I'm using FireFox 1.0, and everytime i've seen a security hole announced, an auto-updater pops up within a day or so to install the hot-fix. It's a little green arrow right under the title bar.
Could this be the Roman numerals for 6-4 indicating a 64-bit chip, or could this be the Roman numeral five twice, separated by two lines, indicating the dual cores of the Pentium 5 chip?
What perfect insulator? The suits aren't a perfect insulator, and no one has a perfect insulator yet.
Dumbass, the vacuum of space is a damn-near perfect insulator. Ever hear of double-pane windows with a vacuum between the panes being a good insulator? Same idea. You're right about blood boiling in a lack of pressure, though.
Oh no! Better not waste time on stupid useless research when social problems exist! After all, no common useful technology ever came out of pure science.
Don't forget, human knowledge is a zero-sum game, and if you're dreaming and imagining possiblities, you're STEALING from the present!
People shouldn't be wasting their time and energy on lesser problems like light pollution or "pie-in-the-sky" methods of electrical production when we should be growing more crops to feed the hungry. After all, just because *you* care about something doesn't make it important.
Asshole.
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To those of you who are saying "BFD, nobody uses analog tape anymore", have a good look at the liner notes of one of your audio CDs (and don't you dare say "BFD, nobody uses audio CDs anymore."
Somewhere in those notes, there'll be a logo that says either AAD, ADD, or DDD. If your CD is either one of the first two, then the original instruments were recorded to 2" tape. If it's the second, then the 2" tape was mastered to 1/2" tape.
A LOT of professional recording studios still use this technology. For one thing, if you send too much signal into an analog tape, you get a nice sounding tape compression, whereas if you send too much signal into a ADC, you get really horrible sounding digital clipping.
\/me wonders what several hundred recording studios in L.A. are gonna do now.
Ocham's Razor.
Explain: He has millions of dollars.
Simple explanations: He inherited it. He stole it. He earned it with his business.
Not simple: He managed to beat the 1 in 135,145,920 odds and won the Mega Millions jackpot. (Real odds)
OK, let's get real here. Occam's Razor is highly dependant on context and is perfectly good a providing explainations for low-probability events. How about stating it this way:
Context: 100,000,000 people bought lottery tickets. Explain: A lottery-ticket purchaser has millions of dollars. Simple Explaination: He won the lottery. Not Simple: He inherited/stole/earned it.
I'm kind of surprised nobody has brough up Emacspeak yet. Since Emacs is already a complete text-based replacement for everything anyone could ever want to do with a computer system, making it blind and visually-impaired accessable is a no-brainer.
Plus, it's written by the blind, for the blind, and is it's own development platform. Is there anyone out there using Emacspeak that would care to comment on it?
...and you might want to take a look at the page you just linked.
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Strictly speaking this isn't illegal. People are undoubtedly 'voluntarily' working overtime.
Just like you may 'voluntarily' empty your bank account if someone has your child at gunpoint. If you have a family, you have to put food on the table, and that's that. What they're doing is wrong, but not illegal.
Sorry, you lose this metaphor. "It's legal, just like this other thing, which is illegal." Nope.
OK, how about BIND? Every time you type a domain name into, well, anything, it's about 99% likely that open-source software is doing the hostname lookup and translating that domain name into an IP address for you.
Sendmail, Qmail, and Postfix are also pretty entrenched when it comes to Mail Transfer Agents (aka, software that actually routes your mail from you.com to them.com). When it comes to these bedrock network services, it's closed proprietary software that's the new kid on the block. OSS has been the standard for decades.
Samba is another good example of enterprise-ready OSS. File servers running Samba tend to out-perform Windows file servers on the same hardware.
A Texan, a Californian, and a Michiganer are all out camping together. One night, sitting around a fire, the Texan pulls out his bottle of Jack Daniels and takes a long swig, finishing it off. He then tosses the bottle in the air, draws his.45 revolver, and shoots the bottle, shattering it. "That's the way we do it in Texas," he says.
The Californian, not to be out-done, pulls out a liter of Merlot and chugs it. He then tosses the bottle in the air, pulls out his glock, and shoots the bottle before it falls. "That's how it's done in California," he says.
When the two of them are finished, the Michiganer pulls out a bottle of Molson XXX and pounds it. He then throws the bottle over his shoulder, pulls out his 35 special, and shoots the Califonian.
"Why the HELL did you do that?!?!" yells the Texan.
"Well, that bottle's worth 10 cents, and we don't need more Californians moving back."
This generation of 64-bit machines might be one of the last to be multi-purpose Turing/Von Neumann devices.
