It's called balance of power. It's a 17th/18th century concept (in Europe) that was based on the theory that multiple states of equal might were relatively unlikely to attack one another because neither one was likely to win, and thus any battle would result in an ultimately costly stalemate, weakening all countries involved so that the remaining, now-stronger states could swoop in for the kill.
The other advantage to having multiple states of equal might / noteriety is that there is no single target to attract all the nutjobs out there that want to make a point by attacking the most visible entity.
*That* is why people are flying planes into US buildings and Canada and Switzerland exist in relative peace and security.
Umm... yeah. Give me a definition of an operating system that 90% of the (computer-savvy) population agrees on and you will have a significantly better chance of persuading me to believe that a browser is or is not part of an operating system.
The real social problems *are things like the war on drugs*.
How you would rationalize the principles of a society that allows ordinary persons to walk down the street armed with guns yet prohibits these same people from (legally) walking down the street with a joint in their pocket.
If people would grow up and stop expecting governments to babysit them (and their children), the world would be a better place.
Digital systems are methods of interpreting analog data which have enough tolerance in their designs so that the inherently analog method in which they *must* store information can be accurately reinterpreted despite irregularities and distortions within the analog storage medium.
In order to interface with our brains (through eyes, ears, etc.), the information must eventually be represented in an analog format - there's no way of getting around that.
The question we should be asking is how faithful such a reproduction is without assuming that just because something is stored digitally it simply must be "better" than a fully analog representation. It just so happens that storing information (movies, etc.) in digital formats usually results in higher-fidelity reproduction.
Depending on the resolution of a digital storage system versus the quality of an analog storage system that assumption may not always be true.
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From reading the other article (posted below someplace) it seems that the discs are made up of layers of fluorescent material that emit different wavelengths of light when stimulated by a laser beam.
It doesn't seem like there would be any problem to just print whatever you felt like on the top side of the disc. I don't know how reflections from the back of the printing surface would affect the process though (although they could use a non-reflective material).
All in all, I don't think labeling the discs will be a problem.
In fact, the discs should also be able to be used upside down, provided the motor and circutry are smart enough to realize that they need to work backwards - rotating the disc CW versus CCW or whatever.
However, Microsoft's marketing speel has always been about 'innovation' when, in fact, they've probably hindered the course of technological innovation more than any other company on the face of the planet.
It's hard for even the brightest of the little guys to win the race when they get stepped on three feet from the start line.
travelmate:~$ cat/proc/version Linux version 2.0.34 (root@travelmate) (gcc version egcs-2.90.29 980515 (egcs-1.0.3 release)) #4 Sun Sep 6 23:10:57 EDT 1998
Yesterday was the sixth of September?
Woooooohaaaaaaaa! I thought the whole Eastern Daylight thing was messed, but geez, do we have some weird time problems up here!
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Out of sheer curiosity, are you one of those people who would rather pay $300 US plus taxes for testing the 'final' version of Windows 2000 versus $0 for testing a stable Linux kernel? Or are you one of those 3l33t3 haX0r d00ds that pirate all their software?
The Furbies are engaged in battle against The Empire, an enormous megacorporation with a virtual stranglehold on the galaxy.
The battle seems to be favouring the Furbies, The Empire is buckling under the pressure of their relentless onslaught.
But, The Empire did not gain control of the galaxy through stupidity - there is, as there always has been, a plan brewing in the mind of their calculating leader, Darth Gates.
His plan is simple: to form another evil entity, an entity as vile and powerful as The Empire, to distract the good Furbies and allow The Empire to recoup and attack when it is least expected.
With the latest of its brutal takeovers nearly complete, this growing force of evil will soon be within striking distance of the Furby people.
The fearless Jedi knights must intervene quickly or all hope will surely be lost. They are the only ones who can stop the Furbies from becoming mindless drones of The Empire...
