I think the article makes it clear that sleep can be used as a substitute for dieting.
I, for one, am going to make the most of this new diet plan by sleeping for 23.5 hours a day without changing a thing about my diet. I'll be thin in no time!
If this doesn't work, I'll increase the number of hours per day I sleep by one hour increments until I find the magic amount of sleep I have to get per day to become thin. Of course, I can't just keep increasing forever. Obviously I'll have to cap my maximum daily sleep time to forty hours.
Of course not. Why would you think a new connector that is basically does a superset of cardbus and USB would be capable of what the two of them aren't? How do you think this would work? Would it magically worm it's way into the connection between your LCD and the motherboard to handle I/O?
Making extra hardware in the LCD to convert NTSC or PAL into something it can understand would mean adding a processor to the LCD itself, which means the screen would be thicker and more cumbersome. Further, you don't get any of the advantages you get with a full system, such as the ability to encode and record inputs, and the opportunity to put the inputs in a place where they're less likely to break. No one would do that; it's a bad design.
If that's very important to you, just buy an LCD with that capability (they make them, but not for laptops). It'll be a lot thicker and heavier than the equivalent VGA-signal only laptop display. Or go with the USB, Firewire, or PCMCIA "anolog input solutions."
One of the bad things about wireless is that most wireless hardware is physically capable of transmitting in ranges that it isn't supposed to. Therefore, in order to enforce FCC regulations, they implement the enforcement through obfuscation - through firmware that enforces this policy.
Because of this, ndiswrapper makes sense. It would be a real pain to write a firmware loader for virtually every wireless card out there. Also, wireless isn't exactly a fast or demanding protocol. There's no reason not to have a ABI layer like that. It doesn't even put a demand of %1 on a modern processor (>200Mhz).
So...what's the problem here? Ndiswrapper will handle virtually all wireless cards using the drivers supplied by Windows. The only thing that would be nice is ramping up or scaling down the bitrate based upon the signal strength, which isn't done in Linux, though is often a part of Windows network management software.
What I would consider a gaping hole is lack of variable-length packet writing for CDs and DVDs. CD burners became ubiquitous somewhere around 2000 - maybe even a few years before. Five years later, Linux still has no support for this, and almost no support for fixed length packet writing.
Or maybe it isn't a gaping hole. Perhaps no one actually wants to do this?
You seem to think that consumers determine maximum supply. They don't. Apple could decide to sell five machines at $249 if they wanted to, and not release any more that way.
They could say "we want to spend exactly $1 billion and take a loss on machines. How many can we sell that way?" and then sell exactly 9,487,321 of them, assuming that they all sold.
But I think that Apple is quite happy with it's market share. What would MS do if Apple suddenly started gaining? My guess is something monopolistic - like discontinuing Office for MacOS, or giving away versions of Windows to put PCs in the sub $100 bracket. Heck, they could do a "free PC+monitor in exchange for iMac without one" just to ensure that they keep the market share.
I think Apple knows that something like this would happen and that Microsoft would probably get away with it, which could leave them in the precarious position of having expanded their supply (and thus their costs) without having the necessary demand.
Have you read his writing? No series ever ends, and each book ends with a new plot twist.
This is exactly what MMORPGs want, isn't it? An infinitely long story where each module makes the player have to buy the next one until the creators get tired of making them and make some new series?
It still requires an optical pump, doesn't it? Instead of $3 chip, $2 laser, $1 circuitry, you get $3 chip, $2 pump, $1 circuitry to connect them. So all the things you want to do can't be done yet except, perhaps, the last one.
However, the last one is probably a bad idea except for where this is already implemented (for VERY large video projections). What if someone accidentally looks into the projector?
Of course, someone could correct me here. Is there a way to make an optical pump out of only Silicon?
I don't know...it wouldn't be quite as enjoyable to observe her ESI if it was emitting coherent light. Then again, perhaps it could be used as a weapon.
Photon canon implants, maybe? We could have a pornstar-based invasion in countries where we want to disable hostiles without killing anyone.
At any rate, I think we can all agree that the phrase "Enormous Silicon Infrastructure" needs to see a lot more daily usage, along with the acronymn "ESI."
Do you have any idea how insecure WEP is? I've heard that breaking into a WEP network takes somewhere in the area of fifteen minutes, and even less if you can do a known plaintext attack.
So...it'll be like X10 even if they add the security.
It remains unclear to me what the advantage is of even having a security protocol that is as vulnerable as WEP is. Perhaps the camera makers feel the same way.
