You know, if they let the kids carry guns, they could've shot shit out of the computer as soon as things went wrong and nobody would have been exposed to picture of adults without clothes, doing rude things. I guess they could've shot the teacher for her incompetence too.
Because the spammers know your work email address is different, and wouldn't want to bother you there? It's my work email that I have a bigger problem with, because it's the most useful to be able to post around. I want to put my email address on papers and posters, because someone interesting might contact me. I want to have my email address on my home page for the same reason. I certainly don't want to post my cell number in the same way. It's true that email isn't necessary, but it's certainly very useful.
El Reg. aren't anti-Apple. It's far broader than a bias. They're anti-everything-new-and-trendy-and-cool. That's what makes it such an entertaining read, restoring balance to an 'OMG that's neato' universe.
The last fancy telescope was named after an astrophysicist who made a significant contribution to our understanding of the universe, using the red shift to prove that the universe is indeed expanding, now commonly known as Hubble's law. The new telescope is named after an administrator. An important job, and done very well by the sounds of it, but it's not super-science. Am I the only one who sees the difference between running an agency and advancing the body of scientific knowledge? In 100 years time (heck, even today) who's name will we know?
For desktop use, I'd say Linux has the edge (I think this is what Sun want to address), but for a traditional unix setup (lots of simultaneous users, vast shared storage, system must stay up for months continuously, staying responsive under heavy load) Solaris does a lot better. If you want to build a mail server, for example, those ten year old Sun boxes work quite well. Set it up, rack it, and you might not need to touch it for a couple of years. That's an admin's dream - it just keeps working.
As for geek chic, Sun do make nice boxes. They have a satisfying attention to detail that you just don't get (or pay for) in a generic PC box.
How about the incentive of, um, making people better? I work as a biomedical physicist (MRI), and I'm paid by the government. In a university. Maybe this is a crazy European idea you've not heard of. We collect taxes to pay for them (and me).
Greed indeed. On the part of Merck. If the US or the UK were to issue a comulsory license, Merck et al would have an arguement. Not in Brasil. Brasil has a serious potential problem and they're spending big money trying to contain it. They tried to negotiate with Merck but didn't get the price they wanted (the price Merck offered Thailand). Differential pricing of the same drugs in different countries is regular practice - it's not hard, and is something Merck already do - that's a red herring. As is outsourcing.
Brasil has exercised a right granted by the WTO, putting the health of its citizens first. Good for Brasil, and good luck to them.
Check out Svensmark (http://www.dsri.dk/~hsv/). The short version: Global warming is caused by cosmic rays, CO2 is a second order effect.
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What's the big problem with open questions? A good interviewer will give you some space to show your knowledge. One way of doing that is to ask open questions and see where the interviewee goes. Real life isn't like an exam question, with nice clean solutions from section xx.y of the syllabus.
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I'll be botting up the emulator tonight to celebrate!
That's a really confusing statement. Do you mean you're running your botnet inside an emulator? Surely that's inefficient, and doesn't show any of your m4d h4xx0r ski11z?
Maybe we will see a return to craftsmanship and individually crafted items. 3D printing is really the final stage in mass production - the same thing, reproduced over and over, rather than adapted to the wants or needs of a particular user. Imagine a world where you go to your local computer/car/furniture shop to discuss exactly what shape you'd like, what colour, materials, etc. Or, if you're happy with the same item as everybody else, it'll just keep getting cheaper.
Good for MIT. If only my universities weasely IT dept. would understand this sort of thing, and tear themselves away from their Windows obsession (hell, maybe even attempt to support Unix, I'm not even trying for Linux here). Oh, and stop subscribing to those stupid 'electronic books' that need an activeX plugin and don't even let you print out the pages. \RantOff.
The unintended consequences may be severe. We don't know. That's the point. And once something like this is released into the wild, there is no going back.
Now if we take the money needed to bring GM mosquito's to market and use it to buy vaccines, how much of the malaria problem can we solve? Remember, science ain't cheap. Or is it that because malaria occurs in wet, nasty, remote, impoverished, quarrelsome places, if it goes wrong we can always forget about it and go home.
