I dunno. When I listen to the wave file, what I hear sounds to me like something in between a long e and a short i, but not exactly like either of them. For the record, however, I am one of the people who think it doesn't really matter. I pronounce it with a short i myself, mostly because that's the first way I heard it pronounced out loud myself, and first impressions on this kind of thing tend to stick.
Well, I would think that this would be a good thing because you might want to have a choice about what 10 hours of music to listen to at any given time. If you put 100 hours of music on the thing, then you never have to do it again. (Assuming that you don't have more than 100 hours of music total that you want to rotate through.) Then later when you decide you want to use your 10 hours of battery life, you have a selection of music to choose from instead of just being able to play whatever is currently on the drive.
Well, I imagine that a lot of people here care about television, even if they do spend more time in front of their computer monitors. I for one follow several shows. Seven Days, Farscape, Sliders, Stargate SG-1, and Earth Final Conflict all come to mind. I also like to watch a little TV while I eat dinner, but other than all of that I'm not a big TV watcher. I turn it on once and a while when I am bored, and don't feel like doing much, but usually end up turning it back off after seeing my choices. Even if they aren't glued to your set like the average couch potato, I think that most people still have shows that they enjoy to watch regularly. Maybe you're right about the difference being with where you live. TV certainly is more predominate here in the US than elsewhere.
I don't know. It's entirely possible that the kid said something like, "Wow, I must have seen that movie a hundred times.", which of course does not have to mean that he literaly saw it 100 times. On the other hand, to be fair to Guinness, we also don't really know what he said to the kid to upset him. He may have just said something like, "Well thanks kid, but I have to tell you I really don't think it's that great of a movie, and if you want my advice, you're better off reading a good book instead of watching Star Wars that many times.", which although to a poor kid who probably idolizes him might seem pretty harsh, is not really that far out of line, although perhaps a bit insensitive. Without knowing what was said, I think it's kind of hard to really judge whether he was too hard on the kid or not.
Yeah, I find this very iritating as well. It wasn't a big deal when he first started doing it, but he's obviously been made aware of the problem, and it's such a little thing to correct, if he'd just take the time. He has to realize that a large percentage of the people he wants to read these articles are going to do so with Netscape, or some other browser that probably does the same thing with those ? marks, but he's perfectly fine with leaving it the way it is. Overall I don't have too much problem with Katz, and I'm definately nowhere near the 'burn Katz in effigy' crowd, but I do wish he'd be a little more careful with the articles he's throwing out there.
Wow. No dejanews? That's got to suck. I've found dejanews to be one of the most usefull sources of computer related information available on the net. I use it to look up obscure UNIX error messages or problems all the time, and I can find what I am looking for probably 3 out of 5 times, which I think is pretty good. If they banned that where I work, I'd have a fit.
That has to be one of the worst possible reasons for choosing that I can think of. If you want to do rc64 because you think that's more worthwhile, more power to you, but just because somebody (And we don't even know at this point if it was anybody directly involved with the project or not) did something really stupid is the wrong reason to do anything. The last thing we should be doing is letting the lowest common denominator make our decisions for us.
Maybe it's because African-American is hypenated, or maybe she just wanted the url to be easier to type. Regardless of the reason, it was still a perfectly reasonable choice of domain names for what the site is, IMHO. I don't really think that the usage of only one 'a' is that out of line.
Well, I don't know who the "we all" in "we all knew it wasn't trademarked" was supposed to include, but it didn't include me. During all of these wars over who was to own the open source mark I thought that the trademark was still pending, and I was never aware that the pending status of the trademark had been revoked due to inaction on spi's part.
And if you'll follow the Check Status link at the top of that page you will find that it is listed as abandoned because of applicant failure to respond to an office action.
Assuming this is true (Have only used SP3 myself, as my company will not go past SP3 yet because of reported incompatibilities between some software we use and SP4), then isn't it kind of pathetic how long it took them to get NT4 to a point of relative stability? What were people supposed to do all these years while waiting for SP4 to solve all their problems?
