Nice to announce dumping bitkeeper, but usually you have a repacement in mind before you ditch something. (I understand the rationale, I just think the cart is a bit before the horse.)
It's a 0 based counter, it's missing the 0th reason for humans in space.
Mutants!
Yes, you too can mutate beyond your wildest dreams, slice-n-dice your DNA and see what
progeny you yield! Two heads? Three arms? Oh, no! That's fine for the Beeblebrox's next door over, but you could have any of the following with proper exposure to unshielded solar radation:
Green scale in place of skin!
Radar Vision!
Able to leap small buildings in a few bounds!
Hyperspeed!
Oil Breath! (Please note: If you develop this desirable trait, contact The Oil Producers & Exploitation Council, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washinton DC or your local Halliburton branch office.)
Snake Hair!
X-Ray Hearing!
The ability to become water in any shape or form!
Huge pectoral muscles!
Chicken feet!
Facial tentacles!
Long black hair, pasty white skin and interchangeable noses!
Shark fins and laser eyes!
Or with improper planning it may just be a short-lived pile of goo! Send for free brochure:
Let's see if we're all still laughing in 18 months.
Meanwhile, the US has spent itself into such a massive hole that it can't keep up spending for education. Even colleges have had to turn away students because they've laid off so many staff.
An economy isn't so much based upon money, but on ideas and when there's poor education then the flow of ideas is stunted.
She's not too far off - Everytime I see a story on Microsoft and Linux - I see the extremists belittle, spread FUD, and incorrect information. I've long maintained that if the best you can do is tell me FUD about Microsoft as a reason to switch - then there's no reason to switch.
One of the prime examples of winnowing me away from I.E. for instance, was that someone finally sat there for a moment and told me what Firefox could do - 10/15 messages back and forth - not a word or mention of IE, and I switched.
I'd like the same about Linux, but always get belittled for asking.
Oh! An extremely objective point of view! Extremist!
I was coming from a CRT monitor...then I switched to this thing and WOAH. I'm in love.
The thing is bright, very very fast (8ms) and big (19").
I was determined to go LCD on my next monitor, a few years ago. I was leaning toward an NEC, but then I checked a few more reviews and they just couldn't get enough of the 172t, so I got it. In particular for the 500:1 contrast ratio, which kicks ass.
Yes, it only comes with an analog connector...but to tell the truth, I doubt it could get clearer, sharper or brighter than it is now. This thing is great.
It will look great, it'll be sharper, marginally, with DVI, but the only problem I've experienced is too sharp an image, with high contrast, can cause a lot of eye strain, where softened images tend not to.
It's like looking through a window...a very clean and clear window.
My wallpaper is from above Texas Spring Campground, in Death valley. It is almost as good as standing there. Death Valley at sunrise.
It starts off like a traditional review, but their discussion of color accuracy is the best I've ever seen."
Sure, but like their discussion of DVI I do have at least one issue regarding analog-DVI. I have a DVI monitor, which also works on analog and noticed the difference when
hooking up the DVI cable (when I got my ATI AIW wizzo graphics card) Analog offers a softer image which may be more desireable. With DVI I can tell subtle shades
from pixel to pixel, tiny as they are at 1280x1024, yet with the softening of lossy D/A/D conversion it's far less obvious. The only real downside being fuzzier letters. Letters
already can be a pain because of the anti-aliasing attempt to split a 1 pixel vertical line between two columns of pixels, especially if you're like me and
run at high res and small fonts.
I'm still using a Samsung 172t (w/500:1 contrast ratio, w00t) 2.5 years old and only 3 stuck pixels, no pixel smearing, either. Only downside is I can no longer pile things on top of a monitor.
Those images would have been slightly more convincing without the severe jpeg compression, BTW.
I use NIMH for most everything (and don't they last longer in digital cameras than alkalines?) but they are no good for flashlights, where you need long storage life and a lot of power. Long life is good too. So, I'll get a few of these oxy-whatever when they come out.
Digi cameras kill alkaline cells due to the high current draw. I can usually do only 40 pictures with my old CoolPix 800 with alkalines, where I can do hundreds with a set of NiMH.
I've had a set of NiMH cells in my flashlight for over a year now. No problems.
I submit that the vast number of programs out there are going to rely on the OS for TZ information, instead of trying to calculate DST themselves. Especially given the patchwork nature of DST in the US.
OS will likely account for much of it, but every damn computer will have to be thoroughly checked to be sure. You know how it is, right?
I once worked in the logistics industry (fancy name for transportation of goods anywhere on a schedule) and we had huge tables of locations and had to indicate whether they were or were not subject to DST. IIRC Indiana has some bizarreness, where Arizona uniformly doesn't do DST. It's an example and I don't know how many others in transportation, telecommunications, etc would have similar concerns. But they have to first be certain whether they will or will not be affected then test the patch, so it's still a bit Y2K-like.
