I wonder how this will effect the resident crab population.
In an older National Geographic I remember seeing Millions of red crabs overrun the island - this happens once a year. There is a picture of these crabs with the story link.
I would guess that Christmas Island has quite a unique ecosystem. I hope the installation of a launching pad et al. does not mess things up too much.
Still on the bright side, after a rocket launch... there would be lotsa cooked crab up for grabs...
I studied fine art in college (hey, easy credit!) and, when I covered the simester dealing with modern art, I must admit I was shocked. Most of the works require some level of justification now. Newer "advanced" forms of art (Such as "Voice of Fire" at the Canadian National Art Museum) don't look like all that much compared to, say a Tamara De Lempika (my personal, biased opinon...)
However, all the new styles, cubisim, dadaism, what have you were ridiculed most of the time - or wildly celebrated - but when the introduction of a new style came along it was rarely ignored.
Perhaps the composition of art via a computer is the inverse of dadaism. Dada, being completely random - computers being (mostly;) logical. It will eventually become an accepted medium, it has to IMO.
If people can fawn over Voice of Fire, and then decry computer generated art, these critics are fools.
Sadly, it is all more or less covered by this common blanket statement: "I don't know much about art, but I know what I like." And that is the crux of the issue. If the critics don't like it, then they don't deem it art.
As another current user of shaw at home... what the hell is the address of shaw@homes news server? I've been trying to find this out for a couple days, and can't find it written down anywheres.
Its just news. Shaw's DNS should resolve your server for you:
I am currently connected via my @Home cable modem, note that I am using Shaw@Home, and as such the Usenet servers may be different:
All the above NG's are currently visible to me with the exception of
alt.binaries.hustler
It does not exist in my avalible list of groups. While this does not impact my personal life much (my favored NG would be alt.2600, not the p0rn binaries ones)Neverthless, I don't like it...
Of course now I must wonder if I should thank/. for giving me more p0rn links to peruse...
From the article: "The pricing has really come down" on database products, he said. "It kind of closes the door on the open-source guys."
Funny, I thought Red Hat, being a Linux Company (and now posting a profit!) understood what the GPL is and what Open Source is. I can't see them "Closing the door" as that quote states...
The real question is what kind of database? My guess is that it will be some form of SQL, but a little more advanced than MySQL in that it will be a relational database (like Pervasive SQL).
What would be a smart idea, is to have the Red Hat Database come out as a CROSS PLATFORM standard. Yes, I said cross platform. The database that we use here at work (Pervasive SQL) runs on Novell, Windows, Linux, and Solaris. When we need to provide a database solution for our customers, we can put the database on whatever type of server they prefer (more and more of our customers are choosing a Linux server however, due to cost reasons.)
Having the database run on more than one platform gives our customers a choice, our customers like that. I sadly doubt that Red Hat Database will work on anything other than Linux, but then I cannot blame Red Hat for doing that. It only makes sense for it to run on Red Hat. (AFAIK, Access only runs on Windows.)
I expect to see this database come out open (although maybe not GPL?), so it stands a chance of getting ported. It would be great to see Red Hat Database out competing Access or some other Microsoft Database on their home turf (NT).
Probably won't happen, but its nice to dream anyways.
Yes, good show that (although I very rarely watch TV). I find it rather interesting that I got modded as flamebait, ah well, I have karma to burn.
I made my comment about Igloos because in all honesty I am sick of hearing the comment every time I visit the U.S. While I realize that not everyone thinks this way, when you are asked if you live in an Igloo, or "Do you know how to eat with knives and forks?" It becomes grating. (Yes that has really happened to me.)
As for broadband, here in town (a small town no less) we have ADSL, Cable and Wireless T-1's avalible. Apparently, 2 more businesses are moving into the area with wideband wireless options in the next year.
(BTW, yes I have a sense of humor, I have just heard the joke one too many times.)
Err, ok. So Canadians are "Leading the way" but we live in Igloos? Come on Mike, most comments of that nature here in the forums would be modded down. We have enough trolls making ignorant comments like that, we don't need the/. crew making them too.
Yes, I am Canadian, and no, I don't appreciate the comment.
I never played past III. The first was the best, the second was alright. I never finished the third. It became too much of a rehash. I heard about the others, but I was not overly impressed. They need to add more to the games.
