Uhh. Good video card is $200-$300 . The cost of playing video games on PC is really just the price of video card +$50-100 for faster processor and more memory than you usually would buy.So total price is $300-$450 - below what some consoles cost. You need a PC anyways. Now lets look at output device -consoles require a TV. And for me it would be just pure waste of money since I do not watch TV at all
Now what we get from consoles? -shitty hardware,shitty games from my POV. I haven't heard of a single console title I had urge to play,especially given their awful controls (game pads). - games on consoles does not appeal to me in one bit . PC games are deeper (e.g. galciv2,civ4,total war etc ) , more moddable (oblivion,WoW ui etc), have genres which simply do not exist on consoles (turn based strategy,RTS, squad tactics, simulators), have better multiplayer and better technology (FPS on PCs are 2 notches above anything consoles have in the same department), plus a library of classic games which spans almost 2 decades back.
If consoles cost $10 and games were free I still wouldn't play any of them -simply because I look for something entertaining and console gaming is not it.
True, but if you have enough nuclear power to run the desalination plants to make fresh water and then also produce hydrogen.
The key to hydrogen is nuclear power. And,sadly, due to majority of population being brain dead idiots nuclear power will not become widespread any time soon.The process for fully nuclear clean energy cycle should have started 20 years ago - infrastructure for that requires quite a lot of investment and time . If we start tomorrow we wont have anything for 20 more years,and we wont start tomorrow as public opinion is swayed against nuclear power,and especially against breeder reactors (the key for efficient full fuel cycle) .
No what humanity will do -continue to burn fossil fuel pollute air,and then when things start getting really tight we will have a few "short, just and victorious" wars in order to balance needs with demands . History of Human Civilization 101.
not too much, they need to be good seeds). Also, they can cheaply and easily implement load-sharing in a distributed fashion with seeds from various sites. Anyway, let's say to give that 500 KB/s rate to the same concurrent connections, they only have to invest 70% of the cost of the traditional method. In exchange for customers permitting their (for most people) unused upstream, they can offer the service at 4 bucks/month cheaper. Though not obvious, this is in a roundabout way like 4$/month compensation
70%???? About 1% of original bandwidth cost for large scale distribution - if even that.For something like blizzard patches for wow it will be closer to 0.01% - since they have a perfect setup for seeding (literally millions of clients at short unified timeframe) .
I remember I once did a research of how much bandwidth it cost to run something like EQ , taking , old 2000 bandwidth costs (by buying wholesale OC192 fiber) it was something utterly ridiculous - less than $0.5 in traffic costs (both for average 40 hours/week session game play and patch distribution). I will not be surprised to find out that bandwidth cost for blizzard is something close to 0.1c per client.
Now Something like google video or you tube -those are bandwidth hogs, but even for that they somehow manage to live on ad revenue.
Reasonable assumption, the US has possessed first strike capability, IE the ability to incapacitate all nuclear silo's and submarines before they have a opportunity to strike back, over Russia and China since around 95 [see Foreign Policy April ed
Erm.. A political statement/policy and actual ability to do first strike is 2 different thing. US never possessed a capability of doing a first strike even against such minor power as France,let alone Russia (if not counting 1945-1952 period). Even if by some gross negligence Russia lets some silos be destroyed before launch , nuclear warheads on SSBNs, mobile launchers, and the rest of silos will be enough to turn every inch of american soil into radioactive desert (not it will help attacked country anyway , but US wont survive the attack either).
In all out nuclear conflict US military budget wont help a dime.
Like another poster said there is no more sense for machines to enslave humans than for humans to enslave chimps. As funny pets maybe (and even that I doubt very much).
Are Gödel's incompleteness theorems not sufficient? I don't posit that the mind's workings can't be replicated by any machine, but that the Turing machine, operating under the rules of its particular formal system, is simply not capable of deriving all true statements within that system.
And that is relevant how? So far all data and research points that human mind has all the limitation Turing machine has and in fact is no more than a Turing machine .
The trivial ease with which humans can come up with formally indecidable propositions ("This statement is false") suggests that our mind operates at least part of the time in symbolic modes quite different than those of language or mathematics.
uhh. Coming up with " statement is false" same way as human do , - random generator will do. Bayesian logic will do too,as well as other probabilistic and statistical methods. "Formally indecidable propositions " are only undecidable in their own boundaries, I know it irks many mathematicians to use such "superstitions" as Bayesian logic to work around those , but that is their own problem. Real dynamic systems IMHO can not be strictly formalized - quantum mechanics is excellent example , As well as modeling dynamic behavior of complex system -you simply can not do it (you have to use approximation and statistical methods because modeling individual behaviour of every particle in dynamics becomes impossible).
