1/2 yields zero when integers are used where x86 is faster
True, but this is a Mac-related topic. I'm not sure what the G4/G5s do in the same situation. Hell, I didn't even think Macs were capable of division operations.:-)
I have heard of the 007 save game exploit, but this is the first I've heard of MechAssault having a similar exploit.
I just checked XBoxHacker but there's no reference to it there that I could find. (I don't check the latest XBox hacking new very often, so that's why I only know of one site to check.) Do you have any references to the new exploit?
Jaguar is dead--long live Jaguar!
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Jaguar is Over
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· Score: 1
Jaguar, software, dead at 3
I just heard some sad news at the Apple WWDC - Apple OS software Jaguar was found dead in Cupertino this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to Apple Macintosh users. Truly an American icon.
There's no business like SCO business
Like no business I know
Everything about it is appealing (the verdict!)
Everything that justice will allow!
Nowhere could you get that happy feeling... when you are stealing... that sacred cow!
There's no people like SCO people
They smile when dealing their blows
Even with a comp'ny that you know will fold, you may be stranded out in the cold
Still you wouldn't change it for a sack of gold, let's go on with the SCO!
A warning to experimenters
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PLEASE be careful with ECG or EEG circuits, especially if you're planning to use an oscilliscope to see the wave or a data acquisition board to log the data. The pads and the gel used to adhere them to the skin and lower the resistance to get a good signal can sometimes cause current to flow into the body, especially if the circuit is not optoisolated.
Normally, the skin resistance is high enough to make the current flow negligible; however, when the pads are on, the resistance in the path is very low, and you could seriously injure or kill yourself if even a small amount of circuit flows 'back' through the electrodes.
Professional ECG machines usually have a lot of protection circuitry on their front ends (the instrumentation amplifiers) as well as between the amplifier and the ADC/output circuits to prevent this from happening. This is obviously even more critical in line- (i.e. 110V or 220V-) operated devices.
Sad. I spent many a fun hour in the SGI lab at university, hacking on GL and wondering if we would ever get consumer-level graphic cards that could do that.
I mean, IBM is a great innovator to be sure. But token ring, IMHO, was one of their great misses. Running at 4 or 16 Mbit, it was certainly speedy for its day, but the protocol to implement it is hellish, not to mention the extra hardware to make it work. It's really much more involved than the plug-'n-play 10baseT that we've all gotten used to with the dominance of Ethernet.
I'm sure you've heard the joke--Why are you all on the floor? Someone pulled out the network cable and we're looking for the token. Anyway network topology that relies on peers to propagate a piece of information to its neighbour is doomed to failure.
Is it any wonder jobs by the thousands are going over to India and the Phillipines? With Western programmers thinking they can play games on the company's clock and attempt to justify it as 'productive', I'm not at all surprised to see big multinationals outsource another 15% of their workforce to a far more motivated populace who won't be sidelined by such ridiculous distractions as games.
1 genome (preferably human)
4 eggs
1/4 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1-1/2 teaspoons dry mustard
1 cup cottage cheese
1 cup shredded Jack cheese
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
3 chopped peeled green chiles
One 16-ounce package frozen hash browns
Shaker of paprika --dust top of casserole just before putting in oven - looks pretty.
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Spray a small casserole dish with vegetable oil spray, 7 to 8 inches square or round. Line the pan with 1/2-inch layer of potatoes. Beat eggs. Add dry ingredients and beat well. Blend in remaining ingredients. Batter will be lumpy. Pour in dish and bake 25-30 minutes.
Great. It's bad enough when the sighted try to drive and talk on their cellphone/PDA combos at the same time. I can only imagine what's going to happen to our nation's roadways once the blind drivers start doing the same...
What's it going to take to get not only our legislators in their infinite wisdom, but the general public, to see the deleterious effects that DRM enforcement efforts and laws like the DMCA are/will have on both the entertainment and computer industries and our rights in general?
From experience, it's pretty difficult to explain exactly why the DMCA is so awful to the average person--it's very hard, for me at least, to provide a 60-second explanation of why I should be able to open up my digital VCR and find out how the software controlling it works, or why it's so bad that there's copy protection on a CD, rendering it useless for playing in a computer?
Perhaps if I could find just the right way to frame the argument, and get that message out, we might have some more people concerned about these matters.
I would like to see efforts being made to donate food, water, clothing and basic necessities of life to the Palestineans, forced into refugee camps by the very same IDF that you want fucking pizza given to like a bunch of kids who just won their Little League baseball game.
Where, I wonder, would one buy individual parts for a notebook?
