Sure, you can run seti@home, or folding@home, etc.
That also costs power because now the processor must actually do something. I once ran folding@home for a day on my dataserver (a P133 that is only used for sharing drives with NFS and running pine and lynx). I have that machine in a closed cupboard and when I switched it off in the evening the inside of the cupboard was a lot warmer than normal. So I removed folding@home again.
At our research institute there is also a lot of research going on in the use of DNA in nanotechnology. I always get the feeling this is mainly because adding the word 'DNA' in the proposal increases the chances that your proposal gets approved and you get the money you want enormously. Of course there are a lot of buzzwords in this/. post about how this invention can lead us to a better future for all, but I wonder whether this could be done simpler with cheap standard polymers? On the other hand, DNA almost is a cheap standard chemical already.
anyway and I don't see how a moon (!) impact would form Australia in specific.
Simple. Everyone knows the moon is made of cheese. Cheese floats because of all the holes in it. So a moon splashed in the ocean, floated around a bit and eventually got stuck on some undersea mountain. Voila! Australia.
"Rather than divide their fanbase into original trilogy and prequel fans, LucasArts seem to want to bring them together"
Why did they stop development on Full Throttle II then? I thought the reason they quit qith that was just that: is was to be a combination of arcade adventure and 'real' adventure.
Unlike MS systems, this will be REALLY configurable, so that more computer-savvy users can change the window manager and the behaviour of the windows, etc... This system may set the standard for many KDE/Gnome versions and distro's to come.
I agree with you there but we should also see this as a warning not to be lulled into a false sense of security. In time the attacks will be more intelligent and then the more ignorant Linux sysadmins will not be able to cope with them. We have to make sure we are prepared for that situation or Linux will the reputation MS currently holds for safety.
I heard somewhere that you can also use a slide projector for this. Not very nerdy but better magnification: put the sample you want to enlarge between two layers of transparent plastic in a slide frame and project on the wall/screen/whatever. Be aware that the lamp of the slide projector gets quite hot so the sample as well as the plastic have to be heat resistant.
Slackware 3.1 is there to be found. That must be the second version of Slackware I installed. In that time I have a 25 MHz 486 with 8 MB of RAM, which was pretty fast considering the specs (I also had a 80 MHz AMD 486). Those were the days... Well I must say I'm glad we moved on:-)
I don't agree. Microsoft owns the wordprocessor market but now more and more people switch to linux. The constant security problems with their OS-es are very bad PR. So why not ditch the marginally profitable OS-es and concentrate on selling owrd processors for all other platforms out there? Many people would be very happy to run Word on Linux. And MS secures it's future that way more than by spending time and mony in making new OS-es.
I think they have the wrong target. They should go for banning (photo)camera's. And let's not forget pens, brushes, paper and paint. They can be used to CREATE child porn. You always have to fight the root of the problem. O by the way, children can make very sounds that make people that are susceptible to such a thing very horny. Ever listened to a children's record? Here in Holland we have Kinderen voor Kinderen (children for children). Every year or so a new record with children's songs sung by childern appears in the shops. Who knows what can happen when people listen to that stuff... I say we ban the whole recording industry altogether. It's gone far enough.
Maybe I shouldn't say this on/. (or anywhere on the internet), but what would happen if MS releases a Linux distro of their own? They could make a kernel module that 'makes running Windows applications on Linux possible', kind of like VMWare does. Is this a scary prospect or should we be happy with such a thing?
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Indeed. They're mostly harmless.
Sure, you can run seti@home, or folding@home, etc.
That also costs power because now the processor must actually do something. I once ran folding@home for a day on my dataserver (a P133 that is only used for sharing drives with NFS and running pine and lynx). I have that machine in a closed cupboard and when I switched it off in the evening the inside of the cupboard was a lot warmer than normal. So I removed folding@home again.
MS is the Nissan of the software world. It'll never be cool.
This is a great opportunity for MS to promote Palladium and maybe even to get it to be required by law.
