Quorn is GOOOOOOOOD stuff! (OT!!!)
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I'm from the camp that says veggie burgers don't have to taste like meat to be good... and I eat meat so if I want meat I eat it. However I REALLY dig quorn... infact now that you mentioned it, I'll buy some today. but Quorn isn't precisely made from "mushrooms"- rather I think the box uses some language to say it is made from "a protein fungus." Ummmm! Pass the salt!;)
I plan on having an 8 hour delay, followed by a few flight cancellations, and possibly being shoved on a bus for 6 hours (I'm flying Northwest- and thats what happened two X-mas' ago;)
So yeah, I can't wait to spend time with my relatives, however for all those hours that I'm sitting around trying to not go postal in the airport, It should would be nice to have a beepy-thing (i.e. some electronic gadget) to help waste some time.
I remember I posted a method of doing that with Bitwise XORs and such, and that pretty much started ALGORITHM WAR 3 (!!! Did you miss 1 and 2?;)
But yes there is an art to technology, and not JUST having a beautiful tool (like a well made katana)- forget the aesthetics, sometimes the mechanism that the tool exploits and the product of the tool is whats beautiful.
For example- have you ever seen a picture of Shockley's first transistor? It was an UGLY melding of germanium and wires and, UGH! But the fact that it use a current and the intrisic physics of a semiconductor (specifically the valence and conduction band for electrons) as a 'gate' or an amplifier, was beautiful.
Another example (and one I've used 3,000 on slashdot) the Roland TB-303. Designed to be a "bass guitar synthesizer" it sucked. But when you twiddled the knobs and programmed it in way that it was never intended, it made these sweet, noodly bleeps and blops, and has inspired its own genre of electronic music (ACID) and legions of fans.
Failure cases and recovery
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forgive me, becuase I'm not too up on the details of thin-client-hood (my assumptions are that its a lot like a mainframe, or that unix system that all the undergrads would use for their mail and programs. 5000 kids at once bringing a Challenge L to its knees...)
and its nice that they are careful and have a redundant system.
But I'm interested in their worst case scenario plans (more than just saying "well, our systems are redundant!") and what is the worst disaster they have had to deal with.
Sure, its cool that they have localized where all the problems are going to be (the servers) but when do they predict the "the network is too slow!" calls will start coming in?
I don't know what is up with slash code, but I wrote this post in less than 5 minutes. For some reason, the "form timed out" and said I couldn't post this message...
And based on this he claims "a sizeable audience are willing to give these record industry endorsed services a shot even though they can get it all free on KaZaa."?
Yeah, right
Have you ever tried to search for a specific song? or an entire album? Its like pulling teeth! Factor that in with all the dial-up users or broadband users that allow 20,000 concurrent downloads (1.5mbps/20,000 = 75 BITS PER SECOND, plus overhead!) and those slow connections always have the stuff you want...
Then factor in non-mainstream tastes, and there are things you just can't find on KaZaa.
I'd rather pay money to download from a fast pipe, on demand. Give me at least 80kbps and I'm happy. Give me 175kbps and I'll have your children.
Once I've paid off this semster of schooling and finished christmas shopping I'm getting a subscription to Emusic.
And based on this he claims "a sizeable audience are willing to give these record industry endorsed services a shot even though they can get it all free on KaZaa."?
Yeah, right
Have you ever tried to search for a specific song? or an entire album? Its like pulling teeth! Factor that in with all the dial-up users or broadband users that allow 20,000 concurrent downloads (1.5mbps/20,000 = 75 BITS PER SECOND, plus overhead!) and those slow connections always have the stuff you want...
Then factor in non-mainstream tastes, and there are things you just can't find on KaZaa.
I'd rather pay money to download from a fast pipe, on demand. Give me at least 80kbps and I'm happy. Give me 175kbps and I'll have your children.
Once I've paid off this semster of schooling I'm getting a subscription to Emusic.
