So it uses Linux to run the prime webserver, using high-speed radio Net connections.
Some of the Canada geese complained of the radiation, but after it was pointed out that this was the point of the Monolith, they settled down quietly to hatch their new and improved offspring.
the first time someone told me that there was a troll under the fremont bridge I thought she was pulling my leg
Heheheh. The first time I showed someone the Troll, we were having an escalating Slug Bug war (which in Fremont and Wallingford, is kind of insane... you get bruises that don't heal after you've been playing for two days).
Needless to say, I got major kudos for that particular slug bug when she saw the troll.:>)
The point is that to retain memory, DRAM requires not only power but a properly operating controller to supply the refresh cycles
Then use Static RAM with 5ns (or lower) cycle times instead. The idea has lots of problems, but the type of memory required (which isn't specified) isn't one of them.
Hang on a sec here. The earth is a sphere. Ok, not really a sphere, but it is pretty ball shaped. So the paths from house to house are going to be curved. Especially ocean crossing ones. So shouldn't Santa's sleigh travel upside down to prevent him from being flung into deep space as well as being crushed to jelly and vaporised?
Not really. At the speeds he'd supposedly be going, you can pretty much assume that Earth's gravity is irrelevant to the discussion.
Besides, what would he be flung *by*? I thought Santa was in control of his flight?
It'd be a good idea not to fly in a completely straight line though.
Well, I'm sad enough to have done the calculations, and I think they're at least a factor of 1000 off on their estimate of the force that Santa would experience.
Not to mention that using 'centrifugal' force in this in any way at all is just plain wrong. The only way you should be calculating it is given the time between houses, and the distance between them, what acceleration is needed. To do this, you half the time and the distance, so it gives him time to slow down without completely destroying himself. (You decelerate at the halfway point).
Either way, when I worked it out, it was something like 51 million times normal gravity -- and about 90% the speed of light at the half-way point.
Any scientist who uses the term 'centrifugal force' when working on anything other than (a) a washing machine, (b) a centrifuge, or (c) press releases, deserves to be beaten repeatedly with their own brain.
Simon
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Deja.com is an awesome resource, it's good to have it back.
It didn't go away. The actual resource part of it was always there.
However, it was severely crippled when they limited it to May 15 1999. You can't get anything before then out of the archives.
So in some ways it never went away. Certainly, it isn't back by any stretch of the imagination. It'll only be back when the full archive is back online.
Hello-o-o-o, ZDNet is one of the most Microsoft bias sources around. Just read thier headlines, they're always bashing the Sun defense. I don't have any respect for news sources of this type. There's absolutely nothing in this article that even remotely represents Sun. Even if it's a quote, it's still in PRINT! Don't try to say that the editor is not trying to say something here just becuase it's a quote.
Ummm... Mary Jo Foley is one of the more 'critical of Microsoft' journalists out there. Check out her Smart Reseller articles.
Please MS is notorious for inserting undocumented "features" into just about everything. I wonder how much disk space that damn excel flight simulator takes up on your hard disk.
The mall he goes into to visit RePet is the Toronto Eaton's Centre!
I live in T.O. and that one scene killed the disbelief for a little bit. A 3000km Taxi ride??!:)
Sure about that? There's a suspiciously similar one in Vancouever about 5 blocks west of the American Embassy.
I'm sorry, but putting Torvalds in the same breath as Einstein is grounds for summary execution as far as I'm concerned. Also, memory is holographic -- you'd have a hard time editing it in any way.
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Remember, too, that Windows has, for Microsoft, no marginal cost: A hardware manufacturer makes copies from a master disk for each new PC it sells.
Marginal costs are not a true measure of costs to a company for developing software. Sure, the marginal cost is near zero (or closer to $3.00 if you buy it in a store). So what? What about the cost of R&D? Marketing? Sales departments? Legal departments? Designers, artists, foleys, etc. all still need to get paid.
They pay this cost up front, and amortize the rest over time. The average MS software package gives you 90 days of free tech support. This can cost MS anywhere upwards of $5 per call.
So it DOES cost a lot of money to produce windows. Just because the media doesn't cost much, that doesn't mean that it doesn't cost anything to create.
They are for print... I beive tthat fonts were originally designed for use on paper, not monitors. While it may look better on the screen because of high resolutions and such, it is a bit misrepresenting of fonts if you would change them on the screen and not on paper.
That's what hinting algorithms are for -- to bridge the gap.
Some good technical information on exactly what sub-pixel rasterizing and ClearType is all about can be found here [Steve Gibson's Website]. (I like it because it shows that Microsoft is once again reinventing the wheel and calling it "new".:))
The problem is that when it comes to ClearType, Steve Gibson doesn't have a frickin' clue. If you'd like to see someone who does, try reading A
href="http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Rid ge/6664/ClearType.html">Ron
Feigenblatt's website for a more balanced (and informed) view on this.
