How exactly do you do that? Either 'grow a brain' or test two disimilar pieces of hardware to the same standard.
Comparing the P4 directly to the athalon would be well, weighing them, measuring them, etc. The motherboard is one of the requisite tools for a processor test. Trying to compare them directly just doesn't work.
maybe you should go back to playing with your kernal, instead of ranting about something you have no authority with?
Okay. Kernel compiles may be bitchy, but not nearly so annoying.
I didn't get any tech support from my linux vendor..
all I got was told to RTFM!
and use man.
and it worked pretty good.
oh wait.. I don't have a vendor for linux, anyway.
But if the support staff is good, and the config program is good, I don't see why this couldn't be a practical and acceptable, even prefferable, solution.
Besides, how often does Aunt Tillie use linux anyway?
And if she is using linux, she's probably pretty decent at figuring shit out her self, as I'm sure she been disregard by half the male geek community and hit on (probably poorly) by the other half every single time she asks a question.
Except for what is needed is a price break as these things already exist, and are pretty capable.. for example :
http://www.tekgear.ca/displays/nightvision/spect re/index.html
svga input, plus full 3rd gen low light/infrared capabilites (heheh... 'damn it it.. don't beam me that crap with your palm! That light is blinding me!')..
Only problem is that it's 2500$. Which is not that bad considering that either of the products it replaces could easily be first on my wish list.
Unfortunately, it is available only to the military. There are several other products that function as a HMD, but I still haven't seen a small one with a good price.
Games on portables with 3.5"x5" screens just don't seem that appealing to me. I mean sure, tetris rocks, but I don't need a 600$ platform to play tetris.
The idea of wireless games for the PDA seems interesting, but you could already do that. MUD's are still out there, and playable by text interface (of course), but quite frankly, they don't catch my attention any more (no offense intended to loyal devotees).
Also, in most of the situations where a PDA is carried, gaming is not really the focus. In any case, the PDA doesn't allow for an immersive enough expierince for my gaming desires. I suppose online chess or something would be cool, but I want to be able to KILL..
so I guess I'll wait untill a (relatively)cheap wearable comes out for truly portable connected gaming.
Plus, I can hire a secretary for 10$ an hour, which would give me numerous benefits which no computer can (such as making a cup of coffee, or holding a cohesive conversation with my clients when I don't feel cohesive myself).
I can see the point of no liability, but only after the user has changed the source. If the source is in it's original form, and it has a serious enough flaw, the programmer/company should be as liable just as if it was closed source
If they sold the software (open source or not), they should probably be held at least partially responsible, but only in the case of negligence (I.e. said company Knows about a bug, denies it for six months, spends six more months developing a fix, and then sells an upgrade to solve the problem). I think that laws along this line of thinking could be leveling the play field rather than dumping on the open source movement.
After all, who has more problems with this kind of thing, Open source companies or closed source?
Here's a story on eetimes concerning the compression of VoIP packet headers that claims a 40:2 ratio. Compressed Real-Time Protocol ain't a 100:1, but this is real technology that sounds like it will be in use by cisco and motorola pretty soon.
http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20020108S0054
The basic idea is that the compression of the packet header becomes more and more important as the compression of the payload of the packet also increases.. since the compression ratio for the actual data is already pretty good, effnet is working on compressing the packet headers with good success. They claim an increase in traffic over a t-1 from 90 VoIP channels up to 234..
You've seen the car makers' commercials -- if you drive a car older than a year or two, you're helping the terrorists win!
I hadn't even noticed that. That really irks me. I mean really.
Did you happen to notice that almost all (something like 18 out of 22) of the hijackers were saudis? I wonder where all of saudia arabia's money comes from? Wonder where bin laden's dad's money came from?
Short hit : it's the damn oil we fuel our outdated transport system with.
Won't work for me here in OR, though.. Already don't drive. tried to explain to cop why no license (car == 2000 # steel + 15 gallons volitile liquid intention caused to combust in a contained fashion) and no ID card.. Told him it's not against the law.
they told me that THEY could arrest me if I didn't have an ID. I laughed at the time, until I found out it was true.
America may well have the DMCA and the USA-Patriot Act, but it also has the ACLU, Alan Dershowitz, Johnny Cochrane, etc., etc.
In other words, we may have restrictive laws, but we also have a bunch of chiselers out to finess them.
Indeed. I wonder how much Mr. Dershowitz's services are per hour? I wonder how much Johnny Cochrane's are? I know they bankrupted O.J., so they must be pretty steep. So the balance that you type of seems to be an uncertain balance, or or at least one weighted very, very heavily towards the wealthly.
I say armed insurection. Face it, lawyer's are part of the problem, being the magot stage of politicians. They be the first to go..
