from the people that brought Tetris on the Science Library, comes Technology-Assited TPing trees and flying pikachus thanks to the (small scale) trebuchet we built last year. Yay, we got a couple of the frats jealous (and a few deans...interested) and I got pegged by a tennis ball flying out of it, but all in all, trebs kick some sweet ass =).
contact techhouse (those people that put tetris on the sciences library at Brown) and we would be (most likely) happy to take it (our server is only a 233Mhz!!!)
FOURSCORE and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon, this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. Let it also be known that I love the new feel of Microsoft WindowsXP. It's so easy to use, it's no wonder the'ye number one! And just like Windows98 promised, it's fatser, more stable, and makes it even easier to get on the internet! We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here, It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
The article, IMHO, misses the difference in uses - if you've got a small device that you want to conserve power on, and only communicate small distances, Bluetooth's ideal. If you've got a lot of power, a la a notebook computer, and want to communicate 150 ft., then 802.11 is what you want. Imagine that: Different uses! Different standards! Amazing!
I'd just like to congradulate Hemos for making a very insightful comment that prolly cut the number of useless posts in this article thread in half.
But, despite the recognized difference, I think they may have soemthing anyway. The average consumer is gonna see two protocols that appear to be redundant; they both do some sort of wireless communication, no? And, as 802.11 gets more and more popular (as it has already hit off, as opposed to bluetooth)the average consumer will see the clearly higher use of 802.11 in devices and therefore choose to go with a 802.11 device, despite the advantages that bluetooth (is supposed to) have over 802.11
This is a call to stop posting these omni-encompassing articles to slashdot. They are like glamour peices found in "We're so fake" magazines. An overview of AI? An overview of first person shooter? How the hell can a single article do these topics justice?
I think we (the editors) need to get in the habit of approving more articles about obscure scientific (nerdy) tidbits of interest and fewer grandscale attempts at covering a topic when we KNOW it's futile.
GeForce3 speed at the price of...more than a Geforce3. Maybe if the halved the price, and finished the implimentation of the features that are supposed to make this card a killah, then I would think about it. ATi, however, can't expect to compete with nVidia with a more expensive card when nVidia is known for their great driver support (yay det 4!).
Then again, more work on the 8500 may produce a true Geforce3 killer....
IF YOUR PC IS RUNNING WINDOWS 2000 SERVER OR WINDOWS NT 4.0 SERVER,
PLEASE IMMEDIATELY DOWNLOAD THE CODE RED PATCH FROM MICROSOFT'S WEBSITE
(www.microsoft.com/security) AND RESTART YOUR PC.
So....let me get this right...I d/l the patch, then I reboot. It seems (RR and) Microsoft finds rebooting to be the solution to everything:
What To Do If You Are Vulnerable?
a. To rid your machine of the current worm, reboot your computer.
then they say...
b. To protect your system from re-infection: Install the patch as specified in the instructions.
At least they got the INSTALL THE PATCH part...heh
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We are writing you in response to the Code Red worm that has recently attacked our premium enterprise gold standard web portal system, Microsoft Internet Information Server. We have compiled a set of directions for patching the server, and have included these instructionsin a easy to read Word document. If MS Outlook didn't automagically open this attachment for you, double click on the attachment link above.
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See you later!
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To my knowledge, Microsoft didn't even try to mass-mail the patch to their registered customers who might be affected.
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CC:
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Hi, how are you?
We are writing you in response to the Code Red worm that has recently attacked our premium enterprise gold standard web portal system, Microsoft Internet Information Server. We have compiled a set of directions for patching the server, and have included these instructionsin a easy to read Word document. If MS Outlook didn't automagically open this attachment for you, double click on the attachment link above.
If you have any advice on this file, please email us back!
you'd be suprised. Search traffic for gnutella is inhibitingly huge. when you've got hundreds of copies of your query running through the network, along with the answers, along with everyone elses going, you can get up to the 10's of Megs/sec easy. compressing the queries would be a huge help.
looking at the stats, I think this would be VERY helpful if I could make it would with my gnutella client I am hacking. I don't mind incompatibility with other clients caus eI am building this for a University intranet, but gnutella, as we all know, would use far too much bandwidth. If I could compress the search queries, I would savve a lot of bandwidth. ideas?
