see a lot of "coulds" and not a single "did". So what they found was that they have no better information now than they did before. Did they
observe a single instance where there was interference? It's seems highly dubious that they couldn't construct a scenerio where they could
conclusively show this "error".
Funny. I remember alot of talking about the Challenger accident that involved alot of 'coulds' and how it was 'remotely' possible the seals would fail. Even more resently there's talk about failuremodes for our latest shuttle disaster, and hour things could fail. But then again, you self-indulgent creature... go right ahead and gamble with MY life.... because you obviously are qualified to make those decisions for me
I wrote a happy birthday card for my friend, Lillie. I signed the name on the front in cursive, in a rather pathetic attempt to make it look fancy..... only to take a close look at it and realized I spelled Lillie as Qillie. Because I hadn't written in cursive in so long that I'd forgotten which way the L was made. Seriously, most peoples handwriting is pathetic and atrocious- I can't read it. Print is much better, but slow... but then again there is a reason I can type 50 wpm.... its so I DON"T have to read my handwriting.
.... more piracy. Think about it, they refuse to understand that sales CAN go down. They insist it must ALWAYS increase! Businesses downturn. I'm sick of the crap being played over and over and over on the radio..... so I switched to NPR, gave them 40$, and have been happy ever since. For geeks, I'm surprised you don't support the FREE stations more with a little financial contribution. But... I'll say it for completeness sake- put your money where your mouth is.
wait till you've had it for a few thousand hours and the brightness starts to fall off. Then you'll slowly be increasing the brightness until, one day, poof.... you have to get a new one:)
..... is when I see "Researches looking for alternatives to Palladium" I think - well, there's platinum, copper on platinum (mosanto does that), a couple of nickel catalysts.... oh, this is that DRM thingy Such is life... technology is conspiring to take away my rights to protect me from myself.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=3D02/05/17/184237 (tho that doesn't work right now) but the text was, oddly enough, submitted by me;)
5000 year-old Cuneiform tablets Go Digital http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=3D02/0 5/17/1842 37
[0]purduephotog writes "In an effort to preserve and expose scholars
around the world to [1]rapidly plundered historical texts, a joint
project between the University of California and the Max Planck
Institute have [2]photographed and digitized around 60,000 tablets.
[3]An overview is available at ABCNews, while the main site can be
found at [2]at UCLA." The ironic part is whether the digitized versions
will last/be usable longer then the clay tablets.=20 Links
0. mailto:hirsch@inorbit.com
1. http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/05/11/sumer ian/
2. http://www.cdli.ucla.edu/
3. http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20020517_716.html
... going to a virtual school to get a virtual degree which will be printed on real paper? In all fairness, all degrees are virtual as compared by the fact that you 'meet' the requirements as set forth by the school. Read some of the earlier requirements- programs change significantly over time (I think the CS dept went thru 3 revisions in 10 years- no i wasnt there that long:P) Now as for skating, realize your profs are new to this too. They don't have the hands on experience to fall back on in the classroom. Maybe if avatars and webcams get more popular you'd see more, but without going to a physical class it just isn't going to be the same- you can't override 12 years of grade schooling with 1 year of 'virtual' college and come away NOT disappointed.
and you've got it made. Sorta like what divers have to use. my biggest complaint about keyboards is their limited motion.... I can relearn to type (tho it would be rather hard, I admit)... just give me a keyboard I can use with 1 hand and rest it wherever I need to (no jokes about a keyboard in your lap, etc;P)
Besides, that many keystrokes combined with a good mouse might make sims such as Americas Army quite a bit more interesting;-)
Having read most of the books mentioned ad naseum so far, may I recommend a few more intersting reads? Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae - A story of the historic battle to the death where a force of 300 delayed an attack of 100.000 enemy Under the Eagle: A Tale of Military Adventure and Reckless Heroism with the Roman Legions The last one I can't remember other than having Priscus and Sicarious and a Roman emperor's attempt to restore the old gods over Christianity. Don't limit yourself to SciFi- as big as a fan of it that I am it still repeats the same themes over and over and over... try reading some of the past- just as interesting and based in reality;)
You are going to estimate the worst case scenario... but it's not even realistic. For that many people to download, it would crap out practically every connection in the world So more realistic is 1 in 10, in which case your 10% becomes 1%. Now lets say half the college students are women (47%) and don't download it (unrealistic in the extreme, but would counterbalance the group that doesn't download and is male).... that means 1% becomes 0.5% Finally, the group that doesn't directly borrow it from their friends instead, and it may drop a bit more. Worst case scenarios are fine and dandy, but there comes a limit when a 200X safety factor is just plain silly.
