Your post is so riddled with errors, it's hard to decide where to begin. First of all, it's not "magnitizam", it's "magnetism". To my knowledge there exist no currently working magnits. Magnets, on the other hand, are quite common.
As far as the electrogravatics, I don't have any URLs handy for that one, but I believe it has to do with exploiting the connection between electricity and gravity. People are working on this because of the unified field theory that brings together the different forces like electritcy, magnitizam, gravity, and acceleration. The link between electritcy and magnitizam is already apparent and we exploit it (motors, solonids, maglev trains). This has now become known as the electro-weak force and gravity is due to the strong force. The strong and weak forces are what hold the nucleus of atoms together. And I think that it's the 6 flavors of quarks that form the forces.
My oh my, this is where it starts to get hairy. There are four "fundamental" forces: electromagnetism, the strong force, the weak force, and gravity. The strong force holds protons to protons, and acts on a very small scale, even in the atomic realm. This is why the nucleus of an atom is so dense: the protons have to be right up next to each other to hold the nucleus together, otherwise electromagnetic repulsion takes over. The weak force holds protons to neutrons, and neutrons to neutrons. Electromagnetism and gravity people are probably familar with. IIRC, the electromagnetic, strong and weak forces have been shown to have the same roots and are very similar at extreme energies (like a few milliseconds after the big bang). Gravity is still quite a mystery on the atomic scale: its effect is so small it is very hard to measure. Thus, a "theory of everything" that could relate all the fundamental forces of the universe is considered the Holy Grail by many in physics. Unfortunately, it seems just as hard to obtain as a certain chalice was for the Crusaders;-).
Take a look at the nVidia nForce (linked to a Tom's Hardware review) boards. They have an integrated Geforce 2 GPU, DDR support, 5.1 Dolby Digital sound, and seem to be priced fairly reasonably. They don't have the performance of a real high-end system, but they do have decent upgradablity and fairly good 2D and 3D performance (at least compared to the old ATI chips that seem to be common on all-in-one motherboards).
An e-mail "contract" is not. Digital signature algorithm is one way to "sign" an e-mail - in fact, IIRC Bill Clinton signed something into law that allowed a DSA-signed message to be treated like a signed paper document. However, a "regular" e-mail document would be like a verbal contract - it would be a loosely binding, informal agreement rather than something signed and witnessed at the county courthouse.
No way. As radio transmitters, 802.11x devices have to be FCC licensed, along with every other piece of equipment in your computer (although radio transmitters like wireless net products have different standards than regular electronics equipment!). The FCC licenses every single wireless networking product, along with all cordless phones, and any other radio transmitter/reciever. As such, the FCC had the opportunity to review each device and determine if it causes out-of-band interference (like the satellite radio people are claiming). My guess is that the FCC will say something along the lines of "tough shit!" because of the fact that Sirius is complaining about interference 55 MHz outside their alloted band. That's ludicrous -- if the tuners are that bad, Sirius should never have released their product. Imagine your new car stereo tuned to 88.1 FM recieving interference from 107.9 FM. You would take the stereo back! Even if you were sitting right next to the 107.9 transmitter, you wouldn't expect much interference - and that's an analog signal. Digital has (or should have) error detection and correction built in. Sirius seems to expect special treatment because of a bad product - I hope to all that is right and holy in this world they don't get it.
What if you already have an Alpha or Sun encoding server? Do you want to spend more money buying a midrange to highend PC to do the work, or buy a $30 native software package?
The problem is that on Linux systems, it's hard to get 'free' fonts that look good. Most fonts on Linux are bitmapped, and thus don't scale well. The following upgrade will help all applications work better, especially if you alias your 'helvetica' font to 'arial' and your 'times' font to 'times new roman'. Go to Microsoft's "web core fonts" site and download the.exe files. Extract with a program like cabextract (they're just cab files with a self-extracting wrapper). Put them in your X server's fonts directory. Restart the X server (and the fonts server, if you use Redhat). Set up Moz to use the new fonts. Marvel at the beautiful scaling of TrueType fonts. All is better;).
