They are getting cheaper everyday almost... and if it's just "thinner" than normal CRTs it could well be just a cenntimeter thinner...
I don't think this will "save" CRTs in the long run
Well, even though this was publicated and by now most of everybody knows about this hole, there's no obvious link to any automated exploit (like you see on securityfocus), and most infomration given is so unspecific you couldn't make too much with it...
Now, compare this to a situation where an Apache (for example) bug comes out - it'll take a few seconds until an epxloit is made available and publicly advertised...
Now, I am asking myself, does "security through obscurity" work after all? One would expect a rush of script kiddies against vulnerable machines....
I saw the trailer of the fellowship of the ring, and was surprised to see Galadriel appeared in it - doesn't she appear in the second book ("the two towers", iirc) for the first time?
Also banner ads on websites, instant messanging clients, and just about any online medium are full of spam - I've seen a lot of banners going like "If this banner is blinking, you won!" lately. Now, why isn't this simply illegal? Yes, "support free speech" and everything, but these people are simply making false claims, invading our privacy and getting on our nerves!
That's not only true for the internet, though - I get spam-fax almost everyday, too, promising me idiotic stuff or writing in such a way that it is impossible to undertsand how much the product they want you to buy actually costs. I hate it! Why isn't that shit criminalized?
...and beaming the energy back to earth using microwaves.
Has anybody here placed Sim City 2000? You can build such power plants there - one of the dangers is when the microwave beam misses the ground antenna and ignites some nearby houses. Inspiring...:)
Some people calculated that 7km^2 of Solar panels in the Sahara would provide enough electricity for the whole of mankind.. So why waste space in australia when you could build something soo much more useful:)
That's great for displaying ASCII-porn! I wonder how long it would take until the german government passes a law that forbids "Blinkenlights before 10PM or after 6 AM"...
But anyway, that's not news at all, it's been around for at least three weeks...
Well, that would be sorta perfect for Ximian's mono! And if that "Liberty" thing is really open, what are the advantages of using Microsoft? People claimed that Mono was bad because it would force people into using passport - now if this Liberty thing works out, and somebody makes it work with Mono...
It would be great if common email programs had a function for that - for example, right clicking on a spam mail, choosing "spam", the mail would be moved to a "spam folder" and the relevant info about that email would automatically be submitted to an anti-spam institiution of that kind. This would make handling spam a lot easier IMHO.
>How can we be sure that genetic advantages are
>from cheating (i.e. artificially engineering the
>DNA to improve the athletic ability of a
>competitor), and not simply down to a lucky
>combination of gametes?
That's exactly the problem that we are facing also with the detection of Erytropoietine (EPO) in athletes - EPO is native to the human body, but the EPO that athletes are given is usually synthesized in a lab. Chemically, there is no difference between the two, yet biologist have found a way to differentiate between the two (
Hu-EPO and synthetic EPO).
Btw, does anybody have pointers to more information about the topic, ie. EPO detection?
>Here, in Switzerland, no tv accepted to pay the
>billion bucks needed to broadcast the 2002 Soccer
>World Cup. Of course, in a 6million people
>country, it would be indecent as there are some
>bigger priorities than just financing new
>undetectable doping technologies.
I'm not really following JAVA as I'm more interested in "traditional" programming languages - but this sounds interesting? What's a Java application server? And it has clustering? So it's some kind of physical server computer running Java apps?
>suddenly had more games for linux, would it
>necessarily draw more people to it?
That is an interesting question - I know a lot of teenagers using windows, 90% of what they do is play games. They write a text now and then, but that's all. They use computers for several years already, and have a basic understanding for the tech behind it. I have often talked about linux with them, but obviously, using it for anything but experimenting makes no sense for them: They can't play anymore!
Except for the UI and the configuration being different from windows, if wineX got to a point where the majority of all windows games worked flawlessly, i could porbably get a lot of them to at least dual boot.
And once they get mote used to linux and the community around it, and linux distributions evolve in a way that makes hand-editing conf files superflous, then I guess the younger generation could just trash windows.
So IMHO, the reason why Linux doesn't dominate the desktop market yet are
1) Configuration of the system - the distributions are making substantial progress here: Just compare a recent distro to soemthing from one year back! I guess that in one year, we'll be at windows' level in matters of configurability and usability.
2) Games. The reason I described above. Games are a very important part of the picture.
3) "Trained" computer users confused by a new interface. While today's younger people usually get along exteremly well with computers, people like secretaries who have been trained on a specific app (for example MS Word) will have huge porblems with minimal UI changes. Companies are always reluctant about upgrading their office suite - because tech support suddenly would get houndreds of calls from confused secretaries.
You could make some really cool low-cost routers or webservers out of that... Does anybody know if there are ethernet adapters for the dreamcast? If yes I might just buy one...
Anybody heard of Debian GNU/Hurd? That does exist, it's on the Debian ftp sites. And GNU was always meant to be an OS with its own kernel... So i reckon they could just call it Debian GNU.
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They are getting cheaper everyday almost... and if it's just "thinner" than normal CRTs it could well be just a cenntimeter thinner...
I don't think this will "save" CRTs in the long run
Well, even though this was publicated and by now most of everybody knows about this hole, there's no obvious link to any automated exploit (like you see on securityfocus), and most infomration given is so unspecific you couldn't make too much with it...
Now, compare this to a situation where an Apache (for example) bug comes out - it'll take a few seconds until an epxloit is made available and publicly advertised...
Now, I am asking myself, does "security through obscurity" work after all? One would expect a rush of script kiddies against vulnerable machines....
