The central argument of Stallman's has always been "the kernel is useless without the tools. So the tools require equal billing" which is just plain silly.
My Nissan pickup is fairly useless without its Firestone tires, but I don't go around calling it a Firestone/Nissan. However if someone asks what tires I have on my Nissan I will tell them "Firestone Wilderness AT's" or just "Wilderness AT's" (and to forestall the lame jokes about Firestone recalls, no these are not from the bad batch and have been fine for a long time) just as if someone asks what C compiler my Linux system uses I would say "GCC" or "the GNU compiler".
Stallman also seems to conveniently ignore commercial software like Sun's Solaris/Sun OS when it began shipping with GNU tools. Why this rabid fascination with making only Linux bear the full moniker of GNU?
As iggymanz points out if Stallman were truly interested about giving credit where credit was do he would be naming all the GNU tools with the names of those that contributed to them since without the programmers, there would be no tools.
I've seen this reported on other sites, and if I recall this is not a demo of production silicon at 4.7Ghz, but rather this is Intel overclocking their own hardware till it crashed to show that with some improvements the chip design is capable of these speeds, if not in consumer quantities at present.
Anand Tech has more information from their IDF report.
I agree. Dreamhost also has a Slashdot panic mode for their server management specifically to handle Slashdot style events (combination of the usual techniques common in good server managment, but they specifically acknowledge Slashdot as the reason for setting the procedure up).
Well one alternative to the Air Conditioner is a ground source heat pump (GHP) which will heat and cool your home without sucking enormous amounts of power from the grid. They are relatively expensive to install, but not insanely so. And the systems last for a very long time.
It depends on the size of the battery. If they were using "normal car batteries" as the article claims then, no, 12 to 16 batteries plus eletric motor is not significantly more than the weight of the internal combustion engine and associated components that were removed.
A conversion project of my roommate's is a Ford Ranger light pickup with 28 Optima AGM batteries in it. It required airbag shocks in the rear to support the weight enough to prevent the rear battery boxes from contacting the drive shaft, but the weight is still within the axle load tolerances of the Ranger.
The Druuge Mauler has pitifully slow energy regeneration and when unable to shoot the ship is a sitting duck. To compensate for this weakness, the Druuge has a matter-to-energy converter that transforms crew members into instant bursts of power. Each time this special power is activated, one crew member is "tossed into the furnace."
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*taps feet while waiting for timer to expire so he can put up some defensive self depreciating humor*
Paticularly when I say things like "most it" instead of "post it". hehe
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Darn thing won't fit as my sig so I'll most it here and wait to get moderated down for being "offtopic".:P
Brain : "Pinky , Microsponge is a huge computer corporation run by the world's richest nerd."
Pinky : " Gumby?"
Brain : " No , Pinky. Famous as he is , sadly Gumby was never included in profit participation."
Not to mention that gold is actually more rare than diamonds.
If the diamond industry was not held hostage by an army equipped cartel (DeBeers) diamonds would be far more affordable.
And perhaps people would wake up and realize that many (all?) diamond related tradtions are the sole creation of the marketing department of DeBeers.
<obligatory/. dig at Microsoft> At least Microsoft does not have an equipped standing army at its disposal. </obligatory/. dig at Microsoft>
The great Windows return debacle part II?
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As a communityy we seem to have some difficulty promoting ourselves in a constructive manner through "traditional" methods.
The Linux/OSS communities are (as seems logical) most effective when organizing themselves through the internet.
While I hope that this demonstration goes well I am not expecting the turnout to be terribly large (even in a city as techie as San Francisco) and am not setting my hopes terribly high for their success.
No doubt. Blockbuster routinely demands films be recut to remove "offensive" materials. Generally the edit is still done by the studio, but it is most certainly at Blockbusters behest. This is why people have been forced to watch horribly wrecked version of Peter Jackson's "Brain Dead"/"Dead Alive" with nearly 12 minutes removed. Those 12 minutes are definately very gory, but in an supremely over the top and comedic manner (the lawnmower and Uncle trapped in the kitchen scenes beign biggies). Some blockbuster editions of films include different dialogue from theatrical releases as well.
If youw ant to read an interesting description of "seeing" in a 5 dimensional plane (4 dimensions of space and 1 of time) checkout the excellent novel by Greg Egan called Diaspora.
