Very appropriate Hardy Heron being released during the Holiday of Freedom.
I can see Linus holding his staff and two tablets with Kernel source inscribed on them singing in a Charleton Heston voice to Bill Gates: "Let my people go!"
AMD's lowest power usage CPU's are currently 35W and made on 90nm SOI for AM2 socket with F2 Stepping. They range from a 1.6 Ghz Sempron on the low end up to a
2.0 Ghz Athlon X2
You can get info on all available models at these urls:
It seem that while costs are slowly coming down for solar power, the more important factor that is making solar more competitive is that the cost of fossil fuels is rising. Just look at this quote from the above article:
"... "We have been able to negotiate a price that is competitive with electricity generated from fossil fuels," Avery said. "We used to pay a 10, 20 or even 30 percent premium for renewables in the past."
At least a part of that shrinking differential is because of the soaring cost of fossil fuels, in particular natural gas. The cost of natural gas, the primary fuel generating electricity in California, has more than doubled in the past year...."
You solve this problem very simple by installing a NAT router between you and the internet. As long as you don't map any vulnerable ports through you don't have to worry about attacks which are not a result of user action, i.e. trojans and what not. The fact that ISP's such as verizon ship standard integrate NAT router / modems probably does a great deal to make their customers and the internet more secure.
There are companies which specialize in IPTV hardware such as Tut Systems. They make video headends for delivering MPEG2 and MPEG4 video over cable and dsl, incuding HD content. There are already a number of cities in the US which have IPTV. This works over the IP network without any prioritizing of the video IIRC.
Snort is an Open Source program, which means that it's source code is already available to the Chinese, Iranians and anyone else who wants it. I assume that Sourcefire's closed source products are based in one way or another on the technology in Snort, which makes it very difficult to understand the FBI and Pentagon's objections other than in the context of an anti-Israel political decision.
LONDON -- Engineers from
Advanced Micro Devices Inc., IBM Corp., Sony Corp. and Tohiba Corp.
have developed a strained-silicon transistor technology called "Dual
Stress Liner," which can improve the performance at a given power
consumption, AMD said Monday (Dec. 13).
The team is due to
present a paper on the topic at the International Electron Devices
Meeting in San Francisco this week, and AMD said the company and IBM
are both expected to deploy the technology at the 90-nm manufacturing
node in the first half of 2005.
AMD did not say if or
when Sony or Toshiba would make use of the technology. The process
development allows transistor "speed" to improve by up to 24 percent at
the same power levels compared to similar transistors produced without
the technology, AMD said. This process makes AMD and IBM the first
companies to introduce strained silicon that works with
silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology.
AMD said it intends to
integrate the DSL strained silicon technology into all of its
90-nanometer manufacturing process technologies, including those used
for future multi-core AMD64 processors. The first 90-nm AMD64
processors using the technology are expected to ship in the first half
of 2005.
Similarly IBM plans to
introduce the technology on multiple 90-nm processor platforms,
including its Power Architecture-based chips, with the first products
slated to begin shipping in the first half of 2005.
"This achievement with
AMD demonstrates that companies willing to share their expertise and
skills can find new ways to overcome roadblocks and help lead the
industry to the next generation of technology advancements," said Lisa
Su, vice president of technology development and alliances at IBM
Systems & Technology Group.
Re:Arguments against the metric system
on
Our Friend, The Meter
·
· Score: 4, Informative
every time somebody makes an argument against the metric system, they are essentially also making that same argument agaisnt the arabic (our) number system. to use a number system with a base of 10 and not use units with a base of 10 is illogical, and impractical where units with a base of 10 are much easier to manipulate using a number system with a base of 10.
The number system is not Arabic. It is Hindu and was transmitted to the west by the Arabs. Please see
Hindu-Arabic Numerals
1) Safari (much faster than Opera on any platform)
2) Opera
3) Mozilla
4) IE (If it had tabbed browsing, it would be better than Mozilla!)
For those of us who browse in multiple languages (english, hebrew, arabic) Mozilla is a better choice than Opera due to it's much better bi-directional support.
There is another alternative. The photographer who did our wedding had a wireless card in his camera body which was constantly transmitting the pictues to his laptop. No worry about storage there. Not appropriate for everyone, but damn good for alot of situations.
but no software company is required to support obsolete versions of their software forever, this is not a reasonable idea.
