What about the bath thats in the bedroom that seems to have some sort of a wire dangling in the water (from vos1 movie at http://absurd.ds.pg.gda.pl:8435/ssLL/gallery.html )?
As much as I think its about time someone should stick it to MS and they should be using OSS, I am wondering, how would this effect the Israeli Economy of the Gov't essentially takes $120million out of it in favour of open source. Since MS has an Israeli branch, the money they would spend would stay within the country.
I guess considering the current government is relatively fiscally socialist (yes, the Likud gov't is more to the left than most people think) they could probably find better use for the money such as education, health care or other emergency medical services that are unfortunately needed due to the recent situation.
Last time I can recall was with the intel i865pe/875p chipsets. They were built identical, the only thing is that the 875p chipset had PAT and the ability for ECC RAM.
Since they were built the same, the 865pe could be run with PAT technology enabled by bypassing something.
Companies such as ASUS released 865pe motherboards with PAT technolgy then when Intel complained, they renamed it to 'MAM' (Memory Acceleration Mode) technolgy.
I also saved myself $50 by buying the 865 based mboard.
DD will copy the data in the unused space on the HD, not just the data within the files. (the advantage to this is that you can make exact copies, reguardless of what filesystem, partition type, etc.. the downside is that you cannot restore the image to a different sized partition later)
Ghost will read file by file and write to the new disk. (advantages is that you can resize partitions, it'll be faster because it copies less data; disadvantage: it must support the file system; it may miss hidden/meta data you want copied)
Sorry, I forgot to mention that it worked well with moving my EXT3 partition to a new computer as well as doing the same thing with a ReiserFS partition on one of my labmates machines.
I've had problems with norton ghost at the office, eventually I found a program called TrueImage by a company called Acronis.
It automatically detected the network and managed to restore partitions into partitions of different sizes.
The only downside was that it was not able to save/restore partition images from SMB shares with longer than 12 characters, but that could be worked around easily.
Some VCRs and Audio Cassette players use similar techniques to determine where the end/beginning of new recordings are.. But there was always the problem. Sometimes within a recording there is silence (or a black screen) without actually going to a commercial (or a new track)
The article does not seem to provide much information other than the fact that Intel & Microsoft want to rewrite the BIOS, call it EFI and that it makes it easier to make updates/plugins to the bios since you now don't need to code in ASM.
Great for OEM's, but what does it do for the consumer?
Whenever I hear PS2, I still think about those old IBM's that used weird 72pin SIMMs that were not compatible with normal 72pin SIMMs (not even ones in other PS/2 models) as well as the MicroChannel Architecture MCA slots.
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With respect to Palistinian foreign aid:
It is my understanding that the EU has given the Palistinian Authority a few billion dollars a year. Unfortunately, most of that money went to fund Arafat's palaces, terrorism, and some went to anti-Semitic text books.. i.e. (true story), in their gradeschool math textbooks, they have examples like this "if you have 10 Jews and you kill 3, how many Jews do you have left?"
The Palistinians need to make some major changes before there is any chance for peace.
Does anyone know if/how they managed to get the 'robots' to simulate walking? Up until recently it was nearly impossible to get a robot to simulate real walking while keeping balance.
I think the first modern robot to actually do this was that Honda one that came out last year.
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(to start, this may be offtopic, but I am merely responding to the above question to settle this issue which seems to come up every time something Jewish or Israeli appears on Slashdot)
There are many kinds of zionism.
Zionism is a political point of view; Judaism is a religion which may incorporate some kinds of Zionism.
The term Zionism comes from biblical verses referring to Jerusalem as Zion (or Tsion in Hebrew). At its core, Zionism is the belief and aspirations that the Jews should have a homeland in Israel.
As I stated at the beginning, there are many kinds of Zionists..
- Political Zionism - there should be state that can be used to protect Jews from violence (i.e. holocaust, etc.) and will give them a sence of normalicy
- Cultural Zionism - Israel should be the cultural centre of the Jewish people.
- Labour Zionism - To express the love for the land through working it (i.e. agriculture)
- Religious Zionism - Certain Jewish laws can only be kept in Israel, as a result, in order to fulfill these laws, one must be in Israel
- Socialist Zionism - To build Israel as a socialist state where all classes can unite and overcome anti-Semitism.
It should be noted there are other Zionists that are not Jewish that believe that all the Jews need to return to the Holy Land in order to fulfill the messianic prophecies
I hope this helps.
Unfortunately it does not fulfill the requirement
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Although, most people who use this would probably know that this should not be intended to replace the actual lighting of a menorah.
In order to fulfill the religious requirement of lighting the menorah for the 8 nights of Chanukah, you need to use either candles or olive oil (to burn). (the other requirement is that all the candles except for the one used to light the others, must be at the same height)
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What about the bath thats in the bedroom that seems to have some sort of a wire dangling in the water (from vos1 movie at http://absurd.ds.pg.gda.pl:8435/ssLL/gallery.html )?
As much as I think its about time someone should stick it to MS and they should be using OSS, I am wondering, how would this effect the Israeli Economy of the Gov't essentially takes $120million out of it in favour of open source. Since MS has an Israeli branch, the money they would spend would stay within the country.
I guess considering the current government is relatively fiscally socialist (yes, the Likud gov't is more to the left than most people think) they could probably find better use for the money such as education, health care or other emergency medical services that are unfortunately needed due to the recent situation.
Last time I can recall was with the intel i865pe/875p chipsets. They were built identical, the only thing is that the 875p chipset had PAT and the ability for ECC RAM.
