linuxd00d: w00t, i got a new linux kernel to compile!
n00b: oh i've heard about that. can i do that in mandrake?
linuxd00d: umm, well, yeah... just make sure you have the kernel header files for your distro.
n00b: great. so what's this new version?
linuxd00d: it's the 2.4.20 kernel...
n00b: LOL ur a newb, that's OLD... I got Mandrake 9.0!
linuxd00d: *sigh*
Anyone remember when 2400BPS (that's a 2.3K modem for you youngins) was really fast? Oh my god, when I bought my USRobotics 28.8K modem, I thought I was going to be shot by some Internet Speed Cop for going too damn fast. Also, remember how they swore it wasn't going to get any faster on phone lines? Then we had 33.6, and they were like "Okay, that's it, the POTS can't handle anymore." Then it was.... USRobotics X2. I saw TWO images downloading AT THE SIME TIME!!! OMG!!! Then came v90, aww how cute, a standard that (sometimes) worked... and then, many years later... I got a cable modem! And I got bored. Kids these days, they wouldn't know the value of a byte if it bit them...
You just know that every time something goes wrong with a satellite, it's because those pesky Klingons use them as target practice... I mean, am I the only one that saw Star Trek V? Err... don't answer that.;)
When you stop and think about failures like this, it's not surprising. What I mean is: less than a million years ago humans were still trying to figure out how to cook food. Silly humans, you.... err... I mean, WE... *ahem*...these aren't the aliens you are look for. You can go about your business. Move along.
I am still somewhat bitter with AMD's pathetic K6 releases, their performance simply didn't measure up as well as others claimed, even with "integer" operations.
Then in all fairness, I am still very bitter about the first Celeron (the one with no L2 Cache at all), and the FC-PGA Celerons, which should have started at 100 MHz bus.
AMD's idea of making a bargin chip is: Let's design a chip that costs less to make. Intel's idea on a bargin chip is: Let's take an expensive chip and cripple it a staggering amount.
I was also wary of how easy it is to crack a core, AMD's physical chip design is simply too unstable, even the frigging huge heat sink is only held on by a tiny clip. Not exactly the positive bolt-on lock that the heat sinks that my Alpha and Xeon system have.
This is a valid and common concern, and I have a friend that cracked his core... but: If you have an AMD-approved heatsink, they are designed to put the exact amount of pressure on the core without crushing it. Also, you can order copper "spacers" which help protect the core from the heatsink, and also aid in cooling. Please check out 1coolpc.com as they have the best computer cooling solutions, period.
I don't know if anyone will read this or not, but I just thought I'd mention:
"The Orc battle cries for the Helm's Deep battle sequence were provided by a stadium of 25,000 cricket fans, who screamed the war chants, spelled out on the Diamond Vision screen, with Jackson himself leading the crowd."
I would not order off most sites listed there, either. There are a lot of no name online vendors that do anything to get listed as the lowest price, so you see stuff like "PRICE FOR PHONE ORDERS ONLY" or "ENTER THIS REALLY ANNOYING PROMO CODE WHEN YOU CHECK OUT BUT IT LIKELY WON'T WORK ANYWAY" etc.
This may sound shocking, but a great place to buy hardware online is eBay. At least with eBay, if something goes wrong, it's usually easier to track down the user than to try dealing with some no name online vendor that might be out of buisness next week. I feel much more confident buying hardware from users with high feedback than online vendors listed on pricewatch.
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As for AMD, I hope they keep making great processors. I've become annoyed with Intel's focus on GHz. Intel's idea of performance seems to be, "Let's just throw lots of clock cycles around!"
Also, if you want a good laugh, you can read my Intel rant. I should warn you though, it's almost totally devoid of logic...;)
Someone here mentioned what distributed computing programs give in return. Not to sound preachy, but it is very simple. The more one gives, the more one recieves. By donating CPU cycles freely, you're doing everyone a favor. Also, keep in mind that it's nearly impossible to be using 100% of your CPU power 100% of the time without running a distributed computing program. Why let your hardware go to waste? Put it to work, make the people that designed those components proud!;)
Are you really so sure? I fear the exact opposite. There would be holodeck addicts. People would find no pantience for real life and its restrictions. Who would want to work for a PHB when he could live in his own version of Babylon?
