All i can do is send a big FUCK YOU out to mainstream media, and the RIAA.
Most of us know that mainstream media sucks. Most of us hate almost everything on the radio, because there is no variety. For those of us who have tasted the music from foreign artists can attest, the pop-crap stations with their pathetic-repeat-every-45-minute playlists can just burn in hell.
But then again there are [people] out there that actually like this CRAP because it's been spoon-fed to them since their conception. It's all about control. Media conglomerates want you to eat what THEY want to feed you. It's absolute lunacy.
Most of the stuff I listen to comes from artists who have ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with the RIAA, groups that never 'sold out' to this satanic cult. Where's the justice for these groups? These groups who come over from Europe every year, and find that their followers are growing faster than they could ever had imagined? These groups who were discovered on the likes of Audiogalaxy by all these new fans. These groups who actually DON'T CARE that people share their music?
I buy a lot of CDs, or at least I used to. Back when I was brainwashed and thought that paying for the CD helped out the artists. I know better now. I'm upset that I helped pump dollar after dollar into some fat-ass RIAA exec's wallet.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and state that MOST of/. readers were getting music from AG, and that is why there is so much hostility in this thread. I think that THIS should be the last straw.. I think that we all need to make an INTENTIONAL decision to NOT buy CDs.. ever again.
Trade music, copy mp3s to CD and distribute them in public places. Do whatever it takes to spread the word about non-mainstream artists, and don't buy CD's for the crap-40 bands that are playing on the radio. Not only will this put the RIAA in serious financial harm, it will also promote the artists that you like to listen to.
If you want to support the artists, go out of your way to attend concerts... offer them cash in person.. buy them a drink or two.. offer to take them out after the show. These things aren't that crazy, I've done all of these things. Ask them if they have any merchandise to sell, and if not make suggestions. These are sources of income that sidestep the Nazi-istic ways of the RIAA.
Sorry for the rant. It's just funny that so many of you bitch about the RIAA, when in fact you are perpetuating it's existance.
Maybe we should offer counter-intelligence to the Al-qaeda forces, and tell them that the RIAA's headquarters is the new whitehouse. Maybe we will all get lucky.
Slavery leads to feudalism.. Feudalism leads to capitalism... Capitalism... leads to socialism!
This is such great news! Look at all the problems in our current economy, we don't have completely open trade with china, one of the largest countries population wise... why? Because Bush hates them, they are commies..
I can't smoke a cuban cigar.. Why? See above paragraph.
Maybe America is closer to a shift in policy that will make it stronger, if not unstoppable.
And just why should we trust anything this guy says? Their official spokesman won't even stand by what he's saying. And what is he saying, anyway?
His identity is being protected through obscurity. If he open-sourced his name, his job/email account/etc would be open to attack.
So again, as far as Microsoft is concerned, it's the fault of the people who publicized it. It's prudent to assume these guys are not the only ones who know about the problem. Which means my information is already at risk.
Your information has been at risk ever since installing your operating system. You agreed to the EULA upon installing it, and that paper holds you responsible for data sharing, you agreed to not hold Microsoft responsible for data loss, intrusion, etc. Also what concerns me is that you claim that other people know about the problem. That is unlikely, as the EULA also forbids reverse-engineering the code to find exploits.
Additionally, you have the DMCA to protect you, which means that if anyone tries to circumvent the data safeguards on your system, they will be prosecuted.
basically you feed it a.jpeg of a flag, at any size, it will work.. =)
of course I'm going to post this anonymously once the code is done, but i think it would be great
the problem is that the flag of the US will not be viewed as a copy-protection circumvention device.. the code that reads the flag and cracks the code will be associated with it..
the reason being is also the reason why the DMCA shouldn't have ever been enacted. circumvention code by itself cannot crack copy-protection schemes, it takes a computer to run it on.. so the computer WITH the code together should be the item that is illegal, not just one part of it.
just like rocks are not illegal, but rocks enroute to target + person who throws them + target that will be damaged by rock makes the rock an illegal tool. it is because the rock was used in the commission of a crime.. the same way that guns are legal, but using them to hold up a bank is not.
first off, it's sad that this article turned into a commie bashing thread.. but i guess it was expected seeing as how most/. readers are from the united states...
my question is this.. how does one acquire new territory? i mean what makes the territory YOU claim to be yours RECOGNIZED by others as belonging to you? sure someone can send a group of guys to the moon, stick a flag in the ground and claim that the moon is theirs... but what about, say, small islands that are in international waters.. i can take a boat out there and stick a flag down in the sand, does that make the land mine?
i think the question is a bit deeper than that. see an individual cannot really OWN land that is not already owned by a larger nation. in other words, if a small island exists within a particular nation's waters, and if that land is not recorded as belonging to anyone, i'm sure that a person can purchase/claim that land from his parent nation.
however, an individual has no representation amongst the nations of the world. he/she cannot defend his new territory, he/she cannot compete with entire nations that might try taking that territory by force. he/she has no trade representation, financially in this world they are a nobody and therefor their 'territory' is not legitimate and will not be recognized.
so lets assume an individual manages to defend his territory by some means.. say a square kilometer of the moon. an individual could send up a robot that is fully autonomous and could pick up small lunar rocks and hurl them at 500+ m/s at anything that it perceives to be a threat to its territory. against a lightly armored lunar rover or explorer in a space suit, this would be a killing blow.
so now you have a person, here on earth, controlling a piece of land on the moon. he/she invested in this land and took measures to defend it. to whom does that square kilometer of land belong to? where does one draw the line? one could send an entire 'army' of simple mecha up there and defend the entire lunar surface. provided that this individual could provide for their own safety on earth until they were able to build a base up there and move to the moon, who could honestly say that the moon isn't under the control of this individual....
and who here can state that possession of land involves anything more than control...
