I don't believe that you read what I had said. The design would place the carbon nanotubes through the core of the CPU, that way the CPU itself doesn't hold heat like current ones do, no matter how good of a heatsink/fan combo you have, it is the heat conducting properties of the CPU which limit the rate of heat disipation. Say the junction of the CPU and the heatsink could conduct 100 joules of heat every second, but your heat sink itself could conduct 400 joules of heat per second to the air. The limiting factor would be the cpu/heatsink junction at 100 joules/sec. Placing teh carbon nanotubes in the cpu itself could increase the rate of heat conduction to your heatsink.
Couldn't the carbon nanotubules be integrated into the CPU itself? And for that matter many other heat prone computer components. This would provide far superior heat disipation, as it would go from source to void.
Why on earth did they allow a idiot to speak? If that was a prepared speach, it was probally prepared by a dog or cat, or while someone was really stoned. Cummon, Internet traffic travels over ATM, which has little nothing to do with tcp/ip packets, it can only be blocked at the source and reciever, and to tell the truth, if they are the sender and reciever, they don't want it to be blocked in the first place, so they are helpless.
The ISP's can potentially block some traffic, but blocking via file format is not really possible. To a firewall a packet is a packet, and besides, TCP packets contain no information about content type, only the content.
I've said it once, I'll say it a thousand times, clueless lawmakers and corporations should not involve themselves in computer or science issues without educating themselves first, which means, that before any law is voted upon, each congressman or senator needs to go to at least two years of college to catch up on what they have no idea about.
All this stupid genetics/nuclear/crypto secrecy that is always insisted upon pisses me off. Its not secret anyhow, my physics book contains nearly all the information about nuclear reactions which they classify as secret, my CS and math books tell me enough about cryptography to figure out how pgp works, or ever 128bit encryption. What's the fricking point of secrecy, we have the internet.
I wrote something similar to this as a computer science project. It was quite difficult to get started, but once I got rolling it was easy to see very obvious enhancements which I could use to make smaller files, and it was pretty easy to use. What I did in mine was took the wavelet transform (like a forier transform, but for finite data sets) and then used huffman encoding on the individual pieces of wavelet data. Deciding how much information was needed to store individual images was very difficult, because it depended greatly on the size of features, the amount of change which was observed per pixel, and so on. All this information could be potentially tested before performing the compression, but in a real time environment there is no time to such optimization. Huffman encoding takes long enough.
Microsoft's case for appeal should be pretty simple to pull off. They should be able to just ignore Microsoft entirely and go after Jackson's preconcieved ideas. Jackson's statements after he passed judgement were very negative, and did not give the case fair judgment. Microsoft was guaranteed a fair and impartital trial, but with the judge choosing sides, its pretty to dismiss it as a valid trial. It will be heard again by a different judge, maybe one who doesn't have a strong bias.
Jackson seemed to be pissed because he lost his last descision about M$ to an appeal, so he was vindictive in his method of making a descision. He may have weighed it in his head for a long time, but I don't think he considereded it from a fair and impartial point of view. If I'm right, he'll be hearing juvie cases for the next ten years until he retires...
no matter what happens, microsoft is in my opinion guilty, but thier guilt doesn't matter if they weren't given a fair trial. It'll be a while before we hear the end of this. Maybe the trustbusters will be more carefull before trying antitrust cases, afterall, it is not a crime to be chosen by the average consumer, and therefore sell more units of thier software than others. It is a crime to tell OEM's not to give more software options, but that's probally not a trust thing anyhow. OEM's listen to the dollar, changing prices for someone who signs a contract for X number of years is common in all lines of business. That's not an issue.
I agree that the computer industry is not exactly like anyother industry (except maybe Music and Video...) I know, we all hate the RIAA and MPAA, but seriously, they suffer from the same problems as people trying to profit from software in the digital age. Nobody gets too pissed when software exec's discuss anti-piracy measures (I like kenetix hardware lock idea), but when the RIAA starts sueing over the piracy of something they own, everyone is ready to get the gun.
I know its flamebait, but that sounds a little hypocritical to me.
I heard a clip of the infamous Judge himself saying that a Microsoft appeal would go straight to the supreme court.
Basicly the reason for this is to prevent more than one appeal. In the Supreme Court the hearing would then be the other way if I remember right. More focused on defense instead of prosecution. I know that being of the non-lawyer type, I don't know too much about this, but I doubt Microsoft will be able to get a sucessful appeal together. They have done too much wrong, and in many ways they will need to admit to part of what they have done wrong and hope that the rest is considered biproducts of that wrong.