Most likely it's for long distance transmission. While an analog signal fades when sent over long distances, bits don't and can be amplified without losing any signal quality. I wish there was a KVM-type switch and signal amplifier available that would let me run one cable from my server in the garage to my bedroom;-).
Google has had ads for years. They have been off to the side in little pastel-tinted boxes. The great thing is you never even notice them until one of them is useful -- unlike all the damn popups everywhere, they stay out of the way until you need them. As such, I will willingly click on a Google ad if it relates to what I want (and it usually does!), while popups are killed via Mozilla, or, failing that, immediately destroyed as soon as they come up. Interesting to note that while everyone else seems to take the idea of "ads should obscure content", Google has taken the rational and sane approach of "ads should be relevant content".
Yes, there is a whole fscking lot of leftover radiation. Mostly from the fission bomb trigger (there's really no other way anyone knows of to get the heat required to start a fusion reaction), but IIRC fusion will also cause a fair amount of radiation, with all the nasty radioisotopes that take anywhere from minutes to centuries to break down.
Then combine all that data with a big old hash function, and you'll probably get as close to "random" data as one could hope for in this distinctly un-random world.
This world is incredibly random. While things may seem predictable on the human scale, that tends to disintegrate as you go smaller and smaller. Things like Brownian motion (the more or less arbitrary "vibrating" motion of heated particles) are very random.
You will probably come back with some retort about chaos theory and the formation of patterns, so let me tell you what's wrong with that idea right now: Chaos theory does say that in many cases, "random" data will form identifiable patterns. However, often those patterns are not distinct over a small sample. Even given a few million numbers from a sophisticated random number generator, you would be hard-pressed to come up with a pattern in them - even using incredible amounts of computing power. This is why the NSA was so scared of things like PGP a few years back (and still are!). In short, the world is definately not "un-random", especially in very small domains -- such as those microprocessors operate in.
So the school which is predominately protestant can use the filtering software to push out mormon, catholic, jewish, and muslim (oh yeah, and gays, and sex education materials, and abortion) sites because they got to choose for themselves?
I am a protestant Christian (ELCA Lutheran, to be precise), and I have no problem with Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Mormons, gays, lesbians, sex-ed, abortion, or many other things that more conservative Christians would have a heart attack over. I think the term you are looking for is "conservative Christian".
Also, a private school would be perfectly free to choose whatever filtering it wants -- even if it wants to allow only conservative Christian sites, for example, it is perfectly free to do that. Only public schools are bound by the Constitution. Of course, you are in turn perfectly free to not send your children there.
You can get plenty of fusion in a vaccum tube with only 150eV of potential... and that ain't much (basically, it's house voltage).
Now first of all, how in the name of all that is right and holy can you fuse hydrogen atoms in a VACCUM tube? There should be no hydrogen or anything else in there to fuse.
Second, you speak of 150 eV (electron volts, to the uninformed) as being "house voltage". Electron volts measure energy, not potential (specifically, the amount of energy gained by an electron when going through one volt of potential) In the English system, it would be equivalent to 2.7778*10^-4 watt-hours. Second, an electron volt is not even on the scale of anything related to your house's electrical system, which delivers many kilowatt-hours, meaning that if one eV=1.602*10^-19 J and one watt-hour equals the amount quoted above, an electron volt would give about 4.45*10^-26 kilowatt hours, while a typical home would use many KWH per month. A large particle accelerator would put billions of electron volts into a single particle to get it up to speed. Quite simply, your comment (or at least the third paragraph) is full of bullshi^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcattle excrement.
You may have already signed a contract, though. What if a university gave you a bunch of papers to sign at the beginning of each quarter/semester/whatever? Have you read all of them, as well as all the papers they have given you? The paper may very well be classified as "work for hire" or some other nonsense. The scary thing is really that the teachers/university may have full power over your papers and schoolwork.
