"Now you don't need to paint the L3 bridges with a silver pen or cut the L3 bridges with a penknife on your Athlon XP processor jut in order to adjust multipliers. XP-TMC total multiplier controller can help you to do the job without any mod on your processor. The warranty of your processor can be kept alive"
So now stores that sell these CPUs now have even less to work with when determining whether John Smith walking into the store asking for a CPU exchange actually had a faulty CPU to begin with or was doing mad l33t overclocking in his basement last night.
Why is this a good thing? Someone that's willing to buy this device seems like they'd also be of the mindset to lie at the return counter if their CPU kills itself early after an Overclocking Session Gone Bad (TM).
The results of that? 1) The people working the front counters of the computer store hating their jobs due to arguing with customers about whether or not they tried overclocking their CPUs. 2) The prices for these CPUs going up due to the return/exchange rate on them. 3) Like in the case of some stores with Apex and other high-return brands, they just take a harder stance on people that want a straight exchange of the product.
Who wins here? The company selling the adaptor. No one else.
If one thing is 80 dB and one is 90 dB, the second object is twice as "loud." Each 10 dB jump either doubles of halves "loudness." ie: If you're at 1000 dB vs 1010 dB, the 2nd object is twice as loud.
So, based on what was said at the keynote (and my interpretation), the G5s are 10dB quieter. Twice as quiet sounds more impressive. Note that saying "half as loud" still implies "loud" so psychologically it's not as impressive.
If I'm wrong, I'm sure someone will jump on me soon enough. I'm holding on tight.
This article says 9 fans. Say what you like about the source.:)
"The new PowerMacs feature an all aluminum enclosure featuring 9 fans but with be up to twice as quiet as current Power Mac G4's. The new Power Macs will be shipping in August."
That's nice that they're twice as quiet. But 9 speicalised fans can be expensive to replace over time. They are not immortal.
"Benchmarks from the scalar version of Jet3D are shown in Figure 1 (MFLOPS) and Figure 2 (MFLOPS normalized by MHz). In terms of raw MFLOPS, the 2GHz G5 is about 32% faster than the 2GHz P4, 97% faster than the 1.25GHz G4, 142% faster than the 1GHz G4, and within 1 MFLOP of the 2.66GHz P4."
Translation: Slower than the P4 for anyone who didn't look at the grid. And M stands for million. Not one.
We see a lawsuit for a kid saving just as their time runs out, resulting in a memory card garble?
The article doesn't really seem to say whether or not the devices are somehow physically locked into the base unit or not. Just that a monitor is plugged into a wall, and the time-limited device is plugged into a base unit.
Anyway, I'm sure a lot of desperate kids understand that the power supply is swappable at the console's end, and that their nearest toy store sells it. An extension cord will eliminate any need of a "base unit" to worry about plugging into.
This one is a great addition to the {book shelf, work's library}, you all know how to do certain things in {Linux, Windows, Tae Bo, Winsor pilates, using decss, etc} but this book clarifies nicely why you are actually doing it. Also, it introduces nice {UNIX, MFC, advanced jump kick, high-calorie burning, fast dubbing, etc} concepts which {Window$, Linux, Tae Kwan Do, yoga, warez groups, etc} might not have come across before.
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Not in any order, but these ones cames to mind quickly...
1) Intellivision II coming out and being non-backwards compatible with some of its own library in an effort to break Coleco's Intellivision releases.
2) John Romero's magazine ad that ran pre-Daikatana that said "John Romero's going to make you his bitch." (I can't find the image, but I know it's kicking around somewhere on the net)
3) Sega's "blast processing" commercial in which they claim Sonic the Hedgehog's fast scrolling is due to some neat-o feature in the Genesis' processor which the SNES lacks.
4) Making a movie that's basically one huge commercial for the NES, the Power Glove, and Super Mario 3 (shamelessly savvy moment?).
1) Make sure you go to a college that is near a desert.
2) Go to your local provisioner's shop (if none is available, go to a Wal-mart) and purchase a shovel. Make sure to get one of a decent quality as you have a lot of digging to do.
3) Pay a visit to the desert and begin digging at random. Repeat this process until you unearth a Commodore-64.
4) Try turning it on. It'll work.
5) Take your notes with pen and paper. Dub them over to the C-64 in your dorm later.
5) Contact Junis for more information on how to view Divx Baywatch episodes with it once you get bored of classes. He might even have Doom III working on it by now.