Thier appeal will fail. And Microsoft will be swiftly broken apart. I doubt they will be as agressive now that they have been sentenced, but you never know, Microsoft was pretty retarded for the entire duration of the trial. You'd think that with the law breathing down thier backs they would have been a little more carefull about thier actions (kerberos, ASF, etc) but it was business as usual.
Dunno about you guys, but when I see flashing red lights behind me, I usually check my spedometer and pull over. I might lie about how fast I was going, but I don't deny that I was indeed driving at the time.
So suppose I had a door with a lock that was easily pickable on my house. I'm gone and someone picks the lock and looks around awhile, and then makes a bunch of long distance phone calls. Is that my fault because I did not have my door configured correctly? Or is it my fault that I wasn't sitting by the door with a shotgun to keep intruders out? Cummon, you can't expect the misconfigured argument to stand up to anything.
This is something I have pleaded for personally for quite some time at my university. Here the unix admin keeps logs of everyone's network usage, not just how much bandwidth we use, but what websites we are going to and things like that. What they did is they hired a student worker to wade through the pile of data stored on this daily and throw out 99% of the stuff. Not only is this an invasion of privacy if they did not know who owned what IP address, but they log who owns ethernet cards with what MAC address. No privacy at all, one time I was running an FTP server with all kinds of OSS on it, and they called me on the phone and accused me of distributing copyrighted material. The next time someone tried logging into my ftp server from thier I called his office within two minutes and asked what he was doing. It scared him that I noticed him right away, even though he was invading my privacy. What was also bad was he used a named account, not anonymous. I've never given him an account nor have I allowed more than a few individuals named accounts. I was pretty pissed, but I have been unable to do anything because of the overwhelming support from the administration the computing center has. The admins decided that I must have been doing something wrong, and because of that the unix admins were in the right to be searching around my computer.
On a side note, I only use SSH now because of them, SSH for almost everything. Before I usually used SSH, but if I needed to I would use telnet. Now if a computer doesn't have SSHD running, I don't login to it.
*toy* languages are not a good idea IMHO. They seem to push bad programming practices. Maybe a Lisp dervative would be a good choice. They are kinda try, but you will get to explain all the details of recursion, memory allocation, etc. That would be as good of a learning experience as anything else.
when I was 13'sh my brother was working for the university of minnesota. As soon as we got internet access (somehow before there were any ISP's in the area...) he made me an account on one of the computers at his lab, and then he got me started with hello world. Everytime I had a problem I just sent him an email and he looked at it in instructed me on what I was doing wrong. This worked really well for me.
Can you beleve that a 13 or 14 year old actually understood C's *'s, &'s, structs, and such? Blew my mind at the time. Then I got lazy and didn't program for 3 or four years.
Even better some real encription could be used, then the pirated disks would be non-playable outside of pirates hands. (the software would probally get around, damn script kiddies)
I am going to scream Sherman Act and never stop until the MPAA is deemed an illegal trust orginization. What they do to the consumers is terrible, and when they pull the strings of all hardware manufacturers, that would smell like trouble to me. They should not have that kind of power over the hardware manufacturers. Why on earth would a hardware manufacturer sign a paper which devoids thier right to make video playback equipment of the highest quality possible. MPAA is far too greedy.
Oh, yeah, someone told me that the firewire connection exists inside most dvd players, its just not wired to the outside. Is that true?
People have been using IDE's as a reason for not learning proper software design. There is no excuse for not knowing what function is required and what files need to include it prior to writing. It seems to me that an IDE is just another way to DUMB down the launguages to such a point as to no require people to actually know how to program. Programming is more than typing in the functions, its planning for how everything will work together in advance, not kludging your way along. As it stands IDE's do not provide a software DESIGN tool, and therefore are a restraint to how well a piece of software ends up being produced. I can think of thousands of software productions which had a great idea, but failed to design a piece of software which did its necissary function and did so in a way which was the result of a proper software design process. IDE's make it too easy to lameify coding to the point where it has no plan, except the final product, which is not enough. Don't piss me off about this, I'm planning a huge research study on it...
Um, on my system I tested Q3 with and without DRI, the DRI rendering is almost 20% faster than without. I suspect that if these "tests" that they did used Xfree4's DRI, they would be much faster.
For about three years after redhat started I utterly despised them, for just that reason, they were comercializing something which I respected and were taking a profit from someone else's work.
I don't care that you can download the distro free from everywhere on earth, they are charging money for it and should not be. period.
