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Each Boston Dynamics robot has cost upwards of $20 million.
That's what ENIAC, the world's first pocket calculator, cost in the late 1940s. And it wouldn't even fit in a pocket (took a large building to house) and didn't even have an LCD readout!
Today's pocket calculators are more powerful than ENIAC and cost a dollar or two. So you can expect cheap robots in fifty years.
During the first two years of college we used punched cards to program in FORTRAN. One day a few years ago at Fry's I saw a box labelled FOTRAN for Visual Studio and thought about buying it.
It would have been hilarious if you had bought it, took it home, opened it up, and found a stack of Hollerith cards!
I don't think that's staff's fault. Back when slashdot was young, almost everyone on the internet was a nerd. Now everyone and his dog is on the internet, and what's worse, we've gone from being social pariahs to being kewl (Damn but I never thought I'd live to see that). So you have hordes of semiliterate and aliterate muggles who think they're nerds because they can boot Windows and use an iPhone, and they're coming to slashdot submitting stories, voting in the firehose, etc.
We're even outnumbered at slashdot. Used to be we weren't even outnumbered on the internet.
Slashdot was great because it focused on hard tech news, and tended to post things that the Slashdot community were interested in. Now, it seems to be at the whims of a few submitters (MrSeb, Hugh Pickens) with the editors asleep at the switch and posting stuff that's not even remotely tech news, typically biased political propaganda.
There's the firehose to vote down stories you don't like. And, er, YOUR submissions look exactly like what you're bitching about. Yeah, they were probably just journals that weren't meant as submissions, but I don't see how you can bitch about bad stories when you haven't submitted any good ones yourself.
How do I report abuse? Below and to the right of each comment is a small "Anti" symbol; click on this, and (optionally) explain why you consider the comment abusive. (Slashdot discussions are and should be robust; only cry "Abuse!" for comments that are utterly without redeeming value -- spam, racist ranting, etc. For everything else, use the other moderation options.) Reported comments will be reviewed and moderated by the editors, if appropriate.
In "faq" everyone should, because it appears there have been some changes to moderation.
What is karma? Your karma is a reference that primarily represents how your comments have been moderated. Karma is used to determine who moderates and who doesn't. You can improve your karma by posting intelligent, funny, informative or comments generally impressive to your fellow readers.
The old FAQ stated that Funny gains no karma, because you could post something so utterly stupid that it made intelligent people laugh at you. Apparently this has now changed.
Personally, I liked it better when trying to be funny was hazardous to your karma.
Nothing happens when you click the flag. Nothing, that is, except it's flagged for a/. admin to look at and decide what to do with the comment. It's not like moderation at all.
You might want to peruse the FAQ (Unless you're using IE7; the first few paragraphs are unreadable because the CSS covers text with other text). I quote:
How do I report abuse? Below and to the right of each comment is a small "Anti" symbol; click on this, and (optionally) explain why you consider the comment abusive. (Slashdot discussions are and should be robust; only cry "Abuse!" for comments that are utterly without redeeming value -- spam, racist ranting, etc. For everything else, use the other moderation options.) Reported comments will be reviewed and moderated by the editors, if appropriate.
You're perfect and have never done anything wrong? Never said a hurtful word in anger? Never lusted after a married woman? Never participated in the military? Never turned away someone who was hungry?
You're lying, and you're the only one who believes your lies. Nobody' perfect. Not you, not me, not anyone.
The abuse flag doesn't remove a comment or mod it down, it's for spam and GNAA trolls. Click the flag and a/. editor will have a look. It's up to them to remove it.
The "Hall of fame" page apparently doesn't count anything before the page was first posted; it says I have no submissions when in fact I've had dozens of accepted submissions. Just not recently.
Ignorance isn't opinion. If he'd said that gays are all evil and aren't human, that would be flamebait. If you say smoking pot is a sin, that's an opinion and a valid one, although one I disagree with (I like pot). Mormons think drinking is a sin. Valid opinion, even though saying that makes Jesus a sinner.
What is a trusted source? All your friends use a particular app and say its great so you install it too
You trust your friend, but would you trust him to do surgery on you? Yes, if he's a surgeon. But not if he isn't. A trusted source would be one with a good reputation; microsoft.com, your Linux repo, Mac's app store, Adobe, Sun... used to include Sony before they deliberately put rootkits on music CDs.
malware is effectively a virus because both the same software is used to detect and warn you against it
A lot of AV software warns you about cookies, but that doesn't make them viruses or even malware. Most AV companies exist to scare you into buying more updates.
Yes be cautious what you install but you can only to a point before your computer has vastly less value to you than it would if you "lived a little".
Once you're infected, the only way to be sure it's completely cleaned out is to boot from a CD, do a low level and high level format, and reinstall your OS and all your apps. And even then it could be hiding in the BIOS of some machines. Installing apps from an untrusted source is foolish.
I don't even know where I'm going to find more performances like that.
Most bars I listen to live music in don't have PA systems, so every band is like that. Of course, they have to have the settings right and actually be good musicians.
