Public stock isnt voting stock (voting stock is where you have some responcibilities in the company). Public stock is used just to raise money for a company, then the company pays out dividends on each stock so if the company makes money you make money for investing in them. If I bought all the public stock a company offered I still wouldn't own them because it's a portion (usually under 20% of the company) so no one can buy them out without buying out the owners.
in some ways and bad in others. Perl is not going to be hijacked by M$, it cant be. I think M$ wants to add more perl functionality to IIS and BackOffice because they keep getting their asses kicked by Apache. No one other than MSCE soul less NT admins really use ASP. Perl is used on a majority of servers because it can run anywhere unix can run, which means high end super systems or cheap scrapped together Pentium 100's with alot of RAM. I would like to see perl ported to Windows so I could use them instead of writing arcane batch files or VB scripts. I can't run my batch files through emacs to see if I made any naughty little typos.
Why is there an Office 2000 ad up in the top frame?
is no more intelligent than an if {} then {} else {} statement. This kind of coding has been around for years...it's not THAT great. But what i find cool is that it's the first time it's been givin authority over a satillite's internel systems. Hopefully we can see this kind of stuff prosper. NASA is already doing well with their smaller, faster, cheaper projects, now they need to add smarter to it. Research in this area will make anyone launching a sallite have an easier time maintaining it. Maybe this can start being applied to the non-satillite-launching community, Airliners that diagnose themselves and all those other nifty kinda things.
Merced is RISC. The whole Pentium line is a cross between CISC and RISC, thats why it's become so popular. The MMX and SSE instruction sets, along with the others are all RISC sets used in a CISC environment. The Merced is to RISC that the Pentium is to CISC. It's a full 64 bits which means it will be comparable to Alpha, MIPS, UltraSPARC, ect..
Forking the code has worked rather well with the BSD kernel though hasnt it? FreeBSD is rather portable and in several ways more powerful than the linux kernel. NetBSD is one of the most portable OSes I have ever seen, it will run on nearly everything. OpenBSD is damn secure. If the people responcible for for the various BSDes werent able to fork code, everyone would have to use the original BSD kernel. Perl isn'y going to be screwed up by Microsoft, they just are putting money into it because it beats the hell out of ASP. More people use perl because it will run on anything with an interpeter or CGI, ASP only works with NT and properly patched Apache.
the great compitition that many people expected. But it's a start. 70$ for a domain instead of 75$ over at NSI is still a savings...five dollars can put a gallon or two of gas in my car..but it's a start. Hopefully more companies will get on it and we'll end up with more higher level domains and a little more choice in our domain names, along with a smaller price tag. it's not alot but it's a start.
Having a terabit per second isn't meant to instantly drop the price of a T1 or T3. It's meant to facilitate the drop in those prices. I will be nice when all the backbones are replaced with much bigger pipes, then the overall data transfer cost will be oodles less than it is now. Eventually these savings pass on to you the customer, not right away, eventually. 28.8 and 56.6 connections are going to be around for a while yet. They are easy for local telcos to handle since they dont need any new hardware and the equipment is very inexpensive for the user. If telcos can backbones can squeeze more data into existing fiber networks they get very happy and end up lower prices on smaller pipe connections like T3's and T1's. It also helps to relieve congestion because of small pipes, now all the gamers dont need to complain about suzy hommaker watching TNN in real video.
I have a little C experience but for the most part I program perl. But with linux couldn't an API be created (similar to x windows) just for playing games? It could specialize in graphics and sound in 2D and 3D. Maybe even a virtual enviroment for the game to run. using a specialized engine would simplify game coding because you could use a standard library and it would be built from the start for high graphics loads. Glide, GFX, Mesa or any other driver set could be incorporated into it for the 3D to 2D conversion.
