These are DVD's you have to gouge the surface pretty bad to damage the data layer, which is in the middle. Clearly he's happy that unlike CD's when he 'barely scratched the surface' his knoppix 4.0 DVD kept working normally.
Amtrack was designed to be failure. In order to bolster the aviation industry, which the railroad tycoons of the day were heavily against, the government broke up the railroad 'monopolies' and replaced them with a 'designed to fail' government corporation. America had plenty of well designed straight line tracks... for the most part they've long been decommisioned. they are now part of state trail systems, or owned by private entities that have nothing to do with railroads eg: ranchers.
It is true, however that japan has half the US population inside a country roughly the size of california.. This makes trains a more attractive form of mass transit than airplanes. Since the cost of flying someone 200 KM is so much grater than sending them there on a bullet train. However, the biggest single difference is that the japanese government didn't 'break up' the companies that were making profit on railroads to 'pave the way' for airlines.
Consider how much easier life would be in major cities if in fact the railroad tycoons had built commuter rail lines with the fortunes they had accrued.. but no the american govermnent stepped in to take out an enemy of the 'people' the railroad tycoons, for the benefit of ford motor co, and the aviation industry.
it's not the number of readers.. it's the bandwith of the readers;) do you know anyone on slashdot with LESS than a 3 megabit connection? who reads the main page? I don't. I know people with less who read journals here, on less but not front page readers. how many dialup users are using wikipidia? how many aol users are reading nytimes?
but you've got a point, a slashdotting just isn't what it used to be. It hasn't been for a long time, in the golden days of tech tv TSS was slashdotting sites that slashdot had failed to bring down...
The problem with cable internet is two fold, a. crappy modems that overheat in any room that ever goes above 60 degrees F. and b. crappy deployments where too many subscribers are branched off one network, and when one opens a torrent they all get hosed down to dial up speed. To deal with A. I have a mini fridge my cable modem, and router/firewall are both sitting happily at 40 degrees F, and I can download/game/whatever to my hearts content. to deal with B. well, frankly that hasn't happend to me in a while, A. has happend with 2 of 3 cable companies (one was a motorola modem, the other was cheap no-name rebranded motorola chip based modem from china) so if I wasn't smarter than my isp, I'd be pissed as hell..
appologies I was going to use the more generic 'draws from FreeBSD code base.' I did average drive platter read times, so there are drive that can read the whole platter in ~1hr because they spin at 15k rpm... however, my point was the MTBF for a wear leveled flash based drive is as good or better than a modern rotational platter drive, of the same storage size.
swap space use can be highly customized, especially if it's possible to cause premature failure of a hard drive;) Give apple some credit, they'd ship a 'tweaked' configuration where the swap algorythm was optomized to reduce hard drive writes. Windows XP already tries to do this with 'persistant caching' of commonly loaded DLLs that end up in swap space, they stay in the swap file across reboots etc.
the main problem with flash drives has always been cost, however, notebook drives are spendy enough, and flash densities have gone high enough that it's now becoming feasible to use flash memory instead of rotational drives, at least on certain models of notebook.
Actually, it's called a 'joke', or 'teasing' look up a 'sense of humor' in a dictionary some time;)
but seriously, prior to wear leveling (ie: antique 32MB cards, early controllers/drivers etc..) this was a valid statement, however cards back then only had 10k or fewer rewrite cycles. the rewrite cycles have gone up 10 fold, and wear leveling makes sure that data that is 'rewritten' is actually written on a portion of the disc that was previously determined to be a low write, freely alloctabale block, and they always keep spare low write sectors available. it's even possible for a hard drive such as this to Warn users of impending drive failure. BTW when a block on a 'flash' based drive 'fails' it falls back into read only mode. only the data it attempted to write must now be written somewhere else.