They are not the same. In fact, it could be argued that they are actually independant things. When is a fact proven? This implies a specific level of sureness based upon belief in the truth of other facts. There isn't really any such thing as something conclusively proven beyond any contestation. How do you know the physical laws of the universe won't stop working as they have been? How do you know the universe itself isn't an illusion, for that matter? You must assign some level that indicates the sureness of something and call it proof. Unfortunately, there are some assumptions below this threshold to fill in the missing information, and upon those premises you must draw conclusions, and we draw different conclusions.
To modify your quote, only shallow thinkers believe that something can be conclusively proven true or false.
A more precise way of putting the question would be "What do you believe even though the threshold of sureness is below what you would normally consider proof?"
Heck, if you're going there, why not just buy something that actually produces cross compatible code (i.e. will run on anything, not just platforms three platforms). There are a handful of RAD GUIs for wxWidgets.
That's not really fair, is it? I mean, Microsoft earned all that money, and if people aren't even willing to go get it from them, then it means people think Microsoft deserves it, doesn't it?
Kidding. Perhaps they could put all the extra into a "Nuclear missiles pointed at Redmond" fund. That way, if they do anything worse, BOOM! No more Redmond.
1) Overclock them to 800Mhz and watch them explode 2) Put firecrackers in them and watch them explode 3) Stick them in the microwave and watch them melt then explode
Then you can get to the real business of playing Nintendo games on an emulator that has better resolution, a faster processor and better sound than the original. As a bonus, you no longer have to blow on the cartridges to get them to work.
Ah, the good old days. How glad I am that I will never, ever have to live through them again.
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You read my mind...er...my post. I was thinking of the multiple Santa episode when I wrote this post.
I think this is funnier than "remember that old Tick episode about Multiple Santa?. That was awesome."
Where do they come from? The North pole river. Yeah, that's right. Each Christmas, Santas all swim upstream until reaching the North Pole. After spawning, old Santas lay eggs to produce more Santas. Along with nutrients and materials for growth, these Santa eggs also contain toys, which are molded and shaped in the egg as part of Santa's development process.
Then on December 25th all the Santas begin swimming south in one mass migration - making a streak of red in the otherwise barren north (for this reason, the migration is often known as the yuletide).
Flying reindeer then pick up these Santas to begin the symbiotic relationship - Santas are excellent trackers, capable of finding the incredibly rare forms of food that the reindeer can eat. In exchange, the reindeer carry the Santas to the homes of humans where they can get sustenence by eating milk and cookies.
Most of the time, as a way of ensuring more milk and cookies, the Santas will leave behind their womb toys, or other ones created during the previous year. If frightened, however, the Santas will most often void their bowels, which thanks to a very efficient and unusual digestive system, contain a substance remarkably like coal.
Santa is normally referred to as "he" because it is known that all Santa individuals actually comprise a single semi-intelligent collective being whose thoughts are communicated across the globe by high energy waves, and whose name is most closely pronounced "Santa" given a palate like ours. The Santa being, however, considers this word merely as a singular pronoun.
Now you know how he does it, and what he is. Now let me tell you about the Easter Bunny...
They're counting on that. Read more carefully. I'll simplify it for you. Here's the procedure:
1) Get the original binary and it's md5sum 2) Make changes to the binary so that it does what you want. 3) Pad the new binary so that it has the same md5sum as the original binary.
The lite edition still has 600MB to work with, and if they don't pack it full, it's not as useful as if they did. KDE would certainly be good to have, and they'll still have plenty of space to install it when they're done.
When I installed everything I might think about using (five window managers, gnome and kde versions of almost everything, etc) on my box compiled with -Os, I got about 3.7GB of programs. I can't wait to see the DVD-DL version of Knoppix. That should be able to contain almost every OSS app on Freshmeat.
Actually, an MD5 sum doesn't guarantee that anymore. MD5 is no longer considered secure; someone could add extra stuff to the program and then pad it so that it has the same MD5sum.
Years ago when this was viable I would have advised people the same. You can look at the cards themselves if you can't get the info about chipsets any other way.
You've really narrowed it down, though. Video cards don't come in ISA, and I've already said that sound cards should use name brands and modems should be external.
So you're talking about either ethernet cards or something that I didn't mention at all, which may or may not need brand-names to work.
But...in one sense you're right: I would never tell people to go out and buy non-Plug-and-Play ISA bus hardware that's years old, simply because then their computers will be obsolete. Should I also mention that they shouldn't buy parts for a Cray? Or parts from ENIAC?
