This article doesn't really talk much about Shoemaker-Levy, but it does propose that we should travel to other planets. I agree. I would like to see the money we are spending on the international space station go to creating an international moon-base. If we create two compartments, one for humans and one for other animals (like Biosphere), we would be able to study how the radiation of space affects living things, what can adapt, and what can't, etc.
I don't think that we need to ban that poster, but I do think that the/. staff needs to put http://www.goatse.cx/ in their "lameness filter" (For those who don't know, the lameness filter blocks people from posting "first post" and posting like 3 times in a minute.
Re:MP3 compression is too slow
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I don't think that speed would be that much of a problem. Texas Instruments has had DSPs that were capable of 2Giga-flops performance in 1995. (Incedently, those are still used in the DirecTV sets that people use today)
If these robots work like the author says, hopefully we will be able to start putting these things onto Asteroids and begin mining the materials from there. Basically, unlimited access to minerals!
It was called the Pentium III because at the time Intel wasn't shipping a Celeron at over 400MHz. If you look at the specifications posted on the web(I'd suggest staring at xbox.ign.com) and look at the specs on the processor, you'll discover that it looks very much like a Celeron (ie, same cache size)
This is just too interesting to let pass. I think I'm going to have to get
back into the community again. I don't claim to be a super guru but from
what I gather, DTV activated a tweaked the ROM start-up code to check a
specific memory location very early in the start-up sequence. The memory
location just happens to be an OTP or "write-once" location on the EEPROM.
Last Sunday they sent out an ECM that checked 50 or so different memory
locations. If any of any of the checks came back with a byte that was
different from standard DTV code, it wrote "00h" to the OTP memory location.
If all bytes came back valid, the location was written to "33h". If the
"00h" is present during start-up, the sequence is derailed and the card goes
into a tight loop. During past "FF", "00", and "99" loops, you could hit
the EEPROM with voltage spikes and dips to get the memory location to reset
itself to default. After it was reset, the ROM would go through the
start-up sequence and you could reprogram it. With this new loop, "33h" is
not the default. So if you hit it with an unlooper and get the location to
reset, it still won't go through the start-up sequence. The DTV hacker
community has labeled the ECM as "Black Sunday". This will be fun to watch.
Ummm...I don't understand. Are they not allowed to make a profit? I can't understand how it is ok for them to pay $.35 for a kilowatt hour of electricty, while being able to sell it for $.07 .
PG&E is scamming everyone and outright threatening blackouts if they don't get their way (and they have had rolling blackouts here).
PG&E has very little control over the blackouts. The Cal Iso calls them up and says, "You need to free x Megawatts of power, now." PG&E has no choice, but to free that much electricty, or the whole system crashes. Look on you PG&E (or SCE or SDGE or whatever your utility is) bill and it will tell you a number. When (insert your favorite/least favorite utility here) is given the blackout notice, they just go in order, from 1 to however many blocks there are. That's required by the Public Utilities commission!
...But the world will be such a better place with a daytime curfew! Once the daytime curfew is in place, we will be able to keep them in their schools, which are locked up and surrounded by guards preventing anyone entering or leaving. Kinda sounds like a prison to me (hmmm...that gives me a better idea what to do with teenagers)
I can only watch one channel at the time. Why waste all this bandwidth on stuff you cannot possibly watch anyway.
I understand your point, but the only way that cable has competed against satallite is that the cable companies allow you to hook up as many TVs as you like for the same amount of money (and no extra equipment, except for speciality channels)
It's really important to some people that they can watch whatever program they want, while their spouse watches another, and each of their 1+ kids watches seperate programs in their own rooms. (IIRC, DirecTv or The Dish Network don't allow you to hook up more than 4 TVs per dish)
IIRC, the Playstation 2 doesn't "emulate" the Playstation 1. I believe that the IO controller is the same CPU (running at the same speed) as the Playstation 1. They included the 2MB of memory onto that controller to make it seem like an actual playstation.
That is why you don't see any improvement in the frame rates of your favorite PSX game when you play it on a PS2.
It works fine if all you are looking for is a simple web-based mail website. I personally use Yahoo's mail because I can access via the web or via POP3. I've heard you can now do that with hotmail, but you have to pay for it, IIRC.
I realize that this is off-topic, and I'll probably end up with a score of -1, offtopic, but I'm curious why this article was posted with the "Slashback" icon? I'd guess this is about as far removed from Slashback as one can get (this isn't even a rumor story, where the/. editors know they'll be forced to issue a slashback!)