A lot of people here seem to be dumping on Soyo boards. Perhaps there is reason, or perhaps I'm lucky, but my main workstation is a Soyo Dragon (not the pro) for the socket A chips. Now, I will say with honesty that I've had exactly one reason to reboot linux since installing this board, and that has been to upgrade kernels.
This is a far cry from what my previous board, the Asus A7V was doing for me, with hangs in Quake3 about once a day. And my uptimes never exceeded 20 days.
I've been fairly pleased with this board, and my only regret is that it lacks 4 ddr sockets. Oh, and extra Socket A would be nice, but that's another issue entirely.. =)
Most of the complex questions us slashdotters face is the result of poor marketing decisions, or decisions that make little sense.
I'm sure AMD has their reasons for not sticking with the 'Performance Rating' crockery they gave birth to last year. I personally don't understand why there was a need to change.. and NOW...
If the average user is too dense-headed to understand that MHz != Performance, then why are they keeping the MHz rating for their LOW end chips? Especially since using the performance rating on the Duron would net more sales. What sounds better? $118 AMD Duron 1.3GHz or $118 AMD Duron 1500+ ?
That brings up another point, maybe AMD is losing money on these lower end chips, and they don't want someone to look at a 'MegaBargain' Duron instead of shelling out a bit more for an Athlon. In the consumer mind, Duron 1.3GHz or Athlon 1500+ isn't a hard question to answer, most people will go with the Athlon 1500 even though they are both probably the same clock speed.
that we've seen similar threads before... I pop this big question.
Most people who want a wearable, at the current time, are complete geeks. Usually these types of people want stuff THEIR way, and they try to be economical when doing it, so why buy something like this?
I too want a wearable, and one that attracts the GOOD kind of attention, not the bad kind.. I decided to set about making one, and learned a LOT from variouswebsites.
Of course, going the PC-104 route will still cost you a pretty penny, you can get a unit with a LOT more storage and custom input and display options. There are several pages on the net that go into detail on how to modify visor type displays and conceal them behind a normal pair of sunglasses.
For anyone serious about making a wearable, I say grow your own. It is a learning experience you can be proud of, instead of a product that you blew a pay check on, and then complain.. "I wish it did this, and that"
I don't really think AOL is going to do anything that is 'evil' according to the other posts going on here. What I *DO* see happening is the following...
A lot of negative karma surrounds AOL. Many people despise that company, and unjustly for the most part. Most people on the net fear being related to AOL, so many AOLers will look for a proxy when connecting to IRC. No 'elitist' would ever want to be 'found-out'.
Seems to me that the only AOL branded product that people feel comfortable using is AIM, mainly because they can 'claim' to be using another ISP, an AIM-clone, or you name it.
Now.. running AOL-Linux?? That might be the point where many RedHatters will bail the distro, not because it suddenly turned sour, but just because they are supporting AOL/TimeWarner.
I can just see it now.. the bitch-slap on future linux-related threads on Slashdot...
Aye... I noticed that my random lockups in Quake3 were cut to an absolute minimum after ditching my Athlon 700 for an AthlonXP 1900. (well, i've had one lockup in the last 2 months, and that was most likely caused by faulty power as my roommate dropped a box of books on the floor the instant the lockup occured)
I was just about to comment an argument to this whole post as I don't have these lockups anymore.
My reasoning is that something else is bring the kernel down while AGP use it high. (at least on nvidia systems, which is all i have). I think I am going to continue with my plans to set up an online database on my webserver to try to sort this all out, should people STILL have lockup issues after using the workaround.
I do know that using SBA (side band addressing) will re-introduce these problems. Also i switched Processors around the time i upgraded to kernel 2.4.16 from 2.4.12. Maybe something changed in the kernel, I'm currently testing 2.4.12 again to see if the lockups come back.
Anyhoo.. here is my output of cat/proc/nv/card0
velarious:/usr/work # cat/proc/nv/card0
----- Driver Info -----
NVRM Version: NVIDIA NVdriver Kernel Module 1.0.2313 Tue Nov 27 12:01:24 PST 2001
Compiled with: gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (SuSE)
------ Card Info ------
Model: GeForce2 MX/MX 400
IRQ: 5
Video BIOS: 03.11.01.26
------ AGP Info -------
AGP status: Enabled
AGP Driver: AGPGART
Bridge: Generic Via
SBA: Supported [disabled]
FW: Unsupported [disabled]
Rates: 4x 2x 1x [4x]
Registers: 0x1f000207:0x00000104
According to your logic, i could draw a line and claim it to have 3 dimensions, one for length, one for line width, and one as the ink penetrates into the paper. What you get is a highly chaotic 'line' that more resembles a piece of rough yarn.