Listen, he can't sue any one of you buggers... its bs.
HOWEVER, the Detriot free press article identified him as a spammer AND disclosed his neighborhood, also some nearby streets. From that information he is marked as 1) someone who is not popular, and 2) easily found in this neighborhood.
That might be enough for his lawyer to get a judge to okay the suit against the newspaper.
Now- IANAL, IANALBIPOOT, etc. But think about it, thats his only possible angle.
I think this has been said a thousand times... DMCA is not the way to go about this. It can easily be argued that sale prices are a trade secret. But if Walmart's representation is using the DMCA as their banner, then I welcome the attempt. But I don't think they have a leg to stand on. Infact, I think after this loss, walmart should be seeking out new legal representation!!
Most of the time you don't need ALL the nitty gritty, just a little bit of the goods to make good high-level decisions. And if you do want the nitty: Not to troll, but, go read a book! Take a class!
Actually, I'm spoiled. My Microprocessors class had a hand written text book that was SUPER FANTASTIC. This guy could teach. He could also design systems like a madman.
But really reading a book (becuase your gonna need something on hand you can reference) and then getting one of those trainer boards (With the hex input and 8 segment LED display of IAR and register A) and you are set.
we (tried) to design an entire 8-bit micro at the silicon level. Yep- Here's your P region, here's your N region, run some poly here, some metal 1 here, a via and then some metal 2 here, and VOILA! You have an 8 bit register that shifts and increments. My partner made the ALU. We got about as far as designing the RAM and WHOOSH the semester was over.
When you say "paper", do you mean VHDL? Cuz that's pretty much all you need to do!
I've done some sili-layout first with L-Edit and then with Cadence (Ugh!) but you VHDL first, and let that layout your chip. Ship that to the fab, and you got yrself a nifty micro.
It is nice to have an appreciation for the underlying mechanisms of the things we use. As Socrates said, the unexamined life is not worth living.
But as many EE or even ECE people know, most programmers don't give a rats ass about what the hardware is doing. those that do have this understanding ( OS people, real-time people, embedded people, well a lot of people!) have it because they need it.
I'm not arguing that it isn't beneficial to know the difference between SIMD, SISD, MIMD, MISD systems, but if you aren't programming or designing for parallel systems, how will this help you when a new processor comes to market?!
The "Hammer" line is just a fumble for relevance. Guess what? We're reading this on a computer. The relevance is already there!
Yes the FTC should have stepped in, and didn't. This is where the lawyers come in.
Now this corporation needs to be beaten down. This won't just "benefit" the lawyers but it will also benefit the people by hitting a corporation for wrongful practices where it matters most: MONEY.
It isn't about what gets done with the money awarded as damages (I think the best example was the SPRINT PCS settlement where users were sold a system that Sprint intended to get rid of without a clear upgrade path. The deal for the users wasn't even as good as the deal any schmuck could get by walking into radio shack!)- but the fact that this company had to pay.
This affects their bottom line, and share holders get angry when corporate officers mess with their profits. And given today's corporate climate, thats enough to get you lynched.
Even if Bonzi isn't a publically traded corporation with a board of directors and share holders, its still "in it for the money", and this hits them where it hurts.
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I'm from the camp that says veggie burgers don't have to taste like meat to be good... and I eat meat so if I want meat I eat it. However I REALLY dig quorn... infact now that you mentioned it, I'll buy some today. but Quorn isn't precisely made from "mushrooms"- rather I think the box uses some language to say it is made from "a protein fungus." Ummmm! Pass the salt! ;)
No joke! And depending upon what the cost of living is, mid 70's ain't much in NY or DC or CA...
I plan on having an 8 hour delay, followed by a few flight cancellations, and possibly being shoved on a bus for 6 hours (I'm flying Northwest- and thats what happened two X-mas' ago ;)
So yeah, I can't wait to spend time with my relatives, however for all those hours that I'm sitting around trying to not go postal in the airport, It should would be nice to have a beepy-thing (i.e. some electronic gadget) to help waste some time.
