Read the article!!! The author clearly stated that things like encryption and firewalls were like "building fences around known locations" wich makes them "sitting ducks for a determined hacker." The idea behind IP hopping is that they don't even know where you are to begin with. Like spread spectrum radio waves, you first have to lock into the variation, wich in this case could be completely random, then deal with the "fences". It adds another layer, and a pretty damn good one.
I really don't believe in what this article says, although the death of Eazel was a great rollback, but KDE keeps going strong.
In case you didn't read the article at Linux Planet, what he said was it's not the environment, it's the applications. He even specificly mentioned the quality of the KDE environment. There just isn't any "killer apps" (Photoshop, M$ Office, AutoCAD, Illustrator, ProTools, etc.) that businesses require today available for Linux, and in many cases no equivilants. OK, in all fairness, mabey not "require". But how many people can you find with Gimp experience compared to Photoshop experience? And good luck finding a secratary or purchasing agent familiar with StarOffice. It's just not worth the expense to retrain employees for the cost savings of the software. Don't get me wrong, there are many great apps on Linux, but few things that are awe inspiring. Not for the desktop at least. Server side, Linux is still king. And the author never said the poor sales of Corel and the death of Eazel were setbacks, but flags pointing to the direction of the Linux desktop. Sad to say, but untill some of the big software houses, and even many hardware companies support Linux there is little hope. The toughest sell for Linux will always be lack of manufacturer support.
f you can afford a 1600x1200 LCD, I'm sure you can afford a good computer to play your games at that resolution.
All of the new Apple monitors made in the last few months, including these, I'm sure, only have the ADC (Apple Display Connector) on the wire. This connector has the video, power, and USB in one plug. Great, except none of these monitors will work on anything but a new G4. Not even a new Powerbook, or an iMac. Currently, there is no way to externally power the monitor. So if you can afford one of these monitors, you will have a computer powerfull enough to play just about any modern game. I think what Taco meant was for a game that cannot be displayed in anything higher thatn 640x480, although I can't think of any (new) games that cant go higher.
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I realize your intent was humor, but if you read the article you would know that the "smellers" are various NASA employees, ranging from engineers to secrataries. There are 25 of them, and the rotate in groups of 5.
Check out the drives from LaCie. They have both IEEE 1394 (firewire) and SCSI units available. Stay away from the QPS stuff though, I've heard of nothing but problems with them. The LaCie's are priced about the same anyway.
... Only cheaters want this technology to be available.
And I suppose game designers, beta testers, and that guy down the street making a killer game mod have absolutely no use for these? That's like saying only drunks have a use for cars. It makes no sense, just because a small group of people might abuse them doesn't mean that they're not valuable tools to many more.
Well, as for the "M$", I really can't take credit, but thanks anyway. As far as what you speak of as "elitism", I happen to be on Win2k right now, FYI. So I do not consider myself an "elitist". I do also often use Linux, and very much enjoy it. I in no way consider myself a "guardian for lowly end users", I'm just addressing a basic consumer rights concern, as is often done here on Slashdot. If you think that just because you havn't chosen to use M$ products, or AOLTW, that they have no affect on your life, think again. Broadband, decreasing hardware and computer costs, PDA's, and many other nice things that we have now have been largely fueled by the surge of users that companies like M$ and AOL have attraced by providing an easy to use, non-threatening interface to both computers and the internet. And I'm sorry that you are such non-elitist that you will not see a TW movie, cartoon, or listen to a TW band, or CD. You wouldn't happen to be on Netscape right now, would you? For someone who "can't stand the whole miasma of slahdot elitism", you do a pretty damn good job of it yourself. And yes, many people actually do like M$ products, as well as Mac, and for good reason. There are many non-elitists who have chosen not to make learning every damn thing about computers a way of life, and find that an easy to use product, although perhaps not as powerful, fulfils their requirements. And many of these people are highly educated in their own right, doctors, engineers, teachers, etc. I for one am damn sure glad that my doctor spends his time learning on the internet, rather than learning how to use the internet.
So if you would be so kind to point out exactly where I became an "eitist", I would appreciate that. Oh, BTW, is that a Microsoft hotmail address you have there?
I realize that this "memo" is most likely fake. However, it really made me think; although the memo may be fake, the mentality behind it may not be so far from the truth. What truely bothers me is that, with so much at stake, to what lengths will AOL/M$ go to win? And, where will the battle be fought? My guess is that most of it will be fought on the desktop of every AOL/XP user in the world. For those who have ever had the unfortionate privledge of installing AOL, you are all but forced to install Realplayer, Flash players, and all kinds of other crap that you may not want. And if you're not careful about reading all of the "Ok" boxes and check boxes, you will end up with AOL as the default for just about everything except picking your nose. What I'm getting at is will AOL/M$ be batteling it out on users machines for control, and how much control over their own machines will users loose in the process? This doesn't seem very fair to the end user, who's desktop will ultimately become the battleground for corperate power.
