I used it a few years ago when I was at college, but even then it was just a bunch of jerks who got off on having moderator priviledges and kickbanning people who used brackets around their name (I guess those people were stereotypically 'leet haxors who would end up banned anyways).
I thought geeks were open minded because they'd been treated like outcasts. Maybe it made them feel better treating newbies that way.
Well, I wish your IRCers luck trading files on #warez...
Of course, even if Georgia is getting terrible rates on bandwidth, say $20/GB, he'd have to be using 29MB/second to be costing them that much. I'm pretty sure that no d.net configuration could possibly use up that much bandwidth.
That's the "enhanced" version of the dnet client that cracks RC5 and mirrors cdrom.com as well.
I ran through this article (basically looked at the pictures) and everything, except the insulation installed at the end, was a commercial product. Not that I have a problem with that, but often buying a lot of commerical "silent PC" solutions can add up to a very expensive PC, money which might have otherwise been invested in a more powerful computer.
Why this article is linked to via Slashdot, I'll never know, as I get the impression that the majority of the Slashdot crowd would rather have an extensive DIY article with links afterwords to the commercial products (for those who want to pay for the convenience of not DIY).
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I do have the Antec 1080 and it is very quiet. The case is large, though, so sound will echo if you don't add some insulation or what not. I did find the included Antec power supply was very quiet, so quiet I was surprised when I first turned the machine on. With some 80mm (the article erroneously says they fan mounts are 60mm) Panaflos you can get very good airflow with low noise. My current acoustical problems come from my old Seagate Barracuda SCSI drives, which are unavoidably loud.
They could go after the developers by persuading Congress that GPL programs are written by hackers and that it is illegal to write software with a compiler which doesn't embed some unique id into the binary which allows the developer to be tracked down.
And who exactly would write that particular compiler?
Microsoft?
But even then, would hackers even use it?
So basically "hobbyist" code writing has become illegal. Non-Microsoft innovation is thus stifled. Wait until the press gets a hold of that one... they love the "little guy gets the shaft, and the public/American Dream is harmed in the process."
What advantage does a realtor have in spending time (and thus money) to put ads up on the internet? How much more money are they really going to make by selling to someone out of state/country?
Personally, I would be very concerned about buying a home over the internet, thus I'm not too surprised to find out that there aren't many people advertising the fact they're selling.
Local newspapers and periodicals have worked for many many years, why would one try to move it to the internet, when it's obvious most advertising-run ventures are barely (if at all) profitable? Subsidizing a website that's losing money just so you can "be on the 'net" is bad business.
People need to think about things logically from a business point of view, not the computer guy/gal view of "everything should be free and on the 'net." Business goals are often different from individual computer user goals.
And I'm not saying my statements or right or logical, just saying to think about these things from someone else's point of view.
NASA also has to be concerned about the safety of the other missions. If a mission fails, and people are killed (which is probably more likely than mere injury), that can cause a very serious backlash against the space industry in general.
"But is it safe?"
"We need to make sure none of our boys/girls will get hurt."
"Let's wait a few years and re-evaluate our current safety precautions/proceedures."
And so on. You can imagine how much NASA would like to continue with their current plans of action, and not have to fend off safety concerns from the general public, people who historically have never understood these kinds of complex issues. All they know is that "something bad" happened and "how are we going to stop it from happening again."
If the mission fails, there will be significant political/public opinion setbacks for NASA. They're worried, and rightfully so.
You know, we need a SimPolitics and then we can get rid of all our politicians (no need for them anymore, anyone who plays the game instantly becomes a politician).
Although the game would probably be too complex to understand, and likely require you to maintain a minimum number of mistresses to continue playing.
Impeach Him!
I see great potential here... the game could even download scenarios off the 'net in real time. In fact, it could be the next insanely popular (I'm serious) MMORPG.
"Backstab your friends, steal your enemy's thunder; build your own government."
These kinds of things (eg,.com control) should be auctioned off to the highest bidder... you don't just "let" someone retain monopoly power. Making them compete (bid) for the rights to that power benefits everyone.
Amazon was right on, they were trying to find your maximum reserve price (the maximum price you're willing to pay) for an item (say a DVD), and sell it to you at that price, thus gaining them maximum revenue. The customer is still happy because they get the item and did not pay more than their reserve price. Everyone is better off, thus it's an optimum situation.