If they can keep the price of these down we could have beacoup memory in handheld devices, the Palm X with 1 gig of memory. We'll also hopefully see more powerful handheld devices, since they can get more processing power in such a small space. Now if the screens werent so small, LEPs anyone? NASA and telcoms that build those expensive satillites will love this. They can get higher processing to weight ratios which means more bang for their buck. Maybe we'll see this in the Centurion (you know, one of the projects to use high altitude aircraft for data transmission)
First, DSL is NEW TECHNOLOGY at least in the sense of an ISP offering it to home subscribers (yes I'm aware it's been around for years in T1 connections). If you can't get service, don't complain and wait a few months like I have to. Second, if you happen to currently live in a place where you cant get DSL (like me) dont complain. You just have to be patient. Third, never expect the service advertised, if you believe advertisements please go hit yourself in the head with a shovel. Companies will do anything to get your business, it's safe to go with a larger company that you have at least some trust in, not a little startup (I have nothing against small startups) that may or may not be legitimate. Fourth, if you're upset because you can't run a Q3A server from home because of a "no server" policy, think about how you're connected to the net. It all goes back to a T3 (in some rare cases a faster connection) which is very expensive and usually has transfer limits. You say "well I couldnt transfer that much data", think if everyone had the ability to run a server and half of them did, you would easily go over the transfer limits. I have a cable modem which I just had installed two weeks ago and I am very happy with it. Like most people with cable modems I have to use a regular analog modem for upstream data. I don't mind this because in a few months the service will be upgraded (for free) to no return path and I will be really happy. I have also noticed that my upstream transfers are about 10-20% faster which I attribute to faster downstream packet acknowlegements but I may be wrong. My average download speed in about 400kb/s which translates to about 50 kilobytes per second. This is about the same speed as I get using the frame relay at school on a node in one of the labs. I got my service on a deal and only pay 20$ a month which includes modem rental, a static IP, my Earthlink account and cable service. The normal price is about 45$/mo which isn't unreasonable. I can see where some people would have bandwidth problems but a majority of people with cable modems shouldnt have much difficulty with bandwidth. The office's conenction is a T3 and they have a user cap of about 3000 (a single modem is limited to 512kb/s downstream) but currently only has about 600 users. If the user cap were hit they would just add another T3, something I assume most providers would do. When my service becomes two way I may not switch to DSL, DSL is alot more expensive than my service (it's more expensive than a regular cable price) and may or may not give me a good connection in my area.
I dont complain about any fast connection, it's faster than my v.90 connection
Have you ever looked into bandwidth prices for something like say...a T3? They are very expensive, and usually the T3 provider has transfer limits, if you go over these limits you have to pay for all the extra bandwidth you used. The reason they dont want you using your DSL as a server is because you may have several gigs transfered in a month which is over their transfer limit and they have to pay for all of that. Everything transmitted over the internet costs money. If you want to run a server from your house buy a dedicated line (T1 or fractional T1) which is meant for servers and don't hog a provider's bandwidth. Or you could pay for a co-location which you can run your server on. I dont want my monthly bill going up to pay for your overextended transfers.
Raster isn't being unprofessional, RedHat is starting to resemble Microsoft a little too much. Rushing software to market before it's ready (GNOME 1.0), trying to get users to use software they prefer (GNOME), forgetting to include GCC in the standard installation, and charging WAY too much for their product. SuSE offers the same technical support but costs 50$ less than RedHat. I think RH has gotten a little to big for it's britches. Raster is right in calling them a Windows clone. Sure I would like an easier installation/upgrade/maintenance linux system, but not at the cost of funtionality. This is whats happening at RedHat, they are sacrificing form for funtion. Finally someone had the nerve to stand up to them (Way to go Raster!!), they get all the free publicity from the computer magazines and technology news reports, which makes them feel like they are bigger than they are.
a monopoly IS NOT just their line of software. It is all the other communication mediums they are buying. And the communication mediums they are trying to control by "supporting" them with their propriatary software. Microsoft owns or is a joint venture-partnership-partial owner in many companies all around the world. One company trying to the end-all be-all source of information is what we call a monopoly. They are slowly trying to own as many forms of media as they can get their hands on. Cable companies, ISPs, hardware manufacturers, ect., if you dont call this monopolistic then you need to buy a microsoft brand dictionary (soon to be released) and look it up, it's cross referenced with Microsoft and Windows.
Just think about how much the average computer user sees the Microsoft logo. It's everywhere, they see it when they boot up the computer, run a program from the start menu, cuss at it because it crashed. That is alot of free exposure that other companies would normally have to pay for, but since Microsoft can leverage companies into using their products so the users are bombarded with Microsoft. This is one of the main reasons why applications like Access and Excel like to only allow you to view their files in the Microsoft program...unless you want to make a VB (also made by Microsoft) program to run your database or spreadsheet. It's all about increasing exposure so you can never get away from the logo, name, or business image. "Need an answer? look to Microsoft...". Exposure is why Microsoft pressed IBM into getting rid of OS/2. Whenever someone had the ability to choose a non-Microsoft product to put on their workstation or terminal they often would. Microsoft needs to have their OS be pre-installed in new computers, otherwise people wouldn't use it. What i want to see from the government's anti-trust case is for microsoft to be split up into smaller companies, one company should not be able to purchase all of the public's form of communication.
