The obvious reason for this is that it costs money to keep a presence and data available on the internet, whereas when information is archived by the old library system it incurred no overheads on the author.
The real shame is that now information is an asset (to be bartered or controlled) a well-meaning foundation cannot host the data without incurring legal penalties.
I tried to install both RedHat 7.3 and SuSE 8.0 on my 32Mb libretto and it wouldn't work - I seem to remember hitting insurmountable memory problems. I went back to RedHat 6.2.
I wouldn't want to be in a collision with a vehicle with so much energy stored in compressed air tanks. It sounds like a moving bomb.
Safe energy storage is the trick - other solutions have included flywheels and batteries/capacitors but I believe all systems have significant trouble when energy density goes up. You can also split water into hydrogen as an energy store but it also has a poor failure mode. (H2O O2 and H2, but you can pick up plenty of O2 as you drive along).
Ummm, I've been using small long cables to connect fast disks up since 2 years ago.
Its called Fiber Channel.
The Fiber over copper had small serial-looking cables around 5m long. Over optical it can go for miles. In speed they were around 200Mb/s. And its not a one-to-one connection, you can chain multiple drives together. You can even make a loop so that if someone unplugs a cable it all keeps working.
You can already buy disks with dual onboard fiber channel connectors, but more often you find a hardware raid controller at the far end that manages the disks.
Not cheap... But its here, usable now and well tested.
I have to balance real life with gaming time, I've played EQ for years and regularly watch groups of friends merge and split apart as different people level at different rates. When the summer holidays arrive my guild empties as players move out of college into EQ and level up into the stratosphere.
I would very much like to move to a server that limited online time to 20 hours/week or so. It may also be safer to play for those with more, erm, addictive personalities?
Maybe we can't blame Hasbro for D&D, but I'm sore about them buying Runequest and doing nothing with it.
Under what conditions is it legal to re-release dead rules (e.g. Anduin Grimoire, Chainmail or Runequest v2)? A lot of us own and enjoy these systems but some of my books are 20 years old and wont take much more punishment. I'd buy new versions if they were available but sadly, they're not.
I benefitted from his work - which enabled the use of cheap buslogic SCSI controllers which therefore let me afford SCSI devices under linux.
I'm sad that lots of people die, but Leonard's work had a positive effect on the money I had when I didn't have much (and I assume many other people benefitted too), so I feel we've lost more with his death.
If you want to link directly to the sequence without using the search box use the following URL: http://www.research.att.com/cgi-bin/access.c gi/as/ njas/sequences/eisA.cgi?Anum=023108
My daughter recently covered this at school, but they didn't discuss any exceptions to the rule. However, they chose random 3 digit numbers to check, so there was only a 13/900 chance each child would have a LOT of homework that night:-)
The computer screen is very different to a TV - how can you measure 1/2 to 3/4 of the screen area and use that for Ads? I've got 2 computers in front of me - one's running 640x480 resolution and the other is 2340x864. Get it wrong and you'll be scrolling past the advert for 2 or 3 pages - I certainly wouldn't visit that site again. Its also obvious that advert vendors also think we all live in the US - I can't remember when I last saw an advert that was useful to me. I wish you could sue for theft of attention.
Well, certainly in my area I pay a fee for the medium, then around 5 pounds per month for sets of additional channels - that paying for content and the content is totally ad-ridden.
I agree with the original poster, they're getting paid by both parties.
However, since cable companies in the UK are all in desperate financial problems I guess even getting paid twice isn't enough.
Ahh, if only we could see bad practice punished.
Unfortunately, I'm an everquest player, so I give sony 10 dollars/month profit even though I hate the click-though license, the poor quality assurance, and quite a few other things purely so I can participate in a few very good things it provides.
To be infected in the first place, you've got to receive the file by email. Obvously the sircam code won't be running on your machine before you got infected.
I didn't see any definitive information on whether it requires user stupidity for them to double-click on the file or if it leverages an outlook vulnerability to cause the file to be run automatically.
The discussion on SMTP was to point out that it can send itself out using its own resources and not depend on any email client.
How about including an array of values that when x-ored produce the same MD5 sums as aim.exe.
I would have thought you can do this for compatibility reasons.
To produce this array, xor the aim.exe original, turning it from a program into a compatibility data array
This system has a much higher energy density than copper cables. If something happens to a copper cable you get an arc which may cause a fire but hopefully the cutoff will stop the current before that happens.
If you're carrying more electricity, then the cutoff has to be higher, and if you take the explosive effect of converting liquid nitrogen back to a gas by applying heat which in itself will cause the superconductor to stop superconducting I believe you'd get quite a big bang.
I've seen the effect of too high a safety cutoff, in a (experimental) home storage heater that was designed to be high-ampage but it had a break in its insulation and leaked 5000watts straight back to earth. It melted the bricks round the cable but still didn't trip the fuse.