A floppy based distro hardly ever uses the actual floppy drive. It would more likely load only the kernel, shell and compression utility, then uncompress the contents of the floppy into RAM, and run from there. The floppy is only there to provide a way to easily boot a system, and to hold the initial data. Also, de Raadt's comments don't really apply to a lot of what floppy based distros are used for: home users who want a simple firewall. As a rule, I don't keep any sensitive information on an Internet-connected computer. Thus, even if my network is cracked, it will still be a serious pain in the ass to get to my Quicken files on a non-networked system. My firewall keeps me from becoming a zombie in a DDoS attack or similar, but I wouldn't expect it to really be too successful against anything else. Why would it need to be? Anyone who uses a simple little floppy based firewall to protect their corporate payroll or something really deserves what they get. Still, it's just fine for home use.
With a little work, the fonts in X can be just as good as those in Windows. XF86 v4 (and many other font servers) have built-in TrueType support, and you can go to the MS website and download the "web essentials" fonts -- legally -- and set them up on your *nix box. If you want more, get them off the Net - many people offer free fonts for download. Then, alias your bitmapped "Helvetica" to Arial (Monotype foundry) and "Courier" to "Courier New" (again, Monotype foundry). There are a number of tools available to help with this. End result: much better looking fonts, all at no cost to you other than a little time (took me about a half hour).
Oh yeah, with every single ad for Windows XP showing a Pentium 4 logo in the corner, and the words "Windows XP, with optimizations for the Pentium 4 Processor". Sounds like AMD and MS are real cozy to me!
From what I understand of software emulators, (not all that much, but hopefully enough;-) you need an emulating processor that has anywhere from 2.5x to 10x the power of the emulated processor to get equal performance. While Intel probably has hired the best possible emulation talent, the differences between IA-32 and IA-64 mean that the processor will need to spend precious time decoding and translating instructions. Even if the emulator could magically translate instructions in zero time, it would almost certainly not be able to optimize the code to any degree, and as anyone who as optimized any assembly knows, you depend on all the little 'quirks' in an instruction set to squeeze the most performance possible out of the processor. Of course, Intel has had to include all the quirks of its older processors in the newer ones due to the fact that otherwise old code may not even work. One of the main aims of the IA-64 instruction set is to clear out that library of oddities. What that means, of course, is that all the old optimization techniques used by any halfway decent compiler are going down the toilet, and will probably cause a decrease in speed. You have probably experienced this phenomenon if you've ever played emulated console games -- a Pentium can be dog slow emulating a SNES, even though it has far more power than the SNES. Although emulation of IA-32 will probably one day be the standard, it is almost inconcieveable that it would be able to emulate something like a modern operating system.
While clockspeed!=performance, the point of the previous poster is that even if you emulate x86 on the hardware level (very difficult and expensive) on an 800 MHz chip, despite all its powerful 64-bit features, you will really only get the equivalent of an 800 MHz Pentium 3 or Athlon. Although clockspeed is definetely not the only factor in performane, it plays a good part. Thus, while an Itanium at 800 MHz may easily beat a Pentium 4 9.12 terahertz processor when both are running native applications, emulation is going to be slow and cumbersome almost no matter what. The only real "solution" I could see to get around the slow x86 emulation would be to put a seperate, higher clocked x86 chip outside the Itanium (oldschool math-coprocessor style) and sync the two processors somehow (now that would be a chipset designer's hell!) While the Itanium's native code will be very fast, emulation is by nature slow.
They've got an Enigma, for God's sake. Still, it's barely mentioned in the article! (it did get a picture) Methinks that someone at CNN slept through the history lesson on WWII. Come on, there is no way a binder for a routine intelligence report could be even compared with the machine that was instrumental in the Allied victory in World War II! Just goes to show how little many so-called "experts" really know.
How old are your kids? If they're over 10 or so, putting together a computer with them might actually be a fun and informative thing for the family to do. It sure was for mine!
When I read that, this line literally had me on the floor:
For example, after I took the screenshot of myself being attacked by csh, csh was shot by friendly fire from behind, possibly by tcsh or xv, and my session was abruptly terminated.
I humbly submit this scene, common in the computer rooms of the future:
Shit! All the Apache child processes are ganging up on init! Go for the level exit!
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Take a look at the nVidia nForce (linked to a Tom's Hardware review) boards. They have an integrated Geforce 2 GPU, DDR support, 5.1 Dolby Digital sound, and seem to be priced fairly reasonably. They don't have the performance of a real high-end system, but they do have decent upgradablity and fairly good 2D and 3D performance (at least compared to the old ATI chips that seem to be common on all-in-one motherboards).
