I would expect to see a story with FUD like this in the Weekly World News next to Bat Boy's latest adventure, not in a respectable technical publication.
An interesting thought, but wouldn't the BIOS need to be aware of whatever delay is introduced? Otherwise it may interpret the delay wrongly and think that the drives on the IDE chain have timed out and are faulty.
If you're running NT on those servers this might be a problem, but with linux it shouldn't be. Linux pretty much ignores the bios and does it's own hard drive searching. So that problem shouldn't be a problem at all.
As for the power issue, why not use one of those PCI-to-PCI extenders that will give you and extra case, and an extra power supply to put more drives in?
Share information on human rights abuses with your friends? How about plan the destruction of a high-profile government building?
How about running an efficient organization that controls world economy and supports major forms of terrorism. (No, not al-Qaida, the US Govt. who supports the worst terrorist state the world has known in the past 1000 years or so. That state being Israel naturally.)
Just like the scientists who go ahead with playing God with stem cells before the ethical ramifications have been fully explored, these researchers have unleashed an unholy nightmare on the world that won't be fully realized until it's too late.
Who has played God with stem cells?
We're nowhere near as advanced.
But now I'm curious, this "unholy nightmare" would it be the cure for cancer? Parkinson? Cause that's what the method promisses.
It's bad enough that al-Qaida used GPG to communicate and coordinate their plans to commit atrocities agianst the US, but how much safer would you feel knowing that now not even the NSA can decypher their communications?
First I wasn't aware that they used encryption at all.
The attack was fairly low-tech. And as for the NSA not being
able to decypher communications...reality check...they can't now.
My 4096bit PGP private key isn't going to be broken
anytime soon.
The point is, it's time to show a little responsibility in the academic community.
The point is others like you have mentioned these things
regarding the atom bomb and other such developments.
Get this once and for all, scientists by definition create science (that was stupid!)
which also by definition is a tool. Invented by a few smart ones to the used by the masses. This leaves you with two options:
1-Label as irresponsible the guy who invented the first boat that eventually lead to the slaughtering
of the American natives and other such atrocitys.
Label as irresponsible the guy that invented the blade,
the fire arm etc, for the damage that those caused has
not yet been fully understood.
2-Shut Up! (This may seam like flamefesting but is a real point)
If it weren't for these developments I wouldn't be awnsering you in a public forum on the Internet (what's that) inside my room, a few meters away from a bathroom.
I'd be shouting an incoherent form of speech inside a cave in the middle of some forest.
Now which one do you choose?
The grey reality is that scientists can't be bound by ethics. They're the brains not the conscience in our society. We do need a better conscience but we're not doing any good by trying to force scientists to refrain from making progress. The Vatican tried that already. Galileo's book where he chalenged the idea that the earth was the center of the universe was on their list of banned books up until 1992. By 1992 2 new theories had been formulated and proven wrong (Newton's and Einstein's) and a third was on it's way (superstring theory). What do you think would have happened if the Chuch had gotten it's way? What do you think will happen if the US gets their way?
We MUST stop this trend towards privacy and technological innovation if we are going to continue to lead the world in human rights and technological innovations into the future!
The US has a death penalty. "Lead the world in human rights"??? You must be joking!
You're bitching about not being able to use a remote starter because that requires bypassing the anti-theft system, and thus prefer old cars that don't have the system?
If you bypass the anti-theft you get a functionaly-equivalent setup of a car that doesn't have one. So what was it that you were bitching about?
That and the fact that you don't actually need the key, just the ID chip, and that the anti-theft system can probably be easily disabled.
Throughput is up to 200Mbps, so you don't have to worry about MIDI latency again:)
Huh? Latency and throughoutput are two *very* different things. One measures the number of bits you can push per second, and the other measures how long does it take a single bit to go from one end to the other. You could have a GB/s connection with horrible latency.
An mp3-cd player should be able to spin the disc up when you select a song, buffer the whole song in RAM, spin the disc down, and save power while playing it.
