Not to worry, most geeks who are the target of this new uber-cool technology only ever try to impregnate tissues. I doubt you'll see a dip in the nation's birth rate because of WiMax.
I'd really like to see what the Viking landers look like after all this time.
Probably simply covered with dust and with color paint and cables faded because of UV exposure. It certainly won't corrode with the very low amount of oxygen, and the total absence of water in the atmosphere.
This has really reinvigorated my interest in space exploration and I hope that it has had a similar influence on others, especially those kids who are interested in science and technology.
Agreed entirely. However, I'm a little sad that NASA puts all the hype on Mars alone. Sure, exploring Mars is cool and potentially useful for future colonisation programs, but I reckon that planets such as Venus (to understand how the runaway greehouse gas effect happened), Europa (to map whatever's under the ice, possibly an ocean teeming with life) or Io are much more interesting from a science point of view.
But I guess Mars-Mars-and-Mars-and-only-Mars is better than nothing to get people excited about space and justify spending money on exploration...
This statement wins points for profoundness. Unlike any ever seen on Mars? I thought that was the idea of the mission, to see what's actually up there!
This is by far the most overrated Slashdot comment since Beagle II won't this year's Most Successful Embedded Device competition.
Re-read the phrase : "[a] landscape unlike any ever seen before on Mars":
1 - Several probes have been to Mars already and photographed several different landscapes
2 - The landscapes we've seen so far were all similar
3 - That last probe saw a landscape significantly different from all the other.
Therefore, the phrase describe the situation accurately and you win your profoundness points back.
It sounds like Sean is trying to sell DRM, based on audio fingerprints, to the record labels.
If I was him, given the crap he's been given by record companies in the past, I'd try to scam them too : it looks like they'd buy buy any goofy computer solution to save their doomed business model these days.
Snocap has been working on ways to identify songs, as they are traded through a file-swapping network, including using a technique called "audio fingerprinting," which monitors the sonic characteristics of music files. shawn $ fingerprint_id_test test_files.txt
LOADING INPUT TEST FILE: beethoven.mp3 Identifying... 100% Match: Beethoven, Ludwig Van, classical
LOADING INPUT TEST FILE: coltrane.mp3 Identifying... 100% Match: Coltrane, John, Jazz
LOADING INPUT TEST FILE: chembros.mp3 Identifying... 100% Match: Chemical Brothers, electronic 77% Match: Daft Punk, electronic 75% Match: Noise, industrial-moise-recording
LOADING INPUT TEST FILE: britspears.mp3 Identifying... 100% Match: Spice girls, teenage pop 100% Match: N'Sync, teenage pop 100% Match: Backstreet Boys, teenage pop 100% Match: Hilary Duff, teenage pop 100% Match: Maris Willson, teenage pop 100% Match: Holly Valance, teenage pop 100% Match: Mandy Moore, teenage pop 100% Match: Vitamin C, teenage pop 100% Match: Christina Aguilera, teenage pop 100% Match: Five, teenage pop 100% Match: Jennifer Lopez, teenage pop 100% Match: Aaliyah, teenage pop 100% Match: Rachel Stevens, teenage pop 100% Match: Pink, teenage pop
Because when you have only one or two choices, you might find yourself with one of the two choices stabbing their loyal end-users in the back (I have a friend named Fedora who swears it'd never happen however...).
When you have 150.000 choices, 149.995 of them may suck, and most of them may disappear eventually due to the process of survival of the fittest, but at least you can fall back on something. Less choice isn't good.
Speak for yourself, I burn diamonds in the BBQ myself, as the efficiency of the reaction is somewhat better than coal, so the meat takes less time to cook and is much tastier. And the flame is prettier too...
Joke apart, isn't hydrogen a major safety concern for standard road vehicles? I mean, they even have to store it as hydrates to make it safe, at the cost of limited trunk space and complicated heating equipment to get the gas out.
If it sounds dangerous for an average car, it's probably even more so for tanks, that may be hit by any kind of nasty projectile while in battle. And if the tank stores the stuff as hydrates, or has a lot of shielding to protect the compressed gas area, that's as much less ordnance it can carry.
Diesel fuel on the other hand is quite difficult to ignite, let alone explode. For example, pour a bit of diesel fuel in a small glass and try to light it up with a match : it won't ignite, no matter how hard you try. Diesel therefore would actually be a rather suitable combat-situation fuel.
remove the carbon from hydrocarbons - does the C in ordinary gasoline combustion contribute any energy or is it just a greenhouse gas pollutant? This way they can please the greens and Shell/Exxon/BP etc at the same time.
Hey, I have another NEATER idea : remove the C *and* the H from hydrocarbons, and you have vaccuum, so you can run a piston engine out of that vaccuum, and you keep your original hydrocarbon stuff at the same time, to start the process all over again.
it costs about $40 to move one gallon of diesel fuel from Kuwait to Baghdad.
Considering the war in Iraq cost the US military $1bn per week, I'd say that, even considering that one single tank guzzle more gas that a whole lot of SUV, they're not too worried about that, unless they start to run tank grand prix in the deset every day.