Some of you may remember that uncrackable quantum encryption can be created by using a pair of photons. The problem is that the transmitter and receiver would have to be line of sight, or possibly over fiber. I wonder if two of these crystals can be used to trap the photons individually for later analysis.. Don't know if the process of entrapment within the crystal will destroy the quantum effect that makes this sort of crptography possible, IANAQP....
I thought the sequel was going to be called the Special Edition X-Box, code named SEX-Box.
This fits in with Microsoft's recent trend to stick a 2 letter prefix/suffix on every thing (cf. Windows98SE, WindowsME, WindowsNT, WindowsXP etc)
I have a really novel idea, since it is related to the PC on many levels, and we ALL know PCs are evolving at an astronomical rate, Microsoft should do the following to prevent the SEX-Box from being quickly obsoleted..
Make the SEX-Box bigger, to allow internal components to be added..
Make the SEX-Box equipped with PCI and AGP slots so that it can be kept up-to-date with commodity hardware.
Make the SEX-Box compatible with off-the-shelf hardrives. Yeah i can see it now "No one will ever need more than 40GB"
Make the SE... wait a minute.. haven't I got one of these already??
Don't get me wrong, I'm not one of the types that thinks everytime the government makes a new law or whatever that it is a bad thing. I simply feel that privacy is one of our most sacred freedoms.
If the government taps me accidentally instead of their intended target, and they discover me doing something that violates a law in a minor way, they are going to pursue getting a warrant so that they can use the information legitimately next time it happens. Point is they didn't have the right to tap me in the first place.
Second point is this. If I get tapped by accident (net-criminal spoofed my IP/connection details) and a third party hacker (i'm simplifying this.. i know i'll catch heat for using hacker)intercepts the signal, he may learn of information that puts me, my career, or my life in danger.. information that would not have leaked had it not been for the government adding a hole to my system. I doubt the government would compensate me if I lost my job for leaking trusted information to the web.
I'm all for anything that aids our law-enforcement officials, as long as they are responsible and take ownership of the consequences.
Making it mandatory for the government to notify you that you are being snooped defeats the purpose of the monitoring in the first place. A more suitable method would be allow concerned individuals email or call to request whether or not they are being snooped. Then if they ARE snooping you, and they have reason, they can ask you to see a local court to discuss the matter without actually stating that they ARE monitoring you. That is one faster way of getting the criminals into court, if they are foolish enough. It also protects the innocent. Of course if the government is 'accidentally' snooping you, they will just tell you "no, we aren't monitoring you" because they think they are monitoring the person spoofing your connection.
A better solution is a time-passworded utility that you can install and call to request the current password. The utility would check your system for the trojan. If that is the case, I'm all for this course of action against cyber-crime.
-fc
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I agree, there is a credibility issue. The fact that these people claim to be doing in almost no time what has taken wine several years. Lets analyze the situation...
Case 1) Lindows is actually Windows2000,XP, etc with vmware or the like running linux on demand.
Case 2) Lindows is actually Windows2000,XP, etc with a custom linux emulator that runs apps on demand, seamlessly.
Case 3) Lindows is Linux running VMware for a Windows desktop.
Case 4) Lindows is Linux running CodeWeaver's Wine to launch windows apps on demand.
Case 5) Lindows is Linux running a new windows emulator or API that we haven't previously heard of.
Case 6) Lindows is a new OS, that is both windows and linux and runs elf and exe executables natively.
Case 7) Lindows is a hoax.
Now the breakdown.
Cases 1 and 2 are absurd. They would have reason to fear microsoft if they are just renaming and reselling Microsoft's product. However these solutions give the ultimate in Windows software compatibility (Joe Sixpack translation : my games will run really smoothly).
Case 3 is possible, but apps would run slowly, no OpenGL support, games would be lousy on VMware. Best chance of Software compatibility. Plus they have to license VMWare.. And why not just go with a known good linux distro and do this. The product would offer no market distinction.
Case 4 is possible. Games would run better than on VMWare with OpenGL and DirectX support. Some apps would be broken though. Once again, this is no different that what could be done with SuSE, debian, mandrake, slackware, etc...
Case 5 is possible though unlikely. I'm sure there would be some leakage of information if a superior wine had been brewing for the last couple of years.
Case 6....... ROFLMAO
Case 7 is certainly possible. I'll not be the fool and discredit the claims that they are making on their website.
My guess is that Case 7 is correct, and Case 5 is a close second. Case 1 is possible if the company had the balls and stupidity to repackage and resell a Microsoft product.
I think there is inside interest though. I don't think the government thinks too highly of our constitutional rights, espectially the first amendment in light of the new legislation they have recently passed or are trying to push through:/
I think this move was motivated by two factors, the first being that they (the government) wants to protect it's image, especially in the face of the youth, who would be most outraged by an outright ban on violent games. The second motivator being the gaming industry itself. Violent games make violent people. Wrong. But people who play such games *may* develop strong hand-eye coordination and reflexes, and maybe even basic tactical strategy in the case of realistic FPS. The military would love to have a country full of soldiers just ready to tap.
