Yeah, I agree wholeheartedly. This is a huge problem and the end result will just be to use M$ everything and when it still breaks, too fucking bad because M$ obviously is above the law.
Man, all I see are complaints from the/. crowd, and this is one of the coolest things I have seen here in a long time. Granted, it could use a few tweaks, but this looks like something that anyone with $30 and a spare afternoon could do. I say this is a damn neat idea.
Kid's today aren't spoiled. Kid's today are educated. It's your lazy, bitch-ass generation that was spoiled. You didn't "grow up in a cruel dictatorship" either, so don't act like you fucking did. If you didn't have your head up your ass, you would realize that laws today don't just "regulate you when you may hurt someone else". They regulate you before you've even thought about hurting someone else. Heaven forbid someone "force an opinion on you". They're doing far worse. They're forcing their opinion on us by forcing us to ACT ACCORDING TO THEIR OPINION.
The internet is not the next big place to make money. The internet is the equivilent of a phone, paper mail, and a library, all of which are extremely personal and non-commercial.
maybe, but what do all of these things have in common? they are all monopolies; and natural monopolies are the perfect place to make money, at least until government regulation catches up with the robber-barons. just ask msft.
as soon as I get around to installing Nevy OS on an old 486 for her. It uses Konqueror embedded and QT embedded to work through framebuffer without requiring X. Their preview version is a shocking 8MB download, but only includes the web browser, a notepad, and a network configuration program.
You could also look into finding an Intranet Groupware program. One benefit of using a program like this is that you can make it easy to access via the web from anywhere, calendar, e-mail and all.
I'm using mine to build a gauss gun ("it's not a fucking rail gun!") which uses faraday's/lenz's law to repel a small copper ring. I have no actual experience with Gauss guns, but I think they are basically solenoids, using an electromagnetic coil to propel an object. As for the device you describe, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to be near one when it goes off!
Dude, check the voltages on those "powerful" "quarter-sized" capacitors before you go and build one of these based on capacitance alone. I bet if you add it up, they turn out to have the same energy-density as the other ones.
They do have them in development, but, seriously, capacitors are not the answer. I remember a company formed by UT grads that made these giant power storage devices for railguns. I think they were basically just an electric generator attached to a giant flywheel. The device would spin-up, then flip on and discharge all the stored momentum into a gun. I think these are going to be used on battleships in the near future. Anyways, I was referring to handheld rocket launchers, which contain vast amounts of stored chemical energy, not to mention the explosive charge. One would have to be insane to duplicate this with miniature capacitors.
Don't worry, either this guy hasn't brushed up on his metric prefixes lately, or somehow capacitors have become fantastically powerful in the past year. Assuming no alien-technology, it would require a pickup-bed full of these capacitors to even come close to weapons the army currently has.
The company I'm working at just bought some new W2K and XP boxes. Although the XP boxes were faster and more expensive, XP takes up almost 128MB of RAM by itself and the desktop is MUCH, MUCH slower than W2K. Not to mention the fact that Word XP crashes every time you go to save a document and XP profile changes propagate throughout the network to make every desktop have that "I'm retarded" feel with giant buttons and fonts.
for a while now. I have an ATI All-in-Wonder 128; and I don't notice any difference between S-video and regular RCA video. I'm using RCA right now and the text is readable (although somewhat annoying) at 640x480 resolution. Hope that helps.
Great, another instance in which a government outlaws something, only to turn around and offer the service under a "regulated" scheme for their own profit.
Yeah, that does suck. I was just looking for this yesterday, to use with Gibraltar Firewall. Many home users still use 95/98/Me and upgrading a gaming PC to Windows 2000 is like pulling teeth compared to installing a third-party VPN client.
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Yeah, I agree wholeheartedly. This is a huge problem and the end result will just be to use M$ everything and when it still breaks, too fucking bad because M$ obviously is above the law.
