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The "controllers" are just a few extra pins out of hundreds on the chip. A very tiny patch of real estate is lost if you don't use it. A great amount of circuit board real estate is gained if you do use it as it only requires a few tiny inductors and connectors to impliment it.
I'd want to see a few more controllers on the chipset myself. What's another milliwatt and a few more pins among friends? Imagine the clustering potential of these chipsets...
Interesting analogy. I'm a technician. I repair machines and its best to see what's wrong when they are actually running. Replacing parts during production is often desirable since I get to see closely how it is performing. Sure, there's 600 volts for the motors, 110 for the control lines, hydraulics, and pneumatics, but being aware of energy sources makes informed decisions on how to make the best repair.
When we could lose $10,000 in scrap for shutting things down, its less of a hassle to keep things running. It takes too long to get things started up again, so I just fix it when it runs. That way, I can get it over with, head back to the office, lock the door, kick back in the recliner, and browse slashdot all night.
Try to replace a human brain with the human alive. That I'd like to see.
Doctors are just technicians that happen to work on people. They are no more perfect than the grease monkey at the car dealership. Using a computerized database of information to research the very complex organisms we are is just common sense and is perhaps why computers became popular in the first place. Sure, some doctors will manage to make mistakes using a tool like this, just as some high school kids still can't seem to use a calculator correctly.
Suing for bogus information? One always has to consider the source of information. A dabase like this can be considered only as a helpful tool. Tools help find a working solution, but it takes experience to make it happen. A good doctor is someone who is responsible for using his tools properly, not pushing buttons.
If a landlord provides internet service and someone misuses it, does the landlord get punished for trying to provide a service? What if one of your teenagers has a friend over for the afternoon and the MPAA comes a knocking. Everyone denies knowledge. Shall we prosecute you?
Changing the MAC address is trivial and can be done through the command line in a linux shell. All a person has to do is wait until the victim powers off their computer, leaving the airwaves open for attack. Or overpower the poor victim with a much stronger signal and DOSing him too.
Best security would be mandatory strong encryption. The kind our Ex-President Clinton signed an executive order to ban from everyone. Only then will we be safe from terrorist haxors.
The other poster has it correct - it's all part of the show.
That's all it is, a show? I can see the warezers outdoing each other:
"Man, I had FIFTY ARMED agents storm my house last night."
"Oh, that's NOTHING! I had the US ARMY dispatched to my employer and they stripped searched everyone. Too bad I called in sick that day and I missed it all"
"You all are a bunch of pussies. Why just this MORNING, I had the BSA itself raid my house and they took my dog! They took my dog man!"
What's the point in having an internet? Should I have to use the ISP's mail servers that are down hours a day that also don't use spam filters at the ports? I run my own mailserver and will NOT use an ISP that blocks port 25. I like making my own email addresses when I sign up for something to control spam. And no ssh to check my mail and do stuff away from the house? No encryption?
I bet hackers will love it when people try to play port games with unproven shareware that circumvents and doesn't match the reliability of the old proven ssh, ftp, etc... Look at what kazza has done. Its best to deal with bandwidth hogs on an individual basis, not ruin it for the rest of us by restricting ports.
Political? I doubt it. Yucca Mountain doesn't seem like a tropical rain forest, but a dry desolate ground cover for the deep mine shaft storage needed for the long term storage of containers.
A better place might be in the Middle East somewhere, but I think that might be politically motivated.
How much of a premium does one pay for a hybrid car?
Don't buy a Prius becuase it will pay itself off in a few years, buy it because it is a higher quality car. If you own one of these, you will see and feel what I mean.
The computer display shows how much energy the batteries get from braking. Not too much, as its measured in 0.5KWh. I can get a few of those stars each 5 minutes if I do a lot of braking. Judging by the energy stars that show up, I'd say the brakes give enough power to run the headlights. They need to work on that by adding some serious gearing to the generator so the brake pads aren't used as much when stopping.
