i find that weird. I would say that Intel , AMD and IBM are the winners here, cause they can now more accurately measure GHz frequencies of their latest CPU models.
To make GPS more accurate, one needs to have more accurate positions and distances of the various GPS satelites. Measuring a large distance more accurately can however be improved with higher precision clocks. Then again disturbances in the space/time continuum always will spoil things.
Your award-winning spelling and grammar are evidence enough that you belong in the Sun's reader pool. And, hopefully, your baseless "I'm smarter than you" attitude will keep you out of the gene pool.
Don't mistake me for being smarter as you. I guess i'm a average B- to speak in USA grades terminology. I however suggest you have a look at this book :
TheSun is what i call a newspaper for Ken and Barby, reflecting the depth of the souls reading it. Some say TheSun is more for smarter ppl these days. I guess they might have a point here as in these times its wise to be rather superficial.
from the smell-the-scent-of-entrepreneurship dept in 2000: 2600.org dude talking to journalist : "Hmmm ok we want to stop miramax from shooting this so-called movie 'Takedown'". Journalist : "Owww fantastic! How in earth did you get that movie script!?!? " 4 years later: Journalist : "Owww fantastic! How in earth did you get hold of those Abbu Grabs pics!!" I guess a new higly lucrative and scarse market has just been created.
These people have no code! No moral code, no code of honor, nothing zip nada. They don't care about the small citizin for a split second. How can the people of the USA elect such a total disastrous bunch of swindlers as their Elect Saviors ?
I keep thinking about these things like judgment day, when God comes to to earth and has to decide who will live and who will die. The Bush people have IMHO violated any moral code or any code whatsoever in the past 4 years. They have been warned. I fear the worst for them.
Guess what? Lately i found there isn't a LinuxWorld Expo planned this fall or winter in the Netherlands. I guess LinuxWorld.com has some problems getting their record straight.
OMG, is _that_ where so-called research institutes abuse their massive DoD funding budgets for ?? I guess the former well reputed research institute has been evaded with high profile corporate marketing spin-doctors, calling themselves professor or such. Next they publish their report fag at the on-line sales page, where Fortune 500 corporations buy it like cheese cakes. Why? This report is the ultimate scientific spin-doctored proof that even more severe out-sourcing of jobs will boost productivity and thus Corporate Profits.
A very good essay, allthough good efforts, if not sponsored by the tax-payers dollar, never get the massive audience it deserves. Whilest studying society one sooner or later finds out that is no coincidence. And does the above essay need a massive readership! Especialy today!
About the blue box : go and get your copy of "Pirates of Silicon Valley" at... ehh, geez its nowhere for sale anymore... I guess thats what Paul Graham wanted to point out. There's still a review to be read at:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168122/
about Grahams fear and description about a nation falling down freely :
"Let me put the case in terms a government official would appreciate. Civil liberties are not just an ornament, or a quaint American tradition. Civil liberties make countries rich. If you made a graph of GNP per capita vs. civil liberties, you'd notice a definite trend. Could civil liberties really be a cause, rather than just an effect? I think so. I think a society in which people can do and say what they want will also tend to be one in which the most efficient solutions win, rather than those sponsored by the most influential people. Authoritarian countries become corrupt; corrupt countries become poor; and poor countries are weak. It seems to me there is a Laffer curve for government power, just as for tax revenues. At least, it seems likely enough that it would be stupid to try the experiment and find out. Unlike high tax rates, you can't repeal totalitarianism if it turns out to be a mistake."
To see a example in action of a nation falling down, go watch and see "Masked and Anonymous" by Bob Dylan, a masterpiece to be. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319829/
How to keep 1000 positrons confined in a container without touching its walls , which have electrons ? It would at least twice the energy in form of a insane high Voltage to make that happen. So i would say not impossible, but a total idiotic idea. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter : A penningtrap might do it. But ya need huge Magnetic and Electrical Field to confine the stuff in the center of the vacuum. Hmm nice...
And then suddenly El-Queida bombed the local power-station with a $10 Molotov Coctail. Oops. These defense droids must be operating on rat-brains for a long time now.
