We at the University of California, Los Angeles have been able to read your thoughts for a while now. Previous to this story, we've been doing it by pumping sleeping gas into your classroom once a week, and taking MRIs of your brain while you're out (though for 8am classes, we don't bother with the gas). We particularly enjoy reading the minds of some of the North Campus girls. Those chicks are wild.
Also, we invented the Internet.
Thank you for using URSA, go number one Bruins. Joe
If you look at the Intel code names on their road maps, you'll see that they usually name their chips after rivers. Most of these rivers are in the western United States, but occasionally you'll see Israeli river names (Banias, for example). Grouping these names together, you can tell that Intel Israel usually works on low-power chips and integrated chipset features (SSE, Centrino,...). That is, the heart of Intel cores is done in the U.S. They send their first generation designs to Israel for improvement and integration.
Intel, as well as numerous other chip makers, have had a long tradition of development in Israel. IBM, DEC (back when they existed), Freescale all have research centers in Israel. This is due to the large amount of English-speaking skilled engineers and their relatively low cost compared to US engineers. This is the first I've heard of actually making the chips there. Germany is usually the preferred site for fabbing in the European region.
said the submitter: What is different is that we have faster hardware, more Internet content and users. Amazingly enough, Microsoft's Venus didn't make it out of the laboratory.
We? The article started as "Shanda did this", and then transitioned to "we did this". You see, if you're trying to plug your technology by making it appear like a legitimate Ask Slashdot, at least have the courtesy to pretend to be impartial. That and pitting it against a Microsoft research product that never existed outside the lab (six years ago) as if you're competing with it. This has to be one of the worst plugs I've seen.
UCLA has a nuclear fusion reactor (taurus type) on the bottom floor of Boelter Hall, North-East corner. As the parent said, the title is idiotic, as is the body of the story, and the editor certainly is no genius.
I love knoppix and all, but when was the last time you popped it into someone else's computer (especialy one at work or school if your not IT/fixing it) and didn't get your head bitten off.
Well, when I was travelling around the country, visiting my friends and family, for one. I wanted to ssh into my machine to read my mail, browse the web using firefox, and play my mp3s. To accomplish this on their spyware-ridden Windows machines, I brought with my a Knoppix CD, and a DVD of my mp3 files. No installing software on their machines (they surely don't have ssh installed), no worries about having my password stolen by whoever rooted that computer, no annoying pop-ups. Using Knoppix was the least intrusive method of doing this, as their PC is 100% back to its original state when I'm done with it.
Everyone here is going to tell you the same thing, diversify. But here's the reality: if you limit yourself to one domain (like only UNIX) you're really closing some doors for yourself. If you know enough of NT administration (I assume you'll have to be interfacing with Windows at some point), you're far more useful. !!HOWEVER!!, don't confuse that with becoming a master of Windows admining, unless you want to face the very real possibility that this is what you'll be doing exclusively in the future. When some PHB in your company decides to put in some Windows servers, who's going to be admining them, you, or your coworker who only knows UNIX systems? Sometimes, ignorance is bliss. Know enough to fix problems when they affect your work. Don't know enough (or at least pretend not to) so that the bulk of the work of NT administration is Somebody Else's Problem.
In many cases there is a silicon bug or other hardware bug, and one of the advertized features of the part does not work as it should (or at all). The driver compensates for this bug by jumping some hoops if it can. If your ethernet card doesn't support jumbo-frames correctly, would you notice? Probably not. If your video card doesn't do blitting in the negative direction of overlapping segments with alpha transparency, and the driver works around it, you'll likely never know. But if Tom's Hardware Guide tells you that this product doesn't support some feature which is a standard, you'll probably look elsewhere.
In some cases, the bugs are such that there is no safe way to work around them, and the driver just tries a best-attempt to fix it. In this case, the company has the choice of scrapping their current crop of products, or just not telling you about it. If you as an end customer knew that under such and such conditions (which will probably never happen), this device will do something bad, you may not be so willing to buy it.
They'll have it, but instead of emerge, the command is going to be called "pirate", and it won't get the source, it will download a binary via eDonkey. The only hard part is bootstrapping it. You have to boot into a DOS disk, set up your network and type "pirate winxp-pro".
I remember having had an apartment in (the slums of) Beverly Hills, and having to apply for LifeLine phone service so I could get my DSL. A LifeLine is the most basic phone service you can get, for about ten dollars per month, but there's a maximum income limit. It was interesting telling the lady on the phone that my zip code is 90210, and then swearing that I make under $10,000/year to qualify for the LifeLine, and then adding DSL onto that.
You know it's fake because of the lack of spelling errors.
