...is muLinux. It's small. It's simple. It fits on a single floppy disk. In fact, there's nothing even to install, it can be run entirely in RAMdisks. The base install includes such wonderments as vim (elvis), built in networking, and even fortune.
And it has quite a lot of extra packages (for subsequent floppy disks), such as gcc, emacs, or even X11.
But when it comes to be stripped down, you can't be more stripped than 1.44mb. (Actually, it's a 1.7mb superformat, but who's counting.)
You can check it out here. For those who want to get to know the command line before installing Linux, it's something to consider.
Actually, the reinforced concrete (crossed steel bars within the concrete) usually creates a sort of makeshift Faraday cage which effectively negates most EMP within. The guys over at NORAD and ze Pentagon have known this for a long time.
But it does depend on whether the building is reinforced, and how long the steel cabling is within it, etc. But the effect should not be so severe, reguardless. And remember, the EMP only affects unshielded electronics. They could simply invest $100 in wiring and build a giant Faraday cage around their server farm.
So join him in celebrating his quarter billion lines of his code.
If any one person wrote a quarter billion lines of code, I'd be thorougly impressed. I doubt anyone writes that much in their entire lifetime. What was Windows 98? Something like 40,000,000? So a quarter billion would be like writing Windows 98 five times, from scratch. That would be something else.
What he did write was a quarter million lines of code. Still impressive, very much so, but not quite the legend that 0.25 billion would be.
Anyway. I say Congratulations! to him, because that's a lot of hard work, and it takes a lot of dedication to do what he did, especially for such an extended period of time.
1. Cowboy Bebop is *awesome*. It's a lot more than the simple surface plot. It is a story about people. The characters are the single most important part, and almost all of them are developed incredibly well. You have to pay attention to the recurring themes, the background noise, to get anything more than "bounty hunters killing things" out of this season long series. And it's still entertaining on the surface. Oh yeah. The Art and subtle blends of CG and traditional cel animation is incredible.
2. Mononoke Hime is incredible. The animation is stunning, but the plot is even better. It really helps to know a little about Japanese myths and the idea of a 'kami', or spirit, as taken from Shintoism. Really a great movie.
3. Neon Genesis Evangelion (or Shin Seiki Evangelion) is one of the best season long series out there ever. Perhaps one of the most emotionally charged and angst filled too. If you want an idea of how much, the director, Anno, created the series in large part as a way of dealing with his own incredibly deep depression. The story is about the creation of Man, the meaning of Life, and our Purpose in the Universe. It is also very, very confusing at times. They made a 26 (season long) series, then made a movie to explain the series, then made another movie to explain the first movie. But the animation is beautiful, the characters are wonderful. The series is perhaps one of the best, ever, out of all mediums. Truely a work of art.
4. Gunsmith Cats is great. Sort of like a contemporary Cowboy Bebop. It's earlier animation, and it's a lot more 'fun', and less serious, but it's still great to watch, especially for the fight scenes and technical art.
5. I haven't seen My Neighbor Totoro yet, but you would suggest that it's for children only. I'm not sure, but most anime work on many levels. Digimon is still entertaining for teenagers, or even adults. If you're watching it with the viewpoint of a child, you'll miss much of the more important parts of the film.
6. Lain is a half-season long twisting path through the psyche of a 13 year old girl (Lain). I've watched it twice, and I still can't quite figure out what's going on. The movies raise the question of the next human evolution, the possibilities for human consciousness, and many others. And proceeds to answer none of them. The animation is very unique too, but also very well done. The main problem with this film is that you spend so much time wondering what's going on, you don't get to empathize with any of the characters. It gets better each time you see it though, as pieces of the puzzle lock into place.
7. Grave of the Fireflies is truely a masterpiece. Everything said about it is true.
There are so many more I can do. The best advice I can give is to go rent or borrow as much anime to watch as possible. The more you see, the more you'll be able to pick out the finer points of each one, and the more you'll learn to differentiate some bad animes (mostly in the 80s), from the really good ones.
Some you'll like. Some are ok. Some are intolerable. One of the other suggestions I give is to see them in the original japanese language with subtitles. Dubs are easy on the eyes, because you don't have to read, but there's a lot you miss out in terms of nuances of voice, inflection, etc, that just doesn't carry well into English, or sounds just plain stupid when translated. And some dubs are done just poorly.
