Speaking of this sort of thing, can anyone point me to a FireWire external disk box that holds more than one drive? I'm thinking something along the lines of this
only using 1394 instead of fibre or SCSI.
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I'll second the sodas. My wife cut out drinking a couple cans of soda/day and lost about five pounds with no other changes to her lifestyle. Those suckers have shitloads of sugar -- I heard about eight tablespoons in a 16oz bottle.
If you want a bit of motivation for this, visualize eight tablespoons of pure sugar. First you eat one, then the next, and so on. That's what you're doing when you drink a bottle of pop.
The meter, for instance, was originally defined as one ten-millionth of the distance between the north pole and the south pole.
Wrongo.
1 gram of H20 has a volume of 1 milliliter 1 milliliter = 1 cm^3 H2O freezes at 0C and boils at 100C
That's the basis for metric measurements. Apart from original choice of using H2O as a substance to base the constants on, it doesn't seem particularly arbitrary to me.
This is true of all PCs, and basically any Von-Neumann system (ie, any computer).
I think that you're a little confused on terms. A Von Neumann machine is a machine that has the ability to make perfect copies of itself (not as easy as you think). ITYM "Turing Machine". HTH, HAND.
You ever see someone with a four-cup/day habit go cold turkey? Sure, it's not heroin, but you can bet that if caffeine were made illegal tomorrow, there would be people begging and stealing to get their next fix of Folger's Crystals, at $5/gram.
I've got a better idea. Don't patronize salon.com anymore? Sure, they have great articles, and I enjoy reading them, but if they are going to do the equivelant of screaming in my face when I go up to them for a conversation (not an unreasonable analogy IMHO) I'm not going to talk to them. Sucks to be me I guess, and it's too bad, because I enjoy them, but unless they start getting less and less visitors because of this sort of activity, they're going to see this as a plus.
Yeah, it's really too bad they haven't given us readers any kind of a viable option to looking at all those ads. Oh, unless you count actually subscribing to their magazine!
Look, Salon is a magazine. In Real Life, you pay to read magazines. Either you can pay by looking at annoying ads, or you can pay $50 for a two-year ad-free subscription. This amounts to about $0.50/week.
Or, you can whine about how advertizing is Evil, boycott a site that you enjoy, and watch TV instead.
According to the specifications, it has support for up to 18 quad-processor boards. That's a total of 72 processors, so where are they getting the 106 number from?
The article mentions that the failed part was made of aluminium, but that the rapid prototyper can only make parts out of polycarbonate, wax, etc. I'm guessing that the part they "printed out" was only being used as a temporary replacement until the actual aluminium pulley could be shipped to them. Still, we're on the way!
Anyone know if there's work being done on stereolithography using a wider variety of materials? It seems to me that that's the biggest obstacle before we have bonafide "replicators."
A directX emulation layer would be very useful not just for gaming, but for a variety of real-time sound synthesis applications. Software synths frequently use DirectX to get a low-latency connection with the audio card, so that you can make realtime changes without a lot of lag between the time you twist a knob, and hear the results.
Besides, not needing windows to run Reason would truly rule!
So lets say that the water utility was privatized, and I had to sign a contract with them that indicated what I could and could not use their water for, and that I was paying for the usage of their water, but that I didn't actually own the water coming into my house. Let's say that my contract didn't cover using the water for the purpose of gardening.
Now someone who make a living off of doing this sort of thing reports my neighbor for using their water to garden with, in violation of their water contract, but he accidentally puts my apartment number on the letter to the water utility. They immediately cut off my water supply until I promise never to do it again. Unfortunately, I'm on vacation, so my cats die of dehydration. *But*, because it's a private water utility, and I did sign that contract, it's all perfectly legal, if an unfortunate mistake.
Does that sound like a just and right situation to you?
Before you go off on the fact that legally, broadband providers aren't utilities, consider this: They're generally monopolies; they provide a service many people need in order to earn money to live on, and they provide a "pipe" into and out of your house or office.