It just takes intelligence and insight. Frankly many things aren't that hard- I remember reading some 'essays' about this topic when I was studying. Do a google search for 'fravia' '+orc' and tutorial- You'll find some mirrors. There's even some essays on how to add new functions to notepad given the binary only... which goes to show decompiling a c++ (or any, really) program isn't new.
It's hard to beat a 5$ bottle from Australia that tastes as good as a 15$ bottle from Sonoma. Which is entirely my point- there are several good wines that are inexpensive, although there are considerably more that are bad.
Don't be such a California snobb;-)
Seriously tho, every area has (zone 1/2) some outstanding wines, but I tend to like more pepper than tannin, and I've found that (for the price!) I get a better deal buying down under than across the plains.
As an avid wine consumer (not the french word;P) you can have no idea how happy this makes me. My cellar is currently stocked with ~130 bottles, mostly from SE Australia (Cabs) and quite a few from upstate NY where I live. Managing the microclimate to produce consistent wines is far more important than trying to hit a home run. I shy away from buying multiple cases of wine until I sample several different bottles of the same year, just on the chance that I got lucky.
I sat down and was immediately treated to a sequence of over the top eye candy... as if I truly needed to be drawn into the movie any more than having watched the first one practically every day in college as a stress-relief. But thankfully it slowed down.... but didn't advance the plot much. Over all only about 20 minutes of actual plot were in place- very disappointing. It was screwing with my head- in fact I've an opinion about the 'real-world' now that bugged me in the first one but I'm not sharing:)
I just wish there was a bit more plot, less sex, and less 'action'. Hard to believe as I'm an action junky (kiss of the dragon has 2 incredible action sequences as well choreographed as the matrix) but.... they'd better release the 'concluded' part very DAMN SOON because I'm highly irritated at where they left it:)
I sent a few to my gf from Italy (pompeii) that had their famous 'phallic' statues.... nothing like some well endowed stone men to get the blood pumping, ehhh? Well, they were all 'lost' by the postal service. Oddly enough, they were going to a rather conservative town....
You've touched upon one of my favorite recipes for steak- pan seared and broiled is incredible. Here's one of mine tho that you may find even better (needs beer instead of wine, unfortunately) Get at least a 3lb eye of round roast- try to find one without any fat showing. Best quality you can. Soak it in Dales Steak Sauce (Think soysauce + salt), available in most southern state stores (I import mine from Indiana). Cook on broil for 5 min/lb on broil- watch the meat tho. If it's blackening you will need to take it out sooner. After it's broiled, remove the pan, cool the oven to 350F. Now season the outside of the meat with salt, pepper, and some more dales (which will flash off in the pan- becareful) Put back in the oven and cook until you aren't scared to eat the meat. Come to think of it, I'm gonna go find me some tonight:)
Well so far it's been about a 600$ experiment. with IDE coming down in price its no longer such a good one, but for sharing between devices it's quite excellent. Much much faster than gigabit ethernet (tho I haven't worked on it much right now due to some roof leaks;P)
there are a few more little things, like jumpering the drives in the right order, but thats pretty much the gist of it.
