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Stories that fit in one of the sections (like Ask Slashdot) are not necessarily posted on the frontpage. One topic appears in the top-right of the default mainpage, others are accessible from the "Sections" links on the left.
So you don't have it turned off, but you have to check all the sections manually if you really want all the stories. Or just search the recent stories, because that is "all stories" too, not just "frontpage" stories.
I don't always agree with the choices. OTOH, I don't always agree with which ones are rejected either, or always with anything else. But it's better than not, imo.
That's part of the deal where we agree to do no military research (nothing at Fermi is classified)- God loans us our computers:)
Some people get paid more as contractors - but it's not as cool or as permanent.
The data is absolutely enormous. Massively parallel deticated hardware trying to filter out the "unimportant" events - we only keep the important ones. The "important" ones that we record is something like a CD/sec. I suspect that that's an approximation of saturating our network.
I strongly recommend the book "Black Hawk Down" by Mark Bowden, http://blackhawkdown.philly.com/
In the longest running gunfight in recent US history, Task Force Ranger (including members of Delta Force) suffered heavy casualties. They thought they succeeded in their mission, if imperfectly. They inflicted much, much heavier casualties on the Somalis trying to overrun them, and held out long enough to be rescued by members of the 10th Mountain (who are right now in Uzbekistan, IIRC) (with Malaysian and Pakistani armor)
They DID complete the mission (capturing some important members of the ruling clan structure in a daring daytime raid) but after they suffered casualties, the mission was scrapped because the public couldn't deal with a relatively few lives lost. Note to enemies: Kill just a few of our men, and we don't have the resolve to keep fighting. I think maybe this has changed, since we've lost a lot of civilians.
A huge advantage of our forces is that we can afford to train them all the time, even when that gets expensive. We can afford truly awesome fire support. We have a truly huge military, largely because we're the only really huge country that isn't really poor. Militarily, we could close the borders to Afghanistan, occupy it, segregate it, and sweep across it forcing everyone to be inspected at a checkpoint. Would we be able to ID bin Laden at that checkpoint? I don't know. But that's a more subtle mission than one that's purely military.
We have at least two significant advantages over the Russians. The first is that the most useful of our technology, like the Night Optical Devices, are very useful even in urban on-the-ground situations. The second is that we were supplying and training the people fighting against them, and no one (AFAIK) is supplying or training them against us. That means they'll run out of midrange technology like SAMs if they use them...
Even in Vietnam, we won militarily. But we had no exit strategy. No amount of military success will make a corrupt puppet gov't legitimate. Defeating an enemy is much easier than nationbuilding, and I'm not at all sure how we're going to go about nationbuilding after we blow this stuff up. I suspect we can kill or try bin Laden and dismantle at least most of the structure of Al Queda - but as long as we leave festering countries bombed into the stone-age around, there are always going to be new problems.
If people had what you just said they wouldn't be too bad off - a 30A circuit is over 3 kW of power - which is probably 15 powerhog PCs as long as you don't do the initial spinup exactly simultaneously on all of them.
Most home circuits are rated at 15 Amps, unless they're especially for multiple utilities - usually only the bathroom and kitchen get 20 Amp circuits (And GFCIs) And that 15A circuit might be shared by say, 3 bedrooms.
Normally the entire house is rated at 60A. That's still the USA average. New construction must be 100+A, but that's a big improvement. When I bought my house a year ago, it has a 30A MAIN fuse - whole house, 30A.
Of course, now every bedroom has it's own 15A and a separate 20A for electronics (thicker wires = better ground) and the house (only 1500 sq foot) has a 200A panel. Seemed necessary if I was going to run 12 pair of cat5 and 2 coax to every room.
Well, Fish, not Phish, but that would've been even funnier. They were hunting fish, did it more and more, and got more and more adapted to being in the water. Offensive, not defensive.
www.goarmy.com is essentially the recruitment address - it's where they want you to go if you're interested in joining..mil has infomation on bases, press releases, info for current soldiers...
Not that I'm saying this is necessarily bad, but it conflicts with what you said.
The USPS has a legally mandated monopoly. It is illegal for anyone else to ship certain kinds of packages - and that helps keep USPS revenues up.
