Don't forget LEAF - the Linux Embedded Appliance Firewall project. It's a collection of embedded firewall/router distros that grew out of the Linux Router Project.
I've been using the Bering distro for a few months now, and it's worked great!
Wow, I wish I would have known that I didn't have to say the pledge when I was in elementary school.
Once (only once) I stood up for the pledge, but I didn't say anything... the teacher made me get up in front of the class and say it. I guess she didn't get the memo.
Darh Maul was certainly better than any villan in AoTC.
I'm sorry, but you're on crack.:) Christopher Lee was a badass. Are you telling me that Darth Maul was a better vilian than Count Dooku?
At least in AotC, we didn't have a kid going, "Uh oh, R2, Mr Wilson is going to be pretty mad when he sees what we did to his droid army!" "Yipee! We won the battle because I pressed buttons randomly in my fighter!" "Let's try a roll, that's a neat trick!"
Okay, sorry, that last one is the only real one. But, really, I winced everytime that kid spoke. In AotC, I winced every time Anakin was trying to be smooth with Padme, but at least the action sequences were wince-free.
I see your point. I wouldn't care that the RIAA was screwing the artists, if I didn't like any of the bands with major label contracts. I wouldn't care about the MPAA if they just churned out crap like "Crossroads" (heh, a product of the RIAA and MPAA) and not Moulin Rouge, LotR, or A Beautiful Mind.
The problem is that we have to give them an incentive to change their behavior. We can't just say, "Well, I wish they wouldn't do that... but I'm going to buy Warcraft 3 anyway." As long as they're raking in the dough, they don't care about a few whiners. They also don't care about a few obnoxious people that aren't going to buy the game anyway.
What's the solution? Who knows. It would probably take a lot of publicity and a lot of criticism from respected review sites. A few people complaining in the comments section of Slashdot isn't going to cut it.
So, all teachers, writers, musicians and similar should be tax-exempt?
Teachers shouldn't be taxed for creating tomorrow's lesson, writers shouldn't be taxed for using their typewriter (or word processor), and a musician shouldn't be taxed for writing sheet music. They already pay taxes in other ways: sales tax, income tax, property tax, etc.
I'm not sure about the specifics of the tax in the article. They call it a "business tax", but then say that they want to tax software companies as manufacturing. I say that if they're not mass producing anything physical within the city limits, they shouldn't be taxed by the city (as a manufacturer). If all they're doing is software development, then they fall under the R&D exemption. But what do I know, IANAL.
Every reasonably educated person of the time period would have known the earth was round, and the "other side of the world" had already been visited, so the analogy doesn't stick.
I agree with the first part, but I'm not sure what you mean by the second part. Do you mean that India had already been visited (what they thought was the other side of the world) or that the Americas had already been visited? I'm guessing you mean the former.
So to tell the truth, if Columbus had come to me for money in the 15th century, I would have turned him down, as his navigational calculations were completely off base, and the resources could be better spent on other things.
Heh, and you would have missed out on all the gold that subsequent expeditions returned. We thought riding our little dot com bubble was fun... Spain had a dot com bubble that lasted 100 years, of course, it too burst.
If you pay X at purchase or if you pay X at recycle time you still pay the same amount!
No, no, no... a dollar today is not the same as a dollar tomorrow, is not the same as a dollar yesterday.
For example: Assuming an inflation rate of 3% per year, if I paid $10 today, an equivalent amount three years from now would be $10.93. But if I bought a computer today, and three years from now I paid $10, an equivalent amount today would be $9.15.
So paying X amount today is more expensive than paying X amount at recycle time... Unless there is deflation (where the reverse would be true) or zero inflation (where your statement would be true), but that's not likely.
Heh, that's the first thing I thought of when I saw this story too.
But I actually liked Lynch's version of Dune... if I surgically remove the rain at the end from my memory. I saw the movie, and it was so bizarre it kind of blew my mind, so I just had to go out and find the book. The movie on the scifi channel, even though it was a lot more accurate, just didn't do anything for me.
Do yourself a favor and check out this link. It's a timeline that discusses the history of Robot Wars, which originated in California (not the UK), and the origins of Battlebots and Robotica. It's a very interesting read about a wide-eyed geek and the corporations that ate him up and spit him out.
Okay, we didn't use many of our own troops on the ground, we used local Afghan troops to do a lot of the dirty work. Are they the drones in this scenario?
the Soviet's ill-fated invasion of Afghanistan just a decade ago.
