I think it is a good idea. I'm tired of trying to keep up with the latest/greatest 3D card and how fast it can play, etc. Now I can just upgrade the PC chip(s) cheap. I was going to upgrade the chip eventually anyway. Of course, those quad systems are still a little out of reach for my pocketbook.
Doesn't the internet route around problems like this? Even if the direct satellite link they used was down, don't they have some direct cable to Russia or somewhere that we have no direct control over? Once the new routing tables propagate it just may take longer to get there.
Isn't the the underlying concept of value the same? It shouldn't be surprising that people attribute value to something and others find a way to make a profit. A fool and their money are soon parted, regardless of the physical nature of it. I value my free time immensely. However, I have to be willing to give up some of it to afford my car. I pay my company with my time and they give me a scrap of paper that says I have the representation of 1000s of other scraps of paper being held by my bank. None of which would have any real value if it weren't assigned by society. You can't eat or drink virtual property or a $100 bill. If you can find someone willing to give you real food and drink in exchange, who gets the better deal?
I'm glad to see I'm not the only person who thought of this. I can see a combo of this technology with scanner technology. Then you have a real time scan of the light coming at you and being shown in the exact 180 degree position on the 'fabric' screen so you become effectively invisible. Of course, bending the light waves like the Predator suit would be cool too.
In the article they claim the IBM machine can be sub-leased out to another company and recoup costs. Also, if they did run out of their lease, they'd have to lease it again for another $2M not $150k so they did save quite a bit.
This warms my heart to see $150k vs. $2M gets _better_ performance. Nice specs on the systems too 500Mhz PIII with 1G RAM each! I wonder how long the RC5-64 would hold up to this kind of power?
Why are we so narrow minded to think that only kids in the US have problems in late grade school and through high school? There are pleanty of non-conformist kids in schools in England, Canada, Australia, and (insert any non US country you like here), aren't there? Don't they go through the same difficulties of having friends, not being part of the "in crowd", and authority figures being in their face about being who they want to be? What the "heck" was the Pink Floyd album "The Wall" all about then?!?
And yet, do other countries have the same problem with school violence? A friend from Canada claimed the only random act of violence he remembers recently was someone breaking into the house of some high ranking official while armed with a butter knife.
So do the other countries teach values? If so, what/whose values are they? What about countries where the children grow up carrying weapons as part of 'civil' war or other strife?
I won't claim to know what the fix is. I can knee jerk a few things I think are to blame but _none_ of them are all inclusive. I'd just really like to hear opinions and maybe some stories from non-US kids that show the same understanding of the situation as those quoted by Katz.
So I suppose that if I don't put extra protection on my car and it gets stolen I'm to blame?!? I'm sure Lucas felt he had good enough security but where there is enough money, any security system can be bypassed.
Maybe this person _did_ meet in a public place. The rapist could have been totally nice at the time, they hit it off great, etc. Then, they get back to the house and the guy pulls some Jekyll and Hyde routine. It isn't a whole lot different form anywhere else in this world just because it happens to start on the internet instead of a bar, gym, etc. It also isn't any more or less insidious that it happened the way it did. Like the author said, rape is rape. I don't care if she did invite the guy back and had _maybe_ led him on, via chat, to think they'd have sex. She has the right to refuse and he has the responsibility to not force the issue.
First I'll comment on 'How Predictable and Lame'. Trying to dual boot/reload Win98 is obviously something they never considered. Maybe we should e-mail a challange to them to do it?
As for LCD, I mean Lowest Common Denominator. How many people on/. have to deal with people so completely inept at configuring a computer? Sure, we've all spec'ed and built our own systems. How about 'Joe Gateway' that probably can't even dial the phone right to order his system? I think the second article has a bit of truth to the 'I'm not ready for Linux or maybe Linux isn't ready for me' comments. Sure the distributions are getting better at simplicity. But are they fully ready for Prime Time? I don't think being disdainful of the LCD buyer helps advocate Linux.
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Now all the Script Kiddies can hang out with the rest of their High School after a big football game. :)
I don't know about NT but I was under the impression that Linux doesn't run well overclocked. So you'll still only have a dual 300/333.