One of the interesting things I read on the SETI FAQ page was the fact that the current SETI project would not be able to dectect the Radio Telescopes that it uses to pick up the foreign signals!
While I agree with you (...and Egghead) that their credit card database hasn't been stolen, I don't buy the 7500 out of 3,000,000 arguement. If fradulent activity was taking place on my credit card, it would likely take me a month to find out. Also, if you just stole *3 Million* credit card numbers, how long would it take for you to use them all!
One other important thing to ask is the state of the GCC complier for the PowerPC Platform. IIRC, it isn't as efficient as the ones available for the x86 and Alpha platforms. How much would LinuxPPC benefit from an optimized compiler and what sort of performance could be expected from LinuxPPC compared to Linux86/Alpha/others?
LinuxPPC and OS-X will live in harmony. First, LinuxPPC (IMHO) is significantly faster than OS-X at everything. Also, Apple seems to have forgotten that it has created computers before the Beige-G3 series (circa 1997), so all of those people with a 7500/8500/9500 class machine that wants a robust, server operating system will have no other supported choice. Finally, Linux has matured for several years both on intel & PPC, where MacOS X is a brand new OS that will encounter some maturing problems.
Note the CNET in the URL. It means the the NY Times just reprinted CNET's Original Article...at least you don't have to sign up for regristration!
Am I the only one that thinks this would be cool?
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I personally think that it would be very cool if somehow we could get Cassini to take a photograph of Galieo. Besides the "coolness" factor, if the picture was clear enough, we could see what happens to earths metals when placed in extreme radiation for several years.
I realize that it would be very difficult to do, though, because Galieo is a very small spaceship compared to Jupiter, it would be very hard to photograph (especially because Cassini is about 6 million miles away), but we would know where Galieo is!
When did this happen? It's been a rumor for quite some time, but I haven't seen any news sites that have mentioned this. Plus, I'd assume that nVidia would be smart enough not to announce it before a MacWorld!
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This article doesn't really talk much about Shoemaker-Levy, but it does propose that we should travel to other planets. I agree. I would like to see the money we are spending on the international space station go to creating an international moon-base. If we create two compartments, one for humans and one for other animals (like Biosphere), we would be able to study how the radiation of space affects living things, what can adapt, and what can't, etc.
I don't think that we need to ban that poster, but I do think that the /. staff needs to put http://www.goatse.cx/ in their "lameness filter" (For those who don't know, the lameness filter blocks people from posting "first post" and posting like 3 times in a minute.
I don't think that speed would be that much of a problem. Texas Instruments has had DSPs that were capable of 2Giga-flops performance in 1995. (Incedently, those are still used in the DirecTV sets that people use today)
Have you priced the cost of lifting a pound of aluminium into orbit?
:-) In all seriousness, though, you brought up some good points.
Does it cost more or less than a pound of iron
If these robots work like the author says, hopefully we will be able to start putting these things onto Asteroids and begin mining the materials from there. Basically, unlimited access to minerals!
Ummmm...last time I checked, Neptune was further out than Uranus...
It was called the Pentium III because at the time Intel wasn't shipping a Celeron at over 400MHz. If you look at the specifications posted on the web(I'd suggest staring at xbox.ign.com) and look at the specs on the processor, you'll discover that it looks very much like a Celeron (ie, same cache size)
This is just too interesting to let pass. I think I'm going to have to get back into the community again. I don't claim to be a super guru but from what I gather, DTV activated a tweaked the ROM start-up code to check a specific memory location very early in the start-up sequence. The memory location just happens to be an OTP or "write-once" location on the EEPROM. Last Sunday they sent out an ECM that checked 50 or so different memory locations. If any of any of the checks came back with a byte that was different from standard DTV code, it wrote "00h" to the OTP memory location. If all bytes came back valid, the location was written to "33h". If the "00h" is present during start-up, the sequence is derailed and the card goes into a tight loop. During past "FF", "00", and "99" loops, you could hit the EEPROM with voltage spikes and dips to get the memory location to reset itself to default. After it was reset, the ROM would go through the start-up sequence and you could reprogram it. With this new loop, "33h" is not the default. So if you hit it with an unlooper and get the location to reset, it still won't go through the start-up sequence. The DTV hacker community has labeled the ECM as "Black Sunday". This will be fun to watch.
Ummm...I don't understand. Are they not allowed to make a profit? I can't understand how it is ok for them to pay $.35 for a kilowatt hour of electricty, while being able to sell it for $.07 .
