I've said it before, I'll say it again. I'll keep saying it until it becomes law.
Give him some webmail account that he can access over dialup from prison. Publish that email far and wide so it'll end up on every spam list in the world.
Then, tell him that once a year he'll get an email with a password that if he gives the prison guard, he can leave at any time.
This email can come in any form, with any subject heading, very likely disguised as spam. His webmail account will also have a 5Mb limit, and if the email bounces because it just happens to come when the mailbox is full, he'll have to wait for the next year.
Give him some webmail account that he can access over dialup from prison. Publish that email far and wide so it'll end up on every spam list in the world.
Then, tell him that once a year he'll get an email with a password that if he gives the prison guard, he can leave at any time.
This email can come in any form, with any subject heading, very likely disguised as spam. His webmail account will also have a 5Mb limit, and if the email bounces because it just happens to come when the mailbox is full, he'll have to wait for the next year.
I spent many hours reviewing the corbin motor website. They had some awesome vehicles besides the sparrow, and plans for even better ones in the near future. I had always planned on getting one, especially now that I'm moving to the boonies where fuel costs will be an even bigger concern.
Municipal broadband isn't geared towards towns that have such options available to them. In a couple weeks, I'm moving to Vernonia, OR, a small town of about 3000 people. In the early 1900's, the big electric providers weren't interested in giving them power. Too few people, too far away from the Portland metro area. So they created their own power utility and it still serves the town and outlying areas very well.
Today, they have the same problem with broadband. We've got a CO right in the middle of town, but Verizon has zero interest in upgrading it to provide DSL, likewise Comcast doesn't care to upgrade either. They want to service areas that give short term profits, whereas a non-profit public utility has more long term goals.
As soon as I move in, I plan on working with the local government to see if there is interest in such an undertaking. These are the type of communities that a public broadband service could really help, the ones ignored by the commercial companies. Not the metro areas with a dozen options available.
I say we lock you up. Just have, what is essentially the 'secret police' come and hold you indefinitely. Oh, what's that? That law is meant for those 'other' guys?
And what if the terrorist's target happens to be where you're at? Or your friends, or family? Oh yeah, that's right. Only the 'other' guys get attacked by terrorists.
What if the FBI got a tip about a guy a few days before his attack killed or maimed the people you love. But they didn't have any solid proof against the guy, they may not even know for sure what he'going to do. So they wait and watch while they try to find enough information. Oh yeah, we know how well that works. Several of the 9/11 terrorists were under surveillance for suspected terrorist activity, that sure stopped them from completing their plans.
But I'm sure, as you're holding your dying mother in your arms and looking at your slaughtered friends all around you, you'll be thinking, "Well, at least the terrorist's rights weren't infringed upon. That would've really sucked if he was held for 2 months before they finally found the evidence that he was planning this attack."
I never said holding someone indefinitely is ok. They held a lot of people after the 9/11 attacks for a long time, primarily because it took a long time to investigate all of the people and decide whether or not they were safe to be let go. However, it's difficult to be bound to release someone by a certain date when you never know how long it's going to take to investigate.
Obviously, there should be some checks and balances involved. If someone is going to be held beyond a certain time, they'd better start showing some good reason. Unfortunately, there aren't laws in place designed to allow longer holding of suspected criminals, so the US is using a hack to get around it. It's not well designed, but we didn't have well designed provisions when this situation occured.
And there is one big difference between holding terrorists like this and other criminals, and that is the scale of damage. Theft, murder, fraud, etc... are all bad. But nothing the forefathers didn't foresee and plan appropriate balances between rights & safety. But when you're dealing with terrorists who are trying to set off dirty bombs or poisons or diseases that could kill hundreds, or thousands, or millions, the rights of a few people seem like a pretty fair trade for the lives of many.
If this guy were a terrorist planning on planting a bomb somewhere and the FBI got a tip (but no proof), what should they do? They can do some research, try to find out what he's doing, who he's working with, etc... and while they're trying to figure it all out, he goes and blows up a building or a bridge killing hundreds of people. Then you have an outcry from the people when it comes to light that the FBI was told he was dangerous but didn't act on the tip.
On the other hand, they can do some preliminary checks to see if the tip might hold promise, then take the guy, search his things and do a thorough investigation while they have him, making sure he doesn't fulfill any nefarious schemes during the investigation.