I don't remember the Soviets invading Afghanistan after the Gulf War... I thought it was a decade before that.
Afghanistan was invaded by the Red Army in 1979 and the invasion ended in 1989 when the last troops withdrew from Afghanistan.
The new Duron is based on the Morgan core (think Athlon XP), while the 1.2 GHz Athlon is a Thunderbird, which came out at the same time as the old Spitfire core for the Duron (about a year and a half ago). I suspect that the T-bird would still beat the new Duron due to a bus speed advantage as well as the extra cache, so your point is still valid.
I'd rather see propertiary tight code on a upgradable eeprom than a larger OS designed FOR desktop/tower/laptop computers.
Tight code is not an inherent property of proprietary code, and being proprietary, how can you tell if it's well written? An OS is more than just the kernel. Linux, the kernel, was originally written for the 386 (as another poster mentioned). IIRC the 386 that I had ran at 12MHz, much slower than this 206 MHz StrongARM.
I'm sure that the kernel runs like a champ on the processor. It's the bundled apps that may slow things down, it doesn't matter if you write for WinCE, Linux, BeOS, or Palm, if you can't write good embedded code, you can't write good embedded code.
(eg. Whose line is it anyway, Junkyard Wars, Robot Wars, etc.)
Whose line is it anyway??!?! Did you ever see the first season? I saw a few episodes that were run on Comedy Central, and it was awful not funny at all. It wasn't until Ryan Stiles and Colin Mochrie showed up that it was worth watching! Okay, so they're Canadian... (Yes, I know that Colin was born in Scotland, but he grew up Canadian!)
Okay, I can't comment on Scrapheap Challenge vs Junkyard Wars because I haven't seen the American version...
Robot Wars! You've shown that you don't know anything about the history of Robot Wars and the common lineage of Robot Wars, Battlebots, and yes, Robotica. They began right here in the US.
That's odd. I had no problem entering my 4.5 year old Quantum Fireball drive. Of course, it's not a 9 year old drive.
What may be happening is that they had to draw a line somewhere, and maybe your drive is on the wrong side of that line. OTOH, they did report some problems with their database yesterday, maybe it's another bug?
I always backed up things on the university network. way more reliable, and they pay someone plenty of money to keep it working. o, and they back up twice a day...
Just remember not to bother (or even make eye contact with) the local BOFH.
When was the last time we were attacked by Nazis or imperialist Japanese forces?
Yes. You are right. Violence is a long term solution when you're dealing with a specific threat that is highly visible and easy to pinpoint. It's easy to say that we got rid of the Nazis. What about the neo-Nazis? They certainly aren't as highly visible as the "real" Nazis, but they're still out there, breeding hate and violence.
What about Tim McVeigh? We sure got him didn't we! Is that the end of crazy bombers who target US government buildings?
By destroying the Nazis, did we end antisemitism (or racism)? By defeating the "imperialist Japanese" did we defeat imperialism? I think you need to look at a bigger picture. The people that orchestrate these kinds of things are smarter now. They know that taking over a country and making a direct assault doesn't work. It gives us a target.
If someone does a drive-by on my house, and I find out who it is, and I kill them, is that a long-term solution to drive-by's on my house? Well, that person certainly won't do a drive-by again, but what about the rest of his gang? If they are all captured by the cops, what about fifteen years from now, is there going to be another gang?
I don't see any other option here. It's not like it was a simple guerilla-style attack on a prominent US government official. It was a massive, high profile attack against civillians.
This was much more than a terrorist attack. It was a provocation of the entire country. I don't see how this person or group would expect to survive. The only answer is that this group expects a massive US response. They want us to go to war... with someone. The only thing I can think of is that this is a group that wants to provoke the US into a war with the entire Middle Eastern Muslim population.
I don't know if the orchestrator is actually a militant Muslim, or pretends to be in order to get kamikazes, or what. It could be an actual militant Muslim group that wants a direct confrontation with the US, or it could be someone who wants us to think that it is a militant Muslim group. Whatever it is, this group is clearly trying to get the US to destroy itself.
Man, one thing's for sure, this event is going to bring out the conspiracy nut in all of us.
Just because someone approves of this does not make them responsible.
Depends on the level of approval you are talking about. I believe what you are referring to is someone who thinks to themselves, "Wow, they beat me to it." No, they are not responsible. They may be lowlifes, but they are not responsible.
