I got in trouble for opening a command prompt in NT, because I was "accessing DOS"
ARGH! Is their nothing more annoying than having that said to you? My god - not only does it show their utter incompetance and lack of understanding when it comes to computer but you get in trouble for it. Oh my god.
Sigh. 4 years ago and I still get mad. Heh, oh well things will eventually change I hope.
At any rate, the simple fact is that 90% or so (and that is probably too low) of Slashdot readers hate the MPAA and the RIAA, or at least disapprove of their tactics and goals. Yet everytime a new 'geeky' film comes out we desperately want it. It's hypocritical. If you hate the MPAA why are we supporting it by buying their movies?
Amen on that. I work in a university library and people believe that it is their god-given right to look at all the goatse.cx they can fit on their screens.
Of course, telling them that the computers where bought with student funds and not gov't funds, meaning we can censor them, usually gets an annoyed response. Just like what is happening with this topic.
People like this boggle my mind. I am a member of the ACLU allright? It's not like I don't believe in free speech and all the men's gaping a**holes you can see, but not in a student-funded library intended for academic use only OR in schools where kids should be learning - not masturbating to the latest photoshopped Britney Spears pr0n.
People should be HAPPY that they decided to blacklist the stuff and not simply filter it (shudder, filtering software is horrid, horrid stuff) which would honestly hurt kids freedom of speach. Really, this isn't very much of an issue. You are in school to learn, not to loook at all the porn you can handle.
SPEAKING of Osama Bin Laden effects and the general unrest it is causing to all americans listen to this:
I'm gong to Canada for fishing in the summer and (apparently) they got it into their crazy ice-clogged heads that I need to have a passport. I mean, wtf. Stupid bin laden giving the canadians a reason to pretend like they ain't a state.'
So then the eye 'sees' the green/red frame but simply disregards it as erroneous information? While when it sees the word in the matrix your brain somehow interprets/recognizes those words as important.
Sure, alot of ISP's still survive. Internet Nebraska in Nebraska has survived for nearly 10 years and provided service across nearly the entire state including DSL and in the face of stiff competition (Alltell, Road Runner, Cox Cable). As a matter of fact they are even rolling out Wireless in some parts of the state.
Of course, they have a different attitude than most ISP's - they don't have the latest and greatest in tech. As a matter of fact the tech desk machines are old Sparc stations (30mhz I believe) and most of their equipment is bought off E-bay. Doesn't make a difference; their uptimes and such are excellent, and they are the largest ISP in Nebraska - and no I don't work for them.
The problem with most of the ISP's you listed is that they expanded too fast, and spent too much buying the latest and greatest equipment with no thought of if they where going to be able to recoup the costs.
Interesting. I was always told that above 40fps or so the eye couldn't detect any sort of differences. My film studies teacher said they conducted tests where they would put in say, a green frame, in a single frame at 60-70 fps and noone would ever notice. But perhaps he was just talking about movie technology - not computers.
You would be suprised at the number of people who believe that FPS really makes a difference. Try telling your average person that the human eye can't detect anything over about 40fps (ideal situation,near perfect eyesight). You're 85fps is waayyyy too high, if you are in collge try taking a film studies class they will explain the nuances of FPS to you, and the limitations of human eyesight.Also,try telling them that movies run at 24fps and they won't believe you.
The fact is most people believe that 339 FPS is somehow better than 35 fps (which it isn't). Because of this these chips will sell. Of course, on the other hand you also have to realize that eventually there will be a application that will use that much power.
Worse, we're supporting the devils in the MPAA buy buying it
Slashdot: MPAA IS EVIL, EVIL I TELLS YOU!! They are going to destroy us, eat our children, sacrifice us to the gods of greed, destroy the very fabric of this country......
Ohhhhhhhhhhhh Whats that?
I live, and have lived, all over the midwest (Minneapolis,Lincoln,N. Dakota). You dont need a 4WD to get around in the winter. What you need is to learn the basics of how cars handle in the snow and you will have no problem. Anti-Lock Brakes, and a Manual Tranny will do you just fine in anything less that 11 inches of snow (at that point the snow hits the level of the car which is another problem entirely.)
THe problem with SUV's is that people think that it is an invinvible snow machine. I am tired of people buying huge-ass SUV's and thinking that it gives them the god-entitled right to go 50 mph when there is 1 foot of snow on the ground and then watching them smear themselves across a ditch or a storefront. Course, evolution in action I suppose..