While the narrative occasionally grinds to a halt for lectures on advanced mathmatics and quantum physics it is a very enjoyable "hard science fiction" read.
And for you movie fans that wanted to know what James Cameron's "Avatar" was going to be like, BIOS by Robert Charles Wilson contains a large number of very similar elements.
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Interestingly enough the BitBoys are actually ex-Future Crew guys. As are members of the Max Payne and 3D Mark teams.
And Skaven was even competeing. In fact he won the "Instrumental Music" category with a new version/sequel to his previous winning song "Catch That Goblin".
Anyone interested in MOD/ULT/S3M/IT/XM/669 music from the demo scene should checkout Nectarine Radio.
...which has actually been done before. I have also seen PC's crammed into old CD Player cases. While a fairly nifty hack it is by no means what a home entertainment PC system should look like.
This is what a PC disguised as a cruddy VCR looks like.
Is it just me or are/. headlines becoming more and more full of hyperbole?
Actually there is a nice expandable keyboard available for most of the Motorola iDen line of phones. Nextel even offers it at a discount when you sign up for the web service (that unlike many other providers does not eat into your minutes). The keyboard plugs into the feature port at the base of the phone.
I have had my Motorola i1000plus for a while now and it is a great rugged little phone (it was fairly tiny when it first came out). Still has the best damned speaker phone on the market. Better than any high end home phone's speakerphone.
I msut admit the i95c is tempting thought. Perhaps it is finally time to upgrade?
Personally I prefer the options given to me by Dreamhost. PHP, Perl, MySQL, Streaming Audio/Video , 5 FTP/shell accounts, 5 sub domains, 20 e-mail accounts, Procmail, 100 MB storage, 7GB bandwidth, and more... $9.95/month.
And the deatures go up from there if you are willing to pay more.
Yes, but you realize how far off the "end of their lifetime" is right?
And there is the fact that we actually pump more U-238 (which makes up most nuclear waste), U-235, and other heavy metals from buring coal each year than we do from nuclear reactors. And are likely to continue to do so as long as we rely on coal for power. By 2040 it is estimated that the US alone will have produced over 145,230 tons of uranium (1031 tons of that beign U-235), and 357,491 tons of Thorium since 1937.
World wideby then? Nearly 828,632 tons of uranium and 2,039,709 tons of thorium.
In addition this blanket of materials pumped into the air increases radon levels in your home and does the population with nearly 100 times the amount of radiation one would be exposed to from the normal operation of nuclear power plants (including mining, transport, and storage).
Even worse, we can actually extract more power out of the radioactive materials put into the air by coal plants that we produce with those same coal plants.
So how exactly is nuclear power worse than traditional power sources?
There are certianly potential serious risk associated with nuclear power.
The point was that as it stands right now it is one of the safest sources of power generation with the least environmental impact per kilowatt hour produced.
Another little tidbit that tends to be forgotten regarding our largest current power source, coal, is that we are pumping enormous amounts of U-238, U-235, and other heavy metals into the air as we burn this fuel.
Nuclear is by far not the end-all-be-all of eletrical power generation, but it is the best overall choice for the immeadiate future for large scale power consumption needs.
lol I appreciate your sense of humor in the face of some bizzare wiring in my head putting Yucatan in place of Yucca.
And you can decide for yourself whether the rest of my statements are correct by bothering to read the literature linked to within the body of the post.
Actually half the reason we have as much waste as we do is because of the moratorium on breeder reactors. The U-238 (nuclear waste/depleted Uranium) coming out of traditional Light Water Reactors can be used in Breeder Reactors to generate more power (and reducing the need to store waste materials). This end product of the process, however, is weapons grade Plutonium-239 and some more U-238 (a smaller amount of U-235 is required as an initiator for the reaction).
What alarmists also fail to note is that the resulting Plutonium can be used to fuel yet another form of nuclear reactor. Plutonium Pellet based reactors are not only very efficient, but also one of the safer forms of reactor.
Unfortunately concerns about both weapons grade and reactor grade plutonium (the latter produced in small amounts by standard reactors) being potentially used in nuclear weapons has prevented the widespread construction of breeder reactors and a number of moratoriums for such projects came into being.