This is excellent business (and probably only possible with a service like Amazon), but people were pissed off that they had to pay more than their friends...
It's simple economics, people should've been happy to participate.
eBay allows for the same kind of thing, but the general public doesn't seem to mind.
Re:Half the ram and twice as fast?
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Just installed in on MacOS 8.6. Moz has managed to crash within 5 minutes each time I've opened it (4 times so far). I'm posting this from Moz.9 tho.
I had to set some of the options and now it seems okay (for now at least).
But I really like it! Better interface (still some weird issues, like size of objects, 1 pixel misalignment, etc. I'm also getting odd lines around some images, and other graphical glitches.
I would like the ability to make the back buttons, etc smaller... didn't see a prefs option for that.
For Macs, you can use the AppleTalk File Sharing (apfd IIRC), which works fabulously and doesn't require setting up separate user/password lists as Samba does.
That way you can share files "natively" to the Windows PCs or Macs.
But, be forewarned, that apfd creates a lot of hidden folders for the Mac side (to handle resource forks and the Trash "folder") that show up as folders on Samba. Read the docs, though, as there is a way to hide those from the SMB clients.
The one problem I can't seem to fix is that I can't hide the "Icon\r" files. These are from the Mac side, and contain the custom icons for folders... Samba 2.0 didn't let me hide them... either the wildcard I used didn't work, or it didn't work for the character it was matching (the "return" character, '\r')
At any rate, what's silly is that they're the typical "We have a patent! We're a monopoly! Life is good! We'll be endlessly successful!"
While the gov't allows patent monopolies to encourage innovation, they have a little thing called expiration dates... in 17 years, you'd have better come up with a new and better patent to compete with or you're SOL.
So while 17 years is a long time, remember how quickly the computer industry changes. With RAMBUS's backstabbing of JEDEC, and going sue-happy, no one in their right mind would even talk to them again. Not that there's much prospect of them producing anything worthwhile anyways, but if they did (do they spend their license fees on R & D, or just lots of Ls), companies will think good and hard about even talking to them.
Welcome to the real world RAMBUS. You can screw a company over once, but don't count on doing it again...
...isn't this what a lot of people complain about with regards to Microsoft: software bloat was made possible by ungodly amounts of hard drive space (or alternately, very inexpensive drives)?
So while I think it's fantastic that these advances are being made, is it really that big of a deal?
Just think... if there was no such thing as MP3s, would your hard drive be bursting at the seams? This is just an example, but there are many things that many people can download now with their broadband connections to quickly fill their (even 75 GB!) drives... porn movies, DiVX, MP3s, you name it.
Now, I'm not really against larger hard drives, but there has to be a tradeoff somewhere. DiVX (and the like) are great, but now with this new technology (hopefully) we'll be able to carry around a credit card or small box with all of our DVDs. I don't really want more space, I want better quality stuff to be stored on that space... I'd rather have DVD quality than DiVX. But if I can get 1 TB in a cubic centimeter, I want something a hell of a lot better than DVD (at least for videos).
Let's just hope the transfer rates will be up to par when this tech finally hits the consumer markets.
Do people seem to forget that there is entropy in this universe? All production of electricity causes some form of energy loss. Thus the obvious problem of efficiency.
Nuclear power is very efficient, and does not pollute much. Sure, the pollutants are highly toxic, but there is a smaller proportion of it, than to coal power (as an example). I'd rather have nuclear than coal. Coal pollutes the atmosphere and is far worse than nuclear power, as is oil, and other fossil-fuel based power sources.
Water power is clean but all of the prime locations have been used... thus further plants would be on less effective/efficient sites and end up being very expensive ways of ruining the surrounding ecosystem.
Solar and wind power are not constant enough yet to be relied upon as a sole source of electricity. In addition, these technologies cannot be used universally, some locations will see a benefit while most will not be economical.
Tidal power is effective, but cannot be implemented everywhere (and I mean every oceanside town here). The local topography needs to be just right for tidal power to be economical.
Fusion power is not economical yet either, although there are projects in the works.
So that leaves us with dams and nuclear power (fission) as our clean energy sources...
The problem with nuclear power is that the public is uneducated about the safeness of the power production process. In the US and Europe, nuclear power is extremely safe because it is highly regulated. Safety measures are considered, then will be increased beyond the engineers' original specifications. Chernobyl was as bad as it was because Russia couldn't afford to build a safe plant... they followed the motto "good enough for government work."
