I still fail to see how this is not going to mix up the signals from various different chips without modulating the ones and zeros, and thus, how it is going to be faster than direct electrical connections at light speed. But they've probably spent some time thinking about it so i'll believe it for now. What I think is spectacular about the idea are the possibilities to cluster. Now if they make them transparent and solar powered and spherical, building a supercomputer may get as simple as filling up a pool with marbles.
I actually tried something similar. The mother of a friend had bought an old second hand machine that wouldnt accept an IDE CD-ROM drive yet. So I took out the hard drive and installed windows 3.1 on my own machine to put back the drive later. Sure enough, win 3.1 absolutely *flies* on a 233 MHz pentium.
>> Water is HEAVY -- 7 pounds per gallon > Except, water is 8 pounds per gallon.
Yay metric system! By definition, it is 1 kilogram per liter. No confusion about the how much exactly a pounds or gallons is. As a rule of the thumb though, I normally think of a pound as about half a kilo, while a gallon is about four liters.
I'd imagine it would possible to 'trace' 3d objects with this by simply moving the little ring over the surface of 3d objects. Unfortunatly, the threads would get in the way. Has anyone thought of other uses besides this and the pong game?
During my college days, we had this sysadmin that had the mentality 'Go ahead, compromise system security, but tell me how you did it'. Thumbs up, I definitely learnt a lot about UNIX system security./etc/passwd contained all encrypted passwords (no shadow passwords, shame), and with only around 400 users on that particular server, a dictionary based attack would only need to be encrypt each password according to the number of salts. The whole thing was slow as hell though, it still took around 15 minutes to see if a password was in use on the system, and if yes, by whom. Some genius used the first password I decided to put up to the test: 'einstein' (and no that wasn't my own password). Beer brand 'heineken' was in use by someone as well. I decided that this was enough excitement to tell the sysadmin, and his reaction was 'Oh yes, that is a way to get into some user level accounts. Good thing root isn't a dictionary word. And by the way, this-and-this-and-that should be possible ways to get in as well.' Anyway, sometimes sysadmins actually do the Right Thing, and I think this guy was one of them.
they play with and entertain and comfort each other, which is why their parents don't put them in a blender after a month or two.
must... give... in.....
<homer>hmmmmmmm........ twinshake.... </homer> ....ouch! ouch! ooof! yikes! Sorry, please don't beat me!
I wholeheartedly agree with the article discussing the Rush album; those waves *were* severly clipped, and whoever mastered that CD should be very very ashamed of themselves (although it looks like the clipping happened in several stages, not just in the final mastering) for forgetting what matters the most in audio production: Quality control of the product by using their ears. Californication of the Red Hot ChiliPeppers lacked the same final check, it's horribly clipped as well.
HOWEVER, As someone with (some) experience in audio production, I should mention that when a signal is compressed and then amplified, this can help increase the detail in weak signals. This is nothing new; in old vinyl recordings, especially of classical orchestras (music with a lot of dynamics) the sound engineer had no choice but to apply some compression to the result.
For digital audio, it is easy to maximize audio levels with any wave editor: Almost every one of them has a "normalize to maximum" function. No harm in that; it allows to maximize the level without clipping it. Typically, gives a result with average sound level of 3-6 dB below 'professional' CDs which is so common to find in 'amateur' demos. The best way to punch up the volume further is by turning it up on the amplifier. However I found my customers wanted the CD itself to be louder. Here's how I did it without causing any clipping.
By itself there is no problem of punching up the level another 3-6 dB, but if you're going to do this by simply increasing the amplitude, the signal *will* clip and sound horrible. Instead, apply a very light distortion over the signal (in cooledit 96 it used to be under the Special menu, draw a slightly bent curve, amplifying softer signals a bit more than the louder ones), essentially mimicking what a tube does. This will increase the average level of the signal, increase perceived definition of the signal, but will not cause clipping. It will color the signal, but in a pleasant way, just like tubes.
This technique does however have two downsides: 1. Because it does color the signal, it may mess up with your carefully balanced mix and equalization. 2. when used to excess, it may still cause unwanted distortion sound. Use your ears to proof the final result. As with all audio matters, don't go for bullshit. Most importantly, let your ears be the judge. And did I mention to use you ears to judge the final result?
