PART I The rant: The data means nothing. The NYT article states that it counted people who actively looked at the "delete my acct" page.
I (used to) have an acc't over at hotmail. When they went evil, I just abandoned it. Why be bothered cancelling it so someone else can use my login name? I assume after 6 months or so of non-use it would die anyhow.
Additionally, it would be a lot more telling to know how many ACTIVE accounts visited the reOpt-Out page, rather than just number of registered users. I'd guess 2/3rds of the acc'ts are abandoned/unused.
Bad premise; meaningless statistics.
PART II The trap: There is no way to retrieve old Yahoo mail off of their servers. I have 2+ years of emails I should burn to CD-R for reference, but there is no way aside from downloading each msg individually. I wrote to Yahoo support asking how, and they came back with: use Yahoo! Briefcase to transfer off large attachments, which works beautifully BTW, but no mail folder compress and download. I'm trapped keeping the acc't alive, even if I abandon using it for incoming mail. I have emails from friends who have since passed away. I don't want to lose them to the whims of Yahoo's success or failure as a business.
[POP3 wasn't up and running over there when I looked into that. Can I now log in and download (all) my mail that way?? (temporarily upgrading to the pay service would be annoying, but possibly worth it)]
EPILOGUE: You mean you actually used your real personal data to register in the first place????
the average 20 mA white LED looks brighter than the average 40W 120V bulb.
For those of you keeping score of the apples and the oranges at home:
Power = Voltage * Current
40W at 120v = 333mA.
So if a 40W bulb puts roughly the same light as a 20mA LED (at 120v-AC - ddzzzzt! power limiting resistors are for wimps!), the LED is 16.6 times more efficent, or put another way, 40W worth of LEDs gives you the equivalent of a 666W bulb. Light up your friggin neighborhood, and still be able to touch the bulb for a few seconds without a bad burn!
Unfortunately, the LED array would be evil and revert back to a red hue.
Personally, I doubt a single LED puts out the same/total/ luminosity as a 40W bulb. Maybe over its small area of focus, but not over the whole room.
[neglecting root mean squares and other stuff, but it's pretty good!]
Now what's all this about the Start button? Maybe Microsoft has predicted that the next step for companies who are trying desperately to get into the desktop (Yahoo, etc.) to offer their own customized Start Menu replacements?
StarOffice 5.2. sorry.
Would be nice to be able to replace it with a cute little letter 'G' shaped like a footprint or something though. oh wait..
It would be a further boon and gift to the world for him to bequeath his body to the Visible Man project once he heads off to that great bit bucket in the sky; in order to provide for a more complete data set. This would preclude dissection, which is kind of wierd to think about having done to you anyhow. [Not that going through a band saw 30,000 times while frozen isn't]
(think scanned sliced cadaver, put back together in 3D on computer; you can play Descent in the veins etc..)
Same reason as including Easter Eggs in your software. Down the road, when you don't get paid, you have some proof that it is your code.
Or perhaps- if you were dedicating several years of your life to a project, wouldn't you want it to be YOU that was the basis for all furtherment of human medical understanding of genetics? (tradition usually uses the wife, but that gets icky in medical related stuff)
"mpg321 is based on the mad MPEG audio decoding library. It therefore is highly accurate, and also uses only fixed-point calculation, making it more efficient on machines without a floating-point unit. . While mpg321 is not as fast as the non-free mpg123 on systems which have a floating point unit, it comes under a fully Free license, which allows greater freedom to its users. For most people who want mpg123, mpg321 is a better alternative."
To sum up, it'll take more juice to run on your Pentium, but can sound better; if you have an embedded device/386SX/RISC/ARM etc it's what you want.
> The arrest of the Indian American is actually new.
> If what has been reported is true about the Indian American being arrested
His name is Abraham Cherian, whitey.
Why the hell is this even mentioned in the slashdot write-up???
Is the original poster insinuating Rod Hill, the BestBuy manager, is racist as well as not too bright in the customer relations dept; or just think the most important thing he can say about a man is his family's heritage?
[stomping on stupidity is more important than breaking the/. blackout. This is a recursive statement.]
The basic problem of adding more and more processors is keeping all the memory in sync. If you have a process that is running across 50 cpus the machine needs to ensure that if one of them updates a variable that all the others work with the current value.
just to throw out an idea.. (which is probably already used, but once again see above) Why not use a 'supernode' system to scale it, ala the FastTrack P2P system... one out of every 16 processors or so is a platoon leader & saves a bit of space to do admin, dishes out checksums to make sure everyone is still on the same page (sorry bout the pun), and reports back to a lieutenant, which reports back to another higher up and so on..
