PC133 is faster memory than PC100 cas 322. So the firmware did not disable it. Here is the breakdown:
PC66 Cas 222 is the same as PC100 cas 333. Except for minor architectural changes in reguards to reporting it's speed to the bios.
PC100 cas 222 is Identicle to PC133 cas 333. PC133 cas 222 can be run as PC150 cas 333. PC150 cas 222 can be run at PC166 cas 333.
You have been kept in the dark about your hardware. If Apple hardware was in any way tweakable, you would understand how much crap you have been fed. Is your G4 a 100mhz fsb version or a 133mhz fsb version?
133mhz fsb G4s use pc133. The G4 iMac, TiBook, 168 pin G3 iMac, New iBook and Older G4 towers ALL USE PC100 Memory in either Dimm or Sodimm form factor. They can all use PC133 because it is better than PC100 Cas 322. The firmware update disabled any memory that did not run at least that speed.
I saw it too... we were here for the making of the word "Previewish".... what the hell does it mean? When something gets delivered to you that you were hoping to get to see.... noun? OK, I'll spread it... you can too... our missoin is to use it at least three times in coversation in the next week... Mission impossible music... We can hope for AYBABTU status.. but we may nedd something more catchy.
Perhaps it has nothing to do with Dos anymore. You know that.htm is a Hyper Text Markup Language file but you wouldn't want to type that each time. So why force people to type.html when.htm carries the same meaning? Just like there is no difference in meaning between.jpeg and.jpg or.mpeg.mpg. The only problem with that particular name is the file carries no information on what encoding standard was used. If you use divx 4.11 or 5 expect that no one has an application to properly play those filetypes.
Quiktime will report "the required compressor could not be found" Windows media player will play the audio track only.
So there is a case of the file extention not provideing the sort of information to the operating system that it should, or once did.
reguardless,.htm is good enough, It beats ".hypertextmarkuplanguage" appended to the end of each file hands down.:)
Results 1 - 10 of about 51. Search took 0.12 seconds.
51 of 621 is no where close to good enough. The entire database must be indexed and parsed. Magic Google algorithms must dance upon the text and context.
I want a search to say:
results 1-50 of 621. sort by relavance. sort by score. sort by date. sort by number of replies. sort by total moderation done to comment. sort by the number of author's posts in story.
So I can say, "gee, I remember p3d0 had at least 5 comments on that story and two of them were at least score 5" and the search engine finds all data sets that match, sorted by how closely they match. Slashdot is a convoluted enough system that the Slash crew may have to extend even Google a bit. But they are bright lads and if not too busy with day to day editing would find such a task within their abilities.
At least post as a user next time asshole, so I know who I'm about to make a fool of.
Cinema Tools $999 iMovie 2 $999 iDVD $999 Final Cut Pro $999
Do you think they all have identical developement costs and therefore are all priced the same or do you think Apple might be ripping you off?
Apple recomended additional software:
Adobe After Effects $1999
They are certainly ripping you off with their hardware cost:
At least $2500 for a slow G4. At least wait for this to get some decent hardware at a fair price.
And what can you use this for? Home movies, low budget porn and local commercials. You see, you can only burn an hour of video using iDVD. Apple is trying to make you think you are shooting video just like the pros, just like they are trying to make you think that that pricey toy you have is a real computer. And they have you fooled. To the tune of $10,000.
A fool and his money are soon parted. By the way, to me $10,000 is a Beowulf cluster with 50 CPUs, just like Pixar uses, Steve Jobs' other company.
Go pout or LOG IN to respond you bitch assed coward.
We had many fine discussions. I told him to go use his charismatic persuasion ability to become a politician. He left shortly after, giving his 500+ karma account to some troll to burn up posting goatse.cx, penis bird links, and refrences to natalie portman naked and petrified hot grits posts.
I don't know what became of him. I shure wish he (god, for that matter signal might be a she) would make a slashdot submission story letting everyone know how he's doing.
To give the kids an idea of his abilities, he would have at least one 5 post on every single story. It's like he was able to prepare posts for stories before they were even posted. He always had the first informative or insightfull comment in every single article.
Signal 11 has posted 2099 comments.
He was the Karma Whore for which the term was invented. He has HUNDREDS of imposters and may have had the first imposter, Signail11, a troll that knew moderators would get confused and occasionally mod him up. The man never slept and his insistance on posting early and often made slashdot consider headline beepers.
