1) The guy was busted not only for linking to pornographic sites, but also for providing software that he had written that allows people to remove the "mosaic" used on the pr0n.
2) Japanese courts are a little different to American courts - for a start, they're not quite so concerned about "setting precendents" for future judgements.
3) In Japan, if you're busted for something, you're convicted. The conviction rate here is around 96%, so if the police take the trouble of arresting you, it generally means the court is gonna find you guilty, no matter what arguments your lawyer makes.
4) It's pretty clear that the guy was aiding and abetting; it just happens that the form of the abetting was links to other HPs. In the States, that would probably get you off; in Japan, it's nothing more than a detail. The judge has not made a judgement regarding linking to other sites; he's made a judgement about this guy's culpability.
BTW: I don't actually support this judgement (for one thing, I've used the guy's software (FL-Mask) and it's pretty cool), but once you get into a Japanese courtroom, not even God can save your ass if the judge thinks you're guilty.
So LCD power use is a function of area, not resolution?
Well, you can think of it two ways:
1) The higher the resolution, the greater the number of transistors used (as almost all LCDs these days are active-matrix), thereby increasing the power consumption.
2) The larger the area of the screen, the larger the backlight needs to be (try using a large LCD indoors for an hour without a backlight; your eyes will bleed;), thereby increasing the power consumption.
Which do you think would be the bigger drain? I'm betting on (2), but I'm open to more informed opinions...
Yeah, they're using the Super Pi calculation program as a benchmark. Starting at the top ranker, their cooling methods and CPU speeds are:
1) Liquid nitrogen (1438MHz on a PIII/800) 2) Liquid nitrogen (1360MHz on a PIII/800) 3) Liquid nitrogen (1283MHz on a PIII/800) 4) Water-cooled peltier (1210MHz on a PIII/866) 5) Water-cooled peltier (1270MHz on a PIII/850)
Check out this screenshot of the leader's CPU stats.
People who never thought they had a friend in the world could have a machine as their friend.
Wouldn't it be a real ego-crusher if they were rejected by their computer? I mean, giving a computer free will also means giving it likes and dislikes, and anyone who doesn;t have any friends to begin with would probably have trouble making friends with a computer as well.
Sorry for replying to myself; I've pretty much got it figured out (I forgot XMODIFIERS).
- Set your locale as usual (ja_JP.ujis) - Set XMODIFIERS to @im=kinput2 - Start kinput2 - Start Netscape 6
It accepts Japanese input with the usual SHIFT+SPACE, but it can't switch back out (although that might be my settings), and it seems to have trouble with switching between text fields (it might take a few clicks before it'll accept input in a particular field). Ah well, at least it's an improvement over the standard Communicator.
Anybody know how to get Japanese input (thru kinput2) on the Linux version? Its Japanese display is way better than Communicator, but it doesn't seem to responf to the usual methods for input settings...
Re:COmpetition? There is no competition!
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1.4-1.6 GHz Alphas
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Don't bet on that. I have a 600MHz Alpha next to me right now, and for many tasks it performs at the same level as my 450MHz PII. There's two things dragging down the Alpha:
1) Compiler quality gcc gives good optimization on Intel chips, but its Alpha code quality isn't so great.
2) Driver quality Many drivers are simply not optimized for 64-bit systems. They work, but they don't fully utilize the system's potential.
(1) can be partially solved by using Compaq's cc compiler for the Alpha, but even that has its limits. (2) can only be solve if enough developers get behind the platform (not particularly likely unless the price of an Alpha drops to PIII levels).
...engine thrust will be reduced to insure that an acceleration force of no more than three times that of Earth's gravity is reached. This acceleration level, permitted by the throttleable Shuttle engines, is about one-third the acceleration experienced on previous manned space flights...
That makes for a maximum acceleration of 9Gs on previous space flights.
I think they need to work on their physics a little more. If you try to do any jumping above a not-particularly-high height (you do the math), your brain goes "squish" inside the brain case and you come back down a vegetable.