What kinds of packages? Packages which do not require rapid delivery. If it isn't time associated, you can't mail it any other way. You're not _allowed_ to undercut USPS on first-class mail, for instance.
I didn't email you a thank you - partially 'cause I figured your box would be fairly full. But thank you. I do appreciate you keeping me informed better than anyone else was doing on the web.
I suspect you're not still reading this (I make a habit of checking for replies to my posts)
But I certainly would recommend 2 boxen for that purpose, anyway. In fact, I would recommend giving him a dual-booting fast (all relative, of course) and leave an older computer as just a router. Much more secure than running a bunch of other junk on a router at all - it should JUST be a router.
For that purpose, I suspect something like a 486dx25 w/ 16 MB of RAM is sufficient. That what I normally end up with in a surplus router...
(go with more ram if you've got it, but it's not essential.) Of course, I'm only pumping DSL with it, so I'm topped at 1.5 if I'm lucky. But the only real downside is the relatively minor power requirements.
First off, as another poster mentioned, generally inflated stock values help the next company's IPO in that sector.
The upward trend of price makes people willing to work for (very little + stock options); and until you have the big price drop they normally keep working there. This can save a company a lot of money.
It makes it easy for them to buyout other companies in a stock swap. CSCO did this so successfully they're getting sued.
There are intangibles too, it generally makes it easier to push around your suppliers and buyers the bigger and more important they think you are... so, for instance, you can demand Net/30 and pay on Net/120. And people want to go with your product, because you're so successful and your stock price indicates you're going to be around for the long haul... false, of course, but it works.
The obvious answer for what you need, imo, is to dual-boot your machine. No speed hit in his games, no expensive laggy emulator.
There are plenty of reasons to do what this article is about, but letting your son play games is more easily solved by dual-booting - AND everything'll run faster.
You MIGHT want one that sent the same keyboards and someone had already switched the keycaps...
and I could see some usefulness in on that switched between the two modes in hardware, except it's probably exorbinantly expensive, due to the low production run. That alone is reason enough not to get one...
But there are a bunch of things which map to a keyboard geometry, the one foremost in my mind being IJKM as arrows... and there are others, some I've programmed for testing reaction time. There's no reason I can think of to swap the keycodes around, and several not to, unless you're trying to fool everything, which I don't think you are. At least, if I were going to do that, I'd want an A/B switch.
Patent on X grants you the right to exclude anyone else from using X, including process XYZ, process Y that only works after preparing the surface with process X, or assembly A which uses part X as a widget.
It does NOT prevent someone else from patenting Y or XYZ. If you patent X and they patent Y, y'all better get along (or find a monetary way to get along) because neither of you can do process XYZ without the other.
Patents do NOT grant you the right to _do_ something, which is why you can get a patent on assembly A requiring widget X, even if you don't have the widget X patent and someone else does. Neither of you can use assembly A unless you cross-license.
That's near the root of your problem. Understanding it requires a basic acceptance of how monetary things are done in grayscale, not black and white. How everyone can have better things and ever-more scientists can get paid.
Figure this out (another responder tries to explain) and you'll understand the worthlessness of the rest of your post.
Re: "there's precisely a whole bunch..."
I think that wins my new award for least scientific statement that is still true.
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So, what are your relative fields?
My degree is in Mechanical Engineering. To me, at a glance, Kibo sounds like he knows what he's talking about but should never become a teacher because he's not very good at explaining it.
TechnoGrl seems to avoid saying anything new or explanatory so that nothing she says could be wrong... and somehow it doesn't sound like her field is Material Engineering.
My upshot goes something like this: Hardness and strength (but not toughness) have a very high correlation. However, having something very strong painted onto something weak doesn't make the whole object miraculously very strong - sorta.
Try to pull it apart and it won't make too much difference (depending on paint thinkness) bending it will make more difference, but it's probably still too thin. More importantly, though, it won't be able to form little cracks when you bend it back and forth. So the lifetime of this part, even without having a dramatic effect on the bulk strength of the material in a single test, can be very dramatic over a period of time.
And of COURSE that's vague. I only wrote a paragraph in something people get graduate degrees in forchristsakes.
I'm a regular/. reader, and I haven't played any computer game more complicated than Minesweeper in years. Even in the simple realm, I think playing a "memory" game twice is the most I've done in a year. And that was because a very amazing website took over my display.
