The "little upset" link wasn't; it just explained that the program "does not take up any of your recording capacity - it is stored in a seperate reserved space."
If it doesn't take up space, and will lower the overall cost of the unit by allowing another revenue stream for Tivo, and you don't have to watch it, and it doesn't interfere with the rest of your programming, why is this news? Am I missing something?
They are your ISP and you are using THEIR machines, hence they may do as they wish...an ISP has every right (though perhaps not ehtical) to... do whatever they want to incoming/outgoing data
Are you serious? Given your logic, you seem to think it's alright to replace every other header as well (including the X-Priority, or even the TO and FROM). Why stop there? Why not change the message body as well?
I'm not sure how I would feel about being forced into 1600x1200 all the time
Getting an LCD doesn't mean you have to give up your old monitor. While 1600x1200 native mode on a DVI output is fantastic, I also like to play games. My Dell fp2000 (just over $1200 shipped during the last special) is running out of my Radeon 8500 DVI out. While I could play games at a lower res, (with only a little screen tearing -- the Dell is a *fast* 25ms pixel refresh) I also have my 19" CRT hooked up to the same card. So for games -- CRT. For everything else - dual screens, but mainly the Dell. Make the CRT your primary and you don't have to do anything - just start the game up and it deactivates the LCD.
ECC is NOT parity checking. Parity checking is able to tell if one bit is wrong, and if so, to send a parity error (it keeps an extra bit to check against). However, if can't tell which bit was flipped, so it can't correct it. ECC, on the other hand, CAN tell which bit is bad, and therefore can correct it. It can also detects a two-bit error, but has to send a parity error, because it can't correct them both.
Actually, it's your chipset that reads the data from the memory and sends the parity error, and/or makes the actual corrections in the case of ECC. Even though your ECC is turned off, parity is still active. You chipset is reading the extra bit in your ECC memory, sees it doesn't add up to the rest of the bits, and sends out a parity error. The solution is turn your ECC back on, and they should go away, as it will use the ECC info from your ECC memory to correct it instead (unless they are the much rarer two-bit kind -- if you get these often your memory is probably defective).
Also, to comment on someone else, the older ECC correction slowed your system down by around 5 percent. Recent changes will slow it down 1-2 percent, no big deal.
Why not just make it illegal to throw away monitors, etc. in the regular trash, then have a collection point with a fee for disposal, just like oil and tires?
For which part? You want a separate tax on everything? $10 for monitor x, which has 2.5 pounds of lead in it's glass (the old national average, btw), $15 for monitor y, $5 for motherboard z, etc.
What if you break up your motherboard into pieces? What about some poor video card manufacturer that tries to be "environmentally friendly", do they get a discount?
Plus, since everything will cost differing amounts, you want to actually drive to the drop-off location?
Sorry, but this was thought of and discarded. While unfair for some people, it's not going to work. The simplest way is to put a single tax on systems at the start, and just drop it off at the curb later on.
My wedding ring too, and just to be extra geeky...
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I inscribed my wife's initials into it as binary. Just a lot of silver-inscribed dots and lines, no one knows it's binary unless I tell them, and then it's a lot of "umm, ok..."
No not ascii, there wasn't enough room for 7 or 8 bits each. 5 bits, for 15 dots/dashes. Got my ring from this site (of COURSE I ordered it through the web;)
Does no one read the article? They are rolling out a new version (which the article was about) tomorrow at 5pm PST! The site that is there now is using presumably months/years old technology
Um, the site up right now is in BETA. And the article clearly states "After spending the past six months perfecting the technology, Gerasoulis and his development team on Monday evening will roll out a souped-up search engine".
Are you saying that the current beta was discarded "months/years" ago and no one remembered to take it down, and that the "new" search engine to debut tommorrow didn't go through a beta stage first?
This was tried before ("Thindisk Flexible Media"), as a new way to stick CDs into magazines. If you thought the AOL CDs were bad before, wait until next year.
...that's gravy. It's strength is its power consumption.
The Xscale at 200Mhz will be using about 50mW, about the same as a Palm processor runs at now. Compare to the current StrongARM, which at 233Mhz (a slightly overclocked Ipaq) sucks down 900mw. The Xscale will be 15x or so less power-hungry than the StrongARM at 200.
Or in other words, for the same power you get 5.4 mips with a 33 MHz Palm vs. over 300 mips for a Xscale.
It also has an advantage as it "scales" what it needs depending on the app, hence the name. So if you are running a memopad type function, it will need less power, and if you are running Quake or something, it will go full-bore. Think of it as intelligent underclocking when needed.
