long cord.. why even bother? I don't want a cord, he talked to the wrong people. I want to sit where ever I am and be free (and not have people
tripping over the damn wire, or the dog pulling it out in the middle of a 1 hour GT2 endurance race).
I'm not familiar with wireless game controllers, so that's why I'm asking. How would they deal with your dog walking through the beam of infrared? Assuming that's what it would use. I guess it could use some sort of directional radio signal (?) to overcome the limits of infrared. But, from what I've heard and experienced, most types of wireless networking/communication these days are a lot better than wire when it comes to flexibility, but are beaten when it comes to bandwidth, reliability, and distance. At least with a long cord, you could sit rather far from the console and let the wire sit on the floor rather than up about a foot in the air. As long as they could deal with the signal breakage. (develop special communications protocols that will deal with signal breakage so they could use infrared. or use radio signals.) To me, wires seem like they would be better for now. Probably cheaper, too.
and promises eventually to offer lessons in all grades from math and science to arts and sex education.
The only ones there that seem revolutionary to me are math, science, and arts. And there have been online resources for those for about as long as there have been for the other.
If I can replace my routing box with something that's completely fanless(even w/o a harddrive)
Like the other reply says, you could just get a Linksys router. The other option would be to take your router box and use a LRP disk to boot from. LRP boots from that disk (1 or 2 3.5" floppies), works well on a 486 with at least 12MB RAM. With a slower 486 (33MHz or less) or a large heatsink, you could likely get away without a CPU fan and you certainly wouldn't need the hard drive. As long as you don't use too much power, you could probably even remove the fan from your PSU.
I've got a p100 in my room in which I recently installed a 45GB IBM DeskStar to replace the older drives(2.1G, 1.2G, 850MB). The CPU fan actually makes the worst noise pollution since it's so low (it resonates through the case and floor, which just work to amplify it). I'm also considering installing a LRP disk in it to be rid of the 250MB boot drive which is rather flakey.
What? That's crazy. Haven't you seen Toys? He's going to rewire the PS2s so they control real jets and robotic people and then sit kids down with games that are set in the places they want to attack. So, the kids think they are playing a game when they are actually controlling real jets and real people and killing and destroying real places.
I think the breakthrough is that new doors have opened. Maybe people who previously wouldn't have been able to write code for embedded systems now can.
Don't underestimate the usefulness of an old 80-something. What do you think is operating in, say your microwave? A 386? Or in any little old object that you use without thinking. Hey, the graphing calculators that you see so often in highschool and college don't run on superfast processors. In fact, the TI85 that I have runs on a Z80 from Zilog (actually, some ran on Z80 clones) which, I believe is just an 8080, though I'm likely wrong.
Besides, not everyone has to or wants to sit around on the latest tech. Using old technology to it's maximum is, IMO, much more impressive than pulling billions of triangles out of today's machines. No, I tell a lie, they are both very cool. Using anything to it's full potential (and beyond) is very cool (IMO).
Jason Garon, who entered his guilty plea Friday, faces up to seven years in prison.
*UP TO* 7 years.
Marketers like to use the term "up to" a lot. It suggests that you can get something that, in reality, will rarely happen. Few people will ever get a 56000bps connection out of their 56k modem. Cable modem and DSL providers will tout their services as being many times faster than a pokey dialup service. You can get up to 50x more speed! Well, only if you're transferring within a 100yd radius or from a superfast server.
Anyway, just because the article says that he's facing up to seven years, doesn't mean that that's what he'll get. Like someone said above, he'll likely only get a couple months. And I would even dare to say that he should get less, if not then just have to stay in a minimum security prison. Maybe keep him from the web for a while. When he's out, monitor his connection for a year or so (though he could just go to another connection somewhere else, law enforcement officers haven't got the time to follow him around). Geesh, why not make this a good time to get people to use mail filters and secure their mail servers. If you don't want the possibility of someone using your service for some use other than what you intended, don't make it available. This is IBM, too, they've been around for a while. They should realize that they have a big name in the industry and need to be careful.
