There isn't this huge supply of bad memory out there (Radio Shack jokes aside) because memory manufacturers are pretty clever. Bad memory is put into things like:
Audio storage devices, like answering machines and mp3 players, where a bit or two of failure will just end up as a teeny bit more noise.
Cheap digital cameras (once again, a bad pixel here or there....)
Toys. They actually call bad memory "toy memory" sometimes.
SIMMS. You take (for example) 4 bad chips and 1 good chip and get the equivalent of 4 good chips (by replacing bad io's on the bad chips with io's on the good chip). There are jillions of ways to do this, and companies have pretty much done them all.
Sell them at CompUSA to people who don't know any better. (Sorry, couldn't resist)
To quote the babelfish FAQ: Translation requires significant resources on our servers. To serve as many users as possible, we translate a maximum of 5k of text. If the page exceeds
this limit, you see "Translation ends here" in the text.
Too bad the other site seems frozen--aparently, it's slashdotted ALREADY.
Dammit, I don't know what happened (Does AI use some backasswards query system that expires, or did I just screw up the links? I don't know.) but you can find the reports at Amnesty International report 2000
My take on it: China commits some serious violations of human rights, and I'd be worried about the smart card IDs there. But I'm a U.S. citizen, and I'd also be worried about smart card IDs here. We've got our own human rights issues to work out. I'm an optimist, so I think that the U.S. won't turn into big brother, but I also think this is possible only through the constant vigilance of people like you and me.
And the lottery isn't even a decent investment... it's simply a tax on people who
are bad at math.;-)
Alright, you've got a smiley face there, but I'd just like to point out to the masses that this oft-repeated bit of wisdom isn't quite as clever as it seems at first. (Begin micro-rant) The average person who plays the lottery week to week isn't making an investment, they're getting $1 worth of entertainment. So unless you call video games, dial-a-porn, and trashy novels a tax on people who are bad at math, you're overstating the truth.
On the other hand, if you do consider the lottery an investment, and spend a significant amount of money on it, you get what you deserve.
You'll never get anywhere in politics by blaming the people who vote for you. Even if you're absolutely 100% right. You will never see a politician with this position get elected, which is a shame, since I firmly believe you're right.
Why does everybody think we need MORE people voting? In general, I don't like people. I'm glad they aren't voting. Not only is my vote stronger, but the people who are participating feel strongly about it and have probably invested some time making informed decisions.
If you want to find out more about the Cassini-Huygens mission, you should check the NASA web page on the mission. (Was it just me, or was the story as posted need more info?)
I feel sorry for you, having a teacher that cannot communicate effectively is tough on the students. And having a 'English-was-my-first-language' teacher doesn't guarantee anything on that front, either--some of them are quite unable to teach.
But I've got break it to you--sucky teacherss are a fact of university life. Your goal, as a student, is to suck the knowledge you need out of that university with every bit of strength you have. This will not be easy--you'll have apatetic and incompetant teachers, peers that cheat, and professors and administrators that just don't care. Your job is to learn ANYWAY. (Read a book on C. That's how I learned it. Talk with other students, other professors. Join ACM or whatever programming organizations exist on campus. Download the Linux source code and just start wondering what the hell it all means. But do SOMETHING, and you'll learn.) There are some students that never quite understand this, and for them, college is really just post-graduate high school. The ones who do get this end up being the engineers that everybody wants to work with, and eventually work for.
Alright, I'm well into off-topic rant here. Fortunately, you sound like you're in the second category. But those other students who aren't getting their money's worth aren't approaching the system with the right attitude.
SO how coem ther si 10000000 gaems about STAR TRACK comineing out evary day?!?
do we needs thes many STAR TRACK gaems?
Quote torn from the JEFF K. interview with Jake Simpson. Just like with every Jeff K. article, I laughed so hard I had a brain hemorrhage and now I'm dead. (You bastards had better appreciate that I'm using my final words to bring you this bit of humor.)
I derive at least that much benefit from it, so sure, why not.
In fact, if you can't afford to pay $4.95 a month, you should probably sell your computer, since you obviously need the money.
If you refuse to pay such a small amount, just know that you're in the same category as those cheap bastards who ask for 50 ketchup packets at McDonald's and steal flatware at Ponderosa.
I was one of the poor saps unfortunate enough to have been a one-time customer of CD Universe when their credit card database was stolen and held for ransom. I had purchased one CD (Nina Simone, for the curious) about 10 months before the hacker took the numbers, and I still had to go through all the pain of cancelling my credit card. Worse yet, I had several services (my newspaper, my ISP) auto-billed off the credit card, which I forgot about, and those services were cancelled once they were unable to bill to that old number.