If we can privatize utilities, maybe we should utilitize broadband providers, who are such in all but name and legal obligation.
Ok, scientific evolutionary and cosmological theories are based on emperical evidence (IE, observations). If I'm going to be convinced that creationist theories are equally valid, I need to see some emperical evidence for divine creation. One common argument against evolution is that "no-one has ever witnessed evolution happening." Well, put your money where your mouth is-- are there any first-hand accounts of creation happening?
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An Atari ST may not have the power to function as your computer, but I find it worked well as my main sequencer. It was gigged, hauled about, stuff spilled on it, dropped, run over by a Nissan Micra (don't ask...) and it still worked. Looked a bit rough though.
Not only that, but you know Fatboy Slim? The guy with all the really catchy remix-style tunes? Guess what he uses to write pretty much 100% of his music? Here's a hint: it's not an Athlon 900.
That's right, one of the most popular electronic musicians ever still even today uses his Atari ST and a pair of old Akai samplers.
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if the shareware author's motives for the payment were to "ensure future development" they would opensource the project instead
What the shareware notice probably ought to say is "you should pay the shareware fee to help ensure future development of the product by its author." This would indicate a cause-and-effect relationship between getting paid and working on that particualar program's codebase.
The nerve of some people, wanting to get paid for their work. On the other hand, you're right, open source is the best way for a really good project to achieve (relative) immortality.
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Er, have you ever tried using Photoshop with a good graphics tablet? Check out some mid to high-end Wacom tablets -- I assure you, it's lightyears better than having to use the mouse, and way better for your RSI (expecially if you've actually taken some drawing classes). Photoshop is *designed* to be used with a tablet -- all the tools can be configured for pressure sensitivity.
An 80-foot tall giant that appears to be Shirley McClaine has been spotted rampaging towards Chihuahua, Mexico. Top scientists belive that the giant crystals have have over-energized her chakras and are causing the celebrity to mutate into some sort of '50s B-movie monster. Local townspeople hope to be rescued by a 100-foot tall Robert Smith, singer for pop band The Cure, and natural enemy of mutant female celebrities.
I love it! They referenced various poems written in perl as an example of creative speech using computer code, and the Internation Obfuscated C Code Contest as an example of satire. Never thought I'd see *that* in a legal brief.
Pulling a power cord causes an outage? Lightweight! *Real* hardware has multiple redundent power supplies with locking brackets for the cord. Not to mention that all your cabling should be running underneith the raised floor, right?
Frankly, I've stopped caring about the new top-level domains. Why? Because as things stand now, they won't make any difference to how DNS and name registration is run.
At this point, we essentially have unlimited numbers of second-level domain names that might as well be top-level domains, because they're all followed by an irrelevant and arbitrary.com (or.net or.org). Unless there is going to be actual regulation by a multination organization with some clout over how the new TLDs are handed out, I don't see how they'll make any difference.
To sum up: because there's no difference between.com,.net and.org anymore, we're essentially using unlimited TLDs followed by an arbitrary string. Unless the new TLDs are enforced in some way (which at this point I don't see happening), this isn't going to change. AOL/TW will promptly go out and buy aoltw.coop, aoltw.store and so forth.
Unlimited TLDs aren't the answer, what we need are the equivalent of zoning laws.
I guess what I'm wondering is how much control you have over the hardware? Are you able to trigger or record events on the playing field? For example, can you record statistics on which players have made the most loops in a row? Are you able to turn on all the magnets at once if the score goes over 100,000,000?
One thing that immediately comes to mind is the possibility of true head-to-head pinball. Wouldn't it be cool to be able to "bomb" the other player by executing special moves that turn off their ramps, or turns on magnets? The mind just boggles at the possibilities. So, while a shell and web-based statistics are a cool idea, do these people have any plans to do something *really* cool with this capability?
Why do people get their panties in such a knot about not wanting to do a simple site registration. Fer pete's sake, I've been registered at nytimes.com for as long as it's existed (1994 maybe?). It's not like they're getting any more personal information out of me than if I actually subscribed to their PAPER newspaper. Actually, they're getting far less info than a non-web subscription.
