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Can they get someone to and back from the moon by 2010 - Hell yes. They have at least a million young men who are willing to risk thier lives for a chance at glory and honor.
Will they do it before we do? - A resounding 'Hell yes'. They don't have to go through all the red tape that we've made for ourselves. IF the goverment says we are going to do it they will do it.
Will they establish a STABLE moon base by 2010 - Hell no. There will be too many countries trying to sabatoge those ambitions(present country included) for both political and security reasons.
I learned where the word sabatoge came from by watching Star Trek movies.
XBOX uses a modified Win2000 kernal. The executables are encrypted. The BIOS is specfically work only with the XBOX kernal.
There are a couple of projects out there to resocket new BIOS chip but nothing finalized.
Most of the RD is focusing on how to make the executable with the XBOX os. The reason why is because the XBOX OS is stablest of the Windows line and is already optimized for the hardware.
Still, it would be fun to see how an XBOX Linux compares to the current Sony Linux.
Carbon Paper Thats right, cut out a piece and place the carbon paper under the mouse. At the end of the day pull the paper and see the pattern left by the user.
Place the carbon paper under the keyboard to record varies keystokes.
Hide some under a chair. If serveral undulating motions are recorded you may have a porn problem.
The really scaring part of this is the fact the half of/. viewer never even heard of carbon paper.
On the SNK issue: Sengoku 3 is the last game they will be publishing. Also remember the SNK isn't NEO-GEO, although they are the main publisher for the system.
On the price of the games: The games come out with 90-600 meg cartrages. It's nothing for those cart to come out with 20-150 individual burned chips.
That a lot silicon compared to the data stored on a CD-ROM or now a days a DVD-ROM.
About a week ago someone told us about this device that Vonage is putting out for $20/month.
You don't have to have any special software, just a high-speed connection. Just plug in the Cisco voice router and go. Plus you get voice mail, call forwarding, online accounting, free long distance, and a real phone #. I've gotten mine and I've only lost a call once. That call was to a person in the boonies who was using a bad cell phone. 'Nuff said.
The sound quality is about 95% of a regular phone line. My only compliant about the system is that there's just under a quarter second lag between what someone says and what you hear, but that could because of my ISP.
Plus if I'm going out of town I just find a hotel with high speed Internet and plug my device in. Bomb I have an instant direct line back to the office or wife and kids(if I had a wife and kids, which I don't but that a different story). And no annoying hotel phone bills.
Web appliances are the way to go! Now if we could just get IPv6 in use and get rid of NAT we could get rid of telephones numbers. We could have IP # or domain names instead.
fone://commandertaco.slashdot.org could be the future.
[VoIP/Web Appliance evangelical rant complete, have a nice day]
It's not Slashvertisments. It's talking points. Slashdot has a series of talking points. PVR, 802.11, VoIP,.NET, and Personal Privacy are at the forefront at the moment. It what they feel everyone is talking about and they support their agenda. Yes Slashdot has an agenda (listen to some of the GiS archives). And for the most part, they're right. Any WELL-written article in these points will get posted.
Although I personally would like more VoIP and Anime they have to keep to what they think their audience wants.
Besides, how many Creative Labs banners have you seen on Slashdot?
Don't forget Monday were SlashDot had an article about a hardware VoIP unit. You just plug the unit into your DSL or cable modem and your set. For $20 a month you can have 500 minutes of long distance, or $40 a month and you get unlimited long distance.
As an aside: I have mine on order, I should be getting the unit today. I checked my web interface and saw that I have had 3 telemarketer calls to my new number. A number which I have yet to be give out.
Using this Low Power network you could implant a chip into a person or a group and pass data between each other as passive repeaters. Heck it could possible be an active repeater by using the ambient power by your nervous system. The ultimate living P2P system.
This could in 30-40 years grow into something between SE Lain and Ghost in the Shell.
I've been forced into using MS CMS for about 2 months now.
The template system has no flexibility. Almost every page has to be it's own template if you need the slightest of changes from the structure.
Inconsistent data field types Each field on the remote edit module is an ActivX module. If you need to insert an object you never know if its going to come out as a text link to the object, a GIF representing the object, or the object with an <embed> tag.
Slow Serving The server has an incredible amount of latency
Propagation Problem Automated propagation from our staging machine to our public server has been a joke.