So the "heart-pounding" comes from carrying it up the stairs?
An e-mail "contract" is not. Digital signature algorithm is one way to "sign" an e-mail - in fact, IIRC Bill Clinton signed something into law that allowed a DSA-signed message to be treated like a signed paper document. However, a "regular" e-mail document would be like a verbal contract - it would be a loosely binding, informal agreement rather than something signed and witnessed at the county courthouse.
What if you already have an Alpha or Sun encoding server? Do you want to spend more money buying a midrange to highend PC to do the work, or buy a $30 native software package?
The problem is that on Linux systems, it's hard to get 'free' fonts that look good. Most fonts on Linux are bitmapped, and thus don't scale well. The following upgrade will help all applications work better, especially if you alias your 'helvetica' font to 'arial' and your 'times' font to 'times new roman'. Go to Microsoft's "web core fonts" site and download the .exe files. Extract with a program like cabextract (they're just cab files with a self-extracting wrapper). Put them in your X server's fonts directory. Restart the X server (and the fonts server, if you use Redhat). Set up Moz to use the new fonts. Marvel at the beautiful scaling of TrueType fonts. All is better ;).
Most likely it's for long distance transmission. While an analog signal fades when sent over long distances, bits don't and can be amplified without losing any signal quality. I wish there was a KVM-type switch and signal amplifier available that would let me run one cable from my server in the garage to my bedroom ;-).
Google has had ads for years. They have been off to the side in little pastel-tinted boxes. The great thing is you never even notice them until one of them is useful -- unlike all the damn popups everywhere, they stay out of the way until you need them. As such, I will willingly click on a Google ad if it relates to what I want (and it usually does!), while popups are killed via Mozilla, or, failing that, immediately destroyed as soon as they come up. Interesting to note that while everyone else seems to take the idea of "ads should obscure content", Google has taken the rational and sane approach of "ads should be relevant content".
Yes, there is a whole fscking lot of leftover radiation. Mostly from the fission bomb trigger (there's really no other way anyone knows of to get the heat required to start a fusion reaction), but IIRC fusion will also cause a fair amount of radiation, with all the nasty radioisotopes that take anywhere from minutes to centuries to break down.
You will probably come back with some retort about chaos theory and the formation of patterns, so let me tell you what's wrong with that idea right now: Chaos theory does say that in many cases, "random" data will form identifiable patterns. However, often those patterns are not distinct over a small sample. Even given a few million numbers from a sophisticated random number generator, you would be hard-pressed to come up with a pattern in them - even using incredible amounts of computing power. This is why the NSA was so scared of things like PGP a few years back (and still are!). In short, the world is definately not "un-random", especially in very small domains -- such as those microprocessors operate in.
I am a protestant Christian (ELCA Lutheran, to be precise), and I have no problem with Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Mormons, gays, lesbians, sex-ed, abortion, or many other things that more conservative Christians would have a heart attack over. I think the term you are looking for is "conservative Christian".
Also, a private school would be perfectly free to choose whatever filtering it wants -- even if it wants to allow only conservative Christian sites, for example, it is perfectly free to do that. Only public schools are bound by the Constitution. Of course, you are in turn perfectly free to not send your children there.
Second, you speak of 150 eV (electron volts, to the uninformed) as being "house voltage". Electron volts measure energy, not potential (specifically, the amount of energy gained by an electron when going through one volt of potential) In the English system, it would be equivalent to 2.7778*10^-4 watt-hours. Second, an electron volt is not even on the scale of anything related to your house's electrical system, which delivers many kilowatt-hours, meaning that if one eV=1.602*10^-19 J and one watt-hour equals the amount quoted above, an electron volt would give about 4.45*10^-26 kilowatt hours, while a typical home would use many KWH per month. A large particle accelerator would put billions of electron volts into a single particle to get it up to speed. Quite simply, your comment (or at least the third paragraph) is full of bullshi^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcattle excrement.
