I wasn't aware of that, and that does look and sound rather interesting. In which case I have to retract my earlier statement and go picket the doors at ATI for open source drivers:)
As far as I'm aware there aren't any open source projects that would have any use for workstation graphics card, so your sentiment of open source drivers is really nice, but somewhat beside the point.
They're specifically in the market for 3D CAD, 3DS, Maya, that sort of stuff, of which there really isn't a heavy weight open source equivalent.
So, although in principle I agree with you, I don't think it's even remotely important. I'd much rather see open source drivers for the gaming cards, since those *are* useful.
Do these countries really have faster speeds than the Broadband Utopia [ieee.org] in northeastern Utah? They offer 30Mbps now and are capable of delivering 100+ Mbps.
In a word: Yes.
100Mb or 1Gb is readilly available in Japan and Sweden (two countries where I have friends that have this in their home) against quite normal prices.
Even here in the Netherlands the 20 and 24Mb links are available almost everywhere now (20 for cable, 24 for ADSL generally) for about half the price people I know in the US pay for 3Mb..
And yes. I know it's client side bla bla, but still:) If you just redirect all your 404 pages to Amazon, at say www.amazon.com/thispagedoesnotexistyoubastards I wonder how that'd work out:)
Considering almost everyone uses the 'back' option anyway after hitting a 404...
The thing about having all this 'public' (which it already is, actually, since you can ask for pretty much any court transcript), is that if you've done something 30 years ago, it'll still be there for anyone to google.
So now everyone knows that you at 17 years old smoked a joint (but of course you didn't inhale) and got caught by the cops. What exactly does this have to do with the life you're leading now?
This is exactly why all the digging up of facts for presidents, senators and all that disgusts me. Does it really matter what a 60 year old did when he was 17? Or do you think someone doesn't change in the 43 years since...
Divorce her and then sue her for years of emotional distress. In addition you can get a friend of you to beat you up and call the cops about how your wife finally snapped after years of belittling you when you made one comment about wanting a divorce.
Hmmm:)
(Not posted anonymously, since if people can't take sarcasm, they shouldn't be reading Slashdot. Or possibly this falls more into the category if cynicism...)
There is one thing that sets apart auctioning off an item and auctioning off enchanting materials though, and that's the deposit you need to make.
For an item it's 10% of the vendor sales price over 48 hours (IIRC), and for enchanting materials it's 0.
So you can put your enchanting materials up over and over again, without ever incurring a loss in the process of putting it up for auction.
This is especially true with items that vendor for say 10g, give you enchanting mats worth 20, don't auction at all (due to them being useless). You wouldn't want to auction it to begin with due to the high deposit to begin with.
Lunar Lander! Yeah.... But in my case on an old TI programmable calculator (with magnetic strips to actually store your programming, and only a 12 or so number display, with the old red lines, instead of leds or anything:)
Spent ages with that when I was 7 or so. My uncle had one for work, and I can still remember the first time I actually landed the damn thing.
2 mods: Auctioneer and Enchantrix. These two combined will give you a very good insight into just how much a certain item is worth on the Auctionhouse, and what it might disenchant to. This then gives you a base point as to how much it'd be worth disenchanted.
I've used this combination for 2 years or so now, and you'd be surprised at how few items there are that are actually worth more being sold than being disenchanted.
Before the RIAA lawyers can board a plane to Brazil... they would be enjoying the soothing attentions of bubba in a max-security hold up cell..
That is a very dangerous things to say. I'd call this incitement to crime. I mean, why wouldn't a lot of readers of Slashdot commit a crime to be rewarded with 1 month in prison with these RIAA lawyers..
Seriously. You should think before making these kinds of comments. Very very dangerous here.. Probably more dangerous would be giving out the actual prison they'd be incarcerated in.. Hmmm...... I see possibilities...
To put it very simply: The French have french as a language. In comparison to english it contains different amounts of different letters.
Now. If you know how these keyboard configurations originally came into being (remember typewriters?), then it's quite normal for a different language to have a different layout of keys.
