shit bricks sideways. I was thinking about building a video on demand system that I would store my DVDs on. Assuming that I didn't want to apply further compression to my DVDs, and that each DVD is about 8Gb in size this gives me 50 DVDs per 400 Gb disk. Put a few of these 400Gb drives into a RAID-5 array (which should be ideal since you're going to spend most of your time reading data) for redundancy and pretty soon you get up to being able to build a system for a couple of grand that will allow you to archive a few hundred DVDs and have them at your fingertips. Combine this with some HTPC clients with gigabit ethernet and you've got a whole house video on demand system. You can buy a system like this now but it costs about $30,000, but hey, that's a system for people who don't read/., At the moment this would probably cost you 5 or 6k to set up but costs just keep on dropping. Right now I have 66 Gb of high bit rate MP3s on my server at home, six years ago when I started getting into MP3s I wouldn't have been able to afford this much storage, now building a RAID 1+0 to store these cost me about $500 (plus the system to put it in). I love technology, I can't wait until they break the 1Tb barrier at a cost of 10 cents per Gb and Jack Valenti's head explodes like a rotten melon in the sun.
BULLSHIT! NASA is scrapping the Hubble because they need the money to keep ISS and the Shuttle going. Hubble has accomplished real science while in orbit, it has expanded our knowledge of the universe, something that can't be said for the Shuttle program, which is a huge waste of money (if we need a way of killing surplus astronauts shooting them in the head is a lot cheaper than sending them on a shuttle mission) and ISS, which is a pathetic joke that ought to be shot out of the sky.
If Hubble is shut down in 2006 it will be six years, assuming of course that NASA doesn't fuck it up, before the James Webb Space Telescope will be operational. That's a long time for scientists, shutting down a working system before you have its replacement is stupid and irresponsible, but given NASA's behavior after Challenger and Columbia what should we expect?
NASA ought to change its name to reflect it's new mission of keeping billions flowing to the contractors who maintain the Shuttle while at the same time not accomplishing anything new or interesting. Perhaps the new name could be something along the lines of "Not About Science Anymore", or "National Aerospace Socialism Association", or "No Access to Space for Americans". They've already heard about "Needed: Another Seven Astronauts".
That's not true. I only have two Linux systems, but I do have over 20 guns. So my gun to linux ratio is 10:1. This isn't much different than my gun to Macintosh ratio (~6:1) and my gun to Doze box ratio (10:1). Now if we count dual boot systems things get kind of hinky...
A Ukrainian chick who no doubt has one of those sexy eastern-European/Russian style accents who rides a big bike and likes to go to dangerous places on it.
I wonder if/. can set things up so that any story related to a piece of hardware would get an automatic "imagine a beowulf cluster blah, blah blah" post from anonymous coward. Seems as if it would save a lot of valuable time for/.'ers.
It's obvious you've no actual *experience* of the effect of them on your physiology, otherwise you wouldn't be touting this line.
In the past I've been put on both Paxil and Prozac. They DO change you. They make you apathetic and aggressive. And they're nastily addictive - many people experience very unpleasant withdrawl symptoms when they try to quit SSRIs - Paxil especially.
Yeah, but dude, the reason they put you on Paxil and Prozac is because you're fucking crazy. It's not as if you were a normal person who was put on this stuff and then became aggressive and apathetic, you're a nut. OK. Sure there are docs who hand out scrips for Prozac for everyone (there was one over in Yakima in Washington State where I live) but for the most part you're not on those meds unless you have some serious problem, like being a crazy person who posts to/. as anonymous coward.
This research is being done at Harborview Medical Center, which is run by the University of Washington Medical Center. Harborview is one of the best trauma centers in the United States, which makes it one of the best in the world When I was in a motorcycle accident that's where I went and even though they couldn't save my leg they did save my knee, which makes using a prosthetic much easier. Harborview isn't the body and fender shop you want to go there, they only send you there if you're seriously broken, but if you are seriously broken it's the best place to be. Even though it's a public hospital and ends up with the patients that no other hospital wants they still manage to do cutting edge research such as this or in the fields of rehabilitation and prosthetics.
"Hello Mr. McBride, welcome to the National Security Agency Before we talk about your lawsuit and IP claims we'd like to show you a few things. Exhibit one. A picture of you entering a hotel room in Orem with two live nanny goats, a rubber raft, a pair of chaps and a can of Frymax fryer grease. Exhibit 2. Pictures from within the room of activities which violate the laws of God and Man, if not those of the State of Utah. Exhibit 3, credit card receipts for animal tranquilizers and male goat hormones. Shall we continue?"