I know that you're referring to the general-purpose computer von Neumann machine, but most people are more familiar with the universal constructor (a universally programmable machine that's also able to create perfect copies of itself, and transfer its program to them).
While I wish that my A64 box could do that, I really don't see it happening anytime soon:).
Perhaps you should read the article -- this device doesn't track eye movements at all; it tracks head movements. The primary game use seems to be for changing cockpit views in flight sims by actually turning your head instead of using a keyboard or joystick hat.
Cygwin also comes with a win32 native (ie, doesn't need Cygwin/X) rxvt terminal that's far far better that the default cmd.exe style cygwin terminal. You can also incorporate ssh-agent if you remote into lots of machines. Here's my startup shortcut:
It's actually pretty likely that he *is* running out of PCI bandwidth.
Three Gigabit/s NICs on a PCI bus... let's see, the PCI bus is 32 bits times 33MHz, which is almost exactly 1Gb/s, so a single GB NIC could actually saturate the bus all by itself running optimally. Add in the other two NICs, the IDE or SCSI bus, and misc other peripherals, and it's very easy to bottleneck at the PCI.
This is why most modern motherboards build the GB directly onto the northbridge.
Now the interesting thing is, one million monkeys at one million terminals (typewriters, whatever), will actually immediately start typing the complete works of Shakespeare.
...just not with all the letters in the right order (rim shot).
give me one example of an experimentally observed physical process which violates general relativity. Just one.
Well, haven't we observed galaxies whose outer arms are spinning faster than they should, given their observable mass? And haven't we been unable to detect the additional matter that is needed to keep those galaxies from flying apart given our current understanding of gravity? I don't know that this violates relativity, but it's certainly causing some problems for cosmologists and physicists.
So, you bought a digital video camera, and now you want to know if the camera can display video on.. a... computer monitor.
If that Sony POS can't do realtime video, I would never buy one. I'm not really into digital video, but all the analog cameras I've used will just output video by default whenever they're on.
Just as an aside, could you use video over 1394 to set up a real-time video processing cluster, like you can with audio and lightpipe?
Maybe the distribution medium is cheaper with music than with books, but how about the cost of creation? What does it take to write a book? Anywhere from $20 for a ream of paper and some pencils to $1000 for a computer and word processor. Compare that to the cost of:
Guitars, drums, microphones and mic stands, cables, amplifiers, outboard signal processing, recording gear, and engineering time.
A band's personal equipment can easily be worth up to $25,000. The cost of a good recording studio can be up to $500/hour, or another $10,000 to build your own.
Still think music is cheaper to produce than books?
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I'm using FireFox 1.0, and everytime i've seen a security hole announced, an auto-updater pops up within a day or so to install the hot-fix. It's a little green arrow right under the title bar.
Yes.
What perfect insulator? The suits aren't a perfect insulator, and no one has a perfect insulator yet.
Dumbass, the vacuum of space is a damn-near perfect insulator. Ever hear of double-pane windows with a vacuum between the panes being a good insulator? Same idea. You're right about blood boiling in a lack of pressure, though.
Oh no! Better not waste time on stupid useless research when social problems exist! After all, no common useful technology ever came out of pure science.
Don't forget, human knowledge is a zero-sum game, and if you're dreaming and imagining possiblities, you're STEALING from the present!
People shouldn't be wasting their time and energy on lesser problems like light pollution or "pie-in-the-sky" methods of electrical production when we should be growing more crops to feed the hungry. After all, just because *you* care about something doesn't make it important.
Asshole.
alex@alex-dt ~
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.0 alex-dt 1.5.12(0.116/4/2) 2004-11-10 08:34 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin
hmm... might still be vulnerable.
To those of you who are saying "BFD, nobody uses analog tape anymore", have a good look at the liner notes of one of your audio CDs (and don't you dare say "BFD, nobody uses audio CDs anymore."
Somewhere in those notes, there'll be a logo that says either AAD, ADD, or DDD. If your CD is either one of the first two, then the original instruments were recorded to 2" tape. If it's the second, then the 2" tape was mastered to 1/2" tape.
A LOT of professional recording studios still use this technology. For one thing, if you send too much signal into an analog tape, you get a nice sounding tape compression, whereas if you send too much signal into a ADC, you get really horrible sounding digital clipping.
\/me wonders what several hundred recording studios in L.A. are gonna do now.
I'm kind of surprised nobody has brough up Emacspeak yet. Since Emacs is already a complete text-based replacement for everything anyone could ever want to do with a computer system, making it blind and visually-impaired accessable is a no-brainer.
Plus, it's written by the blind, for the blind, and is it's own development platform. Is there anyone out there using Emacspeak that would care to comment on it?
...and you might want to take a look at the page you just linked.