So to summarise, don't put the wires anywhere where the cooling can be lost, such as in earthquake zones. That'll have to wait for room temperature superconductors.
There is no reason for a market leader with so many years experience to produce something which has so many flaws. They've being doing this long enough for them to know simple things like:
1. more cache = less stalls = more speed.
2. People run old code for a long time.
This article is not biased, its realistic. With todays applications and even when optimised you're probably paying more for less.
On the upside, Intel can release a pentium 5 next year (2001) by simply fixing the obvious flaws and significantly improving the speed of the processor.
From a performance point of view this is the second time that Intel provided an updated processor that ran slower than a previous generation.
In 1987 I was measuring PC speeds and 16MHz 286's ran faster than 20MHz 386's on the engineering and CAD programs my company was using. Of course the 386 later scaled up way beyond the clock speed that 286's managed and included proper memory management which we all know now is essential for any proper multitasking operating system.
We use a lot of SUN sparc chips here at Merrill Lynch. The comment in this article about cache size is right on the button - a cache miss causes the CPU to sit idle for the same time it could execute almost a hundred instructions.
I've seen 450MHz SUN CPU's with 8Mb cache perform much, much better than any intel chip on things like seti@home - and likewise whilst running sybase but thats harder to get relative measurements.
OK, so I guess you've seen this story many times...
Step 1: Purchase media
Step 2: Play media for a while, but not long enough to get sick of it.
Step 3: Fail to protect media from damage
Step 4: go to step 1
In my case Step 3 is usually one of my children, the most recent is teethmarks round a DVD which of course stops it working (and crashes the PC). I went out and got a 60Gb disk so I can copy those frequently-watched films using DeCSS so that the kids can watch jungle book till their hearts content.
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The obvious reason for this is that it costs money to keep a presence and data available on the internet, whereas when information is archived by the old library system it incurred no overheads on the author.
The real shame is that now information is an asset (to be bartered or controlled) a well-meaning foundation cannot host the data without incurring legal penalties.
I tried to install both RedHat 7.3 and SuSE 8.0 on my 32Mb libretto and it wouldn't work - I seem to remember hitting insurmountable memory problems. I went back to RedHat 6.2.
Within the UK we pay a road tax, which I believe is sufficient to cover the upkeep of roads. Converted to dollars its around 250/year.
I wouldn't want to be in a collision with a vehicle with so much energy stored in compressed air tanks. It sounds like a moving bomb.
Safe energy storage is the trick - other solutions have included flywheels and batteries/capacitors but I believe all systems have significant trouble when energy density goes up. You can also split water into hydrogen as an energy store but it also has a poor failure mode. (H2O O2 and H2, but you can pick up plenty of O2 as you drive along).
Ummm, I've been using small long cables to connect fast disks up since 2 years ago.
Its called Fiber Channel.
The Fiber over copper had small serial-looking cables around 5m long. Over optical it can go for miles. In speed they were around 200Mb/s. And its not a one-to-one connection, you can chain multiple drives together. You can even make a loop so that if someone unplugs a cable it all keeps working.
You can already buy disks with dual onboard fiber channel connectors, but more often you find a hardware raid controller at the far end that manages the disks.
Not cheap... But its here, usable now and well tested.
Thats a supberb idea.
I have to balance real life with gaming time, I've played EQ for years and regularly watch groups of friends merge and split apart as different people level at different rates. When the summer holidays arrive my guild empties as players move out of college into EQ and level up into the stratosphere.
I would very much like to move to a server that limited online time to 20 hours/week or so. It may also be safer to play for those with more, erm, addictive personalities?
Maybe we can't blame Hasbro for D&D, but I'm sore about them buying Runequest and doing nothing with it.
Under what conditions is it legal to re-release dead rules (e.g. Anduin Grimoire, Chainmail or Runequest v2)? A lot of us own and enjoy these systems but some of my books are 20 years old and wont take much more punishment. I'd buy new versions if they were available but sadly, they're not.
Single lives are fragile.
"Life", however, with the capital L goes on - through ice ages, meteor impacts and volcanic disasters (luckily for us).
Leonard touched many people with his work though, and that will stay with us.
I benefitted from his work - which enabled the use of cheap buslogic SCSI controllers which therefore let me afford SCSI devices under linux.
I'm sad that lots of people die, but Leonard's work had a positive effect on the money I had when I didn't have much (and I assume many other people benefitted too), so I feel we've lost more with his death.
If you want to link directly to the sequence without using the search box use the following URL:c gi/as/ njas/sequences/eisA.cgi?Anum=023108
:-)
http://www.research.att.com/cgi-bin/access.
