So, do you actually look at the photo right after you post the link? Because if you just keep posting the link and never really look at the pics, then what is there to be repelled from? Mere blue underlined words don't quite have the same effect.
Just as much effect as me wearing a rope of garlic, I suppose. They're smelling pretty ripe right now.
Hmm, I'm not actually wearing any garlic, strange....
Seems like a person could set up a few webservers, let people select kernel configuration options, and send the much smaller bzImage (and compiled modules) through email. Sure, the size would vary wildly based on how many modules were selected, the architechture, etc., but on average I'd say it would be much smaller.
The benefit is less bandwidth wasted for people downloading 35 megs of source to recompile a 900K kernel image. The disadvantage is processor time required, well, how many Athlons do you have to buy to serve the same number of kernels per day, and how does it compare to bandwidth costs?
Yes, *I* would like to have the sources to myself, I have a few source files I need to tweak to get my machine working properly. But many people just have the burned CD from the friend of a friend, and would appreciate a recent kernel without a mammoth download.
They claim it will be temporarily in earth orbit by 2600 AD. And then they go on to speculate on how important that would be to space exploration, possibly becoming the second object visited by astronauts.
If, in 600 years, we haven't sent astronauts to visit other planets, I have preemptively lost faith in the human race.
Come on, in 600 years we should have a pretty decent Mars colony going.
I think the rest of it involves putting a neutron source at the interface of the two pieces. I remember something about a phosphorous isotope, but don't quote me on that.
Nuclear weapons that operate on this principle usually have a sphere with a large hole bored in one side, and a plug of U-235 with the particle source on the tip. The plug is fired into the hole (adding up to the critical mass), the source emits particles at the center of the sphere, and no one is around to observe what happens next.
All you need, in addition to the material and firing mechanism, is a concentrating layer around the core. Beryllium is ideal (Hollywood got that one right in The Shadow) but even water will work. If beryllium is used, the end of the plug will have a piece of beryllium on it, so that when the plug is fired, the warhead is completely enclosed in the concentrating layer with the source activated at the center. There has been speculation that a nuclear bomb could be assembled in a filled bathtub or toilet, making the size of the weapon much easier to hide and smuggle.
The people most worried about the possibility of homebrew nuclear weapons are those closest to the development of these weapons. That is the scary part.
I tried to find some info on this, but no success.
Has anyone tried running Ethernet over conductive traces painted on a wall? I know it wouldn't be optimal, as the capacitance due to the twisted pairs would be difficult to match. But for a few dozen feet, perhaps it would work. I imagine the paint would be more resistive than copper wire, and of course more susceptible to interference (unshielded, unless six layers of conductive and regular paint seems like a good idea).
A person could do this in two ways. One requires a lot of conductive pens and a steady hand. The other requires a can of conductive paint and a high-density foam roller with four ridges. After the wires are carefully run along the wall or ceiling, a touchup roller with matched interior paint would conceal the traces. Connections could be made with a copper tab that you can solder a wire to, would be superglued to the wall and the conductive paint brushed on and around it to make the trace connection.
This "solution" repulses me since it goes against every instinct of proper design and following the Ethernet cabling standard. But...hey, if you can't generate enough trust with your soon-to-be relatives to let you run REAL wires, then you have to deal. Honestly, if running WIRES (a valuable improvement, come on!) was such a problem with either my girlfriend or landlord, I'd seriously start to wonder what other problems might be present in both relationships.
"What kind of question is that, 'Would you please pass the salt?'! You obviously expect me to pass the salt and if I don't want to, too bad for me. Well, maybe I don't want to pass the salt, which is a compound of sodium (Na) and chlorine (Cl). My grandfather was a victim of chemical warfare in World War I, they used chlorine gas on him and he still has problems breathing. And my cousin Jim took a big chunk of sodium one day and threw it in a bucket of water, well, he blew up the garage and set his house on fire. Now he's confined to a wheelchair although he's doing pretty good in the wheelchair marathons.
"So maybe you can go search Google and find out where you can buy both sodium and concentrated chlorine, and make your own salt. Just don't ask me to get involved. Questions like yours make me wonder about the future of this country, when it is filled with people so ignorant of what they want, no idea how to do it themselves, and expecting everyone to do it for them. All just because you think your mashed potatoes are a little too bland.
AOL was based on the idea that people needed to live in a halfway house while they became accustomed to the Net.
I though AOL was based on the idea of a super-BBS that people could use, in the days of Prodigy and Compuserve, well before the Internet was remotely available to Joe 486.
It wasn't actually *my* page, someone else made it...honest.
I totally agree about concentrating on the plot, rather than the visuals. I mean, movie-making is movie-making, certain motions and views are necessary to provide a certain psychological effect.
Plotwise, there are a LOT of deeper similarities. Hacking into brains, struggle between technology and humanity, apparent death and rebirth into something else...all areas of similar plotlines.
But yeah...the exploding watermelons is blatant.;-)
Hmm. Might have to look into this, I'd like to rip the guts out of one just for the wireless link. Been looking for something cheap to do wireless linking for computer control of my tankbot. The cheapest link solutions I've seen weighed a couple pounds, and cost the same as a year of Starbuck's double lattes.