Does this mean we will get to snoop on their e-mails too?
It's about time the gov't invested a little into actually using the internet, instead of ruling it. At least now we will be able to keep better track of how fast we loose our rights.
The record industry has announced today that it may be loosing as much as $12,000,000,000 a day due to people thinking about a song without actually paying for it. They claim that "Radio stations are largely to blame, for playing music that the listener probably does not own, but only paying royalties once" stated one RIAA official, "We need to find a way to read peoples minds, so that we can force radio stations to pay royalties on the mental music that they distribute" he also added that upcoming lawsuites may include charging royalties for singing or humming to oneself, including charging anybody who may be able to hear you singing or humming, even if they have no desire to hear how horribly you sing. Also, bystanders that may have heard your CD player as you pulled up to a traffic light will subsequently be charged. "We then intend to pursue charging aftermarket audio system manufactures because of the flagrent copyright violations that they contirbute too by allowing anyone within 500 feet to hear copyrighted music." Mr. Kissmy Ass, a lawyer for the RIAA explains, "In a public setting, like near the beach, subsequent violations can reach into the thousands"
Well duh, no shit the more work you offload to hardware the faster the machine becomes. I just can't wait for the day we no longer require operating systems. It's no accident that things like console gaming stations have such incredible capabilities. The trick will be getting the hardware vednors to agree on standards so the software houses can write some programs to work on it. Admitidly, with such a system hardware can quickly and systematicly become outdated. But it's no secret that if you want good performance, you start with the hardware. You wouldn't run some hog of a progam to emulate what a video card does, why make the OS do all the work of TCP/IP? Particularly in a server where TCP/IP may occupy much of it's cycles.
This NIC may not be black magic, but I like to see things like this. It's a step in the right direction. If you really think about it, the whole idea of an OS is a little absurd. In fact, it wasn't untill computers actually became "powerfull" was it even considered reasonable to let some middle-layer software (an OS) do the work of dedicated hardware. High level languages may hold a lot of benefits in standardizing software develpment, but it comes at the expense of performance to use for an OS. As efficient as modern operating systems may be, nothing is as fast as software running directly on hardware. In a perfect world, and operating system would do little more than the core tasks: multitasking, memory management, etc. For what's left of the OS functions, an embedded type processor could handle those, and work in conjunction with the chipset. This would leave the processor almost 100% available for what it is supposed to do, run applications. I would estimate at least 50% increase in speed for most applications by eliminating operating system overhead.
Actually, if you are projecting light in both directions, I would think it would be more efficient to simply reflect that light back out to the user with a high quality mirror, and cut down on the power used in the first place to illuminate the screen.
I believe some wristwatch have something possibly useful for PDA's. It didn't occur to me until just now, but there are wrist watches that charge as you walk. As far as I know they contain a pendulim attached to a small generator. As you walk and swing your arms, the watch charges a batter, or winds a spring, or charges a capacitor, or something. Now few of us wear PDA's on a location like a wrist, with high movement during normal walking. Movement in a shirt or jacket pocket would be limited. But how about a small wrist mounted deivce? Or ankle mounted? Ok, so mabey having wires running all over your body isn't the most practical idea, but it still could save some normally wasted energy.
A month or two ago I was in the process of building a Thunderbird system for myself. Before I commited moneys to a MoBo, I wanted to check on the availability of a 2cpu board; I didn't want to buy a MoBo and have a 2cpu item released the following week. So I did a little research, and for what it's worth, the techs at AMD expect a June-July release for a dual board.
Moving along to the link section... 2cpu had a story and linked to this article at PCStats a few months ago about a prototype Tyan board. I believe it was even posted on/. 2cpu also linked to another article (sorry I couldn't find and english version) about a dual AMD unit from, of all people, VA Linux!!! Guess that one slipped through the slashbots, huh?
AMD is looking to bump out Intel in one of it's most valued markets, servers. I don't doubt for a second that they are working as hard as they can with the aftermarkets to put out a dual board. It will happen, and all indications point to it happening soon.
The other poster my be partly right. IIRC the "SR-71" was named something else (SR-17 or RS-71, or some other transposition), but at the press release the speaker jumbled up some letters, and the name forever stuck.
Exactly. Notice that the fuel says octane "rating". This is just a measurement of how the fuel burns. How would race gas (Cam2, etc.) be 112 octane as nothing can contain more than 100%? Octane is just a standard of measurement, a point of reference if you may. You have a good point but unfortionately you are incorrect. C8H18 is just a "reference" material.
No, that's why high performance engines need high octane fuel. High performance engines are high compression, and high compression speeds up combustion. If the fuel burns to fast, you get what is called "detonation", a condition where the fuel burns extreemly fast. Idealy, you want the fuel to burn for the entire downstroke of the piston, not just a quick explosion. Detonation can burn holes in pistons and electrodes off of spark plugs in seconds if excessive enough. Controversially, a low compression engine often cannot take advantage of a high octane fuel, as it burns too slow at the lower compression, and you either have to run so lean that you loose power, or waste unburned fuel through the exhaust.