First, there's the business vs. technical solution: The business solution is to make sure it has a surge suppressor with an adequate warranty, and that at any moment adequate backups of everything are offsite AND offline AND redundant.
Let's assume that's not good enough, and you're developing hardware you can't buy again. The obvious answer is to unplug it when there's a storm - including any networking or modem lines. But let's assume you have to stay online if possible.
Get a heavy duty surge suppressor - I got one from intermatic http://www.intermatic.com/comind.htm#3 for around 100USD (installed, actually, but at the same time I was having my service upgraded) I had a long talk with a senior developer there - they aren't warrantied against lightning; they're not in the warranty business. But they've saved equipment from lightning in the past.
Then get something for all your critical systems: Small cheap surge supressors are really designed to save your computer from the surges caused by your AC (or any other dirty device) and nothing as powerful as lightning. OTOH, if you're lucky it'll melt into a puddle when the lightning hits - and do it fast enough to save everything downstream. But they're better than not having them. Good ones are better. UPS Power Conditioners are better. (see also insurance, above)
I like the coil idea, although I can't guarantee it'd work, I think it'd be worth it.
Make sure your grounding is good - strong connections.
In general, btw, I prefer to keep electronics on separate circuits from anything else (esp motors, like AC, refridgerators) I don't think this would help in a lightning storm, but it cuts down on line noise.
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It's not a bug, it's a feature.
Not all stories are "front page" material.
Stories that fit in one of the sections (like Ask Slashdot) are not necessarily posted on the frontpage. One topic appears in the top-right of the default mainpage, others are accessible from the "Sections" links on the left.
So you don't have it turned off, but you have to check all the sections manually if you really want all the stories. Or just search the recent stories, because that is "all stories" too, not just "frontpage" stories.
I don't always agree with the choices. OTOH, I don't always agree with which ones are rejected either, or always with anything else. But it's better than not, imo.
Hope that helps.
That's part of the deal where we agree to do no military research (nothing at Fermi is classified)- God loans us our computers :)
Some people get paid more as contractors - but it's not as cool or as permanent.
The data is absolutely enormous. Massively parallel deticated hardware trying to filter out the "unimportant" events - we only keep the important ones. The "important" ones that we record is something like a CD/sec. I suspect that that's an approximation of saturating our network.
It's not what I work on, but it's very cool.
I strongly recommend the book "Black Hawk Down" by Mark Bowden, http://blackhawkdown.philly.com/
In the longest running gunfight in recent US history, Task Force Ranger (including members of Delta Force) suffered heavy casualties. They thought they succeeded in their mission, if imperfectly. They inflicted much, much heavier casualties on the Somalis trying to overrun them, and held out long enough to be rescued by members of the 10th Mountain (who are right now in Uzbekistan, IIRC) (with Malaysian and Pakistani armor)
They DID complete the mission (capturing some important members of the ruling clan structure in a daring daytime raid) but after they suffered casualties, the mission was scrapped because the public couldn't deal with a relatively few lives lost. Note to enemies: Kill just a few of our men, and we don't have the resolve to keep fighting. I think maybe this has changed, since we've lost a lot of civilians.
A huge advantage of our forces is that we can afford to train them all the time, even when that gets expensive. We can afford truly awesome fire support. We have a truly huge military, largely because we're the only really huge country that isn't really poor. Militarily, we could close the borders to Afghanistan, occupy it, segregate it, and sweep across it forcing everyone to be inspected at a checkpoint. Would we be able to ID bin Laden at that checkpoint? I don't know. But that's a more subtle mission than one that's purely military.
We have at least two significant advantages over the Russians. The first is that the most useful of our technology, like the Night Optical Devices, are very useful even in urban on-the-ground situations. The second is that we were supplying and training the people fighting against them, and no one (AFAIK) is supplying or training them against us. That means they'll run out of midrange technology like SAMs if they use them...
Even in Vietnam, we won militarily. But we had no exit strategy. No amount of military success will make a corrupt puppet gov't legitimate. Defeating an enemy is much easier than nationbuilding, and I'm not at all sure how we're going to go about nationbuilding after we blow this stuff up. I suspect we can kill or try bin Laden and dismantle at least most of the structure of Al Queda - but as long as we leave festering countries bombed into the stone-age around, there are always going to be new problems.
