I just finished reading this book for my Western Civilisation class. (We also watched the Nova television show in class, but did not finish it). Great book; highly recommended. It's full of interesting plot twists not even mentioned in the review, such as the 'alliance' between John Harrison and Astronomer Royal Edmund Halley (of comet fame), and the relationship between Harrison and highly-esteemed London clockmakers.
The math co processor was onboard during the 386DX as well. That was the difference between the DX and the SX.
Wrong, that was only the 486. The difference between the 386SX and 386Dx was that the latter had full 32-bit data paths and bus paths, while the 386SX had a mixed 32bit/16bit architecture (much like the Motorola m68000).
As would I. I don't run KDE to run Konqueror. I know it's good, but I won't be leaving Window Maker or worse, running WM and KDE at the same time.
I've slandered Mozilla too much already and won't be doing it this time. I can just hope it gets better, because Linux needs an UI independent, modern browser.
You don't need to leave WindowMaker to run Konqueror, you just need to have kdelibs and qt2.2 installed. I'm typing this in in Konqueror running under WindowMaker right now, with no other KDEness in sight.
Europeans are taught english as a second language since birth, since english is pretty prevlant all over the world.
NOt true for all Europeans. In Belgium (where my family's from), the first language is the native language of the region (either French or Flemish). The second is the other national language (ie if you learned French first, your second language would be Flemish). Your third language is English. I would imagine it would be the same in other multilingual countries (ie Switzerland).
Is this a joke? Seriously how did this piece of crap end up on Slashdot which recently has become almost respectable and unbiased?
Hemos (and others) never said Petreley was right. Remember, one of the major points of Slashdot (now) is to get hits and people posting comments, and this article certainly accomplished this. It *is* food for thought, even though it is (IMHO) unfounded rumour-mongering.
This Petreley column is almost in the same vein (albeit less vitriolic) as Fred Moody's verbal diarrhoea, and that got posted to/. too. It also got people clicking on links, viewing banner ads and posting comments.
Hip HIp! I'm as quick to bash Americans as the next guy, but Land Rovers are British, and they've been around about twice as long as Ford Explorers and the lot.
That said, I think the US started producing Jeeps an awfully long time ago, so I don't really know who invented SUVs.:)
(OT) Don't forget Toyota; their Land Cruiser has been around *forever*.. since the '30s, IIRC. And GM's Suburban has been around since '36.
As for voting, I didn't vote. I have a flu and am too sick to leave the house:( Next time, though, I'm requesting an absentee ballot.
Otherwise, though, I would probably vote for Nader (Browne's not on the ballot here in Arizona; it's some other LP candidate).
...it's a specification for an OS. You have an OS, you go to the Open Group and submit it for tests. They tell you if it's UNIX. (More accurately, they tell you if it's UNIX98 or UNIX95 compliant, which gives you the right to call it UNIX. Linux and the BSDs have not undergone this or paid for the branding and, thus, are not UNIX.)
As for the "special software", I certainly hope it doesn't run on any existing OS, as they're all WAY too unstable. (you can't deny that, Linux zealots;)
Umm.. I don't see why a RTOS like Wind River VxWorks or QNX wouldn't be reliable enough for this; they already run things like nuclear power plants (and VxWorks was the OS on the Mars Pathfinder project back in '96.)
Are we sure this is legit? Huge parts of this thing look too much like Win2000 for me to be convinced this isn't someone's idea of "good use of free time" and Gimp. Yeah, the "enhanced" parts look good, but against the backdrop that looks almost exactly like w2k... It's enough to send up a red flag in my book...
This is still a very early pre-alpha release; of course it looks like Win2K, since they haven't had much time to change the Win2K codebase significantly yet. Much like, say, Linux 2.3.1 wasn't noticeably different from, say, Linux 2.2.8.
I love Linux and all, and I guess it's good to have it available on even more hardware, but why would you throw out an excellent OS like Sun's in favor of Linux? What benefits are there to Linux that don't already exist on a Sun?
Because the older Suns don't run Solaris very well anymore. (The whole Linux-runs-well-on-lesser-hardware argument). I for one am considering putting SuSE on my SPARCstation 10, because Solaris 7 *crawls* on it.
