The usual mechanisms (e.g. checking your ID at the voting station and checking off a list) protect only against voters trying to vote several times. They do not protect against any fraud by those involved in the collection and counting of votes. Right now, you have lots of pieces of paper to count, and a lot of people looking over your shoulder to make sure you don't cheat. With an automated system, it's hard to ensure that the system prevents anyone involved in the voting system (programmer, network technician, admin, et.c.) from changing other people's votes.
For starters, you could try looking for feedback forms on the distributions' web sites, such as these forms for SuSE. Forms like these are often intended to bring suggestions to the attention of the distribution developers.
Why? Lifting a given mass a certain height, and accelerating it to a certain speed takes a certain amount of energy. What does holding onto a string have to do with it?
Efficiency, mostly. The greatest problem with current rockets is that they have to lift several times their own mass in fuel and then spray it all over the place, wasting the potential energy generated by lifting the fuel. With a space elevator, this need is removed. Also, objects going down can be used to generate and store energy, instead of burning it all away as heat from atmospheric friction like a shuttle does.
Since you could take the whole movie as a single copyrighted item, this update would include the original movie, but integrated with new extra additions, would this effectively "renew" the copyright term for "The Matrix Reloaded" and avoid the system?
Surely the updated version would be a separate work, leaving the original's copyright to expire as normal?
That gives me an idea: if you receive a message in a weird character set that's only useful for a language you can't read (e.g. Korean in euckr) or that isn't supported on your mail reader, the message is probably spam. Maybe we should add filtering based on character set to our spam filters?
I'm not sure whether this is a troll, but "light cone" in this context means the volume of spacetime containing points that can be reached by travelling at the speed of light (or less) from his current position, and the points from which his current position could have been reached at light speed or less. Thus, if we assume that nothing travels faster than light, if you were outside his light cone at the point where he did something, you can't have been affected and thus have nothing to complain about.
An interesting side effect of the argument you present (that you can only experience universes in which you are alive) would seem to be that the older you get, the weirder the universe gets (as more and more improbable things have to happen to you to keep you alive).
SuSE, on the other hand, is absolutely paranoid about DivX. Every single program in the distribution that could play DivX has the decoder chopped out and the source code is missing from the discs; you're stuck with binary-only copies of e.g. MPlayer.
On some machines, the DVD installer doesn't work properly. This is a really silly bug, and I'm surprised SuSE didn't spot it before release. You can still install the base system from the CDs and change the installation source afterwards to the DVD, though.
The extra CDs in the professional version mostly contain stuff that is not interesting to normal desktop users and is not in the default installation. Naturally, the default installation is on the first few CDs to minimise disk swapping in the common case.
If you want something from the extra CDs, all you have to do is choose to add it to the installation; in other words, you simply tell YAST that you want to select individual packages. After that, it's simply a matter of checking the right boxes. If you don't know exactly which programs you need, YAST has extensive descriptions. In short, the extra software is quite easily accessible even for the moderately advanced user.
Here's what I want to know: Is there any official link between the Starflight and Star Control families?
It seems that several of the developers of Starflight 2 worked on Star Control 2 later on. Checking your MobyGames links, it would appear that at least Greg Johnson and Erol Otus worked on both these games. Paul Reiche III, one of the two designers of Star Control 2, is mentioned in the credits for Starflight 2 under the "Special Thanks to" category, whatever that means.
shoot..what was the name of the Ship where it's special weapon was self destruction???? was it Bonsai, or something else? Bonsai might have been the pilot's name...hmmmm, i forget...
The Shofixti Scout. Bonsai was one of the pilot names for this ship.
The original PC version of SC2 fits nicely on 4 floppies, and the actual game code and data is roughly the same size in the new version. However, the 3DO version (on which this remake is based), filled a CD with speech and CD-quality audio (using some rather hairy custom compression, too). The fact that they managed to squeeze this into 140 MB is solely due to the greatness of Ogg Vorbis.
Version 1.0 will also be released in a version without speech and remixed music, which ought to be under 10 MB.
As much as I avoid discussing Slashdot on Slashdot,
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I did a quick translation from Finnish of the Muropaketti article:
There are probably more than enough articles about the Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz, so standing out from the crowd with some LN2 overclocking tests is a good thing.