If you use the (admittedly stretched) analogy of the internet as a broadcast medium, then you should be able to look at how current laws governing radio and television broadcasts are handled.
I don't think it's that stretched. I watch tv for about the same reason that I use the internet.. entertainment generated by the rest of society, interactive or not. While the term broadcast may not specifically apply to the internet, I think that a reasonable basis for comparision is certainly there, however :
For example, pornography and some countries in the Middle East. How are these handled? I would have thought political broadcasts by one country might be deemed illegal in other countries with differing views.
Remember that they use out television and radio broadcasts to demonize us in order to justify attacks such as the september 11th incedent, etc. It does not appear that they have a legal recourse to deal with the broadcast of filth (as they view it), so they have to deal in less conventional means.
At least the french or the aussies probably won't crash 767's into our buildings.
If I dance Naked in ??? and you can see me from ??? (Alright bad example as you would most certainly be blind at that point) and its legal to dance naked where I am , can I be sued for indecent exposure where you are ?
no, but I can throw rocks at you. *Grin*
A more pertinent question might be: at this point does it matter if country X sues you? Will it matter in the future, as globalization and 'world trade' end up in a one goverment world scenario?
I'm having flashback's to a simpsons episode where bart get the boot from the aussie authority.
Does this mean there is a way to beat people up on/. now?
After all, we know who's popular!
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(I guess that would have to be a pretty strong current, but how about those fictional (?) EMP bombs?)
Who says EMP bombs are fictional?
Winn Schwartau (sp?) covers this technology in medium depth in his book 'Information Warfare' (which is btw a VERY good book on Information terrorism and counter e.terrorism, as well as providing a good design for a closed cell architecture for terrorist oragnization. A MUST read in this day and age).
With a mediocre knowledge of Electrical Enigineering, one could pretty easily be constructed, or at the very least one could construct a powerful high energy radio frequency gun, with the proper power supply. It sounds like the facility is located in a fairly insdustrialized area, meaning that the power infrastructure to power it is probably already there to be hijacked.
There is always a way, and it doesn't always involve crashing a 767 into it *grin*.
Physical security is a Good Thing (tm), but what about Network security. It'd be a familar gut wrenching feeling for the suits who came up with the idea to build the most secure Data warehouse in the world and then run IIS as the server.
Besides, what location in the real world is actually physically secure? I'm sure that Bin Laden told his followers that the caves they were going to hide in were 'secure'...
Give me a dozen well trained military operatives, and a couple of geeks and I could take the place, by force and subterfuge. Give me a herf gun and I can make thier secure facility useless.
Hell, Molly Millions could probably take this place on her own.
If, on the other hand, they had much more advanced AI or actually modelled the physics of the buildings (i.e. collapsing walls, etc.) then it might make more sense.
I'll drink to that!
Real Physics! Collapsing walls. Doors that I can(and must) blow the locks off of. Realisitic sturctures for buildings. Lights that go out and stay out. Gore that splatters correctly and stays there. Ricochets.
As long as they don't make the enemy AI too much smarter. UT already kills me dead on it's highest settings.
With IBM's recent interest in Linux, I don't think it would make sense for them to back out of the desktop market. They have the ability to overthrow Microsoft.
It is nice that IBM has taken an interest in Linux and the opensource movement, but I think that they are more focused on the server end of the equation. In addition, how many of those of us who run linux proficiently enough to keep it around as an actual OS (not just install it and look at it and then boot back into windows) are going buy and overpriced desktop PC instead of just going to fry's and assemble it from off the shelf components? It's cheaper that way, and more in line with the philosophy that drives opensource (i.e. control and understanding of the tools that you are using.)
It's going to be application developers that drive the move to Linux on the desktop, not the hardware resellers.
Makes me a lot more nervous than it makes sense though. I live here in Portland, and I've gotten in trouble at work for the same kind of stuff.. inappropriate use of network resources, annoying my boss, etc. I am thankful that my employer didn't throw me in jail.
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he 'lives in the Irish republic and intends -- for ``security and publicity-avoidance reasons'' -- to keep his identity a secret'
Seems to me like that is a real good plan. Otherwise some goverment would probably show up and steal his 'research'.
Wrong side of keyboard == qwerty imprinted on the right side of my face, instead of the left..
How exactly do you do that? Either 'grow a brain' or test two disimilar pieces of hardware to the same standard.
Comparing the P4 directly to the athalon would be well, weighing them, measuring them, etc. The motherboard is one of the requisite tools for a processor test. Trying to compare them directly just doesn't work.
maybe you should go back to playing with your kernal, instead of ranting about something you have no authority with?
Okay. Kernel compiles may be bitchy, but not nearly so annoying.
Damn.