I am completely stunned. I am hearing lines such as "It's aggregate data, so who cares."
If you replaced the word "Tivo" with "Microsoft," I swear there would be a posse forming in some thread on this comments page as we speak to go down to their corporate HQ and burn every copy of XP they received with their PCs.
I can just picture a story "Microsoft to track aggregate data on what mp3s people are listening to through a hook in Media Player in its latest software update."
Do you picture replies saying "Well, if it maybe helps lower the price of the next OS release $15, I'm all for it." In all seriousness, can you picture replies like that on Slashdot?
Why is Tivo given the benefit of the doubt? Is it just because it's such a geek-chic tool? Is it just a couple talking heads trying to fill a meme of "No no, it's aggregate, it's cool?"
Tivo is making money as it is. If they do this, your subscription rates WILL NOT go down. You WILL NOT see better programming on tv as a result. You WILL NOT be able to resurrect your favourite show from Tivo data vs Nielsen data because Nielsen data is multi-tiered (It's not just a box they track, people fill in journals and other things).
On top of that, the data they're getting is not "global" data, it represents the data taken from households where either a) expendable income is high, or b) expendable income is not high, but someone living there is a techie.
What do you hope to gain from this? More directed ads? Didn't most of you people get a Tivo to skip the ads in the first place?
Just when I think Slashdot editors are finally edging to some level of objectivity (no quips about only booting into Windows to play Diablo, no references to Windows blue-screening) an article like this comes along and puts Slashdot back into sophomoric mediocrity.
I expect garbage like that to be expressed in comments, but could you please limit the article summaries to not have any kind of bashing or hyperbole? Is this really too much to ask?
I use both Windows and Linux. They both have their strengths and weaknesses (here's a hint: Windows doesn't just have to be used for games). The word Linux is in the mainstream now. Get over it. Accept this as another example of Linux entering the mainstream, be happy, and move on.
I can picture some of you 40 years from now, at age 73, roaming your local city parks muttering jokes like "My watch doesn't Blue-screen, I guess it's running Linux," to anyone who approaches you to ask you what time it is.
I'd rather ask for $100 a week and blow it all at the race track. Your odds are better and at least you know whether or not you've flown the coop within the span of minutes as opposed to excruciating months or years.
The value of stocks seem to have no logical basis anymore. Remember the big IPOs when most rational people were thinking "How can a company that gives away its product make money?" while watching stock values rise to $280 a share? Add to that so many daytraders that the fluctuating prices mean absolutely nothing.
On top of that you have well-paid economists that can only explain the past and not the future and you have a self-feeding network of greed.
There's an episode of The Nature of Things about statistics. Someone from the Toronto Star did an experiment a few years back where she threw darts at a stock listing in order to choose investments. She outperformed a pool of 10 investors 2 years in a row. Obviously you'd have to do it over a longer time, but I think it's amusing how little a difference there is between chance and skill in the world of investing.
3) Mention the word "micro$oft". Note that spelling (but not necessarily capitalization) will count in this, and only this, case.
4) Mention Linus' full name. The first name alone may not get your article accepted.
5) Mention how you only boot to Windows when you NEED to. Usually mentioning it in the context of a video game (like Diablo) helps. Mentioning that you buy games from Loki whenever it's possible will help you big time.
6) Use the word "anime."
7) Do not use the phrase "in soviet russia."
8) Do not use the words "Junis" or "Jon Katz."
9) Drop the name of a lesser known Linux distro.
10) Use the phrase "software generalist" or any other newly invented buzzword.
With bullet-proof copy protection now available, I should now be able to buy a CD-R in Canada without paying any tariff that goes to the record companies, right?
I mean.. that was the whole purpose of the tariff in the first place. To give back some money to the record labels that were losing money from dubbing of CDs that people would buy otherwise.
What are the odds of the tariff being eliminated? I'd say about the same odds of the GST being eliminated.
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For places with digital cable, we have the following setup. I'm not speaking for all of Canada, but at least with this cable provider (Rogers).
1) Analog channels. Channels 2-~78 are analog. We can choose between 3 "tiers" which determine what type of filter is installed at the cable box itself. 2-28 is "basic" cable. 29-~42(?) is another tier, ~43-78 is another. They are grouped this way as to make filtering easier. Changing the programming is a PITA as someone has to physically drive down from the cable company and change things. Usually being wishy-washy as to what you want will net you a $50 charge each time someone has to drive over.