We have contests in our family to see who gets the best gas milage. Mom only gets around 45-50 mpg, dad gets around 60, and I routinely get 80 during a whole city trip, with 5 minute intervals reaching 100mpg (running entirely on batteries.) Needless to say, I often bring the car back with a n empty battery.:)
If I remember right, ethonal contains half the energy denisity as gasoline, so you have to rejet carburators for twice the flow. No major work, it just requires replacing a few orifices with a larger opening. A screwdriver is required.
From what I hear, ethanol seems to wash away oil from the cylinder walls and rings. Propane does this too. The engine burns a little hotter due to this lubrication problem.
My mom had her Prius for a year and loves it. Recently, they took a trip to Minnesota and the cost for gas during the trip was insignificant. While highway driving consumes more fuel due to aerodynamics, I have often been able to get more than 80mpg through the city. If you trick the accelerator pedal, you can get it to run off batteries for several minutes before the engine starts charging and giving a boost.
The only problem she had with the car so far was running over accident debris that slashed a rear tire. Other than that, its supposed to have an incredible warranty. Something like 10 years. Toyota knows this is an experimental car, so they want to know what kinds of problems we have. None so far.
the First Amendment protects your right to criticize the government...
What if the corporations become the government? After all, they wine and dine the government and go to bed together. The government used to be for the people, but its now "them and us." Unless you are them. Only in the US is the government not us. Something like that.
...protecting content, broadcast or otherwise, will spur the availability of high definition content and thus spur innovation for the systems, devices and services needed to deliver and support them in a broadband environment.
They sure love the word spur, which is derived from the term used to kick the shit out of a horse to get it going. A spur is a sharp instrument worn on the ankle of an abusive cowboy to beat a tired horse into submission.
Is this what the MPAA has in store for consumers? Wouldn't you love to have the MPAA spur your living room technology?
Ford released their new line of cars, which gets 200MPG, but can only reach speeds of 80MPH. Technically, there is a way to make Ford's new cars go 160MPH, but their EULA strictly forbids opening the hood for any reason, punishable by 20 years in prison. Doing so could be considered circumventing activity for reprogramming the car. They needed to do this, because their more expensive models feature a software upgrade and brightly colored stickers to make it go faster. You muck around under the hood, you threaten their revenue stream. Many engineers at Ford would starve due to your criminal intentions.
Well, wouldn't you know it, several teenagers who weren't old enough to drive got underneath the hood of their parents automobile while dad was away at work. You see, one family had the high end model, and the other didn't. The kids were intrigued. One thing led to another, and next thing you know they were caught and led to jail. They wouldn't have been caught if it weren't for that spectacular joyride lighting up the street across the town.
The same can be said about an xbox near you. It usually takes a kid about two years to learn enough about a computer system to learn its language and make something useful. Usually, these projects are done by the young who have all the free time in the world. And they would consider it a patriotic duty to be caught too. I remember my first computer, a ZX81. It was 13 at the time and it took a few years before I had the ROM dissassembled and controlling the hardware directly. No documentation, no internet. I'm sure the internet and millions of people from countries all over the world can get together and come up with something.
Ah, yes! Now if a terminator gene is present in the xbox's hardware, we shall find it. It only would further escalate the challenge. This would just make things more interesting and require das blinkenlights toys on the bench: a logic analyzer, wires, emulation circuits, etc... Sounds like even more fun.
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The "controllers" are just a few extra pins out of hundreds on the chip. A very tiny patch of real estate is lost if you don't use it. A great amount of circuit board real estate is gained if you do use it as it only requires a few tiny inductors and connectors to impliment it.
I'd want to see a few more controllers on the chipset myself. What's another milliwatt and a few more pins among friends? Imagine the clustering potential of these chipsets...
Please rephrase your question in the form of an answer.
