Most of the jokes have circled the globe several times. They'd have done better by just putting a few links to good sites such as UserFriendly or SegFault.
Not difficult to get into space nowadays...
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China Enters Space
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..or is it ?
When America and Russia were competing to get into space in the 50s and 60s it took a huge amount of resources and computers weren't around to help with the math.
I'm hardly surprised by the fact that China has put a capsule into space, after all a number of private consortiums are competing to launch private space rockets. There's no denying a lot of them are doing it for fun, but there are a few serious contenders, and a lot of them are doing the work for very little money. Most of the major problems which consumed resources have already been solved and all it takes to find a solution is a quick web browse. I'm very surpised we don't have at least 15 nations with manned space capability by now.
Anyway, if anyone knows any different, please reply.
AFAIK, the two reliability factors cancel out - the refridgeration helps the reliability, whilst the overclocking stresses it. Now if you were to overlock without refridgerating, as many people do, then I think you are playing with fire.
Like another poster stated, I'm not very impressed with overlclocking in general - I mean if you were talking about 100%+ performance improvements then I think it would be worth the trouble, but if you're only getting 10-30% improvement over a normal system then I'd forget about it and go buy a multi-processor system or cluster.
As far as Space travel & spice were concerned, Dune mentioesn somewhere that other methods of space travel existed, but that this was the only safe one. Again other drugs were used to give Guild Navigtors prescience, but again Spice is much more effective [as well as bing addictive and fatal if you don't keep taking it].
Shields *did* protect large emplacements [specifically the ducal palace], and AFAIK didn't necessarily kill the laser gunner - but the action of a laser hitting a shield causes a nuclear explosion, which was not good for anyone in the vicinity. However large emplacements were still vulnerable to infantry attack, and since most defensive weapons would also be stopped by shields, the benefit of large fortifications would perhaps be reduced.
I tend to use fast moving games like Quake and Doom as an outlet for aggression, especially when playing multiplayer. Doesn't really mean I want to go outside and let someone have it with a BFG9000.
Games like flight sims take a little more thought [quite a lot more thought in some cases] and outright aggression doesn't pay.
Strategy games and sims I tend to play when I've got a lot of time to kill [waiting for a kernel build on a 386DX33:-)].
Anyone know a friendly US Member of Congress/ Senator that will put forward a bill giving ISPs some sort of "common carrier" status to any web sites they host, i.e. so that only the owner of the web site is truly responsible for information placed on that site ?
In that way, at least people who are determined to fight Cease & Desist orders and similar get to make the choice without having the ISP make it for them. I know it can take money to fight these things [which many people don't have] but I feel that a web poster should at least have the choice, and that would remove the accusations of cowardice towards ISPs.
P.S. I can't do it - I'm English! [I may contact my MP on the issue however]
I agree with Microsofts line that there should be a messaging standard, but at the same time have some sympathy with AOLs server position. (Hows that for sitting on the fence).
Instant messaging [as it stands] is unlike many other server propositions, because whereas it makes sense for ISPs to prevent you using their mail server, proxy server, news server etc if you are not a subscriber to that ISP, with messaging it is almost certain that one or more party is not a subscriber. This is not a problem if the ISP can get some other benefit out of use of their server e.g. use of their client and the possibility of being exposed to their adverts.
Any common messaging protocol will have to address these issues. It should be possible to write a protocol that is hosted by ISPs in a similar manner to mail i.e. so both ISPs involved have to supply a messaging server.
Thankyou for a very informative article - it was nice to see some sensible legal opinion on the MS case as well as possible implications. This article would get a 5 (Interesting) if I were a moderator
Seem to be a lot of announcements to coincide with Christmas shopping. Some of them seem to be the usual vapourware i.e. don't buy a graphics card for Christmas because our sooper-dooper card will be out just after...HONEST!
Anyway which graphics card is "the business" both now, and which is expected to be ?
