Zooming in from 200 yards is infinitely better than Enemy of the State, where they take a security camera image, extrapolate it into 3D, and then ROTATE the object around like something I'd thrown together in Lightwave.
Before you post, RTFA. The interview specified IE not Windows itself. Last time I checked, after you install Windows and just let it sit there, Internet Explorer doesn't open and start visiting websites that containing exploits.
After hunting for more information on the GE Plastics website, I discovered an area that actually allowed me to talk to a GE Specialist about plastics.
Despite the supposed greatness of the Mozilla product, I'm extremely disappointed to see that Netscape has fallen into the Microsoft pit of renaming version numbers.
This latest move by NS is extremely disappointing. Obviously someone in marketing thinks that because IE is already 5.5, a Netscape product at version 5 would appear to be an inferior product just due to one number.
So they call it Netscape 6.0, and somehow it sounds better than IE? What a crock of shit. Just what the hell was NS 5 then? NS 4.7 was a sorry excuse for Netscape, which was buggier than 4.6 IMHO.
I did not get in at $30. I did, however, get in at 245. You guys on this thread need to understand the fact that a $30 pricing will not open for the majority of the buyers at $30. In the case of VA Linux, the first price that we could buy a share at was 300.
The only way to buy an IPO is to be glued to the real time quotes screen when it opens, and then figure out what you want to do at that point. In my case, I figured it would open at about 70...turned out it would be 4 times that. Glad I didn't put in an order until after it IPOed...would have been useless. -Michael J. Lu
Oh, on a sidenote, I ordered one of the Cybertool after it was featured on/. I got tired of waiting for the Spyerco and this looked pretty good.
Got it. Hated it. Returned it.
Two main gripes about it.
It was too thick and heavy for my taste, containg a few more tools than nessary.
The design of the interchangable bit screwdriver can't handle much torque. It starts to contort over light use, and I don't even want to think what would happen if I cranked down on something. It also uses a non-standard bit size, and its not out of the question to lose bits. -Michael J. Lu
I'd actually go for the Syperdo Rench featured on/. back at the end of April.
Unfortunately, they are now just starting to come off. I checked yesterday night and it seems that they had some minor concerns about the design and they are fixing each one before shipping them. Word has it that there are limited quantities out there now, but the majority won't ship till next year.
Everything written here has been annouced by the company already. No streches here.
Many people looking at the Palm Pilot would have noticed a recent drop in price of the Palm III and the older Palm Pro's. This is due to the rollout of three new models. The first is the Palm Pilot III X This is everything the Palm III offers, but with a better screen, MS Outlook conduit, and 4MB RAM. The III X is set to retail at 369, the original price of the old one. This is due out in late-Febuary.
The Palm V, shown here is set to sell at 449, and is 3Com's answer to size. In essence, this is the Palm III on steroids.
The Palm VII, has been heard about for awhile, the Internet version of the Palm III. No seriously detailed information by me on this. -Michael J. Lu
I remember about two and a half years go, in a PC Magazine I read about holographic storage techonology. It used a laser mirors, and essencially stored data on light.
Obviously, its not consumer grade yet, and the price is bound to be phenominal but the storage capacity will be well in to the TeraBytes -Michael J. Lu
Just after the release of the Pentium II 300, Intel was in Europe doing some intersting demonstrations.
By freezing a Pentium Pro, and then sticking it in, the system was running at a full 700-800mhz! The cooling seriously affects how the chip processese information, and it seem that freezing it seems to give a performance boast.
Okay, I'm writing this without my usual bold comments for the sake of speed...
I find it comforting that many people are now finding that Linux, and similar free items are becoming dominant in the corporate world, and the international world.
Most people know that Linux kicks the hell out of Windows. Doh. What I'd like to know is when we might be able to get Linux as a fesable workstation system, vs. the current Windows system.
I'm hoping that the Corel Sidewinder LC systems will change this drastically, becuase they embody the ultimate in kick ass for Linux.
Let us hope in the future, as the world becomes a free thing, and we evolve to the point of Star Trek (yeah right.)
Back in the seventies, no one thought that computers would take off like they have. For those of you that don't know, computers started off as something that would take up the size of a room and use huge vacum tubes and could do little more than a modern day 10 cent calculator.
Likewise, I think a similar boom willhappen in the manufactoring industry, accelerating the timetable for this project.
The creation of a new propulsion system would go a long way in creating a viable traveling system. Say we figure out how to harness the power of gravity and be able to project a black hole by use of energy fields. Imagine the SPEEDS we would be able to hit. Black holes absorb even light!