On another note, it was interesting that there was no wholesale slaughter of endangered animals in the movie, as there is in the video games.
I admit that I was pleased that Chris Barrie (A.K.A "Rimmer" from Red Dwarf) played the part of the butler. Barrie is an awesome actor, unfortunatly it does not show in this movie, as he is basically playing Rimmer again.
I have played all 3 Tomb Raider games, and I can say Katz is correct. This is a rehash of the game. I felt myself looking for a controller to move Angela Jolie around... (Now thats not a bad idea...) If you have not played the games, then this movie will stink. In fact it DID stink, but I enjoyed it because I have played the games. I would reccomend you check it out on video, not the theater.
In summary, there is no plot. There is lots of action (with no consequence) there is expensive computer animation that, unfortunatly LOOKS like computer animation. There are more rounds fired in this movie than in all the Robocop and Rambo movies combined - yet no human ever seems to get hit...
Jolies accentuated padding is actually obvious, as is the patch that covers her "billy bob" tattoo. This movie is all about T&A and action. And that is it.
I would say that the only thing I liked about was Chris Barrie. Its good to see him get more exposure as an actor.
The whole irony to this is that the first Tomb Raider Game, actually had a plot, and a purpose. Even the violence inherient in the game made sense. This movie made no sense.
...so why would I want to see it again in the theatres? If you ask me, Monty Python's sun has already set.
Why would someone want to watch a movie twice? Heck, I have seen Star Wars, I don't need to buy it again. I don't need the merchandising. Oh, I have read the Lord of the Rings once a year for the last 14 years, and I guess I won't have to go see the movie either because I know what happens!
...Errr.... No.
A few years back, the Meaning of Life appeared at a theater, here. I own the movie. I went to see it anyways. It was great watching this movie on the big screen (no cropping!) and, the best bonus, being there with a bunch of my friends, and a theater full of rabid Python fans.
The only thing about Monty Python and popular culture (read, Star Wars, Matrix, etc...) that is different, is that the Pythons were very talented and an extremely well educated bunch. Their sort of humor appeals more to the intellectual type (geeks) than average sit-com crap. A large proportion of their comedy is intellectual. If you get the jokes, you are suddenly part of a club. How many people would find the "Bruces Philosphers Song" (sp) outrageously funny? Not everyone I would wager. The reason I would say this is that Joe Average probably has no idea who Immanual Kant, Heidgger, David Hume et al were!
So, if you believe that the sun is setting on Python, then it must be setting on other big phenomena too. The only difference is the level of intellect required to get the subtle jokes and allusions.
And this still isn't going to make that huge of a difference, because I seriously doubt that the technology could be used with the pinpoint accuracy needed to direct weapons fire.
I don't know about that... While I cannot read the article because of the/. effect, I would surmise that this technology would be QUITE accurate. The reason for this is triangulation. If you are trying to pinpoint your location with a map and compass, you take bearings on the surrounding land and draw lines on the map as to your location. The more reference points you take, and the more lines you draw the greater accuracy you have in pinpointing your location.
This is triangulation. If you were to use a bevy of cell towers, each one pointing out a direction where the reflection was spotted, your accuracy would be high.
Good point. I hike w/map & compass, and know how to use them, so I've never bothered to cough up the extra $$$ for a GPS. Your comment about zero visibility is the first time anyone's given me a reason to change my mind and consider GPS.
Yeah, I was up on Mt. Wilcox last year alone. Wilcox is a fairly insignifigant mountain in the rockies direcly across from the Athabasca Glacier on the Jasper/Banff border. I had my compass and map, but not an altimiter or GPS at the time. I had a pack full of gear otherwise. I was the first person on the mountain last year without ice tools (according to the logbook on top) and six twits literally in shorts, t-shirts and running shoes followed my post-holes through the snow to the top.
I was watching the weather for the 45 min that I was on the top, very afraid of a lenticular cloud or something else, because one misstep on the way down and, well, you are glissading for about 2km before you hit bottom... Having a GPS in that condition probably would have been a much smarter move, because if visibility dropped, and I lost my post holes in the snow... even with my full north-face suit on I probably would have been in very serious trouble, getting down would have been a matter of luck more than skill. At that snow level, you had about a 10 ft wide area that was safe to walk, this stretched for over 300 M across the spine of the mountian. Stepping outside that area would have been... bad...
