I think the term "orange juice" refers to the kind you purchase in the store. The vast majority are produced in some way from concentrate. Even the stuff not produced from concentrate typically has HFCS in it. Fruits contain sugars which are readily metabolized by your body so obviously if you squeeze those juices out of an orange it's perfectly healthy for you. Why isn't store boughten OJ good for you? Additives. True orange juice doesn't keep that long, and the OJ you purchase in the store travels a long way.
Prince is a slave to the record companies, he just doesn't know it.
Dude, Prince is the guy who appeared in public with "SLAVE" written on his cheek during a dispute with Warner Bros in the 90s. I'm sure he's well aware of his position with the record companies.
I'm not even waiting for service packs, I'm just waiting for the next version of windows all together. You'd think that Vista would be perfection considering how long it took MS to get it together, but to me the OS just feels like a mess of cobbled together projects. Service packs aren't going to fix a lot of the all around design issues of the OS. I'm hoping that MS can pull off a nice revision like 95 to 98 that will straiten the jagged edges of Vista. At this point I do not believe Microsoft even to be capable of revolutionizing windows so I would think the next version will have to be evolutionary.
I am very happy with Windows 2003R2 on the server side so I have until 2010 before client machines get outdated and I have to quit fence sitting for sure.
Where I work we use FreeBSD (6.2) extensively as well. Every now and then - mainly on test machines - I've come up with really strange problems that Google only returned 5 or 6 non English results. You'd think that anything that comes up in the log you'd be able to find via Google in some way, but that isn't always the case. Sometimes I've come up with issues where I only found the error printed in the source code itself as the Google result. Since switching all of our servers but one to 64bit, everything is surprisingly stable aside from the ONE machine that uses an Intel processor.
Many of the problems I thought might be due to processor strangeness were actually problems with the mainboard. I had a Linux box that seemed to have problems with Cool 'n Quiet enabled, or so I thought mainly because of the 'losing ticks' message in the log. Eventually the machine would turn itself off. I went through different options only to find a month later that the machine was completely dead. Swapped out the main board and never had another problem.
The servers I run aren't really dedicated web servers either, so it seems likely that whatever scenario he's running into has to do with what they're using the machines for. I also run a website that is hammered pretty well that's doing just fine, but I run Lighttpd, Postgresql and Rails on it - not LAMP.
A lot of nvidia's driver development makes no sense. Apparently according to nvidia, Windows 2003 32bit does not exist. So much for dual monitors on that machine.
Yes I'm aware of that, however swf isn't deliberately obfuscated like say; Microsoft office documents. I'm pretty sure 'clean room design' skirts this issue as well since swf isn't patented to my knowledge. If I recall correctly, I don't even think this is lawful in Germany where no one can prevent you from making an inter operable product (if I'm recalling that correctly).
I honestly can't say since I'm not familiar with the one or two projects to implement flash off the top of my head, but it seems to me that if there were a major driving force and determination, that it would have been done by now. Many other projects have implemented software just as complex with far less to go on initially. Unless they're making major headway that I'm unaware of, the last time I tried gnash it didn't play much of anything (6 months ago). I run Linux under AMD64 so I've gone through a few options. In the end I decided that the stability gained in Firefox was probably worth not having (adobe's) flash at all.
Same problems with a lot of open source problems, no one thinks it's all that important. Many people love trumpet the virtues of open source like it can do absolutely anything and that all solutions are just around the corner. Reality is that it depends on who is interested, and how organized the project is - that means that many projects flounder in barely workable solutions that never seem to pan out. Not to say that OS software doesn't have it's merits, but it's not the magic pixy dust for all problems.
swf is an open format so THAT obviously isn't the problem...
I have similar thoughts as well, but having gone over the scenarios a few times Venus has a LOT of problems that would be nearly impossible to overcome. Venus seems to have a problem that carbon was never sequestered into solids on the surface. In fact it looks like Venus, Earth, and Mars all started in very similar states, and that by simply being closer to the sun, Venus ended up with significantly more CO2 in it's atmosphere which lead to the runaway greenhouse effect. So unless we manually remove the CO2 (huge undertaking especially considering the atmospheric pressure of Venus) that's not going to change.
The other major problem is that the rotation of Venus is extremely slow, thus leading to virtually no magnetic field. This means that it would be bombarded by extreme amounts of solar radiation on its surface if the atmosphere were cleared.