One of the things I miss the most was his ability to deep link to a NY Times article. No one ever had to register as long as he was around.
Slash either needs to get a Google box or use these APIs to fix their search feature. There is so much haystack data compared to good needles on Slashdot and the search is so bad that most of the great gems of knowlege that Slashdot has generated might as well have never existed. It can take an hour to find even a popular poster's comments.
Need to reference John Carmack's comments? Sorting him out of the masses is next to impossible. Even a comment poster as prolific as Signal 11 (arguabley slashdots first and greatest Karma Whore) is nearly impossible to find. First 30 matches of how many? You want to sort through jeffy124's 700+ comments and 24 submitted stories just to find the pertinate one I need by hand? Not to mention the benefit to Slashdot's editors, being able to follow a clear history of articles on a given subject to look for repeats and make more informed editorial commentary. If 90% of readers never read the comments, the editors owe that 90% the sort of editorial commentary attached to each story that only good research can provide.
In fact, the editors could try it on an interim basis immediately, and provide the service to readers only if they had the resources. I sort of get the feeling that the editors are still thinking of slashdot as a small time blog run out of their apartment closet server.
Run google on slashdot now and you get the news from three weeks ago. Incorperate a google box or google APIs into Slash so I could search today's news and I would Pay 10 cents of subscription funds per search in a heartbeat.
Editors: look at the number of hits to your current broken search engine. Double that number because a dedicated google box would be so much better it would get used a whole lot more. Multiply that by 10 cents per search. See if the numbers work to afford the initial expenditure to get a nice yellow rack mount google box. Slashdot is sitting on a goldmine of data and no one can search it and Slashdot cannot profit from it without a nice pay per search subscription using the best engine available.
Building ad network databases is not trivial, but neither is developing and running slashcode and running slashdot. They can build in features that personalize my webpage, only accept unique IP addresses for each poll vote, handle the user pages of half a million users, do an admittedly poor job of enableing a site search and accept loads that are able to crash every other site on the net (remember Slashdot is always slashdotted and shows few load affects). I'm sure they could build a database that tells them Perdo (me) has only clicked through to think geek and only purchased a caffine coffee mug when I got there.
Incedental to my reading slashdot, I have purchased "Pro" distros of Redhat and Mandrake for home and 3 cobalt servers for work. Slashdot itself is an advertisement for Linux. They can attempt to milk the ad cow dry but what they need to do instead of selling out to a company willing to violate my privacy, is stop posting cool stories about the companies that are actually benefiting the most from slashdot.
Redhat, pay up. Sun, pay up. Apple, pay up. Either that or loose your best press coverage in a community that has a hell of a lot of purchasing power. Companies will support the community provided by this forum or they will not be discussed, which based on the word of mouth nature of Linux, will kill those companies.
Sounds like extortion but it is simply the beneficiaries paying for service rendered. Send the mac addicts back to macslash. Support the forum or be excluded.
Your proxy drops connections with doubleclick but while you "weren't looking", Slashdot started having tea parties and playing house with them. Scan your logs of dropped connections and you will find those within the Doubleclick Netblock occured while you were surfing slashdot.
Simple. Apple's hardware is all about style and cables are ugly. Bluetooth is the larval stage of a technology that will replace USB, Firewire, VGA, SCSI, PCI.
Imagine a bucket.
Toss a processor in the bucket.
Throw in some Storage, Video modual, Whatever moduals you can afford and think you need.
Turn on the inductance coil in the bottom of the bucket and your ad-hoc computer boots. All the busses are lightning fast wireless.
Need a cluster's power? Throw more processors in the bucket.
All that computer junk you accumulate would still be usefull just leave it in the bucket. The bucket could be a computer case, water fountain, monitor, grandfather clock, robotic chassis or for the freaks willing to give up their freedom, inide their own bodies.
so doubleclick is running Apache/2.0.35 (Unix). I don't understand. Slashdot uses Doubleclick for banner serving and paypal for subscriptions. Can't they find some goodguys to put on their team? Seems like they could hire some staff and do this stuff in-house. Cut out the middle man. If joes's sunglass hut can handle credit card orders and serve their banners to other sites, Slashdot can do it too.
The only added value Slashdot would get from Doubleclick or Paypal is the ability to track users...