Aaww well yes, they do suck, but I also remember a time when they were the only maker of serious software to play video on Linux, and I was really grateful to be able to play realaudio and realvideo files on my then badly supported pet OS.
I guess it's like a moped : when you're a kid, you feel the biggest guy in town on your little buzzing machine, then you get your driver's license and your first car, and your hate the thing for taking up so much space in the garage and stinking the place up with that awful gasoline stench. But remember you once liked it though...
No, don't think so. After all, Linux isn't the first target Caldera had. They went for Microsoft before now, remember? That whole Dr-Dos case that was settled out of court?
Being close to the DRDOS case, I happen to know it. In fact, Caldera created a spinoff around 1997 that was called Caldera Digital Research, that was later renamed Caldera Thin Clients, then Lineo, then Lineo was swallowed by Metrowerks. The folks who profited from the DRDOS case were the lawyers (of course), a bit Lineo and a lot Canopy. Caldera Systems (the Linux folks) didn't profit from that, or perhaps some execs did but not Caldera as a company, unless I'm mistaken.
At any rate, the settlement was estimated around $155M, which is hardly enough to keep such a company afloat for long, especially now. But would you remember it, OpenLinux was once a popular distro, one that was quite ahead of its time. It sold well at some point.
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but there's no fundamental relationship between capacity and frequency.
apart of course that the higher the frequency, the higher the possible bandwidth. Otherwise, no, no fundamental relationship at all.
Tell you what : I have developed a technology to pass 1Gbps over POTS. I'll sell you the blueprints of the modem for a mere $50K. Interested?
Not to worry, most geeks who are the target of this new uber-cool technology only ever try to impregnate tissues. I doubt you'll see a dip in the nation's birth rate because of WiMax.
The battery is thing still dragging mobile computing , it's still 1970's space-age technology
Because before 70's "space age" batteries, they were using what? gerbil-powered dynamos?
The point-to-multipoint 802.16d standard, with a 50-kilometre range
Omnidirectional antenna-equipped routers will double as handy microwave ovens.
Linus uses an sophisticated email filter with a lot of sco.com addresses in it
Bill Gates uses a scepter and fake British lord's robes of state, to rehearse his meeting with Liz
Steve Jobs would use the stress reduction and temper control cdrom he got at Christmas if Macs could run Windows binaries.
Bush uses a Microsoft Barney
A leading theory today is that a portion of the rover's software simply couldn't cope with all that was happening on Wednesday when the trouble began.
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Yep. That's real-time Java for you
I'd really like to see what the Viking landers look like after all this time.
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Probably simply covered with dust and with color paint and cables faded because of UV exposure. It certainly won't corrode with the very low amount of oxygen, and the total absence of water in the atmosphere.
This has really reinvigorated my interest in space exploration and I hope that it has had a similar influence on others, especially those kids who are interested in science and technology.
Agreed entirely. However, I'm a little sad that NASA puts all the hype on Mars alone. Sure, exploring Mars is cool and potentially useful for future colonisation programs, but I reckon that planets such as Venus (to understand how the runaway greehouse gas effect happened), Europa (to map whatever's under the ice, possibly an ocean teeming with life) or Io are much more interesting from a science point of view.
But I guess Mars-Mars-and-Mars-and-only-Mars is better than nothing to get people excited about space and justify spending money on exploration
This statement wins points for profoundness. Unlike any ever seen on Mars? I thought that was the idea of the mission, to see what's actually up there!
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This is by far the most overrated Slashdot comment since Beagle II won't this year's Most Successful Embedded Device competition.
Re-read the phrase : "[a] landscape unlike any ever seen before on Mars"
1 - Several probes have been to Mars already and photographed several different landscapes
2 - The landscapes we've seen so far were all similar
3 - That last probe saw a landscape significantly different from all the other.
Therefore, the phrase describe the situation accurately and you win your profoundness points back.
revealing a surreal, dark landscape unlike any ever seen before on Mars
Or perhaps it landed right on top ot Beagle II, and that they see is the charred scattered remains of the ESA probe.
It sounds like Sean is trying to sell DRM, based on audio fingerprints, to the record labels.
If I was him, given the crap he's been given by record companies in the past, I'd try to scam them too : it looks like they'd buy buy any goofy computer solution to save their doomed business model these days.
a company called SnoCap from San Franciso, sounds like a snowboarding company
Not everything is what its name sounds like.
Snocap has been working on ways to identify songs, as they are traded through a file-swapping network, including using a technique called "audio fingerprinting," which monitors the sonic characteristics of music files.