On another note, I'm not too enthusiastic about Microsofts X-Box - seems the forthcoming Sony PSX 2 is going to beat it into the ground, and the spec of Microsofts product doesn't look that different from a PC anyway. Anyone think any different ?
The Playstation 2 looks like it might be the first games console I'll buy since I bought one that played table tennis games in glorious black & white !:-)
Sounds almost as "flamebaity", but worth a reply;-)
> I use Star Office, Netscape, and Window Maker. Star Office, Netscape, and AFAIK Window Maker are *not* "lean and mean" packages - why then complain about KDE ? Anyway, if you used the KDE equivalents of these packages, then they would share libraries and consume less memory [I'm not trying to claim KDE doesn't use a lot of resources BTW]
> I'm only interested in app's, not ugly, messy desktop simulations KDE is more than just a desktop, there's lots of apps that work with it too, including * KOffice [potential replacement for StarOffice/Office] * Konqueror [potential Netscape challenger]
> Why would I want a Windows-clone (KDE or Gnome)?
KDE has a lot of options built in - you don't have to make it look like Windows. It can provide a Mac interface, or you can even remove the MS-like "Start Panel" altogether if you wish.
I posted a complaint about image sizes in another article, but in this web page they appear to have done the decent thing and put thumbnail links to the main images.
PNG is undeniably more sophisticated than GIF, as well as being free of royalty problems; however it still doesn't enjoy universal browser support. Webmasters have a choice between being trendy and being compatible.
I do wish people would be more careful with the posting on Slashdot. Calling DeCSS an 'illegal' utility immediately gets motion picture lawyers backs up and will possibly have a negative impact on when/if you can happily view DVDs in Linux. This slashdot article is almost as bad as the initial Wired article that seemed to started the problems with Linux DVD development in the first place.
AFAIK, DeCSS is *not* an illegal tool - the development of DeCSS was perfectly legal in the country in which it was developed and it would have been legal to develop it in the US and most other countries [possibly till the Digital Millenium Copyright act comes into force]
DeCSS, at least in its Linux form, is not intended as an aid to making illegal copies, hopefully it is just a means of assisting you in viewing DVDs under Linux.
Even the use of DeCSS in the UK, where there are specific provisions that appear to block it, is in doubt - there are a number of hurdles that someone taking the case to court would need to overcome.
P.S. IANAL, if you are please feel free to correct any mishtakes....
..are two major reasons why I'd like to live in the USA [Gun Control and the US desire to sue for everything being two major reasons why I don't:-P]
Here in England BT are *finally* going to grace us with 256K [or is it 512K?] DSL connections by March if you are fortunate enough to live in one of the 10 selected start locations; its going to cost around $80/month+ though.
The village where I live will probably get cable/DSL sometime in the fourth millenium:-(.
Judging from the transcript Al Gore was sitting on the fence and refused to come down [publicly] on either the side of Microsoft or the DOJ. A bit disappointing for a possible future leader of the country IMHO, especially when the MS case is probably going to have a huge effect one way or the other on the US economy.
The fact that MS is such a large company explains why the White House is tempted to stick its nose in - of course, it may regret being associated with any decision come a few years down the line.
..when you think of the effect Microsoft must have on the balance of trade of most developed nations.
Nice to see Germany supporting an Open Source project. With any luck, next they'll adopt a form of Linux/*BSD as the official OS of the government [SuSE perhaps ?]
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Most of the jokes have circled the globe several times. They'd have done better by just putting a few links to good sites such as UserFriendly or SegFault.
..or is it ?
When America and Russia were competing to get into space in the 50s and 60s it took a huge amount of resources and computers weren't around to help with the math.
I'm hardly surprised by the fact that China has put a capsule into space, after all a number of private consortiums are competing to launch private space rockets. There's no denying a lot of them are doing it for fun, but there are a few serious contenders, and a lot of them are doing the work for very little money. Most of the major problems which consumed resources have already been solved and all it takes to find a solution is a quick web browse. I'm very surpised we don't have at least 15 nations with manned space capability by now.