And here's what the Microsoft Research team has to say about what ClearType actually is -- be warned, except for the first link, it's highly technical:
Brief
overview
IEEE
paper on the technology
Paper for the
Society for Information Display Symposium
Try reading those. Gibson
literally does not know what he's talking about here. For a start, what the
Apple II does is NOT sub-pixel rendering. It's not even pixel-color splitting,
as all the color splitting occurs in the NTSC signal, not at the phosphor level
(you'll see more than one green phosphor per green pixel).
Simon
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See Steve Gibson's comments at his Web site about this. (Sorry, too lazy to give an exact URL.) He debunks M$ quite effectively (and has some quite nice examples, which I'd love to see on a laptop).
Try reading those. Gibson literally does not know what he's talking about here. For a start, what the Apple II does is NOT sub-pixel rendering. It's not even pixel-color splitting, as all the color splitting occurs in the NTSC signal, not at the phosphor level (you'll see more than one green phosphor per green pixel).
... i've used NT also, you can't really control the bloat, everything is one huge GUI/OS and it's horribly slow on Pentium II 400's, i'd hate to see it on a P200.
Given that NT ran fine on my old 486 DX2/66... I'd say that you're talking complete crap.
Thanks for the info on ESR, that has nothing to do with the subject. On robes, note that they are worn by judges, clerics and academitians. Whatever!
Only during ceremonies or official duties. I don't recall there being a history of, nor official use of, long flowing robes in computer science and/or engineering. And least, not in the last 300 years.
As for it being irrelevant -- no, it's not irrelevant. The point demonstrated is that zealots don't necessarily follow logic or clear thinking when pushing their position on other people. This includes ESR -- though he's not even in the same league of fruitloops as RSM.
What have you done with your life, Simon Cookie? Your homepage, dripping with sappy poetry and a copyright notice(!), does not show much.
Plenty, thanks. The copyright notice is because -- guess what? -- the site is copyright to me. That includes all articles posted therein, and all the material on it. If you want more details, I'm afraid you'd have to ask me privately. Let's put it this way; I've done a lot more at my tender age of 25 years than most people have done by age 40.
Perhaps in this situation though, this particular trojan was concocted by a MS advocate that is afraid of how close Linux is getting. Wants to put a bad spin on things. Dunno, just a thought.
Is this because Linux users are by nature not malicious, petty, vengeful, or stupid?
Please -- open your eyes. You're dealing with people here. In any given sample, you'll have a certain number of misguided kooks who don't have a clue. Does the fact that it was a stupid thing to do automatically mean that it wasn't a Linux user? Nope. Sorry. The OSS community has its fair share of kooks and idiots too (as evidenced when ESR turned up to that Windows Refund thing in a jedi robe... what a schmuck).
hmm, I'm not so sure about that. Win9x has a 32 bit kernel there, (C:\windows\system\kernel32.dll)Anyway- it's still a 32 bit kludge, single user, and I bet you'll still be able to get around the 'password' by pushing [ESC].
No, it is not Win95's kernel. Whistler is the Win2k kernel. I'm running the beta. It is the Win2k kernel. The memory model is different. It runs Win2k drivers, not Win98, WinME or any other. It has NTFS. It does not run DOS apps. It is the Win2k kernel.
And so what if you can get around the system without having a password? For home users, that's perfectly acceptable.
This method is extremely quick. I also use 4NT (shell replacement) when I need to do command line stuff. Some things are just easier from the command line, and 4NT has [Tab] filename completion (the only indispensable CLI tool IMO).
In HKEY_CURRENT_USERS, search for "CompletionChar". Set this to '0x09'.
Hey presto - Tab filename completion without having to get 4NT:)
In fact it was the US navy that obtained the machines from sinking U-boats.
That's nothing. I keep trying to get Fox Mulder (nice guy -- works for the X-Files division of the FBI) to investigate a time machine that was built using stolen plutonium as fuel during the mid-eighties. The Libyans were involved, and the guy who built the machine was shot and killed with a machine gun.
For some reason, the FBI keep returning my mail with "Not at this address" stamped on top of it.
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So it uses Linux to run the prime webserver, using high-speed radio Net connections.
Some of the Canada geese complained of the radiation, but after it was pointed out that this was the point of the Monolith, they settled down quietly to hatch their new and improved offspring.
Goose tumor, anyone?
the first time someone told me that there was a troll under the fremont bridge I thought she was pulling my leg
:>)
Heheheh. The first time I showed someone the Troll, we were having an escalating Slug Bug war (which in Fremont and Wallingford, is kind of insane... you get bruises that don't heal after you've been playing for two days).
Needless to say, I got major kudos for that particular slug bug when she saw the troll.
