I might be wrong, but the camera's i saw in the-making-of-the-matrix on TV were a little different; they used an array of digital camera's which all took a single picture while those camera's seem to take a lot of pictures on a normal film which runs along each camera. Extremely cool indeed. I believe there was a photo session about those cams somewhere on WhatIsTheMatrix. I also heard this technique has already been patented by those two brothers that did the matrix.
By the way. If you like those green-falling-letters-screen, try the Matrix screensaver included in the xscreensaver. Also fun to run in your root-window:P
I might be wrong, but the camera's i saw in the-making-of-the-matrix on TV were a little different; they used an array of digital camera's which all took a single picture while those camera's seem to take a lot of pictures on a normal film which runs along each camera. Extremely cool indeed. I believe there was a photo session about those cams somewhere on WhatIsTheMatrix. I also heard this technique has already been patented by those two brothers that did the matrix.
By the way. If you like those green-falling-letters-screen, try the Matrix screensaver included in the xscreensaver. Also fun to run in your root-window:P
It had indeed been overlooked, but it's a rather broad statement: `DNA can also act similar to enzymes'. That covers a lot more than the techniques mentioned in Lu's thingy and the article I mentioned. So it's only partly relevant in my opinion.
Actually the majority of servers in the uptime-list are home-machines. Still it doesn't matter; if you just considers the lowest uptimes irrelevant, you will get accurate results.
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While it emulates the real world, people won't act the same as in the real world. They will break in in your house, you try to kill them with your gun, there's blood all over the floor, you have to get rid of the body. While taking the body over to some place to bury it, you will get captured by some terrorists. It's the live you always wanted to live, but you can't because in the real world everything is regulated by laws (which is fine:)). Offcourse since there will be people that will get annoyed by the way things go, laws will be created in the virtual world. Laws that can be enforced because the government will control the servers...blablabla
I once had a casio watch that could learn IR-codes from other remotes. It worked perfectly. Real fun when you're watching video at your school:) Anyhow. The thing costed dfl 120...I think that's about $60. And that for a watch, so I think the $300 you're talking about is a bit expensive. You can still buy those watches btw. They have a huge set of preprogrammed codes which are really if you're in a tv-shop:)
It should be possible to create a bunch of slugbots that harvest whatever they need to make a slugbot. They can live from the slugs that other slugbots catch. Another group can then build new brothers:) Off course another group is needed that can build new bases.
But if I want to connect to a Win2k box with my Samba box, I need a license.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the article say that the owner of the Win2k box, instead of the owner of the client, needs a license when you try to access it with your Samba box?
How about 2/3 of them in clumps of 1 of each and 1/3 of them in clumps of 8. Then imagine the nanobots communicating using the electrons that are left over (in large quantities offcourse).
This was not meant as anti-BSD FUD. It's just a fact; otherwise more people would use *BSD. I was btw talking about the "big crowd" since they're the ones that make the difference. Major ISP's/sites do run on BSD, but they're only a fraction of the total.
First of all: I'm not an expert. Everything I say is based on what I've heard a long time ago. Tsjernobyl is once again used as an example. It's a very bad example. The type of reactor used in Tsjernobyl is a very bad design. All modern reactors are designed in such a way that an accident as in Tsjernobyl is impossible. They are fundamentally different from the old Russian reactors. The accident in Japan didn't happen on a nuclear plant; it was some weird factory...not sure what they do. Anyway...as far as I know no major nuclear accidents have happened with modern nuclear plants. All arguments I've heard against nuclear energy are based on false arguments. Anyway...i do think there is one major problem about nuclear energy. This problem is the storage of large amounts of highly radioactive waste.
There are more players in the game than just Solaris and Linux. We have FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD...you name it. Still most people choose Linux. What is this choice based on? I'm not sure. I do think that if Solaris would be available for free, most people would still use Linux, and Solaris would be in the *BSD-corner; it's very good, but nobody knows about it. Most people simply don't consider all options before they choose which OS to use. That's why NT is still used a lot, but it's also the reason for the popularity of Linux.
I didn't understand very much of the patent, but it sounds a bit like a description of a Field Programmable Array (FPGA) Processor. That would be conform the rumors I read in the replies to a post about the FPGA-processors which Starbridge Systems has already build. Their description is really cool; the slashdot-post talks about their "$1000 computers 350 times as fast as a pII-350". That may be a bit much, but the concept is extremely nice.
Why the HELL is this moderated to 0?! I don't suffer from CTS, but I am a big fan of 'old' mice and keyboards for exactly the same reasons as this Anonymous Coward has. They make me work much faster and more relaxed. I DO by the way find the lay-out of MS Natural keyboards very natural, but their keys don't click like I want them to click.
