1. Sell anthrax and other biological weapons to Saddam Hussein. 2. Wait a few years. 3. "Discover" that Iraq owns weapons of mass destruction, and start a war against them. 4. Replace their nasty military dictator with a friendly military dictator. 5. Steal their oil. 6. Profit!
Why isn't NASA interested in sending people to Mars?
NASA is very interested in going to Mars. The ones not interested are referred to as "politicians". And why they are not interested? There's no oil on Mars.
I pay taxes, don't I? But yes, if this war was being funded directly out of citizen's pockets, instead of through taxation, I'd consider my $1,000 well-invested.
Almost as well-invested as the money you paid your government bureaucrats to approve anthrax shipments to Iraq throughout the 1980's? (Yes, even after Halabja, when everyone knew exactly what Saddams intentions were with his chemical and biological weapons.)
In this case, d.net is claiming they cannot insure that the current OGR is indeed the most optimized if nothing is being returned saying otherwise.
Translation: Work done by participants in d.net's OGR effort is useless.
With d.net's processing power, OGR-25 is a ~3 month project. Why don't they tell everyone upfront how many times they have recycled it now, after two years?
Btw, your analysis of why they don't have a result is dead wrong. The algorithm is deterministic. Two bugfree clients running on good hardware will produce the same correct result, and the method used in distributing stubs will cover all possible combinations. But, since both hardware problems can spoil the results, they need to compare redundant pairs of blocks and see if they get the same result. They have no mechanism for that, it's not done. Because of this, throwing CPU time at d.net's OGR effort does not help. If you want to help OGR-25, donate some brain time instead of CPU time, and help them rewrite server and client software.
If the application you want to run is one of the 5000 applications in the "FreeBSD ports collection", then a simple "make install" in the proper directory will download the sources, patch them for FreeBSD, compile and install. If you need to run something that is distributed as binaries only, then FreeBSD has support for the Linux ABI. I run Linux versions of Mathematica and Unreal Tournament 2003 with no problems at all.
I'm a FreeBSD user since three months, and I think FreeBSD is an excellent beginner's unix.
My unix adventures started with downloading Redhat and installing it. It took 30 minutes and I learned nothing. Then I sat there with a system that I had no idea how to configure to my taste. I disliked it and went back to Windows.
My next try was FreeBSD. Installing it took a couple of tries and it took at least a day or two before I was satisfied. But I learned a lot, mainly because of the excellent online documentation. Now I run FreeBSD on all my computers and I am not going back.
That being said, expect Linux to have better support for the latest and greatest hardware. (And expect Windows to have even better hardware support than Linux!) But I'm happy since the recent release of FreeBSD drivers for my NVidia card.
If some rich country would supply the palestinians with politically correct weapons like Apaches and F16:s, I am sure the palestinians would gladly use those instead of suicide bombers.
When the Israeli army evicts the family of a suicide bomber and blows up their house, thereby damaging nearby houses and killing the suicide bombers 8 year old neighbor, how is this behavior morally superior to the palestinians just because the Israeli bombers are not suicide bombers?
If someone would send the Palestinians some tanks and helicopters or other politically correct weapons, I am sure they would gladly use those instead of suicide bombers.
I'm thankful for Americas help during WW2 and all but unless you come up with something more recent to be thankful for, I am going to cheer just as loud for America as I do for Stalin (another WW2 hero), i.e. not at all.
The brightness of the sky would depend on how much of that infinite starlight has had time to reach the Earth. The fact that the sky isn't infinitely bright right now doesn't mean it won't get that way someday.
Yes, that is the solution that Poe came up with to the problem. This solution has not always been known. Before a solution was known the problem was considered a "paradox".
You are correct in that the light from each star dims proportionally to the square of the distance. But the number of stars in a portion of the sky is approximately proportional to the cube of the distance considered, and x/x=x. Let the distance increase towards infinity, and this series will not converge.
That's what causes the problem which Poe solved. (If he was indeed first. He may have been, because in this particular case no other written sources predate him.)
They also forgot to port the license agreement to FreeBSD.
2.1.1 Rights. Customer may install and use one copy of the SOFTWARE on a single computer, and except for making one back-up copy of the Software, may not otherwise copy the SOFTWARE. This LICENSE of SOFTWARE may not be shared or used concurrently on different computers.
2.1.2 Linux Exception. Notwithstanding the foregoing terms of Section 2.1.1, SOFTWARE designed exclusively for use on the Linux operating system may be copied and redistributed, provided that the binary files thereof are not modified in any way (except for unzipping of compressed files).
