I don't think the mistake has anything to do with it being open source. It could be closed source, and would still fail because the basic premise is so simple - it relies on spammers sending spam to your inbox and not bothering to resend it if an error code is returned. So all a spammer has to do is just resend the message a couple of times to get around the spam 'filter'.
I haven't read The Gospel According to Neo yet, but I've thumbed through it. (It sits on my shelf, and I'm currently involved in William Irwin's The Matrix and Philosophy -- great book!)
You need to get out more often. There is more to life than reading about the Matrix you know:)
Top Thrill Dragster The Giga-Coaster Rules No More.
Hard to believe it was just three years ago... three years since Cedar Point broke through the 300-foot height barrier with Millennium Force, the world's first "giga-coaster." At that time, I was certain that many, many years would pass before the next major height barrier-400 feet-would be surpassed, if ever.
But here we are today, in 2003, with what the Point calls the world's first "strata-coaster," a 420-footer. Also happens to be the world's first coaster to hit 120 miles per hour. Which it does in four seconds.
I don't know about you, but since Top Thrill Dragster was officially announced, I've been having dreams about riding it. (That may not be something I should admit to, but there it is.) I was lucky enough to do so on May 1st, the media preview day.
I'll be the first to admit that I'm prone to hyperbole when it comes to writing about thrill rides. But you're going to have to believe me when I tell you that Cedar Point's Top Thrill Dragster is, without question, the scariest roller coaster I've ever experienced. Seriously, brothers and sisters, this big dog bites as hard as it barks.
Had a chance to ride Knott's Berry Farm's Xcelerator yet? Then you know that Intamin's hydraulically launched "Rocket" coaster is not for the squeamish. Wild as it is, though, Xcelerator is less than half the height and a good 40 miles per hour slower than TTD. This should worry some of you.
Speaking of worrisome, Cedar Point's skyline is now completely dominated by TTD's soaring yellow and red superstructure. Power Tower? Not so powerful-lookin' anymore. Even the Force seems, well, kinda small now. (If you really want to give yourself the willies, hang around till after dark and look at TTD when it's all lit up, glowing against the night sky.)
Oh, and how's this for worrisome? At more than one location in the queue, we're informed that "Occasionally, a launched train will not clear the hill. You should not be concerned; the train will slowly return to the launch position." Gulp.
Should you need a place to sit and reconsider your decision to ride, there's the set of metal bleachers that faces the launch zone. You'll be mightily entertained by watching how each passenger squirms, yelps, freezes and/or freaks just before takeoff. (Media days are especially satisfying for this kind of passive sadism; one poor woman, clearly not a coaster enthusiast, looked to be on the verge of tears.)
From this vantage point, you'll also get to appreciate how much effort was made in designing this coaster's unique trains. The "stadium seat"-equipped middle cars are not much different from those found on Millennium Force. But the first and last cars, each with just a single two-passenger row, are unique to TTD. The sleek winged nose in front and the faux racing engine, air foil and mag wheels in back make these cargo-haulers as distinctive as they come.
(A note about the trains: for the media day, they were shortened to carry just 12 passengers, not 16 as promised, nor were they loading the very last row. Nor were two trains always filled and released simultaneously, also as planned. And the sixth train was nowhere in sight. To the park's credit, they had to make up for many lost days of construction, due to winter weather, and did what it took to have TTD operating in time, even if at less than optimal capacity.)
Non-riders will also dig the delightful details of the launch. Each train moves slowly into position accompanied by the prerecorded rumbles of an idling high-horsepower engine. Occasionally, the engine "revs" a bit-vroom, vroom-a sweet little tease. Finally, the long row of metal fins that line the launch track-an integral part of TTD's fail-safe magnetic braking system-sinks. The train inches forward.
Buh-bye.
To the tune of a roaring engine and squealing tires, and a very nifty cloud of "burning rubber" smoke, the train disappears. Unnerving to watch, but nothing like what it is to r
But check out this game available for ARM handhelds. Its available here, and is actually pretty cool. I'm not sure if someone has already ported Quake to ARM processors (I'd be very surprised if they haven't), but the current crop of ARM processors seem to be high powered enough to run demanding applications.
Oh yeah, the yet in the subject refers to the fact that ARM devices are making the push to the wireless space in a big way.
Also I think many people will be dissapointed with the 32bit performance and AMD might get a bad name for it.
I disagree. I've spoken to some people who work in the Windows server team, and they have told me that 32 bit performance has been almost as good on the Opterons as on 32 bit processors. And the 64 bit version of Windows is very, very fast.
Microsoft has had access to Opterons for quite a while now, and they seem very eager to push it over Intel's reason for the simple reason that the Opteron allows for legacy programs to work.
and a popup window opens (ARRRRRRRRGH) with a message that reads
"URGENT MESSAGE: The Business Software Alliance is not responsible for the Opaserv worm. If you have been affected by this virus, click here for a list of helpful links and hotlines."