Y2K drove the dot com bubble indirectly: the Fed loosened the money supply when it would ordinarily have been tightening, in order to give companies easy access to capital in case Y2K became a crisis. When Y2K passed uneventfully, the easy acces to capital became a different sort of crisis. IMO it was a risk worth taking, as the dot com bubble only destroyed my bank account, but Y2K seemed poised to destroy my ability to bank
The Fed did loosen the money supply, but they did also post 9/11, and it's still ultra inexpensive to borrow, but companies aren't because they lack faith that they'll be able to pay back loans based upon exected revenue forecasts (geez, I'm a geek, why do I know this stuff?, oh, right, I love econ:) anyway, fear of Y2K drove spending, because fear of being stranded was more compelling than fear they couldn't pay back any loans.
How would the cost of this change compare with Y2K?
It has been speculated, and fairly so IMHO, that Y2K was what initially drove the.com
bubble. While I certainly wouldn't discount releases of many previously classified technologies
and growth of the internet, there was a consider amount of capital put into hardware and software upgrades in the mid-to-late nineties.
Imagine what kind of capital would be required to change DST behavior on govt computers alone. We could probably convert CO2 and H2O back into
hydrocarbons cheaper.
CSC, Accenture, EDS, et al are probably salivating at the thought of such a passage of law.
I *think* I recall hearing the same argument when the robotic dog thing came out from Sony. People were hacking it and Sony started shutting down sites. Then they realized the benefit of the 3rd party hacks and began releasing SDKs for the later versions of the wacky lil beast.
Possibly Sony relented because the Aibo wasn't a platform for generating money through subsequent sales of software. Remember, PS and PSP are what are called Loss-Leaders. They real money is in selling the games, videos and other enhancements.
The developments are not sanctioned by Sony but the firm has not commented on the homebrew tools.
Yet...
So is this going to be another case where the developer of PSPIRC and other hackers have laid their hands on
a PSP-DK (which will likely turn out completely unauthorized, etc.) and Sony will come down like a ton of bricks upon people?
IIRC something like this has happened in the past. While I like the idea, you know Sony officially sanctions development for PS games, usually
entering exclusive agreements, i.e. Sony provides DK, Developer agrees not to distribute DK, Developer creates game and turns over to Sony, Sony produces the
carts and either sells them and splits the revenues or sells them back to the developer to do their own marketing (dunno if it works exactly like that anymore, but
I know it was the business model.) So Sony holds ultimate control over what's released for their PS and PSP platforms.
I expect a big shoe to drop. It wouldn't be a good idea to go blathering your name and accomplishments all over the place, particularly to reporters. I expect Sony
will make their displeasure known in good time and in no uncertain terms. A shame, but this is part of their plan to protect their investment.
The problem with regulation of nearly anything is it only stops honest people. Usually, the people that weren't going to do anything wrong in the first place.
You also have to question the legitimacy and intentions of the regulators, as he's alluding to, sort of. In the broad sense, everyone is entitled to it. Better to allow everyone to have the stuff and treat them fairly, than withhold it and waste intelligence resources (and more) trying to stem its spread.
He should learn some history, the Green Gang was the predecessor to the KMT, or Nationalist Chinese and was largely run by "Big Eared Tu" in the manner of organized crime with Chiang Kai-shek as his puppet.
Today's Nanotech is probably tomorrows equivilent to nuclear weapons. Who's to say who can and can't have it? The mighty leader of the free world?
I notice a number of the affected software inlcude anti-virus and firewall. Granted, some of these
are probably out of date, but then again most home users are going to be the ones using these packages.
Assuming you download SP2, inavertently because you allow auto-update, will it install with the Windows firewall
defaulting to On?
The most sure-fire way to attract the attentions of any virus (including human virus/worm authors) is to have a dense population of
the same thing. Naturally, a large number of SP2 firewall enabled computers will provide a challenge to the vermin
who write virus/worms will be focusing on it and what a lovely day it will be when they've cracked it.
At least I didn't see my firewall listed, and I ain't revealing what it is, either.
Sure, internet click-thrus generate money, but when they get so invasive and destructive, they'll drive people way from the internet. I can't imagine any advertiser likes that idea.
Worse, perhaps, is that all these problems may encourage some horrible proprietary internet standards to arise, claiming safety from ad/spy/malware, phishing, etc. and all the cattle have to do is sign up, abandoning the old internet.
Actually there's that bit in Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton regarding the more complex a system, the more likely it'll break down. (Honestly don't know who to attribute that to other than MC.)