And like I said, most anime work on multiple levels, so if it seems like there's something else there - there will almost certainly be.
Not only did they know you were from the FSU area, but they also knew what color shirt you were wearing, your boxer size, and what porn you were looking at.
They just didn't say that, because it would've freaked you out so much you wouldn't be able to sleep, and then Santa wouldn't have come.
...the best comparison for Linux is: Linux vs. Nothing. Because Linux is not about Monopolizing the Desktop Market, or Monopolizing the Server Market, or Monopolizing, Occupying, Infiltrating, or doing anything else to any other Market. Linux is a free, hobbyist OS. It started that way, and will always be just that.
Why? Because that's what Linus created it as. I use it because I like it. If you don't like it, that's fine. If you do, great!
Actually, my parents just got switched from MediaOne to @Home (They were bought out), and now are on ATTbi. The problem is that I'm home from college for winter break, and ATTbi's DHCPd doesn't want to cooperate with Linux, and they don't seem to take static IPs either. So what can I do to fix it?
Shit like that tends to happen in wartime. Eisenhower did it. Truman did it. He's just looking for good PR by association. I wouldn't chalk it up to anything signifigant reguarding that Bill o' Rights clause.
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Notice the qualified statement before the one you quoted. Sure, I'd prove myself wrong if it were taken out of context like that. It's the exact same thing as buying stolen merchandise, esp. when you know it's stolen, to make the legal analogy.
Actually, putting the telescope where it's shielded from misc. radition, gravimetrics, etc, etc, etc, is one way of allowing for a much, much clearer image. There are a near infinite number of things which interfere with images so close to the earth, and that extra 200,000 miles would make a big difference.
If it's a new species, it doesn't matter whether or not we combine our gene pool - different species can't interbreed to produce fertile offspring.
And in my country (the U.S.), we like to keep our Church and State separate. So I couldn't really care whether or not it's an affront to God, because the law doesn't care.
Finally, the thought that this would be a 'step backward' only applies if you're so self-centered as to think of Man as the ultimate-be-all end-all of evolution. This clearly isn't the case, or nothing would evolve anymore. You want a counterexample? Bacteria still evolves. We can't be the end of evolution if evolution is still occuring. Furthermore, we're only the most recent of our particular little branch of apes, which has little or nothing to do with every other branch of evolution out there. Take Sharks for example: They've been almost identical for the last 65,000,000 years. A shark has reached evolutionary perfection for its particular niche in the environment. If it hadn't, it'd still be evolving.
It's not a question of whether or not it should be legal, or even if we should do it, but how can we do it?
1. The idea is that it reacts to your body's natural balance - read the article. You don't have to 'learn' to use it. Just stand on it and think forward, and your body *will* react in a detectable way to that though. Same for backwards, turning, or stopping.
2. The US$3000.00 is the initial cost. It has nothing to do with what the final cost might be. This is smart business. If he can recoup at least part of his expenses in the original 'novelty' sales, then it doesn't matter whether or not it is the 'next big thing'.
Finally, probably the best applications of this will come from the additional applications of the technology he's developed. I'm sure he'll make a fortune off the 150 or so patents he has applied for (or been granted.)
Some philosophers would argue that hedonism isn't all that bad (take Mill, for example).
And clearly, what makes some people happy in life doesn't make others, and vice versa.
Please don't assume that your point of view is the only one, or even the only valid one.
Perhaps you'll be happier once you strive to understand why others act how they do, rather than just denouncing their actions.
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What're you talking about? Downloading mp3s is copyright infringement (both on the downloading and serving ends). It is copyright infringement to distribute anything which you either a) do not own, or b) do not have the rights to distribute, such as is the case in most copyrights, and indeed licenses. Sure, you can loan a book to a friend without infringing upon the copyright, but you can't make a hundred photocopies of the book and sell them on the corner, or even distribute them for free.
Actually, DARPA wouldn't have them (or allow them) to patent something such as a 'stealth airfoil', because any one of our enemies could browse through our lovely patent database, and find out everything they'd need to know about it.