Seems like damage control to me:)
This was the last story I read on/. this evening, and when I log in this morning, it's the first story I see. I thought I was stuck with a cached copy of/., but everything else seemed to work, so I stormed into my sysadmin's office asking him why he was being so arbitrarily mean. Had to walk out with a sheepish expression when I realized that I was complaining about something that was probably a dupe.
and believe that a mature-themed game would rock the entire industry.
The average demographic for video games is not as badly skewed towards pubescent males as it once was - I think I remember reading somewhere that the median age was between 19-20. If the target audience is growing up, Nintendo will probably alienate people who would prefer more mature themes - and 'mature' does not necessarily have to connote sex - unless they wake up.
Um.. they are not stopping service - you don't even have to RTFA - just read the post which explains that they will work to transition our roughly 160,000 customers to another provider.
So you will have service, it will just be with another service provider.
here. For example, Fearsome death rays strike the Enterprise, and what happens? Sparks fly out from the ceiling and the crew gets bounced around in their seats like passengers on the No. 36 bus. This far in the future they wouldn't have sparks because they wouldn't have electricity, because in a world where you can beam matter--beam it, mind you--from here to there, power obviously no longer lives in the wall and travels through wires.
It's the little things that you don't really realize (until someone points them out to you) that put you off a movie.
they expect to be able to build an aircraft with a 10cm wingspan that will be either autonomous or radio controlled. This will allow them to be used in rescue missions, cave exploration and possibly even on Mars.
I can see it now - a 10cm-wingspanned aircraft to lift CowboyNeal from the depths of a Martian cave.
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Just curious - where do you buy books?
I don't think the mistake has anything to do with it being open source. It could be closed source, and would still fail because the basic premise is so simple - it relies on spammers sending spam to your inbox and not bothering to resend it if an error code is returned. So all a spammer has to do is just resend the message a couple of times to get around the spam 'filter'.
No.
I haven't read The Gospel According to Neo yet, but I've thumbed through it. (It sits on my shelf, and I'm currently involved in William Irwin's The Matrix and Philosophy -- great book!)
:)
You need to get out more often. There is more to life than reading about the Matrix you know
Top Thrill Dragster
The Giga-Coaster Rules No More.
Hard to believe it was just three years ago... three years since Cedar Point broke through the 300-foot height barrier with Millennium Force, the world's first "giga-coaster." At that time, I was certain that many, many years would pass before the next major height barrier-400 feet-would be surpassed, if ever.
But here we are today, in 2003, with what the Point calls the world's first "strata-coaster," a 420-footer. Also happens to be the world's first coaster to hit 120 miles per hour. Which it does in four seconds.
I don't know about you, but since Top Thrill Dragster was officially announced, I've been having dreams about riding it. (That may not be something I should admit to, but there it is.) I was lucky enough to do so on May 1st, the media preview day.
I'll be the first to admit that I'm prone to hyperbole when it comes to writing about thrill rides. But you're going to have to believe me when I tell you that Cedar Point's Top Thrill Dragster is, without question, the scariest roller coaster I've ever experienced. Seriously, brothers and sisters, this big dog bites as hard as it barks.
Had a chance to ride Knott's Berry Farm's Xcelerator yet? Then you know that Intamin's hydraulically launched "Rocket" coaster is not for the squeamish. Wild as it is, though, Xcelerator is less than half the height and a good 40 miles per hour slower than TTD. This should worry some of you.
Speaking of worrisome, Cedar Point's skyline is now completely dominated by TTD's soaring yellow and red superstructure. Power Tower? Not so powerful-lookin' anymore. Even the Force seems, well, kinda small now. (If you really want to give yourself the willies, hang around till after dark and look at TTD when it's all lit up, glowing against the night sky.)
Oh, and how's this for worrisome? At more than one location in the queue, we're informed that "Occasionally, a launched train will not clear the hill. You should not be concerned; the train will slowly return to the launch position." Gulp.
Should you need a place to sit and reconsider your decision to ride, there's the set of metal bleachers that faces the launch zone. You'll be mightily entertained by watching how each passenger squirms, yelps, freezes and/or freaks just before takeoff. (Media days are especially satisfying for this kind of passive sadism; one poor woman, clearly not a coaster enthusiast, looked to be on the verge of tears.)
From this vantage point, you'll also get to appreciate how much effort was made in designing this coaster's unique trains. The "stadium seat"-equipped middle cars are not much different from those found on Millennium Force. But the first and last cars, each with just a single two-passenger row, are unique to TTD. The sleek winged nose in front and the faux racing engine, air foil and mag wheels in back make these cargo-haulers as distinctive as they come.
