Somehow the money will help to make up for the freedoms that we have lost due to their faulty work? I'm not sure if this is just me, but this doesn't make sense.
Money = Freedoms and secutriy
Well, now I know a fact, might as well give up on the American dream. Grapes of Wrath here I come!
Honestly i think this is great news. Just the other day i was thinking about how feasible it would be to control an airplane (comerical airliner) outside of the cockpit. If someone did gain access to the flight deck and was able to take control of the plane, it would be a lot easier for a US Air Marshal to break out a PDA and take back control of the plane. This would prevent the possibility of another 9/11 from happening, and it would also prevent a US jet from shooting the plane out of the sky because they know who its being control by. I know the risk of a terrorist or even a curious fellow with his PDA, gaining control of the aircraft becuase they found a security flaw or stumbled accross something interesting is too risky for anything like this to be implimented. But in theory, it would be a nice option to have just incase something awful did happen.
Espeically in a place like Nantucket where it is a summer family vacation destination, a lot of people. The last thing you want is to be reading a book and be disturbed by one of these turbines. Not only that but natural wild life will also be effected by this. Granted the island I'm talking about is much smaller then Nantucket. Where they were proposing, we were within 200 yards of the turbine which if it got moving, would have been pretty loud.
There were other reasons besides noise why we decied not to build the turbine on the island which included a rather large and seemingly ineffecent power storage system. With the cape cod area the winds don't blow strong all the time. Normally the winds blow durring the winter and off peak times, making them extreamly large decorations durring the summer when they are really needed. So on top of the costs of maintaining the farm, the only people around to really see a benifit from the turbines would be the few who acutaly live on isalnd.
If this were proposed with public funds, it never would have gotten past the concept stage. It's nice that someone decided to stick their neck out and try it, and props to them if it works. But overall I think (and again this is just my humble opinion) that they'll be unweildly, expensive to maintain and they'll just create the electrisity durring the wrong time of the year.
You guys forget that while this is a great resource, especially to the cape (due to the winds), these windmills are LOUD . I have a house on a small island just to the north and west of Nantucket , and we had an enginering company put together a report on the economics and practicality of a windmill on the island. The most surprising aspect of it all was that when the winds got up to 20mph (which they often do) the noise level compares to a comercial jet. Now I'm sure the noise level varies from blade structure and such, but still, that's loud. So while I think its a great way to introduce power to an island like Nantucket, work still needs to be done to make everyone happy.
I strongly doubt that the DoD would give the IP addresses of machines with sensitive data on the web without them knowing about it. Then again if they don't, what does that mean about them fighting a war in Iraq?!?
I remind all of you that all one needs is Airsnort running on a laptop and a little bit of time before they can see ANYTHING and everything going you are sending / recieving. 802.11b is a great idea for increasing the bandwidth to a customer but seriously before I even think about buying a phone or even an internet service that relies solely on 802.11b they are going to have to revise this standard or setup a VPN for me for no charge.
Curious as how this affects space launches in general. Common sense would dictate that if the earth is spinning slower then it must take less energy to put a payload in space. Yes, I realize that we're talking about fractions of a second and all... but to in NASA who's trying to crunch the numbers, would this leader to cheaper launches (even if it is $10...)
I must say that it certainly does sound like your typical Microsoft ideology... but then again it could be microsoft playing it cool and covering its own arse when the RIAA comes to MS and says "Your media player is contributing to the pirating of illegal music (etc.. etc..)". Then again I'm not sure exaclty how much customer loyality matters to MS, but with these new Apple adds i'm seeing on TV (Apple makes some really compelling, skewed but really compelling arguements for switching) will have to pay more attention to customer loyality / appeal to the general public. As much as we blow these minor details of something hidden in a EULA, it really doesn't mean anything to the average joe going down to a Circut City to buy a computer, although I must say it is very much like watching a chess game where all we have is a few pawns and MS seems to have quite a few queens.
  At risk of sounding like a Microsoft supporter (actually, this statement doesn't really support microsoft but on/. any statement not bashing microsoft is concidered support), I don't quite understand what Mr. Gates is doing. Here he is, in charge of a major coperation which provides software to numerous businesses and private citizens and he isn't taking the best interest of the customers he relies on but the other major coperations. In my mind it seems like if microsoft took a stance where they wanted to protect the customer from big business insted of subject a user to it, the popularity of Microsoft would jump enormously. You would be suprized how many people are really indifferent / skeptical about Microsoft and a simple marketing change or "company direction" if you will, could change their entire public outlook. Not only that, but if they sharpened up their immage a little, they could also use that as dammage control for their anti-trust lawsuit. "Excuse me your honor, but I don't see how you could make a decision that we are taking away from our customers when we sit there and protect them from other big business..."