Real systems are probabilistic in nature , not deterministic. And that's the problem with all "formal" logic arguments in general and Godel theorem in particular. There is no absolute "true" or "false".
"$75k"???? -The problem right there. 75k is a salary for a guy who knows jack shit. Heck majority of developers with 100k+ salaries are barely competent , let alone $75k (if you see a bright guy working as a dev for 75k it either h1b slave , either young college grad,who will leave for a raise at first opportunity) .
If you find a gem who knows the stuff and is really competent he will never settle for that crap.Because the thing is that majority of people in IT are just there "for a job" -they do not have neccessary drive to grow professionally and contribute anything more than cookie cutter code/solutions. Smart and motivated people move on fast.
Exactly. Corp execs want to hire top notch professionals with highly up to date skills,technical aptitude and high level of overall intelligence,while at the same time paying them salaries of regular work drones,or,worse - average salary of semi experienced unionized blue collar worker. Well guess what -those guys are fed up pretty fast with "standard" staff schedule and either get picked up by big names (Google, M$ etc),either sail on their own (consulting/their own business).
I will believe in "shortage" when I see appropriate offers.
Yes, but what I find so astounding is that we will run for about 70 years without reboot.
Ermm.. you can't boast 5 nines of uptime either. And it doesn't take 20 years just to boot up and do anything remotely useful.
In damn near all programming work I have ever done, the slightest error usually resulted in an immediate terminal fault or worse, a BSOD. I don't see any more "bang for the buck" as I see in biology. If I spent the rest of my life in front of a DNA sequencer, I doubt I could code to get the chemistry of a single cell to work, much less an entire organism I can't harp too much on this, but the elegance of this whole thing sure makes me wonder how it came to be
You seem to fail to take into account hundreds of millions (or even billions -depending from which point you count) years it took to come to this . I fail to see any elegance in the resulting mess. But I can understand it - evolution is not an engineer its a random number generator .
Ohh well and guess what Nazy Germany military force was made up of.. duhh. germans. And in my own country(Russsia) during 1917-1950 guess who was killing they own fellow citizen , puting them in GULAG , torturing them in prisons - they own fellow russians, not some aliens from outer space.
Weak argument.
Uhh. ohhh. quite the opposite. Error correction is very bad (by IT standards at least) -that is how actually things evolve (since there is no mechanism for modification except mutation - which is an error). On average every single cell in human body has at least one error. Granted absolute majority of them are insignificant (since they happen on non functioning parts of code for this cell) .
Living organism are quite a freaking mess from engineer's point of view. -Heck that's what you get if you launch a very shoddy evolutionary algorithm and run it for a couple of hundred millions of years.
uhh don't confuse math with arithmetic. And yes nobody needs to do calculations by hand anymore - we have everything from calculators,to data centers for crunching numbers. And if translators are good they will be used everywhere -from tourists to diplomats.
Seriously why it is such an issue? Yes - admins have access to most everything. So what? - its one of the upsides of being a sysadmin. you have to run backups , configure systems and such- your CIO will not do that (and most probably does not have skills for this either) . Now there is logging tools/products for auditing all secure object level access, but who is gonna implement them and put it in place? -That right exact same people .
You don't bitch about plumber having access your basement,or auto mechanic driving your car in repair bay , so don't bitch about people carrying weight of systems support of having necessary privileges.
I can bitch about HR too - they have the most private information about employees (I saw HR files/data - in no way I would want them have that if I could) -but corporate culture justifies that.At least with sysadmins its a pretty good technical justification.
Read something about depression/addiction combo. You know what is this button for which you reach when "more ruined you are, the more despair you'll feel" called? -It is called suicide. I guess person who never experienced/saw some one with severe depresesion naturally thinks that if you feel despair you will quit and "snap out of it" . guess what - you can't. The only thing you see as an escape from the nightmare is a suicide. And more you feel so, closer you are to this "button".
And ask for help... sometimes there is nobody to ask , no family , no friends, foreign country,etc....
erm.. You will be using all open source tools, freely open for community and peer review.That will include ROM burning utility.
Heck you know there is some platform out there which is build from ground up on open source, including OS, file system , drivers etc..mmm what the heck it was called...
uhh no. if we take his numbers only 1 in a million dies from toxins produced by one company. But there is 50000 of those, so 100K will die,while you cannot do anything with the companies as each one individually claims to only contribute to 1 in a millon deaths.
And this is the case today - else the coal power plant companies would be in jail for mass murder ( in a millions range).
US(and EU) really should do something about copyright. In my opinion most problems can be solved by reasonable copyright expiration dates (14 years sounds about right). -enough for the companies and business to reap profits, but not enough to transform them to monopolistic parasites exploiting old ideas .
