This really makes me wonder if these new chips be the foundation of the Intel based Macs. Considering the talk about power consumption by Steve Jobs during the announcement, it seems pretty likely. Macs don't need all the old 16 bit support Windows relies on to boot and possibly run.
I know this isn't what is being asked, but I would make some artist friends. A practiced artistic eye is the best way to acheive professional looking icons and other graphics. Helpful hints will only get you so far.
I emailed EB: I have been a long time customer of EB, but your actions & public comments concerning your fencing of Michelle Doganis' stolen gaming equipment will change that. I am referring to the following article:
http://www.abcactionnews.com/stories/2004/01/04012 9hallofshame.shtml
The amount of money you would be out if you had simply returned Michelle's equipment and compensated her fairly for the equipment you sold in violation of state law will be dwarfed by the amount of lost business you will suffer as a result. I am personally alerting all my gaming friends to your behavior. None of them would want to have their equipment stolen and fenced by you and they won't support such activities by keeping you in business.
You owe Michelle and the communities in which you do business a full apology and a sincere and verifiable commitment to change your business practices. You also owe Michelle a full refund of the money you extorted from her for the return of her equipment and fair payment for her equipment you had already fenced before she had the opportunity to claim ownership. Only then will you deserve to stay in business.
Better yet, I emailed the State Attorney General's Office... I urge you to investigate EB Games. Please see http://www.abcactionnews.com/stories/2004/01/04012 9hallofshame.shtml for information about their organized fencing operation. They are violating state law and actively denying their responsibilities to victims of their actions. I strongly believe this is an organized activity operated under the direction and sanction of EB Games' management and as such EB Games is guilty not only of improperly following laws pertaining to second hand dealers, but certainly also extortion as they have refused to return stolen equipment unless paid by the rightful owner of the equipment. They may even be in violation of federal RICO statutes. This activity is going on in broad daylight and should not be tolerated.
Since I live in Florida, it should carry some weight. Don't get pissed, get even.
Let's be clever & at least semi responsible at the same time. I propose a blend of technologies ripped from slashdot, P2P, and maybe 1 or 2 key innovations. Let's call this system "Spam Devil" or SD for short.
The Basics: SD would allow users to connect to a peer to peer network which would enable thousands of users to share information about Spam they have received which warrants a response. Individual users would have the opportunity to nominate a Spam email for response. Once an email is nominated, it would be reviewed by several moderators in good standing. If those moderators certify a Spam for response, a distributed network of computers running SD would begin to flood the Spammer with bogus information either by email or by their websites.
More Ideas: Moderators could be effectively metamoderated by comparing their votes with the votes of other moderators. A moderator's standing could be stored in a distributed fashion so when you rejoin the network, you don't have to start building your standing from scratch.
Reponses by website could be templated by the original nominator and reviewed by the moderators. Each form field could be given a type such as name, email address, phone, etc. A facility for templating a series of screens would be useful, and probably could be accomplished by having the nominator make a dry run through the website. Additional heuristics could be added that would allow the program to make guesses if the templating doesn't match. In cases when heuristics are used, moderators could be prompted to verify that the responses make sense. It's critical that the responses be difficult to weed out of actual responses from real customers in order to confound the Spammers.
Responses by email would require very careful moderating as the results, if misdirected, could be worse than the original problem (Spam). Some moderators may need to be certified as experts on email tracking. Also, some very clever test emails may need to be sent as confirmation before a response can be authorized. Responses by email should be anonymous. SD should be able to keep a healthy list of open relays by analyzing the Spam emails.
A very clever use of SD could allow for response throttling ensuring that a website remains responsive for SD. It would be a real shame to have SD hammer a website into submission only to end up with no real work being done. The cruft should be added slowly & steadily at first & possibly release the floodgates later in the process.
Finally, SD could be VERY useful for exchanging information about the Spam that is circulating and be used as raw information for filtering engines to reduce the amount of delivered Spam. If the system were to be well used, Spam might only be delivered to a smallish number of people before SD gets the email submitted, moderated, and certified as Spam. Once that's done, Spam filters worldwide could begin using that information to VERY specifically filter those Spam emails and blocking their delivery to suspecting throngs. Now wouldn't THAT be nice?
I grew up in Orlando & just LOVE Skycrap! I have wasted many an hour picking through junk there. I have also spent more money than I want to think about.
I haven't found the same experience in my new (6 years now) home of Miami.
I see a cluster of these things used like the old wirey plug & program interfaces of the Univac days.
You have a super dense rack of Transmeta Astros arranged in a Beowulf cluster with iVDR ports on the front of each blade. You make a calculation run with programming & data stored on the iVDR devices. When your done, remove them & plug in a new program. If you have these stacked on a nearby table, you could take sneakernet to amazing new bandwidth heights.
