Who cares about linux in a concept car... check out the sidebar: Dodge stock cars to be used in NASCAR next season! And by teams that actually win sometimes, unlike Pontiac drivers. This sure will be interesting after decades of being dominated by chevy and ford.
Is an 802.11 adapter in the base and instead of running phone lines and ethernet and power to it, you can just run power and do VoIP to get to a phone line... but who really needs phones this day in age? Besides... we've all got mobiles.
We've got a package developed in-house that combines Perl, TeX, dvi2html and several equation formatting tools to be able to generate any function we need in an acceptable appearance. AND, it can do on-the-fly equations as well... so long as you count "on-the-fly" as "within 20 seconds or so when the server isn't busy".:)
Instead of thinking of it from the point of view of the leftist geeks we are, let's think about it from Big Company's point of view. (Intentionally singular possessive there)
Big Company sees all the other companies patenting stuff left and right -- like the human genome project, and what-have-you. They finish work figuring out what bits of DNA they're interested in and want to make sure they can keep working on it. If those other patents are going to hold, obviously Big Company is going to need to protect their own investment thus far -- so they fill out the paperwork with their team of lawyers and send it off to DC. The patent application gets rejected? Great. That means everyone else holds invalid patents as well and Big Company can continue to work on (or rather "not abandon the work they've done on") their color blindness project. The patent gets approved? Great: not only do we not have to stop working on the project, but we can stop everyone else from working on similar things.
It doesn't necessarily mean we had a self-serving, evil goal from the beginning, but it means that we can send our kids to college and retire without needing those social security checks.
Let's convince the gov't to work on Sam Khuri for a while. I mean, he IS in contempt of court sending out more Benchmark Print Supply spam, even if he's stripping the company name off the emails these days.
It's not the content I'm complaining about... it's the fact that the posting was so dripping in subjectiveness that I could barely find the news entry in it.
It's the best all-in-one package tool there is. Sure, it has cryptic file names and horribly difficult-to-use packaging tools (see swpkg(1)), but you get one-of-a-kind features you can't find elsewhere, like the ability to have uniform installation sets across multiple machines (oh, gee, rpm and deb have that, too)! Remote unattended installations (I guess debian can do that, whoops)! And above all else, you get the wonderful "showprods" command that is easy to decrypt and includes its own paging tool which seems oddly like "| more".
That's freaky. There's a sculpture just like that which is part of Blue Man Group's show.. it's got all these distorted little figures and when the whole thing spins with a strobe light shining on it, it looks like a circle of 3-D dancers.
Silly me. I thought CDA stood for "CD Audio" which would be our good old-fashioned red? book standard. Just what the industry needs... more overlapping alphabet soup.
These ad execs and marketroids haven't come to the conclusion that conventional advertising methods are *not* going to work on the internet. Maybe they'll have to (gasp) think of a NEW way to make money and sell their wares than putting corporate logos in front of everyone's eyes.
The answer is obvious: subsidized time! I can see it now.. the Year of Depends Adult Undergarments, the Year of Glad Wrap...
We've known since the beginning that SSH was maleable. Most people know not to use it for high security -- it's just there to keep the casual observer from grabbing passwords/keys. It's there to slow down someone who really wants to get to you, not stop them.
What do you do about movies that have never ceased their original theater run after 25 years *AND* have a brand-spanking-new special edition double disc DVD box set? I know for a fact Rocky Horror is playing on at least two screens in France, so I guess they won't be allowed to get the DVD. Or, by the wording, the video either. I wonder how their cast is supposed to practice?
DSL has signed it's own death certificate and will go the way of ISDN. Wireless access is the next stage -- either that or a single fiber going into everyone's house with cable, phone, and net connections. And I doubt the RBOCs in the states and BT over the lake are going to want to run fiber to every house without dragging their feet. So, while purposefully killing DSL, the phone companies have also set up a future where their services are used very little.