Wait... NO, I stand corrected. This is an actual quote from the generator: "So if you think you're seeing Bil Gates everywhere you probably are." The Slashdot Turing test has been passed.
Hah, I did that! Until my girlfriend at the time made me take it off. My explanation of what a Faraday cage was turned out to be no match for her "it looks ugly and you're a lunatic".
Don't buy Dlink products. Seriously, don't do it. My router, a 4port + wifi (I wish I had the model number with me), has one tragic flaw: there is no way to disable the wireless link. Sure, there's a button that says "Disable Wireless". There's a menu option not to assign a DHCP address to a wireless client. But these DO NOT WORK. I can always connect to the wireless port, get an IP, and be on the network. I've taken off the antenna, and still my neighbors connect to it occasionally. Great security, I really feel safe. For some reason, the admin page (http configuration) does not work in Firefox, either. Luckily I have Konqueror.
So, again, don't buy Dlink! I know I never will again.
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Announcing Car Bot: Thank you all for coming. It is my pleasure to introduce the host of the Kyoto global warming convention. The inventor of the environment, and first emperor of the moon, Al Gore.
indeed, i don't think ARM shipped any processors at all. ARM designs and licenses cores. from low powered arm7's in your run of the mill mp3 player, to a 400+mhz arm9/strongarm/xscale in high end pdas. arm-based chips are produced by dozens of manufacturers in many countries. arm cores run linux (and have a big developer community), wince, and multiple embedded operating systems.
i think the real failing of the linked story, however, is that ARM IS NOT A MONOPOLY. sure, they may ship more chips than anyone else. they make a good product. but in the embedded world, there is choice. mips, 68000, super-h, powerpc, dozens of proprietary architectures, even low end x86. if arm decided to pull some of the stuff that intel and microsoft try, they'd have the bottom pulled out of them as everyone migrates to their favorite arch of the day.
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Hi, I'm Joe Bruin.
We at the University of California, Los Angeles have been able to read your thoughts for a while now. Previous to this story, we've been doing it by pumping sleeping gas into your classroom once a week, and taking MRIs of your brain while you're out (though for 8am classes, we don't bother with the gas). We particularly enjoy reading the minds of some of the North Campus girls. Those chicks are wild.
Also, we invented the Internet.
Thank you for using URSA, go number one Bruins.
Joe
If you look at the Intel code names on their road maps, you'll see that they usually name their chips after rivers. Most of these rivers are in the western United States, but occasionally you'll see Israeli river names (Banias, for example). Grouping these names together, you can tell that Intel Israel usually works on low-power chips and integrated chipset features (SSE, Centrino, ...). That is, the heart of Intel cores is done in the U.S. They send their first generation designs to Israel for improvement and integration.
Intel, as well as numerous other chip makers, have had a long tradition of development in Israel. IBM, DEC (back when they existed), Freescale all have research centers in Israel. This is due to the large amount of English-speaking skilled engineers and their relatively low cost compared to US engineers. This is the first I've heard of actually making the chips there. Germany is usually the preferred site for fabbing in the European region.
Well, if it's a RAID array, I think it is redundant.
Camping is frowned upon in Counter-Strike.
said the submitter: What is different is that we have faster hardware, more Internet content and users. Amazingly enough, Microsoft's Venus didn't make it out of the laboratory.
We? The article started as "Shanda did this", and then transitioned to "we did this". You see, if you're trying to plug your technology by making it appear like a legitimate Ask Slashdot, at least have the courtesy to pretend to be impartial. That and pitting it against a Microsoft research product that never existed outside the lab (six years ago) as if you're competing with it. This has to be one of the worst plugs I've seen.
That IP address and its owner will be promptly banned from the Internet.
It's in the shape of a bull? Wow, I'd like to see that!
Thanks, AC. I meant torus (doughnut), not taurus (bull) shaped.
UCLA has a nuclear fusion reactor (taurus type) on the bottom floor of Boelter Hall, North-East corner. As the parent said, the title is idiotic, as is the body of the story, and the editor certainly is no genius.
I love knoppix and all, but when was the last time you popped it into someone else's computer (especialy one at work or school if your not IT/fixing it) and didn't get your head bitten off.
Well, when I was travelling around the country, visiting my friends and family, for one. I wanted to ssh into my machine to read my mail, browse the web using firefox, and play my mp3s. To accomplish this on their spyware-ridden Windows machines, I brought with my a Knoppix CD, and a DVD of my mp3 files. No installing software on their machines (they surely don't have ssh installed), no worries about having my password stolen by whoever rooted that computer, no annoying pop-ups. Using Knoppix was the least intrusive method of doing this, as their PC is 100% back to its original state when I'm done with it.
