The reason they were going the study at BYU is the Mormon geneology records have been kept for the past hundred and some years. The combonation of written geneologies and genetic geneologies would really help in figuring out certain aspects of a person's genes.
of the PC cards you could stick in the older Macs for use running VirtualPC. This would be cool for a really big cluster in a single box. Using a backplane PCI bus (using the PCI 2.1 specs) would even allow a higher bandwidth between the boards than would a Beowolf cluster. The drawback to a bluster of these things is there would probably be little if any fault tolerance since they're on a parallel bus.
Buy those novices a WYSIWYG true blue HTML editor, Office apps produce horrible code because they are trying to preserve the exact look of the document. Most good editors let you see the code and add as much whitespace and comments as you'd like.
For any of the SuSE users out there, this version really kicks ass. I really like the option of installing XFree 4.0 and ReiserFS as defaults (Reiser can be used on any partition but you might run into problems unless you make a separate ext2 partition with/boot and LILO there). Admittedly I haven't used RH in a long time (not since 5.something) but I think SuSE is probably one of the best distros for first time Linux users. The two reasons for this are YaST and SaX. YaST makes it very easy to do all the system administration you need and SaX does a really good job of configuring your X server for you. After upgrading my file server I tried installing 6.4 on an old NEC I have lying about, I wanted to see YaST2 and see if it was as keen as it looked. If it works it reminds me alot of a Windows 9x installation, it does require a bit of memory and processor power though. If you can't use X readily on your system don't bother with YaST2. The bundled software is also a real catchy part, out of the box it would be ten times more effective in a home or office environment than Windows 98 would be. This software is of course in the boxed version, the ISO in the article is just the basic SuSE distro which is everything but the commercial stuff. Pick it up or the iguana will eat you.
You're right about the marine extinction. It's easy to deduct, just take a look at the difference between the land masses at the beginning of the Triasic and end of the Cretaceous. There were tons of inland seas that disappeared during the age of the dinosaurs not only due to tectonic plates drifting apart but the formation of large mountain chains.
Think about modern large predators like the big cats. They eat animals that are about the same size as them, therefore they ingest enough food to regular their body temperature. Since T-rex lived during an era where all of its prey would be about the same size it could do the same thing as today's large predators. The logic is that if a large warm-blooded animal eats too small of prey, it will exhaust its food supply just to keep itself at a sustained level. The evidense is that the T-rex formed small pair bonds (mom, pop, baby) and would follow the herbivors about (IIRC). Their small number means they can feed at a higher than sustinence level and be healthy wealthy and mean lookin.
I've been saying this since the merger. Pretty soon everything most people see will be filtered through AOL. I do find it funny however that Disney is complaining about this, Disney does the same exact thing. What I see happening in the next couple years is everyone in America will be part of a few select groups. There will be Disney consumers, AOL consumers, Sony consumers, and a fourth class of people who are a little of everything but alot of nothing. Everything you hear, touch, see, taste, and have sex with will be licenses to one of a small handful of companies. A truely west coast economy. I just wonder what Disney brand vibrators are going to look like...
In my geographical area we get screwed. I live in a city with both Cable and DSL access (which are at each other's throats for customers right now). There are two problems though, the city is fairly spread out and the CO is downtown which means all the slums have DSL access yet I can't get it at my house which is across town. Our cable is even worse, we don't have 2-way cable service. We download over the cable line but upload using our plain old dialup service. If I ever do get DSL it will be 384kbps downstream and 128kbps upstream, all for a measly 50$ per month. I'm stuck with cable for a while which is really hard to get working under Linux.
How literate IS/. nowadays? First of all, they settled out of court (for you dummies means a judge didn't make anyone do anything) and all they asked for was these companies not produce obvious rip-offs of games Hasbro now owns. If someone came out with AlwaysQuest which was so much like EverQuest consumers couldn't tell the difference, any smart judge would throw the book at AlwaysQuest, if it even got to that. Get a clue people, even the GPL doesn't allow crap like this.