G.W. Bush : "Yeah less smoke em out! I'm a war president you know:)"
The best way to learn the RedHat line of Linux distro's is to start with that old P133 or PII 400 and install redhat 5.2 on that machine. RedHat 5.2 is not flooded with tons of software packages, but by installing 5.2 you will get to learn the essentials of how a redhat distro works. Next install redhat 7.3 on a PIII box as server. When one has mastered those 2 editions, proceed to fedora core 2 and/or RHEL3.x
IP should only belong to its creator and/or inventor. When the lone geek invents something and accidently dies, corporations might store his stuff on DVD and make insane absurd profits out of a dead man/woman's IP. Certain corporations go as far to lament the complete branch of expertise with a dead persons work. For a society its unacceptable.
So when the creator/inventor dies , his works and IP should go into the public library, except if his will describes otherwise.
If the corporation created the IP by themselves, the corporation owns the IP and is valid as long as the corporation lives. If the corporation is taken over, a special ruling board should decide if the merger of take-over does not mean IP is being destroyed , intentionally or unintentionally.
Bottom line for me : IP should never be allowed to die or get jailed into someone's office drawer.
Every year CmdrTaco announces the Death of the Floppy disk. Sofar my floppy disk didn't die yet! I wonder when CmdrTaco will start using VooDoo needles to remove the floppy from my PC
Spending tons of cash to have some "rich" mobile images, sound or videos, and find out that all that data is mandated to flow through the verizon mobile data gutter first. That sounds weird to me.
Why does verizon need to see the pics of my friends and family before i can see them on my PC myself? Its a very odd thing. And in fact i'm happy it still have that old handy which someone threw away. Why does Verizon need to play big brother on pictures i have taken on my mobile phone camara ?
"Google Enterprise Sales, how can we help you?" "Hi I'd like to have a subscription on the search queries made by Bill Gates on google.."
"Ohh good choice Sir, this one is most popular, please hold..."
"
In a marathon experiment, Maurice Allais released a Foucault pendulum every 14 minutes - for 30 days and nights -without missing a data point. He recorded the direction of rotation (in degrees) at his Paris laboratory. This energetic show of human endurance happened to overlap with the 1954 solar eclipse. During the eclipse, the pendulum took an unexpected turn, changing its angle of rotation by 13.5 degrees.
Both before and after the eclipse, the pendulum experienced normal rotation (Foucault effect of 0.19 degrees/minute). This 13.5-degree excursion in the angular plane persisted throughout the length of the eclipse, a total of 2.5 hours of observations. Allais got similar results when he later repeated the experiment during a solar eclipse in 1959."
So we have ourselves at least 3 different descriptions of the same effect. And thats not the only pitfall, what is most unsatisfying, is that we _ALL_ have to wait until the next solar eclipse is about to happen.
"
In 1954, a man named Maruice Allais spent a month studying and measuring the swing of a Foucault pendulum in his Paris laboratory. He dutifully recorded the direction of rotation, which corresponds to the spin of the Earth. Allais' experiment happened to coincide with a solar eclipse, and while the moon blotted out the sunlight, something strange happened to the pendulum: It slowed.
"
""ASSUME nothing" is a good motto in science. Even the humble pendulum may spring a surprise on you. In 1954 Maurice Allais, a French economist who would go on to win, in 1988, the Nobel prize in his subject, decided to observe and record the movements of a pendulum over a period of 30 days. Coincidentally, one of his observations took place during a solar eclipse. When the moon passed in front of the sun, the pendulum unexpectedly started moving a bit faster than it should have done."
Geez if one tells a nice story, get all the contributing parties synchronized:)
Being a small single employee company, The Linux-world expo sales reps. contacted me for their Utrecht edition in October. Sadly however it seems that current Linux-world expo's are not what they used to be:
So what do ya say? Should i, being a small single employee company spend EUR 3.250,= for a "promo-point" on this 2-day Exhibition ? Hard to tell, maybe i get some major deals closed, who can tell? So i was invited, which seems a great thing. However I need to pay the EUR 3.250,= first. Their plan is basicly this : Organize a linuxworld-expo, but only stand-holders and exhibitioners are to 100% pay-up for the costs made: Admittance is 100% free as is gratis. So i asked their sales rep, who will be attending then ? "ehh... a selected public inside the Dutch IT scene "... I almost choked... "whot? no linux hacker at home is able to take the train to Utrecht and pay a fee and get a ticket for a day?" "ehh No sir..."