Hrmmm.... lets look at the name. OK, sorry, cheap shot. I work with this stuff... and carbon has been emitting light for a very long time. If the focus is a specific molecule, well, look at dopants- thats where the energy is released (hence the name)... and thats where the light comes from. Hosts provide the path.Kodak OLED information
I forgot to mention how hot the drives get- make sure to either get a case or build them on stilts with a large fan in front/ behind them
Personally, I bought 3 compaq hubs (I paid at most 35$ + shipping for them) and a bunch of gbics from techsurplus. 2 fibre optic cables will allow me to connect a machine from upstairs above my garage down to the basement, where I'll locate the drives. Due to my desire to put them all into every computer, I'm gonna either have to get some sort of GFS (I picked up some HP software cheap that might do the trick) or put a box in front of it with 2 HBAs. - one as interface, one as relay. SOrta defeats the purpose of always up storage, but I don't see any good way of resynching a file system
I can provide some more links if you are interested in rolling your own, but I'm sorta sick of getting modded offtopic for a soho file system.
This is my suggestion for about ~600$ (at the most).
1) Look on Ebay for Corpsys HDs. Get the 18.3gb/4mb cache seagate fibre channel 10pack for 139.99 2)Buy from them online 10 FCAL/Copper connectors (10 @ 15.95 ea) 3)Buy a FC HBA - Emulex LP6000 are cheap- get the DB9 connector unless you are going to buy a hub 4)Goto radioshack and buy a bunch of db9 pin connectors (I didn't use the solder type as I figured I could just plug them in)- about 1.50$ each. You'll need to make a terminator,- cross over the data lines and the ground lines. 5)You'll need a separate PSU probably to power up the devices, if you use all 10 6)find a bunch of the little jumper connectors.. you'll need 8 per device (or so, you cna get creative). Jumper the STR1 and STR2, and then the IDs...
Upon bootup with win2k they will be recognized. You can set them pretty much as you want, raid 0/5/1 etc, depending on which flavour of windows you have. With 4 striped drives over 2 hubs that I have, I was getting 1ms seek time and ~37mb thru (via sandra). Let me know how it works out!
At least thats what I read when I saw the subject line. Then I tried to figure out what the hell this has to do with robots walking on you....
I've actually seen a hydro chamber- it's got two sheets of really thick plastic- you lie in between them, and programmed jets move over your body, recycling water. It's very very good... just not yet affordable:(
... and in reality is worn about the neck. It comes with a detonatable charge to sever the individual's neck should they attempt to go further than the 8' extension cord allows. Please hope they find an outlet in the bathroom
Now, all dilbert joking aside, this is one disease that scares me... without a common vector identified.... we might all be in for it.
First, I am an engineer. Alot of you probably are too. What I'm going to say will probably be modded flamebait, etc, but I'm fighting my own battles at work in regards to problems that no one else saw... or care Alot of the analysis has been attacking the engineers for not asking enough questions. Thats fine and dandy in a 100% hindsight problem- we have a failed shuttle- lets' find out why. Alot of the reviews have been talking about data presentation- thats good too- I went to school for engineering, not marketing, and therefor don't know what a marketer does as to how to present information without getting bogged down in details. But when it comes straight down to it, it's money, pure and simple. Do you think CAT scans of tiles are inexpenisve? Probably a couple $k each. Do this for every tile. Want to understand turbulence completely (and people that say you can model a chaotic system- just watch the weather channel to know how EASY that is)- that costs money and time. Quite a bit of both, too. So now you've got budget concerns on projects that aren't funded and you can only skunk work it too much (note- skunk work is done on the side, unpaid overtime/salary, and 'hiding' the cost of equipment time/usage under a variety of things. It's amazing what you can do sometimes). Now and then you get lucky and management comes around... funds your project, everyone gets paid with a little back in the jar for the next skunk project... then again, what does management usually know? zip. Just those bottom line numbers Now obviously there was a bit of scaleup issue. I'm not comfortable with a 5x scaleup on some jobs, much less a 640x prediction- thats me personally. And the analysis that reads safety as a failure, instead of safety as a problem is dead on (1/3 the O-ring). But don't go too hard on the engineers- many comments are headed that way. Just remember under-funding answers the important questions, and may lop a bunch of details under assumptions... and every now and then you get bit in the ass... hard.
Slashdot Mirror
see a lot of "coulds" and not a single "did". So what they found was that they have no better information now than they did before. Did they
observe a single instance where there was interference? It's seems highly dubious that they couldn't construct a scenerio where they could
conclusively show this "error".