It's Intel's fault that you didn't look into the motherboard specs to see if it was REALLY upgradable? It seems to me the 486 DX was upgradeable to a Pentium 100...but i could be wrong.
inner city gangs. I mean think about it, they usually have really terrible naming conventions, their own style of writing/typing that only makes sense to them (but people are supposed to read it and be intimidated), their destructive abilities are only present in large groups, and any little crime is seen as some big deal. I do not care about DoS attacks against a web server, big deal, I could run a script too. I don't think it's right to abuse someone else's network and cost them alot of money (there are a few exceptions). I'm all for striking a blow against the Man, but DoSing their website? ooooooooo. I really wish the media would stop giving them so much attention, it only makes them try harder to piss people off. they get off at seeing their name in the paper or on a website.
Everyone who is concerned with creating a paradox by going back in time to kill themselves thus preventing themselves from doing so and creating a paradox is forgetting one little detail, our universe has an infinite number of facets. Quantum physisists have found that this is indeed true, the only way to determine the characteristics of a particle is to look at it. While this sounds like something you might take for greanted it isn't. Shrodingers (sp?) cat is the most often used example. The properties anything are undeterminable until viewed from an outside point of reference. This can apply not only to particle physics but to dimensional physics. For every moment there is an infinite number of possibilities for that moment for every point in the universe, and you only see one set of facets every moment. imagine points in the universe like coins. Spin them on their sides and let them all land, when they all land, face up or down that is a single moment, now repeat this process with an infinite number of coins with an infinite number of sides to understand what I'm getting at. Therefore you can only create a paradox in so many parallel instances. And therefore not create a true paradox, only one thats limited by the number of instances you actually go back in time and kill yourself.
As to faster than light travel, you would not go back in time unless you actually accelerated near the speed of light, the whole theory of FTL travel is never actually reaching the speed of light, just sidestepping part of the distance between your point of origin and your destination. Which needs no "inertia dampeners" or the like, just a warp feild generator (I say that like you can pick one up at Pep Boys).
not just a P4 or something. It is meant to use a 64 bit operating system and 64 bit compilers. Although it will run 32 bit applications with hardware and not 16 emulation in the kernel like the Windows NX kernel. You could probably run any x86 based OS on it pretty well but if the OS is compiled and optimized for the IA-64 then it will run MUCH better. The new compiling techniques of combining all processes that can be parallel in the code is a great improvement over the chip trying to figure it out in real time. All CPU intensive processes compiled with this technique (which is done when the program is compiled) will run faster than the same program not compiled in this fashion. This processor is also fully RISC (AFAIK), so it would be comparable to a an UltraSPARC or DEC Alpha chip...just much cheaper I hope. The hardware aside, the software will benefit alot from this architecture too. I can think of a few things I would like. A 64 bit linux kernel, a native Solaris environment to the Merced, 64 bit Quake w/ 128 bit AGP bus with it's own multiplier so the AGP and memory bus can run at chip core speed. I just hope AMD can come out with a comparable chip to give Intel some competition in the 64 bit workstation market. I don't see why not, they could easily get some of the Alpha's people working for them.
Your newspaper, senator, congressman doesn't care. The whole reason this is allowed in the first place is that no one cares. Anyone in support of the project in some way benefits from it so they aren't going to stop it. Anyone opposed to it is regarded as a conspiracy theorist and dismissed just as easily. And people who don't care ignorethe conspiracy theorists and usually listen to the supporters because they dislike conspiracy theorists.
It isn't a matter of privacy that pisses me and many others off, it's the lack thereof that the NSA provides so nicely for us. Wether I'm going to outline a new plan for cold fusion or tell someone of a new 100 acre plot on Ultima Online, I sent it to whomever I'm speaking to and not nsa.gov for the simple reason the government doesn't need to know. You're too trusting in the government wanting and being able to protect you. If you think the NSA has you in mind when they start reading emails you're sorely mistaken, they want to protect their assets and give themselves more power over the people with no power.
