Then, you could keep the noisy disks in a utility room where they belong and the desktop would be a handful of small quiet cubes
There are some products out there which let you extend DVI using fiber optics (100 yards) or electronic repeaters (50 yards). Take a look at www.gefen.com. You could put your PC off in the closet and have just a perfectly silent monitor+keyboard in your office.
The fiber equipment is ridiculously expensive - about $3K, but the electrical repeaters are probably a bit more affordable.
You can't do this with VGA due to the distortion and ghosting, but it works flawlessly with DVI. Also the spec on DVI is an interesting read - it was actually designed with optical transmission in mind. The data rates are insane, so it's split across four channels (clock + 3 colors, IIRC) - the total data rate for a 1600x1024 display is something like 4Gbps.
Remove one screw and it slides out of the side, easily replaced or swapped.
...or DROPPED!
I've seen a Dell hard disk destroyed in exactly this way. Granted, the owner should have noticed the screw missing, but still, I'd say Dell is mostly to blame for having the hard disk held in by a single, tiny screw.
I'll take a Powerbook any day:
- Batteries and CDROM are securely held in their compartments by a spring-loaded latch. It's almost impossible to accidentally unlatch them, and if you do, who cares, it's just the battery.
- The hard disk, memory, and 802.11 card are stowed safely underneath the keyboard. It takes about two seconds to flip down the keyboard, 20 seconds to install an Airport card, five minutes to install memory, and five minutes to swap the HD.
- *much* sleeker/thinner styling than the Dells, whether Titanium or Bronze.
Vaios are my favorite PC laptop, but that's not saying much. I can't stand the keyboards on the Vaios. Why does nearly every PC latop maker think they're doing us a favor by putting the arrow keys where the shift key ought to be?
On some systems, rm has an option to nuke the contents of the file before unlinking it:
man rm
<snip> -P Overwrite regular files before deleting them. Files are overwritten
three times, first with the byte pattern 0xff, then 0x00, and then 0xff
again, before they are deleted.
</snip>
You can just put "alias rm rm -P" in your login script to make this the default.
The Ipic is almost certainly a hoax. This guy should *not* be taken seriously until he either:
- Posts some technical details as to how he managed to pull it off.
- Publishes his source
- Sells a product based on this
- Sets up a convincing demo
Having spent the better part of a year writing a TCP/IP stack for the PIC, I can tell you with certainly that the features and RFC compliance he claims are simply impossible to fit into the 12XXXX parts. The ROM space certainly isn't there, even if everything is tightly hand-coded in assembler. the more obvious limitation however, is RAM. He claims to be running full TCP on a part that doesn't even have the space to hold a minimum-size packet in RAM for checksumming. I could get into a zillion other impossibilities of this project, but it's easier to just show you this page, a commercial PIC TCP/IP stack), which shows exactly how much RAM/ROM it takes to fit a tight TCP/IP implementation into the PIC. There's just no way you could fit this much into the 12-bit PICs.
I'm just amazed by the number of posts along the lines of:
* What, only one PCI slot? Stingy bastards.
* No on-board 3D video, wtf?
* All the peripherals are integrated - what if I want a 3com NIC instead of Realtek?
* How am I supposed to fit my three CDROM drives into this?
Guys - this is EXACTLY THE FRIGGIN POINT. Believe it or not, there are other people in the world besides you, and many of us have been waiting for exactly this kind of integration in commodity PCs for quite some time. Not everybody wants to spend weeks building the Ultimate Gaming Machine - some of us have real work to do and we just want a reasonably fast machine without all the hassle. Small is great when you need several machines in a rack, or you want to stash the machine neatly behind your monitor. This machine is perfect for me - I have several Linux and Windows workstations, plus a couple of FreeBSD servers, all with empty slots and drive bays, so this would be a much better replacement for all those bullky mid-towers.