Sorry - I was doing Holiday stuff. I chose the 22Mbps equipment (DLink) because it was the same price as the 11Mbps equipment and it's compatible with 11. It's all I've ever had. I have run the network in both modes & there is a difference when transferring larger files between PCs on the network. I didn't measure it to see if it's exactly twice as fast, however. The latency is low enough you don't even notice it when browsing the web even in 11Mbps mode, so there's not much difference there.
I have to agree. I have two high gain directional atennae; one at each end of my wireless link & I get 22Mbps all the time (it's a DLINK using PBCC). Before the antennae, the link was dodgey at best. Now, without increasing the power I'm putting out to the neighborhood, I have exactly what I need. (Well, I suppose some neighors in some particular directions are getting a little more, but some less as well.)
Amplifiers just make things more & more crowded. I have too much stuff running in the 2.4GHz range already and do occasionally have some interference problems, especially with the cheaper of my cordless phones.
XScale has some design advantages other than power consumption over the good old ARM chips of the past. Tom's Hardware has a pretty good article about the processor as it relates to some of the PDAs it's popped up in. Tom makes a point that the software needs to be optimized for the processor to really take advantage of it & I really have no idea if that's been done for this product.
I still have to ask why anyone would run one of these things. Put Linux on it & I might not wonder so hard. Personally, I'm a lot more intrigued by the Transmeta Astro.
I just have to say "what a goof". Have you never tried to build the tallest pile of sand possible? Let me relate: You slowly add sand to the top and it forms a cone. The cone slowly grows taller & taller. If you are careful, you can get the pile pretty high. At some point, however, no matter how slowly you add more sand, the pile will fall. As an oversimplification, maybe you can equate the height of the sand pile to the temperature in London. That's just about the simplest nonlinear system I can think of (hopefully you understand it). Weather is WAY more complicated than that.
Just a little more heat to melt just a little more of Greenland and the Artic Oceans ice to make the North Atlantic Ocean a little less and POOF! the Gulf Stream stops or slow significantly like a sand pile falling. The effects will be seen in many more places than the ocean, I promise.
Are we close to critical point for the Gulf Stream? Who knows? Do we need to study the ocean's effects on the atmosphere more? Well, only if we WANT to be able to predict the weather a month in advance or longer.
I would like to add, since no one has pointed it out yet, the Gulf Stream wasn't stopped 200 years ago. That's when it was described first (by Ben Franklin).
I'm neither an environmental doomsayer nor a zealot, but I'm not a GOOF either. Read some books on chaos theory; it's very interesting.
I absolutely reFUSE to get rid of my IBM Model M keyboard. It's so much easier to type quickly on them that the mushy thing I have to use at work.
My boyfriend, however, gets really irritated by the sound it makes. He's tried to get me to use alternate keyboards several times, but I keep coming back to old c^Htrusty.
Now... about putting it in the dishwasher... I'll have to think about that. It certainly could use a cleaning. I suppose one should remove the ICs first. Has anyone else perpetrated this insanity and lived to tell about it?
I think it has mostly to do with the fact that SonicBlue's product(s) allow users to "share" programs using a broadband connection. I can see how that might pi$$ some content providers off.
I'm probably an id10t for even taking the time to reply to this sad post, but...
HTTP is an application layer protocol. What the ISP is doing to try and make their proxy "transparant" is changing the way the internet layer is working.
The ISP should be determining if you are making a true HTTP request at their gateway router(s) and rerouting from there if appropriate. If you aren't making an HTTP request, the proxy should stop interferring with your request and let it pass normally.
I would have to say that clue-free poster to whom I am idiotically reponding is the one who isn't "embracing the DNS standard, HTTP standard and the routing standard". Probably because (s)he doesn't know what they are.
I a little port 80 knowledge is a dangerous thing.
I wonder if there has ever been a debate about declaring a an access pattern type when allocating memmory? This would give a developer the power to tell the VM something about how s/he is going to be using the memmory.
A few basic choices would allow certain optimizations for sequential access, fully random access, interleaved access, an a few more.
More sophisticated choices could be possible for heaps & trees that would allow you to tell a VM which chunks of data are likely to be accessed next (based on what leaves are below a particular node).
I also wonder if operating systems will ever have deep introspection similar to speculative execution in modern day processors. Probably not... but you never know.
If you take a look at the MMU-less Linux link in the posting (http://ryeham.ee.ryerson.ca/uClinux/) you will see that they are also working on porting Clinux to the Coldfire. They are using the eval boards from Motorola right now, but maybe someone will get inventive & create something like the SIMM project using Coldfire too. There is always hope.
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But even with a sophisticated & long improving moderation process, it is still difficult to find the wisdom among the bull.
This really makes me wonder if these new chips be the foundation of the Intel based Macs. Considering the talk about power consumption by Steve Jobs during the announcement, it seems pretty likely. Macs don't need all the old 16 bit support Windows relies on to boot and possibly run.
