Why would cell phones be uniformly distributed? I don't know very much about statistics, but isn't it safe to say that wealth is not uniformly distributed (in relation to geography) and that there is some sort of correlation between wealth and the number of cell phones. There are other factors which decide who has cell phones as they are becoming very popular. I wouldn't think these factors are evenly distributed geographically either.
The morphing software is going to be stored in flash ram and loaded into system memory (or maybe the L1 cache?!?). Sounds like a pretty crazy scheme they have come up with.
I doubt IDE and SCSI are on the same ASIC. This means that when a vendor goes to contract their part to be made they have to get two parts. Want to guess how many orders of magnitude between SCSI and IDE hard drives shipping this month? I would imagine that the cost per ASIC made was _much_, _much_ lower when distributed over a much higher number of units.
Plus, I wouldn't assume that SCSI and IDE have similar amounts of digital logic in their respective interfaces. IDE was made to be cheap, the cpu does a lot of work. Maybe this only lowers the amount of logic on the computer side of the interface, but I suspect it lowers it on both sides.
I've seen some comments by people who work in the industry here, maybe someone can enlighten my scientific wild assed guesses with some facts?
I don't think that our sources of power have changed all that much in the last 20 years. Why not make a press release? The company has something cool they are working on. Do you not want to know about it?
fwiw, the restaurant I work at uses NT on there pos terminals. So does the Union (cafeteria) on campus here at Purdue. The terminals are made by a company called Micros.
I think you are exagerating just a tad. One big driver of fast Mhz processors are games, which makes HD slowness an inconvenience, but not a huge factor. Memory is always important but most systems I've seen with Athlons come with 64 Megs of ram. 128 is nice, but 64 is sufficient for most people.
Thanks for the link. Team Fortress initiated me into online multiplayer gaming. Truly an awesome game. Have you ever played Starsiege Tribes? The gameplay is awesome. The engine isn't as good as Quake's but it does outdoor environment's fairly well.
We need some good hybrids. Something that can take the place of the electric type commuter car, and the gasoline vehicle capable of travelling 300 miles nonstop and "recharging" in minutes. I've heard of some things about using fuel cells to generate the electricity. They would be refuelable like gasoline cars. Sounds good to me.
yep, i love that yellow line. If you look you can catch them "switching" it on sometimes. The first time I saw that, I thought outloud wtf? It's pretty slick. When someone steps on the line, it looks like they really step on it. When a shadow is cast over the field, the yellow stripe is darker, just like it is really there in the shadow.
I know that probably no one is reading this anymore, but just in case they do:
My roommate is a bar tender at a bar here at Purdue that serves Guinness on tap. It does have a seperate bottle to pressurize the keg. Guinness is NOT pressurized with CO2. At least it isn't here.
I too love the celeron. I have a 300a that I just bumped up to 450. You should note though that if you want to build the fastest system you can, the Athlon is the only way to go. You can buy one of the lower speed grade already modded out. Now you can control voltage, L2 cache divider, and the bus multiplier. With control of those many have been able to hit 800 Mhz. Celerons are fast, but there is no celeron that can touch an Athlon at 800 Mhz.
I can appreciate your frustration, but it does make sense to applaud the big name companies who go opensource. It sets a precedent for other companies and it brings a lot of press. Plus, it effects a lot of people because of market share.
But, all companies who have open source drivers should get recognition.
The networks that broadcast professional sports won't have free reign in this area, they have a contract. I would guess that "erasing" physical ads in the games for broadcast could and would be prohibited in these contracts.
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FYI, this is a song, suprisingly enough, from Alice in Chains, called Rooster.
Well the original poster was specifically trying to hurt Slashdot by a "boycott" of the ads. If he wants to boycott Slashdot, he should boycott Slashdot all the way. Filtering out the ads is saying that he likes Slashdot. Slashdot contains value to him, but he's going to filter out the ads to "show them"
I can understand that you don't want to see banner ads. I wonder if Slashdot would have been able to afford their servers and bandwidth without advertisers. I wonder how many advertisements Slashdot would have sold if everyone blocked banner ads like you do.
I visit a decent number of smaller websites that probably wouldn't exist if everyone blocked filter ads. They work hard and give me lots of valuable information, why not let them place their banner ads on my screen?
The pos systems we use where i work dial into the authorization servers over pots modems. That is why it takes so long to authorize a card, you are waiting for a modem to dial out. AFAIK all pos systems work this way.
I wonder if you could make a program on the cd that would decode the mp3s and then throw a bunch of mp3s on the rest of the disc? Of course you would need to have the chip that lets you play regular cds.
Interesting article. If we took a photograph of the moon when it looks big and one when it looks small to us, would the image of the moon be bigger on the first photograph? I would guess that the moon is bigger in the photograph taken when it looked bigger. Wouldn't this disprove their theory?
I've read Surely Your Joking, Mr Feynman, as well as another paper that I found on the net. Neither were very technical, but were very enjoyable to read. He has a simple and honest way that is refreshing. For those of you who aren't familiar with him, you should...
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Why would cell phones be uniformly distributed? I don't know very much about statistics, but isn't it safe to say that wealth is not uniformly distributed (in relation to geography) and that there is some sort of correlation between wealth and the number of cell phones. There are other factors which decide who has cell phones as they are becoming very popular. I wouldn't think these factors are evenly distributed geographically either.
land line 911 can already do this, right?