Home schooling? Who/what/when/where/why/how?
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First of all, I'd send a clear, concise letter to the school, the superintendent, the mayor, the governor, local newspaper, New York Times, etc expressing your distress and disgust at the way the schools are treating your child. Don't play the victim, merely state the situation, your points, present some quotable facts, and then make it very clear that your child will be home schooled.
Do not ask for your child to be re-admitted. I can imagine the ridicule and harassment after such an event... it can only get worse.
Then, perhaps the Slashdot members can post a list below of recommended sources of information on home schooling (or any other alternative schooling methods).
If and when I have children I am seriously considering home schooling them. I got along with most people in high school, but then again, maybe I was the one harassing people. Either way, it's something I'd rather have my children avoid.
There's a commercial on the radio about Jekyll and Hyde buying a car, one wants safety and security, the other power and thrills. They see the same car and cheer, for a moment seeing a bit of themselves in each other. A wonderful quote, in one of the best radio commercials I've ever heard. However, I feel it's a bit like Steve Jobs looking in the mirror and seeing Bill Gates. It's hard to cheer on an underdog under such circumstances.
Really? What particular brand of car was it? What model?
And the big kicker: did you go buy a car from them?
If you answered no to the last question, it was not a good ad. You might have found it entertaining, but it was not a good ad.
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I used it a few years ago when I was at college, but even then it was just a bunch of jerks who got off on having moderator priviledges and kickbanning people who used brackets around their name (I guess those people were stereotypically 'leet haxors who would end up banned anyways).
I thought geeks were open minded because they'd been treated like outcasts. Maybe it made them feel better treating newbies that way.
Well, I wish your IRCers luck trading files on #warez...
Of course, even if Georgia is getting terrible rates on bandwidth, say $20/GB, he'd have to be using 29MB/second to be costing them that much. I'm pretty sure that no d.net configuration could possibly use up that much bandwidth.
That's the "enhanced" version of the dnet client that cracks RC5 and mirrors cdrom.com as well.
thesaurus.com
Or, for the lazy...
synonyms for "artist"
And...
definition of "trademark"
<caveman>
Adobe no GPL! Adobe no Linux! Adobe for profit! No like Adobe!
</caveman>
I ran through this article (basically looked at the pictures) and everything, except the insulation installed at the end, was a commercial product. Not that I have a problem with that, but often buying a lot of commerical "silent PC" solutions can add up to a very expensive PC, money which might have otherwise been invested in a more powerful computer.
Why this article is linked to via Slashdot, I'll never know, as I get the impression that the majority of the Slashdot crowd would rather have an extensive DIY article with links afterwords to the commercial products (for those who want to pay for the convenience of not DIY).
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I do have the Antec 1080 and it is very quiet. The case is large, though, so sound will echo if you don't add some insulation or what not. I did find the included Antec power supply was very quiet, so quiet I was surprised when I first turned the machine on. With some 80mm (the article erroneously says they fan mounts are 60mm) Panaflos you can get very good airflow with low noise. My current acoustical problems come from my old Seagate Barracuda SCSI drives, which are unavoidably loud.
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I got my case from Directron and the Panaflos from Teamawe.
They could go after the developers by persuading Congress that GPL programs are written by hackers and that it is illegal to write software with a compiler which doesn't embed some unique id into the binary which allows the developer to be tracked down.
And who exactly would write that particular compiler?
Microsoft?
But even then, would hackers even use it?
So basically "hobbyist" code writing has become illegal. Non-Microsoft innovation is thus stifled. Wait until the press gets a hold of that one... they love the "little guy gets the shaft, and the public/American Dream is harmed in the process."
Solaris and HP-UX are only the first...
http://www.microsoft.com/unix/ie/default.asp
...and I'll bet Bill Gates can count the number of downloads without taking his shoes off.
Microsoft does support UNIX... just UNIXes that they no longer perceive as threats...
Furniture.com, perhaps?
What advantage does a realtor have in spending time (and thus money) to put ads up on the internet? How much more money are they really going to make by selling to someone out of state/country?
Personally, I would be very concerned about buying a home over the internet, thus I'm not too surprised to find out that there aren't many people advertising the fact they're selling.