We'll form some non-profit organizations to deal with people like that by having professionals talk with them and try to curb them off their holodeck habit. While of course it would be a problem, I think it would be a overwhelming minority. For example, there are people that play EverQuest or other MMORPGS and still manage to have an otherwise "normal" life-- you just don't ever hear about them, because it's not newsworthy.
None other than virtual reality! Anyone remember the SNL skit about virtual books? This guy puts on a VR headset, and you think it'll be living the book, when in fact it is a simulation of reading a book, the graphics look poor, and only about 4 words fit on a page...;)
Seriously though, I know the Holodeck doesn't make for good Star Trek episodes, but how many of you Slashdotters wouldn't LOVE to game in that manner. Totally escaping reality, you could experience any aspect of life that you wanted, consequence free. I'm very sure that would cause widespread peace of mind and mental health, because people would have an easy way to vent any destructive urges in a non-destructive manner.
Hopefully, I'll be able to see stuff like this in my lifetime (I am about to turn 21), but perhaps I'd only see the humble starts of true "Holodeck" type technology.
A game that mirrors reality to exacting detail, where the only limits are those of your own imagination-- THAT'S what I want! Hurry up, developers!;)
30 moderator points! What you've created over there is an abomination to all that is sacred, and is quite possibly the most inherently wrong thing in the world today.
Well, back to the new Slashdot for me... gotta burn those points!;) ER, uhm, I mean, I would NEVER indulge in such a guilty pleasure. Sadists!
Here are some pretty Hubble pictures of galaxies feeding. Both the Tadpole galaxy (UGC 10214) and The Mice (NGC 4676) are the result of merging galactic masses.
Celestia is a 3D space simulator much like OpenUniverse. It's avaible for both Windows and *nix OSes. In it, you can view all the planets, some moons, asteroids, and a fair number of stars. Here's a shot of Almathea. They release add-ons every now and then-- you can even download the recently discovered Quaoar!
I've noted that with most MMORPGS, on eBay, the real money isn't in the items themselves, but in high level characters. This is probably because of the insane amount of time it takes to level. Basically, impatient players or players with lives (heh) buy the time from other players, so they can enjoy the high level gameplay without the time investment.
An exception to this would have been the Diablo II expansion right after its release. Accounts basically sold for the value of the individual items. I sold a single item (the Eaglehorn bow) for $1010 USD about a week after the release of the expansion. Of course, Diablo II has sort of been destroyed by hacks. Even if it weren't, graphically, the game looked old when it was released. Now, it just seems ancient.
Yes, my friend, you to can easily add THOUSANDS of $$$ per month to your income by folding@home. Just fold papers and stuff them into envelopes-- so easy I couldn't belive it! Before you think this is too good to be true...
-end lame spam joke-;)
Seriously, this is cool. Perhaps having success in one area will lead the folding@home team to explore totally new areas, and have a breakthrough on something they never even planned to look at. With the recent end of RC5-64, I've switched to F@H, mainly because I feel that, in some small way, it helps to improve the human race.
Why don't we find a way to transfer human minds into machines, then transform ourselves into a race of perfect, immortal machines. Think of the advantages! No more need for organs! Mwa ha ha!
Err... umm... hey, anyone else notice that CowboyNeal is on a roll? Five stories in a row! Is there any reason that he isn't listed in the Hall of Fame with the other/. authors?
Researchers Say Science Is Hurt by Secrecy Policy Set Up by the White
House
By
WILLIAM J. BROAD
The presidents of the National Academies said yesterday that the Bush
administration was going too far in limiting publication of some scientific
research out of concern that it could aid terrorists.
Specifically, they said, the administration's policy of restricting the
publication of federally financed research it deemed "sensitive but
unclassified" threatened to "stifle scientific creativity and to weaken national
security."
The category of "sensitive but unclassified" was poorly defined, the
presidents said in a "Statement on Science and Security in an Age of
Terrorism."