The irony to this situation was the lecture that the six people gave me about hiking alone...
As a very experience outdoorsman I must disagree with the idea of "casting off" GPS systems. While I do not use them all the time, they have proven invaluable on the numerous Search and Rescue missions I have been on. (With the exception of the first generation Magellans, which did not work worth a damn...)
I am familiar with using a compass and altimiter for navigation in zero visibility, however, when mountain climbing in the rockies in Banff and Jasper, if you drop to zero vis (which can happen from blue sky to zero in about 5 min or less!) you will find out just how badly you want your GPS.
I have no problem with running out and "getting lost". I do it alot, but I also bring the gear along with me for getting found again. Where I live, if you were to do this on a regular basis with out the required skills, I would be one of the "Rescuers" looking for your body. Yes I said body. Out here, if you are not prepared, and the weather changes... you are probably dead. (Yet I constantly see idiots on top of the Columbia Icefields with shorts, t-shirt, and running shoes. And *NO* other gear....)
So old style troll (which you appear to be) your idea of casting off technology is actually a good one *IF* you have the skills to back it up. I have camped out on Islands with nothing by my clothes and a knife (with a backup kit for emergencys which I have not used -yet-.) I think you give good advice, cast off the tech, just be certain you know what you are doing when you do, and that in the area you choose to do it in won't kill you if you screw up.
Posted to Slashdot, becomes a story, site gets slashdotted now headline reads:
Buxley's GPS Geocache Maps Online, Now Off The this reporter feels that the original headline shall be appropriate in about 24 hours from now, when the/. effect wears off.
Sure, the BP6 was for Celerons, but it was a major hit amongst hardcore overclockers and hardware junkies.
What would you say that the odds are that Abit has a "BP6" in development for the Palimino chips?
Personally I would say that it is very good. Sure, it won't have the on board SCSI, or LAN or Video etc... It won't cost as much however, and knowing the softbios features of Abit, it will be very overclockable.
In all honesty I have heard of NOTHING about a dual AMD board from Abit, but I would put money on one being in the wings.
If a "BP6" for the Palimino comes out, you can be certain that it will be the board to have. Here is hoping...
(Has anyone heard anything about dual AMD boards from other manufacturers other than Tyan?)
Seriously: with Earth, there is a significant pre-existing ecosystem we have to respect lest we screw up humanity's only (at the moment) life support system. With all other planets (and moons, and asteroids) in our solar system, there is not, thus we are free to mess with them as we please.
To the best of our knowledge there is no life in any of the other planets/moons. There MAY be life on mars (barely eeking out an existance however) and if so is it within our right to modify the planet and destroy life on a global (mars) scale?
We have not to this point conclusivly proven that there is no life on mars, or that there ever was.. The jury is still out on this, we just don't have enough data do decide if there is life elsewhere in the solar system. (Yet.)
The only thing we have a problem with is when the government funds open-source work. Government funding should be for work that is available to everybody. Open source is not available to commercial companies. The way the license is written, if you use any open-source software, you have to make the rest of your software open source. If the government wants to put something in the public domain, it should. Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That's the way that the license works
Open source is not available to commercial companies. Hmm. Linux is Open Source right? I use Linux here at work - for a commercial company.
The way the license is written, if you use any open-source software, you have to make the rest of your software open source. Maybe I read the GPL incorrectly, but, um... Isn't that the point? (On another note, our company uses Linux, but releases closed-source binarys of our primary product. No problems with that!)
Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. Again, thats rather the point, but it does not "attach" itself to everything it touches, Q3A is not GPL'ed but it runs on Linux just fine.
But then who am I kidding right? This is Slashdot. We all know this (Apart from the newbies and trolls). I am just preaching to the Choir. What I am interested in is the exact gist of these comments. What is Balmer trying to accomplish here?
We know he mentions competition (to keep the Justice Dept. off of his back) and Microsoft is consistantly trying to poison the GPL, but not Linux... I think MS is more afraid of the GPL than anything else, if they can disparage the GPL, they can (they believe) damage the free software movement. I don't think that they will be sucessful, but they will through this strategy keep Linux off of the desktop (but not servers) for some time to come. (At this stage, IMO Linux is not ready for the mainstream desktop user, and maybe it never will be, thats not a bad thing though.)