If they no longer support it, then they may potentially lose the copyright to it. You could say to them, either continue giving bug fixes, or open source it so people can do their own bug fixes.
It's like that with auto companies. They patent all of the parts in their cars so that they're the only ones who can provide spare parts. Once they stop producing spare parts they can no longer enforce the patent and anyone can start making and selling those parts.
and b) obtaining imported products, especially soundtracks, are
_prohibitively_ expensive. This isn't like "go to Tower and pick up the
CD for 15 bucks"... these things run 30 and 40 dollars for the real
mccoy.
Not true, you just don't know where to look. If you're going to
Amazon to pick up your Anime you're out of your mind. Try a place like
Deep Discount DVD . I picked up Berserk
(the most awesome series ever!) for $18.00 there (4 episodes on the
disk) when it's $27.00 at Amazon.
Same thing with the Kenshin Samurai X OVA - TRUST
& BETRAYAL; $18.00
at Deep Discount DVD and $25.50
at Amazon. Amazing movie by the way.
I've also seen the same thing with Anime posters, toys and
soundtracks - you just have to do a little work looking around; if you
do you'll find good deals.
Of course the problem here is the same one we're seeing with
spammers - this guy is operating out of China.
Just look at the registration info for the IP address (looked up on APNIC Whois Database)-
how do you deal with someone in a country whose legal system doesn't
give a damn about people who scam foreigners?
% [whois.apnic.net node-2]
% How to use this server
http://www.apnic.net/db/
% Whois data copyright terms
http://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.html
is that it's sort of like living in the 1950s and experiencing all of this new space stuff for the first time. We are lucky to be living in interesting times.
Ancient Chinese Curse: May you live in interesting times.
Re:Another "thing" they are working on - In Israel
on
Building a Better Bomb
·
· Score: 1
It's interesting that you mention "small" bombs. Over the past decade Israel ran into the problem that Palestinian Arab terrorists operate out of densely populated urban areas, effectively using civilians as shields. It had been very effective for the terrorists because they knew the Israeli public is very sensitive to civilian casualties. So in order to deal with this the Israeli's developed an ultra small warhead to put on the hellfire missiles used with the apache helicopter. That's how they've managed to kill terrorists in these areas with such a relatively low number of collateral damage.
Israel is one of the world leaders in solar
power research and the magazine Ecologic Investor
reports that
Israel is preparing to build a 500 MegaWatt
solar power station in the Negev desert. The station is projected
to be operational by 2012.
Paul 'Avon' Darrow remembers Terry Nation's early ideas for a revival
and sets the scene for a Rebellion Reborn.
As we have established against all odds; nobody wins, and if Blake's 7
in the 1980's ended with the triumph of 'Establishment Terror' and the
least likely of a hopeful group of dissidents left to oppose it, then
Blake's 7 three decades later, must spring forward from that
unpromising base.
The good/bad guy is beaten. All's wrong with the World/Universe. When
has this been the case before? In Earth's history, many times.
Terry's idea for a later reworking of his Blake's 7 concept was, as
before, inspired by his previous work(s). A bleak Universe where if
you're rich and powerful - or useful to those who are - you're in a
kind of corrupt paradise. Then, out of nowhere, comes one man, then
another and another and so on. Hope springs eternal, but (and it's a
big but) are these new heroes truly heroic? Not in Terry Nation's
Universe. They are, as before, recognisable misfits... Colin Wilson's
Outsiders.
Having said that, outsiders are those who trigger, either by default or
design, the greatest of changes for those on the 'inside'. There is
such a thing as a one-man (or in this case seven man) army and armchair
enthusiasts will cheer them on, win or lose. In fact, it makes the
enthusiasts feel a lot better if 'they' lose. It saves the insiders
collective conscience and excuses them from taking up the mantle of
outsiders. Until, of course, the next adventure.
Therefore, Terry's concept for a TV Movie/Mini-Series with a view to
develop into another series of Blake's 7, was as follows;
The basic storyline was that the Federation, while still seeming
all-powerful, would be rotting from within (cf, collapse of the Soviet
Empire). Out of the past comes yesterday's man. But all our yesterdays
are viewed with nostalgic affection. So, through no fault or will of
his own the sole survivor of the original Blake's 7 becomes the
catalyst for the creation of its successor. Terry likened this to
Napoleon emerging from Elba and fighting his last hundred days. He was
always going to lose, but he'd put up one hell of a fight. Glorious
defiance is very appealing.