Local newspapers and periodicals have worked for many many years, why would one try to move it to the internet, when it's obvious most advertising-run ventures are barely (if at all) profitable? Subsidizing a website that's losing money just so you can "be on the 'net" is bad business.
People need to think about things logically from a business point of view, not the computer guy/gal view of "everything should be free and on the 'net." Business goals are often different from individual computer user goals.
And I'm not saying my statements or right or logical, just saying to think about these things from someone else's point of view.
NASA also has to be concerned about the safety of the other missions. If a mission fails, and people are killed (which is probably more likely than mere injury), that can cause a very serious backlash against the space industry in general.
"But is it safe?"
"We need to make sure none of our boys/girls will get hurt."
"Let's wait a few years and re-evaluate our current safety precautions/proceedures."
And so on. You can imagine how much NASA would like to continue with their current plans of action, and not have to fend off safety concerns from the general public, people who historically have never understood these kinds of complex issues. All they know is that "something bad" happened and "how are we going to stop it from happening again."
If the mission fails, there will be significant political/public opinion setbacks for NASA. They're worried, and rightfully so.
...and it uses PC100 SDRAM! Maxing out the RAM shouldn't be too expensive.
But it comes with an "ATI Technologies® XPERT 2000 PROTM AGP adapter"! Arrgh.
Any idea on the pricing for the system?
You know, we need a SimPolitics and then we can get rid of all our politicians (no need for them anymore, anyone who plays the game instantly becomes a politician).
Although the game would probably be too complex to understand, and likely require you to maintain a minimum number of mistresses to continue playing.
Impeach Him!
I see great potential here... the game could even download scenarios off the 'net in real time. In fact, it could be the next insanely popular (I'm serious) MMORPG.
"Backstab your friends, steal your enemy's thunder; build your own government."
While supercooling my overclocked toaster?
"It'll flash fry a buffalo in 30 seconds..."
"Aww, but I want it now!"
These kinds of things (eg, .com control) should be auctioned off to the highest bidder... you don't just "let" someone retain monopoly power. Making them compete (bid) for the rights to that power benefits everyone.
...Autoduel's sequel.
Let's get Steve Jackson back in the mix too!
GURPS AutoDuel has progressed well since then as well. Plus, the game could have some nice 3D eye candy too.
Amazon was right on, they were trying to find your maximum reserve price (the maximum price you're willing to pay) for an item (say a DVD), and sell it to you at that price, thus gaining them maximum revenue. The customer is still happy because they get the item and did not pay more than their reserve price. Everyone is better off, thus it's an optimum situation.
This is excellent business (and probably only possible with a service like Amazon), but people were pissed off that they had to pay more than their friends...
It's simple economics, people should've been happy to participate.
eBay allows for the same kind of thing, but the general public doesn't seem to mind.
Just installed in on MacOS 8.6. Moz has managed to crash within 5 minutes each time I've opened it (4 times so far). I'm posting this from Moz .9 tho.
I had to set some of the options and now it seems okay (for now at least).
But I really like it! Better interface (still some weird issues, like size of objects, 1 pixel misalignment, etc. I'm also getting odd lines around some images, and other graphical glitches.
I would like the ability to make the back buttons, etc smaller... didn't see a prefs option for that.
But, wow is it fast! Nice work.
Physics doesn't suck.
...not to finish your vegetables!
"But mommy, if I eat my limabeans we can't drive to see grandma!"
Interestingly, abuse@ibm.com bounces for me. Strange, and not encouraging when you're a stockholder.
For Macs, you can use the AppleTalk File Sharing (apfd IIRC), which works fabulously and doesn't require setting up separate user/password lists as Samba does.
That way you can share files "natively" to the Windows PCs or Macs.
But, be forewarned, that apfd creates a lot of hidden folders for the Mac side (to handle resource forks and the Trash "folder") that show up as folders on Samba. Read the docs, though, as there is a way to hide those from the SMB clients.
The one problem I can't seem to fix is that I can't hide the "Icon\r" files. These are from the Mac side, and contain the custom icons for folders... Samba 2.0 didn't let me hide them... either the wildcard I used didn't work, or it didn't work for the character it was matching (the "return" character, '\r')
Check out the earnings per share.
8 cents!
That's quite a PE...
At any rate, what's silly is that they're the typical "We have a patent! We're a monopoly! Life is good! We'll be endlessly successful!"