Anchor:One of the worst power outages in the United States just got cleaned up this week. Unfortunately this power outages was during one of the worst heat waves recorded in the state of California and many ave suffered from heat exhaustion and stroke. Hundreds suffered from the unbearable heat, resulting in dozens of heat related deaths. Several hospitals lost power for much longer than expected before backup generators came on-line, resulting in 12 deaths.
News reporter:The body of Gregory Hill a.k.a IzeMa|\| was found early this morning by friends coming to pick him up for work. He had been shot in the back of the head assassination style. Friends say he had no enemies and they have no idea who is respocible. Nothing in his apartment was stolen or vandalized. It is rumored though that Gregory was part of a CIA assembled team of "hackers" that fought a clandestine information war against the Serbian army in Kosovo.
Headline:Attacks by hackers have crippled several national banks causing the loss of nearly 2 billion.
This is what cyberwar means, it isn't just attacks from us to them, it's also retaliation. Think about how vulnerable the US is to a cyber attack of any kind. I don't have to write up a scenario for all of them, there are just too many. This is just another weapon for some armchair general to tell someone else to use. Cyberwar is NOT by any means a clean business. Many people will die if there is ever an all out war. The destructiveness isn't measured in number of deaths or cities destroyed, its measured in the destablization of an economy, local or national. And its things like that which cause the powers that be to rescind the rights of the constitution in order to "protect" the American population. We become a powerless military state "for the duration". How many books and movies have been written about this sort of scenaro happening? TONS. You know why? because it's a very valid fear these days. This sort of espionage has been going on as long as there have been networks of any kind, except now those networks are much more crucial to our way of life. Before the Cold War ended i had to worry about a nuclear war that wipes out life as we know it, now I have to fear a war that will destroy the technology that our society depends on. Imagine all the Y2K hoopla coming true, except the culprit isn't a bunch of date errors and roll over problems, but intentional attacks on our infrastructure.
But what can I expect from the NSA and CIA, which were created to serve the national interest, note I said national interest and not public interest. The NSA for years has been logging decrypting and reading e-mail in Europe, the CIA regularly practices their cyberwar capabilities on foreign computer systems and networks. The NSA also collects as much information as they can about ANYONE they want. You think the FBI is bad about information gathering, I would love to see some of the files in the NSA libraries. These two organizations have become so far removed from the public interest they are practically whole new branches of government. But you think "oh well no one would work for the NSA unless they were a die hard patriot" or some crap. Well what happens when they come to you with a naughty piece of dirt from you past that would ruin your life if someone found out, or you were majorly in debt and they promised to get you off the hook if you helped them out on a "project". The CIA used to do this to get foreign nationals to betray their own country, what would stop them from getting hackers to work for them the same way. But all casulties would be a result of war therefore justified.
The reason this is so long and I'm so pissed about this is because when I saw the Berlin wall come down I figured that we were going to enter a more peaceful time. No more mutually assured destruction, no more wondering how far you have to be from ground zero to survive. Now we have to fear our technological infrastructure being threatened. Sure, a few lives lost in a power outage or plane crash isn't the same as a nuclear holocaust, but cyberwar uses a very old and tried form of warfare: terrorism. People become afraid to use the technology we've become accustmed to because there is the fear that it will be the next cyber terrorism target. p.s. I dont know anyone named Gregory Hill, it was the best name I could think of on the spot. no offence to anyone.
FreeBSD also has much better SMP support than linux does, UFS is also a little faster than ext2 (so I'm told but I may be talking out of my ass). The new WC server has like 4 Xeons, and a bunch of RAM. I would guess that if it were on linux they would have to drop the user limit back to 3000. But thats just a guess.
Ever look at c:\windows ? You can't tell me thats not complicated. The only reason Windows SEEMS easier to use than any unix variant is Windows has a standard GUI and developer kit. And the GUI is built-in which means people can equate things visually rather than logically by reading it on a CLI. Wzards make a big difference in handling complex projects, if someone would create visual scripting/wizards for *nix then all wouldb e well, and I would have to fsck with RPM anymore.
