So during the correction of the clocks and the extra second being added, what did you do? Did you ponder world peace? The latest 0 day exploits for Windows? Where Microsoft is going with the.NET platform with version 2.0? Or were most of you transfixed on Times Square watching the ball drop getting close to someone you love?
I would definitely consider getting my hands on a copy of Mac's OS X to run on an x86 architecture. Besides, Sun has been doing this with Solaris and their most recent release (10 Express Beta) has been working pretty well on most machines that I've put it on.
Interesting that you make the point about some of these labs going and grabbing someone before they're sucked into academia. What about those of us that are fairly smart that were unable to get a job that was "advanced" and required thought due to the lack of economic job market when we left school and our minds have begun to lose their edge?
Okay, so I'm reading through this and I'm basically just laughing at this guy going, "What, is he serious? What's he going to do, go and have the thing towed?" I think I would demand that the parking garage be renovated... Plus, let's just think about this, but this goes along with our typical cultural problem of trying to get a buck. First Stallone getting sued by a Boxer that was his inspiration for being inspirational and now this. This really does have to stop.
With regard to your question as to how to find out what your key is... Check out this site for a utility known as "Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder" -- pretty nifty piece of freeware that finds it in the registry for you.
I would have to agree with you. If you pop over to http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/, you'll see that one of the slogans is: "You can have more fun." You know, this is earth shattering news to me... I thought to have more fun I needed a Nissan 350Z:-)
Last time I checked, where I work our 2000 keys were really XP keys "downgraded" so heck you might even be able to use your XP key with a 2000 piece of media.
If you think about it, it should even be legitimate since you own the license and a piece of media (just not the right piece;-)).
So will this drive be able to get past the Super Audio CD protection that Sony is imposing on consumers? What about that law that says pretty much that you're allowed to make a back up of everything you own? Hmmm, I don't like the looks of this. I mean sure, piracy = bad. I guess you could say that I'm not the most careful person with my coasters, err, cds, so if one bites the bullet, that's what the backup is for. Maybe DVD+RW will come to the rescue:o)
Hmmm, so all the hype here really is over a drive that is rewriteable and has the capability to hold how much data? 18 GB total maybe? Plus they're sort of slow. Then again, the first CDR drives were painstakingly slow as well.
My feelings are two folded. I guess I am happy that the DVD+RW is finally around, mostly because I don't want to see DVDs go to the wayside like many economists were saying that they would (then again, what do they know really?). But at the same time, with companies like Constellation 3D out there with their Flourescent technologies out there, I'm wondering why this sort of media storage hasn't been developed more. Constellation 3-d uses a flourescent technology to store up to 140 GB of data on a single disc. This would be more than enough to be like that of HDTV:o) Alas, such things are not in the forefront of the news as I guess most companies are scared to invest in something so powerful.
Oh well, like others I'd love for Santa to bring me an external unit...:-)
I know this might as a shock for you all, but don't you think that NASA needs to do some coordinating with the Virginia Department of Transportation? I mean, they've just sunk all this money into a 14 year project to help relieve traffic around the beltway interchange here in Springfield, Virginia... All kidding aside, seriously, think about the security issues you have here. By having little flying vehicles everywhere, we run into the problem of basically being able to let anyone take their car and get into airspace that is restricted. Sure, their might be klaxons going off and the vehicles computer might be saying, "You are in restricted airspace, please turn around" and sure you migth even have security features to change the course, but people will get around them. In my humble and very honest opinion it's a bad move.
Furthermore, not even thinking about the aspect of terrorism through air cars, what about the problem of accidents? I know I know, I'm jumping ahead of what the technological specifications of this are, but think about how bad some of these accidents could turn into it. It wouldn't just be that there was a midair collission, but also that the wreckage might take out some neighborhood. Hmmm, I'm seeing problems here my friends...
I've been an avid/. reader and poster for about the past year and have read quite a few stories that have blown my mind away (better than Popular Science back when I was a kid). However, it would seem that/.'s archives hold no record of a small company in New York known as Constellation 3d. They have had this technolgy at least the theoretical technology for about five years now.
Rather than using coherent light like all regular CD and DVD drives do with their little class I lasers, they use incoherent light (finally we're incoherent...need more coffee...I digress) to read multiple layers (up to 20 I believe) and are able to store and access 100 GB of information.
Not to downplay Matty's new technology but this has been around for a while, just not available for regular drives, but then again five years ago DVD and CDRW drives weren't all that common in most PCs.
