The Greeks didn't care much one way or the other. "Banishment" was a generic term used for the removal of a person from society. Which is pretty much what happened to Socrates, in the end:)
Rather vanilla article, pretty much just a re-hash about what's been said about 1984 over the past 2 decades.
Hidden near the end, for those that can't/won't read the article:
Radios have become so inexpensive that Intel is now planning to engrave a miniature one on the corner of every silicon microchip, at no extra cost.
It links to a subscriber-only article, so there really aren't any further details. Hell, I think something like this deserves a Slashdot story all to itself! This has gotta be the coolest hack I've heard all year.
A terabyte is roughly what, 100 dvd's? Hell, I own more movies than that, and I'm not even 30 yet. I'd love to not have to swap them just to watch.
Of course, by your line of thinking, a Commodore 64 suits everyone's needs: it has color, you can do programming, word processing, can get online, and even save your games on disks! Why would anyone need anything more?
But really... would need much more than maybe a low GHZ P4, with like... 512 MB of ram, a sound card, a decent video card, and a few other minor things to have a media center?
I've been running a media center off my celeron 433, 128 ram, SBlive, and a low end agp card w/tv-out for years now. Total cost these days: maybe $100. It handles every type of media format I can throw at it just fine. Toss in a $200 160GB harddrive and I'd have more storage than I know what to do with.
Why can't someone come up with something like this for the mass consumer market? Oh yeah.. XP runs like absolute crap unless you're in the Ghz range.
I'm no scientist, but it seems to me that hydrogen might make a bigger bang than diesel fuel.
That's why you're not a scientist. Diesel fuel is a hell of a lot more explosive than hydrogen.
There's a reason that gasoline vehicles are allowed thru tunnels but campers carrying a propane bottle are prohibited.
Yes, and that reason is because propane is heavier than air. If the tank leaked, you'd have this nice puddle of gaseous propane floating around, never really disapating. Imagine that x1000. Gasoline fumes are lighter than air and will disapate much faster.
Although why you suddenly brought up propane when the article/discussion is talking about hydrogen, I really don't know. They're about as different as.. well, gasoline and propane:)
I pity you if you honestly and truly don't see a difference between using tanks to mow down pro-democracy activists, and a temporary restriction on some minor civil rights (oh no! longer lines at the airport!).
People don't hate China because of the word 'communism'. People hate China because it kills its own people by the thousands, just for questioning the system. If that happened here, I'd be dead in about 8 seconds flat.
I just drove through Toronto for the first time in my 28 years last week, and I noticed this about the 407 (it's an expressway for those that don't know).
My only complaint is that it's not terribly obvious to out-of-towners just how the toll issue is worked out, or the charges. We were in a U-Haul, and AFTER dropping the truck off, we found out just how high the charge would have been. Thankfully we DIDN'T take it, the 401 was surprisingly light for a Sunday afternoon.
All in all though, if it's well signed, and there's an alternate free route, who can complain? Let those who want to pay have the fancy extras, it's just like everything else in life. And if you're too paranoid to drive it... don't.
If I ever see another person thinking they're being somehow insightful by claiming "10% consume 90%", I think I'll puke. Hint: in the business world, the old maxim was 20/80, and this goes back a lot more years than any ISP, or the internet itself.
Virtually every business or service in history sees unequal use from its customers. ISPs are no different. Saying "fuck you" to the 20(or as you say, 10)% of your customers is called suicide to most businesses.
Hell, just imagine if we ran our medical system this way: "well, we eliminated the 10% of our customers who use 90% of our services, and wow! are hospitals ever efficient now!". And in this case it's more like 5/95%.
Actually, it's been several weeks since I've used Kazaa(lite), and I wasn't running as a supernode or anything... and yet, my firewall is STILL seeing a continual stream of traffic coming from Kazaa users.
I don't think their system really filters out inactive nodes all that efficiently.
Rather frightening that on the graph, everything pre-nintendo is labelled "Atari systems". Of course, society back then pretty much equated Atari with video games (see: Blade Runner for a good chuckle).
I know the VCS pretty much decimated all competition back then, but does anyone have any harder figures? Adding the Colecovision and Intellivision into the pot, there must have been some signifigant inroads into Atari's numbers.
The funniest though, has to be the fact that they say Atari systemS. Sorry folks, but other than the venerable VCS/2600, Atari didn't really do squat in the marketplace.