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Public stock isnt voting stock (voting stock is where you have some responcibilities in the company). Public stock is used just to raise money for a company, then the company pays out dividends on each stock so if the company makes money you make money for investing in them. If I bought all the public stock a company offered I still wouldn't own them because it's a portion (usually under 20% of the company) so no one can buy them out without buying out the owners.
in some ways and bad in others. Perl is not going to be hijacked by M$, it cant be. I think M$ wants to add more perl functionality to IIS and BackOffice because they keep getting their asses kicked by Apache. No one other than MSCE soul less NT admins really use ASP. Perl is used on a majority of servers because it can run anywhere unix can run, which means high end super systems or cheap scrapped together Pentium 100's with alot of RAM. I would like to see perl ported to Windows so I could use them instead of writing arcane batch files or VB scripts. I can't run my batch files through emacs to see if I made any naughty little typos.
Why is there an Office 2000 ad up in the top frame?
is no more intelligent than an if {} then {} else {} statement. This kind of coding has been around for years...it's not THAT great. But what i find cool is that it's the first time it's been givin authority over a satillite's internel systems. Hopefully we can see this kind of stuff prosper. NASA is already doing well with their smaller, faster, cheaper projects, now they need to add smarter to it. Research in this area will make anyone launching a sallite have an easier time maintaining it. Maybe this can start being applied to the non-satillite-launching community, Airliners that diagnose themselves and all those other nifty kinda things.
Merced is RISC. The whole Pentium line is a cross between CISC and RISC, thats why it's become so popular. The MMX and SSE instruction sets, along with the others are all RISC sets used in a CISC environment. The Merced is to RISC that the Pentium is to CISC. It's a full 64 bits which means it will be comparable to Alpha, MIPS, UltraSPARC, ect..
Forking the code has worked rather well with the BSD kernel though hasnt it? FreeBSD is rather portable and in several ways more powerful than the linux kernel. NetBSD is one of the most portable OSes I have ever seen, it will run on nearly everything. OpenBSD is damn secure. If the people responcible for for the various BSDes werent able to fork code, everyone would have to use the original BSD kernel. Perl isn'y going to be screwed up by Microsoft, they just are putting money into it because it beats the hell out of ASP. More people use perl because it will run on anything with an interpeter or CGI, ASP only works with NT and properly patched Apache.
the great compitition that many people expected. But it's a start. 70$ for a domain instead of 75$ over at NSI is still a savings...five dollars can put a gallon or two of gas in my car..but it's a start. Hopefully more companies will get on it and we'll end up with more higher level domains and a little more choice in our domain names, along with a smaller price tag. it's not alot but it's a start.
Having a terabit per second isn't meant to instantly drop the price of a T1 or T3. It's meant to facilitate the drop in those prices. I will be nice when all the backbones are replaced with much bigger pipes, then the overall data transfer cost will be oodles less than it is now. Eventually these savings pass on to you the customer, not right away, eventually. 28.8 and 56.6 connections are going to be around for a while yet. They are easy for local telcos to handle since they dont need any new hardware and the equipment is very inexpensive for the user. If telcos can backbones can squeeze more data into existing fiber networks they get very happy and end up lower prices on smaller pipe connections like T3's and T1's. It also helps to relieve congestion because of small pipes, now all the gamers dont need to complain about suzy hommaker watching TNN in real video.
I have a little C experience but for the most part I program perl. But with linux couldn't an API be created (similar to x windows) just for playing games? It could specialize in graphics and sound in 2D and 3D. Maybe even a virtual enviroment for the game to run. using a specialized engine would simplify game coding because you could use a standard library and it would be built from the start for high graphics loads. Glide, GFX, Mesa or any other driver set could be incorporated into it for the 3D to 2D conversion.
If they can keep the price of these down we could have beacoup memory in handheld devices, the Palm X with 1 gig of memory. We'll also hopefully see more powerful handheld devices, since they can get more processing power in such a small space. Now if the screens werent so small, LEPs anyone?
NASA and telcoms that build those expensive satillites will love this. They can get higher processing to weight ratios which means more bang for their buck. Maybe we'll see this in the Centurion (you know, one of the projects to use high altitude aircraft for data transmission)
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Lets hope other 3D card makers folow suit. Maybe we can start seeing more games for linux (John Carmack is our friend).
First, DSL is NEW TECHNOLOGY at least in the sense of an ISP offering it to home subscribers (yes I'm aware it's been around for years in T1 connections). If you can't get service, don't complain and wait a few months like I have to.
