As the other poster commented: "flawed"? Yeah, I'm going to gather that this is some silly reference to the fact that the quadratic formula as conventionally written is not ideal from a numerical stability and roundoff standpoint when implemented on a finite precision computer. Yeah, man, so you're basically trying to sound cool on slashdot by veiling a superficial knowledge of a piece of numerical computation trivia in some meaningless (in this context) "photon flux" bullshit. +9000 Internets for you.

Trying to equate a reality of finite numerical computation to the accuracy of a general formula doesn't go very far in proving any point about an understanding of math.

Wow, you think a "quart" of oil to lubricate engines sold in retail packaging is closer to the crude oil market than gasoline. Hint... it's not.

This is slashdot, it's likely they're just an idiot.

You're joking, right?

A "beam" in this case is formed by doing signal processing tricks and sending out this signal to a special antenna array (but what is essentially a single physical antenna system). Many such beams can be formed electronically and combined electronically and sent out to this single antenna array.

Each new "beam" doesn't require additional hardware as you seem to be thinking.

Teh stupid. It burns.

Oh, well maybe you did read it.. In any case, I had precisely the Tannenbaum example in mind when I mentioned sneakernet in this context.. because they often go together in examples in introductory networking classes. What else did you think I meant by that last sentence then?

Um... You didn't bother to read the last paragraph of my post.. I thought about deleting because it may have been too condescending.. But apparently it wasn't in this case.

And the ironic part of Tannenbaum's observation is that sneakernet actually *is* at times more efficient than using some low-latency telecom network. Not that anything is wrong.. that is the whole point. He wasn't lying. Try it and see. Even Internet2 can't compete with my van filled with Western Digital hard-drives. It really boils down to an observation on the bandwidth/latency trade-off.

So at this point I've completely lost the point you had. But it's too late for me to care.

You're honestly comparing cheap pieces of plastic used as a storage medium and sold at retail with a telecommunications network and infrastructure??? Really? You think everyone here is that retarded?

I mean, sure all info is measured in bits, so telecom is measured in bits and so are DVDs. But gasoline is measured in gallons, and water is measured in gallons... That's about the level your example is working at, IMNSHO.

There's a reason that the irony of "sneakernet" is funny... You seem to have missed it. Why don't you just stick to disk media if that seems to solve all your problems, and is cheaper.

How do you conclude a result is "surprising" if you can't draw any conclusions from said results?

Umm.. you do realize that CBBS and Ward Christensen should be ample clues that this was a dialup BBS issue and not an Internet issue. Things were a lot more closeknit on dialup BBSes.

You know.. what you say is true, but of course useless and we are (depending on how you count) on the 2.5th or 3rd iteration of WiFi "security". The thing with WPA2-PSK... the whole shit is actually somewhat complex, its isn't any simpler than a DH protocol. What merry band of fucktards could do this? How could the system break down so badly. I know standards bodies suck anushole... but how could such shit like this happen.

Fuck you... this is an issue of a fundamental freedom. An application as powerful and useful as a browser should have the right to alter an setting in the registry it wants!!

Well.. not really.

There is a difference.. 4chan *is* an image board and really nothing more. It's content and the type of images (and I was implicitly endorsing nostril rape as positive, mind you) are driven entirely by the users. The site carries very little aesthetic or even direction (although it has some) on its own.

Lamebook is supposedly catering to a specific purpose, but it is just using whatever piece of crap blog software they could find for it, putting up butchered, pain in the ass pngs, which is certainly not elegant. The comment system sucks worse than 4chan, believe it or not. And probably the biggest problem is that it is so heavily ad-driven it looks like shit with or without AdBlock.

I'm not trying to sound all pro *chan -- but is that really what Lamebook wants to be, yet another shitty chan? Then call it Lamechan.

BTW, Lamebook basically reminds me of failblog, but not quite as lame... but close.

Oh yeah, just to emphasize your doltishness... The ARM includes processor core IP that is integrated or implemented both with and without an MMU. That is MY ENTIRE POINT. Since the option is there, if your plan is so well thought out, why do integrators EVER use the MMU if it is merely an option and according to you seems to be unnecessary?