I don't think anybody's going to be installing SuSE on an E10K anytime soon, though..
The Chernobyl disaster was as much a function of reactor design as poor disaster mitigation. The USSR reactor design at the time raised the graphite control rods from below rather than the American method of lowering them. The advantage of the American method is in the event of a runaway reaction the control rods drop in to the core stifling the reaction before the core can melt through and breach the reactor core housing.
Ummm... no. The Soviet RBMK reactors (like Chernobyl, which was/is an RBMK-1000) lowered the rods into the reactor core, whereas the American reactors are not graphite-moderated at all (rather, they are moderated by heavy water.)
In Chernobyl, the "American method" you describe above was exactly how Chernobyl's plant worked: the crew attempted to lower the rods into the reactor, but they jammed because they tried to lower them too fast...
Don't know about WinME, but I have Windows 2000 Professional on one of my desktops, and it's command-line support is exactly the same as NT 4.0's. There's no DOS mode available, of course (NT is not/was never based on DOS), but many command-line utilities remain (such as ping, ipconfig, and net). The command prompt available (the equivalent of Win9x's MS-DOS Prompt in the Start menu) is CMD.EXE, a Win32 application which runs in the character subsystem, as opposed to the GUI subsystem. It basically emulates a DOS command prompt, so commands like DEL and REN are still available.
Stupidity is a very dangerous thing. Stupidity disguised as intelligence is public enemy no 1 of humanity. You don't believe me? Look at how extreme stupidity drove Germans to elect Hitler.
Ummm.. Hitler was never elected to anything. Paul von Hindenburg was elected President in 1932, and appointed Hitler as chancellor shortly thereafter. Also, how was voting for Hitler in 1932 "extreme stupidity?" You've never dealt with massive hyperinflation like the Germans under the Weimar government, and other parties had failed to provide any results.
Try actually doing some research next time, and your point might appear better-made by virtue of actually being based on facts instead of popular myths.
I'm not sure everyone would have sue for this, but a pci card that used the bus for little (if anything) more than power and a fast lan connection. Plug a p3+ram+video+?sound card into a pci slot, plug in a keyboard, mouse, monitor, maybe speakers, and you've got a dual (or more) mobo case. You could either mount a filesystem from the "host" mobo, or toss an IDE connection on the baord as well. Sound too small to be true? The EspressoPC did it, and while it would obviously have some nasty power requirements, and while it wouldn't be for everyone, it would have a wide number of potential uses:
A few years back, this company called Ross Technologies (recently defunct) sold a product called the SparcPlug, which fit a Sparc/Solaris workstation in a PC's spare 5.25" drive bay, allowing you to run NT and Solaris simultaneously. It had it's own ethernet, but used the PC's keyboard, mouse, monitor, drives, etc., and was sold bundled with a Dell Pentium for around $10k. I don't know if anybody made an actual x86-compatible pc-on-a-card for a PC, though...
I bought Kill 'Em All, Ride the Lightning, And Justice for All, and Metallica on cassette, all of which unfortunately melted in my car. Thus, to replenish my collection, I downloaded each of these albums via Napster. My question is this: do you feel it's wrong for people whose media got destroyed to download the songs that were on this media, and were obtained in a legitimate fashion? In other words, do you view an album as just the physical media with the songs on it, wherein if it gets destryoyed, one should buy another copy, or do you view it more as a "license" to play the music, like with software?
In the case of World War I, the Zimmerman telegram laid the foundation for the United State's entry into the war. The sinking of the Lusitania was more of a final straw. British propaganda was a factor, something that backfired on them in later years when Americans learned how they had been lied to.
Sorry, but that's chronologically inaccurate. The Lusitania was sunk on 7 May 1915, and the Zimmermann telegraph was sent in 1917, the year the US entered the war. The sinking of the Lusitania wasn't so bad as the Germans resuming unrestricted submarine warfare.
