It's pretty wasteful to burn a CD just to shuffle some bits around. Seems equally stupid to burning a CD to install an OS that you can get from the net.
Me too! I won't be using the new version if it looks like the same old mess, no matter what the underlying technology. The light mode is much more readable even on graphical browsers, let alone on w3m and its ilk. IMHO the light mode makes more sense in the light of 'news for nerds, stuff that matters', the normal display looks like marketroids on acid.
Fron the article: "Turns out the Europeans can beat the best of Silicon Valley."
It's pathetic that they writer considered this a surprise, after all
these years. Besides there are probably quite a few Europeans working
in Silicon Valley too.
The standard explanation for our (Nordic countries) hacking abilities is
the long, cold winter. For half of the year, the most fun thing you can
think about is to stay indoors writing code. It also helps that our
cultures are not very traditional, and new technologies are keenly
adopted.
The person who moderated this as interesting: can you pass me the bong?
Seriously, 'useful' is a useful term (pun intended) only when you know what the use is. In this case, a file server. I used to run a web server on an 8 MB 486 with Linux (later NetBSD) and I imagine a fileserver works better with a little more. And I'm constantly amazed by the memory requirements of Windows when I can do the same things with so much less in Linux.
(My laptop, which I use for must of my work, has 160 MB. My desktop has 320 MB which I think is a little overkill for my uses.)
Mozilla is the cross-platform standard I am used
to and want to use). But that forces you to use Gtk - so forget about KDE,
you need to use GNOME.
BZZT! Wrong. GTK is just another library. You can use any X
application under any X desktop/windowmanager.
A desktop environment (GNOME/KDE) does provide
some integration between applications specifically written for it, but
it does not limit what else you can do.
Using Eterm and now
gnome-terminal, you get transparent xterms, and that to me is really cool.
There are some very light and simple xterms that have transparency.
I for one use aterm, which
is the simplest/lightest terminal emulator I've
found so far. It's even lighter than rxvt.
There's a more fundamental reason why capacitors are unlikely to replace batteries. As you already hinted, their capacitances are measured in F = C / V = As / V. This means that their voltage goes linearly with the charge stored. In a battery you want to keep the voltage as steady as possible, between full and empty charge.
Capacitors are good at taking and giving huge currents. That's why they are used to smooth out peaks in voltage and current, in many different devices like motors and CPUs. This also means they ease the load of the device on the batteries. Thus capacitors are not going away anytime soon, but neither are batteries.
Entropy S = k ln W
(k = Boltzmann's constant, W = number of states)
Information (in bits) I = log_2 W = ln W / ln 2
Hence S = kI/ln 2 or roughly S = kI.
Heat Q = ST = kTI.
Let's say we destroy 100 gigabits of information at a temperature of 300 K. Since k = 1.38E-23 J/K, this means a heat of about 4E-10 Joules. Which is not very much, and does not really contribute to the heat produced by CPUs.
In fact, I think this is the way to find a theoretical minimum for the heat produced from information processing. We can try and make more efficient processors to get closer, just like we can increase the efficiency of engines to get closer to the thermodynamic limit.
Jackson's movie version of LOTR is a trilogy, because it is a single story divided into three volumes. I imagine if The Matrix was ever published as a novel, it would be a single novel. It's just too damn long for a single movie of about two hours.
started to write a "viral" software back in 1991 when he was studying CS in Helsinki. It has infected both of my computers. MS Windows won't even boot on them. I know his name and contact info, so do I get the bounty?
A traditional 100 watt light bulb gives out only 5 W of visible light. I hope you didn't mean this when talking about inefficiency. Fluorescent lighting is much better, I'm right now using a bulb replacement that consumes 20 W but gives the same light as the aforementioned bulb.
This is a misconception that really gets me because it inevitably leads to the "If you want X project to beat M$, you need to put feature Y in just like in the M$ product."
IMHO, this attitude most certainly won't beat Microsoft. If the OS equivalent has the same features, then it will be probably just as _dumb_ as the MS application, no matter how robust the code itself is. (For example, executing email attachments automatically is one such feature.)
I think MS can and will be beaten, but it won't happen by simple imitation. If you want to beat your opponent, you'll want to be better, stronger, and different, not similar.
Actually, while fart may contain some methane, the smelly part is actually thiols. They are like alcohols, but the oxygen replaced by sulphur. For example ethanol corresponds to thioethanol.
This relates to another annoyance with many ISPs, in that they seem to dislike outgoing traffic. For example, by banning servers. This makes it harder for me to distribute my own creations, while it's perfectly OK to leech anything I can find off the net.