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This is not the problem. The problem is that people expect a benchmark to make their decision for you. If they just went down to their local CompUSA and tried out the darned machine, found that it was sufficient for their needs, and felt the price was reasonable, instead of just looking for the best deal, you would get a lot more people happy with their machine cause they TRIED IT OUT, and cause they prolly found a slower machine would do just fine.
I hate the benchmark approach to purchasing a machine.
incidents.org will soon be reporting how quickly they were personally attacked by the SlashDot worm (in a nice pretty 3d line graph). That's something I would like to see.
actually, the proability of getting that number is exactly 0. Mathematically speaking, it is impossible to get an infinite string of zeros out of a random number generator. say we are in binary:
prob of getting 0:.5
prob of getting 00:.25
prob of getting 000:.125
clearly the probability of getting N 0s in a row is (.5)^(N). As N -> inifinity, the probabilty goes to 0. You can not get an infinite number of zeros out of a perfect randome number generator.
In addition, a simple formula discovered makes it possible to calculate the Nth binary digit of Pi without computing any of the first N-1 digits, and do the computation with very little computing power.
sure, they can get the Nth binary digit down, but that says nothing about the last digit of binary pi. After years of calculation, estimation, and bullshitization, my team of expert physicists, mathematicians, and old-wise-men-of-the-village, have come to the ultimate conclusion that the last digit of pi in binary is undoubtedly equal to 1.
to which I said "thats non-sense. write down pi, then add a 0 to the end. is that not the same value?"
After many more years of careful study of the texts, bringing in ancient greek and latin scholars, and a couple ancient arameic into the mix, my team once again came up with a solution. The last siginificant digit of pi in binary is undoubtedly equal to 1.
I thought long and hard about this and realized it was certainly true. Then, when I thought a bit more, I realized we found something even more significant. Knowing that any number with a fractional part in binary must, when converted to decimal, end with 5, I therefore reasoned the last significant digit of pi equals 5. Looking at my printout of decimal pi, I then resolved that when speaking in sigificant terms, pi does in fact equal 3.1415. I had always laughed at my engineering professors who seemed to use such silly approximations, but now I know for a fact 3.1415 is for all intents and purposes equal to pi.
"We're hoping that people begin to use the data like google uses dmoz. More people see the data, which increases awareness of open-source which increases the database which gets more people to display the data etc, etc... You get the point."
Sounds to me like the point of this project is a global infinite loop. I don't know much about this, but if that's what it is...count me out. I have it bad enough as it is. (I run windows;-)
Of course, reading all of that has ruined me in that I now tend to write really long sentences, though I haven't yet achieved the one feat that I have only seen from Machiavelli and Dave Barry, which is, of course, the 1.5 page sentence, in which the author creates an extraordinarily long sentence, containing much information, all the while being grammatically correct, and conveying one basic idea in a surprisingly clear manner, such that the reader, after having read it, actually goes back to see where said sentence began, and reads it again, just to make sure that the sentence is, indeed, that long.
read some William Faulkner. he's got the 2 page sentence down.
Well, I believe that he made a mistake, but I once could read it as "Witherspoon's character (which worked well in clueless)" Ie, he is talking about the character type in clueless, not her acting in the movie.
What are the chances that the/. effect will cause anything to happen sooner rather than later? Has it ever been anything but destructive, merely bringing web sites to their knees?
I must disagree. I can think of atleast one certain website that, if the/. effect took its toll, would increase productivity 10x fold.