"Experience shows that vague criteria of this kind generate deep
uncertainties among both scientists and officials responsible for enforcing
regulations," the statement said.
Indeed, the policy, experts said, had already resulted in the
administration's withdrawing of thousands of reports and papers from the public
domain.
The National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering and the
Institute of Medicine were created by the federal government to advise it on
scientific and technological matters. But the academies are private
organizations; they do not receive direct federal financing, but appropriations
from the federal agencies for whom they conduct their research.
The presidents' statement is at least partly a reaction to the institutions'
own clash with the policy. Last month, the National Academy of Sciences
published a report on agricultural bioterrorism over the objections of the Bush
administration.
In publishing the report, the academy said, it hoped to help American
scientists identify ways to bolster the nation's biological defenses.
"That's one example," said E. William Colglazier, the executive director of
the National Academy of Sciences. "There are others."
The general problem, Mr. Colglazier added, "is not having clear guidelines
about what constitutes this sensitive area, because people have different
opinions on what should or shouldn't be included. Right now, it's vague and
poorly defined. But it shouldn't be just in the eye of the beholder."
More broadly, the academy presidents said, the government should reaffirm a
principle laid down in 1985 during the Reagan administration: that no
restrictions are placed upon the conduct or reporting of federally financed
fundamental research that is unclassified.
A successful balance between security and openness, the presidents said,
"demands clarity in the distinctions between classified and unclassified
research."
Yesterday's statement was signed by Bruce Alberts, president of the National
Academy of Sciences; William A. Wulf, president of the National Academy of
Engineering; and Harvey V. Fineberg, president of the Institute of Medicine.
Responding to the statement, Gordon D. Johndroe, a spokesman for the White
House Office of Homeland Security, said: "We continue to work with the
scientific community to strike the appropriate balance between national security
information that must be held close and scientific information that should be
available for research purposes."
The tensions began early this year as the Bush administration began taking
wide measures to tighten scientific secrecy in hopes of keeping terrorists from
obtaining weapons of mass destruction. In January, the administration quietly
began withdrawing from public release more than 6,600 technical documents that
dealt mainly with the production of germ and chemical weapons.
Then, in a memorandum to all governmental agencies on March 19, Andrew H.
Card Jr., the White House chief of staff, urged them to redouble security
safeguards. Special attention, he said, should be paid to "sensitive but
unclassified information."
The need to protect information from inappropriate disclosure, Mr. Card
wrote, "should be carefully considered, on a case-by-case basis, together with
the benefits that result from the open and efficient exchange of scientific,
technical and like information."
Soon afterward, the National Academy of Sciences became entangled in the new
policy. The administration asked that an unclassified report it was writing --
"Countering Agricultural Bioterrorism" -- be kept from the public. The report, a
two-year, $400,000 study, was being prepared for the Department of
Agriculture.
The report warned that inadequate inspections at the nation's borders and
gaps in intelligence data on foreign plant and animal pathogens raise the chance
that a terrorist armed with, say, the foot-and-mouth virus, could enter the
country and spread diseases that might cripple the nation's livestock and
plants.
After months of discussions, Dr. Colglazier said, the academy published the
report in September. He said a few detailed examples of the threats to the
nation's food supplies were removed from the published report and placed in an
appendix that was not made public.
"We made our own decision" on what to remove, Dr. Colglazier emphasized.
In their statement yesterday, the academy presidents called for a dialogue
among scientists, engineers, health researchers and policy makers to develop
criteria for determining when to classify or restrict public access to
scientific information.
Among their recommendations, they suggested that a determination be made of
what research bears on possible new security threats. Principles for
researchers, they said, need to address questions like whether some areas of
currently unclassified research should be classified in the new security
environment.
The academies, Dr. Colglazier said, "have recognized that it makes sense to
restrict public access to some areas of sensitive information that is
unclassified," like information about national infrastructures that could be
disrupted by terrorist attacks.
"But the concern," he said, "is that there should be clear guidance on what
information would fall into this category."
I have a bunch of stuff I'd like to sell, like a guitar and a mountain bike and a computer, but I'm not going to bother putting it on eBay because my rating is a big fat zero, and I doubt anyone will want to buy from an unknown quantity such as myself.
