as to whether the RF was on, which in my opinion invalidates many of your points. This is just the abstract, not the full analysis or procedural documentation; you can't but expect there to be enormous amounts of information lacking in this kind of initial publication. Personally, I have been known to be short with friends who suggest that cell phones have negative health effects, calling them "paranoid," and "sellouts to the mass-media FUD machine," however this study seems to have come from legitimate authors with reasonable precedures and conclusions. As someone who writes academic research, this looks to me like a well written abstract and I wouldn't have any reason to think that the researchers are complete idiots, as you seem to believe. At the end of the abstract they state that they are moving forward with more in-depth analysis of the data. Just wait to debunk it until you have all the facts, and maybe a PhD and an MD in the medical and telecom fields (as the authors do).
Dude, not to rain on your parade or anything, but all the points the people made in the posts you linked to seemed pretty legitimate to me, and indeed even come up regularly in Slashdot's own discussions. So they're saying a misleading, horribly written piece of barely journalistic garbage showed up on the front page of Slashdot? What is it... Monday? It happens all the time, get over it, that's why Slashdot is such a great place; even if an article linked to on the main page is trash, it still sparks discussions involving all kinds of people from all over the internet. That's what makes it a discussion, opinions other than your own.
I've been doing this for a while now. I have a whole CD of NES music that I listen to in the car all the time, have all my ringtones as NES songs, I just can't get enough of it. I do it differently though, I use the built in NSF players in the emulators, they all natively output to wav. I keep all my music in wav so that if I need to put it on something besides a CD I just convert from there. Good to know, though.
I feel like the only place this would be applicable would be the interstate highway system. It would obviously have to be one of the most robust, reliable and secure system in the world; the only place I could see that happening due to complexity and cost is on something like the interstate highway system. I suppose that they would develop certain problem highways at first. The driver would be required to have a car up to spec with the highway system, and possibly pay a small toll. The highway would be a bypass to a heavily congested area and demand would be spurred by peoples' need to get to work in an efficient way. This would also open the doors for pay-and-go public transportation systems; people would get to the station attached to the highway and then rent a vehicle that would take them to another station along the highway with no user interaction. The system would be first adopted by people who can afford the expensive cars that can utilize the highway system, as well as those that can't afford a car or the gas. The technology would then trickle down (and up) to mainstream, middle-class consumers as demand grows, highway support increases, and manufacturing costs fall. The possibilities for the economic viability of an automated system are certainly there, but I would be shocked if it ever trickled down to streets that currently have stoplights on them, the need is just not great enough to warrant remaking in-place urban infrastructures.
Actually, Lead will not protect you from the neutron radiation, and halfnium will not protect you from the gamma radiation. Boron-wax materials are used more commonly outside the reactor to shield against neutrons rather than halfnium. I'm sure Toshiba already has a solution to that problem, but if I had to choose, I'd take the neutron radiation any day. At least with that you have the very real possibility of being bitten by an honest-to-goodness radioactive spider, which obviously would give you superpowers.
I've always wondered what I would do if I got a letter in the mail telling me I was being sued by the MPAA or RIAA (obviously not the same as a large site like torrentspy, but kinda related), we keep our wireless router open, default passwords, broadcast ssid, no encryption, 50 leases, no MAC filtering, nothing. I know it sounds bad, but we figure that if we ever got a notice from one of these organizations that we could simply say that there's no way to know who downloaded these things, our wireless is open! We have neighbors and other people in our DHCP client list and it actually makes me feel more secure (I manage my actual security at my computer, not at the gateway) since I feel like it would make for a good defense. However, what to do with the offending data? I've always thought that if I DoD wiped all my disks, obviously that would leave no evidence, but could you actually get in trouble for doing that? Do they send you documents telling you that kind of thing is illegal? What if I just took out my data drives, hid them in the attic and cleaned out my logs and MRU data with Adaware? Is it really that hard to react to these kinds of things for the average consumer or am I missing a great deal?