Thought you all might like this little gem I found in my apache logs:
/signs/porktheone.jpg HTTP/1.0" 200 16076 "http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLin k=233989" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530"
tide117.microsoft.com - - [11/Jul/2002:20:21:15 -0500] "GET
Look at the last part identifying the browser.
Interesting analogy. I'm a technician. I repair machines and its best to see what's wrong when they are actually running. Replacing parts during production is often desirable since I get to see closely how it is performing. Sure, there's 600 volts for the motors, 110 for the control lines, hydraulics, and pneumatics, but being aware of energy sources makes informed decisions on how to make the best repair.
When we could lose $10,000 in scrap for shutting things down, its less of a hassle to keep things running. It takes too long to get things started up again, so I just fix it when it runs. That way, I can get it over with, head back to the office, lock the door, kick back in the recliner, and browse slashdot all night.
Try to replace a human brain with the human alive. That I'd like to see.
Doctors are just technicians that happen to work on people. They are no more perfect than the grease monkey at the car dealership. Using a computerized database of information to research the very complex organisms we are is just common sense and is perhaps why computers became popular in the first place. Sure, some doctors will manage to make mistakes using a tool like this, just as some high school kids still can't seem to use a calculator correctly.
Suing for bogus information? One always has to consider the source of information. A dabase like this can be considered only as a helpful tool. Tools help find a working solution, but it takes experience to make it happen. A good doctor is someone who is responsible for using his tools properly, not pushing buttons.
If a landlord provides internet service and someone misuses it, does the landlord get punished for trying to provide a service? What if one of your teenagers has a friend over for the afternoon and the MPAA comes a knocking. Everyone denies knowledge. Shall we prosecute you?
Changing the MAC address is trivial and can be done through the command line in a linux shell. All a person has to do is wait until the victim powers off their computer, leaving the airwaves open for attack. Or overpower the poor victim with a much stronger signal and DOSing him too.
Best security would be mandatory strong encryption. The kind our Ex-President Clinton signed an executive order to ban from everyone. Only then will we be safe from terrorist haxors.
The other poster has it correct - it's all part of the show.
That's all it is, a show? I can see the warezers outdoing each other:
"Man, I had FIFTY ARMED agents storm my house last night."
"Oh, that's NOTHING! I had the US ARMY dispatched to my employer and they stripped searched everyone. Too bad I called in sick that day and I missed it all"
"You all are a bunch of pussies. Why just this MORNING, I had the BSA itself raid my house and they took my dog! They took my dog man!"
When is the sequel?
Why don't they just charge for bandwidth usage like a lot of them are anywaiz.
Like this?
No mta/sshd/ftpd/vncserver Internet.
What's the point in having an internet? Should I have to use the ISP's mail servers that are down hours a day that also don't use spam filters at the ports? I run my own mailserver and will NOT use an ISP that blocks port 25. I like making my own email addresses when I sign up for something to control spam. And no ssh to check my mail and do stuff away from the house? No encryption?
I bet hackers will love it when people try to play port games with unproven shareware that circumvents and doesn't match the reliability of the old proven ssh, ftp, etc... Look at what kazza has done. Its best to deal with bandwidth hogs on an individual basis, not ruin it for the rest of us by restricting ports.
I was browsing through that site you mentioned and started reading about the .NET project.
Scary.
Political? I doubt it. Yucca Mountain doesn't seem like a tropical rain forest, but a dry desolate ground cover for the deep mine shaft storage needed for the long term storage of containers.
A better place might be in the Middle East somewhere, but I think that might be politically motivated.
If they are out of control of the US Government, will be they labled as terrorists and bombed?
The article has been posted in this thread by an anonymous donor. The parent of its four pages has not been moderated yet.
Wouldn't you know it, an article about uptime...and slashdotted. Looks like he needs a mirror.
Unfortunately, the display's pretty bargraph shows the 5 minute intervals ranging from 0 to 100mpg, not infinite spikes from dividing by zero.