I saw the trailer of the fellowship of the ring, and was surprised to see Galadriel appeared in it - doesn't she appear in the second book ("the two towers", iirc) for the first time?
I only hope that this will become a real _science_ fiction thing with some action... not a pseudo-science space-soap like Star Trek.
Also banner ads on websites, instant messanging clients, and just about any online medium are full of spam - I've seen a lot of banners going like "If this banner is blinking, you won!" lately. Now, why isn't this simply illegal? Yes, "support free speech" and everything, but these people are simply making false claims, invading our privacy and getting on our nerves!
That's not only true for the internet, though - I get spam-fax almost everyday, too, promising me idiotic stuff or writing in such a way that it is impossible to undertsand how much the product they want you to buy actually costs. I hate it! Why isn't that shit criminalized?
Wolfram is the german word for tungsten - After Wolfram research, tungsten graphics. Pretty unoriginal, there are so many other elements.
What about Plutonium graphics?
...and beaming the energy back to earth using microwaves.
:)
Has anybody here placed Sim City 2000? You can build such power plants there - one of the dangers is when the microwave beam misses the ground antenna and ignites some nearby houses. Inspiring...
Some people calculated that 7km^2 of Solar panels in the Sahara would provide enough electricity for the whole of mankind.. So why waste space in australia when you could build something soo much more useful :)
That's great for displaying ASCII-porn! I wonder how long it would take until the german government passes a law that forbids "Blinkenlights before 10PM or after 6 AM"...
But anyway, that's not news at all, it's been around for at least three weeks...
>SuSE with their YOU (Your Online Update), ...
It's Yast Online Update!
Well, that would be sorta perfect for Ximian's mono! And if that "Liberty" thing is really open, what are the advantages of using Microsoft? People claimed that Mono was bad because it would force people into using passport - now if this Liberty thing works out, and somebody makes it work with Mono...
:)
Great idea!
Some work has been done in that area for GNOME - Here's the GNOME developer info about it.
They are working on getting specialized input/output devices like braille keyboards, screen readers etc. working with GNOME.
Here.
It would be great if common email programs had a function for that - for example, right clicking on a spam mail, choosing "spam", the mail would be moved to a "spam folder" and the relevant info about that email would automatically be submitted to an anti-spam institiution of that kind. This would make handling spam a lot easier IMHO.
>How can we be sure that genetic advantages are
>from cheating (i.e. artificially engineering the
>DNA to improve the athletic ability of a
>competitor), and not simply down to a lucky
>combination of gametes?
That's exactly the problem that we are facing also with the detection of Erytropoietine (EPO) in athletes - EPO is native to the human body, but the EPO that athletes are given is usually synthesized in a lab. Chemically, there is no difference between the two, yet biologist have found a way to differentiate between the two (
Hu-EPO and synthetic EPO).
Btw, does anybody have pointers to more information about the topic, ie. EPO detection?
>Here, in Switzerland, no tv accepted to pay the
>billion bucks needed to broadcast the 2002 Soccer
>World Cup. Of course, in a 6million people
>country, it would be indecent as there are some
>bigger priorities than just financing new
>undetectable doping technologies.
Bigger priorities == Legalizing Marijuana?
I'm not really following JAVA as I'm more interested in "traditional" programming languages - but this sounds interesting? What's a Java application server? And it has clustering? So it's some kind of physical server computer running Java apps?
>suddenly had more games for linux, would it
>necessarily draw more people to it?
That is an interesting question - I know a lot of teenagers using windows, 90% of what they do is play games. They write a text now and then, but that's all. They use computers for several years already, and have a basic understanding for the tech behind it. I have often talked about linux with them, but obviously, using it for anything but experimenting makes no sense for them: They can't play anymore!
Except for the UI and the configuration being different from windows, if wineX got to a point where the majority of all windows games worked flawlessly, i could porbably get a lot of them to at least dual boot.
And once they get mote used to linux and the community around it, and linux distributions evolve in a way that makes hand-editing conf files superflous, then I guess the younger generation could just trash windows.
So IMHO, the reason why Linux doesn't dominate the desktop market yet are
1) Configuration of the system - the distributions are making substantial progress here: Just compare a recent distro to soemthing from one year back! I guess that in one year, we'll be at windows' level in matters of configurability and usability.
2) Games. The reason I described above. Games are a very important part of the picture.
3) "Trained" computer users confused by a new interface. While today's younger people usually get along exteremly well with computers, people like secretaries who have been trained on a specific app (for example MS Word) will have huge porblems with minimal UI changes. Companies are always reluctant about upgrading their office suite - because tech support suddenly would get houndreds of calls from confused secretaries.
The tuxracer 0.61 tree has been forked - it is called Openracer and stays GPL.
e s/ OpenRacer
:pserver:anonymous:@cvs.openracer.sourceforge.net: /cvsroot/openracer
They try to move away from the original game, though, in order not to interfere with the commerical versions' development.
Their site is at:
http://moria.mit.edu:8080/wf/dev/systems/releas
You can check the source out from cvs using CVSROOT
Please note that it will need the newest plib version from CVS, too, though.
You could make some really cool low-cost routers or webservers out of that... Does anybody know if there are ethernet adapters for the dreamcast? If yes I might just buy one...
XFS comes with SGI's kernel debugger. Linus doesn't want a kernel debugger in the official tree, as he says here.
Anybody heard of Debian GNU/Hurd? That does exist, it's on the Debian ftp sites. And GNU was always meant to be an OS with its own kernel... So i reckon they could just call it Debian GNU.