Yeah, the bear suit is cool. I hadn't looked at the page for a while - it seems he's been doing some more testing...
Testing On Suit:
1.Truck: 18 collisions with a three-tonne truck travelling at 50 kilometres an hour (30 m.p.h) 2.Rifle: Shot at with 12 gauge shotgun, using "Sabot" slugs 3.Arrows: Armour-piercing arrows, fired from 45 kilogram (100 lb.) bow 4.Tree Trunk: Two collisions with a 136 kilgram (300 lb.) tree from a height of 9 metres (30 ft.) 5.Bikers: Assault by three bikers -- the largest, 2.05 metres (6 ft. 9 in.) tall, weighing 175 kilograms (385 lbs.). Biker armaments: splitting ax, planks, baseball bat. 6.Escarpment: Jumped off escarpment, falling over 15.25 metres (over 150 ft.).
One has to wonder if the biker testing was planned or simply the spontaneous result of wearing the bear suit to the local biker bar.
Go back and read your own post - you seem to have forgotten what you wrote already.
Why don't you tell me (assuming I'm a "loser") if I should use FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, or Linux, and which architecture to use?
Great, you mention the BSDs as well as Linux. SO WHAT!?! I didn't say anything about Linux OR the BSDs in my post; what do the BSDs have to do with your point? (Assuming you actually have a point.) And as for not referring to me personally, I'd say the "you" in the statement above is pretty clearly aimed at me.
You still didn't attack Microsoft in an intelligent way, nor did you attack me in such a way.
Did you even read my comment? I told you to clean up your own act before accusing others. So what do you do? You repeat the same lame attacks and try and dress them up as being somehow "logical" (and I use that term in a very loose sense).
Come back to/. when you've managed to mature a little.
If you bothered to reag the RC5 FAQ, you'd see that they've been asked this question enough times for it to have an item in the FAQ all of its own. They say, basically, that the RC5 distributed network is pretty much the same as a Beowulf network in terms of processing efficiency for RC5, so a Beowulf would perform much the same as the same number of machines operating independently on the project.
The UP machines might have a bus for each CPU, but the SMP machines' busses are still a lot faster than having to go through Ethernet for inter-CPU communication. Two SMP machines will beat four UP machines any day, at least until we get faster networking (or more importantly, lower network latency).
Well, since a Tivo could reasonably be expected to be in your home, then it could have the same system as my answering machine - dial in, tap out a four-digit code to access it, and if you forget the code, just reset it when you get back home. Since physical access is restricted (mostly), there's no need to worry about securing a local method of access - only the remote method.
Looking around me at the various computers that my company owns, I see the following:
Windows 3.1 for PC98 Windows 95 Windows 95R2 Windows 98 Windows NT 3.51 Windows NT 4.0SP3 Windows NT 4.0 SP5 Windows 2000
Try and explain to your average luser which ones of the above can handle PnP/USB/DX7.0/etc., which ones can run that old word processor software he's so fond of, which ones will run that game he's been wanting to try out...it just goes on and on.
As I mentioned in one of my comments to the original story, this was a fairly easy move to forcast. It's pretty much what every other corporation has done when faced with criticism on the Web - do anything they can to block it (think AOL, or any number of free homepage sites).
Yeah, there's been some work on including capabilities in Linux, but whenever the topic comes up, there's always a flame war about the "right" way to implement it, with the result that noone's really made a serious try at integrating the kernel and userspace support needed.
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Just to explain a few things here:
1) The guy was busted not only for linking to pornographic sites, but also for providing software that he had written that allows people to remove the "mosaic" used on the pr0n.
2) Japanese courts are a little different to American courts - for a start, they're not quite so concerned about "setting precendents" for future judgements.
3) In Japan, if you're busted for something, you're convicted. The conviction rate here is around 96%, so if the police take the trouble of arresting you, it generally means the court is gonna find you guilty, no matter what arguments your lawyer makes.
