I'm posting this with Konqueror on Sun Blade 100. Next to the Konq window I have a SunPCI window with W2K/Office2K. As nice as Sun's StarOffice it still doesn't import/export clients' office documents properly.
the throughput between the card and the host system is simply unacceptable.
I'd suspect a radar system requires much high a throughput than web or DB serving. Here's an example of such a system. "160Mb/sec, 32 bit parallel synchronous interface" doesn't sound that high to me.
I've been wondering how expensive/difficult it would be to build a multiprocessor computer for computational physics applications based on G4 PowerPC cards.
I'd just love the idea of having a host PC (or a Beowulf cluster of them;-) with all the PCI slots filled with G4 7400 boards crushing numbers...
Tapping the net is chickenshit compared to this. I am not suprised to see neither the American media or BBC reporting this.
"AMERICAN investigators are considering resorting to harsher interrogation techniques, including torture, after facing a wall of silence..."
The Times is one of the most respected, conservative papers in the UK. The FBI really are considering this abomination. Even Robert Blitzer, a former head of the FBI's counter-terrorism section, has criticized this in public!
Maybe in places like the UK they don't mind that robberies while the owner is home have gone up since the draconian gun laws. I do.
Is human life worth less than property?
You sure seem to think so.
To me taking a human life is acceptable only purely as self-defence in a life-threatening situation. "Protecting your property" is not enough. You can always buy more stuff, you can get an insurance. Hell! You can set up alarms all over your property if you're so worried about it.
Human life, on the other hand, can never be restored.
Now I'll never be able to see California because I mirrored DeCSS on my foreign website.
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the general public wouldn't have had a clue about what the protest was about - all they saw was a bunch of "anarchists"
On the other hand, had there not been violence the general public would have been fed pre-digested propganda how the G8 countries are going to make the World into so much better a place. I doubt they would even have shown the peaceful demonstrations.
My copy has been printed in Germany in 2000. How about yours?
As for a broken drive, my drive plays and rips other CDs I own perfectly. Furthermore, I've tested the CD on several CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs both at home and at work. No go. After about 30 seconds ripping/playing the drive panics and goes into a loop re-reading TOC instead of the music track.
The article is wrong in claiming that Cactus is a brand new form of copy protection. Click here and here for more information.
They (mainly BMG in Germany) tried it in Europe already in 2000. I still have Ministry's CD that won't play on CD-ROMs or DVD-ROMs but plays perfectly on an ordinary stereo CD player.
I don't know if EFF can provide you any advice but you might want to mail and ask them anyway.
If nothing else it will remind them how high profile of a case they've got in their hands. DCMA not only complicates the lives of American professionals but also may cause significant grief to highly educated foreign visitors.
It might also improve their response time/effort if in the same mail you'll ask if non-US donations are welcome...;-)
I believe that Hard Drives cause the most noise inside a computer
That used to be true, but nowadays it's the CPU fan that's causing most of the noise.
Just try booting with the HD power lines disconnected and you'll see that with modern (IBM) drives there's hardly any difference. Unplug the CPU fan for a few seconds and the noise is gone.
I gave up using x86 PCs a year ago when I finally got sick of the noise pollution.
The main culprit is the CPU fan. The lowest noise levels for contemporary CPU fans are somewhere around 35-40 dB, but in a CPU fan review (I don't remember if it was at overclockers or tomshardware) some CPU fans screamed at 60 dB.
To be honest, this is insane and completely unnecessary. Modern architectures such as Sparc and PPC run comfortably at 500 MHz with passive cooling.
Its not like scientists will become corrupt money whores if they get the chance.
Not corrupt, but distracted.
Most marketable applications of science are based on basic research that was carried out something like ten years earlier. Now, if the scientists have to start looking for a quick buck, for instance in order to fund all their research, they'll drop producing new information and hash old articles instead. Sure, that's not a short term problem but in the long run the lack of basic research will also kill application of science.
A great example of this is what happened to the antibiotics research. For a long time there was no commercial incentive to go on looking for better antibacterial drugs and the basic research was basically killed. Now people are dying of antibiotic resistant bacteria and drug companies can't develop new drugs because the information just isn't there.