Eventually I learned that there are people out there who need thier little hands held. Yeah for them, they can use RedHat. While they are messing aound with retarded RPM format, I'm kicking some ass with slackware or OpenBSD.
Sourcecode is the only way to get software...
I don't like certification exams either. This Scott which I worked with had MSCE and he fried a computer every month or two because he didn't know anything about not standing on carpet with an open case infront of him. I was also always fixing his fuckups before anyone could get too pissed and fire his ass.
Finding life on another planet if it is not in our solar system will be a long time off. Although telescopes can (hubble etc) can maybe see a planet rotating around a sun a long distance away, they cannot get the details needed to identify if there is life there, so if we discover life in another solarsystem, that probally means that we traveled there. Of course, someone else could discover us and somehow let us know, but if you think about it, they would then have been looking for us as long as we would be looking to find them, which would probally be millions of years.
Traveling to another planet is no trivial task, put that planet light years away, and it is a nearly impossible task. Try to keep a small colony of people alive for 10,000 years while traveling in deep space with nothing to entertain themselves but eachother and an old copy of Quake3.
s/quake3/yourfavgame/
People have a hard enough time surviving in a close quartered situation for a few months, try it for your whole life!
Don't even tell me about the solar sail plan, that's publicity, not a realistic solution for long distance travel. Although it is probally better in the long run than thinking solid fuel (or liquid fuel) would work to go more than to mars or so.
If we meet another intelligent life form, it'll probally be by accident, not due to anything else.
Someone setup a online petition form. Of course, signatures are needed, so papers will need to be mailed. If someone does so, please let me know by emailing me at bsc@mu0.net
I'm sure there are thousands who will gladly sign this, please help organize, I have finals this week so I can't deal with it.
What's scary is that as long as MS educates potential administrators, many of which have little computer experience, that MS products are the way to go, thier proprietary extensions will be able to stand.
Selectively educate the uneducated and they will believe what ever you tell them. Microsoft Certification exams are pathetic, and many busineses actually believe that it means something.
I should take one of those exams again, its been a while since I laughed during a test everyone thought was hard...
I just want to send a big "Unix is GOD" poster to microsoft, with the caption, "Windows is mortal"
What amazes me is not that its been done, its how large of a undertaking it is. The genes which control transmition of signals (yeah, human body IO baby!) from the nose to the brain contain more data than I could probally fit on my harddrive.
Ok, are they going to charge me a royalty for having DNA? How about $.01 per hydrogen bond. That should be enough money, huh.
Seriously, who has the right to claim rights to the human genome. It could be deciphered in any lab and shouldn't be anyone's property. Just because I see interference fringes in a physics lab doesn't mean I own the property rights to light, thin slits, or mirrors. Physicists did not patent the nutrino when it was discovered, why should this be any different. Same goes for algorithims, but that's a whole new can of worms. Hhmm, RSA.
It's been known to happen that I'd make a phone call to some admin if they pissed me off my not giving a second of warning prior to a reboot. Especially if its just to do something simple like kill -HUP inetd
Breeder Reactors ARE EVIL. If you don't trust me I'll find a source which agrees... other than all of my physics books which mention nuclear facilities.
http://www.jnc.go.jp/jncweb/keypro-main.htm Attempts to look at breeders in a good light. This is difficult to do. Notice how it sounds like a microsoft add, by focusing on features instead of how it works...
http://users.massed.net/~ag news/FastBreederReactors.htm Has a good overview of how a Breeder works, and why it is evil. It is largly poorly written, just like muh post, but most of the facts are good, though. The part about Japan. I think that happened almost 10 years ago and the public is still refusing them to re-open the plant. The details of it was that there was a large sodium leak.
The part about it being able to make itself into a nuclear bomb is very correct though. Frighteningly so. I couldn't help but think that japan should be the LAST country interested in using nuclear energy. I know, that was probally a taboo thing to say, but I think the same events are why this country feels so strongly about nuclear power and nuclear responsibility.
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I don't believe that you read what I had said. The design would place the carbon nanotubes through the core of the CPU, that way the CPU itself doesn't hold heat like current ones do, no matter how good of a heatsink/fan combo you have, it is the heat conducting properties of the CPU which limit the rate of heat disipation. Say the junction of the CPU and the heatsink could conduct 100 joules of heat every second, but your heat sink itself could conduct 400 joules of heat per second to the air. The limiting factor would be the cpu/heatsink junction at 100 joules/sec. Placing teh carbon nanotubes in the cpu itself could increase the rate of heat conduction to your heatsink.
Couldn't the carbon nanotubules be integrated into the CPU itself? And for that matter many other heat prone computer components. This would provide far superior heat disipation, as it would go from source to void.