Let me say that again. Even though other options are available to them, they choose to use two of the most privacy invasive companies available.
"The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is charging that DoubleClick is violating a section of the law forbidding "unfair and deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce." EPIC's complaint centers on DoubleClick's "Abacus Online," a secret group of DoubleClick's clients for which the advertising company tracks Web surfers' habits using online data, such as IP addresses, with offline data such as names, postal addresses and catalog purchase histories."
"The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) unveiled the campaign yesterday, calling for a stop to what it describes as DoubleClick's efforts to use its relationships with prominent Internet companies to track the online activities of millions of individuals and tie them to those individuals' offline activities."
"This is window dressing on their previous position -- which is that they're going to profile [Internet users] as much as they feel like, unless people try to opt out,"
Paypal has gotten quite a bit of bad press here on slashdot, but were chosen to handle Slashdot's subscriptions anyway.
replace the switches
on
No-click Mouse?
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· Score: 5, Interesting
Mouses use momentary on click plunger switches soldered onto a circuit board. Replace the switches with quiet momentary on plungers and cut them to proper height. Probably best to use plungers with stiffer springs to keep a tactile feel of on/off. Spray the moving parts with silicone grease and enjoy your silent mouse. Then put a fan in it to cool your sweaty palm
You guys must feel like the MS hordes, installing security updates with known vulnerabilities and that break things that worked before.
Apple keeps you tinkering with software long enough, and you guys might decide that tinkering with the hardware will be fun too.
Then you will realize that Apple doesn't give you that option and if you find a way around it, they'll issue a firmware update that is "critical to system stability" that disables whatever offending piece of hardware that you purchased at fair market price, instead of paying Apple's premium price.
*cough* CAS 322 PC100 memory *cough*
Of course you can always disable the memory check at startup that disables your ram.. but only if it will boot at all (you didn't replace *all* your ram with inexpencive aftermarket stuff did you?) and you know the secret hotkey decoder ring handshake to press and hold while opening the memory control panel.
Must be Mac addicts. I thought crackheads were the only people willing to get fucked by their dealers.
btw, Can anyone tell me where the microphone on my old iBook is?
Oh, did you know the price of a new x86 system has dropped to $300 with firewire?
Let's see, we want to turn the entire thing into plasma, which I guess could arbitrarily be 10,000 degrees centigrade. Let's ssume it takes one calorie to raise 1 gram of stuff one degree celcious. Now we run our wizzard on a sphere the size of texas, with moon equvalent composition.
about 1.685 x 10^45 gram-calories needed
1 Kiloton TNT equals 1 x 10^12 gram-calories
Approximatly 1.68491109264290913984 x 10^32 Kilotons of TNT needed to convert our texas sized asteroid into 10,000 degree celcious plasma.
I'm going to step out on a limb and make the wild guess that we don't have 16,849,110,926,429,091,398,400,000,000 Megatons worth of nuclear devices.
In fact, It would take the sun 33 years to produce that much energy.
I think I miscarried a decimal somewhere but only being off by a magnitude of 10 is moot on the scales we are talking. suffice to say we could push it around, if we caught it early, but turning the entire thing into plasma is not an option.
Unless we used the mars' atmospheric lazing affect to concentrate a gamma ray lazer created by letting Phobos meet anti-Phobos...
The only question is, where do we get anti-Phobos from? heh..
That's funny, I don't remember having to register to download any other "free" as in "freedom" open source software. Apple has sold my personal information before. They'll not have the chance again.
The mass of an asteroid is not known. 433 Eros, which we know better than any other asteroid, still has an unknown mass for purposes of calculating it's orbit 800 years into the future. Being off by even a few grams results in being off by thousands of miles in final trajectory. It's apparent mass is between 6.69 and 7.2 x 10^15 kg enough to put our calculations off by entire solar units, after 800 years have passed. There is also the problem of asteroids constantly shedding and gaining mass due to collisions, dust deposition and even the solar wind itself depositing dust or blowing deposited dust away.
2) the sice of the surface is known
"Sice" is an Ceske (Check) word that I assume means reflectivity. Consider this: look at a common crystal. Notice that it's reflectivity is determined by it's orientation to the veiwer. The moon always presents the same face to earth, but the sun "gets to see" all sides of the moon. If we base our calculations of an objects reflectivity on observations from earth, or a spacecraft orbiting the asteroid, we cannot make accurate calculations of the objects reflectivity because only one set of data really matters, the reflectivity of the object from the sun's point of view, which may also be variable.