If it turns out the guy is clean, they'll let him go when they know for sure. He could lose a few weeks or months of his life, very bad to be sure. Or, if it turns out he was on the verge of blowing up the entire intel plant he was working at the next day, it's a dang good thing they took him when they did. And when working against terrorists, you don't want the terrorists to know how much you know, or how you came to know information. So logically, much of it must be kept secret.
Does it suck? Yes. Is there a better way? Maybe, but it's a tough choice where the primary goal is to thwart as many attackes and save as many people as possible.
I started getting 80KB/s, but it soon dropped to 4-15KB. So I started a download at school, and peaked out at 675KB!!! It averaged around 475-500KB though, it finished in just a couple hours. I'd never seen RH iso download speeds on the first day in my life before! I never did figure out why my download speeds sucked so bad at home though. I even made sure to run it on my firewall box to make sure NAT wasn't a problem.
Historically, RedHat has always guaranteed that all.x releases will be binary compatible with their major number. However, I don't recall any major changes with gcc & glibc. Is there some other change that would make this release not be binary compatible with RH8?
The scariest thing I've ever seen, was when I had been swapping things around on my computers one morning. At the moment, I was working on my wife's computer when I heard mine shut down by itself. I was annoyed, but didn't think much of it until a couple seconds later it started coming back on. I looked back and saw smoke billowing out the side of the case (which was open at the time).
I ran over to the case and looked inside, I saw these red glowing wires, and just freaked out. I powered off the computer, opened the windows (it stank so bad) and just prayed for about 15 minutes before daring to go look at the damage.
It turned out, all the damaged was done to a single power cable, one of those little ones for case fans with two prongs sticking up. All I can think that happened was when I was moving things around, the cable got bumped and touched a piece of metal that connected both prongs creating a short, which caused massive power drain and fried the wires. I cut the wires off, turned back on the computer and it worked like a charm.
Actually, it was more than that. The school was really small, around 150 students total. All the kids looked fairly clean cut. Everything about it just looked nice, comfortable and safe. I wouldn't worry about them getting lost in a sea of 2k+ students, and the odds of violence, gang crap etc... looked very small. The IT infrastructure just let me know the guys in charge were willing to think outside the box.
On Monday, I attended a Linux-in-schools roundtable discussion at the end of RH's tour at Riverdale High School in Portland, OR. Riverdale built its entire network on a shoestring budget. It got a bunch of small IBM cases for $15/ea on Ebay, a $50 mobo and donated P2-350s from Intel, but they splurged a bit on 15" flat panel monitors. All their desktops are used basically as xterms that students can use to log into one of 4 beefy dual xeon servers (it's a small high school) over their gigabit network.
They've got these computers scattered all throughout the school, all running linux. The art dept uses gimp for photos, etc. But their core apps are really a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, email & web. The beauty is, their elementry school is connected to the same network. Students get their account & homedir in 4th grade and it follows them until they graduate.
They can do much more interesting things with these networks, offer better classes w/ more technical focuses with everything they have. They don't need to worry about forking out several $k for licenses for certain software just to teach programming concepts, administration, etc...
This is exactly the kind of school I want my kids to grow up in, and if I don't end up homeschooling them, I'll do whatever it takes to get them in this one.
Slashdot was able to boost its reach of certain articles by a factor of 2. Says slashdot editor, Timothy, "The results are very impressive and the technique was surprisingly simple. All we had to do to double the readership for a particular article was to post it once in the morning, and again at night. If our/. readers are anything like the editors, most of them are too lazy to read more than the top couple of articles. If they happened to miss the morning edition of/. we can rebroadcast a "best of/." again in the evening so our lazy readers don't miss out and all the action here."
Now I enjoy FPS as much as the next guy. I was hooked on Doom I/II more than anyone else I knew at the time. And when I first looked at the screenshots of this game I was shocked at the quality of the rendering, how much more realistic the scenes were than other 3D FPS games I've seen. It looked like it would be a fantastic game. But then I saw a few other screenshots of guys getting blown away, with their intestines hanging out, the various bullet wounds and blood splatter on the wall, and I felt a little uncomfortable. Everyone wants to see their games look more realistic, but where do we draw the line? Do we want to see every bullet hole? Every organ? Fingers, partial heads, various limbs and appendagest all being blown off? There seems like there's a point where this begins to be unhealthy.
Now I'm not saying everyone playing this game will turn into serial killers, or anything like that. I'm not saying it's going to be the downfall of our generation. Blowing up monsters, aliens, various creatures, 'bad guys' etc has been a big part of my life, and those games have all been fun without needing highly detailed portions of their remains scattered around the level.