Everyone here is going to tell you the same thing, diversify. But here's the reality: if you limit yourself to one domain (like only UNIX) you're really closing some doors for yourself. If you know enough of NT administration (I assume you'll have to be interfacing with Windows at some point), you're far more useful. !!HOWEVER!!, don't confuse that with becoming a master of Windows admining, unless you want to face the very real possibility that this is what you'll be doing exclusively in the future. When some PHB in your company decides to put in some Windows servers, who's going to be admining them, you, or your coworker who only knows UNIX systems? Sometimes, ignorance is bliss. Know enough to fix problems when they affect your work. Don't know enough (or at least pretend not to) so that the bulk of the work of NT administration is Somebody Else's Problem.
In many cases there is a silicon bug or other hardware bug, and one of the advertized features of the part does not work as it should (or at all). The driver compensates for this bug by jumping some hoops if it can. If your ethernet card doesn't support jumbo-frames correctly, would you notice? Probably not. If your video card doesn't do blitting in the negative direction of overlapping segments with alpha transparency, and the driver works around it, you'll likely never know. But if Tom's Hardware Guide tells you that this product doesn't support some feature which is a standard, you'll probably look elsewhere.
In some cases, the bugs are such that there is no safe way to work around them, and the driver just tries a best-attempt to fix it. In this case, the company has the choice of scrapping their current crop of products, or just not telling you about it. If you as an end customer knew that under such and such conditions (which will probably never happen), this device will do something bad, you may not be so willing to buy it.
They'll have it, but instead of emerge, the command is going to be called "pirate", and it won't get the source, it will download a binary via eDonkey. The only hard part is bootstrapping it. You have to boot into a DOS disk, set up your network and type "pirate winxp-pro".
Is it just me, or do other people start reading it in hex when they see the word Oxford?
I remember having had an apartment in (the slums of) Beverly Hills, and having to apply for LifeLine phone service so I could get my DSL. A LifeLine is the most basic phone service you can get, for about ten dollars per month, but there's a maximum income limit. It was interesting telling the lady on the phone that my zip code is 90210, and then swearing that I make under $10,000/year to qualify for the LifeLine, and then adding DSL onto that.
NOT EARTH, that's where I keep all my stuff!!!
You know it's fake because of the lack of spelling errors.
Wait... NO, I stand corrected. This is an actual quote from the generator: "So if you think you're seeing Bil Gates everywhere you probably are." The Slashdot Turing test has been passed.
I guess you need to wrap it in tin foil.
Hah, I did that! Until my girlfriend at the time made me take it off. My explanation of what a Faraday cage was turned out to be no match for her "it looks ugly and you're a lunatic".
Don't buy Dlink products. Seriously, don't do it.
My router, a 4port + wifi (I wish I had the model number with me), has one tragic flaw: there is no way to disable the wireless link. Sure, there's a button that says "Disable Wireless". There's a menu option not to assign a DHCP address to a wireless client. But these DO NOT WORK. I can always connect to the wireless port, get an IP, and be on the network. I've taken off the antenna, and still my neighbors connect to it occasionally. Great security, I really feel safe. For some reason, the admin page (http configuration) does not work in Firefox, either. Luckily I have Konqueror.
So, again, don't buy Dlink! I know I never will again.
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.
no, 236176911b0bc7fca6bae20804ba08d9 is the md5 sum of "mandiva\n".
what you meant to do was:
$ echo -n mandriva | md5sum
7bbcc6c9b6f53ac3a6029596e7e468a5
Announcing Car Bot: Thank you all for coming. It is my pleasure to
introduce the host of the Kyoto global warming convention. The
inventor of the environment, and first emperor of the moon, Al Gore.
Al Gore: I have ridden the mighty moon worm!
[Applause]
Fry: Good for him.
but how long until lunch?
get your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape!
that's as big as they come!
(oh oh)
ARM shipped 780,000,000 processors last year
indeed, i don't think ARM shipped any processors at all. ARM designs and licenses cores. from low powered arm7's in your run of the mill mp3 player, to a 400+mhz arm9/strongarm/xscale in high end pdas. arm-based chips are produced by dozens of manufacturers in many countries. arm cores run linux (and have a big developer community), wince, and multiple embedded operating systems.
i think the real failing of the linked story, however, is that ARM IS NOT A MONOPOLY. sure, they may ship more chips than anyone else. they make a good product. but in the embedded world, there is choice. mips, 68000, super-h, powerpc, dozens of proprietary architectures, even low end x86. if arm decided to pull some of the stuff that intel and microsoft try, they'd have the bottom pulled out of them as everyone migrates to their favorite arch of the day.