Interesting at least to see where the new P2P scaling work goes anyhow. The laws of nodes that have to talk to each other are fundamentally the same.. it's just the platform based optimizations that differ.. or put another way, the trunk should end up being somewhat simular, even if you're looking at the stalk of a flower or a banyan tree.. actually come to think of it, looking at how various large trees scale could be very interesting.. 1st get tall, next branch out, next fatten the pipe/trunk.. evolution has already figured out the most efficent answers for many things.. can't beat 4 billion years of brute force replication! hrmmmm...
Besides GPS is only good for about 10m (15m if you have the militray ones with the right keys)
well you've mistyped 100m as 10m, but it doesn't matter because Clinton had Selective Availability switched off somewhen around 1 May 2000. Now single freq. civilian GPS has the same accuracy as single freq. military GPS. Everyone now gets better than 10m accuracy, usually better than 20 foot.
Look at the bloody satellite images! Follow one (any) of the links! The included Greenpeace links had nothing to do with the press release & were pretty much offtopic anyways. sheesh.
The big danger of course is if (when) the Ross or Ronne Ice Shelves collapse. They are about 10 degrees further south than the (former) Larson Shelf, and not so exposed, so should hopefully stick around for a while yet. Thing is, they act as a buttress supporting the continental glaicers- when the ice shelves are gone, the kilometer thick ice which is on the land suddenly flows rapidly (well, faster than you'd think anyhows) to the sea and that is when the 200 foot sea level rise stuff happens..
If they could control this thing and bring it down when and where they wanted they could potentially do some interesting stuff. Like having it streak over the opening ceremonies at the Olympics.
you've never met Mr. Murphy have you? You see, he's got this law..
Gives new meaning to a 'messy' PR problem..
'shotput from god kills thousands' or something for the headline..
Now, due to the friction of the tides on the sea floor, the Earth's revolution about its axis is slowly slowing down. Thus the days are getting longer. (Less days/year) Thus seconds (1/86400th day) are getting longer. Thus the distance light travels in that second is getter further, and the 'meter' is growing.
you seem to be only seeing Debian/stable (potato) and Debian/unstable (sid).
Debian/testing (woody) is the missing middle ground.
Granted maybe an automated Woody doesn't belong on mission critical stuff, but either does RedHat 7.0.
And you can have it to hold everything, and only put in the occasional security patch as needed manually.
If you load in a new version of apt-get into Debian/stable (potato), you can do things like keep a potato install (rock solid), put throw in a few modern packages with: 'apt-get install -t ' as needed.
Doing apt-get source & auto build is another easy way to do it with potato.
but it'll sure be nice when Woody does get done though.
seen this one before..
Fuel-Cell Backup Power Under Your Desk
Posted by timothy on Mon December 10, 12:42 AM
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/09/0444 21 6&mode=thread
This may be a prelude to the great battle of the set-top boxes.
The positioning of the.Net enabled XBoxes; TiVo patent lawsuits; embedded Linux.. yea, this could be big.
"CNN watchers who haven't registered with Passport were left in the dark today as XboxTV blocked coverage, claiming CNN used incompatible digital rights management protocols. MSNBC was displaying fine though, for anyone who needed to see the latest news."
It's sort of like calculating the maximum hull speed for steam ships crossing the Atlantic Ocean and saying there is a theoretical maximum speed to intercontinental travel. Then someone comes along and invents airplanes.
Gnutella will mutate and evolve, and will at somepoint in the future be replaced by something better when it starts to fall over.
The demand for Ms. Spears and the Backstreet Boys is just too damn strong for things to stand still.
I enjoyed that this post was next to the announcement that of the new-and-not-so-improved preview of Napster was out..
Like what? The equation editor - I know engineering students who find that very useful for school work.
As someone who needs an eqn editor in my word processor.. MS Eqn editor is the most god awful peice of crap I have ever had the instense displeasure of coaxing into giving me what I want. And I KNOW how to use it properly. It has apparently been replaced in new versions of Office, but the thing wanted me to pay before I saw it was any better. No thanks. I already paid 500 bucks for this lousy.. grumble.. grumble..
Multilingual spellchecking?
Had to set this up for someone recently. Was MUCH easier to get going properly in StarOffice than Word..
>And if you need more, you don't want a word processor, you want a document preparation system
Lyx! (it's a GUI LaTeX frontend) [www.lyx.org]
Most people want a simple, WYSWIG, omnipurpose tool
Lyx! (it's a GUI LaTeX frontend) [www.lyx.org]
You have to settle for WYSIWYM, not "WYSWIG"(?) though. [Pissing in fake hair may do it for you, but not me, bub.]
