You say the 9700 isn't noiseless, but actually it can be made to be. This review shows a completely fanless 9700. The stock solution is louder then it needs to be for adequate cooling on a 9700.
The Geforce FX is a peice of crap. Even with 15% more performance from a future driver release (that's optimistic), it's still late, hot, loud, and not good enough. I'll wait for R350, thanks.
Because if I spend all that money on building a nuclear warhead, I'd be damn sure to launch it on a missle that may or may not work and give away my position for instant retalititory attacks from US ICBMs. I'd also make sure that I launched on this untested missle with the possibility of it not working (because I couldn't make a practice launch given US Early Warning satillites) and spreading radioactive material all over my land.
Think about it, man. If you built a nuclear weapon, you'd ship it on a 80ft yacht into {Insert US Harbor} and detonate it. Untraceable (mostly), and fewer points of failure. Even if we were to build a missle defense program, it would be much wiser to wait four to six years and develop it with newly advanced solid-state lasers. You only have x missles, but a laser is only limited in fire rate and energy available. And light travels a hell of a lot faster then a rocket, so it's much harder to miss. And it can be used for other purposes (have an aircraft on a collision course with a building...?)
I really agree with you about 1984. That book was truly a masterpiece. But I've always disagreed with the people who place Brave new World up there with other sci-fi masterpieces. Huxley commits one of the more serious sci-fi errors with that book -- he focuses way too much on the world he has created, and not enough on the characters. I thought all the characters were very shallow, and inconsistent with themselves in places. He had a very good reason for doing this -- growing up when he did, seeing the rise of fascism in Germany, Communism in Russia, and Socialism in the US; but the story would be much more effective if he would've also added a lot of depth to the characters and not tried to hit you in the head with the immorality of his world.
Doom III will come with the ability to disable much of the stuff that makes it run so damn slow. This game is one of the first to really use dynamic shadows to their full extent; disabling them increases the framerate by 10-15 fps (yes, that much). A Radeon 9700 Pro on a decent system (512MB of DDR is basically a must) should be able to offer the game playably at maximum detail at 800x600 (>60fps) or (MAYBE) 1024x786. These prerelease versions aren't completely tuned.
# Apt get to install all these funky new Linux packages (RPMs), plus the new GTK version of the Synaptic front end.
Would someone please tell me what the difference between "apt-get kdelibs" and "up2date kdelibs" is? I sure haven't figured it out, and I get my downloads straight from RH with their quality control and verification that the packages will work.
Plus, I use the version of Linux that by far owns most of the user base. If something is supported on Linux, it's probably supported best on RH. RH also helps support linux devel by employing everyone in the Linux devel chain, from kernel developers to specific applications (KDE, Gnome).
You aren't worried about troops being used for wholesale domestic pacification? What about the 101st airborne's "invasion" of Little Rock in 1963? Sounds a lot like the army being used for domestic pacification to me.
He was looking for the former president of the republic of Kodak; the one that Raven and his friends took from the "government" there with the nuke. He found him, talked to him a bit, and then was harassed by a few people from New South Africa; he cut off a head of one guy and slashed some more, then escaped by cutting through the tent using the millimeter wave radar his gargoyle getup had.
Of a more interesting nature is a hero who is a hero by working his craft, not his fists. This aspect is reminiscent of Neal Stephenson's works...
Warning: If you haven't read Snow Crash, by Stephenson, then this will spoil it for you. Go read it right now, or else. Uh... it occurs to me that Hiro Protagonist used his swords and a hypercool rail gun both in Snow Crash, as well as other weapons I've probably forgotten. A lot of the action was YT spraying people with liquid nuckles, etc. And Uncle Enzo's shaped glass-busting charge seemed like a very physical thing to me. True, Hiro did end up winning over Raven in the Metaverse, but that was virtually a given considering their relative skill sets, and it was still swords and bikes and other neat, "Hiro" type things.
And don't forget the rat thing up Rife's ass at the end. That was friggin' awesome.
That way all software licence agrements would then be null and void. There would be no more copy right, and ideas could flow freely
Um, no. The issues is whether the General Public License is legal. Ruling it illegal does not mean that all software license agreements would be 'null and void', but rather that GPL'd software would suddenly become undistrobutable until all the people who have contributed code have been contacted and agree to allow their code to be relicensed under a different software license. In effect, it means a stop on Linux kernel distrobution for a period of unknown length, and a death-blow to many free software projects who have some authors who cannot be contacted or who's heirs refuse to relicense.