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I live in the Netherlands. Here we've had the whole telephone-system (which is controlled by a single company) renumbered. Most numbers used to be 9 digits (except for Amsterdam and Rotterdam which already had 10 digits). Now we all have a 10 digit-phone number. It all went rather flawlessly; they gave nearly everybody a new areacode. They chose those new areacodes in such a way that the new ones did not exist in the old system (luckily there were enough area-codes). They also added a digit to the phonenumbers, and voila...there are about 10 times as much numbers. They kept the old and the new system working together for a few months and then dumped the old system. A funny thing was that suddenly I got a free new-number-calculator with everything I bought:)
A few weeks ago there was a comment about the new playstation beating all pc-hardware in calculating triangles per second. Everybody was talking about how playstation would take over the market. Someone mentioned that by the time the playstation II will be released, PC hardware will be at least as fast. This article looks a lot like that; it's comparing IBM's latest product to a Sun product that is a lot older. When Sun comes up with a new system the press will be telling us it is going to take over IBM's position, and so on...
"I sincerely believe that Thin Clients are the way of the future, (...)" I agree. In most networked environments people have always used (X)terminals. They're some sort of thin-client. Everybody is now acting as if thin clients are something new because people are used to windows/mac-based systems. Those systems were meant to be used as stand-alone systems, but nowadays most systems are networked and the technology is out of date. I think thin clients are going to take the world back again because they're a cheaper and simpler solution. Not only to buy, but especially to maintain.
I always browse with a 0-threshhold, but I usually just read the highly-rated comments. When I'm moderator I usually read a lot more because I want the new comments (that haven't had the chance to be moderated up) to have a fair chance. If I wouldn't know when I'm moderator, I wouldn't bother reading those lowly-rated comments, so I agree with Ryandav: it's not a good idea.
Because of this I also think a system where you only get to moderate a number of random comments (just like in the MetaModerate-page chosen by slashdot) instead of choosing which comments you moderate. This way I have to spend all my points at once, and in the end also the newer comments get moderated.
Also: I think 10 comments is a little too much to MetaModerate at once. Since some comments aren't very interesting (especially since I can't see the parent), I lose interest after 5-7 comments. I think 5 comments at once would be a better number.
Very nice, but it's not just funny offcourse...what if they'd actually do it...write an incredible kewl app everybody wants to use (i doubt they can, but if the do...) which only compiles with a MS-compiler that only comes with the MS-linux-distro. ARGH..a lot off newbies would choose the new platform:(
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By the way. If you like those green-falling-letters-screen, try the Matrix screensaver included in the xscreensaver. Also fun to run in your root-window :P
By the way. If you like those green-falling-letters-screen, try the Matrix screensaver included in the xscreensaver. Also fun to run in your root-window :P
It had indeed been overlooked, but it's a rather broad statement: `DNA can also act similar to enzymes'. That covers a lot more than the techniques mentioned in Lu's thingy and the article I mentioned. So it's only partly relevant in my opinion.
Actually the majority of servers in the uptime-list are home-machines. Still it doesn't matter; if you just considers the lowest uptimes irrelevant, you will get accurate results.
Why?
Why?
While it emulates the real world, people won't act the same as in the real world. They will break in in your house, you try to kill them with your gun, there's blood all over the floor, you have to get rid of the body. While taking the body over to some place to bury it, you will get captured by some terrorists. It's the live you always wanted to live, but you can't because in the real world everything is regulated by laws (which is fine :)). Offcourse since there will be people that will get annoyed by the way things go, laws will be created in the virtual world. Laws that can be enforced because the government will control the servers...blablabla
*laughing about the subject*
I once had a casio watch that could learn IR-codes from other remotes. It worked perfectly. Real fun when you're watching video at your school :) Anyhow. The thing costed dfl 120...I think that's about $60. And that for a watch, so I think the $300 you're talking about is a bit expensive. You can still buy those watches btw. They have a huge set of preprogrammed codes which are really if you're in a tv-shop:)
It should be possible to create a bunch of slugbots that harvest whatever they need to make a slugbot. They can live from the slugs that other slugbots catch. Another group can then build new brothers :) Off course another group is needed that can build new bases.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the article say that the owner of the Win2k box, instead of the owner of the client, needs a license when you try to access it with your Samba box?
How about 2/3 of them in clumps of 1 of each and 1/3 of them in clumps of 8. Then imagine the nanobots communicating using the electrons that are left over (in large quantities offcourse).
