Personally, I'm against the idea of "karmaless comments", if only because trolls will start using them to spam the hell out of slashdot and be able to do it without losing karma. Basically this means that trolls can post at 1 with their logged-in account instead of 0 as AC, thus making the rest of us have to start browsing at a threshold of 2. OTOH, "karmaless comments" might be a good idea if they started at 0; this would allow users to claim ownership of a post (i.e. to defend themselves against a troll) but not allow them to troll into higher scored thresholds.
You're forgetting that they probably have to sift through a thousand or so story submissions a day, many of which are probably false/pitching some product or another/etc. so any references probably have to be checked out for the stories that look interesting. Then they have to decide which of those stories that still look interesting actually go on the page. I highly doubt "They have the time". Sure, it only takes a minute or two to spell and grammer check the submissions, etc, but I doubt that there aren't more important things for the slashdot guys to be doing than to be focusing their attention on small spelling details that annoy very few of slashdot's readers.
If the meaning of a posted story is obvious, yet it has a few small spelling mistakes, who cares?
Actually, that would be Godacceleration. Godspeed would be the speed at which he plummets to earth in a flaming pile of wreckage because his hydrogen peroxide motor explodes.
What about fractal antennas? I thought those fixed a lot of the problems associated with transmitting/recieving wideband. I haven't heard anything about them recently, but I'm curious what you might have to say about them.
First of all, don't bitch about Diskeeper. I've used both the lite and full versions, and believe me when I tell you the full version kicks a**. The lite version is crippleware and is the functional equivalent of the defragger Microsoft includes in Win9x -- in other words, it generally sucks a**. It should only be used as a last resort, when nothing else is available (although I consider it to be better than the piece of sh*t that is Norton SpeedDisk for NT/2k). Yes, the full version of Diskeeper CAN defrag the MFT, contrary to what other people have posted, but IIRC you have to reboot to do so (it defrags the MFT and pagefiles at the same point as a chkdsk takes place).
To correct a complete falsehood in your post, yes you can put the NT/2k pagefile on a separate partition. I ran NT for at least two years that way. The only thing this disables is the ability to write full memory dumps to disk if the system BSODs.
Neither is correct. The only "correct" name for the interface is ATA/ATAPI, unless you're referring to ATA-1, ATA-2, or ATA-3, which had maximum transfer rates of (respectively) 8.3MB/s, 16.7MB/s, and 16.7MB/s. Ultra DMA and ATAPI arrived in the same standard, ATA/ATAPI-4 (technically, the ATAPI standard was released before this, but this is when it officially joined itself with the ATA spec).
Note that DMA modes determine the mode of data transfers across the interface, and thus also determine the rate of transfer. Since ATA specs are backwards compatible with all DMA and Ultra DMA modes, and often include more than one additional DMA or Ultra DMA modes (for example, the ATA/ATAPI-5 standard included both the well-known 66.7MB/s Ultra DMA 4 standard, it also included the almost never heard of Ultra DMA 3 standard, which runs at 44.1MB/s; also note that the ATA/ATAPI-4 standard included both the well-known Ultra DMA 3 at 33.3MB/s, but also the lesser-known Utlra DMA 2 at 25.0MB/s) thus, when refering to the speed of the interface (and not the additional features included in that version of the ATA/ATAPI spec), it would be more correct to refer to "DMA" or "Ultra DMA" than "ATA".
Wrong. It's more accurately called ATA/ATAPI-4 for the 33MB/S interface, ATA/ATAPI-5 for the 66MB/S interface, and ATA/ATAPI-6 for the upcoming 100MB/S interface (note that the 100MB/S standard has not been released yet, and all these 100MB/S drives you see now are jumping the gun a bit.
This actually appears to be the first non-compliant usage of RFC 1149. RFC 1149 specifically indicates that "A band of duct tape is used to secure the datagram's edges." In this implementation, it is clear from the photographic evidence that duct tape was not used in the test.
