It's funny you mention the AS/400. The new model 520 we're going to be getting has like 700 gigs of disk and is 1U. Even the AS/400 is jumping on the miniaturization/rack consolidation bandwagon!
Now what am I going to use to produce excess tons of heat my computer room? Pretty soon they'll be taking my air conditioner away.
Where do you think the cable company gets their broadcasts? Oh yeah. Satellite.
And (from my experience in the local philly area) most of the cable "substations" have dishes about the size of directv dishes receiving the signal.
Food for thought there. If Satellite TV really sucked that bad, the cable providers wouldn't be using satellite.
One other thing to think about... If satellite was as bad as cable providers claimed, directv would be out of business, as would echostar or dish network or whatever they're calling themselves today.
Yeah, cable companies are scared of losing your business, John Q. Public. That's what all this hub-bub about satellite is from.
(disclaimer: I have cable. I've seen satellite. I've talked to satellite owners. They never have problems nearly to the extent that the ads claim-- they once had to cut back a tree because the foliage was so thick it was obstructing the signal for their dish. That's about it.)
You know, this is a good point. However, I am a flagrant Friendster addict and as such, will find any way possible to get into the Orkut community...
Not because I need to, but because it's very, very amusing and hey, I like sociology. Maybe it's one big ploy to see what people on the internet will do if they're faced with a bunch of people being big jerks...
I've been using Asterisk successfully for over 6 months at my house. It's like a media center for your telephone -- You can connect so many disparate telephony technologies together to make the mother of all frankensteined phone systems!
Pound for pound, Asterisk is the best solution for computer telephony in the Linux arena. Bayonne is progressing, but it's not to the level yet that Asterisk has had for half a year now.
Asterisk supports SIP, H323, MGCP, SCCP, ISDN, PSTN, PRI, just about anything you can throw at it that has an ominous sounding acronym.
Besides that, the Asterisk people are helpful if you demonstrate that you're interested in learning, not just the quick fix.
Come check out #asterisk on freenode(openprojects) or http://www.asterisk.org to see what Asterisk can do for you!
True, since modern quantum physics has no real way for us to "time travel" -- the closest we can get is going through a wormhole to arrive at a different point nearly instantly.. Stephen Hawking gives a good description of the idea in his book "A Brief History of Time"
I just wanted to take this moment to clear up something about time travel. Many contemporary scientists have weighed in on the subject of time travel and continuous-arc timelines, and many believe it just wouldn't happen.
Existence is just a set of infinite points of time; it is the human in us that says that if the son of X goes back in time and he kills X, then the son must "disappear." In contemporary theory, this is not so.
The son goes back in time, from a point which he exists. Since he did exist in that time, if he moves to a different "reference point", he still exists. If he kill his father, before he was born, he would not be born in the modified chain of events, but the son would still exist from that point.
I don't know if I'm quite explaining this right, but that would explain why Reis (Reese?) would still exist after John Connor melted the evidence, and it would still explain why John Connor himself existed after the act. Just because our minds correlate all these facts together to evaluate "passage of time," it does not mean that these things had a specific linkage that would be disrupted through the affect of a particular cause.
If we are in fact infringing on SCO's "intellectual property" by using portions of linux, why doesn't lkml just jump in there and rewrite the portions that are "their property?"
I'd think that SCO should bring about some concrete proof (i.e., which files specifically, which line numbers) -- the burden of proof is on them, is it not? Until then, how can they bring suit against anyone?
If this is to set a precident, I think I'll just sue half the companies in the world for using my intellectual property! I am the sole creator of the word "the." All of your documents are infringing on my IP!
Seriously though, when and if SCO brings some concrete evidence that we have unknowingly infringed, how hard would it be just to rewrite the sections? Judging by how creative people like Ingo, Alan, et al are, we should have like ten different versions to do the same thing in about three days flat...
My curiosity gets piqued every time I see another story about this debacle....
I appreciate the correction. If I find myself in a similar situation (taking pot shots at slashdot poster's grammar and spelling) I'll remember that aught means all/anything/everything, and ought means obligation...
Or, moreover, that I should probably get my flames peer-reviewed before I spout them out!:)
I'm glad to see that the kiddies think exquisite English is an attempt at sounding cool. Meanwhile, you aught to seek some more education and work on biting your tongue when you think you're about to sound witty.
(What the heck, may as well burn what little karma I have by addressing a pet peeve; good English is never a sin!)