The technology for RDRAM is a little dated, it was being developed to contend with EDO RAM which was a slow beast. Rambus RAM does have the capability to reduce its latency to where it is about the same speed as SDRAM, the problem lies in Intel's chipset with only a single memory channel. DDRSRAM is really cool because the fab process is so much similar to regular SDRAM which means we can pick it up for a low price. The DDR people claim a 2.6GB/s transfer rate which is true but that is burst transfer, it fairs much worse under sustained transfer. Given a good chipset and better fab techniques RDRAM could feasibly end up all over the place. The real killer with Rambus is the stupid licensing, if they would lower their fees a good deal and let volume make up the difference everyone would be much happier.
funny on this article. Everyone is bitching "we need PNG support in our browsers" yet I haven't seen one person say they had contributed some code to a PNG project or to Mozilla or anything. Is it me or are there more people complaining and less people actually doing things? We all know PNG support is needed in browsers and yes we also know slashdot still uses GIFs. If all the current browsers supported PNG, slashdot could switch over to them and there would be no problem. If you want PNG support tell the programmers of the browser you particularly like, offer to help them test it out or maybe help with some code or something. I'm not a very good programmer but whenever I can I'll try to help out on a project, closed or not. It's like everyone loves watching PBS but no one is giving any money to big bird.
Uh...open the GIF in Photoshop and then convert it's colour mode from indexed to RGB, you'll then be able to use all of Photoshop's pretty filters and such. When you're done, switch the image back into indexed colour (however many colours suits your fancy) and then export it as a GIF. Voila.
Would you recognize the inserted back door if you weren't damn familiar with GCC and C for that matter? I could write the backdoor in assembler and have GCC's code insert it into the app, then you'd have to be damn fluent in assembler to figure out what was going on. You're never as clever as you think you are.
You're forgetting someone who has some clout in the industry again, Apple. The iMac has really laid waste to the low price easy to use market, it invented many aspects of it. The G4s are super powers and many people are really itching to play some good games on them. Video card manufacturers are now supporting their AGP and PCI products on Mac because it is profitable again. With a ROM change and some drivers, you could feasibly use a GeForce card in your Sawtooth G4.
Uh..dude? A PII 266 would be OVERKILL for a box that is only a gateway and firewall. If you need to use a PII run Samba and d.net on it or something, otherwise you're really wasting your hardware. Some friends of mine have had trouble playing Tribes at the same time behind a firewall but I think the main problem lies in configuring ipmasq.
I think that the TEACHERS ought to become a little bit more wired and let the students use devices to access the teacher/school's material. I think a much better idea than a true laptop would be something like a ruggedized Clio or Jornada, under a thousand dollars but versatile enough that they could do many of the things the students needed. The teachers are the people that are under-wired. While they shouldn't be forced to change their teaching style to revolve around computers, I think computers could really clean up the clutter in the classroom. I remember in high school the teachers had papers and more papers piled in stacks on and around their desk, even the cleanest teachers always has a messy desk. I used to have to clean those things as a TA, it was killer to keep those damn plastic sheets clean. Single use overhead sheets and paper could be replaced by computers that hold the same data but a little more efficiently. Having electronic notes would also be a boon to students if they could download them or assignments. As for the students, I think they could benefit from computers also. The ability to translate documents into other languages is a big plus, especially for places like California where Spanish is a very widely spoken second language. Stuff like this could be affordable if the schools buy things on lease and pay them off over a number of years. If they start with high school freshmen and get a 48 month lease on the portable they wouldnt have to pay very much per year to pay off the equipment. Considering California spends almost 5000$ per student per year 200 some dollars isn't that much extra. The whole thing only works if the entire school is wired at the same time, the electronic framework for the teachers has to be in place before you suddenly wire all of the students. Of course there is the problem of the students selling their stuff which could easily be remedied by making the things so garish that you couldn't sell them to anyone. I don't know if we'll see this soon, my jr. high school couldn't budget free three ring binders for its students.
And? I wasn't saying every electron takes a vacation out to M100 every second. COnsidering the number of electrons in the universe is somewhere about a googleplex to the power of a googleplex to another googleplex it is fairly safe to assert that There is a decent number of electrons not existing anywhere near their atom at any given moment.
For anyone that was paying attention, the Dreamcast has a modem which is attached to an expansion port. This means (put on your thinking caps) you can *remove* it and add an Ethernet or Firewire adapter to this so-called expansion port. Having an expansion port is a good thing because you can attach anything you like to it as long as you pack it with a driver disk. I think the expansion port is a much much better idea than hardwiring a modem into the DC for the very reason that more people are getting xDSL and cable access. If Sony has a smart set of fellows working for them they will do something similar, hopefully even make the hard drive an option. They could just ship the PS2 with an expansion bay you COULD stick a hard drive into, it would keep the price down and give them some room to expand. As an aside I was thinking about Sony and what their plans might be for the future, I'm thinking after the PS2 has been out for a year or two, maybe three, they're going to start building VAIO PCs and laptops based around the EE (maybe with some modifications to make it a little more general purpose) and some of the PS2's architecture. Right now they are making a run for consumer's living rooms and the next logical step would be the office. The PCs they sell now are Intel's bitches and in many ways are being held back by Intel and x86. Don't give me crap about Itanium, the EE is out NOW not sometime next year. The EE would be a real boon to Sony in the audio/visual editing department considering audio and video filters are just a bunch of operations performed on the samples or pixels (the vector units on that puppy would tear through high demand video filters). The PS2 is primarily a gaming machine but I think it's secondary objective is to test out some architectural ideas. Sony might even try to poise itself as the next decade's SGI. That's just my five pesos.