I propose that once testing has been completed on a fully standards complient version of RFC 1149, testing on the implementation of RFC 2549, or "IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service", should begin. This extention of RFC 1149 adds many important features, such as quality of service, security, and traffic shaping.
But what about getting a power supply with good filter caps, etc? Your ps might not fail, but it might cause your computer components to, especially if your UPSs have non-sine wave output or aren't online.
"You can pick up nicer ones for $500, but then the cost of the case becomes pretty significant in the system cost."
...only if you're building crap servers and don't care about reliability. Get a good system. $500 is not that much if you're using it to enclose good components. And remember that if you buy the $200 case, you'll have to spend another $100-150 to replace the powersupply, because the one that comes with it is crap and will likely fail in weeks/months.
Weellll... What do we have hear? Another one 'o those youngn's, I reckon. Well, I say, back in my day we had to read the bits over the phone ourselves... None 'o these fancy modem thingamajobs. Yep, it was just "one, zero, one, one, zero, zero, zero, one, zero, two, zero, one, one, zero" all day long. If we wanted to increase transmission speed we'd have to use hex, "one, seven, c, five, nine, two, a, f, six." If we used hexadecimal, and a good phone transfer specialist, we could get up to around 256 bps. Of course, this was on the big iron, so you might expect that they scaled the technology down a bit when they put it in your fancy "modem."
Small nuclear does not necessarily mean hydrogen. Actually, it probably means a small FISSION bomb (aka atomic), which is completely different, much easier to make, and a helluva lot cheaper/smaller.
What would happen if you dropped a rock on Jeruselam and then got the TV hair-do evangelists to chat up the "wrath of God" angle? You'd destroy one of the most politically confusing parts of the world, and probably one of those which has caused the most bloodshed across the world. It'd probably make things a lot simpler.
What would the various sects argue about then? Whose god destroyed Jerusalem, and thus who needed to be killed/attacked/persecuted this week.
That would only be true if the asteroid was initially sitting motionless in space in relation to Earth's reference frame. Otherwise it'll have some kick-ass initia to add to the equation.
But then what if some other rival country developes "the Asteroid-sized Bomb"? Then we'll all be screwed. Unless those weird looking alien doods from Mars enlighten us with their crystalline tears and show us the power of their non-rotational inertially-conservative M&Ms.
Hell - the whole reason China is stripping out our EP-3 right now is so they will have better tech to spy on the US, Japan, Vietnam, and Thailand, among others.
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Personally, I'm against the idea of "karmaless comments", if only because trolls will start using them to spam the hell out of slashdot and be able to do it without losing karma. Basically this means that trolls can post at 1 with their logged-in account instead of 0 as AC, thus making the rest of us have to start browsing at a threshold of 2. OTOH, "karmaless comments" might be a good idea if they started at 0; this would allow users to claim ownership of a post (i.e. to defend themselves against a troll) but not allow them to troll into higher scored thresholds.
Stop bitching. If you don't like it don't use it.
If the meaning of a posted story is obvious, yet it has a few small spelling mistakes, who cares?
Actually, that would be Godacceleration. Godspeed would be the speed at which he plummets to earth in a flaming pile of wreckage because his hydrogen peroxide motor explodes.
Division by zero error. Process Terminated.
Wouldn't equations dealing with impulse be more appropriate for a matial arts relation?
What about fractal antennas? I thought those fixed a lot of the problems associated with transmitting/recieving wideband. I haven't heard anything about them recently, but I'm curious what you might have to say about them.
They'll be using ASCII in two million years? Not even I think its use will last that long...
First of all, don't bitch about Diskeeper. I've used both the lite and full versions, and believe me when I tell you the full version kicks a**. The lite version is crippleware and is the functional equivalent of the defragger Microsoft includes in Win9x -- in other words, it generally sucks a**. It should only be used as a last resort, when nothing else is available (although I consider it to be better than the piece of sh*t that is Norton SpeedDisk for NT/2k). Yes, the full version of Diskeeper CAN defrag the MFT, contrary to what other people have posted, but IIRC you have to reboot to do so (it defrags the MFT and pagefiles at the same point as a chkdsk takes place).