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This theme was heavily gone into during the closing act of the movie.. Cruise and his boss having their little confrontation, with the boss unsure whether to kill Cruise or not.
The focus in the movie shifted from whether CRUISE believes in the system, to whether his BOSS did. Kinda clumsy, that.
Yours is maybe the 4th mention I've ever seen online about the good old ICONs. Unisys made quite a powerful little machine for the time, and I wasted many an hour tinkering with some of the (for the time) advanced apps (the vector morphing software was pretty damn cool!).
Any chance you know where one could accquire one of these rare beasts? I've yet to see one on Ebay, or anywhere else for that matter - and I know they were very common in high schools in Ontario during the 80's.
I'd never even heard of this before seeing it posted on slashdot; ironically I spent an afternoon not too long ago rebuilding my 486 for the very purpose of playing these games (fast cpu + win2k + pci soundcard == no DOS games:( ).
This is absolutely amazing.. the setup is a bit of a bitch to figure out (their readme is a bit obtuse), but once configured, the games run (as far as I can tell) flawlessly. Taking into consideration the much better MIDI support on my SBLive! card (the intro tune for Sam N Max is incredible) and the antialiasing, the games look as good as anything 2D I'd expect.
Even better is the ability to run them off the harddrive (back in the day my whopping 540MB woulda been filled with just Sam and DOTT). No more swapping CD's!
it's like spending an extra $1000 on a PC just to play games and pirate DVDs.
OK, I can find you a PC for under $100 that can do word processing, go on the internet, and play games. What can't it do that an $1100 'power' system can? Play new games and DVDs.
I really have to start collecting posts with the words 'deja vu' in them - then I could make a neat little completely redundant post with links to previous posts pointing out that what you're saying has already been said on/. over and over and over and...
I haven't seen an inkjet that can come CLOSE to replicating the fine detail on our newest bills, let alone a consumer-level scanner that isn't flummoxed by all the fancy goo-gaws (tiny print, etc). Try scanning a bill sometime, you'll see large areas that just don't scan right.
This is of course ignoring the fancy reflective and/or iridescent areas that we've had on our larger denomination bills ($20 and higher) for years now. No inkjet in the world can duplicate this, and it's one of the most obvious missing features in any fake bill.
Methinks you're speaking out of your ass if you're claiming someone can use an ink/bubble-jet at home to print out money.
It was socially unthinkable in my parents and grandparents childhood environments for men to stalk and harass teenage girls, for children to kill their fellow-classmates with guns at school
I know no one who thinks harassment/murder is acceptable. Maybe you hang with a bit rougher crowd than I do...
In terms of 'unthinkable', I suggest you read up on your history. Children have been killing each other during every major war of the 20th century, back through medieval times, all the way back to the stone age. The sanitized 40's and 50's taught people not to TALK about it, that's all. Much before that, people talked a lot about it, and even glorified it - a lot of nobles' children were REGALED for killing another child in armed combat.
Never mind the whole morality issues with slavery, oppression of women, class-based justice, etc, etc, etc...
Stop getting your history lessons from Leave it to Beaver and learn a bit about how the world really WAS. A bunch of over-played CNN stories do not a society make.
Easy. Imagine a coaster that accelerates down for a while. Yes, only at 1G. But it accumulates a LOT of speed during that time.
Now, the coaster reaches the end of the slope, and suddenly the track curves upwards. Pull out your slide-rule, and figure out the force experienced by the riders in that 1/10th of a second (remember, ALL of their accumulated downwards velocity has been cancelled here).
It's the sudden ups and downs you experience with a coaster that cause such incredible G forces - bassically, if Mr. Newton was right, the track as you curve back up is going to impose several G's on you in order to change your direction so violently.
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The Greeks didn't care much one way or the other. "Banishment" was a generic term used for the removal of a person from society. Which is pretty much what happened to Socrates, in the end :)
Rather vanilla article, pretty much just a re-hash about what's been said about 1984 over the past 2 decades.
Hidden near the end, for those that can't/won't read the article:
Radios have become so inexpensive that Intel is now planning to engrave a miniature one on the corner of every silicon microchip, at no extra cost.
It links to a subscriber-only article, so there really aren't any further details. Hell, I think something like this deserves a Slashdot story all to itself! This has gotta be the coolest hack I've heard all year.