If you want five PCI slots, a $400 video card, surround sound, 1TB of hard disk space, etc, then this product is not for you. It's not designed for you, it's not being marketed to you, so why are you complaining that it doesn't fit the bill?
I'm surprised it's taken this long. Large cases date back to the days when you'd need a separate card for your serial/parallel, IDE, VGA, etc, and a bunch of drive bays for a pair of 5.25" drives, a newfangled 3.5" drive, and so on. There are still plenty of uses for that space, sure, but not so much in "mainstream" PCs any more.
During my destructive years as a geeky youngster, I discovered that nearly all computer chips are capable of violent explosion. All you need is a screwdriver.
Take your computer's AC cord. Cut off the end that plugs into the computer.
Strip the wires.
Wrap one wire around the computer's chassis somewhere.
Wrap the other wire around a long screwdriver.
Plug it in, and then run the screwdriver up and down all the chips. Stick it in the slots, press it into the power connectors, jam it into the serial port. It's loads of fun - the chips actually explode! Don't wear safety glasses.
I always understood that nuking an asteroid was a little pointless. I mean, instead of one big chunk of rock coming towards you really fast, you instead have several.
Find a tile floor. Drop 500 marbles, all at once. Now try dropping a bowling ball.
You know, I really can't deal with Macs. It's mostly the software. I've always admired the hardware design.
So go buy one, and put YellowDog or LinuxPPC on it.
I'm typing this on a G4+CinemaDisplay, running Linux. If you haven't seen X11 running on a digital TFT at 1600x1024, you're missing out. This is wicked cool hardware, and the MacOS, for those who prefer it, is just the icing on the cake.
To put things in perspective, a well-patched Win2k system run by a knowledgable user (who still incorrigably wants to play lots of Windoze games) will have uptimes of months.
Can't you see how ridiculous that statement is? A "well-patched system" is reliable?!?!
What if brand new Levis were sold with hundreds of gaping holes, and you had painstakingly apply a dozen patches before you could wear them without your nuts hanging out. I suppose you'd still buy them. Personally, I'd go naked before I'd put up with that bullshit. Fortunately I don't have to, because there are alternatives that don't suck!
> Is there really anyplace the provides good customer service anymore?
If you're rich, yes.
There's nothing especially cold-hearted about the practice. Manufacturers are giving the consumer exactly what they demand - the lowest possible price. Handling and refurbishing a product, in many cases, costs more that the wholesale price of the product itself, so you can bet it's in the best interests of the manufacturer to make the highest quality product they can, in spite of the cost constraints. Software is an exception - most consumers have incredibly low standards for even the most expensive software. For those of us who demand quality software, the stringent return policies give us no choice but to try a pirated copy before we buy, or switch to OSS.
So people usually don't get pissed off when they have to return something, if they can do so without too much hassle. However, selling a product that has been previously returned and not properly refurbished (Fry's) is deplorable.
Re:Lest we dismiss this too lightly...
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I stand corrected. It's just mindboggling that they still let you use gets() - it's unsafe for practically anything! At least the man pages I've seen tell you not to use it, though there are probably exceptions there, too.:)
You should at least have to give a flag like -DYES_I_KNOW_IM_A_RETARD_FOR_USING_GETS
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UNIX application programmers are _still_ using the occasional gets(3) call in setuid root programs, more than a decade later,
I doubt it - name one! Try compiling this on your machine:
#include <stdio.h>
int main (int argv, char *argc[]) {
char str[100];
gets(str);
}
I don't think there's ANY recent libc that will not print a harsh warning, and some will even refuse to compile it. I know this because I recently had to go through an ancient program for creating phylogenetic trees, and change dozens of gets to fgets to get it to run on FreeBSD.
Um, that leaves #10, which is the extremely vague catch-all about "unenumerated rights", from which the Supreme Court occasionally and inconsistently pulls a "right to privacy". How can I accuse anyone of attempting to break that one?
Well, I think you got 9 and 10 backwards, but neither one of them is vague.