I remember I posted a method of doing that with Bitwise XORs and such, and that pretty much started ALGORITHM WAR 3 (!!! ;)
Did you miss 1 and 2?
But yes there is an art to technology, and not JUST having a beautiful tool (like a well made katana)- forget the aesthetics, sometimes the mechanism that the tool exploits and the product of the tool is whats beautiful.
For example- have you ever seen a picture of Shockley's first transistor? It was an UGLY melding of germanium and wires and, UGH! But the fact that it use a current and the intrisic physics of a semiconductor (specifically the valence and conduction band for electrons) as a 'gate' or an amplifier, was beautiful.
Another example (and one I've used 3,000 on slashdot) the Roland TB-303. Designed to be a "bass guitar synthesizer" it sucked. But when you twiddled the knobs and programmed it in way that it was never intended, it made these sweet, noodly bleeps and blops, and has inspired its own genre of electronic music (ACID) and legions of fans.
for those who can't type, i've done it for you
I bet you can even find some token ring stuff!
forgive me, becuase I'm not too up on the details of thin-client-hood (my assumptions are that its a lot like a mainframe, or that unix system that all the undergrads would use for their mail and programs. 5000 kids at once bringing a Challenge L to its knees...)
and its nice that they are careful and have a redundant system.
But I'm interested in their worst case scenario plans (more than just saying "well, our systems are redundant!") and what is the worst disaster they have had to deal with.
Sure, its cool that they have localized where all the problems are going to be (the servers) but when do they predict the "the network is too slow!" calls will start coming in?
I don't know what is up with slash code, but I wrote this post in less than 5 minutes. For some reason, the "form timed out" and said I couldn't post this message...
It seems that the code lied to me!
And based on this he claims "a sizeable audience are willing to give these record industry endorsed services a shot even though they can get it all free on KaZaa."?
Yeah, right
Have you ever tried to search for a specific song? or an entire album? Its like pulling teeth! Factor that in with all the dial-up users or broadband users that allow 20,000 concurrent downloads (1.5mbps/20,000 = 75 BITS PER SECOND, plus overhead!) and those slow connections always have the stuff you want...
Then factor in non-mainstream tastes, and there are things you just can't find on KaZaa.
I'd rather pay money to download from a fast pipe, on demand. Give me at least 80kbps and I'm happy. Give me 175kbps and I'll have your children.
Once I've paid off this semster of schooling and finished christmas shopping I'm getting a subscription to Emusic.
And based on this he claims "a sizeable audience are willing to give these record industry endorsed services a shot even though they can get it all free on KaZaa."?
Yeah, right
Have you ever tried to search for a specific song? or an entire album? Its like pulling teeth! Factor that in with all the dial-up users or broadband users that allow 20,000 concurrent downloads (1.5mbps/20,000 = 75 BITS PER SECOND, plus overhead!) and those slow connections always have the stuff you want...
Then factor in non-mainstream tastes, and there are things you just can't find on KaZaa.
I'd rather pay money to download from a fast pipe, on demand. Give me at least 80kbps and I'm happy. Give me 175kbps and I'll have your children.
Once I've paid off this semster of schooling I'm getting a subscription to Emusic.
I'm not kidding man...
P.S.-regarding Poetic Judge: This is not the first time for this guy... I remember my wife showing me some of his stuff a few years ago.
IS he related to the Great Gazoo?
God!I love the flintstones...
Listen, he can't sue any one of you buggers... its bs.
HOWEVER, the Detriot free press article identified him as a spammer AND disclosed his neighborhood, also some nearby streets. From that information he is marked as 1) someone who is not popular, and 2) easily found in this neighborhood.
That might be enough for his lawyer to get a judge to okay the suit against the newspaper.
Now- IANAL, IANALBIPOOT, etc. But think about it, thats his only possible angle.