I read an interesting book on terraforming the solar system, and the author purposed that we could crash a comet (or few) into Venus to supply water, help cool the planet, and jump start its rotation. Of course needless to say I'm not exactly sold on playing intergalactic pool with planets in our solar system:)
Interesting to wonder where this leads. I mean are they going to fine the Amish billions in unpaid taxes? I think you hit on something though, if electric cars cannot be fined then this guy is probably also exempt. I mean you're going to have to fine everyone or no one really.
And to add to that "The Family" does not add up to Hardcore gamer + kids in a target demographics. If you really want to see an entire family have fun together, you can look at a title like Wii sports. Kids, grandparents, Women and yes, even the hardcore gamers can enjoy the game TOGETHER at the same time. Microsoft can scheme up these "lets expand our market share by targeting families" all they want to but in the end their results will never really get them there because they don't get it.
The Wii (and Nintendo in general) have always been very good at making multiplayer games - and yes, more than two people at the same time in the same room type of games. And honestly no matter what they do, most regular people are not overly interested in PS3/Xbox style controllers with a weird shape and a billion buttons, even if you only have to push one of them.
've often thought about how obsolete democracy is. Every four years,we get to put a cross on a piece of paper for some bloke I've never met, to represent me.
The main problem with governments is essentially ineptitude and corruption (not necessarily full corruption, but partial in many ways). If senator A is elected, he does favors for party B and so on. It's an interesting idea but I think you have to look at what your proposing is also not weighted with land, but in other ways. Who determines what rewards you get for your field? Does age make you more qualified to make decisions for everyone? What exactly is the qualifications for a field? And in this sense I think you'd end up with the old "handing out favors" problems we have today. Also many of the problems we face are social ones that affect people in ways that are not strictly defined in a field.
I also hope you're not advocating that we weight people's votes based on their contribution to society, because that's unfortunately way to easy to abuse. Many people would say Donald Trump has made huge contributions to society in that he's built major structures and so forth, etc. I'm sure I'd make big contributions too if I had a million dollars. That makes it very easy for the rich and powerful to "make contributions" which are visible, while some poor woman stuck at home taking care of her grandmother is seen as contributing virtually nothing. Now we're right back where we started. A good theory, but probably way too open for abuse.
Many fields (e.g. Banking) have been totally revolutionized by computerisation.
I agree. I say fuck it and we do what they did in Evangelion, and just have 3 super computers run everything:)
From what I understand and as another poster mentioned, memory isn't like a photographic snapshot, but more of a structure of what happened. What you do when you recall something isn't like pulling it out of a file cabinet, but more like reconstructing memories each time. So when you jog someones memory, person a fills in some information, you probably have some bits retained and the rest are gaps that are filled in. It's quite common for people to lead someone else with incorrect information, some bits are pulled up, and the gaps are filled in incorrectly. I think there was a study on how unreliable eye-witness testimony was.
But I think we do completely lose a lot of irrelevant information. For instance on Febuary 10th 2001, you could probably recall what you had for breakfast a week earlier, now you probably can't recall what you had that week. Obviously you don't remember ever detail throughout your life (just parts your mind feels are significant).
I think the PSU is required to correctly implement the connector. As for the drives, I think probably the only real way of being sure is to look at the feature list of the drive. I know Seagate makes drives that support hotplug, so I'm guessing they require the correct connector from the PSU with no adaptor, or they're ignoring the 3v line - which I guess strictly speaking they're not supposed to do. Honestly I'm not sure what the hard drive uses the 3V line for aside from the fact that I think it was billed as a future route for power saving.
By the way RAID 5 is a pain in the ass unless you have physical hotswap capability, which I highly doubt.
You highly doubt he's got SATA?
SATA is ONLY hot swapable if all the voltage rails are used because one pin for each voltage is used for hotplugging. Since most drives can run using a molex power adaptor, this means that 3v is left disconnected and therefore most SATA are not hot swapable.
I hope they just do a firmware update so that I can use a usb drive or the sd card.
And the CF card is exactly where they should go. I don't know why people are bitching about the lack of hard drive when you can have plenty of solid state storage right there. Right now a 4gb costs a mere $65. I mean the xbox only came with 8-10Gb. There are millions of wii consoles out there already, so developers cannot assume there will be one, but that's irrelevant if used for storage. CF cards also have built in DRM features which make this much more acceptable for Nintendo.