Does the Cybiko Xtreme communicate with the regular Cybkio? I think a good scheme would be [Computer] > USB > [Cybiko Xtreme] > RF Link > [Cybiko] > Serial Port > [Robot]. Shouldn't be too much latency right?;-)
Another interesting point: by pricing the software out of reach of people who want to fool with it, they run a big risk:
Kids fooling around with a C++ compiler.
With time, a free alternative can arise, and provides those kids the ability to modify the program to do things they never could do with Photoshop. How long before GIMP becomes polished enough that it starts replacing Photoshop even in the graphics industry?
Sometimes people might not have a lot of extra money, but they have a little extra time to make their own tools. A Beowulf cluster of these...and you have a free replacement application.
Using this new technology, we will have access to more data storage than we could fill in a lifetime.
That is, a lifetime of transferring over Bluetooth. This is such a step backwards it's not even funny.
I can't wait for the new 40GB external serial port hard drives. RS-232 baby! When technology really gets advanced, the computer and hard drive will communicate across a room with robotic hands doing sign language. Without thumbs you could do eight bits...how about 01000010?
...there should be a snack or two. A bag of cookies or something, a can of soda or bottle of water (handy for putting out the fires you start).
Cookies are also useful as bribes. Just toss one a good distance away and over-curious dogs and small children will leave you alone for a while (until they come back for more...can't win). Never keep dog biscuits for the dogs, you'll throw one to a kid sooner or later. And that will be the time someone sees you doing it.
I don't think my computer wants to know what gestures I make at it when Windows XP curls up and dies. The good thing is that it reboots into Linux by default, so....
Combine this with one of those infrared finger mice, and you can feel like a Jedi: "This isn't the page you're looking for, go back." *waves hand to the left*
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, this one is lots of fun.
So, do you actually look at the photo right after you post the link? Because if you just keep posting the link and never really look at the pics, then what is there to be repelled from? Mere blue underlined words don't quite have the same effect.
Just as much effect as me wearing a rope of garlic, I suppose. They're smelling pretty ripe right now.
Hmm, I'm not actually wearing any garlic, strange....
Seems like a person could set up a few webservers, let people select kernel configuration options, and send the much smaller bzImage (and compiled modules) through email. Sure, the size would vary wildly based on how many modules were selected, the architechture, etc., but on average I'd say it would be much smaller.
The benefit is less bandwidth wasted for people downloading 35 megs of source to recompile a 900K kernel image. The disadvantage is processor time required, well, how many Athlons do you have to buy to serve the same number of kernels per day, and how does it compare to bandwidth costs?
Yes, *I* would like to have the sources to myself, I have a few source files I need to tweak to get my machine working properly. But many people just have the burned CD from the friend of a friend, and would appreciate a recent kernel without a mammoth download.
Maybe someone's already doing this, I don't know.
Hey.
;-)
If I hang a string of garlic around my neck, does it keep the trolls away?
Just thought you might know.
They claim it will be temporarily in earth orbit by 2600 AD. And then they go on to speculate on how important that would be to space exploration, possibly becoming the second object visited by astronauts.
If, in 600 years, we haven't sent astronauts to visit other planets, I have preemptively lost faith in the human race.
Come on, in 600 years we should have a pretty decent Mars colony going.
I think the rest of it involves putting a neutron source at the interface of the two pieces. I remember something about a phosphorous isotope, but don't quote me on that.
Nuclear weapons that operate on this principle usually have a sphere with a large hole bored in one side, and a plug of U-235 with the particle source on the tip. The plug is fired into the hole (adding up to the critical mass), the source emits particles at the center of the sphere, and no one is around to observe what happens next.
All you need, in addition to the material and firing mechanism, is a concentrating layer around the core. Beryllium is ideal (Hollywood got that one right in The Shadow) but even water will work. If beryllium is used, the end of the plug will have a piece of beryllium on it, so that when the plug is fired, the warhead is completely enclosed in the concentrating layer with the source activated at the center. There has been speculation that a nuclear bomb could be assembled in a filled bathtub or toilet, making the size of the weapon much easier to hide and smuggle.
The people most worried about the possibility of homebrew nuclear weapons are those closest to the development of these weapons. That is the scary part.
I tried to find some info on this, but no success.
Has anyone tried running Ethernet over conductive traces painted on a wall? I know it wouldn't be optimal, as the capacitance due to the twisted pairs would be difficult to match. But for a few dozen feet, perhaps it would work. I imagine the paint would be more resistive than copper wire, and of course more susceptible to interference (unshielded, unless six layers of conductive and regular paint seems like a good idea).
A person could do this in two ways. One requires a lot of conductive pens and a steady hand. The other requires a can of conductive paint and a high-density foam roller with four ridges. After the wires are carefully run along the wall or ceiling, a touchup roller with matched interior paint would conceal the traces. Connections could be made with a copper tab that you can solder a wire to, would be superglued to the wall and the conductive paint brushed on and around it to make the trace connection.