So in summary, the Xscale can have the computing power of a current Ipaq (more actually, they tweaked the core), at the same power consumption as a Palm (or much less depending on what types of apps you run). At 400Mhz, it will use about 3x the power of a Palm processor, but this will still be 5-6x less power than the StrongARM running at half the speed.
****Doesn't matter who regulates the filling of them, the problem is WHO defines what a wetland is. There is another poster who seems to think that with the EPA, 14 days of continued "wet" area... e.g. ponds, puddles, snowmelt, whatever, makes it a wetland.***
The Corps personnel determines what is and is not a wetland, based on a number of criteria (soils, indicator wetland species, etc.) It is partially subjective, but in your case (next to a lake), it's pretty clear cut.
***Furthermore, the Corps does NOT, as far as I can tell, regulate wetlands within incorporated areas***
Actually it does. It is just that there are seldom wetlands IN incorporated areas.
***and NOTHING prevents other agencies from stopping you, even if the Corps would give you a permit.***
That is true. In California, wetlands not under jurisdiction of the Corps can be regulated by the State Regional Water Quality Control Boards. I guess the alternative is to amend the Constitution to eliminate State rights.
***and nobody bothered to inform us over the 40 years that it had become one***
No one COULD inform you. Did you expect a gigantic Manhattan-project type of wetland survey that traveled across the land? Even the USGS doesn't do that level of survey for its maps. The criteria was, however, published in the Federal Register, for anyone to review that was interested. They even have a search page.
***and the land is worthless to anyone.**
Actually, it is worth a lot to whoever uses the water, both people and critters.
The alternative in your view, is that anyone should be able to destroy wetlands whenever they wanted to. Under that strategy, no one would have clean water to drink (our water agency is VERY concerned about wetlands filling, as it quantifiably degrades the water quality).
You expect it is your RIGHT to make money when you speculate on land? You have a chance to win or lose... in your case you lost.
First of all, the Corps of Engineers regulates filling of wetlands (through the 404 permit process), not the EPA.
Second of all, this is exempt from Corps fill requirements as it is a man-made water source.
How do I know? Because I'm the one that gets Corps wetland delineations done for the water agency I work for, and man-made sources (like those created from all of our water sampling stations) are NOT regulated by the Corps.
The guy in the article said "Those wetlands are going to dry up and that's probably against the law." Note the "probably". He obviously does not do regulatory work.
Before anyone else on this board talks about "environmentalist whackos", get your facts straight.
Crypto is an IDEA. You can ban a real, material item that kills people, you can't ban an IDEA. You may as well ban people's thoughts of killing other people. When you can make a gun out of thin air by sitting in front of a computer coding for a few minutes, then I will agree that you should ban Crypto as well.
Losers! Everyone knows the ButterIpaq runs much faster, and is in color too. Sure, the ButterPalm has a better shelf life, but that won't help you play Quake.
The upcoming Detonator 4's (supposed to be released last week, now "very soon") will support OpenGL 1.3. A good sign, as they are the major player right now. This includes:
Cube map texturing -- for higher quality environment mapping and lighting support
Multisampling -- for order-independent anti-aliased rendering of points, lines and polygons
New texture modes that provide more powerful ways of applying textures to rendered objects:
Texture Add Environment mode
Texture Combine Environment mode
Texture Dot3 Environment mode
Texture Border Filtering mode
Compressed texture framework -- to allow higher quality textures in less memory regardless of file format
Reams of NSA information on how to make your Win2k box "secure" just points out that Win2k was not meant for the large majorities of home users. Microsoft expects your Win2k system to be operated in a network. This includes allowing remote users to access your registry, view your clipbook, browse your directory, or connect to it via Telnet, right out of the box. It is not set up by default to be the gateway computer to the net.
I came up with a step-by-step checklist a while back for all my friends that were running non-networked Win2k home systems directly connected to the net. I don't know how good an idea it was to give step-by-step directions on how to change registry settings, but hey, no one has locked themselves out of their computer yet (at least that I know of). You can see it here:
http://www.gpick.net/sbr/security/w2ksecuritytips. htm
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Like, why not just go straight cellular and connect to the internet or your home beowulf cluster?
Why stop there? Put a webMathematica server up, and access it though your PDA.
The article states "the controversial procedure that would be banned by legislation now before Congress"
The "little upset" link wasn't; it just explained that the program "does not take up any of your recording capacity - it is stored in a seperate reserved space."
