...as proof that humans and chimpanzees are indeed from the same family. And you always knew three was something a little bit different about uncle George...
I threw the idea of "appropriate for slashdot" out the window the very first time that I accidentally clicked on the goatsecx link (or whatever that god-awful thing was). And with half the people here seeming to be sex deprived, links to soft porn from actual stories might be construed to be a public service! Lets just give something like this story it's own section so I can filter it out of my standard preferences -my 8 yr old daughter can read now!
If the patent was meant to prevent fraud, as the author suggests, why wouldn't they just make the chip display a message that it was being overclocked, upon boot-up perhaps... The way they have done things, it just seems that they are trying to prevent the creative among us (I'm not one who overclocks myself) from getting more than the manufacturer intended for you to get from their chip.... I'm glad the auto industry responds to what customers want instead of taking their cues from the computer industy... we'd be getting Ford Mustangs with a governour on the throttle unless we were willing to pay an extra premium.
Maybe it's all a coincidence, but my landlord had a nightmare happen when he went to update his copy of Turbo-Tax this year. Something glitched in the middle of the install and the computer froze up, and after waiting approx 30 minutes for anything to happen he did a hard reboot (the three finger salute wasn't even working). Imagine his suprise when all he got was a "No Signal" message on his screen. Hep passed on his hard drive in hopes of recovering his tax data and put another hard drive in, only to get the same message: a windows boot disc didn't even help. In the end he had to flash his bios, and all was well for fdisk, cormat c and a new install. It was probably all just a coincidence, but reading this posting and the news at Extreem Tech just makes me wonder if it isn't more than the boot sector they're writing to......
And when they get their "signlas" crossed?
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I'm just curious about that... It's bad enough that we gat our "signlas" crossed all on our own, what's gonna happen when we're all running a chip with some Microsoft product?
...when things get out of balance. I live in central New York, and our electric (which is currently being deregulated) has always been via NYSEG, no other choices.... UNLESS you lived in one of those few towns with municipal electric. A few years ago, I lived in one of those towns. They purchassed their electicity from NYSEG, and delivered it to residential customers with an eye to recovering costs, for the prices of about 3.9 cents per killowatt hour... NYSEG customers pay 14 cents for the same electricity. Many businesses are leaving the state and citing high energy costs as a primary reason, and many residential customers quite often find it difficult to pay their bills. So who is doing the damage? I somehow doubt that it's the municipal electric companies... I say "way to go" to those municipal utilities that are offering other services on top of electricity: perhaps the "big players" will get enough of a shock (but I doubt it) that they'll realize their astronomical prices and profits are more than the market should bear, or that the market WOULD bear if the customers had any other choices.
OK.... so at least half of the problem is the sys admins, though some of you seem to think it's all their fault for not patching the systems... You must all have nice cushy jobs where they pay you to stay on top of things! The problem is, not every sys admin gets paid to do what he'd like, and not every one of those ppl have been with a company long enough to FIND everything that needs fixing, never mind FIX it all. They don't get paid enough or else told "no overtime" and things just don't get done... Sure blame the admins, the guy who just took over the mess that was left for him when the last guy quit two weeks ago is surely to blame, especially since he's so digusted with the task he's found himself mired in (not to mention the low salary for 24/7 service or else a NO OVERTIME policy) that he's pondering his next resume and cover letter... And no, I'm not a sys admin, I'm a physics student, a self taught computer junkie and a former construction worker, disabled from being a grunt. i just know scapegoating when I see it, and it's all too easy to blame "the man" when in fact, he's getting screwed just like the rest of us.
Many have been the times when I wished that/. had another way to organize their "older stuff". Would it be possible to organize the older articles in a section according to continued postings? This way, those things that readiers wanted to keep ranting about would stay near the top, and topics that have gone quiet would disappear to the archives. Just a thought..
The common thread in all of these replies seems to be one where traumatic or otherwise highly stimulating events create a memory prior to when memories become imprinted as a normal course. I will not dispute the claims that most such memories are "false" as put forward by some, except to say that while the fullness of a memory may be falsified by the taints of conversations with adults, there does seem to be some kernel of a real memory at the bottom. My earliest memory is from about 2 1/2 years, and it is of the back of a chair at the house of a woman who eventually became my step-mother. I don't remember the house, and the only way I know it was there is because that location is the only place where anyone in my family can place such a chair, and that I used to hide behind it when my father went to visit her, but the chair is a real memory. Not long after that there is a memory of a horror movie. i don't know why anything was happening the way it was, but some creature was lurching forward slowly, and some people within the movie were trying desperately to get something accomplished before the creature got to where it was going... I'm assuming that it was a movie on the Saturday Movie Monster Matinee, because not long after, my memories of those movies become quite regular. Both events were probably quite frightening to me at the times when they occured, and a common thread among the posts seems to be where it is a stimulation such as fright that imprints the "first" memories in a person. I am sure that such memories are colorized with the accounts from others as time progresses such as if I'd simply said that "I remember watching Monster Movie Matinee" or saying that the chair was at my step-mother's house; it probably was, but there could be other unknown possiblities.