I think the factor of people paying real money for virtual items would go away for the most part if the games contained a real economic system which was open to player to player and player to NPC sales. It would add alot of realism to the game's environment if you could auction off or sell something you had found or earned. But you say "then people can just get the same rare item a bunch of times and and make megabucks". To that I say give every character and item a 40-bit or so identifier tag. If two tags show up on the same server it maybe nullifies the item or doesn't let the person connect to that server. This would let there be LOTS of items and characters but would prevent people from getting duplicates. These tags could also be registered with the game's publishers on a secure server so you could check if a player had legit equipment. Diablo became a hackfest if you even dared to use a legit character. The ID tag could be enabled on the server level so it would be up to the server if they wanted to enforce legit items. Some people might complain about privacy but it's one of the few ways I can think of to defraud the frauders.
How about a closed client and open server? That makes more sense to ANY game company, stop whining because stuff isn't free as in beer. I would rather pay 40$ for the game and get a free server included with it. Then I could set up my own special server on my T1, ADSL, ect for free. Having a plethora of servers means the users can be in charge of running the game without paying obscene prices for the servers et al.
quantum travel look to your nearest electron, they have a funny little ability to tunnel through space to be anyplace they want to be. In an S-orbital an electron is only around the atom 90 some percent of the time, the rest of the time it's off galavanting in the Andromeda galaxy or someplace. Quantum physics is fun!
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The reason they were going the study at BYU is the Mormon geneology records have been kept for the past hundred and some years. The combonation of written geneologies and genetic geneologies would really help in figuring out certain aspects of a person's genes.
of the PC cards you could stick in the older Macs for use running VirtualPC. This would be cool for a really big cluster in a single box. Using a backplane PCI bus (using the PCI 2.1 specs) would even allow a higher bandwidth between the boards than would a Beowolf cluster. The drawback to a bluster of these things is there would probably be little if any fault tolerance since they're on a parallel bus.
Buy those novices a WYSIWYG true blue HTML editor, Office apps produce horrible code because they are trying to preserve the exact look of the document. Most good editors let you see the code and add as much whitespace and comments as you'd like.
For any of the SuSE users out there, this version really kicks ass. I really like the option of installing XFree 4.0 and ReiserFS as defaults (Reiser can be used on any partition but you might run into problems unless you make a separate ext2 partition with /boot and LILO there). Admittedly I haven't used RH in a long time (not since 5.something) but I think SuSE is probably one of the best distros for first time Linux users. The two reasons for this are YaST and SaX. YaST makes it very easy to do all the system administration you need and SaX does a really good job of configuring your X server for you. After upgrading my file server I tried installing 6.4 on an old NEC I have lying about, I wanted to see YaST2 and see if it was as keen as it looked. If it works it reminds me alot of a Windows 9x installation, it does require a bit of memory and processor power though. If you can't use X readily on your system don't bother with YaST2. The bundled software is also a real catchy part, out of the box it would be ten times more effective in a home or office environment than Windows 98 would be. This software is of course in the boxed version, the ISO in the article is just the basic SuSE distro which is everything but the commercial stuff. Pick it up or the iguana will eat you.
You're right about the marine extinction. It's easy to deduct, just take a look at the difference between the land masses at the beginning of the Triasic and end of the Cretaceous. There were tons of inland seas that disappeared during the age of the dinosaurs not only due to tectonic plates drifting apart but the formation of large mountain chains.
Think about modern large predators like the big cats. They eat animals that are about the same size as them, therefore they ingest enough food to regular their body temperature. Since T-rex lived during an era where all of its prey would be about the same size it could do the same thing as today's large predators. The logic is that if a large warm-blooded animal eats too small of prey, it will exhaust its food supply just to keep itself at a sustained level. The evidense is that the T-rex formed small pair bonds (mom, pop, baby) and would follow the herbivors about (IIRC). Their small number means they can feed at a higher than sustinence level and be healthy wealthy and mean lookin.