I guess my question is, are other people turned off by more realistic, graphic gore? Will FPS games quest for more realistic games turn to be their downfall, or will they start to modify them so, although the texture & enemies look more realistic, the actual shooting will be less intense? Or will they include an option where the user can choose to play ultra-graphic violent mode, or a more toned down version appropriate for younger players?
It's actually named after a town in Oregon. Intel, being based in Oregon tends to name many of their projects after places in Oregon: Tualatin, Willamette, Yamhill, and LaGrande are ones I can think of off the top of my head.
Ah yes, but these are no ordinary statistics! Taken from their site,
Although just estimates, these few statistics are testament to the unprecedented escalations in both human population and consumption during the twentieth century
These are estimated statistics! What we have here is an alarmist group making up statistics and drawing radical conclusions based on them. And what am I supposed to do about it? Oh, I'd guess that they're looking for donations so they can publish more insightful reports just like this, to keep me informed of all of these possible catastrophic consequences that are just around the corner.
Wow, it's amazing that halflife was so open to let their fans freely modify their code and give them all the tools to do it. This flies directly in the face of corporate logic, where companies sick their lawyers on their most loyal fans for copyright infringement or DMCA violations for modifying their products. And how did their fans react?
"We've actually sold more of the overall Half-Life family of products each year since we shipped back in 1998, which is very unusual in a market typified by three-month shelf lives"
It really is in corporate best interests to let their fans run with their products, create communities around their products and thereby add value and promote their products for them. I wish they'd understand that the fastest way to kill the very communities that support them is to send lawyers after them.
Just because a program or executable file is smaller, doesn't necessarily mean it's more efficient. For instance, some compiler optimizations actually produce larger executables. If you unroll a loop, it actually generates code for each iteration of the loop, but saves time because it's faster to keep going forward than to branch backwards to run through the code again.
Similarly, you can have inline functions that insert the inline function directly into the function calling it. Every function that calls an inline function would get a copy of it, which produces larger code, but saves a lot of time since it doesn't need to push the arguments on the stack, branch to the new function, and return with the value.
Finally, the biggest speed gains you can get are generally algorithmic in nature. You can do a bubble sort with just a few lines of code. It's a lot simpler code and smaller than the larger and more complicated quick sort or merge sort. I know which one I'd rather wait for with a million items to sort.
So remember, just because something is bigger, doesn't mean it's more bloated, and just because something is smaller doesn't mean it's faster or more efficient.
Are you really trying to just obsolete all your old software so everyone is forced to upgrade to your latest and greatest OS & computers just to be able to make basic transactions on the internet?
It's gonna be a long time until computers will be able to fit all possible moves of a chess game into memory. If they could, the game would easily be "solved" and it would be impossible for anyone to beat it. Checkers has almost reached the state of being solved, and the best human champions don't have a chance to beat the top checkers program.
I've done a lot of research into Combinatorial AI design for my program, Gamazons, which has a branching factor that makes chess look like childs play (the opening move has 3-4k different possibilities). For these types of programs, you've got a few primary factors that make a big difference in how your game plays. You need to search fast & deep, prune out as many paths as you can that won't produce worthwhile results. But then you need really good heuristics that give a value to a board state. You have to be careful that your heuristics are incredibly efficient, because your heuristic function will be run on every node (board state) in the search tree. However, from what I've noticed in my program, the quality of the heuristics is the most critical part of the whole game. It doesn't matter much how deep fast and deep you can search if your searching gives inaccurate values to the board states.
It's the same with chess games. Sure, having lots of big beefy hardware was a nice factor for Big Blue, but the defining factor that really made it shine was the quality of its heuristics. They had on staff a number of grand chessmasters as well as a database of all the big games to develop a good opening book (real chess programs don't start searching & evaluating board states until a good 10-15 moves into the game. They search these out ahead of time and store them on disk as the opening book).
It gets better. Run 'top' while you're viewing this page with mozilla or netscape 4. It's really neat to watch the amount of memory being used. After just a minute of the constant reloading, the browser takes up a few hundred MB of memory. It's a really neat trick when you're trying to compile a massive project at work on your machine at the time and all of a sudden you run out of memory.
I had this problem when I originally started having more than one computer, or started spending a lot of time at different computers. That's when I came up with a solution that has worked great for me.