To correct a complete falsehood in your post, yes you can put the NT/2k pagefile on a separate partition. I ran NT for at least two years that way. The only thing this disables is the ability to write full memory dumps to disk if the system BSODs.
Note that DMA modes determine the mode of data transfers across the interface, and thus also determine the rate of transfer. Since ATA specs are backwards compatible with all DMA and Ultra DMA modes, and often include more than one additional DMA or Ultra DMA modes (for example, the ATA/ATAPI-5 standard included both the well-known 66.7MB/s Ultra DMA 4 standard, it also included the almost never heard of Ultra DMA 3 standard, which runs at 44.1MB/s; also note that the ATA/ATAPI-4 standard included both the well-known Ultra DMA 3 at 33.3MB/s, but also the lesser-known Utlra DMA 2 at 25.0MB/s) thus, when refering to the speed of the interface (and not the additional features included in that version of the ATA/ATAPI spec), it would be more correct to refer to "DMA" or "Ultra DMA" than "ATA".
Wrong. It's more accurately called ATA/ATAPI-4 for the 33MB/S interface, ATA/ATAPI-5 for the 66MB/S interface, and ATA/ATAPI-6 for the upcoming 100MB/S interface (note that the 100MB/S standard has not been released yet, and all these 100MB/S drives you see now are jumping the gun a bit.
I propose that once testing has been completed on a fully standards complient version of RFC 1149, testing on the implementation of RFC 2549, or "IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service", should begin. This extention of RFC 1149 adds many important features, such as quality of service, security, and traffic shaping.
Damn, I was tired when I posted that. My math abilities=shit when tired.
BTW, 256 bps = 16 hex digits a second.
But what about getting a power supply with good filter caps, etc? Your ps might not fail, but it might cause your computer components to, especially if your UPSs have non-sine wave output or aren't online.
Now if they only had full-body tactile feedback you would have something pretty damn close to a holodeck.
...only if you're building crap servers and don't care about reliability. Get a good system. $500 is not that much if you're using it to enclose good components. And remember that if you buy the $200 case, you'll have to spend another $100-150 to replace the powersupply, because the one that comes with it is crap and will likely fail in weeks/months.
$400??? Please tell me where I can get 512 meg registered ECC SDRAM for $100 a stick.
Weellll... What do we have hear? Another one 'o those youngn's, I reckon. Well, I say, back in my day we had to read the bits over the phone ourselves... None 'o these fancy modem thingamajobs. Yep, it was just "one, zero, one, one, zero, zero, zero, one, zero, two, zero, one, one, zero" all day long. If we wanted to increase transmission speed we'd have to use hex, "one, seven, c, five, nine, two, a, f, six." If we used hexadecimal, and a good phone transfer specialist, we could get up to around 256 bps. Of course, this was on the big iron, so you might expect that they scaled the technology down a bit when they put it in your fancy "modem."
Small nuclear does not necessarily mean hydrogen. Actually, it probably means a small FISSION bomb (aka atomic), which is completely different, much easier to make, and a helluva lot cheaper/smaller.
You'd destroy one of the most politically confusing parts of the world, and probably one of those which has caused the most bloodshed across the world. It'd probably make things a lot simpler.
What would the various sects argue about then?
Whose god destroyed Jerusalem, and thus who needed to be killed/attacked/persecuted this week.
That would only be true if the asteroid was initially sitting motionless in space in relation to Earth's reference frame. Otherwise it'll have some kick-ass initia to add to the equation.
But then what if some other rival country developes "the Asteroid-sized Bomb"? Then we'll all be screwed. Unless those weird looking alien doods from Mars enlighten us with their crystalline tears and show us the power of their non-rotational inertially-conservative M&Ms.
Hell - the whole reason China is stripping out our EP-3 right now is so they will have better tech to spy on the US, Japan, Vietnam, and Thailand, among others.
http://www.china.org.cn/english/index.htm
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/home.html