#9 The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
This means that rights not listed in the constituion (eg the right to eat the cream part of your Oreo first) are not prohibited by the constitution.
#10 The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
just says that if it's not covered here, it's up to you (the people or the states).
Also, #8 is a *very* important one - it prohibits excessive bail and cruel/unusual punishment.
It's in the faq. Which you should have read already.
Like I said, I have read the faq.
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Regular Slashdot reader - I usually visit 10 to 15 times a week.
Long time readers - I think I've been actively using my account for six months or so.
Willing to serve - check
Positive contributors - almost at the karma cap.
And you probably shouldn't be posting comments like this with your +1 bonus.
Sorry - this seemed like the right forum.
Anyway, my point is that I'd like to moderate, and I don't understand why I can't. It seems like the FAQ is intentionally vague about the thesholds, so I have to wonder if there's something wrong with my account or my settings, or if there's something else I need to do to start getting mod points.
I have a question that I couldn't find in the FAQ - I hope this is an okay place to ask:
When/how do you get moderator points? I've been on slashdot for months, my karma is currently 48, but I've never been able to moderate. The "willing to moderate" button is checked in my preferences.
Can someone please enlighten me as to how this works? I feel kinda dumb for asking this - if someone can point me to the docs I missed, I'd appreciate it.
Here's the deal with AOL... since everything runs through centralized servers, they've been able to apply filters to catch erroneous message packets.
I think that only true of their ancient, private dialup network (which is still what most people use). However, a lot of AOL customers are now using their own cable/dsl ISP, so their AIM client would be running on a public, non-filtered IP.
Their "fix" is roughly equivalent to using duct tape as a contraceptive. Its just not right.
I dunno - that sounds pretty damn effective to me. Much stronger than latex, and it certainly won't slide off.
They havn't changed the fact that there is a buffer overflow in the IM client.
Obviously, you *can't* change the fact that a particular version has a bug, but you can release a new one. The problem is that it takes a long time to get everybody to update, so this is actually a pretty good fix, notwithstanding the issue of people using the software without the benefit of this filter.
According to this it's running System 7.01 and MacTCP 2.01.
I'm surprised software this recent even runs on Lisa. My Mac history is a little rusty, but IIRC, System 7 came out around the same time as the first 68030 Macs were introduced. How's that for backward compatibility?
There's an interesting paragraph near the bottom of that eassy, under "1997?". Freifeld tries to make a level-headed assesment of the stock market in 1997, putting it in the perspective of a half dozen bubbles he's just analyzed. His assessment:
there are some telltale signs that the market for stocks has gone a bit too far
But he admits:
The bubble is as difficult to recognize before it's over as it is easy to spot in hindsight.
We all knew it was getting too hot, but we didn't know how far it would go. Anyone who pulled out out of tech in 1997 could have easily quadrupled his money, had he sold in March Y2K instead.
So why don't you/. kiddies quit bitching about how much domains were selling for, or how stupid the dotcom bubble was. If your foresight had been half as good as your hindsight, you'd all be billionaires right now from the companies you shorted in '99.
The point is that you just know devices like this sliMP3 could be sold profitably for less than $50 if the volume was high enough.
Any gadget can be sold for under $50 with enough volume - do you want your SliMP3 now, or five years from now?
Anyway, if you can tell me where to buy just the displays for less than $50, I am all ears!
It's simple. SliMP3 is the same price as it's competitors, but you get a better display, better remote, better software, and a smaller device.
Diabetes, now reaching epidemic proportions in adults and children, is nearly always caused by a poor diet. Obesity is caused by poor diet and lack of exercise. As a former sufferer of eczema, I proved for myself that a lifestyle change could cure it. By converse, my lifestyle caused it.
