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Sorry, somebody had to say it.

*Combining all of its products Microsoft reaches a features total of 201.75.

*Combining all of its products Microsoft reaches a features total of 201.75.

Hmmm... I was thinking of investing in a new mac for graphic/sound editing but maybe I should hold off. This new stuff from apple sounds very cool!

Well, considering that it's still under NDA you're probably not going to see a lot of reviews on it. Or, you may see a lot of reviews that will then quickly disappear courtesy of Apple Legal. I did read a good one that I can't find right now (it was probably taken down) where the reviewer said that he couldn't go back to Panther after using Tiger. Tiger, even though the version he had was a little buggy, was so much faster than Panther that he'd rather live with the bugs than give up the speed. I think he was using either an iBook or a PowerBook.

Anyway, some real tests need to be done, but it's looking good so far.
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When will I be able to get them for free?

When will I be able to get one for free?

If everyone on Slashdot participates here, the cost argument goes right out the window.

Unfortunately moving to Canada will invalidate you from recieving your free Mac Mini...

A user must have a valid email address and a valid shipping address in the United States or a U.S. Territory.

Slightly OT, but realize there are some benefits to staying in America. (As the link below suggests)

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Not that I'm saying OSX is as insecure as windows since microsoft has set that low bar so high. But just because you don't see a virus forwarde through email from an OS with ~3% marketshare doesn't really mean anything. When was the last time you saw an email-borne virus sent from a Linux or BSD machine? --- Will Switch for Mac

I did the gratis ipod offer and got one for free, without spending a cent on any offers.One of my frinds, who was a 'referral' got charged $100 for not cancelling a trial offer on time.

The gratis offers are well regarded. Gizmodo has an article about the program:
http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/free-ipods-how-to- beat-the-system-sort-of-017801.php and so does wired:
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They do also have a program for mac minis: http://www.freeminimacs.com/?r=14398898

This isn't as obvious as it sounds. The sites that the article talks about are not the Gratis (e.g., freeipods.com, freegamingsystems.com, freeMiniMacs.com) sites. They are the sites that have the "Hit the target to win an iPod" ads, and then ask you to complete a survey. From what I have seen, it is so obvious that those sites are a waste of time and money, I can't believe anyone tries them.

The Gratis sites are completely legitimate, and it is actually beneficial to complete the offers to get the iPod. I actually got the shipment of my free 1GB iPod Shuffle today (for my fiancee; she was thrilled), and by doing a $1/month trial of Great Fun (I think), I ended up with $20 in Circuit City gift certificates to boot. Hardly a waste of my time, since all I had to do was take 5 minutes to fill out the sign-up form, and then take 5 minutes to call in and cancel (literally, 5 minutes). So in the end, my free iPod Shuffle cost me negative $19 and 10 minutes. Not bad at all.

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I knew in my head this was the first thing someone would reply with.

Yes it is possible to

A: Have a girlfriend who is relatively attractive (No, no pictures for you ;) )
B: Be the school's 'techie'
C: Regularly visit Slashdot and have positive Karma!

My quick advices:

1. Find some common ground that doesnt involve tech (unless you find a tech-girl to snag, but there's bound to be competition). Me and my g/f met at the movie theatre where we both used to work. Free movies allowed us time to discover eachother and provided a really cheap date, considering we both snuck in concessions...

2. Don't be afraid to flaunt your tech just a little. Talking in Java is a bad idea, but being a little helpful once in a while really works charms. If your potential interest has a Bluetooth phone, send them a quick "Lookin good today" address card followed by a hug once she gets the puzzled look on her face. Something to that effect, if used sparsely, is a real lady-killer.

3. Proper hygiene is realllllly important. I used to be dirty and smelly, but once I started showering regularly and using cologne, my mate was hooked.

4. (and most important) Just be yourself. Most male geeks have the concentrated puzzle-solving look on their eyes when learning a new language or tackling a problem. My g/f finds that incredibly cute.

I know this is a bit of a ramble and majorly O/T, but hey, I smell "Informative".

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... Or just ask them. As long as retailers don't ask for my social security number or other vital information, I don't mind giving up my gender, zip code, or whatever.

I know the power of data collection, and how it can influence markets. If a bunch of /.ers visited Amazon and said "Hey, I'm a [computer|history|physics] geek" then I'm sure Amazon of all people would go: "Hey, let's pitch him SnowClash, Digital Fortress, or tech books."

I personally don't want my potential anniversary date posted online (I have a female compatriot, just happen to be 17), but hell, if Amazon is willing to say "Hey numnuts, your anniversary is in a week. You better get her something!" then I'd be glad.