Years ago I went to a presentation on RISC v. CISC architectures. The presenter pointed out that RISC didn't really stand for "Reduced Instruction Set Computing" rather it stood for "Relegate the Important Stuff to Compilers". Why hasn't Microsoft released C and C++ compilers that institute bounds checking? Hell, ADA had this years ago and say what you will about the language it's a damned handy thing to have. This will be a good thing if it works out, but it will take years for these chips to penetrate the market to any significant degree and once again we are seeing hardware vendors come to the rescue of software companies by creating hardware that has the capability, either in speed or safety features, to compensate for bad programming tools and bad programmers.
If you look the poster is called "johnnyb". The name of the Author is Jonathan Bartlett. As far as I can tell most of the books on the Bartlett Publishing website are by Jonathan Bartlett. It looks to me as if this is basically a vanity press.
about tax cuts, the policies of the Bush administration and the like. The fact is this: NASA wants to keep the Shuttle alive because it employs a lot of people, NASA wants to keep ISS alive because it provides a place for the Shuttle to go.
The construction of the ISS is one of the worst boondoggles the US government has ever gotten involved with. ISS will be less functional than Skylab, which cost far less and which was launched in an afternoon. In the early '90s there was a proposal to build the ISS on the ground and launch it into orbit on a Shuttle derived vehicle. It would have cost about 2 billion to build this vehicle and would have put ISS into orbit in a day. But NASA killed this because it would have provided competition for the Shuttle in the form of an unmanned heavy booster and it also would have obviated the need for all of those Shuttle missions. This is documented in Robert Zubrin's book Entering Space
The shuttle employes about 20,000 people, even when it is not flying, it is a huge cash cow for Boeing and Lockheed who run United Space Alliance, the company that provides support services. This is documented in James Klerckx book Lost In Space which also documents how NASA has done its level best to sabotage any alternatives to the Shuttle, such as it did in the early 1980s when NASA lobbied to require use of the Shuttle for launching all commercial and military payloads. The Challenger disaster put paid to this monumentally stupid idea and fortunately there was still time to rebuild the infrastructure for building expendables such as the Delta series.
If NASA is given the choice between spending money to do good science, which based upon Hubble's record, extending its life would probably be, or pissing it down the Shuttle/ISS rathole it is going to do the latter, and justify it however it can.
Perhaps some better acronyms for NASA might be:
Not About Space Anymore
No Access to Space for Americans
Needed, Another Seven Astronauts
Or, given the inefficiency of the large aerospace contractors it deals with:
decision handed down by the Supreme Court. Amazon maintains a distribution center in Coffeyville, KS, meaning that they have a physical nexus in Kansas and thus are required to charge sales tax to residents of Kansas, just as they are required to charge sales tax to the residents of Washington State where the corporate headquarters are located.
Oh, when I saw this I thought that you meant that domestic cats ran into glass like birds do. We used to have two house cats who imagined that they were mighty hunters of the veldt (which is better than what they were, which is tubby, neutered, not overly intelligent {even for a cat} heat sinks that blocked the heat registers). Anyways both of our cats, Scamper and Duke, had incidents when they saw birds on our deck and thinking that the green shag carpet in our living room was grass, began to stalk them. They would skulk until they got about ten feet from the birds and then run, leap, pounce and slam head first into the sliding glass door. I might have written this off as an accident, except I saw it happen more than once.
I'm an insane right wing gun nut and I listen to NPR because the profit driven stations in my area (Seattle) mostly suck ass. Yeah, profit motivated stations are soooooooo great, look at the quality of fare offered by Clear Channel. I'm disappointed that they don't use Shoutcast/MP3 or Quicktime, although Quicktime might piss them off for the same reason as Real Media does as every time you start it Apple ends up trying to get you to shell out some dineros for Quicktime Pro.
Actually though there was a really good story by either Greg Bear or Joe Haldeman about a how in the future people have their eyes removed so they can be smarte, the theory being that if the part of your brain that is occupied with decoding visual images were freed from that task it would be available for other things, such as cogitation, ratiocination, thinking, et al.
It is a love story where a brilliant man falls in love with a woman who is visually impaired, but not blind, he then arranges to remove her eyes under the guise of repairing them. But when she recovers she is so intelligent that she sees right through him (figuratively speaking anyways) and dumps him.