Most classified research is out-contracted to people like the engineers of Lockheed's Skunk Works, but the only thing they keep in terms of rights or properties is what they learned in the process of doing the research or creating prototypes (or even creating production models). DARPA or the relevant contractor keeps everything else.
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Tell ya what, I'll do one better. I'll go download 400,000 mp3s from Kazaa - enough that even the RIAA will have to take notice. However, I'll delete all those mp3s before they are even completed - e.g. download straight to/dev/null - just to get the RIAA's attention. And once I've done that, and they sue my bananas off, I'll explain to them how downloading mp3s doesn't present copyright violations in all cases, but it is illegal under every case according to the DMCA.
And then we can go dance with the DoJ.
Re:What the hell is wrong with the Judiciary
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There is a recall vote that can be initiated in some cases, depending on your state. Although, I think the recall vote only applies in cases of extreme and gross misjudgement. And repeated cases of said gross misjudgement. Like letting a series of thirty clear cut rapists go free.
Our judges are very hard to remove from office for the very reason that they shouldn't need to worry about the 'political winds' when making judgments - only the law. Sometimes why a judge makes a decision isn't so clear, and that can be a bad thing, but it isn't necessarily the failing of the whole judicial system.
As the article said, it is being appealed, and more often than not, appeals courts tend to be more liberal in their judgements than district courts.
Now what happens is we shift all the graphics to the GPU, and leave the CPU to handle AI, collision mapping, game/particle physics, and all the other really impressive things we've yet to see in commercial gaming.
For those of us who don't have lawyer friends, or the money to hire a lawyer, a quick, easy, and cheap solution is this:
Seach/. for a recent article about the RIAA/MPAA threatening someone over something. Regexp the 'offender', the 'offense', and of course the 'RIAA' out of there and replace them with more appropriate words, like: "UPS", "extreme, and gross negligence", and a lawyer-sounding name ("Seymore Buttes" comes to mind.), and fire it off to them with the same non-discretion employed by the RIAA/MPAA.
After all, supernovae on the scale of SN1987A occur once every few hundred years
Yes, but you have to consider the time that it takes for the particles to travel the distance between their source and earth (speed of light... light years, you get it - same past-events sort of astronomy). It's possible that two supernovas occured 500, or even 500,000 years apart, but due to their relative distances from earth, say one being 100,000ly away, and one being 600,000ly away, if the further star's supernova occured 500,000 years earlier, it would arrive at relatively the same time as the 100k star. Given enough stars, and enough supernovas, this becomes as likely a possibility as the supernovas being evenly spaced around 500 years. Statistically speaking, it has the exact same probability as it taking 1000 years for the next one, (without further statistical knowledge).
At any rate, the miniscule chance isn't any more miniscule than the chance that a supernova will occur *at all*. So best to get the S-K up and running, so we have that rare opportunity to peer into a unique quantum event without our lifetime, and possibily unravel further the questions of the Universe.
In this situation, you luck out, because there are many clients to browse the Gnutella network to choose from. And if you don't think Limewire's features are enough reason to pay (or lend eyespace to a banner add), head on over to the Gnutella homepage, one of them, at least, and track down a new client. I use Qtella, myself, a handy little client written in Qt (because I didn't want to install Java at the time), which handles all the needs I have: connecting, searching for music, and downloading music. Do you really need more? (Qtella has more built in, actually, but I've used BearShare, LimeWire and Qtella, and they're all pretty much the exact-same-thing, so no need to be picky when one starts needing that revenue thing.)
It's nothing to fret over. Just choose a different client if you don't like it.
If Chins Could Kill... would they? Why, or why not?
Reminds me of a question off an English Literature exam. Anyway. In the interest of greater enlightenment, here's a more realistic question:
What would you say is the best thing that someone should remember as they leap headlong into their chosen career (whether it be actor, programmer, or janitor), and why?
Thanks for your time in answering these questions, our (not so) small community really appreciates it.
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...is muLinux. It's small. It's simple. It fits on a single floppy disk. In fact, there's nothing even to install, it can be run entirely in RAMdisks. The base install includes such wonderments as vim (elvis), built in networking, and even fortune.