3) the orbit(distance) is known
The orbit can be guessed. We can know with relative certainty where an object was. We can know fairly accurately where it will be in 20 years. We can wildly speculate where it will be in 800 years. Consider the cesium beam atomic clock. It is accurate to 1 x 10^-17 seconds. Such a clock would be off by as much as a thousandth of a second in 800 years. Given that deviation, Calculations of an orbit could be off by several kilometers just on un-guessable timing errors alone. Unfortunately, there is a mathematically unsolvable problem too: The Three-Body Problem, well explained here. Unfortunately, we are faced with a 32 body problem, just counting the sun, planets and major moons. It doesn't even end there. The mass of any body is not consistent across it's surface. For instance, there are places on the earth that "pull" harder than others. This is well mapped on earth, and there are satellite launches planned or in orbit to more closely map this phenomenon, but we have just barely scratched the surface as far as research into, for instance, Jupiter's Local gravitational variations, which have a much greater impact on solar orbit calculations than any body in the solar system.
4) the intensity of sunlight is known
The intensity of sunlight is unknown. The sunspot activity cycle causes the solar wind to change in intensity. Additionally, it warms and cools cyclically. I've heard on a ten thousand or so year cycle, but I cannot remember the source. The sun is also very gradually warming due to the natural life cycle of stars. The planet's magnetic field's slow and accelerate the solar wind and create airfoil shaped shadows in their wakes, through which asteroids must pass. The Planet's magnetic fields also have a quite variable affect on the solar wind, as watching an aurora will show you.
I'll leave you with this:
You can watch a wave sweep the beach and know that the beach will likely have the same shape after its passing but to predict with certainty where a particular grain of sand will go is not within our abilities and never can be.
There are many waves, and even they affect the orbits of asteroids, as the friction of tides moved the moon out to it's current orbit, and slowed the earth to it's present length of day.
Care to guess the coefficient of friction of metallic-hydrogen against it's unknown but assumed "rocky" core? Tidal forces within Jupiter will have to be factored in too.
Are you all fucking kidding me? You are all the guys that get hung up about so much as MAC addresses being seen as personnally identifiable on the internet. And none of you are ABSOLUTELY OUTRAGED that the FDA has approved IMPLANTED ID CHIPS? I will DIE before I end up with some fucking chip inside me. I don't have so much as a tattoo on me, I shure as hell don't need my life story on some fucking piece of flash memory inside my ass.
Watch this story catch sub-1000 posts when it is more important and outragous than any five stories on the hof. I can deal with not being annonymous on the internet. I can choose not to use it if it comes to that. But if I cannot so much as walk down the street without every Corporation, Government and Asshole knowing more about me than I know myself, I am certainly no longer free, not by the greatest stretch of the imagination about "the good of mankind" or "medical miracles" or "protection from kidnapping"
Gimme a fucking break. Have you seen the first test case family? They are freaks! the son is some 180 iq juvie with dreams of becoming arnold in terminator because he is fat and his lips are too big. Daddy has been smoking weed for 30 years. Mommy a vacant follower who does everything fat assed sonny says because he's smarter than she is. Their fucking quote is "It's all Derik's idea, he is so bright that we are taking his advice on this". Jesus Christ, the kid is still wet behind the ears.
Derek's list of accomplishments at 14 (the wired article got it wrong):
He's an MCSE/MCP/A+
and is the owner of a fucking counsulting business
You tell me, does everyone here want to follow this jackasses lead?
Slashdot Mirror
PC133 is faster memory than PC100 cas 322. So the firmware did not disable it. Here is the breakdown:
PC66 Cas 222 is the same as PC100 cas 333. Except for minor architectural changes in reguards to reporting it's speed to the bios.
PC100 cas 222 is Identicle to PC133 cas 333.
PC133 cas 222 can be run as PC150 cas 333.
PC150 cas 222 can be run at PC166 cas 333.
You have been kept in the dark about your hardware. If Apple hardware was in any way tweakable, you would understand how much crap you have been fed. Is your G4 a 100mhz fsb version or a 133mhz fsb version?