Slashdot Mirror
from the people that brought Tetris on the Science Library, comes Technology-Assited TPing trees and flying pikachus thanks to the (small scale) trebuchet we built last year. Yay, we got a couple of the frats jealous (and a few deans...interested) and I got pegged by a tennis ball flying out of it, but all in all, trebs kick some sweet ass =).
contact techhouse (those people that put tetris on the sciences library at Brown) and we would be (most likely) happy to take it (our server is only a 233Mhz!!!)
yup. =)
it looks sweet. for a cartoon. I am really impressed with it, actually. Realtime high quality cartoonage. Now if only they didn't waste zelda on it.
But you gotta realize their target audience. They want kids to play. They want really kid-friendly games. Too bad we lose out.
(emphesis applied by submitter)
To the Attorney General of Utah:
FOURSCORE and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon, this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. Let it also be known that I love the new feel of Microsoft WindowsXP. It's so easy to use, it's no wonder the'ye number one! And just like Windows98 promised, it's fatser, more stable, and makes it even easier to get on the internet! We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here, It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Yours Truly,
Abraham Lincoln
The article, IMHO, misses the difference in uses - if you've got a small device that you want to conserve power on, and only communicate small distances, Bluetooth's ideal. If you've got a lot of power, a la a notebook computer, and want to communicate 150 ft., then 802.11 is what you want. Imagine that: Different uses! Different standards! Amazing!
I'd just like to congradulate Hemos for making a very insightful comment that prolly cut the number of useless posts in this article thread in half.
But, despite the recognized difference, I think they may have soemthing anyway. The average consumer is gonna see two protocols that appear to be redundant; they both do some sort of wireless communication, no? And, as 802.11 gets more and more popular (as it has already hit off, as opposed to bluetooth)the average consumer will see the clearly higher use of 802.11 in devices and therefore choose to go with a 802.11 device, despite the advantages that bluetooth (is supposed to) have over 802.11
But then again, maybe not.
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You'd think there is a reason it's there =)
This is a call to stop posting these omni-encompassing articles to slashdot. They are like glamour peices found in "We're so fake" magazines. An overview of AI? An overview of first person shooter? How the hell can a single article do these topics justice?
I think we (the editors) need to get in the habit of approving more articles about obscure scientific (nerdy) tidbits of interest and fewer grandscale attempts at covering a topic when we KNOW it's futile.
GeForce3 speed at the price of...more than a Geforce3. Maybe if the halved the price, and finished the implimentation of the features that are supposed to make this card a killah, then I would think about it. ATi, however, can't expect to compete with nVidia with a more expensive card when nVidia is known for their great driver support (yay det 4!).
Then again, more work on the 8500 may produce a true Geforce3 killer....
/me turns on Home Shopping Network in search of the new Damascus Steal Ginsu Knife:
"It slices, it dices, it cuts through silk cans!!! It'll cut your fingers off cleaner than ever!!!"
IF YOUR PC IS RUNNING WINDOWS 2000 SERVER OR WINDOWS NT 4.0 SERVER,
PLEASE IMMEDIATELY DOWNLOAD THE CODE RED PATCH FROM MICROSOFT'S WEBSITE
(www.microsoft.com/security) AND RESTART YOUR PC.
So....let me get this right...I d/l the patch, then I reboot. It seems (RR and) Microsoft finds rebooting to be the solution to everything:
What To Do If You Are Vulnerable?
a. To rid your machine of the current worm, reboot your computer.
then they say...
b. To protect your system from re-infection: Install the patch as specified in the instructions.
At least they got the INSTALL THE PATCH part...heh
From: Support@iis.microsoft.com
To: Registered_Users@iis.microsoft.com
CC:
Subject: RE: IIS Code Red Worm Patch
Attachment: Instructions.doc
Body:
Hi, how are you?
We are writing you in response to the Code Red worm that has recently attacked our premium enterprise gold standard web portal system, Microsoft Internet Information Server. We have compiled a set of directions for patching the server, and have included these instructionsin a easy to read Word document. If MS Outlook didn't automagically open this attachment for you, double click on the attachment link above.
If you have any advice on this file, please email us back!
See you later!
To my knowledge, Microsoft didn't even try to mass-mail the patch to their registered customers who might be affected.
