Yep, of course this isn't new or original. Engadget just rehashes old concepts and pays Slashdot to put it on the front page. Hmm, up to 9 links this month, eh?
How much are you paying Slashdot for getting all of these Engadget crap articles on the front page? It looks like you just take old concepts that have already been on Slashdot in the past a million times and do a half assed job of copying them:
Note: I'll probably get bitchslapped or have this post deleted by Slashdot editors. Why don't they just admit they are taking money for posting these "articles" on the front page?
Uh, you missed the reference as well. I'm pretty sure the parent was referring to the mythological city of Atlantis, since we're talking about cities moving around, getting lost, etc.
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I also like all those sites parroting the Nvidia slides and graphs. The "comparison" graphs that show that the 6600 is "3x" better than the X600 are a bunch of bullshit. Who the hell makes a bar graph where the ATI card is placed at 1.0 and then the Nvidia card is shown in towering bars that are so much bigger, thus means they are better. Give me a break. Show the actual fucking numbers instead of that bullshit graph.
(As a sidenote, I'll still probably get one of these cards, but the damn biased graphs piss me off. Especially since they are unnecessary to show that the 6600 is better than the X600.)
Hey Fyodor, thanks for the response. Am I also correct in assuming that their "Limited number of simultaneous incomplete outbound TCP connection attempts" change will slow down scanning as well? Especially with a high latency target I'd imagine.
Just because you don't use it doesn't mean that a vast number of people have "legitimate" uses for it. I use it everytime I set up a machine to ensure the firewall is doing what I expect it to.
Besides, in and of itself, it isn't an "attack" tool, it just gives information.
Homer: All that counts is that we're alive and rubbing elbows with the greats. [gasps] Ooh, there's Ross Perot, Dr. Laura, Spike Lee.
Bart: Wait a minute, they're not so great.
Homer: Okay but there's Dan Quayle, Courtney Love, [increasing panic], Tonya Harding, Al Sharpton, Ah! Tom Arnold! What the hell's going on?
Bart: [looking out porthole] Wait! Only that ship's going to Mars. Ours is headed for the sun.
Arnold: Yeah, ain't that a kick in the teeth? I mean, my shows weren't great but I never tied people up and forced them to watch. And I could've, because I'm a big guy and I'm good with knots.
Homer: So we're all going to die?
Arnold: 'Fraid so, but, hey, the grub's pretty good, huh? [chuckles, and then pours a can of peaches in his mouth]
Homer: The sun? That's the hottest place on Earth.
Shore: Gonna work on my tannage, buddy.
Arnold: Pauly Shore? Wow! Hey, we should do a show together, man. That's a sure cure for the blues!
That video is of the Armadillo Aerospace rocket in Texas (that one ran out of propellent, so it fell out of the sky). I'm talking about Space Transport Corp's Rubicon 1 rocket based in Washington State.
I imagine after building it once though, they'd still have the plans so it would be pretty cheap to just get the hardware and build another one. Even if they could pull a satellite out of orbit and bring it back to Earth, I think they'd rather put up an all new machine rather than send the old one back up.
Because of explosion, the parachute did not deploy (don't know why the article mentions this point, since you'd sort of figure that was the case since the rocket exploded! [see step 3])
Rocket fell to earth as smoldering rubble 60 meters (approx 200 ft) from the launch pad.
The original plan for this launch was to reach 6,000 meters (approx 20,000 ft), which obviously didn't happen after the rocket blew up on ascent.
There's even a nice little picture of it on fire while taking off in that article you mentioned.
Uh, the main cost is not the value of the components that make up the satellite, but rather the cost of putting the damn thing up there in the first place.
I imagine they will be quite annoying to handle as well. They used do (do they still do this?) make DVDs that had two sides, one side for full screen, the other for letterbox.
The most annoying part of this was the fact that they had to sqeeze the title and side infomation in tiny letters arcing around the spindle hole. It was a pain in the ass trying to read what movie it was.
These creations (abominations) will suffer from the same problem. CDs and DVDs really need a full side devoted to a label. Imagine trying to read that small type while driving.
Who cares? It's not like the microwaves harm you. The only reason they can heat the food is because the metal interior sets up standing waves that amplify the signal at the wave's interference points. You can't be harmed by any microwaves that escape the oven.
Heh, I had the same objections to that scene. The other thing is that the old Mac he was using would have been way too slow to keep up with him and display all those graphics and shit he "typed" in there.
Doctor Hibbert: What are you doing? You're wasting thousands of dollars worth of Interfereons!
Homer: Well, you're interfereon with our good time!
Homer squirts some into Hibbert's mouth Doctor Hibbert: What do you know? That cured my canker sores.
You're joking right? The webpage hasn't been updated since 2003. Those photos don't tell you much at all, and the last one (the "Engine Flight Testing") looks like a bad photoshop. I'll bet you dollars to donuts they are nowhere even close.
On the launch permits point, they may be approved to launch from Canada, but they sure as hell won't be launching from the US. The FCC's AST office has a ton of red tape. Having a launch permit is nothing more than a marketing gimmick if they don't actually fly the damn thing.
The difficult part is the flight control software and testing the engines in real life test flights (which Armadillo has done). Just because they built a long tube with some engines on the end doesn't mean they are ready to fly.