Wireless is making great inroads. Sprint, Worldcom, Teligent, Winstar and AT&T (sorry, no URLs) are all beginning to roll out national services for end users and business -- at about the same price points as DSL (30-50 low end and 100-300 for high end). Regionally, ISPs are starting to offer wireless in hard-to-get-DSL areas such as rural and high-growth suburban where traditional COs are too far away from anything useful. http://isp-wireless.com hosts a mailing list for providers deploying wireless regionally; check the archives for your nearest provider.
Has anyone noticed that Sam Khuri/Benchmark Print Supply has been sending out Spam under a new company name, despite (or 'to spite') court rulings against him? I recently received several spams with the same "800 number" but no company name, and then more recently I've seen them with other company names.
Danger Mouse could kick Might Mouse's ass any day of the week.
Besides, as geeks we are obligated to support anyone who's as geeky as Penfold.
-Chris ...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
Re: All of these breakthroughs in chip design.
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There are several problems when doing 3D chip design, even using modular "beads"... most of the problems have to do with propogation. That is to say clock signal propogation and heat propogation.
It's impossible to make 3D "modules" that don't end up burying circut components *very* deeply (think about a 16x16x16 bit "processor": even if each junction has just three transistors (up, down, right) you end up with transistors that are 24 times their size away from heat dissipation -- in ANY direction. they don't have a substrate to wick away heat, nor a nice big surface of nice heat conductors (read: metal) only a few microns away (like in the case of your M1,M2... layers in traditional chip fab). Of course, this will typically be MUCH higher since at each element in the matrix you'll want to actually DO something instead of just switch...
-Chris
PS. I'm talking out of my ass so if you moderate me up, I'll cut off your balls. ...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
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Yeah, and then you can connect it to your stillsuit and be all set for life.
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
Who cares about linux in a concept car... check out the sidebar: Dodge stock cars to be used in NASCAR next season! And by teams that actually win sometimes, unlike Pontiac drivers. This sure will be interesting after decades of being dominated by chevy and ford.
-Chris
Geek first, Redneck second
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...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
"...And this is the ultimate evil."
"So when does it come?"
"If this is the five... and this is the one... Every 5000 years."
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
Is an 802.11 adapter in the base and instead of running phone lines and ethernet and power to it, you can just run power and do VoIP to get to a phone line... but who really needs phones this day in age? Besides... we've all got mobiles.
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
We've got a package developed in-house that combines Perl, TeX, dvi2html and several equation formatting tools to be able to generate any function we need in an acceptable appearance. AND, it can do on-the-fly equations as well... so long as you count "on-the-fly" as "within 20 seconds or so when the server isn't busy". :)
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
I want to install one of these in my DeLorean.
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
Americium is the same element they use in household smoke detectors. That means we can build our own mars vehicles!
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
Instead of thinking of it from the point of view of the leftist geeks we are, let's think about it from Big Company's point of view. (Intentionally singular possessive there)
Big Company sees all the other companies patenting stuff left and right -- like the human genome project, and what-have-you. They finish work figuring out what bits of DNA they're interested in and want to make sure they can keep working on it. If those other patents are going to hold, obviously Big Company is going to need to protect their own investment thus far -- so they fill out the paperwork with their team of lawyers and send it off to DC. The patent application gets rejected? Great. That means everyone else holds invalid patents as well and Big Company can continue to work on (or rather "not abandon the work they've done on") their color blindness project. The patent gets approved? Great: not only do we not have to stop working on the project, but we can stop everyone else from working on similar things.
It doesn't necessarily mean we had a self-serving, evil goal from the beginning, but it means that we can send our kids to college and retire without needing those social security checks.
....
Okay, we can go back to being liberals now.
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
Let's convince the gov't to work on Sam Khuri for a while. I mean, he IS in contempt of court sending out more Benchmark Print Supply spam, even if he's stripping the company name off the emails these days.
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
It's not the content I'm complaining about... it's the fact that the posting was so dripping in subjectiveness that I could barely find the news entry in it.
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
It's the best all-in-one package tool there is. Sure, it has cryptic file names and horribly difficult-to-use packaging tools (see swpkg(1)), but you get one-of-a-kind features you can't find elsewhere, like the ability to have uniform installation sets across multiple machines (oh, gee, rpm and deb have that, too)! Remote unattended installations (I guess debian can do that, whoops)! And above all else, you get the wonderful "showprods" command that is easy to decrypt and includes its own paging tool which seems oddly like "| more".
