" made the employee uninstall Bitlocker from the machines and lets just say he's not with us anymore"
Who gave this troll informative? The employe suggested a HD encryption tool, he gave him the ok to TEST it on only 5 machines, and he fired him just because the test did not go well...! So you expect employees to know exactly how a technology performs, without ever trying and who ever suggests trying out a technology jeopardizes his job.
You are most likely a college freshman assuming a fake identity...
"You say that now, but you haven't seen the episode where Starbuck flies her viper over a tank full of Space Sharks"
I saw that episode and you must have things mixed up. She is not flying her viper. By that time the fleet has reached today's earth. She saves a surfer from a shark by riding a flying motorcycle and pulling him out of the water onto her seat. http://scifi.about.com/cs/bgsonscifi/a/aa111203.ht m
"Cue the asshat that appears in every convergence thread to cry "I just want a phone to make calls and nothing else" in 5, 4, 3, . .."
"but here in U.S. I'd be happy to have a cellular telephone that can actually place an occasional PHONE CALL! Keep your camera/MP3player/PDA/whatever technology and just give me a trustworthy cellular network. Then we'll talk about extras."
"sure, if you want the thing to be dead within days - what about virtual memory, paging files, etc?"
Such a memory hierarchy would not affect the VM mechanisms. Most likely part of your 5 gig flash memory would be used for paging and the rest of it for frequently used data that are now residing on HD.
Flash memory,besides becoming larger, it is becoming increasing reliable. Don't forget that the 100$ laptop proposal suggests a 1 GB flash memory without HD for persistent storage.
I am looking forward for the flash/perpendicular-magnetic-storage laptops. Flash storage is perhaps one of the few ways to address the increased seek and rotation latency of the huge HDs of the future.
"Experiments have shown the DNA strands have undergone considerable mutation but such mutations have not impacted crucial functions like reproduction"
That to me sounds as an opportunity for an evolution leap. Most mutations will be bad and disappear eventually, but there is this slight chance that few others will be beneficial for the species and eventually dominate. I wouldn't be surprised if few hundrend years from now we end up with "Bear Chernobilus" that hibernates only half the time and has double the mating seasons...
"The Wall Street Journal is reporting that States are scrambling to impose tougher restrictions on cell phone use by drivers, addressing what safety experts say can be a deadly distraction. "
Then, they should definetely legislate about the use of Car TV's. Many of them are placed in the visual field of drivers, and are already responsible for many accidents. Actually some early studies indicate that they are much more distracting than cellphones . This totally makes sense since you really need to take your eyes of the road to see that interesting scene on the screen.
"I should know, I invented open source. Information should be free, be it a program, knowledge, or newly discovered data."
Judging by your posts you must suffer by accute http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_identity _disorder.
Scientific peer review is the phrase you've been looking for. God man grow up or go assume another person's identity on a less involved forum.
"It also found 62% of those surveyed clicked on a result on the first page, up from 48% in 2002. Some 90% of consumers clicked on a link in these pages, up from 81% in 2002."
Simply means that users now place much more trust on Google to judge the relevance of the results than they did a few years ago. Obvious...
"Flies searching for lost people? Why not use large air baloons instead, you could load them with more cameras, they could stay in the air for longer amounts of time, oh, and in case the find who they are looking for, they could in principle pick them up and bring them home"
Can an air baloon go through the small cracks in the ruins of a building?
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Since you don't care about Karma, why did you ask your friend to mod up your ridiculous post?
Really? I bet that this has never crossed anyone's mind until you pointed it out! +5 insightful ...
In Soviet Russia we used to have National ID cards (with an indication of party membership) and it worked out just fine ...
" made the employee uninstall Bitlocker from the machines and lets just say he's not with us anymore"
...
Who gave this troll informative? The employe suggested a HD encryption tool, he gave him the ok to TEST it on only 5 machines, and he fired him just because the test did not go well...! So you expect employees to know exactly how a technology performs, without ever trying and who ever suggests trying out a technology jeopardizes his job.
You are most likely a college freshman assuming a fake identity
It just stroke me. What about an ad campaign with the theme:
...
"I just saved a bunch of dollars by switching to Linux!"