The layout was meant to be such that 2 letters often being used in conjunction with each other are spaced apart on the keyboard, thus avoiding the problem of getting your typewriter hammers stuck on each other when typing real fast. The french have the AZERTY keyboard, the english QWERTY, exactly for this reason. And since those were pretty much taken over for computer keyboards (where it would actually be *beneficial* to have often used letter combination as close to each other as possible), we're now stuck with all sorts of weird combinations.
Now here's something probably most of you don't know:) Eve Online (The Space MMO from CCP) (You know, the one people seem to love bashing) is actually written in Python.
First time I realized that was about 3 days after installing the game and seeing all kinds of familiar extensions in cache and library directories. Fun stuff:) An actual game written in a language that's derived from a language that was originally designed for games.
That entirely depends on the strength of your powersupply I'm sure. But your teleporter might still find a good use as a smoke signal generator. So not to worry! The possibilities are endless.
The concept is a great one, though. And also one that goes back a long way to all the electronics kits I used to have as a kid. What I'm wondering is mainly: How easy would it be to build custom modules that 'click into' all the other modules? And with that I mean not using the already available ones.
That's basically what I ended up doing with those electronics kits. Little wooden blocks with my own R/C circuit on it, and connecting that into the existing block of the kit. I'm a bit doubtful about this being feasable in this sort of setup, though, since the complexity is probably way too high. A shame, really..
Give kids more electronics kits! (Let them build their own computer with a Z80:) Nice and cheap, and if it blows up, well, it costs $2 to get a new Z80.
But hey, don't take my word for it.. go have a chat with your friend Theo de Raadt..
Ouch... Talk about throwing to the wolves. However, if you want to have a well-informed (albeit somewhat lacking in social graces) person to comment on the state of security in general, he'd probably be quite a good choice. As to the state of security sense/awareness in programmers, he'd probably be one of the best:)
I see nothing wrong with a 3rd party specialized in this sort of auditing to actually do it, instead of a whole bunch of programmers & others who probably don't have that specialization, and are most often busy with actually being 'productive' and thus have no time to audit themselves (impossible) or others (not always efficient)
The original estimate of 90 days was not based on their structural integrity, but on a guestimate of the buildup of dust on the solar panels, and how long it would take for them to become inoperable.
The first storm they got suddenly turned out to be a blessing in that the solar panels were blown clean, plus the fact that they were able to function on much lower power than originally thought also boosted their lifespan.
They were afraid that the storms would deposit more dust on the panels, and just make them completely bricked, but it turned out to be a blessing instead of the feared danger.
With or without the knowledge of the owners of said passwords is always my first question;)
Hmmm. And I think you're right on it being a combination of your two points. I think I have a 5-digit ID, not even sure, so I'm not that old, but even then, it seems like I've been here forever, but I really don't post all that much.
I mainly use/. for staying a bit informed on what's going on, sort of like a newspaper.
Man I spent some serious cash on this thing... Our local toyshop charged IIRC 25 cents for 15 minutes to play on this thing, and there were always some youngsters like me that would be playing it:) The owner had to be rather heavyhanded at times to give someone else a chance to play when someone was simply too good and taking up too much time.
Hehe. Good old days:) He kept it around after it went out of production and I'm sure made his money back on it without any problems (he even let us 'borrow' other cartridges to play for it).
Windows NT on the Dec Alpha was a rather odd sort of construct. The whole OS was basically in 64-bit, all local applications were also 64-bit, but a ton of apps were still 32-bit and running in a special profiling 32-bit emulator. This because the Dec Alpha simply didn't *have* a 32-bit mode to switch to (like what happens with the WinVM in 64-bit windows)
Everything I wrote myself on the Dec Alpha was always in 64-bit, which avoided the 32-bit emulator.
That emulator was a work of genius, though. While using the program it would profile all the routines used, and translate them to native 64-bit code, and run the 64-bit code as much as possible after that. The differences between the first run of a 32-bit program and the second was sometimes staggering.
So the question I have to this statement is why does it need to reboot the computer now if later it will be able to do the prerequisite steps automatically for the offical release. Why couldn't they impliment that into a RC?
During those 'nights' the updates that are being made will still require you to reboot. Only now you just reboot it 3 times in a month, instead of 3 times in succession.
