I'm not at all making fun of his kid's cancer. I was putting some levity into the RMS-cancer linkup that only the Slashdot crowd would appreciate. That is all. You shouldn't read further into it than that, because nothing further was intended or implied. Batteries not included.
In November, the company won the rights to use a designated frequency of 1.4 MHz in a Federal Communications Commission auction.
Correct me if I'm wrong (if so, it's waaaay past my bedtime -- that's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it!), but isn't 1.4 MHz right smack dab in the middle of the existing terrestrial AM radio band of 530 kHz (0.53 MHz) to 1.72 MHz?
If so, wouldn't a terrestrial AM tower blasting out its carrier at that frequency (1.39 or 1.41 MHz) totally blot out the signal from such a balloon?
Sorry, forgot to make ViewSonic a link. Yes, not 20.1", but 19", multi-domain technology (no, the Dell doesn't have that) for accurate colors through a crazy-wide viewing angle, a very respectable 25ms refresh rate for super-smooth motion, and they look gorgeous.
They've basically taken the most expensive choice in each category, and in some cases in more than one quantity.
2GB RAM, 15k RPM U320 SCSI drives, two (ugly, Jeezus, go Viewsonic instead) 20.1" FP monitors, &c. ad nauseum!
What the fuck is a desktop user going to need hard drives like that for?! And 2GB RAM? Unless you routinely open many, many 5+ megapixel images (raw TIFFs right off the CCD, not JPEG) images simultaneously in Photoshop, there's no way in hell you're ever going to touch 2GB of memory usage in any desktop box. (Remember, kids, this is a desktop, not some corporate server.)
Get real. I could spec an AMAZING machine for HALF this price, [desktop] OS included, and you probably wouldn't notice the difference. Yes, even you hardcore gamer types.
Oh, and I could probably even include RAID 1 (hell, why not 0+1!) and still not break US$4,000...
Now it takes ten minutes to load Windows XP on my 1+GHz P3.
Whatfuckingever. I have precisely eleventeen million services installed on my XP box, and it still takes under 60 seconds to get from power-good to the Welcome screen. Anything over 90 seconds is just plain wrong. If it does indeed take 120+ seconds, you've probably broken something.
No way in hell they're sneaking past security with a motherfucking semi truck!
Recently two men walked out of a certain store near where I live with a canoe. Yes, a real, full-size canoe. The employees even helped them with the doors and whatnot.
They only got busted when they got greedy and went back for some paddles. (Talk about being up the creek without one, huh?)
So, don't be thinking a semi will stop an intruder. In a way, it's precisely that thought going through your security guard's head that will make him think the semi is legit...
It's quite simple, really -- not once did you ever see the agreement, and therefore you couldn't possibly have agreed to it.
Need it spoonfed to you? Okay, keep reading.
By beginning the activation of your new ReplayTV unit here, you will be activating the unit without agreeing to the agreement that seems to have Slashdotters up in arms -- in actual fact, you won't even have seen such an agreement, period.
In some jurisdictions, click-through agreements are legally binding -- but I've yet to hear of a jurisdiction which would consider you bound to an agreement you didn't see or agree to whatsoever.
Yes, I should have mentioned its 25ms refresh rate. Text is pretty much rock-solid, even if I grab the scroll bar in IE and ram it up and down quickly. I haven't really played Quake III on it, but I have played Dark Age of Camelot (Go Hibernia!), and even if I switch mouselook on and flick my mouse around, the scenery flies around without any noticeable difference in smoothness (and lack of smearing) as on the 17" Sony GDM-200PS (very nice CRT monitor) which the VX900 replaced.
I cant wait for the day that I can replace them with cheap, lightweight, easily moved *anythings*.
That day has come. (Okay, not cheap, but the rest fits nicely.)
FWIW, those 20" CRT monitors are probably about 18.5" viewable each. Roughly US$1,800 will give you two of these babies, one of which has just graced my desk. It's 19" of pure viewing pleasure, with multidomain technology for accurate color at any viewing angle up to 170 horizontal and vertical, and it tips the scales at a mere 17.5 pounds. 12080x1024 resolution looks really nice on this panel (which isn't surprising seeing as that's its native resolution.)
Don't throw out your existing speakers if you like bass, though. Hence the old but nice Yamaha YST-M20DSPs next to it. The literature actually mentions "powerful 3-watt speakers", which almost brought tears to my eyes from laughing so hard. They sound quite crisp, but are pitifully lacking in bass. (Yes, even when the bass is cranked in the OSD control.)