This is based on some sort of idealism, not capitalism
Capitalism is idealism. It's an ideology not some law of nature. In fact, if Capitalism were a natural scientific hypothesis it would have never made into a theory, because its predictions have been proven empirically wrong over and over again.
But back to your problem. What would you suggest, then? That free distribution of software should not be allowed if it infringes someone's "Right to Make Money"? Wake up. There's no such right.
a $150k budget for teaching people how to use windows and office...he did try to get them to switch their servers to linux or bsd
I believe that companies will start using linux/bsd desktops and servers exactly when it becomes obvious that it will cost them less money (hardware+software+maintenance+training) than the Microsoft-way.
So far Microsoft has a huge advantage in the training cost category, because that's the OS most people have already used at home (or at least have seen their kids use it). Using something like KDE would be already confusing because it is different: "What do you mean? Why does doubleclicking on an icon start two copies of the program? It doesn't do that on my home computer! This is hard!" and probably none of the non-tech staff would have ever even seen it.
Getting people pissed isn't enough, it'll have to show up in the company bottomline too.
Government consists of people who have to think about getting re-elected every four to eight years. It's a form of mutual assured destruction. Politicians who screw with us won't get elected the next time.
Corporations on the other hand can do pretty much what they want as long as they are at least nominally within the the boundaries of the law. They don't answer to the consumer. And before you quote the libertarian mantra about how consumers can bring down obnoxious corporations down simply by boycotting them, please show me an example of a successful boycott of a large corporation.
On the other hand, the privatization can also mean that the corporations can throw their huge financial weight around and monopolize the airwaves. I'd rather have a government monopoly than a commercial one.
Take out all the unnecessary stuff to make it lighter first, then put in some real time features (RTLinux), accelerated frame buffer with OpenGL and Direct3D API and a sound server (OpenAL/DirectSound APIs).
Firstly, apparently Princeton decided not to defend their scientists. This most disappointing and signals how modern universities are dependent on the external funding.
Secondly, even if your university doesn't support you you should at least fight for what's right. I'm disappointed that the scientists gave up the fight without making more noise. I guess the career means more to them than the truth. Ok, unlike me they're established scientists and "can't afford" to lose their status, but still...
Ok. This matter is political all the way, so I might as well say this: this is what we'll all end up with if WTO gains more ground. Please remember, that his is not just a US issue.
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I'm posting this with Konqueror on Sun Blade 100. Next to the Konq window I have a SunPCI window with W2K/Office2K. As nice as Sun's StarOffice it still doesn't import/export clients' office documents properly.
I'd suspect a radar system requires much high a throughput than web or DB serving. Here's an example of such a system. "160Mb/sec, 32 bit parallel synchronous interface" doesn't sound that high to me.
I'd just love the idea of having a host PC (or a Beowulf cluster of them ;-) with all the PCI slots filled with G4 7400 boards crushing numbers...
We will know more. That's how.
Knowledge is the only thing that truly separates us from barbarism and animals.
"AMERICAN investigators are considering resorting to harsher interrogation techniques, including torture, after facing a wall of silence..."
The Times is one of the most respected, conservative papers in the UK. The FBI really are considering this abomination. Even Robert Blitzer, a former head of the FBI's counter-terrorism section, has criticized this in public!
IIRC SuSE also ships on a single DVD.
"If you want to get anywhere in the UK, then privatise the railways."
Is human life worth less than property?
You sure seem to think so.
To me taking a human life is acceptable only purely as self-defence in a life-threatening situation. "Protecting your property" is not enough. You can always buy more stuff, you can get an insurance. Hell! You can set up alarms all over your property if you're so worried about it.
Human life, on the other hand, can never be restored.
Now I'll never be able to see California because I mirrored DeCSS on my foreign website.
On the other hand, had there not been violence the general public would have been fed pre-digested propganda how the G8 countries are going to make the World into so much better a place. I doubt they would even have shown the peaceful demonstrations.
Not that I accept the violence, though.
As for a broken drive, my drive plays and rips other CDs I own perfectly. Furthermore, I've tested the CD on several CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs both at home and at work. No go. After about 30 seconds ripping/playing the drive panics and goes into a loop re-reading TOC instead of the music track.