What I was referring to was the person or persons that are directly responsible by recruiting those who actually carried out these horrible acts. They are respnsible just like a Mob boss is responsible for ordering a hit. They are charged with 1st degree murder just like the person who actually did the killing.
The ones in charge are both legally and morally responsible for those deaths. I can guarantee you that whoever orchestrated this was not on any of the planes. He's hiding out somewhere with a satellite hookup to CNN so he and his flunkies can celebrate.
At least at times, violent reponses *are* effective. You can still make a moral case against them, but the dotion that they are ineffective is demonstrably false.
Okay, they are effective. In the short term. The fact that this hapenned, shows that retaliations are not effective in the long term.
Say you have a garden. Rabbits are always trying to get in. You have a couple of options. One option is to post a guard day and night with a rifle and pick them off. You'll probably get a lot of them, but occasionally, one will probably get by while you're busy aiming for others. This seems to be the current situation as far as the US and international terrorists.
Another option is to track one of the rabbits to the hole, and get rid of the source. Are you done with the rabbits? Yes. Until the next group of rabbits comes around.
Yet another option is to put up an electric fence, which is what some farmers generally do, but only if it's a small garden. It's not very practical for a large field, or a whole country.
What's the solution? Hell if I know.
I'm a belligerent evangelical pacifist. I am opposed to violence (pacifist), and want to spread this attitude to everyone else (evangelical). But I'm also willing to use massive military force to bring them to this enlightenment.
I think this statement is the very definition of the word paradox.
Correction: those responsible are dead. They died attacking.
Correction to your correction. Those responsible are cheering every time CNN shows the towers collapsing because they were not on the planes. Some deluded fanatic that thinks he's going to get rewards in the afterlife is dead. He died attacking.
An interesting tidbit about Robot Wars, which some probably already read on Slashback. Just in case not everyone checked
this link that has a timeline on the history of Battlebots/Robotica/Robot Wars.
In case you don't want to check the link, Robot Wars ® was actually begun by an American (USian, Ussie, whatever), Marc Thorpe, in California where the first few competitions were held. Of course, he had to get some funding from some Big Evil Corp (tm) who went behind his back to film the TV event in the UK, back in '97*. Several lawsuits later, the SORC (Society of Robotic Combat) was formed to get away from said Evil Corp and (the name) Robotica was born, after that, Battlebots.
This is a great simplification, so I encourage you to check that link, also check marcthorpe.com for a more in depth early history of Robot Wars.
If you're more interested in Battlebots, check out
this FAQ. Very interesting stuff, IMO. Makes me want to run out to the garage and start tinkering.:)
* This doesn't mean that I don't like Robot Wars, it's just a little behind the scenes action you may not be aware of.
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Ummm... Looks like you missed this recent article. Intel has already squashed Alpha like a bug.
Actually, you're not disagreeing at all. The original poster was saying that there is no single number that can describe the way a processor is going to perform on all apps. Some processors are awesome when it comes to professional OpenGL apps, some kick butt on office productivity, some are better at database apps. You as a comsumer should look the benchmarks that are important to you.
Unfortunately, the average comsumer doesn't know what he/she wants, and MHz has been a convenient number to use. Personally, I wouldn't mind if AMD didn't advertise the clockspeed, but as a previous poster mentioned, using numbers that look like a MHz rating is a dirty trick. It harkens back to the old PR (performance rating) days. Heh, I actually have an old AMD K5 that is PR133!
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I've been using the Bering distro for a few months now, and it's worked great!
Once (only once) I stood up for the pledge, but I didn't say anything... the teacher made me get up in front of the class and say it. I guess she didn't get the memo.
I hated saying it from then on.
I'm sorry, but you're on crack. :) Christopher Lee was a badass. Are you telling me that Darth Maul was a better vilian than Count Dooku?
At least in AotC, we didn't have a kid going, "Uh oh, R2, Mr Wilson is going to be pretty mad when he sees what we did to his droid army!" "Yipee! We won the battle because I pressed buttons randomly in my fighter!" "Let's try a roll, that's a neat trick!"
Okay, sorry, that last one is the only real one. But, really, I winced everytime that kid spoke. In AotC, I winced every time Anakin was trying to be smooth with Padme, but at least the action sequences were wince-free.
To each his own.
The problem is that we have to give them an incentive to change their behavior. We can't just say, "Well, I wish they wouldn't do that... but I'm going to buy Warcraft 3 anyway." As long as they're raking in the dough, they don't care about a few whiners. They also don't care about a few obnoxious people that aren't going to buy the game anyway.
