The shuttle was ridiculous. The only rationalization for the design is if you're going to bring stuff back from space, and to my knowledge, we've never once done that.
No, we are always putting stuff into space, and plain old rockets do that job very, very well.
If the thing took off like an airplane, then that would be different. But it doesn't.
It's almost as if they went to the drawing board asking themselves how they could make a craft that suffers from all the problems of reusable rockets while offering all new problems in re-entry.
Seriously, thinking about 2001 depresses me. When I was a kid I had every expectation we'd be flying around in Pan Am Space Shuttles and learning how to use zero-g toilets.
Instead we live in a world where Pan Am goes bankrupt, and NYC still hasn't figured out how to install restrooms in the city.
These tiles are nothing more than a cruel reminder of just how lame the 21st century is turning out to be.
You read my mind
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SCO Roundup
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Seriously, when I saw the title, SCO Roundup, my first thought was that somebody rounded up all the SCO executives and were now patiently waiting for someone else to come up with a suitable way of disposing of them.
Damn man, MIT must be slipping. I could give you uniqueness using only 64-bits.
So could any coder who cut his teeth on machine language.
We need to stop teaching Perl/Python/Java as a first language. Make the uber-generation deal with opcodes and registers. Assembler will put hair on your chest boy!
The point is, bits aren't cheap. If we're going to set standards for their allocation, let's let somebody who knows what they're doing do it. Yes?
How on Earth do you witness somebody writing a virus?
He's sitting in front of a computer, hitting keys on the keyboard and looking at the monitor. That describes the person who wrote this story, the person who submitted this story, the person who posted the story, me getting first post, and everybody reading and moderating this and every other post to come.
It also describes RMS writing Emacs, Linus debugging the kernel, and SCO issuing another press release.
Did this witness actually read the code? What kind of idiot virus-writer lets someone he doesn't know pull up a chair and start auditing his code?
Or was the witness tipped off when the screen start flashing "NOW TESTING VIRUS"? Damn, I hate when that happens!
The system then gets hailed as being foolproof, doesn't it?
If I were Diebold and I wanted to innoculate myself against charges of deceit and corruption, this is exactly how I would do it.
Making it a female programmer is a nice touch too. It's easy to see how this plays out on cable news... criticize the challenge and you're labeled a sexist.
This smells really bad. The parent is absolutely right, if there was ever a time for open source, this is it.
Language lets people communicate ideas. The fact that a group of people may choose to communicate in private doesn't deter you and I from communicating.
...is that most watercooling solutions try to keep it all within the case. So you end up putting the radiator where one of the fans normally goes, and then mount a fan on the radiator to blow air over it to cool it down.
But which way does the fan blow? I think most people end up having it blow hot air out, which means you're not cooling the radiator as much as want to.
But if you have it blow the air in, then you're essentially pumping warm/hot air back into the case, which seems counterproductive.
I saw one comparison (and no, sorry, I don't have the link anymore) where there was almost no difference between the air and water, until they moved the radiator out of the box. Then the difference was very dramatic.
So it's like we need a mini-case for the radiator. A little clunky maybe, but I can live with that. Not everything belongs in the case anyways. One of the best improvements in my computing experience was when I got the Soundblaster Audigy External, not necessarily because the Audigy is a great soundcard (which it is) but because all the noise generated by the EM within the case is no longer audible.
Not a bad looking box, either (though I usually end up looking at my monitor more than I do my computer case.)
It seems to me that with all the concern over cyber-pollution these days (discarded monitors and other computer components) maybe it's time to take a greener approach and harvest whatever relics we can from the last great love affair with speed and power: the automobile.
The trend is towards customized boxes we build ourselves anyways, right? So go to the local junkyard and shop American for a change.
It would be interesting to see an OS/software written from the ground up in a completely different language, esp. one that used pictograms.
But as it is, it's all going to be based on software written in English-ish programming languages, isn't that right?
So, I can understand the urge to go local, but I don't think they're going far enough. Imagine the impediment we would face if we had to learn how to write software for an OS that was based on, say, Mandarin. How many of us would really have ended up taking to computers?
So doesn't that apply in reverse?