With that, this will not stop the deluge of spam entering your inbox. Just like lameness filters won't stop "trolls", yelling at this guy will not stop spammers.
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Hmm, this makes me wonder how other companies would respond if one company made their EULA easy to understand and read. I wonder if the others would even do anything or if people would wake up and demand that the EULAs are readable.
Maybe this sounds like a bad idea, but I find it rather annoying when an instructor teaches almost directly from some set package of notes. At the least, I respect the teacher and their position a little more if I get the idea that they actually know enough to write up their own notes and survive in front of a class without them(or with little help from them). So, my suggestion would be that you write up your own notes and go from that. You could at least write up a summary of what you were going to talk about (like you might in a PowerPoint presentation) and have copies of that available for the class so they can take notes on the different topics as you go.
You may know your stuff, but the students will get a very different idea if you're simply reading off someone else's notes. At least give them the impression that you know what you're talking about:).
They're behind the times. Slackware was so well improved that it skipped from v4.0 to v7.0. It's currently at v7.1 and counting. Way to go Slackware for winning in the Linux Distribution Version Number War!
And it might be more appropriate for them to release 2.4 in late December. What a nice *gift* that would be:).
Want MatLab for Linux? Don't want to pay? Try Octave. It's free, works with gnuplot, and uses many of the same commands as MatLab(you can use your matlab scripts etc with octave with very little editing). Very nice for students who don't want to pay $199 for a software package that they'll use for one quarter and will grow old.
AVS? Not sure what that is. But Google turned up a link that referenced avs.com. Perhaps this will help.
Couldn't they just digitize all the pics, put them online and tell people what to look for? If you find something and it turns out it is what they wanted, you get a free poster of that shot or something. Or they could write some software that could analyze the pictures and pick out the top 10% that are likely to be interesting.
This could at least filter out the really obviously wrong stuff. They could then put the cruft online and let the public search through those for fun on the chance that the computers missed something.
Thousands of pics per day would be difficult to go through, but sifting out the crap should not be THAT hard to do these days.
Get some kind of 'moderation of moderation' system in place...
Ah! Yes! And we'll call it meta-moderation. Hmm, no, how about Moderation^2? Or M^2? Nah, that's too hard. M2, yeah, that's more like it. Check it out.
Actually, someone on IRC (always the good source for info:) ) said that there is a bug in slashcode that prevents people from seeing that link on the homepage if they've never participated in M2. Once you've participated, it will show up. It would be nice if that link was placed in the FAQ for a quick fix.
Well...you also said:...that actually fucking works.
Um, what's with these ideas that it died or was killed or won't be recovered? What really happened is that Pioneer reached the edge of the galaxy and just happened to land where the loop-around is.
So, all they have to do is direct their satellites in the other direction. However, if any of those ghosts are nearby, they'd better hope that Pioneer finds a cherry soon...you don't find loop-arounds everywhere in the galaxy.
I don't know. Though that sounds like a possibility. I've just recently learned about this stuff in chem and failed the midterm about it. So I may not know what I'm talking about:).
CO2 can go from solid to gas at 1 atm (sealevel). At sealevel and above(lower pressure), CO2 only exists as a solid or gas. Mars does not have as heavy of an atmosphere as Earth, so my guess would be that it would only exist as a solid or gas on Mars. However, if you've ever seen DryIce (um, most mad scientists mix colored waters with pieces of CO2 together to get a highly explosive substance) you'll notice that, in our atmosphere, it sinks to the ground. It's very heavy and "flows" through the air like water. My guess is that it would emerge from the ground and "flow" along the dusty surface of Mars, causing "canals".
Oh, and CO2 will exist as a liquid. But only at higher pressures (~5.2 atm and up (5.2+x)) and certain temperatures. Here http://onsager.bd.psu.edu/~jir cit ano/phaseco2.jpg is what is called a phase diagram. If you want to read it, it would have to be marked. The "y" part would be in atm ("atmospheres" == pressure) and the "x" would be in temperature (deg C). Pick a pressure and temperature. find where the lines meet, if it's red, the substance would be a solid at that pressure and temperature. If it's blue, a liquid. Yellow, a gas. If you look, you'll see that for all temps at 1atm, CO2 will only exist as a gas or a solid. So, since Mars would have a much lower atmospheric pressure than earth, it's likely to only be found as a solid or gas on mars, too.
