A technology like that could be usefull for collecting tolls on the airports. It could be used to find the ones that try to cheat the custom.
Re:No, more like the Soviet Union
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The oversight committees and policy boards of a conglomerate-state EU are completely beyond the oversight of individual voters in the respective member nations.
The important common EU political institutions aren't elected very directly, but that doesn't mean they are completely out of the controll of the voters. Sure there is a lot of bureaucracy in the EU, but nothing is perfect.
Also you said that it is better that the president is weak and it is important that the real power rests on locally elected persons. I think you didn't really understand what the EU is today. (or maybe I just didn't understand what you wanted to say) The member states of the EU are much weaker connected than the members of the USA are. The central EU political institiutions have very limited power. Almost all important decisions are made by the local goverments of the member states. In fact most decesions by the eu goverment need law changes in the member states and if the local goverment doesn't change these laws, it has almost no power to force them to do so and if these laws don't change nothing changes for the individual citizien in the member state.
All member states have democratic political systems, but there are big differences between the members. [The member states are democratic in an european way: an maybe not completely free speech (nazi hate speech is banned in some eu states) but no capital punishment.]
The EU on the other hand is governed by the same socialist leftovers who fled from elected politics in member nations years ago.
Many member states have middle-leftists/socialist goverments right now. At least Great Britain, Germany and i think France, too.
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I agree with you on your opionion that the euro coins and bills look nice, but I do not like the fact that there aren't any real builds/persons/whatever are on the bills. Why are there just drawings of imaginary buildings on the euro bills ? Shouldn't real bills have drawings of real things ?
The coins are really cool. There are different version of the coins, one version for every state that uses the euro.
BTW:heise.de has an interressting article a about faults that happend in ecommerce shops because of the change.(in german/ use the fish)
Well, the iPod has 32 MB Ram and ARM core based cpu and of cause a 5 gb harddisk. Wouldn't it be nice if it could run with linux ? The arm core should be fast enough to do ogg decoding too. The harddisk could use ext2 or 3 and all this sdmi copyprotection crap could be disabled, too. Even the mp3 royalitys wouldn't be a problem with a hacked iPod because Apple already payed them.
what about color ?
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Why are all these textmode projects in grayscale ? What about a color textmode quake2 ? The vga textmode can do 16 foreground and 16 background colors. Why don't it use them ? Very likely it wouldn't work over a network connection when that would require a lot of ANSI codes but it could be really good localy.
What about something like a textmode vnc ? For things like playing textmode quake it could be much better than the old style telnet.
Rc = ( Cm + Ce + ( Ca * Pa ) - Cp ) * Vd
Has no one ever tried to understand the formala you posted ?
The risk that data will be copied rises when the cost of recordable media rises ? Your formula should have been:
Very likely not very loud, but it also is likely to be silent. If you want to pack this amount of components into a tiny case like this one you will need good cooling. Also you don't have much space for a big fan, because of that you will need a small fan that must spin very fast to move enough air around to cool the thing. My suggestion is to use a cpu that stays cool like a celeron 1200 and use a very big and temperature controlled fan in a big case.
Or don't try to make your PC silent and simply use a KVM extender to get away from the noise. Who cares how loud your pc is if you work 20 m (60ft)and two walls away ?
No, a DVD will not do 1024x480. An anamorphic DVD will be interpolated to that resolution, but the real resolution of the image is only 720x480 or 704x480.(for NTSC DVDs, PAL DVD have a slightly higher resolution)
Anamorphic DVDs get a little bit higher horizontal resolution because they don't need to save the black boarders on the disc, but the vertical resolution doesn't improve as you have suggested.
A supercomputer in every garage is something that is too expensive and useless most of the time, but a supercomputer in the neighborhood could be a relalistic and usefull idea. We have seen on slashdot that is it possible and not too expensive to make a neighborhood fiber lan. Most people do not need much processing power all the time they need a high peek processing power for short moments.
Most user application software will not be able to use divided the load over the cluster but there would be many applications running at a time, so the load would be spread over the cluster without special application software. People could keep there old PCs and turn them into X terminals or use vnc to connect to the cluster.
$41,000 is only $205 for everyone if 200 people use the cluster.
I don't think that they got a big advantage. Very likely other fish can detect polution much better, the only advantage they have is that we humans can see what they detect, other fish only feels that the water is poluted. I think they will just die.
Most of time I don't like post like mine now, but here it is different. An anonymous coward posted a really important information for all ghibli fans out there, and very likely most people won't notice him because it has a score of 0.