The point is that to retain memory, DRAM requires not only power but a properly operating controller to supply the refresh cycles
Then use Static RAM with 5ns (or lower) cycle times instead. The idea has lots of problems, but the type of memory required (which isn't specified) isn't one of them.
Simon
Hang on a sec here. The earth is a sphere. Ok, not really a sphere, but it is pretty ball shaped. So the paths from house to house are going to be curved. Especially ocean crossing ones. So shouldn't Santa's sleigh travel upside down to prevent him from being flung into deep space as well as being crushed to jelly and vaporised?
Not really. At the speeds he'd supposedly be going, you can pretty much assume that Earth's gravity is irrelevant to the discussion.
Besides, what would he be flung *by*? I thought Santa was in control of his flight?
It'd be a good idea not to fly in a completely straight line though.
Simon
Well, I'm sad enough to have done the calculations, and I think they're at least a factor of 1000 off on their estimate of the force that Santa would experience.
Not to mention that using 'centrifugal' force in this in any way at all is just plain wrong. The only way you should be calculating it is given the time between houses, and the distance between them, what acceleration is needed. To do this, you half the time and the distance, so it gives him time to slow down without completely destroying himself. (You decelerate at the halfway point).
Either way, when I worked it out, it was something like 51 million times normal gravity -- and about 90% the speed of light at the half-way point.
Any scientist who uses the term 'centrifugal force' when working on anything other than (a) a washing machine, (b) a centrifuge, or (c) press releases, deserves to be beaten repeatedly with their own brain.
Simon
Deja.com is an awesome resource, it's good to have it back.
It didn't go away. The actual resource part of it was always there.
However, it was severely crippled when they limited it to May 15 1999. You can't get anything before then out of the archives.
So in some ways it never went away. Certainly, it isn't back by any stretch of the imagination. It'll only be back when the full archive is back online.
Simon
Hello-o-o-o, ZDNet is one of the most Microsoft bias sources around. Just read thier headlines, they're always bashing the Sun defense. I don't have any respect for news sources of this type. There's absolutely nothing in this article that even remotely represents Sun. Even if it's a quote, it's still in PRINT! Don't try to say that the editor is not trying to say something here just becuase it's a quote.
Ummm... Mary Jo Foley is one of the more 'critical of Microsoft' journalists out there. Check out her Smart Reseller articles.
Or, particularly, this one.
Simon
Please MS is notorious for inserting undocumented "features" into just about everything. I wonder how much disk space that damn excel flight simulator takes up on your hard disk.
About 65536 bytes - why?
Simon
The mall he goes into to visit RePet is the Toronto Eaton's Centre!
I live in T.O. and that one scene killed the disbelief for a little bit. A 3000km Taxi ride??!:)
Sure about that? There's a suspiciously similar one in Vancouever about 5 blocks west of the American Embassy.
Simon
I'm sorry, but putting Torvalds in the same breath as Einstein is grounds for summary execution as far as I'm concerned. Also, memory is holographic -- you'd have a hard time editing it in any way.
Remember, too, that Windows has, for Microsoft, no marginal cost: A hardware manufacturer makes copies from a master disk for each new PC it sells.
Marginal costs are not a true measure of costs to a company for developing software. Sure, the marginal cost is near zero (or closer to $3.00 if you buy it in a store). So what? What about the cost of R&D? Marketing? Sales departments? Legal departments? Designers, artists, foleys, etc. all still need to get paid.
They pay this cost up front, and amortize the rest over time. The average MS software package gives you 90 days of free tech support. This can cost MS anywhere upwards of $5 per call.
So it DOES cost a lot of money to produce windows. Just because the media doesn't cost much, that doesn't mean that it doesn't cost anything to create.
You might want to think about that.
Simon
They are for print... I beive tthat fonts were originally designed for use on paper, not monitors. While it may look better on the screen because of high resolutions and such, it is a bit misrepresenting of fonts if you would change them on the screen and not on paper.
That's what hinting algorithms are for -- to bridge the gap.
Simon
Some good technical information on exactly what sub-pixel rasterizing and ClearType is all about can be found here [Steve Gibson's Website]. (I like it because it shows that Microsoft is once again reinventing the wheel and calling it "new". :))
d ge /6664/ClearType.html">Ron
The problem is that when it comes to ClearType, Steve Gibson doesn't have a frickin' clue. If you'd like to see someone who does, try reading A
href="http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Ri
Feigenblatt's website for a more balanced (and informed) view on this.
And here's what the Microsoft Research team has to say about what ClearType actually is -- be warned, except for the first link, it's highly technical:
Brief
overview
IEEE
paper on the technology
Paper for the
Society for Information Display Symposium
Try reading those. Gibson
literally does not know what he's talking about here. For a start, what the
Apple II does is NOT sub-pixel rendering. It's not even pixel-color splitting,
as all the color splitting occurs in the NTSC signal, not at the phosphor level
(you'll see more than one green phosphor per green pixel).
