IIRC they are shipping FPGA PCI cards and you can download the chipset image. The plan of course is to sell PCI ASIC's for $150 or so. They have a pledge page where you can give them an idea of how many cards they can sell for a first run.
So, we originally invented this power for to non-US states, specifically forbade them jurisdiction in the states, then when an emergency arises they slip into permanent inter-border jurisdiction.
Sounds just like the nightmare scenario that was specifically guarded against during it's inception. A national police force, controlled by the Federal Government, who can't otherwise deploy US troops within it's borders.
I'll name one: the creation of the Secret Service Uniform Division
We have a new police force, this for the homeland security department. They have the power to arrest and detain anyone seen as a threat to the United States of America. That's an awfull lot of power, don't you think?
Scanning the comments, and seeing READ THE BILL, I thought you were propping the Read The Bills Act. Might be the only thing to slow down this avalanche of legislature. Unlike other proposed bills, this one means just what the title says: Every bill must be read, out loud, and every congressional voter must sign her name that she has read or heard every word of it.
The lobby behind this last ditch effort to stop the toboggan-to-hell is http://downsizedc.org/. Give them a minute of your eyeballs, and maybe everyone's blood pressure will come down around here.
I thought it was going to be about getting around various DRM and licensing restrictions. Does this book even mention the word 'mp3' in it? How about DeCSS?
How can you all not see this? "desktop" is quickly coming to mean "tv-top" Google has been moving toward organizing the world's information, and providing it in the living room, not the office desk. Google video, phone, music, book, photo, map, weather... just about everything myth's got right now plus more.
If I nailed this one, and google is watching, do I qualify for an interview? I've been linux only since '98, mythTV hacker since 2k1, and ubuntu lover since warty.
Provides a visual cue for the destination of a hyperlink by appending a link with an icon that shows what type of file it leads to, or the effects it may have, such as opening a new window or leaving a secure site. Icons can be set to appear only when mousing over a link (default), or they may be added to links automatically when the page loads. TargetAlert makes it easier to locate links to important document types while also providing warnings for links with undesired effects.
Set it to show on mouseover and it doesnt mess up content flow. You get so used to it it feels missing from all the other browsers.
I've lost 100+ lbs after I started three years ago, and it is _never_ coming back.
Hacker's gives you all the tools to meter yourself, Atkins gives you the means to control yourself. The combo of the two is like have a scalpel for your weight.
BTW: One of the side effects of Atkins is the elimination of the "two o'clock doldrums".
Please, before another 8 years go by, put the stories just after the title. This makes it much less aggravating for cell phone and PDA browsers. Not to mention text browsers like 'links' which is my second favorite/. browser out there.
You can still position everything just fine with CSS for graphical browsers, they won't see a difference. But for text browsers, users won't have to hit Page Down forty times before getting to the first story.
Now, if you want a system that scales to tens of thousands of users, you are going to need to get something a little bigger than this, you are going to need to get a mail system that can distribute the messages over a number of servers. That is something I have not researched.
Derek Lovley and his colleagues at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst, Mass.) reported observing and measuring the conductivity of long wires, 3 to 5 nanometers in diameter, emanating from the Geobacter bacteria.
I have to point out that AT WORST my mileage on a '98 Jetta TDI (read: diesel) has been 46 mpg.
The average is a steady 48 mpg.
I was an avid follower of hybrids until an article on/. noted that the VW TDI's were getting >= miles per gallon than the hybrids. So, this post is just me giving back.
I'm not the only one that tested, and concluded, that software RAID outperformed a 3Ware card.
The problem you run into is bandwith.
Picture four drives on a single PCI controller running in a software RAID5. For every block written, four commands must be issued to the PCI card, one for each drive.
This works great w/ a hardware RAID controller, because they emulate a single SCSI drive, thus only one write command.
Even so: we saw better throughput via software raid ( tested via Bonnie++ on a knoppix 'toram' boot )
BTW: I tested every filesystem format with various block sizes that knoppix offers. As was reported earlier, JFS showed the most impressive jack-of-all-trades performance. Too bad I later discovered you only get two options with RedHat Enterprise WS: ext2 or ext3.
Thank you both.
I didn't know ATI opened some of their specs. I've bene so burned by their terrible WINDOWS drivers, I could only imagine how horrid it was on other platforms.
Slashdot Mirror
http://wiki.duskglow.com/tiki-index.php?page=Open- Graphics
IIRC they are shipping FPGA PCI cards and you can download the chipset image. The plan of course is to sell PCI ASIC's for $150 or so. They have a pledge page where you can give them an idea of how many cards they can sell for a first run.
I wish I could mod you up now.
So, we originally invented this power for to non-US states, specifically forbade them jurisdiction in the states, then when an emergency arises they slip into permanent inter-border jurisdiction.
Sounds just like the nightmare scenario that was specifically guarded against during it's inception. A national police force, controlled by the Federal Government, who can't otherwise deploy US troops within it's borders.
We have a new police force, this for the homeland security department. They have the power to arrest and detain anyone seen as a threat to the United States of America. That's an awfull lot of power, don't you think?