If it doesn't take up space, and will lower the overall cost of the unit by allowing another revenue stream for Tivo, and you don't have to watch it, and it doesn't interfere with the rest of your programming, why is this news? Am I missing something?
They are your ISP and you are using THEIR machines, hence they may do as they wish...an ISP has every right (though perhaps not ehtical) to ... do whatever they want to incoming/outgoing data
Are you serious? Given your logic, you seem to think it's alright to replace every other header as well (including the X-Priority, or even the TO and FROM). Why stop there? Why not change the message body as well?
I'm not sure how I would feel about being forced into 1600x1200 all the time
Getting an LCD doesn't mean you have to give up your old monitor. While 1600x1200 native mode on a DVI output is fantastic, I also like to play games. My Dell fp2000 (just over $1200 shipped during the last special) is running out of my Radeon 8500 DVI out. While I could play games at a lower res, (with only a little screen tearing -- the Dell is a *fast* 25ms pixel refresh) I also have my 19" CRT hooked up to the same card. So for games -- CRT. For everything else - dual screens, but mainly the Dell. Make the CRT your primary and you don't have to do anything - just start the game up and it deactivates the LCD.
ECC is NOT parity checking. Parity checking is able to tell if one bit is wrong, and if so, to send a parity error (it keeps an extra bit to check against). However, if can't tell which bit was flipped, so it can't correct it. ECC, on the other hand, CAN tell which bit is bad, and therefore can correct it. It can also detects a two-bit error, but has to send a parity error, because it can't correct them both.
Actually, it's your chipset that reads the data from the memory and sends the parity error, and/or makes the actual corrections in the case of ECC. Even though your ECC is turned off, parity is still active. You chipset is reading the extra bit in your ECC memory, sees it doesn't add up to the rest of the bits, and sends out a parity error. The solution is turn your ECC back on, and they should go away, as it will use the ECC info from your ECC memory to correct it instead (unless they are the much rarer two-bit kind -- if you get these often your memory is probably defective).
Also, to comment on someone else, the older ECC correction slowed your system down by around 5 percent. Recent changes will slow it down 1-2 percent, no big deal.
Why not just make it illegal to throw away monitors, etc. in the regular trash, then have a collection point with a fee for disposal, just like oil and tires?
For which part? You want a separate tax on everything? $10 for monitor x, which has 2.5 pounds of lead in it's glass (the old national average, btw), $15 for monitor y, $5 for motherboard z, etc.
What if you break up your motherboard into pieces? What about some poor video card manufacturer that tries to be "environmentally friendly", do they get a discount?
Plus, since everything will cost differing amounts, you want to actually drive to the drop-off location?
Sorry, but this was thought of and discarded. While unfair for some people, it's not going to work. The simplest way is to put a single tax on systems at the start, and just drop it off at the curb later on.
I inscribed my wife's initials into it as binary. Just a lot of silver-inscribed dots and lines, no one knows it's binary unless I tell them, and then it's a lot of "umm, ok..."
;)
No not ascii, there wasn't enough room for 7 or 8 bits each. 5 bits, for 15 dots/dashes. Got my ring from this site (of COURSE I ordered it through the web
I'd assume
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Well, you know the old saying about "assume"
And arguing about this is almost as silly as the posts I was originally complaining about.
Who is arguing? I was pointing out flaws in your reasoning/reading of the article.
Btw, it's an interesting tactic to complain about other's posts yourself, while at the same time label any comment on your OWN posts as "silly."
Does no one read the article? They are rolling out a new version (which the article was about) tomorrow at 5pm PST! The site that is there now is using presumably months/years old technology
Um, the site up right now is in BETA. And the article clearly states "After spending the past six months perfecting the technology, Gerasoulis and his development team on Monday evening will roll out a souped-up search engine".
Are you saying that the current beta was discarded "months/years" ago and no one remembered to take it down, and that the "new" search engine to debut tommorrow didn't go through a beta stage first?
Or even better, go to the Project Page itself.
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This was tried before ("Thindisk Flexible Media"), as a new way to stick CDs into magazines. If you thought the AOL CDs were bad before, wait until next year.
...that's gravy. It's strength is its power consumption.
The Xscale at 200Mhz will be using about 50mW, about the same as a Palm processor runs at now. Compare to the current StrongARM, which at 233Mhz (a slightly overclocked Ipaq) sucks down 900mw. The Xscale will be 15x or so less power-hungry than the StrongARM at 200.
Or in other words, for the same power you get 5.4 mips with a 33 MHz Palm vs. over 300 mips for a Xscale.