133mhz fsb G4s use pc133. The G4 iMac, TiBook, 168 pin G3 iMac, New iBook and Older G4 towers ALL USE PC100 Memory in either Dimm or Sodimm form factor. They can all use PC133 because it is better than PC100 Cas 322. The firmware update disabled any memory that did not run at least that speed.
I saw it too... we were here for the making of the word "Previewish" .... what the hell does it mean? When something gets delivered to you that you were hoping to get to see.... noun? OK, I'll spread it... you can too... our missoin is to use it at least three times in coversation in the next week... Mission impossible music... We can hope for AYBABTU status.. but we may nedd something more catchy.
Ok, let's see...
.htm is a Hyper Text Markup Language file but you wouldn't want to type that each time. So why force people to type .html when .htm carries the same meaning? Just like there is no difference in meaning between .jpeg and .jpg or .mpeg .mpg. The only problem with that particular name is the file carries no information on what encoding standard was used. If you use divx 4.11 or 5 expect that no one has an application to properly play those filetypes.
.htm is good enough, It beats ".hypertextmarkuplanguage" appended to the end of each file hands down. :)
DefaultName.HyperTextMarkupLanguageFileType.
Perhaps it has nothing to do with Dos anymore. You know that
Quiktime will report "the required compressor could not be found" Windows media player will play the audio track only.
So there is a case of the file extention not provideing the sort of information to the operating system that it should, or once did.
reguardless,
Searched pages from slashdot.org for p3d0 .
Results 1 - 10 of about 51. Search took 0.12 seconds.
51 of 621 is no where close to good enough. The entire database must be indexed and parsed. Magic Google algorithms must dance upon the text and context.
I want a search to say:
results 1-50 of 621.
sort by relavance.
sort by score.
sort by date.
sort by number of replies.
sort by total moderation done to comment.
sort by the number of author's posts in story.
So I can say, "gee, I remember p3d0 had at least 5 comments on that story and two of them were at least score 5" and the search engine finds all data sets that match, sorted by how closely they match. Slashdot is a convoluted enough system that the Slash crew may have to extend even Google a bit. But they are bright lads and if not too busy with day to day editing would find such a task within their abilities.
At least post as a user next time asshole, so I know who I'm about to make a fool of.
Cinema Tools $999
iMovie 2 $999
iDVD $999
Final Cut Pro $999
Do you think they all have identical developement costs and therefore are all priced the same or do you think Apple might be ripping you off?
Apple recomended additional software:
Adobe After Effects $1999
They are certainly ripping you off with their hardware cost:
At least $2500 for a slow G4. At least wait for this to get some decent hardware at a fair price.
And what can you use this for? Home movies, low budget porn and local commercials. You see, you can only burn an hour of video using iDVD. Apple is trying to make you think you are shooting video just like the pros, just like they are trying to make you think that that pricey toy you have is a real computer. And they have you fooled. To the tune of $10,000.
A fool and his money are soon parted. By the way, to me $10,000 is a Beowulf cluster with 50 CPUs, just like Pixar uses, Steve Jobs' other company.
Go pout or LOG IN to respond you bitch assed coward.
Here is a neat story from today.
Make sure you cheack out the refrenced stories and their references too.
We had many fine discussions. I told him to go use his charismatic persuasion ability to become a politician. He left shortly after, giving his 500+ karma account to some troll to burn up posting goatse.cx, penis bird links, and refrences to natalie portman naked and petrified hot grits posts.
I don't know what became of him. I shure wish he (god, for that matter signal might be a she) would make a slashdot submission story letting everyone know how he's doing.
To give the kids an idea of his abilities, he would have at least one 5 post on every single story. It's like he was able to prepare posts for stories before they were even posted. He always had the first informative or insightfull comment in every single article.
Signal 11 has posted 2099 comments.
He was the Karma Whore for which the term was invented. He has HUNDREDS of imposters and may have had the first imposter, Signail11, a troll that knew moderators would get confused and occasionally mod him up. The man never slept and his insistance on posting early and often made slashdot consider headline beepers.
One of the things I miss the most was his ability to deep link to a NY Times article. No one ever had to register as long as he was around.
Slash either needs to get a Google box or use these APIs to fix their search feature. There is so much haystack data compared to good needles on Slashdot and the search is so bad that most of the great gems of knowlege that Slashdot has generated might as well have never existed. It can take an hour to find even a popular poster's comments.