And it has quite a lot of extra packages (for subsequent floppy disks), such as gcc, emacs, or even X11.
But when it comes to be stripped down, you can't be more stripped than 1.44mb. (Actually, it's a 1.7mb superformat, but who's counting.)
You can check it out here. For those who want to get to know the command line before installing Linux, it's something to consider.
Actually, the reinforced concrete (crossed steel bars within the concrete) usually creates a sort of makeshift Faraday cage which effectively negates most EMP within. The guys over at NORAD and ze Pentagon have known this for a long time.
But it does depend on whether the building is reinforced, and how long the steel cabling is within it, etc. But the effect should not be so severe, reguardless. And remember, the EMP only affects unshielded electronics. They could simply invest $100 in wiring and build a giant Faraday cage around their server farm.
...should really almost be part of the previous one. Worm writers go free because companies don't care about it enought to prosecute. QED.
So join him in celebrating his quarter billion lines of his code.
If any one person wrote a quarter billion lines of code, I'd be thorougly impressed. I doubt anyone writes that much in their entire lifetime. What was Windows 98? Something like 40,000,000? So a quarter billion would be like writing Windows 98 five times, from scratch. That would be something else.
What he did write was a quarter million lines of code. Still impressive, very much so, but not quite the legend that 0.25 billion would be.
Anyway. I say Congratulations! to him, because that's a lot of hard work, and it takes a lot of dedication to do what he did, especially for such an extended period of time.
1. Cowboy Bebop is *awesome*. It's a lot more than the simple surface plot. It is a story about people. The characters are the single most important part, and almost all of them are developed incredibly well. You have to pay attention to the recurring themes, the background noise, to get anything more than "bounty hunters killing things" out of this season long series. And it's still entertaining on the surface. Oh yeah. The Art and subtle blends of CG and traditional cel animation is incredible.
2. Mononoke Hime is incredible. The animation is stunning, but the plot is even better. It really helps to know a little about Japanese myths and the idea of a 'kami', or spirit, as taken from Shintoism. Really a great movie.
3. Neon Genesis Evangelion (or Shin Seiki Evangelion) is one of the best season long series out there ever. Perhaps one of the most emotionally charged and angst filled too. If you want an idea of how much, the director, Anno, created the series in large part as a way of dealing with his own incredibly deep depression. The story is about the creation of Man, the meaning of Life, and our Purpose in the Universe. It is also very, very confusing at times. They made a 26 (season long) series, then made a movie to explain the series, then made another movie to explain the first movie. But the animation is beautiful, the characters are wonderful. The series is perhaps one of the best, ever, out of all mediums. Truely a work of art.
4. Gunsmith Cats is great. Sort of like a contemporary Cowboy Bebop. It's earlier animation, and it's a lot more 'fun', and less serious, but it's still great to watch, especially for the fight scenes and technical art.
5. I haven't seen My Neighbor Totoro yet, but you would suggest that it's for children only. I'm not sure, but most anime work on many levels. Digimon is still entertaining for teenagers, or even adults. If you're watching it with the viewpoint of a child, you'll miss much of the more important parts of the film.
6. Lain is a half-season long twisting path through the psyche of a 13 year old girl (Lain). I've watched it twice, and I still can't quite figure out what's going on. The movies raise the question of the next human evolution, the possibilities for human consciousness, and many others. And proceeds to answer none of them. The animation is very unique too, but also very well done. The main problem with this film is that you spend so much time wondering what's going on, you don't get to empathize with any of the characters. It gets better each time you see it though, as pieces of the puzzle lock into place.
7. Grave of the Fireflies is truely a masterpiece. Everything said about it is true.
There are so many more I can do. The best advice I can give is to go rent or borrow as much anime to watch as possible. The more you see, the more you'll be able to pick out the finer points of each one, and the more you'll learn to differentiate some bad animes (mostly in the 80s), from the really good ones.
Some you'll like. Some are ok. Some are intolerable. One of the other suggestions I give is to see them in the original japanese language with subtitles. Dubs are easy on the eyes, because you don't have to read, but there's a lot you miss out in terms of nuances of voice, inflection, etc, that just doesn't carry well into English, or sounds just plain stupid when translated. And some dubs are done just poorly.