2) Digital channels. Channels 80-999 are digital. You can order most any of the "basic" ones for $2.50 / each / month. Bundling them in bigger sets gets you bigger discounts. ie: 5 channels for $10, 10 channels for $15, etc. You can mix and match as you please, and they are activated usually before your call to the cable company is finished.
If a flaw is found in the syscall lookups (ie: an app can make a sequence of syscalls to give itself priveledged access anyway) doesn't this mean literally any executable is capable of ruining your machine as opposed to only the suid root ones on any other *nix OS?
I wonder how long VNC will be in general interest once people begin attempting to emulate RDC (remote desktop connection(s)) both from a server and client perspective in X and pre-win XP OSes.
Seeing as how it now comes with Win XP Pro the general consensus will be that RDC is the new "standard" to be emulated by everyone else.
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It's parodies like this that make me ashamed to tell people that "I'm into computers." Can any of you honestly say that you burst out laughing upon seeing any of these parodies? I only watched 3 of them, but I'm assuming that the rest were just as "funny".
As an example of dialog in one of the shorts..
"My pinkie started to hurt with the ctrl-alt-meta-esc thing. ..My system administrator said I should try vi"
I don't mind the small appeal the joke may have to people that are "in the know" and "get" that emacs requires quite a bit of ctrling, but even if you are in the know, it's not all that funny.
So why bother? You are simply banking the entire one minute parody on the fact that people will laugh because they recognize something that most other computer users won't. I'm not saying there shouldn't be computer-oriented parodies, but they should rely on a bit more than specialized knowledge.
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"Now you don't need to paint the L3 bridges with a silver pen or cut the L3 bridges with a penknife on your Athlon XP processor jut in order to adjust multipliers. XP-TMC total multiplier controller can help you to do the job without any mod on your processor. The warranty of your processor can be kept alive"
So now stores that sell these CPUs now have even less to work with when determining whether John Smith walking into the store asking for a CPU exchange actually had a faulty CPU to begin with or was doing mad l33t overclocking in his basement last night.
Why is this a good thing? Someone that's willing to buy this device seems like they'd also be of the mindset to lie at the return counter if their CPU kills itself early after an Overclocking Session Gone Bad (TM).
The results of that? 1) The people working the front counters of the computer store hating their jobs due to arguing with customers about whether or not they tried overclocking their CPUs. 2) The prices for these CPUs going up due to the return/exchange rate on them. 3) Like in the case of some stores with Apex and other high-return brands, they just take a harder stance on people that want a straight exchange of the product.
Who wins here? The company selling the adaptor. No one else.
Why is it that articles that mention SCO vs Linux always call Linux" "Linux," but the articles that don't seem to remember to call Linux "GNU/Linux?"
Is this a coincidence? It's been done what seems like 30 times in the last couple months.
If one thing is 80 dB and one is 90 dB, the second object is twice as "loud." Each 10 dB jump either doubles of halves "loudness." ie: If you're at 1000 dB vs 1010 dB, the 2nd object is twice as loud.
So, based on what was said at the keynote (and my interpretation), the G5s are 10dB quieter. Twice as quiet sounds more impressive. Note that saying "half as loud" still implies "loud" so psychologically it's not as impressive.
If I'm wrong, I'm sure someone will jump on me soon enough. I'm holding on tight.
This article says 9 fans. Say what you like about the source. :)
"The new PowerMacs feature an all aluminum enclosure featuring 9 fans but with be up to twice as quiet as current Power Mac G4's. The new Power Macs will be shipping in August."
That's nice that they're twice as quiet. But 9 speicalised fans can be expensive to replace over time. They are not immortal.
I love the wording:
"Benchmarks from the scalar version of Jet3D are shown in Figure 1 (MFLOPS) and Figure 2 (MFLOPS normalized by MHz). In terms of raw MFLOPS, the 2GHz G5 is about 32% faster than the 2GHz P4, 97% faster than the 1.25GHz G4, 142% faster than the 1GHz G4, and within 1 MFLOP of the 2.66GHz P4."
Translation: Slower than the P4 for anyone who didn't look at the grid. And M stands for million. Not one.
We see a lawsuit for a kid saving just as their time runs out, resulting in a memory card garble?
The article doesn't really seem to say whether or not the devices are somehow physically locked into the base unit or not. Just that a monitor is plugged into a wall, and the time-limited device is plugged into a base unit.
Anyway, I'm sure a lot of desperate kids understand that the power supply is swappable at the console's end, and that their nearest toy store sells it. An extension cord will eliminate any need of a "base unit" to worry about plugging into.