How much of a premium does one pay for a hybrid car?
Don't buy a Prius becuase it will pay itself off in a few years, buy it because it is a higher quality car. If you own one of these, you will see and feel what I mean.
The computer display shows how much energy the batteries get from braking. Not too much, as its measured in 0.5KWh. I can get a few of those stars each 5 minutes if I do a lot of braking. Judging by the energy stars that show up, I'd say the brakes give enough power to run the headlights. They need to work on that by adding some serious gearing to the generator so the brake pads aren't used as much when stopping.
:)
We have contests in our family to see who gets the best gas milage. Mom only gets around 45-50 mpg, dad gets around 60, and I routinely get 80 during a whole city trip, with 5 minute intervals reaching 100mpg (running entirely on batteries.) Needless to say, I often bring the car back with a n empty battery.
If I remember right, ethonal contains half the energy denisity as gasoline, so you have to rejet carburators for twice the flow. No major work, it just requires replacing a few orifices with a larger opening. A screwdriver is required.
From what I hear, ethanol seems to wash away oil from the cylinder walls and rings. Propane does this too. The engine burns a little hotter due to this lubrication problem.
My mom had her Prius for a year and loves it. Recently, they took a trip to Minnesota and the cost for gas during the trip was insignificant. While highway driving consumes more fuel due to aerodynamics, I have often been able to get more than 80mpg through the city. If you trick the accelerator pedal, you can get it to run off batteries for several minutes before the engine starts charging and giving a boost.
The only problem she had with the car so far was running over accident debris that slashed a rear tire. Other than that, its supposed to have an incredible warranty. Something like 10 years. Toyota knows this is an experimental car, so they want to know what kinds of problems we have. None so far.
the First Amendment protects your right to criticize the government...
What if the corporations become the government? After all, they wine and dine the government and go to bed together. The government used to be for the people, but its now "them and us." Unless you are them. Only in the US is the government not us. Something like that.
...protecting content, broadcast or otherwise, will spur the availability of high definition content and thus spur innovation for the systems, devices and services needed to deliver and support them in a broadband environment.
They sure love the word spur, which is derived from the term used to kick the shit out of a horse to get it going. A spur is a sharp instrument worn on the ankle of an abusive cowboy to beat a tired horse into submission.
Is this what the MPAA has in store for consumers? Wouldn't you love to have the MPAA spur your living room technology?
Ford released their new line of cars, which gets 200MPG, but can only reach speeds of 80MPH. Technically, there is a way to make Ford's new cars go 160MPH, but their EULA strictly forbids opening the hood for any reason, punishable by 20 years in prison. Doing so could be considered circumventing activity for reprogramming the car. They needed to do this, because their more expensive models feature a software upgrade and brightly colored stickers to make it go faster. You muck around under the hood, you threaten their revenue stream. Many engineers at Ford would starve due to your criminal intentions.
Well, wouldn't you know it, several teenagers who weren't old enough to drive got underneath the hood of their parents automobile while dad was away at work. You see, one family had the high end model, and the other didn't. The kids were intrigued. One thing led to another, and next thing you know they were caught and led to jail. They wouldn't have been caught if it weren't for that spectacular joyride lighting up the street across the town.
The same can be said about an xbox near you. It usually takes a kid about two years to learn enough about a computer system to learn its language and make something useful. Usually, these projects are done by the young who have all the free time in the world. And they would consider it a patriotic duty to be caught too. I remember my first computer, a ZX81. It was 13 at the time and it took a few years before I had the ROM dissassembled and controlling the hardware directly. No documentation, no internet. I'm sure the internet and millions of people from countries all over the world can get together and come up with something.
Ah, yes! Now if a terminator gene is present in the xbox's hardware, we shall find it. It only would further escalate the challenge. This would just make things more interesting and require das blinkenlights toys on the bench: a logic analyzer, wires, emulation circuits, etc... Sounds like even more fun.