Slashdot Mirror
It's pretty wasteful to burn a CD just to shuffle some bits around. Seems equally stupid to burning a CD to install an OS that you can get from the net.
Me too! I won't be using the new version if it looks like the same old mess, no matter what the underlying technology. The light mode is much more readable even on graphical browsers, let alone on w3m and its ilk. IMHO the light mode makes more sense in the light of 'news for nerds, stuff that matters', the normal display looks like marketroids on acid.
Don't forget the 'light mode' in your /. preferences. Makes this site a lot more palatable even on full graphical browsers.
Let's do that when there's one day without Microsoft security problems, mmmkay?
It's pathetic that they writer considered this a surprise, after all these years. Besides there are probably quite a few Europeans working in Silicon Valley too.
The standard explanation for our (Nordic countries) hacking abilities is the long, cold winter. For half of the year, the most fun thing you can think about is to stay indoors writing code. It also helps that our cultures are not very traditional, and new technologies are keenly adopted.
TeknoHog / Finland
The person who moderated this as interesting: can you pass me the bong?
Seriously, 'useful' is a useful term (pun intended) only when you know what the use is. In this case, a file server. I used to run a web server on an 8 MB 486 with Linux (later NetBSD) and I imagine a fileserver works better with a little more. And I'm constantly amazed by the memory requirements of Windows when I can do the same things with so much less in Linux.
(My laptop, which I use for must of my work, has 160 MB. My desktop has 320 MB which I think is a little overkill for my uses.)
BZZT! Wrong. GTK is just another library. You can use any X application under any X desktop/windowmanager. A desktop environment (GNOME/KDE) does provide some integration between applications specifically written for it, but it does not limit what else you can do.
There are some very light and simple xterms that have transparency. I for one use aterm, which is the simplest/lightest terminal emulator I've found so far. It's even lighter than rxvt.
"If I see further, it is because I am surrounded by midgets."
Capacitors are good at taking and giving huge currents. That's why they are used to smooth out peaks in voltage and current, in many different devices like motors and CPUs. This also means they ease the load of the device on the batteries. Thus capacitors are not going away anytime soon, but neither are batteries.
(k = Boltzmann's constant, W = number of states)
Information (in bits) I = log_2 W = ln W / ln 2
Hence S = kI/ln 2 or roughly S = kI.
Heat Q = ST = kTI.
Let's say we destroy 100 gigabits of information at a temperature of 300 K. Since k = 1.38E-23 J/K, this means a heat of about 4E-10 Joules. Which is not very much, and does not really contribute to the heat produced by CPUs.
In fact, I think this is the way to find a theoretical minimum for the heat produced from information processing. We can try and make more efficient processors to get closer, just like we can increase the efficiency of engines to get closer to the thermodynamic limit.
Jackson's movie version of LOTR is a trilogy, because it is a single story divided into three volumes. I imagine if The Matrix was ever published as a novel, it would be a single novel. It's just too damn long for a single movie of about two hours.
Because they planned it to be a trilogy. A single story divided into three volumes for convenience, much like LOTR.
Are you aware of the fact that Reloaded and Revolutions are the parts 2 and 3 of a trilogy?
Isn't the whole point of flash to have no moving parts? ;-)
Windows: XP
My God, it's full of source!
Reloaded and Revolutions are not sequels to an original. They are parts of a trilogy.
started to write a "viral" software back in 1991 when he was studying CS in Helsinki. It has infected both of my computers. MS Windows won't even boot on them. I know his name and contact info, so do I get the bounty?
A traditional 100 watt light bulb gives out only 5 W of visible light. I hope you didn't mean this when talking about inefficiency. Fluorescent lighting is much better, I'm right now using a bulb replacement that consumes 20 W but gives the same light as the aforementioned bulb.
IMHO, this attitude most certainly won't beat Microsoft. If the OS equivalent has the same features, then it will be probably just as _dumb_ as the MS application, no matter how robust the code itself is. (For example, executing email attachments automatically is one such feature.)
I think MS can and will be beaten, but it won't happen by simple imitation. If you want to beat your opponent, you'll want to be better, stronger, and different, not similar.
Actually, while fart may contain some methane, the smelly part is actually thiols. They are like alcohols, but the oxygen replaced by sulphur. For example ethanol corresponds to thioethanol.
The methane may explode when it hits some electrical parts of the airplane.
So... it represents the ARIAn Nation of white supremacists?
This relates to another annoyance with many ISPs, in that they seem to dislike outgoing traffic. For example, by banning servers. This makes it harder for me to distribute my own creations, while it's perfectly OK to leech anything I can find off the net.