This one is a great addition to the {book shelf, work's library}, you all know how to do certain things in {Linux, Windows, Tae Bo, Winsor pilates, using decss, etc} but this book clarifies nicely why you are actually doing it. Also, it introduces nice {UNIX, MFC, advanced jump kick, high-calorie burning, fast dubbing, etc} concepts which {Window$, Linux, Tae Kwan Do, yoga, warez groups, etc} might not have come across before.
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Not in any order, but these ones cames to mind quickly...
1) Intellivision II coming out and being non-backwards compatible with some of its own library in an effort to break Coleco's Intellivision releases.
2) John Romero's magazine ad that ran pre-Daikatana that said "John Romero's going to make you his bitch." (I can't find the image, but I know it's kicking around somewhere on the net)
3) Sega's "blast processing" commercial in which they claim Sonic the Hedgehog's fast scrolling is due to some neat-o feature in the Genesis' processor which the SNES lacks.
4) Making a movie that's basically one huge commercial for the NES, the Power Glove, and Super Mario 3 (shamelessly savvy moment?).
Those are about all that come to mind...
1) Make sure you go to a college that is near a desert.
2) Go to your local provisioner's shop (if none is available, go to a Wal-mart) and purchase a shovel. Make sure to get one of a decent quality as you have a lot of digging to do.
3) Pay a visit to the desert and begin digging at random. Repeat this process until you unearth a Commodore-64.
4) Try turning it on. It'll work.
5) Take your notes with pen and paper. Dub them over to the C-64 in your dorm later.
5) Contact Junis for more information on how to view Divx Baywatch episodes with it once you get bored of classes. He might even have Doom III working on it by now.
I am completely stunned. I am hearing lines such as "It's aggregate data, so who cares."
If you replaced the word "Tivo" with "Microsoft," I swear there would be a posse forming in some thread on this comments page as we speak to go down to their corporate HQ and burn every copy of XP they received with their PCs.
I can just picture a story "Microsoft to track aggregate data on what mp3s people are listening to through a hook in Media Player in its latest software update."
Do you picture replies saying "Well, if it maybe helps lower the price of the next OS release $15, I'm all for it." In all seriousness, can you picture replies like that on Slashdot?
Why is Tivo given the benefit of the doubt? Is it just because it's such a geek-chic tool? Is it just a couple talking heads trying to fill a meme of "No no, it's aggregate, it's cool?"
Tivo is making money as it is. If they do this, your subscription rates WILL NOT go down. You WILL NOT see better programming on tv as a result. You WILL NOT be able to resurrect your favourite show from Tivo data vs Nielsen data because Nielsen data is multi-tiered (It's not just a box they track, people fill in journals and other things).
On top of that, the data they're getting is not "global" data, it represents the data taken from households where either a) expendable income is high, or b) expendable income is not high, but someone living there is a techie.
What do you hope to gain from this? More directed ads? Didn't most of you people get a Tivo to skip the ads in the first place?
Just when I think Slashdot editors are finally edging to some level of objectivity (no quips about only booting into Windows to play Diablo, no references to Windows blue-screening) an article like this comes along and puts Slashdot back into sophomoric mediocrity.
I expect garbage like that to be expressed in comments, but could you please limit the article summaries to not have any kind of bashing or hyperbole? Is this really too much to ask?
I use both Windows and Linux. They both have their strengths and weaknesses (here's a hint: Windows doesn't just have to be used for games). The word Linux is in the mainstream now. Get over it. Accept this as another example of Linux entering the mainstream, be happy, and move on.
I can picture some of you 40 years from now, at age 73, roaming your local city parks muttering jokes like "My watch doesn't Blue-screen, I guess it's running Linux," to anyone who approaches you to ask you what time it is.
I'd rather ask for $100 a week and blow it all at the race track. Your odds are better and at least you know whether or not you've flown the coop within the span of minutes as opposed to excruciating months or years.
The value of stocks seem to have no logical basis anymore. Remember the big IPOs when most rational people were thinking "How can a company that gives away its product make money?" while watching stock values rise to $280 a share? Add to that so many daytraders that the fluctuating prices mean absolutely nothing.
On top of that you have well-paid economists that can only explain the past and not the future and you have a self-feeding network of greed.
There's an episode of The Nature of Things about statistics. Someone from the Toronto Star did an experiment a few years back where she threw darts at a stock listing in order to choose investments. She outperformed a pool of 10 investors 2 years in a row. Obviously you'd have to do it over a longer time, but I think it's amusing how little a difference there is between chance and skill in the world of investing.