Simon
See Steve Gibson's comments at his Web site about this. (Sorry, too lazy to give an exact URL.) He debunks M$ quite effectively (and has some quite nice examples, which I'd love to see on a laptop).
No, he doesn't.
See Ron Feigenblatt's website for a more balanced (and informed) view on this.
And here's what ClearType is from the Microsoft Research team:
Brief overview
IEEE paper on the technology
Paper for the Society for Information Display Symposium
Try reading those. Gibson literally does not know what he's talking about here. For a start, what the Apple II does is NOT sub-pixel rendering. It's not even pixel-color splitting, as all the color splitting occurs in the NTSC signal, not at the phosphor level (you'll see more than one green phosphor per green pixel).
Simon
... i've used NT also, you can't really control the bloat, everything is one huge GUI/OS and it's horribly slow on Pentium II 400's, i'd hate to see it on a P200.
Given that NT ran fine on my old 486 DX2/66... I'd say that you're talking complete crap.
Simon
Thanks for the info on ESR, that has nothing to do with the subject. On robes, note that they are worn by judges, clerics and academitians. Whatever!
Only during ceremonies or official duties. I don't recall there being a history of, nor official use of, long flowing robes in computer science and/or engineering. And least, not in the last 300 years.
As for it being irrelevant -- no, it's not irrelevant. The point demonstrated is that zealots don't necessarily follow logic or clear thinking when pushing their position on other people. This includes ESR -- though he's not even in the same league of fruitloops as RSM.
What have you done with your life, Simon Cookie? Your homepage, dripping with sappy poetry and a copyright notice(!), does not show much.
Plenty, thanks. The copyright notice is because -- guess what? -- the site is copyright to me. That includes all articles posted therein, and all the material on it. If you want more details, I'm afraid you'd have to ask me privately. Let's put it this way; I've done a lot more at my tender age of 25 years than most people have done by age 40.
Simon
Perhaps in this situation though, this particular trojan was concocted by a MS advocate that is afraid of how close Linux is getting. Wants to put a bad spin on things. Dunno, just a thought.
Is this because Linux users are by nature not malicious, petty, vengeful, or stupid?
Please -- open your eyes. You're dealing with people here. In any given sample, you'll have a certain number of misguided kooks who don't have a clue. Does the fact that it was a stupid thing to do automatically mean that it wasn't a Linux user? Nope. Sorry. The OSS community has its fair share of kooks and idiots too (as evidenced when ESR turned up to that Windows Refund thing in a jedi robe... what a schmuck).
Simon
Anyways samba isn't linux, but MS people like to think it is. Just like the other 60,000 apps out there that run on it.
Half of which are text editors, the other half being mail, Usenet and IRC clients.
Oh, and a brace of fancy colored versions of LS
Simon
hmm, I'm not so sure about that. Win9x has a 32 bit kernel there, (C:\windows\system\kernel32.dll)Anyway- it's still a 32 bit kludge, single user, and I bet you'll still be able to get around the 'password' by pushing [ESC].
No, it is not Win95's kernel. Whistler is the Win2k kernel. I'm running the beta. It is the Win2k kernel. The memory model is different. It runs Win2k drivers, not Win98, WinME or any other. It has NTFS. It does not run DOS apps. It is the Win2k kernel.
And so what if you can get around the system without having a password? For home users, that's perfectly acceptable.
Simon
This method is extremely quick. I also use 4NT (shell replacement) when I need to do command line stuff. Some things are just easier from the command line, and 4NT has [Tab] filename completion (the only indispensable CLI tool IMO).
:)
In HKEY_CURRENT_USERS, search for "CompletionChar". Set this to '0x09'.
Hey presto - Tab filename completion without having to get 4NT
You can also download TweakUI to get it too.
Si
Whistler's 32bit. It's the Win2k kernel.
Open With menu in Explorer, Be.
That's been in Windows since Win95 (hold down shift, right-click). So when did Be have it?
The kill task on exit, Be
What's that do then?
Simon
In fact it was the US navy that obtained the machines from sinking U-boats.
That's nothing. I keep trying to get Fox Mulder (nice guy -- works for the X-Files division of the FBI) to investigate a time machine that was built using stolen plutonium as fuel during the mid-eighties. The Libyans were involved, and the guy who built the machine was shot and killed with a machine gun.
For some reason, the FBI keep returning my mail with "Not at this address" stamped on top of it.
Simon
From a technical point of view, a moral point of view or what?
you could rip it for him, but sigh... where oh WHERE to find a copy of deCSS?
And why would he want to do something illegal like that?
Simon