Most of the problems occurring in areas such as Iraq caused by depleted uranium dust are related to children ingesting it from untreated drinking water that has become contaminated by UN/NATO forces spent ammunition.
The "military" aspect is also at the root of the public's biggest misconception about plutonium; that the radiation off of plutonium is the "strongest". Plutonium in fact gives off mostly alpha particles which can be stopped by shielding as weak as a piece of normal writing paper or the layer of dead skin cells that covers your body.
Plutonium is however very toxic and radioactively hazardous if ingested or placed on open wounds/etc.
Something else that bothers me about everyone screaming bloody murder over the Yucatan and similar storage facilities is this bizzare belief by people that these materials are somehow magical evil concoctions that were given form in a lab. Most people honestly do not understand that uranium is mined from the ground like any other ore. And that the danger posed by nuclear waste is less one of radiation than of toxicity (radioactive damage stems mainly from consumption or absorbtion into the bloodsteam). The concept of shorter half-lifes being more radioactive also seems to elude people.
You are in far far more danger from walking into your house then you are from nuclear storage.
Most people in the US that are getting into a panic over relatively safe nuclear materials being stored in secure facilities many miles away are not even aware of how near they live to a superfund site. Most superfund sites revolve around heavy metals and other exceedingly toxic substances and are far more common than people think.
Nuclear power is (right now) one of the cleanest and safest power sources available. Too many people are stuck in some sort of a terrified cold war stupor and have been failing to do enough research.
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The central argument of Stallman's has always been "the kernel is useless without the tools. So the tools require equal billing" which is just plain silly.
My Nissan pickup is fairly useless without its Firestone tires, but I don't go around calling it a Firestone/Nissan. However if someone asks what tires I have on my Nissan I will tell them "Firestone Wilderness AT's" or just "Wilderness AT's" (and to forestall the lame jokes about Firestone recalls, no these are not from the bad batch and have been fine for a long time) just as if someone asks what C compiler my Linux system uses I would say "GCC" or "the GNU compiler".
Stallman also seems to conveniently ignore commercial software like Sun's Solaris/Sun OS when it began shipping with GNU tools. Why this rabid fascination with making only Linux bear the full moniker of GNU?
As iggymanz points out if Stallman were truly interested about giving credit where credit was do he would be naming all the GNU tools with the names of those that contributed to them since without the programmers, there would be no tools.
I've seen this reported on other sites, and if I recall this is not a demo of production silicon at 4.7Ghz, but rather this is Intel overclocking their own hardware till it crashed to show that with some improvements the chip design is capable of these speeds, if not in consumer quantities at present.
Anand Tech has more information from their IDF report.
Oh yeah?
:P
Well I'm so indie my shirt don't fit.
If you haven't already (since that KOMPRESSOR line is in a song with MC Frontalot) checkout
MC Chris and MC Frontalot (same guy, two names).
I agree. Dreamhost also has a Slashdot panic mode for their server management specifically to handle Slashdot style events (combination of the usual techniques common in good server managment, but they specifically acknowledge Slashdot as the reason for setting the procedure up).
Well one alternative to the Air Conditioner is a ground source heat pump (GHP) which will heat and cool your home without sucking enormous amounts of power from the grid. They are relatively expensive to install, but not insanely so. And the systems last for a very long time.
It depends on the size of the battery. If they were using "normal car batteries" as the article claims then, no, 12 to 16 batteries plus eletric motor is not significantly more than the weight of the internal combustion engine and associated components that were removed.
A conversion project of my roommate's is a Ford Ranger light pickup with 28 Optima AGM batteries in it. It required airbag shocks in the rear to support the weight enough to prevent the rear battery boxes from contacting the drive shaft, but the weight is still within the axle load tolerances of the Ranger.
Of course everyone knows that in order to energize the Drude electrons one must throw a crew member into the furnace.
Oh wait. That was the Druuge.
The Druuge Mauler has pitifully slow energy regeneration and when unable to shoot the ship is a sitting duck. To compensate for this weakness, the Druuge has a matter-to-energy converter that transforms crew members into instant bursts of power. Each time this special power is activated, one crew member is "tossed into the furnace."
