I always thought it was the other way around.
If network B requests data from network A, network A won't be the ones to have to pay for it. That's like charging the person receiving a telephone call.
By the way if you want to pay me to get rid of your packets I meter/dev/null ; you can send your packets there and I'll send you a bill at the end of the month. (There will be severe fines if you attempt to use/dev/null without paying.)
Well I don't think programs that only exist to scare you are worthwhile. I've never seen a Panorama program that wasn't a scare-fest. When you watch one on a topic you know nothing about the scientists seem well informed and the threats seem genuine. It's only when you watch a Panorama program on a topic you're remotely familiar with that you realize what nonsense it is.
One of them was about the dangers of black holes. They'll boil the oceans, suck the life right off the planet, there's a super massive one at the center of our galaxy, they feed and then they stay silent, drifting through space until WHAM. Lots of sound bytes of scientists saying "it's only a matter of time", "you can't see them, but we know they're there", "we have no idea how many there are", etc. In only 5 billion years our galaxy will collide with another one, and we might drift right into that galaxy's super massive black hole, etc, etc.
It's that sort of programming, and if they convince laypeople that more money needs to be spent on researching this than is really necessary it only does damage.
Okay, so that's 15 petabytes *tapping on calculator* that's 3.4x10^29 bits.
Taking the maximum data rate from a given node as 3 gigabits per second, and taking into account the effect of bandwidth increases over time.. *tapping on calculator*
Okay, and taking the average mosquito lifetime as 20 days.. *tapping on calculator*
*breaks into a cold sweat*
Now, assuming mutations in mosquitos occur at a rate of 1 base pair per generation, *tap tap tap* and that our genes are different from mosquitos by 2.4x10^6 base pairs.. *more tapping on calculator*
By the time they have transferred this data to scientists across the world mosquitos will have become the new dominant species.
They're not going to run the particle accelerator for a day and then spend half a year transferring all the data generated, the lifetime of a particle accelerator is longer than 173 days.
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That's not like Dell either, historically. They are usually just another little m$ bitch when Bill cracks the whip. Maybe this is a new era for Dell. That's one interpretation.
The other one is that they never were at Microsoft's bidding and weren't offering Linux simply because not enough people wanted Linux to warrant the expense. Now that Linux is getting more popular they are offering it.
Another interpretation is that Microsoft is no longer Dell's bitch; perhaps Microsoft stopped giving Dell discounts.. But I think the last interpretation is more realistic.
They why did it take so long for Adobe and all the other Apple software companies to release universal binaries?
Little/big endianness woes, using 32-bit and 64-bit on both architectures, double the amount of testing, etc. It's no small matter to port a large application to a whole new processor architecture.
That must be why kids never sit down to watch TV until you explain exactly how TVs work, and why they treat santa claus, the easter bunny and monsters under the bed with such skepticism.
The other day I did the pull-off-my-thumb magic trick to a cute four year old girl, she coldly said "what the hell kind of idiot do you take me for? I've got a trick for ya:" And then she flipped me off and walked away! These toddlers have such an incisive sense of skeptical intuition.
I'd rather not have any software monitor me, but if I was going to have a piece of software monitor me I'd rather I was able to check out its source and see exactly what is being monitored that just have a black box and have to take the word of the authors.
If you take the absoulte view that the body is nothing but a meatbag you used to live in, then no there's no way to "pay your respects". Maybe you're paying your respects to the person and not the meatbag? Maybe that was my whole point?
But don't go around claiming to have the answer to "more appropriate ways to pay your respects that actually mean something" unless you want me pissing on your grave (does that have meaning?). If at some point you need a kidney transplant you might end up pissing on my grave using my own kidney. Maybe if you ever need a transplant you'll think twice about a persons legacy and what it has to do with the matter they're made out of.
More like the most excited ashes in the whole galaxy!
The problem with things like this is that the stuff we're made of isn't who we are. Not in a metaphorical sense, but literally.
If you look at an old photo of yourself what you see is no longer what you are made of (except your teeth, if you're an looking at an adult photo).
Your remains/cremated ashes are just the matter you were made of when you die. No more or less sacred than your skin flakes, sweat, crap, etc, which also contains matter which used to be you.. If Doohan wanted some of the matter that was once him to go into space why not send a lock of hair, or a crap for that matter?