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The article says "Reynolds said... that Turion-powered systems could have up to one-third less battery life than laptops running on Intel's ultra low voltage products." That sounds like its just a comparison of the 27W to 35W specs of the processors. However, since both companies have their own systems to dynamically scale back power by slowing down the CPU like SpeedStep and PowerNow, could the power labels be inaccurate as a measure of battery life in this case? Just like how clock-vs-clock benchmarks are no longer valid, could the same now be true about Watt-vs-Watt measurements?

*shrugs* Then again, AMD might just be flat out decieving on the benchmarks because they are thinking of their shareholders rather than their customers.

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Does it still need to connect to the phone lines these days?

Yes and no. The latest Tivo boxes can operate over ethernet or 802.11, but you still need to set the box up over a phone line (which really sucks). My wife and I got a Tivo for Christmas from my parents and had to set it up at their house because we have no landline. But once it's set up it works great using a wireless adapter.

There is still a downside though. Tivo series 2 boxes are supposed to have USB 2.0, but the Tivo software only has USB 1.1 drivers. So even if you connect the ethernet adapter to a 100 Mb network or if you put in an 802.11g adapter, Tivo2Go stuff only transfers at USB 1.1 speeds which is horribly slow when transferring multi-gigabyte TV shows.

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In order to clear up the confusion about performance, the FPGA company involved here has decided to drop the 90MHz from ads and just call the FPGA 75000 ultra-uber-extreme edition.

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They're still Not Good Enough. FPGAs are faster than running software on a normal CPU, but they're still not as fast as running on pure hardware. While modern GPUs are programmable, they're still dependent on extreme hardware which is basically tons of simple circuits doing the same few operations. FPGAs are used when the system has to be more flexible than just 1) get vertex 2) transform 3) paint. Places like ATI do use FPGA systems when they are designing the hardware since it has faster turnaround time from design->test->debug than real hardware. However, these FPGA implementations of GPUs tend to be 1-2 orders of magnitude slower than the final hardware.

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Anyone remember that PR nightmare a couple years back when people found out that using the IR (marketed as a nightvision) system on a certain Sony handheld cam would allow people to see through thin layers of clothing? A Google search for Sony x ray should give the results for anyone who is interested. And on the topic of cheap IR gear, http://www.amasci.com/amateur/irgoggl.html. It's effectively the same thing as this story but it's about what happens if you just stick the filter on a pair of goggles and use them during bright sunlight.

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Virtual museums are overrated. When VRML became The Next Big thing about 10 years ago, I looked into creating virtual museums, and we're still not at the tech level that we can pull them off. 2D objects look bad when they're distorted into a 3d projection on such a small screen. The best way to view virtual paintings is just as a normal bitmap on a large enough screen. 3D objects like vases and small sculptures do work well in VRML since you can rotate them and view them from any angle. Large (with respect to the virtual user) sculptures and architecture tend to look boring on a screen compared to the real thing and aren't worth it unless viewed in 3D googles to get a sense of the depth involved.

And the whole walking part in a virtual museum is completely worthless unless the museum's architecture is artistic by itself since walking is slower than the "teleportation" available with normal hyperlinks.

BTW, this technology doesn't really compare with QTVR since QTVR is an output system and this technology is an input system to generate 3D models. You would still need a 3D renderer with texture support to view the data produced from this system.

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From one of the links: The SIFT algorithm is restricted by patents in the United States and hence this software is not completely free to use. For details see the LICENSE file included in the distribution, before you start to use this software.

Hopefully, they're liberal about the patent and will let noncommercial nonresearch applications use the algorithm. Otherwise, we would have to wait for the really interesting software to come out.

A C# implementation with support for Mono is available to play with for anyone who is interested: http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~nowozin/libsift/
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Since slashdot will probably burn out the web server hosting images: http://www.mdrobotics.ca.nyud.net:8090/ism/behind. htm

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No, It is Irony that Parent got modded up Interesting. Or wait, It would be irony if he got modded up informative... Because of the John Lithgow comment.

Its late, Im tired, and I had a joke that sounded a lot better in my head. Good night slashdot.

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The problem with that metric is that SETI@home has such as high lag time between nodes (data gets sent every few hours or so) that you can't really compare it with a supercomputer for most tasks. It would be better to say SETI@home is running at N*X where N is the average user count and X is the FLOPS/user. Other companies are already selling distributed computing time.

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He was also part of the Strategic Defense Initiative in the 80s

Given how much of a waste of money the SDI program was (or should I say is), I hope his work at NASA is better. Otherwise, we might end up with an planetary defense system on the moon to protect us from Martian terrorists.

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If it does stop, here is the mirrordot link.

That said, what impresses me is that they pulled it off with an A64 3200.