Need to reference John Carmack's comments? Sorting him out of the masses is next to impossible. Even a comment poster as prolific as Signal 11 (arguabley slashdots first and greatest Karma Whore) is nearly impossible to find. First 30 matches of how many? You want to sort through jeffy124's 700+ comments and 24 submitted stories just to find the pertinate one I need by hand? Not to mention the benefit to Slashdot's editors, being able to follow a clear history of articles on a given subject to look for repeats and make more informed editorial commentary. If 90% of readers never read the comments, the editors owe that 90% the sort of editorial commentary attached to each story that only good research can provide.
In fact, the editors could try it on an interim basis immediately, and provide the service to readers only if they had the resources. I sort of get the feeling that the editors are still thinking of slashdot as a small time blog run out of their apartment closet server.
Run google on slashdot now and you get the news from three weeks ago. Incorperate a google box or google APIs into Slash so I could search today's news and I would Pay 10 cents of subscription funds per search in a heartbeat.
Editors: look at the number of hits to your current broken search engine. Double that number because a dedicated google box would be so much better it would get used a whole lot more. Multiply that by 10 cents per search. See if the numbers work to afford the initial expenditure to get a nice yellow rack mount google box. Slashdot is sitting on a goldmine of data and no one can search it and Slashdot cannot profit from it without a nice pay per search subscription using the best engine available.
You don't have to leave for owning macs, you have to leave for taking the april fool's day stories seriously.
Take that chip on your shoulder back to the trailer park.
Building ad network databases is not trivial, but neither is developing and running slashcode and running slashdot. They can build in features that personalize my webpage, only accept unique IP addresses for each poll vote, handle the user pages of half a million users, do an admittedly poor job of enableing a site search and accept loads that are able to crash every other site on the net (remember Slashdot is always slashdotted and shows few load affects). I'm sure they could build a database that tells them Perdo (me) has only clicked through to think geek and only purchased a caffine coffee mug when I got there.
Incedental to my reading slashdot, I have purchased "Pro" distros of Redhat and Mandrake for home and 3 cobalt servers for work. Slashdot itself is an advertisement for Linux. They can attempt to milk the ad cow dry but what they need to do instead of selling out to a company willing to violate my privacy, is stop posting cool stories about the companies that are actually benefiting the most from slashdot.
Redhat, pay up. Sun, pay up. Apple, pay up. Either that or loose your best press coverage in a community that has a hell of a lot of purchasing power. Companies will support the community provided by this forum or they will not be discussed, which based on the word of mouth nature of Linux, will kill those companies.
Sounds like extortion but it is simply the beneficiaries paying for service rendered. Send the mac addicts back to macslash. Support the forum or be excluded.
I had thought so too, but some of the big java middle of the screen ads are:
. 2; sz=336x280
http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/N2613.osdn/B960233
Which idents as DCLK-HttpSvr
resolves to IP 204.253.104.80
Which is inside Doubleclick's Netblock
Double Click (NETBLK-UU-204-253-104) UU-204-253-104
IP 204.253.104.0 - 204.253.105.255
Your proxy drops connections with doubleclick but while you "weren't looking", Slashdot started having tea parties and playing house with them. Scan your logs of dropped connections and you will find those within the Doubleclick Netblock occured while you were surfing slashdot.
Simple. Apple's hardware is all about style and cables are ugly. Bluetooth is the larval stage of a technology that will replace USB, Firewire, VGA, SCSI, PCI.
Imagine a bucket.
Toss a processor in the bucket.
Throw in some Storage, Video modual, Whatever moduals you can afford and think you need.
Turn on the inductance coil in the bottom of the bucket and your ad-hoc computer boots. All the busses are lightning fast wireless.
Need a cluster's power? Throw more processors in the bucket.
All that computer junk you accumulate would still be usefull just leave it in the bucket. The bucket could be a computer case, water fountain, monitor, grandfather clock, robotic chassis or for the freaks willing to give up their freedom, inide their own bodies.
Give it Ten years...
I couldn't tell if previewish was an actual word so I did a search on google for it.
previewish
Almost a googlewhack. But it's not a real word so it's a googlethud.
so doubleclick is running Apache/2.0.35 (Unix). I don't understand. Slashdot uses Doubleclick for banner serving and paypal for subscriptions. Can't they find some goodguys to put on their team? Seems like they could hire some staff and do this stuff in-house. Cut out the middle man. If joes's sunglass hut can handle credit card orders and serve their banners to other sites, Slashdot can do it too.