Also, to get back on track the MTBF for most platter based hard drives is something along the lines of 50,0000 hours for a really top notch drive, reading/writing the entire disc will on average take ~2 hours, requardless of capacity, because that's how long it takes the data heads to travel the entire platter surface area... so statistically, you have 25k write cycles before failure on a conventional hard drive. so how is that inferior to flash memory? and remember, this is APPLE Macintosh running of a FreeBSD derived kernel. put the right amount of ram in the laptop, and it will _never_ use swap space.
i prefer the hard drives that release a mild electric charge at the exact frequency and wavelength to stop a human heart instantly. for one, there is no burning corpse to dispose of, just a normal 'oh he had a heart attack' corpse to get rid of, a simple 911 call, the forensics finds his heart stopped, since the electric shock is so low voltage there are no burn marks, and none the wiser..
That's why I now use an automated system involving monks and papyrus scrolls for all my data.
a 2000 year life span for the data if it's properly preserved? phaw, I have a dedicated array of Neanderthals drawing painting in caves. depending on geological stability I demand 35,000+ years of data storage life.
If you require your unix admins to maintain an NT skill set, you can migrate to an an entirely windows based environment, and since you're a large enterprize, you can make microsoft provide you a site license for less for dropping unix in favor of windows, because they can then issue press releases about the successful adoption of windows as a unix replacment....
well, it's only a theory, but I've had crazier ones.
flawed logic... i'l just give you some statistics on bug patching, for every 100 bugs 'patched' 4 new bugs tend to be produced in code... the same is likely to be true with security holes etc. new code will tend to have new holes as well, as far as arresting all the criminals goes, that worked really great with the war on drugs. the 1970's called, they want thier plan back.
i use gaim, gaim is kick ass, it supports everything _I_ need it to do, which is message my friends online. it supports file transfers too, although only yahoo!'s push file transfer support works ^^;
I wasnt' saying for geeks, let me clarify, this is for geeks, to use for a family member who came to them for a 'deal' of a system that won't give them a ton of headaches. you probabbly have relatives right now who are struggling with low salary incomes, and if you've networked in your own family, they're going to turn to you to help them configure a cheap pc, and they really don't give a damn if the copy of windows is legit, they just care the computer is cheap if it's harder to support them with a pirated windows copy, then it's going to be easier to convince them that 'linux' is good enough for them for a 'family pc'
it's a cat and mouse game, and frankly the hackers crack the encryption for the challenge of doing it, because frankly not everyone should have to pay the highway robbery price of windows... even bill gates can be quoted as saying 'software should be free' from back in the day when geeks traded puch tapes of code in the back of vans and copied them;)
copy protection is worthless, imo, windows would be better off just trying to convince people that piracy is bad, like the mpaa is trying to do with the ads at the front of dvds that can't be skipped... they'd be better off having an advertisment on the windows load screen and/or as the default screen saver than to put tons and tons of protection that will eventually be cracked for the challenge of it;)
Piracy is bad, but most of the people who resort to it, are desperate, a few are criminal, but most people aren't that bad. the worst are the crack addicts selling dvds/software on street corners to buy thier next hit... and frankly you don't have to be a crack addict to try that, if you need to have that 10 grand configuration of the dual g-5 2.7gh with 30" apple cinema display, and dual 400 GB hds, and 4 GB of ram... and don't have a job what better way than to sell pirated dvds/software on the street to score the cash without feeling really bad about yourself...
Note: the rest of this post is rambling, and may be inchoerant, feel free to skip it, i only included it for the people who like reading my comments..