Any advancements in the field would do a similar change in the way this is constructed, possibly driving down the price, and affecting the design, big time.
I look for this in the middle of the 21st Century.
While nanotechnology has some serious potential good uses, there is also a bad side to using it.
Nanotechnology could be used to create the biggest and badest virus to date. We're talking biological and computer. Think of a nano byte that could process the biological functions of the body and attack crucial organs. Or in the case of a comptuer, multilate a computer from the inside.
They can also be used for warfare against nanobytes alike, but also in wartime battles.
Many people have mentioned that doing this may have some kind of potential backdoor by the government. Which is probably more than likely.
However, my argrument with this is that speed will suffer. Intel processors use CISC technology, 1 instruction per cycle. Adding encryption routines would send the processor though the backlogs of hell.
If Intel was to do encryption, they would have to switch to a RISC system, and then the problem is possibly going to turn into the Y2k problem. Chips that use the same base code, including the encryption routines, and then someday, some major worm comes along and kills the encrypt, and shuts down the processors of the world.
Intel has been using CISC technology for ages. This is the processor that can only do 1 instruction per cycle. This makes for a processor that can't handle big loads, and why you don't see many Intel systems as huge servers (and if they are they have multiple processors for that reason), and most people go with Sun Sparcs.
The alternative to this was RISC a processor design that lets you process several instructions per cycle. This is what Mac's use, and of course, Macs do suck, but thats because of the OS. You stick Linux on any mac, and watch it fly. Not to metention that Mac's make good crackers, for things such as DES and RC5.
At some point, Intel will figure out that CISC is old, and its out of its league, switch to RISC, and act like they created the damn thing.
Another bad thing about the Pentium III is that is Un-Overclockable. One of the nice things about the older processors is with a few jumper settings, you could get PII's to run as high as 504mhz! And this is from a PII 333/300!
USENET for those who don't know, is the newsgroup system. Registering a newsgroup is a hell of a lot easier than doing a domain name registration, although the time until appearance varies.
The way to register a newsgroup involves writing a certain message in a certain format to alt.control, where news server and news server admins pick up the messages to add them to their servers feeds. There is no federal agency controlling these items, and all there is is just programs that pick it up.
The one snag in this is that the time before a certain newsgroup appears on the server varies. It can take anywhere from one day to a week, just because the servers have to process all the control messages. However, they are all picked up eventually.
Using this for doamain name registration poses a nother problem. In essence, the government wouldn't be making a cent off it. You do the math.
The thing with NSI is that they are idiots when it comes to domain name registration. Their site is huge, and its hard to even find a sign up page sometimes.
NSI got the contract from the governemnt to regulate domain names very early on. In fact, domains were free for a long time.
But now, the Internet is taking off, e-commerce is on everone's lips. People are sapping up domain names like no other, and NSI is underpowered to contend. I understand that popular thought says that it takes 3 days. More like two weeks.
NSI also lacks in domain security. Stealing domain names is easy to any hacker, and its happened to me before. NSI is like this huge door waiting to be cracked.
However, there is some sort of salvation, their contract is nearly up. I actually heard from someone that their contract was renewed, but if the gov. has any brain cells up there, they wouldn't do it.
I think from the rest of this thread just about everyone knows what DIVX is. However, IMHO, don't get DIVX. Let me give you some stats.
Circuit City sunk a shitload of money into the DIVX project. This was enough to hurt their quarterly earnings the quarter they did that. When that happened, their stock dropped a nice share, representing the support of the investor into CC's venture.
When you are buying a player, DIVX players are only sold at a couple places, and is more or less more expensive than a comperable DVD.
If you go to Best Buy, before the end of last year, their deal was five free DVD moves and 13 free DVD rentals from Hollywood video. Circuit City has something like 10 free DIVX. Please.
DIVX, just because of the lack of popular support, expecially from movie studios shall be the downfall of it.
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Zooming in from 200 yards is infinitely better than Enemy of the State, where they take a security camera image, extrapolate it into 3D, and then ROTATE the object around like something I'd thrown together in Lightwave.
Before you post, RTFA. The interview specified IE not Windows itself. Last time I checked, after you install Windows and just let it sit there, Internet Explorer doesn't open and start visiting websites that containing exploits.
After hunting for more information on the GE Plastics website, I discovered an area that actually allowed me to talk to a GE Specialist about plastics.