I don't know about that, I can't imagine that in 400 years we won't be using radio waves to study the universe. It's not like radio waves are some sort of "tech" that can become outdated; it's a fundamental particle of the universe at an extremely useful energy range. Why wouldn't an alien civilization use it? It's not the whole universe is going to red-shift and radio will become somehow obsolete. I can't see civilization becoming so advanced that they just... stop looking at radio-frequency radiation when it's so obviously suited for for cosmic observation. I would understand if a civilization was more advanced than us and culturally just didn't care about intergalactic communication. It's my understanding that we bombard a large area (whole star systems?) with these radio waves, would they even have to be looking at us to detect them? I would imagine that if one of the nearby star systems did the same to us, you'd be able to catch the signal at any well-equipped lab. I may be way off base with that last part, but in any case, I wouldn't count on radio waves going out of style in the interstellar community anytime soon.
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Seriously, it sounds like the power in your house is not clean. When I used to work as a field tech at a university, there was on old building on campus that we knew had bad power problems, and the MTBF for any device in that building was significantly lower than the rest of campus. By far the worst, though, was the networking equipment and hard drives.
or does this article leave everyone else a little hungry in the "details" department? How does this mean "almost instantaneous, error-free and unlimited access to the Internet anywhere in the world...?" How will it not cost the consumer more? I feel like there's a story about breakthrough Tb switching tech every six months, and we haven't seen any of them deliver on these kinds of promises. They make it sound like you can just drop some glass in your existing switches and they magically become superpowered, whereas clearly if the technology ever actually matures to market we would be paying out the ass for these optics-enhanced switches and routers.
An early adopter "stiffed"? A technology buyer getting more stuff for less money if they just wait? No way!
While you make a very good point, when a company pulls a product right after release and almost immediately replaces it with a better, cheaper version, that does suck more than normal. I don't actually know the timeline, though, just quoting TA:
At £269 inc Vat, the Eee PC 904 also considerably cheaper than the short-lived Eee PC 900. which means some early adopters will no doubt be kicking themselves...
us "young-uns with fresh brains..."
mmmmm..... fresh braiaklsdfimaef NO CARRIER >
I'm the network, systems and phone admin for our company (medium-sized business), and we actually use AVG Network edition, which is exactly the same as the free edition except it can be controlled by a broken, crippled management console. AVG 8 came out with this feature and I turned it off the first day (at least on the clients that the management console would work on, which was not many) because it started sucking up all our bandwidth. I rolled back to 7.5 on all the important machines because their software has just become too malicious and bloated. Aside from the scanning feature, there are a zillion other little addons which all cause an error state in the program if manually disabled. On top of that, it requires restarts about once a month, and it eats our remote software (RAdmin); even if you add it to the exceptions. I've had no luck with the twenty-some emails that I've sent them about that; they keep claiming that they can't replicate it in their labs even when I show them screens of the scanner wiping a file and the exceptions list in the background showing exactly the same file with the "any location" setting enabled. This all probably makes me sound like a bad admin, I wish I could convince my boss to get a real AV solution, but instead I'm dealing with at least one problem every single day caused by AVG. Also, don't install AVG with the Netware 5.0 client (I know, I know, we're upgrading now, shut up). Bottom line: AVG used to be great for home users, but now it's a black hole of productivity, and an absolute nightmare in a business environment.
I do have the original; I could swear they mention that a fire will make fingerprints more permanent. I could be completely mistaken, though. I can't believe I missed that "s."
I swear I read the same thing in "The Hardy Boy Detective Handbook" as a kid.
Is the NCNR not a particle physics lab? Sure it's only cold neutrons... none of this fancy schmancy high energy mumbo jumbo, but they're still particles right? Last time I checked it was still in operation; expanding to a new guide hall if I heard correctly.