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Uhh. Good video card is $200-$300 . The cost of playing video games on PC is really just the price of video card +$50-100 for faster processor and more memory than you usually would buy .So total price is $300-$450 - below what some consoles cost. You need a PC anyways. Now lets look at output device -consoles require a TV. And for me it would be just pure waste of money since I do not watch TV at all
,shitty games from my POV. I haven't heard of a single console title I had urge to play ,especially given their awful controls (game pads). - games on consoles does not appeal to me in one bit . PC games are deeper (e.g. galciv2,civ4,total war etc ) , more moddable (oblivion,WoW ui etc), have genres which simply do not exist on consoles (turn based strategy,RTS, squad tactics, simulators), have better multiplayer and better technology (FPS on PCs are 2 notches above anything consoles have in the same
Now what we get from consoles? -shitty hardware
department), plus a library of classic games which spans almost 2 decades back.
If consoles cost $10 and games were free I still wouldn't play any of them -simply because I look for something entertaining and console gaming is not it.
True, but if you have enough nuclear power to run the desalination plants to make fresh water and then also produce hydrogen.
The key to hydrogen is nuclear power. And
No what humanity will do -continue to burn fossil fuel pollute air
not too much, they need to be good seeds). Also, they can cheaply and easily implement load-sharing in a distributed fashion with seeds from various sites. Anyway, let's say to give that 500 KB/s rate to the same concurrent connections, they only have to invest 70% of the cost of the traditional method. In exchange for customers permitting their (for most people) unused upstream, they can offer the service at 4 bucks/month cheaper. Though not obvious, this is in a roundabout way like 4$/month compensation
70%???? About 1% of original bandwidth cost for large scale distribution - if even that
I remember I once did a research of how much bandwidth it cost to run something like EQ , taking , old 2000 bandwidth costs (by buying wholesale OC192 fiber) it was something utterly ridiculous - less than $0.5 in traffic costs (both for average 40 hours/week session game play and patch distribution). I will not be surprised to find out that bandwidth cost for blizzard is something close to 0.1c per client.
Now Something like google video or you tube -those are bandwidth hogs, but even for that they somehow manage to live on ad revenue.
Reasonable assumption, the US has possessed first strike capability, IE the ability to incapacitate all nuclear silo's and submarines before they have a opportunity to strike back, over Russia and China since around 95 [see Foreign Policy April ed
,let alone Russia (if not counting 1945-1952 period). Even if by some gross negligence Russia lets some silos be destroyed before launch , nuclear warheads on SSBNs, mobile launchers, and the rest of silos will be enough to turn every inch of american soil into radioactive desert (not it will help attacked country anyway , but US wont survive the attack either).
Erm.. A political statement/policy and actual ability to do first strike is 2 different thing. US never possessed a capability of doing a first strike even against such minor power as France
In all out nuclear conflict US military budget wont help a dime.
Sigh. ..... Masses are never swayed by hard cold facts . Only propaganda works.
Like another poster said there is no more sense for machines to enslave humans than for humans to enslave chimps. As funny pets maybe (and even that I doubt very much).
Umm PS3 cant hit 15000 3dmarks for life. Its roughly 1/8th in power of such PC (without nitpicking on the fact that there is no 3dmark for ps3)
20 years.
Well depends how you count . Space taken - yeah, but if counting by amount of files then heck no :)
Are Gödel's incompleteness theorems not sufficient? I don't posit that the mind's workings can't be replicated by any machine, but that the Turing machine, operating under the rules of its particular formal system, is simply not capable of deriving all true statements within that system.
And that is relevant how? So far all data and research points that human mind has all the limitation Turing machine has and in fact is no more than a Turing machine .
The trivial ease with which humans can come up with formally indecidable propositions ("This statement is false") suggests that our mind operates at least part of the time in symbolic modes quite different than those of language or mathematics.
uhh. Coming up with " statement is false" same way as human do , - random generator will do. Bayesian logic will do too
Real systems are probabilistic in nature , not deterministic. And that's the problem with all "formal" logic arguments in general and Godel theorem in particular. There is no absolute "true" or "false".
"$75k"???? -The problem right there. 75k is a salary for a guy who knows jack shit. Heck majority of developers with 100k+ salaries are barely competent , let alone $75k (if you see a bright guy working as a dev for 75k it either h1b slave , either young college grad ,who will leave for a raise at first opportunity) . .Because the thing is that majority of people in IT are just there "for a job" -they do not have neccessary drive to grow professionally and contribute anything more than cookie cutter code/solutions. Smart and motivated people move on fast.
