That was my thought immediatly upon seeing a picture of one of the bikes. Looks like it adds a ton of weight. The only thing I could see this being used in is a downhill bike, because weight isn't as much of an issue. But no one riding on the road or riding cross country will ride one of those things.
I ride and race a lot of road and x-country, and I for one would not use one of these for either of those.
I think the intention is for downhill though. Stronger frames, less exposed parts, the pictures I saw were of suspended frames (except for that hardtail, which is probably there for suckers.) By the sounds of it, these things would shift a lot better than a derailleur especially when bouncing around. The pedal-less shifting would be beneficial for a downhiller as well.
Someone mentioned maintenance too. Despite the fact that these devices are supposedly low maintenance, you wouldn't be stopping to fix anything in the middle of a downhill race.
Because Neo is "The One", and contains code for "rebooting" the matrix (hah, the machines are running Windows!) and because Neo is such an intrinsic part of the matrix, he has a connection to the machines. That's why he can see the machines (and only the machines) when he's blind, that's how he can stop them, and that's how he separated his mind from body when he was in the matrix but not jacked in.
Better yet, why don't they just use a form of automated payment. I'm sure the domain registrar must have that option.
Though if the domains were registered say, 10 years ago, whoever was responsible for that task has probably moved on, and/or it was otherwise forgotten.
Why is everyone associating the FBI agent's email use with the FBI??
"An Ohio woman whose credit card fraud schemes began to unravel when she unwittingly spammed an off-duty FBI computer crime agent..." The article mentions the agent as being off duty. So first of all, this AOL email account is personal, and secondly, if this person wants internet access at home, they've got to get it somewhere, and why not AOL, it's a huge ISP.
"The FBI uses AOL, oh shit!" The FBI doesn't use AOL. People who happen to work for FBI might use AOL for personal internet access, but what the fuck does that have to do with the FBI??
However, come to think of it, the FBI having some AOL accounts as honeypots might not be a bad idea. AOL users are a good (and large) target for scams, so the FBI computer crime dept. might catch a few of them.
Wtf makes you think a DJ using Technics is the target audience? Obviously no one is gonna bail on their 1200s, but this might be an interesting toy for a skilled DJ. I remember hearing a story from my buddy about a DJ who was mixin up a storm with a fisher price record player and some 45s. Like anything else, it's all about what you can do with a given tool.
Anyway, I think they're targeting somone like myself, who's very interested in mixing, but has neither the time nor the money to get a full blown system and stacks of vinyl.
This product looks very interesting, and I have some friends who I know would be interested in it too, for the same reasons I am. That is, money, time, and skill level (which doesn't warrant a set of Technics.)
I think it's pretty cool, because my buddies and I could mix some mp3s on our computers, and share 'em with each other. Sounds like a lot of fun to me, and the price is right.
"I walked up to the booth asking if unix-like file aliases would be in the new shell, and was given a demo by the team that had my mind racing."
Microsoft is just now adding a powerful shell (I don't think MS-DOS counts as powerful, does it?) and I assume symbolic links by the above quote.
This stuff was around long before Microsoft. And what pisses me off is that these assholes will pass this off as innovation, so will the press, and so will the sheep.
Consider the amount of encrypted data currently in existance. Once quantum computers come about, access to all of this data would be trivial.
I imagine there are governments which are just frothing at the mouth over quantum computers. They'd have access to hordes of encrypted data that they've no doubt been saving for just such an occasion.
And until everyone has a quantum computer, not all data will be securely encryptable.
When a bank in a high crime area has been broken into a dozen times, yeah, it's their fault for not installing unbreakable glass and armour (syn. for security.)
And yeah, if I had a house in a high crime area, you'd bet there'd be bars in my windows after the first break-in.
All this 'security' is akin to a more secure OS. But how many choices are there? That's the problem with Microsoft.
"There is no road map for Linux, nobody who has his rear end on the line."
Right, why does Ballmer think Microsoft includes an EULA with their software? To void them of the responsibility for the trillions of damage their software has caused through security vulenerabilites and generally poor design.
