Not all chinese emigrants are traitors, but I wouldn't trust those who came to USA and still try to whitewash the Chinese system. Well, if Chine is so wonderful, why don't you go back?
it says 'every 120 miles an optical signal has to be converted to electrical...' this is not correct. with optical amplifiers, you can put 5-6 of them to amplify a signal before you need to rectify it, so you have to convert optical to electrical more like every 600 miles or so.
Why, this is a perfect scientific explanation. A temporal lobe which is controlled paraphyschic activity has been activated, you see? From there it follows that your body converts sun light into calories. Still don't understand? Oh well... neither do I.
it's no mistery at all. people just fall for 'get rich quickly' schemes all the time. ever heard of 'nigerian gold' scam. absolutely ridiculous story - yet some people got tricked by it as well.
there are some porno-sites with not so obvious names, and furthermore some of them have non-latin URLs (like there are quite a few in Cyrillic). no way in a hell they can catch and filter those. and even in english - there are plenty with innocently looking urls. I won't give out any. Do you own searches, if you're really that dedicated. And playboy isn't really a porno anyway. (well, may be from the Catholic Church's perspective)
That's my take on it. There is always a chance you'll get a junk in a regularly published book as well. I am moonlighting as a proposal and book reviewer for one of the publishing companies. You can't imagine what kind of proposals and even drafts I have to go through. It's mostly recycled information you can get for free on a web + some shameless propaganda. Just the way to get a few books for them (and for me). At this point I am a bit of inclined to think that the authors making their books for free at least feel they have something they would like to share. Period.
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I think the guy who's proposing it is a nucking fut.
reminds me of the software capable of recognizing porno images. sounds familiar? Gosh, I wish I were working for those companies. This is better than a pyramid scam.
There is an article on toms' hardware on Transmeta. The point is that 'yes, all current benchmarks are not realistic in a sense they don't reflect the actual usage patterns. They also mention they would be working on methodology to provide more realistic benchmarking setup.
Look, DNS security problems are mostly fixed in BIND R9, and I"m not sure why we even want to bring up the subject of IPv6, and in case it is not clear, here is the statement I can bet on: migration to IPv6 won't happen in foreseeable future primarily due to the cost of conversion on Internet Backbone. 1st tier providers simply have no incentive to move to IPv6. This is simply not the issue. There are some really hot issues ISPs have to deal with such as Policy Routing, Multicasting, QoS. Please don't tell me IPv6 will help with any of these staff. It won't. For instance the fact that there are some traffic discriminators imbedded into IPv6 packet header is completely irrelevant. There are ToS bits in IPv4 as well, but more to the point, these are the routers, stupid, which must inforce some QoS policies. I've worked for such an ISP for several years and trust me - the issue of migrating to IPv6 never ever came up. Period. By near future I mean say next 5-6 years, but I doubt it will happen after that time either.
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This movie is directed by A. Tarkowski, one of the best Russian movie directors. It is different from Lem's book. I believe there is Tarkowski web site somewhere, and there was a discussion 'Movie vs book'. Tarkowski made it very personal. In any case, I glad to hear this topic came up on a slashdot. This staff (both Lem and Tarkowski) is very different from american-made.
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Lem is outstanding writer, unfortunately not very well known in USA. All of his major works are translated into English. I recommend his 'reviews of non-existing books': 'Imaginary Magnitude', and 'Absolute Vacuum', two rather brilliant works. One of my favorites is 'Futurological Congress' - about society more and more relying on drugs as a 'quick fix' of ANY problem. Makes amuzing (and also scary) reading.
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Not all chinese emigrants are traitors, but I wouldn't trust those who came to USA and still try to whitewash the Chinese system. Well, if Chine is so wonderful, why don't you go back?
it says 'every 120 miles an optical signal has to be converted to electrical ...' this is not correct. with optical amplifiers, you can put 5-6 of them to amplify a signal before you need to rectify it, so you have to convert optical to electrical more like every 600 miles or so.
just as we're thought things couldn't get more stupid - George W Bush is elected as US President. From here expect things to go downhill.
a knitting machine is a 'router'.
