I thought drives were already hotswappable? Here's what i'v done: In Linux, unmount the fs, spin down the drive, yank it out. Then you can just put it back in(you get an "IDE reset succsesful" message) then mount the fs. In NT i'v just yanked the main drive out, the system locks up, put the drive back in, wait......the system works again. So i see no reasom why the old ATA HW whould'nt support hotswapping. Now if being able to replace a drive while the computer is running does'nt count. What does? I admit i have'nt tried replacing a drive that actually broke, but i see no reason why that whould'nt work(if you succseeded with unmounting the fs that is) While typeing this i also got some fancy ideas about a kernel that could probe for new drives at any time -> no reboot for that hd upgrade.
MS currently sells the Xbox at a loss and makes up the loss on games. If it bacame possible to run games that don't benefit MS on the Xbox. They could no longer sell it at a loss. If they get out of the business it's a duh-win for S/N. If they increase the price, so that then no longer lose money on sold units. S/N can increase prises and make more direct money(or lose less, if that's your pick of formulation) or they can sell more units and make more money of game licence fees. So it makes sense.
classified as gambling, see it? A computer made that mistake!(wager is the guys name, no _human_ whould miss that!)
>Now that your mind is hopefully on -- how well do you think an automated system (an AI) is going to classify millions of websites into 30 categories? That's 30^2 combinations.
How well? Really badly of cource. And just because there are (ahumn...) _2^30_ combinations, does'nt mean you have to search 2^30 space to find the answer. If we say that searching a page for a list of keywords is one operation. Then it is only 30 operations(having one list per category). Not 2^30 operations.
>Turns out I actually know a couple of the humans that do this categorizing, so I'm pretty sure I didn't just dream it up.
Maby you could have a friend post and admit they made the error the article gave as an example?:)
"This document last updated on Thursday September 07 2000." Yes the article IS old. But that is no reason to go make math errors all over the place.
(probably redundant by now but..) Everytime slashodot link to a "registration required" site. They first register an account with uname: slashdot pw: slashdot. If the pw has rules bout minimal lenght the string "slashdot" is repeated like: slashdotslashdot.... If there are rules about numbers being nessesery a one is added as first char: 1slashdot. Maby a link with the name , pw fields already filled out could be provided.
Stick the phone antenna in a tube of pringels and scan around. When you have the most bars, you'r pointing at a tower. That's what it seems like anyway, i could be wrong.
So a/.'er should always be armed with a phone with an external antenna. And some potato chips.
>...ould be able to take her safety into her own hands by carrying a gun she spent the time receiving traini...
Ok. go ahead and jam radio during the events, to stop terrorists. But also allow everyone there to carry a gun. That way the whouldbe terrorists and violent demonstrators could do no dammage whatsoever.:)
Aim for the big areas and this is what you get. They let people use it and send people subliminal messages by just hinting what's "right" by varying the size of the areas!
Can you imagine the Govt. RIAA, MPAA, advertizing through this.
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I thought drives were already hotswappable? Here's what i'v done: In Linux, unmount the fs, spin down the drive, yank it out. Then you can just put it back in(you get an "IDE reset succsesful" message) then mount the fs. In NT i'v just yanked the main drive out, the system locks up, put the drive back in, wait... ...the system works again. So i see no reasom why the old ATA HW whould'nt support hotswapping. Now if being able to replace a drive while the computer is running does'nt count. What does? I admit i have'nt tried replacing a drive that actually broke, but i see no reason why that whould'nt work(if you succseeded with unmounting the fs that is) While typeing this i also got some fancy ideas about a kernel that could probe for new drives at any time -> no reboot for that hd upgrade.
and perform an Xboxersism then.
MS currently sells the Xbox at a loss and makes up the loss on games. If it bacame possible to run games that don't benefit MS on the Xbox. They could no longer sell it at a loss. If they get out of the business it's a duh-win for S/N. If they increase the price, so that then no longer lose money on sold units. S/N can increase prises and make more direct money(or lose less, if that's your pick of formulation) or they can sell more units and make more money of game licence fees. So it makes sense.