A google for "linux virus list" does actually turn up with something. The first site returns as many as 35 results (in TOTAL) in a search for linux viruses (of which some are not technically viruses but exploits). Compare that with a list of new windows viruses and exploits for just the last year. Giving some credit to arguments such as 'Windows is more popular so it will be attacked more', it's been a long time since I had to deal with any virus/security issues of my own. Definitely neglectable compared to the number of AGV/adaware/firefox/thunderbird/zonealarm installs that I've been doing for Windows.
My favorite quote of course is "A product is not necessarily more secure because fewer vulnerabilities are discovered". This may be true, but given the statistics (35 viruses vs. 50000), and daily reality, I know which system I feel more comfortable with. I don't see daily reality shifting to the other side of the scale anywhere in the near future.
I inserted a JMP FFFF:FFF0. (jump to the reset vector) That would be FFFF:0000. So, now you know it, I'm a nerd. Thankfully this is Slashdot where that is actually a Good Thing:)
There are only 362880 possible games of tic-tac-toe (of which some are mirror images of others), which takes a cray about 5 minutes to play (of course most of the processing power goes to the advanced graphics). What about a nice game of chess?
A open source RAD evironment sounds like it could have a huge impact on the number of apps that could be rolled out. That would be any RAD environment, open or closed- and open RAD environments were already there. The source of NetBeans was opened in 2000, and Java cross platform support is currently definitely better than that of.Net.
I worked with C# for a few months, and it seems pretty nice, although it is in my opinion just a bit too easy/tempting to write programs that include the windows stuff, breaking cross platform compatibility - which is my main concern for this type of platform in the first place. This, and the patents stuff bothers me a bit.
Now I don't usually run with the hype, I usually wait until new ideas and products prove themselves. As a result I'm a late adopter of Java (by now I'd say it has proven itself) maybe I'll be a late adopter of Mono/.NET as well. For now I don't see the added value. Anyone clue me in?
A mouse is meant to move around a 2d desktop, not a 3d environment. It might not be the ideal solution that you envision, but your average scroll mouse is able to represent 3 axis. And old scroll wheel functionality can be maintained depending on what is selected.
Red Hat GFS has no single-point-of-failure: any server, network, or storage component can be made redundant to allow continued operations despite failures
Sounds like one of them thingies I should be installing on my comp at home. Oh wait.
We all assume that once it being a Linux product, it's open source, but I see nothing in the article mentioning that it is. So.
Is it open source?
Second, they claim better Excel compatibility than OOo, how did they manage this.
Maybe they licensed some code?
I like having good compatibility, from a technical point of view, we are only going to benefit from better compatibility if there is documentation on how it was achieved. Could anyone mail OOo a link to those specs?
One of the biggest obstacles in building the space elevator seems to be making the cable (plus overcoming problems that go with it: stretching, counterweight, etc.) Obviously the cable causes a scalability problem, so why not skip the cable completely? Unless I completely missed the point, they're gonna have to build some huge tower to pull up the elevator. Why not 'simply' build a tower with a jagged inside, and let the cabin have cogwheels and drive up with its own engine? The elevator would only have to carry its own weight rather than needing an engine that can also lift the weight of the cable. Plus, such a 'wireless' space elevator would allow several trips up simultaneously, which probably would make it economically more feasable. Is it me that hasn't grasped the concept? It seems to me that the approach that they're going for is ridiculously impractical. Or do they somehow envision an elevator without a tower?
Actually google returns me 120 *results* many of which are basically dupes of the same news. One of the headers says "Microsoft sues 200 accused 'spammers'". So yes, tecnically 'over 120 people/companies' is correct, but not very accurate.
Slashdot Mirror
I still fail to see how this is not going to mix up the signals from various different chips without modulating the ones and zeros, and thus, how it is going to be faster than direct electrical connections at light speed. But they've probably spent some time thinking about it so i'll believe it for now. What I think is spectacular about the idea are the possibilities to cluster. Now if they make them transparent and solar powered and spherical, building a supercomputer may get as simple as filling up a pool with marbles.