4) It's pretty clear that the guy was aiding and abetting; it just happens that the form of the abetting was links to other HPs. In the States, that would probably get you off; in Japan, it's nothing more than a detail. The judge has not made a judgement regarding linking to other sites; he's made a judgement about this guy's culpability.
BTW: I don't actually support this judgement (for one thing, I've used the guy's software (FL-Mask) and it's pretty cool), but once you get into a Japanese courtroom, not even God can save your ass if the judge thinks you're guilty.
The 3440 has already been released in Japan.
OK, the page is in Japanese, but you can still look at the pretty pictures...
So LCD power use is a function of area, not resolution?
Well, you can think of it two ways:
1) The higher the resolution, the greater the number of transistors used (as almost all LCDs these days are active-matrix), thereby increasing the power consumption.
2) The larger the area of the screen, the larger the backlight needs to be (try using a large LCD indoors for an hour without a backlight; your eyes will bleed
Which do you think would be the bigger drain? I'm betting on (2), but I'm open to more informed opinions...
Yeah, they're using the Super Pi calculation program as a benchmark. Starting at the top ranker, their cooling methods and CPU speeds are:
1) Liquid nitrogen (1438MHz on a PIII/800)
2) Liquid nitrogen (1360MHz on a PIII/800)
3) Liquid nitrogen (1283MHz on a PIII/800)
4) Water-cooled peltier (1210MHz on a PIII/866)
5) Water-cooled peltier (1270MHz on a PIII/850)
Check out this screenshot of the leader's CPU stats.
People who never thought they had a friend in the world could have a machine as their friend.
Wouldn't it be a real ego-crusher if they were rejected by their computer? I mean, giving a computer free will also means giving it likes and dislikes, and anyone who doesn;t have any friends to begin with would probably have trouble making friends with a computer as well.
Sorry for replying to myself; I've pretty much got it figured out (I forgot XMODIFIERS).
- Set your locale as usual (ja_JP.ujis)
- Set XMODIFIERS to @im=kinput2
- Start kinput2
- Start Netscape 6
It accepts Japanese input with the usual SHIFT+SPACE, but it can't switch back out (although that might be my settings), and it seems to have trouble with switching between text fields (it might take a few clicks before it'll accept input in a particular field). Ah well, at least it's an improvement over the standard Communicator.
Anybody know how to get Japanese input (thru kinput2) on the Linux version? Its Japanese display is way better than Communicator, but it doesn't seem to responf to the usual methods for input settings...
Running just fine on my Slackware 7.0 box...
Don't bet on that. I have a 600MHz Alpha next to me right now, and for many tasks it performs at the same level as my 450MHz PII. There's two things dragging down the Alpha:
1) Compiler quality
gcc gives good optimization on Intel chips, but its Alpha code quality isn't so great.
2) Driver quality
Many drivers are simply not optimized for 64-bit systems. They work, but they don't fully utilize the system's potential.
(1) can be partially solved by using Compaq's cc compiler for the Alpha, but even that has its limits. (2) can only be solve if enough developers get behind the platform (not particularly likely unless the price of an Alpha drops to PIII levels).
Well, that didn't take long - the Atari 800 web server has been slashdotted about three minutes after the story was posted.
The quote is taken from the bear suit web site - 'tain't my fault, nohow.
I think you need to check your sources...
From the University of Arizona's web site:
...engine thrust will be reduced to insure that an acceleration force of no more than three times that of Earth's gravity is reached. This acceleration level, permitted by the throttleable Shuttle engines, is about one-third the acceleration experienced on previous manned space flights...
That makes for a maximum acceleration of 9Gs on previous space flights.
DARPA: Do All Rightwing Assholes Post Anonymously?
I think they need to work on their physics a little more. If you try to do any jumping above a not-particularly-high height (you do the math), your brain goes "squish" inside the brain case and you come back down a vegetable.