750 megabytes/second! 750 kilobits /second sounds less like an enterprise LAN infrastructure and more like broadband. What do you mean by USB modem? Cable modem? DSL modem? Dialup modem? It sounds to me like you have cable or DSL if you're pulling 750k/sec, those speeds are physically impossible over a standard phone line (the kind the asker's parents have, and keeping in mind that DSL wasn't offered) no matter what kind of hardware you have driving it. Google "MTU dialup," and, using ping with do not fragment and payload size set, you should be able to significantly improve the speed of their connection by altering the MTU. If you really want super speed though, and totally for free, with no dish, and it comes with free pizza , you can jusafkejigf2390gfn NO CARRIER M^
...it'll produce bleach vapor Wait... like chlorine gas? Will I finally be able to make the Bender chlorine jokes while actually choking on chlorine gas? Fantastic!Well, we do try. I'm working on legislating e^(i*pi)+1 to equal not zero, but a kajillion billion. You see, by taking the quadrangent of pi (valued at exactly 3) and the linear arc of the glayben, we obviously get a far superior answer than the old, wanting, junky answer that Euler crapped out most likely on ye olde toilet. And, best of all, you too can use the Toilet-Free Euler Identity (T-FI) for the low price of 9.95 US dollars... in your own home! Deals like this don't last forever, folks, but if you hit me up within the next twenty minutes, the identity comes with pi=3... ABSOLUTELY FREE!
I didn't really go for HD that much until I watched A New Hope on my ultra-hip and with-it Super Beta Hi-Fi and then watched it in HD off a Comcast channel. Let me tell you, if you want to be awed by HD, going to it straight from Betamax is the way to go; screw everything else in between. Not going to throw away my beta collection just yet, though.
Download the update that they have to fix this, extract the files from the executable, and tell me how the fsck to do this. Seriously though, from a quick glance at the included files and documentation, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to apply this update other than by the manual registry edit. We just switched from Netware 4.0 (Don't make fun of me), so maybe I just don't know group policy well enough yet, but this update comes with the worst documentation I have seen yet from Microsoft. Luckily, we only have a single user that needs Lotus support, and OO.org should be able to work with any archives we have.
Still missed my main point, which is wait for the full study to be released before you dismiss it. If you want to believe that all of the test subjects were autonomously and secretly trying to subvert the results and that all scientific studies are flawed because people make mistakes, then go ahead and miss the 21st century. This has been a hotly contested area of study, filled with FUD and BS papers by underqualified individuals and then intensly magnified by the media. We finally have a real study, done by real researchers with real degrees and real qualifications. Any research can have flaws that even the most competent team can overlook, and obviously if this is the only data we ever see pertaining to this study, then it's not worth considering. Frankly, however, the points you make are irrelevant and ill-informed; you're guessing at what they did and then attacking them based on what you don't even know happened. Just take it for what it is, which is an interesting study that may lead to us finding out something new about ourselves.
They did say that the subjects were unable to "guess" as to whether the RF was on, which in my opinion invalidates many of your points. This is just the abstract, not the full analysis or procedural documentation; you can't but expect there to be enormous amounts of information lacking in this kind of initial publication. Personally, I have been known to be short with friends who suggest that cell phones have negative health effects, calling them "paranoid," and "sellouts to the mass-media FUD machine," however this study seems to have come from legitimate authors with reasonable precedures and conclusions. As someone who writes academic research, this looks to me like a well written abstract and I wouldn't have any reason to think that the researchers are complete idiots, as you seem to believe. At the end of the abstract they state that they are moving forward with more in-depth analysis of the data. Just wait to debunk it until you have all the facts, and maybe a PhD and an MD in the medical and telecom fields (as the authors do).
I've been hearing about this "free beer" with FOSS for years... maybe in 2008 we'll finally get some?