As a student at Arizona State University, representative McGrath's bill would directly affect me (I'm even reading Slashdot from ASU right now!) I have several questions regarding this bill:
1) McGrath states that using school computers/internet connections for anything other than research is a waste of taxpayers' money. If this is all paid for by taxpayers, where does my tuition money go?
2) Would I be prohibited from reading Slashdot and Freshmeat as well as porno sites?
3) I have a friend who's a security guard, and he says one of the most common arrests is of people having sex on the 50-yard line at Sun Devil Stadium. With this in mind, why is MCGrath so concerned about consenting adults doing it privately, in a dorm room?
4) College students are some of the most proficient crackers around. The administrators at ASU aren't the most knowledgeable (they reboot the HP-UX servers every night). Does anyone think a filter will really stop anyone?
I didn't attend college to view pr0n from an OC3, but this just smacks of one lady's deluded attempt to push her Puritan ideals on everyone else.
I would think that dieters would readily convert to metric - would you rather weigh 300 pounds, or 136 kilograms?
Ummm forgive me for being pedantic, but you can't 'weigh' 136 kilograms. Kilograms is a unit of mass, like slugs in the English system. Dieters therefore wouldn't like metric, as they would weigh (136 kg * 9.8 m/s^2), or 1332.8, Newton.
That might explain why all the most impoverished countries seem to make the best vodka: Poland (Belvedere); Russia (Stolichnaya); Finland (Finlandia). I seem to know a little too much about vodka... nevermind.
Ummm.. I wouln't call Finland one of the most impoverished countries.. they have more internet users per capita than the US. (could be because it's so cold there that there's not much to do besides sit in a sauna and drink vodka..:)
Oh yes, and they also make Absolut vodka. They *were* a part of Russia until World War I, so no surprise that they like vodka..
What if WHITE Knight takes BLACK Rook, and this causes mate for WHITE? Surely its not that. But it is said: And Garry, who was convinced I had stated the problem incorrectly, couldn't believe that he and his students had missed it
Impossible. For a player to make a move which is checkmate for himself, he would have to make a move which would put himself in check. This is forbidden by the rules of chess, and thus not a legal move.
"No Earth-like planets are likely to be contained in these new planetary systems, Vogt said. Jupiter-sized planets in oval-shaped or eccentric orbits -- instead of the neatly stacked, circular orbits of our solar system -- would have such gravitational force as to quickly eject any Earth-type planet, he said."
The planets in our solar system are not perfectly circular; they move in a slightly elliptical fashion (as shown by Johannes Kepler 400 years ago.) Also, conventional wisdom about inhabitable planets states that any such planet would have to be about earth-sized: any smaller, and the gravitational force would not be strong enough to retain an atmosphere. Much larger, and the gravitational field would be so strong as to attract large quantities of passing gas, and end up as a giant gas ball (a la Jupiter.) However, there is some postulation that Jupiter actually might be a brown dwarf (in other words, a stillborn K or M-class star), so conventional wisdom could be wrong in this regard.
No, it doesn't come with source; rather, it's distributed under a standard binary-only freeware EULA:
1. Grant Of Limited License; Software Use Restrictions In consideration for your acceptance of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, SGI will grant to you a personal, non-transferable and non-exclusive right to use and execute the Software, without right to sublicense the Software. You agree that you will not modify, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any portion of the Software.
Maybe we'll get some source in the future, but the clauses about reverse-engineering, modifying, decompiling and disassembling would seem to say, "Don't hope for it":(
Chernobyl has four reactors. Reactor #2 exploded in April of 1986, and Reactor #4 caught fire in 1992 and was disabled (without a radiation-leak mishap like six years previously, however.) There are two left that still work, and one of these (#3) is what is being restarted. (I make no claims as to the accuracy of the reactor numbers; I probably mixed them up. Oh well.)
What's interesting is 1) Where the workers will live, seeing as how Pripyat is still uninhabitable, and 2) how the workers will be protected from the vast quantities of Cesium-137 still found in the region.
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I just finished reading this book for my Western Civilisation class. (We also watched the Nova television show in class, but did not finish it). Great book; highly recommended. It's full of interesting plot twists not even mentioned in the review, such as the 'alliance' between John Harrison and Astronomer Royal Edmund Halley (of comet fame), and the relationship between Harrison and highly-esteemed London clockmakers.