And like I said, most anime work on multiple levels, so if it seems like there's something else there - there will almost certainly be.
Good luck anime'ing. Ganbatte! (You can do it!)
Not only did they know you were from the FSU area, but they also knew what color shirt you were wearing, your boxer size, and what porn you were looking at.
They just didn't say that, because it would've freaked you out so much you wouldn't be able to sleep, and then Santa wouldn't have come.
...the best comparison for Linux is: Linux vs. Nothing. Because Linux is not about Monopolizing the Desktop Market, or Monopolizing the Server Market, or Monopolizing, Occupying, Infiltrating, or doing anything else to any other Market. Linux is a free, hobbyist OS. It started that way, and will always be just that.
Why? Because that's what Linus created it as. I use it because I like it. If you don't like it, that's fine. If you do, great!
Isn't that what it's all about?
Actually, my parents just got switched from MediaOne to @Home (They were bought out), and now are on ATTbi. The problem is that I'm home from college for winter break, and ATTbi's DHCPd doesn't want to cooperate with Linux, and they don't seem to take static IPs either. So what can I do to fix it?
Anyone else have similar problems?
Shit like that tends to happen in wartime. Eisenhower did it. Truman did it. He's just looking for good PR by association. I wouldn't chalk it up to anything signifigant reguarding that Bill o' Rights clause.
Notice the qualified statement before the one you quoted. Sure, I'd prove myself wrong if it were taken out of context like that. It's the exact same thing as buying stolen merchandise, esp. when you know it's stolen, to make the legal analogy.
Actually, putting the telescope where it's shielded from misc. radition, gravimetrics, etc, etc, etc, is one way of allowing for a much, much clearer image. There are a near infinite number of things which interfere with images so close to the earth, and that extra 200,000 miles would make a big difference.
If it's a new species, it doesn't matter whether or not we combine our gene pool - different species can't interbreed to produce fertile offspring.
And in my country (the U.S.), we like to keep our Church and State separate. So I couldn't really care whether or not it's an affront to God, because the law doesn't care.
Finally, the thought that this would be a 'step backward' only applies if you're so self-centered as to think of Man as the ultimate-be-all end-all of evolution. This clearly isn't the case, or nothing would evolve anymore. You want a counterexample? Bacteria still evolves. We can't be the end of evolution if evolution is still occuring. Furthermore, we're only the most recent of our particular little branch of apes, which has little or nothing to do with every other branch of evolution out there. Take Sharks for example: They've been almost identical for the last 65,000,000 years. A shark has reached evolutionary perfection for its particular niche in the environment. If it hadn't, it'd still be evolving.
It's not a question of whether or not it should be legal, or even if we should do it, but how can we do it?
1. The idea is that it reacts to your body's natural balance - read the article. You don't have to 'learn' to use it. Just stand on it and think forward, and your body *will* react in a detectable way to that though. Same for backwards, turning, or stopping.
2. The US$3000.00 is the initial cost. It has nothing to do with what the final cost might be. This is smart business. If he can recoup at least part of his expenses in the original 'novelty' sales, then it doesn't matter whether or not it is the 'next big thing'.
Finally, probably the best applications of this will come from the additional applications of the technology he's developed. I'm sure he'll make a fortune off the 150 or so patents he has applied for (or been granted.)
Intelligent sounding trolls are still trolls.
Some philosophers would argue that hedonism isn't all that bad (take Mill, for example).
And clearly, what makes some people happy in life doesn't make others, and vice versa.
Please don't assume that your point of view is the only one, or even the only valid one.
Perhaps you'll be happier once you strive to understand why others act how they do, rather than just denouncing their actions.
What're you talking about? Downloading mp3s is copyright infringement (both on the downloading and serving ends). It is copyright infringement to distribute anything which you either a) do not own, or b) do not have the rights to distribute, such as is the case in most copyrights, and indeed licenses. Sure, you can loan a book to a friend without infringing upon the copyright, but you can't make a hundred photocopies of the book and sell them on the corner, or even distribute them for free.