Not that AbiWord isn't great when I want something fast.
=> Hey- Noticed the website [www.abisource.com] says AbiWord 0.9.6 is out! Hasn't made it to the download page yet though.
The article states that the process of charging up the borax produces pollution, though so does this not (for now) just represent the "make the pollution elsewhere" paradox of electric cars, whereby one uses coal-generated electricity to drive around instead of gasoline, substituting one fossil fuel's energy for another?
The issue is the magnitude of the resultant pollution. Is the goo 10% less nasty on the world than the CO2/SO2/NOx problems? That's a lot less nastiness. I don't know the chemistry of charging borax, I imagine it ain't too pretty, but how much is still the big question.
Consider also that pushing pollution production back to a single point source (eg coal power plant) makes it much easier to minimize, monitor, and scrub the pollution. The plant will want to run as efficiently as possible as much as it can. And it can do a hell of a lot better than your car can due to higher temperatures, stability of reaction/burn, ability to afford high priced scrubbing systems, etc.
Even with transmission line loss, pushing energy production back to a central power plant cleans things up a heap. And when we all get these newfangled super-conducting power lines..
You are confusing the adiabatic (dry) lapse rate with the environmental (actual) lapse rate.
100% dry air cools at ~1deg/100m. Normal air (even in aussie) has moisture in it. Take this parcel of surface air, lift it way up to 1000m or whatever, PV=nRT & all that to it, and it'll expand due to the lower pressure, getting colder as it does. Anyhow colder air can't hold as much moisture, so it condenses into/onto Liquid water dropplets, and a cloud is born. The snazzy & impt. bit is this: when it condenses it releases (drum roll) latent heat. Same 600cal/cc or whatever it took to evaporate it in the first place. Net result: as you lift air up, it releases heat as it goes, and it isn't quite steep of a temperature drop off.. Now, when the in situ air column temp crosses that theoretical dry air drop off rate, you have an unstable situation & weather happens to set things rite.
Or something like that.
Think about when you are 10km up in a plane, outside it's -44 deg or whatever, while it's 15degC down at the surface. 50deg diff/10k.. 1deg/100m would make it -85 & that's not what the inflight plane stats movie says, so I must be right.
Slashdot Mirror
PART I The rant:
The data means nothing. The NYT article states that it counted people who actively looked at the "delete my acct" page.
I (used to) have an acc't over at hotmail. When they went evil, I just abandoned it. Why be bothered cancelling it so someone else can use my login name? I assume after 6 months or so of non-use it would die anyhow.
Additionally, it would be a lot more telling to know how many ACTIVE accounts visited the reOpt-Out page, rather than just number of registered users. I'd guess 2/3rds of the acc'ts are abandoned/unused.
Bad premise; meaningless statistics.
PART II The trap:
There is no way to retrieve old Yahoo mail off of their servers. I have 2+ years of emails I should burn to CD-R for reference, but there is no way aside from downloading each msg individually. I wrote to Yahoo support asking how, and they came back with: use Yahoo! Briefcase to transfer off large attachments, which works beautifully BTW, but no mail folder compress and download. I'm trapped keeping the acc't alive, even if I abandon using it for incoming mail.
I have emails from friends who have since passed away. I don't want to lose them to the whims of Yahoo's success or failure as a business.
[POP3 wasn't up and running over there when I looked into that. Can I now log in and download (all) my mail that way?? (temporarily upgrading to the pay service would be annoying, but possibly worth it)]
EPILOGUE:
You mean you actually used your real personal data to register in the first place????
For those of you keeping score of the apples and the oranges at home:
Power = Voltage * Current
40W at 120v = 333mA.
So if a 40W bulb puts roughly the same light as a 20mA LED (at 120v-AC - ddzzzzt! power limiting resistors are for wimps!), the LED is 16.6 times more efficent, or put another way, 40W worth of LEDs gives you the equivalent of a 666W bulb. Light up your friggin neighborhood, and still be able to touch the bulb for a few seconds without a bad burn!
Unfortunately, the LED array would be evil and revert back to a red hue.
Personally, I doubt a single LED puts out the same
[neglecting root mean squares and other stuff, but it's pretty good!]
Try Digi-Key for better prices and a better selection.
www.digikey.com
[No, I don't even live in the same country as the company]
StarOffice 5.2.
sorry.
Would be nice to be able to replace it with a cute little letter 'G' shaped like a footprint or something though.
oh wait..
It would be a further boon and gift to the world for him to bequeath his body to the Visible Man project once he heads off to that great bit bucket in the sky; in order to provide for a more complete data set. This would preclude dissection, which is kind of wierd to think about having done to you anyhow. [Not that going through a band saw 30,000 times while frozen isn't]
(think scanned sliced cadaver, put back together in 3D on computer; you can play Descent in the veins etc..)