You may have already signed a contract, though. What if a university gave you a bunch of papers to sign at the beginning of each quarter/semester/whatever? Have you read all of them, as well as all the papers they have given you? The paper may very well be classified as "work for hire" or some other nonsense. The scary thing is really that the teachers/university may have full power over your papers and schoolwork.
A floppy based distro hardly ever uses the actual floppy drive. It would more likely load only the kernel, shell and compression utility, then uncompress the contents of the floppy into RAM, and run from there. The floppy is only there to provide a way to easily boot a system, and to hold the initial data. Also, de Raadt's comments don't really apply to a lot of what floppy based distros are used for: home users who want a simple firewall. As a rule, I don't keep any sensitive information on an Internet-connected computer. Thus, even if my network is cracked, it will still be a serious pain in the ass to get to my Quicken files on a non-networked system. My firewall keeps me from becoming a zombie in a DDoS attack or similar, but I wouldn't expect it to really be too successful against anything else. Why would it need to be? Anyone who uses a simple little floppy based firewall to protect their corporate payroll or something really deserves what they get. Still, it's just fine for home use.
With a little work, the fonts in X can be just as good as those in Windows. XF86 v4 (and many other font servers) have built-in TrueType support, and you can go to the MS website and download the "web essentials" fonts -- legally -- and set them up on your *nix box. If you want more, get them off the Net - many people offer free fonts for download. Then, alias your bitmapped "Helvetica" to Arial (Monotype foundry) and "Courier" to "Courier New" (again, Monotype foundry). There are a number of tools available to help with this. End result: much better looking fonts, all at no cost to you other than a little time (took me about a half hour).
Oh yeah, with every single ad for Windows XP showing a Pentium 4 logo in the corner, and the words "Windows XP, with optimizations for the Pentium 4 Processor". Sounds like AMD and MS are real cozy to me!
From what I understand of software emulators, (not all that much, but hopefully enough ;-) you need an emulating processor that has anywhere from 2.5x to 10x the power of the emulated processor to get equal performance. While Intel probably has hired the best possible emulation talent, the differences between IA-32 and IA-64 mean that the processor will need to spend precious time decoding and translating instructions. Even if the emulator could magically translate instructions in zero time, it would almost certainly not be able to optimize the code to any degree, and as anyone who as optimized any assembly knows, you depend on all the little 'quirks' in an instruction set to squeeze the most performance possible out of the processor. Of course, Intel has had to include all the quirks of its older processors in the newer ones due to the fact that otherwise old code may not even work. One of the main aims of the IA-64 instruction set is to clear out that library of oddities. What that means, of course, is that all the old optimization techniques used by any halfway decent compiler are going down the toilet, and will probably cause a decrease in speed. You have probably experienced this phenomenon if you've ever played emulated console games -- a Pentium can be dog slow emulating a SNES, even though it has far more power than the SNES. Although emulation of IA-32 will probably one day be the standard, it is almost inconcieveable that it would be able to emulate something like a modern operating system.
While clockspeed!=performance, the point of the previous poster is that even if you emulate x86 on the hardware level (very difficult and expensive) on an 800 MHz chip, despite all its powerful 64-bit features, you will really only get the equivalent of an 800 MHz Pentium 3 or Athlon. Although clockspeed is definetely not the only factor in performane, it plays a good part. Thus, while an Itanium at 800 MHz may easily beat a Pentium 4 9.12 terahertz processor when both are running native applications, emulation is going to be slow and cumbersome almost no matter what. The only real "solution" I could see to get around the slow x86 emulation would be to put a seperate, higher clocked x86 chip outside the Itanium (oldschool math-coprocessor style) and sync the two processors somehow (now that would be a chipset designer's hell!) While the Itanium's native code will be very fast, emulation is by nature slow.
They've got an Enigma, for God's sake. Still, it's barely mentioned in the article! (it did get a picture) Methinks that someone at CNN slept through the history lesson on WWII. Come on, there is no way a binder for a routine intelligence report could be even compared with the machine that was instrumental in the Allied victory in World War II! Just goes to show how little many so-called "experts" really know.
How old are your kids? If they're over 10 or so, putting together a computer with them might actually be a fun and informative thing for the family to do. It sure was for mine!
And those aren't a bunch of mostly sugary, fizzy drinks?