You're 30 so you're a child of the digital era. You simply can NOT get very high fidelity from a CD. Few LPs would anyone confuse with a live performance, either, but there were some, Van halen's first album comes to mind.
When they have insanely high sampling rates and much higher bit depth than now you'll get higher fidelity than LP, but CDs are inferior to analog reel to reel or even LPs.
Hulu pisses me off because even if you pay for + you still get increasingly more commercials
That's my experience with cable. When I first got cable in 1980, the only commercials were on the OTA channels. The cable channels had no commercials at all -- and HBO was included in the $10 price.
Now, the cable channels have as many or more commercials as OTA channels, and what's worse they often have a commercial for a different show at the bottom of the screen while the show you're watching is still on. And they have those damn annoying logos at the bottom right.
Yeah, there are more cable channels now -- but they all suck. Shopping channels, the Golf channel, fishing channels, BET, women's channels... I feel ripped off paying for TV I have no interest whatever in watching. And the quality of the channels' programming has gone down as well. The Discover Channel used to have science, now they have "trick my truck" and dreck like that. The only Discovery channel show worth watching any more is MythBusters. The same for the history channel. They used to have history. Now they have "Pawn Stars." WTF? No way am I going to pay for that shit. I can get crappy shows filled with commercials for free with an antenna.
Too late, MS lost me as a customer in 2002 when I bought and installed XP and half my programs would no longer work. I'm forced to use MS's inferior junk (yes, inferior, buggy and unintuitive) ate work and I'll really be glad when I retire in 2 years.
Most people don't realise that to double the db you have to increase the amp's power by 10x. A 100 watt amp is twice as loud as a 10 watt amp, all other things being equal. A high efficiency speaker being driven by a 50 watt amp is louder than a low efficiency speaker being driven by a 100 watt amp. The amp output impedance and speaker impedance matter, too. Because of impedance mismatches, you can easily blow a solid state amp by running several speakers in series from it. You might even see the magic smoke.
Indeed, you are correct. If you look at the signals on an oscilloscope, an overdriven solid state amp will have a square wave with sharp corners, while the corners of a tube amp's distortion (clipped and overdriven) are rounded. This is what people mean when they say it sounds "warmer".
Many guitar players will play through a low power tube amp with a microphone in front of the tube amp that feeds a high power, not overdriven solid state amp. You get the sound of the tube amp without the higher cost of a Marshall that way.
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2. Unless you're using IE, your browser has spill chuck. Not that it will do you any good if you don't know the difference between lose and loose.
We're talking about robots, not replicants.
Each Boston Dynamics robot has cost upwards of $20 million.
That's what ENIAC, the world's first pocket calculator, cost in the late 1940s. And it wouldn't even fit in a pocket (took a large building to house) and didn't even have an LCD readout!
Today's pocket calculators are more powerful than ENIAC and cost a dollar or two. So you can expect cheap robots in fifty years.
During the first two years of college we used punched cards to program in FORTRAN. One day a few years ago at Fry's I saw a box labelled FOTRAN for Visual Studio and thought about buying it.
It would have been hilarious if you had bought it, took it home, opened it up, and found a stack of Hollerith cards!
You're behind the curve. We cyborgs are here, now.
You will be assimilated. You will not resist, you will pay good money for your cybernetic implants when your eyes or hips or knees no longer work.
Most of us cyborgs are geezers, with cybernetic implants replacing natural but worn out body parts.
I don't think that's staff's fault. Back when slashdot was young, almost everyone on the internet was a nerd. Now everyone and his dog is on the internet, and what's worse, we've gone from being social pariahs to being kewl (Damn but I never thought I'd live to see that). So you have hordes of semiliterate and aliterate muggles who think they're nerds because they can boot Windows and use an iPhone, and they're coming to slashdot submitting stories, voting in the firehose, etc.
We're even outnumbered at slashdot. Used to be we weren't even outnumbered on the internet.
Slashdot was great because it focused on hard tech news, and tended to post things that the Slashdot community were interested in. Now, it seems to be at the whims of a few submitters (MrSeb, Hugh Pickens) with the editors asleep at the switch and posting stuff that's not even remotely tech news, typically biased political propaganda.
There's the firehose to vote down stories you don't like. And, er, YOUR submissions look exactly like what you're bitching about. Yeah, they were probably just journals that weren't meant as submissions, but I don't see how you can bitch about bad stories when you haven't submitted any good ones yourself.
It's posted. http://slashdot.org/journal/280729/fish-slap
I see they changed the naming structure for journals (and a few other things too).
I'd like to see the old metamoderation system reinstated; the new one doesn't work nearly as well. The day before yesterday had a LOT of bad mods.
It's like that on my work computer too (XP, IE7).
You might want to read the FAQ.
In "faq" everyone should, because it appears there have been some changes to moderation.
The old FAQ stated that Funny gains no karma, because you could post something so utterly stupid that it made intelligent people laugh at you. Apparently this has now changed.
Personally, I liked it better when trying to be funny was hazardous to your karma.