I think it is a good idea. I'm tired of trying to keep up with the latest/greatest 3D card and how fast it can play, etc. Now I can just upgrade the PC chip(s) cheap. I was going to upgrade the chip eventually anyway. Of course, those quad systems are still a little out of reach for my pocketbook.
A 386 running Linux for 5 years. I'm amazed the hardware of the box has been up that long. Way cool!
Maybe the net will grow and grow like the real universe until it reaches a limit and all the gravitational pull makes it collapse upon itself.
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Doesn't the internet route around problems like this? Even if the direct satellite link they used was down, don't they have some direct cable to Russia or somewhere that we have no direct control over? Once the new routing tables propagate it just may take longer to get there.
BTW, I got connected to both 10 AM EST 5/13.
Isn't the the underlying concept of value the same? It shouldn't be surprising that people attribute value to something and others find a way to make a profit. A fool and their money are soon parted, regardless of the physical nature of it. I value my free time immensely. However, I have to be willing to give up some of it to afford my car. I pay my company with my time and they give me a scrap of paper that says I have the representation of 1000s of other scraps of paper being held by my bank. None of which would have any real value if it weren't assigned by society. You can't eat or drink virtual property or a $100 bill. If you can find someone willing to give you real food and drink in exchange, who gets the better deal?
I'm glad to see I'm not the only person who thought of this. I can see a combo of this technology with scanner technology. Then you have a real time scan of the light coming at you and being shown in the exact 180 degree position on the 'fabric' screen so you become effectively invisible. Of course, bending the light waves like the Predator suit would be cool too.
In the article they claim the IBM machine can be sub-leased out to another company and recoup costs. Also, if they did run out of their lease, they'd have to lease it again for another $2M not $150k so they did save quite a bit.
This warms my heart to see $150k vs. $2M gets _better_ performance. Nice specs on the systems too 500Mhz PIII with 1G RAM each! I wonder how long the RC5-64 would hold up to this kind of power?
Why are we so narrow minded to think that only kids in the US have problems in late grade school and through high school? There are pleanty of non-conformist kids in schools in England, Canada, Australia, and (insert any non US country you like here), aren't there? Don't they go through the same difficulties of having friends, not being part of the "in crowd", and authority figures being in their face about being who they want to be? What the "heck" was the Pink Floyd album "The Wall" all about then?!?
And yet, do other countries have the same problem with school violence? A friend from Canada claimed the only random act of violence he remembers recently was someone breaking into the house of some high ranking official while armed with a butter knife.
So do the other countries teach values? If so, what/whose values are they? What about countries where the children grow up carrying weapons as part of 'civil' war or other strife?
I won't claim to know what the fix is. I can knee jerk a few things I think are to blame but _none_ of them are all inclusive. I'd just really like to hear opinions and maybe some stories from non-US kids that show the same understanding of the situation as those quoted by Katz.
So I suppose that if I don't put extra protection on my car and it gets stolen I'm to blame?!? I'm sure Lucas felt he had good enough security but where there is enough money, any security system can be bypassed.
Maybe this person _did_ meet in a public place. The rapist could have been totally nice at the time, they hit it off great, etc. Then, they get back to the house and the guy pulls some Jekyll and Hyde routine. It isn't a whole lot different form anywhere else in this world just because it happens to start on the internet instead of a bar, gym, etc. It also isn't any more or less insidious that it happened the way it did. Like the author said, rape is rape. I don't care if she did invite the guy back and had _maybe_ led him on, via chat, to think they'd have sex. She has the right to refuse and he has the responsibility to not force the issue.
First I'll comment on 'How Predictable and Lame'. Trying to dual boot/reload Win98 is obviously something they never considered. Maybe we should e-mail a challange to them to do it?
/. have to deal with people so completely inept at configuring a computer? Sure, we've all spec'ed and built our own systems. How about 'Joe Gateway' that probably can't even dial the phone right to order his system? I think the second article has a bit of truth to the 'I'm not ready for Linux or maybe Linux isn't ready for me' comments. Sure the distributions are getting better at simplicity. But are they fully ready for Prime Time? I don't think being disdainful of the LCD buyer helps advocate Linux.
As for LCD, I mean Lowest Common Denominator. How many people on