I didn't get any tech support from my linux vendor..
all I got was told to RTFM!
and use man.
and it worked pretty good.
oh wait.. I don't have a vendor for linux, anyway.
But if the support staff is good, and the config program is good, I don't see why this couldn't be a practical and acceptable, even prefferable, solution.
Besides, how often does Aunt Tillie use linux anyway?
And if she is using linux, she's probably pretty decent at figuring shit out her self, as I'm sure she been disregard by half the male geek community and hit on (probably poorly) by the other half every single time she asks a question.
Heartily agreed.
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Except for what is needed is a price break as these things already exist, and are pretty capable.. for example :
http://www.tekgear.ca/displays/nightvision/spec
svga input, plus full 3rd gen low light/infrared capabilites (heheh... 'damn it it.. don't beam me that crap with your palm! That light is blinding me!')..
Only problem is that it's 2500$. Which is not that bad considering that either of the products it replaces could easily be first on my wish list.
Unfortunately, it is available only to the military. There are several other products that function as a HMD, but I still haven't seen a small one with a good price.
Games on portables with 3.5"x5" screens just don't seem that appealing to me. I mean sure, tetris rocks, but I don't need a 600$ platform to play tetris.
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The idea of wireless games for the PDA seems interesting, but you could already do that. MUD's are still out there, and playable by text interface (of course), but quite frankly, they don't catch my attention any more (no offense intended to loyal devotees).
Also, in most of the situations where a PDA is carried, gaming is not really the focus. In any case, the PDA doesn't allow for an immersive enough expierince for my gaming desires. I suppose online chess or something would be cool, but I want to be able to KILL
so I guess I'll wait untill a (relatively)cheap wearable comes out for truly portable connected gaming.
Truth.
But I've got a 'filing cabinet' and 'memory'..
Check you dictionary.
Plus, I can hire a secretary for 10$ an hour, which would give me numerous benefits which no computer can (such as making a cup of coffee, or holding a cohesive conversation with my clients when I don't feel cohesive myself).
yeah yeah, offtopic trollbait, whatever.
From: http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_Story.asp?ID=28 33
Later this year, the company will release the Treo 270 with a color screen and a built-in keyboard. Handspring currently plans to charge $600 for it.
$600 bucks (plus a service agreement) for something that can be replaced by a phone of paper?
I think that might be what is killing the palm market.
I can see the point of no liability, but only after the user has changed the source. If the source is in it's original form, and it has a serious enough flaw, the programmer/company should be as liable just as if it was closed source
If they sold the software (open source or not), they should probably be held at least partially responsible, but only in the case of negligence (I.e. said company Knows about a bug, denies it for six months, spends six more months developing a fix, and then sells an upgrade to solve the problem). I think that laws along this line of thinking could be leveling the play field rather than dumping on the open source movement.
After all, who has more problems with this kind of thing, Open source companies or closed source?
Just would have been cool to see nsyck get blow to bit with the best special effect money can buy.
Now I'll just have to bide my time.. it will happen, it will...
I still wonder why they named an OS (even a little one) wince..
At least the hubble was named after somebody, not a mincing facial expression.
Here's a story on eetimes concerning the compression of VoIP packet headers that claims a 40:2 ratio. Compressed Real-Time Protocol ain't a 100:1, but this is real technology that sounds like it will be in use by cisco and motorola pretty soon.
http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20020108S0054
The basic idea is that the compression of the packet header becomes more and more important as the compression of the payload of the packet also increases.. since the compression ratio for the actual data is already pretty good, effnet is working on compressing the packet headers with good success. They claim an increase in traffic over a t-1 from 90 VoIP channels up to 234..
that's real.
You've seen the car makers' commercials -- if you drive a car older than a year or two, you're helping the terrorists win!
I hadn't even noticed that. That really irks me. I mean really.
Did you happen to notice that almost all (something like 18 out of 22) of the hijackers were saudis? I wonder where all of saudia arabia's money comes from? Wonder where bin laden's dad's money came from?
Short hit : it's the damn oil we fuel our outdated transport system with.
Nice thought.
Won't work for me here in OR, though.. Already don't drive. tried to explain to cop why no license (car == 2000 # steel + 15 gallons volitile liquid intention caused to combust in a contained fashion) and no ID card.. Told him it's not against the law.
they told me that THEY could arrest me if I didn't have an ID. I laughed at the time, until I found out it was true.
end of story.
America may well have the DMCA and the USA-Patriot Act, but it also has the ACLU, Alan Dershowitz, Johnny Cochrane, etc., etc.
In other words, we may have restrictive laws, but we also have a bunch of chiselers out to finess them.