Windows has a high price point, because they make a lot more money that way, eventually this will change, because really, you're paying for the 'value added' with commercially packaged software.. So really all microsoft is trying to do is protect the value they added to the basic functions of an os, but reguardless, all they need to do is make it hard enough, they don't need to stop everyone... they just need to be able to contain the flow of illegal copies because unlike apple, they're not a hardware company, all they do is write a complex piece of stoftware that is intended to run on virtually every POS baddly designed motherboard and chipset out there... apple, doesn't do that, they just write one for thier own hardware, which makes it a lot easier. but really, pirated copies of windows that are 'reasonably' difficult to get are no worse for windows than linux. If windows becomes too hard for some system builders to pirate, they will just install linux, and explain 'it's less prone to viruses than windows' they will be forced to switch to linux, and linux certified hardware, the better windows copy protection gets, the better it is for linux, frankly. not everyone needs a true gaming rig, and frankly a lot fo the people who have one probabbly are sleeping on a mattress someone threw away in the trash;) linux has enough interesting games for the casual user, and firefox can be set up so web sites with games can be played too, which is what most casual users think of when they think of online gaming, they think og site like pogo or yahoo! games;)
okay i'm rambling sorry, but making the cracks too easy to get just helps windows market share... cracking the encryption to be the guy/gal who did it is fine, but if you want to help the case for linux you simply shouldn't make them easy to get;) so really you're helping microsoft stay number 1 in install base, while eroding thier bottom line, by pirating windows. frankly right now their bottom line isn't hurting that bad... they're worried about it though, because they know the only thing that microsoft does is add value to the basic principals of writing an OS. if anyone can do this better than them (apple comes to mind, at least for retail prepackaged machines) but they can't touch the white box field, because it cost too much money and headaches to polish a piece of software as complex as windows that will run on almost any configuration of standard PC hardware. linux can only make so many inroads because frankly it's being written by geeks in thier spare time, and a few who work for companies and are told to 'maintain' linux for cred etc...
the blog entry that they linked to was kinda vauge on details;) turns out the only math the used was in calculating how tumours grow, and how they prevent immune responses, so they figured out an immune system response they can trigger that will cause the cells that cause tumours to grow to become a 'target' of the patients immune system. no math equasion used to 'cure' it at all, just a little deductive reasoning and science...
from the article, 128Kbps is going to be 10 times faster than the local unreliable copper dialup network;)
But that aside, you may well need an external microwave antenna, if you're truly rural, to get this set up working reliably. It's true that a stock cell phone antenna is going to work poorly if you're far from the tower, but they do make powered signal boosters, intended for rural locations, you should look into what options are available... also, rain is going to cause difficulty with signal reception etc, but if you're on satelite now, that's going to be the same deal. as far as latency goes, microwave energy travels at the speed of light, and follows a direct path (at least to the tower) so frankly if they do the service right you can't get a lower latency service;)
these are worker drones, meant to allow for the care of elderly/children with _less_ human interaction. Imagine if one human operator in central control can operate 250 'healthcare bots' in a nursing home that holds 5,000 patients.
you could cut the amount of healthcare workers needed for a full size nursing home from hundreds to dozens. this has already happened in auto manufacturing, and it's clear that this is toyota's goal. a robotic nursing home system, where cheap affordable robot workers can help grandma into the wheelchair when you go visit her, etc.
you assume dvd subtitles are in iny way related to the original audio content at all. That is a pretty big assumption. As a matter of fact, subtitles are very rarely a solid translation of the words meaning... usually they're an approximation of 'what fit in in the subtitled language.' Sometimes, they're completely ad-libbed. fansubs aren't much better, since many of them are being translated by people just learning how to translate.
I watch a lot of anime, and a lot of fansubs, subtitles are the worst way to learn a language.
Just use a simple filetype:torrent "search string including distro name, platform compatabily(where applicable), and version information(if needed)"
Google ranks the most popular site's torrents first, so you should get the fastest downloads with the top most results... If you want information about distros you're better off going to distrowatch, or some other site that specilizes in provding information about distros...
Google isn't going out of buisness, even if the site that had those torrents listed does, so you can bookmark a 'basic' search like the ones I listed above and 'load them' everytime you hear about a new release on your favorite distro etc.. your mileage may vary, but if you're looking for a specific torrent, google is going to be way faster than any 'browse through all the content that doesn't interest you' type site.