I was very fortunate that there were no purchases made against my number, probably because I had it cancelled very quickly.
In any case, it seems ridiculous that sites should keep your credit-card information forever, thus amplifiying the damage caused by any hacks.
You're kidding, right? Or are you really saying that we should put new, experimental, unstable features, such as the MontaVista patches, into the stable kernel series?
I clicked on the link in the story above, and it took a second, so I went to get a glass of water. When I got back, I had warped into some alternate universe slashdot.
It took me a while to realize THAT WAS the link, and they were just using slashcode. Oh well, it was trippy while it lasted.
Speaking of Vinge, does anybody know if True Names (The 1981 classic updated with essays from people such as RMS and Cypherpunk Timothy May) is every really going to come out? Amazon says it will be published in 2001, but I've been waiting for it since I graduated, which puts it almost years late at this point.
On another topic: did anybody else notice that they still use Unix in the "A Deepness in the Sky?" (Really...at some point, Pham is reflecting on the OS he's hacking, and muses that the zero-date for the OS is when man first stepped on the moon. He later revises this and remembers it's not quite the same date, it's really just a coincidence. That fits the 1969 Moon landing and the 1970 Unix zero-date quite well.) Now that's uptime.
Slashdot Mirror
I waited all night in the rain just to get my stupid Sony SP2, and there's no good games for it yet!
...to produce a table of contents for their articles.
There isn't this huge supply of bad memory out there (Radio Shack jokes aside) because memory manufacturers are pretty clever. Bad memory is put into things like:
Audio storage devices, like answering machines and mp3 players, where a bit or two of failure will just end up as a teeny bit more noise.
Cheap digital cameras (once again, a bad pixel here or there....)
Toys. They actually call bad memory "toy memory" sometimes.
SIMMS. You take (for example) 4 bad chips and 1 good chip and get the equivalent of 4 good chips (by replacing bad io's on the bad chips with io's on the good chip). There are jillions of ways to do this, and companies have pretty much done them all.
Sell them at CompUSA to people who don't know any better. (Sorry, couldn't resist)
If I were you, I'd download memtest86 right now.
To quote the babelfish FAQ: Translation requires significant resources on our servers. To serve as many users as possible, we translate a maximum of 5k of text. If the page exceeds this limit, you see "Translation ends here" in the text.
Too bad the other site seems frozen--aparently, it's slashdotted ALREADY.
Broken links to Amnesty International
Dammit, I don't know what happened (Does AI use some backasswards query system that expires, or did I just screw up the links? I don't know.) but you can find the reports at Amnesty International report 2000
Sorry for the glitch.
China:
United States of America :
My take on it: China commits some serious violations of human rights, and I'd be worried about the smart card IDs there. But I'm a U.S. citizen, and I'd also be worried about smart card IDs here. We've got our own human rights issues to work out. I'm an optimist, so I think that the U.S. won't turn into big brother, but I also think this is possible only through the constant vigilance of people like you and me.
I swear it said Interview with Billy Joel
I swear I thought YOUR post said Billy Joe. You know, from Green Day.
Is my realplayer hosed, or was this slashdotted within seconds of getting posted?
The puzzle developed by Christopher Monckton is The Eternity Puzzle. (Also check out this unoffical page). Interestingly enough, there was a distributed computing project designed to solve the puzzle, but the effort was suspended after the threat of legal action. And the game in question was boycotted after Monckton urged that the entire population of the United States and Britain should be compulsorily tested for HIV, and that everyone with the virus should be forcibly quarantined for life.
The .gov TLD is reserved for the US Federal Government. State and local
governments are supposed to use the .us heirachy.
Um...
And I didn't even try that hard, and I'm five for five .gov. Rules were made to be broken, I guess.
And the lottery isn't even a decent investment... it's simply a tax on people who are bad at math. ;-)
Alright, you've got a smiley face there, but I'd just like to point out to the masses that this oft-repeated bit of wisdom isn't quite as clever as it seems at first. (Begin micro-rant) The average person who plays the lottery week to week isn't making an investment, they're getting $1 worth of entertainment. So unless you call video games, dial-a-porn, and trashy novels a tax on people who are bad at math, you're overstating the truth.
On the other hand, if you do consider the lottery an investment, and spend a significant amount of money on it, you get what you deserve.
we need better parents!
You'll never get anywhere in politics by blaming the people who vote for you. Even if you're absolutely 100% right. You will never see a politician with this position get elected, which is a shame, since I firmly believe you're right.
Why does everybody think we need MORE people voting? In general, I don't like people. I'm glad they aren't voting. Not only is my vote stronger, but the people who are participating feel strongly about it and have probably invested some time making informed decisions.