So, do all these anti-registration cookie people also feel that I shouldn't ever subscribe to a magazine (paper, not electron), since that involves giving my name and address out? (Far more information than I gave away to register for nytimes.com)
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Roman Gods? Don't be silly. Everyone knows the next two planets after Pluto should be named Mickey and Goofy.
Speaking of this sort of thing, can anyone point me to a FireWire external disk box that holds more than one drive? I'm thinking something along the lines of this only using 1394 instead of fibre or SCSI.
I'll second the sodas. My wife cut out drinking a couple cans of soda/day and lost about five pounds with no other changes to her lifestyle. Those suckers have shitloads of sugar -- I heard about eight tablespoons in a 16oz bottle.
If you want a bit of motivation for this, visualize eight tablespoons of pure sugar. First you eat one, then the next, and so on. That's what you're doing when you drink a bottle of pop.
Wrongo.
1 gram of H20 has a volume of 1 milliliter
1 milliliter = 1 cm^3
H2O freezes at 0C and boils at 100C
That's the basis for metric measurements. Apart from original choice of using H2O as a substance to base the constants on, it doesn't seem particularly arbitrary to me.
I think that you're a little confused on terms. A Von Neumann machine is a machine that has the ability to make perfect copies of itself (not as easy as you think). ITYM "Turing Machine". HTH, HAND.
You ever see someone with a four-cup/day habit go cold turkey? Sure, it's not heroin, but you can bet that if caffeine were made illegal tomorrow, there would be people begging and stealing to get their next fix of Folger's Crystals, at $5/gram.
Yeah, it's really too bad they haven't given us readers any kind of a viable option to looking at all those ads. Oh, unless you count actually subscribing to their magazine!
Look, Salon is a magazine. In Real Life, you pay to read magazines. Either you can pay by looking at annoying ads, or you can pay $50 for a two-year ad-free subscription. This amounts to about $0.50/week.
Or, you can whine about how advertizing is Evil, boycott a site that you enjoy, and watch TV instead.
According to the specifications, it has support for up to 18 quad-processor boards. That's a total of 72 processors, so where are they getting the 106 number from?
Wow, up to 72 *hot swappable* PCI devices!
The article mentions that the failed part was made of aluminium, but that the rapid prototyper can only make parts out of polycarbonate, wax, etc. I'm guessing that the part they "printed out" was only being used as a temporary replacement until the actual aluminium pulley could be shipped to them. Still, we're on the way!
Anyone know if there's work being done on stereolithography using a wider variety of materials? It seems to me that that's the biggest obstacle before we have bonafide "replicators."
Besides, not needing windows to run Reason would truly rule!
So lets say that the water utility was privatized, and I had to sign a contract with them that indicated what I could and could not use their water for, and that I was paying for the usage of their water, but that I didn't actually own the water coming into my house. Let's say that my contract didn't cover using the water for the purpose of gardening.
Now someone who make a living off of doing this sort of thing reports my neighbor for using their water to garden with, in violation of their water contract, but he accidentally puts my apartment number on the letter to the water utility. They immediately cut off my water supply until I promise never to do it again. Unfortunately, I'm on vacation, so my cats die of dehydration. *But*, because it's a private water utility, and I did sign that contract, it's all perfectly legal, if an unfortunate mistake.
Does that sound like a just and right situation to you?
Before you go off on the fact that legally, broadband providers aren't utilities, consider this: They're generally monopolies; they provide a service many people need in order to earn money to live on, and they provide a "pipe" into and out of your house or office.
If we can privatize utilities, maybe we should utilitize broadband providers, who are such in all but name and legal obligation.
Ok, scientific evolutionary and cosmological theories are based on emperical evidence (IE, observations). If I'm going to be convinced that creationist theories are equally valid, I need to see some emperical evidence for divine creation. One common argument against evolution is that "no-one has ever witnessed evolution happening." Well, put your money where your mouth is-- are there any first-hand accounts of creation happening?