I still find amazing that they managed to fit 1.7 billion transitors in a chip.
they are just very, very small.;)
Actually they're rather large, but cleverly Intel have found a way to story them in an alternate universe using Portable Blackhole Technology(TM). Cross your fingers and hope nobody in that alternate universe stumbles across them.
Intel's latest Itanium chip has 1.7 billion transistors!"
That's Montecito dual core Itanium, w/24MB of cache (only about 120 million transistors actually
per CPU with the balance largely that motherlode of cache) and you could probably fry a steak on.
"We can keep Moore's Law alive just by stuffing the cache!"
"Brilliant!"
"Brilliant!"
Suddenly they were crushed by a giant can of Guinness containing not even an electronic sausage...
Shouldn't be too long before interstate travel in the US requires a passport. That'll finally put an end to criminals moving to another state to hide from the law.
Reminds me of the old Apple ][ game of Castle Wolfenstein. "Aus Passe!" You need a pass to go from room to room when challenged by a soldier.
Also, a great way to raise government revenues. Last time I had a passport I forked over $65 for it. As there's a lot of people who travel between Detroit and Windsor, it'll either kill tourism, nightlife, etc. or people will cough up the dough and fund more government spending. yay.
Slashdot Mirror
Tridge?
Mutants!
Yes, you too can mutate beyond your wildest dreams, slice-n-dice your DNA and see what progeny you yield! Two heads? Three arms? Oh, no! That's fine for the Beeblebrox's next door over, but you could have any of the following with proper exposure to unshielded solar radation:
Or with improper planning it may just be a short-lived pile of goo! Send for free brochure:
(Include $10 for shipping and handling)
Let's see if we're all still laughing in 18 months.
Meanwhile, the US has spent itself into such a massive hole that it can't keep up spending for education. Even colleges have had to turn away students because they've laid off so many staff.
An economy isn't so much based upon money, but on ideas and when there's poor education then the flow of ideas is stunted.
they say diarrhea is hereditary, it runs in the jeans...
Oh! An extremely objective point of view! Extremist!
Which is where my subwoofer resides.
-and it has less gravitational potential energy, so it's less likely to fall and crush you.
Where's your sense of adventure?
I was determined to go LCD on my next monitor, a few years ago. I was leaning toward an NEC, but then I checked a few more reviews and they just couldn't get enough of the 172t, so I got it. In particular for the 500:1 contrast ratio, which kicks ass.
Yes, it only comes with an analog connector...but to tell the truth, I doubt it could get clearer, sharper or brighter than it is now. This thing is great.
It will look great, it'll be sharper, marginally, with DVI, but the only problem I've experienced is too sharp an image, with high contrast, can cause a lot of eye strain, where softened images tend not to.
It's like looking through a window...a very clean and clear window.
My wallpaper is from above Texas Spring Campground, in Death valley. It is almost as good as standing there. Death Valley at sunrise.
Sure, but like their discussion of DVI I do have at least one issue regarding analog-DVI. I have a DVI monitor, which also works on analog and noticed the difference when hooking up the DVI cable (when I got my ATI AIW wizzo graphics card) Analog offers a softer image which may be more desireable. With DVI I can tell subtle shades from pixel to pixel, tiny as they are at 1280x1024, yet with the softening of lossy D/A/D conversion it's far less obvious. The only real downside being fuzzier letters. Letters already can be a pain because of the anti-aliasing attempt to split a 1 pixel vertical line between two columns of pixels, especially if you're like me and run at high res and small fonts.
I'm still using a Samsung 172t (w/500:1 contrast ratio, w00t) 2.5 years old and only 3 stuck pixels, no pixel smearing, either. Only downside is I can no longer pile things on top of a monitor.
Those images would have been slightly more convincing without the severe jpeg compression, BTW.
should have used a nice picture like this
Digi cameras kill alkaline cells due to the high current draw. I can usually do only 40 pictures with my old CoolPix 800 with alkalines, where I can do hundreds with a set of NiMH.
I've had a set of NiMH cells in my flashlight for over a year now. No problems.
So set an alarm clock (perferrably wind-up) to GMT ;-)
A good set of NiMH cells does everything I ask of them for a couple years. The exepense of Alkaline cells would be far greater.
Other thought is, now we have in place processes for recycling consumer batteries. What's going to be required for these?
OS will likely account for much of it, but every damn computer will have to be thoroughly checked to be sure. You know how it is, right?
