In related news, a federation of aliens filed a lawsuit against humanity today. It includes an injunction for any human being, and especially astrophysicists, to perform any measurements on the state of the universe, including looking at the sky. The aliens are seeking compensation for years lost by our careless curiosity.
Said an alien spokesman, "It seems that our previous judgement of humanity being mostly harmless has been incorrect. We will install cameras everywhere on the entire planet to make sure that these humans are not causing any more damage."
Sounds like a nice thing, but the last few months we've had some serious trouble ordering Sony equipment. A digital videocamera (DCR-TRV33e) took two months before it arrived, and we just cancelled an order for a Vaio Z1-SP because after two months there was still no hope of it ever being delivered. Their supplier only received two of them, ever.
A friend of mine waited for eight months before he cancelled an order for his Sony stereo. My guess is that the mainstream, most profitable items are easy to get, but the fancier stuff is produced only once.
Thank you so much for making us drool, but not delivering, Sony.
I found that out too, when asking at Wendy's if they really didn't have anything smaller than this thing they called "small". Can you imagine the confused looks when a 2m tall guy asks for a children's size coke without ice? Especially when it costs the same as a "small" drink, which they point out every single time:)
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The site appears to be down. After going through Google's cache (see another comment;) I found a mirror for the demo (both Linux and windoze).
It's only 3 megs! Unfortunately the connection is really slow... but it's there.
Raise the voltage and, as the other guy said, cool the chip. Asynchronous logic is usually self-timed, so if your gates are faster, so is your overall speed. Time to change the name "overclocking" to one of it's more proper names such as "speed margining". --
Dude, any adult woman that you've seen on a screen when you were a child could (at least almost) have been your mom. She might have been hot back then; do you care if she's hot for someone your age right now? Would be quite exceptional if she were. Of course, I'm not implying anything about your sexual preferences...
(The submit button wasn't the default button for enter was it? If so sorry for the empty post)
Anyway, this'd make a really cool propulsion system for Robot Wars (or whatever it's called, I haven't seen it enough). Especially (mostly) symmetric designs would benefit, such as a HypnoDisc-like design with a heavy rotating disc and some sharp edges. Or maybe a HypnoCone would be better to allow for the electronics underneath, but still. The only control that you need is a trackball:)
Of course the controlling electronics (and software) are hell to build... think about compensating for that heavy, rotating disc:(
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Oh great! Now you can upload your brainwaves! If we ever manage to properly analyze them, who knows what they can be used for. Am I being too paranoid or is this really a privacy concern?
It is really a nice option, it's just that you'll want two things:
the BIOS must include an option to erase memory, in case the memory contents is screwed up
chipsets/CPUs need to have crypto on-board, to
prevent nasty people from doing a post-mortem debugging session on your RAM. My suggestion would be to have another field for every (MMU) page containing the page key, or at least a crypto bit to make it optional so you could make part of the warm boot work without key but for the rest you'd have to type a passphrase.
VHS won out because "The cartridge was smaller" thus easier.
I thought VHS won because it had more, and especially, pr0nographic content. The good news is, the Sledgehammer is backwards compatible, so you can still enjoy all your old pr0n on it;)
I do not believe that RDRAM is still a first generation implementation, since they've been around for a long time. Check their history. Since they were founded, standard PC ram evolved from DRAM to EDO RAM to Synchronous DRAM and DDR SDRAM is just around the corner. Decide for yourself how Rambus has been progressing in 10 years compared to "normal" DRAM.
At appropriate moments, an SGI staffer would pour a stream of vodka in the shoulder which cooled and splashed into the lucky recipient's plastic cup. The choice of Smirnoff alleviated the potential problems of insufficient cooling which may have occurred if cheaper source product had been in use.
The idea is really cool, but dude, I totally disagree on your choice of vodka. Smirnoff's the ripoff; you'll want real Russian vodka such as Stolichnaya. Any decent bar that I frequented recently ([1], [2], [3] and [4]) has it. Smirnoff tastes even worse when it's warm, but of course that might just be me.
Don't worry about the Ukraine, they returned all their nukes to Russia... and I doubt they had nukes stationed there headed for the States anyway, as that's about as far away as you can get within the former USSR as you could get.
Also, in reply to another reply, I don't believe that any ship could survive a nuke detonation at 100m, even a small one. If the blast itself doesn't melt or evaporate the thing, the radiation will kill everything and everyone, not to mention the "tidal wave" that follows.
It also comes with a way cool overclocked powersupply, running on 50/60MHz. That's one million times faster than the 50/60Hz that usually comes out of the wall:) Way to go!
This article apparently got lost in the slashdot server. It just appeared a few minutes ago in the "older stuff" column, having never appeared on the main page.
