Sorry, but I will call bullshit on that. We don't need to store everything. This is stupid beyond belief. Historians will need some context about our lives, but they wont be interested in every single bit of trash that we've produced. Probably they will be interested in knowing that some of our teenagers where stupid enough to have people like Britney Spears as a role model, but they won't care about every single record from said Mrs Spears. It will be useful for them to know that our generation is so self-indulging that millions of folks with virtually zero literaly talent like to play writers with their half-billion blogs, but saving said blogs for the future is not required beyond some bits of the most important ones, and one or other bit of the totally brain-dead ones. Try searching something in google nowadays and come back to talk about information pollution: Lessons learned? Not everything is relevant, and too much information sometimes is the greatest barriers to the building of knowledge. Btw, History *never" was the study of "the reigns of presidents and kings, military battles". Maybe some mediocre teachers may have created this impression, but to said that history was just that is nothing more than post-marxist blah-blah-blah. Even really ancient historians like Josefo doesn't fit your simplistic description.
Really... People deciphered hieroglyphs. People deciphered Enigma encrypted messages. If our grand-grand-sons in 300 years won't be able to figure out how to read something like a stream of raw frames in an optical disk, it means that they will be pretty much retarded, and then, by definition, they will have no need to watch our current generation's movies or TV shows, because their productions will be essentially the same crap as ours.
Man, they are selling it at a loss... The price is not high because they are arrogant greedy bastards, it's high because it's a fucking expensive machine to build.
Discussions about the morality of the war aside, there's a crucial difference between these two episodes and nazi contra-insurgency: Let's assume Haditha and Abu Graib is equivalent to past nazy military actions (And it's not, but I disgress), even so, it's clear that if nowadays americans did the same the nazi did on WWII, it's not an acceptable state policy. People has been punished because of those abuses, and it's more or less clear that the Republican will lose the next elections. On Nazy Germany those acts where standard ROE, for the modern US army, the same acts are seen as abuse, and when uncovered by media or by investigators there's punishment and lots of changes. Really man, you're insulting the memories of all those civilians who died on Europe because of german's hunt for insurgents. There's a fucking huge difference of scale.
We always had licenses for HAM radio. And any HAM operator knows the trouble caused by unlicensed/incompetent operators. Ham radio has the licensing requirement because radio spectrum is a limited resource. Maybe we should have a similar system on the internet: A special, restricted use network to be used only by licensed operators, and a free, no-license citizen's band internet for myspace users and similar fauna.
A whale is not a fish. Some whales eat fishs. And besides that, whales ejaculate a fucking massive ammount of sperm in sea waters, and as I really like to go swimming on the beach, I couldn't agree more with the idea of killing fish-eating whales.
You're understimating the appeal of Malthus over the mind of the average man. Malthus and Keynes simply refuse to die, shit! there's still some people who believe that the new deal didn't cause the Big Depression.
Know what? Youre a fucking abortion-lover, drug-liberation, advocate and a damned pro-gay-marriage liberal that has drink the kool-aid of 'so-called' global warming.
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2. EMP security. In the event of a nuclear war or similar event that could produce significant EMP, an underground site is your best bet. If wired properly, I am sure Sun's Black Boxes also serve as nice Faraday cages as an added bonus. Aside from a direct hit on the mineshaft, your data will be secure.
Except for the fact that while my data would be safe, I would be toasted by said nuclear explosion, your argument looks like an excellent marketing point, Mr McNeally.
Microsoft Patent Application N 32121323423412341234
A Method for providing some useful softwares routines and a commom layer of functionality on a environment where other programs can run atop. (...) We call this an Operating System, blah blah blah....
Actually you are no longer entitled to the right of dumping poison into rivers in PRC. Nowadays the only thing you can do is to manufature toys with GHB to be sold in Brazil.
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Sorry, but I will call bullshit on that.
We don't need to store everything. This is stupid beyond belief. Historians will need some context about our lives, but they wont be interested in every single bit of trash that we've produced. Probably they will be interested in knowing that some of our teenagers where stupid enough to have people like Britney Spears as a role model, but they won't care about every single record from said Mrs Spears. It will be useful for them to know that our generation is so self-indulging that millions of folks with virtually zero literaly talent like to play writers with their half-billion blogs, but saving said blogs for the future is not required beyond some bits of the most important ones, and one or other bit of the totally brain-dead ones.
Try searching something in google nowadays and come back to talk about information pollution: Lessons learned? Not everything is relevant, and too much information sometimes is the greatest barriers to the building of knowledge.