No worries! I was there once! Just play Diablo II and get a good eBay rep selling items that don't even exist! Then, when it comes time to sell something in the Real World, everyone will look at your feedback and think, "I have nothing to fear!" -- When in reality you don't know the first thing about packing, insurance rates, shipping costs, etc...
So, is it Xbox Linux or Xbox GNU/Linux? Heh, I feel like a troll for asking that. Better mod me down into oblivion.
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I can't imagine how it is for you, since I've only invested a year into this project, and I was shocked at what a profound impact the end had on me. dnetc had become part of my daily life (especially since at home i have dialup... gotta update those buffers every so often).
I'm going to work on OGR until they start RC5-72 going. Maybe some people would groan at that idea, but hey, I'm all ready for another brute force attack!;)
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THANKS EVERYONE! And no I'm not a troll, but I be an retarded...;)
Slashdot Mirror
By using complete sentences, you've proved that you're smarter than ~99.99% of the slashdot userbase... heh, which probably includes me! :(
linuxd00d: w00t, i got a new linux kernel to compile!
n00b: oh i've heard about that. can i do that in mandrake?
linuxd00d: umm, well, yeah... just make sure you have the kernel header files for your distro.
n00b: great. so what's this new version?
linuxd00d: it's the 2.4.20 kernel...
n00b: LOL ur a newb, that's OLD... I got Mandrake 9.0!
linuxd00d: *sigh*
Anyone remember when 2400BPS (that's a 2.3K modem for you youngins) was really fast? Oh my god, when I bought my USRobotics 28.8K modem, I thought I was going to be shot by some Internet Speed Cop for going too damn fast. Also, remember how they swore it wasn't going to get any faster on phone lines? Then we had 33.6, and they were like "Okay, that's it, the POTS can't handle anymore." Then it was.... USRobotics X2. I saw TWO images downloading AT THE SIME TIME!!! OMG!!! Then came v90, aww how cute, a standard that (sometimes) worked... and then, many years later... I got a cable modem! And I got bored. Kids these days, they wouldn't know the value of a byte if it bit them...
When you stop and think about failures like this, it's not surprising. What I mean is: less than a million years ago humans were still trying to figure out how to cook food. Silly humans, you.... err... I mean, WE... *ahem* ...these aren't the aliens you are look for. You can go about your business. Move along.
I am still somewhat bitter with AMD's pathetic K6 releases, their performance simply didn't measure up as well as others claimed, even with "integer" operations.
Then in all fairness, I am still very bitter about the first Celeron (the one with no L2 Cache at all), and the FC-PGA Celerons, which should have started at 100 MHz bus.
AMD's idea of making a bargin chip is: Let's design a chip that costs less to make. Intel's idea on a bargin chip is: Let's take an expensive chip and cripple it a staggering amount.
I was also wary of how easy it is to crack a core, AMD's physical chip design is simply too unstable, even the frigging huge heat sink is only held on by a tiny clip. Not exactly the positive bolt-on lock that the heat sinks that my Alpha and Xeon system have.
This is a valid and common concern, and I have a friend that cracked his core... but: If you have an AMD-approved heatsink, they are designed to put the exact amount of pressure on the core without crushing it. Also, you can order copper "spacers" which help protect the core from the heatsink, and also aid in cooling. Please check out 1coolpc.com as they have the best computer cooling solutions, period.
"The Orc battle cries for the Helm's Deep battle sequence were provided by a stadium of 25,000 cricket fans, who screamed the war chants, spelled out on the Diamond Vision screen, with Jackson himself leading the crowd."
Read the rest at imdb.com
Do not worry, my friend. I just metamoderated the moderation in question as unfair. You've been vindicated! ;)
This may sound shocking, but a great place to buy hardware online is eBay. At least with eBay, if something goes wrong, it's usually easier to track down the user than to try dealing with some no name online vendor that might be out of buisness next week. I feel much more confident buying hardware from users with high feedback than online vendors listed on pricewatch.