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shawn $ fingerprint_id_test test_files.txt
LOADING INPUT TEST FILE: beethoven.mp3
Identifying
100% Match: Beethoven, Ludwig Van, classical
LOADING INPUT TEST FILE: coltrane.mp3
Identifying
100% Match: Coltrane, John, Jazz
LOADING INPUT TEST FILE: chembros.mp3
Identifying
100% Match: Chemical Brothers, electronic
77% Match: Daft Punk, electronic
75% Match: Noise, industrial-moise-recording
LOADING INPUT TEST FILE: britspears.mp3
Identifying
100% Match: Spice girls, teenage pop
100% Match: N'Sync, teenage pop
100% Match: Backstreet Boys, teenage pop
100% Match: Hilary Duff, teenage pop
100% Match: Maris Willson, teenage pop
100% Match: Holly Valance, teenage pop
100% Match: Mandy Moore, teenage pop
100% Match: Vitamin C, teenage pop
100% Match: Christina Aguilera, teenage pop
100% Match: Five, teenage pop
100% Match: Jennifer Lopez, teenage pop
100% Match: Aaliyah, teenage pop
100% Match: Rachel Stevens, teenage pop
100% Match: Pink, teenage pop
*** Endless recursion error. Core dumped ***
I like SuSE, but it's proprietary, so that's a no-go.
What's attracting in SuSE is its novellty.
Because when you have only one or two choices, you might find yourself with one of the two choices stabbing their loyal end-users in the back (I have a friend named Fedora who swears it'd never happen however ...).
When you have 150.000 choices, 149.995 of them may suck, and most of them may disappear eventually due to the process of survival of the fittest, but at least you can fall back on something. Less choice isn't good.
And if you only want to know how to care for your precious data, there is a one page summary.
They forgot a lot of useful tips. Here they are:
DO:
- not write anything on CDRs. No Data means no data to lose
- use a felt-tip marker to write your data in readable hex format on the label side of multiple CDS, as a backup.
DON'T:
- use your CDs as freesbies to play with the dog
- use your CDs as under-glasses
- punch a hole on the side of the CD to hang it on your key ring
Now when I think about it, isn't the greatest vaporware of 2003 the "millions" or "thousands" lines of SCO code in Linux?
No, it's the millions of 3DRealm lines of code in Duke Nukem Forever.
oh ok, I was under the impression that tanks ran on diesel. My bad, I know next to nothing about military equipment.
Thanks for the precision.
carbon is used as fuel (coal)
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Speak for yourself, I burn diamonds in the BBQ myself, as the efficiency of the reaction is somewhat better than coal, so the meat takes less time to cook and is much tastier. And the flame is prettier too
Joke apart, isn't hydrogen a major safety concern for standard road vehicles? I mean, they even have to store it as hydrates to make it safe, at the cost of limited trunk space and complicated heating equipment to get the gas out.
If it sounds dangerous for an average car, it's probably even more so for tanks, that may be hit by any kind of nasty projectile while in battle. And if the tank stores the stuff as hydrates, or has a lot of shielding to protect the compressed gas area, that's as much less ordnance it can carry.
Diesel fuel on the other hand is quite difficult to ignite, let alone explode. For example, pour a bit of diesel fuel in a small glass and try to light it up with a match : it won't ignite, no matter how hard you try. Diesel therefore would actually be a rather suitable combat-situation fuel.
remove the carbon from hydrocarbons - does the C in ordinary gasoline combustion contribute any energy or is it just a greenhouse gas pollutant? This way they can please the greens and Shell/Exxon/BP etc at the same time.
Hey, I have another NEATER idea : remove the C *and* the H from hydrocarbons, and you have vaccuum, so you can run a piston engine out of that vaccuum, and you keep your original hydrocarbon stuff at the same time, to start the process all over again.
FREE ENERGY!
it costs about $40 to move one gallon of diesel fuel from Kuwait to Baghdad.
...
Considering the war in Iraq cost the US military $1bn per week, I'd say that, even considering that one single tank guzzle more gas that a whole lot of SUV, they're not too worried about that, unless they start to run tank grand prix in the deset every day.
Good luck finding fund to justify that saving
Aaww well yes, they do suck, but I also remember a time when they were the only maker of serious software to play video on Linux, and I was really grateful to be able to play realaudio and realvideo files on my then badly supported pet OS.
...
I guess it's like a moped : when you're a kid, you feel the biggest guy in town on your little buzzing machine, then you get your driver's license and your first car, and your hate the thing for taking up so much space in the garage and stinking the place up with that awful gasoline stench. But remember you once liked it though
They are to UC Santa Barbara for providing robust multicast support in Helix
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With 2123 gob-smacking episodes, there's really no need to inflict Santa Barbara multicasts on us again . It's robust enough already. Please!
No, don't think so. After all, Linux isn't the first target Caldera had. They went for Microsoft before now, remember? That whole Dr-Dos case that was settled out of court?
Being close to the DRDOS case, I happen to know it. In fact, Caldera created a spinoff around 1997 that was called Caldera Digital Research, that was later renamed Caldera Thin Clients, then Lineo, then Lineo was swallowed by Metrowerks. The folks who profited from the DRDOS case were the lawyers (of course), a bit Lineo and a lot Canopy. Caldera Systems (the Linux folks) didn't profit from that, or perhaps some execs did but not Caldera as a company, unless I'm mistaken.
At any rate, the settlement was estimated around $155M, which is hardly enough to keep such a company afloat for long, especially now. But would you remember it, OpenLinux was once a popular distro, one that was quite ahead of its time. It sold well at some point.
Darl McBride is a Mormon and you're an moron ...