Not only that, but you know Fatboy Slim? The guy with all the really catchy remix-style tunes? Guess what he uses to write pretty much 100% of his music? Here's a hint: it's not an Athlon 900.
That's right, one of the most popular electronic musicians ever still even today uses his Atari ST and a pair of old Akai samplers.
This is a truly kick-ass case.
What the shareware notice probably ought to say is "you should pay the shareware fee to help ensure future development of the product by its author." This would indicate a cause-and-effect relationship between getting paid and working on that particualar program's codebase.
The nerve of some people, wanting to get paid for their work. On the other hand, you're right, open source is the best way for a really good project to achieve (relative) immortality.
Er, have you ever tried using Photoshop with a good graphics tablet? Check out some mid to high-end Wacom tablets -- I assure you, it's lightyears better than having to use the mouse, and way better for your RSI (expecially if you've actually taken some drawing classes). Photoshop is *designed* to be used with a tablet -- all the tools can be configured for pressure sensitivity.
I'm the lobbiest lobbyist!
An 80-foot tall giant that appears to be Shirley McClaine has been spotted rampaging towards Chihuahua, Mexico. Top scientists belive that the giant crystals have have over-energized her chakras and are causing the celebrity to mutate into some sort of '50s B-movie monster. Local townspeople hope to be rescued by a 100-foot tall Robert Smith, singer for pop band The Cure, and natural enemy of mutant female celebrities.
I love it! They referenced various poems written in perl as an example of creative speech using computer code, and the Internation Obfuscated C Code Contest as an example of satire. Never thought I'd see *that* in a legal brief.
Pulling a power cord causes an outage? Lightweight! *Real* hardware has multiple redundent power supplies with locking brackets for the cord. Not to mention that all your cabling should be running underneith the raised floor, right?
Frankly, I've stopped caring about the new top-level domains. Why? Because as things stand now, they won't make any difference to how DNS and name registration is run.
.com (or .net or .org). Unless there is going to be actual regulation by a multination organization with some clout over how the new TLDs are handed out, I don't see how they'll make any difference.
.com, .net and .org anymore, we're essentially using unlimited TLDs followed by an arbitrary string. Unless the new TLDs are enforced in some way (which at this point I don't see happening), this isn't going to change. AOL/TW will promptly go out and buy aoltw.coop, aoltw.store and so forth.
At this point, we essentially have unlimited numbers of second-level domain names that might as well be top-level domains, because they're all followed by an irrelevant and arbitrary
To sum up: because there's no difference between
Unlimited TLDs aren't the answer, what we need are the equivalent of zoning laws.
I guess what I'm wondering is how much control you have over the hardware? Are you able to trigger or record events on the playing field? For example, can you record statistics on which players have made the most loops in a row? Are you able to turn on all the magnets at once if the score goes over 100,000,000?
--Alex
One thing that immediately comes to mind is the possibility of true head-to-head pinball. Wouldn't it be cool to be able to "bomb" the other player by executing special moves that turn off their ramps, or turns on magnets? The mind just boggles at the possibilities. So, while a shell and web-based statistics are a cool idea, do these people have any plans to do something *really* cool with this capability?
--ALex
OK, this is a pet peave of mine. You don't say ATM machine, do you? Or PIN number? Well, bash is an acronym for Bourne-again shell. Please.
Still, it will be super-cool to be able to drop into bash on MacOS X
Why do people get their panties in such a knot about not wanting to do a simple site registration. Fer pete's sake, I've been registered at nytimes.com for as long as it's existed (1994 maybe?). It's not like they're getting any more personal information out of me than if I actually subscribed to their PAPER newspaper. Actually, they're getting far less info than a non-web subscription.
So, do all these anti-registration cookie people also feel that I shouldn't ever subscribe to a magazine (paper, not electron), since that involves giving my name and address out? (Far more information than I gave away to register for nytimes.com)