The surgery becomes more and more popular until there is a upper class of blinded, really smart people who run everything and a second class of sighted servants who basically function as human guide dogs.
I wish I could remember the title and author. I read it in Analog many, many years ago.
Will Intel's extensions to the x86 architecture be compatible with AMD's. Or will fat binaries that can execute in x86, x86-64 Intel and x86-64 AMD be necessary?
Actually the article is wrong. Amazon is moving to Linux from systems running HP/UX. This has been a corporate policy since 2001 when Amazon managed to switch, in 90 days, over 2/3rds of their production servers from systems running HP/UX, Tru64UNIX and Solaris to Linux on HP Netservers. It was a completely insane yet really fun project to work on.
Yeah the fire bombing of Dresden by British and American forces was indeed heoric.. murdering innocent civilians in the thousands - knowingly, on purpose.
Yeah, so what, fuck 'em. These "innocent civlilians" are the same people who were beating up Jews and breaking windows on Kristallnacht and then sent their Jewish neighbors off to camps such as Dachau, Auschwitz, et al. The firebombing of Dresden was the chickens coming home to roost.
I want some cutting edge games. For example, how about a game where your goal is to kill JFK? You could have different vantage points, the Book Depository, the Grassy Knoll, the Triple Overpass and you could use a special code to give you the much vaunted "magic bullet cheat". And what about porno games? I want a game where the object is to fuck and suck as many women as I can, with extremely detailed graphics. I'm tired of killin' and maimin', I want to do some fuckin' and suckin'. I mean GTA does allow you to pick up hookers, but I want some graphic scenes where I'm drilling one in the ass while she squeals. Oh yeah.
For example, if you're waiting for a 64-bit version of XP, then you should not buy now. By the time XP-64 comes out, your current Athlon64 system will be underpowered compared against what will be available then. Thus the extra money you paid would have gone to waste.
Given the way Microsoft bloats up its operating systems I'd be willing to bet that by the time XP-64 comes out your Athlon 64 will be underpowered compared to the hardware requirements for said OS.
So let me see if I have this straight. We're not supposed to trust the global warming science that comes from people backed by the oil industry because they have an axe to grind. But people who aren't backed by the oil industry are A-OK.
News flash. I worked in a university research lab for seven years, and the scientists I worked for would say or do damn nearly anything if it got them some grant money. Just because these scientists aren't taking money from Exxon doesn't mean that they're trustworthy. Do you think that a scientist who is getting grant money from say, NRDC, would continue to have his gravy train funded if he published research that contradicted their party line on global warming?
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shit bricks sideways. I was thinking about building a video on demand system that I would store my DVDs on. Assuming that I didn't want to apply further compression to my DVDs, and that each DVD is about 8Gb in size this gives me 50 DVDs per 400 Gb disk. Put a few of these 400Gb drives into a RAID-5 array (which should be ideal since you're going to spend most of your time reading data) for redundancy and pretty soon you get up to being able to build a system for a couple of grand that will allow you to archive a few hundred DVDs and have them at your fingertips. Combine this with some HTPC clients with gigabit ethernet and you've got a whole house video on demand system. You can buy a system like this now but it costs about $30,000, but hey, that's a system for people who don't read /., At the moment this would probably cost you 5 or 6k to set up but costs just keep on dropping. Right now I have 66 Gb of high bit rate MP3s on my server at home, six years ago when I started getting into MP3s I wouldn't have been able to afford this much storage, now building a RAID 1+0 to store these cost me about $500 (plus the system to put it in). I love technology, I can't wait until they break the 1Tb barrier at a cost of 10 cents per Gb and Jack Valenti's head explodes like a rotten melon in the sun.
If Hubble is shut down in 2006 it will be six years, assuming of course that NASA doesn't fuck it up, before the James Webb Space Telescope will be operational. That's a long time for scientists, shutting down a working system before you have its replacement is stupid and irresponsible, but given NASA's behavior after Challenger and Columbia what should we expect?
NASA ought to change its name to reflect it's new mission of keeping billions flowing to the contractors who maintain the Shuttle while at the same time not accomplishing anything new or interesting. Perhaps the new name could be something along the lines of "Not About Science Anymore", or "National Aerospace Socialism Association", or "No Access to Space for Americans". They've already heard about "Needed: Another Seven Astronauts".
That's not true. I only have two Linux systems, but I do have over 20 guns. So my gun to linux ratio is 10:1. This isn't much
different than my gun to Macintosh ratio (~6:1) and my gun to Doze box ratio (10:1). Now if we count dual boot systems things get kind of hinky...
