A Jedi can slice through a person with a light saber with no perceptible change to the momentum of the saber, so it seems likely that there is not a whole lot of tactile feedback in a "real" light saber either. I think the tactile feedback would probably be little more than it would be if one were slicing a hot knife through butter. So, fencing with a light saber in any context would not "live up to" the experience of real fencing because the weapons involved are too different.
Arr! I be proposin' an electrical jolt whenever ye be hittin' the other curs sabre. Avast, games should be educational -- ye should be taught a lesson about fightin' with glow sticks that can kill!
aye laddie, aye laddie, where's me eye laddie? - John Byner
players will finally get to use the Wiimote for its intended purpose -- as a lightsaber.
'The sword-swinging action will be exclusive to the Wii version, and even then, it will
only be available in an exclusive "duel mode." The description in the release says that
this duel mode will be a multiplayer affair.'"
Arrr! I be thinking it be more fun to have an actual lightsabre, be it plastic I don't be carin', with the
Wii controller attached some way, so ye be hackin' and slashin' (and no small bit o' swashbucklin'!) to the dulcet tones of
sommon bellowin' 'Hey, you could poke an eye out with that thing!'
We be needing cutlasses and some fing piratin' adventures, too. oX|P-)
Wow, they are really using separate dies now? I'm surprised - they got themselves into some trouble back in the day with the Pentium Pro when they used separate chips for the processor and cache. It's hard to test both chips, and so you end up assembling everything with the potential of losing the whole package if final test fails. It also would make inter-core communication slow because of the much larger wire distances.
Aye, they be taking risks and writin' off some speed, but they must have some secret Intel way of testin' things. AMD be staying with one die, for now, but processors be commodities now, ye be throwing many at the problem and less emphasis on how potent each one be. Aye be thinkin' that be how Google got started, just on different a scale.
Why do you think that multiple cores and Moore's Law mutually exclusive? All Moore's law does is predict that the number of transistors on a given chunk of silicon will increase exponentially. Put 1 or 80 cores on the same chunk of silicon... it makes no difference as far as Moore's law is concerned.
Oh yeah, yaaaaarrrr.
Arr! Intel be using separate dies to accomplish multiple cores. At some point even AMD be havin' to, matey. Emphasis be movin' to lower cost production, just be splicin' the mainbrace, er, splicin' multiple inexpensive dies to be accomodatin' more cores they be!
Exactly. Whenever one process technology reaches its physical limits, we get a new one, because the new process makes money. X-ray lithography, chip stacking, 3D circuits, and eventually nanotech will all keep us on the Moore's law path probably for the rest of my life, at least.
Ye be forgettin' one thing, matey, they be makin' multiple cores now. Eventually we be lookin at distributed computing on an individual platform. Ye may be layin' claim to Moore's law applyin', but it be tenuous a claim at best. The paradigm be shiftin' away from the domain of Moore.
As odd as, say, someone keeping printouts of 25+ year old conversations from community college message boards?;)
We had some great discussions. We experience flame-wars (gun control as one I recall vividly), angry crapflooders, ALL CAPS, etc. Pretty well everything you see now came about the moment you threw a VT52 terminal and message system at people through which they could chat with anonymity. Heck, we even had cyber stalkers, those who wanted to find out who was using a certain name on the system (you could hit Ctrl-T and see which terminals were which TTY numbers, and the messages included TTY numbers in their headers.)
Strange it may have seemed, but I certainly wish I had kept more. They stuff is priceless and I have some good memories of those days. Still in touch with some of the geeks I chatted with back then.
Ok, I'm not even going to touch the fact that you bought a VIDEO iPod without realising it was meant to play videos.
They had an iPod nano 9 months ago as well, and its battery life was even better than the current one (in case you can't tell by the new enlarged screen). It was meant to *gasp* just play music, the current one now plays videos too.
I picked mine up at CostCo. Not exactly well known for selection. They had the 30 GB and a larger model which I thought would be overkill. I didn't opt for the nano 2GB or 4GB as I figured I needed at least 10 GB for my collection of Gunsmoke, Jack Benny, Fred Allen, X Minus 1, Dimension X, Have Gun Will Travel and perhaps some more series to pick up later. I discovered these shows were available through Satellite Radio and have picked up a few DVDs of mp3 files of entire runs.