What's the solution? Who knows. It would probably take a lot of publicity and a lot of criticism from respected review sites. A few people complaining in the comments section of Slashdot isn't going to cut it.
Teachers shouldn't be taxed for creating tomorrow's lesson, writers shouldn't be taxed for using their typewriter (or word processor), and a musician shouldn't be taxed for writing sheet music. They already pay taxes in other ways: sales tax, income tax, property tax, etc.
I'm not sure about the specifics of the tax in the article. They call it a "business tax", but then say that they want to tax software companies as manufacturing. I say that if they're not mass producing anything physical within the city limits, they shouldn't be taxed by the city (as a manufacturer). If all they're doing is software development, then they fall under the R&D exemption. But what do I know, IANAL.
I agree with the first part, but I'm not sure what you mean by the second part. Do you mean that India had already been visited (what they thought was the other side of the world) or that the Americas had already been visited? I'm guessing you mean the former.
So to tell the truth, if Columbus had come to me for money in the 15th century, I would have turned him down, as his navigational calculations were completely off base, and the resources could be better spent on other things.
Heh, and you would have missed out on all the gold that subsequent expeditions returned. We thought riding our little dot com bubble was fun... Spain had a dot com bubble that lasted 100 years, of course, it too burst.
No, no, no... a dollar today is not the same as a dollar tomorrow, is not the same as a dollar yesterday.
For example: Assuming an inflation rate of 3% per year, if I paid $10 today, an equivalent amount three years from now would be $10.93. But if I bought a computer today, and three years from now I paid $10, an equivalent amount today would be $9.15.
So paying X amount today is more expensive than paying X amount at recycle time... Unless there is deflation (where the reverse would be true) or zero inflation (where your statement would be true), but that's not likely.
But I actually liked Lynch's version of Dune... if I surgically remove the rain at the end from my memory. I saw the movie, and it was so bizarre it kind of blew my mind, so I just had to go out and find the book. The movie on the scifi channel, even though it was a lot more accurate, just didn't do anything for me.
Do yourself a favor and check out this link. It's a timeline that discusses the history of Robot Wars, which originated in California (not the UK), and the origins of Battlebots and Robotica. It's a very interesting read about a wide-eyed geek and the corporations that ate him up and spit him out.
the Soviet's ill-fated invasion of Afghanistan just a decade ago.
I don't remember the Soviets invading Afghanistan after the Gulf War... I thought it was a decade before that.
Afghanistan was invaded by the Red Army in 1979 and the invasion ended in 1989 when the last troops withdrew from Afghanistan.
This site agrees with me.
The new Duron is based on the Morgan core (think Athlon XP), while the 1.2 GHz Athlon is a Thunderbird, which came out at the same time as the old Spitfire core for the Duron (about a year and a half ago). I suspect that the T-bird would still beat the new Duron due to a bus speed advantage as well as the extra cache, so your point is still valid.
Tight code is not an inherent property of proprietary code, and being proprietary, how can you tell if it's well written? An OS is more than just the kernel. Linux, the kernel, was originally written for the 386 (as another poster mentioned). IIRC the 386 that I had ran at 12MHz, much slower than this 206 MHz StrongARM.
I'm sure that the kernel runs like a champ on the processor. It's the bundled apps that may slow things down, it doesn't matter if you write for WinCE, Linux, BeOS, or Palm, if you can't write good embedded code, you can't write good embedded code.
Whose line is it anyway??!?! Did you ever see the first season? I saw a few episodes that were run on Comedy Central, and it was awful not funny at all. It wasn't until Ryan Stiles and Colin Mochrie showed up that it was worth watching! Okay, so they're Canadian... (Yes, I know that Colin was born in Scotland, but he grew up Canadian!)
Okay, I can't comment on Scrapheap Challenge vs Junkyard Wars because I haven't seen the American version...
Robot Wars! You've shown that you don't know anything about the history of Robot Wars and the common lineage of Robot Wars, Battlebots, and yes, Robotica. They began right here in the US.
What may be happening is that they had to draw a line somewhere, and maybe your drive is on the wrong side of that line. OTOH, they did report some problems with their database yesterday, maybe it's another bug?
Just remember not to bother (or even make eye contact with) the local BOFH.
Sorry, about that. I just checked my calendar and it appears to be duck season.