So it's not just me. I've seen this effect several times, but I was never really sure, and I never went through the trouble of keeping copies for proof.
Not only do they compare hardware with software, what they're basically saying is "stuff breaks sometimes, even if it's supposed to be good stuff." Thanks M$, I just learned something new...
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Open source package management is clearly way ahead here. If you type:
aptitude why systemd
Aptitude will give you a rant on how Lennart Poettering was forcing systemd down its throat.
Same here! Congratulations Slashdot!
That, and people who post pics of Nathalie Portman pouring hot grits down her pants ;)
I see a solution coming up for the plastic soup in our oceans. What could possibly go wrong?
Rob, thanks for all the good stuff, and have fun doing whatever it is you'll be doing next :)
Shouldn't the title be, US loses leadship position in internet technology and marketing?
A German friend of mine called it Stasi-VZ, after the former East-German secret service.
After reading this, that comment makes even more sense.
Said an alien spokesman, "It seems that our previous judgement of humanity being mostly harmless has been incorrect. We will install cameras everywhere on the entire planet to make sure that these humans are not causing any more damage."
Sounds like a nice thing, but the last few months we've had some serious trouble ordering Sony equipment. A digital videocamera (DCR-TRV33e) took two months before it arrived, and we just cancelled an order for a Vaio Z1-SP because after two months there was still no hope of it ever being delivered. Their supplier only received two of them, ever.
A friend of mine waited for eight months before he cancelled an order for his Sony stereo. My guess is that the mainstream, most profitable items are easy to get, but the fancier stuff is produced only once.
Thank you so much for making us drool, but not delivering, Sony.
I found that out too, when asking at Wendy's if they really didn't have anything smaller than this thing they called "small". Can you imagine the confused looks when a 2m tall guy asks for a children's size coke without ice? Especially when it costs the same as a "small" drink, which they point out every single time :)
It's only 3 megs! Unfortunately the connection is really slow... but it's there.
Have fun, da Lawn
Raise the voltage and, as the other guy said, cool the chip. Asynchronous logic is usually self-timed, so if your gates are faster, so is your overall speed. Time to change the name "overclocking" to one of it's more proper names such as "speed margining".
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Dude, any adult woman that you've seen on a screen when you were a child could (at least almost) have been your mom. She might have been hot back then; do you care if she's hot for someone your age right now? Would be quite exceptional if she were. Of course, I'm not implying anything about your sexual preferences...
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(The submit button wasn't the default button for enter was it? If so sorry for the empty post)
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Anyway, this'd make a really cool propulsion system for Robot Wars (or whatever it's called, I haven't seen it enough). Especially (mostly) symmetric designs would benefit, such as a HypnoDisc-like design with a heavy rotating disc and some sharp edges. Or maybe a HypnoCone would be better to allow for the electronics underneath, but still. The only control that you need is a trackball
Of course the controlling electronics (and software) are hell to build... think about compensating for that heavy, rotating disc
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- da Lawn
Cheers,
da Lawn
I thought VHS won because it had more, and especially, pr0nographic content. The good news is, the Sledgehammer is backwards compatible, so you can still enjoy all your old pr0n on it ;)
- da Lawn
- da Lawn
They mention that high sugar levels are bad. THC drops your sugar levels - would this mean that stoners stay younger?
I do not believe that RDRAM is still a first generation implementation, since they've been around for a long time. Check their history. Since they were founded, standard PC ram evolved from DRAM to EDO RAM to Synchronous DRAM and DDR SDRAM is just around the corner. Decide for yourself how Rambus has been progressing in 10 years compared to "normal" DRAM.
The idea is really cool, but dude, I totally disagree on your choice of vodka. Smirnoff's the ripoff; you'll want real Russian vodka such as Stolichnaya. Any decent bar that I frequented recently ([1], [2], [3] and [4]) has it. Smirnoff tastes even worse when it's warm, but of course that might just be me.
Cheers,
the Apocalyptic Lawnmower
Don't worry about the Ukraine, they returned all their nukes to Russia... and I doubt they had nukes stationed there headed for the States anyway, as that's about as far away as you can get within the former USSR as you could get.
Also, in reply to another reply, I don't believe that any ship could survive a nuke detonation at 100m, even a small one. If the blast itself doesn't melt or evaporate the thing, the radiation will kill everything and everyone, not to mention the "tidal wave" that follows.
- da Lawn
It also comes with a way cool overclocked powersupply, running on 50/60MHz. That's one million times faster than the 50/60Hz that usually comes out of the wall :) Way to go!
So it's not just me. I've seen this effect several times, but I was never really sure, and I never went through the trouble of keeping copies for proof.
- da Lawn
Not only do they compare hardware with software, what they're basically saying is "stuff breaks sometimes, even if it's supposed to be good stuff." Thanks M$, I just learned something new...