Anyone else have a take on what they think Microsoft is up to?
the mobiles then use a 128 bit key to encrypt the channel. One of the technicians is quoted as saying that "A thousand pentium computers would need over 10 years to decrypt a 10 minute phone-call
As outlined in Cracking DES, an algorithm can take years to crack using a conventional computer. However, if you custom design a computer from the ground up (not as difficult as it might sound) to specifically attack the algorithm, the encryption can fall quite quickly, as it does with DES. *
I think that encryption should be evaluated on the strength of the algorithm, not on how many brute force attacks it would take to defeat it. (This is what is mentioned by Schneier in Applied Cryptography.)
True, you should give surfing a shot. Alot like swimming but for longer periods time and harder bursts. In addition, any type of sport where balance is required (kayacking, water/snow skiing, etc...) your abs will get worked. In turn your back will feel better.
I am too far from the ocean (central British Columbia) But as you are probably aware, you can surf your boat in whitewater too! I was on some waves yesterday that I bet you could get a longboard onto, and *STAY* on for at least 15 min.
My longest surf in a kayak was over 20 min (before my buddies came over and knocked me off the wave for being a wave hog!:)
I have given thought to heading out to the Long Beach area (Victoria BC) With my yak for some ocean surfing, but you surfer dudes hate us kayak guys! =)
I should give it a try sometime, and you should search out areas that have standing waves that you could lock a longboard onto!
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Is he suggesting we eat Irish children for more bandwith???
(If you don't get the above, you have never read this.)
I wonder how this will effect the resident crab population.
In an older National Geographic I remember seeing Millions of red crabs overrun the island - this happens once a year. There is a picture of these crabs with the story link.
I would guess that Christmas Island has quite a unique ecosystem. I hope the installation of a launching pad et al. does not mess things up too much.
Still on the bright side, after a rocket launch... there would be lotsa cooked crab up for grabs...
I studied fine art in college (hey, easy credit!) and, when I covered the simester dealing with modern art, I must admit I was shocked. Most of the works require some level of justification now. Newer "advanced" forms of art (Such as "Voice of Fire" at the Canadian National Art Museum) don't look like all that much compared to, say a Tamara De Lempika (my personal, biased opinon...)
;) logical. It will eventually become an accepted medium, it has to IMO.
However, all the new styles, cubisim, dadaism, what have you were ridiculed most of the time - or wildly celebrated - but when the introduction of a new style came along it was rarely ignored.
Perhaps the composition of art via a computer is the inverse of dadaism. Dada, being completely random - computers being (mostly
If people can fawn over Voice of Fire, and then decry computer generated art, these critics are fools.
Sadly, it is all more or less covered by this common blanket statement: "I don't know much about art, but I know what I like." And that is the crux of the issue. If the critics don't like it, then they don't deem it art.
This also creates a problem in that:
Energy can only be changed into another sort of energy. It cannot be created nor can it be destroyed.
See this paper from MIT. Its a short history of the first two laws of thermodynamics.
to the word "Sneakernet".
As another current user of shaw at home... what the hell is the address of shaw@homes news server? I've been trying to find this out for a couple days, and can't find it written down anywheres.
Its just news. Shaw's DNS should resolve your server for you:
ping news
alternatively try: 24.2.10.79
I am currently connected via my @Home cable modem, note that I am using Shaw@Home, and as such the Usenet servers may be different:
/. for giving me more p0rn links to peruse...
All the above NG's are currently visible to me with the exception of
alt.binaries.hustler
It does not exist in my avalible list of groups. While this does not impact my personal life much (my favored NG would be alt.2600, not the p0rn binaries ones)Neverthless, I don't like it...
Of course now I must wonder if I should thank
From the article: "The pricing has really come down" on database products, he said. "It kind of closes the door on the open-source guys."
Funny, I thought Red Hat, being a Linux Company (and now posting a profit!) understood what the GPL is and what Open Source is. I can't see them "Closing the door" as that quote states...
The real question is what kind of database? My guess is that it will be some form of SQL, but a little more advanced than MySQL in that it will be a relational database (like Pervasive SQL).