Btw, History *never" was the study of "the reigns of presidents and kings, military battles". Maybe some mediocre teachers may have created this impression, but to said that history was just that is nothing more than post-marxist blah-blah-blah. Even really ancient historians like Josefo doesn't fit your simplistic description.
Really... People deciphered hieroglyphs. People deciphered Enigma encrypted messages.
If our grand-grand-sons in 300 years won't be able to figure out how to read something like a stream of raw frames in an optical disk, it means that they will be pretty much retarded, and then, by definition, they will have no need to watch our current generation's movies or TV shows, because their productions will be essentially the same crap as ours.
Well, if your field of study was French Revolution or Mayan history, I bet you'd find it pretty useful.
Please mod parent +1, Lysergic.
c'mon man? only two cores? and you are trying to run vista on it, and besides that, trying to play mp3s?
It's time for you to get a real computer man, if you want to run a real OS like vista(TM).
Try these:
http://www.hp.com/products1/servers/scalableservers/superdome/
http://www.fujitsu.com/global/services/computing/server/mainframe/products/gs600/
"As Wine proves, any reimplementation of the Win32 API is inevitably not going to be as good as the real thing."
Yeah, most of my pet spywares fail to run correctly under wine.
Man, they are selling it at a loss... The price is not high because they are arrogant greedy bastards, it's high because it's a fucking expensive machine to build.
I just noticed your nickname is RogueyWon. Is it a coincidence?
Err.... You know, plants are living things... They have a methabolism, they consume energy......
Sometimes Americans are really disgusting.
Discussions about the morality of the war aside, there's a crucial difference between these two episodes and nazi contra-insurgency: Let's assume Haditha and Abu Graib is equivalent to past nazy military actions (And it's not, but I disgress), even so, it's clear that if nowadays americans did the same the nazi did on WWII, it's not an acceptable state policy. People has been punished because of those abuses, and it's more or less clear that the Republican will lose the next elections. On Nazy Germany those acts where standard ROE, for the modern US army, the same acts are seen as abuse, and when uncovered by media or by investigators there's punishment and lots of changes.
Really man, you're insulting the memories of all those civilians who died on Europe because of german's hunt for insurgents. There's a fucking huge difference of scale.
Man, you're old.....
I'd rather never have been reminded of a time when the only option(affordable)I had to Microsoft was DR-DOS.
We always had licenses for HAM radio. And any HAM operator knows the trouble caused by unlicensed/incompetent operators. Ham radio has the licensing requirement because radio spectrum is a limited resource.
Maybe we should have a similar system on the internet: A special, restricted use network to be used only by licensed operators, and a free, no-license citizen's band internet for myspace users and similar fauna.
A whale is not a fish.
Some whales eat fishs.
And besides that, whales ejaculate a fucking massive ammount of sperm in sea waters, and as I really like to go swimming on the beach, I couldn't agree more with the idea of killing fish-eating whales.
I think I've got a dramatically new insight about the meaning of the name for that book(or site, I don't remember): The Survival Ring.
By the way, did you notice that is not exactly a good scenario for China if the price for the goods they sell to the US skyrocket?
You're understimating the appeal of Malthus over the mind of the average man. Malthus and Keynes simply refuse to die, shit! there's still some people who believe that the new deal didn't cause the Big Depression.
Know what? Youre a fucking abortion-lover, drug-liberation, advocate and a damned pro-gay-marriage liberal that has drink the kool-aid of 'so-called' global warming.
Ok, mods. Now lead me to eternal glory with a -5 Troll.
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2. EMP security. In the event of a nuclear war or similar event that could produce significant EMP, an underground site is your best bet. If wired properly, I am sure Sun's Black Boxes also serve as nice Faraday cages as an added bonus. Aside from a direct hit on the mineshaft, your data will be secure.
Except for the fact that while my data would be safe, I would be toasted by said nuclear explosion, your argument looks like an excellent marketing point, Mr McNeally.
So, If I was a coackroach, I should be welcoming my new robotic overlords by now?
Mod myself funny, please.
Microsoft
Patent Application N 32121323423412341234
A Method for providing some useful softwares routines and a commom layer of functionality on a environment where other programs can run atop.
(...)
We call this an Operating System, blah blah blah....
For me, the backups are okay.
The only thing that scares me as hell are the restores.
Actually you are no longer entitled to the right of dumping poison into rivers in PRC.
Nowadays the only thing you can do is to manufature toys with GHB to be sold in Brazil.