In the highest income tax bracket in BC you pay: Federal tax: 29% Federal surtax: 6.5% of 29% = 1.885% Provincial tax: 49.5% of 29% = 14.355% Provincial surtax: 49% of 14.355% = 7.034%
Total tax: 52.274%
And of course, there is 14% sales tax added on to pretty much anything you buy as well.
If you were saturate the PCI bus with one device as you suggest what happens to your NIC card, sound card, your SLI voodoo 2 setup (hehe), a second drive, or anything else which happens to be on the PCI bus?
They run off of the *other* 64-bit 66MHz PCI bus, of course.
Come on, if you're going to spend $8000 on memory, you're probably going to have more than one PCI bus. (Of course, you're probably also not going to have a voodoo 2 setup, but that is a different issue).
110MBps? Come on, even PC100 RAM can transmit 800MBps, and DDR and RDRAM get up into the 2-4GBps range. Sure, flash memory is slower, but if they are building gigabytes of it they should be able to use interleaving to speed it up.
I think that at very least they should be able to run at the 533MBps maximum speed provided by 64-bit 66MHz PCI.
Do you realize that they could almost fund an entire space mission if they sold advertising on the JPL page where info on Mars missions is offered? Last time, they had over 90,000,000 hits in just over one week!
That's not even close to enough money. 90,000,000 hits @ 100 CPM = $9M; 100 CPM is probably at least ten times more than they could charge, and $9M is still a factor of ten less than a mission costs.
If you want to make money off of astronomical observations, sell your photos to calendars.
Cracking RSA is subexponential. With the best publicly known general purpose algorithm (GNFS), the time to crack an n-bit RSA key scales as exp(c*(log n)^(1/3)*(log log n)^(2/3)). This is significantly less than exponential time.
It's true that governments are sometimes cluless when it comes to regulating the internet, but there is still some regulation required. Otherwise, it becomes a total jungle.
My point exactly. We need to become free of laws passed by old-world governments -- but we also need the ability to pass laws to govern ourselves.
Face it: Right now, the internet *is* a jungle. Crackers hide in one country and attack systems in another country, spammers annoy all of us from the safety of Russia, Taiwan, or China, and people routinely violate the established codes of "good practice". (For an example of the last, look at the bandwith hog called Napster; it makes no attempt to regulate its bandwidth usage, and can bring a network to its knees).
I don't want anarchy. It is the fact that old-world governments are still in control of the internet which is creating the current anarchy, as each government fumbles around cluelessly, without any internet government to take over the necessary work.
What we need to do is get together and draft a declaration of independance -- of the internet, from the worldwide governments.
Governments keep on interfering -- the US government does it without even thinking about it, but France, Canada, the UK, and probably lots of other countries have meddled in our affairs as well.
If governments want something from us, they should *ask* for it, and negotiate for it. Want us to respect your copyrights? Convince us to sign on to the WIPO rules. Want us to censor people because you don't like what they say about you? Tough, we're not going to give you that;-)
An independant internet would solve many other problems as well. Few people would argue that patents have no value, but in order to establish a patent on the internet one is pretty much obligated to register it in every nation in the world; with an internet government such a patent could be granted once at much reduced cost. Similarly, an internet government could pass useful laws including requiring standards compliance.
What it comes down to is that the internet both needs to have a governing body in order to enforce reasonable conduct on its members, and needs to be free of interference from external governments.
There are two possibilities. Either the steel pole is reasonably thin, or it isn't.
If the pole is thin, then it has a low surface area, and thus (assuming it is suffciently cool that it stays in one piece), it does not emit sufficient radiation to be visible beyond a few hundred miles, let alone an entire light day.
If the pole has sufficient surface area to be visible, it also has sufficient mass to collapse under its own weight to form a black hole, and so emits no visible radiation (yes it emits radiation, but it isn't visible to the human eye).
In either case, any portion of the pole beyond a short distance away from you looks completely black.
Upgrade a butterfly. The IBM Thinkpad 701 (/701C), codenamed "butterfly" was an amazing laptop -- very light and compact, it nevertheless had a full-sized keyboard which "unfolded" when you opened the butterfly's lid. The only problem is that the butterfly is a little slow, doesn't have much RAM or disk space, has a battery which lasts only a couple hours, and lacks any communications beyond a 14.4Kbps modem. (It was fine back when we were all using 486s, but times have changed.) If someone could work out how to upgrade the butterfly to be on par with modern laptops -- essentially completely rebuilding it apart from the keyboard and display -- that would be a truely great hack.