I think the battery suffers more from turning the display on and off, which is rather automatic, everytime I change volume level, pause/restart or just want to see how much time is left or what time it currently is. Perhaps continuous viewing would make the battery last a bit longer. All in all, it serves it's purpose and only set me back $230.
I know we were using these on a message board in 1979-1980 at a community college in Michigan prior to then. I might even be able to dig some of it up as I printed off a lot of messages back then and may still have them in an old computer paper box.
Rather odd anyone would lay a claim to inventing it. I'm certain the concept dates further back to teletypes and such.
Too bad I dropped off the fence a bit too soon, but I did have to do some long flights and radio plays were a great help passing the time. I picked out a video iPod without realising it's meant to watch videos as well as play music. Considering battery life that's a bit optimistic. Perhaps thirty minutes of video and the battery is well gone. Listening to mp3s it can go for several days, though already the battery after 9 mos. is showing a decrease in life.
I was a bit shocked when my brother pointed out all the features of mine. All I ever do is listen to radio plays and have a collection of under 100 tunes ripped from my CD collection. Rather than have the battery sucking display, I think I'd rather have more battery life.
Around Dodge City and in the territory on west, there's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers and that's with a U.S. Marshal and the smell of gunsmoke.
The slump, McBride said, "has been primarily attributable to significant competition from alternative operating systems, including Linux." McBride listed IBM, Red Hat, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems as distributors of Linux or other software that is "aggressively taking market share away from Unix.""
Seems the logical approach would be for them to develop Unix and market it aggressively in return, rather than count on hitting the jackpot through the Lawsuit Lottery.
Seems they should have learned something from this example, but it does seem to strike everyone that
there really never was an interest in growing the Unix market. It was all about suing IBM and other Linux distro makers.
In Other News: Br'er Rabbit informs us he's certain he can defeat the Tar-Baby if he could just get one foot free long enough to take another kick at it.
Oh, aren't you the optomist.
To get bot/zombie nets shutdown would require MASSIVE multi-National support of Government's, TELCO's, ISP's, and politicians. The Gov's are too busy with the future of oil for that to every happen. As far as the Telco's are concerned, they're too busy tracking your web usage and shoving money in their back pocket. ISP's are just trying to stay in the market, much less effectively clamp down on traffic coming from their users. As for Policitian's, the software and hardware companies got them elected in the first place.
Can anyone say, 'Massive shutdown of internet services at some point in the future'?
It starts with one. One person, one company, one country, whatever, but it has to start.
I've seen any number of stories of arrests, but I haven't seen any company take the lead. They all seem to be sitting around waiting for someone else to solve the problem. Funny. Think this would be a selling point for a company -- we'll notify you if we see things coming from inside your school/business/home.
With CastleCops.com as a honeypot, ISPs could be contacted to the origin of the DDoS attacks, PayPal could do some investigating of their own as to the IP origins of donations and do something about this stuff.
Fer Bob's sakes, this isn't 2001 anymore, when are these companies and perhaps goverment going to make some strides in shutting down bots and zombies?
If the meteorite was of Iron/Nickel composition there's a good chance a fair amount of nickel was boiled off and carried into the area, possibly some produced by the head of the impact and blast.
There's no other rational explanation. Especially if the meteorite was green. Though there's different kinds of kryptonite out there. For instance Superman is very allergic to red, although it doesn't kill him.... This is not off topic!:-(
If the meteorite was of Iron/Nickel composition there's a good chance superheated Nickel became vapourous. Nickel as a gas is highly toxic.
Heck, the accountants probably know that there is no money to pay themselves. So, why work?
Reminds me of a company I once worked for. The accountants (finance people) were sworn to some sort of secrecy not to disclose to other employees what they were doing. Basically only paying accounts when there was dire cause (and in some instances the cheques were immediately pulled from the mail bin and locked in a drawer after the vendor agreed to free things up.) After the fall someone finally told me what was going on. Accountants know the games that are played to keep a semblance of business as usual even when the precipice is looming
Those who stay on risk receiving pay cheques which will not cash.