1. Sell weapons of mass destruction to a military dictatorship. 2. Ignore them for a while. 3. "Discover" that they have weapons of mass destruction, and attack them to destroy these weapons. Replace the hostile military dictatorship with a friendly military dictatorship. 4. Steal their oil. 5. Profit!
... and the scary part is that there is no "????" paragraph.
Not true for GIMPS, which is a project completely separate from Entropia's commercial projects. GIMPS was Entropia's proof of concept before launching their business, and today it is being kept running out of gratitude to George Woltman who provided that test project.
The GIMPS client is provided by Woltman and not by Entropia, and it is incapable of doing anything other than factoring and primality testing mersenne numbers.
The laser screwed up my night vision, although in my case it was PRK and not LASIK. A point of light in a dark environment now appears to have thin threads of light hanging from it, and a larger area of light is surrounded by a light fuzz.
I bailed out before doing my second eye so I can still get decent night vision by wearing glasses, for driving at night and other vision critical tasks.
Trampling on the 1st Ammendment in times of war is long-honored American tradition.
And now that Bush has chosen a war that can neither be won nor lost, the US is closer than ever to the concept of "constant warfare" as practiced by Ingsoc's Oceania.
Not very effective considering that all European TV:s (except maybe cheap 14" noname) can display NTSC as well as PAL. Might have more effect on discs travelling in the other direction across the Atlantic though.
There is a difference between the two kinds of disc, even though it is not a BIG difference.
The disc's contents are either 25 fps (for PAL) or 30 fps (for NTSC). Almost all players can output any color standard, so a from a 25 fps disc you can get true PAL or 25fps "almost-NTSC", and from a 30 fps disc you can get true NTSC or 30fps "almost-PAL". Not so many players, but some anyway, can convert the frequency too and give true PAL or NTSC from any source.
There is a catch in the bill, so that it would not have the undesired effect of granting equality under the law. You are only allowed to sabotage publicly available peer-to-peer systems. I doubt Big Business use those systems, so it will still be illegal for you to attack them even if this bill becomes law.
JAS-39 prototypes have crashed twice because of computer related malfunctions. Once there was too much lag between input and output and the aircraft got its nose smashed into the ground during landing. The other time the computer crashed during straight and level flight, and the plane fell like a rock to the ground in front of an airshow audience of about 500000 people. In this case a reboot would not have saved the plane even if it had been possible to execute one.
They say these problems have been fixed and that seems true because they have moved from prototypes to production and there has not been a computer related crash in nine years next month.
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I have had a 40 GB file on UFS1 so I am pretty sure UFS2 can handle files larger than 2 GB.
Maybe it's "the equivalent of 95%" (about 20 real percent).
How about this one?
1. Sell anthrax and other biological weapons to Saddam Hussein.
2. Wait a few years.
3. "Discover" that Iraq owns weapons of mass destruction, and start a war against them.
4. Replace their nasty military dictator with a friendly military dictator.
5. Steal their oil.
6. Profit!
No, wait...
There is no "?" in that one.
NASA is very interested in going to Mars. The ones not interested are referred to as "politicians". And why they are not interested? There's no oil on Mars.
Almost as well-invested as the money you paid your government bureaucrats to approve anthrax shipments to Iraq throughout the 1980's? (Yes, even after Halabja, when everyone knew exactly what Saddams intentions were with his chemical and biological weapons.)
Translation: Work done by participants in d.net's OGR effort is useless.
With d.net's processing power, OGR-25 is a ~3 month project. Why don't they tell everyone upfront how many times they have recycled it now, after two years?
Btw, your analysis of why they don't have a result is dead wrong. The algorithm is deterministic. Two bugfree clients running on good hardware will produce the same correct result, and the method used in distributing stubs will cover all possible combinations. But, since both hardware problems can spoil the results, they need to compare redundant pairs of blocks and see if they get the same result. They have no mechanism for that, it's not done. Because of this, throwing CPU time at d.net's OGR effort does not help. If you want to help OGR-25, donate some brain time instead of CPU time, and help them rewrite server and client software.
Yeah, if we did not have America, who would then save our butt by supplying Saddam Hussein with anthrax and other biological weapons?
Do they have a mailing list I can sign up for if I want to get updated by e-mail?
If the application you want to run is one of the 5000 applications in the "FreeBSD ports collection", then a simple "make install" in the proper directory will download the sources, patch them for FreeBSD, compile and install. If you need to run something that is distributed as binaries only, then FreeBSD has support for the Linux ABI. I run Linux versions of Mathematica and Unreal Tournament 2003 with no problems at all.