I think this is a very good move, mainly because the gaming industry is responsible for the rapid technological advances we are seeing in systems today. Who needs 2.2GHz word processors? I can run vi on a 286.. It helps our economy.
Also many use violent games to release some of their tension and frustration that could potentially create statistics in the real world.
Just my $0.14. (Adjusted for inflation and tax)
-fc
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Re:I think people are making this more difficult..
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Blimps/dirigibles on the other hand... with less than 1% atmosphere, you have less than 1% of the bouyancy. In the end your balloon will have to be 30 times bigger to lift the same mass. This means that, while a balloon might work, a dirigible won't. Too much structure required.
On the contrary.... here's a little math..
Size of balloon for dirigible (and volume..)
Volume of ellipsoid (a=semimajor, b= semimean, and c=semiminor axes) = (4/3)*pi*abc.
A=100m B=40m C=30m
V=5.03x10^5 M^3
V=5.03x10^8 L
Now for temperature and pressure...
Assuming Tmars to be avg. -50C = 223K
And assuming we inflate to 2atm(mars) = 0.02atm(earth)
PV = nRT
n = PV/RT = (0.02atm * 5.03 x10^8 L) / (0.0821 L atm/mol K * 223 K)
n = 2.75x10^5 moles within balloon...
M(H2)=2 g/mol * n = 5.5x10^5 grams
yeah, that's a LOT of hydrogen.. but lets continue
For the atmosphere this hydrogen is displacing...
Which, BTW, is over 95% CO2, unlike earth which has a much lighter atmosphere for a given pressure..
PV = nRT
n = PV/RT = (0.01atm * 5.03x10^8 L) / (0.0821 L arm/mol K * 223 K)
n = 1.38x10^5 moles of atmoshpere displaced
M(CO2)=44 g/mol * n = 1.21x10^7 grams
Taking the difference, we find that there is 115.5x10^5 grams or...
11550 kg of lifting force here...
Of course we might need to put more H2 into the balloon to have it hold it's shape.. for each martian atmosphere of additional pressure we inflate the craft with, go ahead and reduce the lift by 275 kilograms. Double the local atmospheric pressure should be sufficient.
Now, can we build an airship of that size and keep it's weight under 10000 kg?
(Mind you that IS 30000kg here on earth)...
I think it is safe to say it is more than easily accomplished.
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The reason i posted this idea is based on a few simple laws.
First, you have gas laws, such as PV=nRT. Since all gasses in the martian atmosphere are going to follow that law, as temperature is constant as is pressure for localized areas (surrounding the dirigible). Also R doesn't change.. So the volume that the gas will occupy doesn't become a huge challenge like one would think.
The other thing to take into account is the composition of the martian atmosphere.. its what, 95% CO2? (MW 44) compared to Earth's 79% Nitrogen and 20% Oxygen (MW 28 and 32 respectively).
The point is that for a given cubic meter of atmosphere on Mars (if compressed to 1atm) it would be more dense than a cubic meter of earth's atmosphere at the same pressure.
Sure there is going to be an altitude limit imposed on such a craft in martian atmospheric conditions, but for doing work at low altitudes I think this is much more than feasible.
I don't have the desire to do all the fun math stuffs to actually test the validity of this argument, i was hoping someone would try to disprove this point mathematically then realize that it is possible.. =)
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We have large lifting craft that require almost no runway for takeoff and landing.. they are they relatives to the blimp.
Same laws apply.. sure there is less of an atmosphere.. but you also have one third the gravity to contend with. The main problem with such craft on the martian surface would be the fact that 1) they are huge, and 2) they are light. With the storms that have been witnessed on mars recently, storing such a craft would be a nightmare if you didn't collapse it and store it. Lets not forget the possibility you COULD be in the air when such a storm kicks up.. nothing could save your arse if that happened..
I think this will be the way we go.. because a dirigible could be packed into a small payload area for transport to the martian surface. The added bonus is that Mars has VERY little oxygen in the atmosphere.. so it becomes safe to fill the dirigible with hydrogen as opposed to helium, giving you much more lifting power.. the problem comes with storing compress hydrogen when you deflate these behemoths.. wouldn't want to store the tanks near an oxygen rich environment like say.. in the living structures or greenhouses.. =)
Noise gives my system a sense of authority. And that has many advantages...
At lan parties :
Dude 1 : I need another power outlet...
Dude 2 : No! Don't unplug that loud fscker.. unplug that cappucino over there...
At home :
Me : Nevermind the mess.. typical coding room, i try to keep it clean bu...
Co-worker : WHOA!! How fast is that thing? It's huge....
On the phone :
Me : Hold on just a moment, i'm going to call home and see if my workstation is still on..
Friend : How??
Me : Oh, i can hear it across the house...*click*. Oh hi dear.. just seeing if you were OK.. =)
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All i can do is send a big FUCK YOU out to mainstream media, and the RIAA.
/. readers were getting music from AG, and that is why there is so much hostility in this thread. I think that THIS should be the last straw.. I think that we all need to make an INTENTIONAL decision to NOT buy CDs.. ever again.