*taps feet while waiting for timer to expire so he can put up some defensive self depreciating humor*
Paticularly when I say things like "most it" instead of "post it". hehe
Darn thing won't fit as my sig so I'll most it here and wait to get moderated down for being "offtopic". :P
Brain : "Pinky , Microsponge is a huge computer corporation run by the world's richest nerd."
Pinky : " Gumby?"
Brain : " No , Pinky. Famous as he is , sadly Gumby was never included in profit participation."
Not yet! He's still in international space.
He has to land on a piece of machinery owned by another country sitting on Mars to be an illegal immigrant.
Though anywhere he lands on Mars he'll be an alien.
DeBeers is also the reason that the richest minefields outside of Africa like those in Utah remain untapped or "tourist attractions".
DeBeers is the one that forced GE to only sell their synthetic diamonds for industrial use.
etc
etc
Not to mention that gold is actually more rare than diamonds.
/. dig at Microsoft> /. dig at Microsoft>
If the diamond industry was not held hostage by an army equipped cartel (DeBeers) diamonds would be far more affordable.
And perhaps people would wake up and realize that many (all?) diamond related tradtions are the sole creation of the marketing department of DeBeers.
<obligatory
At least Microsoft does not have an equipped standing army at its disposal.
</obligatory
As a communityy we seem to have some difficulty promoting ourselves in a constructive manner through "traditional" methods.
The Linux/OSS communities are (as seems logical) most effective when organizing themselves through the internet.
While I hope that this demonstration goes well I am not expecting the turnout to be terribly large (even in a city as techie as San Francisco) and am not setting my hopes terribly high for their success.
No doubt. Blockbuster routinely demands films be recut to remove "offensive" materials. Generally the edit is still done by the studio, but it is most certainly at Blockbusters behest. This is why people have been forced to watch horribly wrecked version of Peter Jackson's "Brain Dead"/"Dead Alive" with nearly 12 minutes removed. Those 12 minutes are definately very gory, but in an supremely over the top and comedic manner (the lawnmower and Uncle trapped in the kitchen scenes beign biggies). Some blockbuster editions of films include different dialogue from theatrical releases as well.
If youw ant to read an interesting description of "seeing" in a 5 dimensional plane (4 dimensions of space and 1 of time) checkout the excellent novel by Greg Egan called Diaspora.
While the narrative occasionally grinds to a halt for lectures on advanced mathmatics and quantum physics it is a very enjoyable "hard science fiction" read.
Greg Egan, Brian Stableford, Greg Bear and Robert Charles Wilson are my personal picks for the best hard science fiction writers out there today.
And for you movie fans that wanted to know what James Cameron's "Avatar" was going to be like, BIOS by Robert Charles Wilson contains a large number of very similar elements.
Interestingly enough the BitBoys are actually ex-Future Crew guys. As are members of the Max Payne and 3D Mark teams.
Future Crew Timeline
And Skaven was even competeing. In fact he won the "Instrumental Music" category with a new version/sequel to his previous winning song "Catch That Goblin".
Anyone interested in MOD/ULT/S3M/IT/XM/669 music from the demo scene should checkout Nectarine Radio.
...which has actually been done before. I have also seen PC's crammed into old CD Player cases. While a fairly nifty hack it is by no means what a home entertainment PC system should look like.
/. headlines becoming more and more full of hyperbole?
This is what a PC disguised as a cruddy VCR looks like.
Is it just me or are
Actually there is a nice expandable keyboard available for most of the Motorola iDen line of phones. Nextel even offers it at a discount when you sign up for the web service (that unlike many other providers does not eat into your minutes). The keyboard plugs into the feature port at the base of the phone.
I have had my Motorola i1000plus for a while now and it is a great rugged little phone (it was fairly tiny when it first came out). Still has the best damned speaker phone on the market. Better than any high end home phone's speakerphone.
I msut admit the i95c is tempting thought. Perhaps it is finally time to upgrade?
"deatures" being the l337 "I did not bother to check my typing" way of saying "features".
Personally I prefer the options given to me by Dreamhost. PHP, Perl, MySQL, Streaming Audio/Video , 5 FTP/shell accounts, 5 sub domains, 20 e-mail accounts, Procmail, 100 MB storage, 7GB bandwidth, and more... $9.95/month.