Yeah, trillions. We've all seen the way damage is estimated each time a virus grinds everything Microsoft to a halt. Usually in the hundreds of billions, and it's probably happened at least a dozen times. This let alone unrelated individual incidents companies around the world have on a daily basis.
Oh, and don't forget about the kids that get locked up for writing viruses and other mischevious software that exploit said vulnerabilities. They're an easy scape goat to relieve Microsoft yet again of any responsibility what so ever.
I'm tired of this bullshit. The day Microsoft gets hauled in to court to take responsibility once and for all is the day I go skiing in hell. I bet I'll see Gates running the resort.
You had *a* (ie: one) lecturer whose course was in power point?
I've had several so far, and I'm in Comp. Sci. Let me tell you, there's nothing worse than a CS lecture, or math lecture, in which the prof just displays a bunch of overheads. That's hardly teaching, much less lecturing.
Anyhow, had I been in business, nearly all my classes would be power point. And I'd be expected to make power point presentations of my own as well.
This on top of the fact some some profs, as well as the engineering department, circulate a lot of documents in.doc format.
Quite often there are notes, tests, and solutions in pdf, which is nice.
I have to keep a copy of win98 around, just to keep up with my education. Which is lame in Computer Science in an academic environment. If anyone should know better, it'd be my CS prof. He uses a Mac and makes little pokes at Microsoft and Windows whenever he gets a chance.
Hah! Not in Canada! We got more fresh water than we know what to do with! Most of the time it's frozen though.. Which is good for playing hockey on.. So I guess we do know what to do with it - and it looks like we've come up with one more way to use it;)
But really. There's no shortage of fresh water here. It's great.
There have been attempts to suck it up and sell it, but no one has been given permission, afaik. Mostly due to the precedent it may set - once people start takin it, it'll be difficult to stop them.
Were huge? MiniDisc still is huge, and growing, as far as I can tell. I've got one myself and wouldn't replace it with anything. A few of my friends have MD players, and I see them all over campus and in class. And I'm in Canada, eh.
The Sony store wouldn't be selling them if they weren't selling well. Neither would other stores for that matter.
MiniDisc has huge potential. Imagine increasing the track density to that of DVD and using blue lasers. You could pack a huge amount of data onto a small disc. Gigabytes of data on a tiny $5 disc (though admittedly they'd probably charge more just because.)
What's great about the discs is that they're encased, so you don't have to worry about "top-surface scratches" (which, btw, are far worse than playing surface scratches, since the top surface is the media that contains the data.)
What didn't catch on was MD Data. Which is a shame. MiniDiscs would be a perfect replacement for floppies. Small, inexpensive, and high capacity. Even more so if track density was increased. Think about how much space you could save in a laptop.
Not to mention the fact that the OS will need less swap/virtual memory, reducing disk access even more.
I couldn't imagine ram taking much power at all, but I guess it must. Imagine a power saving system where the only ram modules being powered are the ones in use - and additional modules are powered up as memory is consumed. That would be interesting, though I don't know how beneficial. And to be useful, you'd have to spread your total ram over several modules - 512MB in 4x128MB, rather than 1x512MB or 2x256MB.
I wouldn't be surprised if the investment came from Microsoft. SCO potentially has a concrete detriment to Linux, as opposed to the FUD that Microsoft was limited to.
It's just more fuel for the fire. SCO is probably doing better at making Linux look bad than Microsoft ever could.
Better yet, run a local copy of gkrellm and connect to the remote gkrellmd. gkrellm is nice for quick glances but doesn't keep any history of what it monitors, which I imagine is part of what the poster is looking for.
It's nice to be able to analyze the historical data to make predictions and such.
It would be an absolutely sweet time to go dumpster diving! Think of all the perfectly fine hardware being tossed because of a corrupt bios! Retrieve all the hardware, order a bios for $10 (better yet a flasher and some blank chips if you get that much hardware) and sell everything on ebay and make a fortune. Or...
setup a Beowulf cluster of your very own!!
baha! A slasdotter's dream come true:P
(Though I honestly can't imagine this happening since I hope no admin is so inept as to toss hardware just because of a corrupt bios.)