A Ukrainian chick who no doubt has one of those sexy eastern-European/Russian style accents who rides a big bike and likes to go to dangerous places on it.
I wonder if /. can set things up so that any story related to a piece of hardware would get an automatic "imagine a beowulf cluster blah, blah blah" post from anonymous coward. Seems as if it would save a lot of valuable time for /.'ers.
In the past I've been put on both Paxil and Prozac. They DO change you. They make you apathetic and aggressive. And they're nastily addictive - many people experience very unpleasant withdrawl symptoms when they try to quit SSRIs - Paxil especially.
Yeah, but dude, the reason they put you on Paxil and Prozac is because you're fucking crazy. It's not as if you were a normal person who was put on this stuff and then became aggressive and apathetic, you're a nut. OK. Sure there are docs who hand out scrips for Prozac for everyone (there was one over in Yakima in Washington State where I live) but for the most part you're not on those meds unless you have some serious problem, like being a crazy person who posts to
This research is being done at Harborview Medical Center, which
is run by the University of Washington Medical Center. Harborview is one of the best trauma centers in the United States, which makes it one of the best in the world When I was in a motorcycle accident that's where I went and even though they couldn't save my leg they did save my knee, which makes using a prosthetic much easier. Harborview isn't the body and fender shop you want to go there, they only send you there if you're seriously broken, but if you are seriously broken it's the best place to be. Even though it's a public hospital and ends up with the patients that no other hospital wants they still manage to do cutting edge research such as this or in the fields of rehabilitation and prosthetics.
"Hello Mr. McBride, welcome to the National Security Agency Before we talk about your lawsuit and IP claims
we'd like to show you a few things. Exhibit one. A picture of you entering a hotel room in Orem with two live nanny goats, a
rubber raft, a pair of chaps and a can of Frymax fryer grease. Exhibit 2. Pictures from within the room of activities which violate the laws of God and Man, if not those of the State of Utah. Exhibit 3, credit card receipts for animal tranquilizers and male goat hormones. Shall we continue?"
Years ago I went to a presentation on RISC v. CISC architectures. The presenter pointed out that RISC didn't really stand for "Reduced Instruction Set Computing" rather it stood for "Relegate the Important Stuff to Compilers". Why hasn't Microsoft released C and C++ compilers that institute bounds checking? Hell, ADA had this years ago and say what you will about the language it's a damned handy thing to have.
This will be a good thing if it works out, but it will take years for these chips to penetrate the market to any significant degree and once again we are seeing hardware vendors come to the rescue of software companies by creating hardware that has the capability, either in speed or safety features, to compensate for bad programming tools and bad programmers.
If you look the poster is called "johnnyb". The name of the Author is Jonathan Bartlett. As far as I can tell most of the books on the Bartlett Publishing website are by Jonathan Bartlett. It looks to me as if this is basically a vanity press.
The construction of the ISS is one of the worst boondoggles the US government has ever gotten involved with. ISS will be less functional than Skylab, which cost far less and which was launched in an afternoon. In the early '90s there was a proposal to build the ISS on the ground and launch it into orbit on a Shuttle derived vehicle. It would have cost about 2 billion to build this vehicle and would have put ISS into orbit in a day. But NASA killed this because it would have provided competition for the Shuttle in the form of an unmanned heavy booster and it also would have obviated the need for all of those Shuttle missions. This is documented in Robert Zubrin's book Entering Space
The shuttle employes about 20,000 people, even when it is not flying, it is a huge cash cow for Boeing and Lockheed who run United Space Alliance, the company that provides support services. This is documented in James Klerckx book Lost In Space which also documents how NASA has done its level best to sabotage any alternatives to the Shuttle, such as it did in the early 1980s when NASA lobbied to require use of the Shuttle for launching all commercial and military payloads. The Challenger disaster put paid to this monumentally stupid idea and fortunately there was still time to rebuild the infrastructure for building expendables such as the Delta series.
If NASA is given the choice between spending money to do good science, which based upon Hubble's record, extending its life would probably be, or pissing it down the Shuttle/ISS rathole it is going to do the latter, and justify it however it can.