These software would then be legally undistrobutable -- i.e. you could not offer them for download, in either source or binary form. The copyright rules of NO distrobution would apply. The GPL (and any other software license) gives rights, it does not take them away.
Face it, copyright isn't going away any time soon. The best we can hope for is that our little corner of protection is held up in a court of law.
Not relying on Pricewatch for memory is stupid. By all means, get a good brand of memory (I'll go for either Crucial, Mushkin, or Corsair), but you owe it to yourself to shop for the lowest price on said memory. And Pricewatch is the place to find it.
As the documents show at http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/war.term/093_03.html, the Japanese were NOT willing to surrender prior to the atomic explosions. While they were half-heartedly persuing peace through Soviet negotiations, it was known that Americans were accepting surrenders through the Swiss, as is customary is wars of such scale. The Japanese correspondance with the Soviets was for a seperate peace, thereby ensuring that they would only face a war from the Pacific side of their country. Remember, the Soviets only declared war on the Japanese on August 7th, 1945 -- ONE day before the bomb was dropped on Nagasaki and days AFTER the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Prior to that date, Americans had been unable to use Soviet territory for aerial bombing of Japan, and instead used carriers and captured islands as their primary Japanese staging areas.
The Japanese never surrendered unconditionally. They were <i>still</i> allowed to keep their Emperor as a figurehead leader, much like the British Constitutional Monarchy, <i>as a condition of their final surrender</i>!. Prior to August 6th, the Japanese had said they would never surrender; a long and drawn-out invasion of the Japanese mainland was called for, probably resulting in heavy casulties on both sides. As it was, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the prime navy/army (forget which is which) bases left in Japan that had not been firebombed out of existance. Thus, they were valid military targets. Less lives were lost in both the atomic explosions then in the firebombing of Tokyo.
So, yes, victory in Japan was dependant upon those two nukes, or perhaps an invasion of Japanese territory. Did you know there were still Japanese who had not surrendered in the Philipeans until sometime after 1960? A Japanese officer had continued raids on Americans in the Philipeans until sometime during the Kennedy administration. Once the Japanese start a war, they try <b>very</b> hard to finish it in their favor.
This might be workable, but changing the order would make it infinitely more easily parsable. I.e. Remind me AT (some time phrase) TO (some verbatim speech). Granted, this gives some stilted English, but it makes it more parsable, because the device just has to split() on AT and TO. Remind me AT six P.M TO walk the dog Remind me AT next Tuesday TO check for a new Mozilla version.
You could leave out the at when it didn't make sense, and just have it always strip the first preposition, but leaving in the TO and putting in this order would help.
I feel the accuracy would not be very good. I know I have a hard time getting even 90% accuracy dictating with a good headset sitting at my computer with an Athlon 700 is semi-real time. Perhaps it not being required to be real-time would alleviate this somewhat, but it probably still would not completely solve the problem, and would be annoying in it's own right.
Good idea though. Let's hope some PDA company reads this and rips off your idea;)
Although the Zahn trilogy is by far the best one, I've been quite impressed with some of the latest New Jedi Order stuff. Especially books such as Star by Star, and the latest one Rebel Dream I (to be followed by a sequel). FINALLY, somone who knows how to write Lando right!
If you want more or less absolute freedom within the confines of the law, build your own hosting company. This may seem crazy at first, but think about it. If you do well, and you get enough customers to get fairly high (say, peer in Tier 3), then you can do basically whatever you want (again, within the law). Also, it will be virtually free, and you might even make money of the deal. Plus, you'll have techies that can maintain your site and add new stuff and leave you in charge of running the company and design content for your site.
How is what they do different than what Christianity and Islam do?
Replace to "do" with "did". Cheat? Sure. Steal? Yes. Anyone remember the Crusades? Christians decided they wanted Jerusalem, so they tried to steal it from it's rightful (Arab) owners. Fundamentalist Christians also tell their members to refuse medical and psyciatric help, i.e. snake handling, etc. And "posing" as rescue workers? I think that one is obvious. BTW, before you respond angrily about my godlessness, I am a Methodist Christian. And I do think Scientology is a cult and needs to be dealt with. But your criteria also fits other religious organizations. It strikes me as hypocritical that many here profess to be libertarian and to love their freedom yet demand government action against a cult/reglion on no clear grounds and by using "crimes" that have been committed by virtually all religions at some point in the past.