I run the distributed.net client on all the machines I have running. One which has got to be 6 or 7 years old, and dnetc has been running the whole time. That machine is rarely shutdown - and it's still goin strong.
I've got a couple other machines, 1 and 2 years old running some hot AMD processors, the 1st runs around 40-45 degrees C, the other 50-55. They also seem to run fine.
I don't think it'll wear your hardware down unless you've got a really poor cooling solution. As far as hard drives go, the dnet client probably makes the least hard drive access of any app on my system. Not sure about seti, but I don't imagine it crunches the HD either.
As for electricity, I have no idea, but where I'm from we pay the lowest rates in Ontario I think. So whatever;)
My Linux desktop is pretty tight, and has everything I need, except for true transparency (and I actually would have legit uses for it, other than pure eye candy.)
But just because Linux has made huge improvements, doesn't make it great. It's no where near OS X.
And I don't know why the parent was marked flamebait. It's a good point. What good is a CPU if there's nothing good to run on it.
"Cause if your customs are attaching leeches to your veins to cure yourself, you're not exactly in a good place to begin with."
Slightly off topic, but that is actually still in practice in modern (even North American!) hospitals. I believe it's often used when reattaching extremities. The leeches prevent clotting, and keep blood flowing.
Here's the thing. SGI may have removed the infringing code, but the fact is, people and businesses have still benefitted from the presence of that code up until now. SCO is demanding, and rightfully so it would seem, that they be compensated for the use of the code. And why not? It's theirs, and people have been making money with it.
I don't think I've seen anyone mention this yet, but I've come across a number of occasions on/. where it should have been said.
As a student one of the most important things I've learned is getting up early. That is, not sleeping in. Getting up by 8am every day makes me more productive than I would have ever guessed. Any later than that, and my day is toast. It's strange.
An even better combination is getting up bloody early and going to the gym. My gym opens at 6:30am, and I'm there when the doors open. A jog and some good stretching is a great way to get fired up for the day. Some weights too, if I have time. I did this in the summer before work too. Makes my day much better.
I even did it when I was home from school and before I started work. You'd be surprised at how nice mornings can be.
Whatever you do, don't sleep in! (well, maybe on the weekends once in a while;) Seriously, getting up early makes a big difference. Even when I'm fartin around on my computer. I though hackin code was all about stayin up late - it's all about gettin up early! It's just a matter of self-control. You're workin on somethin and you just wanna keep goin - but it's that much better with a fresh mind in the early morning. Some problems I've spent hours on the night before I'll wake up the next day and solve in 5 minutes. It's crazy.
Try cat-5e cable. 50' at Radio Crap goes for about $40CDN before tax. The campus book store sells it for $25. I think in the shorter lengths it gets above $1/foot at Radio Shack.
I had once gone to Radio Shack for some phone cables and splitters. Paid a fortune for the stuff. Turns out there was a dollar store right beside, so I walked in, found cables and splitters all for less than $2. Walked right back over to Radio Shack and returned my purchases.
When I set up my first home network, I went with 10b2 because I thought it would be less expensive (didn't have to buy a hub or switch.) After I bought all the connectors/terminators/etc. at Radio Shack, I probably could have bought 2 of the hub that I'm using now ($30 from somewhere on pricewatch. Pretty sweet.)
"...computers have caught up with their demands, in terms of power and disk capacity." "Computers get more and more powerful, networks are faster and faster, and X is more and more lightweight comparatively."
That's about the dumbest reply to this article I've seen. Just because you can make it crappy doesn't mean you should. No one should ever use the current state of hardware as an excuse for making an unoptimized and inefficient system.
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That was my thought immediatly upon seeing a picture of one of the bikes. Looks like it adds a ton of weight. The only thing I could see this being used in is a downhill bike, because weight isn't as much of an issue. But no one riding on the road or riding cross country will ride one of those things.