"You say that now, but you haven't seen the episode where Starbuck flies her viper over a tank full of Space Sharks"
t m
I saw that episode and you must have things mixed up. She is not flying her viper. By that time the fleet has reached today's earth. She saves a surfer from a shark by riding a flying motorcycle and pulling him out of the water onto her seat. http://scifi.about.com/cs/bgsonscifi/a/aa111203.h
10$ on winzip from here too
from the previous post:
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"Cue the asshat that appears in every convergence thread to cry "I just want a phone to make calls and nothing else" in 5, 4, 3, . .
"but here in U.S. I'd be happy to have a cellular telephone that can actually place an occasional PHONE CALL! Keep your camera/MP3player/PDA/whatever technology and just give me a trustworthy cellular network. Then we'll talk about extras."
Great timing guys, way to go!
a crappy paper detector ...
"Is it just me of is posting any article about Dvork and calling him an expert trolling?
:)
Or I should say flamebait? Good god."
Yes it is. This is why it is tagged as such :
" [+] troll, stupid, dvorak, ie, idiot (tagging beta)"
if you want to add flaimbait, feel free to do so
It seems you have not tried www.gmail.com ... yet
Dude, just zip it ...
"sure, if you want the thing to be dead within days - what about virtual memory, paging files, etc?"
Such a memory hierarchy would not affect the VM mechanisms. Most likely part of your 5 gig flash memory would be used for paging and the rest of it for frequently used data that are now residing on HD.
Flash memory,besides becoming larger, it is becoming increasing reliable. Don't forget that the 100$ laptop proposal suggests a 1 GB flash memory without HD for persistent storage.
I am looking forward for the flash/perpendicular-magnetic-storage laptops. Flash storage is perhaps one of the few ways to address the increased seek and rotation latency of the huge HDs of the future.
"Experiments have shown the DNA strands have undergone considerable mutation but such mutations have not impacted crucial functions like reproduction"
...
That to me sounds as an opportunity for an evolution leap. Most mutations will be bad and disappear eventually, but there is this slight chance that few others will be beneficial for the species and eventually dominate. I wouldn't be surprised if few hundrend years from now we end up with "Bear Chernobilus" that hibernates only half the time and has double the mating seasons
Mod the guy up ... +5 troll :)
you got it all wrong:
http://web.vee.net/stuff/geek-vs-nerd.html
http://twilightuniverse.com/2003/09/geek-vs-nerd/
ok ... I believe you, CRIA is falling apart.
"The Wall Street Journal is reporting that States are scrambling to impose tougher restrictions on cell phone use by drivers, addressing what safety experts say can be a deadly distraction. "
Then, they should definetely legislate about the use of Car TV's. Many of them are placed in the visual field of drivers, and are already responsible for many accidents. Actually some early studies indicate that they are much more distracting than cellphones . This totally makes sense since you really need to take your eyes of the road to see that interesting scene on the screen.
"I should know, I invented open source. Information should be free, be it a program, knowledge, or newly discovered data."
y _disorder.
Judging by your posts you must suffer by accute http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_identit
Scientific peer review is the phrase you've been looking for. God man grow up or go assume another person's identity on a less involved forum.
The KITT-related question is: does the driver of a Jag equipped with this high-end system get to kiss a hot chick in the end?
So, you see a link "hot chick" and you click on it expecting to see what ...?
"It also found 62% of those surveyed clicked on a result on the first page, up from 48% in 2002. Some 90% of consumers clicked on a link in these pages, up from 81% in 2002."
Simply means that users now place much more trust on Google to judge the relevance of the results than they did a few years ago. Obvious...
" "...kill Xena"
...
I thought network television did that..."
You are wrong, she came back as a Cylon
"Flies searching for lost people? Why not use large air baloons instead, you could load them with more cameras, they could stay in the air for longer amounts of time, oh, and in case the find who they are looking for, they could in principle pick them up and bring them home"
Can an air baloon go through the small cracks in the ruins of a building?
Wow,
very interesting post pubjames. It seems like the soviets were obsessed with Venus, 16 probes for god sakes!
We should point out that these missions preceded the viking missions to Mars, thus they were the first landings on another planet.