Tall people have tall childen, Chinese people have Chinese children, and fat people (often) have fat children. It's pretty simple. Yes, obesity may be the *direct* result of over-eating, but this behaviour is driven to a large extent by the innate characteristics of our bodies and the personalities we inherit from our parents. There are *many* factors which cause people to become obese - most can be controlled, but they're most certainly *all* influenced by a person's genes. BTW I'm not fat nor am I defending lazy fat people. I'm just trying to tell you it's all about genetics.
You are (almost) completely mistaken about diabetes. There are two very distinct kinds of diabetes. Type 1, insulin dependent diabetes is when the pancreas shuts off completely, and often begins during childhood, in otherwise perfectly healthy children. My sister is Type 1 diabetic, she eats well, and she runs marathons. She tests her blood sugar four times a day, and has to take insulin injections two or three times daily. Type 1 diabetes is *NOT* a fat people's disease. Interestingly, the cause of childhood diabetes is not understood. While in some cases it can be hereditary, more ofen it just happens for no apparent reason. Because of this, it is seldom diagnosed correctly the first time, in children.
You're correct about type II diabetes, it is usually caused by obesity. Generally, type II diabetes does *not* mean you are completely insulin dependent, as with childhood diabetes. You take insulin as needed and you have to watch your sugar intake, but it is not as severe as the total failure of the pancreas, as with childhood diabetes.
IANAD (I am not a dermatologist), but my understanding from talking to a friend who has severe eczema is that it is a type of skin allergy which is usually inherited, and is common in people with other kinds of allergies. I am surprised to hear that you were able to control it though a change of lifestyle, unless by that you mean just staying away from things you're allergic to. Again, I don't know much about eczema, but I've seen a severe case of it, and so I'm curious as to what you did to cure it or cause it.
SRAM costs more because it uses a multi-transistor architecture where DRAM requires only one transistor and a capacitor (you can build a capacitor on silicon with much less real-estate/layers).
Thank you, I know what SRAM is.
As to you thinking that DRAMs are unprofitable and SRAMs are profitable... that is bogus as well.
Did I say that? In case you haven't noticed, the whole semiconductor industry has slowed down. It's easy to see what's going on with DRAM, because it's sold direct to consumers. However, as CaptainAlbert said, the prices of other ther semis are much less hysterical. When you're buying this stuff in small (less than 10K pcs) quantities, you don't have much leverage in getting good pricing as the market moves.
Of course, 128kb srams prices probably haven't budged because nobody makes such small devices anymore.
Where are you getting your information??? Also do you mean kb or kB?
Have you counted the number of devices in your home that have 4 or 8-bit cpus? I'll bet for every PC in your home, you have twenty or thirty smaller CPUs, embedded into everything from your mouse to your walkman to your coffee maker.
Another thing you might be interested in knowing about SRAM is that it has other advantages besides speed. The interface is *much* simpler, and a block of SRAM can be easily integrated into any microcontoller or ASIC, because it's all CMOS. So when you're talking about *mega* bytes, you only use SRAM if you need the speed (and deterministic, immediate access - there's no refresh). If you need 128KB or less, you're probably not going to use DRAM because it would have to be on a separate chip, and you'd also need a controller (another 1K gates) to attach it to your CPU.
I have a friend who tells the same jokes all the time. Lots of them are shaggy dog stories, but most are funny. Anyway those who know him often get a laugh just by telling the punchline, since we all know the jokes already. Favorites:
- It's the cobblestones.
- HOLD THE HOT DOG!!!
- wanna see it again?
- fermunda my balls!
- No, it's ice cream, I swear!
we have next to no DRAM on our boards - it's all SRAM and fast DPRAM
I'm very curious - do you have any idea what you're paying for SRAM? My company is paying $3.00 a pop for 128KB standard 60ns SRAMs, and it seems incredibly high in light of the plummeting DRAM prices. In fact SRAM prices don't seem to have budged in the last year.