I ride and race a lot of road and x-country, and I for one would not use one of these for either of those.
I think the intention is for downhill though. Stronger frames, less exposed parts, the pictures I saw were of suspended frames (except for that hardtail, which is probably there for suckers.) By the sounds of it, these things would shift a lot better than a derailleur especially when bouncing around. The pedal-less shifting would be beneficial for a downhiller as well.
Someone mentioned maintenance too. Despite the fact that these devices are supposedly low maintenance, you wouldn't be stopping to fix anything in the middle of a downhill race.
Because Neo is "The One", and contains code for "rebooting" the matrix (hah, the machines are running Windows!) and because Neo is such an intrinsic part of the matrix, he has a connection to the machines. That's why he can see the machines (and only the machines) when he's blind, that's how he can stop them, and that's how he separated his mind from body when he was in the matrix but not jacked in.
Better yet, why don't they just use a form of automated payment. I'm sure the domain registrar must have that option.
Though if the domains were registered say, 10 years ago, whoever was responsible for that task has probably moved on, and/or it was otherwise forgotten.
Why is everyone associating the FBI agent's email use with the FBI??
"An Ohio woman whose credit card fraud schemes began to unravel when she unwittingly spammed an off-duty FBI computer crime agent..."
The article mentions the agent as being off duty. So first of all, this AOL email account is personal, and secondly, if this person wants internet access at home, they've got to get it somewhere, and why not AOL, it's a huge ISP.
"The FBI uses AOL, oh shit!" The FBI doesn't use AOL. People who happen to work for FBI might use AOL for personal internet access, but what the fuck does that have to do with the FBI??
However, come to think of it, the FBI having some AOL accounts as honeypots might not be a bad idea. AOL users are a good (and large) target for scams, so the FBI computer crime dept. might catch a few of them.
Wtf makes you think a DJ using Technics is the target audience? Obviously no one is gonna bail on their 1200s, but this might be an interesting toy for a skilled DJ. I remember hearing a story from my buddy about a DJ who was mixin up a storm with a fisher price record player and some 45s. Like anything else, it's all about what you can do with a given tool.
Anyway, I think they're targeting somone like myself, who's very interested in mixing, but has neither the time nor the money to get a full blown system and stacks of vinyl.
This product looks very interesting, and I have some friends who I know would be interested in it too, for the same reasons I am. That is, money, time, and skill level (which doesn't warrant a set of Technics.)
I think it's pretty cool, because my buddies and I could mix some mp3s on our computers, and share 'em with each other. Sounds like a lot of fun to me, and the price is right.
"I walked up to the booth asking if unix-like file aliases would be in the new shell, and was given a demo by the team that had my mind racing."
Microsoft is just now adding a powerful shell (I don't think MS-DOS counts as powerful, does it?) and I assume symbolic links by the above quote.
This stuff was around long before Microsoft. And what pisses me off is that these assholes will pass this off as innovation, so will the press, and so will the sheep.
Consider the amount of encrypted data currently in existance. Once quantum computers come about, access to all of this data would be trivial.
I imagine there are governments which are just frothing at the mouth over quantum computers. They'd have access to hordes of encrypted data that they've no doubt been saving for just such an occasion.
And until everyone has a quantum computer, not all data will be securely encryptable.
Just wait until these hit the non-medical market. Then imagine advertising - browsing the web on portable devices for example.
;)
I think you can see where this will go.
At least the pop-ups will only last 180th of a second
When a bank in a high crime area has been broken into a dozen times, yeah, it's their fault for not installing unbreakable glass and armour (syn. for security.)
And yeah, if I had a house in a high crime area, you'd bet there'd be bars in my windows after the first break-in.
All this 'security' is akin to a more secure OS. But how many choices are there? That's the problem with Microsoft.
"There is no road map for Linux, nobody who has his rear end on the line."
Right, why does Ballmer think Microsoft includes an EULA with their software? To void them of the responsibility for the trillions of damage their software has caused through security vulenerabilites and generally poor design.