Can one honestly believe such things? I decided that organizing exhibitions in this way would be a no-go and a serious offensive show-stopper for me. So no deal. We'll see what happens
one wonders why a server crash allows for a possibility to loose its data. Apparenlty it was e-voting records which were lost. Also very very strange. Why?
From the old days, using norton disk doctor (msdos based) and nowaways using the crash recovery kit (linux based), recovery was plain simple: use the basic rules for filesystems on disk sectors, and to loose all your data became an impossibility, except when having real physical disk damage.
With the move from a filesystem to a database driven file and document storage a couple of things happen. 1st Knowing the basic rules of filesystems and disc sectors will become a useless skill. 2nd We come dependant to database recovery skills, which a market study shows are way more expensive per hour (CALL e.g. 0800-ORACLE) as filesystem/disk recovery services.
This will have as major impact. If someone's Longhorn crashes and cannot recover itself anymore, your neighbour just might loose all its data. Why is it, I suddenly smell a dirty rat here? Do Ballmer & Co want to reshape the grand public perception that if your Windows dies, then also your data dies with it? Did he maybe get a clue from the RIAA/MPAA how to proceed further? Like how can we nail those kiddo's with all them 120Gig and bigger disks full mp3 and mpeg copyrighted multimedia content? Only the future will tell. Sofar i'm happy with running Linux on my desktop and laptop.
I guess the perfect perception goal for Ballmer might be this future quote, meaning someone lost all his windows data : "Has your PC been Longhorned?"
Now why linux.com/Novell also want Linux users to believe this, and advocate for the fast introduction of a linux database driven journalled filesystem, i don't know.
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GPS needs 10E18 Hz clocks?
i find that weird. I would say that Intel , AMD and IBM are the winners here, cause they can now more accurately measure GHz frequencies of their latest CPU models.
To make GPS more accurate, one needs to have more accurate positions and distances of the various GPS satelites. Measuring a large distance more accurately can however be improved with higher precision clocks. Then again disturbances in the space/time continuum always will spoil things.
Robert
Don't mistake me for being smarter as you. I guess i'm a average B- to speak in USA grades terminology. I however suggest you have a look at this book :
Barnes and Noble #1 Bestseller in its History of Education category.: "The Deliberate Dumbing down of America"
Robert
TheSun is what i call a newspaper for Ken and Barby, reflecting the depth of the souls reading it. Some say TheSun is more for smarter ppl these days. I guess they might have a point here as in these times its wise to be rather superficial.
Robert
Well thats it! After the incredible success by google, mozilla.org might head the same way :)
from the smell-the-scent-of-entrepreneurship dept : :
in 2000
2600.org dude talking to journalist : "Hmmm ok we want to stop miramax from shooting this so-called movie 'Takedown'". Journalist : "Owww fantastic! How in earth did you get that movie script!?!? "
4 years later
Journalist : "Owww fantastic! How in earth did you get hold of those Abbu Grabs pics!!"
I guess a new higly lucrative and scarse market has just been created.
Robert
Bush and his NeoCon Crownies.
These people have no code! No moral code, no code of honor, nothing zip nada. They don't care about the small citizin for a split second. How can the people of the USA elect such a total disastrous bunch of swindlers as their Elect Saviors ?
I keep thinking about these things like judgment day, when God comes to to earth and has to decide who will live and who will die. The Bush people have IMHO violated any moral code or any code whatsoever in the past 4 years. They have been warned. I fear the worst for them.
Robert
Guess what? Lately i found there isn't a LinuxWorld Expo planned this fall or winter in the Netherlands. I guess LinuxWorld.com has some problems getting their record straight.
Robert
OMG, is _that_ where so-called research institutes abuse their massive DoD funding budgets for ??
I guess the former well reputed research institute has been evaded with high profile corporate marketing spin-doctors, calling themselves professor or such. Next they publish their report fag at the on-line sales page, where Fortune 500 corporations buy it like cheese cakes. Why? This report is the ultimate scientific spin-doctored proof that even more severe out-sourcing of jobs will boost productivity and thus Corporate Profits.
This makes me feel sick.
