You can scan a crowded lobby and pick out a familiar face in a fraction of a second, a task that pushes even today's best computers to their limit. Yet multiplying 357 by 289, a task that demands a puny amount of processing, leaves most of us struggling.
Exactly. That's why I've always been baffled by the commonplace brain-computer comparison, when it's so very clear that what goes on under the respective hoods is completely different.
I do scientific high-performance computing, and there is simply no reason anyone would want to run Windows on a supercomputer.
Right: or anything else with a GUI, for that matter. Those machines should mostly be crunching numbers and doing the least possible I/O.
Cycles wasted checking for mouse movement, or drawing silly menus and icons, are wasted money, since one could build a smaller machine and offload the frivolous GUI stuff to a graphic terminal.
what about side-effect sales; someone uploads a song and this causes others to become fans of the band and buy tickets and tee shirts next time they are at a concert.
Who the fuck cares? If the author and/or publisher doesn't want you to distribute the songs, you either don't or face the consequences. End of story.
You do realize that Apple's PDF reader is *WAY* less secure than Adobe's, right? We're talking 15x as many exploitable vulnerabilies across the same test set of fuzzed files.
Clearly you didn't get my point, which can be summarized as: "MSFT has been so treacherous in its whole history, that people just can't trust it any more".
You say it should be given a 2000th chance? Fine, give it to them. Just don't go arrogantly preaching that everybody should. You call it "permanent judgement", I call it "learning from experience".
BTW, I also never implied you were religious, I was just writing about me (I even stated "I don't know about you"). But it's already clear that you either don't read what I write or you don't understand what you read.
Consider a badly-behaved child. You punish them, and try to change their behavior. After some time, their behavior DOES change, but you now ignore the improvement and continue punishing them for their past misdeeds. Is this fair?
MSFT executives are not children, they are adults who are fully aware of the consequences of their actions. This is why your comparison doesn't hold.
If there's no reward for improving your behavior, why would you ever WANT to improve?
I don't know about you, but I try to behave well because I think it's the good thing to do towards my fellow humans. But then I'm an atheist, so I don't need heaven and hell to scare me into being good.
sometimes even bad companies do good things (or at least stop doing bad things), and they should be commended in such cases, instead of this churlish suspicion and ill will.
I think Microsoft, because of its long tradition of foul play and , has reached a point of no return where anything good they might ever do will always be received with suspicion and distrust. They've got no one to thank but themselves.
You can run Windows or linux on Mac computers and Apple has done nothing to hinder that. Apple for a time shipped trusted computing modules in their machines and haters went crazy about how Apple was locking them down. The end result, Apple didn't use it at all for locking anything down and simply made it available to developers doing encryption. There's been a working version of Android in the iPhone since April and Apple has done nothing about it. Why then would anyone claim Apple is going to try to stop people from running ChromeOS on iPads? Is there even a shred of evidence to support this bizarre hypothesis?
Dean: Hi there! Hello, I'm Dean Peterson, but you can call me Bobby.
I just want you to know if you ever feel stressed out from
studying or whatever, I'm always up for some hackey sack. Or,
hey! If you just want to come by and jam, I used to be the bass
player for the Pretenders. [plays a riff] Homer: [bitterly] Boy, I can't wait to take some of the starch out of
that stuffed shirt.
Let's deluge him him phone calls, rather than having the convenience of having him post one update to many people.
So how "convenient" is Facebook when Facebook is down?
Let's just pretend that this useful 'internet' thingy doesn't exist.
That's exactly what Facebookers do. Instead of taking advantage of a global, distributed and PUBLIC infrastructure, they put all their communication in the hands of a PRIVATE company. How freaking smart.
Maybe not to you, but as I told the OP, statement like yours are just those of a shallow self centered jackass.
Which just goes to show that the only way you have to "prove" your point is by insulting others.
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Exactly. That's why I've always been baffled by the commonplace brain-computer comparison, when it's so very clear that what goes on under the respective hoods is completely different.
Actually, it's 17 times less relevant than AIX, at least in the Top 500.
Right: or anything else with a GUI, for that matter. Those machines should mostly be crunching numbers and doing the least possible I/O.
Cycles wasted checking for mouse movement, or drawing silly menus and icons, are wasted money, since one could build a smaller machine and offload the frivolous GUI stuff to a graphic terminal.
Who the fuck cares? If the author and/or publisher doesn't want you to distribute the songs, you either don't or face the consequences. End of story.
"windows" ?
As if it were possible to not add real-life friends on FB without offending them. Get real...
If Facebook users didn't deserve this, they wouldn't be using Facebook.
Citation or you're talking out of your ass.
Altavista.
But that might be Stockholm syndrome speaking.
Probably because you're an idiot.
Clearly you didn't get my point, which can be summarized as: "MSFT has been so treacherous in its whole history, that people just can't trust it any more".
You say it should be given a 2000th chance? Fine, give it to them. Just don't go arrogantly preaching that everybody should. You call it "permanent judgement", I call it "learning from experience".
BTW, I also never implied you were religious, I was just writing about me (I even stated "I don't know about you"). But it's already clear that you either don't read what I write or you don't understand what you read.
MSFT executives are not children, they are adults who are fully aware of the consequences of their actions. This is why your comparison doesn't hold.
I don't know about you, but I try to behave well because I think it's the good thing to do towards my fellow humans. But then I'm an atheist, so I don't need heaven and hell to scare me into being good.
s/ ,/ lack of ethics,/
I think Microsoft, because of its long tradition of foul play and , has reached a point of no return where anything good they might ever do will always be received with suspicion and distrust. They've got no one to thank but themselves.
So, what we should make of this is that the government has no other way of spying people on Facebook than befriending them.
How reassuring! Don't befriend unknown people and your privacy is safe from the guvmint's prying eyes!
Isn't this the best of all possible worlds? Thank you, Zuckerberg! Thank you, government!
P.S.: if you use Facebook, you deserve this crap.
True nerds use the metric system. Shame on you, Slashdot!
It'll be remembered as "The day the news stood still."
Yeah, what's with that "operating systems going forward"? Sounds like a pretty pathetic attempt at double-entendre to me.
Dean: Hi there! Hello, I'm Dean Peterson, but you can call me Bobby.
I just want you to know if you ever feel stressed out from
studying or whatever, I'm always up for some hackey sack. Or,
hey! If you just want to come by and jam, I used to be the bass
player for the Pretenders. [plays a riff]
Homer: [bitterly] Boy, I can't wait to take some of the starch out of
that stuffed shirt.
Maybe they could perform live cracking sessions and sell t-shirts.
When it's about software, it's theft. When it's about music or movies, it's sharing, or - at most - infringement.
Good job at building your credibility, Slashdot.
Aside from the fact that it wasn't an analogy.
But you still are a college dropout.
DerekLyons (302214) wrote:
So how "convenient" is Facebook when Facebook is down?
That's exactly what Facebookers do. Instead of taking advantage of a global, distributed and PUBLIC infrastructure, they put all their communication in the hands of a PRIVATE company. How freaking smart.
Which just goes to show that the only way you have to "prove" your point is by insulting others.