Most of us know that mainstream media sucks. Most of us hate almost everything on the radio, because there is no variety. For those of us who have tasted the music from foreign artists can attest, the pop-crap stations with their pathetic-repeat-every-45-minute playlists can just burn in hell.
But then again there are [people] out there that actually like this CRAP because it's been spoon-fed to them since their conception. It's all about control. Media conglomerates want you to eat what THEY want to feed you. It's absolute lunacy.
Most of the stuff I listen to comes from artists who have ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with the RIAA, groups that never 'sold out' to this satanic cult. Where's the justice for these groups? These groups who come over from Europe every year, and find that their followers are growing faster than they could ever had imagined? These groups who were discovered on the likes of Audiogalaxy by all these new fans. These groups who actually DON'T CARE that people share their music?
I buy a lot of CDs, or at least I used to. Back when I was brainwashed and thought that paying for the CD helped out the artists. I know better now. I'm upset that I helped pump dollar after dollar into some fat-ass RIAA exec's wallet.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and state that MOST of
Trade music, copy mp3s to CD and distribute them in public places. Do whatever it takes to spread the word about non-mainstream artists, and don't buy CD's for the crap-40 bands that are playing on the radio. Not only will this put the RIAA in serious financial harm, it will also promote the artists that you like to listen to.
If you want to support the artists, go out of your way to attend concerts... offer them cash in person.. buy them a drink or two.. offer to take them out after the show. These things aren't that crazy, I've done all of these things. Ask them if they have any merchandise to sell, and if not make suggestions. These are sources of income that sidestep the Nazi-istic ways of the RIAA.
Sorry for the rant. It's just funny that so many of you bitch about the RIAA, when in fact you are perpetuating it's existance.
Maybe we should offer counter-intelligence to the Al-qaeda forces, and tell them that the RIAA's headquarters is the new whitehouse. Maybe we will all get lucky.
-fc
WooHoOo!!
Slavery leads to feudalism..
Feudalism leads to capitalism...
Capitalism... leads to socialism!
This is such great news! Look at all the problems in our current economy, we don't have completely open trade with china, one of the largest countries population wise... why? Because Bush hates them, they are commies..
I can't smoke a cuban cigar.. Why? See above paragraph.
Maybe America is closer to a shift in policy that will make it stronger, if not unstoppable.
Maybe i've had too much to drink.. =)
-fc
And just why should we trust anything this guy says? Their official spokesman won't even stand by what he's saying. And what is he saying, anyway?
His identity is being protected through obscurity. If he open-sourced his name, his job/email account/etc would be open to attack.
So again, as far as Microsoft is concerned, it's the fault of the people who publicized it. It's prudent to assume these guys are not the only ones who know about the problem. Which means my information is already at risk.
Your information has been at risk ever since installing your operating system. You agreed to the EULA upon installing it, and that paper holds you responsible for data sharing, you agreed to not hold Microsoft responsible for data loss, intrusion, etc. Also what concerns me is that you claim that other people know about the problem. That is unlikely, as the EULA also forbids reverse-engineering the code to find exploits.
Additionally, you have the DMCA to protect you, which means that if anyone tries to circumvent the data safeguards on your system, they will be prosecuted.
I think you are being overly paranoid.
-fc
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i'm working on this as we speak.. =)
.jpeg of a flag, at any size, it will work.. =)
basically you feed it a
of course I'm going to post this anonymously once the code is done, but i think it would be great
the problem is that the flag of the US will not be viewed as a copy-protection circumvention device.. the code that reads the flag and cracks the code will be associated with it..
the reason being is also the reason why the DMCA shouldn't have ever been enacted. circumvention code by itself cannot crack copy-protection schemes, it takes a computer to run it on.. so the computer WITH the code together should be the item that is illegal, not just one part of it.
just like rocks are not illegal, but rocks enroute to target + person who throws them + target that will be damaged by rock makes the rock an illegal tool. it is because the rock was used in the commission of a crime.. the same way that guns are legal, but using them to hold up a bank is not.
-fc
first off, it's sad that this article turned into a commie bashing thread.. but i guess it was expected seeing as how most /. readers are from the united states...
my question is this.. how does one acquire new territory? i mean what makes the territory YOU claim to be yours RECOGNIZED by others as belonging to you? sure someone can send a group of guys to the moon, stick a flag in the ground and claim that the moon is theirs... but what about, say, small islands that are in international waters.. i can take a boat out there and stick a flag down in the sand, does that make the land mine?
i think the question is a bit deeper than that. see an individual cannot really OWN land that is not already owned by a larger nation. in other words, if a small island exists within a particular nation's waters, and if that land is not recorded as belonging to anyone, i'm sure that a person can purchase/claim that land from his parent nation.
however, an individual has no representation amongst the nations of the world. he/she cannot defend his new territory, he/she cannot compete with entire nations that might try taking that territory by force. he/she has no trade representation, financially in this world they are a nobody and therefor their 'territory' is not legitimate and will not be recognized.
so lets assume an individual manages to defend his territory by some means.. say a square kilometer of the moon. an individual could send up a robot that is fully autonomous and could pick up small lunar rocks and hurl them at 500+ m/s at anything that it perceives to be a threat to its territory. against a lightly armored lunar rover or explorer in a space suit, this would be a killing blow.
so now you have a person, here on earth, controlling a piece of land on the moon. he/she invested in this land and took measures to defend it. to whom does that square kilometer of land belong to? where does one draw the line? one could send an entire 'army' of simple mecha up there and defend the entire lunar surface. provided that this individual could provide for their own safety on earth until they were able to build a base up there and move to the moon, who could honestly say that the moon isn't under the control of this individual....
and who here can state that possession of land involves anything more than control...