My advice would be "Get the hell out of your bedroom, off of the damned computers, and go play some ball with the other neighbor's kids! You know you always wanted to, so, DO IT!"
Also, "Don't be afraid to ask out those cute girls, most of the time they're single because nobody has the balls to ask them out!" (Which I learned, unfortunately, senior year of high school!)
That, and also to avoid ever eating Chik-fil-A, which has started a dangerous, downhill obsession ever since my first bite....
Mmm, buttery bun... Mmmm, two immaculate pickles.... Mmmmm, plump, juicy fresh boneless chicken breast fried to perfection!
I could probably blame some of my excess baggage on chicken sandwiches and waffle fries...
As a Die-Hard Orson Scott Card fan, I have the pleasure of owning all but two of his books -- all of which I've read at least twice. The man is a literary genius; his character building skills are second to none.
Definitely recommended are his Ender series (Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind) as well as his co-existing Bean series (Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets).
For a look towards the Fantasy world, the tales of Alvin Maker (Seventh Son, Red Prophet, Prentice Alvin, Alvin Journeyman, Heartfire, {And Hopefully Coming Soon} Crystal City) is possibly one of the most interesting historical fiction/scifi stories I've ever read.
As mentioned in the previous post, the Homecoming series (Memory of Earth, Call of Earth, Ships of Earth, Earthfall, Earthborn) is an excellent sci fi series -- my only hitch on it was Card's obvious use of Mormon symbolism in parts of the stories. (Come on, Nafai?)
Any way you chop it, OSC has excellent stories; there hasn't been one I've read where I've disliked it. Some are a little slow moving at the start (The Worthing Saga, for instance,) but once it's captured you, that's it. You're enthralled for the next [200-400] pages.
Slashdot Mirror
I know a lot of people will thumb their nose at this one, but I suggest this thought:
5. When we run out of oil to power our world, I'll still be able to read my real books?
Get thee to the bomb shelter...
It's funny you mention the AS/400. The new model 520 we're going to be getting has like 700 gigs of disk and is 1U. Even the AS/400 is jumping on the miniaturization/rack consolidation bandwagon!
Now what am I going to use to produce excess tons of heat my computer room? Pretty soon they'll be taking my air conditioner away.
Something everyone needs to remember:
Where do you think the cable company gets their broadcasts? Oh yeah. Satellite.
And (from my experience in the local philly area) most of the cable "substations" have dishes about the size of directv dishes receiving the signal.
Food for thought there. If Satellite TV really sucked that bad, the cable providers wouldn't be using satellite.
One other thing to think about... If satellite was as bad as cable providers claimed, directv would be out of business, as would echostar or dish network or whatever they're calling themselves today.
Yeah, cable companies are scared of losing your business, John Q. Public. That's what all this hub-bub about satellite is from.
(disclaimer: I have cable. I've seen satellite. I've talked to satellite owners. They never have problems nearly to the extent that the ads claim-- they once had to cut back a tree because the foliage was so thick it was obstructing the signal for their dish. That's about it.)
You know, this is a good point. However, I am a flagrant Friendster addict and as such, will find any way possible to get into the Orkut community...
Not because I need to, but because it's very, very amusing and hey, I like sociology. Maybe it's one big ploy to see what people on the internet will do if they're faced with a bunch of people being big jerks...
"YOU CANT BE IN OUR CLUB, IT'S UBERGEEKS ONLY!"
heh.
I've been using Asterisk successfully for over 6 months at my house. It's like a media center for your telephone -- You can connect so many disparate telephony technologies together to make the mother of all frankensteined phone systems!
Pound for pound, Asterisk is the best solution for computer telephony in the Linux arena. Bayonne is progressing, but it's not to the level yet that Asterisk has had for half a year now.
Asterisk supports SIP, H323, MGCP, SCCP, ISDN, PSTN, PRI, just about anything you can throw at it that has an ominous sounding acronym.
Besides that, the Asterisk people are helpful if you demonstrate that you're interested in learning, not just the quick fix.
Come check out #asterisk on freenode(openprojects) or http://www.asterisk.org to see what Asterisk can do for you!
True, since modern quantum physics has no real way for us to "time travel" -- the closest we can get is going through a wormhole to arrive at a different point nearly instantly.. Stephen Hawking gives a good description of the idea in his book "A Brief History of Time"
Hey guys,
I just wanted to take this moment to clear up something about time travel. Many contemporary scientists have weighed in on the subject of time travel and continuous-arc timelines, and many believe it just wouldn't happen.