You don't have to be registered at amazon.com or have your credit card information ready, in fact you must just enter you email address and amazon.com will send you an email when the disc will be released. You don't really preorder, if you enter your mail address there, you just tell them that you would very likely buy a dvd of this title if it becomes aviable. These films are really wonderfull, please help that they get a dvd release in english language.
Maybe, a lot of stories written in german got posted to slashdot in the last time.
Here is a short summary:
The coffee machine made coffee for ten years. The first web cam made it famous, then it broke and they sold it at ebay. "Der Spiegel" payed 10452 DM for it. (about $4500)
The coffee machine was repaired for free. Now it works again in the rooms of "Spiegel - Online".
So what happens to the soap? You put it into the waste tank.
The article says that the borax can be recyled. You must just add the hydrogen to it. If this works good, you only need 2-3 tanks of borax for every car.
The KT266A is faster than the regular AMD760, but it isn't 50-80% faster. Look at tomshardware.com to look at some benchmarks. Two cpus on a AMD760MPX are clearly faster in most multicpu capable applications than one cpu on a KT266A board.
Using 2 cpus isn't usefull for many applications and two Duron 1ghz on a 760MPX are slower in most applications than on Athlon XP 1900+ in a KT266A especially for gaming.
If you take that idea serios, it isn't that bad. If you use an ipod it is nothing more than a case with a firewire connection and a (small) ide drive. Cases with integrated firewire to ide converters are widely avail and aren't very expensive. An 100 gb ide harddrive and a firewire case would make a very fast and not very expensive backup solution for 100gb. I think it is good enough for most home users. I think the biggest problem with that solution is that firewire support is very new or even not aviable on most unix oses.
A datasheet on hp site mentions that the blade servers support PA-RISC software, has Transmeta done a PA-RISC code morphing software or is there just another blade server modul that has a PA-RISC cpu instead of a crusoe ?
If there is a PA-RISC emulation then it should be easy to add other architectures. A crusoe based computer that could run x86, powerpc and pa-risc software would be very nice. Being able to run MacOSX on my PC from time to time would be really nice.
14 hours on a single dvd ? Well, I don't think they speak about 14 hours on a DVD-5. More likely they speak about DVD-18. Then each hour of high quality movie takes 1,2 gb. MPEG-4 can reach very high quality at these data rates, too. I think MC-10 is maybe a nice codec, but it is a wonder codec. I think they just want to collect venture capital for now.
The provider "ISIS" has enabled the block of this websites again !
heise.de(in german)
A member of their local goverment said that they support the racists with their unblocking of the webpages, because of that they are blocking the domains again. I think in a few days the block will be gone again, stupid. Can't they decide ?
This isn't a big problem. There a lot of algorithms that have a good fault tolerance or you can just calculate things again to check if your solutions is ok. There are lot of technologies that make much more mistakes in their raw state without error correction. Think of DSL or CD-ROMs/DVDs. These ones make a lot of mistakes in reading or transfering your data but correct them at a later state.
I think that this bounty thing could maybe be a really good way to fund the development of opensource software.
I think it is very nice that Alex Pilosov supplies the money for this, but there could have been a better way to get the money for bountys like this one. I think there are a lot more than 20000 people that run linux on a notebook with a softmodem and like to have a piece of the software like this. If they would all have spend a dollar, this would have been a mucher nicer method of raising the money for a bounty like this.
I want a webpage that is a combination of PayPal, freshmeat and sourceforge. Where users could donate money to a bounty for a project they choose. If no one is able to reach the goal that is needed for the bounty the users get their money back.
A software like plex86 could solve these problems. It scans the code before it is executed and can virtualize even ring0 code. AGP gets faster every day and could be used to emulate the shared ram of the xbox. I'm sure that it is possible to run X-Box games on a pc without full emulation.
But on the other hand I think it will much easier to run pc software on the xbox. The only thing missing is a real pc standard bios. A VGA mode is maybe missing but that shouldn't be a large problem. I think it will take less than a month before we will see the first screenshots of linux running on the xbox. Or it will never happend because kernel hackers don't want to touch anything made by microsoft.
Your numbers are only valid for the standalone lcd market. There are many notebooks with very special lcd panels. There are notebooks with a14,1" and 15" TFT with a resolutions of 1400x1050 or 1600x1200. And for subnotebooks you can find 10,4" and 12,1" XGA displays. Also you shouldn't forget the Ti Powerbook that has a widescreen TFT with a resolution of something like 1186x768.