So what if KDE is boring? It's got good solid functionality, and it does a really good job of doing what I want. It makes my life much easier at work than anything else I have tried. I don't think it's fair to say that just because you like a window manager that is windows-like that you should just use windows. The one thing Microsoft can actually do well is make a good user interface. I think you could do a lot worse than have a GUI that works much like windows. I do think that eventually the free software community can go one better and enhance the whole thing until it's better than the Windows interface. Of course, if you can get a good GUI that runs on top of a good operating system like Linux you can have the best of both worlds.
I was never particularly thrilled with E myself. It looked great, but did not seem to make my life any easier, and that to me is more important. In fact, my unhappiness with E has been one of the major reasons I haven't explored gnome more fully yet. I keep saying that one of these days I'll try it with WindowMaker, since people seem to have lots of good things to say about it, but I haven't actually gotten around to it yet.
Sure, he was the only connection with the gungins (sp?) but, his connection was sort of contrived. Initially he did little more than lead the Jedi to the gungins. Later, the gungin leader then took this guy who had been exiled originally and basically said, "You heap big general now." just so he could participate in some comic relief combat scenes.
C3PO in the first movie may not have been developed as much as in the later movies, but you still got an idea of what the character was about. You got to know what kind of personality he had. He had kind of a high society kind of stuck up attitude, wasn't very brave, and was usually oblivious to the moods of the people around him, but also genuinely cared about them also, for example when he thought they had all been crushed in the trash compactor, or when he volunteered to donate parts for R2D2. What in the Phantom Menace was there to tell you anything about Jar Jar the character? It seems like about anything you can say about Jar Jar can be said about any other gungin in the movie, as he seemed to defined in a pretty 1 dimentional, stereotypical way.
As far as what I said being a matter of opinion, absolutely it is. I never meant to imply otherwise. That's why I started out with "I disagree" instead of something like "That's not right." However, this is definately how I feel on the subject of Jar Jar. I think that a direct comparison between him and C3PO is weak at best.
I disagree. Although C3PO annoyed the other characters in the movies, he usually did so in a way that was entertaining to the audience. He was also a better defined character with a personality. Jar Jar's personality was defined by little more than his accent if you ask me. Jar Jar seemed to have little connection to the plot aside from his involvement in humor like fart jokes and stepping in dung. Annoying as C3PO may have been to the other Star Wars characters, I still think that most of the audience members liked the character. I'm sure that Jar Jar annoyed the audience far more than he ever did the other Phantom Menace characters. At no point did C3PO actually irriate me as an audience member.
How can you say that it ran fine without distributed computing? The goal of the project is to hopefully find life out there, not just look for it. Now I'm not saying that SETI will ever neccessarily find anything using present day technology, but if we can analyze the data a lot more thorougly with distributed computing, then it seems like SETI will run a lot better with it than without it.
Sure, but I think that the rc5 project has already proven it's point. Even if we do finally finish rc64, all we will have proven is that it is crackable, but that it takes even distributed computing a really long time with today's technology, but I think that this point has already been adequately proven already by distributed.net. If they do finally crack the rc64 challenge, I don't really think it will add to that point at all. I think that it is already understood now that it can be cracked, and that the average time it would take to do so is really just a fairly simple mathematical exercise complicated only by unknowns like the increase in processing power from year to year, and how many people participate as time goes on. Actually doing it at this point holds little more point than the prize money in my opinion. Don't get me wrong, I think this was a vital project when it began, I just think that it accomplished what it needed to do, that's all. Now if they ever get their OGR stuff going, I might be tempted to switch back to work on that for a while, but for now I'm sticking with SETI.
That's why we have cypherpunks/cypherpunks around. Most of the sites that get linked to from here that require registration have the cypherpunks login set up already, and most of them also work like Slashdot where they use cookies to remember who you are so you don't have to even log in the next time around. I used the cypherpunks login a couple of times a long time ago, and now I can't even remember the last time I was ever pestered by those annoying login screens.
The LD_50 of caffeine (that is the lethal dosage reported to kill 50% of the population) is estimated at 10 grams for oral administration. As it is usually the case, lethal dosage varies from individual to individual according to weight. Ingestion of 150mg/kg of caffeine seems to be the LD_50 for all people. That is, people weighting 50 kilos have an LD_50 of approx. 7.5 grams, people weighting 80 kilos have an LD_50 of about 12 grams.