I don't know much about kerberos, but I do know that it has always been used in the national lab where I worked the last few years (Sandia Natl Labs). So apparently the government trusts it (not sure if that counts for anything)...
With MS embedding thier version of Kerberos into their OS's it's fairly certain they will try to influence the direction of this in thier favor. Just something to watch out for.
Didn't we just cover this aspect of MS embedding crap in the EU ruling? They can do it in the US, perhaps Asia, but the EU will be telling them to OPEN UP. So if I wanted to use my own authentication system in the OS I should be able to, not Microsoft's.
Oranisational Restructuring: "No, you want Bodkin, he shuffles orange and white papers, I now shuffle green and baby blue papers. Yellow and tan papers are down the hall to the left, shuffled by Morris."
Actually, if he stopped accepting royalties, then the record companies will make an even larger profit and they wouldn't care. That would make it an empty gesture.
Feh! They real money is in the live shows. CD sales hardly enrich performers at all.
Generally you WRITE a REQUEST for this information, not snoop around and find it. Bad on the City to leave stubs lying around as that's just more stuff for identity thieves to pillage.
It's been a long time coming, but still they had to know this day would arrive. If shareholders
weren't really in it for the crapshoot of beating IBM and Novell for $Billion$ they'd have a case
against Darl and his lot for running the business into the ground pursuing frivolous lawsuits.
SCO's income from normal opperations must be down to a trickle with Linux and Windows Server
vying for most of the market.
Emerge from Chapter 11? I can't see how, unless somehow there was a reversal of court
decisions and they're doing nothing to grow their product market.
I say! She's challenging the bedrock of modern law! It's all written and owned by the cartels, corporations, rich and poweful and they've earned it! They have worked very hard and at no little expsense to get those laws, buying representatives, influencing judge selections and so forth. How dare the little ordinary person challenge this status! This almost made the monocle pop right out of my eye! I shall have to see what I can do to prevent these common rabble from believing they were hah! created equal.
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A Jedi can slice through a person with a light saber with no perceptible change to the momentum of the saber, so it seems likely that there is not a whole lot of tactile feedback in a "real" light saber either. I think the tactile feedback would probably be little more than it would be if one were slicing a hot knife through butter. So, fencing with a light saber in any context would not "live up to" the experience of real fencing because the weapons involved are too different.
Arr! I be proposin' an electrical jolt whenever ye be hittin' the other curs sabre. Avast, games should be educational -- ye should be taught a lesson about fightin' with glow sticks that can kill!
aye laddie, aye laddie, where's me eye laddie? - John Byner
Arrr! I be thinking it be more fun to have an actual lightsabre, be it plastic I don't be carin', with the Wii controller attached some way, so ye be hackin' and slashin' (and no small bit o' swashbucklin'!) to the dulcet tones of sommon bellowin' 'Hey, you could poke an eye out with that thing!'
We be needing cutlasses and some fing piratin' adventures, too. oX|P-)
Aye, they be taking risks and writin' off some speed, but they must have some secret Intel way of testin' things. AMD be staying with one die, for now, but processors be commodities now, ye be throwing many at the problem and less emphasis on how potent each one be. Aye be thinkin' that be how Google got started, just on different a scale.
"Avast! It cannot be Medium John Silver's DNA on that XBox 360 Special Monkey Island Edition!"
"Sir, it matches the database."
"Yarr. Caught red handed."
Arr! Intel be using separate dies to accomplish multiple cores. At some point even AMD be havin' to, matey. Emphasis be movin' to lower cost production, just be splicin' the mainbrace, er, splicin' multiple inexpensive dies to be accomodatin' more cores they be!
Exactly. Whenever one process technology reaches its physical limits, we get a new one, because the new process makes money. X-ray lithography, chip stacking, 3D circuits, and eventually nanotech will all keep us on the Moore's law path probably for the rest of my life, at least.