The real question is how easily would someone else be able to track someone who called them. Someone you didn't want to be able to track you.
The morphing software is going to be stored in flash ram and loaded into system memory (or maybe the L1 cache?!?). Sounds like a pretty crazy scheme they have come up with.
I doubt IDE and SCSI are on the same ASIC. This means that when a vendor goes to contract their part to be made they have to get two parts. Want to guess how many orders of magnitude between SCSI and IDE hard drives shipping this month? I would imagine that the cost per ASIC made was _much_, _much_ lower when distributed over a much higher number of units.
Plus, I wouldn't assume that SCSI and IDE have similar amounts of digital logic in their respective interfaces. IDE was made to be cheap, the cpu does a lot of work. Maybe this only lowers the amount of logic on the computer side of the interface, but I suspect it lowers it on both sides.
I've seen some comments by people who work in the industry here, maybe someone can enlighten my scientific wild assed guesses with some facts?
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I don't think that our sources of power have changed all that much in the last 20 years. Why not make a press release? The company has something cool they are working on. Do you not want to know about it?
fwiw, the restaurant I work at uses NT on there pos terminals. So does the Union (cafeteria) on campus here at Purdue. The terminals are made by a company called Micros.
I think you are exagerating just a tad. One big driver of fast Mhz processors are games, which makes HD slowness an inconvenience, but not a huge factor. Memory is always important but most systems I've seen with Athlons come with 64 Megs of ram. 128 is nice, but 64 is sufficient for most people.
Thanks for the link. Team Fortress initiated me into online multiplayer gaming. Truly an awesome game. Have you ever played Starsiege Tribes? The gameplay is awesome. The engine isn't as good as Quake's but it does outdoor environment's fairly well.
We need some good hybrids. Something that can take the place of the electric type commuter car, and the gasoline vehicle capable of travelling 300 miles nonstop and "recharging" in minutes. I've heard of some things about using fuel cells to generate the electricity. They would be refuelable like gasoline cars. Sounds good to me.
yep, i love that yellow line. If you look you can catch them "switching" it on sometimes. The first time I saw that, I thought outloud wtf? It's pretty slick. When someone steps on the line, it looks like they really step on it. When a shadow is cast over the field, the yellow stripe is darker, just like it is really there in the shadow.
I know that probably no one is reading this anymore, but just in case they do:
My roommate is a bar tender at a bar here at Purdue that serves Guinness on tap. It does have a seperate bottle to pressurize the keg. Guinness is NOT pressurized with CO2. At least it isn't here.
I too love the celeron. I have a 300a that I just bumped up to 450. You should note though that if you want to build the fastest system you can, the Athlon is the only way to go. You can buy one of the lower speed grade already modded out. Now you can control voltage, L2 cache divider, and the bus multiplier. With control of those many have been able to hit 800 Mhz. Celerons are fast, but there is no celeron that can touch an Athlon at 800 Mhz.
I can appreciate your frustration, but it does make sense to applaud the big name companies who go opensource. It sets a precedent for other companies and it brings a lot of press. Plus, it effects a lot of people because of market share.
But, all companies who have open source drivers should get recognition.
The networks that broadcast professional sports won't have free reign in this area, they have a contract. I would guess that "erasing" physical ads in the games for broadcast could and would be prohibited in these contracts.
FYI, this is a song, suprisingly enough, from Alice in Chains, called Rooster.
I first heard about Red Green in late 1993 or early 1994.
Well the original poster was specifically trying to hurt Slashdot by a "boycott" of the ads. If he wants to boycott Slashdot, he should boycott Slashdot all the way. Filtering out the ads is saying that he likes Slashdot. Slashdot contains value to him, but he's going to filter out the ads to "show them"
I can understand that you don't want to see banner ads. I wonder if Slashdot would have been able to afford their servers and bandwidth without advertisers. I wonder how many advertisements Slashdot would have sold if everyone blocked banner ads like you do.
I visit a decent number of smaller websites that probably wouldn't exist if everyone blocked filter ads. They work hard and give me lots of valuable information, why not let them place their banner ads on my screen?
What a pussy way to boycott. If you are going to boycott Slashdot, do it. Don't filter out the banner ads.
The pos systems we use where i work dial into the authorization servers over pots modems. That is why it takes so long to authorize a card, you are waiting for a modem to dial out. AFAIK all pos systems work this way.
I wonder if you could make a program on the cd that would decode the mp3s and then throw a bunch of mp3s on the rest of the disc? Of course you would need to have the chip that lets you play regular cds.
Interesting article. If we took a photograph of the moon when it looks big and one when it looks small to us, would the image of the moon be bigger on the first photograph? I would guess that the moon is bigger in the photograph taken when it looked bigger. Wouldn't this disprove their theory?
mmmmm....Starsiege Tribes. Must fight temptation. Must fight temptation....
Must not play too long...
Must not play too long...
Just an hour or so...
Sleep? Who need sleep?
This is obviously off topic, but it is a worthwhile discussion. A shame to see it moderated to -1.
I've read Surely Your Joking, Mr Feynman, as well as another paper that I found on the net. Neither were very technical, but were very enjoyable to read. He has a simple and honest way that is refreshing. For those of you who aren't familiar with him, you should...