This is as the parent realized just a simple ad, for YAN torrent linking site, such sites are a dime a dozen around the net. It seems like there are about 120 popular sites that link torrents regularly, so this is clearly just an ad for YAN one of those sites, and since they probably don't host a tracker, they're probably doing nothing but taking attention away from the sites that do.
Fact is, by the time a production makes it to broadcast television, it's made all the money it's going to make.
Not so, There is this movie from this small studio called 'Snow white and the seven dwarves' you might have heard fo the studio, they go by the name of 'Disney' Now, I know I've seen this movie on Broadcast television, and I don't have a dollar value off hand for what they've made off the VHS and DVD releases of this movie... but the point is, Even though many many people have seen this, even on broadcast TV, they still buy the movie on DVD.
A lot of movies that make it to broadcast are over and done with in terms of resale value, yes, but some companies have invented ways to milk a 'dead cow.' So you see the reason why the United states of Disney* doesn't want you to be able to record broadcast tv is simple, they want to put some movies on tv, while still milking the dvd sales;)
My sister once redid her ex boyfriend's profile, had the password changed etc... didn't put a nude photo, but put all kinds of wierd shit in his profile to make him look like a sicko...
I think he paid me $20 to 'hack' the account (I knew the password, as my sister had to have me 'help' her do this) and then coz my sister's e-mail was still registered as the main one, she had them change the password back to her again, and I got another $20 to help him fix it again... that tiime i had to tell him it was set to use my sister's e-mail to change his password, so i set him up an e-mail account...
All told I made $40 because of my sister breaking up with her boyfriend... not as impressive as trying to go for $3 million... She's not the first to have an ex defame her online, but she's probably the first to try and sue Yahoo! over it. I think the case law in this is pretty clear though, her Ex boyfriend is the only person who has any culpability, so the judge should rule against her.. But there is a chance that they didn't 'promptly' remove the offensive content, but that would be a slap on the wrist type deal, nothing worth $3 million...
An easy solution for this problem is to 'suspend' images upon a complaint automatically, and upon review, decide if the profile is going to be deleted, or restored. Since yahoo has a number of 'member only' type features, they can probabably get volunteers to do the work for free, but if you don't monitor how often they do the work ect, you can get burned by relying on volunteer workers.. some try to get there just for the perks then do no work;) and if you put a requirment that they accept/reject so many profile complaints they'll just click the same for all of them... without reviewing any of them..
Nah, they sell standard ATX 700 watt PSUs... each card uses 100 watts, the cpu uses ~ 100 watts, the board itself uses ~100 watts, the dvd+hd uses anothe ~100 watts... that comes to about 700 watts... i rounded up a bit, though... and you can always get a Server 800-1100 Watt PSU, if you're not feeling like risking a 700 watt normal ATX PSU...
Wal-mart still has no-os and linux pre-loaded systems for desktops*, but it's looking like right now they have no laptops selling that way.
I guess too many geeks spurned The evil empire of wal-mart, and they too decided it's not worth the effort of trying to explain to customers why the computer 'didn't come with windows'
*= they're looking like they're all legacy type systems that most slashdotters already have more than enough systems at that speed level though...
Don't worry, Wal-mart will never buckle down to pressure from Microsoft. They will continue to sell PCs w/out OSes, and/or w/Linux. Yeah, many people hate Wal-Mart for the pressure they put on vendors/etc... But what other main stream OEM will ship PCs without an OS/ with Linux, and not charge you for a copy of windows? No, Apple doesn't count!
So if you want a Linux Laptop, in the US right now, you've got wal-mart, and some small computer shops that probably have the license cost for windows included in your purchase price.
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These are DVD's you have to gouge the surface pretty bad to damage the data layer, which is in the middle. Clearly he's happy that unlike CD's when he 'barely scratched the surface' his knoppix 4.0 DVD kept working normally.