For the tests, we ordered 10 litres of liquid nitrogen from Porin Hitsauslaite Oy and Messer (well known for [his|its] good service) supplied a 20 litre tank at the same price.
As a test bed, an Asus P4T533-C with an i850E chipset (which had been found to be satisfactory) was used. Samsung PC800 RDRAM modules were used for memory. The motherboard had TurboPLL, Vcore and Vmem modifications, which are better documented here.
This was the first LN2 test with this processor, so we started off by trying to get a feel for how the CPU behaves at low temperatures and what sort of results to expect in the future. For this reason a PNY GeForce 4 MX 440 display adapter was used, which has been found to tolerate very high bus speeds. Later, we'll do some ATI Radeon 9700 Pro tests and try for a new 3DMark2001 record.
Below a series of pictures describing the events and some general pictures of the [assembly|system].
[lots of pictures]
The tests didn't start easy, even though the system did agree to start Windows XP at 3913MHz. The Pifast test didn't complete at all. After testing for a hour we started to get a grip on the situation. The CPU didn't tolerate really low temperatures. The tests started running noticeably better, when the bowl wasn't frozen solid.
[more pictures]
At the end of the first day of testing, I managed to run the Pifast test at 3917 MHz and reach a new record of 24.17 seconds.
Finally, I managed to complete the Superpi test at 3998 MHz at 39 seconds, which is the current record on the Superpi ranking list maintained by [the|some] Japanese.
I also ran the SiSoft Sandra CPU and Memory benchmark tests at 3920MHz (21 x 186MHz). The results speak for themselves.
Sandra's CPU tests says the bus speed is 145 MHz, because a TurboPLL coupling was used on the motherboard. A 18.43 MHz crystal was used, from which the correct bus speed can be derived:
(18,43MHz / 14,3MHz) * 145MHz = 186,55MHz
Finally, we checked how high we could go and still get the CPU to wake up.
[POST picture]
The system managed to POST at 4339 MHz with a bus speed of 206 MHz. Let's hope we break the magical 4 GHz boundary in our next test. In other words, there's more to come...
On the whole, lots of peripherals and expansion cards back then had ridiculous amounts of processing power. For example, the floppy drive usually used on the C64, the 1541, had a 6502 processor (a slightly older version of the 6510 used in the C64 itself). C64 facts from here. The floppy drive was connected to the machine with an insanely slow serial port, so it had to work more or less autonomously.
The silliest example of over-powerful peripherals has to be the General Sound card for the ZX Spectrum. The General Sound contains a 12 MHz Z80 and 128 K RAM, upgradable to 512. The Spectrum contains 48 or 128 K RAM (256 or 512 on some clones) and has a 3.5 MHz Z80 (7 MHz or more in some clones). In other words, the sound card (which is fully programmable) is more than 3 times as powerful as the machine it's connected to. General Sound info here.
For today, ponder the latest 3D graphics accelerator.
How many BOFHs do you think will start to threaten to defragment users' workstations (using a tool that doesn't do use direct block copying, of course) just to see if they have hidden data on their disks?
Anyone know what's a good country to use for web & email hosting? Some desirable traits:
Not have anything like DMCA or WIPO treaty (sorry, USA)
Strong crypto is legal (sorry, France)
Not have pro-censorship laws (sorry, Germany, Australia, USA)
Not have weird libel laws (sorry, UK)
Searches and siezures only done with a warrant (sorry, USA)
Not take Scientologists and their kind seriously (sorry, USA)
etc
...Yet still be fairly well-connected. Is there any such place?
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This is based on my interpretation of Finnish law, based on published cases and sites like this.
Finnish copyright law is kind of nice; it has lots of free use provisions (e.g. the right to copy and convert copyrighted material that you have bought the right to use as necessary to use it (irrespective of license agreements)).
The EU in general seems not to recognise software patents, AFAIK.
Strong crypto is completely legal in Finland; I regularly use military-grade PGP at school to send in assignments.
Censorship in Finland is mostly limited to broadcast media (e.g. TV).
The rest of your points I'm not too sure about, but I have not heard of any nasty cases regarding them.
Finland is quite nicely connected, especially in urban areas (and university campuses). Consumer broadband is a bit on the expensive site but becoming widely available.