/ library/literature/film/polyestercarbonate/weather able/sollx/slxf200?html=/sp/content/library/litera ture/alit126/css/alit126.htm&pdf=/sp/content/libra ry/pdfs/alit126.pdf
The person I talked to was kind enough to link me to this following document:
http://www.gestructuredproducts.com/sp1/gesp_amer
Free registration required.
Despite the supposed greatness of the Mozilla product, I'm extremely disappointed to see that Netscape has fallen into the Microsoft pit of renaming version numbers.
This latest move by NS is extremely disappointing. Obviously someone in marketing thinks that because IE is already 5.5, a Netscape product at version 5 would appear to be an inferior product just due to one number.
So they call it Netscape 6.0, and somehow it sounds better than IE? What a crock of shit. Just what the hell was NS 5 then? NS 4.7 was a sorry excuse for Netscape, which was buggier than 4.6 IMHO.
-Michael J. Lu
I did not get in at $30. I did, however, get in at 245. You guys on this thread need to understand the fact that a $30 pricing will not open for the majority of the buyers at $30. In the case of VA Linux, the first price that we could buy a share at was 300.
The only way to buy an IPO is to be glued to the real time quotes screen when it opens, and then figure out what you want to do at that point. In my case, I figured it would open at about 70...turned out it would be 4 times that. Glad I didn't put in an order until after it IPOed...would have been useless.
-Michael J. Lu
Oh, on a sidenote, I ordered one of the Cybertool after it was featured on /. I got tired of waiting for the Spyerco and this looked pretty good.
Got it. Hated it. Returned it.
Two main gripes about it.
It was too thick and heavy for my taste, containg a few more tools than nessary.
The design of the interchangable bit screwdriver can't handle much torque. It starts to contort over light use, and I don't even want to think what would happen if I cranked down on something. It also uses a non-standard bit size, and its not out of the question to lose bits.
-Michael J. Lu
I'd actually go for the Syperdo Rench featured on /. back at the end of April.
Unfortunately, they are now just starting to come off. I checked yesterday night and it seems that they had some minor concerns about the design and they are fixing each one before shipping them. Word has it that there are limited quantities out there now, but the majority won't ship till next year.
Spyderco Rench @KnifeCenter
-Michael J. Lu
I believe, if it is within our right, we can sue! MS over this.
Is there a site yet dedicated to this fact?
-Michael J. Lu
Actually, my information comes from news.com, in an article they had about three weeks ago.
-Michael J. Lu
Everything written here has been annouced by the company already. No streches here.
Many people looking at the Palm Pilot would have noticed a recent drop in price of the Palm III and the older Palm Pro's. This is due to the rollout of three new models. The first is the Palm Pilot III X This is everything the Palm III offers, but with a better screen, MS Outlook conduit, and 4MB RAM. The III X is set to retail at 369, the original price of the old one. This is due out in late-Febuary.
The Palm V, shown here is set to sell at 449, and is 3Com's answer to size. In essence, this is the Palm III on steroids.
The Palm VII, has been heard about for awhile, the Internet version of the Palm III. No seriously detailed information by me on this.
-Michael J. Lu
I remember about two and a half years go, in a PC Magazine I read about holographic storage techonology. It used a laser mirors, and essencially stored data on light.
Obviously, its not consumer grade yet, and the price is bound to be phenominal but the storage capacity will be well in to the TeraBytes
-Michael J. Lu
Eudora has been the best email program I have ever used.
Anything less is Outlook Express. Blah.
-Michael J. Lu
Looks, and sounds good to me! I like the new media supports, thankgod!
-Michael J. Lu
Just after the release of the Pentium II 300, Intel was in Europe doing some intersting demonstrations.
By freezing a Pentium Pro, and then sticking it in, the system was running at a full 700-800mhz! The cooling seriously affects how the chip processese information, and it seem that freezing it seems to give a performance boast.
Anyone ever do this at home?
Okay, I'm writing this without my usual bold comments for the sake of speed...
I find it comforting that many people are now finding that Linux, and similar free items are becoming dominant in the corporate world, and the international world.
Most people know that Linux kicks the hell out of Windows. Doh. What I'd like to know is when we might be able to get Linux as a fesable workstation system, vs. the current Windows system.
I'm hoping that the Corel Sidewinder LC systems will change this drastically, becuase they embody the ultimate in kick ass for Linux.
Let us hope in the future, as the world becomes a free thing, and we evolve to the point of Star Trek (yeah right.)