If you want to find out more about the Cassini-Huygens mission, you should check the NASA web page on the mission. (Was it just me, or was the story as posted need more info?)
P.S. Can anybody figure out why the links on the Challenging 1/37th paper model of Cassini seem to be broken? I want to build one of these puppies!
I feel sorry for you, having a teacher that cannot communicate effectively is tough on the students. And having a 'English-was-my-first-language' teacher doesn't guarantee anything on that front, either--some of them are quite unable to teach.
But I've got break it to you--sucky teacherss are a fact of university life. Your goal, as a student, is to suck the knowledge you need out of that university with every bit of strength you have. This will not be easy--you'll have apatetic and incompetant teachers, peers that cheat, and professors and administrators that just don't care. Your job is to learn ANYWAY. (Read a book on C. That's how I learned it. Talk with other students, other professors. Join ACM or whatever programming organizations exist on campus. Download the Linux source code and just start wondering what the hell it all means. But do SOMETHING, and you'll learn.) There are some students that never quite understand this, and for them, college is really just post-graduate high school. The ones who do get this end up being the engineers that everybody wants to work with, and eventually work for.
Alright, I'm well into off-topic rant here. Fortunately, you sound like you're in the second category. But those other students who aren't getting their money's worth aren't approaching the system with the right attitude.
SO how coem ther si 10000000 gaems about STAR TRACK comineing out evary day?!?
do we needs thes many STAR TRACK gaems?
Quote torn from the JEFF K. interview with Jake Simpson. Just like with every Jeff K. article, I laughed so hard I had a brain hemorrhage and now I'm dead. (You bastards had better appreciate that I'm using my final words to bring you this bit of humor.)
I derive at least that much benefit from it, so sure, why not.
In fact, if you can't afford to pay $4.95 a month, you should probably sell your computer, since you obviously need the money.
If you refuse to pay such a small amount, just know that you're in the same category as those cheap bastards who ask for 50 ketchup packets at McDonald's and steal flatware at Ponderosa.
Michael's been pimping the X-Box for a while now, as described in this slashdot article from July.
Of course, Michael's a pretty famous programmer, who wrote Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book and Zen of Code Optimization, as well as A great series of articles for Dr. Dobb's. But I hope that slashdot doesn't just post EVERY little thing he says something about the Xbox, since that's apparently his job now.
Apparently nobody else was as bothered as I was by the paren mismatch in the post. But to me, it's worse than fingernails on a blackboard.
I was one of the poor saps unfortunate enough to have been a one-time customer of CD Universe when their credit card database was stolen and held for ransom. I had purchased one CD (Nina Simone, for the curious) about 10 months before the hacker took the numbers, and I still had to go through all the pain of cancelling my credit card. Worse yet, I had several services (my newspaper, my ISP) auto-billed off the credit card, which I forgot about, and those services were cancelled once they were unable to bill to that old number.
I was very fortunate that there were no purchases made against my number, probably because I had it cancelled very quickly.
In any case, it seems ridiculous that sites should keep your credit-card information forever, thus amplifiying the damage caused by any hacks.
You're kidding, right? Or are you really saying that we should put new, experimental, unstable features, such as the MontaVista patches, into the stable kernel series?
Adam said that Mc Donald's serves Coke, and Burger King serves Pepsi. Actually, Burger King used to serve Pepsi, but switched back to Coke in 1990. (Burger King also served Coke prior to 1983 when it first switched to Pepsi.)
Just thought it was important.
P.S. I know this for several reasons, one of which is that the Frozen Coke is the only reason I ever go to Burger King.
I clicked on the link in the story above, and it took a second, so I went to get a glass of water. When I got back, I had warped into some alternate universe slashdot.
It took me a while to realize THAT WAS the link, and they were just using slashcode. Oh well, it was trippy while it lasted.
Really, what more can the KDE guys do to win our trust and full support !?
I think you answered your own question: start calling it GNU KDE.
P.S. This post was typed in 100% GNU ASCII.
Speaking of Vinge, does anybody know if True Names (The 1981 classic updated with essays from people such as RMS and Cypherpunk Timothy May) is every really going to come out? Amazon says it will be published in 2001, but I've been waiting for it since I graduated, which puts it almost years late at this point.
On another topic: did anybody else notice that they still use Unix in the "A Deepness in the Sky?" (Really...at some point, Pham is reflecting on the OS he's hacking, and muses that the zero-date for the OS is when man first stepped on the moon. He later revises this and remembers it's not quite the same date, it's really just a coincidence. That fits the 1969 Moon landing and the 1970 Unix zero-date quite well.) Now that's uptime.