(Grabbed from a NWN Forum post by Derek French - NWN Assistant Producer)
Greetings all:
We are trying to organize a list of Beta Toolset Mirrors. If you have the Toolset and have a mirror of the install files, please post them here.
Also, for your download security pleasure, here are the MD5 checksums for the individual files:
I've been interested in Serial ATA since I first read about it a couple of years ago. I've been disappointed by the lack of news on it's progress, although Intel has apparently been demoing it in their future tech systems. Personally, I think part of the reason for the lack of news is due to wariness from the hard drive manufacturers but it could just be the usual delays in implementing something new. Hopefully, this will only mean a slow introduction and won't kill the new interface. Don't expect serial ata to become the standard until motherboard chipsets start to support it (next year).
To answer the other part of the question, ATA RAID is a good solution for those who can't afford SCSI RAID. But for large organizations with deep enough pockets SCSI is still the best for perfomance, reliability, and warranteed MTBF.
It's that everyone benefits. If they only let us Sci-Fi geeks reap the rewards then sure, tax only us 1%. But if I see a none Sci-Fi person using the next great intellectual property to come out of NASA, I'm going to be pissed.
"Hey, the Sci-Fi people paid for that space age coating on that pan! Hand it over!"
That's why responsible targeted taxes are used to pay for the costs of the tax payer, in theory at least. Such as taxing cigarettes to pay for health costs.
Um, you are metaphysically slapping the faces of programmers who use the GPL. The purpose of the GPL is to make sure that your hard work is used the way you intended. Let's look at this from a business perspective. If I wrote a library for midi playback and sold it for $1 per binary distributed, then my rights to restrict you from using it without paying are clear (I hope). So why shouldn't I be able to do the same thing even if my fee for the library is the sharing of source and not money?
Some of the VIA C3 chips can run with just a heatsink. They even have a list of suggested heatsinks and other parts to build a quiet PC. They are probably the best x86 solution you can find without making this a major home project. You did mention that processing power wasn't a concern and the main drawback of the C3 is that it's FPUs run at half the processors clockspeed.
In the fine print of the code contest, Google wants non-exclusive rights to use and sell your code. Use your code I can understand, after all they are basically paying you a $10,000 contracting fee (assuming you're the first place winner). But if they sell your entry for a profit then why not include a royalty rate in that fine print of theirs. Say "Google agrees to provide 5% of any profit realized from sale of your entry". In a perfect coding world they would even offer royalties on the internal savings or enhanced earnings they receive from utilizing your entry.
Fear mongering. That's what I think when hearing a "sky is falling" remark such as "human evolution has halted". Evolution is a word used to describe the change of a species of lifeform over time. It describes how inefficient species can be driven to extinction by climate change, competition and many other natural pressures. For humans, society (read: other humans) must be considered when charting our evolution. We are social animals, our individual survival is intertwined with the survival of our fellow humans. We will continue to adapt to what best suits both natural and human-made external problems; food, pollution, adequate clean water, disease, over prescribed medication, etc. We will also adapt to the social structures we have created.
That covers the basic reasons evolution will continue. The real question is how will our evolution change us? Answer, no one knows. We can only continue to study ourselves and analyze past data. That's one of the reasons mapping the human genome is interesting, it's ability to give us a basic outline which can be filled in as time passes.
I am curious about one part of our evolution. Will improving our medicine and health services weaken individual people? If you are never exposed to a disease or germs of any kind, how can you develop immunities? If we save all those people that it is possible to save with modern medicine, are we weakening our species?
Note: The fact that our current civilization has existed for less than a second of human evolution and it's questionable longevity not discussed.
The few hard drives I have had fail over time, the bad block blackhole, have always failed due to heat issues. This is especially true for 10K and 15K rpm SCSI drives. One particular PC chassis of mine was on an IBM 18GB 10K SCSI drive killing spree, until I stuck the latest drive in a well ventilated 5.25" slot.
Now that I've given my opinion on hard drives and heat, I'm going to reinforce some advice that has already been posted. If at all possible mirror your data drives. If your data is of a life or death nature create a backup system and don't forget to regularly verify backups.
--I'm just glad electronic devices work most of the time.