Anyway, if anyone knows any different, please reply.
AFAIK, the two reliability factors cancel out - the refridgeration helps the reliability, whilst the overclocking stresses it. Now if you were to overlock without refridgerating, as many people do, then I think you are playing with fire.
Like another poster stated, I'm not very impressed with overlclocking in general - I mean if you were talking about 100%+ performance improvements then I think it would be worth the trouble, but if you're only getting 10-30% improvement over a normal system then I'd forget about it and go buy a multi-processor system or cluster.
As far as Space travel & spice were concerned, Dune mentioesn somewhere that other methods of space travel existed, but that this was the only safe one. Again other drugs were used to give Guild Navigtors prescience, but again Spice is much more effective [as well as bing addictive and fatal if you don't keep taking it].
Shields *did* protect large emplacements [specifically the ducal palace], and AFAIK didn't necessarily kill the laser gunner - but the action of a laser hitting a shield causes a nuclear explosion, which was not good for anyone in the vicinity. However large emplacements were still vulnerable to infantry attack, and since most defensive weapons would also be stopped by shields, the benefit of large fortifications would perhaps be reduced.
I tend to use fast moving games like Quake and Doom as an outlet for aggression, especially when playing multiplayer. Doesn't really mean I want to go outside and let someone have it with a BFG9000.
:-)].
Games like flight sims take a little more thought [quite a lot more thought in some cases] and outright aggression doesn't pay.
Strategy games and sims I tend to play when I've got a lot of time to kill [waiting for a kernel build on a 386DX33
Anyone know a friendly US Member of Congress/ Senator that will put forward a bill giving ISPs some sort of "common carrier" status to any web sites they host, i.e. so that only the owner of the web site is truly responsible for information placed on that site ?
In that way, at least people who are determined to fight Cease & Desist orders and similar get to make the choice without having the ISP make it for them. I know it can take money to fight these things [which many people don't have] but I feel that a web poster should at least have the choice, and that would remove the accusations of cowardice towards ISPs.
P.S. I can't do it - I'm English! [I may contact my MP on the issue however]
If Scientology is a religion can it legally maintain copyright on its religious texts ?
I did hear [fact or fiction] that it is not possible for a religion to hold trademarks, copyright etc.
> `The New Bork Times'' -- former conservative judge comments on the major news events
affecting you.
Nope - Swedish Chef comments on the major news events affecting you
:-)
I agree with Microsofts line that there should be a messaging standard, but at the same time have some sympathy with AOLs server position. (Hows that for sitting on the fence).
Instant messaging [as it stands] is unlike many other server propositions, because whereas it makes sense for ISPs to prevent you using their mail server, proxy server, news server etc if you are not a subscriber to that ISP, with messaging it is almost certain that one or more party is not a subscriber. This is not a problem if the ISP can get some other benefit out of use of their server e.g. use of their client and the possibility of being exposed to their adverts.
Any common messaging protocol will have to address these issues. It should be possible to write a protocol that is hosted by ISPs in a similar manner to mail i.e. so both ISPs involved have to supply a messaging server.
Thankyou for a very informative article - it was nice to see some sensible legal opinion on the MS case as well as possible implications. This article would get a 5 (Interesting) if I were a moderator
Seem to be a lot of announcements to coincide with Christmas shopping. Some of them seem to be the usual vapourware i.e. don't buy a graphics card for Christmas because our sooper-dooper card will be out just after...HONEST!
:-)
Anyway which graphics card is "the business" both now, and which is expected to be ?
On another note, I'm not too enthusiastic about Microsofts X-Box - seems the forthcoming Sony PSX 2 is going to beat it into the ground, and the spec of Microsofts product doesn't look that different from a PC anyway. Anyone think any different ?
The Playstation 2 looks like it might be the first games console I'll buy since I bought one that played table tennis games in glorious black & white !