It's pretty easy to go to your local dealer and pick up an Athlon, mobo of your choice, some cheap RAM, hard drive, etc. I have to say that I've never seen notebook parts available a la carte like with regular computer paraphernalia.
Besides, even if you could get those things, I have a hunch it would be far more expensive than getting a brand-new notebook from Dell or Gateway. They buy their parts in bulk and can therefore pass the savings on to the consumer.
I'm totally in favour of self-building, don't get me wrong, but I wonder if the economics of the whole deal doesn't favour just buying a new notebook outright and spending the savings on some accessories.
This isn't some cure that they genetically engineered, spending billions of dollars to splice DNA into an organism. It was literally 'found' in a rock pool. They stumbled across it. That should not give them exclusive rights for 20-30 years (including sneaky tie-in patents after the original patent has expired) to sell this potentially life-saving cure at inflated prices to the world. Rather, this find ought to be shared with researchers who may find additional ways to apply it to other illnesses and bacteria-fighting medicines.
The Republicans and some Democrats in Congress want to stimulate the economy by giving people a tax break. The theory is that they'll go spend the money they're given, thus stimulating the economy.
Now they want to tax Internet sales. Hmmm.
I understand local jurisdictions are under a lot of pressure, what with states and counties running huge deficits and wondering how they will pay for local police and fire departments and social services. But this just seems like a bad move to make at a time like this. With the Internet's sales rising nearly exponentially each year, it would make sense to keep shopping tax-free and hope that Internet spending can help to prop up the economy.
Still, federal proposals to cut taxes sure won't help states and municipalities deal with their budget deficits. Still seems wrong-headed to me, though.
Slashdot Mirror
Louis K. Albright Award for Achievement in Punctuation
Slashdot is the last Web site I'd expect to see take this one home...
Will I hit traffic on this route? Should I go a different way?
If you're trying to access their IIS-run website, then I'd say that's a big 10-4, good buddy.
1/2 yields zero when integers are used where x86 is faster
:-)
True, but this is a Mac-related topic. I'm not sure what the G4/G5s do in the same situation. Hell, I didn't even think Macs were capable of division operations.
I was thinking the same thing too. If
Steve + Steve = Greg
then it follows that
2 Steve = Greg
Steve = Greg / 2
But I'm not sure where to take it from there.
I have heard of the 007 save game exploit, but this is the first I've heard of MechAssault having a similar exploit.
I just checked XBoxHacker but there's no reference to it there that I could find. (I don't check the latest XBox hacking new very often, so that's why I only know of one site to check.) Do you have any references to the new exploit?
Jaguar, software, dead at 3
I just heard some sad news at the Apple WWDC - Apple OS software Jaguar was found dead in Cupertino this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to Apple Macintosh users. Truly an American icon.
What we need is a QUALIT RATING...
Looks like what we need is a QUALIT RATING on the spelling in peoples' posts.
There's no business like SCO business
Like no business I know
Everything about it is appealing (the verdict!)
Everything that justice will allow!
Nowhere could you get that happy feeling... when you are stealing... that sacred cow!
There's no people like SCO people
They smile when dealing their blows
Even with a comp'ny that you know will fold, you may be stranded out in the cold
Still you wouldn't change it for a sack of gold, let's go on with the SCO!
PLEASE be careful with ECG or EEG circuits, especially if you're planning to use an oscilliscope to see the wave or a data acquisition board to log the data. The pads and the gel used to adhere them to the skin and lower the resistance to get a good signal can sometimes cause current to flow into the body, especially if the circuit is not optoisolated.
Normally, the skin resistance is high enough to make the current flow negligible; however, when the pads are on, the resistance in the path is very low, and you could seriously injure or kill yourself if even a small amount of circuit flows 'back' through the electrodes.
Professional ECG machines usually have a lot of protection circuitry on their front ends (the instrumentation amplifiers) as well as between the amplifier and the ADC/output circuits to prevent this from happening. This is obviously even more critical in line- (i.e. 110V or 220V-) operated devices.
...SGI stands for jobs soon gone to India.
Sad. I spent many a fun hour in the SGI lab at university, hacking on GL and wondering if we would ever get consumer-level graphic cards that could do that.
Poor SGI.
Would you rather be stuck with Token Ring?
I mean, IBM is a great innovator to be sure. But token ring, IMHO, was one of their great misses. Running at 4 or 16 Mbit, it was certainly speedy for its day, but the protocol to implement it is hellish, not to mention the extra hardware to make it work. It's really much more involved than the plug-'n-play 10baseT that we've all gotten used to with the dominance of Ethernet.