If anything this brings to light that perhaps these two companies could work together on this project to create the better DVD format...of course that would mean a ton of firmware updates, but hey, such is the way of being a binary geek.:-)
First off, I find it hilarious what we physicists end up naming different molecules and ensemble configurations.
Once again it goes to show that even though we're trying to do the right thing in the lab, sometimes bad things happen, but typically we're able to come out with something in the experiment that is actually worthwhile. Crazy how that works eh?
Nonetheless, there is some pretty cool research at the University of Virginia in bucky ball related research. If anyone is interested, check out http://www.phys.virginia.edu
Granted, I know that I'm posting a little bit later than usual on this topic, but I felt that the need existed for Mister Jefferson's Academical Institution to be mentioned.
True, there is an exit, 118, that let's one off there at one of the medical research centers from I-64, but that is not the point that is not the subject to discuss today.
The University of Virginia used to have Dr. Solomon loaded onto all computers that were in computer labs as well as PCs that students ordered through the bookstore. This practice ended three years ago when all lab computers were loaded with Norton Antivirus, ordered computers still came with Dr. Solomon.
This past year, the IT&C (more commonly known as ITC), purchased a site license for the University to have the Enterprise edition of Norton. All computers in labs and PCs that were bought through the school run this stuff and I definitely will say that the number of virus reports this year is down. The only catch of course is that a lot of lazy students don't give a rip about security and so there are still viruses around. The typical way of handling this is a traceroute where the IP address is blocked. Most students haven't a clue why they're ethernet connection isn't working and call up ITC and ask and then are told to install the Norton software and it's all good. Nonetheless, UVA is definitely big on security this year. I suggest giving them a looksie up. ..http://www.itc.virginia.edu
With prices like that, I'll be buying RAM rather than candy from the vending machines that Aramark provides in all government buildings.
Then again, knowing Aramark, they would at least quadruple the price of it just to make a profit. . .
To all of those that are not sporking this. . .
All prices are subject to change without notice;-) These prices come from our happy friends over at Pricewatch.com
Rambus - 64mb stick - $37
Sdram 133 - 64 mb stick - $9
Hmmm, that's odd, it would seem that it's nearly four times as much. And to check to make sure that it is a geometic expression. ..
Rambus - 128 mb stick - $59
Sdram 133 - 128 mb stick - $15
So what do we learn from this class? Essentially that we are going to be able to have a lot more more memory running in our P4's:-) I like the prospects of that. For the price of One Rambus stick, I can put in nearly half a gigabyte of RAM. . . just think of how fast Doom will run. ..
After reading the short little tidbit, I realized, noise is definitely something that I don't enjoy either. Considering that I have a SuperMicro Full Tower case that came with three fans already installed, and then have one on my processor and one on my Matrox board, that's five fans of whirling. Guess what? They have room for 6 more fans!!! Can we just say that 11 fans running at the same time would be unbearable. I definitely agree that chip makers need to get on the ball and start making chips that require less energy, I mean this alone could solve the energy crisis in California, as well as require less of a load to be dropped over the gates which means that there is less a need for cooling, and look at that, we solve the problem of global warming too =)
As a physics major here at the University of Virginia, I've graded Bloomfield's "How Things Work" and in the past there have been honor violations, however nothing to this scale. It's somewhat depressing to be a Physics major and having the press come storming into the building to tape an exam (yesterday they videotaped a couple minutes of Physics 252 exam - introductory physics 4 for majors).
I guess what I don't get is as a grader, we pretty much knew that the people in the course really didn't have much of a care to write their papers all that well. The year that I graded, I'm pretty sure that there was only one or two papers that got turned in twice. However, I must give Bloomfield props in writing this program to check everything that went through the system. . . Some people are like, "Oh come on, there's always a chance of having the same sentence as someone else!" This may be true, however when there are more than five sentences that are exactly the same that aren't cited from a source, something is up. Alas, tis time to get back to working on Independent Study papers. . .
Two years ago, here at the University of Virginia, the IT people decided to give us lifetime e-mail address forwarding with @alumni.virginia.edu. They allow us to keep our e-mail address that we already have in the format of mst9k (example that they always use) as well as to get an alias such as CommanderTaco@alumni.virginia.edu. Kind of catchy;-)
I think that it's cool that they're doing this, however it is annoying that it's not an actual account. It's not like the leading institution in the nation can't afford to add a dedicated server for this . . .
I guess what bugs me is the fact that this story will probably not get much press in the general media, even though by doing such things, NASA is going to revolutionize what optometry is all about.
"Gee, it seems that your retina was burnt out when you were in the lab somehow. Not a problem, five minutes and we'll have a new one for your."