The reason you pointed out are why I always buy external serial or USBSerial modems. They don't need drivers, so the drivers never go out of date, and you can buy generic. Anyway, the point I was making is that blanket statements of "buy namebrands and never buy generic" don't hold very well in the computer industry.
If you're talking about only hardware modems, you're talking about less than ten possible chipsets, unless you buy a rare and expensive one. The modem itself will tell you what chipset it uses through the PCI protocol. You can use this to get the latest drivers from whoever actually manufactured them. This should not take you hours. If it does you're doing it wrong.
Then you're doing a disservice to the people you give advice to. A lot of generic stuff just buys the core chips from the developers (who often market sell own stuff with name-brand prices), and then put the PCI front-end on it.
Generic hardware based modems are almost always better than any softmodems - even name brands.
With video cards what matters is what's at the core. Network adapters are even better about this - virtually all network adapters use chipsets from a small collection of manufacturers, all of whom make quite reliable cards.
This isn't true of wireless cards, but the issue is who makes the chipset not who makes the brand. The same is true for RAM.
Harddrives and printers are even worse - the generic brands are almost always some name brand with the packaging changed, which means that they hide who makes it, and often you have to look at the serial numbers to figure it out.
Is there anyplace where your advice is useful? Absolutely. I know that it makes a difference with motherboards, soundcards, and RAID cards at least. Also, there are very few good brands that actually resell their printers, so that doesn't work very well.
Now matter how pliable or environmentally friendly, solar cells are not good on a roll. They taste absolutely nothing like butter, and quite frankly, I find them barely palatable.
Don't the editors try this these things themselves? This is as bad as that "http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/28/18522 41&tid=126" story. Trust me, those things taste absolutely nothing like fruit-rollups.
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I think the article makes it clear that sleep can be used as a substitute for dieting.
I, for one, am going to make the most of this new diet plan by sleeping for 23.5 hours a day without changing a thing about my diet. I'll be thin in no time!
If this doesn't work, I'll increase the number of hours per day I sleep by one hour increments until I find the magic amount of sleep I have to get per day to become thin. Of course, I can't just keep increasing forever. Obviously I'll have to cap my maximum daily sleep time to forty hours.
Of course not. Why would you think a new connector that is basically does a superset of cardbus and USB would be capable of what the two of them aren't? How do you think this would work? Would it magically worm it's way into the connection between your LCD and the motherboard to handle I/O?
Making extra hardware in the LCD to convert NTSC or PAL into something it can understand would mean adding a processor to the LCD itself, which means the screen would be thicker and more cumbersome. Further, you don't get any of the advantages you get with a full system, such as the ability to encode and record inputs, and the opportunity to put the inputs in a place where they're less likely to break. No one would do that; it's a bad design.
If that's very important to you, just buy an LCD with that capability (they make them, but not for laptops). It'll be a lot thicker and heavier than the equivalent VGA-signal only laptop display. Or go with the USB, Firewire, or PCMCIA "anolog input solutions."
One of the bad things about wireless is that most wireless hardware is physically capable of transmitting in ranges that it isn't supposed to. Therefore, in order to enforce FCC regulations, they implement the enforcement through obfuscation - through firmware that enforces this policy.
Because of this, ndiswrapper makes sense. It would be a real pain to write a firmware loader for virtually every wireless card out there. Also, wireless isn't exactly a fast or demanding protocol. There's no reason not to have a ABI layer like that. It doesn't even put a demand of %1 on a modern processor (>200Mhz).
So...what's the problem here? Ndiswrapper will handle virtually all wireless cards using the drivers supplied by Windows. The only thing that would be nice is ramping up or scaling down the bitrate based upon the signal strength, which isn't done in Linux, though is often a part of Windows network management software.
What I would consider a gaping hole is lack of variable-length packet writing for CDs and DVDs. CD burners became ubiquitous somewhere around 2000 - maybe even a few years before. Five years later, Linux still has no support for this, and almost no support for fixed length packet writing.
Or maybe it isn't a gaping hole. Perhaps no one actually wants to do this?
You seem to think that consumers determine maximum supply. They don't. Apple could decide to sell five machines at $249 if they wanted to, and not release any more that way.
They could say "we want to spend exactly $1 billion and take a loss on machines. How many can we sell that way?" and then sell exactly 9,487,321 of them, assuming that they all sold.