I'm sure you've heard the joke--Why are you all on the floor? Someone pulled out the network cable and we're looking for the token. Anyway network topology that relies on peers to propagate a piece of information to its neighbour is doomed to failure.
They even use puffs of compressed air to separate sticky pages
Finally! Project Gutenberg will be able to archive every issue of the Playboy magazines I donated!
Is it any wonder jobs by the thousands are going over to India and the Phillipines? With Western programmers thinking they can play games on the company's clock and attempt to justify it as 'productive', I'm not at all surprised to see big multinationals outsource another 15% of their workforce to a far more motivated populace who won't be sidelined by such ridiculous distractions as games.
At least we'll never run out of politicians now. :-)
What is that, a Bob Dylan song about cultivating cannabis plants? I think you probably meant to say Blowin' In The Wind.
Sorry. I'll stop being pedantic now...
Actually, I think I know what happens to computers that don't say no to drugs... :-)
Ingredients
1 genome (preferably human)
4 eggs
1/4 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1-1/2 teaspoons dry mustard
1 cup cottage cheese
1 cup shredded Jack cheese
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
3 chopped peeled green chiles
One 16-ounce package frozen hash browns
Shaker of paprika --dust top of casserole just before putting in oven - looks pretty.
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Spray a small casserole dish with vegetable oil spray, 7 to 8 inches square or round. Line the pan with 1/2-inch layer of potatoes. Beat eggs. Add dry ingredients and beat well. Blend in remaining ingredients. Batter will be lumpy. Pour in dish and bake 25-30 minutes.
Serves 4.
Great. It's bad enough when the sighted try to drive and talk on their cellphone/PDA combos at the same time. I can only imagine what's going to happen to our nation's roadways once the blind drivers start doing the same...
Professor Felten,
What's it going to take to get not only our legislators in their infinite wisdom, but the general public, to see the deleterious effects that DRM enforcement efforts and laws like the DMCA are/will have on both the entertainment and computer industries and our rights in general?
From experience, it's pretty difficult to explain exactly why the DMCA is so awful to the average person--it's very hard, for me at least, to provide a 60-second explanation of why I should be able to open up my digital VCR and find out how the software controlling it works, or why it's so bad that there's copy protection on a CD, rendering it useless for playing in a computer?
Perhaps if I could find just the right way to frame the argument, and get that message out, we might have some more people concerned about these matters.
Geez, dude. check-it-out is the best thing you can come up with for the department, and you finish off by saying, 'if you've got it, I guess?'
Wanna talk about it? C'mon, I'll buy you a beer. (As in free.)
I would like to see efforts being made to donate food, water, clothing and basic necessities of life to the Palestineans, forced into refugee camps by the very same IDF that you want fucking pizza given to like a bunch of kids who just won their Little League baseball game.
Tool.
Where, I wonder, would one buy individual parts for a notebook?
It's pretty easy to go to your local dealer and pick up an Athlon, mobo of your choice, some cheap RAM, hard drive, etc. I have to say that I've never seen notebook parts available a la carte like with regular computer paraphernalia.
Besides, even if you could get those things, I have a hunch it would be far more expensive than getting a brand-new notebook from Dell or Gateway. They buy their parts in bulk and can therefore pass the savings on to the consumer.
I'm totally in favour of self-building, don't get me wrong, but I wonder if the economics of the whole deal doesn't favour just buying a new notebook outright and spending the savings on some accessories.
This isn't some cure that they genetically engineered, spending billions of dollars to splice DNA into an organism. It was literally 'found' in a rock pool. They stumbled across it. That should not give them exclusive rights for 20-30 years (including sneaky tie-in patents after the original patent has expired) to sell this potentially life-saving cure at inflated prices to the world. Rather, this find ought to be shared with researchers who may find additional ways to apply it to other illnesses and bacteria-fighting medicines.
...has got to be the spin cycle. You drink enough of the beer, and the clothes spin my themselves!
Saves a ton on electricity.
The Republicans and some Democrats in Congress want to stimulate the economy by giving people a tax break. The theory is that they'll go spend the money they're given, thus stimulating the economy.
Now they want to tax Internet sales. Hmmm.
I understand local jurisdictions are under a lot of pressure, what with states and counties running huge deficits and wondering how they will pay for local police and fire departments and social services. But this just seems like a bad move to make at a time like this. With the Internet's sales rising nearly exponentially each year, it would make sense to keep shopping tax-free and hope that Internet spending can help to prop up the economy.
Still, federal proposals to cut taxes sure won't help states and municipalities deal with their budget deficits. Still seems wrong-headed to me, though.