I'm a "new user" to Linux who has tried several times in the past to switch from Windows. I first tried Calderra years ago after listening to a friend tell me how great Linux was. 40 hours of phone help later (with aforementioned friend) I had everything on my computer working except the modem, and had just discovered the joys of unsupported hardware and winmodems.
Half a year later and lots of "I think you'll like it this time" and I'd gone through two versions of redhat before finally getting everything to work, though not as well as on the Windows partition. Mounting and unmounting CD's.... Stale locks on the netscape browser.... Hours and hours spent chasing failed dependencies before I could get an app running... Two weeks later and I was running in my Win partition exclusively again.
A year later and I built a new computer. I had a spare HD around so I put SuSE 7.0 on it. All my harware worked effortlessly except the monitor. And installing apps was more of a nightmare than ever.. And apps kept crashing down in the most annoying ways..
I'm typing this now from my redhat 7.2 drive, and so far, all is well. I've actually been running it almost exclusively for about two weeks. I'm dl'ing rh 8.0 as I type.. I've gotten everything working except the DVD player, cd burner and TV card.. I was able to find everything I needed for that hardware online, but started chasing "failed dependencies" off into doomsday... People in the irc help rooms have been a tremendous help, but the best solution I've gotten so far was "upgrade: the newest version has more complete libraries." I can't get Opera working (it installed but every time I "fire it up" it loads and crashes) and the browsers that came with the install can't be tweaked the way I like from a GUI. I'll try Oprea again when I get the upgrade done, and I'll spend another 4 hours getting all my hardware tweaked, I'll spend DAYS dl'ing libraries for "failed dependencies" and maybe (just maybe) I'll get the ATI drivers working for my TV-vid card. Then if I can get the DVD player working, the burner working, I'll have no more excuses to boot into windows. I'm guessing it'll take me two weeks, but this time I should get everything up and working. For me, it's worth it: I want to be able to CONTROL my OS, not be controlled by it. But guess what.. I did a reinstall of the Windows partition about two months ago, and it took me less then 3 hours to have EVERYTHING installed, running properly, and all my data restored to it's proper locations. I think it should be pretty apparent what it is that's keeping ppl from switching to Linux from Windows: and that's not even mentioning all the software that I own that isn't going to work until that day when I (by some miracle) get WINE running. People do work AT their computers, browse the net, get entertained, play games.... With Linux, getting the computer working has been more work than I'll do in a month while sitting here. I don't think it's worth it to most people.
Many readers keep discussing the difference between theft and copyright infringement, and many readers still don't seem to "get it." This comment is for all of those people who seem to think that copyright infringement is equal to theft. If I get into another person's car, break the steering lock, hotwire the ignition and drive off, it is THEFT. Alternatively, if I gain access to, or duplicate the engineering plans for that very same car, then manufacture that car (to either give away or sell, or call my own) I have infringed upon a patent. The difference is in no way a moral judgement on the two crimes, but there IS a significant difference.
Science and creationism are both incorrect. Science is a process that attempts to slowly get closer to the truth, but any GOOD scientist knows that his understanding is incomplete, and will proudly tell you that what he knows is not totally correct: look to Sir Isaac Newton for example. Newton was a genius. His works stood as (and for a lot of terrestrial activities STILL stand) a workable explanation of the cosmos for centuries. He was WRONG. Einstein showed that he was wrong. Does that make Einstein right? Probably not, science will probably deepen our understanding over time, and we will see where Einstein was wrong. Does this make them anything less than the genuises they were? No it does not: they pushed the evelope and enlarged our nderstanding of the cosmos. Creationists on the other hand, claim to be RIGHT. They do not have a process to deepen understanding, but instead look for flaws in science to bolster their claims to "the truth." Their "science" is to resist the advancement of understanding by ascribing the very things we don't understand to some mysterious "higher power." I think I will stick to the path of deeper understanding with the full knowledge that I will never truly understand instead of choosing not to try to understand simply because it is elusive.
Incorrect about the Atheist Argument
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You are incorrect about the standard atheist argument: "I don't understand something, and I will TRY to understand it. Furthermore I will do myself and humanity a grave disservice but ascribing what I don't understand to an unknown god and failing to try to understand."
It would seem to me that the directors of a film would have every right to deny the "sale" of edited movies that they created. We would all object if someone were selling "edited" copies of books that removed "objectionable material" and would applaud any author who chose to sue over the practice. Do not let our distaste for the film industry colorize our thoughts on this matter, There is, however, a way in which the company could proceed in a perfectly legal fashion: do not edit any given movie until AFTER a customer requests that a movie be edited, then edit and burn the new copy. The technical details could be worked out so that this would become a short process (the movies are "pre-mapped" so that they can be edited as they are burned for instance) but it would remove the process from the real of "sale of edited works" into the realm of a "service," namely, editing films for individuals. It would be as if someone were paying someone else to "preread" a book and use a black marker to remove material that they would find objectionable. A silly distincion, I know, but the letter of the law makes for weird distinctions.