  Then again, this is Microsoft were are talking about here. They seem to have a plan for pretty much everything, so this could very well be another way or something else to bring them to the next level of their domination control. Anyways...
Depending on how many CD-ROM games the little tyke has that are on the verge of destruction, and at the risk of sounding like an idiot, why not burn extra copies of the CD-ROMs? Burned copies are cheap, you can always just burn another one if the other one doesn't work due to scratches, etc... Also unless you have some type of massive CD-ROM rack sitting in a closet at home (which wouldn't surprise me coming from a/. reader) someone will have to swap the CD-ROMs out of the drive in the linux box. You are at work and your son wants to play a game but no one is around to swap the CD-ROM out of the linux box so he goes ahead and tries anyways. He either suceedes and drops the thing on the floor scratching it even more and leaving you with a really cool way to mount a scracthed CD-ROM over a cross platform network. The other possibility is he doesn't know to unmount the drive (unless you have autofs or something) and he tries to manually pull out the CD-ROM try from the drive, giving you more dammage. Yeah having a program create an image on the computer from a remote source or even from the computer its self is nice, but I think its too much and has too much that could go wrong with it. Okay, I'm done....
When Sirus petitioned the FCC to restrict the 2.4 GHz band. That's reason enough to drive them out of business. Then again, I am just an angry/. reader with nothing to lose
Remember a while back the FOX network did a show titled "Did We Really Land on The Moon?". BadAstronomy.com has a neat little article disproving every major arugement that was brought up in the show. Everything on the site is rather clear and uses something people like to call logic. Interesting read...
You have the right idea, just that your a bit confused. The idea is that heat will be lost when the unvierse expands and heat will be generated when the universe colapses. (The whole idea of friction and the galaxies rubbing up against each other creating a singularity hotter then the average sun... but that according to this new theory isn't the case;) Anyways... that's about as basic as it gets.
Now the next logial step from the x86 port of darwin is the port of OS X to the x86. I know this doesn't seem too special, but I am personally fed up with windows and I would love to see a stable well supported OS (Besides Linux) that looks beautiful. Apple could put a serious dent into Microsoft's market share and it would be the first OS that I would by off the shelf in years.
I tend to avoid the use of M$ software in the whole (Minus office) due to the horrible code they always put out. They tend to rush the release of a product, having to patch together updates one flaw at a time. Its the product of sloppy programing, and its like clockwork. I could set my watch to M$ because it manages to release patches to everything every 5 minutes. If the remote desktop is anything like IIS, I wouldn't trust anything to it. Another thing is that this is DIRECT control of your desktop, not some little obscure hole that will allow somebody to browse your hard drive. We're talking about your documents, all your data, everything. VNC has been around for years, gone through release after release. Remote Desktop is untested and untried. And the fact that its from Microsoft makes it even worse. I don't care what anybody says, I'm sticking with my tried and true software...
This seems oddly familiar... wait a second, something called Alpha Centuari? Hmm...
Tests give the pentiums the benifit of the doubt
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Intel Northwood CPU Review
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· Score: 2, Informative
In the articles, the tester admits to having the SSE-2 patch installed on all the machines prior to the rendering test in Photoshop. Even with the advantage to the Pentiums, the athlons still beat them out. Not to mention that in the other benchmark tests (IE: quake 3) are specially optmized for the Pentium. I give credit to the review in the fact that they are giving the honest results, but this is far from impressive coming from intel. It certainly won't want to make me buy a much more expensive Intel based system over Athlon for a few FPS in quake.
They countinue to produce the best submarines in the world.
I ask you if Russia has produced the best submarines in the world, how have they had as many accidents as they have? The Ruskies have been notorious for cutting corners in their saftey budget. Look where its gotten them, the Kursk was just recently lifted off the bottom of the ocean. Now I can't say that other navys are any better. The US has had their fare share of sub accidents too. But in today's world with the Russian Ruble sinking to new lows everyday, how can they manage to keep up such a high standard on both potence, silence, and saftey on a decreasing budget?
Basis for Future Weapons...
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Battlefield Lasers
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Just a quick question... how much interference does our atmosphere create for these lasers? Now the reason I ask is that everyone is talking about how this is the basis of the starwars project and all. But what would the difference in intensity of the beam would a laser at sea level and a laser at geosynchronous orbit? eh, food for though...
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Somehow the money will help to make up for the freedoms that we have lost due to their faulty work? I'm not sure if this is just me, but this doesn't make sense.
Money = Freedoms and secutriy
Well, now I know a fact, might as well give up on the American dream. Grapes of Wrath here I come!