Amtrack was designed to be failure. In order to bolster the aviation industry, which the railroad tycoons of the day were heavily against, the government broke up the railroad 'monopolies' and replaced them with a 'designed to fail' government corporation. America had plenty of well designed straight line tracks... for the most part they've long been decommisioned. they are now part of state trail systems, or owned by private entities that have nothing to do with railroads eg: ranchers.
It is true, however that japan has half the US population inside a country roughly the size of california.. This makes trains a more attractive form of mass transit than airplanes. Since the cost of flying someone 200 KM is so much grater than sending them there on a bullet train. However, the biggest single difference is that the japanese government didn't 'break up' the companies that were making profit on railroads to 'pave the way' for airlines.
Consider how much easier life would be in major cities if in fact the railroad tycoons had built commuter rail lines with the fortunes they had accrued.. but no the american govermnent stepped in to take out an enemy of the 'people' the railroad tycoons, for the benefit of ford motor co, and the aviation industry.
it's not the number of readers.. it's the bandwith of the readers ;) do you know anyone on slashdot with LESS than a 3 megabit connection? who reads the main page? I don't. I know people with less who read journals here, on less but not front page readers. how many dialup users are using wikipidia? how many aol users are reading nytimes?
but you've got a point, a slashdotting just isn't what it used to be. It hasn't been for a long time, in the golden days of tech tv TSS was slashdotting sites that slashdot had failed to bring down...
The problem with cable internet is two fold, a. crappy modems that overheat in any room that ever goes above 60 degrees F. and b. crappy deployments where too many subscribers are branched off one network, and when one opens a torrent they all get hosed down to dial up speed. To deal with A. I have a mini fridge my cable modem, and router/firewall are both sitting happily at 40 degrees F, and I can download/game/whatever to my hearts content. to deal with B. well, frankly that hasn't happend to me in a while, A. has happend with 2 of 3 cable companies (one was a motorola modem, the other was cheap no-name rebranded motorola chip based modem from china) so if I wasn't smarter than my isp, I'd be pissed as hell..
appologies I was going to use the more generic 'draws from FreeBSD code base.' I did average drive platter read times, so there are drive that can read the whole platter in ~1hr because they spin at 15k rpm... however, my point was the MTBF for a wear leveled flash based drive is as good or better than a modern rotational platter drive, of the same storage size.
;) Give apple some credit, they'd ship a 'tweaked' configuration where the swap algorythm was optomized to reduce hard drive writes. Windows XP already tries to do this with 'persistant caching' of commonly loaded DLLs that end up in swap space, they stay in the swap file across reboots etc.
;)
swap space use can be highly customized, especially if it's possible to cause premature failure of a hard drive
the main problem with flash drives has always been cost, however, notebook drives are spendy enough, and flash densities have gone high enough that it's now becoming feasible to use flash memory instead of rotational drives, at least on certain models of notebook.
Actually, it's called a 'joke', or 'teasing' look up a 'sense of humor' in a dictionary some time
I've even read articles
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What are you doing on
but seriously, prior to wear leveling (ie: antique 32MB cards, early controllers/drivers etc..) this was a valid statement, however cards back then only had 10k or fewer rewrite cycles. the rewrite cycles have gone up 10 fold, and wear leveling makes sure that data that is 'rewritten' is actually written on a portion of the disc that was previously determined to be a low write, freely alloctabale block, and they always keep spare low write sectors available. it's even possible for a hard drive such as this to Warn users of impending drive failure. BTW when a block on a 'flash' based drive 'fails' it falls back into read only mode. only the data it attempted to write must now be written somewhere else.
Also, to get back on track the MTBF for most platter based hard drives is something along the lines of 50,0000 hours for a really top notch drive, reading/writing the entire disc will on average take ~2 hours, requardless of capacity, because that's how long it takes the data heads to travel the entire platter surface area... so statistically, you have 25k write cycles before failure on a conventional hard drive. so how is that inferior to flash memory? and remember, this is APPLE Macintosh running of a FreeBSD derived kernel. put the right amount of ram in the laptop, and it will _never_ use swap space.
i prefer the hard drives that release a mild electric charge at the exact frequency and wavelength to stop a human heart instantly. for one, there is no burning corpse to dispose of, just a normal 'oh he had a heart attack' corpse to get rid of, a simple 911 call, the forensics finds his heart stopped, since the electric shock is so low voltage there are no burn marks, and none the wiser..