Also some rather more known machines, say like the original Macintoshes, and a lot of PDAs (my Palm has one).
A terabyte is roughly what, 100 dvd's? Hell, I own more movies than that, and I'm not even 30 yet. I'd love to not have to swap them just to watch.
Of course, by your line of thinking, a Commodore 64 suits everyone's needs: it has color, you can do programming, word processing, can get online, and even save your games on disks! Why would anyone need anything more?
But really... would need much more than maybe a low GHZ P4, with like... 512 MB of ram, a sound card, a decent video card, and a few other minor things to have a media center?
I've been running a media center off my celeron 433, 128 ram, SBlive, and a low end agp card w/tv-out for years now. Total cost these days: maybe $100. It handles every type of media format I can throw at it just fine. Toss in a $200 160GB harddrive and I'd have more storage than I know what to do with.
Why can't someone come up with something like this for the mass consumer market? Oh yeah.. XP runs like absolute crap unless you're in the Ghz range.
I'm no scientist, but it seems to me that hydrogen might make a bigger bang than diesel fuel.
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That's why you're not a scientist. Diesel fuel is a hell of a lot more explosive than hydrogen.
There's a reason that gasoline vehicles are allowed thru tunnels but campers carrying a propane bottle are prohibited.
Yes, and that reason is because propane is heavier than air. If the tank leaked, you'd have this nice puddle of gaseous propane floating around, never really disapating. Imagine that x1000. Gasoline fumes are lighter than air and will disapate much faster.
Although why you suddenly brought up propane when the article/discussion is talking about hydrogen, I really don't know. They're about as different as.. well, gasoline and propane
I pity you if you honestly and truly don't see a difference between using tanks to mow down pro-democracy activists, and a temporary restriction on some minor civil rights (oh no! longer lines at the airport!).
People don't hate China because of the word 'communism'. People hate China because it kills its own people by the thousands, just for questioning the system. If that happened here, I'd be dead in about 8 seconds flat.
I just drove through Toronto for the first time in my 28 years last week, and I noticed this about the 407 (it's an expressway for those that don't know).
My only complaint is that it's not terribly obvious to out-of-towners just how the toll issue is worked out, or the charges. We were in a U-Haul, and AFTER dropping the truck off, we found out just how high the charge would have been. Thankfully we DIDN'T take it, the 401 was surprisingly light for a Sunday afternoon.
All in all though, if it's well signed, and there's an alternate free route, who can complain? Let those who want to pay have the fancy extras, it's just like everything else in life. And if you're too paranoid to drive it... don't.
If I ever see another person thinking they're being somehow insightful by claiming "10% consume 90%", I think I'll puke. Hint: in the business world, the old maxim was 20/80, and this goes back a lot more years than any ISP, or the internet itself.
Virtually every business or service in history sees unequal use from its customers. ISPs are no different. Saying "fuck you" to the 20(or as you say, 10)% of your customers is called suicide to most businesses.
Hell, just imagine if we ran our medical system this way: "well, we eliminated the 10% of our customers who use 90% of our services, and wow! are hospitals ever efficient now!". And in this case it's more like 5/95%.
This would not take DAYS, as you suggested.
Actually, it's been several weeks since I've used Kazaa(lite), and I wasn't running as a supernode or anything... and yet, my firewall is STILL seeing a continual stream of traffic coming from Kazaa users.
I don't think their system really filters out inactive nodes all that efficiently.
I worried that God would be angry that I wasn't exactly following his rules.
.. well pretty much anything (this IS God after all), just for something you said.
I think you better have a talk with your grandmother, if this is the sort of nonsense she put in your head as a child.
Yeesh, people think kids today have problems, imagine the fear of
Scary.
Rather frightening that on the graph, everything pre-nintendo is labelled "Atari systems". Of course, society back then pretty much equated Atari with video games (see: Blade Runner for a good chuckle).
I know the VCS pretty much decimated all competition back then, but does anyone have any harder figures? Adding the Colecovision and Intellivision into the pot, there must have been some signifigant inroads into Atari's numbers.
The funniest though, has to be the fact that they say Atari systemS. Sorry folks, but other than the venerable VCS/2600, Atari didn't really do squat in the marketplace.
This theme was heavily gone into during the closing act of the movie.. Cruise and his boss having their little confrontation, with the boss unsure whether to kill Cruise or not.