I think your average BSD and average Windows rootkit typically have different target victims. Windows is typically a free for all with everyone from grandma to Bill Gates using it. BSD machines typically sit well defended, performing some specific task. Just by sheer market penetration, you're not going to have some random BSD rootkit spread itself all over the internet. So most BSD rootkits are probably dedicated attacks with a brain watching how things transpire - in this scenario FreeBSD isn't necessarily easier to defend, especially if your running something like canned php software.
And those are tools that are at least definable that you installed yourself. Mac OSX comes with netcat installed. As the "swiss army knife" of hacking what are owners of Apple computers supposed to do? Return them to Apple, destroy their computers, or just march directly to jail?
There typically isn't a good way to meter RAM usage in Linux. Linux continues to "claim" RAM even when it's not really using it for anything - not using RAM is wasting RAM. If you're having memory issues, that aren't going away - usually just logging off and on is enough to clear the messiest stuff, assuming your not having driver issues.
The real thing to watch is typically swap. If your computer is swapping a lot, you don't have enough memory. If you're not swapping, then what's to worry about?
I could be mistaken, but even if you disable the floppy controller, you may need to disable the floppy in other places. I think "seek on boot" and, the floppy device mode 720k, etc. may also need to be disabled. Either that or you have a buggy bios. I dumped floppies years ago where I work. We run Win2k, and none of them have a device drive visible for floppies.
It would be nice if we could get those drive letters back though, stupid idea as it was to begin with.
You know know now that you mention it, that should probably be an option for a homepage regardless of what format it's in. Bonus points if you could theme it.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the windows 2000 ipv6 stack never left the experimental stage. I actually have a good number of machines that could be converted to ipv6 but are running win2k. I'm not sure if MS just never really bothered with updating the term "experimental" or if it was really unstable.
Cheaper is often cheaper for a reason. I've seen some crazy setups for discount computers like a combination soundcard/modem. Yeah, try finding drivers for THAT. You may have to pay more for the hardware because perhaps that is the hardware that is actually compatible with Linux.
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I think the term "orange juice" refers to the kind you purchase in the store. The vast majority are produced in some way from concentrate. Even the stuff not produced from concentrate typically has HFCS in it. Fruits contain sugars which are readily metabolized by your body so obviously if you squeeze those juices out of an orange it's perfectly healthy for you. Why isn't store boughten OJ good for you? Additives. True orange juice doesn't keep that long, and the OJ you purchase in the store travels a long way.
Is that the year we're finally free of COBAL?
Prince is a slave to the record companies, he just doesn't know it.
Dude, Prince is the guy who appeared in public with "SLAVE" written on his cheek during a dispute with Warner Bros in the 90s. I'm sure he's well aware of his position with the record companies.
I'm not even waiting for service packs, I'm just waiting for the next version of windows all together. You'd think that Vista would be perfection considering how long it took MS to get it together, but to me the OS just feels like a mess of cobbled together projects. Service packs aren't going to fix a lot of the all around design issues of the OS. I'm hoping that MS can pull off a nice revision like 95 to 98 that will straiten the jagged edges of Vista. At this point I do not believe Microsoft even to be capable of revolutionizing windows so I would think the next version will have to be evolutionary.
I am very happy with Windows 2003R2 on the server side so I have until 2010 before client machines get outdated and I have to quit fence sitting for sure.
Where I work we use FreeBSD (6.2) extensively as well. Every now and then - mainly on test machines - I've come up with really strange problems that Google only returned 5 or 6 non English results. You'd think that anything that comes up in the log you'd be able to find via Google in some way, but that isn't always the case. Sometimes I've come up with issues where I only found the error printed in the source code itself as the Google result. Since switching all of our servers but one to 64bit, everything is surprisingly stable aside from the ONE machine that uses an Intel processor.
Many of the problems I thought might be due to processor strangeness were actually problems with the mainboard. I had a Linux box that seemed to have problems with Cool 'n Quiet enabled, or so I thought mainly because of the 'losing ticks' message in the log. Eventually the machine would turn itself off. I went through different options only to find a month later that the machine was completely dead. Swapped out the main board and never had another problem.
The servers I run aren't really dedicated web servers either, so it seems likely that whatever scenario he's running into has to do with what they're using the machines for. I also run a website that is hammered pretty well that's doing just fine, but I run Lighttpd, Postgresql and Rails on it - not LAMP.