Just in case you want more evidence that the/. editors kind of like Debian, check out Geeks in Space: Ground Control. There's a bit of Debian worship at the end. Sickening.
Perhaps Linus and friends should over-predict the date of release. If they had said that it would be out Feb/March 2001 and they thought they would be done Dec2000 but the actual release date of 2.4 was late Dec2000/Jan2001, they might look better.
Something like this:
private predicted release date --> actual release date --> publicly predicted release date
or...
"Ok guys, I think this should be done by $date." "Hey, everybody, kernel XX.XX.XX should be ready by about ($date + 4 months) !" [($date + 2 months) later...] Slashdot headlines: Kernel 2.4 out early!
However, if they did this enough times, people would get the hang of what they were doing and say "hmm... release date predicted minus 2 or 3 months == release date actual" and then figure that the kernel was late after a certain date. But linus and friends would still appear better (at least to the CEO/PHB-types) for getting their product out before the projected release date. And then, even if they were late, they would look like they were on time which seems rare in the tech industry..
So, linus, perhaps you should predict jan/feb 2004 for 2.6:) if you're still late...ummm...admit it.
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long cord.. why even bother? I don't want a cord, he talked to the wrong people. I want to sit where ever I am and be free (and not have people
tripping over the damn wire, or the dog pulling it out in the middle of a 1 hour GT2 endurance race).
I'm not familiar with wireless game controllers, so that's why I'm asking. How would they deal with your dog walking through the beam of infrared? Assuming that's what it would use. I guess it could use some sort of directional radio signal (?) to overcome the limits of infrared. But, from what I've heard and experienced, most types of wireless networking/communication these days are a lot better than wire when it comes to flexibility, but are beaten when it comes to bandwidth, reliability, and distance. At least with a long cord, you could sit rather far from the console and let the wire sit on the floor rather than up about a foot in the air. As long as they could deal with the signal breakage. (develop special communications protocols that will deal with signal breakage so they could use infrared. or use radio signals.) To me, wires seem like they would be better for now. Probably cheaper, too.
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[Note to the humor-impaired: yes, this is a weak attempt at humor.]
and promises eventually to offer lessons in all grades from math and science to arts and sex education.
The only ones there that seem revolutionary to me are math, science, and arts. And there have been online resources for those for about as long as there have been for the other.
If I can replace my routing box with something that's completely fanless(even w/o a harddrive)
Like the other reply says, you could just get a Linksys router. The other option would be to take your router box and use a LRP disk to boot from. LRP boots from that disk (1 or 2 3.5" floppies), works well on a 486 with at least 12MB RAM. With a slower 486 (33MHz or less) or a large heatsink, you could likely get away without a CPU fan and you certainly wouldn't need the hard drive. As long as you don't use too much power, you could probably even remove the fan from your PSU.
I've got a p100 in my room in which I recently installed a 45GB IBM DeskStar to replace the older drives(2.1G, 1.2G, 850MB). The CPU fan actually makes the worst noise pollution since it's so low (it resonates through the case and floor, which just work to amplify it). I'm also considering installing a LRP disk in it to be rid of the 250MB boot drive which is rather flakey.
Anyway, just another suggestion.
Global Thermonuclear Warfare, please.
What? That's crazy. Haven't you seen Toys? He's going to rewire the PS2s so they control real jets and robotic people and then sit kids down with games that are set in the places they want to attack. So, the kids think they are playing a game when they are actually controlling real jets and real people and killing and destroying real places.
I think the breakthrough is that new doors have opened. Maybe people who previously wouldn't have been able to write code for embedded systems now can.
Don't underestimate the usefulness of an old 80-something. What do you think is operating in, say your microwave? A 386? Or in any little old object that you use without thinking. Hey, the graphing calculators that you see so often in highschool and college don't run on superfast processors. In fact, the TI85 that I have runs on a Z80 from Zilog (actually, some ran on Z80 clones) which, I believe is just an 8080, though I'm likely wrong.