PG&E is scamming everyone and outright threatening blackouts if they don't get their way (and they have had rolling blackouts here).
PG&E has very little control over the blackouts. The Cal Iso calls them up and says, "You need to free x Megawatts of power, now." PG&E has no choice, but to free that much electricty, or the whole system crashes. Look on you PG&E (or SCE or SDGE or whatever your utility is) bill and it will tell you a number. When (insert your favorite/least favorite utility here) is given the blackout notice, they just go in order, from 1 to however many blocks there are. That's required by the Public Utilities commission!
...But the world will be such a better place with a daytime curfew! Once the daytime curfew is in place, we will be able to keep them in their schools, which are locked up and surrounded by guards preventing anyone entering or leaving. Kinda sounds like a prison to me (hmmm...that gives me a better idea what to do with teenagers)
I can only watch one channel at the time. Why waste all this bandwidth on stuff you cannot possibly watch anyway.
I understand your point, but the only way that cable has competed against satallite is that the cable companies allow you to hook up as many TVs as you like for the same amount of money (and no extra equipment, except for speciality channels)
It's really important to some people that they can watch whatever program they want, while their spouse watches another, and each of their 1+ kids watches seperate programs in their own rooms. (IIRC, DirecTv or The Dish Network don't allow you to hook up more than 4 TVs per dish)
Doh! My comment was supposed to have an in the title & the body!
Heh, it looks like about 1/3 of the way down they forgot to close a tag :-) /. posters aren't the only ones :-)
IIRC, the Playstation 2 doesn't "emulate" the Playstation 1. I believe that the IO controller is the same CPU (running at the same speed) as the Playstation 1. They included the 2MB of memory onto that controller to make it seem like an actual playstation.
That is why you don't see any improvement in the frame rates of your favorite PSX game when you play it on a PS2.
It works fine if all you are looking for is a simple web-based mail website. I personally use Yahoo's mail because I can access via the web or via POP3. I've heard you can now do that with hotmail, but you have to pay for it, IIRC.
I realize that this is off-topic, and I'll probably end up with a score of -1, offtopic, but I'm curious why this article was posted with the "Slashback" icon? I'd guess this is about as far removed from Slashback as one can get (this isn't even a rumor story, where the /. editors know they'll be forced to issue a slashback!)
One of the interesting things I read on the SETI FAQ page was the fact that the current SETI project would not be able to dectect the Radio Telescopes that it uses to pick up the foreign signals!
While I agree with you (...and Egghead) that their credit card database hasn't been stolen, I don't buy the 7500 out of 3,000,000 arguement. If fradulent activity was taking place on my credit card, it would likely take me a month to find out. Also, if you just stole *3 Million* credit card numbers, how long would it take for you to use them all!
ummm...how about try just about any Mac site you can think of:
...and don't forget the "big" news sites like:
Mac Slash (they even use Slash!)
Xlr8yourMac
Macintouch
News.com
and
MacWeek
Article: Is the US No longer the Choice for Freedom? Score -1 Flamebait
One other important thing to ask is the state of the GCC complier for the PowerPC Platform. IIRC, it isn't as efficient as the ones available for the x86 and Alpha platforms. How much would LinuxPPC benefit from an optimized compiler and what sort of performance could be expected from LinuxPPC compared to Linux86/Alpha/others?
LinuxPPC and OS-X will live in harmony. First, LinuxPPC (IMHO) is significantly faster than OS-X at everything. Also, Apple seems to have forgotten that it has created computers before the Beige-G3 series (circa 1997), so all of those people with a 7500/8500/9500 class machine that wants a robust, server operating system will have no other supported choice. Finally, Linux has matured for several years both on intel & PPC, where MacOS X is a brand new OS that will encounter some maturing problems.
Note the CNET in the URL. It means the the NY Times just reprinted CNET's Original Article...at least you don't have to sign up for regristration!
I personally think that it would be very cool if somehow we could get Cassini to take a photograph of Galieo. Besides the "coolness" factor, if the picture was clear enough, we could see what happens to earths metals when placed in extreme radiation for several years.
I realize that it would be very difficult to do, though, because Galieo is a very small spaceship compared to Jupiter, it would be very hard to photograph (especially because Cassini is about 6 million miles away), but we would know where Galieo is!
But it has recently lost Apple's contracts
When did this happen? It's been a rumor for quite some time, but I haven't seen any news sites that have mentioned this. Plus, I'd assume that nVidia would be smart enough not to announce it before a MacWorld!