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A lot of people here seem to be dumping on Soyo boards. Perhaps there is reason, or perhaps I'm lucky, but my main workstation is a Soyo Dragon (not the pro) for the socket A chips. Now, I will say with honesty that I've had exactly one reason to reboot linux since installing this board, and that has been to upgrade kernels.
This is a far cry from what my previous board, the Asus A7V was doing for me, with hangs in Quake3 about once a day. And my uptimes never exceeded 20 days.
I've been fairly pleased with this board, and my only regret is that it lacks 4 ddr sockets. Oh, and extra Socket A would be nice, but that's another issue entirely.. =)
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I would reply with a simple 2 word form letter...
phUcK aWF!
It's not like they could actually DO anything if you told them to roll their letter and insert it sideways into their lawyer's anal orifice.
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Marketing.
Most of the complex questions us slashdotters face is the result of poor marketing decisions, or decisions that make little sense.
I'm sure AMD has their reasons for not sticking with the 'Performance Rating' crockery they gave birth to last year. I personally don't understand why there was a need to change.. and NOW...
If the average user is too dense-headed to understand that MHz != Performance, then why are they keeping the MHz rating for their LOW end chips? Especially since using the performance rating on the Duron would net more sales. What sounds better? $118 AMD Duron 1.3GHz or $118 AMD Duron 1500+ ?
That brings up another point, maybe AMD is losing money on these lower end chips, and they don't want someone to look at a 'MegaBargain' Duron instead of shelling out a bit more for an Athlon. In the consumer mind, Duron 1.3GHz or Athlon 1500+ isn't a hard question to answer, most people will go with the Athlon 1500 even though they are both probably the same clock speed.
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that we've seen similar threads before... I pop this big question.
Most people who want a wearable, at the current time, are complete geeks. Usually these types of people want stuff THEIR way, and they try to be economical when doing it, so why buy something like this?
I too want a wearable, and one that attracts the GOOD kind of attention, not the bad kind.. I decided to set about making one, and learned a LOT from various websites.
Of course, going the PC-104 route will still cost you a pretty penny, you can get a unit with a LOT more storage and custom input and display options. There are several pages on the net that go into detail on how to modify visor type displays and conceal them behind a normal pair of sunglasses.
For anyone serious about making a wearable, I say grow your own. It is a learning experience you can be proud of, instead of a product that you blew a pay check on, and then complain.. "I wish it did this, and that"
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I don't really think AOL is going to do anything that is 'evil' according to the other posts going on here. What I *DO* see happening is the following...
A lot of negative karma surrounds AOL. Many people despise that company, and unjustly for the most part. Most people on the net fear being related to AOL, so many AOLers will look for a proxy when connecting to IRC. No 'elitist' would ever want to be 'found-out'.
Seems to me that the only AOL branded product that people feel comfortable using is AIM, mainly because they can 'claim' to be using another ISP, an AIM-clone, or you name it.
Now.. running AOL-Linux?? That might be the point where many RedHatters will bail the distro, not because it suddenly turned sour, but just because they are supporting AOL/TimeWarner.
I can just see it now.. the bitch-slap on future linux-related threads on Slashdot...
"Look hooz tawking, j0o AoL-liNuX l0oozH3r! aOl pwnz jewr b4wx!"
*sigh*
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Aye... I noticed that my random lockups in Quake3 were cut to an absolute minimum after ditching my Athlon 700 for an AthlonXP 1900. (well, i've had one lockup in the last 2 months, and that was most likely caused by faulty power as my roommate dropped a box of books on the floor the instant the lockup occured)
/proc/nv/card0
/proc/nv/card0
I was just about to comment an argument to this whole post as I don't have these lockups anymore.
My reasoning is that something else is bring the kernel down while AGP use it high. (at least on nvidia systems, which is all i have). I think I am going to continue with my plans to set up an online database on my webserver to try to sort this all out, should people STILL have lockup issues after using the workaround.
I do know that using SBA (side band addressing) will re-introduce these problems. Also i switched Processors around the time i upgraded to kernel 2.4.16 from 2.4.12. Maybe something changed in the kernel, I'm currently testing 2.4.12 again to see if the lockups come back.
Anyhoo.. here is my output of cat
velarious:/usr/work # cat
----- Driver Info -----
NVRM Version: NVIDIA NVdriver Kernel Module 1.0.2313 Tue Nov 27 12:01:24 PST 2001
Compiled with: gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (SuSE)
------ Card Info ------
Model: GeForce2 MX/MX 400
IRQ: 5
Video BIOS: 03.11.01.26
------ AGP Info -------
AGP status: Enabled
AGP Driver: AGPGART
Bridge: Generic Via
SBA: Supported [disabled]
FW: Unsupported [disabled]
Rates: 4x 2x 1x [4x]
Registers: 0x1f000207:0x00000104
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c'mon, this was pretty damn funny, mod this poor chap up..