BUFFER OVERFLOW FOUND IN RPC!
this is hilarious. we should mod them both up so that everyone can witness the brilliance of /.
for those who don't want to register at NYT:
here's a link at CNET
Man, all I see are complaints from the /. crowd, and this is one of the coolest things I have seen here in a long time. Granted, it could use a few tweaks, but this looks like something that anyone with $30 and a spare afternoon could do. I say this is a damn neat idea.
Kid's today aren't spoiled. Kid's today are educated. It's your lazy, bitch-ass generation that was spoiled. You didn't "grow up in a cruel dictatorship" either, so don't act like you fucking did. If you didn't have your head up your ass, you would realize that laws today don't just "regulate you when you may hurt someone else". They regulate you before you've even thought about hurting someone else. Heaven forbid someone "force an opinion on you". They're doing far worse. They're forcing their opinion on us by forcing us to ACT ACCORDING TO THEIR OPINION.
All I can say is: ditto. (Class of '98)
maybe, but what do all of these things have in common? they are all monopolies; and natural monopolies are the perfect place to make money, at least until government regulation catches up with the robber-barons. just ask msft.
as soon as I get around to installing Nevy OS on an old 486 for her. It uses Konqueror embedded and QT embedded to work through framebuffer without requiring X. Their preview version is a shocking 8MB download, but only includes the web browser, a notepad, and a network configuration program.
I'm using mine to build a gauss gun ("it's not a fucking rail gun!") which uses faraday's/lenz's law to repel a small copper ring. I have no actual experience with Gauss guns, but I think they are basically solenoids, using an electromagnetic coil to propel an object. As for the device you describe, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to be near one when it goes off!
As long as those "funds" went towards finding a good constitutional lawyer first, yes. Unfortunately, an ICBM doesn't qualify as an "arm", though :)
Dude, check the voltages on those "powerful" "quarter-sized" capacitors before you go and build one of these based on capacitance alone. I bet if you add it up, they turn out to have the same energy-density as the other ones.
Truly your intellect is staggering.
They do have them in development, but, seriously, capacitors are not the answer. I remember a company formed by UT grads that made these giant power storage devices for railguns. I think they were basically just an electric generator attached to a giant flywheel. The device would spin-up, then flip on and discharge all the stored momentum into a gun. I think these are going to be used on battleships in the near future. Anyways, I was referring to handheld rocket launchers, which contain vast amounts of stored chemical energy, not to mention the explosive charge. One would have to be insane to duplicate this with miniature capacitors.
actually, yes. "arms" means the same thing as "any arms"; and many arms manufactured today can in fact "melt tanks".
Don't worry, either this guy hasn't brushed up on his metric prefixes lately, or somehow capacitors have become fantastically powerful in the past year. Assuming no alien-technology, it would require a pickup-bed full of these capacitors to even come close to weapons the army currently has.
The company I'm working at just bought some new W2K and XP boxes. Although the XP boxes were faster and more expensive, XP takes up almost 128MB of RAM by itself and the desktop is MUCH, MUCH slower than W2K. Not to mention the fact that Word XP crashes every time you go to save a document and XP profile changes propagate throughout the network to make every desktop have that "I'm retarded" feel with giant buttons and fonts.
for a while now. I have an ATI All-in-Wonder 128; and I don't notice any difference between S-video and regular RCA video. I'm using RCA right now and the text is readable (although somewhat annoying) at 640x480 resolution. Hope that helps.
Great, another instance in which a government outlaws something, only to turn around and offer the service under a "regulated" scheme for their own profit.
uh, yeah, this would seem reasonable, until it's logical consequence emerges:
if you can't prove it's true, then it's true
Incompleteness doesn't require unprovable statements to be "true", only unprovable.
Time Traveler
Is it acceptable to distribute a patch?
Yeah, that does suck. I was just looking for this yesterday, to use with Gibraltar Firewall. Many home users still use 95/98/Me and upgrading a gaming PC to Windows 2000 is like pulling teeth compared to installing a third-party VPN client.
yeah, but the trolls are getting better...