Second, if you happen to currently live in a place where you cant get DSL (like me) dont complain. You just have to be patient.
Third, never expect the service advertised, if you believe advertisements please go hit yourself in the head with a shovel. Companies will do anything to get your business, it's safe to go with a larger company that you have at least some trust in, not a little startup (I have nothing against small startups) that may or may not be legitimate.
Fourth, if you're upset because you can't run a Q3A server from home because of a "no server" policy, think about how you're connected to the net. It all goes back to a T3 (in some rare cases a faster connection) which is very expensive and usually has transfer limits. You say "well I couldnt transfer that much data", think if everyone had the ability to run a server and half of them did, you would easily go over the transfer limits.
I have a cable modem which I just had installed two weeks ago and I am very happy with it. Like most people with cable modems I have to use a regular analog modem for upstream data. I don't mind this because in a few months the service will be upgraded (for free) to no return path and I will be really happy. I have also noticed that my upstream transfers are about 10-20% faster which I attribute to faster downstream packet acknowlegements but I may be wrong. My average download speed in about 400kb/s which translates to about 50 kilobytes per second. This is about the same speed as I get using the frame relay at school on a node in one of the labs. I got my service on a deal and only pay 20$ a month which includes modem rental, a static IP, my Earthlink account and cable service. The normal price is about 45$/mo which isn't unreasonable. I can see where some people would have bandwidth problems but a majority of people with cable modems shouldnt have much difficulty with bandwidth. The office's conenction is a T3 and they have a user cap of about 3000 (a single modem is limited to 512kb/s downstream) but currently only has about 600 users. If the user cap were hit they would just add another T3, something I assume most providers would do. When my service becomes two way I may not switch to DSL, DSL is alot more expensive than my service (it's more expensive than a regular cable price) and may or may not give me a good connection in my area.
I dont complain about any fast connection, it's faster than my v.90 connection
Have you ever looked into bandwidth prices for something like say...a T3? They are very expensive, and usually the T3 provider has transfer limits, if you go over these limits you have to pay for all the extra bandwidth you used. The reason they dont want you using your DSL as a server is because you may have several gigs transfered in a month which is over their transfer limit and they have to pay for all of that. Everything transmitted over the internet costs money. If you want to run a server from your house buy a dedicated line (T1 or fractional T1) which is meant for servers and don't hog a provider's bandwidth. Or you could pay for a co-location which you can run your server on. I dont want my monthly bill going up to pay for your overextended transfers.
What part of california do those 80-90% live? I live in California and I cant get DSL service.
Raster isn't being unprofessional, RedHat is starting to resemble Microsoft a little too much. Rushing software to market before it's ready (GNOME 1.0), trying to get users to use software they prefer (GNOME), forgetting to include GCC in the standard installation, and charging WAY too much for their product. SuSE offers the same technical support but costs 50$ less than RedHat. I think RH has gotten a little to big for it's britches. Raster is right in calling them a Windows clone. Sure I would like an easier installation/upgrade/maintenance linux system, but not at the cost of funtionality. This is whats happening at RedHat, they are sacrificing form for funtion. Finally someone had the nerve to stand up to them (Way to go Raster!!), they get all the free publicity from the computer magazines and technology news reports, which makes them feel like they are bigger than they are.
a monopoly IS NOT just their line of software. It is all the other communication mediums they are buying. And the communication mediums they are trying to control by "supporting" them with their propriatary software. Microsoft owns or is a joint venture-partnership-partial owner in many companies all around the world. One company trying to the end-all be-all source of information is what we call a monopoly. They are slowly trying to own as many forms of media as they can get their hands on. Cable companies, ISPs, hardware manufacturers, ect., if you dont call this monopolistic then you need to buy a microsoft brand dictionary (soon to be released) and look it up, it's cross referenced with Microsoft and Windows.
