<RAMBLE> Maybe this is why I had (and have!) so few friends. When I was younger I always preferred working together with my friend against an imaginary enemy over fighting against each other. I always preferred the cooperation over competition. I think the main reason for this is two-fold. I am usually more intelligent than my friends and so where would be the challenge in beating them? And I was raised as an only child by a single mother, so I experienced a life where working together created the best outcome. Why would I throw a temper tantrum that just makes both of us feel bad and decreases our happiness? Lastly, why can't everyone else just work together for shared future happiness instead of always being engaged in physical (think team sports) or mental (think politics) combat? </RAMBLE>
Is it possible to build/run bots that hit random websites or spew junk data that these spyware agents would take back to poison their central database? Is this a valid form of retaliation to privacy invasion? Is it possible to hide the signal of our movements in a wall of noise? I know nothing about such things, these are just a few random thoughts...
It's been a while, but wouldn't it be Octopoi? I remember my Greek teacher saying that the plural of Hippopotamus should really be Hippopotamoi. Of course this was Ancient (Attic) Greek so maybe it's different anyways.
In case you can't tell, I don't know what I'm talking about.
Before everyone gets all teary-eyed about the imminent demise of Nintendo, have a look at some of the other previews, movies, and screenshots. cube.ign.com has a lot of information and links to all I mentioned. The preview linked to in the article is so vague about the Gamecube's capabilities it's almost useless.
"About two years from now--if MAP survives the simulator, the launch, and a three-month journey into space--humankind is likely to finally find out how old the universe really is; how it will come to an end; whether space is really infinite; and most astonishing of all, what shape the universe takes."
"What appears to be a distant galaxy might actually be light from a very young version of the Milky Way that has made a 13-billion-year complete circuit around a finite universe. Instead of holding billions of different galaxies, the universe might hold mostly mirages, repeated images of a far smaller number of galaxies. The images would be the result of light taking different pathways through the cosmos at different points in a galaxy's history."
Pretty interesting article that explains some of the objectives in an easy to understand manner.
but how does SourceForge function when it has pages with 16 queries, crashes with 30 simultaneous clients, and serves.77 pages/s with only 5 clients? I'm no web/database guru but that kind of performance seems crazy. I guess those projects can't be all that busy or the site would be locked-up all the time? or what?? Judging by the performance of this column at phpbuilder.com maybe that site has some performance issues as well. I guess my question is, should I be using these sites to learn PHP/Database programming? Do these performance problems show actual problems with the database server or with the database schema and program designer(s)?
As I said, maybe I'm ignorant and missing something as I am new to this type of development...
"There will be two versions of the Brookdale chipset, an SDR and a DDR version. The SDR version should hit the market in September of 2001. The DDR version should hit in January of 2002, though there is a chance that it will arrive as early as October of 2001."
Anyone else this Intel would find itself losing a considerably larger market share than it already has if the P4 can't use SDR or DDR for almost a year from its release? I sure do.
What I find kinda of humourous is that we're whizzing all these satellites around and have hundreds of telescopes, thousands of astronomers staring at stuff 24/7/365.25 and yet we just found 4 more moons around Saturn and a possible planet between Neptune and Pluto. Does anyone else get the feeling that the more we know the more we know how little we know?
These days the attitude seems to be that unless something is a business model then it isn't viable. These P2P services will be around forever now that they exist. People will realize that each individual can pay for a portion of the network-bandwidth-server infrastructure required to maintain the P2P service without requiring a corporation to control it. Of course the people with the least amount of resources (bandwidth for instance) will take more than they give, but I think the system (I guess I'm talking in abstract terms here about some sort of ideal or at least workable P2P service like Napster or Gnutella) will tend to balance itself out. To each as they are able. As broadband connections increase more people will leave their client/server running all the time. I for one haven't seen a problem on the networks, have you? Just because a corp can't create a business model to support some astronomical farce of an IPO doesn't mean something can't be successful.