I made one web page that looked nice with a set of nicely organized links that my wife and I use most often. It's got all the important links to place I visit on a weekly/daily basis, for shopping, banks, etc... Then wherever I go, I just make that my homepage and instantly I'm in a familiar environment that will take me wherever I need to go.
I still use bookmarks for something I find interesting, or something I only rarely visit. And if I need to remember what that is when I'm away, I can just telnet to my box at home, find the file mozilla uses to store my bookmarks and get it that way. Between those two methods, I've never needed a bookmark I couldn't get.
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I've said it before, I'll say it again. I'll keep saying it until it becomes law.
Give him some webmail account that he can access over dialup from prison. Publish that email far and wide so it'll end up on every spam list in the world.
Then, tell him that once a year he'll get an email with a password that if he gives the prison guard, he can leave at any time.
This email can come in any form, with any subject heading, very likely disguised as spam. His webmail account will also have a 5Mb limit, and if the email bounces because it just happens to come when the mailbox is full, he'll have to wait for the next year.
Give him some webmail account that he can access over dialup from prison. Publish that email far and
wide so it'll end up on every spam list in the world.
Then, tell him that once a year he'll get an email with a password that if he gives the prison guard, he can leave at any time.
This email can come in any form, with any subject heading, very likely disguised as spam. His webmail account will also have a 5Mb limit, and if the email bounces because it just happens to come when the mailbox is full, he'll have to wait for the next year.
I spent many hours reviewing the corbin motor website. They had some awesome vehicles besides the sparrow, and plans for even better ones in the near future. I had always planned on getting one, especially now that I'm moving to the boonies where fuel costs will be an even bigger concern.
Municipal broadband isn't geared towards towns that have such options available to them. In a couple weeks, I'm moving to Vernonia, OR, a small town of about 3000 people. In the early 1900's, the big electric providers weren't interested in giving them power. Too few people, too far away from the Portland metro area. So they created their own power utility and it still serves the town and outlying areas very well.
Today, they have the same problem with broadband. We've got a CO right in the middle of town, but Verizon has zero interest in upgrading it to provide DSL, likewise Comcast doesn't care to upgrade either. They want to service areas that give short term profits, whereas a non-profit public utility has more long term goals.
As soon as I move in, I plan on working with the local government to see if there is interest in such an undertaking. These are the type of communities that a public broadband service could really help, the ones ignored by the commercial companies. Not the metro areas with a dozen options available.
And what if the terrorist's target happens to be where you're at? Or your friends, or family? Oh yeah, that's right. Only the 'other' guys get attacked by terrorists.
What if the FBI got a tip about a guy a few days before his attack killed or maimed the people you love. But they didn't have any solid proof against the guy, they may not even know for sure what he'going to do. So they wait and watch while they try to find enough information. Oh yeah, we know how well that works. Several of the 9/11 terrorists were under surveillance for suspected terrorist activity, that sure stopped them from completing their plans.
But I'm sure, as you're holding your dying mother in your arms and looking at your slaughtered friends all around you, you'll be thinking, "Well, at least the terrorist's rights weren't infringed upon. That would've really sucked if he was held for 2 months before they finally found the evidence that he was planning this attack."
I never said holding someone indefinitely is ok. They held a lot of people after the 9/11 attacks for a long time, primarily because it took a long time to investigate all of the people and decide whether or not they were safe to be let go. However, it's difficult to be bound to release someone by a certain date when you never know how long it's going to take to investigate.
Obviously, there should be some checks and balances involved. If someone is going to be held beyond a certain time, they'd better start showing some good reason. Unfortunately, there aren't laws in place designed to allow longer holding of suspected criminals, so the US is using a hack to get around it. It's not well designed, but we didn't have well designed provisions when this situation occured.
And there is one big difference between holding terrorists like this and other criminals, and that is the scale of damage. Theft, murder, fraud, etc... are all bad. But nothing the forefathers didn't foresee and plan appropriate balances between rights & safety. But when you're dealing with terrorists who are trying to set off dirty bombs or poisons or diseases that could kill hundreds, or thousands, or millions, the rights of a few people seem like a pretty fair trade for the lives of many.
On the other hand, they can do some preliminary checks to see if the tip might hold promise, then take the guy, search his things and do a thorough investigation while they have him, making sure he doesn't fulfill any nefarious schemes during the investigation.