Why on earth did they allow a idiot to speak? If that was a prepared speach, it was probally prepared by a dog or cat, or while someone was really stoned. Cummon, Internet traffic travels over ATM, which has little nothing to do with tcp/ip packets, it can only be blocked at the source and reciever, and to tell the truth, if they are the sender and reciever, they don't want it to be blocked in the first place, so they are helpless.
The ISP's can potentially block some traffic, but blocking via file format is not really possible. To a firewall a packet is a packet, and besides, TCP packets contain no information about content type, only the content.
I've said it once, I'll say it a thousand times, clueless lawmakers and corporations should not involve themselves in computer or science issues without educating themselves first, which means, that before any law is voted upon, each congressman or senator needs to go to at least two years of college to catch up on what they have no idea about.
All this stupid genetics/nuclear/crypto secrecy that is always insisted upon pisses me off. Its not secret anyhow, my physics book contains nearly all the information about nuclear reactions which they classify as secret, my CS and math books tell me enough about cryptography to figure out how pgp works, or ever 128bit encryption. What's the fricking point of secrecy, we have the internet.
stupid people suck
I wrote something similar to this as a computer science project. It was quite difficult to get started, but once I got rolling it was easy to see very obvious enhancements which I could use to make smaller files, and it was pretty easy to use. What I did in mine was took the wavelet transform (like a forier transform, but for finite data sets) and then used huffman encoding on the individual pieces of wavelet data. Deciding how much information was needed to store individual images was very difficult, because it depended greatly on the size of features, the amount of change which was observed per pixel, and so on. All this information could be potentially tested before performing the compression, but in a real time environment there is no time to such optimization. Huffman encoding takes long enough.
Jackson seemed to be pissed because he lost his last descision about M$ to an appeal, so he was vindictive in his method of making a descision. He may have weighed it in his head for a long time, but I don't think he considereded it from a fair and impartial point of view. If I'm right, he'll be hearing juvie cases for the next ten years until he retires...
no matter what happens, microsoft is in my opinion guilty, but thier guilt doesn't matter if they weren't given a fair trial. It'll be a while before we hear the end of this. Maybe the trustbusters will be more carefull before trying antitrust cases, afterall, it is not a crime to be chosen by the average consumer, and therefore sell more units of thier software than others. It is a crime to tell OEM's not to give more software options, but that's probally not a trust thing anyhow. OEM's listen to the dollar, changing prices for someone who signs a contract for X number of years is common in all lines of business. That's not an issue.
I agree that the computer industry is not exactly like anyother industry (except maybe Music and Video...) I know, we all hate the RIAA and MPAA, but seriously, they suffer from the same problems as people trying to profit from software in the digital age. Nobody gets too pissed when software exec's discuss anti-piracy measures (I like kenetix hardware lock idea), but when the RIAA starts sueing over the piracy of something they own, everyone is ready to get the gun.
I know its flamebait, but that sounds a little hypocritical to me.
I heard a clip of the infamous Judge himself saying that a Microsoft appeal would go straight to the supreme court.
Basicly the reason for this is to prevent more than one appeal. In the Supreme Court the hearing would then be the other way if I remember right. More focused on defense instead of prosecution. I know that being of the non-lawyer type, I don't know too much about this, but I doubt Microsoft will be able to get a sucessful appeal together. They have done too much wrong, and in many ways they will need to admit to part of what they have done wrong and hope that the rest is considered biproducts of that wrong.
Thier appeal will fail. And Microsoft will be swiftly broken apart. I doubt they will be as agressive now that they have been sentenced, but you never know, Microsoft was pretty retarded for the entire duration of the trial. You'd think that with the law breathing down thier backs they would have been a little more carefull about thier actions (kerberos, ASF, etc) but it was business as usual.
Dunno about you guys, but when I see flashing red lights behind me, I usually check my spedometer and pull over. I might lie about how fast I was going, but I don't deny that I was indeed driving at the time.
Damn it M$!
So suppose I had a door with a lock that was easily pickable on my house. I'm gone and someone picks the lock and looks around awhile, and then makes a bunch of long distance phone calls. Is that my fault because I did not have my door configured correctly? Or is it my fault that I wasn't sitting by the door with a shotgun to keep intruders out? Cummon, you can't expect the misconfigured argument to stand up to anything.
kmail does multiple acounts. I have 4 in mine.
On a side note, I only use SSH now because of them, SSH for almost everything. Before I usually used SSH, but if I needed to I would use telnet. Now if a computer doesn't have SSHD running, I don't login to it.
scheme intrepreters are fun...
