>The bad press surrounding prozac was bought and > paid for by Scientology marketers.
I hadn't though of this, but it makes perfect sense! [see www.xenu.net to see why].
Ryan Salsbury
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But what kind of range does a cheetah have? (I honestly don't know). I can walk 20 miles in a day (not day + night). Given a bike I can go 100. Maybe humans are more efficient than cats. On the other hand, cheetahs can probably climb trees better than me.
Ryan
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> What exactly is the benefit of a walking robot > with two legs?
The reason you only have two legs: energy is expensive. At least when you are running of batteries or pizza.
Fry's: May I check your receipt? Me: No thank you. Fry's: Sir, I need to check your receipt. Me: Call the cops. Walk out the door.
Ryan Salsbury
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Except nowadays China isn't considered bad by the media. Red China is our favored trade partner for chist sakes. If China announced plans to visit Mars the US would probably try to secure a "strategic partnership."
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Six days, six months, what's the difference? If the bubble pops you'll die either way.
Ryan
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> It uses a lot of memory because it is doing FFTs > and stuff on big arrays. The algorithm it runs > fundamentally needs to touch all that memory in > no specific order.
FFTs access data in a very specific order (sequentially, many times). I'd just like to point out that you have never written an fft and have few, if any, clues.
Carry on.
Moderators: He actually doesn't have any clue, and pointing that out is a legitamate and productive response.:-)
What question do you propose? Do you mean "What is your age?" or "What is the average reader's age?" I think the second would provide entertaining insight into people's perception of slashdot.
Bah! Apple's interfaces aren't flawless, not even close.
Let's take their most visible product, the imac. Now I haven't actually used an imac for an extended time so feel free to laugh off my criticisms.
HOWEVER, there are several ui issues that seem obvious without even turning on the machine.
A round, one button hockey puck. Come on! People have five fingers, at least use two or three of them. Also, Apple seems to have forgotten Fitt's Law. As in, "does the mouse fitt in my hand?"
A small screen. It looks like 15 inches. Isn't the norm 17 inches lately? I guess I can forgive them, they were trying to make the imac cheap.
A small cramped keyboard. 'Course windows machines seem to come with these too. Personally, I can't stand standard layout keyboards. The best keyboard I've ever used is the original microsoft natural; the one with the inverse T arrow pad. The current version sucks. Leave it to MS to upgrade the only product that was perfect at version 1.0
No expandability. Not a ui issue (or is it?) but it still pisses me off.
No floppy. C'mon, guys, cheap removable storage is useful! And don't tell me that the built in ethernet makes up for it. You can chain together as many imacs as you want and you still can't take your documents to work with you.
I guess those are the biggies that are very noticable WITHOUT TURNING IT ON.
I know you can buy external usb mice, keyboards, floppies, zips, etc. But do you think this strategy improves the user experience?
Seriously, if I wanted a small screen, cramped keyboard, hostile pointing device, and no expandability I'd buy a laptop. And even that comes with a floppy drive.
If your friends don't have a unix box to run a dns server they're out of luck. I run a name server (BIND) for my domain ryans.dhs.org. The server is set so it thinks it's authoritative for the doubleclick domain too. Any name lookup on my network gets routed to my dns server for resolution. Since my server thinks it's authoritative for doubleclick it won't attempt to resolve the name and just returns error "no such domain."
You might try setting the address for ad.doubleclick.net to 127.0.0.1 in you hosts file. I think windows stores it in c:\windows\drivers\etc\hosts Something like that.
Fast mirror (18, 28, 50 meg)
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Well, it's fast now. We'll se what happens when the/. effect kicks in. I have the 18, 28, and 48 meg quicktime versions. Only the 28 meg one seems to work with xanim.
> Some silly "LawNet" does not make people feel > better. They can't eat it, they can't live in > it, it doesn't keep them warm and it can't be > drank.
LOL! As if the average computer criminal is starving. Tell 'em to sell their computer.
> Yes gun sligning...sheriffs on the net are few > and far between people are left to secure their > own hardware and match their skill vs. that of > the hacker.
Widespread sheriffs won't relieve you of the responsibility of locking down your machine. You lock your house, car, and bike, don't you?