Since they were built the same, the 865pe could be run with PAT technology enabled by bypassing something.
Companies such as ASUS released 865pe motherboards with PAT technolgy then when Intel complained, they renamed it to 'MAM' (Memory Acceleration Mode) technolgy.
I also saved myself $50 by buying the 865 based mboard.
Its fricken -16C (about 5F) in Toronto right now, and you're telling me that global warming is bad?
Yes it was +14C/50F less than one week ago, why can't we have that weather all winter?
The slashdot post says 2-4Gb, however, it should read 2-4GB (as stated in the article)
DD will copy the data in the unused space on the HD, not just the data within the files. (the advantage to this is that you can make exact copies, reguardless of what filesystem, partition type, etc.. the downside is that you cannot restore the image to a different sized partition later)
Ghost will read file by file and write to the new disk. (advantages is that you can resize partitions, it'll be faster because it copies less data; disadvantage: it must support the file system; it may miss hidden/meta data you want copied)
Sorry, I forgot to mention that it worked well with moving my EXT3 partition to a new computer as well as doing the same thing with a ReiserFS partition on one of my labmates machines.
I've had problems with norton ghost at the office, eventually I found a program called TrueImage by a company called Acronis.
It automatically detected the network and managed to restore partitions into partitions of different sizes.
The only downside was that it was not able to save/restore partition images from SMB shares with longer than 12 characters, but that could be worked around easily.
It seems to me that the Apex players I've seen are more reliable than the Toshiba, Sony, and JVC players that seem to freeze on a lot of DVD's.
Not to be a troll but does anyone else in here hate words like "Automagic"
Actually this is the REAL dupe, since slashdot subscribers(tm) actually saw this article first, then they got the other. (j/k)
Not to be a bigger dick, but 1024 bits = 1 kbit, not 1 byte, not 1 kbyte.
how about in 32bit IEEE format floating point form.
SIGN_BIT 23BIT_MANTISSA 8BIT_EXPONENT
I can't remember if the mantissa was assumed to be 0.something or 1.something before multiplying by 2^exponent
If there's enough data to skip ahead 30 seconds in time, there's no reason why it can't read 30 seconds worth of data to analyze it for volume levels.
This makes good sence since the CPU can 'see 2 minutes into the future' if it needs to, to determine a series of 30 second intervals of fade-to-black.
How long before advertisers demand that there is a fade do white (or blue) instead to bypass such mechanisms?
Some VCRs and Audio Cassette players use similar techniques to determine where the end/beginning of new recordings are.. But there was always the problem. Sometimes within a recording there is silence (or a black screen) without actually going to a commercial (or a new track)
Keep in mind that maximum volume and average volume are two different things though.
Potentially commercials can have a higher average volume.
Actually, even a lot of (higher-end) 'Workstation' boards support this as well.
For example, by Xeon machine @ school supports it (on an Intel 7505 board)
The article does not seem to provide much information other than the fact that Intel & Microsoft want to rewrite the BIOS, call it EFI and that it makes it easier to make updates/plugins to the bios since you now don't need to code in ASM.
Great for OEM's, but what does it do for the consumer?
Don't forget IBM PS/2 released over a decade ago.
Whenever I hear PS2, I still think about those old IBM's that used weird 72pin SIMMs that were not compatible with normal 72pin SIMMs (not even ones in other PS/2 models) as well as the MicroChannel Architecture MCA slots.
With respect to Palistinian foreign aid:
It is my understanding that the EU has given the Palistinian Authority a few billion dollars a year. Unfortunately, most of that money went to fund Arafat's palaces, terrorism, and some went to anti-Semitic text books.. i.e. (true story), in their gradeschool math textbooks, they have examples like this "if you have 10 Jews and you kill 3, how many Jews do you have left?"
The Palistinians need to make some major changes before there is any chance for peace.
Does anyone know if/how they managed to get the 'robots' to simulate walking? Up until recently it was nearly impossible to get a robot to simulate real walking while keeping balance.
I think the first modern robot to actually do this was that Honda one that came out last year.
(to start, this may be offtopic, but I am merely responding to the above question to settle this issue which seems to come up every time something Jewish or Israeli appears on Slashdot)
There are many kinds of zionism.
Zionism is a political point of view; Judaism is a religion which may incorporate some kinds of Zionism.
The term Zionism comes from biblical verses referring to Jerusalem as Zion (or Tsion in Hebrew). At its core, Zionism is the belief and aspirations that the Jews should have a homeland in Israel.
As I stated at the beginning, there are many kinds of Zionists..
- Political Zionism - there should be state that can be used to protect Jews from violence (i.e. holocaust, etc.) and will give them a sence of normalicy
- Cultural Zionism - Israel should be the cultural centre of the Jewish people.
- Labour Zionism - To express the love for the land through working it (i.e. agriculture)
- Religious Zionism - Certain Jewish laws can only be kept in Israel, as a result, in order to fulfill these laws, one must be in Israel
- Socialist Zionism - To build Israel as a socialist state where all classes can unite and overcome anti-Semitism.
It should be noted there are other Zionists that are not Jewish that believe that all the Jews need to return to the Holy Land in order to fulfill the messianic prophecies
I hope this helps.
(For those who are interested)
Although, most people who use this would probably know that this should not be intended to replace the actual lighting of a menorah.
In order to fulfill the religious requirement of lighting the menorah for the 8 nights of Chanukah, you need to use either candles or olive oil (to burn). (the other requirement is that all the candles except for the one used to light the others, must be at the same height)