That Sun Ultra 20 seems like a nice deal. My only concern is how loud it is. Does it have a bunch of noisy fans, or is it a well engineered case with good airflow from low rpm fans?
The US has the lowest speed limits in the developed world, and the highest rates of accidents. It is not because people drive fast. Its because people drive badly.
You can get a license here while not having the slightest clue how to drive safely. In Europe, licenses are much, much harder to get, and drivers are much safer.
The maximum safe speed of travel is something every driver should have a personal sense of. It depends on road conditions, traffic conditions, and the mechanical state of the car, and the physiology and psycology of the person. To blindly follow the numbers on signs can lead to just as dangerous situations as not doing so. People who are driving fast are not necessarily driving dangerously.
Taking the CD from your neighbor is stealing. Copying the CD from your neighbor is copyright infringement. You can tell the difference because at the end of the day, in copyright infringement, your neighbor still has the CD.
When a cat is falling ( or while anything is falling for that matter ) it is in free fall until there is significant drag from its motion through the air. Free fall is effectively a zero gravity state.
NASA used planes in a dive to simulate zero gravity for astronaught training.
I believe by "advocating biological evolution", he means show evidence that evolution is the driving force behind the biosphere on earth. There are still many who contend that evolution is not sufficient to produce all of the creatures we share this rock with. To renouce this, some say that if digital evolution can make strange digital creatures suited to their digital ecosystems, evolution can do so in the world as well. I don't think its a very strong argument though.
From what I've heard with regard to handguns and bears, the only thing a gun will do is anger the bear, or if you're really lucky, inflict a fatal wound which it will die from about 10 minutes after it had mauled you to death.
The paper said that the crypt algorithm strips off the high bit, so no, this wouldn't help at all. In fact, most of the collisions they found were due to high bits being set.
Please use less junk characters? What the heck is this useless filter babbling on about. Whoever wrote this should be forced to post ascii art with every post they make.
The sharers are not making a profit, they are not claiming the material is theirs.
So, I walk into the store and take a walkman home without paying for it. I am not making a profit, as this is for personal use, and I am not saying I made the walkman. By your definition ( which I have already proven false ), I did not steal.
A more accurate analogy would be walking into the store, with a bunch of plastic and metal and a few screw drivers, drills, saws and whatnot, and spending the afternoon carefully duplicating it, and then leaving with your copy. Is that illegal? An interesting question. It is possible that it contains patented mechanisms, but I'm not sure what provisions patent law has for personal uses. If you buy a car, are you allowed to make replacement parts by hand even if they are patented? If you buy a dvd are you allowed to write a patented algorithm to play it?
The purpose of a raid card is improved reliability. Thus, you shouldn't try to cut corners on quality control to save a few bucks. After all, you're already springing for two drives.
I have had very pleasant experiences with 3ware controllers, both under linux and Win32. Currently I have a 6400 running under Suse 7.3, and three 7400s running under RedHat 8. With some hotswap drive bays, you can even unplug a drive with the system running.
They might cost a little more, but they're widely used under more grueling conditions than the more dirt cheap designs. Also, if you're simply doing raid 1, you can use one of their previous generation cards with no performance penalty, and save a bunch of bucks.
Tycho wrote a segment of this article in his usual lucid manner. They probably should have linked to that one first if they didn't want everyone to hurl and go no further.
Actually, since most fast cd recorders increase their writing speed in steps through the burn process, when half the time has passed, your cd is less than half full, (or more than half empty).
Just thought you should know that most ski resorts are accessible to handicapped skiers. There are blind skier programs and many people ski with specially designed skiing devices.
Also, since the 11 September attacks, several journalists have been arrested for crossing security lines at some official buildings.
So? If they were trespassing on high-security areas of government bulidings, what the hell did they expect?
The issue is more about where those security lines are drawn, and who is drawing them. The government should not be allowed to arbitrarily prevent press coverage by drawing a security line.
This is very off topic, but in reference to your signature. Have you heard of screen? Its very nice. As many virtual terminals as you can shake your fist at, and it works over telnet and ssh and whatnot.
There are more possible states of a go board than the current estimated number of atoms in the universe. I think storing that may be a little more than 5 years off.
The number of possible moves in a go game starts at 361, and goes down by roughly one per move. Thus the upper limit on go states is near 361! which is around 10^750. This puts perfect Go a little out of reach. More on AI Go
After visiting a pdf on LP technology and finding that LPs have around 290 lines per inch, and 45s 160 or so, it would seem that a reasonable scanner (say 1200 dpi) would pickup 7 pixels per track on a 45. This would make horizontal (along the plane of the record) resolution quite poor. However, if he's only tracking the vertical component (perpendicular to the plane of the record), and the varying heights translate well into light to dark gradients, perhaps there would be enough information to produce some bad sound. I too would like to see the code and perhaps some of the source images.
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What database software do you use for those databases? Anything open source?
Where next? The Moon of course, and then Mars.
What better DRM hegemony is there than the ability to turn off their air when they don't obey the corporate masters?
That Sun Ultra 20 seems like a nice deal. My only concern is how loud it is. Does it have a bunch of noisy fans, or is it a well engineered case with good airflow from low rpm fans?
You're a freaking genius. I was going to write the same thing, but thought I'd check to see if someone else had written it.