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
That's freaky. There's a sculpture just like that which is part of Blue Man Group's show.. it's got all these distorted little figures and when the whole thing spins with a strobe light shining on it, it looks like a circle of 3-D dancers.
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
I beg to differ. I cut my teeth on a ][e and I had Scott Adams Adventures.
:> )
(And yes, the palm version works great.
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
Silly me. I thought CDA stood for "CD Audio" which would be our good old-fashioned red? book standard. Just what the industry needs... more overlapping alphabet soup.
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
These ad execs and marketroids haven't come to the conclusion that conventional advertising methods are *not* going to work on the internet. Maybe they'll have to (gasp) think of a NEW way to make money and sell their wares than putting corporate logos in front of everyone's eyes.
The answer is obvious: subsidized time! I can see it now.. the Year of Depends Adult Undergarments, the Year of Glad Wrap...
Oh wait, nevermind, just read Infinite Jest.
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
We've known since the beginning that SSH was maleable. Most people know not to use it for high security -- it's just there to keep the casual observer from grabbing passwords/keys. It's there to slow down someone who really wants to get to you, not stop them.
Sheesh.
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
What do you do about movies that have never ceased their original theater run after 25 years *AND* have a brand-spanking-new special edition double disc DVD box set? I know for a fact Rocky Horror is playing on at least two screens in France, so I guess they won't be allowed to get the DVD. Or, by the wording, the video either. I wonder how their cast is supposed to practice?
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
I thought aramic was poisonous.
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
DSL has signed it's own death certificate and will go the way of ISDN. Wireless access is the next stage -- either that or a single fiber going into everyone's house with cable, phone, and net connections. And I doubt the RBOCs in the states and BT over the lake are going to want to run fiber to every house without dragging their feet. So, while purposefully killing DSL, the phone companies have also set up a future where their services are used very little.
Wireless is making great inroads. Sprint, Worldcom, Teligent, Winstar and AT&T (sorry, no URLs) are all beginning to roll out national services for end users and business -- at about the same price points as DSL (30-50 low end and 100-300 for high end). Regionally, ISPs are starting to offer wireless in hard-to-get-DSL areas such as rural and high-growth suburban where traditional COs are too far away from anything useful. http://isp-wireless.com hosts a mailing list for providers deploying wireless regionally; check the archives for your nearest provider.
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
Has anyone noticed that Sam Khuri/Benchmark Print Supply has been sending out Spam under a new company name, despite (or 'to spite') court rulings against him? I recently received several spams with the same "800 number" but no company name, and then more recently I've seen them with other company names.
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
...run Linux?
Oh, wait, yeah, I guess it will.
Doh.
Well, picture a Beow... err... nevermind.
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
Danger Mouse could kick Might Mouse's ass any day of the week.
Besides, as geeks we are obligated to support anyone who's as geeky as Penfold.
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
There are several problems when doing 3D chip design, even using modular "beads"... most of the problems have to do with propogation. That is to say clock signal propogation and heat propogation.
It's impossible to make 3D "modules" that don't end up burying circut components *very* deeply (think about a 16x16x16 bit "processor": even if each junction has just three transistors (up, down, right) you end up with transistors that are 24 times their size away from heat dissipation -- in ANY direction. they don't have a substrate to wick away heat, nor a nice big surface of nice heat conductors (read: metal) only a few microns away (like in the case of your M1,M2... layers in traditional chip fab). Of course, this will typically be MUCH higher since at each element in the matrix you'll want to actually DO something instead of just switch...
-Chris
PS. I'm talking out of my ass so if you moderate me up, I'll cut off your balls.
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
Ooohhh, poor baby. It's torture to look at unispaced text, isn't it?
Wait a second, this is ALL unispaced to me.
Maybe I should stop using lynx.
you fucking crybaby
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
I hope they don't. Moderators should go to hell.
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...