This "solution" repulses me since it goes against every instinct of proper design and following the Ethernet cabling standard. But...hey, if you can't generate enough trust with your soon-to-be relatives to let you run REAL wires, then you have to deal. Honestly, if running WIRES (a valuable improvement, come on!) was such a problem with either my girlfriend or landlord, I'd seriously start to wonder what other problems might be present in both relationships.
"What kind of question is that, 'Would you please pass the salt?'! You obviously expect me to pass the salt and if I don't want to, too bad for me. Well, maybe I don't want to pass the salt, which is a compound of sodium (Na) and chlorine (Cl). My grandfather was a victim of chemical warfare in World War I, they used chlorine gas on him and he still has problems breathing. And my cousin Jim took a big chunk of sodium one day and threw it in a bucket of water, well, he blew up the garage and set his house on fire. Now he's confined to a wheelchair although he's doing pretty good in the wheelchair marathons.
"So maybe you can go search Google and find out where you can buy both sodium and concentrated chlorine, and make your own salt. Just don't ask me to get involved. Questions like yours make me wonder about the future of this country, when it is filled with people so ignorant of what they want, no idea how to do it themselves, and expecting everyone to do it for them. All just because you think your mashed potatoes are a little too bland.
"Would you like the pepper, too?"
If your goal is to reproduce skin tones, you generally don't need much blue....
I think these displays will fit the display needs of the Slashdot community quite nicely.
I definitely plan to get my mother online via AOL...
...I have all aol.com addy's blocked.
But what about your poor mot...oh, I get it now.
I can't say "Most excellent" and then say "Mostly affected by...."
Trust me, it's been brought to my attention before.
AOL was based on the idea that people needed to live in a halfway house while they became accustomed to the Net.
I though AOL was based on the idea of a super-BBS that people could use, in the days of Prodigy and Compuserve, well before the Internet was remotely available to Joe 486.
Apart from direct utility, Zipcar is giving me a chance to get practice driving every couple weeks.
Somewhere out there, a Zipcar employee has a heart attack.
*everyone* "Hi SloWave!"
It wasn't actually *my* page, someone else made it...honest.
;-)
I totally agree about concentrating on the plot, rather than the visuals. I mean, movie-making is movie-making, certain motions and views are necessary to provide a certain psychological effect.
Plotwise, there are a LOT of deeper similarities. Hacking into brains, struggle between technology and humanity, apparent death and rebirth into something else...all areas of similar plotlines.
But yeah...the exploding watermelons is blatant.
Hmm. Might have to look into this, I'd like to rip the guts out of one just for the wireless link. Been looking for something cheap to do wireless linking for computer control of my tankbot. The cheapest link solutions I've seen weighed a couple pounds, and cost the same as a year of Starbuck's double lattes.
;-)
Does the Cybiko Xtreme communicate with the regular Cybkio? I think a good scheme would be [Computer] > USB > [Cybiko Xtreme] > RF Link > [Cybiko] > Serial Port > [Robot]. Shouldn't be too much latency right?
Another interesting point: by pricing the software out of reach of people who want to fool with it, they run a big risk:
Kids fooling around with a C++ compiler.
With time, a free alternative can arise, and provides those kids the ability to modify the program to do things they never could do with Photoshop. How long before GIMP becomes polished enough that it starts replacing Photoshop even in the graphics industry?
Sometimes people might not have a lot of extra money, but they have a little extra time to make their own tools. A Beowulf cluster of these...and you have a free replacement application.
Using this new technology, we will have access to more data storage than we could fill in a lifetime.
That is, a lifetime of transferring over Bluetooth. This is such a step backwards it's not even funny.
I can't wait for the new 40GB external serial port hard drives. RS-232 baby! When technology really gets advanced, the computer and hard drive will communicate across a room with robotic hands doing sign language. Without thumbs you could do eight bits...how about 01000010?
...first anime live action American movie, I think Ghost in the Shell would have been a better fit. It would have been much easier to accomplish...
And what, exactly, do you think "Matrix" was? It's all about the exploding watermelons.
...there should be a snack or two. A bag of cookies or something, a can of soda or bottle of water (handy for putting out the fires you start).
Cookies are also useful as bribes. Just toss one a good distance away and over-curious dogs and small children will leave you alone for a while (until they come back for more...can't win). Never keep dog biscuits for the dogs, you'll throw one to a kid sooner or later. And that will be the time someone sees you doing it.
OMG when d0 w3 g3t$ teh ap4c|-|3 1.3.37??!1!!11oneoneone11!
[Disclaimer: tough week, please beat me gently]
The difference being this is a review of the device. By your friendly Slashdot founder, no less.
I find that what hurts my neck the most is looking left and right all the time; up and down doesn't bother me as much.
Your fortune for today: You avoid conflict when possible and enjoy finding harmony with others.
Excellent usage of both anti-Microsoft and pro-Linux sentiments.
:-) I feel so special!
You forgot Star Wars.
And my karma is already maxed.
I don't think my computer wants to know what gestures I make at it when Windows XP curls up and dies. The good thing is that it reboots into Linux by default, so....
Combine this with one of those infrared finger mice, and you can feel like a Jedi: "This isn't the page you're looking for, go back." *waves hand to the left*