No direct support for Flash or other embeds If we need something embedded you have to create a new template representing that application
No support for LOWSRC attrubute in the <IMG> tag If you want to design a custom template for it sure, but it's such a pain to get it in there and done right.
This product is something that I would only recommend if your in an information only setting. If you need ANY kind of flexibility look elsewhere.
Funny, Japanese fans feel much the same way about this news, if the comments on discussion boards here in Japan are anything to go by. Also, there's a lot of speculation about the casting.
"Hmmm... is there a Hollywood actor that's green, has regrowable arms and reproduces by vomiting giant eggs?"
I've been reading through the FAQs but can't find any where to register my own set of E-Class(not C-Class since) IP addresses. Is there a particluar FAQ, RFQ, or website I should look for? Is there a particular organization I should go to?
Nintendo has always been cold towards an optical media. Remember that Zelda 64 was supposed to be on the Bulky Drive.
Add to the fact that Japan's economy is 10 times worst then most first world country's. Its not a surprise they are reluctant.
IMHO: From the current specs I have to say that I'm not impressed. They all seemed a step lowered the PS2's. Nintendo has a history of waiting for all of a given generation's systems to be marketed before finalizing their specs. Remember the SNES was delayed over a year and the graphics chip redone so that Big N could say their system could do twice as many colors as the Sega Genesis.
I think at this time its better to take a wait and see attitude.
Christ, this right up there with Fahrenheit 451. Why blame the games? It was the parents of the shooter who didn't teach thier kids the morals they needed.
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Can they get someone to and back from the moon by 2010 - Hell yes. They have at least a million young men who are willing to risk thier lives for a chance at glory and honor.
Will they do it before we do? - A resounding 'Hell yes'. They don't have to go through all the red tape that we've made for ourselves. IF the goverment says we are going to do it they will do it.
Will they establish a STABLE moon base by 2010 - Hell no. There will be too many countries trying to sabatoge those ambitions(present country included) for both political and security reasons.
I learned where the word sabatoge came from by watching Star Trek movies.
So, did Subobu finally come back and turn Jar Jar into the pile of orange goo that Anni foreshadowed in Ep. 1?
Abi is free and fast. It doesn't have all the perty features of the other two but it takes about a second to load.
XBOX uses a modified Win2000 kernal. The executables are encrypted. The BIOS is specfically work only with the XBOX kernal.
There are a couple of projects out there to resocket new BIOS chip but nothing finalized.
Most of the RD is focusing on how to make the executable with the XBOX os. The reason why is because the XBOX OS is stablest of the Windows line and is already optimized for the hardware.
Still, it would be fun to see how an XBOX Linux compares to the current Sony Linux.
Ever wonder how much covert MS code is in CSV tree?
New way to reconstruct information
/. viewer never even heard of carbon paper.
Carbon Paper
Thats right, cut out a piece and place the carbon paper under the mouse. At the end of the day pull the paper and see the pattern left by the user.
Place the carbon paper under the keyboard to record varies keystokes.
Hide some under a chair. If serveral undulating motions are recorded you may have a porn problem.
The really scaring part of this is the fact the half of
Is this the Eden board inside?
On the SNK issue: Sengoku 3 is the last game they will be publishing. Also remember the SNK isn't NEO-GEO, although they are the main publisher for the system.
On the price of the games: The games come out with 90-600 meg cartrages. It's nothing for those cart to come out with 20-150 individual burned chips.
That a lot silicon compared to the data stored on a CD-ROM or now a days a DVD-ROM.
I've had 10 time more computer problems with users trying to install thier own software than any virus.
Plus when someone is about to be fired they try to e-mail 500 megs of files to thier 10 meg home account. E-mail Bounce of Death anyone?
About a week ago someone told us about this device that Vonage is putting out for $20/month.
You don't have to have any special software, just a high-speed connection. Just plug in the Cisco voice router and go. Plus you get voice mail, call forwarding, online accounting, free long distance, and a real phone #. I've gotten mine and I've only lost a call once. That call was to a person in the boonies who was using a bad cell phone. 'Nuff said.
The sound quality is about 95% of a regular phone line. My only compliant about the system is that there's just under a quarter second lag between what someone says and what you hear, but that could because of my ISP.