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Then, you could keep the noisy disks in a utility room where they belong and the desktop would be a handful of small quiet cubes
There are some products out there which let you extend DVI using fiber optics (100 yards) or electronic repeaters (50 yards). Take a look at www.gefen.com. You could put your PC off in the closet and have just a perfectly silent monitor+keyboard in your office.
The fiber equipment is ridiculously expensive - about $3K, but the electrical repeaters are probably a bit more affordable.
You can't do this with VGA due to the distortion and ghosting, but it works flawlessly with DVI. Also the spec on DVI is an interesting read - it was actually designed with optical transmission in mind. The data rates are insane, so it's split across four channels (clock + 3 colors, IIRC) - the total data rate for a 1600x1024 display is something like 4Gbps.
Remove one screw and it slides out of the side, easily replaced or swapped.
...or DROPPED!
I've seen a Dell hard disk destroyed in exactly this way. Granted, the owner should have noticed the screw missing, but still, I'd say Dell is mostly to blame for having the hard disk held in by a single, tiny screw.
I'll take a Powerbook any day:
- Batteries and CDROM are securely held in their compartments by a spring-loaded latch. It's almost impossible to accidentally unlatch them, and if you do, who cares, it's just the battery.
- The hard disk, memory, and 802.11 card are stowed safely underneath the keyboard. It takes about two seconds to flip down the keyboard, 20 seconds to install an Airport card, five minutes to install memory, and five minutes to swap the HD.
- *much* sleeker/thinner styling than the Dells, whether Titanium or Bronze.
Vaios are my favorite PC laptop, but that's not saying much. I can't stand the keyboards on the Vaios. Why does nearly every PC latop maker think they're doing us a favor by putting the arrow keys where the shift key ought to be?
On some systems, rm has an option to nuke the contents of the file before unlinking it:
man rm
<snip>
-P Overwrite regular files before deleting them. Files are overwritten
three times, first with the byte pattern 0xff, then 0x00, and then 0xff
again, before they are deleted.
</snip>
You can just put "alias rm rm -P" in your login script to make this the default.
The Ipic is almost certainly a hoax. This guy should *not* be taken seriously until he either:
- Posts some technical details as to how he managed to pull it off.
- Publishes his source
- Sells a product based on this
- Sets up a convincing demo
Having spent the better part of a year writing a TCP/IP stack for the PIC, I can tell you with certainly that the features and RFC compliance he claims are simply impossible to fit into the 12XXXX parts. The ROM space certainly isn't there, even if everything is tightly hand-coded in assembler. the more obvious limitation however, is RAM. He claims to be running full TCP on a part that doesn't even have the space to hold a minimum-size packet in RAM for checksumming. I could get into a zillion other impossibilities of this project, but it's easier to just show you this page, a commercial PIC TCP/IP stack), which shows exactly how much RAM/ROM it takes to fit a tight TCP/IP implementation into the PIC. There's just no way you could fit this much into the 12-bit PICs.
I'm just amazed by the number of posts along the lines of:
* What, only one PCI slot? Stingy bastards.
* No on-board 3D video, wtf?
* All the peripherals are integrated - what if I want a 3com NIC instead of Realtek?
* How am I supposed to fit my three CDROM drives into this?
Guys - this is EXACTLY THE FRIGGIN POINT. Believe it or not, there are other people in the world besides you, and many of us have been waiting for exactly this kind of integration in commodity PCs for quite some time. Not everybody wants to spend weeks building the Ultimate Gaming Machine - some of us have real work to do and we just want a reasonably fast machine without all the hassle. Small is great when you need several machines in a rack, or you want to stash the machine neatly behind your monitor. This machine is perfect for me - I have several Linux and Windows workstations, plus a couple of FreeBSD servers, all with empty slots and drive bays, so this would be a much better replacement for all those bullky mid-towers.
If you want five PCI slots, a $400 video card, surround sound, 1TB of hard disk space, etc, then this product is not for you. It's not designed for you, it's not being marketed to you, so why are you complaining that it doesn't fit the bill?