In cups of coffee the LD_50 varies from 50 to 200 cups of coffee or about 50 vivarins (200mg each).
One exceptional case documents survival after ingesting 24 grams. The minimum lethal dose ever reported was 3.2 grams intravenously, this does not represent the oral MLD (minimum lethal dose).
In small children ingestion of 35 mg/kg can lead to moderate toxicity. The amount of caffeine in an average cup of coffee is 50 - 200 mg. Infants metabolize caffeine very slowly.
Symptoms + Acute caffeine poisoning gives early symptoms of anorexia, tremor, and restlessness. Followed by nausea, vomiting, tachycardia, and confusion. Serious intoxication may cause delirium, seizures, supraventricular and ventricular tachyarrhythmias, hypokalemia, and hyperglycemia. + Chronic high-dose caffeine intake can lead to nervousness, irritability, anxiety, tremulousness, muscle twitching, insomnia, palpitations and hyperreflexia. For blood testing, cross-reaction with theophylline assays will detect toxic amounts. (Method IA) Blood concentration of 1-10 mg/L is normal in coffee drinkers, while 80 mg/L has been associated with death.
If you have enough money to get started at all, you can't possibly afford to NOT have a tape backup, as this incident illustrated for you. A cheap tape backup is not all that expensive, and if you can't even cough up a couple hundred for a tape backup, you can't possibly have enough money to get off the ground anyway. Even without script kiddies, accidents do happen. Had a guy at a company I used to work at do an rm -rf * before he realized that he had typo'd his cd to the directory where he wanted to clean up, and he was logged in as root, and thus being on an AIX box, had started in / (A better rationale for/root being root's home directory I have never seen...). He caught it before it finished and ^C'd it, but not before it was done wiping out most of the system.
I don't see how this will really help Slashdot go up in rc5 statistics except in the very long term. Slashdot has already been taking first in the daily statistics, and they are far enough behind in the overall statistics that even with the EvangeListas gone completely (and there will probably still be a lot people who don't switch off of that team anyway.) it would take months to close the gap in overall blocks at the current rate team Slashdot is going. Not to mention that I think that the Seti at home project is going to draw a lot of people away from rc5 anyway. I've already switched my machine over to setiathome. I think we've proven the point about encryption, and even if we break the current rc5 challenge, I don't think the point will be emphasized that much more. On the other hand, if we can actually pick up signals from other intelligent life, well the possibilities are endless. Regardless of the odds, that's where I'm putting my cpu cycles.
Really? That's good news. The last time I had checked Dialogic was refusing to support Linux at all. I used to work for West Interactive, which is probably the largest VRU company around. They had several hundred VRUs with a couple of single T1 Dialogic boards apiece, and they've only gotten larger since I left. They were using SCO on all of their systems, and their own in house software to drive the calls. At one point I was looking into Linux support for the Dialogic cards because I was toying around with the idea of setting up a few VRUs of my own and going into business dealing with some of the smaller customers that West didn't like to handle because of their smaller size. SCO would have been all right, but I saw Linux as an advantage, particularly with being small, because being open and easily customizable, it would be easier to have the kind of flexability that you often need as the smaller company, but they had no Linux support at all at the time. Ended up deciding against the whole idea anyway, but it's nice to know that Dialogic came around.
Never any source code for these things. Why?
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At one point during the development cycle, the source code for unix was available. I downloaded it at the time, and reported a few changes that had to be made to the code and the makefile to make it compile under Linux and AIX. It was mostly simple stuff like taking -lsocket out of the compiler options, and a few prototype changes, so I doubt I was the only one to figure it out. So, even though they might not have the source code right out there on the web page, it was available publicly at one point, and therefore anything but secret.
The article linked to by this story says that he was charged with interfering with public communication. 5-10 years prison and up to $150,000 fine. He was released on $100,000 bail.