They (mainly BMG in Germany) tried it in Europe already in 2000. I still have Ministry's CD that won't play on CD-ROMs or DVD-ROMs but plays perfectly on an ordinary stereo CD player.
If nothing else it will remind them how high profile of a case they've got in their hands. DCMA not only complicates the lives of American professionals but also may cause significant grief to highly educated foreign visitors.
It might also improve their response time/effort if in the same mail you'll ask if non-US donations are welcome... ;-)
Front 242 kicks ass!
This is exactly why it will fail miserably.
Time is the ultimate commodity: we get paid at work for our finite time.
If you spend your time on something that doesn't make money, you've wasted it.
Simple as that.
That used to be true, but nowadays it's the CPU fan that's causing most of the noise.
Just try booting with the HD power lines disconnected and you'll see that with modern (IBM) drives there's hardly any difference. Unplug the CPU fan for a few seconds and the noise is gone.
The main culprit is the CPU fan. The lowest noise levels for contemporary CPU fans are somewhere around 35-40 dB, but in a CPU fan review (I don't remember if it was at overclockers or tomshardware) some CPU fans screamed at 60 dB.
To be honest, this is insane and completely unnecessary. Modern architectures such as Sparc and PPC run comfortably at 500 MHz with passive cooling.
Not corrupt, but distracted.
Most marketable applications of science are based on basic research that was carried out something like ten years earlier. Now, if the scientists have to start looking for a quick buck, for instance in order to fund all their research, they'll drop producing new information and hash old articles instead. Sure, that's not a short term problem but in the long run the lack of basic research will also kill application of science.
A great example of this is what happened to the antibiotics research. For a long time there was no commercial incentive to go on looking for better antibacterial drugs and the basic research was basically killed. Now people are dying of antibiotic resistant bacteria and drug companies can't develop new drugs because the information just isn't there.
Capitalism is idealism. It's an ideology not some law of nature. In fact, if Capitalism were a natural scientific hypothesis it would have never made into a theory, because its predictions have been proven empirically wrong over and over again.
But back to your problem. What would you suggest, then? That free distribution of software should not be allowed if it infringes someone's "Right to Make Money"? Wake up. There's no such right.
I believe that companies will start using linux/bsd desktops and servers exactly when it becomes obvious that it will cost them less money (hardware+software+maintenance+training) than the Microsoft-way.
So far Microsoft has a huge advantage in the training cost category, because that's the OS most people have already used at home (or at least have seen their kids use it). Using something like KDE would be already confusing because it is different: "What do you mean? Why does doubleclicking on an icon start two copies of the program? It doesn't do that on my home computer! This is hard!" and probably none of the non-tech staff would have ever even seen it.
Getting people pissed isn't enough, it'll have to show up in the company bottomline too.
Here in Europe Microsoft is already in hot water with the ongoing EU investigation.
Government consists of people who have to think about getting re-elected every four to eight years. It's a form of mutual assured destruction. Politicians who screw with us won't get elected the next time.
Corporations on the other hand can do pretty much what they want as long as they are at least nominally within the the boundaries of the law. They don't answer to the consumer. And before you quote the libertarian mantra about how consumers can bring down obnoxious corporations down simply by boycotting them, please show me an example of a successful boycott of a large corporation.
On the other hand, the privatization can also mean that the corporations can throw their huge financial weight around and monopolize the airwaves. I'd rather have a government monopoly than a commercial one.
Take out all the unnecessary stuff to make it lighter first, then put in some real time features (RTLinux), accelerated frame buffer with OpenGL and Direct3D API and a sound server (OpenAL/DirectSound APIs).
As a scientist this disappoints me on two fronts.
Firstly, apparently Princeton decided not to defend their scientists. This most disappointing and signals how modern universities are dependent on the external funding.
Secondly, even if your university doesn't support you you should at least fight for what's right. I'm disappointed that the scientists gave up the fight without making more noise. I guess the career means more to them than the truth. Ok, unlike me they're established scientists and "can't afford" to lose their status, but still...
Ok. This matter is political all the way, so I might as well say this: this is what we'll all end up with if WTO gains more ground. Please remember, that his is not just a US issue.