The math co processor was onboard during the 386DX as well. That was the difference between the DX and the SX.
Wrong, that was only the 486. The difference between the 386SX and 386Dx was that the latter had full 32-bit data paths and bus paths, while the 386SX had a mixed 32bit/16bit architecture (much like the Motorola m68000).
As would I. I don't run KDE to run Konqueror. I know it's good, but I won't be leaving Window Maker or worse, running WM and KDE at the same time.
I've slandered Mozilla too much already and won't be doing it this time. I can just hope it gets better, because Linux needs an UI independent, modern browser.
You don't need to leave WindowMaker to run Konqueror, you just need to have kdelibs and qt2.2 installed. I'm typing this in in Konqueror running under WindowMaker right now, with no other KDEness in sight.
Europeans are taught english as a second language since birth, since english is pretty prevlant all over the world.
NOt true for all Europeans. In Belgium (where my family's from), the first language is the native language of the region (either French or Flemish). The second is the other national language (ie if you learned French first, your second language would be Flemish). Your third language is English. I would imagine it would be the same in other multilingual countries (ie Switzerland).
Is this a joke? Seriously how did this piece of crap end up on Slashdot which recently has become almost respectable and unbiased?
/. too. It also got people clicking on links, viewing banner ads and posting comments.
Hemos (and others) never said Petreley was right. Remember, one of the major points of Slashdot (now) is to get hits and people posting comments, and this article certainly accomplished this. It *is* food for thought, even though it is (IMHO) unfounded rumour-mongering.
This Petreley column is almost in the same vein (albeit less vitriolic) as Fred Moody's verbal diarrhoea, and that got posted to
You seem to have misspelled "Yuri Gregarin".
:) It's Yuri Gagarin.
So did you
Hip HIp! I'm as quick to bash Americans as the next guy, but Land Rovers are British, and they've been around about twice as long as Ford Explorers and the lot. That said, I think the US started producing Jeeps an awfully long time ago, so I don't really know who invented SUVs. :)
:( Next time, though, I'm requesting an absentee ballot.
Otherwise, though, I would probably vote for Nader (Browne's not on the ballot here in Arizona; it's some other LP candidate).
(OT) Don't forget Toyota; their Land Cruiser has been around *forever*.. since the '30s, IIRC. And GM's Suburban has been around since '36.
As for voting, I didn't vote. I have a flu and am too sick to leave the house
...it's a specification for an OS. You have an OS, you go to the Open Group and submit it for tests. They tell you if it's UNIX. (More accurately, they tell you if it's UNIX98 or UNIX95 compliant, which gives you the right to call it UNIX. Linux and the BSDs have not undergone this or paid for the branding and, thus, are not UNIX.)
As for the "special software", I certainly hope it doesn't run on any existing OS, as they're all WAY too unstable. (you can't deny that, Linux zealots ;)
Umm.. I don't see why a RTOS like Wind River VxWorks or QNX wouldn't be reliable enough for this; they already run things like nuclear power plants (and VxWorks was the OS on the Mars Pathfinder project back in '96.)
Are we sure this is legit? Huge parts of this thing look too much like Win2000 for me to be convinced this isn't someone's idea of "good use of free time" and Gimp. Yeah, the "enhanced" parts look good, but against the backdrop that looks almost exactly like w2k... It's enough to send up a red flag in my book...
This is still a very early pre-alpha release; of course it looks like Win2K, since they haven't had much time to change the Win2K codebase significantly yet. Much like, say, Linux 2.3.1 wasn't noticeably different from, say, Linux 2.2.8.
I love Linux and all, and I guess it's good to have it available on even more hardware, but why would you throw out an excellent OS like Sun's in favor of Linux? What benefits are there to Linux that don't already exist on a Sun?
Because the older Suns don't run Solaris very well anymore. (The whole Linux-runs-well-on-lesser-hardware argument). I for one am considering putting SuSE on my SPARCstation 10, because Solaris 7 *crawls* on it.