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Of course, a centralized server would need to route which would be a major bandwidth bottleneck.
And, of course, a centralized server could also be very easily tapped by a Carnivore-like device.
I guess it could scare off a few skript kiddies though.
In case you didn't read the article at Linux Planet, what he said was it's not the environment, it's the applications. He even specificly mentioned the quality of the KDE environment. There just isn't any "killer apps" (Photoshop, M$ Office, AutoCAD, Illustrator, ProTools, etc.) that businesses require today available for Linux, and in many cases no equivilants. OK, in all fairness, mabey not "require". But how many people can you find with Gimp experience compared to Photoshop experience? And good luck finding a secratary or purchasing agent familiar with StarOffice. It's just not worth the expense to retrain employees for the cost savings of the software. Don't get me wrong, there are many great apps on Linux, but few things that are awe inspiring. Not for the desktop at least. Server side, Linux is still king. And the author never said the poor sales of Corel and the death of Eazel were setbacks, but flags pointing to the direction of the Linux desktop. Sad to say, but untill some of the big software houses, and even many hardware companies support Linux there is little hope. The toughest sell for Linux will always be lack of manufacturer support.
I guess the last year they have spent in court and the millions in legal fees they have paid has proven that statement correct, huh?
Kinda makes me wonder where the line is drawn before abuse becomes the companies liability and not the end users responsability.
Oh wait... I live in New Jersey.
All my first born are not belong to you, sorry.
All of the new Apple monitors made in the last few months, including these, I'm sure, only have the ADC (Apple Display Connector) on the wire. This connector has the video, power, and USB in one plug. Great, except none of these monitors will work on anything but a new G4. Not even a new Powerbook, or an iMac. Currently, there is no way to externally power the monitor. So if you can afford one of these monitors, you will have a computer powerfull enough to play just about any modern game. I think what Taco meant was for a game that cannot be displayed in anything higher thatn 640x480, although I can't think of any (new) games that cant go higher.
Like when the MPAA tried to stop those who were linking to DeCSS?
And I suppose game designers, beta testers, and that guy down the street making a killer game mod have absolutely no use for these? That's like saying only drunks have a use for cars. It makes no sense, just because a small group of people might abuse them doesn't mean that they're not valuable tools to many more.
So if you would be so kind to point out exactly where I became an "eitist", I would appreciate that. Oh, BTW, is that a Microsoft hotmail address you have there?
It's about time the gov't invested a little into actually using the internet, instead of ruling it. At least now we will be able to keep better track of how fast we loose our rights.
The record industry has announced today that it may be loosing as much as $12,000,000,000 a day due to people thinking about a song without actually paying for it. They claim that "Radio stations are largely to blame, for playing music that the listener probably does not own, but only paying royalties once" stated one RIAA official, "We need to find a way to read peoples minds, so that we can force radio stations to pay royalties on the mental music that they distribute" he also added that upcoming lawsuites may include charging royalties for singing or humming to oneself, including charging anybody who may be able to hear you singing or humming, even if they have no desire to hear how horribly you sing. Also, bystanders that may have heard your CD player as you pulled up to a traffic light will subsequently be charged. "We then intend to pursue charging aftermarket audio system manufactures because of the flagrent copyright violations that they contirbute too by allowing anyone within 500 feet to hear copyrighted music." Mr. Kissmy Ass, a lawyer for the RIAA explains, "In a public setting, like near the beach, subsequent violations can reach into the thousands"
This NIC may not be black magic, but I like to see things like this. It's a step in the right direction. If you really think about it, the whole idea of an OS is a little absurd. In fact, it wasn't untill computers actually became "powerfull" was it even considered reasonable to let some middle-layer software (an OS) do the work of dedicated hardware. High level languages may hold a lot of benefits in standardizing software develpment, but it comes at the expense of performance to use for an OS. As efficient as modern operating systems may be, nothing is as fast as software running directly on hardware. In a perfect world, and operating system would do little more than the core tasks: multitasking, memory management, etc. For what's left of the OS functions, an embedded type processor could handle those, and work in conjunction with the chipset. This would leave the processor almost 100% available for what it is supposed to do, run applications. I would estimate at least 50% increase in speed for most applications by eliminating operating system overhead.
Moving along to the link section... 2cpu had a story and linked to this article at PCStats a few months ago about a prototype Tyan board. I believe it was even posted on /. 2cpu also linked to another article (sorry I couldn't find and english version) about a dual AMD unit from, of all people, VA Linux!!! Guess that one slipped through the slashbots, huh?
AMD is looking to bump out Intel in one of it's most valued markets, servers. I don't doubt for a second that they are working as hard as they can with the aftermarkets to put out a dual board. It will happen, and all indications point to it happening soon.