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Sorry, you lose this metaphor. "It's legal, just like this other thing, which is illegal." Nope.
Well, that would indicate to me that a historical document might have some accurate geneological data in it.
What does that have to do with a billion years of evolution?
That's the most erotic thing I've ever read on slashdot :)
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doo de dooo waiting for the 20 seconds.
Of course Pynchon is considered literature and Stephenson is popular fiction.
You didn't read the interview, did you. The bit about "Beowulf" authors vs. "Dante" authors?
;)
OK, how about BIND? Every time you type a domain name into, well, anything, it's about 99% likely that open-source software is doing the hostname lookup and translating that domain name into an IP address for you.
Sendmail, Qmail, and Postfix are also pretty entrenched when it comes to Mail Transfer Agents (aka, software that actually routes your mail from you.com to them.com). When it comes to these bedrock network services, it's closed proprietary software that's the new kid on the block. OSS has been the standard for decades.
Samba is another good example of enterprise-ready OSS. File servers running Samba tend to out-perform Windows file servers on the same hardware.
A Texan, a Californian, and a Michiganer are all out camping together. One night, sitting around a fire, the Texan pulls out his bottle of Jack Daniels and takes a long swig, finishing it off. He then tosses the bottle in the air, draws his .45 revolver, and shoots the bottle, shattering it. "That's the way we do it in Texas," he says.
The Californian, not to be out-done, pulls out a liter of Merlot and chugs it. He then tosses the bottle in the air, pulls out his glock, and shoots the bottle before it falls. "That's how it's done in California," he says.
When the two of them are finished, the Michiganer pulls out a bottle of Molson XXX and pounds it. He then throws the bottle over his shoulder, pulls out his 35 special, and shoots the Califonian.
"Why the HELL did you do that?!?!" yells the Texan.
"Well, that bottle's worth 10 cents, and we don't need more Californians moving back."
I know that you're referring to the general-purpose computer von Neumann machine, but most people are more familiar with the universal constructor (a universally programmable machine that's also able to create perfect copies of itself, and transfer its program to them).
While I wish that my A64 box could do that, I really don't see it happening anytime soon :).
Perhaps you should read the article -- this device doesn't track eye movements at all; it tracks head movements. The primary game use seems to be for changing cockpit views in flight sims by actually turning your head instead of using a keyboard or joystick hat.
Cygwin also comes with a win32 native (ie, doesn't need Cygwin/X) rxvt terminal that's far far better that the default cmd.exe style cygwin terminal. You can also incorporate ssh-agent if you remote into lots of machines. Here's my startup shortcut:
C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -e ssh-agent bash --login -i
IIRC, rxvt isn't installed by default, but it's available under 'shells' when you run the cygwin setup.
It's actually pretty likely that he *is* running out of PCI bandwidth.
... let's see, the PCI bus is 32 bits times 33MHz, which is almost exactly 1Gb/s, so a single GB NIC could actually saturate the bus all by itself running optimally. Add in the other two NICs, the IDE or SCSI bus, and misc other peripherals, and it's very easy to bottleneck at the PCI.
Three Gigabit/s NICs on a PCI bus
This is why most modern motherboards build the GB directly onto the northbridge.
This guy has it 100% right. Every single game that I've downloaded a no-cd patch for has been a game that I've legally purchased.
What, you mean ESR?
Now the interesting thing is, one million monkeys at one million terminals (typewriters, whatever), will actually immediately start typing the complete works of Shakespeare.
...just not with all the letters in the right order (rim shot).
Well, haven't we observed galaxies whose outer arms are spinning faster than they should, given their observable mass? And haven't we been unable to detect the additional matter that is needed to keep those galaxies from flying apart given our current understanding of gravity? I don't know that this violates relativity, but it's certainly causing some problems for cosmologists and physicists.
So, you bought a digital video camera, and now you want to know if the camera can display video on .. a ... computer monitor.
If that Sony POS can't do realtime video, I would never buy one. I'm not really into digital video, but all the analog cameras I've used will just output video by default whenever they're on.
Just as an aside, could you use video over 1394 to set up a real-time video processing cluster, like you can with audio and lightpipe?
Maybe the distribution medium is cheaper with music than with books, but how about the cost of creation? What does it take to write a book? Anywhere from $20 for a ream of paper and some pencils to $1000 for a computer and word processor. Compare that to the cost of:
Guitars, drums, microphones and mic stands, cables, amplifiers, outboard signal processing, recording gear, and engineering time.
A band's personal equipment can easily be worth up to $25,000. The cost of a good recording studio can be up to $500/hour, or another $10,000 to build your own.
Still think music is cheaper to produce than books?