Those bastards! Now I have a dilemma: Should I skip the first day of spring semester and try to convince my instructors not to drop me from the courses?
Also, I had wanted to go to the hearing because I forgot my jacket in someone's car during the TRO. Whomever gave me a ride to the Habana, do you have my dark blue jacket? Email me: ryanrs at altavista dot net.
It breaks various programs because it is an ILLEGAL name. (I think the standards have changed since the old days and are a bit more flexible). However, it is still recommended that domain names have the following form:
A domain name is a sequence of labels seperated by dots '.'
A label is a sequence of letters 'a..z', digits '0..9', and hyphens '-'. A digit may not be the first character of a label. A hyphen may not be the first or last character of a label. A label must be less than 64 characters in length.
If the IP stack caused significant lag then ethernet games would blow too. Modems suck. Cable/DSL sucks less. Ethernet is quite nifty. The softmodem driver would probably help lag much more than tweaking the stack. Most of the serious gamers probably have cable/dsl by now though.
> this is the problem with all you armchair > coders. you think programming is the solution > to problems.
Oh come on. We're not talking about hard science or anything. It's a freakin' network stack. Get a book, look at the code. I'm sure there are a few obvious tradeoffs that could be retuned for low latency. Thousands of grad students have studied this area of CS, go read their papers. There's bound to be some tricks not already in the code.
Slashdot Mirror
>The bad press surrounding prozac was bought and
> paid for by Scientology marketers.
I hadn't though of this, but it makes perfect sense! [see www.xenu.net to see why].
Ryan Salsbury
But what kind of range does a cheetah have? (I honestly don't know). I can walk 20 miles in a day (not day + night). Given a bike I can go 100. Maybe humans are more efficient than cats. On the other hand, cheetahs can probably climb trees better than me.
Ryan
> What exactly is the benefit of a walking robot
> with two legs?
The reason you only have two legs: energy is expensive. At least when you are running of batteries or pizza.
Ryan Salsbury
Starting with everyone's favorite os. Linux. If a boxed redhat install fucks with your partition table and wipe windows, they pay.
I'm haven't yet decided if I'm joking.
Ryan
The contest is on unix, naturally. It's been running annually (almost) since 1984.
Ryan Salsbury
> Because you can't have (literal quantity) none
> of something,
"How many horny programming groupies does Ryan have?" Is that a quantity?
Ryan Salsbury
You forget the details. The faq states that 0^0 == 1. Small difference.
Fry's: May I check your receipt?
Me: No thank you.
Fry's: Sir, I need to check your receipt.
Me: Call the cops. Walk out the door.
Ryan Salsbury
Except nowadays China isn't considered bad by the media. Red China is our favored trade partner for chist sakes. If China announced plans to visit Mars the US would probably try to secure a "strategic partnership."
Ryan Salsbury
Six days, six months, what's the difference? If the bubble pops you'll die either way.
Ryan
> It uses a lot of memory because it is doing FFTs
:-)
> and stuff on big arrays. The algorithm it runs
> fundamentally needs to touch all that memory in
> no specific order.
FFTs access data in a very specific order (sequentially, many times). I'd just like to point out that you have never written an fft and have few, if any, clues.
Carry on.
Moderators: He actually doesn't have any clue, and pointing that out is a legitamate and productive response.
Ryan Salsbury
What question do you propose? Do you mean "What is your age?" or "What is the average reader's age?" I think the second would provide entertaining insight into people's perception of slashdot.
Ryan Salsbury
Bah! Apple's interfaces aren't flawless, not even close.
Let's take their most visible product, the imac. Now I haven't actually used an imac for an extended time so feel free to laugh off my criticisms.
HOWEVER, there are several ui issues that seem obvious without even turning on the machine.
A round, one button hockey puck. Come on! People have five fingers, at least use two or three of them. Also, Apple seems to have forgotten Fitt's Law. As in, "does the mouse fitt in my hand?"
A small screen. It looks like 15 inches. Isn't the norm 17 inches lately? I guess I can forgive them, they were trying to make the imac cheap.