It's interesting to see how this argument is going. If you replace every instance of Linux with Windows, Solaris with Linux, and wind back a couple of years, it's a familiar slashdot discussion.
Solaris is rock solid, performs extremely well under heavy load with lots of users (i.e. very different to the situation most home hackers see), and those of us using it like it. But that doesn't mean it shouldn't have a polished UI for the folks using it and not administering it.
I work in MRI research. Many of my colleagues are psychologists with little computing experience, trying to run some pretty heavy data processing. They want to know what their data says, not how to make Solaris work. A clicktastic GUI is part of that. Linux has heard it's potential users and is trying to catch up. Solaris could do the same. It's also interesting to note that Macs have made a big leap in this area, because they provide the nice GUI with a real Unix back end - they satisfy the users and the programmers.
To reply to point one, don't forget Crick and Watson. Maybe you've heard of them? They did some rather famous work while at the Cavendish lab in Cambridge (England). Yeah, that's a physics lab. Oh, yes, IAAP, who's studied a bit of neuroscience. Smug mode engaged.
Sure nothing beats real people for doing the job, but nothing wrong with having back-ups
That moment when the backup decides you don't know how to fly the plane and takes over, and you have no way of switching it off? What happens if something goes wrong with the plane, some kind of mechanical failure? The pilots will likely be doing something pretty odd to try and keep the plane in the air. Bang, autopilot kicks in, tries to fly the plane with an engine that's no longer there (for e.g.) and ditches in the sea.
We like having pilots in planes. Sure, we could do without them 99.99% of the time, but it's good to know they're there in case something goes wrong.
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You know, if they let the kids carry guns, they could've shot shit out of the computer as soon as things went wrong and nobody would have been exposed to picture of adults without clothes, doing rude things. I guess they could've shot the teacher for her incompetence too.
Some days, I'm happy to live in Europe.
...I wanna come to your party.
Because the spammers know your work email address is different, and wouldn't want to bother you there? It's my work email that I have a bigger problem with, because it's the most useful to be able to post around. I want to put my email address on papers and posters, because someone interesting might contact me. I want to have my email address on my home page for the same reason. I certainly don't want to post my cell number in the same way. It's true that email isn't necessary, but it's certainly very useful.
El Reg. aren't anti-Apple. It's far broader than a bias. They're anti-everything-new-and-trendy-and-cool. That's what makes it such an entertaining read, restoring balance to an 'OMG that's neato' universe.
The last fancy telescope was named after an astrophysicist who made a significant contribution to our understanding of the universe, using the red shift to prove that the universe is indeed expanding, now commonly known as Hubble's law. The new telescope is named after an administrator. An important job, and done very well by the sounds of it, but it's not super-science. Am I the only one who sees the difference between running an agency and advancing the body of scientific knowledge? In 100 years time (heck, even today) who's name will we know?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Hubble
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Edwin_Webb
For desktop use, I'd say Linux has the edge (I think this is what Sun want to address), but for a traditional unix setup (lots of simultaneous users, vast shared storage, system must stay up for months continuously, staying responsive under heavy load) Solaris does a lot better. If you want to build a mail server, for example, those ten year old Sun boxes work quite well. Set it up, rack it, and you might not need to touch it for a couple of years. That's an admin's dream - it just keeps working.
As for geek chic, Sun do make nice boxes. They have a satisfying attention to detail that you just don't get (or pay for) in a generic PC box.
Except in Germany, where it's younger.
I'm sorry you're also unfamiliar with humour. I hope you didn't hurt your head. Perhaps you'd like an Aspirin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspirin#Discovery) for that, or maybe an Ibuprofen http://www.ibuprofen-foundation.com/what-ibuprofen /story.htm? And for the record, the pharma-industry is still alive and well over here.
How about the incentive of, um, making people better? I work as a biomedical physicist (MRI), and I'm paid by the government. In a university. Maybe this is a crazy European idea you've not heard of. We collect taxes to pay for them (and me).
Greed indeed. On the part of Merck. If the US or the UK were to issue a comulsory license, Merck et al would have an arguement. Not in Brasil. Brasil has a serious potential problem and they're spending big money trying to contain it. They tried to negotiate with Merck but didn't get the price they wanted (the price Merck offered Thailand). Differential pricing of the same drugs in different countries is regular practice - it's not hard, and is something Merck already do - that's a red herring. As is outsourcing.