The focus in the movie shifted from whether CRUISE believes in the system, to whether his BOSS did. Kinda clumsy, that.
Yours is maybe the 4th mention I've ever seen online about the good old ICONs. Unisys made quite a powerful little machine for the time, and I wasted many an hour tinkering with some of the (for the time) advanced apps (the vector morphing software was pretty damn cool!).
Any chance you know where one could accquire one of these rare beasts? I've yet to see one on Ebay, or anywhere else for that matter - and I know they were very common in high schools in Ontario during the 80's.
I'd never even heard of this before seeing it posted on slashdot; ironically I spent an afternoon not too long ago rebuilding my 486 for the very purpose of playing these games (fast cpu + win2k + pci soundcard == no DOS games :( ).
This is absolutely amazing.. the setup is a bit of a bitch to figure out (their readme is a bit obtuse), but once configured, the games run (as far as I can tell) flawlessly. Taking into consideration the much better MIDI support on my SBLive! card (the intro tune for Sam N Max is incredible) and the antialiasing, the games look as good as anything 2D I'd expect.
Even better is the ability to run them off the harddrive (back in the day my whopping 540MB woulda been filled with just Sam and DOTT). No more swapping CD's!
it's like spending an extra $1000 on a PC just to play games and pirate DVDs.
OK, I can find you a PC for under $100 that can do word processing, go on the internet, and play games. What can't it do that an $1100 'power' system can? Play new games and DVDs.
Hmmm....
I really have to start collecting posts with the words 'deja vu' in them - then I could make a neat little completely redundant post with links to previous posts pointing out that what you're saying has already been said on /. over and over and over and...
I haven't seen an inkjet that can come CLOSE to replicating the fine detail on our newest bills, let alone a consumer-level scanner that isn't flummoxed by all the fancy goo-gaws (tiny print, etc). Try scanning a bill sometime, you'll see large areas that just don't scan right.
This is of course ignoring the fancy reflective and/or iridescent areas that we've had on our larger denomination bills ($20 and higher) for years now. No inkjet in the world can duplicate this, and it's one of the most obvious missing features in any fake bill.
Methinks you're speaking out of your ass if you're claiming someone can use an ink/bubble-jet at home to print out money.
Best of all, the nonexistent addresses on my system that spammers have somehow discovered (big@waldo.net, aldo@waldo.net)
/. Bam! Discovered! :)
They just scan
These CD's aren't about stopping Napster/Morpheus/Kazaa/etc, they're about taking away our right to time shift
/. Buzzword Bingo :)
Small point, but what exactly does time shifting have to do with CD's? You can play a CD whenever you want, it's not a broadcast.
Methinks you're just trying to score on
200 cd-roms is (roughly) 120Gb. On something smaller than a microdrive. Space-wise, you're talking over 100 times more efficient.
Try reading a book sometime. Even one written before the sexual revolution. Amazingly enough, history doesn't lie.
It was socially unthinkable in my parents and grandparents childhood environments for men to stalk and harass teenage girls, for children to kill their fellow-classmates with guns at school
I know no one who thinks harassment/murder is acceptable. Maybe you hang with a bit rougher crowd than I do...
In terms of 'unthinkable', I suggest you read up on your history. Children have been killing each other during every major war of the 20th century, back through medieval times, all the way back to the stone age. The sanitized 40's and 50's taught people not to TALK about it, that's all. Much before that, people talked a lot about it, and even glorified it - a lot of nobles' children were REGALED for killing another child in armed combat.
Never mind the whole morality issues with slavery, oppression of women, class-based justice, etc, etc, etc...
Stop getting your history lessons from Leave it to Beaver and learn a bit about how the world really WAS. A bunch of over-played CNN stories do not a society make.
Some pretty interesting results, if you ask me.
Easy. Imagine a coaster that accelerates down for a while. Yes, only at 1G. But it accumulates a LOT of speed during that time.
Now, the coaster reaches the end of the slope, and suddenly the track curves upwards. Pull out your slide-rule, and figure out the force experienced by the riders in that 1/10th of a second (remember, ALL of their accumulated downwards velocity has been cancelled here).
It's the sudden ups and downs you experience with a coaster that cause such incredible G forces - bassically, if Mr. Newton was right, the track as you curve back up is going to impose several G's on you in order to change your direction so violently.