While attempting to defect to Cuba? Well now that you mention it, it doesn't seem that crazy at all (compared to other things they're doing)
Honestly i think this is great news. Just the other day i was thinking about how feasible it would be to control an airplane (comerical airliner) outside of the cockpit. If someone did gain access to the flight deck and was able to take control of the plane, it would be a lot easier for a US Air Marshal to break out a PDA and take back control of the plane. This would prevent the possibility of another 9/11 from happening, and it would also prevent a US jet from shooting the plane out of the sky because they know who its being control by. I know the risk of a terrorist or even a curious fellow with his PDA, gaining control of the aircraft becuase they found a security flaw or stumbled accross something interesting is too risky for anything like this to be implimented. But in theory, it would be a nice option to have just incase something awful did happen.
Who cares about noise?
Espeically in a place like Nantucket where it is a summer family vacation destination, a lot of people. The last thing you want is to be reading a book and be disturbed by one of these turbines. Not only that but natural wild life will also be effected by this. Granted the island I'm talking about is much smaller then Nantucket. Where they were proposing, we were within 200 yards of the turbine which if it got moving, would have been pretty loud.
There were other reasons besides noise why we decied not to build the turbine on the island which included a rather large and seemingly ineffecent power storage system. With the cape cod area the winds don't blow strong all the time. Normally the winds blow durring the winter and off peak times, making them extreamly large decorations durring the summer when they are really needed. So on top of the costs of maintaining the farm, the only people around to really see a benifit from the turbines would be the few who acutaly live on isalnd.
If this were proposed with public funds, it never would have gotten past the concept stage. It's nice that someone decided to stick their neck out and try it, and props to them if it works. But overall I think (and again this is just my humble opinion) that they'll be unweildly, expensive to maintain and they'll just create the electrisity durring the wrong time of the year.
You guys forget that while this is a great resource, especially to the cape (due to the winds), these windmills are LOUD . I have a house on a small island just to the north and west of Nantucket , and we had an enginering company put together a report on the economics and practicality of a windmill on the island. The most surprising aspect of it all was that when the winds got up to 20mph (which they often do) the noise level compares to a comercial jet. Now I'm sure the noise level varies from blade structure and such, but still, that's loud. So while I think its a great way to introduce power to an island like Nantucket, work still needs to be done to make everyone happy.
A worm that isn't Microsoft's problem!?!? Next thing you know you'll hear about airliners falling out of the sky due to flying pigs...
I strongly doubt that the DoD would give the IP addresses of machines with sensitive data on the web without them knowing about it. Then again if they don't, what does that mean about them fighting a war in Iraq?!?
I remind all of you that all one needs is Airsnort running on a laptop and a little bit of time before they can see ANYTHING and everything going you are sending / recieving. 802.11b is a great idea for increasing the bandwidth to a customer but seriously before I even think about buying a phone or even an internet service that relies solely on 802.11b they are going to have to revise this standard or setup a VPN for me for no charge.
Curious as how this affects space launches in general. Common sense would dictate that if the earth is spinning slower then it must take less energy to put a payload in space. Yes, I realize that we're talking about fractions of a second and all... but to in NASA who's trying to crunch the numbers, would this leader to cheaper launches (even if it is $10...)
I must say that it certainly does sound like your typical Microsoft ideology... but then again it could be microsoft playing it cool and covering its own arse when the RIAA comes to MS and says "Your media player is contributing to the pirating of illegal music (etc.. etc..)". Then again I'm not sure exaclty how much customer loyality matters to MS, but with these new Apple adds i'm seeing on TV (Apple makes some really compelling, skewed but really compelling arguements for switching) will have to pay more attention to customer loyality / appeal to the general public. As much as we blow these minor details of something hidden in a EULA, it really doesn't mean anything to the average joe going down to a Circut City to buy a computer, although I must say it is very much like watching a chess game where all we have is a few pawns and MS seems to have quite a few queens.
  At risk of sounding like a Microsoft supporter (actually, this statement doesn't really support microsoft but on /. any statement not bashing microsoft is concidered support), I don't quite understand what Mr. Gates is doing. Here he is, in charge of a major coperation which provides software to numerous businesses and private citizens and he isn't taking the best interest of the customers he relies on but the other major coperations. In my mind it seems like if microsoft took a stance where they wanted to protect the customer from big business insted of subject a user to it, the popularity of Microsoft would jump enormously. You would be suprized how many people are really indifferent / skeptical about Microsoft and a simple marketing change or "company direction" if you will, could change their entire public outlook. Not only that, but if they sharpened up their immage a little, they could also use that as dammage control for their anti-trust lawsuit. "Excuse me your honor, but I don't see how you could make a decision that we are taking away from our customers when we sit there and protect them from other big business..."
  Then again, this is Microsoft were are talking about here. They seem to have a plan for pretty much everything, so this could very well be another way or something else to bring them to the next level of their domination control. Anyways...