I hope I'm not the only one with this experience. I think I've read something similar to "Excel2000 and Word2000 (imho the only really good applications Microsoft ever published)" probably at least 20 times. I'd agree that Excel is solid and works well. Maybe I'm retarded, but every time I have to use Word (have to because it's the standard where I work) I end up frustrated. Click on the button to make a bullet list and the whole list outdents (is that a word, what is the term for that anyway?) copy text from one section to another and random portions of text change fonts. Try to add a single blank line and line spacing changes for the whole paragraph. Try to select a couple of lines and it auto-selects the whole section. Try to delete a line and it applies random formatting to text above and below the deleted text. It's like playing a twisted video game trying to get things to look right. Maybe it's an experiment in a non-deterministic word processor. I long for the days of WordPerfect where you told the app what you wanted and it complied instead of trying to guess what you really need and doing it for you. Oh for the days of Reveal Codes! Am I missing something obvious or is Word really this hopelessly impossible to use? I loathe having to do complicated documents in Word. I laid out a full book in WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS and I can't even get a simple table to display properly in Word!
"This release contains forward-looking statements regarding financial results for future periods. Actual results could differ materially. Among the factors which could cause results to differ materially is the possibility that the Pentium 4 and PlayStation2 ramps will be slower than expected, that shipment of Rambus ICs and other licensed products by Rambus licensees will be below forecast, that no additional licenses for SDRAM-compatible ICs will be signed, that prices of RDRAMs will remain high compared to SDRAMs and that litigation and building costs will exceed the Company's plans."
Sounds like Rambus might just take care of itself!
This is a Good Thing to see, but I think Valenti realizes that doing a webcast debate will have next to no effect on the situation. Now if a debate like this were done on a CNN special or televised in some other way, then it would reach the audience of regular citizens. I'm sure there are a lot of people that would be outraged if they only knew about and understood what is happening to consumer rights. I've tried to explain the situation with DeCCS and the DCMA, etc to friends and family but they still don't seem to understand. Perhaps someone has written a simple explanation in lay-terms that could be given to the average person?
Slashdot Mirror
<RAMBLE> Maybe this is why I had (and have!) so few friends. When I was younger I always preferred working together with my friend against an imaginary enemy over fighting against each other. I always preferred the cooperation over competition. I think the main reason for this is two-fold. I am usually more intelligent than my friends and so where would be the challenge in beating them? And I was raised as an only child by a single mother, so I experienced a life where working together created the best outcome. Why would I throw a temper tantrum that just makes both of us feel bad and decreases our happiness? Lastly, why can't everyone else just work together for shared future happiness instead of always being engaged in physical (think team sports) or mental (think politics) combat? </RAMBLE>
Is it possible to build/run bots that hit random websites or spew junk data that these spyware agents would take back to poison their central database? Is this a valid form of retaliation to privacy invasion? Is it possible to hide the signal of our movements in a wall of noise? I know nothing about such things, these are just a few random thoughts...
I hope the encoded message doesn't have as many typos and grammar mistakes as the english translation I've been reading!
That's why it's important that the National Machete Association Speaks Out Against Machete-Control Legislation.
I used to do that too, but then I figured until I had a six-pack of my own I couldn't really criticize anyone else's abs... oh wait.
First guess at an URL was www.ballsemi.com.
It's been a while, but wouldn't it be Octopoi? I remember my Greek teacher saying that the plural of Hippopotamus should really be Hippopotamoi. Of course this was Ancient (Attic) Greek so maybe it's different anyways.
In case you can't tell, I don't know what I'm talking about.
99 sites of stuff on the web,
99 sites on the web,
Slashdot one down,
into the ground,
98 sites of stuff on the web.
Before everyone gets all teary-eyed about the imminent demise of Nintendo, have a look at some of the other previews, movies, and screenshots. cube.ign.com has a lot of information and links to all I mentioned. The preview linked to in the article is so vague about the Gamecube's capabilities it's almost useless.
I bet with the modem or broadband adaptor someone could write a BASIC program that searches previous Slashdot articles to prevent repeats. It'd be the first killer-app for a game console!
Of course then we couldn't make these lame-ass jokes either 8^)
"About two years from now--if MAP survives the simulator, the launch, and a three-month journey into space--humankind is likely to finally find out how old the universe really is; how it will come to an end; whether space is really infinite; and most astonishing of all, what shape the universe takes."
"What appears to be a distant galaxy might actually be light from a very young version of the Milky Way that has made a 13-billion-year complete circuit around a finite universe. Instead of holding billions of different galaxies, the universe might hold mostly mirages, repeated images of a far smaller number of galaxies. The images would be the result of light taking different pathways through the cosmos at different points in a galaxy's history."