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As for AMD, I hope they keep making great processors. I've become annoyed with Intel's focus on GHz. Intel's idea of performance seems to be, "Let's just throw lots of clock cycles around!"
Also, if you want a good laugh, you can read my Intel rant. I should warn you though, it's almost totally devoid of logic... ;)
Someone here mentioned what distributed computing programs give in return. Not to sound preachy, but it is very simple. The more one gives, the more one recieves. By donating CPU cycles freely, you're doing everyone a favor. Also, keep in mind that it's nearly impossible to be using 100% of your CPU power 100% of the time without running a distributed computing program. Why let your hardware go to waste? Put it to work, make the people that designed those components proud! ;)
We'll form some non-profit organizations to deal with people like that by having professionals talk with them and try to curb them off their holodeck habit. While of course it would be a problem, I think it would be a overwhelming minority. For example, there are people that play EverQuest or other MMORPGS and still manage to have an otherwise "normal" life-- you just don't ever hear about them, because it's not newsworthy.
Seriously though, I know the Holodeck doesn't make for good Star Trek episodes, but how many of you Slashdotters wouldn't LOVE to game in that manner. Totally escaping reality, you could experience any aspect of life that you wanted, consequence free. I'm very sure that would cause widespread peace of mind and mental health, because people would have an easy way to vent any destructive urges in a non-destructive manner. Hopefully, I'll be able to see stuff like this in my lifetime (I am about to turn 21), but perhaps I'd only see the humble starts of true "Holodeck" type technology.
A game that mirrors reality to exacting detail, where the only limits are those of your own imagination-- THAT'S what I want! Hurry up, developers! ;)
Well, back to the new Slashdot for me... gotta burn those points! ;) ER, uhm, I mean, I would NEVER indulge in such a guilty pleasure. Sadists!
At least, I'm not having any trouble logging in... take a look!
Here are some pretty Hubble pictures of galaxies feeding. Both the Tadpole galaxy (UGC 10214) and The Mice (NGC 4676) are the result of merging galactic masses.
Here's a shot of Almathea and of the Galileo probe itself as seen in Celestia.
Celestia is a 3D space simulator much like OpenUniverse. It's avaible for both Windows and *nix OSes. In it, you can view all the planets, some moons, asteroids, and a fair number of stars. Here's a shot of Almathea. They release add-ons every now and then-- you can even download the recently discovered Quaoar!
An exception to this would have been the Diablo II expansion right after its release. Accounts basically sold for the value of the individual items. I sold a single item (the Eaglehorn bow) for $1010 USD about a week after the release of the expansion. Of course, Diablo II has sort of been destroyed by hacks. Even if it weren't, graphically, the game looked old when it was released. Now, it just seems ancient.
I'm really looking forward to World of WarCraft.
-end lame spam joke- ;)
Seriously, this is cool. Perhaps having success in one area will lead the folding@home team to explore totally new areas, and have a breakthrough on something they never even planned to look at. With the recent end of RC5-64, I've switched to F@H, mainly because I feel that, in some small way, it helps to improve the human race.
Err... umm... hey, anyone else notice that CowboyNeal is on a roll? Five stories in a row! Is there any reason that he isn't listed in the Hall of Fame with the other /. authors?
...as long as people like Seanbaby are around to teach them a lesson!
By WILLIAM J. BROAD
The presidents of the National Academies said yesterday that the Bush administration was going too far in limiting publication of some scientific research out of concern that it could aid terrorists.
Specifically, they said, the administration's policy of restricting the publication of federally financed research it deemed "sensitive but unclassified" threatened to "stifle scientific creativity and to weaken national security."
The category of "sensitive but unclassified" was poorly defined, the presidents said in a "Statement on Science and Security in an Age of Terrorism."
"Experience shows that vague criteria of this kind generate deep uncertainties among both scientists and officials responsible for enforcing regulations," the statement said.
Indeed, the policy, experts said, had already resulted in the administration's withdrawing of thousands of reports and papers from the public domain.
The National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine were created by the federal government to advise it on scientific and technological matters. But the academies are private organizations; they do not receive direct federal financing, but appropriations from the federal agencies for whom they conduct their research.