I'm surprised it's taken this long. Large cases date back to the days when you'd need a separate card for your serial/parallel, IDE, VGA, etc, and a bunch of drive bays for a pair of 5.25" drives, a newfangled 3.5" drive, and so on. There are still plenty of uses for that space, sure, but not so much in "mainstream" PCs any more.
During my destructive years as a geeky youngster, I discovered that nearly all computer chips are capable of violent explosion. All you need is a screwdriver.
Take your computer's AC cord. Cut off the end that plugs into the computer.
Strip the wires.
Wrap one wire around the computer's chassis somewhere.
Wrap the other wire around a long screwdriver.
Plug it in, and then run the screwdriver up and down all the chips. Stick it in the slots, press it into the power connectors, jam it into the serial port. It's loads of fun - the chips actually explode! Don't wear safety glasses.
Don't just toss that old 286... blow it up first!
I always understood that nuking an asteroid was a little pointless. I mean, instead of one big chunk of rock coming towards you really fast, you instead have several.
:)
Find a tile floor. Drop 500 marbles, all at once. Now try dropping a bowling ball.
Obviously, you're not a golfer.
Right - and don't you think "power button" is a better name?
I always cringe when I have to click "Start" to "Shut down".
You know, I really can't deal with Macs. It's mostly the software. I've always admired the hardware design.
So go buy one, and put YellowDog or LinuxPPC on it.
I'm typing this on a G4+CinemaDisplay, running Linux. If you haven't seen X11 running on a digital TFT at 1600x1024, you're missing out. This is wicked cool hardware, and the MacOS, for those who prefer it, is just the icing on the cake.
To put things in perspective, a well-patched Win2k system run by a knowledgable user (who still incorrigably wants to play lots of Windoze games) will have uptimes of months.
Can't you see how ridiculous that statement is? A "well-patched system" is reliable?!?!
What if brand new Levis were sold with hundreds of gaping holes, and you had painstakingly apply a dozen patches before you could wear them without your nuts hanging out. I suppose you'd still buy them. Personally, I'd go naked before I'd put up with that bullshit. Fortunately I don't have to, because there are alternatives that don't suck!
> Is there really anyplace the provides good customer service anymore?
If you're rich, yes.
There's nothing especially cold-hearted about the practice. Manufacturers are giving the consumer exactly what they demand - the lowest possible price. Handling and refurbishing a product, in many cases, costs more that the wholesale price of the product itself, so you can bet it's in the best interests of the manufacturer to make the highest quality product they can, in spite of the cost constraints. Software is an exception - most consumers have incredibly low standards for even the most expensive software. For those of us who demand quality software, the stringent return policies give us no choice but to try a pirated copy before we buy, or switch to OSS.
So people usually don't get pissed off when they have to return something, if they can do so without too much hassle. However, selling a product that has been previously returned and not properly refurbished (Fry's) is deplorable.
I stand corrected. It's just mindboggling that they still let you use gets() - it's unsafe for practically anything! At least the man pages I've seen tell you not to use it, though there are probably exceptions there, too. :)
You should at least have to give a flag like -DYES_I_KNOW_IM_A_RETARD_FOR_USING_GETS
UNIX application programmers are _still_ using the occasional gets(3) call in setuid root programs, more than a decade later,
I doubt it - name one! Try compiling this on your machine:
#include <stdio.h>
int main (int argv, char *argc[]) {
char str[100];
gets(str);
}
I don't think there's ANY recent libc that will not print a harsh warning, and some will even refuse to compile it. I know this because I recently had to go through an ancient program for creating phylogenetic trees, and change dozens of gets to fgets to get it to run on FreeBSD.
Um, that leaves #10, which is the extremely vague catch-all about "unenumerated rights", from which the Supreme Court occasionally and inconsistently pulls a "right to privacy". How can I accuse anyone of attempting to break that one?