Just think about how much the average computer user sees the Microsoft logo. It's everywhere, they see it when they boot up the computer, run a program from the start menu, cuss at it because it crashed. That is alot of free exposure that other companies would normally have to pay for, but since Microsoft can leverage companies into using their products so the users are bombarded with Microsoft. This is one of the main reasons why applications like Access and Excel like to only allow you to view their files in the Microsoft program...unless you want to make a VB (also made by Microsoft) program to run your database or spreadsheet. It's all about increasing exposure so you can never get away from the logo, name, or business image. "Need an answer? look to Microsoft...". Exposure is why Microsoft pressed IBM into getting rid of OS/2. Whenever someone had the ability to choose a non-Microsoft product to put on their workstation or terminal they often would. Microsoft needs to have their OS be pre-installed in new computers, otherwise people wouldn't use it. What i want to see from the government's anti-trust case is for microsoft to be split up into smaller companies, one company should not be able to purchase all of the public's form of communication.
It's Intel's fault that you didn't look into the motherboard specs to see if it was REALLY upgradable? It seems to me the 486 DX was upgradeable to a Pentium 100...but i could be wrong.
inner city gangs. I mean think about it, they usually have really terrible naming conventions, their own style of writing/typing that only makes sense to them (but people are supposed to read it and be intimidated), their destructive abilities are only present in large groups, and any little crime is seen as some big deal. I do not care about DoS attacks against a web server, big deal, I could run a script too. I don't think it's right to abuse someone else's network and cost them alot of money (there are a few exceptions). I'm all for striking a blow against the Man, but DoSing their website? ooooooooo. I really wish the media would stop giving them so much attention, it only makes them try harder to piss people off. they get off at seeing their name in the paper or on a website.
Everyone who is concerned with creating a paradox by going back in time to kill themselves thus preventing themselves from doing so and creating a paradox is forgetting one little detail, our universe has an infinite number of facets. Quantum physisists have found that this is indeed true, the only way to determine the characteristics of a particle is to look at it. While this sounds like something you might take for greanted it isn't. Shrodingers (sp?) cat is the most often used example. The properties anything are undeterminable until viewed from an outside point of reference. This can apply not only to particle physics but to dimensional physics. For every moment there is an infinite number of possibilities for that moment for every point in the universe, and you only see one set of facets every moment. imagine points in the universe like coins. Spin them on their sides and let them all land, when they all land, face up or down that is a single moment, now repeat this process with an infinite number of coins with an infinite number of sides to understand what I'm getting at. Therefore you can only create a paradox in so many parallel instances. And therefore not create a true paradox, only one thats limited by the number of instances you actually go back in time and kill yourself.
As to faster than light travel, you would not go back in time unless you actually accelerated near the speed of light, the whole theory of FTL travel is never actually reaching the speed of light, just sidestepping part of the distance between your point of origin and your destination. Which needs no "inertia dampeners" or the like, just a warp feild generator (I say that like you can pick one up at Pep Boys).
not just a P4 or something. It is meant to use a 64 bit operating system and 64 bit compilers. Although it will run 32 bit applications with hardware and not 16 emulation in the kernel like the Windows NX kernel. You could probably run any x86 based OS on it pretty well but if the OS is compiled and optimized for the IA-64 then it will run MUCH better. The new compiling techniques of combining all processes that can be parallel in the code is a great improvement over the chip trying to figure it out in real time. All CPU intensive processes compiled with this technique (which is done when the program is compiled) will run faster than the same program not compiled in this fashion. This processor is also fully RISC (AFAIK), so it would be comparable to a an UltraSPARC or DEC Alpha chip...just much cheaper I hope. The hardware aside, the software will benefit alot from this architecture too. I can think of a few things I would like. A 64 bit linux kernel, a native Solaris environment to the Merced, 64 bit Quake w/ 128 bit AGP bus with it's own multiplier so the AGP and memory bus can run at chip core speed. I just hope AMD can come out with a comparable chip to give Intel some competition in the 64 bit workstation market. I don't see why not, they could easily get some of the Alpha's people working for them.
Your newspaper, senator, congressman doesn't care. The whole reason this is allowed in the first place is that no one cares. Anyone in support of the project in some way benefits from it so they aren't going to stop it. Anyone opposed to it is regarded as a conspiracy theorist and dismissed just as easily. And people who don't care ignorethe conspiracy theorists and usually listen to the supporters because they dislike conspiracy theorists.
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It isn't a matter of privacy that pisses me and many others off, it's the lack thereof that the NSA provides so nicely for us. Wether I'm going to outline a new plan for cold fusion or tell someone of a new 100 acre plot on Ultima Online, I sent it to whomever I'm speaking to and not nsa.gov for the simple reason the government doesn't need to know. You're too trusting in the government wanting and being able to protect you. If you think the NSA has you in mind when they start reading emails you're sorely mistaken, they want to protect their assets and give themselves more power over the people with no power.