:)
And the deatures go up from there if you are willing to pay more.
And they're a bunch of Linux geeks.
She turned me into a newt!
Well, I got better.
Yes, but you realize how far off the "end of their lifetime" is right?
And there is the fact that we actually pump more U-238 (which makes up most nuclear waste), U-235, and other heavy metals from buring coal each year than we do from nuclear reactors. And are likely to continue to do so as long as we rely on coal for power. By 2040 it is estimated that the US alone will have produced over 145,230 tons of uranium (1031 tons of that beign U-235), and 357,491 tons of Thorium since 1937.
World wideby then? Nearly 828,632 tons of uranium and 2,039,709 tons of thorium.
In addition this blanket of materials pumped into the air increases radon levels in your home and does the population with nearly 100 times the amount of radiation one would be exposed to from the normal operation of nuclear power plants (including mining, transport, and storage).
Even worse, we can actually extract more power out of the radioactive materials put into the air by coal plants that we produce with those same coal plants.
So how exactly is nuclear power worse than traditional power sources?
There are certianly potential serious risk associated with nuclear power.
The point was that as it stands right now it is one of the safest sources of power generation with the least environmental impact per kilowatt hour produced.
Another little tidbit that tends to be forgotten regarding our largest current power source, coal, is that we are pumping enormous amounts of U-238, U-235, and other heavy metals into the air as we burn this fuel.
Nuclear is by far not the end-all-be-all of eletrical power generation, but it is the best overall choice for the immeadiate future for large scale power consumption needs.
lol I appreciate your sense of humor in the face of some bizzare wiring in my head putting Yucatan in place of Yucca.
And you can decide for yourself whether the rest of my statements are correct by bothering to read the literature linked to within the body of the post.
Excuse me?
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m l
Actually half the reason we have as much waste as we do is because of the moratorium on breeder reactors. The U-238 (nuclear waste/depleted Uranium) coming out of traditional Light Water Reactors can be used in Breeder Reactors to generate more power (and reducing the need to store waste materials). This end product of the process, however, is weapons grade Plutonium-239 and some more U-238 (a smaller amount of U-235 is required as an initiator for the reaction).
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/nucene
What alarmists also fail to note is that the resulting Plutonium can be used to fuel yet another form of nuclear reactor. Plutonium Pellet based reactors are not only very efficient, but also one of the safer forms of reactor.
Unfortunately concerns about both weapons grade and reactor grade plutonium (the latter produced in small amounts by standard reactors) being potentially used in nuclear weapons has prevented the widespread construction of breeder reactors and a number of moratoriums for such projects came into being.
Most of the problems occurring in areas such as Iraq caused by depleted uranium dust are related to children ingesting it from untreated drinking water that has become contaminated by UN/NATO forces spent ammunition.
The "military" aspect is also at the root of the public's biggest misconception about plutonium; that the radiation off of plutonium is the "strongest". Plutonium in fact gives off mostly alpha particles which can be stopped by shielding as weak as a piece of normal writing paper or the layer of dead skin cells that covers your body.
Plutonium is however very toxic and radioactively hazardous if ingested or placed on open wounds/etc.
http://www.vnh.org/BUMEDINST6470.10A/Plutonium.ht
Something else that bothers me about everyone screaming bloody murder over the Yucatan and similar storage facilities is this bizzare belief by people that these materials are somehow magical evil concoctions that were given form in a lab. Most people honestly do not understand that uranium is mined from the ground like any other ore. And that the danger posed by nuclear waste is less one of radiation than of toxicity (radioactive damage stems mainly from consumption or absorbtion into the bloodsteam). The concept of shorter half-lifes being more radioactive also seems to elude people.
You are in far far more danger from walking into your house then you are from nuclear storage.
Most people in the US that are getting into a panic over relatively safe nuclear materials being stored in secure facilities many miles away are not even aware of how near they live to a superfund site. Most superfund sites revolve around heavy metals and other exceedingly toxic substances and are far more common than people think.
Nuclear power is (right now) one of the cleanest and safest power sources available. Too many people are stuck in some sort of a terrified cold war stupor and have been failing to do enough research.
And everyone reading this has to go read Zodiac