Well, I think you got 9 and 10 backwards, but neither one of them is vague.
#9 The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
This means that rights not listed in the constituion (eg the right to eat the cream part of your Oreo first) are not prohibited by the constitution.
#10 The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
just says that if it's not covered here, it's up to you (the people or the states).
Also, #8 is a *very* important one - it prohibits excessive bail and cruel/unusual punishment.
It's in the faq. Which you should have read already.
Like I said, I have read the faq.
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Long time readers - I think I've been actively using my account for six months or so.
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Positive contributors - almost at the karma cap.
And you probably shouldn't be posting comments like this with your +1 bonus.
Sorry - this seemed like the right forum.
Anyway, my point is that I'd like to moderate, and I don't understand why I can't. It seems like the FAQ is intentionally vague about the thesholds, so I have to wonder if there's something wrong with my account or my settings, or if there's something else I need to do to start getting mod points.
I have a question that I couldn't find in the FAQ - I hope this is an okay place to ask:
When/how do you get moderator points? I've been on slashdot for months, my karma is currently 48, but I've never been able to moderate. The "willing to moderate" button is checked in my preferences.
Can someone please enlighten me as to how this works? I feel kinda dumb for asking this - if someone can point me to the docs I missed, I'd appreciate it.
Here's the deal with AOL... since everything runs through centralized servers, they've been able to apply filters to catch erroneous message packets.
I think that only true of their ancient, private dialup network (which is still what most people use). However, a lot of AOL customers are now using their own cable/dsl ISP, so their AIM client would be running on a public, non-filtered IP.
Their "fix" is roughly equivalent to using duct tape as a contraceptive. Its just not right.
I dunno - that sounds pretty damn effective to me. Much stronger than latex, and it certainly won't slide off.
They havn't changed the fact that there is a buffer overflow in the IM client.
Obviously, you *can't* change the fact that a particular version has a bug, but you can release a new one. The problem is that it takes a long time to get everybody to update, so this is actually a pretty good fix, notwithstanding the issue of people using the software without the benefit of this filter.
According to this it's running System 7.01 and MacTCP 2.01.
I'm surprised software this recent even runs on Lisa. My Mac history is a little rusty, but IIRC, System 7 came out around the same time as the first 68030 Macs were introduced. How's that for backward compatibility?
or a zillion other speculative bubbles [clarity.net].
/. kiddies quit bitching about how much domains were selling for, or how stupid the dotcom bubble was. If your foresight had been half as good as your hindsight, you'd all be billionaires right now from the companies you shorted in '99.
There's an interesting paragraph near the bottom of that eassy, under "1997?". Freifeld tries to make a level-headed assesment of the stock market in 1997, putting it in the perspective of a half dozen bubbles he's just analyzed. His assessment:
there are some telltale signs that the market for stocks has gone a bit too far
But he admits:
The bubble is as difficult to recognize before it's over as it is easy to spot in hindsight.
We all knew it was getting too hot, but we didn't know how far it would go. Anyone who pulled out out of tech in 1997 could have easily quadrupled his money, had he sold in March Y2K instead.
So why don't you
Thanks. It's not that I can't spell. Sometimes, I just try to put it in words faster thjan I csn ty[e.
I'll give the site a good proofreading.
The point is that you just know devices like this sliMP3 could be sold profitably for less than $50 if the volume was high enough.
Any gadget can be sold for under $50 with enough volume - do you want your SliMP3 now, or five years from now?
Anyway, if you can tell me where to buy just the displays for less than $50, I am all ears!
It's simple. SliMP3 is the same price as it's competitors, but you get a better display, better remote, better software, and a smaller device.
Diabetes, now reaching epidemic proportions in adults and children, is nearly always caused by a poor diet. Obesity is caused by poor diet and lack of exercise. As a former sufferer of eczema, I proved for myself that a lifestyle change could cure it. By converse, my lifestyle caused it.