Maybe there are more appropriate ways to pay your respects that actually mean something..
Your PC will be unable to run a supported version of Mac OS X in 2 years, and will be unable to run the latest lot of software that requires the latest version of Mac OS X in 1 year, let alone the next version Windows in ~5 years.
Tablets will take off. Gates also understood that media center PCs would be huge, but he (self-admittedly) got into the market way, way too soon (mid-1990s).
Tablets fill a niche where you need a portable PC that you can take notes on. They're perfect for students and workers who aren't at an office, and you can expect that once the price drops below a threshold there'll be huge uptake of tablet PCs.
The only question is what that threshold is, and will tablet PCs turn a profit while under that threshold. This is a reasonable question, and a huge potential market hinges on it, and I don't think Gates is the only person who recognizes that.
Microsoft can look for patent violations in Linux source code, but no-one can look for patent violations in Microsoft's source code. If you have a patent on the way an internal piece of software works you have no way of telling whether MS is breaking it, but they can tell whether Linux is.
I'm guessing the "give all students guns and Virginia Tech wouldn't have happened" crowd won't be commenting on this story.. Imagine how much worse this would have been if everyone had guns. This situation isn't a common occurrence, but false alarms in general are.
I wonder how many private investigators they hire and how many lawsuits they lodge. Also you're not required to pay tens of thousands to learn about Christianity.
I'm not saying parallels can't be drawn, but Scientology is definitely much worse. You can argue it's a gross exaggeration of mainstream religion, but it isn't mainstream religion.
Why are wasting our time with a bunch of delusional cultists? Because they take millions of dollars from gullible people, they are a corporation of ignorance posing as a religion, they have killed, and they censor and lash out at people who investigate them.
I really hope the BBC wins, and shows that nothing has changed. We have to nip this "religion" in the bud, it's disgusting.
It is fiction, but how the hell is debunking exorcism debunking Christianity (The Catholic Church collected tithes and money to buy your way into heaven too, but that's not Christianity.), and how the hell do you test for the presence of demons under lab conditions?
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I always thought it was the other way around.
/dev/null ; you can send your packets there and I'll send you a bill at the end of the month. (There will be severe fines if you attempt to use /dev/null without paying.)
If network B requests data from network A, network A won't be the ones to have to pay for it. That's like charging the person receiving a telephone call.
By the way if you want to pay me to get rid of your packets I meter
Well I don't think programs that only exist to scare you are worthwhile. I've never seen a Panorama program that wasn't a scare-fest. When you watch one on a topic you know nothing about the scientists seem well informed and the threats seem genuine. It's only when you watch a Panorama program on a topic you're remotely familiar with that you realize what nonsense it is.
One of them was about the dangers of black holes. They'll boil the oceans, suck the life right off the planet, there's a super massive one at the center of our galaxy, they feed and then they stay silent, drifting through space until WHAM. Lots of sound bytes of scientists saying "it's only a matter of time", "you can't see them, but we know they're there", "we have no idea how many there are", etc. In only 5 billion years our galaxy will collide with another one, and we might drift right into that galaxy's super massive black hole, etc, etc.
It's that sort of programming, and if they convince laypeople that more money needs to be spent on researching this than is really necessary it only does damage.
- Okay, so that's 15 petabytes *tapping on calculator* that's 3.4x10^29 bits.
- Taking the maximum data rate from a given node as 3 gigabits per second, and taking into account the effect of bandwidth increases over time.. *tapping on calculator*
- Okay, and taking the average mosquito lifetime as 20 days.. *tapping on calculator*
- *breaks into a cold sweat*
- Now, assuming mutations in mosquitos occur at a rate of 1 base pair per generation, *tap tap tap* and that our genes are different from mosquitos by 2.4x10^6 base pairs.. *more tapping on calculator*
By the time they have transferred this data to scientists across the world mosquitos will have become the new dominant species.They're not going to run the particle accelerator for a day and then spend half a year transferring all the data generated, the lifetime of a particle accelerator is longer than 173 days.
The other one is that they never were at Microsoft's bidding and weren't offering Linux simply because not enough people wanted Linux to warrant the expense. Now that Linux is getting more popular they are offering it.
Another interpretation is that Microsoft is no longer Dell's bitch; perhaps Microsoft stopped giving Dell discounts.. But I think the last interpretation is more realistic.