A small cramped keyboard. 'Course windows machines seem to come with these too. Personally, I can't stand standard layout keyboards. The best keyboard I've ever used is the original microsoft natural; the one with the inverse T arrow pad. The current version sucks. Leave it to MS to upgrade the only product that was perfect at version 1.0
No expandability. Not a ui issue (or is it?) but it still pisses me off.
No floppy. C'mon, guys, cheap removable storage is useful! And don't tell me that the built in ethernet makes up for it. You can chain together as many imacs as you want and you still can't take your documents to work with you.
I guess those are the biggies that are very noticable WITHOUT TURNING IT ON.
I know you can buy external usb mice, keyboards, floppies, zips, etc. But do you think this strategy improves the user experience?
Seriously, if I wanted a small screen, cramped keyboard, hostile pointing device, and no expandability I'd buy a laptop. And even that comes with a floppy drive.
Ryan Salsbury -- Apple sucks just as hard as MS.
If your friends don't have a unix box to run a dns server they're out of luck. I run a name server (BIND) for my domain ryans.dhs.org. The server is set so it thinks it's authoritative for the doubleclick domain too. Any name lookup on my network gets routed to my dns server for resolution. Since my server thinks it's authoritative for doubleclick it won't attempt to resolve the name and just returns error "no such domain."
You might try setting the address for ad.doubleclick.net to 127.0.0.1 in you hosts file. I think windows stores it in c:\windows\drivers\etc\hosts
Something like that.
Ryan Salsbury
Ah crap. I forgot to replace that partial dl. Everything should work now.
RYan Salsbury
I have a fast mirror. My link tops out about 900 kbytes/s. Check the realtime monitor for current conditions.
http://www.ryans.dhs.org/heroes.html
Realtime server status
Ryan Salsbury
[ryan@leia: serial]$ nslookup www.doubleclick.net
:)
Server: line.ryans.dhs.org
Address: 199.201.131.225
*** line.ryans.dhs.org can't find www.doubleclick.net: Non-existent host/domain
Golly, my dns server must be misconfigured
Ryan
Well, it's fast now. We'll se what happens when the /. effect kicks in. I have the 18, 28, and 48 meg quicktime versions. Only the 28 meg one seems to work with xanim.
http://www.ryans.dhs.org/tie-tanic.html
Ryan Salsbury
> Some silly "LawNet" does not make people feel
> better. They can't eat it, they can't live in
> it, it doesn't keep them warm and it can't be
> drank.
LOL! As if the average computer criminal is starving. Tell 'em to sell their computer.
Ryan
> Yes gun sligning...sheriffs on the net are few
> and far between people are left to secure their
> own hardware and match their skill vs. that of
> the hacker.
Widespread sheriffs won't relieve you of the responsibility of locking down your machine. You lock your house, car, and bike, don't you?
Ryan
Those bastards! Now I have a dilemma: Should I skip the first day of spring semester and try to convince my instructors not to drop me from the courses?
Also, I had wanted to go to the hearing because I forgot my jacket in someone's car during the TRO. Whomever gave me a ride to the Habana, do you have my dark blue jacket? Email me: ryanrs at altavista dot net.
Ryan
It breaks various programs because it is an ILLEGAL name. (I think the standards have changed since the old days and are a bit more flexible). However, it is still recommended that domain names have the following form:
A domain name is a sequence of labels seperated by dots '.'
A label is a sequence of letters 'a..z', digits '0..9', and hyphens '-'. A digit may not be the first character of a label. A hyphen may not be the first or last character of a label. A label must be less than 64 characters in length.
Ryan
If the IP stack caused significant lag then ethernet games would blow too. Modems suck. Cable/DSL sucks less. Ethernet is quite nifty. The softmodem driver would probably help lag much more than tweaking the stack. Most of the serious gamers probably have cable/dsl by now though.
Ryan
> this is the problem with all you armchair
> coders. you think programming is the solution
> to problems.
Oh come on. We're not talking about hard science or anything. It's a freakin' network stack. Get a book, look at the code. I'm sure there are a few obvious tradeoffs that could be retuned for low latency. Thousands of grad students have studied this area of CS, go read their papers. There's bound to be some tricks not already in the code.
Ryan
> software can never outperform pure hardware implementation.
Bullshit. Why all the craze over DSPs? Besides, it is easier to upgrade software.
Ryan