The trip they made on the 21st of June did not count at all for the X-Prize. It did go past 100 km, but it did not have the additional weight necessary to simulate two passengers. Basically it was just another test flight. What was significant about it in a historical perspective is that this is the first time a privately owned company has put a man in space. Thus, they yet to even do the first of two flights required by the X-Prize.
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Yep, of course this isn't new or original. Engadget just rehashes old concepts and pays Slashdot to put it on the front page. Hmm, up to 9 links this month, eh?
Seriously, I've seen 8 Engaget crap articles this month alone.
Note: I'll probably get bitchslapped or have this post deleted by Slashdot editors. Why don't they just admit they are taking money for posting these "articles" on the front page?
Uh, you missed the reference as well. I'm pretty sure the parent was referring to the mythological city of Atlantis, since we're talking about cities moving around, getting lost, etc.
I thought ICE was civilization!
(obscure Mosquito Coast reference)
I also like all those sites parroting the Nvidia slides and graphs. The "comparison" graphs that show that the 6600 is "3x" better than the X600 are a bunch of bullshit. Who the hell makes a bar graph where the ATI card is placed at 1.0 and then the Nvidia card is shown in towering bars that are so much bigger, thus means they are better. Give me a break. Show the actual fucking numbers instead of that bullshit graph.
(As a sidenote, I'll still probably get one of these cards, but the damn biased graphs piss me off. Especially since they are unnecessary to show that the 6600 is better than the X600.)
Nice. Now I wonder if something similar can be done with the RAW sockets.
Hey Fyodor, thanks for the response. Am I also correct in assuming that their "Limited number of simultaneous incomplete outbound TCP connection attempts" change will slow down scanning as well? Especially with a high latency target I'd imagine.
Just because you don't use it doesn't mean that a vast number of people have "legitimate" uses for it. I use it everytime I set up a machine to ensure the firewall is doing what I expect it to.
Besides, in and of itself, it isn't an "attack" tool, it just gives information.
How long until this is hacked? I predict even before it hits the mainstream and they are still running trials.
That video is of the Armadillo Aerospace rocket in Texas (that one ran out of propellent, so it fell out of the sky). I'm talking about Space Transport Corp's Rubicon 1 rocket based in Washington State.
I imagine after building it once though, they'd still have the plans so it would be pretty cheap to just get the hardware and build another one. Even if they could pull a satellite out of orbit and bring it back to Earth, I think they'd rather put up an all new machine rather than send the old one back up.
- Rocket took off.
- Rocket reached 300 meters (approx 1,000 ft) altitude.
- Rocket EXPLODED.
- Because of explosion, the parachute did not deploy (don't know why the article mentions this point, since you'd sort of figure that was the case since the rocket exploded! [see step 3])
- Rocket fell to earth as smoldering rubble 60 meters (approx 200 ft) from the launch pad.
The original plan for this launch was to reach 6,000 meters (approx 20,000 ft), which obviously didn't happen after the rocket blew up on ascent. There's even a nice little picture of it on fire while taking off in that article you mentioned.Uh, the main cost is not the value of the components that make up the satellite, but rather the cost of putting the damn thing up there in the first place.
I imagine they will be quite annoying to handle as well. They used do (do they still do this?) make DVDs that had two sides, one side for full screen, the other for letterbox.
The most annoying part of this was the fact that they had to sqeeze the title and side infomation in tiny letters arcing around the spindle hole. It was a pain in the ass trying to read what movie it was.
These creations (abominations) will suffer from the same problem. CDs and DVDs really need a full side devoted to a label. Imagine trying to read that small type while driving.
Who cares? It's not like the microwaves harm you. The only reason they can heat the food is because the metal interior sets up standing waves that amplify the signal at the wave's interference points. You can't be harmed by any microwaves that escape the oven.
Heh, I had the same objections to that scene. The other thing is that the old Mac he was using would have been way too slow to keep up with him and display all those graphics and shit he "typed" in there.
Well, I think the person that originally created the quote (Herman Melville) should get the credit, not some hack simply reusing it.
Oh, because obviously a quote should only be attributed to the latest source that reuses it.
I think they'd probably wear one of those medical bracelets to alert the rescuers that they don't have a pulse. At least I would!
You endear me with your lovely witticism.
Doctor Hibbert: What are you doing? You're wasting thousands of dollars worth of Interfereons!
Homer: Well, you're interfereon with our good time!
Homer squirts some into Hibbert's mouth
Doctor Hibbert: What do you know? That cured my canker sores.
Er, I mean the FAA of course. Brain is fried.
You're joking right? The webpage hasn't been updated since 2003. Those photos don't tell you much at all, and the last one (the "Engine Flight Testing") looks like a bad photoshop. I'll bet you dollars to donuts they are nowhere even close.
On the launch permits point, they may be approved to launch from Canada, but they sure as hell won't be launching from the US. The FCC's AST office has a ton of red tape. Having a launch permit is nothing more than a marketing gimmick if they don't actually fly the damn thing.
The difficult part is the flight control software and testing the engines in real life test flights (which Armadillo has done). Just because they built a long tube with some engines on the end doesn't mean they are ready to fly.
The trip they made on the 21st of June did not count at all for the X-Prize. It did go past 100 km, but it did not have the additional weight necessary to simulate two passengers. Basically it was just another test flight. What was significant about it in a historical perspective is that this is the first time a privately owned company has put a man in space. Thus, they yet to even do the first of two flights required by the X-Prize.