Of course this will be big news when Tiger Woods receives such care, however until then, it will be something that only us Nerds know about.
I guess what gets me the most is that to be an incredibly gifted programmer there are two ways to get there.
A - You are exceptionally gifted and have incredible understanding and knowledge of how things work (a great class offered by UVA's Physics Department).
or
B - You spend your life in that room in your house, working constantly at revising code, tinkering with different technologies, getting them to bow down to you. . . eventually your AI machines post to/. on your behalf.
However, I don't think that option B will happen anytime soon, hence it means that those of us that weren't built with a Athlon Thunderbird under the hood will be slaving away tinkering and lacking all social skills whatsoever...
I sadly have not had the time to get my amateur ham radio operator's license. But, I will definitely tell you that it would be fun to listen to these guys. My uncle broadcasts every evening just his thoughts. It's pretty incredible that they are able to use the Internet to rebroadcast around the world if you ask me.
What I definitely take away from all of this is that it is possible to have my own talk radio station, and it's coming soon!!!
Quite an interesting article to read over there. . . And I definitely agree that it is a problem where people essentially go and make copies of said information. However, I don't think that what Authentica is doing is quite right in a sense. If a company is going to do things that are in a proprietary nature, is this not where someone should be allowed to make copies of such information.
I remember a year ago, seeing a little Java applet being run that prevented the user from 'stealing' the image so to speak as it was displayed in a box. However, I'm not quite sure how this would stand up for documents. One thing that could be done would be to display such images in a PDF format. I'm surprised that Adobe, the head of the WinOS PDF readers, has not yet made an option that prevents printing of certain documents. Alas, those are my mere thoughts of a mere man.
Cost Comparison:
USAF's Global Hawk
Fueling - $150,000 a tank
Computer Technicians to keep it in the air - $20,000 a day
Actual aircraft - $15 million dollars
Spirit of Butts Farms
Fueling - $2 dollars premium unleaded
Computer Technicians to keep it up in the air - they're doing it for the thrill
Actual aircraft - $30 dollars depending on what grade balsa wood is purchased
The view from Ireland when the plane arrives - Priceless
For everything else, there are copyrighted slogans from our favorite credit card companies...;-)
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Just think of the interest that you could make on this :-)
So during the correction of the clocks and the extra second being added, what did you do? Did you ponder world peace? The latest 0 day exploits for Windows? Where Microsoft is going with the .NET platform with version 2.0? Or were most of you transfixed on Times Square watching the ball drop getting close to someone you love?
I would definitely consider getting my hands on a copy of Mac's OS X to run on an x86 architecture. Besides, Sun has been doing this with Solaris and their most recent release (10 Express Beta) has been working pretty well on most machines that I've put it on.
Interesting that you make the point about some of these labs going and grabbing someone before they're sucked into academia. What about those of us that are fairly smart that were unable to get a job that was "advanced" and required thought due to the lack of economic job market when we left school and our minds have begun to lose their edge?
Okay, so I'm reading through this and I'm basically just laughing at this guy going, "What, is he serious? What's he going to do, go and have the thing towed?" I think I would demand that the parking garage be renovated...
Plus, let's just think about this, but this goes along with our typical cultural problem of trying to get a buck. First Stallone getting sued by a Boxer that was his inspiration for being inspirational and now this. This really does have to stop.
With regard to your question as to how to find out what your key is... Check out this site for a utility known as "Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder" -- pretty nifty piece of freeware that finds it in the registry for you.
http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder.shtml
Hope that you find this tool to be useful.
I would have to agree with you. If you pop over to http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/, you'll see that one of the slogans is: "You can have more fun." You know, this is earth shattering news to me... I thought to have more fun I needed a Nissan 350Z :-)
Last time I checked, where I work our 2000 keys were really XP keys "downgraded" so heck you might even be able to use your XP key with a 2000 piece of media.
;-)).
If you think about it, it should even be legitimate since you own the license and a piece of media (just not the right piece
So will this drive be able to get past the Super Audio CD protection that Sony is imposing on consumers? What about that law that says pretty much that you're allowed to make a back up of everything you own? Hmmm, I don't like the looks of this. I mean sure, piracy = bad. I guess you could say that I'm not the most careful person with my coasters, err, cds, so if one bites the bullet, that's what the backup is for. Maybe DVD+RW will come to the rescue :o)
Hmmm, so all the hype here really is over a drive that is rewriteable and has the capability to hold how much data? 18 GB total maybe? Plus they're sort of slow. Then again, the first CDR drives were painstakingly slow as well.
:o) Alas, such things are not in the forefront of the news as I guess most companies are scared to invest in something so powerful.