I don't think anybody's going to be installing SuSE on an E10K anytime soon, though..
Hitler, who attacked Russia because he felt their army was weak and unattentive because they were fighting Japan in the east.
Actually, Russia and Japan signed a nonagression pact, with the USSR only entering the war against Japan on 8 August, 1945 (2 days after Hiroshima.)
The USSR and Japan did not fight each other for practically the whole war.
The Chernobyl disaster was as much a function of reactor design as poor disaster mitigation. The USSR reactor design at the time raised the graphite control rods from below rather than the American method of lowering them. The advantage of the American method is in the event of a runaway reaction the control rods drop in to the core stifling the reaction before the core can melt through and breach the reactor core housing.
Ummm... no. The Soviet RBMK reactors (like Chernobyl, which was/is an RBMK-1000) lowered the rods into the reactor core, whereas the American reactors are not graphite-moderated at all (rather, they are moderated by heavy water.)
In Chernobyl, the "American method" you describe above was exactly how Chernobyl's plant worked: the crew attempted to lower the rods into the reactor, but they jammed because they tried to lower them too fast...
Don't know about WinME, but I have Windows 2000 Professional on one of my desktops, and it's command-line support is exactly the same as NT 4.0's. There's no DOS mode available, of course (NT is not/was never based on DOS), but many command-line utilities remain (such as ping, ipconfig, and net). The command prompt available (the equivalent of Win9x's MS-DOS Prompt in the Start menu) is CMD.EXE, a Win32 application which runs in the character subsystem, as opposed to the GUI subsystem. It basically emulates a DOS command prompt, so commands like DEL and REN are still available.
Stupidity is a very dangerous thing. Stupidity disguised as intelligence is public enemy no 1 of humanity. You don't believe me? Look at how extreme stupidity drove Germans to elect Hitler.
Ummm.. Hitler was never elected to anything. Paul von Hindenburg was elected President in 1932, and appointed Hitler as chancellor shortly thereafter. Also, how was voting for Hitler in 1932 "extreme stupidity?" You've never dealt with massive hyperinflation like the Germans under the Weimar government, and other parties had failed to provide any results.
Try actually doing some research next time, and your point might appear better-made by virtue of actually being based on facts instead of popular myths.
I'm not sure everyone would have sue for this, but a pci card that used the bus for little (if anything) more than power and a fast lan connection. Plug a p3+ram+video+?sound card into a pci slot, plug in a keyboard, mouse, monitor, maybe speakers, and you've got a dual (or more) mobo case. You could either mount a filesystem from the "host" mobo, or toss an IDE connection on the baord as well. Sound too small to be true? The EspressoPC did it, and while it would obviously have some nasty power requirements, and while it wouldn't be for everyone, it would have a wide number of potential uses:
A few years back, this company called Ross Technologies (recently defunct) sold a product called the SparcPlug, which fit a Sparc/Solaris workstation in a PC's spare 5.25" drive bay, allowing you to run NT and Solaris simultaneously. It had it's own ethernet, but used the PC's keyboard, mouse, monitor, drives, etc., and was sold bundled with a Dell Pentium for around $10k. I don't know if anybody made an actual x86-compatible pc-on-a-card for a PC, though...
I bought Kill 'Em All, Ride the Lightning, And Justice for All, and Metallica on cassette, all of which unfortunately melted in my car. Thus, to replenish my collection, I downloaded each of these albums via Napster. My question is this: do you feel it's wrong for people whose media got destroyed to download the songs that were on this media, and were obtained in a legitimate fashion? In other words, do you view an album as just the physical media with the songs on it, wherein if it gets destryoyed, one should buy another copy, or do you view it more as a "license" to play the music, like with software?
In the case of World War I, the Zimmerman telegram laid the foundation for the United State's entry into the war. The sinking of the Lusitania was more of a final straw. British propaganda was a factor, something that
backfired on them in later years when Americans learned how they had been lied to.
Sorry, but that's chronologically inaccurate. The Lusitania was sunk on 7 May 1915, and the Zimmermann telegraph was sent in 1917, the year the US entered the war. The sinking of the Lusitania wasn't so bad as the Germans resuming unrestricted submarine warfare.