So sadly true. The worst part is half the time they want you to use some P.O.S. WYSIWYG editor like front page or dreamweaver. Sad.. very, very, very sad.
I dropped the class I was in after they refused to not make me use either dreamweaver/frontpage and I insited on not only coding it by hand but *shock* validating my HTML with the W3C's validator. The teacher was none too happy when I pointed out that most of hte crap he was teaching wasn' valid HTML standards and shouldn't be used. Oh well. Hooray for college education.
instead of "the choice of oppressive gov'ts etc" why not point out that you are forcing the Chinese gov't to release it's source code and pointing out the benefits of a free market system?
About the GPL, they are following it, the code is freely available. So far at least.
I don't mean to become flamebait here but shouldn't all the *nix people be dancing around a fire singing the praises of Red Flag and the chinese govt's decisions to use it?
I mean, it says something that the world's largest gov't decided to pick Linux instead of any other operating system (Cough Cough; The Beast of Redmond). Sure their Distro isn't going to be the best - it's their first try after all. But eventually they could really but something together that is a nice, good, stable distro. Consider if any of the other Distros had the resources of an entire gov't behind them.
Allright, the chinese gov't isn't anything close to being perfect, or even tolerable, but you have to give them credit for making the right choice here by using a customizable, and free, product. Far from isolating themselves on the Tech Front i'd say they where doing a pretty good job of jumping in.
One last statement: Since Red Flag is GPL that means that the entire source code has to be realesed etc, etc. Quite neat isn't it? That a totalitarian, communist country is being 'forced' (yeah I'd like to see em prosecute them for a violation of the GPL) to release it's precious code to it's next-gen op system. Quite an accomplishment.
That's called the Harem effect (or something like that). Basically you get any number of women, greater than 1, put them into close contact with each other and they all have their period at the (nearly) same time. Well documented phenomeon(sp?).
Harem, because a man could impregnate his entire Harem in a single day since they all became fertile on the same day.
I am really, really glad I decided to block Media Player from the accessing the internet (thank god for ZoneAlarm).
I believe this should nip this problem in the bud. Another reason this is really a non-issue: simply block Media Players access to the internet with some sort of firewall. Not the hardest thing to accomplish.
Is it just me or does everybody else think it's sad that Slashdot brought the NASA sites too their knees. Sure they can put men on the moon but can they withstand the slashdot effect?
The key is your *laptop* cpu. Laptop's use an entirely different type of CPU than pc's that is the reason. Also, a windows system is 'never at rest'. Whether it's running your network or the system clock it is using up CPU resources. However, not all of them. For some reason (not a computer engineer) the CPU is always, or has to always be, used at 100%. Something like that anyways.
I don't believe any version of windows (excetp maybe 2000/XP) do this.
The only way seti@home increases your power bill in any way is if you leave you computer on just for seti. Alot of users leave their computers ona nyways..
At any rate Seti doesn't use any extra power if your computer is running anyways since a CPU is always at 100% anyways (cept instead of SETI data it is doing Idle Loop calcs).
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I got in trouble for opening a command prompt in NT, because I was "accessing DOS"
ARGH! Is their nothing more annoying than having that said to you? My god - not only does it show their utter incompetance and lack of understanding when it comes to computer but you get in trouble for it. Oh my god.
Sigh. 4 years ago and I still get mad. Heh, oh well things will eventually change I hope.
This isn't the borg collective here
Speak for yourself - I was assimilated years ago.
At any rate, the simple fact is that 90% or so (and that is probably too low) of Slashdot readers hate the MPAA and the RIAA, or at least disapprove of their tactics and goals. Yet everytime a new 'geeky' film comes out we desperately want it. It's hypocritical. If you hate the MPAA why are we supporting it by buying their movies?
Amen on that. I work in a university library and people believe that it is their god-given right to look at all the goatse.cx they can fit on their screens.
Of course, telling them that the computers where bought with student funds and not gov't funds, meaning we can censor them, usually gets an annoyed response. Just like what is happening with this topic.
People like this boggle my mind. I am a member of the ACLU allright? It's not like I don't believe in free speech and all the men's gaping a**holes you can see, but not in a student-funded library intended for academic use only OR in schools where kids should be learning - not masturbating to the latest photoshopped Britney Spears pr0n.