Pretty interesting article that explains some of the objectives in an easy to understand manner.
but how does SourceForge function when it has pages with 16 queries, crashes with 30 simultaneous clients, and serves .77 pages/s with only 5 clients? I'm no web/database guru but that kind of performance seems crazy. I guess those projects can't be all that busy or the site would be locked-up all the time? or what?? Judging by the performance of this column at phpbuilder.com maybe that site has some performance issues as well. I guess my question is, should I be using these sites to learn PHP/Database programming? Do these performance problems show actual problems with the database server or with the database schema and program designer(s)?
As I said, maybe I'm ignorant and missing something as I am new to this type of development...
My God man! You're talking about X-Ray Specs!
(insert sound of every geeks' head exploding as their childhood dreams are fulfilled)
"There will be two versions of the Brookdale chipset, an SDR and a DDR version. The SDR version should hit the market in September of 2001. The DDR version should hit in January of 2002, though there is a chance that it will arrive as early as October of 2001."
Anyone else this Intel would find itself losing a considerably larger market share than it already has if the P4 can't use SDR or DDR for almost a year from its release? I sure do.
Canada will stay safe until we are too "free" for the US to accept and then we will be annexed.
+1 Funny, or +1 Frightening?
That the author did not have the time or the will to learn the APIs...
Preview is everyone's friend...
Ummm, the X-Box doesn't ship with anything.
The X-Box doesn't ship.
What I find kinda of humourous is that we're whizzing all these satellites around and have hundreds of telescopes, thousands of astronomers staring at stuff 24/7/365.25 and yet we just found 4 more moons around Saturn and a possible planet between Neptune and Pluto. Does anyone else get the feeling that the more we know the more we know how little we know?
These days the attitude seems to be that unless something is a business model then it isn't viable. These P2P services will be around forever now that they exist. People will realize that each individual can pay for a portion of the network-bandwidth-server infrastructure required to maintain the P2P service without requiring a corporation to control it. Of course the people with the least amount of resources (bandwidth for instance) will take more than they give, but I think the system (I guess I'm talking in abstract terms here about some sort of ideal or at least workable P2P service like Napster or Gnutella) will tend to balance itself out. To each as they are able. As broadband connections increase more people will leave their client/server running all the time. I for one haven't seen a problem on the networks, have you? Just because a corp can't create a business model to support some astronomical farce of an IPO doesn't mean something can't be successful.
I hope I'm not the only one with this experience. I think I've read something similar to "Excel2000 and Word2000 (imho the only really good applications Microsoft ever published)" probably at least 20 times. I'd agree that Excel is solid and works well. Maybe I'm retarded, but every time I have to use Word (have to because it's the standard where I work) I end up frustrated. Click on the button to make a bullet list and the whole list outdents (is that a word, what is the term for that anyway?) copy text from one section to another and random portions of text change fonts. Try to add a single blank line and line spacing changes for the whole paragraph. Try to select a couple of lines and it auto-selects the whole section. Try to delete a line and it applies random formatting to text above and below the deleted text. It's like playing a twisted video game trying to get things to look right. Maybe it's an experiment in a non-deterministic word processor. I long for the days of WordPerfect where you told the app what you wanted and it complied instead of trying to guess what you really need and doing it for you. Oh for the days of Reveal Codes! Am I missing something obvious or is Word really this hopelessly impossible to use? I loathe having to do complicated documents in Word. I laid out a full book in WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS and I can't even get a simple table to display properly in Word!
"This release contains forward-looking statements regarding financial results for future periods. Actual results could differ materially. Among the factors which could cause results to differ materially is the possibility that the Pentium 4 and PlayStation2 ramps will be slower than expected, that shipment of Rambus ICs and other licensed products by Rambus licensees will be below forecast, that no additional licenses for SDRAM-compatible ICs will be signed, that prices of RDRAMs will remain high compared to SDRAMs and that litigation and building costs will exceed the Company's plans."
Sounds like Rambus might just take care of itself!
This is a Good Thing to see, but I think Valenti realizes that doing a webcast debate will have next to no effect on the situation. Now if a debate like this were done on a CNN special or televised in some other way, then it would reach the audience of regular citizens. I'm sure there are a lot of people that would be outraged if they only knew about and understood what is happening to consumer rights. I've tried to explain the situation with DeCCS and the DCMA, etc to friends and family but they still don't seem to understand. Perhaps someone has written a simple explanation in lay-terms that could be given to the average person?
"The only caveats are that one of the CPUs was out of
the system at the time (hence 31 CPUs, not 32)"
Hey, let's watch newbies drool and argue about BogoMIPS, huh wanna? k?
With features like this, who needs bugs?