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August 12th 1999
Anchor:One of the worst power outages in the United States just got cleaned up this week. Unfortunately this power outages was during one of the worst heat waves recorded in the state of California and many ave suffered from heat exhaustion and stroke. Hundreds suffered from the unbearable heat, resulting in dozens of heat related deaths. Several hospitals lost power for much longer than expected before backup generators came on-line, resulting in 12 deaths.
News reporter:The body of Gregory Hill a.k.a IzeMa|\| was found early this morning by friends coming to pick him up for work. He had been shot in the back of the head assassination style. Friends say he had no enemies and they have no idea who is respocible. Nothing in his apartment was stolen or vandalized. It is rumored though that Gregory was part of a CIA assembled team of "hackers" that fought a clandestine information war against the Serbian army in Kosovo.
Headline:Attacks by hackers have crippled several national banks causing the loss of nearly 2 billion.
This is what cyberwar means, it isn't just attacks from us to them, it's also retaliation. Think about how vulnerable the US is to a cyber attack of any kind. I don't have to write up a scenario for all of them, there are just too many. This is just another weapon for some armchair general to tell someone else to use. Cyberwar is NOT by any means a clean business. Many people will die if there is ever an all out war. The destructiveness isn't measured in number of deaths or cities destroyed, its measured in the destablization of an economy, local or national. And its things like that which cause the powers that be to rescind the rights of the constitution in order to "protect" the American population. We become a powerless military state "for the duration". How many books and movies have been written about this sort of scenaro happening? TONS. You know why? because it's a very valid fear these days. This sort of espionage has been going on as long as there have been networks of any kind, except now those networks are much more crucial to our way of life. Before the Cold War ended i had to worry about a nuclear war that wipes out life as we know it, now I have to fear a war that will destroy the technology that our society depends on. Imagine all the Y2K hoopla coming true, except the culprit isn't a bunch of date errors and roll over problems, but intentional attacks on our infrastructure.
But what can I expect from the NSA and CIA, which were created to serve the national interest, note I said national interest and not public interest. The NSA for years has been logging decrypting and reading e-mail in Europe, the CIA regularly practices their cyberwar capabilities on foreign computer systems and networks. The NSA also collects as much information as they can about ANYONE they want. You think the FBI is bad about information gathering, I would love to see some of the files in the NSA libraries. These two organizations have become so far removed from the public interest they are practically whole new branches of government. But you think "oh well no one would work for the NSA unless they were a die hard patriot" or some crap. Well what happens when they come to you with a naughty piece of dirt from you past that would ruin your life if someone found out, or you were majorly in debt and they promised to get you off the hook if you helped them out on a "project". The CIA used to do this to get foreign nationals to betray their own country, what would stop them from getting hackers to work for them the same way. But all casulties would be a result of war therefore justified.
The reason this is so long and I'm so pissed about this is because when I saw the Berlin wall come down I figured that we were going to enter a more peaceful time. No more mutually assured destruction, no more wondering how far you have to be from ground zero to survive. Now we have to fear our technological infrastructure being threatened. Sure, a few lives lost in a power outage or plane crash isn't the same as a nuclear holocaust, but cyberwar uses a very old and tried form of warfare: terrorism. People become afraid to use the technology we've become accustmed to because there is the fear that it will be the next cyber terrorism target.
p.s. I dont know anyone named Gregory Hill, it was the best name I could think of on the spot. no offence to anyone.
FreeBSD also has much better SMP support than linux does, UFS is also a little faster than ext2 (so I'm told but I may be talking out of my ass). The new WC server has like 4 Xeons, and a bunch of RAM. I would guess that if it were on linux they would have to drop the user limit back to 3000. But thats just a guess.
Ever look at c:\windows ?
You can't tell me thats not complicated. The only reason Windows SEEMS easier to use than any unix variant is Windows has a standard GUI and developer kit. And the GUI is built-in which means people can equate things visually rather than logically by reading it on a CLI. Wzards make a big difference in handling complex projects, if someone would create visual scripting/wizards for *nix then all wouldb e well, and I would have to fsck with RPM anymore.