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A technology like that could be usefull for collecting tolls on the airports. It could be used to find the ones that try to cheat the custom.
Also you said that it is better that the president is weak and it is important that the real power rests on locally elected persons. I think you didn't really understand what the EU is today. (or maybe I just didn't understand what you wanted to say) The member states of the EU are much weaker connected than the members of the USA are. The central EU political institiutions have very limited power. Almost all important decisions are made by the local goverments of the member states. In fact most decesions by the eu goverment need law changes in the member states and if the local goverment doesn't change these laws, it has almost no power to force them to do so and if these laws don't change nothing changes for the individual citizien in the member state.
All member states have democratic political systems, but there are big differences between the members. [The member states are democratic in an european way: an maybe not completely free speech (nazi hate speech is banned in some eu states) but no capital punishment.] Many member states have middle-leftists/socialist goverments right now. At least Great Britain, Germany and i think France, too.
I agree with you on your opionion that the euro coins and bills look nice, but I do not like the fact that there aren't any real builds/persons/whatever are on the bills. Why are there just drawings of imaginary buildings on the euro bills ? Shouldn't real bills have drawings of real things ?
The coins are really cool. There are different version of the coins, one version for every state that uses the euro.
BTW:heise.de has an interressting article a about faults that happend in ecommerce shops because of the change.(in german/ use the fish)
Well, the iPod has 32 MB Ram and ARM core based cpu and of cause a 5 gb harddisk. Wouldn't it be nice if it could run with linux ?
The arm core should be fast enough to do ogg decoding too. The harddisk could use ext2 or 3 and all this sdmi copyprotection crap could be disabled, too. Even the mp3 royalitys wouldn't be a problem with a hacked iPod because Apple already payed them.
Why are all these textmode projects in grayscale ? What about a color textmode quake2 ? The vga textmode can do 16 foreground and 16 background colors. Why don't it use them ? Very likely it wouldn't work over a network connection when that would require a lot of ANSI codes but it could be really good localy.
What about something like a textmode vnc ? For things like playing textmode quake it could be much better than the old style telnet.
Rc = ( Cm + Ce + ( Ca * Pa ) - Cp ) * Vd
Has no one ever tried to understand the formala you posted ?
The risk that data will be copied rises when the cost of recordable media rises ? Your formula should have been:
Rc = ((Ca * Pa) -Cp) * Vd / ( Cm + Ce )
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/17/185320 6&mode=thread
Yeah, you are right, I made a mistake in my writting. I must have been:
Very likely not very loud, but it also is not likely to be silent.
Very likely not very loud, but it also is likely to be silent. If you want to pack this amount of components into a tiny case like this one you will need good cooling. Also you don't have much space for a big fan, because of that you will need a small fan that must spin very fast to move enough air around to cool the thing. My suggestion is to use a cpu that stays cool like a celeron 1200 and use a very big and temperature controlled fan in a big case.
Or don't try to make your PC silent and simply use a KVM extender to get away from the noise. Who cares how loud your pc is if you work 20 m (60ft)and two walls away ?
No, a DVD will not do 1024x480. An anamorphic DVD will be interpolated to that resolution, but the real resolution of the image is only 720x480 or 704x480.(for NTSC DVDs, PAL DVD have a slightly higher resolution)
Anamorphic DVDs get a little bit higher horizontal resolution because they don't need to save the black boarders on the disc, but the vertical resolution doesn't improve as you have suggested.
A supercomputer in every garage is something that is too expensive and useless most of the time, but a supercomputer in the neighborhood could be a relalistic and usefull idea. We have seen on slashdot that is it possible and not too expensive to make a neighborhood fiber lan. Most people do not need much processing power all the time they need a high peek processing power for short moments.
Most user application software will not be able to use divided the load over the cluster but there would be many applications running at a time, so the load would be spread over the cluster without special application software. People could keep there old PCs and turn them into X terminals or use vnc to connect to the cluster.
$41,000 is only $205 for everyone if 200 people use the cluster.
Well, 640k is enough for everyone. Isn't it ?
I don't think that they got a big advantage. Very likely other fish can detect polution much better, the only advantage they have is that we humans can see what they detect, other fish only feels that the water is poluted. I think they will just die.
Most of time I don't like post like mine now, but here it is different. An anonymous coward posted a really important information for all ghibli fans out there, and very likely most people won't notice him because it has a score of 0.