I once worked in the logistics industry (fancy name for transportation of goods anywhere on a schedule) and we had huge tables of locations and had to indicate whether they were or were not subject to DST. IIRC Indiana has some bizarreness, where Arizona uniformly doesn't do DST. It's an example and I don't know how many others in transportation, telecommunications, etc would have similar concerns. But they have to first be certain whether they will or will not be affected then test the patch, so it's still a bit Y2K-like.
The Fed did loosen the money supply, but they did also post 9/11, and it's still ultra inexpensive to borrow, but companies aren't because they lack faith that they'll be able to pay back loans based upon exected revenue forecasts (geez, I'm a geek, why do I know this stuff?, oh, right, I love econ :) anyway, fear of Y2K drove spending, because fear of being stranded was more compelling than fear they couldn't pay back any loans.
It has been speculated, and fairly so IMHO, that Y2K was what initially drove the .com
bubble. While I certainly wouldn't discount releases of many previously classified technologies
and growth of the internet, there was a consider amount of capital put into hardware and software upgrades in the mid-to-late nineties.
Imagine what kind of capital would be required to change DST behavior on govt computers alone. We could probably convert CO2 and H2O back into hydrocarbons cheaper.
CSC, Accenture, EDS, et al are probably salivating at the thought of such a passage of law.
Possibly Sony relented because the Aibo wasn't a platform for generating money through subsequent sales of software. Remember, PS and PSP are what are called Loss-Leaders. They real money is in selling the games, videos and other enhancements.
Yeah, but you'd look pretty stupid (and stooped) lugging one around, with your car battery, inverter, and monitor.
Yet...
So is this going to be another case where the developer of PSPIRC and other hackers have laid their hands on a PSP-DK (which will likely turn out completely unauthorized, etc.) and Sony will come down like a ton of bricks upon people? IIRC something like this has happened in the past. While I like the idea, you know Sony officially sanctions development for PS games, usually entering exclusive agreements, i.e. Sony provides DK, Developer agrees not to distribute DK, Developer creates game and turns over to Sony, Sony produces the carts and either sells them and splits the revenues or sells them back to the developer to do their own marketing (dunno if it works exactly like that anymore, but I know it was the business model.) So Sony holds ultimate control over what's released for their PS and PSP platforms.
I expect a big shoe to drop. It wouldn't be a good idea to go blathering your name and accomplishments all over the place, particularly to reporters. I expect Sony will make their displeasure known in good time and in no uncertain terms. A shame, but this is part of their plan to protect their investment.
You also have to question the legitimacy and intentions of the regulators, as he's alluding to, sort of. In the broad sense, everyone is entitled to it. Better to allow everyone to have the stuff and treat them fairly, than withhold it and waste intelligence resources (and more) trying to stem its spread.
He should learn some history, the Green Gang was the predecessor to the KMT, or Nationalist Chinese and was largely run by "Big Eared Tu" in the manner of organized crime with Chiang Kai-shek as his puppet.
Today's Nanotech is probably tomorrows equivilent to nuclear weapons. Who's to say who can and can't have it? The mighty leader of the free world?
Assuming you download SP2, inavertently because you allow auto-update, will it install with the Windows firewall defaulting to On?
The most sure-fire way to attract the attentions of any virus (including human virus/worm authors) is to have a dense population of the same thing. Naturally, a large number of SP2 firewall enabled computers will provide a challenge to the vermin who write virus/worms will be focusing on it and what a lovely day it will be when they've cracked it.
At least I didn't see my firewall listed, and I ain't revealing what it is, either.
Worse, perhaps, is that all these problems may encourage some horrible proprietary internet standards to arise, claiming safety from ad/spy/malware, phishing, etc. and all the cattle have to do is sign up, abandoning the old internet.
Actually there's that bit in Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton regarding the more complex a system, the more likely it'll break down. (Honestly don't know who to attribute that to other than MC.)
Intel's motto? So far, so good!
they are just very, very small.
Actually they're rather large, but cleverly Intel have found a way to story them in an alternate universe using Portable Blackhole Technology(TM). Cross your fingers and hope nobody in that alternate universe stumbles across them.
That's Montecito dual core Itanium, w/24MB of cache (only about 120 million transistors actually per CPU with the balance largely that motherlode of cache) and you could probably fry a steak on.
"We can keep Moore's Law alive just by stuffing the cache!"
"Brilliant!"
"Brilliant!"
Suddenly they were crushed by a giant can of Guinness containing not even an electronic sausage...
Reminds me of the old Apple ][ game of Castle Wolfenstein. "Aus Passe!" You need a pass to go from room to room when challenged by a soldier.
Also, a great way to raise government revenues. Last time I had a passport I forked over $65 for it. As there's a lot of people who travel between Detroit and Windsor, it'll either kill tourism, nightlife, etc. or people will cough up the dough and fund more government spending. yay.