These guys have a much better product featured in slashdot here.
It doesn't have a great big amplifier included so it should be alot less power hungry and won't bottleneck your sound quality. It also has a much better display and open source server software. Too bad it doesn't have digital audio output.
We (the Europeans) did put lasers on satelites but we're not pointing them at one another to chat. It's our new tactical warfare rig. Very cool. It can kill someone from orbit with pin-point acuracy. Compared to this the American Missile Shield is a just a neat toy.
So the sentence:
The link is running at 50Mbps and the two satellites are currently orbiting at 832km and 31000km respectively.
Is just code for:
The system is running at Full Power and the two satellites are currently orbiting above Washington and Moscow respectively.
I'm no die hard unix or command line fan. I grew up using Mac OS, not DOS, changed over to Windows 95 and finally to linux.
And found the greatest interface to the moment. The command line. I never use graphical file managers. Why? because they don't add anything:
a) They make me click around for deleting/copying/moving
b) Pretend that the only way I'm going to want to treat my files in groups is by selecting them one by one.
Shells however have many great advantages:
a) Nothing I've seen so far beats the file matching done by shells (*? are very powerfull primitives)
b) "Selecting files" is very easy with tab-completion
Of course there are advantages to graphical file managers. The fact that they show a nicely formated tree of your filesystem side by side to the place you're working on is nice, but redundant... Since all this is stored internally in my head and I can reach it faster in a shell with tab completion.
In fact directory trees are just compensation for the fact that selecting a directory is usually very difficult in a file manager. (Konqueror does have tab completion though).
So while I applaud whizbang technologies like 3D or voice recognition they'll only be useful when we also get AI. So that I can, instead of saying "Move all files from directory foo to bar", Instruct the computer to "Give me all my files from the last year indexed by importance, highliting all of those that are about subject A in red and B in blue and then mail them to Joe asking if that's what he wants." Computers will replace secretaries then.
Which leads us to the next point. The interface to computers works fine as it stands. What we really need is better metadata. For every file a full quiz should be filled out. And then we'll have a truly functional filling cabinet. And then graphical file managers will have some importance to me. As they stand they're just a barrier between me and the filesystem, they should become something that powerfully interprets and organizes it.
Quoting from the webpage:
The CS is a calendar server. It holds a users calendar data and allows users to add, remove, modify and search for calendar entries.
This project is just getting restarted, so see the road map for a basic architecture and goals of the project.
If you're encoding at 128kbps *maybe*, but lame's vbr (r3mix.net) settings give cd quality which is certainly not a bottleneck for your audio. Your soundcart will be.
I still don't know why soundcards still exist in their current form. Computer cases are horrible environments, full of noise and static.
Motherboards manufacturers should just agree on a standard digital header for audio and then Creative/etc would just make external Digital-Analog converters.
Of course you CAN already do this with USB audio and with soundcards with digital output, but why even bother with having a full blown soundcard in your PC when a good DSP plus an external converter will do a much better job?
The Rio Volt by Sonicblue is the greatest of the CD/MP3 players and has upgradable firmware.
It currently supports MP3 and WMA (ugh!) let's lobby so that it supports OGG. It should be quite easy for them since there are no patents involved and there's free code for them to use
So let's all go to their site[riohome.com] and post a message asking for that.
So what your saying is that since it's a foreign national you can kill him/them because the public opinion won't care and they are too weak to defend themselves.
Grow up, the US are bullies in the playground they steal kid's lunches (the government spies on european and asian companies in benefit of US companies), ocasionaly spank a few kids (Kosovo, Afghanistan, etc) and actualy get away with it because the teacher (Koffi Anan) is afraid of them.
Meaning, there IS something called international law. It's called ONU and has a treaty. Among other things this treaty prevents countrys to individualy attack other countries without ONU's consent. Which is exactly what hapened in Kosovo and Afghanistan. Unfortunately Koffi Anan is too much of a coward to take a stand.