This was not meant as anti-BSD FUD. It's just a fact; otherwise more people would use *BSD. I was btw talking about the "big crowd" since they're the ones that make the difference. Major ISP's/sites do run on BSD, but they're only a fraction of the total.
First of all: I'm not an expert. Everything I say is based on what I've heard a long time ago.
Tsjernobyl is once again used as an example. It's a very bad example. The type of reactor used in Tsjernobyl is a very bad design. All modern reactors are designed in such a way that an accident as in Tsjernobyl is impossible. They are fundamentally different from the old Russian reactors. The accident in Japan didn't happen on a nuclear plant; it was some weird factory...not sure what they do. Anyway...as far as I know no major nuclear accidents have happened with modern nuclear plants. All arguments I've heard against nuclear energy are based on false arguments. Anyway...i do think there is one major problem about nuclear energy. This problem is the storage of large amounts of highly radioactive waste.
There are more players in the game than just Solaris and Linux. We have FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD...you name it. Still most people choose Linux. What is this choice based on? I'm not sure. I do think that if Solaris would be available for free, most people would still use Linux, and Solaris would be in the *BSD-corner; it's very good, but nobody knows about it. Most people simply don't consider all options before they choose which OS to use. That's why NT is still used a lot, but it's also the reason for the popularity of Linux.
o ok..anyway, I still think the AC-comment does make sense.
I didn't understand very much of the patent, but it sounds a bit like a description of a Field Programmable Array (FPGA) Processor. That would be conform the rumors I read in the replies to a post about the FPGA-processors which Starbridge Systems has already build. Their description is really cool; the slashdot-post talks about their "$1000 computers 350 times as fast as a pII-350". That may be a bit much, but the concept is extremely nice.
Why the HELL is this moderated to 0?! I don't suffer from CTS, but I am a big fan of 'old' mice and keyboards for exactly the same reasons as this Anonymous Coward has. They make me work much faster and more relaxed. I DO by the way find the lay-out of MS Natural keyboards very natural, but their keys don't click like I want them to click.
I live in the Netherlands. Here we've had the whole telephone-system (which is controlled by a single company) renumbered. Most numbers used to be 9 digits (except for Amsterdam and Rotterdam which already had 10 digits). Now we all have a 10 digit-phone number. It all went rather flawlessly; they gave nearly everybody a new areacode. They chose those new areacodes in such a way that the new ones did not exist in the old system (luckily there were enough area-codes). They also added a digit to the phonenumbers, and voila...there are about 10 times as much numbers. They kept the old and the new system working together for a few months and then dumped the old system. A funny thing was that suddenly I got a free new-number-calculator with everything I bought:)
A few weeks ago there was a comment about the new playstation beating all pc-hardware in calculating triangles per second. Everybody was talking about how playstation would take over the market. Someone mentioned that by the time the playstation II will be released, PC hardware will be at least as fast. This article looks a lot like that; it's comparing IBM's latest product to a Sun product that is a lot older. When Sun comes up with a new system the press will be telling us it is going to take over IBM's position, and so on...
Will 3gb a month do the trick when you're planning to have your webcam-images slashdotted? I doubt it.
"I sincerely believe that Thin Clients are the way of the future, (...)" I agree. In most networked environments people have always used (X)terminals. They're some sort of thin-client. Everybody is now acting as if thin clients are something new because people are used to windows/mac-based systems. Those systems were meant to be used as stand-alone systems, but nowadays most systems are networked and the technology is out of date. I think thin clients are going to take the world back again because they're a cheaper and simpler solution. Not only to buy, but especially to maintain.
Sorry about my comment - it sucks. Looks like I have to give slack a second chance. I'll try the latest version next weekend or so :)
I always browse with a 0-threshhold, but I usually just read the highly-rated comments. When I'm moderator I usually read a lot more because I want the new comments (that haven't had the chance to be moderated up) to have a fair chance. If I wouldn't know when I'm moderator, I wouldn't bother reading those lowly-rated comments, so I agree with Ryandav: it's not a good idea.
Because of this I also think a system where you only get to moderate a number of random comments (just like in the MetaModerate-page chosen by slashdot) instead of choosing which comments you moderate. This way I have to spend all my points at once, and in the end also the newer comments get moderated.
Also: I think 10 comments is a little too much to MetaModerate at once. Since some comments aren't very interesting (especially since I can't see the parent), I lose interest after 5-7 comments. I think 5 comments at once would be a better number.
Very nice, but it's not just funny offcourse...what if they'd actually do it...write an incredible kewl app everybody wants to use (i doubt they can, but if the do...) which only compiles with a MS-compiler that only comes with the MS-linux-distro. ARGH..a lot off newbies would choose the new platform:(