And to make matters worse, they say English is the hardest second language to learn. And most of the advanced texts in CS are in English. The HOWTO's are all in English (yeah I know there are foreign language versions but let's be real, it isn't as complete or as up-to-date as the ones in English.)
The fact of the matter is that there is no comprehensive understanding of how particular DNA encodings work or why, so most of the progress being made is happenstance, pure hit-and-miss.
This approach is successful for solving specific problems, but as a methodology applied over time it is akin to courting disaster. The short-term gains being made by some come at the expense of risk borne by us all over the long-term, and without our consent.
The Dish Network is going to soon come out with the DishPVR 921, a PVR that handles HDTV and *should* save the MPEG stream straight from the dish to the disk.
Yes, DirecTV is coming out with one too, and theirs is a joint venture with TiVo.
Who's to say that while we live for hundreds and hundreds of years, that we get to look young all during this time?
Isn't a likely scenario that as we grow old, we shows signs of our age, and that when even hotties like NP get older they tend to get, um, less hot?
So envision a world in which all the fine looking babes are still young, like in their teens or twenties or thirties, but most of the guys are in their hundreds or two-hundreds or three-hundreds.
The point being: the chance you have with the Natalie Portmans of the world may actually decrease. Actually, it approaches zero as people get to live longer.
Instead of searching for the penguin...
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LWCE Wrapup
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...they should have programmed the bots to go looking for all that SCO-infringing kernel code.
Slashdot Mirror
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...next time let's just stick a WiFi card in the thing and have it phone home, yes?
Your multimillion dollar Boeing 777 aircraft still has windshield wipers.
Yeah, but at least they're high enough off the ground so that those damn squeegee guys can't reach 'em.
The shuttle was ridiculous. The only rationalization for the design is if you're going to bring stuff back from space, and to my knowledge, we've never once done that.
No, we are always putting stuff into space, and plain old rockets do that job very, very well.
If the thing took off like an airplane, then that would be different. But it doesn't.
It's almost as if they went to the drawing board asking themselves how they could make a craft that suffers from all the problems of reusable rockets while offering all new problems in re-entry.
Let's ground the damn things already.
...and all we get are these lousy tiles.
Seriously, thinking about 2001 depresses me. When I was a kid I had every expectation we'd be flying around in Pan Am Space Shuttles and learning how to use zero-g toilets.
Instead we live in a world where Pan Am goes bankrupt, and NYC still hasn't figured out how to install restrooms in the city.
These tiles are nothing more than a cruel reminder of just how lame the 21st century is turning out to be.
It's crippled too.
Latest outrage: I can't format drives as FAT32 under XP. Just found this out yesterday.
The reason why:
I didn't think so.
Seriously, when I saw the title, SCO Roundup, my first thought was that somebody rounded up all the SCO executives and were now patiently waiting for someone else to come up with a suitable way of disposing of them.
/. poll in there somewhere.
There's a
Damn man, MIT must be slipping. I could give you uniqueness using only 64-bits.
So could any coder who cut his teeth on machine language.
We need to stop teaching Perl/Python/Java as a first language. Make the uber-generation deal with opcodes and registers. Assembler will put hair on your chest boy!
The point is, bits aren't cheap. If we're going to set standards for their allocation, let's let somebody who knows what they're doing do it. Yes?
How on Earth do you witness somebody writing a virus?
He's sitting in front of a computer, hitting keys on the keyboard and looking at the monitor. That describes the person who wrote this story, the person who submitted this story, the person who posted the story, me getting first post, and everybody reading and moderating this and every other post to come.
It also describes RMS writing Emacs, Linus debugging the kernel, and SCO issuing another press release.
Did this witness actually read the code? What kind of idiot virus-writer lets someone he doesn't know pull up a chair and start auditing his code?
Or was the witness tipped off when the screen start flashing "NOW TESTING VIRUS"? Damn, I hate when that happens!
This doesn't sound quite right.
That's why we're seeing so many women take up gaming.
I should get mod points for being well hung.
Couldn't we then find out who wrote the virus just by interrogating the companies who benefit from the advertising?
What if she fails it?