That's why I now use an automated system involving monks and papyrus scrolls for all my data.
a 2000 year life span for the data if it's properly preserved? phaw, I have a dedicated array of Neanderthals drawing painting in caves. depending on geological stability I demand 35,000+ years of data storage life.
If you require your unix admins to maintain an NT skill set, you can migrate to an an entirely windows based environment, and since you're a large enterprize, you can make microsoft provide you a site license for less for dropping unix in favor of windows, because they can then issue press releases about the successful adoption of windows as a unix replacment....
well, it's only a theory, but I've had crazier ones.
flawed logic... i'l just give you some statistics on bug patching, for every 100 bugs 'patched' 4 new bugs tend to be produced in code... the same is likely to be true with security holes etc. new code will tend to have new holes as well, as far as arresting all the criminals goes, that worked really great with the war on drugs. the 1970's called, they want thier plan back.
i use gaim, gaim is kick ass, it supports everything _I_ need it to do, which is message my friends online. it supports file transfers too, although only yahoo!'s push file transfer support works ^^;
I wasnt' saying for geeks, let me clarify, this is for geeks, to use for a family member who came to them for a 'deal' of a system that won't give them a ton of headaches. you probabbly have relatives right now who are struggling with low salary incomes, and if you've networked in your own family, they're going to turn to you to help them configure a cheap pc, and they really don't give a damn if the copy of windows is legit, they just care the computer is cheap if it's harder to support them with a pirated windows copy, then it's going to be easier to convince them that 'linux' is good enough for them for a 'family pc'
it's a cat and mouse game, and frankly the hackers crack the encryption for the challenge of doing it, because frankly not everyone should have to pay the highway robbery price of windows... even bill gates can be quoted as saying 'software should be free' from back in the day when geeks traded puch tapes of code in the back of vans and copied them ;)
;)
;) linux has enough interesting games for the casual user, and firefox can be set up so web sites with games can be played too, which is what most casual users think of when they think of online gaming, they think og site like pogo or yahoo! games ;)
;) so really you're helping microsoft stay number 1 in install base, while eroding thier bottom line, by pirating windows. frankly right now their bottom line isn't hurting that bad... they're worried about it though, because they know the only thing that microsoft does is add value to the basic principals of writing an OS. if anyone can do this better than them (apple comes to mind, at least for retail prepackaged machines) but they can't touch the white box field, because it cost too much money and headaches to polish a piece of software as complex as windows that will run on almost any configuration of standard PC hardware. linux can only make so many inroads because frankly it's being written by geeks in thier spare time, and a few who work for companies and are told to 'maintain' linux for cred etc...
copy protection is worthless, imo, windows would be better off just trying to convince people that piracy is bad, like the mpaa is trying to do with the ads at the front of dvds that can't be skipped... they'd be better off having an advertisment on the windows load screen and/or as the default screen saver than to put tons and tons of protection that will eventually be cracked for the challenge of it
Piracy is bad, but most of the people who resort to it, are desperate, a few are criminal, but most people aren't that bad. the worst are the crack addicts selling dvds/software on street corners to buy thier next hit... and frankly you don't have to be a crack addict to try that, if you need to have that 10 grand configuration of the dual g-5 2.7gh with 30" apple cinema display, and dual 400 GB hds, and 4 GB of ram... and don't have a job what better way than to sell pirated dvds/software on the street to score the cash without feeling really bad about yourself...
Note: the rest of this post is rambling, and may be inchoerant, feel free to skip it, i only included it for the people who like reading my comments..