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I wasn't aware of that, and that does look and sound rather interesting. In which case I have to retract my earlier statement and go picket the doors at ATI for open source drivers :)
As far as I'm aware there aren't any open source projects that would have any use for workstation graphics card, so your sentiment of open source drivers is really nice, but somewhat beside the point.
They're specifically in the market for 3D CAD, 3DS, Maya, that sort of stuff, of which there really isn't a heavy weight open source equivalent.
So, although in principle I agree with you, I don't think it's even remotely important. I'd much rather see open source drivers for the gaming cards, since those *are* useful.
In a word: Yes.
100Mb or 1Gb is readilly available in Japan and Sweden (two countries where I have friends that have this in their home) against quite normal prices.
Even here in the Netherlands the 20 and 24Mb links are available almost everywhere now (20 for cable, 24 for ADSL generally) for about half the price people I know in the US pay for 3Mb..
So uhm. Yes.
And yes. I know it's client side bla bla, but still :) If you just redirect all your 404 pages to Amazon, at say www.amazon.com/thispagedoesnotexistyoubastards I wonder how that'd work out :)
Considering almost everyone uses the 'back' option anyway after hitting a 404...
This always reminds me of the age old joke:
What are 100 lawyers up to their necks in shit?
Right. Not enough shit.
The thing about having all this 'public' (which it already is, actually, since you can ask for pretty much any court transcript), is that if you've done something 30 years ago, it'll still be there for anyone to google.
So now everyone knows that you at 17 years old smoked a joint (but of course you didn't inhale) and got caught by the cops. What exactly does this have to do with the life you're leading now?
This is exactly why all the digging up of facts for presidents, senators and all that disgusts me. Does it really matter what a 60 year old did when he was 17? Or do you think someone doesn't change in the 43 years since...
Divorce her and then sue her for years of emotional distress. In addition you can get a friend of you to beat you up and call the cops about how your wife finally snapped after years of belittling you when you made one comment about wanting a divorce.
:)
Hmmm
(Not posted anonymously, since if people can't take sarcasm, they shouldn't be reading Slashdot. Or possibly this falls more into the category if cynicism...)
There is one thing that sets apart auctioning off an item and auctioning off enchanting materials though, and that's the deposit you need to make.
For an item it's 10% of the vendor sales price over 48 hours (IIRC), and for enchanting materials it's 0.
So you can put your enchanting materials up over and over again, without ever incurring a loss in the process of putting it up for auction.
This is especially true with items that vendor for say 10g, give you enchanting mats worth 20, don't auction at all (due to them being useless). You wouldn't want to auction it to begin with due to the high deposit to begin with.
Lunar Lander! Yeah.... But in my case on an old TI programmable calculator (with magnetic strips to actually store your programming, and only a 12 or so number display, with the old red lines, instead of leds or anything :)
Spent ages with that when I was 7 or so. My uncle had one for work, and I can still remember the first time I actually landed the damn thing.
2 mods: Auctioneer and Enchantrix. These two combined will give you a very good insight into just how much a certain item is worth on the Auctionhouse, and what it might disenchant to. This then gives you a base point as to how much it'd be worth disenchanted.
I've used this combination for 2 years or so now, and you'd be surprised at how few items there are that are actually worth more being sold than being disenchanted.
I think it was in a book by Pratchett where this came up, in relationship to Rincewind knowing the meaning of this in a lot of languages.
One of them from some tribe of cannibals was: More boiling oil please!
Let's assume $750 per song. Let's assume a CD is 10 songs, so a CD is $7.5K.
Now.. Say she gets a settlement of $7.5M. The RIAA only has to give her 1000 Britney CDs and their obligations have been paid.
See. Easy. RIAA never loses.
That is a very dangerous things to say. I'd call this incitement to crime. I mean, why wouldn't a lot of readers of Slashdot commit a crime to be rewarded with 1 month in prison with these RIAA lawyers..
Seriously. You should think before making these kinds of comments. Very very dangerous here.. Probably more dangerous would be giving out the actual prison they'd be incarcerated in.. Hmmm...... I see possibilities...
Regards,
Bubba.
To put it very simply: The French have french as a language. In comparison to english it contains different amounts of different letters.
Now. If you know how these keyboard configurations originally came into being (remember typewriters?), then it's quite normal for a different language to have a different layout of keys.