And don't give me an argument like "They killed thousands and they must pay". Millions died in africa in the last decade. Why? Because oil/diamond companies (supported by the US government generaly) want those wars to continue so prices stay down. What does the US do? Give them weapons and training so that they can kill each other indefinately.
So climb the wall on the side of your little sandbox and see what's happening in the great big playground. It ain't pretty.
Based in Washington DC, NeuStar operates the authoritative registry of all North American telephone numbers and administers the database, which all North American carriers rely upon to route billions of telephone calls daily.
These guys are cool!
What kind of hardware is this? Someone here know anything about these things?
images gained from the experiments (such as difraction patterns, etc) can be analysed in a program such as MathCAD straight off
For these kinds of things just use normal 35mm camera film to record the difraction patern (or whatever) and then run it through a film scanner, flatbed scaners would be very arcane. A good film scanner will run for less than $500 and give you probably over 3000dpi of resolution (mine is about 2 years old and does 2720).
This has two major advantages. First you get something non-digital to archive (the film) which you may use later on for studying something completely unrelated that you never thought of. Secondly, you'll probably get much better quality. Film scanners are made for professional/semi-profession uses and are probably alot better built.
To test if the thing isn't distorting your images produce a well known pattern and mesure it digitaly, see if it checks out.
This is crap. W3C policy should be that a company that wants to contribute to a standard must not, under any circunstace obtain a patent on any part of it, and that standards must avoid previous patents at all costs.
Patens are evil, they'll ruin our ability to do free software work with all other software. Imagine if Shakespere had patented his own findings of how to put the english language to good use. We'd either be paying royalties for speaking or we'd be using diferent dialects of english to avoid patent issues.
This is the exact same case. XML/HTML/XHTML/etc are the languages of the internet, they define the structure of our speech, it's grammar. Patent them and we'll be paying royalties for speaking through this wonderful electronic medium.
You could have X applications going through the server and DirectFB applications or games running directly at full speed.
So why don't we put the hooks in X so that full speed/direct to hardware access is possible?
O whait? That's DRI...! XFree86 has bugs, sure, but it isn't the monster people think it is. Most of the memory the server uses are apps storing images and stuff server side.
The only real problem is when Windows overwrites your bootloader. If you're instaling from scratch install Win XP *first* and leave space for linux. Linux will then install Lilo/Grub and boot both windows and linux.
If you install linux first windows will overwrite Lilo/Grub and you'll have to boot from a floppy or CD to reinstall it. Also feasible but less convenient.
As for NTFS, just setup a small (by today's standards that's 500MB) FAT32 partition to interchange files between the 2 systems.
Slashdot Mirror
Huh? No, this is Slashdot...
If you're running NT on those servers this might be a problem, but with linux it shouldn't be. Linux pretty much ignores the bios and does it's own hard drive searching. So that problem shouldn't be a problem at all.
As for the power issue, why not use one of those PCI-to-PCI extenders that will give you and extra case, and an extra power supply to put more drives in?
Plug your XP box to the internet and pray for the hackers not to find it.
How about running an efficient organization that controls world economy and supports major forms of terrorism. (No, not al-Qaida, the US Govt. who supports the worst terrorist state the world has known in the past 1000 years or so. That state being Israel naturally.)
Just like the scientists who go ahead with playing God with stem cells before the ethical ramifications have been fully explored, these researchers have unleashed an unholy nightmare on the world that won't be fully realized until it's too late.
Who has played God with stem cells? We're nowhere near as advanced. But now I'm curious, this "unholy nightmare" would it be the cure for cancer? Parkinson? Cause that's what the method promisses.
It's bad enough that al-Qaida used GPG to communicate and coordinate their plans to commit atrocities agianst the US, but how much safer would you feel knowing that now not even the NSA can decypher their communications?