I actually tried something similar. The mother of a friend had bought an old second hand machine that wouldnt accept an IDE CD-ROM drive yet. So I took out the hard drive and installed windows 3.1 on my own machine to put back the drive later. Sure enough, win 3.1 absolutely *flies* on a 233 MHz pentium.
Those hacker movies are amazing. The typing speed that those people have!!! And most amazingly -- They don't need a spacebar!
He prefers just looking at it.
Thanks for the subtitles, much appreciated :)
... does it run Li- oh wait, it does.
>> Water is HEAVY -- 7 pounds per gallon
> Except, water is 8 pounds per gallon.
Yay metric system! By definition, it is 1 kilogram per liter. No confusion about the how much exactly a pounds or gallons is. As a rule of the thumb though, I normally think of a pound as about half a kilo, while a gallon is about four liters.
Well I guess we're still in the stone age of 3d copying then. Ba-da-BAM!
I'd imagine it would possible to 'trace' 3d objects with this by simply moving the little ring over the surface of 3d objects. Unfortunatly, the threads would get in the way. Has anyone thought of other uses besides this and the pong game?
During my college days, we had this sysadmin that had the mentality 'Go ahead, compromise system security, but tell me how you did it'. Thumbs up, I definitely learnt a lot about UNIX system security. /etc/passwd contained all encrypted passwords (no shadow passwords, shame), and with only around 400 users on that particular server, a dictionary based attack would only need to be encrypt each password according to the number of salts. The whole thing was slow as hell though, it still took around 15 minutes to see if a password was in use on the system, and if yes, by whom. Some genius used the first password I decided to put up to the test: 'einstein' (and no that wasn't my own password). Beer brand 'heineken' was in use by someone as well. I decided that this was enough excitement to tell the sysadmin, and his reaction was 'Oh yes, that is a way to get into some user level accounts. Good thing root isn't a dictionary word. And by the way, this-and-this-and-that should be possible ways to get in as well.' Anyway, sometimes sysadmins actually do the Right Thing, and I think this guy was one of them.
they play with and entertain and comfort each other, which is why their parents don't put them in a blender after a month or two. must... give... in.....
....ouch! ouch! ooof! yikes! Sorry, please don't beat me!
<homer>hmmmmmmm........ twinshake.... </homer>
Ah, good old skiing games, the world's favorite excuse for turning racing games upside-down because the screen scrolls up by default...
I wholeheartedly agree with the article discussing the Rush album; those waves *were* severly clipped, and whoever mastered that CD should be very very ashamed of themselves (although it looks like the clipping happened in several stages, not just in the final mastering) for forgetting what matters the most in audio production: Quality control of the product by using their ears. Californication of the Red Hot ChiliPeppers lacked the same final check, it's horribly clipped as well.
HOWEVER, As someone with (some) experience in audio production, I should mention that when a signal is compressed and then amplified, this can help increase the detail in weak signals. This is nothing new; in old vinyl recordings, especially of classical orchestras (music with a lot of dynamics) the sound engineer had no choice but to apply some compression to the result.
For digital audio, it is easy to maximize audio levels with any wave editor: Almost every one of them has a "normalize to maximum" function. No harm in that; it allows to maximize the level without clipping it. Typically, gives a result with average sound level of 3-6 dB below 'professional' CDs which is so common to find in 'amateur' demos. The best way to punch up the volume further is by turning it up on the amplifier. However I found my customers wanted the CD itself to be louder. Here's how I did it without causing any clipping.
By itself there is no problem of punching up the level another 3-6 dB, but if you're going to do this by simply increasing the amplitude, the signal *will* clip and sound horrible. Instead, apply a very light distortion over the signal (in cooledit 96 it used to be under the Special menu, draw a slightly bent curve, amplifying softer signals a bit more than the louder ones), essentially mimicking what a tube does. This will increase the average level of the signal, increase perceived definition of the signal, but will not cause clipping. It will color the signal, but in a pleasant way, just like tubes.