I've been saying this since the merger. Pretty soon everything most people see will be filtered through AOL. I do find it funny however that Disney is complaining about this, Disney does the same exact thing. What I see happening in the next couple years is everyone in America will be part of a few select groups. There will be Disney consumers, AOL consumers, Sony consumers, and a fourth class of people who are a little of everything but alot of nothing. Everything you hear, touch, see, taste, and have sex with will be licenses to one of a small handful of companies. A truely west coast economy. I just wonder what Disney brand vibrators are going to look like...
In my geographical area we get screwed. I live in a city with both Cable and DSL access (which are at each other's throats for customers right now). There are two problems though, the city is fairly spread out and the CO is downtown which means all the slums have DSL access yet I can't get it at my house which is across town. Our cable is even worse, we don't have 2-way cable service. We download over the cable line but upload using our plain old dialup service. If I ever do get DSL it will be 384kbps downstream and 128kbps upstream, all for a measly 50$ per month. I'm stuck with cable for a while which is really hard to get working under Linux.
How literate IS /. nowadays? First of all, they settled out of court (for you dummies means a judge didn't make anyone do anything) and all they asked for was these companies not produce obvious rip-offs of games Hasbro now owns. If someone came out with AlwaysQuest which was so much like EverQuest consumers couldn't tell the difference, any smart judge would throw the book at AlwaysQuest, if it even got to that. Get a clue people, even the GPL doesn't allow crap like this.
The technology for RDRAM is a little dated, it was being developed to contend with EDO RAM which was a slow beast. Rambus RAM does have the capability to reduce its latency to where it is about the same speed as SDRAM, the problem lies in Intel's chipset with only a single memory channel. DDRSRAM is really cool because the fab process is so much similar to regular SDRAM which means we can pick it up for a low price. The DDR people claim a 2.6GB/s transfer rate which is true but that is burst transfer, it fairs much worse under sustained transfer. Given a good chipset and better fab techniques RDRAM could feasibly end up all over the place. The real killer with Rambus is the stupid licensing, if they would lower their fees a good deal and let volume make up the difference everyone would be much happier.
funny on this article. Everyone is bitching "we need PNG support in our browsers" yet I haven't seen one person say they had contributed some code to a PNG project or to Mozilla or anything. Is it me or are there more people complaining and less people actually doing things? We all know PNG support is needed in browsers and yes we also know slashdot still uses GIFs. If all the current browsers supported PNG, slashdot could switch over to them and there would be no problem. If you want PNG support tell the programmers of the browser you particularly like, offer to help them test it out or maybe help with some code or something. I'm not a very good programmer but whenever I can I'll try to help out on a project, closed or not. It's like everyone loves watching PBS but no one is giving any money to big bird.
Duh, how do you think AOL and Yahoo make all their money?
HAHAHAHAH
Uh...open the GIF in Photoshop and then convert it's colour mode from indexed to RGB, you'll then be able to use all of Photoshop's pretty filters and such. When you're done, switch the image back into indexed colour (however many colours suits your fancy) and then export it as a GIF. Voila.
Would you recognize the inserted back door if you weren't damn familiar with GCC and C for that matter? I could write the backdoor in assembler and have GCC's code insert it into the app, then you'd have to be damn fluent in assembler to figure out what was going on. You're never as clever as you think you are.
You're forgetting someone who has some clout in the industry again, Apple. The iMac has really laid waste to the low price easy to use market, it invented many aspects of it. The G4s are super powers and many people are really itching to play some good games on them. Video card manufacturers are now supporting their AGP and PCI products on Mac because it is profitable again. With a ROM change and some drivers, you could feasibly use a GeForce card in your Sawtooth G4.
Uh..dude? A PII 266 would be OVERKILL for a box that is only a gateway and firewall. If you need to use a PII run Samba and d.net on it or something, otherwise you're really wasting your hardware. Some friends of mine have had trouble playing Tribes at the same time behind a firewall but I think the main problem lies in configuring ipmasq.