Robert
About the blue box : go and get your copy of "Pirates of Silicon Valley" at ... ehh, geez its nowhere for sale anymore... I guess thats what Paul Graham wanted to point out. There's still a review to be read at :http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168122/
about Grahams fear and description about a nation falling down freely :
"Let me put the case in terms a government official would appreciate. Civil liberties are not just an ornament, or a quaint American tradition. Civil liberties make countries rich. If you made a graph of GNP per capita vs. civil liberties, you'd notice a definite trend. Could civil liberties really be a cause, rather than just an effect? I think so. I think a society in which people can do and say what they want will also tend to be one in which the most efficient solutions win, rather than those sponsored by the most influential people. Authoritarian countries become corrupt; corrupt countries become poor; and poor countries are weak. It seems to me there is a Laffer curve for government power, just as for tax revenues. At least, it seems likely enough that it would be stupid to try the experiment and find out. Unlike high tax rates, you can't repeal totalitarianism if it turns out to be a mistake."
To see a example in action of a nation falling down, go watch and see "Masked and Anonymous" by Bob Dylan, a masterpiece to be. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319829/
Robert
Robert
How to keep 1000 positrons confined in a container without touching its walls , which have electrons ? It would at least twice the energy in form of a insane high Voltage to make that happen. So i would say not impossible, but a total idiotic idea. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter : A penningtrap might do it. But ya need huge Magnetic and Electrical Field to confine the stuff in the center of the vacuum. Hmm nice...
:)"
And then suddenly El-Queida bombed the local power-station with a $10 Molotov Coctail. Oops. These defense droids must be operating on rat-brains for a long time now.
G.W. Bush : "Yeah less smoke em out! I'm a war president you know
Robert
The best way to learn the RedHat line of Linux distro's is to start with that old P133 or PII 400 and install redhat 5.2 on that machine. RedHat 5.2 is not flooded with tons of software packages, but by installing 5.2 you will get to learn the essentials of how a redhat distro works. Next install redhat 7.3 on a PIII box as server. When one has mastered those 2 editions, proceed to fedora core 2 and/or RHEL3.x
Robert
The intentional mutilating of IP into something awefull or non-functional should result in jail-time.
IP should only belong to its creator and/or inventor. When the lone geek invents something and accidently dies, corporations might store his stuff on DVD and make insane absurd profits out of a dead man/woman's IP. Certain corporations go as far to lament the complete branch of expertise with a dead persons work. For a society its unacceptable.
So when the creator/inventor dies , his works and IP should go into the public library, except if his will describes otherwise.
If the corporation created the IP by themselves, the corporation owns the IP and is valid as long as the corporation lives. If the corporation is taken over, a special ruling board should decide if the merger of take-over does not mean IP is being destroyed , intentionally or unintentionally.
Bottom line for me : IP should never be allowed to die or get jailed into someone's office drawer.
Robert
Every year CmdrTaco announces the Death of the Floppy disk. Sofar my floppy disk didn't die yet! I wonder when CmdrTaco will start using VooDoo needles to remove the floppy from my PC
What a total utter waiste of slashdot resources.
Robert
Why does verizon need to see the pics of my friends and family before i can see them on my PC myself? Its a very odd thing. And in fact i'm happy it still have that old handy which someone threw away. Why does Verizon need to play big brother on pictures i have taken on my mobile phone camara ?
Robert
install the RPMS for your distro, and after that its a breeze to burn/read your DVD stuff from the commandline:
http://crashrecovery.org/oss-dvd/HOWTO-ossdvd.html
Robert
But, i miss the "Buy Now" button on that page :)
"Google Enterprise Sales, how can we help you?" ..."
"Hi I'd like to have a subscription on the search queries made by Bill Gates on google.."
"Ohh good choice Sir, this one is most popular, please hold
" In a marathon experiment, Maurice Allais released a Foucault pendulum every 14 minutes - for 30 days and nights -without missing a data point. He recorded the direction of rotation (in degrees) at his Paris laboratory. This energetic show of human endurance happened to overlap with the 1954 solar eclipse. During the eclipse, the pendulum took an unexpected turn, changing its angle of rotation by 13.5 degrees.
Both before and after the eclipse, the pendulum experienced normal rotation (Foucault effect of 0.19 degrees/minute). This 13.5-degree excursion in the angular plane persisted throughout the length of the eclipse, a total of 2.5 hours of observations. Allais got similar results when he later repeated the experiment during a solar eclipse in 1959."