It also has an advantage as it "scales" what it needs depending on the app, hence the name. So if you are running a memopad type function, it will need less power, and if you are running Quake or something, it will go full-bore. Think of it as intelligent underclocking when needed.
So in summary, the Xscale can have the computing power of a current Ipaq (more actually, they tweaked the core), at the same power consumption as a Palm (or much less depending on what types of apps you run). At 400Mhz, it will use about 3x the power of a Palm processor, but this will still be 5-6x less power than the StrongARM running at half the speed.
The water was not from a man-made source. It was diverted, and therefore at least partially natural. That's all the Corps needs.
****Doesn't matter who regulates the filling of them, the problem is WHO defines what a wetland is. There is another poster who seems to think that with the EPA, 14 days of continued "wet" area... e.g. ponds, puddles, snowmelt, whatever, makes it a wetland.***
The Corps personnel determines what is and is not a wetland, based on a number of criteria (soils, indicator wetland species, etc.) It is partially subjective, but in your case (next to a lake), it's pretty clear cut.
***Furthermore, the Corps does NOT, as far as I can tell, regulate wetlands within incorporated areas***
Actually it does. It is just that there are seldom wetlands IN incorporated areas.
***and NOTHING prevents other agencies from stopping you, even if the Corps would give you a permit.***
That is true. In California, wetlands not under jurisdiction of the Corps can be regulated by the State Regional Water Quality Control Boards. I guess the alternative is to amend the Constitution to eliminate State rights.
***and nobody bothered to inform us over the 40 years that it had become one***
No one COULD inform you. Did you expect a gigantic Manhattan-project type of wetland survey that traveled across the land? Even the USGS doesn't do that level of survey for its maps. The criteria was, however, published in the Federal Register, for anyone to review that was interested. They even have a search page.
***and the land is worthless to anyone.**
Actually, it is worth a lot to whoever uses the water, both people and critters.
The alternative in your view, is that anyone should be able to destroy wetlands whenever they wanted to. Under that strategy, no one would have clean water to drink (our water agency is VERY concerned about wetlands filling, as it quantifiably degrades the water quality).
You expect it is your RIGHT to make money when you speculate on land? You have a chance to win or lose... in your case you lost.
First of all, the Corps of Engineers regulates filling of wetlands (through the 404 permit process), not the EPA.
Second of all, this is exempt from Corps fill requirements as it is a man-made water source.
How do I know? Because I'm the one that gets Corps wetland delineations done for the water agency I work for, and man-made sources (like those created from all of our water sampling stations) are NOT regulated by the Corps.
The guy in the article said "Those wetlands are going to dry up and that's probably against the law." Note the "probably". He obviously does not do regulatory work.
Before anyone else on this board talks about "environmentalist whackos", get your facts straight.
If their ONLY purpose was to KILL people.
Crypto is an IDEA. You can ban a real, material item that kills people, you can't ban an IDEA. You may as well ban people's thoughts of killing other people. When you can make a gun out of thin air by sitting in front of a computer coding for a few minutes, then I will agree that you should ban Crypto as well.
Losers! Everyone knows the ButterIpaq runs much faster, and is in color too. Sure, the ButterPalm has a better shelf life, but that won't help you play Quake.
The upcoming Detonator 4's (supposed to be released last week, now "very soon") will support OpenGL 1.3. A good sign, as they are the major player right now. This includes:
Cube map texturing -- for higher quality environment mapping and lighting support
Multisampling -- for order-independent anti-aliased rendering of points, lines and polygons
New texture modes that provide more powerful ways of applying textures to rendered objects:
Texture Add Environment mode
Texture Combine Environment mode
Texture Dot3 Environment mode
Texture Border Filtering mode
Compressed texture framework -- to allow higher quality textures in less memory regardless of file format
It would give them time to work on SP1.
Reams of NSA information on how to make your Win2k box "secure" just points out that Win2k was not meant for the large majorities of home users. Microsoft expects your Win2k system to be operated in a network. This includes allowing remote users to access your registry, view your clipbook, browse your directory, or connect to it via Telnet, right out of the box. It is not set up by default to be the gateway computer to the net. I came up with a step-by-step checklist a while back for all my friends that were running non-networked Win2k home systems directly connected to the net. I don't know how good an idea it was to give step-by-step directions on how to change registry settings, but hey, no one has locked themselves out of their computer yet (at least that I know of). You can see it here: http://www.gpick.net/sbr/security/w2ksecuritytips. htm