Why, this is a perfect scientific explanation. A temporal lobe which is controlled paraphyschic activity has been activated, you see? From there it follows that your body converts sun light into calories. Still don't understand? Oh well ... neither do I.
it's no mistery at all. people just fall for 'get rich quickly' schemes all the time. ever heard of 'nigerian gold' scam. absolutely ridiculous story - yet some people got tricked by it as well.
yes, bad linkage is evil. but quoting beasty boys is even more evil.
Thumbnails' fetishists of course!
there are some porno-sites with not so obvious names, and furthermore some of them have non-latin URLs (like there are quite a few in Cyrillic). no way in a hell they can catch and filter those. and even in english - there are plenty with innocently looking urls. I won't give out any. Do you own searches, if you're really that dedicated. And playboy isn't really a porno anyway. (well, may be from the Catholic Church's perspective)
That's my take on it. There is always a chance you'll get a junk in a regularly published book as well. I am moonlighting as a proposal and book reviewer for one of the publishing companies. You can't imagine what kind of proposals and even drafts I have to go through. It's mostly recycled information you can get for free on a web + some shameless propaganda. Just the way to get a few books for them (and for me). At this point I am a bit of inclined to think that the authors making their books for free at least feel they have something they would like to share. Period.
I think the guy who's proposing it is a nucking fut.
that's for sure
Well, French aren't really pleasant people either. How 'bout that?
but most of the slashdotter's don't know a shit anyway, just a bunch of fucking lemmings.
yes. we need to teach american people how to walk. most of the time this lard-assed creatures drive their cars.
'at last ..' as the word is anxiously waiting for IPv6. who cares? Coala bears?
reminds me of the software capable of recognizing porno images. sounds familiar? Gosh, I wish I were working for those companies. This is better than a pyramid scam.
you forgot Nataly Portman. And can you overclock this baby (I mean *not* Nataly Portman).
There is an article on toms' hardware on Transmeta. The point is that 'yes, all current benchmarks are not realistic in a sense they don't reflect the actual usage patterns. They also mention they would be working on methodology to provide more realistic benchmarking setup.
KDE. Runs under Linux, not GNU/Linux.
Yes, Dune is great when you're 12 year old. And then it's no more. That's the difference.
Look, DNS security problems are mostly fixed in BIND R9, and I"m not sure why we even want to bring up the subject of IPv6, and in case it is not clear, here is the statement I can bet on: migration to IPv6 won't happen in foreseeable future primarily due to the cost of conversion on Internet Backbone. 1st tier providers simply have no incentive to move to IPv6. This is simply not the issue. There are some really hot issues ISPs have to deal with such as Policy Routing, Multicasting, QoS. Please don't tell me IPv6 will help with any of these staff. It won't. For instance the fact that there are some traffic discriminators imbedded into IPv6 packet header is completely irrelevant. There are ToS bits in IPv4 as well, but more to the point, these are the routers, stupid, which must inforce some QoS policies. I've worked for such an ISP for several years and trust me - the issue of migrating to IPv6 never ever came up. Period. By near future I mean say next 5-6 years, but I doubt it will happen after that time either.
This movie is directed by A. Tarkowski, one of the best Russian movie directors. It is different from Lem's book. I believe there is Tarkowski web site somewhere, and there was a discussion 'Movie vs book'. Tarkowski made it very personal. In any case, I glad to hear this topic came up on a slashdot. This staff (both Lem and Tarkowski) is very different from american-made.
Lem is outstanding writer, unfortunately not very well known in USA. All of his major works are translated into English. I recommend his 'reviews of non-existing books': 'Imaginary Magnitude', and 'Absolute Vacuum', two rather brilliant works. One of my favorites is 'Futurological Congress' - about society more and more relying on drugs as a 'quick fix' of ANY problem. Makes amuzing (and also scary) reading.
enough said