Back in the seventies, no one thought that computers would take off like they have. For those of you that don't know, computers started off as something that would take up the size of a room and use huge vacum tubes and could do little more than a modern day 10 cent calculator.
Likewise, I think a similar boom willhappen in the manufactoring industry, accelerating the timetable for this project.
The creation of a new propulsion system would go a long way in creating a viable traveling system. Say we figure out how to harness the power of gravity and be able to project a black hole by use of energy fields. Imagine the SPEEDS we would be able to hit. Black holes absorb even light!
Any advancements in the field would do a similar change in the way this is constructed, possibly driving down the price, and affecting the design, big time.
I look for this in the middle of the 21st Century.
While nanotechnology has some serious potential good uses, there is also a bad side to using it.
Nanotechnology could be used to create the biggest and badest virus to date. We're talking biological and computer. Think of a nano byte that could process the biological functions of the body and attack crucial organs. Or in the case of a comptuer, multilate a computer from the inside.
They can also be used for warfare against nanobytes alike, but also in wartime battles.
And the list goes on...
Many people have mentioned that doing this may have some kind of potential backdoor by the government. Which is probably more than likely.
However, my argrument with this is that speed will suffer. Intel processors use CISC technology, 1 instruction per cycle. Adding encryption routines would send the processor though the backlogs of hell.
If Intel was to do encryption, they would have to switch to a RISC system, and then the problem is possibly going to turn into the Y2k problem. Chips that use the same base code, including the encryption routines, and then someday, some major worm comes along and kills the encrypt, and shuts down the processors of the world.
IMHO: Hell no.
Intel has been using CISC technology for ages. This is the processor that can only do 1 instruction per cycle. This makes for a processor that can't handle big loads, and why you don't see many Intel systems as huge servers (and if they are they have multiple processors for that reason), and most people go with Sun Sparcs.
The alternative to this was RISC a processor design that lets you process several instructions per cycle. This is what Mac's use, and of course, Macs do suck, but thats because of the OS. You stick Linux on any mac, and watch it fly. Not to metention that Mac's make good crackers, for things such as DES and RC5.
At some point, Intel will figure out that CISC is old, and its out of its league, switch to RISC, and act like they created the damn thing.
Another bad thing about the Pentium III is that is Un-Overclockable. One of the nice things about the older processors is with a few jumper settings, you could get PII's to run as high as 504mhz! And this is from a PII 333/300!
USENET for those who don't know, is the newsgroup system. Registering a newsgroup is a hell of a lot easier than doing a domain name registration, although the time until appearance varies.
The way to register a newsgroup involves writing a certain message in a certain format to alt.control, where news server and news server admins pick up the messages to add them to their servers feeds. There is no federal agency controlling these items, and all there is is just programs that pick it up.
The one snag in this is that the time before a certain newsgroup appears on the server varies. It can take anywhere from one day to a week, just because the servers have to process all the control messages. However, they are all picked up eventually.
Using this for doamain name registration poses a nother problem. In essence, the government wouldn't be making a cent off it. You do the math.
The thing with NSI is that they are idiots when it comes to domain name registration. Their site is huge, and its hard to even find a sign up page sometimes.
NSI got the contract from the governemnt to regulate domain names very early on. In fact, domains were free for a long time.
But now, the Internet is taking off, e-commerce is on everone's lips. People are sapping up domain names like no other, and NSI is underpowered to contend. I understand that popular thought says that it takes 3 days. More like two weeks.
NSI also lacks in domain security. Stealing domain names is easy to any hacker, and its happened to me before. NSI is like this huge door waiting to be cracked.
However, there is some sort of salvation, their contract is nearly up. I actually heard from someone that their contract was renewed, but if the gov. has any brain cells up there, they wouldn't do it.
I think from the rest of this thread just about everyone knows what DIVX is. However, IMHO, don't get DIVX. Let me give you some stats.
Circuit City sunk a shitload of money into the DIVX project. This was enough to hurt their quarterly earnings the quarter they did that. When that happened, their stock dropped a nice share, representing the support of the investor into CC's venture.
When you are buying a player, DIVX players are only sold at a couple places, and is more or less more expensive than a comperable DVD.
If you go to Best Buy, before the end of last year, their deal was five free DVD moves and 13 free DVD rentals from Hollywood video. Circuit City has something like 10 free DIVX. Please.
DIVX, just because of the lack of popular support, expecially from movie studios shall be the downfall of it.