But I think that Apple is quite happy with it's market share. What would MS do if Apple suddenly started gaining? My guess is something monopolistic - like discontinuing Office for MacOS, or giving away versions of Windows to put PCs in the sub $100 bracket. Heck, they could do a "free PC+monitor in exchange for iMac without one" just to ensure that they keep the market share.
I think Apple knows that something like this would happen and that Microsoft would probably get away with it, which could leave them in the precarious position of having expanded their supply (and thus their costs) without having the necessary demand.
Have you read his writing? No series ever ends, and each book ends with a new plot twist.
This is exactly what MMORPGs want, isn't it? An infinitely long story where each module makes the player have to buy the next one until the creators get tired of making them and make some new series?
It still requires an optical pump, doesn't it? Instead of $3 chip, $2 laser, $1 circuitry, you get $3 chip, $2 pump, $1 circuitry to connect them. So all the things you want to do can't be done yet except, perhaps, the last one.
However, the last one is probably a bad idea except for where this is already implemented (for VERY large video projections). What if someone accidentally looks into the projector?
Of course, someone could correct me here. Is there a way to make an optical pump out of only Silicon?
I don't know...it wouldn't be quite as enjoyable to observe her ESI if it was emitting coherent light. Then again, perhaps it could be used as a weapon.
Photon canon implants, maybe? We could have a pornstar-based invasion in countries where we want to disable hostiles without killing anyone.
At any rate, I think we can all agree that the phrase "Enormous Silicon Infrastructure" needs to see a lot more daily usage, along with the acronymn "ESI."
Do you have any idea how insecure WEP is? I've heard that breaking into a WEP network takes somewhere in the area of fifteen minutes, and even less if you can do a known plaintext attack.
So...it'll be like X10 even if they add the security.
It remains unclear to me what the advantage is of even having a security protocol that is as vulnerable as WEP is. Perhaps the camera makers feel the same way.
They are not the same. In fact, it could be argued that they are actually independant things. When is a fact proven? This implies a specific level of sureness based upon belief in the truth of other facts. There isn't really any such thing as something conclusively proven beyond any contestation. How do you know the physical laws of the universe won't stop working as they have been? How do you know the universe itself isn't an illusion, for that matter? You must assign some level that indicates the sureness of something and call it proof. Unfortunately, there are some assumptions below this threshold to fill in the missing information, and upon those premises you must draw conclusions, and we draw different conclusions.
To modify your quote, only shallow thinkers believe that something can be conclusively proven true or false.
A more precise way of putting the question would be "What do you believe even though the threshold of sureness is below what you would normally consider proof?"
Heck, if you're going there, why not just buy something that actually produces cross compatible code (i.e. will run on anything, not just platforms three platforms). There are a handful of RAD GUIs for wxWidgets.
That's not really fair, is it? I mean, Microsoft earned all that money, and if people aren't even willing to go get it from them, then it means people think Microsoft deserves it, doesn't it?
Kidding. Perhaps they could put all the extra into a "Nuclear missiles pointed at Redmond" fund. That way, if they do anything worse, BOOM! No more Redmond.
1) Overclock them to 800Mhz and watch them explode
2) Put firecrackers in them and watch them explode
3) Stick them in the microwave and watch them melt then explode
Then you can get to the real business of playing Nintendo games on an emulator that has better resolution, a faster processor and better sound than the original. As a bonus, you no longer have to blow on the cartridges to get them to work.
Ah, the good old days. How glad I am that I will never, ever have to live through them again.
You read my mind...er...my post. I was thinking of the multiple Santa episode when I wrote this post.
I think this is funnier than "remember that old Tick episode about Multiple Santa?. That was awesome."
Thousands and thousands of Santas.
Where do they come from? The North pole river. Yeah, that's right. Each Christmas, Santas all swim upstream until reaching the North Pole. After spawning, old Santas lay eggs to produce more Santas. Along with nutrients and materials for growth, these Santa eggs also contain toys, which are molded and shaped in the egg as part of Santa's development process.
Then on December 25th all the Santas begin swimming south in one mass migration - making a streak of red in the otherwise barren north (for this reason, the migration is often known as the yuletide).
Flying reindeer then pick up these Santas to begin the symbiotic relationship - Santas are excellent trackers, capable of finding the incredibly rare forms of food that the reindeer can eat. In exchange, the reindeer carry the Santas to the homes of humans where they can get sustenence by eating milk and cookies.
Most of the time, as a way of ensuring more milk and cookies, the Santas will leave behind their womb toys, or other ones created during the previous year. If frightened, however, the Santas will most often void their bowels, which thanks to a very efficient and unusual digestive system, contain a substance remarkably like coal.