Having both HD15 and DVI-D connectors was a requirement for my next monitor, and this fits the bill nicely.
The built-in microphone is a nice touch. I don't recall it being mentioned in the lit; I only discovered it when I saw the MIC OUT connector on the back panel. I believe the opening for the mic itself is right between the top of the N and I in the ViewSonic logo on the front panel. It's very discreet.
Enough rambling -- grab a high-quality LCD today and don't look back.
Sprint was created when the Southern Pacific Railway realized that they could take advantage of their railway rights-of-way to lay fiber-optic cable.
Then, several years after the fiber had been installed at a cost of God-only-knows-how-many hundreds of millions of dollars, someone discovered their rights-of-way were for the surface and the fiber was buried... where Southern Pacific's rights-of-way didn't extend. I mean, after all, they were intended to allow them to lay track, period.
Oops.
(Whatever happened to that whole brouhaha anyway? I haven't heard anything about it in forever...)
Fantastic! Then all the attacker needs to do is send packets which trip the anti-DDoS software, spoofed to look like they're coming from the target's upstream router, [the target's / the target's ISP's] DNS servers, the root nameservers... the list goes on and on.
In short, it's very difficult to get auto-blackholing of IP addresses right without an attacker plunging your own sword into your stomach.
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I'm not at all making fun of his kid's cancer. I was putting some levity into the RMS-cancer linkup that only the Slashdot crowd would appreciate. That is all. You shouldn't read further into it than that, because nothing further was intended or implied. Batteries not included.
(who has RMS, which is a form of cancer)
That's GNU/Cancer, as far as RMS is concerned.
Now, as far as RMS himself being a form of cancer, I'm sure Bill agrees with you...
GuideScope all the way, baby!
This one, you mean?
It's also different from the approach taken by Northern Light that classify web pages based on pre-defined categories.
;)
Don't you mean:
It's also different from the approach taken by Northern Light that classifies web pages based on pre-defined categories.
Scribled not writes indeed.
In November, the company won the rights to use a designated frequency of 1.4 MHz in a Federal Communications Commission auction.
Correct me if I'm wrong (if so, it's waaaay past my bedtime -- that's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it!), but isn't 1.4 MHz right smack dab in the middle of the existing terrestrial AM radio band of 530 kHz (0.53 MHz) to 1.72 MHz?
If so, wouldn't a terrestrial AM tower blasting out its carrier at that frequency (1.39 or 1.41 MHz) totally blot out the signal from such a balloon?
Sorry, forgot to make ViewSonic a link. Yes, not 20.1", but 19", multi-domain technology (no, the Dell doesn't have that) for accurate colors through a crazy-wide viewing angle, a very respectable 25ms refresh rate for super-smooth motion, and they look gorgeous.
Bigger is not always better, kids.
Whatfuckingever.
Total Price: $7849.06 + S&H (6/6/2002), w/o OS
They've basically taken the most expensive choice in each category, and in some cases in more than one quantity.
2GB RAM, 15k RPM U320 SCSI drives, two (ugly, Jeezus, go Viewsonic instead) 20.1" FP monitors, &c. ad nauseum!
What the fuck is a desktop user going to need hard drives like that for?! And 2GB RAM? Unless you routinely open many, many 5+ megapixel images (raw TIFFs right off the CCD, not JPEG) images simultaneously in Photoshop, there's no way in hell you're ever going to touch 2GB of memory usage in any desktop box. (Remember, kids, this is a desktop, not some corporate server.)
Get real. I could spec an AMAZING machine for HALF this price, [desktop] OS included, and you probably wouldn't notice the difference. Yes, even you hardcore gamer types.
Oh, and I could probably even include RAID 1 (hell, why not 0+1!) and still not break US$4,000...
*sigh*...
Jeezus Aitch Christ, Lawrence! What don't you know?! ;)
Joel On The Economics of Open Source
Yes, but what does Steve have to say about it? And, more importantly, what's Bob's opinion?
Now it takes ten minutes to load Windows XP on my 1+GHz P3.
Whatfuckingever. I have precisely eleventeen million services installed on my XP box, and it still takes under 60 seconds to get from power-good to the Welcome screen. Anything over 90 seconds is just plain wrong. If it does indeed take 120+ seconds, you've probably broken something.