Scanning the comments, and seeing READ THE BILL, I thought you were propping the Read The Bills Act. Might be the only thing to slow down this avalanche of legislature. Unlike other proposed bills, this one means just what the title says: Every bill must be read, out loud, and every congressional voter must sign her name that she has read or heard every word of it.
The lobby behind this last ditch effort to stop the toboggan-to-hell is http://downsizedc.org/. Give them a minute of your eyeballs, and maybe everyone's blood pressure will come down around here.
I thought it was going to be about getting around various DRM and licensing restrictions. Does this book even mention the word 'mp3' in it? How about DeCSS?
( no, don't actually answer any of that here... )
How can you all not see this? "desktop" is quickly coming to mean "tv-top"
Google has been moving toward organizing the world's information, and providing it in the living room, not the office desk. Google video, phone, music, book, photo, map, weather... just about everything myth's got right now plus more.
If I nailed this one, and google is watching, do I qualify for an interview? I've been linux only since '98, mythTV hacker since 2k1, and ubuntu lover since warty.
My 1998 Jetta TDI with >250,000mi STILL gets 44mpg winter, 47mpg summer.
My car pays for itself in savings over previously-owned Ford F150's MPG.
For either "Glassy Ocean" or "Kujira no Chouyaku"
*snap*
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/extensions/ targetalert/targetalert-0.8.9.4-fx+mz.xpi
Provides a visual cue for the destination of a hyperlink by appending a link with an icon that shows what type of file it leads to, or the effects it may have, such as opening a new window or leaving a secure site. Icons can be set to appear only when mousing over a link (default), or they may be added to links automatically when the page loads. TargetAlert makes it easier to locate links to important document types while also providing warnings for links with undesired effects.
Set it to show on mouseover and it doesnt mess up content flow. You get so used to it it feels missing from all the other browsers.
...Be Ready!
/ homeland_security_threat_level/homeland_security_t hreat_level-0.2-fx.xpi
The Homeland Security Threat Level Indicator!
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/extensions
Impress your friends.
Really, merge the two.
I've lost 100+ lbs after I started three years ago, and it is _never_ coming back.
Hacker's gives you all the tools to meter yourself, Atkins gives you the means to control yourself. The combo of the two is like have a scalpel for your weight.
BTW: One of the side effects of Atkins is the elimination of the "two o'clock doldrums".
*snap*
I had mod points just yesterday.
Good to read a jarhead-with-clue.
How to algebraically get an answer of '7' with only four numerals to choose from, all of them '2'.
Example: To make '20' with three '2's = 22 - 2
I have reasoned three ways to solve the '7' problem, and a friend found a fourth. Absolutely stumped me and kept me up for a few nights....
Only aired two episodes, but they were good. Google search for Harsh Realms
Please, before another 8 years go by, put the stories just after the title. This makes it much less aggravating for cell phone and PDA browsers. Not to mention text browsers like 'links' which is my second favorite /. browser out there.
You can still position everything just fine with CSS for graphical browsers, they won't see a difference. But for text browsers, users won't have to hit Page Down forty times before getting to the first story.
It might be called Hula: http://www.hula-project.org/
Derek Lovley and his colleagues at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst, Mass.) reported observing and measuring the conductivity of long wires, 3 to 5 nanometers in diameter, emanating from the Geobacter bacteria.
you rock
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I kinda hope he gets slashdotted and he rants about it in his next podcast: http://www.podcastdirectory.com/podcasts/index.ph
http://www.theafternow.com/listen.php
/. filter won't let me post 5 minutes of text from the first episode. It's available at the bottom of the link above.
Lame
This guy freeforms this multi-season story arc'ing post-apocalyptic cyberpunk fantasy using old style radio-drama techniques. Totally absorbing.
SKC is The Fucking Man
Site claims to support RealPlay, but not for this event:
http://www.amd.com/breakfreewebcast
They say they will host the audio for ten days, maybe they will re-encode it after the presentation.
From experience: Show them a game world of text, and they won't care about productivity anymore.
I have to point out that AT WORST my mileage on a '98 Jetta TDI (read: diesel) has been 46 mpg.
/. noted that the VW TDI's were getting >= miles per gallon than the hybrids. So, this post is just me giving back.
The average is a steady 48 mpg.
I was an avid follower of hybrids until an article on
I'm not the only one that tested, and concluded, that software RAID outperformed a 3Ware card.
The problem you run into is bandwith.
Picture four drives on a single PCI controller running in a software RAID5. For every block written, four commands must be issued to the PCI card, one for each drive.
This works great w/ a hardware RAID controller, because they emulate a single SCSI drive, thus only one write command.
Even so: we saw better throughput via software raid ( tested via Bonnie++ on a knoppix 'toram' boot )
BTW: I tested every filesystem format with various block sizes that knoppix offers. As was reported earlier, JFS showed the most impressive jack-of-all-trades performance. Too bad I later discovered you only get two options with RedHat Enterprise WS: ext2 or ext3.
Print out a randomized WEP key on the receipt, and somehow automate it to be good for only 3 hours.
Thank you both. I didn't know ATI opened some of their specs. I've bene so burned by their terrible WINDOWS drivers, I could only imagine how horrid it was on other platforms.