First I wasn't aware that they used encryption at all. The attack was fairly low-tech. And as for the NSA not being able to decypher communications...reality check...they can't now. My 4096bit PGP private key isn't going to be broken anytime soon.
The point is, it's time to show a little responsibility in the academic community.
The point is others like you have mentioned these things regarding the atom bomb and other such developments. Get this once and for all, scientists by definition create science (that was stupid!) which also by definition is a tool. Invented by a few smart ones to the used by the masses. This leaves you with two options:
1-Label as irresponsible the guy who invented the first boat that eventually lead to the slaughtering of the American natives and other such atrocitys. Label as irresponsible the guy that invented the blade, the fire arm etc, for the damage that those caused has not yet been fully understood.
2-Shut Up! (This may seam like flamefesting but is a real point) If it weren't for these developments I wouldn't be awnsering you in a public forum on the Internet (what's that) inside my room, a few meters away from a bathroom. I'd be shouting an incoherent form of speech inside a cave in the middle of some forest. Now which one do you choose?
The grey reality is that scientists can't be bound by ethics. They're the brains not the conscience in our society. We do need a better conscience but we're not doing any good by trying to force scientists to refrain from making progress. The Vatican tried that already. Galileo's book where he chalenged the idea that the earth was the center of the universe was on their list of banned books up until 1992. By 1992 2 new theories had been formulated and proven wrong (Newton's and Einstein's) and a third was on it's way (superstring theory). What do you think would have happened if the Chuch had gotten it's way? What do you think will happen if the US gets their way?
The US has a death penalty. "Lead the world in human rights"??? You must be joking!
You're bitching about not being able to use a remote starter because that requires bypassing the anti-theft system, and thus prefer old cars that don't have the system?
If you bypass the anti-theft you get a functionaly-equivalent setup of a car that doesn't have one. So what was it that you were bitching about?
That and the fact that you don't actually need the key, just the ID chip, and that the anti-theft system can probably be easily disabled.
Huh? Latency and throughoutput are two *very* different things. One measures the number of bits you can push per second, and the other measures how long does it take a single bit to go from one end to the other. You could have a GB/s connection with horrible latency.
The Rio Volt SP250 has this exact feature.
Why don't they dissipate that heat by transforming it into more electrical power?
It doesn't have a great big amplifier included so it should be alot less power hungry and won't bottleneck your sound quality. It also has a much better display and open source server software. Too bad it doesn't have digital audio output.
So the sentence:
The link is running at 50Mbps and the two satellites are currently orbiting at 832km and 31000km respectively.
Is just code for:
The system is running at Full Power and the two satellites are currently orbiting above Washington and Moscow respectively.
Insert "Bad Guys Laughter" here...
And found the greatest interface to the moment. The command line. I never use graphical file managers. Why? because they don't add anything:
a) They make me click around for deleting/copying/moving
b) Pretend that the only way I'm going to want to treat my files in groups is by selecting them one by one.
Shells however have many great advantages:
a) Nothing I've seen so far beats the file matching done by shells (*? are very powerfull primitives)
b) "Selecting files" is very easy with tab-completion
Of course there are advantages to graphical file managers. The fact that they show a nicely formated tree of your filesystem side by side to the place you're working on is nice, but redundant... Since all this is stored internally in my head and I can reach it faster in a shell with tab completion.
In fact directory trees are just compensation for the fact that selecting a directory is usually very difficult in a file manager. (Konqueror does have tab completion though).
So while I applaud whizbang technologies like 3D or voice recognition they'll only be useful when we also get AI. So that I can, instead of saying "Move all files from directory foo to bar", Instruct the computer to "Give me all my files from the last year indexed by importance, highliting all of those that are about subject A in red and B in blue and then mail them to Joe asking if that's what he wants." Computers will replace secretaries then.