Tall people have tall childen, Chinese people have Chinese children, and fat people (often) have fat children. It's pretty simple. Yes, obesity may be the *direct* result of over-eating, but this behaviour is driven to a large extent by the innate characteristics of our bodies and the personalities we inherit from our parents. There are *many* factors which cause people to become obese - most can be controlled, but they're most certainly *all* influenced by a person's genes. BTW I'm not fat nor am I defending lazy fat people. I'm just trying to tell you it's all about genetics.
You are (almost) completely mistaken about diabetes. There are two very distinct kinds of diabetes. Type 1, insulin dependent diabetes is when the pancreas shuts off completely, and often begins during childhood, in otherwise perfectly healthy children. My sister is Type 1 diabetic, she eats well, and she runs marathons. She tests her blood sugar four times a day, and has to take insulin injections two or three times daily. Type 1 diabetes is *NOT* a fat people's disease. Interestingly, the cause of childhood diabetes is not understood. While in some cases it can be hereditary, more ofen it just happens for no apparent reason. Because of this, it is seldom diagnosed correctly the first time, in children.
You're correct about type II diabetes, it is usually caused by obesity. Generally, type II diabetes does *not* mean you are completely insulin dependent, as with childhood diabetes. You take insulin as needed and you have to watch your sugar intake, but it is not as severe as the total failure of the pancreas, as with childhood diabetes.
IANAD (I am not a dermatologist), but my understanding from talking to a friend who has severe eczema is that it is a type of skin allergy which is usually inherited, and is common in people with other kinds of allergies. I am surprised to hear that you were able to control it though a change of lifestyle, unless by that you mean just staying away from things you're allergic to. Again, I don't know much about eczema, but I've seen a severe case of it, and so I'm curious as to what you did to cure it or cause it.
SRAM costs more because it uses a multi-transistor architecture where DRAM requires only one transistor and a capacitor (you can build a capacitor on silicon with much less real-estate/layers).
Thank you, I know what SRAM is.
As to you thinking that DRAMs are unprofitable and SRAMs are profitable... that is bogus as well.
Did I say that? In case you haven't noticed, the whole semiconductor industry has slowed down. It's easy to see what's going on with DRAM, because it's sold direct to consumers. However, as CaptainAlbert said, the prices of other ther semis are much less hysterical. When you're buying this stuff in small (less than 10K pcs) quantities, you don't have much leverage in getting good pricing as the market moves.
Of course, 128kb srams prices probably haven't budged because nobody makes such small devices anymore.
Where are you getting your information??? Also do you mean kb or kB?
Have you counted the number of devices in your home that have 4 or 8-bit cpus? I'll bet for every PC in your home, you have twenty or thirty smaller CPUs, embedded into everything from your mouse to your walkman to your coffee maker.
Another thing you might be interested in knowing about SRAM is that it has other advantages besides speed. The interface is *much* simpler, and a block of SRAM can be easily integrated into any microcontoller or ASIC, because it's all CMOS. So when you're talking about *mega* bytes, you only use SRAM if you need the speed (and deterministic, immediate access - there's no refresh). If you need 128KB or less, you're probably not going to use DRAM because it would have to be on a separate chip, and you'd also need a controller (another 1K gates) to attach it to your CPU.
I have a friend who tells the same jokes all the time. Lots of them are shaggy dog stories, but most are funny. Anyway those who know him often get a laugh just by telling the punchline, since we all know the jokes already. Favorites:
- It's the cobblestones.
- HOLD THE HOT DOG!!!
- wanna see it again?
- fermunda my balls!
- No, it's ice cream, I swear!
we have next to no DRAM on our boards - it's all SRAM and fast DPRAM
I'm very curious - do you have any idea what you're paying for SRAM? My company is paying $3.00 a pop for 128KB standard 60ns SRAMs, and it seems incredibly high in light of the plummeting DRAM prices. In fact SRAM prices don't seem to have budged in the last year.