The system then gets hailed as being foolproof, doesn't it?
If I were Diebold and I wanted to innoculate myself against charges of deceit and corruption, this is exactly how I would do it.
Making it a female programmer is a nice touch too. It's easy to see how this plays out on cable news... criticize the challenge and you're labeled a sexist.
This smells really bad. The parent is absolutely right, if there was ever a time for open source, this is it.
...I might come to look more favorably on them.
There's still that theory that life originally evolved on Mars and found it's way to Earth via the ejecta formed from a meteor impact, right?
So focusing on the impact craters may be a way for us to see where it all really began.
Isn't that the right analogy?
Language lets people communicate ideas. The fact that a group of people may choose to communicate in private doesn't deter you and I from communicating.
You're right. My mistake. I was going from memory on that point.
Maybe the RAM in my head is overheating.
Maybe *I* need the '55 Lincoln radiator. LOL.
...is that most watercooling solutions try to keep it all within the case. So you end up putting the radiator where one of the fans normally goes, and then mount a fan on the radiator to blow air over it to cool it down.
But which way does the fan blow? I think most people end up having it blow hot air out, which means you're not cooling the radiator as much as want to.
But if you have it blow the air in, then you're essentially pumping warm/hot air back into the case, which seems counterproductive.
I saw one comparison (and no, sorry, I don't have the link anymore) where there was almost no difference between the air and water, until they moved the radiator out of the box. Then the difference was very dramatic.
So it's like we need a mini-case for the radiator. A little clunky maybe, but I can live with that. Not everything belongs in the case anyways. One of the best improvements in my computing experience was when I got the Soundblaster Audigy External, not necessarily because the Audigy is a great soundcard (which it is) but because all the noise generated by the EM within the case is no longer audible.
Watercools his system using a radiator from a '55 Lincoln. You gotta love it.
Not a bad looking box, either (though I usually end up looking at my monitor more than I do my computer case.)
It seems to me that with all the concern over cyber-pollution these days (discarded monitors and other computer components) maybe it's time to take a greener approach and harvest whatever relics we can from the last great love affair with speed and power: the automobile.
The trend is towards customized boxes we build ourselves anyways, right? So go to the local junkyard and shop American for a change.
WozNet suppositories for everybody on Capitol Hill!
It would be interesting to see an OS/software written from the ground up in a completely different language, esp. one that used pictograms.
But as it is, it's all going to be based on software written in English-ish programming languages, isn't that right?
So, I can understand the urge to go local, but I don't think they're going far enough. Imagine the impediment we would face if we had to learn how to write software for an OS that was based on, say, Mandarin. How many of us would really have ended up taking to computers?
So doesn't that apply in reverse?
And to make matters worse, they say English is the hardest second language to learn. And most of the advanced texts in CS are in English. The HOWTO's are all in English (yeah I know there are foreign language versions but let's be real, it isn't as complete or as up-to-date as the ones in English.)
The fact of the matter is that there is no comprehensive understanding of how particular DNA encodings work or why, so most of the progress being made is happenstance, pure hit-and-miss.
This approach is successful for solving specific problems, but as a methodology applied over time it is akin to courting disaster. The short-term gains being made by some come at the expense of risk borne by us all over the long-term, and without our consent.
The Dish Network is going to soon come out with the DishPVR 921, a PVR that handles HDTV and *should* save the MPEG stream straight from the dish to the disk.
Yes, DirecTV is coming out with one too, and theirs is a joint venture with TiVo.
But you'll want Dish for the pr0n.
I think you have the math wrong here.
Who's to say that while we live for hundreds and hundreds of years, that we get to look young all during this time?
Isn't a likely scenario that as we grow old, we shows signs of our age, and that when even hotties like NP get older they tend to get, um, less hot?
So envision a world in which all the fine looking babes are still young, like in their teens or twenties or thirties, but most of the guys are in their hundreds or two-hundreds or three-hundreds.
The point being: the chance you have with the Natalie Portmans of the world may actually decrease. Actually, it approaches zero as people get to live longer.
...they should have programmed the bots to go looking for all that SCO-infringing kernel code.
Or beer.
(did I spell that right?)