People should be HAPPY that they decided to blacklist the stuff and not simply filter it (shudder, filtering software is horrid, horrid stuff) which would honestly hurt kids freedom of speach. Really, this isn't very much of an issue. You are in school to learn, not to loook at all the porn you can handle.
SPEAKING of Osama Bin Laden effects and the general unrest it is causing to all americans listen to this:
I'm gong to Canada for fishing in the summer and (apparently) they got it into their crazy ice-clogged heads that I need to have a passport. I mean, wtf. Stupid bin laden giving the canadians a reason to pretend like they ain't a state.'
P.S.
Sarcasm. No Offense. =)
So then the eye 'sees' the green/red frame but simply disregards it as erroneous information? While when it sees the word in the matrix your brain somehow interprets/recognizes those words as important.
Very interesting. Thank you
Sure, alot of ISP's still survive. Internet Nebraska in Nebraska has survived for nearly 10 years and provided service across nearly the entire state including DSL and in the face of stiff competition (Alltell, Road Runner, Cox Cable). As a matter of fact they are even rolling out Wireless in some parts of the state.
Of course, they have a different attitude than most ISP's - they don't have the latest and greatest in tech. As a matter of fact the tech desk machines are old Sparc stations (30mhz I believe) and most of their equipment is bought off E-bay. Doesn't make a difference; their uptimes and such are excellent, and they are the largest ISP in Nebraska - and no I don't work for them.
The problem with most of the ISP's you listed is that they expanded too fast, and spent too much buying the latest and greatest equipment with no thought of if they where going to be able to recoup the costs.
Interesting. I was always told that above 40fps or so the eye couldn't detect any sort of differences. My film studies teacher said they conducted tests where they would put in say, a green frame, in a single frame at 60-70 fps and noone would ever notice. But perhaps he was just talking about movie technology - not computers.
Who needs 339 FPS when they're playing Quake?
You would be suprised at the number of people who believe that FPS really makes a difference. Try telling your average person that the human eye can't detect anything over about 40fps (ideal situation,near perfect eyesight). You're 85fps is waayyyy too high, if you are in collge try taking a film studies class they will explain the nuances of FPS to you, and the limitations of human eyesight.Also,try telling them that movies run at 24fps and they won't believe you.
The fact is most people believe that 339 FPS is somehow better than 35 fps (which it isn't). Because of this these chips will sell. Of course, on the other hand you also have to realize that eventually there will be a application that will use that much power.
Worse, we're supporting the devils in the MPAA buy buying it
Slashdot: MPAA IS EVIL, EVIL I TELLS YOU!! They are going to destroy us, eat our children, sacrifice us to the gods of greed, destroy the very fabric of this country...... Ohhhhhhhhhhhh Whats that?
MPAA: New BladeRunner Directors Cut
Slashdot: Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!
Slightly off topic here but:
I live, and have lived, all over the midwest (Minneapolis,Lincoln,N. Dakota). You dont need a 4WD to get around in the winter. What you need is to learn the basics of how cars handle in the snow and you will have no problem. Anti-Lock Brakes, and a Manual Tranny will do you just fine in anything less that 11 inches of snow (at that point the snow hits the level of the car which is another problem entirely.)
THe problem with SUV's is that people think that it is an invinvible snow machine. I am tired of people buying huge-ass SUV's and thinking that it gives them the god-entitled right to go 50 mph when there is 1 foot of snow on the ground and then watching them smear themselves across a ditch or a storefront. Course, evolution in action I suppose..
So sadly true. The worst part is half the time they want you to use some P.O.S. WYSIWYG editor like front page or dreamweaver. Sad.. very, very, very sad.
I dropped the class I was in after they refused to not make me use either dreamweaver/frontpage and I insited on not only coding it by hand but *shock* validating my HTML with the W3C's validator. The teacher was none too happy when I pointed out that most of hte crap he was teaching wasn' valid HTML standards and shouldn't be used. Oh well. Hooray for college education.
No, only the ice at the.. crap.. southern (I'm 90% sure) pole is C02. The northen Cap is mostly water ice.
instead of "the choice of oppressive gov'ts etc" why not point out that you are forcing the Chinese gov't to release it's source code and pointing out the benefits of a free market system?