Besides, not everyone has to or wants to sit around on the latest tech. Using old technology to it's maximum is, IMO, much more impressive than pulling billions of triangles out of today's machines. No, I tell a lie, they are both very cool. Using anything to it's full potential (and beyond) is very cool (IMO).
Download the text. Do with it what you like.
Ah, you're right, thanks for pointing that out.
Jason Garon, who entered his guilty plea Friday, faces up to seven years in prison.
*UP TO* 7 years.
Marketers like to use the term "up to" a lot. It suggests that you can get something that, in reality, will rarely happen. Few people will ever get a 56000bps connection out of their 56k modem. Cable modem and DSL providers will tout their services as being many times faster than a pokey dialup service. You can get up to 50x more speed! Well, only if you're transferring within a 100yd radius or from a superfast server.
Anyway, just because the article says that he's facing up to seven years, doesn't mean that that's what he'll get. Like someone said above, he'll likely only get a couple months. And I would even dare to say that he should get less, if not then just have to stay in a minimum security prison. Maybe keep him from the web for a while. When he's out, monitor his connection for a year or so (though he could just go to another connection somewhere else, law enforcement officers haven't got the time to follow him around). Geesh, why not make this a good time to get people to use mail filters and secure their mail servers. If you don't want the possibility of someone using your service for some use other than what you intended, don't make it available. This is IBM, too, they've been around for a while. They should realize that they have a big name in the industry and need to be careful.
With that, this will not stop the deluge of spam entering your inbox. Just like lameness filters won't stop "trolls", yelling at this guy will not stop spammers.
http://www.verizonshouldspendmoretimefixingitsnetw orkandlessmoneyonlawyers.com/
.org, www.verizon-blows.com, .org.) and some not (www.verizondsl.com, www.goverizon.com). But I think the long one says it best.
2600 has that one, too. And in their Summer 2000 issue (Freedom Downtime), they have *TWO* whole pages of domain names owned by Verizon. Some derogatory (www.verizon-bites.com,
Hmm, this makes me wonder how other companies would respond if one company made their EULA easy to understand and read. I wonder if the others would even do anything or if people would wake up and demand that the EULAs are readable.
Maybe this sounds like a bad idea, but I find it rather annoying when an instructor teaches almost directly from some set package of notes. At the least, I respect the teacher and their position a little more if I get the idea that they actually know enough to write up their own notes and survive in front of a class without them(or with little help from them). So, my suggestion would be that you write up your own notes and go from that. You could at least write up a summary of what you were going to talk about (like you might in a PowerPoint presentation) and have copies of that available for the class so they can take notes on the different topics as you go.
:) .
You may know your stuff, but the students will get a very different idea if you're simply reading off someone else's notes. At least give them the impression that you know what you're talking about
I take that back. Mandrake is at v7.2. Dammit Pat! Release release release! It's all about the high numbers!
They're behind the times. Slackware was so well improved that it skipped from v4.0 to v7.0. It's currently at v7.1 and counting. Way to go Slackware for winning in the Linux Distribution Version Number War!
:).
And it might be more appropriate for them to release 2.4 in late December. What a nice *gift* that would be
No, on the inside front cover, in small print, it will say:
"By opening this package, you aggree to be bound by the ToS. For a copy of the ToS, please write to..."
No need to go bothering with a form when they can simply trick you.
Want MatLab for Linux? Don't want to pay? Try Octave. It's free, works with gnuplot, and uses many of the same commands as MatLab(you can use your matlab scripts etc with octave with very little editing). Very nice for students who don't want to pay $199 for a software package that they'll use for one quarter and will grow old.
AVS? Not sure what that is. But Google turned up a link that referenced avs.com. Perhaps this will help.
Couldn't they just digitize all the pics, put them online and tell people what to look for? If you find something and it turns out it is what they wanted, you get a free poster of that shot or something. Or they could write some software that could analyze the pictures and pick out the top 10% that are likely to be interesting.