The presidents' statement is at least partly a reaction to the institutions' own clash with the policy. Last month, the National Academy of Sciences published a report on agricultural bioterrorism over the objections of the Bush administration.
In publishing the report, the academy said, it hoped to help American scientists identify ways to bolster the nation's biological defenses.
"That's one example," said E. William Colglazier, the executive director of the National Academy of Sciences. "There are others."
The general problem, Mr. Colglazier added, "is not having clear guidelines about what constitutes this sensitive area, because people have different opinions on what should or shouldn't be included. Right now, it's vague and poorly defined. But it shouldn't be just in the eye of the beholder."
More broadly, the academy presidents said, the government should reaffirm a principle laid down in 1985 during the Reagan administration: that no restrictions are placed upon the conduct or reporting of federally financed fundamental research that is unclassified.
A successful balance between security and openness, the presidents said, "demands clarity in the distinctions between classified and unclassified research."
Yesterday's statement was signed by Bruce Alberts, president of the National Academy of Sciences; William A. Wulf, president of the National Academy of Engineering; and Harvey V. Fineberg, president of the Institute of Medicine.
Responding to the statement, Gordon D. Johndroe, a spokesman for the White House Office of Homeland Security, said: "We continue to work with the scientific community to strike the appropriate balance between national security information that must be held close and scientific information that should be available for research purposes."
The tensions began early this year as the Bush administration began taking wide measures to tighten scientific secrecy in hopes of keeping terrorists from obtaining weapons of mass destruction. In January, the administration quietly began withdrawing from public release more than 6,600 technical documents that dealt mainly with the production of germ and chemical weapons.
Then, in a memorandum to all governmental agencies on March 19, Andrew H. Card Jr., the White House chief of staff, urged them to redouble security safeguards. Special attention, he said, should be paid to "sensitive but unclassified information."
The need to protect information from inappropriate disclosure, Mr. Card wrote, "should be carefully considered, on a case-by-case basis, together with the benefits that result from the open and efficient exchange of scientific, technical and like information."
Soon afterward, the National Academy of Sciences became entangled in the new policy. The administration asked that an unclassified report it was writing -- "Countering Agricultural Bioterrorism" -- be kept from the public. The report, a two-year, $400,000 study, was being prepared for the Department of Agriculture.
The report warned that inadequate inspections at the nation's borders and gaps in intelligence data on foreign plant and animal pathogens raise the chance that a terrorist armed with, say, the foot-and-mouth virus, could enter the country and spread diseases that might cripple the nation's livestock and plants.
After months of discussions, Dr. Colglazier said, the academy published the report in September. He said a few detailed examples of the threats to the nation's food supplies were removed from the published report and placed in an appendix that was not made public.
"We made our own decision" on what to remove, Dr. Colglazier emphasized.
In their statement yesterday, the academy presidents called for a dialogue among scientists, engineers, health researchers and policy makers to develop criteria for determining when to classify or restrict public access to scientific information.
Among their recommendations, they suggested that a determination be made of what research bears on possible new security threats. Principles for researchers, they said, need to address questions like whether some areas of currently unclassified research should be classified in the new security environment.
The academies, Dr. Colglazier said, "have recognized that it makes sense to restrict public access to some areas of sensitive information that is unclassified," like information about national infrastructures that could be disrupted by terrorist attacks.
"But the concern," he said, "is that there should be clear guidance on what information would fall into this category."
No worries! I was there once! Just play Diablo II and get a good eBay rep selling items that don't even exist! Then, when it comes time to sell something in the Real World, everyone will look at your feedback and think, "I have nothing to fear!" -- When in reality you don't know the first thing about packing, insurance rates, shipping costs, etc...
Need proof that this plan works? Just check my feedback! ;)
So, is it Xbox Linux or Xbox GNU/Linux? Heh, I feel like a troll for asking that. Better mod me down into oblivion.
I'm going to work on OGR until they start RC5-72 going. Maybe some people would groan at that idea, but hey, I'm all ready for another brute force attack! ;)
THANKS EVERYONE! And no I'm not a troll, but I be an retarded... ;)