If you find a gem who knows the stuff and is really competent he will never settle for that crap
Exactly. Corp execs want to hire top notch professionals with highly up to date skills ,technical aptitude and high level of overall intelligence ,while at the same time paying them salaries of regular work drones ,or ,worse - average salary of semi experienced unionized blue collar worker. Well guess what -those guys are fed up pretty fast with "standard" staff schedule and either get picked up by big names (Google, M$ etc) ,either sail on their own (consulting/their own business).
I will believe in "shortage" when I see appropriate offers.
Some loony liberal pinko hippy commies will tell us that we are running out of oil ,and there is global warming looming? NONSENSE!
br0kenrabbit says: Trace it.
.lol. Wannabe hacker pwnt .
Greg_ValveOLS says: how
br0kenrabbit says: Start/run/cmd type Tracert and then my IP address and hit enter.
Greg_ValveOLS says: oh k
Classic
Yes, but what I find so astounding is that we will run for about 70 years without reboot.
Ermm.. you can't boast 5 nines of uptime either. And it doesn't take 20 years just to boot up and do anything remotely useful.
In damn near all programming work I have ever done, the slightest error usually resulted in an immediate terminal fault or worse, a BSOD.
I don't see any more "bang for the buck" as I see in biology.
If I spent the rest of my life in front of a DNA sequencer, I doubt I could code to get the chemistry of a single cell to work, much less an entire organism
I can't harp too much on this, but the elegance of this whole thing sure makes me wonder how it came to be
You seem to fail to take into account hundreds of millions (or even billions -depending from which point you count) years it took to come to this . I fail to see any elegance in the resulting mess. But I can understand it - evolution is not an engineer its a random number generator .
Ohh well and guess what Nazy Germany military force was made up of.. duhh. germans. And in my own country(Russsia) during 1917-1950 guess who was killing they own fellow citizen , puting them in GULAG , torturing them in prisons - they own fellow russians, not some aliens from outer space.
Weak argument.
Very RY VERY good error-correction duplication
Uhh. ohhh. quite the opposite. Error correction is very bad (by IT standards at least) -that is how actually things evolve (since there is no mechanism for modification except mutation - which is an error). On average every single cell in human body has at least one error. Granted absolute majority of them are insignificant (since they happen on non functioning parts of code for this cell) .
Living organism are quite a freaking mess from engineer's point of view. -Heck that's what you get if you launch a very shoddy evolutionary algorithm and run it for a couple of hundred millions of years.
uhh don't confuse math with arithmetic. And yes nobody needs to do calculations by hand anymore - we have everything from calculators ,to data centers for crunching numbers. And if translators are good they will be used everywhere -from tourists to diplomats.
Now, IMHO, if an Admin has -time- to snoop an Exec's email, then there's something wrong
You know you can put some unpaid overtime in for such tasks:)
Seriously why it is such an issue? Yes - admins have access to most everything. So what? - its one of the upsides of being a sysadmin. you have to run backups , configure systems and such- your CIO will not do that (and most probably does not have skills for this either) . Now there is logging tools /products for auditing all secure object level access, but who is gonna implement them and put it in place? -That right exact same people .
,or auto mechanic driving your car in repair bay , so don't bitch about people carrying weight of systems support of having necessary privileges.
/data - in no way I would want them have that if I could) -but corporate culture justifies that .At least with sysadmins its a pretty good technical justification.
You don't bitch about plumber having access your basement
I can bitch about HR too - they have the most private information about employees (I saw HR files
Read something about depression/addiction combo. You know what is this button for which you reach when "more ruined you are, the more despair you'll feel" called? -It is called suicide. I guess person who never experienced/saw some one with severe depresesion naturally thinks that if you feel despair you will quit and "snap out of it" . guess what - you can't. The only thing you see as an escape from the nightmare is a suicide. And more you feel so, closer you are to this "button".
,etc....
And ask for help... sometimes there is nobody to ask , no family , no friends, foreign country
erm.. You will be using all open source tools, freely open for community and peer review .That will include ROM burning utility.
Heck you know there is some platform out there which is build from ground up on open source, including OS, file system , drivers etc..mmm what the heck it was called...
uhh no. if we take his numbers only 1 in a million dies from toxins produced by one company. But there is 50000 of those, so 100K will die ,while you cannot do anything with the companies as each one individually claims to only contribute to 1 in a millon deaths.
And this is the case today - else the coal power plant companies would be in jail for mass murder ( in a millions range).
Errm.. Intellectual? "An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex" (c) A.Huxley
US(and EU) really should do something about copyright. In my opinion most problems can be solved by reasonable copyright expiration dates (14 years sounds about right). -enough for the companies and business to reap profits, but not enough to transform them to monopolistic parasites exploiting old ideas .