Perhaps some better acronyms for NASA might be:
Not About Space Anymore
No Access to Space for Americans
Needed, Another Seven Astronauts
Or, given the inefficiency of the large aerospace contractors it deals with:
National Aerospace Socialism Administration
decision handed down by the Supreme Court. Amazon maintains a distribution center in Coffeyville, KS, meaning that they have a physical nexus in Kansas and thus are required to charge sales tax to residents of Kansas, just as they are required to charge sales tax to the residents of Washington State where the corporate headquarters are located.
Oh, when I saw this I thought that you meant that domestic cats ran into glass like birds do. We used to have two house cats who imagined that they were mighty hunters of the veldt (which is better than what they were, which is tubby, neutered, not overly intelligent {even for a cat} heat sinks that blocked the heat registers). Anyways both of our cats, Scamper and Duke, had incidents when they saw birds on our deck and thinking that the green shag carpet in our living room was grass, began to stalk them. They would skulk until they got about ten feet from the birds and then run, leap, pounce and slam head first into the sliding glass door. I might have written this off as an accident, except I saw it happen more than once.
Dude. KEXP, 720 watt community station operated with the assistance of the University of Washington, KEXP used to be KCMU.
I'm an insane right wing gun nut and I listen to NPR because the profit driven stations in my area (Seattle) mostly suck ass. Yeah, profit motivated stations are soooooooo great, look at the quality of fare offered by Clear Channel.
I'm disappointed that they don't use Shoutcast/MP3 or Quicktime, although Quicktime might piss them off for the same reason as Real Media does as every time you start it Apple ends up trying to get you to shell out some dineros for Quicktime Pro.
It is a love story where a brilliant man falls in love with a woman who is visually impaired, but not blind, he then arranges to remove her eyes under the guise of repairing them. But when she recovers she is so intelligent that she sees right through him (figuratively speaking anyways) and dumps him.
The surgery becomes more and more popular until there is a upper class of blinded, really smart people who run everything and a second class of sighted servants who basically function as human guide dogs.
I wish I could remember the title and author. I read it in Analog many, many years ago.
Yah. You blind muthafuckas are really L33t, til I move your furniture around. Now who's l33t?
Will Intel's extensions to the x86 architecture be compatible with AMD's. Or will fat binaries that can execute in x86, x86-64 Intel and x86-64 AMD be necessary?
Actually the article is wrong. Amazon is moving to Linux from systems running HP/UX. This has been a corporate policy since 2001 when Amazon managed to switch, in 90 days, over 2/3rds of their production servers from systems running HP/UX, Tru64UNIX and Solaris to Linux on HP Netservers. It was a completely insane yet really fun project to work on.
Yeah the fire bombing of Dresden by British and American forces was indeed heoric .. murdering innocent civilians in the thousands - knowingly, on purpose.
Yeah, so what, fuck 'em. These "innocent civlilians" are the same people who were beating up Jews and breaking windows on Kristallnacht and then sent their Jewish neighbors off to camps such as Dachau, Auschwitz, et al. The firebombing of Dresden was the chickens coming home to roost.
I want some cutting edge games. For example, how about a game where your goal is to kill JFK? You could have different vantage points, the Book Depository, the Grassy Knoll, the Triple Overpass and you could use a special code to give you the much vaunted "magic bullet cheat".
And what about porno games? I want a game where the object is to fuck and suck as many women as I can, with extremely detailed graphics. I'm tired of killin' and maimin', I want to do some fuckin' and suckin'. I mean GTA does allow you to pick up hookers, but I want some graphic scenes where I'm drilling one in the ass while she squeals. Oh yeah.
Dude, It ain't that flat. Try moving a convoy over Umptanum ridge at the firing center.
Nahhh, if you had Indian programmers they'd just turn their cubes into the Taj Mahal.
For example, if you're waiting for a 64-bit version of XP, then you should not buy now. By the time XP-64 comes out, your current Athlon64 system will be underpowered compared against what will be available then. Thus the extra money you paid would have gone to waste.
Given the way Microsoft bloats up its operating systems I'd be willing to bet that by the time XP-64 comes out your Athlon 64 will be underpowered compared to the hardware requirements for said OS.
So let me see if I have this straight. We're not supposed to trust the global warming science that comes from people backed by the oil industry because they have an axe to grind. But people who aren't backed by the oil industry are A-OK. News flash. I worked in a university research lab for seven years, and the scientists I worked for would say or do damn nearly anything if it got them some grant money. Just because these scientists aren't taking money from Exxon doesn't mean that they're trustworthy. Do you think that a scientist who is getting grant money from say, NRDC, would continue to have his gravy train funded if he published research that contradicted their party line on global warming?