Avon, imprisoned for 25-years, has in the minds of the average
citizen essentially 'disappeared'. The Federation's propaganda machine
has gone to great lengths to ensure that Blake and his compatriots are
remembered simply as outlaws and certainly not hailed as martyrs.
Information suppression plus the amount of physical time passed makes
Avon a forgotten man. That said there is of course an underground
network of dissidents for whom he represents the voice and potency of
resistance and in many ways Avon will become the unwitting figurehead
to their movement a reluctant El Cid.
The new seven are like a wind, divine or not. Sometimes welcome,
sometimes not, the wind is never static, it always moves on.
Whereas, the mores and values of the TV audience of the time tempered
Terry's vision of 'The Dirty Dozen in Space' playing more like 'Robin
Hood in Space' the new series must be grittier, more believable, and
possess an almost epic and mythic feel to it that will raise it above
the 'SF bubblegum' that often predominates our screens.
A good analogy for the series going forward would be West Wing meets
The Dirty Dozen where the gloves are off and the rules of engagement
ill-defined and thereby the outcome of any conflict either in battle,
emotionally or politically, unpredictable!
Why DirectFB instead of X?
on
Qt On DirectFB
·
· Score: 2, Informative
For anyone who doesn't understand why you would use anything other than X, take a look at
ByzantineOS, which uses
DirectFB
for rendering in low powered Internet and home entertainment appliances.
Something funny for you. If you get the T2 special edition DVD, it has the original ending for the movie. J-day is avoided and you see John in the future as a Senetor in a peaceful and blissful USA!
Slashdot Mirror
Very appropriate Hardy Heron being released during the Holiday of Freedom. I can see Linus holding his staff and two tablets with Kernel source inscribed on them singing in a Charleton Heston voice to Bill Gates: "Let my people go!"
Original Wall Street Journal Article
AMD's lowest power usage CPU's are currently 35W and made on 90nm SOI for AM2 socket with F2 Stepping. They range from a 1.6 Ghz Sempron on the low end up to a 2.0 Ghz Athlon X2
You can get info on all available models at these urls:
Compare Desktop Processor Specifications
Compare Server/Workstation Processor Specifications
AMD Processor Pricing
The question is of course can you buy one retail?
Actually I think the ISS is at 250 miles.
"I've got dimmer switches in 4 rooms of my house which means I'm not able to use these things there."
It takes about $5 and 5 minutes to switch out a dimmer switch for a regular on / off light switch.
It seem that while costs are slowly coming down for solar power, the more important factor that is making solar more competitive is that the cost of fossil fuels is rising. Just look at this quote from the above article:
..."
"...
"We have been able to negotiate a price that is competitive with electricity generated from fossil fuels," Avery said. "We used to pay a 10, 20 or even 30 percent premium for renewables in the past."
At least a part of that shrinking differential is because of the soaring cost of fossil fuels, in particular natural gas. The cost of natural gas, the primary fuel generating electricity in California, has more than doubled in the past year.
Where's the bittorrent? Mozilla has a bittorrent page, but it hasn't been updated.
You solve this problem very simple by installing a NAT router between you and the internet. As long as you don't map any vulnerable ports through you don't have to worry about attacks which are not a result of user action, i.e. trojans and what not. The fact that ISP's such as verizon ship standard integrate NAT router / modems probably does a great deal to make their customers and the internet more secure.
There are companies which specialize in IPTV hardware such as Tut Systems. They make video headends for delivering MPEG2 and MPEG4 video over cable and dsl, incuding HD content. There are already a number of cities in the US which have IPTV. This works over the IP network without any prioritizing of the video IIRC.
Snort is an Open Source program, which means that it's source code is already available to the Chinese, Iranians and anyone else who wants it. I assume that Sourcefire's closed source products are based in one way or another on the technology in Snort, which makes it very difficult to understand the FBI and Pentagon's objections other than in the context of an anti-Israel political decision.
I geuss the FBI has the resources to hunt down and entrap Jewish political lobbyists but not to catch terrorists or say anything about a terrorist supporting Arab state taking over the country's ports.
I don't know about the rest of Europe, but France gets about 80% of it's electricty generation from nuclear power.
AMD, IBM to use strained silicon refinement by mid-2005
By Peter Clarke
Silicon Strategies
December 13, 2004 (6:34 AM EST)
LONDON -- Engineers from Advanced Micro Devices Inc., IBM Corp., Sony Corp. and Tohiba Corp. have developed a strained-silicon transistor technology called "Dual Stress Liner," which can improve the performance at a given power consumption, AMD said Monday (Dec. 13).