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According to your logic, i could draw a line and claim it to have 3 dimensions, one for length, one for line width, and one as the ink penetrates into the paper. What you get is a highly chaotic 'line' that more resembles a piece of rough yarn.
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Hmm.. this is interesting...
Some of you may remember that uncrackable quantum encryption can be created by using a pair of photons. The problem is that the transmitter and receiver would have to be line of sight, or possibly over fiber. I wonder if two of these crystals can be used to trap the photons individually for later analysis.. Don't know if the process of entrapment within the crystal will destroy the quantum effect that makes this sort of crptography possible, IANAQP....
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I thought the sequel was going to be called the Special Edition X-Box, code named SEX-Box.
This fits in with Microsoft's recent trend to stick a 2 letter prefix/suffix on every thing (cf. Windows98SE, WindowsME, WindowsNT, WindowsXP etc)
I have a really novel idea, since it is related to the PC on many levels, and we ALL know PCs are evolving at an astronomical rate, Microsoft should do the following to prevent the SEX-Box from being quickly obsoleted..
Make the SEX-Box bigger, to allow internal components to be added..
Make the SEX-Box equipped with PCI and AGP slots so that it can be kept up-to-date with commodity hardware.
Make the SEX-Box compatible with off-the-shelf hardrives. Yeah i can see it now "No one will ever need more than 40GB"
Make the SE... wait a minute.. haven't I got one of these already??
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that I don't want the government brandishing.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not one of the types that thinks everytime the government makes a new law or whatever that it is a bad thing. I simply feel that privacy is one of our most sacred freedoms.
If the government taps me accidentally instead of their intended target, and they discover me doing something that violates a law in a minor way, they are going to pursue getting a warrant so that they can use the information legitimately next time it happens. Point is they didn't have the right to tap me in the first place.
Second point is this. If I get tapped by accident (net-criminal spoofed my IP/connection details) and a third party hacker (i'm simplifying this.. i know i'll catch heat for using hacker)intercepts the signal, he may learn of information that puts me, my career, or my life in danger.. information that would not have leaked had it not been for the government adding a hole to my system. I doubt the government would compensate me if I lost my job for leaking trusted information to the web.
I'm all for anything that aids our law-enforcement officials, as long as they are responsible and take ownership of the consequences.
Making it mandatory for the government to notify you that you are being snooped defeats the purpose of the monitoring in the first place. A more suitable method would be allow concerned individuals email or call to request whether or not they are being snooped. Then if they ARE snooping you, and they have reason, they can ask you to see a local court to discuss the matter without actually stating that they ARE monitoring you. That is one faster way of getting the criminals into court, if they are foolish enough. It also protects the innocent. Of course if the government is 'accidentally' snooping you, they will just tell you "no, we aren't monitoring you" because they think they are monitoring the person spoofing your connection.
A better solution is a time-passworded utility that you can install and call to request the current password. The utility would check your system for the trojan. If that is the case, I'm all for this course of action against cyber-crime.
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I agree, there is a credibility issue. The fact that these people claim to be doing in almost no time what has taken wine several years. Lets analyze the situation...
.. ..... ROFLMAO
Case 1) Lindows is actually Windows2000,XP, etc with vmware or the like running linux on demand.
Case 2) Lindows is actually Windows2000,XP, etc with a custom linux emulator that runs apps on demand, seamlessly.
Case 3) Lindows is Linux running VMware for a Windows desktop.
Case 4) Lindows is Linux running CodeWeaver's Wine to launch windows apps on demand.
Case 5) Lindows is Linux running a new windows emulator or API that we haven't previously heard of.
Case 6) Lindows is a new OS, that is both windows and linux and runs elf and exe executables natively.
Case 7) Lindows is a hoax.
Now the breakdown.
Cases 1 and 2 are absurd. They would have reason to fear microsoft if they are just renaming and reselling Microsoft's product. However these solutions give the ultimate in Windows software compatibility (Joe Sixpack translation : my games will run really smoothly).
Case 3 is possible, but apps would run slowly, no OpenGL support, games would be lousy on VMware. Best chance of Software compatibility. Plus they have to license VMWare.. And why not just go with a known good linux distro and do this. The product would offer no market distinction.
Case 4 is possible. Games would run better than on VMWare with OpenGL and DirectX support. Some apps would be broken though. Once again, this is no different that what could be done with SuSE, debian, mandrake, slackware, etc...
Case 5 is possible though unlikely. I'm sure there would be some leakage of information if a superior wine had been brewing for the last couple of years.
Case 6
Case 7 is certainly possible. I'll not be the fool and discredit the claims that they are making on their website.
My guess is that Case 7 is correct, and Case 5 is a close second. Case 1 is possible if the company had the balls and stupidity to repackage and resell a Microsoft product.
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For ONCE they do something right.