I know this isn't what is being asked, but I would make some artist friends. A practiced artistic eye is the best way to acheive professional looking icons and other graphics. Helpful hints will only get you so far.
I emailed EB:2 9hallofshame.shtml
The amount of money you would be out if you had simply returned Michelle's equipment and compensated her fairly for the equipment you sold in violation of state law will be dwarfed by the amount of lost business you will suffer as a result. I am personally alerting all my gaming friends to your behavior. None of them would want to have their equipment stolen and fenced by you and they won't support such activities by keeping you in business.
2 9hallofshame.shtml for information about their organized fencing operation. They are violating state law and actively denying their responsibilities to victims of their actions. I strongly believe this is an organized activity operated under the direction and sanction of EB Games' management and as such EB Games is guilty not only of improperly following laws pertaining to second hand dealers, but certainly also extortion as they have refused to return stolen equipment unless paid by the rightful owner of the equipment. They may even be in violation of federal RICO statutes. This activity is going on in broad daylight and should not be tolerated.
I have been a long time customer of EB, but your actions & public comments concerning your fencing of Michelle Doganis' stolen gaming equipment will change that. I am referring to the following article: http://www.abcactionnews.com/stories/2004/01/0401
You owe Michelle and the communities in which you do business a full apology and a sincere and verifiable commitment to change your business practices. You also owe Michelle a full refund of the money you extorted from her for the return of her equipment and fair payment for her equipment you had already fenced before she had the opportunity to claim ownership. Only then will you deserve to stay in business.
Better yet, I emailed the State Attorney General's Office...
I urge you to investigate EB Games. Please see http://www.abcactionnews.com/stories/2004/01/0401
Since I live in Florida, it should carry some weight. Don't get pissed, get even.
Um... that's what all the moderation is for.
Did you read the post?
Let's be clever & at least semi responsible at the same time. I propose a blend of technologies ripped from slashdot, P2P, and maybe 1 or 2 key innovations. Let's call this system "Spam Devil" or SD for short.
The Basics:
SD would allow users to connect to a peer to peer network which would enable thousands of users to share information about Spam they have received which warrants a response. Individual users would have the opportunity to nominate a Spam email for response. Once an email is nominated, it would be reviewed by several moderators in good standing. If those moderators certify a Spam for response, a distributed network of computers running SD would begin to flood the Spammer with bogus information either by email or by their websites.
More Ideas:
Moderators could be effectively metamoderated by comparing their votes with the votes of other moderators. A moderator's standing could be stored in a distributed fashion so when you rejoin the network, you don't have to start building your standing from scratch.
Reponses by website could be templated by the original nominator and reviewed by the moderators. Each form field could be given a type such as name, email address, phone, etc. A facility for templating a series of screens would be useful, and probably could be accomplished by having the nominator make a dry run through the website. Additional heuristics could be added that would allow the program to make guesses if the templating doesn't match. In cases when heuristics are used, moderators could be prompted to verify that the responses make sense. It's critical that the responses be difficult to weed out of actual responses from real customers in order to confound the Spammers.
Responses by email would require very careful moderating as the results, if misdirected, could be worse than the original problem (Spam). Some moderators may need to be certified as experts on email tracking. Also, some very clever test emails may need to be sent as confirmation before a response can be authorized. Responses by email should be anonymous. SD should be able to keep a healthy list of open relays by analyzing the Spam emails.
A very clever use of SD could allow for response throttling ensuring that a website remains responsive for SD. It would be a real shame to have SD hammer a website into submission only to end up with no real work being done. The cruft should be added slowly & steadily at first & possibly release the floodgates later in the process.
Finally, SD could be VERY useful for exchanging information about the Spam that is circulating and be used as raw information for filtering engines to reduce the amount of delivered Spam. If the system were to be well used, Spam might only be delivered to a smallish number of people before SD gets the email submitted, moderated, and certified as Spam. Once that's done, Spam filters worldwide could begin using that information to VERY specifically filter those Spam emails and blocking their delivery to suspecting throngs. Now wouldn't THAT be nice?
I grew up in Orlando & just LOVE Skycrap! I have wasted many an hour picking through junk there. I have also spent more money than I want to think about.
I haven't found the same experience in my new (6 years now) home of Miami.
I see a cluster of these things used like the old wirey plug & program interfaces of the Univac days.
You have a super dense rack of Transmeta Astros arranged in a Beowulf cluster with iVDR ports on the front of each blade. You make a calculation run with programming & data stored on the iVDR devices. When your done, remove them & plug in a new program. If you have these stacked on a nearby table, you could take sneakernet to amazing new bandwidth heights.
Happy New Years, Y'all!
mmmm - I want one! and Xmas has come & gone... DRAT!!!