Existence is just a set of infinite points of time; it is the human in us that says that if the son of X goes back in time and he kills X, then the son must "disappear." In contemporary theory, this is not so.
The son goes back in time, from a point which he exists. Since he did exist in that time, if he moves to a different "reference point", he still exists. If he kill his father, before he was born, he would not be born in the modified chain of events, but the son would still exist from that point.
I don't know if I'm quite explaining this right, but that would explain why Reis (Reese?) would still exist after John Connor melted the evidence, and it would still explain why John Connor himself existed after the act. Just because our minds correlate all these facts together to evaluate "passage of time," it does not mean that these things had a specific linkage that would be disrupted through the affect of a particular cause.
Hope I'm making sense here...
If we are in fact infringing on SCO's "intellectual property" by using portions of linux, why doesn't lkml just jump in there and rewrite the portions that are "their property?"
I'd think that SCO should bring about some concrete proof (i.e., which files specifically, which line numbers) -- the burden of proof is on them, is it not? Until then, how can they bring suit against anyone?
If this is to set a precident, I think I'll just sue half the companies in the world for using my intellectual property! I am the sole creator of the word "the." All of your documents are infringing on my IP!
Seriously though, when and if SCO brings some concrete evidence that we have unknowingly infringed, how hard would it be just to rewrite the sections? Judging by how creative people like Ingo, Alan, et al are, we should have like ten different versions to do the same thing in about three days flat...
My curiosity gets piqued every time I see another story about this debacle....
Q: "Why not form a union?"
A:
www.sage.org -- Systems Administrators Guild
www.programmersguild.org -- Programmers Guild
www.ipgnet.org -- International Programmers Guild
Now the question becomes, are these guilds really unions in the full sense of the word, are there tasks that must be done to make it a legal guild..
The harder problem is getting companies to hire union workers if its a non-union shop.
I appreciate the correction. If I find myself in a similar situation (taking pot shots at slashdot poster's grammar and spelling) I'll remember that aught means all/anything/everything, and ought means obligation...
:)
Or, moreover, that I should probably get my flames peer-reviewed before I spout them out!
Bravo,
That reply warrants a fan designation!
I stand corrected.
I'm glad to see that the kiddies think exquisite English is an attempt at sounding cool. Meanwhile, you aught to seek some more education and work on biting your tongue when you think you're about to sound witty.
(What the heck, may as well burn what little karma I have by addressing a pet peeve; good English is never a sin!)
Just how low can we go? :)
My advice would be "Get the hell out of your bedroom, off of the damned computers, and go play some ball with the other neighbor's kids! You know you always wanted to, so, DO IT!"
Also, "Don't be afraid to ask out those cute girls, most of the time they're single because nobody has the balls to ask them out!" (Which I learned, unfortunately, senior year of high school!)
That, and also to avoid ever eating Chik-fil-A, which has started a dangerous, downhill obsession ever since my first bite....
Mmm, buttery bun... Mmmm, two immaculate pickles.... Mmmmm, plump, juicy fresh boneless chicken breast fried to perfection!
I could probably blame some of my excess baggage on chicken sandwiches and waffle fries...
As a Die-Hard Orson Scott Card fan, I have the pleasure of owning all but two of his books -- all of which I've read at least twice. The man is a literary genius; his character building skills are second to none.
Definitely recommended are his Ender series (Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind) as well as his co-existing Bean series (Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets).
For a look towards the Fantasy world, the tales of Alvin Maker (Seventh Son, Red Prophet, Prentice Alvin, Alvin Journeyman, Heartfire, {And Hopefully Coming Soon} Crystal City) is possibly one of the most interesting historical fiction/scifi stories I've ever read.
As mentioned in the previous post, the Homecoming series (Memory of Earth, Call of Earth, Ships of Earth, Earthfall, Earthborn) is an excellent sci fi series -- my only hitch on it was Card's obvious use of Mormon symbolism in parts of the stories. (Come on, Nafai?)
Any way you chop it, OSC has excellent stories; there hasn't been one I've read where I've disliked it. Some are a little slow moving at the start (The Worthing Saga, for instance,) but once it's captured you, that's it. You're enthralled for the next [200-400] pages.
Check out OSC's Webpage at Hatrack River (www.hatrack.com) for rants, raves, reviews, and upcoming news all about the author.