The team is due to present a paper on the topic at the International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco this week, and AMD said the company and IBM are both expected to deploy the technology at the 90-nm manufacturing node in the first half of 2005.
AMD did not say if or when Sony or Toshiba would make use of the technology. The process development allows transistor "speed" to improve by up to 24 percent at the same power levels compared to similar transistors produced without the technology, AMD said. This process makes AMD and IBM the first companies to introduce strained silicon that works with silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology.
AMD said it intends to integrate the DSL strained silicon technology into all of its 90-nanometer manufacturing process technologies, including those used for future multi-core AMD64 processors. The first 90-nm AMD64 processors using the technology are expected to ship in the first half of 2005.
Similarly IBM plans to introduce the technology on multiple 90-nm processor platforms, including its Power Architecture-based chips, with the first products slated to begin shipping in the first half of 2005.
"This achievement with AMD demonstrates that companies willing to share their expertise and skills can find new ways to overcome roadblocks and help lead the industry to the next generation of technology advancements," said Lisa Su, vice president of technology development and alliances at IBM Systems & Technology Group.
The number system is not Arabic. It is Hindu and was transmitted to the west by the Arabs. Please see Hindu-Arabic Numerals
1) Safari (much faster than Opera on any platform)
2) Opera
3) Mozilla
4) IE (If it had tabbed browsing, it would be better than Mozilla!)
For those of us who browse in multiple languages (english, hebrew, arabic) Mozilla is a better choice than Opera due to it's much better bi-directional support.
There is another alternative. The photographer who did our wedding had a wireless card in his camera body which was constantly transmitting the pictues to his laptop. No worry about storage there. Not appropriate for everyone, but damn good for alot of situations.
If they no longer support it, then they may potentially lose the copyright to it. You could say to them, either continue giving bug fixes, or open source it so people can do their own bug fixes.
It's like that with auto companies. They patent all of the parts in their cars so that they're the only ones who can provide spare parts. Once they stop producing spare parts they can no longer enforce the patent and anyone can start making and selling those parts.
Not true, you just don't know where to look. If you're going to Amazon to pick up your Anime you're out of your mind. Try a place like Deep Discount DVD . I picked up Berserk (the most awesome series ever!) for $18.00 there (4 episodes on the disk) when it's $27.00 at Amazon. Same thing with the Kenshin Samurai X OVA - TRUST & BETRAYAL; $18.00 at Deep Discount DVD and $25.50 at Amazon. Amazing movie by the way.
I've also seen the same thing with Anime posters, toys and soundtracks - you just have to do a little work looking around; if you do you'll find good deals.
Wot sez we demonstrate the SlashDot Effect(TM) for the thieving bastard?
Here ya go:
http://cgi1.ebay.com/aw-cgi/ebayISAPI.dll?UPdate
Of course the problem here is the same one we're seeing with spammers - this guy is operating out of China.
Just look at the registration info for the IP address (looked up on APNIC Whois Database)- how do you deal with someone in a country whose legal system doesn't give a damn about people who scam foreigners?
% [whois.apnic.net node-2]
% How to use this server http://www.apnic.net/db/
% Whois data copyright terms http://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.html
inetnum: 202.99.0.0 - 202.99.63.255
netname: CHINANET-BJ
descr: CHINANET Beijing province network
descr: Data Communication Division
country: CN
admin-c: DK26-AP
tech-c: SY21-AP
mnt-by: MAINT-CNCGROUP
mnt-lower: MAINT-CHINANET-BJ
changed: hostmaster@ns.chinanet.cn.net 20000101
status: ALLOCATED NON-PORTABLE
source: APNIC
person: Dongmei Kou
nic-hdl: DK26-AP
e-mail: dmkou@publicf.bta.net.cn
address: No.156,Fu-Xing-Men-Nei Street,Beijing,100031
phone: +86-10-66429796
fax-no: +86-10-66429794
country: CN
changed: dmkou@publicf.bta.net.cn 20030710
mnt-by: MAINT-CNCGROUP
source: APNIC
person: sun ying
address: Beijing Telecommunication Administration
address: TaiPingHu DongLi 18, Xicheng District
address: Beijing 100031
country: CN
phone: +86-10-66198941
fax-no: +86-10-68511003
e-mail: suny@publicf.bta.net.cn
nic-hdl: SY21-AP
mnt-by: MAINT-CHINANET-BJ
changed: suny@publicf.bta.net.cn 19980824
source: APNIC.