Brasil has exercised a right granted by the WTO, putting the health of its citizens first. Good for Brasil, and good luck to them.
Check out Svensmark (http://www.dsri.dk/~hsv/). The short version: Global warming is caused by cosmic rays, CO2 is a second order effect.
What's the big problem with open questions? A good interviewer will give you some space to show your knowledge. One way of doing that is to ask open questions and see where the interviewee goes. Real life isn't like an exam question, with nice clean solutions from section xx.y of the syllabus.
Broadband supplier (or should I say seller) shows we all want to vote online. This tells us:
(a) we all want to vote online, or
(b) NTL have found a new sales pitch
Place your votes now.
I'll be botting up the emulator tonight to celebrate!
That's a really confusing statement. Do you mean you're running your botnet inside an emulator? Surely that's inefficient, and doesn't show any of your m4d h4xx0r ski11z?
Maybe we will see a return to craftsmanship and individually crafted items. 3D printing is really the final stage in mass production - the same thing, reproduced over and over, rather than adapted to the wants or needs of a particular user. Imagine a world where you go to your local computer/car/furniture shop to discuss exactly what shape you'd like, what colour, materials, etc. Or, if you're happy with the same item as everybody else, it'll just keep getting cheaper.
...when it's not allowed?
I thought we talked this through before. There is no evolution. God just gets bored, making the same thing over and over.
Good for MIT. If only my universities weasely IT dept. would understand this sort of thing, and tear themselves away from their Windows obsession (hell, maybe even attempt to support Unix, I'm not even trying for Linux here). Oh, and stop subscribing to those stupid 'electronic books' that need an activeX plugin and don't even let you print out the pages. \RantOff.
The unintended consequences may be severe. We don't know. That's the point. And once something like this is released into the wild, there is no going back.
Now if we take the money needed to bring GM mosquito's to market and use it to buy vaccines, how much of the malaria problem can we solve? Remember, science ain't cheap. Or is it that because malaria occurs in wet, nasty, remote, impoverished, quarrelsome places, if it goes wrong we can always forget about it and go home.
It's interesting to see how this argument is going. If you replace every instance of Linux with Windows, Solaris with Linux, and wind back a couple of years, it's a familiar slashdot discussion.
Solaris is rock solid, performs extremely well under heavy load with lots of users (i.e. very different to the situation most home hackers see), and those of us using it like it. But that doesn't mean it shouldn't have a polished UI for the folks using it and not administering it.
I work in MRI research. Many of my colleagues are psychologists with little computing experience, trying to run some pretty heavy data processing. They want to know what their data says, not how to make Solaris work. A clicktastic GUI is part of that. Linux has heard it's potential users and is trying to catch up. Solaris could do the same. It's also interesting to note that Macs have made a big leap in this area, because they provide the nice GUI with a real Unix back end - they satisfy the users and the programmers.
The day Firefox comes with multicoloured tabs and a weather forecast built in is the day I switch back to Opera.
But we know all the zombies are Windows/x86, because that's the only insecure platform, right?
Conducting all that current will generate a fair bit of heat. Maybe that upsets the delicate thermal balance of the propagation process?
To reply to point one, don't forget Crick and Watson. Maybe you've heard of them? They did some rather famous work while at the Cavendish lab in Cambridge (England). Yeah, that's a physics lab. Oh, yes, IAAP, who's studied a bit of neuroscience. Smug mode engaged.
Sure nothing beats real people for doing the job, but nothing wrong with having back-ups
That moment when the backup decides you don't know how to fly the plane and takes over, and you have no way of switching it off? What happens if something goes wrong with the plane, some kind of mechanical failure? The pilots will likely be doing something pretty odd to try and keep the plane in the air. Bang, autopilot kicks in, tries to fly the plane with an engine that's no longer there (for e.g.) and ditches in the sea.
We like having pilots in planes. Sure, we could do without them 99.99% of the time, but it's good to know they're there in case something goes wrong.