Actually, DARPA wouldn't have them (or allow them) to patent something such as a 'stealth airfoil', because any one of our enemies could browse through our lovely patent database, and find out everything they'd need to know about it.
Most classified research is out-contracted to people like the engineers of Lockheed's Skunk Works, but the only thing they keep in terms of rights or properties is what they learned in the process of doing the research or creating prototypes (or even creating production models). DARPA or the relevant contractor keeps everything else.
Tell ya what, I'll do one better. I'll go download 400,000 mp3s from Kazaa - enough that even the RIAA will have to take notice. However, I'll delete all those mp3s before they are even completed - e.g. download straight to /dev/null - just to get the RIAA's attention. And once I've done that, and they sue my bananas off, I'll explain to them how downloading mp3s doesn't present copyright violations in all cases, but it is illegal under every case according to the DMCA.
And then we can go dance with the DoJ.
There is a recall vote that can be initiated in some cases, depending on your state. Although, I think the recall vote only applies in cases of extreme and gross misjudgement. And repeated cases of said gross misjudgement. Like letting a series of thirty clear cut rapists go free.
Our judges are very hard to remove from office for the very reason that they shouldn't need to worry about the 'political winds' when making judgments - only the law. Sometimes why a judge makes a decision isn't so clear, and that can be a bad thing, but it isn't necessarily the failing of the whole judicial system.
As the article said, it is being appealed, and more often than not, appeals courts tend to be more liberal in their judgements than district courts.
Now what happens is we shift all the graphics to the GPU, and leave the CPU to handle AI, collision mapping, game/particle physics, and all the other really impressive things we've yet to see in commercial gaming.
For those of us who don't have lawyer friends, or the money to hire a lawyer, a quick, easy, and cheap solution is this:
/. for a recent article about the RIAA/MPAA threatening someone over something. Regexp the 'offender', the 'offense', and of course the 'RIAA' out of there and replace them with more appropriate words, like: "UPS", "extreme, and gross negligence", and a lawyer-sounding name ("Seymore Buttes" comes to mind.), and fire it off to them with the same non-discretion employed by the RIAA/MPAA.
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Have fun.
After all, supernovae on the scale of SN1987A occur once every few hundred years
Yes, but you have to consider the time that it takes for the particles to travel the distance between their source and earth (speed of light... light years, you get it - same past-events sort of astronomy). It's possible that two supernovas occured 500, or even 500,000 years apart, but due to their relative distances from earth, say one being 100,000ly away, and one being 600,000ly away, if the further star's supernova occured 500,000 years earlier, it would arrive at relatively the same time as the 100k star. Given enough stars, and enough supernovas, this becomes as likely a possibility as the supernovas being evenly spaced around 500 years. Statistically speaking, it has the exact same probability as it taking 1000 years for the next one, (without further statistical knowledge).
At any rate, the miniscule chance isn't any more miniscule than the chance that a supernova will occur *at all*. So best to get the S-K up and running, so we have that rare opportunity to peer into a unique quantum event without our lifetime, and possibily unravel further the questions of the Universe.
In this situation, you luck out, because there are many clients to browse the Gnutella network to choose from. And if you don't think Limewire's features are enough reason to pay (or lend eyespace to a banner add), head on over to the Gnutella homepage, one of them, at least, and track down a new client. I use Qtella, myself, a handy little client written in Qt (because I didn't want to install Java at the time), which handles all the needs I have: connecting, searching for music, and downloading music. Do you really need more? (Qtella has more built in, actually, but I've used BearShare, LimeWire and Qtella, and they're all pretty much the exact-same-thing, so no need to be picky when one starts needing that revenue thing.)
It's nothing to fret over. Just choose a different client if you don't like it.
Sort of straightforward:
If Chins Could Kill... would they? Why, or why not?
Reminds me of a question off an English Literature exam. Anyway. In the interest of greater enlightenment, here's a more realistic question:
What would you say is the best thing that someone should remember as they leap headlong into their chosen career (whether it be actor, programmer, or janitor), and why?
Thanks for your time in answering these questions, our (not so) small community really appreciates it.
Hey, I'm doing the same thing, except on a pII 400, 128M, IDE, and without the patch!
Aristotle was right in a pressurized environment, which is precisely what he was describing.