Same reason as including Easter Eggs in your software. Down the road, when you don't get paid, you have some proof that it is your code.
Or perhaps- if you were dedicating several years of your life to a project, wouldn't you want it to be YOU that was the basis for all furtherment of human medical understanding of genetics? (tradition usually uses the wife, but that gets icky in medical related stuff)
That or pure unabashed ego.
From apt-cache show mpg321:
"mpg321 is based on the mad MPEG audio decoding library. It therefore is highly accurate, and also uses only fixed-point calculation, making it more efficient on machines without a floating-point unit.
.
While mpg321 is not as fast as the non-free mpg123 on systems which have a floating point unit, it comes under a fully Free license, which allows greater freedom to its users. For most people who want mpg123, mpg321 is a better alternative."
To sum up, it'll take more juice to run on your Pentium, but can sound better; if you have an embedded device/386SX/RISC/ARM etc it's what you want.
Sorry, make that Cherian Abraham.
> If what has been reported is true about the Indian American being arrested
His name is Abraham Cherian, whitey.
Why the hell is this even mentioned in the slashdot write-up???
Is the original poster insinuating Rod Hill, the BestBuy manager, is racist as well as not too bright in the customer relations dept; or just think the most important thing he can say about a man is his family's heritage?
[stomping on stupidity is more important than breaking the
I'm not a real expert
.. (which is probably already used, but once again see above) Why not use a 'supernode' system to scale it, ala the FastTrack P2P system... one out of every 16 processors or so is a platoon leader & saves a bit of space to do admin, dishes out checksums to make sure everyone is still on the same page (sorry bout the pun), and reports back to a lieutenant, which reports back to another higher up and so on..
me neither, so don't burn me too much..
The basic problem of adding more and more processors is keeping all the memory in sync. If you have a process that is running across 50 cpus the machine needs to ensure that if one of them updates a variable that all the others work with the current value.
just to throw out an idea
Interesting at least to see where the new P2P scaling work goes anyhow. The laws of nodes that have to talk to each other are fundamentally the same.. it's just the platform based optimizations that differ.. or put another way, the trunk should end up being somewhat simular, even if you're looking at the stalk of a flower or a banyan tree.. actually come to think of it, looking at how various large trees scale could be very interesting.. 1st get tall, next branch out, next fatten the pipe/trunk.. evolution has already figured out the most efficent answers for many things.. can't beat 4 billion years of brute force replication! hrmmmm...
shrug. need sleep.
Europe doesn't have a console industry to protect
Surely Amstrad must be working on something?
Running in DOS with a C64 Emulator:i d=668
http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?
[the-underdogs.org abandonware]
or more succinctly:
Correlation does not necessitate causality.
e.g. "Everyone who goes to the dentist dies"
Besides GPS is only good for about 10m (15m if you have the militray ones with the right keys)
well you've mistyped 100m as 10m, but it doesn't matter because Clinton had Selective Availability switched off somewhen around 1 May 2000. Now single freq. civilian GPS has the same accuracy as single freq. military GPS. Everyone now gets better than 10m accuracy, usually better than 20 foot.
+5 Informative?? Methinks -1 Troll.
Look at the bloody satellite images! Follow one (any) of the links! The included Greenpeace links had nothing to do with the press release & were pretty much offtopic anyways.
sheesh.
The big danger of course is if (when) the Ross or Ronne Ice Shelves collapse. They are about 10 degrees further south than the (former) Larson Shelf, and not so exposed, so should hopefully stick around for a while yet. Thing is, they act as a buttress supporting the continental glaicers- when the ice shelves are gone, the kilometer thick ice which is on the land suddenly flows rapidly (well, faster than you'd think anyhows) to the sea and that is when the 200 foot sea level rise stuff happens..
If they could control this thing and bring it down when and where they wanted they could potentially do some interesting stuff. Like having it streak over the opening ceremonies at the Olympics.
you've never met Mr. Murphy have you? You see, he's got this law..
Gives new meaning to a 'messy' PR problem..
'shotput from god kills thousands' or something for the headline..
sigh. all too easy.
Now, due to the friction of the tides on the sea floor, the Earth's revolution about its axis is slowly slowing down. Thus the days are getting longer. (Less days/year) Thus seconds (1/86400th day) are getting longer. Thus the distance light travels in that second is getter further, and the 'meter' is growing.
(yea, yea, relax. I know about leap seconds.. )
you seem to be only seeing Debian/stable (potato) and Debian/unstable (sid).