So we have ourselves at least 3 different descriptions of the same effect. And thats not the only pitfall, what is most unsatisfying, is that we _ALL_ have to wait until the next solar eclipse is about to happen.
Robert
" In 1954, a man named Maruice Allais spent a month studying and measuring the swing of a Foucault pendulum in his Paris laboratory. He dutifully recorded the direction of rotation, which corresponds to the spin of the Earth. Allais' experiment happened to coincide with a solar eclipse, and while the moon blotted out the sunlight, something strange happened to the pendulum: It slowed. "
Unfortunately inside the economist article http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm? story_id=3104321
the editors claim the opposite :
""ASSUME nothing" is a good motto in science. Even the humble pendulum may spring a surprise on you. In 1954 Maurice Allais, a French economist who would go on to win, in 1988, the Nobel prize in his subject, decided to observe and record the movements of a pendulum over a period of 30 days. Coincidentally, one of his observations took place during a solar eclipse. When the moon passed in front of the sun, the pendulum unexpectedly started moving a bit faster than it should have done."
Geez if one tells a nice story, get all the contributing parties synchronized :)
Robert
Being a small single employee company, The Linux-world expo sales reps. contacted me for their Utrecht edition in October. Sadly however it seems that current Linux-world expo's are not what they used to be:
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http://linuxtoday.com/it_management/20040728031
There's this Linux-World Expo planned in Utrecht (Netherlands) later this fall. Here's todays latest update on the results of attending
http://sites.vnuexhibitions.com/sites/linux-world
So what do ya say? Should i, being a small single employee company spend EUR 3.250,= for a "promo-point" on this 2-day Exhibition ? Hard to tell, maybe i get some major deals closed, who can tell? So i was invited, which seems a great thing. However I need to pay the EUR 3.250,= first. Their plan is basicly this : Organize a linuxworld-expo, but only stand-holders and exhibitioners are to 100% pay-up for the costs made: Admittance is 100% free as is gratis. So i asked their sales rep, who will be attending then ? "ehh... a selected public inside the Dutch IT scene "... I almost choked... "whot? no linux hacker at home is able to take the train to Utrecht and pay a fee and get a ticket for a day?" "ehh No sir..."
Can one honestly believe such things? I decided that organizing exhibitions in this way would be a no-go and a serious offensive show-stopper for me. So no deal. We'll see what happens
Robert
Rosebud eh? geez. being Bill Gates daughter ain't a easy thing i guess.
Robert
"Server crash blitzes Florida's e-voting records"o tes/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/28/florida_v
one wonders why a server crash allows for a possibility to loose its data. Apparenlty it was e-voting records which were lost. Also very very strange. Why?
From the old days, using norton disk doctor (msdos based) and nowaways using the crash recovery kit (linux based), recovery was plain simple: use the basic rules for filesystems on disk sectors, and to loose all your data became an impossibility, except when having real physical disk damage.
With the move from a filesystem to a database driven file and document storage a couple of things happen. 1st Knowing the basic rules of filesystems and disc sectors will become a useless skill. 2nd We come dependant to database recovery skills, which a market study shows are way more expensive per hour (CALL e.g. 0800-ORACLE) as filesystem/disk recovery services.
This will have as major impact. If someone's Longhorn crashes and cannot recover itself anymore, your neighbour just might loose all its data. Why is it, I suddenly smell a dirty rat here? Do Ballmer & Co want to reshape the grand public perception that if your Windows dies, then also your data dies with it? Did he maybe get a clue from the RIAA/MPAA how to proceed further? Like how can we nail those kiddo's with all them 120Gig and bigger disks full mp3 and mpeg copyrighted multimedia content? Only the future will tell. Sofar i'm happy with running Linux on my desktop and laptop.
I guess the perfect perception goal for Ballmer might be this future quote, meaning someone lost all his windows data : "Has your PC been Longhorned?"
Now why linux.com/Novell also want Linux users to believe this, and advocate for the fast introduction of a linux database driven journalled filesystem, i don't know.
Robert
Blame the SuSE dudes... I have no problems at all here running mandrake 10.0 i586 and AMD64. Well that is : My 1st action on a mandrake box:
vi /etc/lilo.conf :
and replace devfs=mount with devfs=nomount
cheers,
Robert