A lot of nvidia's driver development makes no sense. Apparently according to nvidia, Windows 2003 32bit does not exist. So much for dual monitors on that machine.
Yes I'm aware of that, however swf isn't deliberately obfuscated like say; Microsoft office documents. I'm pretty sure 'clean room design' skirts this issue as well since swf isn't patented to my knowledge. If I recall correctly, I don't even think this is lawful in Germany where no one can prevent you from making an inter operable product (if I'm recalling that correctly).
I honestly can't say since I'm not familiar with the one or two projects to implement flash off the top of my head, but it seems to me that if there were a major driving force and determination, that it would have been done by now. Many other projects have implemented software just as complex with far less to go on initially. Unless they're making major headway that I'm unaware of, the last time I tried gnash it didn't play much of anything (6 months ago). I run Linux under AMD64 so I've gone through a few options. In the end I decided that the stability gained in Firefox was probably worth not having (adobe's) flash at all.
Same problems with a lot of open source problems, no one thinks it's all that important. Many people love trumpet the virtues of open source like it can do absolutely anything and that all solutions are just around the corner. Reality is that it depends on who is interested, and how organized the project is - that means that many projects flounder in barely workable solutions that never seem to pan out. Not to say that OS software doesn't have it's merits, but it's not the magic pixy dust for all problems.
swf is an open format so THAT obviously isn't the problem...
I have similar thoughts as well, but having gone over the scenarios a few times Venus has a LOT of problems that would be nearly impossible to overcome. Venus seems to have a problem that carbon was never sequestered into solids on the surface. In fact it looks like Venus, Earth, and Mars all started in very similar states, and that by simply being closer to the sun, Venus ended up with significantly more CO2 in it's atmosphere which lead to the runaway greenhouse effect. So unless we manually remove the CO2 (huge undertaking especially considering the atmospheric pressure of Venus) that's not going to change.
:)
The other major problem is that the rotation of Venus is extremely slow, thus leading to virtually no magnetic field. This means that it would be bombarded by extreme amounts of solar radiation on its surface if the atmosphere were cleared.
I read an interesting book on terraforming the solar system, and the author purposed that we could crash a comet (or few) into Venus to supply water, help cool the planet, and jump start its rotation. Of course needless to say I'm not exactly sold on playing intergalactic pool with planets in our solar system
Interesting to wonder where this leads. I mean are they going to fine the Amish billions in unpaid taxes? I think you hit on something though, if electric cars cannot be fined then this guy is probably also exempt. I mean you're going to have to fine everyone or no one really.
And to add to that "The Family" does not add up to Hardcore gamer + kids in a target demographics. If you really want to see an entire family have fun together, you can look at a title like Wii sports. Kids, grandparents, Women and yes, even the hardcore gamers can enjoy the game TOGETHER at the same time. Microsoft can scheme up these "lets expand our market share by targeting families" all they want to but in the end their results will never really get them there because they don't get it.
The Wii (and Nintendo in general) have always been very good at making multiplayer games - and yes, more than two people at the same time in the same room type of games. And honestly no matter what they do, most regular people are not overly interested in PS3/Xbox style controllers with a weird shape and a billion buttons, even if you only have to push one of them.
've often thought about how obsolete democracy is. Every four years,we get to put a cross on a piece of paper for some bloke I've never met, to represent me.
:)
The main problem with governments is essentially ineptitude and corruption (not necessarily full corruption, but partial in many ways). If senator A is elected, he does favors for party B and so on. It's an interesting idea but I think you have to look at what your proposing is also not weighted with land, but in other ways. Who determines what rewards you get for your field? Does age make you more qualified to make decisions for everyone? What exactly is the qualifications for a field? And in this sense I think you'd end up with the old "handing out favors" problems we have today. Also many of the problems we face are social ones that affect people in ways that are not strictly defined in a field.
I also hope you're not advocating that we weight people's votes based on their contribution to society, because that's unfortunately way to easy to abuse. Many people would say Donald Trump has made huge contributions to society in that he's built major structures and so forth, etc. I'm sure I'd make big contributions too if I had a million dollars. That makes it very easy for the rich and powerful to "make contributions" which are visible, while some poor woman stuck at home taking care of her grandmother is seen as contributing virtually nothing. Now we're right back where we started. A good theory, but probably way too open for abuse.