This technique does however have two downsides: 1. Because it does color the signal, it may mess up with your carefully balanced mix and equalization. 2. when used to excess, it may still cause unwanted distortion sound. Use your ears to proof the final result. As with all audio matters, don't go for bullshit. Most importantly, let your ears be the judge. And did I mention to use you ears to judge the final result?
A google for "linux virus list" does actually turn up with something. The first site returns as many as 35 results (in TOTAL) in a search for linux viruses (of which some are not technically viruses but exploits). Compare that with a list of new windows viruses and exploits for just the last year. Giving some credit to arguments such as 'Windows is more popular so it will be attacked more', it's been a long time since I had to deal with any virus/security issues of my own. Definitely neglectable compared to the number of AGV/adaware/firefox/thunderbird/zonealarm installs that I've been doing for Windows.
My favorite quote of course is "A product is not necessarily more secure because fewer vulnerabilities are discovered". This may be true, but given the statistics (35 viruses vs. 50000), and daily reality, I know which system I feel more comfortable with. I don't see daily reality shifting to the other side of the scale anywhere in the near future.
I inserted a JMP FFFF:FFF0. (jump to the reset vector) That would be FFFF:0000. So, now you know it, I'm a nerd. Thankfully this is Slashdot where that is actually a Good Thing :)
There are only 362880 possible games of tic-tac-toe (of which some are mirror images of others), which takes a cray about 5 minutes to play (of course most of the processing power goes to the advanced graphics). What about a nice game of chess?
A open source RAD evironment sounds like it could have a huge impact on the number of apps that could be rolled out. That would be any RAD environment, open or closed- and open RAD environments were already there. The source of NetBeans was opened in 2000, and Java cross platform support is currently definitely better than that of .Net.
I worked with C# for a few months, and it seems pretty nice, although it is in my opinion just a bit too easy/tempting to write programs that include the windows stuff, breaking cross platform compatibility - which is my main concern for this type of platform in the first place. This, and the patents stuff bothers me a bit.
Now I don't usually run with the hype, I usually wait until new ideas and products prove themselves. As a result I'm a late adopter of Java (by now I'd say it has proven itself) maybe I'll be a late adopter of Mono/.NET as well. For now I don't see the added value. Anyone clue me in?
A mouse is meant to move around a 2d desktop, not a 3d environment. It might not be the ideal solution that you envision, but your average scroll mouse is able to represent 3 axis. And old scroll wheel functionality can be maintained depending on what is selected.
Red Hat GFS has no single-point-of-failure: any server, network, or storage component can be made redundant to allow continued operations despite failures
Sounds like one of them thingies I should be installing on my comp at home. Oh wait.
> how long until Microsoft eliminates them through legal means? .so port of some .dll. Who knows?
It depends. Maybe they paid MS for a
We all assume that once it being a Linux product, it's open source, but I see nothing in the article mentioning that it is. So.
Is it open source?
Second, they claim better Excel compatibility than OOo, how did they manage this.
Maybe they licensed some code?
I like having good compatibility, from a technical point of view, we are only going to benefit from better compatibility if there is documentation on how it was achieved. Could anyone mail OOo a link to those specs?
One of the biggest obstacles in building the space elevator seems to be making the cable (plus overcoming problems that go with it: stretching, counterweight, etc.) Obviously the cable causes a scalability problem, so why not skip the cable completely? Unless I completely missed the point, they're gonna have to build some huge tower to pull up the elevator. Why not 'simply' build a tower with a jagged inside, and let the cabin have cogwheels and drive up with its own engine? The elevator would only have to carry its own weight rather than needing an engine that can also lift the weight of the cable. Plus, such a 'wireless' space elevator would allow several trips up simultaneously, which probably would make it economically more feasable. Is it me that hasn't grasped the concept? It seems to me that the approach that they're going for is ridiculously impractical. Or do they somehow envision an elevator without a tower?
And who exactly causes the migration costs to be high? Could it be that some software vendors purposefully try to make it difficult to migrate?
Actually google returns me 120 *results* many of which are basically dupes of the same news. One of the headers says "Microsoft sues 200 accused 'spammers'". So yes, tecnically 'over 120 people/companies' is correct, but not very accurate.
Yeah, IF you say it. But then again, you didn't say them right? You just speculated, IF...