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I think there is inside interest though. I don't think the government thinks too highly of our constitutional rights, espectially the first amendment in light of the new legislation they have recently passed or are trying to push through
I think this move was motivated by two factors, the first being that they (the government) wants to protect it's image, especially in the face of the youth, who would be most outraged by an outright ban on violent games. The second motivator being the gaming industry itself. Violent games make violent people. Wrong. But people who play such games *may* develop strong hand-eye coordination and reflexes, and maybe even basic tactical strategy in the case of realistic FPS. The military would love to have a country full of soldiers just ready to tap.
I think this is a very good move, mainly because the gaming industry is responsible for the rapid technological advances we are seeing in systems today. Who needs 2.2GHz word processors? I can run vi on a 286.. It helps our economy.
Also many use violent games to release some of their tension and frustration that could potentially create statistics in the real world.
Just my $0.14. (Adjusted for inflation and tax)
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Blimps/dirigibles on the other hand... with less than 1% atmosphere, you have less than 1% of the bouyancy. In the end your balloon will have to be 30 times bigger to lift the same mass. This means that, while a balloon might work, a dirigible won't. Too much structure required.
On the contrary.... here's a little math..
Size of balloon for dirigible (and volume..)
Volume of ellipsoid (a=semimajor, b= semimean, and c=semiminor axes) = (4/3)*pi*abc.
A=100m B=40m C=30m
V=5.03x10^5 M^3
V=5.03x10^8 L
Now for temperature and pressure...
Assuming Tmars to be avg. -50C = 223K
And assuming we inflate to 2atm(mars) = 0.02atm(earth)
PV = nRT
n = PV/RT = (0.02atm * 5.03 x10^8 L) / (0.0821 L atm/mol K * 223 K)
n = 2.75x10^5 moles within balloon...
M(H2)=2 g/mol * n = 5.5x10^5 grams
yeah, that's a LOT of hydrogen.. but lets continue
For the atmosphere this hydrogen is displacing...
Which, BTW, is over 95% CO2, unlike earth which has a much lighter atmosphere for a given pressure..
PV = nRT
n = PV/RT = (0.01atm * 5.03x10^8 L) / (0.0821 L arm/mol K * 223 K)
n = 1.38x10^5 moles of atmoshpere displaced
M(CO2)=44 g/mol * n = 1.21x10^7 grams
Taking the difference, we find that there is 115.5x10^5 grams or...
11550 kg of lifting force here...
Of course we might need to put more H2 into the balloon to have it hold it's shape.. for each martian atmosphere of additional pressure we inflate the craft with, go ahead and reduce the lift by 275 kilograms. Double the local atmospheric pressure should be sufficient.
Now, can we build an airship of that size and keep it's weight under 10000 kg?
(Mind you that IS 30000kg here on earth)...
I think it is safe to say it is more than easily accomplished.
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The reason i posted this idea is based on a few simple laws.
First, you have gas laws, such as PV=nRT. Since all gasses in the martian atmosphere are going to follow that law, as temperature is constant as is pressure for localized areas (surrounding the dirigible). Also R doesn't change.. So the volume that the gas will occupy doesn't become a huge challenge like one would think.
The other thing to take into account is the composition of the martian atmosphere.. its what, 95% CO2? (MW 44) compared to Earth's 79% Nitrogen and 20% Oxygen (MW 28 and 32 respectively).
The point is that for a given cubic meter of atmosphere on Mars (if compressed to 1atm) it would be more dense than a cubic meter of earth's atmosphere at the same pressure.
Sure there is going to be an altitude limit imposed on such a craft in martian atmospheric conditions, but for doing work at low altitudes I think this is much more than feasible.
I don't have the desire to do all the fun math stuffs to actually test the validity of this argument, i was hoping someone would try to disprove this point mathematically then realize that it is possible.. =)
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We have large lifting craft that require almost no runway for takeoff and landing.. they are they relatives to the blimp.
Same laws apply.. sure there is less of an atmosphere.. but you also have one third the gravity to contend with. The main problem with such craft on the martian surface would be the fact that 1) they are huge, and 2) they are light. With the storms that have been witnessed on mars recently, storing such a craft would be a nightmare if you didn't collapse it and store it. Lets not forget the possibility you COULD be in the air when such a storm kicks up.. nothing could save your arse if that happened..
I think this will be the way we go.. because a dirigible could be packed into a small payload area for transport to the martian surface. The added bonus is that Mars has VERY little oxygen in the atmosphere.. so it becomes safe to fill the dirigible with hydrogen as opposed to helium, giving you much more lifting power.. the problem comes with storing compress hydrogen when you deflate these behemoths.. wouldn't want to store the tanks near an oxygen rich environment like say.. in the living structures or greenhouses.. =)
Noise gives my system a sense of authority. And that has many advantages...
At lan parties :
Dude 1 : I need another power outlet...
Dude 2 : No! Don't unplug that loud fscker.. unplug that cappucino over there...
At home :
Me : Nevermind the mess.. typical coding room, i try to keep it clean bu...
Co-worker : WHOA!! How fast is that thing? It's huge....
On the phone :
Me : Hold on just a moment, i'm going to call home and see if my workstation is still on..
Friend : How??
Me : Oh, i can hear it across the house...*click*. Oh hi dear.. just seeing if you were OK.. =)