Yes, as the fellow above mentions, you need to get a glibc version of libstdc++ 2.8. If you followed the libc5 to glibc conversion howto (or if you were forward thinking enough to realise you still need your libc5 libraries) you will have copied all your old libc5 stuff into another directory and added it to your library path. You should move your libc5 libstdc++.so.2.8 files (and all links that point to it) into your libc5 libraries directory before you install the glibc libstdc++. This will save you all sorts of trouble with Netscape and other libc5 programs.
Linux runs great overclocked, if the hardware is stable. I've got a PII-266 chip that's been running at 300 MHz (4x75) for at least 8 or 9 months now with no problems. It got a bit flakey at 333, but 300 is perfectly stable. Seriously considering picking up a second 266 and a dual motherboard and overclocking them both to 300. Problem is finding that second 266... doh!
I cannot help but to admire the way some of our more technologically clueless media personas enjoy spreading their ignorance to the masses.
The "Caligula" virus does not exploit any flaws in PGP. It doesn't even exploit flaws in operating systems. Its behaviour mimics that of a user (since it is a macro - a collection of user commands). If a user can upload their PGP key to an ftp server, so can any macro on any operating system.
This is yet another simple case of some clueless person "enlightening" others to the realities of the technological world.
I cannot stand to watch persons in positions of relative trust spew this ignorant drivel at anyone who is willing to listen. It is wrong. Those who write articles about technology should at least have an understanding of the technology they're talking about, especially when they make derogatory comments such as these.
Technology is not to be feared. These pompous fools who choose to spread technically inaccurate information should be beaten, or at least have their hard discs erased, for causing such paranoia among common people.
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It's called balance of power. It's a 17th/18th century concept (in Europe) that was based on the theory that multiple states of equal might were relatively unlikely to attack one another because neither one was likely to win, and thus any battle would result in an ultimately costly stalemate, weakening all countries involved so that the remaining, now-stronger states could swoop in for the kill.
The other advantage to having multiple states of equal might / noteriety is that there is no single target to attract all the nutjobs out there that want to make a point by attacking the most visible entity.
*That* is why people are flying planes into US buildings and Canada and Switzerland exist in relative peace and security.
Umm... yeah. Give me a definition of an operating system that 90% of the (computer-savvy) population agrees on and you will have a significantly better chance of persuading me to believe that a browser is or is not part of an operating system.
You are missing the point entirely.
The real social problems *are things like the war on drugs*.
How you would rationalize the principles of a society that allows ordinary persons to walk down the street armed with guns yet prohibits these same people from (legally) walking down the street with a joint in their pocket.
If people would grow up and stop expecting governments to babysit them (and their children), the world would be a better place.
Everything is inherently analog.
It's just the way the physical universe works.
Digital systems are methods of interpreting analog data which have enough tolerance in their designs so that the inherently analog method in which they *must* store information can be accurately reinterpreted despite irregularities and distortions within the analog storage medium.
In order to interface with our brains (through eyes, ears, etc.), the information must eventually be represented in an analog format - there's no way of getting around that.
The question we should be asking is how faithful such a reproduction is without assuming that just because something is stored digitally it simply must be "better" than a fully analog representation. It just so happens that storing information (movies, etc.) in digital formats usually results in higher-fidelity reproduction.
Depending on the resolution of a digital storage system versus the quality of an analog storage system that assumption may not always be true.
From reading the other article (posted below someplace) it seems that the discs are made up of layers of fluorescent material that emit different wavelengths of light when stimulated by a laser beam.
It doesn't seem like there would be any problem to just print whatever you felt like on the top side of the disc. I don't know how reflections from the back of the printing surface would affect the process though (although they could use a non-reflective material).
All in all, I don't think labeling the discs will be a problem.
In fact, the discs should also be able to be used upside down, provided the motor and circutry are smart enough to realize that they need to work backwards - rotating the disc CW versus CCW or whatever.
Ah yes, first year physics...