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Is when will GratisInternet be giving them away for free?

Speaking of which....

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I was getting excited since I thought they had actually created a practical reversible computing hardware system. The idea behind true reversible computing is that information flow in computation is linked to the energy lost as heat during computing. Von Neumann showed that there was a hard limit on the amount of energy needed everytime a bit of information is lost dependent on Boltzmann's constant and temperature of the system. The ultimate goal is to have a computer that looks a lot like particle physics where the rules are completely time-symmetric. I.e. if I reverse the flow of time, the laws of physics will still run properly and allow me to reconstruct all the previous states from the present one. While the principle of quantum reversibility (sometimes called the "conservation of information law") you can't do the same with most binary operations since all the common ones except NOT take in 2 bits and output 1 bit. Thus, it is impossible to run the system in reverse and reconstruct those two bits from that one bit. This has the adverse effect of wasting energy as heat into the environment.

It's and interesting field that's going to take off as Moore's Law slows down due to wasted heat. A good starting page with links for the interested is here.

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Well, what happens when you purchase iLife from Apple in California and have to pay the California Sales Tax, but then since you live in Wisconsin you have to pay an additional %5 on top of the tax you already paid?

That's the problem that I see with stuff like this. You're going to start getting double taxed - once for purchasing in one state and again for using it in the state you live in.

No more new taxes, no more increases in taxes. The government needs to make due with what it has (which is already an enormous amount of money).

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Edeetoors? Whoot R thoos?

B3sides \/\/3 r all 1335 posters here. Why need we a speel checker.

Or as Ralph wiggum said:
Me fail English? Thats unpossible.

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The problem with ebooks is still a matter of viewing technology rather than distribution technology. People don't like reading from the computer screen for long periods of time and e-paper has been Just Around the Corner for a while now. However, DVDs are displayed on the same media technology as MPEG4 (or whatever the top of the line is) but the problem has always been distribution since it is still expensive to download DVD quality video in terms of the bandwith needed. As bandwith increases, this problem disappears and downloaded media (via legal Bittorrent or whatever method) will be easier than physical media. The same will only be true for ebooks once epaper becomes efeasible.

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Shouldn't that be generalized to include other things like TV and radio? Radio is currently being replaced by webcasts for those who listen to it at work and home. If enough major metro areas implement WiFi access (which they will eventually) then people would be able to get radio that way too. The Internet and distributed communications technology in general will pretty much be the end of all classic media delivery systems once broadband really takes off and people can stream near realtime HDTV level video.

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So what does vaporware really stand for anyways?

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Just like every other product Micro$oft puts out, this one will be put off for another two years. Mark my words, we will not be seeing WinFs for a while.

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Big deal, this stuff happens everyday in the IT world and the truth is there is pretty much nothing we can do about it because there will always be a new avulnerabilities in every OS that leaves us all with our pants down and eyes closed.


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If Google continues to support Wikipedia or even acquire it, then they might increase the support for Wiktionary. However, the answers.com thing they have set up is pretty nice since it brings a bunch of dictionary and similar references together.

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If Google continues to support Wikipedia or even acquire it, then they might increase the support for Wiktionary. However, the answers.com thing they have set up is pretty nice since it brings a bunch of dictionary and similar references together.

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If they want to really open it up, they should combine their efforts with that of Wiktionary

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The only PDA I will ever buy will have:

1) Cell Phone
2) Bluetooth
3) A good megapixal camera / video camera
4) more than 20 gigs of memory for the movies and pictures and MP3s
5) One that can wipe my booty

I sure hope apple comes out with one of these. In a couple of years

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... the First Amendmentment gives us. As much as I despise some the the conservative laws in the US, I'm still proud of the fact that we support freedom of speech in some of the most extreme cases.

In Australia it is illegal to commit, or attempt to commit suicide.
Suicide and sedition: the only crimes where those who suceed aren't prosecuted.

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My main gripe with the default BT client is the lack of per file settings. BitTornado allows the user to download specific files in the torrent. This is useful since people can post aggregated torrents and the user can just select the files that he wants.

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It's a flag at the IP level which routers use to handle different traffic classes (realtime, low-bandwith/low-lag, etc. In particular, bulk data is high-bandwith and lag tolerant so that someone using a high lag system like a sat. connection can route the packets in a manner that improves overall performance. This normally involves allowing for bigger chunks of data at a time with less feedback (the ACKs) for each chunk.

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My main gripe with the default BT client is the lack of per file settings. BitTornado (site's down at the moment) allows the user to download specific files in the torrent. This is useful since people can post aggregated torrents and the user can just select the files that he wants.

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Has anyone found pictures of the lava flow?

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