At least, if you do take them to court, you won't get anything out of them. The case law is quite clear on this: If you violate someone's copyright unintentionally (eg, you think the material is in the public domain), you can be ordered to stop, but no punitive damages will be awarded. Which is, of course, exactly what nVidia is already doing.
We should all be glad for this anyway -- if punitive damages could be awarded for good faith copyright violations,/. would be in the middle of a very messy legal battle over their copyright violations with the Hellmouth book.
All fractals have infinite curvature; look at for example the koch curve -- the only way an infinitely long curve can fit into a finite space is when for any epsilon,theta there is a segment of length epsilon which bends by more than theta degrees... in other words, infinite curvature. If it makes you feel any better though, the curvature is only aleph null, ie denumerable.
Just look at the moderations on this: Moderation Totals:Flamebait=6, Troll=4, Redundant=1, Insightful=1, Funny=10, Overrated=1, Underrated=2, Total=25.
How often is it that a post gets so many mod points wasted on it? This is almost as bad as that now-famous post by OOG a couple weeks ago.
What makes you so certain that Jon Katz is a human? Judging by his essays, he couldn't pass for human in a Turing test.
Of course, most people on/. probably couldn't pass a Turing test. I know I probably wouldn't. Then again, I wouldn't fail as badly as Katz, as I can talk about things other than the oppression of geeks.
Why should it be modded up as funny? I agree that it's fun to make fun of christians in private, but I thought that the above post was purposely spiteful and mean-spirited. There are plenty of reasons to laugh at christians but IMHO there are no reasons to be mean about it. Live and let live, you know??
It is funny because the author was mixing up his religions. The new testament (ie, christian) god is forgiving; it is the old testament god which is brutal, merciless, and prone to butchering non-believers. (I suppose that post could also be modded down as flamebait, but they say to concentrate on moderating up, not down).
Consider the following scenario: Microsoft decides that there is some really cool code in the Linux kernel that they want to use, so they steal that code and use it in Windows 2010.
How would everyone on/. react?
This is exactly the same situation. A company is taking copyrighted work (/. comments or linux source code), which was posted to a public forum (/. or the linux kernel), and taking parts (intelligent comments or useful code) for use in their own commercial product (a book or Windows 2010). If fair use supports the use of/. comments, then it would support the use by Microsoft of excerpts from the linux source code -- and don't even think about trying to invoke the GPL, as that merely grants additional rights, and in no way limits the fair use exemption.
The two situations are identical, and should be treated as such, irrespective of the identity of the persons violating the copyright.
The system breaks down when the patent owner uses the patent to prevent competition. Either by refusing to let anyone use the technology, or by charging too much to allow certain groups to use it.
However, if you read the patent laws, you find that this cannot happen. Patent laws allow the holder of a patent to take reasonable royalties from the use of his invention. If he refuses to license the invention, or does not negotiate in good faith you can take him to court and have the courts force him to license the patent.
Lasers are useful for cooling atoms, but they have absolutely no use when it comes to cooling processors, or anything else large enough to be visible for that matter. Quite apart from the issue of how much heat can be removed by this method -- not very much -- there is the fact that for this to work you need to shine (at least) two lasers at your target from opposite sides. Basically, this is an old story submitted by a clueless reader, and posted by a clueless editor. Like most of the rest of what is on/. these days...
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Anyone else notice any odd occurances with your electronic gadgets?
Well, I'm not sure it/. qualifies as a gadget, but I can actually load pages on/. over my cable modem in under a minute, which certainly qualifies as an odd occurance.
Well, as of 12:55 AM PST from Burnaby I can see the lights on Grouse mountain, a few stars, a satellite or two, plus a big yellow-orange street light through my north-facing window. I can't see any fog though, nor any northern lights.
They also will have an mp3 player for it... Is there a new law that says hardware devices expand until they can play mp3's?
Well, I just checked, and the paperclip sitting on my desk cannot yet play mp3s. As it isn't expanding at the moment, I think that it disproves your conjecture by demonstrating the existance of a hardware device which is neither expanding nor capable of playing mp3s.
As of the close of trading today, GE was worth 520B, while MSFT was worth only 475B. Microsoft is having a bad couple of weeks -- first Cisco, now GE...
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In the highest income tax bracket in BC you pay:
Federal tax: 29%
Federal surtax: 6.5% of 29% = 1.885%
Provincial tax: 49.5% of 29% = 14.355%
Provincial surtax: 49% of 14.355% = 7.034%
Total tax: 52.274%
And of course, there is 14% sales tax added on to pretty much anything you buy as well.