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I dunno. When I listen to the wave file, what I hear sounds to me like something in between a long e and a short i, but not exactly like either of them. For the record, however, I am one of the people who think it doesn't really matter. I pronounce it with a short i myself, mostly because that's the first way I heard it pronounced out loud myself, and first impressions on this kind of thing tend to stick.
Well, I would think that this would be a good thing because you might want to have a choice about what 10 hours of music to listen to at any given time. If you put 100 hours of music on the thing, then you never have to do it again. (Assuming that you don't have more than 100 hours of music total that you want to rotate through.) Then later when you decide you want to use your 10 hours of battery life, you have a selection of music to choose from instead of just being able to play whatever is currently on the drive.
Well, I imagine that a lot of people here care about television, even if they do spend more time in front of their computer monitors. I for one follow several shows. Seven Days, Farscape, Sliders, Stargate SG-1, and Earth Final Conflict all come to mind. I also like to watch a little TV while I eat dinner, but other than all of that I'm not a big TV watcher. I turn it on once and a while when I am bored, and don't feel like doing much, but usually end up turning it back off after seeing my choices. Even if they aren't glued to your set like the average couch potato, I think that most people still have shows that they enjoy to watch regularly. Maybe you're right about the difference being with where you live. TV certainly is more predominate here in the US than elsewhere.
I don't know. It's entirely possible that the kid said something like, "Wow, I must have seen that movie a hundred times.", which of course does not have to mean that he literaly saw it 100 times. On the other hand, to be fair to Guinness, we also don't really know what he said to the kid to upset him. He may have just said something like, "Well thanks kid, but I have to tell you I really don't think it's that great of a movie, and if you want my advice, you're better off reading a good book instead of watching Star Wars that many times.", which although to a poor kid who probably idolizes him might seem pretty harsh, is not really that far out of line, although perhaps a bit insensitive. Without knowing what was said, I think it's kind of hard to really judge whether he was too hard on the kid or not.
Yeah, I find this very iritating as well. It wasn't a big deal when he first started doing it, but he's obviously been made aware of the problem, and it's such a little thing to correct, if he'd just take the time. He has to realize that a large percentage of the people he wants to read these articles are going to do so with Netscape, or some other browser that probably does the same thing with those ? marks, but he's perfectly fine with leaving it the way it is. Overall I don't have too much problem with Katz, and I'm definately nowhere near the 'burn Katz in effigy' crowd, but I do wish he'd be a little more careful with the articles he's throwing out there.
Wow. No dejanews? That's got to suck. I've found dejanews to be one of the most usefull sources of computer related information available on the net. I use it to look up obscure UNIX error messages or problems all the time, and I can find what I am looking for probably 3 out of 5 times, which I think is pretty good. If they banned that where I work, I'd have a fit.
That has to be one of the worst possible reasons for choosing that I can think of. If you want to do rc64 because you think that's more worthwhile, more power to you, but just because somebody (And we don't even know at this point if it was anybody directly involved with the project or not) did something really stupid is the wrong reason to do anything. The last thing we should be doing is letting the lowest common denominator make our decisions for us.
Maybe it's because African-American is hypenated, or maybe she just wanted the url to be easier to type. Regardless of the reason, it was still a perfectly reasonable choice of domain names for what the site is, IMHO. I don't really think that the usage of only one 'a' is that out of line.
Well, I don't know who the "we all" in "we all knew it wasn't trademarked" was supposed to include, but it didn't include me. During all of these wars over who was to own the open source mark I thought that the trademark was still pending, and I was never aware that the pending status of the trademark had been revoked due to inaction on spi's part.
And if you'll follow the Check Status link at the top of that page you will find that it is listed as abandoned because of applicant failure to respond to an office action.
Assuming this is true (Have only used SP3 myself, as my company will not go past SP3 yet because of reported incompatibilities between some software we use and SP4), then isn't it kind of pathetic how long it took them to get NT4 to a point of relative stability? What were people supposed to do all these years while waiting for SP4 to solve all their problems?