Sorry - I was doing Holiday stuff. I chose the 22Mbps equipment (DLink) because it was the same price as the 11Mbps equipment and it's compatible with 11. It's all I've ever had. I have run the network in both modes & there is a difference when transferring larger files between PCs on the network. I didn't measure it to see if it's exactly twice as fast, however. The latency is low enough you don't even notice it when browsing the web even in 11Mbps mode, so there's not much difference there.
I have to agree. I have two high gain directional atennae; one at each end of my wireless link & I get 22Mbps all the time (it's a DLINK using PBCC). Before the antennae, the link was dodgey at best. Now, without increasing the power I'm putting out to the neighborhood, I have exactly what I need. (Well, I suppose some neighors in some particular directions are getting a little more, but some less as well.)
Amplifiers just make things more & more crowded. I have too much stuff running in the 2.4GHz range already and do occasionally have some interference problems, especially with the cheaper of my cordless phones.
I know it's legel, I just don't like it much.
I wonder how well BOCHS would run a Transmeta Crusoe. Or would that just cause an irony cascade resulting in a spatial singulatrity?
XScale has some design advantages other than power consumption over the good old ARM chips of the past. Tom's Hardware has a pretty good article about the processor as it relates to some of the PDAs it's popped up in. Tom makes a point that the software needs to be optimized for the processor to really take advantage of it & I really have no idea if that's been done for this product.
I still have to ask why anyone would run one of these things. Put Linux on it & I might not wonder so hard. Personally, I'm a lot more intrigued by the Transmeta Astro.
I just have to say "what a goof". Have you never tried to build the tallest pile of sand possible? Let me relate: You slowly add sand to the top and it forms a cone. The cone slowly grows taller & taller. If you are careful, you can get the pile pretty high. At some point, however, no matter how slowly you add more sand, the pile will fall. As an oversimplification, maybe you can equate the height of the sand pile to the temperature in London. That's just about the simplest nonlinear system I can think of (hopefully you understand it). Weather is WAY more complicated than that.
Just a little more heat to melt just a little more of Greenland and the Artic Oceans ice to make the North Atlantic Ocean a little less and POOF! the Gulf Stream stops or slow significantly like a sand pile falling. The effects will be seen in many more places than the ocean, I promise.
Are we close to critical point for the Gulf Stream? Who knows? Do we need to study the ocean's effects on the atmosphere more? Well, only if we WANT to be able to predict the weather a month in advance or longer.
I would like to add, since no one has pointed it out yet, the Gulf Stream wasn't stopped 200 years ago. That's when it was described first (by Ben Franklin).
I'm neither an environmental doomsayer nor a zealot, but I'm not a GOOF either. Read some books on chaos theory; it's very interesting.
I absolutely reFUSE to get rid of my IBM Model M keyboard. It's so much easier to type quickly on them that the mushy thing I have to use at work.
My boyfriend, however, gets really irritated by the sound it makes. He's tried to get me to use alternate keyboards several times, but I keep coming back to old c^Htrusty.
Now... about putting it in the dishwasher... I'll have to think about that. It certainly could use a cleaning. I suppose one should remove the ICs first. Has anyone else perpetrated this insanity and lived to tell about it?
I think it has mostly to do with the fact that SonicBlue's product(s) allow users to "share" programs using a broadband connection. I can see how that might pi$$ some content providers off.
I'm ALL for fair use, of course.
Cabled Wireless???
I'm probably an id10t for even taking the time to reply to this sad post, but...
HTTP is an application layer protocol. What the ISP is doing to try and make their proxy "transparant" is changing the way the internet layer is working.
The ISP should be determining if you are making a true HTTP request at their gateway router(s) and rerouting from there if appropriate. If you aren't making an HTTP request, the proxy should stop interferring with your request and let it pass normally.
I would have to say that clue-free poster to whom I am idiotically reponding is the one who isn't "embracing the DNS standard, HTTP standard and the routing standard". Probably because (s)he doesn't know what they are.
I a little port 80 knowledge is a dangerous thing.
I wonder if there has ever been a debate about declaring a an access pattern type when allocating memmory? This would give a developer the power to tell the VM something about how s/he is going to be using the memmory.
A few basic choices would allow certain optimizations for sequential access, fully random access, interleaved access, an a few more.
More sophisticated choices could be possible for heaps & trees that would allow you to tell a VM which chunks of data are likely to be accessed next (based on what leaves are below a particular node).
I also wonder if operating systems will ever have deep introspection similar to speculative execution in modern day processors. Probably not... but you never know.
If you take a look at the MMU-less Linux link in the posting (http://ryeham.ee.ryerson.ca/uClinux/) you will see that they are also working on porting Clinux to the Coldfire. They are using the eval boards from Motorola right now, but maybe someone will get inventive & create something like the SIMM project using Coldfire too. There is always hope.