Yeah, the bear suit is cool. I hadn't looked at the page for a while - it seems he's been doing some more testing...
Testing On Suit:
1.Truck: 18 collisions with a three-tonne truck travelling at 50 kilometres an hour (30 m.p.h)
2.Rifle: Shot at with 12 gauge shotgun, using "Sabot" slugs
3.Arrows: Armour-piercing arrows, fired from 45 kilogram (100 lb.) bow
4.Tree Trunk: Two collisions with a 136 kilgram (300 lb.) tree from a height of 9 metres (30 ft.)
5.Bikers: Assault by three bikers -- the largest, 2.05 metres (6 ft. 9 in.) tall, weighing 175 kilograms (385 lbs.). Biker armaments: splitting ax, planks, baseball bat.
6.Escarpment: Jumped off escarpment, falling over 15.25 metres (over 150 ft.).
One has to wonder if the biker testing was planned or simply the spontaneous result of wearing the bear suit to the local biker bar.
Go back and read your own post - you seem to have forgotten what you wrote already.
Why don't you tell me (assuming I'm a "loser") if I should use FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, or Linux, and which architecture to use?
Great, you mention the BSDs as well as Linux. SO WHAT!?! I didn't say anything about Linux OR the BSDs in my post; what do the BSDs have to do with your point? (Assuming you actually have a point.) And as for not referring to me personally, I'd say the "you" in the statement above is pretty clearly aimed at me.
You still didn't attack Microsoft in an intelligent way, nor did you attack me in such a way.
Did you even read my comment? I told you to clean up your own act before accusing others. So what do you do? You repeat the same lame attacks and try and dress them up as being somehow "logical" (and I use that term in a very loose sense).
Come back to
Did I say ONE WORD about Linux? I was commenting on the various versions of Windows - I didn't say if Linux was any better or worse.
If you're going to accuse people of making unintelligent posts, clean up your own act first.
BTW: luser != loser, although in your case I'm willing to make an exception.
This is the same guy that did this piece of Marathon artwork. Note that he wasn't paid for this - he did it because he wanted to.
If you bothered to reag the RC5 FAQ, you'd see that they've been asked this question enough times for it to have an item in the FAQ all of its own. They say, basically, that the RC5 distributed network is pretty much the same as a Beowulf network in terms of processing efficiency for RC5, so a Beowulf would perform much the same as the same number of machines operating independently on the project.
Since these are 733MHz PIII machines, I suspect they have 64bit PCI as well. That gives you 266MB/s bandwidth on the bus.
The UP machines might have a bus for each CPU, but the SMP machines' busses are still a lot faster than having to go through Ethernet for inter-CPU communication. Two SMP machines will beat four UP machines any day, at least until we get faster networking (or more importantly, lower network latency).
Well, since a Tivo could reasonably be expected to be in your home, then it could have the same system as my answering machine - dial in, tap out a four-digit code to access it, and if you forget the code, just reset it when you get back home. Since physical access is restricted (mostly), there's no need to worry about securing a local method of access - only the remote method.
Looking around me at the various computers that my company owns, I see the following:
Windows 3.1 for PC98
Windows 95
Windows 95R2
Windows 98
Windows NT 3.51
Windows NT 4.0SP3
Windows NT 4.0 SP5
Windows 2000
Try and explain to your average luser which ones of the above can handle PnP/USB/DX7.0/etc., which ones can run that old word processor software he's so fond of, which ones will run that game he's been wanting to try out...it just goes on and on.
As I mentioned in one of my comments to the original story, this was a fairly easy move to forcast. It's pretty much what every other corporation has done when faced with criticism on the Web - do anything they can to block it (think AOL, or any number of free homepage sites).
Yeah, there's been some work on including capabilities in Linux, but whenever the topic comes up, there's always a flame war about the "right" way to implement it, with the result that noone's really made a serious try at integrating the kernel and userspace support needed.