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v = f * lambda, where v = c (speed o' light), f = frequency and lamba = wavelength.
c is more accurately represented as 299 792.5 km/s, or 299 792 500 m/s.
At a wavelength of 6mm (0.006 m), we have:
f = v / lambda = 299 792 500 m/s / 0.006 m = 4.99654 x 10^10 Hz
So, it's actually closer to 50 GHz (I think you forgot to convert 6 mm to 0.6 cm in your equation).
Then again, I'm in math - what do I know?
Yes, Linux is basically a UNIX clone.
However, Microsoft's marketing speel has always been about 'innovation' when, in fact, they've probably hindered the course of technological innovation more than any other company on the face of the planet.
It's hard for even the brightest of the little guys to win the race when they get stepped on three feet from the start line.
travelmate:~$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.0.34 (root@travelmate) (gcc version egcs-2.90.29 980515 (egcs-1.0.3 release)) #4 Sun Sep 6 23:10:57 EDT 1998
Yesterday was the sixth of September?
Woooooohaaaaaaaa! I thought the whole Eastern Daylight thing was messed, but geez, do we have some weird time problems up here!
Out of sheer curiosity, are you one of those people who would rather pay $300 US plus taxes for testing the 'final' version of Windows 2000 versus $0 for testing a stable Linux kernel? Or are you one of those 3l33t3 haX0r d00ds that pirate all their software?
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...
... ...
... SOFT
... WARS
Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
The Furbies are engaged in battle against The Empire, an enormous megacorporation with a virtual stranglehold on the galaxy.
The battle seems to be favouring the Furbies, The Empire is buckling under the pressure of their relentless onslaught.
But, The Empire did not gain control of the galaxy through stupidity - there is, as there always has been, a plan brewing in the mind of their calculating leader, Darth Gates.
His plan is simple: to form another evil entity, an entity as vile and powerful as The Empire, to distract the good Furbies and allow The Empire to recoup and attack when it is least expected.
With the latest of its brutal takeovers nearly complete, this growing force of evil will soon be within striking distance of the Furby people.
The fearless Jedi knights must intervene quickly or all hope will surely be lost. They are the only ones who can stop the Furbies from becoming mindless drones of The Empire...
Yes, as the fellow above mentions, you need to get a glibc version of libstdc++ 2.8. If you followed the libc5 to glibc conversion howto (or if you were forward thinking enough to realise you still need your libc5 libraries) you will have copied all your old libc5 stuff into another directory and added it to your library path. You should move your libc5 libstdc++.so.2.8 files (and all links that point to it) into your libc5 libraries directory before you install the glibc libstdc++. This will save you all sorts of trouble with Netscape and other libc5 programs.
Exactly the same thing happens to me. Even the installer craps all over itself. Slackware 3.5, kernel 2.2.9, glibc 2.06 as default libraries.
Linux runs great overclocked, if the hardware is stable. I've got a PII-266 chip that's been running at 300 MHz (4x75) for at least 8 or 9 months now with no problems. It got a bit flakey at 333, but 300 is perfectly stable. Seriously considering picking up a second 266 and a dual motherboard and overclocking them both to 300. Problem is finding that second 266... doh!
I cannot help but to admire the way some of our more technologically clueless media personas enjoy spreading their ignorance to the masses.
The "Caligula" virus does not exploit any flaws in PGP. It doesn't even exploit flaws in operating systems. Its behaviour mimics that of a user (since it is a macro - a collection of user commands). If a user can upload their PGP key to an ftp server, so can any macro on any operating system.
This is yet another simple case of some clueless person "enlightening" others to the realities of the technological world.
I cannot stand to watch persons in positions of relative trust spew this ignorant drivel at anyone who is willing to listen. It is wrong. Those who write articles about technology should at least have an understanding of the technology they're talking about, especially when they make derogatory comments such as these.
Technology is not to be feared. These pompous fools who choose to spread technically inaccurate information should be beaten, or at least have their hard discs erased, for causing such paranoia among common people.