This could at least filter out the really obviously wrong stuff. They could then put the cruft online and let the public search through those for fun on the chance that the computers missed something.
Thousands of pics per day would be difficult to go through, but sifting out the crap should not be THAT hard to do these days.
Get some kind of 'moderation of moderation' system in place...
:) ) said that there is a bug in slashcode that prevents people from seeing that link on the homepage if they've never participated in M2. Once you've participated, it will show up. It would be nice if that link was placed in the FAQ for a quick fix.
...that actually fucking works.
:) .
Ah! Yes! And we'll call it meta-moderation. Hmm, no, how about Moderation^2? Or M^2? Nah, that's too hard. M2, yeah, that's more like it. Check it out.
Actually, someone on IRC (always the good source for info
Well...you also said:
So you weren't too out of it
Um, what's with these ideas that it died or was killed or won't be recovered? What really happened is that Pioneer reached the edge of the galaxy and just happened to land where the loop-around is.
So, all they have to do is direct their satellites in the other direction. However, if any of those ghosts are nearby, they'd better hope that Pioneer finds a cherry soon...you don't find loop-arounds everywhere in the galaxy.
I don't know. Though that sounds like a possibility. I've just recently learned about this stuff in chem and failed the midterm about it. So I may not know what I'm talking about:).
CO2 can go from solid to gas at 1 atm (sealevel). At sealevel and above(lower pressure), CO2 only exists as a solid or gas. Mars does not have as heavy of an atmosphere as Earth, so my guess would be that it would only exist as a solid or gas on Mars. However, if you've ever seen DryIce (um, most mad scientists mix colored waters with pieces of CO2 together to get a highly explosive substance) you'll notice that, in our atmosphere, it sinks to the ground. It's very heavy and "flows" through the air like water. My guess is that it would emerge from the ground and "flow" along the dusty surface of Mars, causing "canals".
Oh, and CO2 will exist as a liquid. But only at higher pressures (~5.2 atm and up (5.2+x)) and certain temperatures. Here http://onsager.bd.psu.edu/~jir cit ano/phaseco2.jpg is what is called a phase diagram. If you want to read it, it would have to be marked. The "y" part would be in atm ("atmospheres" == pressure) and the "x" would be in temperature (deg C). Pick a pressure and temperature. find where the lines meet, if it's red, the substance would be a solid at that pressure and temperature. If it's blue, a liquid. Yellow, a gas. If you look, you'll see that for all temps at 1atm, CO2 will only exist as a gas or a solid. So, since Mars would have a much lower atmospheric pressure than earth, it's likely to only be found as a solid or gas on mars, too.
Actually, I found this http://www.timesofindia.com/04080 0/0 4hlth1.htm article with a search at Google. Neato!
*Cough* Who is this?
.sig is ontopic!
AFAIK, it _is_ named after the mythical dude that killed Grendel. Even if it isn't, it's still a rather cool name.
Hey, even my
Just in case you want more evidence that the /. editors kind of like Debian, check out Geeks in Space: Ground Control. There's a bit of Debian worship at the end. Sickening.
Perhaps Linus and friends should over-predict the date of release. If they had said that it would be out Feb/March 2001 and they thought they would be done Dec2000 but the actual release date of 2.4 was late Dec2000/Jan2001, they might look better.
:) if you're still late...ummm...admit it.
Something like this:
private predicted release date --> actual release date --> publicly predicted release date
or...
"Ok guys, I think this should be done by $date."
"Hey, everybody, kernel XX.XX.XX should be ready by about ($date + 4 months) !"
[($date + 2 months) later...] Slashdot headlines: Kernel 2.4 out early!
However, if they did this enough times, people would get the hang of what they were doing and say "hmm... release date predicted minus 2 or 3 months == release date actual" and then figure that the kernel was late after a certain date. But linus and friends would still appear better (at least to the CEO/PHB-types) for getting their product out before the projected release date. And then, even if they were late, they would look like they were on time which seems rare in the tech industry.. So, linus, perhaps you should predict jan/feb 2004 for 2.6