Thank you, Slashdot! I've been looking for just this type of thing from my favorite sites for a long time. I do have a question, though -- for those of us in business, it would be nice to see just how successful Slashdot is with its subscription model; sort of a "test case" on a web-based business. I've yet to see a major site do this and share their results. I beleive they would be very interesting, in the least.
The Federalist Papers were NOT made under the rule of the English King. We were already a country. It was made to promote the Constitution over the Articles of Confederation.
Linux doesn't have to be any harder then Windows. As a matter of fact, most of these things are ALREADY available -- Redhat has them, and others do too (I'm sure). For instance, just set the user'ss password to "". Change the login prompt (Who are you:). They type in their name -- it's that simple. Redhat comes with kudzu, which autoconfigured all the hardware in all five of the computers I've set it up on (nothing bleeding edge, but everything was configured automatically except CD burner). Appearence of windows is consistent if you always use KDE (or Gnome). And up2date allows easy updating of the entire system (just click next, next, all packages, finish).
This versatility is why I use Linux. It can be setup with all the geekiness I want (no GUI, weird aliases, etc.), or my mom can use it just as easily (she types in "mary" at the login: prompt, and KDE comes up for her with icons for all her programs). Try doing THAT with windows.
You've got to remember that the exchange rate between dollars and rubles is astronomical (30 Rubles to a dollar as of 8:00USEDT on Aug272001), and basic staples are cheaper there. Besides, a whole bunch of $5-20 contributions adds up!
Tripod will allow you to use CGI scripts, but only in a special directory, etc. Also, only Perl is allowed, and no system or exec is allowed, and scripts will only run for one second before being auto-terminated.
HTML adds a lot of functionality to a poster. Perhaps it can be dangerous - that is what moderation is for. However, a lot of things can be looked for; especially javascript event handlers and such. I like being able to add emphasis and properly underline text (unfortunitely not allowed by slash), and bold is also useful for some things.
Change the structure of Windows. Make it into an operating system with premissions. Programs shouldn't have access to all the files on the system; nor should programs be automatically run by receiving an e-mail message.
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You say the 9700 isn't noiseless, but actually it can be made to be. This review shows a completely fanless 9700. The stock solution is louder then it needs to be for adequate cooling on a 9700.
The Geforce FX is a peice of crap. Even with 15% more performance from a future driver release (that's optimistic), it's still late, hot, loud, and not good enough. I'll wait for R350, thanks.
Because if I spend all that money on building a nuclear warhead, I'd be damn sure to launch it on a missle that may or may not work and give away my position for instant retalititory attacks from US ICBMs. I'd also make sure that I launched on this untested missle with the possibility of it not working (because I couldn't make a practice launch given US Early Warning satillites) and spreading radioactive material all over my land.
Think about it, man. If you built a nuclear weapon, you'd ship it on a 80ft yacht into {Insert US Harbor} and detonate it. Untraceable (mostly), and fewer points of failure. Even if we were to build a missle defense program, it would be much wiser to wait four to six years and develop it with newly advanced solid-state lasers. You only have x missles, but a laser is only limited in fire rate and energy available. And light travels a hell of a lot faster then a rocket, so it's much harder to miss. And it can be used for other purposes (have an aircraft on a collision course with a building...?)
Dude, your car goes 206 MPH? That's one hell of a speeding ticket...
I really agree with you about 1984. That book was truly a masterpiece. But I've always disagreed with the people who place Brave new World up there with other sci-fi masterpieces. Huxley commits one of the more serious sci-fi errors with that book -- he focuses way too much on the world he has created, and not enough on the characters. I thought all the characters were very shallow, and inconsistent with themselves in places. He had a very good reason for doing this -- growing up when he did, seeing the rise of fascism in Germany, Communism in Russia, and Socialism in the US; but the story would be much more effective if he would've also added a lot of depth to the characters and not tried to hit you in the head with the immorality of his world.
Doom III will come with the ability to disable much of the stuff that makes it run so damn slow. This game is one of the first to really use dynamic shadows to their full extent; disabling them increases the framerate by 10-15 fps (yes, that much). A Radeon 9700 Pro on a decent system (512MB of DDR is basically a must) should be able to offer the game playably at maximum detail at 800x600 (>60fps) or (MAYBE) 1024x786. These prerelease versions aren't completely tuned.