What would be a smart idea, is to have the Red Hat Database come out as a CROSS PLATFORM standard. Yes, I said cross platform. The database that we use here at work (Pervasive SQL) runs on Novell, Windows, Linux, and Solaris. When we need to provide a database solution for our customers, we can put the database on whatever type of server they prefer (more and more of our customers are choosing a Linux server however, due to cost reasons.)
Having the database run on more than one platform gives our customers a choice, our customers like that. I sadly doubt that Red Hat Database will work on anything other than Linux, but then I cannot blame Red Hat for doing that. It only makes sense for it to run on Red Hat. (AFAIK, Access only runs on Windows.)
I expect to see this database come out open (although maybe not GPL?), so it stands a chance of getting ported. It would be great to see Red Hat Database out competing Access or some other Microsoft Database on their home turf (NT).
Probably won't happen, but its nice to dream anyways.
california-like weather all year round
Yes, I live in the Okanagan, and it was hot today. ~30 Celcius I believe.
I believe that there are actually other telephone companies in Ontario that are not part of the grand monopoly though...
Yes, good show that (although I very rarely watch TV). I find it rather interesting that I got modded as flamebait, ah well, I have karma to burn.
I made my comment about Igloos because in all honesty I am sick of hearing the comment every time I visit the U.S. While I realize that not everyone thinks this way, when you are asked if you live in an Igloo, or "Do you know how to eat with knives and forks?" It becomes grating. (Yes that has really happened to me.)
As for broadband, here in town (a small town no less) we have ADSL, Cable and Wireless T-1's avalible. Apparently, 2 more businesses are moving into the area with wideband wireless options in the next year.
(BTW, yes I have a sense of humor, I have just heard the joke one too many times.)
from the can-I-get-DSL-in-my-igloo? dept.
/. crew making them too.
Err, ok. So Canadians are "Leading the way" but we live in Igloos? Come on Mike, most comments of that nature here in the forums would be modded down. We have enough trolls making ignorant comments like that, we don't need the
Yes, I am Canadian, and no, I don't appreciate the comment.
I never played past III. The first was the best, the second was alright. I never finished the third. It became too much of a rehash. I heard about the others, but I was not overly impressed. They need to add more to the games.
On another note, it was interesting that there was no wholesale slaughter of endangered animals in the movie, as there is in the video games.
I admit that I was pleased that Chris Barrie (A.K.A "Rimmer" from Red Dwarf) played the part of the butler. Barrie is an awesome actor, unfortunatly it does not show in this movie, as he is basically playing Rimmer again.
I have played all 3 Tomb Raider games, and I can say Katz is correct. This is a rehash of the game. I felt myself looking for a controller to move Angela Jolie around... (Now thats not a bad idea...) If you have not played the games, then this movie will stink. In fact it DID stink, but I enjoyed it because I have played the games. I would reccomend you check it out on video, not the theater.
In summary, there is no plot. There is lots of action (with no consequence) there is expensive computer animation that, unfortunatly LOOKS like computer animation. There are more rounds fired in this movie than in all the Robocop and Rambo movies combined - yet no human ever seems to get hit...
Jolies accentuated padding is actually obvious, as is the patch that covers her "billy bob" tattoo. This movie is all about T&A and action. And that is it.
I would say that the only thing I liked about was Chris Barrie. Its good to see him get more exposure as an actor.
The whole irony to this is that the first Tomb Raider Game, actually had a plot, and a purpose. Even the violence inherient in the game made sense. This movie made no sense.
...so why would I want to see it again in the theatres? If you ask me, Monty Python's sun has already set.
...Errr.... No.
Why would someone want to watch a movie twice? Heck, I have seen Star Wars, I don't need to buy it again. I don't need the merchandising. Oh, I have read the Lord of the Rings once a year for the last 14 years, and I guess I won't have to go see the movie either because I know what happens!
A few years back, the Meaning of Life appeared at a theater, here. I own the movie. I went to see it anyways. It was great watching this movie on the big screen (no cropping!) and, the best bonus, being there with a bunch of my friends, and a theater full of rabid Python fans.
The only thing about Monty Python and popular culture (read, Star Wars, Matrix, etc...) that is different, is that the Pythons were very talented and an extremely well educated bunch. Their sort of humor appeals more to the intellectual type (geeks) than average sit-com crap. A large proportion of their comedy is intellectual. If you get the jokes, you are suddenly part of a club. How many people would find the "Bruces Philosphers Song" (sp) outrageously funny? Not everyone I would wager. The reason I would say this is that Joe Average probably has no idea who Immanual Kant, Heidgger, David Hume et al were!
