Wouldn't brittleness "not matter" unless you were moving the components? Everything on the mobo has no moving parts to deal with, so that wouldn't be an issue.
Okay, first off, omnipotence is impossible. There is a simple reason for this which I'm not going to go into here.
Judging from your nick, it sounds like you're talking about the inability to determine the position and velocity of a subatomic particle at the same time. Ding, did I guess right?
This is cool, but wouldn't it short out the motherboard? Could somebody explain why this works?
Obligatory comment: I torture my hardware whenever I see the words 'Booting Windows NT' on the screen...
I wouldn't overclock my system, personally, because I wouldn't sacrifice the stability. I just went with a dual mobo instead of overclocking a single proc.
It could have worked. Their marketing sucked big time. They just needed to start small, as well. Maybe make it a bit more community oriented, let people get more involved? There are lots of ways to make a succesful show where people feel it was worth their time to go. This is not an example of that.
I explicitly said "paraphrase" - what's so hard about understanding that? I knew I was misquoting him. I was deliberately misquoting him. That's what paraphrase means!
I decided not to go to this event on the basis of the fact that it looked small. Very small. Like major supporters (such as Red Hat) were dragged kicking and screaming into supporting the event, and then (as I predicted) left early. What can I say? There's a couple of problems:
There's more Linux events/conferences than companies supporting Linux at this point!
There could be a market for a conference in that area, but it looked like they were trying to take what should have started as a small conference and turn it into a big thing (which didn't work).
Define God. To paraphrase Arthur C. Clarke, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from God. Isn't that what Carl Sagan's book Contact was about?
Secondly, unlikey events do not mean divine intervention - we've been through this debate over and over, and one can't assume god just because things are unlikely. Everything is unlikely, anyway.
Hmm, no, that's not what I mean. I just mean that it's a heckofalot easier to trace the guy who stole your password from the school network than the guy who stole it off of the internet.
Hold, hold, hold on here a second. Banning the protocol doesn't make sense. On some computers, one can telnet in and play a game of rogue as the games user, for example. Don't ban anonymous FTP as well - it's been one of the backbones (not literally) of the Internet for years.
Do encourage system administrators and users to never, ever log in and send their password from remotely over telnet. Inside the college network is a different idea. (And some vendors, *cough* *cough* most of them *cough* *cough* don't have the good sense to pre-install ssh on their systems! Telnet can be a good thing.)
OS X will be the answer:) (Remember, it's FreeBSD with a funky graphics system). As for WINE on BeOS, a porting team is working on it but it depends upon having X-Windows on BeOS at this point, which is near unusable.
I believe (I'm not an RF junkie) that it uses 800 mHz. But it's not a walky-talky - that's just part of the features of the unit. The way the direct connect work is that it still goes through the cell system. The system is also fully digital, and handles other modes such as 'net surfing - think of it as 2.5G cellular.
I think you're a troll. I'll bite anyway - sure, your cell phone is accessing the network. It's looking for cells, telling cell sites that it exists, and doing other chatter. The system wouldn't work without that chatter.
Keep in mind that if you hold your cell phone at the proper angle, you reduce the risk of heating your brain tissue. (This is OT but too important to ingore). Your antenna should be pointing out, away from your head at no less than a 25 degree angle (estimated). And don't buy a Nokia phone if you can avoid it:) (these opinions are not that of my employer but surely match them anyway...)
Well, letsee, if you keep taking away our ham bands, there'll be enough for e-m-gizmo-hype-PDA-wireless-2000 devices. Letsee, removing 2 meters (where ham satellites communicate) was on the block recently. Maybe they'll get rid of 6 meters (where the new digital mode PSK31 is common!), or maybe even our HF bands.
Insert sound of ham bands being sucked away for large, multinational corporation.
Dear God no, I didn't mean to insult the entire human race that way. I meant it as an example of (pick closed-source program here) because then the dissasembly analogy holds.
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It was a troll as soon as it mentioned Natalie Portman (NPO stands for Natalie Portman Obsessives).
No, he's refering to genetic enhancements that can be made to children in the Trek universe for pay. (It's what World War III was about in TOS, and came up again in DS9).