Yeah, trillions. We've all seen the way damage is estimated each time a virus grinds everything Microsoft to a halt. Usually in the hundreds of billions, and it's probably happened at least a dozen times. This let alone unrelated individual incidents companies around the world have on a daily basis.
Oh, and don't forget about the kids that get locked up for writing viruses and other mischevious software that exploit said vulnerabilities. They're an easy scape goat to relieve Microsoft yet again of any responsibility what so ever.
I'm tired of this bullshit. The day Microsoft gets hauled in to court to take responsibility once and for all is the day I go skiing in hell. I bet I'll see Gates running the resort.
You had *a* (ie: one) lecturer whose course was in power point?
.doc format.
I've had several so far, and I'm in Comp. Sci. Let me tell you, there's nothing worse than a CS lecture, or math lecture, in which the prof just displays a bunch of overheads. That's hardly teaching, much less lecturing.
Anyhow, had I been in business, nearly all my classes would be power point. And I'd be expected to make power point presentations of my own as well.
This on top of the fact some some profs, as well as the engineering department, circulate a lot of documents in
Quite often there are notes, tests, and solutions in pdf, which is nice.
I have to keep a copy of win98 around, just to keep up with my education. Which is lame in Computer Science in an academic environment. If anyone should know better, it'd be my CS prof. He uses a Mac and makes little pokes at Microsoft and Windows whenever he gets a chance.
Hah! Not in Canada! We got more fresh water than we know what to do with! Most of the time it's frozen though.. Which is good for playing hockey on.. So I guess we do know what to do with it - and it looks like we've come up with one more way to use it ;)
But really. There's no shortage of fresh water here. It's great.
There have been attempts to suck it up and sell it, but no one has been given permission, afaik. Mostly due to the precedent it may set - once people start takin it, it'll be difficult to stop them.
> MiniDisc where huge in Japan.
Were huge? MiniDisc still is huge, and growing, as far as I can tell. I've got one myself and wouldn't replace it with anything. A few of my friends have MD players, and I see them all over campus and in class. And I'm in Canada, eh.
The Sony store wouldn't be selling them if they weren't selling well. Neither would other stores for that matter.
MiniDisc has huge potential. Imagine increasing the track density to that of DVD and using blue lasers. You could pack a huge amount of data onto a small disc. Gigabytes of data on a tiny $5 disc (though admittedly they'd probably charge more just because.)
What's great about the discs is that they're encased, so you don't have to worry about "top-surface scratches" (which, btw, are far worse than playing surface scratches, since the top surface is the media that contains the data.)
What didn't catch on was MD Data. Which is a shame. MiniDiscs would be a perfect replacement for floppies. Small, inexpensive, and high capacity. Even more so if track density was increased. Think about how much space you could save in a laptop.
Not to mention the fact that the OS will need less swap/virtual memory, reducing disk access even more.
I couldn't imagine ram taking much power at all, but I guess it must. Imagine a power saving system where the only ram modules being powered are the ones in use - and additional modules are powered up as memory is consumed. That would be interesting, though I don't know how beneficial. And to be useful, you'd have to spread your total ram over several modules - 512MB in 4x128MB, rather than 1x512MB or 2x256MB.
I wouldn't be surprised if the investment came from Microsoft. SCO potentially has a concrete detriment to Linux, as opposed to the FUD that Microsoft was limited to.
It's just more fuel for the fire. SCO is probably doing better at making Linux look bad than Microsoft ever could.
Better yet, run a local copy of gkrellm and connect to the remote gkrellmd. gkrellm is nice for quick glances but doesn't keep any history of what it monitors, which I imagine is part of what the poster is looking for.
It's nice to be able to analyze the historical data to make predictions and such.
It would be an absolutely sweet time to go dumpster diving! Think of all the perfectly fine hardware being tossed because of a corrupt bios! Retrieve all the hardware, order a bios for $10 (better yet a flasher and some blank chips if you get that much hardware) and sell everything on ebay and make a fortune. Or...