The layout was meant to be such that 2 letters often being used in conjunction with each other are spaced apart on the keyboard, thus avoiding the problem of getting your typewriter hammers stuck on each other when typing real fast. The french have the AZERTY keyboard, the english QWERTY, exactly for this reason. And since those were pretty much taken over for computer keyboards (where it would actually be *beneficial* to have often used letter combination as close to each other as possible), we're now stuck with all sorts of weird combinations.
Now here's something probably most of you don't know :) Eve Online (The Space MMO from CCP) (You know, the one people seem to love bashing) is actually written in Python.
:) An actual game written in a language that's derived from a language that was originally designed for games.
First time I realized that was about 3 days after installing the game and seeing all kinds of familiar extensions in cache and library directories. Fun stuff
That entirely depends on the strength of your powersupply I'm sure. But your teleporter might still find a good use as a smoke signal generator. So not to worry! The possibilities are endless.
:) Nice and cheap, and if it blows up, well, it costs $2 to get a new Z80.
The concept is a great one, though. And also one that goes back a long way to all the electronics kits I used to have as a kid. What I'm wondering is mainly: How easy would it be to build custom modules that 'click into' all the other modules? And with that I mean not using the already available ones.
That's basically what I ended up doing with those electronics kits. Little wooden blocks with my own R/C circuit on it, and connecting that into the existing block of the kit. I'm a bit doubtful about this being feasable in this sort of setup, though, since the complexity is probably way too high. A shame, really..
Give kids more electronics kits! (Let them build their own computer with a Z80
Depends on the amount of O really. Or for that matter I, depending on from which point you're looking at it :)
:)
20K read operations will be no problem at all. 20K write operations will wear it down, but then again, see your own link
Ouch... Talk about throwing to the wolves. However, if you want to have a well-informed (albeit somewhat lacking in social graces) person to comment on the state of security in general, he'd probably be quite a good choice. As to the state of security sense/awareness in programmers, he'd probably be one of the best
I see nothing wrong with a 3rd party specialized in this sort of auditing to actually do it, instead of a whole bunch of programmers & others who probably don't have that specialization, and are most often busy with actually being 'productive' and thus have no time to audit themselves (impossible) or others (not always efficient)
The original estimate of 90 days was not based on their structural integrity, but on a guestimate of the buildup of dust on the solar panels, and how long it would take for them to become inoperable.
The first storm they got suddenly turned out to be a blessing in that the solar panels were blown clean, plus the fact that they were able to function on much lower power than originally thought also boosted their lifespan.
They were afraid that the storms would deposit more dust on the panels, and just make them completely bricked, but it turned out to be a blessing instead of the feared danger.
With or without the knowledge of the owners of said passwords is always my first question
Hmmm. And I think you're right on it being a combination of your two points. I think I have a 5-digit ID, not even sure, so I'm not that old, but even then, it seems like I've been here forever, but I really don't post all that much.
I mainly use
Man I spent some serious cash on this thing... Our local toyshop charged IIRC 25 cents for 15 minutes to play on this thing, and there were always some youngsters like me that would be playing it :) The owner had to be rather heavyhanded at times to give someone else a chance to play when someone was simply too good and taking up too much time.
:) He kept it around after it went out of production and I'm sure made his money back on it without any problems (he even let us 'borrow' other cartridges to play for it).
Hehe. Good old days
I think what he meant was: There might be life in other galaxies, but this one's roasted for sure.
Windows NT on the Dec Alpha was a rather odd sort of construct. The whole OS was basically in 64-bit, all local applications were also 64-bit, but a ton of apps were still 32-bit and running in a special profiling 32-bit emulator. This because the Dec Alpha simply didn't *have* a 32-bit mode to switch to (like what happens with the WinVM in 64-bit windows)
Everything I wrote myself on the Dec Alpha was always in 64-bit, which avoided the 32-bit emulator.
That emulator was a work of genius, though. While using the program it would profile all the routines used, and translate them to native 64-bit code, and run the 64-bit code as much as possible after that. The differences between the first run of a 32-bit program and the second was sometimes staggering.
During those 'nights' the updates that are being made will still require you to reboot. Only now you just reboot it 3 times in a month, instead of 3 times in succession.