As others have pointed out, the Reuters story does not try to assign any credibility to the man claiming to have created a device that can create more energy than it draws in. It's called the NEWSNOT the FACTS. They just thought it was nice filler, no need to pop a blood vessel.
With that part out of the way, let me give a more reasonable analysis. The idea that a system can't produce more than it takes in is a very good one, it makes sense to a layman and a highly educated scientist. Remember though, for this law to be applied the system must be CLOSED. It is possible to extract energy from a source outside the physical confines of a device, Michael. Ever heard of solar cells? Wind turbines? OTECs? Tidal generators? The Hoover Dam? I'm not going to say this particular person has found another way to extract energy that already exists outside his system and use it to generate a current. But please don't be so pig headed, science is about analysing things using an established method. If it wasn't for reactions like yours maybe people would be more open to scientific testing of such devices (the ones that weren't would probably be scam artists or people afraid their idea will be stolen by unscrupulous corporations/governments).
One final note, humans can't yet replicate the reactions found in our sun. Does that mean we can't use the energy the Sun bombards Earth with or that it's pointless to try to replicate the process the Sun uses?
Mirrored disks are the best way to go right now. Mirrored disks will protect you from data loss if one of the hard drives fail. Tape solutions in the 100GB range are way out of consumer reach. If your concerned about other sources of data loss; such as fire, flood, etc. consider another suggestion made here and backup only critical files to CD-R(W).
Slashdot Mirror
(Grabbed from a NWN Forum post by Derek French - NWN Assistant Producer)
Greetings all:
We are trying to organize a list of Beta Toolset Mirrors. If you have the Toolset and have a mirror of the install files, please post them here.
Also, for your download security pleasure, here are the MD5 checksums for the individual files:
AUTORUN.INF - C14C468795575BCE73D84989262479B4
data1.cab - 181F15C7F19E07C92727D9C49E820E40
data1.hdr - B4F103D55E8FFAAA94505716A7C82DE1
data2.cab - A7B82CE88F1FAF469892FC12208655D8
ikernel.ex_ - 4D63BBFF28AFC7A69B6DEFAF048306A7
layout.bin - 26D40B394685321838E00002C30CBEE7
readme.txt - 6CD49925A70C04B3393DEF39F44F4B51
setup.bmp - 03A01D22277FFC06F91B475696946B81
Setup.exe - 1AEB989E361AF85F5099DE3DA25457F4
Setup.ini - FEB5DB091554FE2E65CFED8E2E9D292A
setup.inx - 5AFB35300108D078A2B942DD85759E45
FilePlanet version: NWN_Tools_BETA.EXE - 6D4B52FE7264C16BE9A0A3B506E9456C
MIRROR LIST: 3D Gamers Link
(End of Derek's Post)Baron Bosse Link
FilePlanet Link
gec Link Link Link
Yet another mirror I have found: Neverwinter Vault Link
I've been interested in Serial ATA since I first read about it a couple of years ago. I've been disappointed by the lack of news on it's progress, although Intel has apparently been demoing it in their future tech systems. Personally, I think part of the reason for the lack of news is due to wariness from the hard drive manufacturers but it could just be the usual delays in implementing something new. Hopefully, this will only mean a slow introduction and won't kill the new interface. Don't expect serial ata to become the standard until motherboard chipsets start to support it (next year).
The article that peaked my original interest - Anandtech Serial ATA
To answer the other part of the question, ATA RAID is a good solution for those who can't afford SCSI RAID. But for large organizations with deep enough pockets SCSI is still the best for perfomance, reliability, and warranteed MTBF.
It's that everyone benefits. If they only let us Sci-Fi geeks reap the rewards then sure, tax only us 1%. But if I see a none Sci-Fi person using the next great intellectual property to come out of NASA, I'm going to be pissed.
"Hey, the Sci-Fi people paid for that space age coating on that pan! Hand it over!"
That's why responsible targeted taxes are used to pay for the costs of the tax payer, in theory at least. Such as taxing cigarettes to pay for health costs.
If so, then counter my above arguments.
Um, you are metaphysically slapping the faces of programmers who use the GPL. The purpose of the GPL is to make sure that your hard work is used the way you intended. Let's look at this from a business perspective. If I wrote a library for midi playback and sold it for $1 per binary distributed, then my rights to restrict you from using it without paying are clear (I hope). So why shouldn't I be able to do the same thing even if my fee for the library is the sharing of source and not money?