They were sued because the tires malfunctioned of their own accord.
In actual fact, I think most of the vehicles affected were Explorers.
(Sorry.)
No way in hell they're sneaking past security with a motherfucking semi truck!
Recently two men walked out of a certain store near where I live with a canoe. Yes, a real, full-size canoe. The employees even helped them with the doors and whatnot.
They only got busted when they got greedy and went back for some paddles. (Talk about being up the creek without one, huh?)
So, don't be thinking a semi will stop an intruder. In a way, it's precisely that thought going through your security guard's head that will make him think the semi is legit...
This week a new seagoing vessel was announced, which "Mother Nature herself could not sink", according to its creators.
This one, you mean? (Don't mind the URL. It's the newest creation of the kind folk at rotten.com.)
It's quite simple, really -- not once did you ever see the agreement, and therefore you couldn't possibly have agreed to it.
Need it spoonfed to you? Okay, keep reading.
By beginning the activation of your new ReplayTV unit here, you will be activating the unit without agreeing to the agreement that seems to have Slashdotters up in arms -- in actual fact, you won't even have seen such an agreement, period.
In some jurisdictions, click-through agreements are legally binding -- but I've yet to hear of a jurisdiction which would consider you bound to an agreement you didn't see or agree to whatsoever.
The solution is simple: Instead of reading the agreement and agreeing to it, don't!
Yes, I should have mentioned its 25ms refresh rate. Text is pretty much rock-solid, even if I grab the scroll bar in IE and ram it up and down quickly. I haven't really played Quake III on it, but I have played Dark Age of Camelot (Go Hibernia!), and even if I switch mouselook on and flick my mouse around, the scenery flies around without any noticeable difference in smoothness (and lack of smearing) as on the 17" Sony GDM-200PS (very nice CRT monitor) which the VX900 replaced.
:)
So, all in all, a kick-ass monitor.
I cant wait for the day that I can replace them with cheap, lightweight, easily moved *anythings*.
That day has come. (Okay, not cheap, but the rest fits nicely.)
FWIW, those 20" CRT monitors are probably about 18.5" viewable each. Roughly US$1,800 will give you two of these babies, one of which has just graced my desk. It's 19" of pure viewing pleasure, with multidomain technology for accurate color at any viewing angle up to 170 horizontal and vertical, and it tips the scales at a mere 17.5 pounds. 12080x1024 resolution looks really nice on this panel (which isn't surprising seeing as that's its native resolution.)
Don't throw out your existing speakers if you like bass, though. Hence the old but nice Yamaha YST-M20DSPs next to it. The literature actually mentions "powerful 3-watt speakers", which almost brought tears to my eyes from laughing so hard. They sound quite crisp, but are pitifully lacking in bass. (Yes, even when the bass is cranked in the OSD control.)
Having both HD15 and DVI-D connectors was a requirement for my next monitor, and this fits the bill nicely.
The built-in microphone is a nice touch. I don't recall it being mentioned in the lit; I only discovered it when I saw the MIC OUT connector on the back panel. I believe the opening for the mic itself is right between the top of the N and I in the ViewSonic logo on the front panel. It's very discreet.
Enough rambling -- grab a high-quality LCD today and don't look back.
Sprint was created when the Southern Pacific Railway realized that they could take advantage of their railway rights-of-way to lay fiber-optic cable.
Then, several years after the fiber had been installed at a cost of God-only-knows-how-many hundreds of millions of dollars, someone discovered their rights-of-way were for the surface and the fiber was buried... where Southern Pacific's rights-of-way didn't extend. I mean, after all, they were intended to allow them to lay track, period.
Oops.
(Whatever happened to that whole brouhaha anyway? I haven't heard anything about it in forever...)
Fantastic overview. Mad props!
"Since I forgot to take more pictures of the construction process, here is a pair of hotties in thongs to even things out."
ROFL!
Fantastic! Then all the attacker needs to do is send packets which trip the anti-DDoS software, spoofed to look like they're coming from the target's upstream router, [the target's / the target's ISP's] DNS servers, the root nameservers... the list goes on and on.
In short, it's very difficult to get auto-blackholing of IP addresses right without an attacker plunging your own sword into your stomach.
It's called the twenty-first century.
Maybe it's time to... never mind.
I think the fire department should operate without trucks.
WTF?!
I think you should think real fscking hard about that...