So what if KDE is boring? It's got good solid functionality, and it does a really good job of doing what I want. It makes my life much easier at work than anything else I have tried. I don't think it's fair to say that just because you like a window manager that is windows-like that you should just use windows. The one thing Microsoft can actually do well is make a good user interface. I think you could do a lot worse than have a GUI that works much like windows. I do think that eventually the free software community can go one better and enhance the whole thing until it's better than the Windows interface. Of course, if you can get a good GUI that runs on top of a good operating system like Linux you can have the best of both worlds.
I was never particularly thrilled with E myself. It looked great, but did not seem to make my life any easier, and that to me is more important. In fact, my unhappiness with E has been one of the major reasons I haven't explored gnome more fully yet. I keep saying that one of these days I'll try it with WindowMaker, since people seem to have lots of good things to say about it, but I haven't actually gotten around to it yet.
Sure, he was the only connection with the gungins (sp?) but, his connection was sort of contrived. Initially he did little more than lead the Jedi to the gungins. Later, the gungin leader then took this guy who had been exiled originally and basically said, "You heap big general now." just so he could participate in some comic relief combat scenes.
C3PO in the first movie may not have been developed as much as in the later movies, but you still got an idea of what the character was about. You got to know what kind of personality he had. He had kind of a high society kind of stuck up attitude, wasn't very brave, and was usually oblivious to the moods of the people around him, but also genuinely cared about them also, for example when he thought they had all been crushed in the trash compactor, or when he volunteered to donate parts for R2D2. What in the Phantom Menace was there to tell you anything about Jar Jar the character? It seems like about anything you can say about Jar Jar can be said about any other gungin in the movie, as he seemed to defined in a pretty 1 dimentional, stereotypical way.
As far as what I said being a matter of opinion, absolutely it is. I never meant to imply otherwise. That's why I started out with "I disagree" instead of something like "That's not right." However, this is definately how I feel on the subject of Jar Jar. I think that a direct comparison between him and C3PO is weak at best.
I disagree. Although C3PO annoyed the other characters in the movies, he usually did so in a way that was entertaining to the audience. He was also a better defined character with a personality. Jar Jar's personality was defined by little more than his accent if you ask me. Jar Jar seemed to have little connection to the plot aside from his involvement in humor like fart jokes and stepping in dung. Annoying as C3PO may have been to the other Star Wars characters, I still think that most of the audience members liked the character. I'm sure that Jar Jar annoyed the audience far more than he ever did the other Phantom Menace characters. At no point did C3PO actually irriate me as an audience member.
How can you say that it ran fine without distributed computing? The goal of the project is to hopefully find life out there, not just look for it. Now I'm not saying that SETI will ever neccessarily find anything using present day technology, but if we can analyze the data a lot more thorougly with distributed computing, then it seems like SETI will run a lot better with it than without it.
Sure, but I think that the rc5 project has already proven it's point. Even if we do finally finish rc64, all we will have proven is that it is crackable, but that it takes even distributed computing a really long time with today's technology, but I think that this point has already been adequately proven already by distributed.net. If they do finally crack the rc64 challenge, I don't really think it will add to that point at all. I think that it is already understood now that it can be cracked, and that the average time it would take to do so is really just a fairly simple mathematical exercise complicated only by unknowns like the increase in processing power from year to year, and how many people participate as time goes on. Actually doing it at this point holds little more point than the prize money in my opinion. Don't get me wrong, I think this was a vital project when it began, I just think that it accomplished what it needed to do, that's all. Now if they ever get their OGR stuff going, I might be tempted to switch back to work on that for a while, but for now I'm sticking with SETI.
That's why we have cypherpunks/cypherpunks around. Most of the sites that get linked to from here that require registration have the cypherpunks login set up already, and most of them also work like Slashdot where they use cookies to remember who you are so you don't have to even log in the next time around. I used the cypherpunks login a couple of times a long time ago, and now I can't even remember the last time I was ever pestered by those annoying login screens.
I don't know about this one. It seems like it would be hard to achieve any kind of reasonable speed doing this.
Price of a cheese pizza and a large soda?