If it turns out the guy is clean, they'll let him go when they know for sure. He could lose a few weeks or months of his life, very bad to be sure. Or, if it turns out he was on the verge of blowing up the entire intel plant he was working at the next day, it's a dang good thing they took him when they did. And when working against terrorists, you don't want the terrorists to know how much you know, or how you came to know information. So logically, much of it must be kept secret.
Does it suck? Yes. Is there a better way? Maybe, but it's a tough choice where the primary goal is to thwart as many attackes and save as many people as possible.
I started getting 80KB/s, but it soon dropped to 4-15KB. So I started a download at school, and peaked out at 675KB!!! It averaged around 475-500KB though, it finished in just a couple hours. I'd never seen RH iso download speeds on the first day in my life before! I never did figure out why my download speeds sucked so bad at home though. I even made sure to run it on my firewall box to make sure NAT wasn't a problem.
Historically, RedHat has always guaranteed that all .x releases will be binary compatible with their major number. However, I don't recall any major changes with gcc & glibc. Is there some other change that would make this release not be binary compatible with RH8?
The scariest thing I've ever seen, was when I had been swapping things around on my computers one morning. At the moment, I was working on my wife's computer when I heard mine shut down by itself. I was annoyed, but didn't think much of it until a couple seconds later it started coming back on. I looked back and saw smoke billowing out the side of the case (which was open at the time).
I ran over to the case and looked inside, I saw these red glowing wires, and just freaked out. I powered off the computer, opened the windows (it stank so bad) and just prayed for about 15 minutes before daring to go look at the damage.
It turned out, all the damaged was done to a single power cable, one of those little ones for case fans with two prongs sticking up. All I can think that happened was when I was moving things around, the cable got bumped and touched a piece of metal that connected both prongs creating a short, which caused massive power drain and fried the wires. I cut the wires off, turned back on the computer and it worked like a charm.
Does Sun make most of their money with their really nice hardware?
:)
Heh, you've obviously not been paying attention to their stock value or earnings sheet. What makes you think they're making money?
Actually, it was more than that. The school was really small, around 150 students total. All the kids looked fairly clean cut. Everything about it just looked nice, comfortable and safe. I wouldn't worry about them getting lost in a sea of 2k+ students, and the odds of violence, gang crap etc... looked very small. The IT infrastructure just let me know the guys in charge were willing to think outside the box.
They've got these computers scattered all throughout the school, all running linux. The art dept uses gimp for photos, etc. But their core apps are really a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, email & web. The beauty is, their elementry school is connected to the same network. Students get their account & homedir in 4th grade and it follows them until they graduate.
They can do much more interesting things with these networks, offer better classes w/ more technical focuses with everything they have. They don't need to worry about forking out several $k for licenses for certain software just to teach programming concepts, administration, etc...
This is exactly the kind of school I want my kids to grow up in, and if I don't end up homeschooling them, I'll do whatever it takes to get them in this one.
Slashdot was able to boost its reach of certain articles by a factor of 2. Says slashdot editor, Timothy, "The results are very impressive and the technique was surprisingly simple. All we had to do to double the readership for a particular article was to post it once in the morning, and again at night. If our /. readers are anything like the editors, most of them are too lazy to read more than the top couple of articles. If they happened to miss the morning edition of /. we can rebroadcast a "best of /." again in the evening so our lazy readers don't miss out and all the action here."
Now I enjoy FPS as much as the next guy. I was hooked on Doom I/II more than anyone else I knew at the time. And when I first looked at the screenshots of this game I was shocked at the quality of the rendering, how much more realistic the scenes were than other 3D FPS games I've seen. It looked like it would be a fantastic game. But then I saw a few other screenshots of guys getting blown away, with their intestines hanging out, the various bullet wounds and blood splatter on the wall, and I felt a little uncomfortable. Everyone wants to see their games look more realistic, but where do we draw the line? Do we want to see every bullet hole? Every organ? Fingers, partial heads, various limbs and appendagest all being blown off? There seems like there's a point where this begins to be unhealthy.
Now I'm not saying everyone playing this game will turn into serial killers, or anything like that. I'm not saying it's going to be the downfall of our generation. Blowing up monsters, aliens, various creatures, 'bad guys' etc has been a big part of my life, and those games have all been fun without needing highly detailed portions of their remains scattered around the level.
I guess my question is, are other people turned off by more realistic, graphic gore? Will FPS games quest for more realistic games turn to be their downfall, or will they start to modify them so, although the texture & enemies look more realistic, the actual shooting will be less intense? Or will they include an option where the user can choose to play ultra-graphic violent mode, or a more toned down version appropriate for younger players?