Plus if I'm going out of town I just find a hotel with high speed Internet and plug my device in. Bomb I have an instant direct line back to the office or wife and kids(if I had a wife and kids, which I don't but that a different story). And no annoying hotel phone bills.
Web appliances are the way to go! Now if we could just get IPv6 in use and get rid of NAT we could get rid of telephones numbers. We could have IP # or domain names instead.
fone://commandertaco.slashdot.org could be the future.
[VoIP/Web Appliance evangelical rant complete, have a nice day]
It's not Slashvertisments. It's talking points. Slashdot has a series of talking points. PVR, 802.11, VoIP, .NET, and Personal Privacy are at the forefront at the moment. It what they feel everyone is talking about and they support their agenda. Yes Slashdot has an agenda (listen to some of the GiS archives). And for the most part, they're right. Any WELL-written article in these points will get posted.
Although I personally would like more VoIP and Anime they have to keep to what they think their audience wants.
Besides, how many Creative Labs banners have you seen on Slashdot?
Yet another alternative is the Terapin CD Video Recorder over at Think Geek
I want to get one so bad.
What ever happened to the XBOX hackers out there? I haven't heard much since they decoded the HD password.
Don't forget Monday were SlashDot had an article about a hardware VoIP unit. You just plug the unit into your DSL or cable modem and your set. For $20 a month you can have 500 minutes of long distance, or $40 a month and you get unlimited long distance.
As an aside: I have mine on order, I should be getting the unit today. I checked my web interface and saw that I have had 3 telemarketer calls to my new number. A number which I have yet to be give out.
This must be a record on Slashdot.
Is there anyone who is doing a Spread Spectrum audio or video project?
It would be kind cool if an open Spread Spectrum video standard came out.
Use a 802.11 switch with a 1 watt amp to cover your neighborhood with reruns of Wargames or Commander Taco Eats Michigan.
Using this Low Power network you could implant a chip into a person or a group and pass data between each other as passive repeaters. Heck it could possible be an active repeater by using the ambient power by your nervous system. The ultimate living P2P system.
This could in 30-40 years grow into something between SE Lain and Ghost in the Shell.
Almost every page has to be it's own template if you need the slightest of changes from the structure.
Each field on the remote edit module is an ActivX module. If you need to insert an object you never know if its going to come out as a text link to the object, a GIF representing the object, or the object with an <embed> tag.
The server has an incredible amount of latency
Automated propagation from our staging machine to our public server has been a joke.
If we need something embedded you have to create a new template representing that application
If you want to design a custom template for it sure, but it's such a pain to get it in there and done right.
This product is something that I would only recommend if your in an information only setting. If you need ANY kind of flexibility look elsewhere.
I was thinking that could be great for a band. Buy this device, get a piece of plywood, instant cheap stage speaker.
Umm, The Iron Chef Japan?
Funny, Japanese fans feel much the same way about this news, if the comments on discussion boards here in Japan are anything to go by. Also, there's a lot of speculation about the casting.
"Hmmm... is there a Hollywood actor that's green, has regrowable arms and reproduces by vomiting giant eggs?"
I've been reading through the FAQs but can't find any where to register my own set of E-Class(not C-Class since) IP addresses. Is there a particluar FAQ, RFQ, or website I should look for? Is there a particular organization I should go to?
Has anyone got a hold of a development machine and put Linux on it yet? I would love to ping or telnet to that thing.
And its done all this with a set of corrective lenses. Lets hear it for glasses!
Add to the fact that Japan's economy is 10 times worst then most first world country's. Its not a surprise they are reluctant.
IMHO: From the current specs I have to say that I'm not impressed. They all seemed a step lowered the PS2's. Nintendo has a history of waiting for all of a given generation's systems to be marketed before finalizing their specs. Remember the SNES was delayed over a year and the graphics chip redone so that Big N could say their system could do twice as many colors as the Sega Genesis.
I think at this time its better to take a wait and see attitude.
P.S. Virtual Boy
Nintedo screws Sony(PS-X):
http://www.atlink.it/psx/hacks/psxfaq.htm
http://slashdot.org/books/01/01/31/1615218.shtml
Bulky Drive:m l
http://www.gamesdomain.com/gdreview/depart/n64.ht
Christ, this right up there with Fahrenheit 451. Why blame the games? It was the parents of the shooter who didn't teach thier kids the morals they needed.