Depending on how many CD-ROM games the little tyke has that are on the verge of destruction, and at the risk of sounding like an idiot, why not burn extra copies of the CD-ROMs? Burned copies are cheap, you can always just burn another one if the other one doesn't work due to scratches, etc... Also unless you have some type of massive CD-ROM rack sitting in a closet at home (which wouldn't surprise me coming from a /. reader) someone will have to swap the CD-ROMs out of the drive in the linux box. You are at work and your son wants to play a game but no one is around to swap the CD-ROM out of the linux box so he goes ahead and tries anyways. He either suceedes and drops the thing on the floor scratching it even more and leaving you with a really cool way to mount a scracthed CD-ROM over a cross platform network. The other possibility is he doesn't know to unmount the drive (unless you have autofs or something) and he tries to manually pull out the CD-ROM try from the drive, giving you more dammage. Yeah having a program create an image on the computer from a remote source or even from the computer its self is nice, but I think its too much and has too much that could go wrong with it. Okay, I'm done....
When Sirus petitioned the FCC to restrict the 2.4 GHz band. That's reason enough to drive them out of business. Then again, I am just an angry /. reader with nothing to lose
Remember a while back the FOX network did a show titled "Did We Really Land on The Moon?". BadAstronomy.com has a neat little article disproving every major arugement that was brought up in the show. Everything on the site is rather clear and uses something people like to call logic. Interesting read...
You have the right idea, just that your a bit confused. The idea is that heat will be lost when the unvierse expands and heat will be generated when the universe colapses. (The whole idea of friction and the galaxies rubbing up against each other creating a singularity hotter then the average sun... but that according to this new theory isn't the case ;) Anyways... that's about as basic as it gets.
Now the next logial step from the x86 port of darwin is the port of OS X to the x86. I know this doesn't seem too special, but I am personally fed up with windows and I would love to see a stable well supported OS (Besides Linux) that looks beautiful. Apple could put a serious dent into Microsoft's market share and it would be the first OS that I would by off the shelf in years.
I'm wondering if anyone has told his guy, he might be looking for a few extra parts ;)
Wood PCs For A Nepalse School
Just one more reason to get a debian box running! B/C any good RPM packages that Redhat makes, they're keeping for them selves!
- i386.rpm
I-was-piss-ass-drunk-and-i-could-not-see-straight
I tend to avoid the use of M$ software in the whole (Minus office) due to the horrible code they always put out. They tend to rush the release of a product, having to patch together updates one flaw at a time. Its the product of sloppy programing, and its like clockwork. I could set my watch to M$ because it manages to release patches to everything every 5 minutes. If the remote desktop is anything like IIS, I wouldn't trust anything to it. Another thing is that this is DIRECT control of your desktop, not some little obscure hole that will allow somebody to browse your hard drive. We're talking about your documents, all your data, everything. VNC has been around for years, gone through release after release. Remote Desktop is untested and untried. And the fact that its from Microsoft makes it even worse. I don't care what anybody says, I'm sticking with my tried and true software...
Sirius: Hey! 802.11*,I wanna play on the swings
802.11*: Too bad, I was here first... go find your own frequency!
Sirius: I'm telling on you!
FCC: Is there a problem here boys?
Sirius: Yeah, I want to play on the swings and 802.11* isn't letting me!
(Sirius slips a $50 bill into the FCC's pocket)
FCC: 802.11*, why don't you go over there and play with the cordless phones in the 900Mhz band, okay?
... but I'd rather see him on the ISS then on tour... think about it!
This seems oddly familiar... wait a second, something called Alpha Centuari? Hmm...
In the articles, the tester admits to having the SSE-2 patch installed on all the machines prior to the rendering test in Photoshop. Even with the advantage to the Pentiums, the athlons still beat them out. Not to mention that in the other benchmark tests (IE: quake 3) are specially optmized for the Pentium. I give credit to the review in the fact that they are giving the honest results, but this is far from impressive coming from intel. It certainly won't want to make me buy a much more expensive Intel based system over Athlon for a few FPS in quake.
-Lance
They countinue to produce the best submarines in the world.
I ask you if Russia has produced the best submarines in the world, how have they had as many accidents as they have? The Ruskies have been notorious for cutting corners in their saftey budget. Look where its gotten them, the Kursk was just recently lifted off the bottom of the ocean. Now I can't say that other navys are any better. The US has had their fare share of sub accidents too. But in today's world with the Russian Ruble sinking to new lows everyday, how can they manage to keep up such a high standard on both potence, silence, and saftey on a decreasing budget?
Just a quick question... how much interference does our atmosphere create for these lasers? Now the reason I ask is that everyone is talking about how this is the basis of the starwars project and all. But what would the difference in intensity of the beam would a laser at sea level and a laser at geosynchronous orbit? eh, food for though...