AOL cd's and Ralsky-
two great tastes that taste great together!
This would be a read world example of "synergy"
YES I agree. I think the initial point was in reference to the "this is in some way related to the Hammer coming out" comment.
That relation is so tenuous, that you could say "My boss might buy a computer, so I need to read this."
I think this has been said a thousand times...
DMCA is not the way to go about this. It can easily be argued that sale prices are a trade secret. But if Walmart's representation is using the DMCA as their banner, then I welcome the attempt. But I don't think they have a leg to stand on. Infact, I think after this loss, walmart should be seeking out new legal representation!!
Most of the time you don't need ALL the nitty gritty, just a little bit of the goods to make good high-level decisions. And if you do want the nitty: Not to troll, but, go read a book! Take a class!
Actually, I'm spoiled. My Microprocessors class had a hand written text book that was SUPER FANTASTIC. This guy could teach. He could also design systems like a madman.
But really reading a book (becuase your gonna need something on hand you can reference) and then getting one of those trainer boards (With the hex input and 8 segment LED display of IAR and register A) and you are set.
Dewd, we just got moderated by "The Guy With No Sense of Humor." He seems to get a lot of mod points...
we (tried) to design an entire 8-bit micro at the silicon level. Yep- Here's your P region, here's your N region, run some poly here, some metal 1 here, a via and then some metal 2 here, and VOILA! You have an 8 bit register that shifts and increments. My partner made the ALU. We got about as far as designing the RAM and WHOOSH the semester was over.
Thank god for the Gentleman's C!
I think an article like this will prevent comments like:
"AMD has Hammer! It better! Intel is gay!"
and will instead promote more educated comments like:
"AMD is TEH GODE! INTEL is TEH SUCK!"
Wake me when you kids are running RISC processors...
When you say "paper", do you mean VHDL?
Cuz that's pretty much all you need to do!
I've done some sili-layout first with L-Edit and then with Cadence (Ugh!) but you VHDL first, and let that layout your chip. Ship that to the fab, and you got yrself a nifty micro.
If you are in that position,
chances are you don't need, or you could write this article.
Also, if you are a big enough player, you get some sample procs and run some benchmark tests, maybe even write some of your own.
It is nice to have an appreciation for the underlying mechanisms of the things we use.
As Socrates said, the unexamined life is not worth living.
But as many EE or even ECE people know, most programmers don't give a rats ass about what the hardware is doing. those that do have this understanding ( OS people, real-time people, embedded people, well a lot of people!) have it because they need it.
I'm not arguing that it isn't beneficial to know the difference between SIMD, SISD, MIMD, MISD systems, but if you aren't programming or designing for parallel systems, how will this help you when a new processor comes to market?!
The "Hammer" line is just a fumble for relevance. Guess what? We're reading this on a computer. The relevance is already there!
Yes the FTC should have stepped in, and didn't. This is where the lawyers come in.
Now this corporation needs to be beaten down. This won't just "benefit" the lawyers but it will also benefit the people by hitting a corporation for wrongful practices where it matters most: MONEY.
It isn't about what gets done with the money awarded as damages (I think the best example was the SPRINT PCS settlement where users were sold a system that Sprint intended to get rid of without a clear upgrade path. The deal for the users wasn't even as good as the deal any schmuck could get by walking into radio shack!)- but the fact that this company had to pay.
This affects their bottom line, and share holders get angry when corporate officers mess with their profits. And given today's corporate climate, thats enough to get you lynched.
Even if Bonzi isn't a publically traded corporation with a board of directors and share holders, its still "in it for the money", and this hits them where it hurts.
IANAL, etc. etc. etc.
Mind reading robots? they're only 10 years away!
Regardless of your local definition, a good dose of fragging can turn any ol' sci fi into a nebula prize shoe-in.
/sarcasm
either that, or add some post-apocalyptic goodness.
good fiction makes good sci fi. No amount of technology after the fact can save a crappy story.