If people had what you just said they wouldn't be too bad off - a 30A circuit is over 3 kW of power - which is probably 15 powerhog PCs as long as you don't do the initial spinup exactly simultaneously on all of them.
Most home circuits are rated at 15 Amps, unless they're especially for multiple utilities - usually only the bathroom and kitchen get 20 Amp circuits (And GFCIs) And that 15A circuit might be shared by say, 3 bedrooms.
Normally the entire house is rated at 60A. That's still the USA average. New construction must be 100+A, but that's a big improvement. When I bought my house a year ago, it has a 30A MAIN fuse - whole house, 30A.
Of course, now every bedroom has it's own 15A and a separate 20A for electronics (thicker wires = better ground) and the house (only 1500 sq foot) has a 200A panel. Seemed necessary if I was going to run 12 pair of cat5 and 2 coax to every room.
Well, Fish, not Phish, but that would've been even funnier. They were hunting fish, did it more and more, and got more and more adapted to being in the water. Offensive, not defensive.
is actually the address of the army.
.mil has infomation on bases, press releases, info for current soldiers...
www.goarmy.com is essentially the recruitment address - it's where they want you to go if you're interested in joining.
Not that I'm saying this is necessarily bad, but it conflicts with what you said.
The USPS has a legally mandated monopoly. It is illegal for anyone else to ship certain kinds of packages - and that helps keep USPS revenues up.
What kinds of packages? Packages which do not require rapid delivery. If it isn't time associated, you can't mail it any other way. You're not _allowed_ to undercut USPS on first-class mail, for instance.
I didn't email you a thank you - partially 'cause I figured your box would be fairly full. But thank you. I do appreciate you keeping me informed better than anyone else was doing on the web.
Wonderful.
I suspect you're not still reading this (I make a habit of checking for replies to my posts)
But I certainly would recommend 2 boxen for that purpose, anyway. In fact, I would recommend giving him a dual-booting fast (all relative, of course) and leave an older computer as just a router. Much more secure than running a bunch of other junk on a router at all - it should JUST be a router.
For that purpose, I suspect something like a 486dx25 w/ 16 MB of RAM is sufficient. That what I normally end up with in a surplus router...
(go with more ram if you've got it, but it's not essential.) Of course, I'm only pumping DSL with it, so I'm topped at 1.5 if I'm lucky. But the only real downside is the relatively minor power requirements.
First off, as another poster mentioned, generally inflated stock values help the next company's IPO in that sector.
The upward trend of price makes people willing to work for (very little + stock options); and until you have the big price drop they normally keep working there. This can save a company a lot of money.
It makes it easy for them to buyout other companies in a stock swap. CSCO did this so successfully they're getting sued.
There are intangibles too, it generally makes it easier to push around your suppliers and buyers the bigger and more important they think you are... so, for instance, you can demand Net/30 and pay on Net/120. And people want to go with your product, because you're so successful and your stock price indicates you're going to be around for the long haul... false, of course, but it works.
Freeboxen went down, mainly, I believe, for lack of time and funding. There was some sort of request at the end for offers to run it...
and I offered. But I never got a reply. I guess I could drop a couple more emails...
The obvious answer for what you need, imo, is to dual-boot your machine. No speed hit in his games, no expensive laggy emulator.
There are plenty of reasons to do what this article is about, but letting your son play games is more easily solved by dual-booting - AND everything'll run faster.
- Arete
I don't think you really want such a keyboard.
You MIGHT want one that sent the same keyboards and someone had already switched the keycaps...
and I could see some usefulness in on that switched between the two modes in hardware, except it's probably exorbinantly expensive, due to the low production run. That alone is reason enough not to get one...
But there are a bunch of things which map to a keyboard geometry, the one foremost in my mind being IJKM as arrows... and there are others, some I've programmed for testing reaction time. There's no reason I can think of to swap the keycodes around, and several not to, unless you're trying to fool everything, which I don't think you are. At least, if I were going to do that, I'd want an A/B switch.