Ok, since nobody seems to understand what this announcement is actually about, here's what it says:
We've managed to successfully disassemble Microsoft Windows. We now have the assembly that makes up the whole of Microsoft Windows in our hands. (Parts of it are missing, and other parts are junk assembly, like the parts that used to control DOS devices but are now almost dormant except for causing the occasional bug).
What can we do with this? Well, we might eventually be able to make Windows into a stable operating system, or even clone Windows from it. Except there's one problem - we don't know enough about the instruction set for the processor it was written for. See, we've been dealing with Z80 assembler all this time and are still having trouble understanding the modern Pentium (I*). So it'll take a while before we can do anything with it.
Translation table: assembler - genome, Windows - human, Z80 - fruit fly, Pentium (I*) - Human genetic process/protiens.
Sure - just have a look at Douglas Irving Repetto's media art. The result of his programming is a visual piece of art - some of which generates music as well!
OT: X-Box is just a piece of hardware. With nVidia's super-duper Linux drivers, you can easily make a game disc that boots linux instead of embedded Win2K. Then you just base your game off of linux, and develop on the PC. Simple as that:-P
You're just being paranoid. If someone wants to make a game, they'll make a game. The team that made Grand Theft Auto could just as likely made an FPS by licensing the Quake engine, so the problem already exists.
Open Sourcing of engines can actually improve games and speed development of new games, as I explained below. If the Quake III engine were an Open Source engine, then 007: The World Is Not Enough would contribute their modifications that let Bond be pushed around the room by explosives back to the engine. The next adventure game would take those modifications for their game instead of rewriting them. That means that game develepors spend more time on the game than trying to write a game engine - resulting in a better game, faster. (It also makes it easer for independent developers not backed by mega-name publishing companies to make games themselves!)
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Posted by 11223:
Wouldn't brittleness "not matter" unless you were moving the components? Everything on the mobo has no moving parts to deal with, so that wouldn't be an issue.
Okay, first off, omnipotence is impossible. There is a simple reason for this which I'm not going to go into here.
Judging from your nick, it sounds like you're talking about the inability to determine the position and velocity of a subatomic particle at the same time. Ding, did I guess right?
This is cool, but wouldn't it short out the motherboard? Could somebody explain why this works?
Obligatory comment: I torture my hardware whenever I see the words 'Booting Windows NT' on the screen...
I wouldn't overclock my system, personally, because I wouldn't sacrifice the stability. I just went with a dual mobo instead of overclocking a single proc.
Posted by 11223:
It could have worked. Their marketing sucked big time. They just needed to start small, as well. Maybe make it a bit more community oriented, let people get more involved? There are lots of ways to make a succesful show where people feel it was worth their time to go. This is not an example of that.
Posted by 11223:
I explicitly said "paraphrase" - what's so hard about understanding that? I knew I was misquoting him. I was deliberately misquoting him. That's what paraphrase means!
I decided not to go to this event on the basis of the fact that it looked small. Very small. Like major supporters (such as Red Hat) were dragged kicking and screaming into supporting the event, and then (as I predicted) left early. What can I say? There's a couple of problems:
There's a couple of problems with this:
Posted by 11223:
Hmm, no, that's not what I mean. I just mean that it's a heckofalot easier to trace the guy who stole your password from the school network than the guy who stole it off of the internet.
Hold, hold, hold on here a second. Banning the protocol doesn't make sense. On some computers, one can telnet in and play a game of rogue as the games user, for example. Don't ban anonymous FTP as well - it's been one of the backbones (not literally) of the Internet for years.
Do encourage system administrators and users to never, ever log in and send their password from remotely over telnet. Inside the college network is a different idea. (And some vendors, *cough* *cough* most of them *cough* *cough* don't have the good sense to pre-install ssh on their systems! Telnet can be a good thing.)
Posted by 11223:
:) (Remember, it's FreeBSD with a funky graphics system). As for WINE on BeOS, a porting team is working on it but it depends upon having X-Windows on BeOS at this point, which is near unusable.