Funny. I remember alot of talking about the Challenger accident that involved alot of 'coulds' and how it was 'remotely' possible the seals would fail.
Even more resently there's talk about failuremodes for our latest shuttle disaster, and hour things could fail.
But then again, you self-indulgent creature... go right ahead and gamble with MY life.... because you obviously are qualified to make those decisions for me
I wrote a happy birthday card for my friend, Lillie. I signed the name on the front in cursive, in a rather pathetic attempt to make it look fancy..... only to take a close look at it and realized I spelled Lillie as Qillie. Because I hadn't written in cursive in so long that I'd forgotten which way the L was made.
Seriously, most peoples handwriting is pathetic and atrocious- I can't read it. Print is much better, but slow... but then again there is a reason I can type 50 wpm.... its so I DON"T have to read my handwriting.
.... more piracy.
Think about it, they refuse to understand that sales CAN go down. They insist it must ALWAYS increase!
Businesses downturn. I'm sick of the crap being played over and over and over on the radio..... so I switched to NPR, gave them 40$, and have been happy ever since.
For geeks, I'm surprised you don't support the FREE stations more with a little financial contribution. But... I'll say it for completeness sake- put your money where your mouth is.
grin I thought it was funny.... damn catalysts, why do they have to be soooo expensive.....
wait till you've had it for a few thousand hours and the brightness starts to fall off. Then you'll slowly be increasing the brightness until, one day, poof.... you have to get a new one :)
..... is when I see "Researches looking for alternatives to Palladium" I think - well, there's platinum, copper on platinum (mosanto does that), a couple of nickel catalysts.... oh, this is that DRM thingy
Such is life... technology is conspiring to take away my rights to protect me from myself.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=3D02/05 /17/184237 (tho that doesn't work right now) but the text was, oddly enough, submitted by me ;)
0 5/17/1842 37
r ian/
5000 year-old Cuneiform tablets Go Digital
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=3D02/
[0]purduephotog writes "In an effort to preserve and expose scholars
around the world to [1]rapidly plundered historical texts, a joint
project between the University of California and the Max Planck
Institute have [2]photographed and digitized around 60,000 tablets.
[3]An overview is available at ABCNews, while the main site can be
found at [2]at UCLA." The ironic part is whether the digitized versions
will last/be usable longer then the clay tablets.=20
Links
0. mailto:hirsch@inorbit.com
1. http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/05/11/sume
2. http://www.cdli.ucla.edu/
3. http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20020517_716.html
... going to a virtual school to get a virtual degree which will be printed on real paper? :P)
In all fairness, all degrees are virtual as compared by the fact that you 'meet' the requirements as set forth by the school. Read some of the earlier requirements- programs change significantly over time (I think the CS dept went thru 3 revisions in 10 years- no i wasnt there that long
Now as for skating, realize your profs are new to this too. They don't have the hands on experience to fall back on in the classroom. Maybe if avatars and webcams get more popular you'd see more, but without going to a physical class it just isn't going to be the same- you can't override 12 years of grade schooling with 1 year of 'virtual' college and come away NOT disappointed.
and you've got it made. Sorta like what divers have to use. my biggest complaint about keyboards is their limited motion.... I can relearn to type (tho it would be rather hard, I admit)... just give me a keyboard I can use with 1 hand and rest it wherever I need to (no jokes about a keyboard in your lap, etc ;P)
;-)
Besides, that many keystrokes combined with a good mouse might make sims such as Americas Army quite a bit more interesting
Having read most of the books mentioned ad naseum so far, may I recommend a few more intersting reads? ;)
Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae - A story of the historic battle to the death where a force of 300 delayed an attack of 100.000 enemy
Under the Eagle: A Tale of Military Adventure and Reckless Heroism with the Roman Legions
The last one I can't remember other than having Priscus and Sicarious and a Roman emperor's attempt to restore the old gods over Christianity. Don't limit yourself to SciFi- as big as a fan of it that I am it still repeats the same themes over and over and over... try reading some of the past- just as interesting and based in reality
You are going to estimate the worst case scenario... but it's not even realistic. For that many people to download, it would crap out practically every connection in the world
So more realistic is 1 in 10, in which case your 10% becomes 1%. Now lets say half the college students are women (47%) and don't download it (unrealistic in the extreme, but would counterbalance the group that doesn't download and is male).... that means 1% becomes 0.5%
Finally, the group that doesn't directly borrow it from their friends instead, and it may drop a bit more.