If you were saturate the PCI bus with one device as you suggest what happens to your NIC card, sound card, your SLI voodoo 2 setup (hehe), a second drive, or anything else which happens to be on the PCI bus?
They run off of the *other* 64-bit 66MHz PCI bus, of course.
Come on, if you're going to spend $8000 on memory, you're probably going to have more than one PCI bus. (Of course, you're probably also not going to have a voodoo 2 setup, but that is a different issue).
110MBps? Come on, even PC100 RAM can transmit 800MBps, and DDR and RDRAM get up into the 2-4GBps range. Sure, flash memory is slower, but if they are building gigabytes of it they should be able to use interleaving to speed it up.
I think that at very least they should be able to run at the 533MBps maximum speed provided by 64-bit 66MHz PCI.
Do you realize that they could almost fund an entire space mission if they sold advertising on the JPL page where info on Mars missions is offered? Last time, they had over 90,000,000 hits in just over one week!
That's not even close to enough money. 90,000,000 hits @ 100 CPM = $9M; 100 CPM is probably at least ten times more than they could charge, and $9M is still a factor of ten less than a mission costs.
If you want to make money off of astronomical observations, sell your photos to calendars.
Ya I know, exponital time to crack RSA.
Cracking RSA is subexponential. With the best publicly known general purpose algorithm (GNFS), the time to crack an n-bit RSA key scales as exp(c*(log n)^(1/3)*(log log n)^(2/3)).
This is significantly less than exponential time.
It's true that governments are sometimes cluless when it comes to regulating the internet, but there is still some regulation required. Otherwise, it becomes a total jungle.
My point exactly. We need to become free of laws passed by old-world governments -- but we also need the ability to pass laws to govern ourselves.
Face it: Right now, the internet *is* a jungle. Crackers hide in one country and attack systems in another country, spammers annoy all of us from the safety of Russia, Taiwan, or China, and people routinely violate the established codes of "good practice". (For an example of the last, look at the bandwith hog called Napster; it makes no attempt to regulate its bandwidth usage, and can bring a network to its knees).
I don't want anarchy. It is the fact that old-world governments are still in control of the internet which is creating the current anarchy, as each government fumbles around cluelessly, without any internet government to take over the necessary work.
What we need to do is get together and draft a declaration of independance -- of the internet, from the worldwide governments.
;-)
Governments keep on interfering -- the US government does it without even thinking about it, but France, Canada, the UK, and probably lots of other countries have meddled in our affairs as well.
If governments want something from us, they should *ask* for it, and negotiate for it. Want us to respect your copyrights? Convince us to sign on to the WIPO rules. Want us to censor people because you don't like what they say about you? Tough, we're not going to give you that
An independant internet would solve many other problems as well. Few people would argue that patents have no value, but in order to establish a patent on the internet one is pretty much obligated to register it in every nation in the world; with an internet government such a patent could be granted once at much reduced cost. Similarly, an internet government could pass useful laws including requiring standards compliance.
What it comes down to is that the internet both needs to have a governing body in order to enforce reasonable conduct on its members, and needs to be free of interference from external governments.
Geeks of the world unite!
There are two possibilities. Either the steel pole is reasonably thin, or it isn't.
If the pole is thin, then it has a low surface area, and thus (assuming it is suffciently cool that it stays in one piece), it does not emit sufficient radiation to be visible beyond a few hundred miles, let alone an entire light day.
If the pole has sufficient surface area to be visible, it also has sufficient mass to collapse under its own weight to form a black hole, and so emits no visible radiation (yes it emits radiation, but it isn't visible to the human eye).
In either case, any portion of the pole beyond a short distance away from you looks completely black.
Many PCS cell phones now have email to text message gateways, and I'm sure that some PCS phones' email addresses are in some peoples' lists...
Are we going to be hearing about PCS systems crashing under heavy load of I-LOVE-YOU text messages?
Upgrade a butterfly.
The IBM Thinkpad 701 (/701C), codenamed "butterfly" was an amazing laptop -- very light and compact, it nevertheless had a full-sized keyboard which "unfolded" when you opened the butterfly's lid.
The only problem is that the butterfly is a little slow, doesn't have much RAM or disk space, has a battery which lasts only a couple hours, and lacks any communications beyond a 14.4Kbps modem. (It was fine back when we were all using 486s, but times have changed.)
If someone could work out how to upgrade the butterfly to be on par with modern laptops -- essentially completely rebuilding it apart from the keyboard and display -- that would be a truely great hack.
At least, if you do take them to court, you won't get anything out of them.