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The usual mechanisms (e.g. checking your ID at the voting station and checking off a list) protect only against voters trying to vote several times. They do not protect against any fraud by those involved in the collection and counting of votes. Right now, you have lots of pieces of paper to count, and a lot of people looking over your shoulder to make sure you don't cheat. With an automated system, it's hard to ensure that the system prevents anyone involved in the voting system (programmer, network technician, admin, et.c.) from changing other people's votes.
Anonymising the data makes it hard to ensure that everyone casts only one vote. Consider Slashdot polls an example.
For starters, you could try looking for feedback forms on the distributions' web sites, such as these forms for SuSE. Forms like these are often intended to bring suggestions to the attention of the distribution developers.
Efficiency, mostly. The greatest problem with current rockets is that they have to lift several times their own mass in fuel and then spray it all over the place, wasting the potential energy generated by lifting the fuel. With a space elevator, this need is removed. Also, objects going down can be used to generate and store energy, instead of burning it all away as heat from atmospheric friction like a shuttle does.
Surely the updated version would be a separate work, leaving the original's copyright to expire as normal?
You're confusing Wil Wheaton with Will Wright. Will Wright wrote "The Sims". Maybe you should RTFA?
That gives me an idea: if you receive a message in a weird character set that's only useful for a language you can't read (e.g. Korean in euckr) or that isn't supported on your mail reader, the message is probably spam. Maybe we should add filtering based on character set to our spam filters?
I'm not sure whether this is a troll, but "light cone" in this context means the volume of spacetime containing points that can be reached by travelling at the speed of light (or less) from his current position, and the points from which his current position could have been reached at light speed or less. Thus, if we assume that nothing travels faster than light, if you were outside his light cone at the point where he did something, you can't have been affected and thus have nothing to complain about.
An interesting side effect of the argument you present (that you can only experience universes in which you are alive) would seem to be that the older you get, the weirder the universe gets (as more and more improbable things have to happen to you to keep you alive).
Hmmm... That explains a lot about my life.
SuSE, on the other hand, is absolutely paranoid about DivX. Every single program in the distribution that could play DivX has the decoder chopped out and the source code is missing from the discs; you're stuck with binary-only copies of e.g. MPlayer.
On some machines, the DVD installer doesn't work properly. This is a really silly bug, and I'm surprised SuSE didn't spot it before release. You can still install the base system from the CDs and change the installation source afterwards to the DVD, though.
The extra CDs in the professional version mostly contain stuff that is not interesting to normal desktop users and is not in the default installation. Naturally, the default installation is on the first few CDs to minimise disk swapping in the common case.
If you want something from the extra CDs, all you have to do is choose to add it to the installation; in other words, you simply tell YAST that you want to select individual packages. After that, it's simply a matter of checking the right boxes. If you don't know exactly which programs you need, YAST has extensive descriptions. In short, the extra software is quite easily accessible even for the moderately advanced user.
It seems that several of the developers of Starflight 2 worked on Star Control 2 later on. Checking your MobyGames links, it would appear that at least Greg Johnson and Erol Otus worked on both these games. Paul Reiche III, one of the two designers of Star Control 2, is mentioned in the credits for Starflight 2 under the "Special Thanks to" category, whatever that means.
The Shofixti Scout. Bonsai was one of the pilot names for this ship.
The original PC version of SC2 fits nicely on 4 floppies, and the actual game code and data is roughly the same size in the new version. However, the 3DO version (on which this remake is based), filled a CD with speech and CD-quality audio (using some rather hairy custom compression, too). The fact that they managed to squeeze this into 140 MB is solely due to the greatness of Ogg Vorbis.
Version 1.0 will also be released in a version without speech and remixed music, which ought to be under 10 MB.
Congratulations. You've now discussed discussing Slashdot on Slashdot on Slashdot. In pointing this out I've discussed discussing discussing Slashdot on Slashdot on Slashdot on Slashdot, which means I've discussed discussing discussing discussing Slashdot on Slashdot on Slashdot on Slashdot on Slashdot, which implies that...
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I did a quick translation from Finnish of the Muropaketti article:
There are probably more than enough articles about the Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz, so standing out from the crowd with some LN2 overclocking tests is a good thing.