Many fields (e.g. Banking) have been totally revolutionized by computerisation.
I agree. I say fuck it and we do what they did in Evangelion, and just have 3 super computers run everything
They cannot simply disappear, can they?
From what I understand and as another poster mentioned, memory isn't like a photographic snapshot, but more of a structure of what happened. What you do when you recall something isn't like pulling it out of a file cabinet, but more like reconstructing memories each time. So when you jog someones memory, person a fills in some information, you probably have some bits retained and the rest are gaps that are filled in. It's quite common for people to lead someone else with incorrect information, some bits are pulled up, and the gaps are filled in incorrectly. I think there was a study on how unreliable eye-witness testimony was.
But I think we do completely lose a lot of irrelevant information. For instance on Febuary 10th 2001, you could probably recall what you had for breakfast a week earlier, now you probably can't recall what you had that week. Obviously you don't remember ever detail throughout your life (just parts your mind feels are significant).
Actually WoW doesn't perform as bad as you think it would with Mac Intel integrated graphics. You won't be awestruck, but it's quite playable.
I think the PSU is required to correctly implement the connector. As for the drives, I think probably the only real way of being sure is to look at the feature list of the drive. I know Seagate makes drives that support hotplug, so I'm guessing they require the correct connector from the PSU with no adaptor, or they're ignoring the 3v line - which I guess strictly speaking they're not supposed to do. Honestly I'm not sure what the hard drive uses the 3V line for aside from the fact that I think it was billed as a future route for power saving.
By the way RAID 5 is a pain in the ass unless you have physical hotswap capability, which I highly doubt.
You highly doubt he's got SATA?
SATA is ONLY hot swapable if all the voltage rails are used because one pin for each voltage is used for hotplugging. Since most drives can run using a molex power adaptor, this means that 3v is left disconnected and therefore most SATA are not hot swapable.
I hope they just do a firmware update so that I can use a usb drive or the sd card.
And the CF card is exactly where they should go. I don't know why people are bitching about the lack of hard drive when you can have plenty of solid state storage right there. Right now a 4gb costs a mere $65. I mean the xbox only came with 8-10Gb. There are millions of wii consoles out there already, so developers cannot assume there will be one, but that's irrelevant if used for storage. CF cards also have built in DRM features which make this much more acceptable for Nintendo.
I think your average BSD and average Windows rootkit typically have different target victims. Windows is typically a free for all with everyone from grandma to Bill Gates using it. BSD machines typically sit well defended, performing some specific task. Just by sheer market penetration, you're not going to have some random BSD rootkit spread itself all over the internet. So most BSD rootkits are probably dedicated attacks with a brain watching how things transpire - in this scenario FreeBSD isn't necessarily easier to defend, especially if your running something like canned php software.
And those are tools that are at least definable that you installed yourself. Mac OSX comes with netcat installed. As the "swiss army knife" of hacking what are owners of Apple computers supposed to do? Return them to Apple, destroy their computers, or just march directly to jail?
There typically isn't a good way to meter RAM usage in Linux. Linux continues to "claim" RAM even when it's not really using it for anything - not using RAM is wasting RAM. If you're having memory issues, that aren't going away - usually just logging off and on is enough to clear the messiest stuff, assuming your not having driver issues.
The real thing to watch is typically swap. If your computer is swapping a lot, you don't have enough memory. If you're not swapping, then what's to worry about?
I could be mistaken, but even if you disable the floppy controller, you may need to disable the floppy in other places. I think "seek on boot" and, the floppy device mode 720k, etc. may also need to be disabled. Either that or you have a buggy bios. I dumped floppies years ago where I work. We run Win2k, and none of them have a device drive visible for floppies.
It would be nice if we could get those drive letters back though, stupid idea as it was to begin with.
You know know now that you mention it, that should probably be an option for a homepage regardless of what format it's in. Bonus points if you could theme it.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the windows 2000 ipv6 stack never left the experimental stage. I actually have a good number of machines that could be converted to ipv6 but are running win2k. I'm not sure if MS just never really bothered with updating the term "experimental" or if it was really unstable.
That's what my wife said about porn. Been proving her wrong for quite a while :)
Cheaper is often cheaper for a reason. I've seen some crazy setups for discount computers like a combination soundcard/modem. Yeah, try finding drivers for THAT. You may have to pay more for the hardware because perhaps that is the hardware that is actually compatible with Linux.