My daughter recently covered this at school, but they didn't discuss any exceptions to the rule. However, they chose random 3 digit numbers to check, so there was only a 13/900 chance each child would have a LOT of homework that night
Critical to me :-
Everquest
The computer screen is very different to a TV - how can you measure 1/2 to 3/4 of the screen area and use that for Ads? I've got 2 computers in front of me - one's running 640x480 resolution and the other is 2340x864. Get it wrong and you'll be scrolling past the advert for 2 or 3 pages - I certainly wouldn't visit that site again.
Its also obvious that advert vendors also think we all live in the US - I can't remember when I last saw an advert that was useful to me. I wish you could sue for theft of attention.
Well, certainly in my area I pay a fee for the medium, then around 5 pounds per month for sets of additional channels - that paying for content and the content is totally ad-ridden.
I agree with the original poster, they're getting paid by both parties.
However, since cable companies in the UK are all in desperate financial problems I guess even getting paid twice isn't enough.
Ahh, if only we could see bad practice punished.
Unfortunately, I'm an everquest player, so I give sony 10 dollars/month profit even though I hate the click-though license, the poor quality assurance, and quite a few other things purely so I can participate in a few very good things it provides.
If your email client allows attachments and you download and run it you will get infected.
Even things like hushmail (encrypted).
Unfortunately people can't be protected from determined stupidity.
Tim
You missed the point,
To be infected in the first place, you've got to receive the file by email. Obvously the sircam code won't be running on your machine before you got infected.
I didn't see any definitive information on whether it requires user stupidity for them to double-click on the file or if it leverages an outlook vulnerability to cause the file to be run automatically.
The discussion on SMTP was to point out that it can send itself out using its own resources and not depend on any email client.
Tim Towers
How about including an array of values that when x-ored produce the same MD5 sums as aim.exe.
I would have thought you can do this for compatibility reasons.
To produce this array, xor the aim.exe original, turning it from a program into a compatibility data array
Imagine a plank of wood, 2" x 2" x 6'
Its crosssection is credit card size, they
didn't specify a height.
This system has a much higher energy density than copper cables. If something happens to a copper cable you get an arc which may cause a fire but hopefully the cutoff will stop the current before that happens.
If you're carrying more electricity, then the cutoff has to be higher, and if you take the explosive effect of converting liquid nitrogen back to a gas by applying heat which in itself will cause the superconductor to stop superconducting I believe you'd get quite a big bang.
I've seen the effect of too high a safety cutoff, in a (experimental) home storage heater that was designed to be high-ampage but it had a break in its insulation and leaked 5000watts straight back to earth. It melted the bricks round the cable but still didn't trip the fuse.
So to summarise, don't put the wires anywhere where the cooling can be lost, such as in earthquake zones. That'll have to wait for room temperature superconductors.
Everquest is a game that lets you earn money from "nowhere" - either creating value by making traded goods or farming monsters for treasure.
Apparently the Cache problems have been fixed with the following patches:
Solaris 2.5.1 103640-34
Solaris 2.6 105181-23
Solaris 7 106541-13
Solaris 8 108528-04
I don't know if linux is susceptible to that fault.
I disagree.
There is no reason for a market leader with so many years experience to produce something which has so many flaws. They've being doing this long enough for them to know simple things like:
1. more cache = less stalls = more speed.
2. People run old code for a long time.
This article is not biased, its realistic. With todays applications and even when optimised you're probably paying more for less.
On the upside, Intel can release a pentium 5 next year (2001) by simply fixing the obvious flaws and significantly improving the speed of the processor.
From a performance point of view this is the second time that Intel provided an updated processor that ran slower than a previous generation.
In 1987 I was measuring PC speeds and 16MHz 286's ran faster than 20MHz 386's on the engineering and CAD programs my company was using. Of course the 386 later scaled up way beyond the clock speed that 286's managed and included proper memory management which we all know now is essential for any proper multitasking operating system.
We use a lot of SUN sparc chips here at Merrill Lynch. The comment in this article about cache size is right on the button - a cache miss causes the CPU to sit idle for the same time it could execute almost a hundred instructions.
I've seen 450MHz SUN CPU's with 8Mb cache perform much, much better than any intel chip on things like seti@home - and likewise whilst running sybase but thats harder to get relative measurements.
OK, so I guess you've seen this story many times...
Step 1: Purchase media
Step 2: Play media for a while, but not long enough to get sick of it.
Step 3: Fail to protect media from damage
Step 4: go to step 1
In my case Step 3 is usually one of my children, the most recent is teethmarks round a DVD which of course stops it working (and crashes the PC). I went out and got a 60Gb disk so I can copy those frequently-watched films using DeCSS so that the kids can watch jungle book till their hearts content.
Already my 2-year-old can run programs on the PC.