Sounds almost as "flamebaity", but worth a reply ;-)
> I use Star Office, Netscape, and Window Maker.
Star Office, Netscape, and AFAIK Window Maker are *not* "lean and mean" packages - why then complain about KDE ? Anyway, if you used the KDE equivalents of these packages, then they would share libraries and consume less memory [I'm not trying to claim KDE doesn't use a lot of resources BTW]
> I'm only interested in app's, not ugly, messy desktop simulations
KDE is more than just a desktop, there's lots of apps that work with it too, including
* KOffice [potential replacement for StarOffice/Office]
* Konqueror [potential Netscape challenger]
> Why would I want a Windows-clone (KDE or Gnome)?
KDE has a lot of options built in - you don't have to make it look like Windows. It can provide a Mac interface, or you can even remove the MS-like "Start Panel" altogether if you wish.
I posted a complaint about image sizes in another article, but in this web page they appear to have done the decent thing and put thumbnail links to the main images.
PNG is undeniably more sophisticated than GIF, as well as being free of royalty problems; however it still doesn't enjoy universal browser support. Webmasters have a choice between being trendy and being compatible.
If so, he should put a few strategically placed links to Project Guternberg on SlashDot and any other web sites he has influence on.
Other Slashdotters with web sites should do the same; after all, "Open Source" books should be encouraged as much as "Open Source" code....
...can be downloaded from the CVS server [instructions on the web site] at: http://livid.on.openprojects.net
so he's not going to get many voters from Redmond then :-)
I do wish people would be more careful with the posting on Slashdot. Calling DeCSS an 'illegal' utility immediately gets motion picture lawyers backs up and will possibly have a negative impact on when/if you can happily view DVDs in Linux. This slashdot article is almost as bad as the initial Wired article that seemed to started the problems with Linux DVD development in the first place.
AFAIK, DeCSS is *not* an illegal tool - the development of DeCSS was perfectly legal in the country in which it was developed and it would have been legal to develop it in the US and most other countries [possibly till the Digital Millenium Copyright act comes into force]
DeCSS, at least in its Linux form, is not intended as an aid to making illegal copies, hopefully it is just a means of assisting you in viewing DVDs under Linux.
Even the use of DeCSS in the UK, where there are specific provisions that appear to block it, is in doubt - there are a number of hurdles that someone taking the case to court would need to overcome.
P.S. IANAL, if you are please feel free to correct any mishtakes....
You can scan something without it being a data monster.
...and even Stop/Back are a bit sluggish to respond
..how secure would ciphers such as this be today and how are they attacked ?
..you are on a slow modem !!
The scanned images (each 200-800K) take fscking ages to upload and jammed my browser (Netscape) for a while.
Not all of us have DSL or Cable modems
..are two major reasons why I'd like to live in the USA [Gun Control and the US desire to sue for everything being two major reasons why I don't :-P]
:-(.
Here in England BT are *finally* going to grace us with 256K [or is it 512K?] DSL connections by March if you are fortunate enough to live in one of the 10 selected start locations; its going to cost around $80/month+ though.
The village where I live will probably get cable/DSL sometime in the fourth millenium
..I have no influence on US elections,
Judging from the transcript Al Gore was sitting on the fence and refused to come down [publicly] on either the side of Microsoft or the DOJ. A bit disappointing for a possible future leader of the country IMHO, especially when the MS case is probably going to have a huge effect one way or the other on the US economy.
The fact that MS is such a large company explains why the White House is tempted to stick its nose in - of course, it may regret being associated with any decision come a few years down the line.
...so whether it ran Linux or Windows NT it'd still be FUBARed.
It's fun trying though!
..when you think of the effect Microsoft must have on the balance of trade of most developed nations.
Nice to see Germany supporting an Open Source project. With any luck, next they'll adopt a form of Linux/*BSD as the official OS of the government [SuSE perhaps ?]
...were they posting about the advantages of Plate Mail v Chain Mail.
:-)
Flame wars were probably real then too!