While the gov't allows patent monopolies to encourage innovation, they have a little thing called expiration dates... in 17 years, you'd have better come up with a new and better patent to compete with or you're SOL.
So while 17 years is a long time, remember how quickly the computer industry changes. With RAMBUS's backstabbing of JEDEC, and going sue-happy, no one in their right mind would even talk to them again. Not that there's much prospect of them producing anything worthwhile anyways, but if they did (do they spend their license fees on R & D, or just lots of Ls), companies will think good and hard about even talking to them.
Welcome to the real world RAMBUS. You can screw a company over once, but don't count on doing it again...
...isn't this what a lot of people complain about with regards to Microsoft: software bloat was made possible by ungodly amounts of hard drive space (or alternately, very inexpensive drives)?
So while I think it's fantastic that these advances are being made, is it really that big of a deal?
Just think... if there was no such thing as MP3s, would your hard drive be bursting at the seams? This is just an example, but there are many things that many people can download now with their broadband connections to quickly fill their (even 75 GB!) drives... porn movies, DiVX, MP3s, you name it.
Now, I'm not really against larger hard drives, but there has to be a tradeoff somewhere. DiVX (and the like) are great, but now with this new technology (hopefully) we'll be able to carry around a credit card or small box with all of our DVDs. I don't really want more space, I want better quality stuff to be stored on that space... I'd rather have DVD quality than DiVX. But if I can get 1 TB in a cubic centimeter, I want something a hell of a lot better than DVD (at least for videos).
Let's just hope the transfer rates will be up to par when this tech finally hits the consumer markets.
Yeah, you know me!
Do people seem to forget that there is entropy in this universe? All production of electricity causes some form of energy loss. Thus the obvious problem of efficiency.
Nuclear power is very efficient, and does not pollute much. Sure, the pollutants are highly toxic, but there is a smaller proportion of it, than to coal power (as an example). I'd rather have nuclear than coal. Coal pollutes the atmosphere and is far worse than nuclear power, as is oil, and other fossil-fuel based power sources.
Water power is clean but all of the prime locations have been used... thus further plants would be on less effective/efficient sites and end up being very expensive ways of ruining the surrounding ecosystem.
Solar and wind power are not constant enough yet to be relied upon as a sole source of electricity. In addition, these technologies cannot be used universally, some locations will see a benefit while most will not be economical.
Tidal power is effective, but cannot be implemented everywhere (and I mean every oceanside town here). The local topography needs to be just right for tidal power to be economical.
Fusion power is not economical yet either, although there are projects in the works.
So that leaves us with dams and nuclear power (fission) as our clean energy sources...
The problem with nuclear power is that the public is uneducated about the safeness of the power production process. In the US and Europe, nuclear power is extremely safe because it is highly regulated. Safety measures are considered, then will be increased beyond the engineers' original specifications. Chernobyl was as bad as it was because Russia couldn't afford to build a safe plant... they followed the motto "good enough for government work."
First of all, I'd send a clear, concise letter to the school, the superintendent, the mayor, the governor, local newspaper, New York Times, etc expressing your distress and disgust at the way the schools are treating your child. Don't play the victim, merely state the situation, your points, present some quotable facts, and then make it very clear that your child will be home schooled.
Do not ask for your child to be re-admitted. I can imagine the ridicule and harassment after such an event... it can only get worse.
Then, perhaps the Slashdot members can post a list below of recommended sources of information on home schooling (or any other alternative schooling methods).
If and when I have children I am seriously considering home schooling them. I got along with most people in high school, but then again, maybe I was the one harassing people. Either way, it's something I'd rather have my children avoid.
So, let's get the list started...
...read the various combinations and think to themselves, "Back Forward Punch... Sonic Boom!"
So are we going to see the Opera strategy guide with the full list of key/mouse combos?
There's a commercial on the radio about Jekyll and Hyde buying a car, one wants safety and security, the other power and thrills. They see the same car and cheer, for a moment seeing a bit of themselves in each other. A wonderful quote, in one of the best radio commercials I've ever heard. However, I feel it's a bit like Steve Jobs looking in the mirror and seeing Bill Gates. It's hard to cheer on an underdog under such circumstances.
Really? What particular brand of car was it? What model?
And the big kicker: did you go buy a car from them?
If you answered no to the last question, it was not a good ad. You might have found it entertaining, but it was not a good ad.