:-)
My feelings are two folded. I guess I am happy that the DVD+RW is finally around, mostly because I don't want to see DVDs go to the wayside like many economists were saying that they would (then again, what do they know really?). But at the same time, with companies like Constellation 3D out there with their Flourescent technologies out there, I'm wondering why this sort of media storage hasn't been developed more. Constellation 3-d uses a flourescent technology to store up to 140 GB of data on a single disc. This would be more than enough to be like that of HDTV
Oh well, like others I'd love for Santa to bring me an external unit...
I know this might as a shock for you all, but don't you think that NASA needs to do some coordinating with the Virginia Department of Transportation? I mean, they've just sunk all this money into a 14 year project to help relieve traffic around the beltway interchange here in Springfield, Virginia...
All kidding aside, seriously, think about the security issues you have here. By having little flying vehicles everywhere, we run into the problem of basically being able to let anyone take their car and get into airspace that is restricted. Sure, their might be klaxons going off and the vehicles computer might be saying, "You are in restricted airspace, please turn around" and sure you migth even have security features to change the course, but people will get around them. In my humble and very honest opinion it's a bad move.
Furthermore, not even thinking about the aspect of terrorism through air cars, what about the problem of accidents? I know I know, I'm jumping ahead of what the technological specifications of this are, but think about how bad some of these accidents could turn into it. It wouldn't just be that there was a midair collission, but also that the wreckage might take out some neighborhood. Hmmm, I'm seeing problems here my friends...
That's my story and I'm stickin' to it...
I've been an avid /. reader and poster for about the past year and have read quite a few stories that have blown my mind away (better than Popular Science back when I was a kid). However, it would seem that /.'s archives hold no record of a small company in New York known as Constellation 3d . They have had this technolgy at least the theoretical technology for about five years now.
:-)
Rather than using coherent light like all regular CD and DVD drives do with their little class I lasers, they use incoherent light (finally we're incoherent...need more coffee...I digress) to read multiple layers (up to 20 I believe) and are able to store and access 100 GB of information.
Not to downplay Matty's new technology but this has been around for a while, just not available for regular drives, but then again five years ago DVD and CDRW drives weren't all that common in most PCs.
If anything this brings to light that perhaps these two companies could work together on this project to create the better DVD format...of course that would mean a ton of firmware updates, but hey, such is the way of being a binary geek.
First off, I find it hilarious what we physicists end up naming different molecules and ensemble configurations.
Once again it goes to show that even though we're trying to do the right thing in the lab, sometimes bad things happen, but typically we're able to come out with something in the experiment that is actually worthwhile. Crazy how that works eh?
Nonetheless, there is some pretty cool research at the University of Virginia in bucky ball related research. If anyone is interested, check out http://www.phys.virginia.edu
I'm not sure of anyone that you could pay to put their arm up any of the broadcasters butts :-)
Granted, I know that I'm posting a little bit later than usual on this topic, but I felt that the need existed for Mister Jefferson's Academical Institution to be mentioned. .http://www.itc.virginia.edu
True, there is an exit, 118, that let's one off there at one of the medical research centers from I-64, but that is not the point that is not the subject to discuss today.
The University of Virginia used to have Dr. Solomon loaded onto all computers that were in computer labs as well as PCs that students ordered through the bookstore. This practice ended three years ago when all lab computers were loaded with Norton Antivirus, ordered computers still came with Dr. Solomon.
This past year, the IT&C (more commonly known as ITC), purchased a site license for the University to have the Enterprise edition of Norton. All computers in labs and PCs that were bought through the school run this stuff and I definitely will say that the number of virus reports this year is down. The only catch of course is that a lot of lazy students don't give a rip about security and so there are still viruses around. The typical way of handling this is a traceroute where the IP address is blocked. Most students haven't a clue why they're ethernet connection isn't working and call up ITC and ask and then are told to install the Norton software and it's all good. Nonetheless, UVA is definitely big on security this year. I suggest giving them a looksie up. .
With prices like that, I'll be buying RAM rather than candy from the vending machines that Aramark provides in all government buildings.
Then again, knowing Aramark, they would at least quadruple the price of it just to make a profit. . .
To all of those that are not sporking this. . . All prices are subject to change without notice ;-) These prices come from our happy friends over at Pricewatch.com . :-) I like the prospects of that. For the price of One Rambus stick, I can put in nearly half a gigabyte of RAM. . . just think of how fast Doom will run. . .
Rambus - 64mb stick - $37
Sdram 133 - 64 mb stick - $9
Hmmm, that's odd, it would seem that it's nearly four times as much. And to check to make sure that it is a geometic expression. .