I'm a FreeBSD user since three months, and I think FreeBSD is an excellent beginner's unix.
My unix adventures started with downloading Redhat and installing it. It took 30 minutes and I learned nothing. Then I sat there with a system that I had no idea how to configure to my taste. I disliked it and went back to Windows.
My next try was FreeBSD. Installing it took a couple of tries and it took at least a day or two before I was satisfied. But I learned a lot, mainly because of the excellent online documentation. Now I run FreeBSD on all my computers and I am not going back.
That being said, expect Linux to have better support for the latest and greatest hardware. (And expect Windows to have even better hardware support than Linux!) But I'm happy since the recent release of FreeBSD drivers for my NVidia card.
If some rich country would supply the palestinians with politically correct weapons like Apaches and F16:s, I am sure the palestinians would gladly use those instead of suicide bombers.
When the Israeli army evicts the family of a suicide bomber and blows up their house, thereby damaging nearby houses and killing the suicide bombers 8 year old neighbor, how is this behavior morally superior to the palestinians just because the Israeli bombers are not suicide bombers?
If someone would send the Palestinians some tanks and helicopters or other politically correct weapons, I am sure they would gladly use those instead of suicide bombers.
Yeah, if we did not have America, who would then supply Saddam Hussein with anthrax and other biological weapons?
I'm thankful for Americas help during WW2 and all but unless you come up with something more recent to be thankful for, I am going to cheer just as loud for America as I do for Stalin (another WW2 hero), i.e. not at all.
Yes, that is the solution that Poe came up with to the problem. This solution has not always been known. Before a solution was known the problem was considered a "paradox".
You are correct in that the light from each star dims proportionally to the square of the distance. But the number of stars in a portion of the sky is approximately proportional to the cube of the distance considered, and x/x=x. Let the distance increase towards infinity, and this series will not converge.
That's what causes the problem which Poe solved. (If he was indeed first. He may have been, because in this particular case no other written sources predate him.)
I am using the driver right now with 4.7-RELEASE-p1.
1. Sell weapons of mass destruction to a military dictatorship.
... and the scary part is that there is no "????" paragraph.
2. Ignore them for a while.
3. "Discover" that they have weapons of mass destruction, and attack them to destroy these weapons. Replace the hostile military dictatorship with a friendly military dictatorship.
4. Steal their oil.
5. Profit!
Ranking Sweden at #7 is probably an oversight. Swedish police shot a photographer who was covering a demonstration in Gothenburg last year.
Not true for GIMPS, which is a project completely separate from Entropia's commercial projects. GIMPS was Entropia's proof of concept before launching their business, and today it is being kept running out of gratitude to George Woltman who provided that test project.
The GIMPS client is provided by Woltman and not by Entropia, and it is incapable of doing anything other than factoring and primality testing mersenne numbers.
The laser screwed up my night vision, although in my case it was PRK and not LASIK. A point of light in a dark environment now appears to have thin threads of light hanging from it, and a larger area of light is surrounded by a light fuzz.
I bailed out before doing my second eye so I can still get decent night vision by wearing glasses, for driving at night and other vision critical tasks.
Trampling on the 1st Ammendment in times of war is long-honored American tradition.
And now that Bush has chosen a war that can neither be won nor lost, the US is closer than ever to the concept of "constant warfare" as practiced by Ingsoc's Oceania.
Not very effective considering that all European TV:s (except maybe cheap 14" noname) can display NTSC as well as PAL. Might have more effect on discs travelling in the other direction across the Atlantic though.
There is a difference between the two kinds of disc, even though it is not a BIG difference.
The disc's contents are either 25 fps (for PAL) or 30 fps (for NTSC). Almost all players can output any color standard, so a from a 25 fps disc you can get true PAL or 25fps "almost-NTSC", and from a 30 fps disc you can get true NTSC or 30fps "almost-PAL". Not so many players, but some anyway, can convert the frequency too and give true PAL or NTSC from any source.
There is a catch in the bill, so that it would not have the undesired effect of granting equality under the law. You are only allowed to sabotage publicly available peer-to-peer systems. I doubt Big Business use those systems, so it will still be illegal for you to attack them even if this bill becomes law.
JAS-39 prototypes have crashed twice because of computer related malfunctions. Once there was too much lag between input and output and the aircraft got its nose smashed into the ground during landing. The other time the computer crashed during straight and level flight, and the plane fell like a rock to the ground in front of an airshow audience of about 500000 people. In this case a reboot would not have saved the plane even if it had been possible to execute one.
They say these problems have been fixed and that seems true because they have moved from prototypes to production and there has not been a computer related crash in nine years next month.