They why did it take so long for Adobe and all the other Apple software companies to release universal binaries?
Little/big endianness woes, using 32-bit and 64-bit on both architectures, double the amount of testing, etc. It's no small matter to port a large application to a whole new processor architecture.
If your software has to take advantage of both chips it probably won't be optimized for either, and it's also a lot of extra unnecessary work.
That must be why kids never sit down to watch TV until you explain exactly how TVs work, and why they treat santa claus, the easter bunny and monsters under the bed with such skepticism.
The other day I did the pull-off-my-thumb magic trick to a cute four year old girl, she coldly said "what the hell kind of idiot do you take me for? I've got a trick for ya:" And then she flipped me off and walked away! These toddlers have such an incisive sense of skeptical intuition.
I'd rather not have any software monitor me, but if I was going to have a piece of software monitor me I'd rather I was able to check out its source and see exactly what is being monitored that just have a black box and have to take the word of the authors.
But don't go around claiming to have the answer to "more appropriate ways to pay your respects that actually mean something" unless you want me pissing on your grave (does that have meaning?). If at some point you need a kidney transplant you might end up pissing on my grave using my own kidney. Maybe if you ever need a transplant you'll think twice about a persons legacy and what it has to do with the matter they're made out of.
Google is all about redundancy. We hear these kinds of stories a lot but they don't actually happen to many companies at all.
More like the most excited ashes in the whole galaxy!
The problem with things like this is that the stuff we're made of isn't who we are. Not in a metaphorical sense, but literally.
If you look at an old photo of yourself what you see is no longer what you are made of (except your teeth, if you're an looking at an adult photo).
Your remains/cremated ashes are just the matter you were made of when you die. No more or less sacred than your skin flakes, sweat, crap, etc, which also contains matter which used to be you.. If Doohan wanted some of the matter that was once him to go into space why not send a lock of hair, or a crap for that matter?
Maybe there are more appropriate ways to pay your respects that actually mean something..
The facebook owner doesn't read Slashdot Semel, quit trying your luck and fork up the extra hundred million.
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Your PC will be unable to run a supported version of Mac OS X in 2 years, and will be unable to run the latest lot of software that requires the latest version of Mac OS X in 1 year, let alone the next version Windows in ~5 years.
Tablets will take off. Gates also understood that media center PCs would be huge, but he (self-admittedly) got into the market way, way too soon (mid-1990s).
Tablets fill a niche where you need a portable PC that you can take notes on. They're perfect for students and workers who aren't at an office, and you can expect that once the price drops below a threshold there'll be huge uptake of tablet PCs.
The only question is what that threshold is, and will tablet PCs turn a profit while under that threshold. This is a reasonable question, and a huge potential market hinges on it, and I don't think Gates is the only person who recognizes that.
How about Rock/Paper/Water, or Rock/Paper/Surge, or Rock/Paper/Pull the plug? Bet I could beat a computer at those classic variants.
Pfff, everyone uses Plan9 these days. HURD is what the true masochists use.
No need, I've already made the list. And damn Microsoft violates a lot of patents; 312 to be precise.
Microsoft can look for patent violations in Linux source code, but no-one can look for patent violations in Microsoft's source code. If you have a patent on the way an internal piece of software works you have no way of telling whether MS is breaking it, but they can tell whether Linux is.
I'm guessing the "give all students guns and Virginia Tech wouldn't have happened" crowd won't be commenting on this story.. Imagine how much worse this would have been if everyone had guns. This situation isn't a common occurrence, but false alarms in general are.
I wonder how many private investigators they hire and how many lawsuits they lodge. Also you're not required to pay tens of thousands to learn about Christianity.
I'm not saying parallels can't be drawn, but Scientology is definitely much worse. You can argue it's a gross exaggeration of mainstream religion, but it isn't mainstream religion.
I really hope the BBC wins, and shows that nothing has changed. We have to nip this "religion" in the bud, it's disgusting.
I predict mobile carriers and devices will use it for VoIP, where it's a necessity, everyone else will follow.
It is fiction, but how the hell is debunking exorcism debunking Christianity (The Catholic Church collected tithes and money to buy your way into heaven too, but that's not Christianity.), and how the hell do you test for the presence of demons under lab conditions?