I think that the TEACHERS ought to become a little bit more wired and let the students use devices to access the teacher/school's material. I think a much better idea than a true laptop would be something like a ruggedized Clio or Jornada, under a thousand dollars but versatile enough that they could do many of the things the students needed. The teachers are the people that are under-wired. While they shouldn't be forced to change their teaching style to revolve around computers, I think computers could really clean up the clutter in the classroom. I remember in high school the teachers had papers and more papers piled in stacks on and around their desk, even the cleanest teachers always has a messy desk. I used to have to clean those things as a TA, it was killer to keep those damn plastic sheets clean. Single use overhead sheets and paper could be replaced by computers that hold the same data but a little more efficiently. Having electronic notes would also be a boon to students if they could download them or assignments. As for the students, I think they could benefit from computers also. The ability to translate documents into other languages is a big plus, especially for places like California where Spanish is a very widely spoken second language. Stuff like this could be affordable if the schools buy things on lease and pay them off over a number of years. If they start with high school freshmen and get a 48 month lease on the portable they wouldnt have to pay very much per year to pay off the equipment. Considering California spends almost 5000$ per student per year 200 some dollars isn't that much extra. The whole thing only works if the entire school is wired at the same time, the electronic framework for the teachers has to be in place before you suddenly wire all of the students. Of course there is the problem of the students selling their stuff which could easily be remedied by making the things so garish that you couldn't sell them to anyone. I don't know if we'll see this soon, my jr. high school couldn't budget free three ring binders for its students.
And? I wasn't saying every electron takes a vacation out to M100 every second. COnsidering the number of electrons in the universe is somewhere about a googleplex to the power of a googleplex to another googleplex it is fairly safe to assert that There is a decent number of electrons not existing anywhere near their atom at any given moment.
For anyone that was paying attention, the Dreamcast has a modem which is attached to an expansion port. This means (put on your thinking caps) you can *remove* it and add an Ethernet or Firewire adapter to this so-called expansion port. Having an expansion port is a good thing because you can attach anything you like to it as long as you pack it with a driver disk. I think the expansion port is a much much better idea than hardwiring a modem into the DC for the very reason that more people are getting xDSL and cable access. If Sony has a smart set of fellows working for them they will do something similar, hopefully even make the hard drive an option. They could just ship the PS2 with an expansion bay you COULD stick a hard drive into, it would keep the price down and give them some room to expand.
As an aside I was thinking about Sony and what their plans might be for the future, I'm thinking after the PS2 has been out for a year or two, maybe three, they're going to start building VAIO PCs and laptops based around the EE (maybe with some modifications to make it a little more general purpose) and some of the PS2's architecture. Right now they are making a run for consumer's living rooms and the next logical step would be the office. The PCs they sell now are Intel's bitches and in many ways are being held back by Intel and x86. Don't give me crap about Itanium, the EE is out NOW not sometime next year. The EE would be a real boon to Sony in the audio/visual editing department considering audio and video filters are just a bunch of operations performed on the samples or pixels (the vector units on that puppy would tear through high demand video filters). The PS2 is primarily a gaming machine but I think it's secondary objective is to test out some architectural ideas. Sony might even try to poise itself as the next decade's SGI. That's just my five pesos.
Where do you get that the PS2 runs a Linux kernel? I think you're smokin bad hash man.
first a way to SEE a laptop screen outside in the sun. It might be fun for people with Gameboys or Palm Pilots but not laptops.
I think the factor of people paying real money for virtual items would go away for the most part if the games contained a real economic system which was open to player to player and player to NPC sales. It would add alot of realism to the game's environment if you could auction off or sell something you had found or earned. But you say "then people can just get the same rare item a bunch of times and and make megabucks". To that I say give every character and item a 40-bit or so identifier tag. If two tags show up on the same server it maybe nullifies the item or doesn't let the person connect to that server. This would let there be LOTS of items and characters but would prevent people from getting duplicates. These tags could also be registered with the game's publishers on a secure server so you could check if a player had legit equipment. Diablo became a hackfest if you even dared to use a legit character. The ID tag could be enabled on the server level so it would be up to the server if they wanted to enforce legit items. Some people might complain about privacy but it's one of the few ways I can think of to defraud the frauders.
How about a closed client and open server? That makes more sense to ANY game company, stop whining because stuff isn't free as in beer. I would rather pay 40$ for the game and get a free server included with it. Then I could set up my own special server on my T1, ADSL, ect for free. Having a plethora of servers means the users can be in charge of running the game without paying obscene prices for the servers et al.
quantum travel look to your nearest electron, they have a funny little ability to tunnel through space to be anyplace they want to be. In an S-orbital an electron is only around the atom 90 some percent of the time, the rest of the time it's off galavanting in the Andromeda galaxy or someplace. Quantum physics is fun!