:P
setup a Beowulf cluster of your very own!!
baha! A slasdotter's dream come true
(Though I honestly can't imagine this happening since I hope no admin is so inept as to toss hardware just because of a corrupt bios.)
> ...but MacOSX absolutely blows.
In what way? Every Mac user I know thinks OS X rocks.
I run the distributed.net client on all the machines I have running. One which has got to be 6 or 7 years old, and dnetc has been running the whole time. That machine is rarely shutdown - and it's still goin strong.
;)
I've got a couple other machines, 1 and 2 years old running some hot AMD processors, the 1st runs around 40-45 degrees C, the other 50-55. They also seem to run fine.
I don't think it'll wear your hardware down unless you've got a really poor cooling solution. As far as hard drives go, the dnet client probably makes the least hard drive access of any app on my system. Not sure about seti, but I don't imagine it crunches the HD either.
As for electricity, I have no idea, but where I'm from we pay the lowest rates in Ontario I think. So whatever
My Linux desktop is pretty tight, and has everything I need, except for true transparency (and I actually would have legit uses for it, other than pure eye candy.)
But just because Linux has made huge improvements, doesn't make it great. It's no where near OS X.
And I don't know why the parent was marked flamebait. It's a good point. What good is a CPU if there's nothing good to run on it.
"Cause if your customs are attaching leeches to your veins to cure yourself, you're not exactly in a good place to begin with."
Slightly off topic, but that is actually still in practice in modern (even North American!) hospitals. I believe it's often used when reattaching extremities. The leeches prevent clotting, and keep blood flowing.
You can google it, but I found this for starters.
Here's the thing. SGI may have removed the infringing code, but the fact is, people and businesses have still benefitted from the presence of that code up until now. SCO is demanding, and rightfully so it would seem, that they be compensated for the use of the code. And why not? It's theirs, and people have been making money with it.
/. where it should have been said.
I don't think I've seen anyone mention this yet, but I've come across a number of occasions on
As a student one of the most important things I've learned is getting up early. That is, not sleeping in. Getting up by 8am every day makes me more productive than I would have ever guessed. Any later than that, and my day is toast. It's strange.
;) Seriously, getting up early makes a big difference. Even when I'm fartin around on my computer. I though hackin code was all about stayin up late - it's all about gettin up early! It's just a matter of self-control. You're workin on somethin and you just wanna keep goin - but it's that much better with a fresh mind in the early morning. Some problems I've spent hours on the night before I'll wake up the next day and solve in 5 minutes. It's crazy.
An even better combination is getting up bloody early and going to the gym. My gym opens at 6:30am, and I'm there when the doors open. A jog and some good stretching is a great way to get fired up for the day. Some weights too, if I have time. I did this in the summer before work too. Makes my day much better.
I even did it when I was home from school and before I started work. You'd be surprised at how nice mornings can be.
Whatever you do, don't sleep in! (well, maybe on the weekends once in a while
Try it!
Try cat-5e cable. 50' at Radio Crap goes for about $40CDN before tax. The campus book store sells it for $25. I think in the shorter lengths it gets above $1/foot at Radio Shack.
I had once gone to Radio Shack for some phone cables and splitters. Paid a fortune for the stuff. Turns out there was a dollar store right beside, so I walked in, found cables and splitters all for less than $2. Walked right back over to Radio Shack and returned my purchases.
When I set up my first home network, I went with 10b2 because I thought it would be less expensive (didn't have to buy a hub or switch.) After I bought all the connectors/terminators/etc. at Radio Shack, I probably could have bought 2 of the hub that I'm using now ($30 from somewhere on pricewatch. Pretty sweet.)
"...computers have caught up with their demands, in terms of power and disk capacity."
"Computers get more and more powerful, networks are faster and faster, and X is more and more lightweight comparatively."
That's about the dumbest reply to this article I've seen. Just because you can make it crappy doesn't mean you should. No one should ever use the current state of hardware as an excuse for making an unoptimized and inefficient system.