Please add to it as needed:
1) Mention the words "open source."
2) Mention the words "linux advocate."
3) Mention the word "micro$oft". Note that spelling (but not necessarily capitalization) will count in this, and only this, case.
4) Mention Linus' full name. The first name alone may not get your article accepted.
5) Mention how you only boot to Windows when you NEED to. Usually mentioning it in the context of a video game (like Diablo) helps. Mentioning that you buy games from Loki whenever it's possible will help you big time.
6) Use the word "anime."
7) Do not use the phrase "in soviet russia."
8) Do not use the words "Junis" or "Jon Katz."
9) Drop the name of a lesser known Linux distro.
10) Use the phrase "software generalist" or any other newly invented buzzword.
Just out of curiosity, what does a software generalist do?
I know I can probably look this up on google, but I figure this is as good a place as any to have this question answered.
In the year 2012:
Junis will upgrade to a 386
Jon Katz II begins writing articles for slashdot. His premiere article: What caused Columbine to happen II? A 37-part epic.
Stephen King and Alan Thicke will still be dying on a daily basis, missed by all.
The goatse.cx hole will increase in radius by 3m.
The (meta)-moderation system will still be broken.
E-paper will be coming out "real soon now"
The "How about a beowulf cluster of these?" joke finally gets played out.
Mozilla supports yenc decoding.
Will see these photographs and say "Wow, those are excellent fakes."
Then there will be tons of websites that crop up showing how the images were doctored, photoshopped, impossible, etc.
Some people just can't be convinced, and I'm not sure how much tax money should be spent on such a pursuit.
With bullet-proof copy protection now available, I should now be able to buy a CD-R in Canada without paying any tariff that goes to the record companies, right?
I mean.. that was the whole purpose of the tariff in the first place. To give back some money to the record labels that were losing money from dubbing of CDs that people would buy otherwise.
What are the odds of the tariff being eliminated? I'd say about the same odds of the GST being eliminated.
For places with digital cable, we have the following setup. I'm not speaking for all of Canada, but at least with this cable provider (Rogers).
1) Analog channels. Channels 2-~78 are analog. We can choose between 3 "tiers" which determine what type of filter is installed at the cable box itself. 2-28 is "basic" cable. 29-~42(?) is another tier, ~43-78 is another. They are grouped this way as to make filtering easier. Changing the programming is a PITA as someone has to physically drive down from the cable company and change things. Usually being wishy-washy as to what you want will net you a $50 charge each time someone has to drive over.
2) Digital channels. Channels 80-999 are digital. You can order most any of the "basic" ones for $2.50 / each / month. Bundling them in bigger sets gets you bigger discounts. ie: 5 channels for $10, 10 channels for $15, etc. You can mix and match as you please, and they are activated usually before your call to the cable company is finished.
It's been this way for a year and a quarter now.
I click in to read this article and I see a banner ad at the top from ATI for a Radeon 9700.
Can be found here.
If a flaw is found in the syscall lookups (ie: an app can make a sequence of syscalls to give itself priveledged access anyway) doesn't this mean literally any executable is capable of ruining your machine as opposed to only the suid root ones on any other *nix OS?
Wouldn't a combination of both be better?
I've found a mirror here
I hope you enjoy it as much as I didn't.
I wonder how long VNC will be in general interest once people begin attempting to emulate RDC (remote desktop connection(s)) both from a server and client perspective in X and pre-win XP OSes.
Seeing as how it now comes with Win XP Pro the general consensus will be that RDC is the new "standard" to be emulated by everyone else.
His name was Paul Daniels.
It's parodies like this that make me ashamed to tell people that "I'm into computers." Can any of you honestly say that you burst out laughing upon seeing any of these parodies? I only watched 3 of them, but I'm assuming that the rest were just as "funny".
.My system administrator said I should try vi"
As an example of dialog in one of the shorts..
"My pinkie started to hurt with the ctrl-alt-meta-esc thing. .
I don't mind the small appeal the joke may have to people that are "in the know" and "get" that emacs requires quite a bit of ctrling, but even if you are in the know, it's not all that funny.
So why bother? You are simply banking the entire one minute parody on the fact that people will laugh because they recognize something that most other computer users won't. I'm not saying there shouldn't be computer-oriented parodies, but they should rely on a bit more than specialized knowledge.