So, if you believe that the sun is setting on Python, then it must be setting on other big phenomena too. The only difference is the level of intellect required to get the subtle jokes and allusions.
Patron to movie employee: Right! You stay here and make certain that the movie does not leave the cinema!
Employee: Right, we will stay here until the movie leaves the theater.
Patron: No, you stay here, and make certain the movie does not leave.
Employee: Right, we wont let people enter the theater.
Patron: No you STAY here until...
(Continue until Lancelot appears)
(Apologies for the discombobulation, this is the only part of the Holy Grail I have not memorized. It's just too convoluted...)
And this still isn't going to make that huge of a difference, because I seriously doubt that the technology could be used with the pinpoint accuracy needed to direct weapons fire.
/. effect, I would surmise that this technology would be QUITE accurate. The reason for this is triangulation. If you are trying to pinpoint your location with a map and compass, you take bearings on the surrounding land and draw lines on the map as to your location. The more reference points you take, and the more lines you draw the greater accuracy you have in pinpointing your location.
I don't know about that... While I cannot read the article because of the
This is triangulation. If you were to use a bevy of cell towers, each one pointing out a direction where the reflection was spotted, your accuracy would be high.
Good point. I hike w/map & compass, and know how to use them, so I've never bothered to cough up the extra $$$ for a GPS. Your comment about zero visibility is the first time anyone's given me a reason to change my mind and consider GPS.
Yeah, I was up on Mt. Wilcox last year alone. Wilcox is a fairly insignifigant mountain in the rockies direcly across from the Athabasca Glacier on the Jasper/Banff border. I had my compass and map, but not an altimiter or GPS at the time. I had a pack full of gear otherwise. I was the first person on the mountain last year without ice tools (according to the logbook on top) and six twits literally in shorts, t-shirts and running shoes followed my post-holes through the snow to the top.
I was watching the weather for the 45 min that I was on the top, very afraid of a lenticular cloud or something else, because one misstep on the way down and, well, you are glissading for about 2km before you hit bottom... Having a GPS in that condition probably would have been a much smarter move, because if visibility dropped, and I lost my post holes in the snow... even with my full north-face suit on I probably would have been in very serious trouble, getting down would have been a matter of luck more than skill. At that snow level, you had about a 10 ft wide area that was safe to walk, this stretched for over 300 M across the spine of the mountian. Stepping outside that area would have been... bad...
The irony to this situation was the lecture that the six people gave me about hiking alone...
One of the old style trolls! I find I must bite.
As a very experience outdoorsman I must disagree with the idea of "casting off" GPS systems. While I do not use them all the time, they have proven invaluable on the numerous Search and Rescue missions I have been on. (With the exception of the first generation Magellans, which did not work worth a damn...)
I am familiar with using a compass and altimiter for navigation in zero visibility, however, when mountain climbing in the rockies in Banff and Jasper, if you drop to zero vis (which can happen from blue sky to zero in about 5 min or less!) you will find out just how badly you want your GPS.
I have no problem with running out and "getting lost". I do it alot, but I also bring the gear along with me for getting found again. Where I live, if you were to do this on a regular basis with out the required skills, I would be one of the "Rescuers" looking for your body. Yes I said body. Out here, if you are not prepared, and the weather changes... you are probably dead. (Yet I constantly see idiots on top of the Columbia Icefields with shorts, t-shirt, and running shoes. And *NO* other gear....)
So old style troll (which you appear to be) your idea of casting off technology is actually a good one *IF* you have the skills to back it up. I have camped out on Islands with nothing by my clothes and a knife (with a backup kit for emergencys which I have not used -yet-.) I think you give good advice, cast off the tech, just be certain you know what you are doing when you do, and that in the area you choose to do it in won't kill you if you screw up.
Buxley's GPS Geocache Maps Offline, Now Back
/. effect wears off.
Posted to Slashdot, becomes a story, site gets slashdotted now headline reads:
Buxley's GPS Geocache Maps Online, Now Off
The this reporter feels that the original headline shall be appropriate in about 24 hours from now, when the
(Its a *JOKE* I KNOW the site is not down...)