Yes. You are right. Violence is a long term solution when you're dealing with a specific threat that is highly visible and easy to pinpoint. It's easy to say that we got rid of the Nazis. What about the neo-Nazis? They certainly aren't as highly visible as the "real" Nazis, but they're still out there, breeding hate and violence.
What about Tim McVeigh? We sure got him didn't we! Is that the end of crazy bombers who target US government buildings?
By destroying the Nazis, did we end antisemitism (or racism)? By defeating the "imperialist Japanese" did we defeat imperialism? I think you need to look at a bigger picture. The people that orchestrate these kinds of things are smarter now. They know that taking over a country and making a direct assault doesn't work. It gives us a target.
If someone does a drive-by on my house, and I find out who it is, and I kill them, is that a long-term solution to drive-by's on my house? Well, that person certainly won't do a drive-by again, but what about the rest of his gang? If they are all captured by the cops, what about fifteen years from now, is there going to be another gang?
This was much more than a terrorist attack. It was a provocation of the entire country. I don't see how this person or group would expect to survive. The only answer is that this group expects a massive US response. They want us to go to war... with someone. The only thing I can think of is that this is a group that wants to provoke the US into a war with the entire Middle Eastern Muslim population.
I don't know if the orchestrator is actually a militant Muslim, or pretends to be in order to get kamikazes, or what. It could be an actual militant Muslim group that wants a direct confrontation with the US, or it could be someone who wants us to think that it is a militant Muslim group. Whatever it is, this group is clearly trying to get the US to destroy itself.
Man, one thing's for sure, this event is going to bring out the conspiracy nut in all of us.
Depends on the level of approval you are talking about. I believe what you are referring to is someone who thinks to themselves, "Wow, they beat me to it." No, they are not responsible. They may be lowlifes, but they are not responsible.
What I was referring to was the person or persons that are directly responsible by recruiting those who actually carried out these horrible acts. They are respnsible just like a Mob boss is responsible for ordering a hit. They are charged with 1st degree murder just like the person who actually did the killing.
The ones in charge are both legally and morally responsible for those deaths. I can guarantee you that whoever orchestrated this was not on any of the planes. He's hiding out somewhere with a satellite hookup to CNN so he and his flunkies can celebrate.
Okay, they are effective. In the short term. The fact that this hapenned, shows that retaliations are not effective in the long term.
Say you have a garden. Rabbits are always trying to get in. You have a couple of options. One option is to post a guard day and night with a rifle and pick them off. You'll probably get a lot of them, but occasionally, one will probably get by while you're busy aiming for others. This seems to be the current situation as far as the US and international terrorists.
Another option is to track one of the rabbits to the hole, and get rid of the source. Are you done with the rabbits? Yes. Until the next group of rabbits comes around.
Yet another option is to put up an electric fence, which is what some farmers generally do, but only if it's a small garden. It's not very practical for a large field, or a whole country.
What's the solution? Hell if I know.
I'm a belligerent evangelical pacifist. I am opposed to violence (pacifist), and want to spread this attitude to everyone else (evangelical). But I'm also willing to use massive military force to bring them to this enlightenment.
I think this statement is the very definition of the word paradox.
Correction to your correction. Those responsible are cheering every time CNN shows the towers collapsing because they were not on the planes. Some deluded fanatic that thinks he's going to get rewards in the afterlife is dead. He died attacking.
In case you don't want to check the link, Robot Wars ® was actually begun by an American (USian, Ussie, whatever), Marc Thorpe, in California where the first few competitions were held. Of course, he had to get some funding from some Big Evil Corp (tm) who went behind his back to film the TV event in the UK, back in '97*. Several lawsuits later, the SORC (Society of Robotic Combat) was formed to get away from said Evil Corp and (the name) Robotica was born, after that, Battlebots.
This is a great simplification, so I encourage you to check that link, also check marcthorpe.com for a more in depth early history of Robot Wars.
If you're more interested in Battlebots, check out this FAQ. Very interesting stuff, IMO. Makes me want to run out to the garage and start tinkering. :)
* This doesn't mean that I don't like Robot Wars, it's just a little behind the scenes action you may not be aware of.
Ummm... Looks like you missed this recent article. Intel has already squashed Alpha like a bug.
Unfortunately, the average comsumer doesn't know what he/she wants, and MHz has been a convenient number to use. Personally, I wouldn't mind if AMD didn't advertise the clockspeed, but as a previous poster mentioned, using numbers that look like a MHz rating is a dirty trick. It harkens back to the old PR (performance rating) days. Heh, I actually have an old AMD K5 that is PR133!