If it is truly universal, why do they have various packs for different frequency ranges? I would have assumed that it would let you tune into any frequency (upto a certain maximum, of course); that is the premise of a software radio, isn't it?
Hopefully this is not construed as being OT, but I have a tangential question.
I have had broadband over cable for close to 5 years now. From the beginning, my uploads have been capped at around 48KBps (384Kbps). In this period, the technology has changed; prices of almost everything in this field have come down drastically; there's a massive bandwidth glut (with oodles of dark fiber lying around), and yet my upload speed is still capped. My question is: why?
OK, one answer could be: ISPs have to pay to send traffic to other ISPs. But that begs the question: why can't I get fullspeed (10Mbps) to my neighbor, if we are both on the same ISP? I can understand this peering argument to have merit when you're crossing ISP borders, but why doesn't the ISP let me get the full benefit of the technology to people in the same subnet?
My cynical guess is that this prevents file-sharing, the bogeyman of the entertainment industry. Since cable ISPs are beholden to (if not owned by) this industry, they are deliberately keeping the UL rates low.
Instead of a parachute, release a hot-air balloon, heated by the engine. If the plane's going down, bam! Out comes the balloon and you genetly float off, continuing to your destination.
Sure, you may arrive a few hours/days late, but that's better than not arriving at all.;-)
I checked the download page, and it appears to be Windows only.
Not being 733t enough to port it to Linux in one of my spare evenings, I have to ask: is anyone working on a Linux port? Is the game engineered to allow such an endeavor?
On a broader note: are there any MMORPGs for Linux? Not that I would play one; but a decent OpenSource MMORPG kernel could be used as a learning/information delivery platform in interesting ways.
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It's called automation, dude. I think the stories are just queued up, and posted at about 1 hour intervals during the day, and less frequently in the night. The times are adjusted a little, randomly, to apply a veneer of human touch.
Or, in terms that the average slashdotter can understand: the odds of the asteroid hitting the earth are 100x better than the odds of your getting laid.
A lot of the functionality is not supported under Linux. You won't find drivers to manipulate the funky LEDs, etc. (which you can under Windows).
Too bad the companies like Asus will spend all this money on developing a toy like this, and leave out the hobbiest group, which can tinker with it and take it to new heights.
There are of course other people, which have, for sportive reasons, tried to test the robustness of the hardware or the electronic principle of the built-in microchips and processors. They tried their luck with screwdrivers and usual ordinary allen-wrenches. they even tried to use a crowbar, a sledge hammer or a motor angle grinder. or totally smart: with a laptop and some decrypting-tools, as well as some trick questions to the maintainance staff. but without luck!". again reth is smiling, who once took the first trip on a green puky-bike and looks at himself no more as a postmodern urbanite than as bicycle freak. he smiles and says: "this technology makes us to the premier station-independant city-bike-sytem. the code is unbreakable and we are really proud of"
The designer of the lock says, "it can't be broken". This is like waving a red flag (or two) before a bull. Of course, now someone has to actually break it to prove a point.
Call it vandalism, call it theft, call it whatever you want. Basically, the "hackers" were responding to the challenge.
Please, lets not split hairs here. It'll leave us all bald.
I have been using Firefox for a couple of months, and surprisingly, there are features of Mozilla that I miss.
For starters: Mozilla's preferences menu allows a lot finer control of the options than Firefox's. This is very puzzling: why would the Firefox team remove options and then turn around and hide them under the "about:config" panel? Is this some kind of an Easter egghunt or something?
Second, cookies. Mozilla's cookie handling was great; FF leaves a lot to be desired. Usually I disable cookies; but some sites refuse to work without cookies, and in which case I have to enable session cookies. Mozilla had a convenient option under Tools. Even if I mistakenly denied the cookies from a site, one could go to Tools -> Cookies -> Allow session cookies to conveniently allow from the site. Under FF, if you disallow cookies from a site, you have to go to Edit -> Preferences -> Privacy -> Exceptions; and then hunt around for the site in that list (without any convenient search function). It takes much longer to enable session cookies for sites once they've been disallowed.
While the FF team is doing a great job of coming up with a standalone browser, their "usability" decisions leave something to be desired.
I'd fail these students too. Clearly they hadn't heard of DJB and his attitude to sign up for his course. With such a gaping hole in their knowledge, they deserve to get an F.
Disks are duplicated on a variety of industrial strength, quality
focused systems. Most of these systems are UNIX-based. The UNIX-based
duplication systems used in manufacturing are impervious to
MS-DOS-based, Windows- based, and Macintosh-based viruses.
The few MS-DOS-based and Windows-based standalone duplication systems
do not allow MS-DOS-based operating systems to access the duplication
system. Virus protection systems used by these MS-DOS-based and
Windows-based duplication systems strictly govern the duplication
process, even when they are not running.
That KB article has since disappeared... smirk...;-)
Lets take a gradient descent approach to the problem.
We've been increasing the amount of money spent on the brats kids and the situation keeps getting worse; this means that we must head in the opposite direction and spend less money.
I'm glad to see Dubya is on the job and busy cutting funding. Surely the US' ranking will skyrocket soon.