Worst case scenarios are fine and dandy, but there comes a limit when a 200X safety factor is just plain silly.
It just takes intelligence and insight. Frankly many things aren't that hard- I remember reading some 'essays' about this topic when I was studying. Do a google search for 'fravia' '+orc' and tutorial- You'll find some mirrors. There's even some essays on how to add new functions to notepad given the binary only... which goes to show decompiling a c++ (or any, really) program isn't new.
It's hard to beat a 5$ bottle from Australia that tastes as good as a 15$ bottle from Sonoma. Which is entirely my point- there are several good wines that are inexpensive, although there are considerably more that are bad.
;-)
Don't be such a California snobb
Seriously tho, every area has (zone 1/2) some outstanding wines, but I tend to like more pepper than tannin, and I've found that (for the price!) I get a better deal buying down under than across the plains.
As an avid wine consumer (not the french word;P) you can have no idea how happy this makes me. My cellar is currently stocked with ~130 bottles, mostly from SE Australia (Cabs) and quite a few from upstate NY where I live. Managing the microclimate to produce consistent wines is far more important than trying to hit a home run. I shy away from buying multiple cases of wine until I sample several different bottles of the same year, just on the chance that I got lucky.
Now if I only owned a larger back yard.....
I sat down and was immediately treated to a sequence of over the top eye candy... as if I truly needed to be drawn into the movie any more than having watched the first one practically every day in college as a stress-relief. But thankfully it slowed down.... but didn't advance the plot much. Over all only about 20 minutes of actual plot were in place- very disappointing. It was screwing with my head- in fact I've an opinion about the 'real-world' now that bugged me in the first one but I'm not sharing :)
:)
I just wish there was a bit more plot, less sex, and less 'action'. Hard to believe as I'm an action junky (kiss of the dragon has 2 incredible action sequences as well choreographed as the matrix) but.... they'd better release the 'concluded' part very DAMN SOON because I'm highly irritated at where they left it
I sent a few to my gf from Italy (pompeii) that had their famous 'phallic' statues.... nothing like some well endowed stone men to get the blood pumping, ehhh? Well, they were all 'lost' by the postal service. Oddly enough, they were going to a rather conservative town....
You've touched upon one of my favorite recipes for steak- pan seared and broiled is incredible. Here's one of mine tho that you may find even better (needs beer instead of wine, unfortunately) :)
Get at least a 3lb eye of round roast- try to find one without any fat showing. Best quality you can. Soak it in Dales Steak Sauce (Think soysauce + salt), available in most southern state stores (I import mine from Indiana). Cook on broil for 5 min/lb on broil- watch the meat tho. If it's blackening you will need to take it out sooner.
After it's broiled, remove the pan, cool the oven to 350F.
Now season the outside of the meat with salt, pepper, and some more dales (which will flash off in the pan- becareful)
Put back in the oven and cook until you aren't scared to eat the meat.
Come to think of it, I'm gonna go find me some tonight
Well so far it's been about a 600$ experiment. with IDE coming down in price its no longer such a good one, but for sharing between devices it's quite excellent. Much much faster than gigabit ethernet (tho I haven't worked on it much right now due to some roof leaks ;P)
there are a few more little things, like jumpering the drives in the right order, but thats pretty much the gist of it.
Hrmmm.... lets look at the name.