Ye be forgettin' one thing, matey, they be makin' multiple cores now. Eventually we be lookin at distributed computing on an individual platform. Ye may be layin' claim to Moore's law applyin', but it be tenuous a claim at best. The paradigm be shiftin' away from the domain of Moore.
As odd as, say, someone keeping printouts of 25+ year old conversations from community college message boards? ;)
We had some great discussions. We experience flame-wars (gun control as one I recall vividly), angry crapflooders, ALL CAPS, etc. Pretty well everything you see now came about the moment you threw a VT52 terminal and message system at people through which they could chat with anonymity. Heck, we even had cyber stalkers, those who wanted to find out who was using a certain name on the system (you could hit Ctrl-T and see which terminals were which TTY numbers, and the messages included TTY numbers in their headers.)
Strange it may have seemed, but I certainly wish I had kept more. They stuff is priceless and I have some good memories of those days. Still in touch with some of the geeks I chatted with back then.
I picked mine up at CostCo. Not exactly well known for selection. They had the 30 GB and a larger model which I thought would be overkill. I didn't opt for the nano 2GB or 4GB as I figured I needed at least 10 GB for my collection of Gunsmoke, Jack Benny, Fred Allen, X Minus 1, Dimension X, Have Gun Will Travel and perhaps some more series to pick up later. I discovered these shows were available through Satellite Radio and have picked up a few DVDs of mp3 files of entire runs.
I think the battery suffers more from turning the display on and off, which is rather automatic, everytime I change volume level, pause/restart or just want to see how much time is left or what time it currently is. Perhaps continuous viewing would make the battery last a bit longer. All in all, it serves it's purpose and only set me back $230.
That means 1983 or so.
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I know we were using these on a message board in 1979-1980 at a community college in Michigan prior to then. I might even be able to dig some of it up as I printed off a lot of messages back then and may still have them in an old computer paper box.
Rather odd anyone would lay a claim to inventing it. I'm certain the concept dates further back to teletypes and such.
Ah well, anything to start a ruckus on
(c:
Too bad I dropped off the fence a bit too soon, but I did have to do some long flights and radio plays were a great help passing the time. I picked out a video iPod without realising it's meant to watch videos as well as play music. Considering battery life that's a bit optimistic. Perhaps thirty minutes of video and the battery is well gone. Listening to mp3s it can go for several days, though already the battery after 9 mos. is showing a decrease in life.
I was a bit shocked when my brother pointed out all the features of mine. All I ever do is listen to radio plays and have a collection of under 100 tunes ripped from my CD collection. Rather than have the battery sucking display, I think I'd rather have more battery life.
Around Dodge City and in the territory on west, there's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers and that's with a U.S. Marshal and the smell of gunsmoke.
I suppose that's why they pay the Darl McBride the big bucks -- nothing gets by him.
The incredible Darl in action! Does anyone worry his next job will be working for their company?
Seems the logical approach would be for them to develop Unix and market it aggressively in return, rather than count on hitting the jackpot through the Lawsuit Lottery.
Seems they should have learned something from this example, but it does seem to strike everyone that there really never was an interest in growing the Unix market. It was all about suing IBM and other Linux distro makers.
In Other News: Br'er Rabbit informs us he's certain he can defeat the Tar-Baby if he could just get one foot free long enough to take another kick at it.
It starts with one. One person, one company, one country, whatever, but it has to start.
I've seen any number of stories of arrests, but I haven't seen any company take the lead. They all seem to be sitting around waiting for someone else to solve the problem. Funny. Think this would be a selling point for a company -- we'll notify you if we see things coming from inside your school/business/home.
With CastleCops.com as a honeypot, ISPs could be contacted to the origin of the DDoS attacks, PayPal could do some investigating of their own as to the IP origins of donations and do something about this stuff.
Fer Bob's sakes, this isn't 2001 anymore, when are these companies and perhaps goverment going to make some strides in shutting down bots and zombies?
clearly this 6,000 year old rock came down from the heavens as God's judgment on the unbelievers.