From: Support@iis.microsoft.com
To: Registered_Users@iis.microsoft.com
CC:
Subject: RE: IIS Code Red Worm Patch
Attachment: Instructions.doc
Body:
Hi, how are you?
We are writing you in response to the Code Red worm that has recently attacked our premium enterprise gold standard web portal system, Microsoft Internet Information Server. We have compiled a set of directions for patching the server, and have included these instructionsin a easy to read Word document. If MS Outlook didn't automagically open this attachment for you, double click on the attachment link above.
If you have any advice on this file, please email us back!
See you later!
you'd be suprised. Search traffic for gnutella is inhibitingly huge. when you've got hundreds of copies of your query running through the network, along with the answers, along with everyone elses going, you can get up to the 10's of Megs /sec easy. compressing the queries would be a huge help.
looking at the stats, I think this would be VERY helpful if I could make it would with my gnutella client I am hacking. I don't mind incompatibility with other clients caus eI am building this for a University intranet, but gnutella, as we all know, would use far too much bandwidth. If I could compress the search queries, I would savve a lot of bandwidth. ideas?
This is not the problem. The problem is that people expect a benchmark to make their decision for you. If they just went down to their local CompUSA and tried out the darned machine, found that it was sufficient for their needs, and felt the price was reasonable, instead of just looking for the best deal, you would get a lot more people happy with their machine cause they TRIED IT OUT, and cause they prolly found a slower machine would do just fine.
I hate the benchmark approach to purchasing a machine.
internet explorer views png. I think that takes care of a HUGE chunk of the population, no?
incidents.org will soon be reporting how quickly they were personally attacked by the SlashDot worm (in a nice pretty 3d line graph). That's something I would like to see.
actually, the proability of getting that number is exactly 0. Mathematically speaking, it is impossible to get an infinite string of zeros out of a random number generator. say we are in binary:
.5
.25
.125
prob of getting 0:
prob of getting 00:
prob of getting 000:
clearly the probability of getting N 0s in a row is (.5)^(N). As N -> inifinity, the probabilty goes to 0. You can not get an infinite number of zeros out of a perfect randome number generator.
In addition, a simple formula discovered makes it possible to calculate the Nth binary digit of Pi without computing any of the first N-1 digits, and do the computation with very little computing power.
sure, they can get the Nth binary digit down, but that says nothing about the last digit of binary pi. After years of calculation, estimation, and bullshitization, my team of expert physicists, mathematicians, and old-wise-men-of-the-village, have come to the ultimate conclusion that the last digit of pi in binary is undoubtedly equal to 1.
to which I said "thats non-sense. write down pi, then add a 0 to the end. is that not the same value?"
After many more years of careful study of the texts, bringing in ancient greek and latin scholars, and a couple ancient arameic into the mix, my team once again came up with a solution. The last siginificant digit of pi in binary is undoubtedly equal to 1.
I thought long and hard about this and realized it was certainly true. Then, when I thought a bit more, I realized we found something even more significant. Knowing that any number with a fractional part in binary must, when converted to decimal, end with 5, I therefore reasoned the last significant digit of pi equals 5. Looking at my printout of decimal pi, I then resolved that when speaking in sigificant terms, pi does in fact equal 3.1415. I had always laughed at my engineering professors who seemed to use such silly approximations, but now I know for a fact 3.1415 is for all intents and purposes equal to pi.
this is bound to be a joke
Dunno...don't care...but damn...the newer mavica's are nice, aren't they?
chances are this is a joke
Sounds to me like the point of this project is a global infinite loop. I don't know much about this, but if that's what it is...count me out. I have it bad enough as it is. (I run windows
chances are, this is a joke.
read some William Faulkner. he's got the 2 page sentence down.
Well, I believe that he made a mistake, but I once could read it as "Witherspoon's character (which worked well in clueless)" Ie, he is talking about the character type in clueless, not her acting in the movie.
I must disagree. I can think of atleast one certain website that, if the /. effect took its toll, would increase productivity 10x fold.
Xbox does not support DVD movie playback.