Rambus - 128 mb stick - $59
Sdram 133 - 128 mb stick - $15
So what do we learn from this class? Essentially that we are going to be able to have a lot more more memory running in our P4's
After reading the short little tidbit, I realized, noise is definitely something that I don't enjoy either. Considering that I have a SuperMicro Full Tower case that came with three fans already installed, and then have one on my processor and one on my Matrox board, that's five fans of whirling. Guess what? They have room for 6 more fans!!! Can we just say that 11 fans running at the same time would be unbearable. I definitely agree that chip makers need to get on the ball and start making chips that require less energy, I mean this alone could solve the energy crisis in California, as well as require less of a load to be dropped over the gates which means that there is less a need for cooling, and look at that, we solve the problem of global warming too =)
As a physics major here at the University of Virginia, I've graded Bloomfield's "How Things Work" and in the past there have been honor violations, however nothing to this scale. It's somewhat depressing to be a Physics major and having the press come storming into the building to tape an exam (yesterday they videotaped a couple minutes of Physics 252 exam - introductory physics 4 for majors).
I guess what I don't get is as a grader, we pretty much knew that the people in the course really didn't have much of a care to write their papers all that well. The year that I graded, I'm pretty sure that there was only one or two papers that got turned in twice. However, I must give Bloomfield props in writing this program to check everything that went through the system. . . Some people are like, "Oh come on, there's always a chance of having the same sentence as someone else!" This may be true, however when there are more than five sentences that are exactly the same that aren't cited from a source, something is up. Alas, tis time to get back to working on Independent Study papers. . .
Two years ago, here at the University of Virginia, the IT people decided to give us lifetime e-mail address forwarding with @alumni.virginia.edu. They allow us to keep our e-mail address that we already have in the format of mst9k (example that they always use) as well as to get an alias such as CommanderTaco@alumni.virginia.edu. Kind of catchy ;-)
I think that it's cool that they're doing this, however it is annoying that it's not an actual account. It's not like the leading institution in the nation can't afford to add a dedicated server for this . . .
I guess what bugs me is the fact that this story will probably not get much press in the general media, even though by doing such things, NASA is going to revolutionize what optometry is all about.
"Gee, it seems that your retina was burnt out when you were in the lab somehow. Not a problem, five minutes and we'll have a new one for your."
Of course this will be big news when Tiger Woods receives such care, however until then, it will be something that only us Nerds know about.
I guess what gets me the most is that to be an incredibly gifted programmer there are two ways to get there. /. on your behalf.
A - You are exceptionally gifted and have incredible understanding and knowledge of how things work (a great class offered by UVA's Physics Department).
or
B - You spend your life in that room in your house, working constantly at revising code, tinkering with different technologies, getting them to bow down to you. . . eventually your AI machines post to
However, I don't think that option B will happen anytime soon, hence it means that those of us that weren't built with a Athlon Thunderbird under the hood will be slaving away tinkering and lacking all social skills whatsoever...
I sadly have not had the time to get my amateur ham radio operator's license. But, I will definitely tell you that it would be fun to listen to these guys. My uncle broadcasts every evening just his thoughts.
It's pretty incredible that they are able to use the Internet to rebroadcast around the world if you ask me.
What I definitely take away from all of this is that it is possible to have my own talk radio station, and it's coming soon!!!
Quite an interesting article to read over there. . . And I definitely agree that it is a problem where people essentially go and make copies of said information. However, I don't think that what Authentica is doing is quite right in a sense. If a company is going to do things that are in a proprietary nature, is this not where someone should be allowed to make copies of such information.
I remember a year ago, seeing a little Java applet being run that prevented the user from 'stealing' the image so to speak as it was displayed in a box. However, I'm not quite sure how this would stand up for documents. One thing that could be done would be to display such images in a PDF format. I'm surprised that Adobe, the head of the WinOS PDF readers, has not yet made an option that prevents printing of certain documents. Alas, those are my mere thoughts of a mere man.
Cost Comparison: USAF's Global Hawk
;-)
Fueling - $150,000 a tank
Computer Technicians to keep it in the air - $20,000 a day
Actual aircraft - $15 million dollars
Spirit of Butts Farms
Fueling - $2 dollars premium unleaded
Computer Technicians to keep it up in the air - they're doing it for the thrill
Actual aircraft - $30 dollars depending on what grade balsa wood is purchased
The view from Ireland when the plane arrives - Priceless
For everything else, there are copyrighted slogans from our favorite credit card companies...