It's no infringement if M$ contracts you to do it! :)
So i hope they did it. They whould loose money and get a HA HA!
(IANAL!!)
It will all be in non transferrable Win XP licences anyway...(want office for them, you gotto pay)
The article: http://censorware.net/reports/utah/
:)
http://mailer.fsu.edu/~wwager/index_public.html
classified as gambling, see it? A computer made that mistake!(wager is the guys name, no _human_ whould miss that!)
>Now that your mind is hopefully on -- how well do you think an automated system (an AI) is going to classify millions of websites into 30 categories? That's 30^2 combinations.
How well? Really badly of cource. And just because there are (ahumn...) _2^30_ combinations, does'nt mean you have to search 2^30 space to find the answer. If we say that searching a page for a list of keywords is one operation. Then it is only 30 operations(having one list per category). Not 2^30 operations.
>Turns out I actually know a couple of the humans that do this categorizing, so I'm pretty sure I didn't just dream it up.
Maby you could have a friend post and admit they made the error the article gave as an example?
"This document last updated on Thursday September 07 2000."
Yes the article IS old. But that is no reason to go make math errors all over the place.
>Porn surfing at work went from about 1% of traffic to about 1,000 hits a week
:)
You whould'nt care to tell us either how many hits 1% is or how many % 1000 hits is
>is that the links are reviewed and categorized by humans
Read the article. Nuf said.
Yeah shackle people autside the church, and have people spit at them when thay pass.
I thought it was "Hate speech"?
It seems it could all be done in software.
(probably redundant by now but..)
Everytime slashodot link to a "registration required" site. They first register an account with uname: slashdot pw: slashdot. If the pw has rules bout minimal lenght the string "slashdot" is repeated like: slashdotslashdot.... If there are rules about numbers being nessesery a one is added as first char: 1slashdot. Maby a link with the name , pw fields already filled out could be provided.
Stick the phone antenna in a tube of pringels and scan around. When you have the most bars, you'r pointing at a tower. That's what it seems like anyway, i could be wrong.
/.'er should always be armed with a phone with an external antenna. And some potato chips.
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>...ing to add hardware requirements yea...useless for running Windows...The huge surplus of said cheap used...ally why Linux has succeed...
:(
Yeah till KDE came along and changed all that
>That's right, Bill has finagled China into accepting green paper with his face on it!
Don't the chinease think he's the president anyway?
>Wonder how long before the US constitution winds up the same way. Assuming that has not already happened...
When they added "under god" to the pledge, it provenly already had.
>...ould be able to take her safety into her own hands by carrying a gun she spent the time receiving traini...
:)
Ok. go ahead and jam radio during the events, to stop terrorists. But also allow everyone there to carry a gun. That way the whouldbe terrorists and violent demonstrators could do no dammage whatsoever.
"to the state of the state of the state o"
Aim for the big areas and this is what you get.
They let people use it and send people subliminal messages by just hinting what's "right" by varying the size of the areas!
Can you imagine the Govt. RIAA, MPAA, advertizing through this.
just down loaded it and typed this post with it
just tok a minute.
>"if they take arms in enforcing copyrights, they may find those same arms used against them."
Let's hire the biggest bully who is good at the "quit hitting yourself"-game!
>1,000 watts of thermal energy
:)
Shows how smart they are, Watts are a unit or effect not energy. DUH!
You have to be DEAD before it does anything for you. :)
And when you'r DEAD you'r not capable of giving a shit anymore.
Hey, as far as slashdotters are concerned that thing IS God.
>Well, it would be kinda ironic if it got knocked out by an earthquake. Especially if it didn't predict it.
It whould be even funnier if it did predict it. And committed suicide.
Or maby patents? And then you shake the patent office down for using your patents. Fair's fair.