(A note about the trains: for the media day, they were shortened to carry just 12 passengers, not 16 as promised, nor were they loading the very last row. Nor were two trains always filled and released simultaneously, also as planned. And the sixth train was nowhere in sight. To the park's credit, they had to make up for many lost days of construction, due to winter weather, and did what it took to have TTD operating in time, even if at less than optimal capacity.)
Non-riders will also dig the delightful details of the launch. Each train moves slowly into position accompanied by the prerecorded rumbles of an idling high-horsepower engine. Occasionally, the engine "revs" a bit-vroom, vroom-a sweet little tease. Finally, the long row of metal fins that line the launch track-an integral part of TTD's fail-safe magnetic braking system-sinks. The train inches forward.
Buh-bye.
To the tune of a roaring engine and squealing tires, and a very nifty cloud of "burning rubber" smoke, the train disappears. Unnerving to watch, but nothing like what it is to r
First off, we have a story from the Weekly World news, and then now we have one from the Drurge report.
What is this? Yellow journalism day?
The fact that its from the Weekly World news should have been a dead giveaway.
But check out this game available for ARM handhelds. Its available here, and is actually pretty cool. I'm not sure if someone has already ported Quake to ARM processors (I'd be very surprised if they haven't), but the current crop of ARM processors seem to be high powered enough to run demanding applications.
Oh yeah, the yet in the subject refers to the fact that ARM devices are making the push to the wireless space in a big way.
Also I think many people will be dissapointed with the 32bit performance and AMD might get a bad name for it. I disagree. I've spoken to some people who work in the Windows server team, and they have told me that 32 bit performance has been almost as good on the Opterons as on 32 bit processors. And the 64 bit version of Windows is very, very fast.
Microsoft has had access to Opterons for quite a while now, and they seem very eager to push it over Intel's reason for the simple reason that the Opteron allows for legacy programs to work.
and a popup window opens (ARRRRRRRRGH) with a message that reads :)
"URGENT MESSAGE: The Business Software Alliance is not responsible for the Opaserv worm. If you have been affected by this virus, click here for a list of helpful links and hotlines."
Seems like damage control to me
Hmm.. According to that link, there is pretty good coverage of the story here
here
I take it you work for MS :) I liked the extended version's beat too :)
the guy who did the acting for Gollum should definalty win Best Supported Actor from the Oscars
Did he really have to wear a jockstrap all the time?
That's just it - there is no story. They went to the dark side because they didn't have a story for us to dissect and bitch about.
Oh wait, they haven't changed since then, so I guess they don't qualify as rare. Unless you are talking about the number of people who play them. :)
This was the last story I read on /. this evening, and when I log in this morning, it's the first story I see. /., but everything else seemed to work, so I stormed into my sysadmin's office asking him why he was being so arbitrarily mean.
I thought I was stuck with a cached copy of
Had to walk out with a sheepish expression when I realized that I was complaining about something that was probably a dupe.
and believe that a mature-themed game would rock the entire industry.
The average demographic for video games is not as badly skewed towards pubescent males as it once was - I think I remember reading somewhere that the median age was between 19-20. If the target audience is growing up, Nintendo will probably alienate people who would prefer more mature themes - and 'mature' does not necessarily have to connote sex - unless they wake up.
That aside, I admire the man for his principles.
Since we're getting pedantic :-)
== != =
I think what you meant was will work to = will try to
Um.. they are not stopping service - you don't even have to RTFA - just read the post which explains that they will work to transition our roughly 160,000 customers to another provider.
So you will have service, it will just be with another service provider.
There's a reason it's called a "death-grip" you know. :-)
It's not like they're requiring them to make pilgrimages to Rome (Muslim tradition)
Hey waitaminnit - the last time I checked Muslims had to make a pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, not Rome. Is this from a new Asterix comic I missed?
I can see you do not have a classical education :P. The accepted transliteration of Beethoven's Fifth is
Da Da Da DUM
So that should read:
Da Da Da (SQUISH)
Note the careful use of CAPITALS to emphasize changes in volume.
here. For example,
Fearsome death rays strike the Enterprise, and what happens? Sparks fly out from the ceiling and the crew gets bounced around in their seats like passengers on the No. 36 bus. This far in the future they wouldn't have sparks because they wouldn't have electricity, because in a world where you can beam matter--beam it, mind you--from here to there, power obviously no longer lives in the wall and travels through wires.
It's the little things that you don't really realize (until someone points them out to you) that put you off a movie.
they expect to be able to build an aircraft with a 10cm wingspan that will be either autonomous or radio controlled. This will allow them to be used in rescue missions, cave exploration and possibly even on Mars.
I can see it now - a 10cm-wingspanned aircraft to lift CowboyNeal from the depths of a Martian cave.