Santa is normally referred to as "he" because it is known that all Santa individuals actually comprise a single semi-intelligent collective being whose thoughts are communicated across the globe by high energy waves, and whose name is most closely pronounced "Santa" given a palate like ours. The Santa being, however, considers this word merely as a singular pronoun.
Now you know how he does it, and what he is. Now let me tell you about the Easter Bunny...
But do you know what really beats a tutor or software? Practice.
That's it. Just practice.
Go to the library and pick up a guitar fundamentals book. Make copies of the exercises.
Then practice until your fingers bleed.
Then, just after that, practice some more.
The only thing more important than practicing when learning to play an instrument is the motivation to continue doing it.
I'm wondering why we ever stopped using this one.
Is anyone else getting load errors from slashdot? I think we're slashdotting it.
They're counting on that. Read more carefully. I'll simplify it for you.
Here's the procedure:
1) Get the original binary and it's md5sum
2) Make changes to the binary so that it does what you want.
3) Pad the new binary so that it has the same md5sum as the original binary.
See the problem?
Yes you can. If the kid does badly on tests but has the raw ability, you can coach them to get them up to higher scores.
150 points is a normal jump. 300 is not unusual.
Note that 200 points is a standard deviation, so this puts you in a new scholarship bracket.
Linux doesn't take much space.
The lite edition still has 600MB to work with, and if they don't pack it full, it's not as useful as if they did. KDE would certainly be good to have, and they'll still have plenty of space to install it when they're done.
When I installed everything I might think about using (five window managers, gnome and kde versions of almost everything, etc) on my box compiled with -Os, I got about 3.7GB of programs. I can't wait to see the DVD-DL version of Knoppix. That should be able to contain almost every OSS app on Freshmeat.
Actually, an MD5 sum doesn't guarantee that anymore. MD5 is no longer considered secure; someone could add extra stuff to the program and then pad it so that it has the same MD5sum.
Years ago when this was viable I would have advised people the same. You can look at the cards themselves if you can't get the info about chipsets any other way.
You've really narrowed it down, though. Video cards don't come in ISA, and I've already said that sound cards should use name brands and modems should be external.
So you're talking about either ethernet cards or something that I didn't mention at all, which may or may not need brand-names to work.
But...in one sense you're right: I would never tell people to go out and buy non-Plug-and-Play ISA bus hardware that's years old, simply because then their computers will be obsolete. Should I also mention that they shouldn't buy parts for a Cray? Or parts from ENIAC?
The reason you pointed out are why I always buy external serial or USBSerial modems. They don't need drivers, so the drivers never go out of date, and you can buy generic. Anyway, the point I was making is that blanket statements of "buy namebrands and never buy generic" don't hold very well in the computer industry.
If you're talking about only hardware modems, you're talking about less than ten possible chipsets, unless you buy a rare and expensive one. The modem itself will tell you what chipset it uses through the PCI protocol. You can use this to get the latest drivers from whoever actually manufactured them. This should not take you hours. If it does you're doing it wrong.
Then you're doing a disservice to the people you give advice to.
A lot of generic stuff just buys the core chips from the developers (who often market sell own stuff with name-brand prices), and then put the PCI front-end on it.
Generic hardware based modems are almost always better than any softmodems - even name brands.
With video cards what matters is what's at the core. Network adapters are even better about this - virtually all network adapters use chipsets from a small collection of manufacturers, all of whom make quite reliable cards.
This isn't true of wireless cards, but the issue is who makes the chipset not who makes the brand. The same is true for RAM.
Harddrives and printers are even worse - the generic brands are almost always some name brand with the packaging changed, which means that they hide who makes it, and often you have to look at the serial numbers to figure it out.
Is there anyplace where your advice is useful? Absolutely. I know that it makes a difference with motherboards, soundcards, and RAID cards at least. Also, there are very few good brands that actually resell their printers, so that doesn't work very well.
You need to put things in perspective. You can get somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 times that out of a laser printer for about $40 in ink.
To me, that difference in price means you'll be spending loads on overpriced ink.
I don't care what anyone says.
2 41&tid=126" story. Trust me, those things taste absolutely nothing like fruit-rollups.
Now matter how pliable or environmentally friendly, solar cells are not good on a roll. They taste absolutely nothing like butter, and quite frankly, I find them barely palatable.
Don't the editors try this these things themselves? This is as bad as that "http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/28/1852