As a student at Arizona State University, representative McGrath's bill would directly affect me (I'm even reading Slashdot from ASU right now!) I have several questions regarding this bill:
1) McGrath states that using school computers/internet connections for anything other than research is a waste of taxpayers' money. If this is all paid for by taxpayers, where does my tuition money go?
2) Would I be prohibited from reading Slashdot and Freshmeat as well as porno sites?
3) I have a friend who's a security guard, and he says one of the most common arrests is of people having sex on the 50-yard line at Sun Devil Stadium. With this in mind, why is MCGrath so concerned about consenting adults doing it privately, in a dorm room?
4) College students are some of the most proficient crackers around. The administrators at ASU aren't the most knowledgeable (they reboot the HP-UX servers every night). Does anyone think a filter will really stop anyone?
I didn't attend college to view pr0n from an OC3, but this just smacks of one lady's deluded attempt to push her Puritan ideals on everyone else.
I would think that dieters would readily convert to metric - would you rather weigh 300 pounds, or 136
kilograms?
Ummm forgive me for being pedantic, but you can't 'weigh' 136 kilograms. Kilograms is a unit of mass, like slugs in the English system. Dieters therefore wouldn't like metric, as they would weigh (136 kg * 9.8 m/s^2), or 1332.8, Newton.
That might explain why all the most impoverished countries seem to make the best vodka: Poland (Belvedere); Russia ... nevermind.
:)
(Stolichnaya); Finland (Finlandia). I seem to know a little too much about vodka
Ummm.. I wouln't call Finland one of the most impoverished countries.. they have more internet users per capita than the US. (could be because it's so cold there that there's not much to do besides sit in a sauna and drink vodka..
Oh yes, and they also make Absolut vodka. They *were* a part of Russia until World War I, so no surprise that they like vodka..
I just had a very disturbing thought.
What if WHITE Knight takes BLACK Rook, and this causes mate for WHITE? Surely its not that. But it is said: And Garry, who was convinced I had stated the problem incorrectly, couldn't believe that he and his
students had missed it
Impossible. For a player to make a move which is checkmate for himself, he would have to make a move which would put himself in check. This is forbidden by the rules of chess, and thus not a legal move.
"No Earth-like planets are likely to be contained in these new planetary systems, Vogt said. Jupiter-sized planets in oval-shaped or
eccentric orbits -- instead of the neatly stacked, circular orbits of our solar system -- would have such gravitational force as to
quickly eject any Earth-type planet, he said."
The planets in our solar system are not perfectly circular; they move in a slightly elliptical fashion (as shown by Johannes Kepler 400 years ago.) Also, conventional wisdom about inhabitable planets states that any such planet would have to be about earth-sized: any smaller, and the gravitational force would not be strong enough to retain an atmosphere. Much larger, and the gravitational field would be so strong as to attract large quantities of passing gas, and end up as a giant gas ball (a la Jupiter.) However, there is some postulation that Jupiter actually might be a brown dwarf (in other words, a stillborn K or M-class star), so conventional wisdom could be wrong in this regard.
No, it doesn't come with source; rather, it's distributed under a standard binary-only freeware EULA:
:(
1. Grant Of Limited License; Software Use Restrictions In consideration for your acceptance of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, SGI will grant to you a personal, non-transferable and non-exclusive right to use and execute the Software, without right to sublicense the Software. You agree that you will not modify, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any portion of the Software.
Maybe we'll get some source in the future, but the clauses about reverse-engineering, modifying, decompiling and disassembling would seem to say, "Don't hope for it"
Chernobyl has four reactors. Reactor #2 exploded in April of 1986, and Reactor #4 caught fire in 1992 and was disabled (without a radiation-leak mishap like six years previously, however.) There are two left that still work, and one of these (#3) is what is being restarted. (I make no claims as to the accuracy of the reactor numbers; I probably mixed them up. Oh well.)
What's interesting is 1) Where the workers will live, seeing as how Pripyat is still uninhabitable, and 2) how the workers will be protected from the vast quantities of Cesium-137 still found in the region.