Indeed. I wonder how much Mr. Dershowitz's services are per hour? I wonder how much Johnny Cochrane's are? I know they bankrupted O.J., so they must be pretty steep. So the balance that you type of seems to be an uncertain balance, or or at least one weighted very, very heavily towards the wealthly.
I say armed insurection. Face it, lawyer's are part of the problem, being the magot stage of politicians. They be the first to go..
If you use the (admittedly stretched) analogy of the internet as a broadcast medium, then you should be able to look at how current laws governing radio and television broadcasts are handled.
I don't think it's that stretched. I watch tv for about the same reason that I use the internet.. entertainment generated by the rest of society, interactive or not. While the term broadcast may not specifically apply to the internet, I think that a reasonable basis for comparision is certainly there, however :
For example, pornography and some countries in the Middle East. How are these handled? I would have thought political broadcasts by one country might be deemed illegal in other countries with differing views.
Remember that they use out television and radio broadcasts to demonize us in order to justify attacks such as the september 11th incedent, etc. It does not appear that they have a legal recourse to deal with the broadcast of filth (as they view it), so they have to deal in less conventional means.
At least the french or the aussies probably won't crash 767's into our buildings.
If I dance Naked in ??? and you can see me from ??? (Alright bad example as you would most certainly be blind at that point) and its legal to dance naked where I am , can I be sued for indecent exposure where you are ?
no, but I can throw rocks at you. *Grin*
A more pertinent question might be: at this point does it matter if country X sues you? Will it matter in the future, as globalization and 'world trade' end up in a one goverment world scenario?
I'm having flashback's to a simpsons episode where bart get the boot from the aussie authority.
Does this mean there is a way to beat people up on /. now?
After all, we know who's popular!
(I guess that would have to be a pretty strong current, but how about those fictional (?) EMP bombs?)
Who says EMP bombs are fictional?
Winn Schwartau (sp?) covers this technology in medium depth in his book 'Information Warfare' (which is btw a VERY good book on Information terrorism and counter e.terrorism, as well as providing a good design for a closed cell architecture for terrorist oragnization. A MUST read in this day and age).
With a mediocre knowledge of Electrical Enigineering, one could pretty easily be constructed, or at the very least one could construct a powerful high energy radio frequency gun, with the proper power supply. It sounds like the facility is located in a fairly insdustrialized area, meaning that the power infrastructure to power it is probably already there to be hijacked.
There is always a way, and it doesn't always involve crashing a 767 into it *grin*.
Physical security is a Good Thing (tm), but what about Network security. It'd be a familar gut wrenching feeling for the suits who came up with the idea to build the most secure Data warehouse in the world and then run IIS as the server.
Besides, what location in the real world is actually physically secure? I'm sure that Bin Laden told his followers that the caves they were going to hide in were 'secure'...
Give me a dozen well trained military operatives, and a couple of geeks and I could take the place, by force and subterfuge. Give me a herf gun and I can make thier secure facility useless.
Hell, Molly Millions could probably take this place on her own.
If, on the other hand, they had much more advanced AI or actually modelled the physics of the buildings (i.e. collapsing walls, etc.) then it might make more sense.
I'll drink to that!
Real Physics! Collapsing walls. Doors that I can(and must) blow the locks off of. Realisitic sturctures for buildings. Lights that go out and stay out. Gore that splatters correctly and stays there. Ricochets.
As long as they don't make the enemy AI too much smarter. UT already kills me dead on it's highest settings.
josh
With IBM's recent interest in Linux, I don't think it would make sense for them to back out of the desktop market. They have the ability to overthrow Microsoft.
It is nice that IBM has taken an interest in Linux and the opensource movement, but I think that they are more focused on the server end of the equation. In addition, how many of those of us who run linux proficiently enough to keep it around as an actual OS (not just install it and look at it and then boot back into windows) are going buy and overpriced desktop PC instead of just going to fry's and assemble it from off the shelf components? It's cheaper that way, and more in line with the philosophy that drives opensource (i.e. control and understanding of the tools that you are using.)
It's going to be application developers that drive the move to Linux on the desktop, not the hardware resellers.
josh
Have you played q3 or UT on a sweet athalon?
Can you even tell the difference in game play between say a 900mhz and a 1.4?
mostly, it seems to be the the video card that makes the difference, and the ram, not the processor.
As what is commonly reffered to by your ilk as heathen scum, I must say that I expected more.
Why anyone would choose to celebrate a false, meme infected comsumerist holiday is far beyond me..
Merry f***in' jesus's unbirthday corrupt the harmless pagan so that they may fall befor the christian empire day.
Makes sense to me.
Makes me a lot more nervous than it makes sense though. I live here in Portland, and I've gotten in trouble at work for the same kind of stuff.. inappropriate use of network resources, annoying my boss, etc. I am thankful that my employer didn't throw me in jail.
josh