Some of the VIA C3 chips can run with just a heatsink. They even have a list of suggested heatsinks and other parts to build a quiet PC. They are probably the best x86 solution you can find without making this a major home project. You did mention that processing power wasn't a concern and the main drawback of the C3 is that it's FPUs run at half the processors clockspeed.
Unfortunately...
Adding three parantheses, does not improve the flow, by a significant factor, of the quote.
In the fine print of the code contest, Google wants non-exclusive rights to use and sell your code. Use your code I can understand, after all they are basically paying you a $10,000 contracting fee (assuming you're the first place winner). But if they sell your entry for a profit then why not include a royalty rate in that fine print of theirs. Say "Google agrees to provide 5% of any profit realized from sale of your entry". In a perfect coding world they would even offer royalties on the internal savings or enhanced earnings they receive from utilizing your entry.
*sigh*
Fear mongering. That's what I think when hearing a "sky is falling" remark such as "human evolution has halted". Evolution is a word used to describe the change of a species of lifeform over time. It describes how inefficient species can be driven to extinction by climate change, competition and many other natural pressures. For humans, society (read: other humans) must be considered when charting our evolution. We are social animals, our individual survival is intertwined with the survival of our fellow humans. We will continue to adapt to what best suits both natural and human-made external problems; food, pollution, adequate clean water, disease, over prescribed medication, etc. We will also adapt to the social structures we have created.
That covers the basic reasons evolution will continue. The real question is how will our evolution change us? Answer, no one knows. We can only continue to study ourselves and analyze past data. That's one of the reasons mapping the human genome is interesting, it's ability to give us a basic outline which can be filled in as time passes.
I am curious about one part of our evolution. Will improving our medicine and health services weaken individual people? If you are never exposed to a disease or germs of any kind, how can you develop immunities? If we save all those people that it is possible to save with modern medicine, are we weakening our species?
Note: The fact that our current civilization has existed for less than a second of human evolution and it's questionable longevity not discussed.
The few hard drives I have had fail over time, the bad block blackhole, have always failed due to heat issues. This is especially true for 10K and 15K rpm SCSI drives. One particular PC chassis of mine was on an IBM 18GB 10K SCSI drive killing spree, until I stuck the latest drive in a well ventilated 5.25" slot.
Now that I've given my opinion on hard drives and heat, I'm going to reinforce some advice that has already been posted. If at all possible mirror your data drives. If your data is of a life or death nature create a backup system and don't forget to regularly verify backups.
--I'm just glad electronic devices work most of the time.
As others have pointed out, the Reuters story does not try to assign any credibility to the man claiming to have created a device that can create more energy than it draws in. It's called the NEWS NOT the FACTS. They just thought it was nice filler, no need to pop a blood vessel.
With that part out of the way, let me give a more reasonable analysis. The idea that a system can't produce more than it takes in is a very good one, it makes sense to a layman and a highly educated scientist. Remember though, for this law to be applied the system must be CLOSED. It is possible to extract energy from a source outside the physical confines of a device, Michael. Ever heard of solar cells? Wind turbines? OTECs? Tidal generators? The Hoover Dam? I'm not going to say this particular person has found another way to extract energy that already exists outside his system and use it to generate a current. But please don't be so pig headed, science is about analysing things using an established method. If it wasn't for reactions like yours maybe people would be more open to scientific testing of such devices (the ones that weren't would probably be scam artists or people afraid their idea will be stolen by unscrupulous corporations/governments).
One final note, humans can't yet replicate the reactions found in our sun. Does that mean we can't use the energy the Sun bombards Earth with or that it's pointless to try to replicate the process the Sun uses?
Who moderates the moderators? -- Not a sig.Mirrored disks are the best way to go right now. Mirrored disks will protect you from data loss if one of the hard drives fail. Tape solutions in the 100GB range are way out of consumer reach. If your concerned about other sources of data loss; such as fire, flood, etc. consider another suggestion made here and backup only critical files to CD-R(W).
Any ideas on how to make the internet truly separate from control by nations and entities who relay traffic?