/. would be in the middle of a very messy legal battle over their copyright violations with the Hellmouth book.
The case law is quite clear on this: If you violate someone's copyright unintentionally (eg, you think the material is in the public domain), you can be ordered to stop, but no punitive damages will be awarded. Which is, of course, exactly what nVidia is already doing.
We should all be glad for this anyway -- if punitive damages could be awarded for good faith copyright violations,
All fractals have infinite curvature; look at for example the koch curve -- the only way an infinitely long curve can fit into a finite space is when for any epsilon,theta there is a segment of length epsilon which bends by more than theta degrees... in other words, infinite curvature.
If it makes you feel any better though, the curvature is only aleph null, ie denumerable.
Just look at the moderations on this:
Moderation Totals:Flamebait=6, Troll=4, Redundant=1, Insightful=1, Funny=10, Overrated=1, Underrated=2, Total=25.
How often is it that a post gets so many mod points wasted on it? This is almost as bad as that now-famous post by OOG a couple weeks ago.
What makes you so certain that Jon Katz is a human? Judging by his essays, he couldn't pass for human in a Turing test.
/. probably couldn't pass a Turing test. I know I probably wouldn't.
Of course, most people on
Then again, I wouldn't fail as badly as Katz, as I can talk about things other than the oppression of geeks.
but there's no information as to whom those seven women really were. No names, no family info, nothing.
Um... I'd be surprised if they had names back then as we know them now. And I don't think the concept of biographies had been invented yet, either.
Why should it be modded up as funny? I agree that it's fun to make fun of christians in private, but I thought that the above post was purposely spiteful and mean-spirited. There are plenty of reasons to laugh at christians but IMHO there are no reasons to be mean about it. Live and let live, you know??
It is funny because the author was mixing up his religions. The new testament (ie, christian) god is forgiving; it is the old testament god which is brutal, merciless, and prone to butchering non-believers.
(I suppose that post could also be modded down as flamebait, but they say to concentrate on moderating up, not down).
The post to which this is a reply should be moderated (Score: 5, Funny). Unfortunately I don't have any mod points left at the moment.
Consider the following scenario: Microsoft decides that there is some really cool code in the Linux kernel that they want to use, so they steal that code and use it in Windows 2010.
/. react?
/. comments, then it would support the use by Microsoft of excerpts from the linux source code -- and don't even think about trying to invoke the GPL, as that merely grants additional rights, and in no way limits the fair use exemption.
How would everyone on
This is exactly the same situation. A company is taking copyrighted work (/. comments or linux source code), which was posted to a public forum (/. or the linux kernel), and taking parts (intelligent comments or useful code) for use in their own commercial product (a book or Windows 2010). If fair use supports the use of
The two situations are identical, and should be treated as such, irrespective of the identity of the persons violating the copyright.
The system breaks down when the patent owner uses the patent to prevent competition. Either by refusing to let anyone use the technology, or by charging too much to allow certain groups to use it.
However, if you read the patent laws, you find that this cannot happen.
Patent laws allow the holder of a patent to take reasonable royalties from the use of his invention. If he refuses to license the invention, or does not negotiate in good faith you can take him to court and have the courts force him to license the patent.
Lasers are useful for cooling atoms, but they have absolutely no use when it comes to cooling processors, or anything else large enough to be visible for that matter. /. these days...
Quite apart from the issue of how much heat can be removed by this method -- not very much -- there is the fact that for this to work you need to shine (at least) two lasers at your target from opposite sides.
Basically, this is an old story submitted by a clueless reader, and posted by a clueless editor. Like most of the rest of what is on
Anyone else notice any odd occurances with your electronic gadgets?
/. qualifies as a gadget, but I can actually load pages on /. over my cable modem in under a minute, which certainly qualifies as an odd occurance.
Well, I'm not sure it
Well, as of 12:55 AM PST from Burnaby I can see the lights on Grouse mountain, a few stars, a satellite or two, plus a big yellow-orange street light through my north-facing window.
I can't see any fog though, nor any northern lights.
They also will have an mp3 player for it... Is there a new law that says hardware devices expand until they can play mp3's?
Well, I just checked, and the paperclip sitting on my desk cannot yet play mp3s. As it isn't expanding at the moment, I think that it disproves your conjecture by demonstrating the existance of a hardware device which is neither expanding nor capable of playing mp3s.
Um, April fools day is the first of April, not the third, right?
As of the close of trading today, GE was worth 520B, while MSFT was worth only 475B.
Microsoft is having a bad couple of weeks -- first Cisco, now GE...