# Apt get to install all these funky new Linux packages (RPMs), plus the new GTK version of the Synaptic front end.
Would someone please tell me what the difference between "apt-get kdelibs" and "up2date kdelibs" is? I sure haven't figured it out, and I get my downloads straight from RH with their quality control and verification that the packages will work.
Plus, I use the version of Linux that by far owns most of the user base. If something is supported on Linux, it's probably supported best on RH. RH also helps support linux devel by employing everyone in the Linux devel chain, from kernel developers to specific applications (KDE, Gnome).
A reference to an Old English work about a Sweedish hero fighting in Denmark on an American website's story about a Chinese processor.
You've geat mojo.
You aren't worried about troops being used for wholesale domestic pacification? What about the 101st airborne's "invasion" of Little Rock in 1963? Sounds a lot like the army being used for domestic pacification to me.
He was looking for the former president of the republic of Kodak; the one that Raven and his friends took from the "government" there with the nuke. He found him, talked to him a bit, and then was harassed by a few people from New South Africa; he cut off a head of one guy and slashed some more, then escaped by cutting through the tent using the millimeter wave radar his gargoyle getup had.
Warning: If you haven't read Snow Crash, by Stephenson, then this will spoil it for you. Go read it right now, or else.
Uh... it occurs to me that Hiro Protagonist used his swords and a hypercool rail gun both in Snow Crash, as well as other weapons I've probably forgotten. A lot of the action was YT spraying people with liquid nuckles, etc. And Uncle Enzo's shaped glass-busting charge seemed like a very physical thing to me. True, Hiro did end up winning over Raven in the Metaverse, but that was virtually a given considering their relative skill sets, and it was still swords and bikes and other neat, "Hiro" type things.
And don't forget the rat thing up Rife's ass at the end. That was friggin' awesome.
Um, no. The issues is whether the General Public License is legal. Ruling it illegal does not mean that all software license agreements would be 'null and void', but rather that GPL'd software would suddenly become undistrobutable until all the people who have contributed code have been contacted and agree to allow their code to be relicensed under a different software license. In effect, it means a stop on Linux kernel distrobution for a period of unknown length, and a death-blow to many free software projects who have some authors who cannot be contacted or who's heirs refuse to relicense.
These software would then be legally undistrobutable -- i.e. you could not offer them for download, in either source or binary form. The copyright rules of NO distrobution would apply. The GPL (and any other software license) gives rights, it does not take them away.
Face it, copyright isn't going away any time soon. The best we can hope for is that our little corner of protection is held up in a court of law.
Not relying on Pricewatch for memory is stupid. By all means, get a good brand of memory (I'll go for either Crucial, Mushkin, or Corsair), but you owe it to yourself to shop for the lowest price on said memory. And Pricewatch is the place to find it.
As the documents show at http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/war.term/093_03.html, the Japanese were NOT willing to surrender prior to the atomic explosions. While they were half-heartedly persuing peace through Soviet negotiations, it was known that Americans were accepting surrenders through the Swiss, as is customary is wars of such scale. The Japanese correspondance with the Soviets was for a seperate peace, thereby ensuring that they would only face a war from the Pacific side of their country. Remember, the Soviets only declared war on the Japanese on August 7th, 1945 -- ONE day before the bomb was dropped on Nagasaki and days AFTER the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Prior to that date, Americans had been unable to use Soviet territory for aerial bombing of Japan, and instead used carriers and captured islands as their primary Japanese staging areas.
The Japanese never surrendered unconditionally. They were <i>still</i> allowed to keep their Emperor as a figurehead leader, much like the British Constitutional Monarchy, <i>as a condition of their final surrender</i>!. Prior to August 6th, the Japanese had said they would never surrender; a long and drawn-out invasion of the Japanese mainland was called for, probably resulting in heavy casulties on both sides. As it was, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the prime navy/army (forget which is which) bases left in Japan that had not been firebombed out of existance. Thus, they were valid military targets. Less lives were lost in both the atomic explosions then in the firebombing of Tokyo.
So, yes, victory in Japan was dependant upon those two nukes, or perhaps an invasion of Japanese territory. Did you know there were still Japanese who had not surrendered in the Philipeans until sometime after 1960? A Japanese officer had continued raids on Americans in the Philipeans until sometime during the Kennedy administration. Once the Japanese start a war, they try <b>very</b> hard to finish it in their favor.
This might be workable, but changing the order would make it infinitely more easily parsable. I.e.