It's actually named after a town in Oregon. Intel, being based in Oregon tends to name many of their projects after places in Oregon: Tualatin, Willamette, Yamhill, and LaGrande are ones I can think of off the top of my head.
Ah yes, but these are no ordinary statistics! Taken from their site,
Although just estimates, these few statistics are testament to the unprecedented escalations in both human population and consumption during the twentieth century
These are estimated statistics! What we have here is an alarmist group making up statistics and drawing radical conclusions based on them. And what am I supposed to do about it? Oh, I'd guess that they're looking for donations so they can publish more insightful reports just like this, to keep me informed of all of these possible catastrophic consequences that are just around the corner.
Wow, it's amazing that halflife was so open to let their fans freely modify their code and give them all the tools to do it. This flies directly in the face of corporate logic, where companies sick their lawyers on their most loyal fans for copyright infringement or DMCA violations for modifying their products. And how did their fans react?
"We've actually sold more of the overall Half-Life family of products each year since we shipped back in 1998, which is very unusual in a market typified by three-month shelf lives"
It really is in corporate best interests to let their fans run with their products, create communities around their products and thereby add value and promote their products for them. I wish they'd understand that the fastest way to kill the very communities that support them is to send lawyers after them.
Just because a program or executable file is smaller, doesn't necessarily mean it's more efficient. For instance, some compiler optimizations actually produce larger executables. If you unroll a loop, it actually generates code for each iteration of the loop, but saves time because it's faster to keep going forward than to branch backwards to run through the code again.
Similarly, you can have inline functions that insert the inline function directly into the function calling it. Every function that calls an inline function would get a copy of it, which produces larger code, but saves a lot of time since it doesn't need to push the arguments on the stack, branch to the new function, and return with the value.
Finally, the biggest speed gains you can get are generally algorithmic in nature. You can do a bubble sort with just a few lines of code. It's a lot simpler code and smaller than the larger and more complicated quick sort or merge sort. I know which one I'd rather wait for with a million items to sort.
So remember, just because something is bigger, doesn't mean it's more bloated, and just because something is smaller doesn't mean it's faster or more efficient.
Are you really trying to just obsolete all your old software so everyone is forced to upgrade to your latest and greatest OS & computers just to be able to make basic transactions on the internet?
Oops, my link to Gamazons didn't work. Lets see if this one does any better.
I've done a lot of research into Combinatorial AI design for my program, Gamazons, which has a branching factor that makes chess look like childs play (the opening move has 3-4k different possibilities). For these types of programs, you've got a few primary factors that make a big difference in how your game plays. You need to search fast & deep, prune out as many paths as you can that won't produce worthwhile results. But then you need really good heuristics that give a value to a board state. You have to be careful that your heuristics are incredibly efficient, because your heuristic function will be run on every node (board state) in the search tree. However, from what I've noticed in my program, the quality of the heuristics is the most critical part of the whole game. It doesn't matter much how deep fast and deep you can search if your searching gives inaccurate values to the board states.
It's the same with chess games. Sure, having lots of big beefy hardware was a nice factor for Big Blue, but the defining factor that really made it shine was the quality of its heuristics. They had on staff a number of grand chessmasters as well as a database of all the big games to develop a good opening book (real chess programs don't start searching & evaluating board states until a good 10-15 moves into the game. They search these out ahead of time and store them on disk as the opening book).
I think this is one of those situations where if you have to ask slashdot, you're not up to the challenge ;)
It gets better. Run 'top' while you're viewing this page with mozilla or netscape 4. It's really neat to watch the amount of memory being used. After just a minute of the constant reloading, the browser takes up a few hundred MB of memory. It's a really neat trick when you're trying to compile a massive project at work on your machine at the time and all of a sudden you run out of memory.
I made one web page that looked nice with a set of nicely organized links that my wife and I use most often. It's got all the important links to place I visit on a weekly/daily basis, for shopping, banks, etc... Then wherever I go, I just make that my homepage and instantly I'm in a familiar environment that will take me wherever I need to go.
I still use bookmarks for something I find interesting, or something I only rarely visit. And if I need to remember what that is when I'm away, I can just telnet to my box at home, find the file mozilla uses to store my bookmarks and get it that way. Between those two methods, I've never needed a bookmark I couldn't get.