Sure, the BP6 was for Celerons, but it was a major hit amongst hardcore overclockers and hardware junkies.
What would you say that the odds are that Abit has a "BP6" in development for the Palimino chips?
Personally I would say that it is very good. Sure, it won't have the on board SCSI, or LAN or Video etc... It won't cost as much however, and knowing the softbios features of Abit, it will be very overclockable.
In all honesty I have heard of NOTHING about a dual AMD board from Abit, but I would put money on one being in the wings.
If a "BP6" for the Palimino comes out, you can be certain that it will be the board to have. Here is hoping...
(Has anyone heard anything about dual AMD boards from other manufacturers other than Tyan?)
Yeah, my firewall is pretty 'leet sometimes.
I knew this guy who tried to hack it, and it took the whole internet down when he did so! He could not ping ANYONE when he took it down!
Seriously: with Earth, there is a significant pre-existing ecosystem we have to respect lest we screw up humanity's only (at the moment) life support system. With all other planets (and moons, and asteroids) in our solar system, there is not, thus we are free to mess with them as we please.
To the best of our knowledge there is no life in any of the other planets/moons. There MAY be life on mars (barely eeking out an existance however) and if so is it within our right to modify the planet and destroy life on a global (mars) scale?
We have not to this point conclusivly proven that there is no life on mars, or that there ever was.. The jury is still out on this, we just don't have enough data do decide if there is life elsewhere in the solar system. (Yet.)
The only thing we have a problem with is when the government funds open-source work. Government funding should be for work that is available to everybody. Open source is not available to commercial companies. The way the license is written, if you use any open-source software, you have to make the rest of your software open source. If the government wants to put something in the public domain, it should. Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That's the way that the license works
Open source is not available to commercial companies. Hmm. Linux is Open Source right? I use Linux here at work - for a commercial company.
The way the license is written, if you use any open-source software, you have to make the rest of your software open source. Maybe I read the GPL incorrectly, but, um... Isn't that the point? (On another note, our company uses Linux, but releases closed-source binarys of our primary product. No problems with that!)
Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. Again, thats rather the point, but it does not "attach" itself to everything it touches, Q3A is not GPL'ed but it runs on Linux just fine.
But then who am I kidding right? This is Slashdot. We all know this (Apart from the newbies and trolls). I am just preaching to the Choir. What I am interested in is the exact gist of these comments. What is Balmer trying to accomplish here?
We know he mentions competition (to keep the Justice Dept. off of his back) and Microsoft is consistantly trying to poison the GPL, but not Linux... I think MS is more afraid of the GPL than anything else, if they can disparage the GPL, they can (they believe) damage the free software movement. I don't think that they will be sucessful, but they will through this strategy keep Linux off of the desktop (but not servers) for some time to come. (At this stage, IMO Linux is not ready for the mainstream desktop user, and maybe it never will be, thats not a bad thing though.)
Anyone else have a take on what they think Microsoft is up to?
the mobiles then use a 128 bit key to encrypt the channel. One of the technicians is quoted as saying that "A thousand pentium computers would need over 10 years to decrypt a 10 minute phone-call
As outlined in Cracking DES, an algorithm can take years to crack using a conventional computer. However, if you custom design a computer from the ground up (not as difficult as it might sound) to specifically attack the algorithm, the encryption can fall quite quickly, as it does with DES. *
I think that encryption should be evaluated on the strength of the algorithm, not on how many brute force attacks it would take to defeat it. (This is what is mentioned by Schneier in Applied Cryptography.)
* For those of you who doubt this, read the book.
True, you should give surfing a shot. Alot like swimming but for longer periods time and harder bursts. In addition, any type of sport where balance is required (kayacking, water/snow skiing, etc...) your abs will get worked. In turn your back will feel better.
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I am too far from the ocean (central British Columbia) But as you are probably aware, you can surf your boat in whitewater too! I was on some waves yesterday that I bet you could get a longboard onto, and *STAY* on for at least 15 min.
My longest surf in a kayak was over 20 min (before my buddies came over and knocked me off the wave for being a wave hog!
I have given thought to heading out to the Long Beach area (Victoria BC) With my yak for some ocean surfing, but you surfer dudes hate us kayak guys! =)
I should give it a try sometime, and you should search out areas that have standing waves that you could lock a longboard onto!