The only added value Slashdot would get from Doubleclick or Paypal is the ability to track users...
Let me say that again. Even though other options are available to them, they choose to use two of the most privacy invasive companies available.
"The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is charging that DoubleClick is violating a section of the law forbidding "unfair and deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce." EPIC's complaint centers on DoubleClick's "Abacus Online," a secret group of DoubleClick's clients for which the advertising company tracks Web surfers' habits using online data, such as IP addresses, with offline data such as names, postal addresses and catalog purchase histories."
"The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) unveiled the campaign yesterday, calling for a stop to what it describes as DoubleClick's efforts to use its relationships with prominent Internet companies to track the online activities of millions of individuals and tie them to those individuals' offline activities."
"This is window dressing on their previous position -- which is that they're going to profile [Internet users] as much as they feel like, unless people try to opt out,"
Paypal has gotten quite a bit of bad press here on slashdot, but were chosen to handle Slashdot's subscriptions anyway.
here here here here
Why is Slashdot in bed with these slimeballs when they do not have to be?
"you should poke around Slashdot's servers and see if you are surprised"
Slashdot is running
Apache/1.3.20 (unix)
mod_perl/1.25
mod_gzip/1.3.1.19.1a
I'll look around some more...
"And I will attempt to establish a new country on a Pacific island, I swear."
I'll help.
Why post AC? Say it right too, dammit.
Bill Gates, named his company after his Penis.
Mouses use momentary on click plunger switches soldered onto a circuit board. Replace the switches with quiet momentary on plungers and cut them to proper height. Probably best to use plungers with stiffer springs to keep a tactile feel of on/off. Spray the moving parts with silicone grease and enjoy your silent mouse. Then put a fan in it to cool your sweaty palm
You guys must feel like the MS hordes, installing security updates with known vulnerabilities and that break things that worked before.
Apple keeps you tinkering with software long enough, and you guys might decide that tinkering with the hardware will be fun too.
Then you will realize that Apple doesn't give you that option and if you find a way around it, they'll issue a firmware update that is "critical to system stability" that disables whatever offending piece of hardware that you purchased at fair market price, instead of paying Apple's premium price.
*cough* CAS 322 PC100 memory *cough*
Of course you can always disable the memory check at startup that disables your ram.. but only if it will boot at all (you didn't replace *all* your ram with inexpencive aftermarket stuff did you?) and you know the secret hotkey decoder ring handshake to press and hold while opening the memory control panel.
Must be Mac addicts. I thought crackheads were the only people willing to get fucked by their dealers.
btw, Can anyone tell me where the microphone on my old iBook is?
Oh, did you know the price of a new x86 system has dropped to $300 with firewire?
Apple: Dude, you're not gettin' a reach around!
Thank you, now where did you say aqua was?
Let's see, we want to turn the entire thing into plasma, which I guess could arbitrarily be 10,000 degrees centigrade. Let's ssume it takes one calorie to raise 1 gram of stuff one degree celcious. Now we run our wizzard on a sphere the size of texas, with moon equvalent composition.
about 1.685 x 10^45 gram-calories needed
1 Kiloton TNT equals 1 x 10^12 gram-calories
Approximatly 1.68491109264290913984 x 10^32 Kilotons of TNT needed to convert our texas sized asteroid into 10,000 degree celcious plasma.
I'm going to step out on a limb and make the wild guess that we don't have 16,849,110,926,429,091,398,400,000,000 Megatons worth of nuclear devices.
In fact, It would take the sun 33 years to produce that much energy.
I think I miscarried a decimal somewhere but only being off by a magnitude of 10 is moot on the scales we are talking. suffice to say we could push it around, if we caught it early, but turning the entire thing into plasma is not an option.
Unless we used the mars' atmospheric lazing affect to concentrate a gamma ray lazer created by letting Phobos meet anti-Phobos...
The only question is, where do we get anti-Phobos from? heh..
That's funny, I don't remember having to register to download any other "free" as in "freedom" open source software. Apple has sold my personal information before. They'll not have the chance again.