- Arete
Patent on X grants you the right to exclude anyone else from using X, including process XYZ, process Y that only works after preparing the surface with process X, or assembly A which uses part X as a widget.
It does NOT prevent someone else from patenting Y or XYZ. If you patent X and they patent Y, y'all better get along (or find a monetary way to get along) because neither of you can do process XYZ without the other.
Patents do NOT grant you the right to _do_ something, which is why you can get a patent on assembly A requiring widget X, even if you don't have the widget X patent and someone else does. Neither of you can use assembly A unless you cross-license.
Probably you're just a troll.
"I'm not sure of the exact mechanism..."
That's near the root of your problem. Understanding it requires a basic acceptance of how monetary things are done in grayscale, not black and white. How everyone can have better things and ever-more scientists can get paid.
Figure this out (another responder tries to explain) and you'll understand the worthlessness of the rest of your post.
Re: "there's precisely a whole bunch..."
I think that wins my new award for least scientific statement that is still true.
So, what are your relative fields?
My degree is in Mechanical Engineering. To me, at a glance, Kibo sounds like he knows what he's talking about but should never become a teacher because he's not very good at explaining it.
TechnoGrl seems to avoid saying anything new or explanatory so that nothing she says could be wrong... and somehow it doesn't sound like her field is Material Engineering.
My upshot goes something like this: Hardness and strength (but not toughness) have a very high correlation. However, having something very strong painted onto something weak doesn't make the whole object miraculously very strong - sorta.
Try to pull it apart and it won't make too much difference (depending on paint thinkness) bending it will make more difference, but it's probably still too thin. More importantly, though, it won't be able to form little cracks when you bend it back and forth. So the lifetime of this part, even without having a dramatic effect on the bulk strength of the material in a single test, can be very dramatic over a period of time.
And of COURSE that's vague. I only wrote a paragraph in something people get graduate degrees in forchristsakes.
For minor offenses here they take a 10% fee off the top before they return it...
buying all your items on ebay - $9334
:)
spending hours adventuring to get the stuff - $1150 (@ $50/hr billable
spending hours cheating instead - $650
paying some 14 yr old in booze to do it for you - $70
the look on your face when Bliz takes it all away -
PRICELESS
(disclaimer: I don't play these or really any other games)
I'm a regular /. reader, and I haven't played any computer game more complicated than Minesweeper in years. Even in the simple realm, I think playing a "memory" game twice is the most I've done in a year. And that was because a very amazing website took over my display.
But, I never said I wasn't weird.
With an address like
mymsnaddy:msn
unsurprisingly close to
myemail@mydomain.com
hence, it uses the same system of unique ids (DNS) already in place.
I have quite a similar theory, and I'm beginning to have a tad of math behind it.
I'd appreciate contact, if you're serious.
count me in as getting it - but not from a computer - Tabletop. SJGames Rawks.
But it sure wasn't Office Space. Office Space even references the other movie they took the idea from.
First, there's the business vs. technical solution: The business solution is to make sure it has a surge suppressor with an adequate warranty, and that at any moment adequate backups of everything are offsite AND offline AND redundant.
Let's assume that's not good enough, and you're developing hardware you can't buy again. The obvious answer is to unplug it when there's a storm - including any networking or modem lines. But let's assume you have to stay online if possible.
Get a heavy duty surge suppressor - I got one from intermatic http://www.intermatic.com/comind.htm#3 for around 100USD (installed, actually, but at the same time I was having my service upgraded) I had a long talk with a senior developer there - they aren't warrantied against lightning; they're not in the warranty business. But they've saved equipment from lightning in the past.
Then get something for all your critical systems: Small cheap surge supressors are really designed to save your computer from the surges caused by your AC (or any other dirty device) and nothing as powerful as lightning. OTOH, if you're lucky it'll melt into a puddle when the lightning hits - and do it fast enough to save everything downstream. But they're better than not having them. Good ones are better. UPS Power Conditioners are better. (see also insurance, above)
I like the coil idea, although I can't guarantee it'd work, I think it'd be worth it.
Make sure your grounding is good - strong connections.
In general, btw, I prefer to keep electronics on separate circuits from anything else (esp motors, like AC, refridgerators) I don't think this would help in a lightning storm, but it cuts down on line noise.
I guess that's it. Good luck.