Here's the homepage for Symantec's tool which removes this worm.
Ancient Chinese Curse: May you live in interesting times.
It's interesting that you mention "small" bombs. Over the past decade Israel ran into the problem that Palestinian Arab terrorists operate out of densely populated urban areas, effectively using civilians as shields. It had been very effective for the terrorists because they knew the Israeli public is very sensitive to civilian casualties. So in order to deal with this the Israeli's developed an ultra small warhead to put on the hellfire missiles used with the apache helicopter. That's how they've managed to kill terrorists in these areas with such a relatively low number of collateral damage.
Israel is one of the world leaders in solar power research and the magazine Ecologic Investor reports that Israel is preparing to build a 500 MegaWatt solar power station in the Negev desert. The station is projected to be operational by 2012.
From the website:
A Rebellion Reborn
Paul 'Avon' Darrow remembers Terry Nation's early ideas for a revival and sets the scene for a Rebellion Reborn.
As we have established against all odds; nobody wins, and if Blake's 7 in the 1980's ended with the triumph of 'Establishment Terror' and the least likely of a hopeful group of dissidents left to oppose it, then Blake's 7 three decades later, must spring forward from that unpromising base.
The good/bad guy is beaten. All's wrong with the World/Universe. When has this been the case before? In Earth's history, many times.
Terry's idea for a later reworking of his Blake's 7 concept was, as before, inspired by his previous work(s). A bleak Universe where if you're rich and powerful - or useful to those who are - you're in a kind of corrupt paradise. Then, out of nowhere, comes one man, then another and another and so on. Hope springs eternal, but (and it's a big but) are these new heroes truly heroic? Not in Terry Nation's Universe. They are, as before, recognisable misfits... Colin Wilson's Outsiders.
Having said that, outsiders are those who trigger, either by default or design, the greatest of changes for those on the 'inside'. There is such a thing as a one-man (or in this case seven man) army and armchair enthusiasts will cheer them on, win or lose. In fact, it makes the enthusiasts feel a lot better if 'they' lose. It saves the insiders collective conscience and excuses them from taking up the mantle of outsiders. Until, of course, the next adventure.
Therefore, Terry's concept for a TV Movie/Mini-Series with a view to develop into another series of Blake's 7, was as follows;
The basic storyline was that the Federation, while still seeming all-powerful, would be rotting from within (cf, collapse of the Soviet Empire). Out of the past comes yesterday's man. But all our yesterdays are viewed with nostalgic affection. So, through no fault or will of his own the sole survivor of the original Blake's 7 becomes the catalyst for the creation of its successor. Terry likened this to Napoleon emerging from Elba and fighting his last hundred days. He was always going to lose, but he'd put up one hell of a fight. Glorious defiance is very appealing.
Avon, imprisoned for 25-years, has in the minds of the average citizen essentially 'disappeared'. The Federation's propaganda machine has gone to great lengths to ensure that Blake and his compatriots are remembered simply as outlaws and certainly not hailed as martyrs. Information suppression plus the amount of physical time passed makes Avon a forgotten man. That said there is of course an underground network of dissidents for whom he represents the voice and potency of resistance and in many ways Avon will become the unwitting figurehead to their movement a reluctant El Cid.
The new seven are like a wind, divine or not. Sometimes welcome, sometimes not, the wind is never static, it always moves on.
Whereas, the mores and values of the TV audience of the time tempered Terry's vision of 'The Dirty Dozen in Space' playing more like 'Robin Hood in Space' the new series must be grittier, more believable, and possess an almost epic and mythic feel to it that will raise it above the 'SF bubblegum' that often predominates our screens.
A good analogy for the series going forward would be West Wing meets The Dirty Dozen where the gloves are off and the rules of engagement ill-defined and thereby the outcome of any conflict either in battle, emotionally or politically, unpredictable!
For anyone who doesn't understand why you would use anything other than X, take a look at ByzantineOS, which uses DirectFB for rendering in low powered Internet and home entertainment appliances.
Something funny for you. If you get the T2 special edition DVD, it has the original ending for the movie. J-day is avoided and you see John in the future as a Senetor in a peaceful and blissful USA!