For the tests, we ordered 10 litres of liquid nitrogen from Porin Hitsauslaite Oy and Messer (well known for [his|its] good service) supplied a 20 litre tank at the same price.
As a test bed, an Asus P4T533-C with an i850E chipset (which had been found to be satisfactory) was used. Samsung PC800 RDRAM modules were used for memory. The motherboard had TurboPLL, Vcore and Vmem modifications, which are better documented here.
This was the first LN2 test with this processor, so we started off by trying to get a feel for how the CPU behaves at low temperatures and what sort of results to expect in the future. For this reason a PNY GeForce 4 MX 440 display adapter was used, which has been found to tolerate very high bus speeds. Later, we'll do some ATI Radeon 9700 Pro tests and try for a new 3DMark2001 record.
Below a series of pictures describing the events and some general pictures of the [assembly|system].
[lots of pictures]
The tests didn't start easy, even though the system did agree to start Windows XP at 3913MHz. The Pifast test didn't complete at all. After testing for a hour we started to get a grip on the situation. The CPU didn't tolerate really low temperatures. The tests started running noticeably better, when the bowl wasn't frozen solid.
[more pictures]
At the end of the first day of testing, I managed to run the Pifast test at 3917 MHz and reach a new record of 24.17 seconds.
Finally, I managed to complete the Superpi test at 3998 MHz at 39 seconds, which is the current record on the Superpi ranking list maintained by [the|some] Japanese.
I also ran the SiSoft Sandra CPU and Memory benchmark tests at 3920MHz (21 x 186MHz). The results speak for themselves.
Sandra's CPU tests says the bus speed is 145 MHz, because a TurboPLL coupling was used on the motherboard. A 18.43 MHz crystal was used, from which the correct bus speed can be derived:
(18,43MHz / 14,3MHz) * 145MHz = 186,55MHz
Finally, we checked how high we could go and still get the CPU to wake up.
[POST picture]
The system managed to POST at 4339 MHz with a bus speed of 206 MHz. Let's hope we break the magical 4 GHz boundary in our next test. In other words, there's more to come...
Uh... The link in the parent post is to the Mozilla 1.0 source. Apparently, the current source is only available by CVS.
Try clicking "Get the Source" on the left side of the main Mozilla page, or follow this link.
shock moment: Word has garbage collection!?
Yes. It collects megabytes of garbage in files with the extension ".DOC".
Or how about this version of the M.U.L.E. theme?
Does this port have the dreaded planet Tfosorcim instead of Irata? Or even better, the paradisiacal planet Xunil?
On the whole, lots of peripherals and expansion cards back then had ridiculous amounts of processing power. For example, the floppy drive usually used on the C64, the 1541, had a 6502 processor (a slightly older version of the 6510 used in the C64 itself). C64 facts from here. The floppy drive was connected to the machine with an insanely slow serial port, so it had to work more or less autonomously.
The silliest example of over-powerful peripherals has to be the General Sound card for the ZX Spectrum. The General Sound contains a 12 MHz Z80 and 128 K RAM, upgradable to 512. The Spectrum contains 48 or 128 K RAM (256 or 512 on some clones) and has a 3.5 MHz Z80 (7 MHz or more in some clones). In other words, the sound card (which is fully programmable) is more than 3 times as powerful as the machine it's connected to. General Sound info here.
For today, ponder the latest 3D graphics accelerator.
How many BOFHs do you think will start to threaten to defragment users' workstations (using a tool that doesn't do use direct block copying, of course) just to see if they have hidden data on their disks?
Wouldn't barcelona.es be the logical choice anyway? I'm surprised to see how few people remember the national domains.
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This is based on my interpretation of Finnish law, based on published cases and sites like this.
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Finnish copyright law is kind of nice; it has lots of free use provisions (e.g. the right to copy and convert copyrighted material that you have bought the right to use as necessary to use it (irrespective of license agreements)).
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The EU in general seems not to recognise software patents, AFAIK.
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Strong crypto is completely legal in Finland; I regularly use military-grade PGP at school to send in assignments.
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Censorship in Finland is mostly limited to broadcast media (e.g. TV).
The rest of your points I'm not too sure about, but I have not heard of any nasty cases regarding them.Finland is quite nicely connected, especially in urban areas (and university campuses). Consumer broadband is a bit on the expensive site but becoming widely available.