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Prolly I'm a bit confused here.
I have had broadband over cable for close to 5 years now. From the beginning, my uploads have been capped at around 48KBps (384Kbps). In this period, the technology has changed; prices of almost everything in this field have come down drastically; there's a massive bandwidth glut (with oodles of dark fiber lying around), and yet my upload speed is still capped. My question is: why?
OK, one answer could be: ISPs have to pay to send traffic to other ISPs. But that begs the question: why can't I get fullspeed (10Mbps) to my neighbor, if we are both on the same ISP? I can understand this peering argument to have merit when you're crossing ISP borders, but why doesn't the ISP let me get the full benefit of the technology to people in the same subnet?
My cynical guess is that this prevents file-sharing, the bogeyman of the entertainment industry. Since cable ISPs are beholden to (if not owned by) this industry, they are deliberately keeping the UL rates low.
Any thoughts?
As Nov 2 showed, yes they are.
-- Andy Finkel, computer guy
Or, conversely,
Any sufficiently rigged demo is indistinguishable from an advanced technology.
-- Don Quixote, slashdot guy
Instead of a parachute, release a hot-air balloon, heated by the engine. If the plane's going down, bam! Out comes the balloon and you genetly float off, continuing to your destination.
Sure, you may arrive a few hours/days late, but that's better than not arriving at all. ;-)
If this trend continues, expect an impact in another 4629 hours, or about 193 days!
It's going to be one hot summer...
;-)
Not being 733t enough to port it to Linux in one of my spare evenings, I have to ask: is anyone working on a Linux port? Is the game engineered to allow such an endeavor?
On a broader note: are there any MMORPGs for Linux? Not that I would play one; but a decent OpenSource MMORPG kernel could be used as a learning/information delivery platform in interesting ways.
-- ;-)
Who's buying what...
Here's a web page where someone wrote a script to see what package numbers are coughed up by Google: enjoy! .
Thank you.
Well, seeing that GMail is down and AOLMail is not yet available, I guess AOL has already caught up with GMail ;-)
Why should the existence of a free paint program be "anti-Gimp" ? It's not like there's room for only 1 free paint app! The more, the merrier I say!
What is interesting is that Microsoft supported this. And the license is BSD-like; which is good.
First MSI. And now this. Could it be that Microsoft is inching towards opening up to OSS ideas?
Too bad the companies like Asus will spend all this money on developing a toy like this, and leave out the hobbiest group, which can tinker with it and take it to new heights.
The designer of the lock says, "it can't be broken". This is like waving a red flag (or two) before a bull. Of course, now someone has to actually break it to prove a point.
Call it vandalism, call it theft, call it whatever you want. Basically, the "hackers" were responding to the challenge.
Please, lets not split hairs here. It'll leave us all bald.
For starters: Mozilla's preferences menu allows a lot finer control of the options than Firefox's. This is very puzzling: why would the Firefox team remove options and then turn around and hide them under the "about:config" panel? Is this some kind of an Easter egghunt or something?
Second, cookies. Mozilla's cookie handling was great; FF leaves a lot to be desired. Usually I disable cookies; but some sites refuse to work without cookies, and in which case I have to enable session cookies. Mozilla had a convenient option under Tools. Even if I mistakenly denied the cookies from a site, one could go to Tools -> Cookies -> Allow session cookies to conveniently allow from the site. Under FF, if you disallow cookies from a site, you have to go to Edit -> Preferences -> Privacy -> Exceptions; and then hunt around for the site in that list (without any convenient search function). It takes much longer to enable session cookies for sites once they've been disallowed.
While the FF team is doing a great job of coming up with a standalone browser, their "usability" decisions leave something to be desired.
Why should debugging Indian programmers be any different than the standard methods for any programmer?
I'd fail these students too. Clearly they hadn't heard of DJB and his attitude to sign up for his course. With such a gaping hole in their knowledge, they deserve to get an F.
Anybody else notice that the ISBN number for this book contains "14159" (the first 5 deciman digits of pi)?
Disks are duplicated on a variety of industrial strength, quality focused systems. Most of these systems are UNIX-based. The UNIX-based duplication systems used in manufacturing are impervious to MS-DOS-based, Windows- based, and Macintosh-based viruses. The few MS-DOS-based and Windows-based standalone duplication systems do not allow MS-DOS-based operating systems to access the duplication system. Virus protection systems used by these MS-DOS-based and Windows-based duplication systems strictly govern the duplication process, even when they are not running.
That KB article has since disappeared... smirk... ;-)
If this is their public face, it most likely means that the place is run by total dicks. You're better off switching to a different school.
Now if only they'd bring back the $$$ from the mid 90s too.... :)
Where can I buy one of these caps?? I'm so interested in playing with it. This seems so fascinating.
Heretic!
Fire burns. Ice remains frozen. Fire and Ice have the same MD5 hash.
Happy?
(From page 3 of the paper)
We've been increasing the amount of money spent on the brats kids and the situation keeps getting worse; this means that we must head in the opposite direction and spend less money.
I'm glad to see Dubya is on the job and busy cutting funding. Surely the US' ranking will skyrocket soon.