Dude, not to rain on your parade or anything, but all the points the people made in the posts you linked to seemed pretty legitimate to me, and indeed even come up regularly in Slashdot's own discussions. So they're saying a misleading, horribly written piece of barely journalistic garbage showed up on the front page of Slashdot? What is it... Monday? It happens all the time, get over it, that's why Slashdot is such a great place; even if an article linked to on the main page is trash, it still sparks discussions involving all kinds of people from all over the internet. That's what makes it a discussion, opinions other than your own.
I've been doing this for a while now. I have a whole CD of NES music that I listen to in the car all the time, have all my ringtones as NES songs, I just can't get enough of it. I do it differently though, I use the built in NSF players in the emulators, they all natively output to wav. I keep all my music in wav so that if I need to put it on something besides a CD I just convert from there. Good to know, though.
I feel like the only place this would be applicable would be the interstate highway system. It would obviously have to be one of the most robust, reliable and secure system in the world; the only place I could see that happening due to complexity and cost is on something like the interstate highway system. I suppose that they would develop certain problem highways at first. The driver would be required to have a car up to spec with the highway system, and possibly pay a small toll. The highway would be a bypass to a heavily congested area and demand would be spurred by peoples' need to get to work in an efficient way. This would also open the doors for pay-and-go public transportation systems; people would get to the station attached to the highway and then rent a vehicle that would take them to another station along the highway with no user interaction. The system would be first adopted by people who can afford the expensive cars that can utilize the highway system, as well as those that can't afford a car or the gas. The technology would then trickle down (and up) to mainstream, middle-class consumers as demand grows, highway support increases, and manufacturing costs fall. The possibilities for the economic viability of an automated system are certainly there, but I would be shocked if it ever trickled down to streets that currently have stoplights on them, the need is just not great enough to warrant remaking in-place urban infrastructures.
Actually, Lead will not protect you from the neutron radiation, and halfnium will not protect you from the gamma radiation. Boron-wax materials are used more commonly outside the reactor to shield against neutrons rather than halfnium. I'm sure Toshiba already has a solution to that problem, but if I had to choose, I'd take the neutron radiation any day. At least with that you have the very real possibility of being bitten by an honest-to-goodness radioactive spider, which obviously would give you superpowers.
I've always wondered what I would do if I got a letter in the mail telling me I was being sued by the MPAA or RIAA (obviously not the same as a large site like torrentspy, but kinda related), we keep our wireless router open, default passwords, broadcast ssid, no encryption, 50 leases, no MAC filtering, nothing. I know it sounds bad, but we figure that if we ever got a notice from one of these organizations that we could simply say that there's no way to know who downloaded these things, our wireless is open! We have neighbors and other people in our DHCP client list and it actually makes me feel more secure (I manage my actual security at my computer, not at the gateway) since I feel like it would make for a good defense. However, what to do with the offending data? I've always thought that if I DoD wiped all my disks, obviously that would leave no evidence, but could you actually get in trouble for doing that? Do they send you documents telling you that kind of thing is illegal? What if I just took out my data drives, hid them in the attic and cleaned out my logs and MRU data with Adaware? Is it really that hard to react to these kinds of things for the average consumer or am I missing a great deal?
I don't know about that, I can't imagine that in 400 years we won't be using radio waves to study the universe. It's not like radio waves are some sort of "tech" that can become outdated; it's a fundamental particle of the universe at an extremely useful energy range. Why wouldn't an alien civilization use it? It's not the whole universe is going to red-shift and radio will become somehow obsolete. I can't see civilization becoming so advanced that they just... stop looking at radio-frequency radiation when it's so obviously suited for for cosmic observation. I would understand if a civilization was more advanced than us and culturally just didn't care about intergalactic communication. It's my understanding that we bombard a large area (whole star systems?) with these radio waves, would they even have to be looking at us to detect them? I would imagine that if one of the nearby star systems did the same to us, you'd be able to catch the signal at any well-equipped lab. I may be way off base with that last part, but in any case, I wouldn't count on radio waves going out of style in the interstellar community anytime soon.