OK, sorry, cheap shot. I work with this stuff... and carbon has been emitting light for a very long time. If the focus is a specific molecule, well, look at dopants- thats where the energy is released (hence the name)... and thats where the light comes from. Hosts provide the path.Kodak OLED information
I forgot to mention how hot the drives get- make sure to either get a case or build them on stilts with a large fan in front/ behind them
Personally, I bought 3 compaq hubs (I paid at most 35$ + shipping for them) and a bunch of gbics from techsurplus. 2 fibre optic cables will allow me to connect a machine from upstairs above my garage down to the basement, where I'll locate the drives. Due to my desire to put them all into every computer, I'm gonna either have to get some sort of GFS (I picked up some HP software cheap that might do the trick) or put a box in front of it with 2 HBAs. - one as interface, one as relay. SOrta defeats the purpose of always up storage, but I don't see any good way of resynching a file system
I can provide some more links if you are interested in rolling your own, but I'm sorta sick of getting modded offtopic for a soho file system.
This is my suggestion for about ~600$ (at the most).
1) Look on Ebay for Corpsys HDs. Get the 18.3gb/4mb cache seagate fibre channel 10pack for 139.99
2)Buy from them online 10 FCAL/Copper connectors (10 @ 15.95 ea)
3)Buy a FC HBA - Emulex LP6000 are cheap- get the DB9 connector unless you are going to buy a hub
4)Goto radioshack and buy a bunch of db9 pin connectors (I didn't use the solder type as I figured I could just plug them in)- about 1.50$ each. You'll need to make a terminator,- cross over the data lines and the ground lines.
5)You'll need a separate PSU probably to power up the devices, if you use all 10
6)find a bunch of the little jumper connectors.. you'll need 8 per device (or so, you cna get creative). Jumper the STR1 and STR2, and then the IDs...
Upon bootup with win2k they will be recognized. You can set them pretty much as you want, raid 0/5/1 etc, depending on which flavour of windows you have. With 4 striped drives over 2 hubs that I have, I was getting 1ms seek time and ~37mb thru (via sandra). Let me know how it works out!
You are telling me you'd rather look at porn than get a gf that is wearing a string bikini and sunning herself outside?
Think Linux-
1)Get Girlfriend
2)?????
3)Profit!
I'll let you figure out what to do in step 2, but I hope its fun.....
At least thats what I read when I saw the subject line. Then I tried to figure out what the hell this has to do with robots walking on you....
:(
I've actually seen a hydro chamber- it's got two sheets of really thick plastic- you lie in between them, and programmed jets move over your body, recycling water. It's very very good... just not yet affordable
... and in reality is worn about the neck. It comes with a detonatable charge to sever the individual's neck should they attempt to go further than the 8' extension cord allows. Please hope they find an outlet in the bathroom
Now, all dilbert joking aside, this is one disease that scares me... without a common vector identified.... we might all be in for it.
First, I am an engineer. Alot of you probably are too. What I'm going to say will probably be modded flamebait, etc, but I'm fighting my own battles at work in regards to problems that no one else saw... or care
Alot of the analysis has been attacking the engineers for not asking enough questions. Thats fine and dandy in a 100% hindsight problem- we have a failed shuttle- lets' find out why. Alot of the reviews have been talking about data presentation- thats good too- I went to school for engineering, not marketing, and therefor don't know what a marketer does as to how to present information without getting bogged down in details.
But when it comes straight down to it, it's money, pure and simple. Do you think CAT scans of tiles are inexpenisve? Probably a couple $k each. Do this for every tile. Want to understand turbulence completely (and people that say you can model a chaotic system- just watch the weather channel to know how EASY that is)- that costs money and time. Quite a bit of both, too.
So now you've got budget concerns on projects that aren't funded and you can only skunk work it too much (note- skunk work is done on the side, unpaid overtime/salary, and 'hiding' the cost of equipment time/usage under a variety of things. It's amazing what you can do sometimes).
Now and then you get lucky and management comes around... funds your project, everyone gets paid with a little back in the jar for the next skunk project... then again, what does management usually know? zip. Just those bottom line numbers
Now obviously there was a bit of scaleup issue. I'm not comfortable with a 5x scaleup on some jobs, much less a 640x prediction- thats me personally. And the analysis that reads safety as a failure, instead of safety as a problem is dead on (1/3 the O-ring). But don't go too hard on the engineers- many comments are headed that way. Just remember under-funding answers the important questions, and may lop a bunch of details under assumptions... and every now and then you get bit in the ass... hard.