About the GPL, they are following it, the code is freely available. So far at least.
I don't mean to become flamebait here but shouldn't all the *nix people be dancing around a fire singing the praises of Red Flag and the chinese govt's decisions to use it?
I mean, it says something that the world's largest gov't decided to pick Linux instead of any other operating system (Cough Cough; The Beast of Redmond). Sure their Distro isn't going to be the best - it's their first try after all. But eventually they could really but something together that is a nice, good, stable distro. Consider if any of the other Distros had the resources of an entire gov't behind them.
Allright, the chinese gov't isn't anything close to being perfect, or even tolerable, but you have to give them credit for making the right choice here by using a customizable, and free, product. Far from isolating themselves on the Tech Front i'd say they where doing a pretty good job of jumping in.
One last statement: Since Red Flag is GPL that means that the entire source code has to be realesed etc, etc. Quite neat isn't it? That a totalitarian, communist country is being 'forced' (yeah I'd like to see em prosecute them for a violation of the GPL) to release it's precious code to it's next-gen op system. Quite an accomplishment.
I'm fairly sure that their attitude, at least mine would be, So Many Women, So Little Time.
=)
That's called the Harem effect (or something like that). Basically you get any number of women, greater than 1, put them into close contact with each other and they all have their period at the (nearly) same time. Well documented phenomeon(sp?).
Harem, because a man could impregnate his entire Harem in a single day since they all became fertile on the same day.
I am really, really glad I decided to block Media Player from the accessing the internet (thank god for ZoneAlarm).
I believe this should nip this problem in the bud. Another reason this is really a non-issue: simply block Media Players access to the internet with some sort of firewall. Not the hardest thing to accomplish.
Heh, no offense intended.
I don't suppose you could make an "emergency allocation" for bandwidth? =)
Welcome to the Brave New World my friend.
On a happy note, you could just continue broadcasting and hope the new rates won't be passed into law anytime soon.
Is it just me or does everybody else think it's sad that Slashdot brought the NASA sites too their knees. Sure they can put men on the moon but can they withstand the slashdot effect?
Ha! That guy finally figured out those equations Scotty gave to him back in Star Trek IV! Another technological breakthough thanks to good 'ol Scotty.
I haven't read the article
Hell man, It's slashdot. Reading the article is hardly the point! Geesh, you new here?
=)
Let me find a link.. well the seti@homes faq tells this:<BR><BR>
.5 Calories to heat up 1 degrees Centigrade (or so.. might be off by a bit). At any rate if your CPU heats up by 10 degrees that means that their is an heat displacement of 5 calories or so. In the grand scheme of thigns not enough to make you worry at all. (As a note, it takes 540 Calories to boil 1 cubic gram of water).
Now windows only shows you the amount of CPU available- b/c of the design of modern day chips something is always running through them, an idle loop. If your computer is using 73% CPU than the other 27% is being used by the idle loop. See, your computer does 1GHZ cycles we will say. Well ok your computer is only doing 700mhz of that. What the hell is the chip supposed to do? Ignore? Skip cycles? It can't so it uses an idle loop.
THe diff. (and the reason the temp rises) has something to do with the fact that the idle loop is some real easy instruction, say 1 AND 0 STORE 1E, over and over again, while SETI is far more complex and requires more stages and gates to go through, generating more heat.
However, the change in energy required is neglible. Most CPU's run at 2.2V (I believe) CONSTANT. No matter what. If they run less than that then the MHZ goes down (clock is regulated by voltage - that is what overclocking does). The temp raise is due to the fact that the CPU is using more of itself, using more heat.
Silicon takes, roughly
The key is your *laptop* cpu. Laptop's use an entirely different type of CPU than pc's that is the reason. Also, a windows system is 'never at rest'. Whether it's running your network or the system clock it is using up CPU resources. However, not all of them. For some reason (not a computer engineer) the CPU is always, or has to always be, used at 100%. Something like that anyways.
I don't believe any version of windows (excetp maybe 2000/XP) do this.
The only way seti@home increases your power bill in any way is if you leave you computer on just for seti. Alot of users leave their computers ona nyways..
At any rate Seti doesn't use any extra power if your computer is running anyways since a CPU is always at 100% anyways (cept instead of SETI data it is doing Idle Loop calcs).