OS X will be the answer
There was also a BeOS/BeIA presence, as noted in this article about PC Expo. He also mentions in the article that
IBM was showing its new ThinkPad lines, including those that offer pre-loaded Caldera Linux.
Promising, isn't it?
Posted by 11223:
Well, my phone has an external microphone - waitaminit - that's not a phone, it's an icom radio!
Posted by 11223:
I believe (I'm not an RF junkie) that it uses 800 mHz. But it's not a walky-talky - that's just part of the features of the unit. The way the direct connect work is that it still goes through the cell system. The system is also fully digital, and handles other modes such as 'net surfing - think of it as 2.5G cellular.
Posted by 11223:
Just to nitpick, you missed Nextel.
Posted by 11223:
I think you're a troll. I'll bite anyway - sure, your cell phone is accessing the network. It's looking for cells, telling cell sites that it exists, and doing other chatter. The system wouldn't work without that chatter.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm as much in favor of astronomy as the next man, but that is the equivelent of a data channel of 50GB per second
How else do you expect them to recieve the plans for the benzel device so we can make contact?
Posted by 11223:
:) (these opinions are not that of my employer but surely match them anyway...)
Keep in mind that if you hold your cell phone at the proper angle, you reduce the risk of heating your brain tissue. (This is OT but too important to ingore). Your antenna should be pointing out, away from your head at no less than a 25 degree angle (estimated). And don't buy a Nokia phone if you can avoid it
Well, letsee, if you keep taking away our ham bands, there'll be enough for e-m-gizmo-hype-PDA-wireless-2000 devices. Letsee, removing 2 meters (where ham satellites communicate) was on the block recently. Maybe they'll get rid of 6 meters (where the new digital mode PSK31 is common!), or maybe even our HF bands.
Insert sound of ham bands being sucked away for large, multinational corporation.
Posted by 11223:
Dear God no, I didn't mean to insult the entire human race that way. I meant it as an example of (pick closed-source program here) because then the dissasembly analogy holds.
Posted by 11223:
It was a troll as soon as it mentioned Natalie Portman (NPO stands for Natalie Portman Obsessives).
Posted by 11223:
No, he's refering to genetic enhancements that can be made to children in the Trek universe for pay. (It's what World War III was about in TOS, and came up again in DS9).
Ok, since nobody seems to understand what this announcement is actually about, here's what it says:
We've managed to successfully disassemble Microsoft Windows. We now have the assembly that makes up the whole of Microsoft Windows in our hands. (Parts of it are missing, and other parts are junk assembly, like the parts that used to control DOS devices but are now almost dormant except for causing the occasional bug).
What can we do with this? Well, we might eventually be able to make Windows into a stable operating system, or even clone Windows from it. Except there's one problem - we don't know enough about the instruction set for the processor it was written for. See, we've been dealing with Z80 assembler all this time and are still having trouble understanding the modern Pentium (I*). So it'll take a while before we can do anything with it.
Translation table: assembler - genome, Windows - human, Z80 - fruit fly, Pentium (I*) - Human genetic process/protiens.
Posted by 11223:
Sure - just have a look at Douglas Irving Repetto's media art. The result of his programming is a visual piece of art - some of which generates music as well!
Posted by 11223:
:-P
OT: X-Box is just a piece of hardware. With nVidia's super-duper Linux drivers, you can easily make a game disc that boots linux instead of embedded Win2K. Then you just base your game off of linux, and develop on the PC. Simple as that
You're just being paranoid. If someone wants to make a game, they'll make a game. The team that made Grand Theft Auto could just as likely made an FPS by licensing the Quake engine, so the problem already exists.
Open Sourcing of engines can actually improve games and speed development of new games, as I explained below. If the Quake III engine were an Open Source engine, then 007: The World Is Not Enough would contribute their modifications that let Bond be pushed around the room by explosives back to the engine. The next adventure game would take those modifications for their game instead of rewriting them. That means that game develepors spend more time on the game than trying to write a game engine - resulting in a better game, faster. (It also makes it easer for independent developers not backed by mega-name publishing companies to make games themselves!)