Debian/testing (woody) is the missing middle ground.
Granted maybe an automated Woody doesn't belong on mission critical stuff, but either does RedHat 7.0.
And you can have it to hold everything, and only put in the occasional security patch as needed manually.
If you load in a new version of apt-get into Debian/stable (potato), you can do things like keep a potato install (rock solid), put throw in a few modern packages with: 'apt-get install -t ' as needed.
Doing apt-get source & auto build is another easy way to do it with potato.
but it'll sure be nice when Woody does get done though.
seen this one before..4 21 6&mode=thread
Fuel-Cell Backup Power Under Your Desk
Posted by timothy on Mon December 10, 12:42 AM
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/09/044
This may be a prelude to the great battle of the set-top boxes.
.Net enabled XBoxes; TiVo patent lawsuits; embedded Linux.. yea, this could be big.
The positioning of the
"CNN watchers who haven't registered with Passport were left in the dark today as XboxTV blocked coverage, claiming CNN used incompatible digital rights management protocols. MSNBC was displaying fine though, for anyone who needed to see the latest news."
Yes, but..
It's sort of like calculating the maximum hull speed for steam ships crossing the Atlantic Ocean and saying there is a theoretical maximum speed to intercontinental travel. Then someone comes along and invents airplanes.
Gnutella will mutate and evolve, and will at somepoint in the future be replaced by something better when it starts to fall over.
The demand for Ms. Spears and the Backstreet Boys is just too damn strong for things to stand still.
I enjoyed that this post was next to the announcement that of the new-and-not-so-improved preview of Napster was out..
Like what? The equation editor - I know engineering students who find that very useful for school work.
As someone who needs an eqn editor in my word processor.. MS Eqn editor is the most god awful peice of crap I have ever had the instense displeasure of coaxing into giving me what I want. And I KNOW how to use it properly. It has apparently been replaced in new versions of Office, but the thing wanted me to pay before I saw it was any better. No thanks. I already paid 500 bucks for this lousy.. grumble.. grumble..
Multilingual spellchecking?
Had to set this up for someone recently. Was MUCH easier to get going properly in StarOffice than Word..
>And if you need more, you don't want a word processor, you want a document preparation system
Lyx! (it's a GUI LaTeX frontend) [www.lyx.org]
Most people want a simple, WYSWIG, omnipurpose tool
Lyx! (it's a GUI LaTeX frontend) [www.lyx.org]
You have to settle for WYSIWYM, not "WYSWIG"(?) though. [Pissing in fake hair may do it for you, but not me, bub.]
Not that AbiWord isn't great when I want something fast.
=> Hey- Noticed the website [www.abisource.com] says AbiWord 0.9.6 is out! Hasn't made it to the download page yet though.
Otherwise we could all get our 50 karma by posting mathematics formulae, now couldn't we?
e^(i*pi) + 1 = 0 must be worth something..
The issue is the magnitude of the resultant pollution. Is the goo 10% less nasty on the world than the CO2/SO2/NOx problems? That's a lot less nastiness. I don't know the chemistry of charging borax, I imagine it ain't too pretty, but how much is still the big question.
Consider also that pushing pollution production back to a single point source (eg coal power plant) makes it much easier to minimize, monitor, and scrub the pollution. The plant will want to run as efficiently as possible as much as it can. And it can do a hell of a lot better than your car can due to higher temperatures, stability of reaction/burn, ability to afford high priced scrubbing systems, etc.
Even with transmission line loss, pushing energy production back to a central power plant cleans things up a heap. And when we all get these newfangled super-conducting power lines..
You are confusing the adiabatic (dry) lapse rate with the environmental (actual) lapse rate.
100% dry air cools at ~1deg/100m. Normal air (even in aussie) has moisture in it. Take this parcel of surface air, lift it way up to 1000m or whatever, PV=nRT & all that to it, and it'll expand due to the lower pressure, getting colder as it does. Anyhow colder air can't hold as much moisture, so it condenses into/onto Liquid water dropplets, and a cloud is born. The snazzy & impt. bit is this: when it condenses it releases (drum roll) latent heat. Same 600cal/cc or whatever it took to evaporate it in the first place. Net result: as you lift air up, it releases heat as it goes, and it isn't quite steep of a temperature drop off.. Now, when the in situ air column temp crosses that theoretical dry air drop off rate, you have an unstable situation & weather happens to set things rite.
Or something like that.
Think about when you are 10km up in a plane, outside it's -44 deg or whatever, while it's 15degC down at the surface. 50deg diff/10k.. 1deg/100m would make it -85 & that's not what the inflight plane stats movie says, so I must be right.