You don't have to be registered at amazon.com or have your credit card information ready, in fact you must just enter you email address and amazon.com will send you an email when the disc will be released. You don't really preorder, if you enter your mail address there, you just tell them that you would very likely buy a dvd of this title if it becomes aviable. These films are really wonderfull, please help that they get a dvd release in english language.
Maybe, a lot of stories written in german got posted to slashdot in the last time.
Here is a short summary:
The coffee machine made coffee for ten years. The first web cam made it famous, then it broke and they sold it at ebay. "Der Spiegel" payed 10452 DM for it. (about $4500)
The coffee machine was repaired for free. Now it works again in the rooms of "Spiegel - Online".
So what happens to the soap? You put it into the waste tank.
The article says that the borax can be recyled. You must just add the hydrogen to it. If this works good, you only need 2-3 tanks of borax for every car.
The KT266A is faster than the regular AMD760, but it isn't 50-80% faster. Look at tomshardware.com to look at some benchmarks. Two cpus on a AMD760MPX are clearly faster in most multicpu capable applications than one cpu on a KT266A board.
Using 2 cpus isn't usefull for many applications and two Duron 1ghz on a 760MPX are slower in most applications than on Athlon XP 1900+ in a KT266A especially for gaming.
If you take that idea serios, it isn't that bad. If you use an ipod it is nothing more than a case with a firewire connection and a (small) ide drive. Cases with integrated firewire to ide converters are widely avail and aren't very expensive. An 100 gb ide harddrive and a firewire case would make a very fast and not very expensive backup solution for 100gb. I think it is good enough for most home users. I think the biggest problem with that solution is that firewire support is very new or even not aviable on most unix oses.
A datasheet on hp site mentions that the blade servers support PA-RISC software, has Transmeta done a PA-RISC code morphing software or is there just another blade server modul that has a PA-RISC cpu instead of a crusoe ?
If there is a PA-RISC emulation then it should be easy to add other architectures. A crusoe based computer that could run x86, powerpc and pa-risc software would be very nice. Being able to run MacOSX on my PC from time to time would be really nice.
14 hours on a single dvd ? Well, I don't think they speak about 14 hours on a DVD-5. More likely they speak about DVD-18. Then each hour of high quality movie takes 1,2 gb. MPEG-4 can reach very high quality at these data rates, too. I think MC-10 is maybe a nice codec, but it is a wonder codec. I think they just want to collect venture capital for now.
The provider "ISIS" has enabled the block of this websites again !
heise.de(in german)
A member of their local goverment said that they support the racists with their unblocking of the webpages, because of that they are blocking the domains again. I think in a few days the block will be gone again, stupid. Can't they decide ?
This isn't a big problem. There a lot of algorithms that have a good fault tolerance or you can just calculate things again to check if your solutions is ok. There are lot of technologies that make much more mistakes in their raw state without error correction. Think of DSL or CD-ROMs/DVDs. These ones make a lot of mistakes in reading or transfering your data but correct them at a later state.
I think that this bounty thing could maybe be a really good way to fund the development of opensource software.
I think it is very nice that Alex Pilosov supplies the money for this, but there could have been a better way to get the money for bountys like this one. I think there are a lot more than 20000 people that run linux on a notebook with a softmodem and like to have a piece of the software like this. If they would all have spend a dollar, this would have been a mucher nicer method of raising the money for a bounty like this.
I want a webpage that is a combination of PayPal, freshmeat and sourceforge. Where users could donate money to a bounty for a project they choose. If no one is able to reach the goal that is needed for the bounty the users get their money back.
A software like plex86 could solve these problems. It scans the code before it is executed and can virtualize even ring0 code. AGP gets faster every day and could be used to emulate the shared ram of the xbox. I'm sure that it is possible to run X-Box games on a pc without full emulation.
But on the other hand I think it will much easier to run pc software on the xbox. The only thing missing is a real pc standard bios. A VGA mode is maybe missing but that shouldn't be a large problem. I think it will take less than a month before we will see the first screenshots of linux running on the xbox. Or it will never happend because kernel hackers don't want to touch anything made by microsoft.
Your numbers are only valid for the standalone lcd market. There are many notebooks with very special lcd panels. There are notebooks with a14,1" and 15" TFT with a resolutions of 1400x1050 or 1600x1200. And for subnotebooks you can find 10,4" and 12,1" XGA displays. Also you shouldn't forget the Ti Powerbook that has a widescreen TFT with a resolution of something like 1186x768.