Windows has a high price point, because they make a lot more money that way, eventually this will change, because really, you're paying for the 'value added' with commercially packaged software.. So really all microsoft is trying to do is protect the value they added to the basic functions of an os, but reguardless, all they need to do is make it hard enough, they don't need to stop everyone... they just need to be able to contain the flow of illegal copies because unlike apple, they're not a hardware company, all they do is write a complex piece of stoftware that is intended to run on virtually every POS baddly designed motherboard and chipset out there... apple, doesn't do that, they just write one for thier own hardware, which makes it a lot easier. but really, pirated copies of windows that are 'reasonably' difficult to get are no worse for windows than linux. If windows becomes too hard for some system builders to pirate, they will just install linux, and explain 'it's less prone to viruses than windows' they will be forced to switch to linux, and linux certified hardware, the better windows copy protection gets, the better it is for linux, frankly. not everyone needs a true gaming rig, and frankly a lot fo the people who have one probabbly are sleeping on a mattress someone threw away in the trash
okay i'm rambling sorry, but making the cracks too easy to get just helps windows market share... cracking the encryption to be the guy/gal who did it is fine, but if you want to help the case for linux you simply shouldn't make them easy to get
If someone figures out how to implement that purely in software is a damn genius, and deserves gazillions of dollars.
http://dualis.1emulation.com/
I'd like a 10% finders fee you can forward the remainder of the gazillion dollars to the guy who wrote the DS emulator thx.
(albeit it's for PC, not for psp...)
http://www.hypography.com/article.cfm?id=34220
;) turns out the only math the used was in calculating how tumours grow, and how they prevent immune responses, so they figured out an immune system response they can trigger that will cause the cells that cause tumours to grow to become a 'target' of the patients immune system. no math equasion used to 'cure' it at all, just a little deductive reasoning and science...
http://physics.about.com/b/a/088887.htm
the blog entry that they linked to was kinda vauge on details
from the article, 128Kbps is going to be 10 times faster than the local unreliable copper dialup network ;)
;)
But that aside, you may well need an external microwave antenna, if you're truly rural, to get this set up working reliably. It's true that a stock cell phone antenna is going to work poorly if you're far from the tower, but they do make powered signal boosters, intended for rural locations, you should look into what options are available... also, rain is going to cause difficulty with signal reception etc, but if you're on satelite now, that's going to be the same deal. as far as latency goes, microwave energy travels at the speed of light, and follows a direct path (at least to the tower) so frankly if they do the service right you can't get a lower latency service
a system that can run PCSX2 ;) maybe now we'll get more people developing ps2 emulators ;)
key word 'help'
These are not fully autonymous robots.
these are worker drones, meant to allow for the care of elderly/children with _less_ human interaction. Imagine if one human operator in central control can operate 250 'healthcare bots' in a nursing home that holds 5,000 patients.
you could cut the amount of healthcare workers needed for a full size nursing home from hundreds to dozens. this has already happened in auto manufacturing, and it's clear that this is toyota's goal. a robotic nursing home system, where cheap affordable robot workers can help grandma into the wheelchair when you go visit her, etc.
you assume dvd subtitles are in iny way related to the original audio content at all. That is a pretty big assumption. As a matter of fact, subtitles are very rarely a solid translation of the words meaning... usually they're an approximation of 'what fit in in the subtitled language.' Sometimes, they're completely ad-libbed. fansubs aren't much better, since many of them are being translated by people just learning how to translate.
I watch a lot of anime, and a lot of fansubs, subtitles are the worst way to learn a language.
Slackware
gentoo
debian
mandrake
Just use a simple filetype:torrent "search string including distro name, platform compatabily(where applicable), and version information(if needed)"
Google ranks the most popular site's torrents first, so you should get the fastest downloads with the top most results... If you want information about distros you're better off going to distrowatch, or some other site that specilizes in provding information about distros...