Which leads us to the next point. The interface to computers works fine as it stands. What we really need is better metadata. For every file a full quiz should be filled out. And then we'll have a truly functional filling cabinet. And then graphical file managers will have some importance to me. As they stand they're just a barrier between me and the filesystem, they should become something that powerfully interprets and organizes it.
The error recovery algorithm in CD's is a perfectly documented standard. Implement it in software and you're off.
www.softwarestudio.org/projects/FreeAssociation/CS /
Quoting from the webpage: The CS is a calendar server. It holds a users calendar data and allows users to add, remove, modify and search for calendar entries. This project is just getting restarted, so see the road map for a basic architecture and goals of the project.
I still don't know why soundcards still exist in their current form. Computer cases are horrible environments, full of noise and static.
Motherboards manufacturers should just agree on a standard digital header for audio and then Creative/etc would just make external Digital-Analog converters.
Of course you CAN already do this with USB audio and with soundcards with digital output, but why even bother with having a full blown soundcard in your PC when a good DSP plus an external converter will do a much better job?
It currently supports MP3 and WMA (ugh!) let's lobby so that it supports OGG. It should be quite easy for them since there are no patents involved and there's free code for them to use
So let's all go to their site [riohome.com] and post a message asking for that.
If the quality was perfect at 64kbps it must be some very crappy music the game has.
Grow up, the US are bullies in the playground they steal kid's lunches (the government spies on european and asian companies in benefit of US companies), ocasionaly spank a few kids (Kosovo, Afghanistan, etc) and actualy get away with it because the teacher (Koffi Anan) is afraid of them.
Meaning, there IS something called international law. It's called ONU and has a treaty. Among other things this treaty prevents countrys to individualy attack other countries without ONU's consent. Which is exactly what hapened in Kosovo and Afghanistan. Unfortunately Koffi Anan is too much of a coward to take a stand.
And don't give me an argument like "They killed thousands and they must pay". Millions died in africa in the last decade. Why? Because oil/diamond companies (supported by the US government generaly) want those wars to continue so prices stay down. What does the US do? Give them weapons and training so that they can kill each other indefinately.
So climb the wall on the side of your little sandbox and see what's happening in the great big playground. It ain't pretty.
These guys are cool!
What kind of hardware is this? Someone here know anything about these things?
For these kinds of things just use normal 35mm camera film to record the difraction patern (or whatever) and then run it through a film scanner, flatbed scaners would be very arcane. A good film scanner will run for less than $500 and give you probably over 3000dpi of resolution (mine is about 2 years old and does 2720).
This has two major advantages. First you get something non-digital to archive (the film) which you may use later on for studying something completely unrelated that you never thought of. Secondly, you'll probably get much better quality. Film scanners are made for professional/semi-profession uses and are probably alot better built.
To test if the thing isn't distorting your images produce a well known pattern and mesure it digitaly, see if it checks out.
Patens are evil, they'll ruin our ability to do free software work with all other software. Imagine if Shakespere had patented his own findings of how to put the english language to good use. We'd either be paying royalties for speaking or we'd be using diferent dialects of english to avoid patent issues.
This is the exact same case. XML/HTML/XHTML/etc are the languages of the internet, they define the structure of our speech, it's grammar. Patent them and we'll be paying royalties for speaking through this wonderful electronic medium.
This situation just plain sucks.
No they don't. X uses unix sockets when connecting to localhost, making it *alot* faster than you imply.
So why don't we put the hooks in X so that full speed/direct to hardware access is possible? O whait? That's DRI...! XFree86 has bugs, sure, but it isn't the monster people think it is. Most of the memory the server uses are apps storing images and stuff server side.
VA Linux is a good test case. There should be 100 articles about their move away from the hardware business and (arguably) from open source.
Search google and slashdot...
If you install linux first windows will overwrite Lilo/Grub and you'll have to boot from a floppy or CD to reinstall it. Also feasible but less convenient.
As for NTFS, just setup a small (by today's standards that's 500MB) FAT32 partition to interchange files between the 2 systems.