At our research institute there is also a lot of research going on in the use of DNA in nanotechnology. I always get the feeling this is mainly because adding the word 'DNA' in the proposal increases the chances that your proposal gets approved and you get the money you want enormously. Of course there are a lot of buzzwords in this /. post about how this invention can lead us to a better future for all, but I wonder whether this could be done simpler with cheap standard polymers? On the other hand, DNA almost is a cheap standard chemical already.
anyway and I don't see how a moon (!) impact would form Australia in specific.
Simple. Everyone knows the moon is made of cheese. Cheese floats because of all the holes in it. So a moon splashed in the ocean, floated around a bit and eventually got stuck on some undersea mountain. Voila! Australia.
Nice picture of a tree in a test tube! I always find it amazing that something so small will eventually dwarf you.
"Rather than divide their fanbase into original trilogy and prequel fans, LucasArts seem to want to bring them together"
Why did they stop development on Full Throttle II then? I thought the reason they quit qith that was just that: is was to be a combination of arcade adventure and 'real' adventure.
Unlike MS systems, this will be REALLY configurable, so that more computer-savvy users can change the window manager and the behaviour of the windows, etc... This system may set the standard for many KDE/Gnome versions and distro's to come.
Some digging on the slackware site brings up the following dates:
SW 7.0 released Tue, 2 Nov 1999
SW 8.0 released Sun, 1 Jul 2001
SW 8.1 released 2002-06-18
SW 9.0 released 2003-03-19
Unfortunately it doesn't go back further.
I agree with you there but we should also see this as a warning not to be lulled into a false sense of security. In time the attacks will be more intelligent and then the more ignorant Linux sysadmins will not be able to cope with them. We have to make sure we are prepared for that situation or Linux will the reputation MS currently holds for safety.
Yawn
Image quality might suck, but it would be quite cool
I'm confused now.
I heard somewhere that you can also use a slide projector for this. Not very nerdy but better magnification: put the sample you want to enlarge between two layers of transparent plastic in a slide frame and project on the wall/screen/whatever. Be aware that the lamp of the slide projector gets quite hot so the sample as well as the plastic have to be heat resistant.
Slackware 3.1 is there to be found. That must be the second version of Slackware I installed. In that time I have a 25 MHz 486 with 8 MB of RAM, which was pretty fast considering the specs (I also had a 80 MHz AMD 486). Those were the days... Well I must say I'm glad we moved on :-)
Mod this up, I haven't laughed so hard about something nerdy in a long time!
I destroyed a monitor once by giving it an X screen at a far too high frequency. You should try it once, it makes beautiful sounds while it dies...
The average person needs at least 72 fps. Not 30. And that is because TV's work a little bit different than computer monitors.
I don't agree. Microsoft owns the wordprocessor market but now more and more people switch to linux. The constant security problems with their OS-es are very bad PR. So why not ditch the marginally profitable OS-es and concentrate on selling owrd processors for all other platforms out there? Many people would be very happy to run Word on Linux. And MS secures it's future that way more than by spending time and mony in making new OS-es.
You'll be glad someone took care of that. :-)
I think they have the wrong target. They should go for banning (photo)camera's. And let's not forget pens, brushes, paper and paint. They can be used to CREATE child porn. You always have to fight the root of the problem. O by the way, children can make very sounds that make people that are susceptible to such a thing very horny. Ever listened to a children's record? Here in Holland we have Kinderen voor Kinderen (children for children). Every year or so a new record with children's songs sung by childern appears in the shops. Who knows what can happen when people listen to that stuff... I say we ban the whole recording industry altogether. It's gone far enough.
Maybe I shouldn't say this on /. (or anywhere on the internet), but what would happen if MS releases a Linux distro of their own? They could make a kernel module that 'makes running Windows applications on Linux possible', kind of like VMWare does. Is this a scary prospect or should we be happy with such a thing?
Don't forget the ramblings about religion. And all his so-called 'smart' remarks. I really don't understand qhy many people find him so good.
But if they are so heavy, how can they stay up there for so long? That's what I want to know.
Actually I liked them a lot. Jamai had a very nice hairdo :-)