Google isn't going out of buisness, even if the site that had those torrents listed does, so you can bookmark a 'basic' search like the ones I listed above and 'load them' everytime you hear about a new release on your favorite distro etc..
your mileage may vary, but if you're looking for a specific torrent, google is going to be way faster than any 'browse through all the content that doesn't interest you' type site.
This is as the parent realized just a simple ad, for YAN torrent linking site, such sites are a dime a dozen around the net. It seems like there are about 120 popular sites that link torrents regularly, so this is clearly just an ad for YAN one of those sites, and since they probably don't host a tracker, they're probably doing nothing but taking attention away from the sites that do.
Fact is, by the time a production makes it to broadcast television, it's made all the money it's going to make.
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Not so, There is this movie from this small studio called 'Snow white and the seven dwarves' you might have heard fo the studio, they go by the name of 'Disney'
Now, I know I've seen this movie on Broadcast television, and I don't have a dollar value off hand for what they've made off the VHS and DVD releases of this movie... but the point is, Even though many many people have seen this, even on broadcast TV, they still buy the movie on DVD.
A lot of movies that make it to broadcast are over and done with in terms of resale value, yes, but some companies have invented ways to milk a 'dead cow.' So you see the reason why the United states of Disney* doesn't want you to be able to record broadcast tv is simple, they want to put some movies on tv, while still milking the dvd sales
*= the FCC
My sister once redid her ex boyfriend's profile, had the password changed etc... didn't put a nude photo, but put all kinds of wierd shit in his profile to make him look like a sicko...
;) and if you put a requirment that they accept/reject so many profile complaints they'll just click the same for all of them... without reviewing any of them..
I think he paid me $20 to 'hack' the account (I knew the password, as my sister had to have me 'help' her do this) and then coz my sister's e-mail was still registered as the main one, she had them change the password back to her again, and I got another $20 to help him fix it again... that tiime i had to tell him it was set to use my sister's e-mail to change his password, so i set him up an e-mail account...
All told I made $40 because of my sister breaking up with her boyfriend... not as impressive as trying to go for $3 million... She's not the first to have an ex defame her online, but she's probably the first to try and sue Yahoo! over it. I think the case law in this is pretty clear though, her Ex boyfriend is the only person who has any culpability, so the judge should rule against her.. But there is a chance that they didn't 'promptly' remove the offensive content, but that would be a slap on the wrist type deal, nothing worth $3 million...
An easy solution for this problem is to 'suspend' images upon a complaint automatically, and upon review, decide if the profile is going to be deleted, or restored. Since yahoo has a number of 'member only' type features, they can probabably get volunteers to do the work for free, but if you don't monitor how often they do the work ect, you can get burned by relying on volunteer workers.. some try to get there just for the perks then do no work
Nah, they sell standard ATX 700 watt PSUs...
each card uses 100 watts, the cpu uses ~ 100 watts, the board itself uses ~100 watts, the dvd+hd uses anothe ~100 watts... that comes to about 700 watts... i rounded up a bit, though... and you can always get a Server 800-1100 Watt PSU, if you're not feeling like risking a 700 watt normal ATX PSU...
Wal-mart still has no-os and linux pre-loaded systems for desktops*, but it's looking like right now they have no laptops selling that way.
I guess too many geeks spurned The evil empire of wal-mart, and they too decided it's not worth the effort of trying to explain to customers why the computer 'didn't come with windows'
*= they're looking like they're all legacy type systems that most slashdotters already have more than enough systems at that speed level though...
Don't worry, Wal-mart will never buckle down to pressure from Microsoft. They will continue to sell PCs w/out OSes, and/or w/Linux. Yeah, many people hate Wal-Mart for the pressure they put on vendors/etc... But what other main stream OEM will ship PCs without an OS/ with Linux, and not charge you for a copy of windows? No, Apple doesn't count!
So if you want a Linux Laptop, in the US right now, you've got wal-mart, and some small computer shops that probably have the license cost for windows included in your purchase price.
I think you mean...
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