Can you beleve that a 13 or 14 year old actually understood C's *'s, &'s, structs, and such? Blew my mind at the time. Then I got lazy and didn't program for 3 or four years.
Even better some real encription could be used, then the pirated disks would be non-playable outside of pirates hands. (the software would probally get around, damn script kiddies)
Oh, yeah, someone told me that the firewire connection exists inside most dvd players, its just not wired to the outside. Is that true?
People have been using IDE's as a reason for not learning proper software design. There is no excuse for not knowing what function is required and what files need to include it prior to writing. It seems to me that an IDE is just another way to DUMB down the launguages to such a point as to no require people to actually know how to program. Programming is more than typing in the functions, its planning for how everything will work together in advance, not kludging your way along. As it stands IDE's do not provide a software DESIGN tool, and therefore are a restraint to how well a piece of software ends up being produced. I can think of thousands of software productions which had a great idea, but failed to design a piece of software which did its necissary function and did so in a way which was the result of a proper software design process. IDE's make it too easy to lameify coding to the point where it has no plan, except the final product, which is not enough. Don't piss me off about this, I'm planning a huge research study on it...
Um, on my system I tested Q3 with and without DRI, the DRI rendering is almost 20% faster than without. I suspect that if these "tests" that they did used Xfree4's DRI, they would be much faster.
I don't care that you can download the distro free from everywhere on earth, they are charging money for it and should not be. period.
Eventually I learned that there are people out there who need thier little hands held. Yeah for them, they can use RedHat. While they are messing aound with retarded RPM format, I'm kicking some ass with slackware or OpenBSD.
Sourcecode is the only way to get software...
I don't like certification exams either. This Scott which I worked with had MSCE and he fried a computer every month or two because he didn't know anything about not standing on carpet with an open case infront of him. I was also always fixing his fuckups before anyone could get too pissed and fire his ass.
Traveling to another planet is no trivial task, put that planet light years away, and it is a nearly impossible task. Try to keep a small colony of people alive for 10,000 years while traveling in deep space with nothing to entertain themselves but eachother and an old copy of Quake3.
s/quake3/yourfavgame/
People have a hard enough time surviving in a close quartered situation for a few months, try it for your whole life!
Don't even tell me about the solar sail plan, that's publicity, not a realistic solution for long distance travel. Although it is probally better in the long run than thinking solid fuel (or liquid fuel) would work to go more than to mars or so.
If we meet another intelligent life form, it'll probally be by accident, not due to anything else.
I'm sure there are thousands who will gladly sign this, please help organize, I have finals this week so I can't deal with it.
Kick ass!
Selectively educate the uneducated and they will believe what ever you tell them. Microsoft Certification exams are pathetic, and many busineses actually believe that it means something.
I should take one of those exams again, its been a while since I laughed during a test everyone thought was hard...
I just want to send a big "Unix is GOD" poster to microsoft, with the caption, "Windows is mortal"
What amazes me is not that its been done, its how large of a undertaking it is. The genes which control transmition of signals (yeah, human body IO baby!) from the nose to the brain contain more data than I could probally fit on my harddrive.
The US government can tell any business not to do business in country X, independent or publicly funded. Kinda sucks ... strong encryption anyone?
Seriously, who has the right to claim rights to the human genome. It could be deciphered in any lab and shouldn't be anyone's property. Just because I see interference fringes in a physics lab doesn't mean I own the property rights to light, thin slits, or mirrors. Physicists did not patent the nutrino when it was discovered, why should this be any different. Same goes for algorithims, but that's a whole new can of worms. Hhmm, RSA.
Creations should be property, not discoverys.
This pisses me off.
I noticed that shortly after writing my post. Oops.
heh -- I hope bob reads this.
http://www.jnc.go.jp/jncweb/keypro-main .htm Attempts to look at breeders in a good light. This is difficult to do. Notice how it sounds like a microsoft add, by focusing on features instead of how it works...
http://users.massed.net/~ag news/FastBreederReactors.htm Has a good overview of how a Breeder works, and why it is evil. It is largly poorly written, just like muh post, but most of the facts are good, though. The part about Japan. I think that happened almost 10 years ago and the public is still refusing them to re-open the plant. The details of it was that there was a large sodium leak.
The part about it being able to make itself into a nuclear bomb is very correct though. Frighteningly so. I couldn't help but think that japan should be the LAST country interested in using nuclear energy. I know, that was probally a taboo thing to say, but I think the same events are why this country feels so strongly about nuclear power and nuclear responsibility.