Nothing happens when you click the flag. Nothing, that is, except it's flagged for a /. admin to look at and decide what to do with the comment. It's not like moderation at all.
You might want to peruse the FAQ (Unless you're using IE7; the first few paragraphs are unreadable because the CSS covers text with other text). I quote:
But the subject was amplification, not dynamics. It isn't Marshall's fault that today's sound engineers seem to all be less than competent.
You're perfect and have never done anything wrong? Never said a hurtful word in anger? Never lusted after a married woman? Never participated in the military? Never turned away someone who was hungry?
You're lying, and you're the only one who believes your lies. Nobody' perfect. Not you, not me, not anyone.
A double amputee isn't human? A kangaroo is humanoid?
The abuse flag doesn't remove a comment or mod it down, it's for spam and GNAA trolls. Click the flag and a /. editor will have a look. It's up to them to remove it.
The "Hall of fame" page apparently doesn't count anything before the page was first posted; it says I have no submissions when in fact I've had dozens of accepted submissions. Just not recently.
Ignorance isn't opinion. If he'd said that gays are all evil and aren't human, that would be flamebait. If you say smoking pot is a sin, that's an opinion and a valid one, although one I disagree with (I like pot). Mormons think drinking is a sin. Valid opinion, even though saying that makes Jesus a sinner.
What is a trusted source? All your friends use a particular app and say its great so you install it too
You trust your friend, but would you trust him to do surgery on you? Yes, if he's a surgeon. But not if he isn't. A trusted source would be one with a good reputation; microsoft.com, your Linux repo, Mac's app store, Adobe, Sun... used to include Sony before they deliberately put rootkits on music CDs.
malware is effectively a virus because both the same software is used to detect and warn you against it
A lot of AV software warns you about cookies, but that doesn't make them viruses or even malware. Most AV companies exist to scare you into buying more updates.
Yes be cautious what you install but you can only to a point before your computer has vastly less value to you than it would if you "lived a little".
Once you're infected, the only way to be sure it's completely cleaned out is to boot from a CD, do a low level and high level format, and reinstall your OS and all your apps. And even then it could be hiding in the BIOS of some machines. Installing apps from an untrusted source is foolish.
My BBS was free
Weren't they all? I never saw a paid for one.
What about my group? I didn't grow up with computers, Computers grew up with me.
I was online in 1983. It was CumpuServe and it really sucked. At 300 baud it was text-only and there was little there.
BBSes were better. They were 9600 baud and FREE!
I wasn't on the real internet until 1997. 33k modem, WOW What speed!
Man, it was primitive...
I don't even know where I'm going to find more performances like that.
Most bars I listen to live music in don't have PA systems, so every band is like that. Of course, they have to have the settings right and actually be good musicians.
You're 30 so you're a child of the digital era. You simply can NOT get very high fidelity from a CD. Few LPs would anyone confuse with a live performance, either, but there were some, Van halen's first album comes to mind.
When they have insanely high sampling rates and much higher bit depth than now you'll get higher fidelity than LP, but CDs are inferior to analog reel to reel or even LPs.
Hulu pisses me off because even if you pay for + you still get increasingly more commercials
That's my experience with cable. When I first got cable in 1980, the only commercials were on the OTA channels. The cable channels had no commercials at all -- and HBO was included in the $10 price.
Now, the cable channels have as many or more commercials as OTA channels, and what's worse they often have a commercial for a different show at the bottom of the screen while the show you're watching is still on. And they have those damn annoying logos at the bottom right.
Yeah, there are more cable channels now -- but they all suck. Shopping channels, the Golf channel, fishing channels, BET, women's channels... I feel ripped off paying for TV I have no interest whatever in watching. And the quality of the channels' programming has gone down as well. The Discover Channel used to have science, now they have "trick my truck" and dreck like that. The only Discovery channel show worth watching any more is MythBusters. The same for the history channel. They used to have history. Now they have "Pawn Stars." WTF? No way am I going to pay for that shit. I can get crappy shows filled with commercials for free with an antenna.
Too late, MS lost me as a customer in 2002 when I bought and installed XP and half my programs would no longer work. I'm forced to use MS's inferior junk (yes, inferior, buggy and unintuitive) ate work and I'll really be glad when I retire in 2 years.
Most people don't realise that to double the db you have to increase the amp's power by 10x. A 100 watt amp is twice as loud as a 10 watt amp, all other things being equal. A high efficiency speaker being driven by a 50 watt amp is louder than a low efficiency speaker being driven by a 100 watt amp. The amp output impedance and speaker impedance matter, too. Because of impedance mismatches, you can easily blow a solid state amp by running several speakers in series from it. You might even see the magic smoke.
Indeed, you are correct. If you look at the signals on an oscilloscope, an overdriven solid state amp will have a square wave with sharp corners, while the corners of a tube amp's distortion (clipped and overdriven) are rounded. This is what people mean when they say it sounds "warmer".
Many guitar players will play through a low power tube amp with a microphone in front of the tube amp that feeds a high power, not overdriven solid state amp. You get the sound of the tube amp without the higher cost of a Marshall that way.