From the caffeine faq:
Toxic dose
The LD_50 of caffeine (that is the lethal dosage reported to kill
50% of the population) is estimated at 10 grams for oral
administration. As it is usually the case, lethal dosage varies
from individual to individual according to weight. Ingestion of
150mg/kg of caffeine seems to be the LD_50 for all people. That
is, people weighting 50 kilos have an LD_50 of approx. 7.5 grams,
people weighting 80 kilos have an LD_50 of about 12 grams.
In cups of coffee the LD_50 varies from 50 to 200 cups of coffee
or about 50 vivarins (200mg each).
One exceptional case documents survival after ingesting 24 grams.
The minimum lethal dose ever reported was 3.2 grams
intravenously, this does not represent the oral MLD (minimum
lethal dose).
In small children ingestion of 35 mg/kg can lead to moderate
toxicity. The amount of caffeine in an average cup of coffee is
50 - 200 mg. Infants metabolize caffeine very slowly.
Symptoms
+ Acute caffeine poisoning gives early symptoms of anorexia,
tremor, and restlessness. Followed by nausea, vomiting,
tachycardia, and confusion. Serious intoxication may cause
delirium, seizures, supraventricular and ventricular
tachyarrhythmias, hypokalemia, and hyperglycemia.
+ Chronic high-dose caffeine intake can lead to nervousness,
irritability, anxiety, tremulousness, muscle twitching,
insomnia, palpitations and hyperreflexia. For blood testing,
cross-reaction with theophylline assays will detect toxic
amounts. (Method IA) Blood concentration of 1-10 mg/L is
normal in coffee drinkers, while 80 mg/L has been associated
with death.
If you have enough money to get started at all, you can't possibly afford to NOT have a tape backup, as this incident illustrated for you. A cheap tape backup is not all that expensive, and if you can't even cough up a couple hundred for a tape backup, you can't possibly have enough money to get off the ground anyway. Even without script kiddies, accidents do happen. Had a guy at a company I used to work at do an rm -rf * before he realized that he had typo'd his cd to the directory where he wanted to clean up, and he was logged in as root, and thus being on an AIX box, had started in / (A better rationale for /root being root's home directory I have never seen...). He caught it before it finished and ^C'd it, but not before it was done wiping out most of the system.
I don't see how this will really help Slashdot go up in rc5 statistics except in the very long term. Slashdot has already been taking first in the daily statistics, and they are far enough behind in the overall statistics that even with the EvangeListas gone completely (and there will probably still be a lot people who don't switch off of that team anyway.) it would take months to close the gap in overall blocks at the current rate team Slashdot is going. Not to mention that I think that the Seti at home project is going to draw a lot of people away from rc5 anyway. I've already switched my machine over to setiathome. I think we've proven the point about encryption, and even if we break the current rc5 challenge, I don't think the point will be emphasized that much more. On the other hand, if we can actually pick up signals from other intelligent life, well the possibilities are endless. Regardless of the odds, that's where I'm putting my cpu cycles.
Really? That's good news. The last time I had checked Dialogic was refusing to support Linux at all. I used to work for West Interactive, which is probably the largest VRU company around. They had several hundred VRUs with a couple of single T1 Dialogic boards apiece, and they've only gotten larger since I left. They were using SCO on all of their systems, and their own in house software to drive the calls. At one point I was looking into Linux support for the Dialogic cards because I was toying around with the idea of setting up a few VRUs of my own and going into business dealing with some of the smaller customers that West didn't like to handle because of their smaller size. SCO would have been all right, but I saw Linux as an advantage, particularly with being small, because being open and easily customizable, it would be easier to have the kind of flexability that you often need as the smaller company, but they had no Linux support at all at the time. Ended up deciding against the whole idea anyway, but it's nice to know that Dialogic came around.
At one point during the development cycle, the source code for unix was available. I downloaded it at the time, and reported a few changes that had to be made to the code and the makefile to make it compile under Linux and AIX. It was mostly simple stuff like taking -lsocket out of the compiler options, and a few prototype changes, so I doubt I was the only one to figure it out. So, even though they might not have the source code right out there on the web page, it was available publicly at one point, and therefore anything but secret.
The article linked to by this story says that he was charged with interfering with public communication. 5-10 years prison and up to $150,000 fine. He was released on $100,000 bail.