1) the mass of the object is know
The mass of an asteroid is not known. 433 Eros, which we know better than any other asteroid, still has an unknown mass for purposes of calculating it's orbit 800 years into the future. Being off by even a few grams results in being off by thousands of miles in final trajectory. It's apparent mass is between 6.69 and 7.2 x 10^15 kg enough to put our calculations off by entire solar units, after 800 years have passed. There is also the problem of asteroids constantly shedding and gaining mass due to collisions, dust deposition and even the solar wind itself depositing dust or blowing deposited dust away.
2) the sice of the surface is known
"Sice" is an Ceske (Check) word that I assume means reflectivity. Consider this: look at a common crystal. Notice that it's reflectivity is determined by it's orientation to the veiwer. The moon always presents the same face to earth, but the sun "gets to see" all sides of the moon. If we base our calculations of an objects reflectivity on observations from earth, or a spacecraft orbiting the asteroid, we cannot make accurate calculations of the objects reflectivity because only one set of data really matters, the reflectivity of the object from the sun's point of view, which may also be variable.
3) the orbit(distance) is known
The orbit can be guessed. We can know with relative certainty where an object was. We can know fairly accurately where it will be in 20 years. We can wildly speculate where it will be in 800 years. Consider the cesium beam atomic clock. It is accurate to 1 x 10^-17 seconds. Such a clock would be off by as much as a thousandth of a second in 800 years. Given that deviation, Calculations of an orbit could be off by several kilometers just on un-guessable timing errors alone. Unfortunately, there is a mathematically unsolvable problem too: The Three-Body Problem, well explained here. Unfortunately, we are faced with a 32 body problem, just counting the sun, planets and major moons. It doesn't even end there. The mass of any body is not consistent across it's surface. For instance, there are places on the earth that "pull" harder than others. This is well mapped on earth, and there are satellite launches planned or in orbit to more closely map this phenomenon, but we have just barely scratched the surface as far as research into, for instance, Jupiter's Local gravitational variations, which have a much greater impact on solar orbit calculations than any body in the solar system.
4) the intensity of sunlight is known
The intensity of sunlight is unknown. The sunspot activity cycle causes the solar wind to change in intensity. Additionally, it warms and cools cyclically. I've heard on a ten thousand or so year cycle, but I cannot remember the source. The sun is also very gradually warming due to the natural life cycle of stars. The planet's magnetic field's slow and accelerate the solar wind and create airfoil shaped shadows in their wakes, through which asteroids must pass. The Planet's magnetic fields also have a quite variable affect on the solar wind, as watching an aurora will show you.
I'll leave you with this:
You can watch a wave sweep the beach and know that the beach will likely have the same shape after its passing but to predict with certainty where a particular grain of sand will go is not within our abilities and never can be.
There are many waves, and even they affect the orbits of asteroids, as the friction of tides moved the moon out to it's current orbit, and slowed the earth to it's present length of day.
Care to guess the coefficient of friction of metallic-hydrogen against it's unknown but assumed "rocky" core? Tidal forces within Jupiter will have to be factored in too.
Just to many variables.
Are you all fucking kidding me? You are all the guys that get hung up about so much as MAC addresses being seen as personnally identifiable on the internet. And none of you are ABSOLUTELY OUTRAGED that the FDA has approved IMPLANTED ID CHIPS? I will DIE before I end up with some fucking chip inside me. I don't have so much as a tattoo on me, I shure as hell don't need my life story on some fucking piece of flash memory inside my ass.
Watch this story catch sub-1000 posts when it is more important and outragous than any five stories on the hof. I can deal with not being annonymous on the internet. I can choose not to use it if it comes to that. But if I cannot so much as walk down the street without every Corporation, Government and Asshole knowing more about me than I know myself, I am certainly no longer free, not by the greatest stretch of the imagination about "the good of mankind" or "medical miracles" or "protection from kidnapping"
Gimme a fucking break. Have you seen the first test case family? They are freaks! the son is some 180 iq juvie with dreams of becoming arnold in terminator because he is fat and his lips are too big. Daddy has been smoking weed for 30 years. Mommy a vacant follower who does everything fat assed sonny says because he's smarter than she is. Their fucking quote is "It's all Derik's idea, he is so bright that we are taking his advice on this". Jesus Christ, the kid is still wet behind the ears.
Derek's list of accomplishments at 14 (the wired article got it wrong):
He's an MCSE/MCP/A+
and is the owner of a fucking counsulting business
You tell me, does everyone here want to follow this jackasses lead?