Running both a WRT54G and a NSLU2 would do all they want for $160 and a few watts.
The US has the lowest speed limits in the developed world, and the highest rates of accidents. It is not because people drive fast. Its because people drive badly.
You can get a license here while not having the slightest clue how to drive safely. In Europe, licenses are much, much harder to get, and drivers are much safer.
The maximum safe speed of travel is something every driver should have a personal sense of. It depends on road conditions, traffic conditions, and the mechanical state of the car, and the physiology and psycology of the person. To blindly follow the numbers on signs can lead to just as dangerous situations as not doing so. People who are driving fast are not necessarily driving dangerously.
Taking the CD from your neighbor is stealing. Copying the CD from your neighbor is copyright infringement. You can tell the difference because at the end of the day, in copyright infringement, your neighbor still has the CD.
When a cat is falling ( or while anything is falling for that matter ) it is in free fall until there is significant drag from its motion through the air. Free fall is effectively a zero gravity state.
NASA used planes in a dive to simulate zero gravity for astronaught training.
I believe by "advocating biological evolution", he means show evidence that evolution is the driving force behind the biosphere on earth. There are still many who contend that evolution is not sufficient to produce all of the creatures we share this rock with. To renouce this, some say that if digital evolution can make strange digital creatures suited to their digital ecosystems, evolution can do so in the world as well. I don't think its a very strong argument though.
This guy has just started a new website in competition with Linux Today. Perhaps this is the motivation for his proposed boycott.
From what I've heard with regard to handguns and bears, the only thing a gun will do is anger the bear, or if you're really lucky, inflict a fatal wound which it will die from about 10 minutes after it had mauled you to death.
Also did anyone notice where LOTR the Two Towers got its theme music from.
I recognised it, but couldn't place it. What is it from?
The paper said that the crypt algorithm strips off the high bit, so no, this wouldn't help at all. In fact, most of the collisions they found were due to high bits being set.
So you want text mode huh?
Its kind of hard to get slashdot to accept such things because of the freaking lameness filter, so forgive my verbose lead-in...
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Please use less junk characters? What the heck is this useless filter babbling on about. Whoever wrote this should be forced to post ascii art with every post they make.
A more accurate analogy would be walking into the store, with a bunch of plastic and metal and a few screw drivers, drills, saws and whatnot, and spending the afternoon carefully duplicating it, and then leaving with your copy. Is that illegal? An interesting question. It is possible that it contains patented mechanisms, but I'm not sure what provisions patent law has for personal uses. If you buy a car, are you allowed to make replacement parts by hand even if they are patented? If you buy a dvd are you allowed to write a patented algorithm to play it?
The purpose of a raid card is improved reliability. Thus, you shouldn't try to cut corners on quality control to save a few bucks. After all, you're already springing for two drives.
I have had very pleasant experiences with 3ware controllers, both under linux and Win32. Currently I have a 6400 running under Suse 7.3, and three 7400s running under RedHat 8. With some hotswap drive bays, you can even unplug a drive with the system running.
They might cost a little more, but they're widely used under more grueling conditions than the more dirt cheap designs. Also, if you're simply doing raid 1, you can use one of their previous generation cards with no performance penalty, and save a bunch of bucks.
Tycho wrote a segment of this article in his usual lucid manner. They probably should have linked to that one first if they didn't want everyone to hurl and go no further.
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Actually, since most fast cd recorders increase their writing speed in steps through the burn process, when half the time has passed, your cd is less than half full, (or more than half empty).
Just thought you should know that most ski resorts are accessible to handicapped skiers. There are blind skier programs and many people ski with specially designed skiing devices.
Also, since the 11 September attacks, several journalists have been arrested for crossing security lines at some official buildings.
So? If they were trespassing on high-security areas of government bulidings, what the hell did they expect?
The issue is more about where those security lines are drawn, and who is drawing them. The government should not be allowed to arbitrarily prevent press coverage by drawing a security line.
This is very off topic, but in reference to your signature. Have you heard of screen? Its very nice. As many virtual terminals as you can shake your fist at, and it works over telnet and ssh and whatnot.
$ man screen
There are more possible states of a go board than the current estimated number of atoms in the universe. I think storing that may be a little more than 5 years off.
Current estimates are between 10^76 and 10^79 atoms in the universe
The number of possible moves in a go game starts at 361, and goes down by roughly one per move. Thus the upper limit on go states is near 361! which is around 10^750. This puts perfect Go a little out of reach. More on AI Go
Most DSL in the US is 1.5Mbps, and most cable is 2.0-3.0Mbps. At least that seems to be the case around me.
1.56cm x 1.56cm = 2.43cm^2 ~= 2.5cm^2
He was talking length, you were talking area.
Your numbers agree.
After visiting a pdf on LP technology and finding that LPs have around 290 lines per inch, and 45s 160 or so, it would seem that a reasonable scanner (say 1200 dpi) would pickup 7 pixels per track on a 45. This would make horizontal (along the plane of the record) resolution quite poor. However, if he's only tracking the vertical component (perpendicular to the plane of the record), and the varying heights translate well into light to dark gradients, perhaps there would be enough information to produce some bad sound. I too would like to see the code and perhaps some of the source images.
Erg, stupid brain. Should be 26lb/mile not 10.
7.5*2.2/.62 ~= 26 instead of 7.5*2.2*.62~= 10