No, it's actually an Illudium Pew 36 space modulator. Didn't you hear? Earth is obstructing the martian's view of Venus
If the meteorite was of Iron/Nickel composition there's a good chance a fair amount of nickel was boiled off and carried into the area, possibly some produced by the head of the impact and blast.
Please see: Toxicity Summary for NICKEL AND NICKEL COMPOUNDS
There's no other rational explanation. Especially if the meteorite was green. Though there's different kinds of kryptonite out there. For instance Superman is very allergic to red, although it doesn't kill him. ... This is not off topic! :-(
If the meteorite was of Iron/Nickel composition there's a good chance superheated Nickel became vapourous. Nickel as a gas is highly toxic.
Seriously, what about the other half? Do they have some sort of personal reality distortion field?
They've either got iron-clad guarantee of compensation or they are afraid to leave, go look for another job, what have you.
Ultimately they will all likely find things do not work out and that Bob is indeed not their uncle.
Heck, the accountants probably know that there is no money to pay themselves. So, why work?
Reminds me of a company I once worked for. The accountants (finance people) were sworn to some sort of secrecy not to disclose to other employees what they were doing. Basically only paying accounts when there was dire cause (and in some instances the cheques were immediately pulled from the mail bin and locked in a drawer after the vendor agreed to free things up.) After the fall someone finally told me what was going on. Accountants know the games that are played to keep a semblance of business as usual even when the precipice is looming
Those who stay on risk receiving pay cheques which will not cash.
I don't know much about kerberos, but I do know that it has always been used in the national lab where I worked the last few years (Sandia Natl Labs). So apparently the government trusts it (not sure if that counts for anything)...
Software they trust, it's people ...
With MS embedding thier version of Kerberos into their OS's it's fairly certain they will try to influence the direction of this in thier favor. Just something to watch out for.
Didn't we just cover this aspect of MS embedding crap in the EU ruling? They can do it in the US, perhaps Asia, but the EU will be telling them to OPEN UP. So if I wanted to use my own authentication system in the OS I should be able to, not Microsoft's.
Oranisational Restructuring: "No, you want Bodkin, he shuffles orange and white papers, I now shuffle green and baby blue papers. Yellow and tan papers are down the hall to the left, shuffled by Morris."
"So that's World or Mariocraft at $54.95, Halogen World at $54.95 and ECCH Sofa Soccer '08 at $54.95, with tax is um $202.45"
"Duh, how many twenties is that?"
"How many do you have, ah 12 or 13 should do."
"*drool* Dar, don't I get some change back?"
"Oh Certainly, let's see here's 1, 2, 3, say, what grade are you in?"
"Duh, 10."
"Ah, very good, where was I, oh yes, 10, 11, how old are you if you don't mind my asking?"
"Dur. I'm 16."
"Ah, I should have guessed, so let's see, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, there you go have a nice day! Enjoy your games!"
"Duh, oh boy will I! Buh bye!"
Actually, if he stopped accepting royalties, then the record companies will make an even larger profit and they wouldn't care. That would make it an empty gesture.
Feh! They real money is in the live shows. CD sales hardly enrich performers at all.
Generally you WRITE a REQUEST for this information, not snoop around and find it. Bad on the City to leave stubs lying around as that's just more stuff for identity thieves to pillage.
And tell the fat lady to start warming up.
It's been a long time coming, but still they had to know this day would arrive. If shareholders weren't really in it for the crapshoot of beating IBM and Novell for $Billion$ they'd have a case against Darl and his lot for running the business into the ground pursuing frivolous lawsuits.
SCO's income from normal opperations must be down to a trickle with Linux and Windows Server vying for most of the market.
Emerge from Chapter 11? I can't see how, unless somehow there was a reversal of court decisions and they're doing nothing to grow their product market.
I say! She's challenging the bedrock of modern law! It's all written and owned by the cartels, corporations, rich and poweful and they've earned it! They have worked very hard and at no little expsense to get those laws, buying representatives, influencing judge selections and so forth. How dare the little ordinary person challenge this status! This almost made the monocle pop right out of my eye! I shall have to see what I can do to prevent these common rabble from believing they were hah! created equal.