;)
Remind me AT (some time phrase) TO (some verbatim speech). Granted, this gives some stilted English, but it makes it more parsable, because the device just has to split() on AT and TO.
Remind me AT six P.M TO walk the dog
Remind me AT next Tuesday TO check for a new Mozilla version.
You could leave out the at when it didn't make sense, and just have it always strip the first preposition, but leaving in the TO and putting in this order would help.
I feel the accuracy would not be very good. I know I have a hard time getting even 90% accuracy dictating with a good headset sitting at my computer with an Athlon 700 is semi-real time. Perhaps it not being required to be real-time would alleviate this somewhat, but it probably still would not completely solve the problem, and would be annoying in it's own right.
Good idea though. Let's hope some PDA company reads this and rips off your idea
Although the Zahn trilogy is by far the best one, I've been quite impressed with some of the latest New Jedi Order stuff. Especially books such as Star by Star, and the latest one Rebel Dream I (to be followed by a sequel). FINALLY, somone who knows how to write Lando right!
If you want more or less absolute freedom within the confines of the law, build your own hosting company.
This may seem crazy at first, but think about it. If you do well, and you get enough customers to get fairly high (say, peer in Tier 3), then you can do basically whatever you want (again, within the law). Also, it will be virtually free, and you might even make money of the deal. Plus, you'll have techies that can maintain your site and add new stuff and leave you in charge of running the company and design content for your site.
How is what they do different than what Christianity and Islam do?
Replace to "do" with "did". Cheat? Sure. Steal? Yes. Anyone remember the Crusades? Christians decided they wanted Jerusalem, so they tried to steal it from it's rightful (Arab) owners. Fundamentalist Christians also tell their members to refuse medical and psyciatric help, i.e. snake handling, etc. And "posing" as rescue workers? I think that one is obvious.
BTW, before you respond angrily about my godlessness, I am a Methodist Christian. And I do think Scientology is a cult and needs to be dealt with. But your criteria also fits other religious organizations. It strikes me as hypocritical that many here profess to be libertarian and to love their freedom yet demand government action against a cult/reglion on no clear grounds and by using "crimes" that have been committed by virtually all religions at some point in the past.
Thank you, Slashdot! I've been looking for just this type of thing from my favorite sites for a long time. I do have a question, though --
for those of us in business, it would be nice to see just how successful Slashdot is with its subscription model; sort of a "test case" on a web-based business. I've yet to see a major site do this and share their results. I beleive they would be very interesting, in the least.
Last I checked, the United States and her free allies had won the Cold War.
Wait, let me check again.
Yep, we still won.
The Federalist Papers were NOT made under the rule of the English King. We were already a country. It was made to promote the Constitution over the Articles of Confederation.
Linux doesn't have to be any harder then Windows. As a matter of fact, most of these things are ALREADY available -- Redhat has them, and others do too (I'm sure). For instance, just set the user'ss password to "". Change the login prompt (Who are you:). They type in their name -- it's that simple. Redhat comes with kudzu, which autoconfigured all the hardware in all five of the computers I've set it up on (nothing bleeding edge, but everything was configured automatically except CD burner). Appearence of windows is consistent if you always use KDE (or Gnome). And up2date allows easy updating of the entire system (just click next, next, all packages, finish).
This versatility is why I use Linux. It can be setup with all the geekiness I want (no GUI, weird aliases, etc.), or my mom can use it just as easily (she types in "mary" at the login: prompt, and KDE comes up for her with icons for all her programs). Try doing THAT with windows.
You've got to remember that the exchange rate between dollars and rubles is astronomical (30 Rubles to a dollar as of 8:00USEDT on Aug272001), and basic staples are cheaper there. Besides, a whole bunch of $5-20 contributions adds up!
LeeR
Tripod will allow you to use CGI scripts, but only in a special directory, etc. Also, only Perl is allowed, and no system or exec is allowed, and scripts will only run for one second before being auto-terminated.
HTML adds a lot of functionality to a poster. Perhaps it can be dangerous - that is what moderation is for. However, a lot of things can be looked for; especially javascript event handlers and such. I like being able to add emphasis and properly underline text (unfortunitely not allowed by slash), and bold is also useful for some things.
Change the structure of Windows. Make it into an operating system with premissions. Programs shouldn't have access to all the files on the system; nor should programs be automatically run by receiving an e-mail message.
Lee Ripley