Yup... My parents too, though I've got to add that I've QUIT fixing my mother's machine. She used to break her computer, then I'd go fix things, get it running as smoothly as possible (for a windows machine) and two weeks later she'd break something else. Her "usual damage" was mostly software related (deleting files from that wonderful windows folder.... why isn't there a root sign in to prevent that?) but there was the occasionsal "bull in the china closet" damage. The problem was, my repairs from the previous break would suddenly become (in her mind) the reason for the current problems! Never mind the fact that she'd moved the computer and tried to force cables into the incorrect slots.... Once she had two discs in the CD tray, and the ethernet card I'd put in her computer a month or so prior became "to blame" for her CD tray not opening. Mother can call the professionals now......
Here's an odd effect of legislation passed in response to the Sept 11 tragdy: the price of my camp fuel has skyrocketed. It has suddenly been reclassified as an explosive (camping gaz??? I mean.... C'MON!!) and the shipping costs are now about twice what the fuel itself used to cost. Time for me to find some back-packing alternatives..
I dual boot back and forth between windows '98 and Rad Hat 7.2 I like my Linux partition: it has some of the best science tools that I've found available for any OS -and for free as well! I like my Win '98 too, I think I have the one and only stable copy ever produced. I've been running this copy for two years, never had to reinstall it, only have to reboot from a lock-up about twice a year, and I use it with Analog-X Proxy so that I can pretend to be a server for the other two computers in the house as well! I know that Linux would probably do just as well -if I could only connect to the internet with it. The solution that every Linux "expert" has come up with for the problem so far has been "buy a new modem." It's not a desktop OS IMHO when this is the "solution" to a problem. The modem worked fine for a year before I decided to dual boot with Linux, I'm not about to replace it for the sake of running Linux. My DVD player actually works better in the Linux partition then in Windows, but you can forget about my burner. And the scanner? At least i can upload pics from my camera -though I can drag and drop just as easy from Windows -and i didn't need to install anything to be able to. I think the guy was right about hardware config problems in Linux.
One last note: I don't know where he has been going for advice, but I've received tons of good advice from the Linux community -even if it still all boiled down to "buy a new modem"- and I think I've only heard "RTFM" once, and that was about it for arrogance. Easy to ignore, and I think I'm likely to get more comments like that asking for advice on fixing my car. I'd like to say thanks for all the help, and keep up the good work sooner or later Linux will get all 60 gig on my HD!
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...or all the stuff intalled on their computer will be buggy instead of just half of it!
...as proof that humans and chimpanzees are indeed from the same family. And you always knew three was something a little bit different about uncle George...
I threw the idea of "appropriate for slashdot" out the window the very first time that I accidentally clicked on the goatsecx link (or whatever that god-awful thing was). And with half the people here seeming to be sex deprived, links to soft porn from actual stories might be construed to be a public service! Lets just give something like this story it's own section so I can filter it out of my standard preferences -my 8 yr old daughter can read now!
Whether accident or deliberate, our friend grimani's post illustrates his point exactly... Check the facts, don't automatically believe what you read.
We need it in Volkswagons.... everything astronomical that is less than moon sized is measured in Volkswagons
And now I find that nano-bots have shredded my tin-foil hat....
If the patent was meant to prevent fraud, as the author suggests, why wouldn't they just make the chip display a message that it was being overclocked, upon boot-up perhaps... The way they have done things, it just seems that they are trying to prevent the creative among us (I'm not one who overclocks myself) from getting more than the manufacturer intended for you to get from their chip.... I'm glad the auto industry responds to what customers want instead of taking their cues from the computer industy... we'd be getting Ford Mustangs with a governour on the throttle unless we were willing to pay an extra premium.
I guess the jokes on me isn't it?
Maybe it's all a coincidence, but my landlord had a nightmare happen when he went to update his copy of Turbo-Tax this year. Something glitched in the middle of the install and the computer froze up, and after waiting approx 30 minutes for anything to happen he did a hard reboot (the three finger salute wasn't even working). Imagine his suprise when all he got was a "No Signal" message on his screen. Hep passed on his hard drive in hopes of recovering his tax data and put another hard drive in, only to get the same message: a windows boot disc didn't even help. In the end he had to flash his bios, and all was well for fdisk, cormat c and a new install. It was probably all just a coincidence, but reading this posting and the news at Extreem Tech just makes me wonder if it isn't more than the boot sector they're writing to......
I'm just curious about that... It's bad enough that we gat our "signlas" crossed all on our own, what's gonna happen when we're all running a chip with some Microsoft product?
...when things get out of balance. I live in central New York, and our electric (which is currently being deregulated) has always been via NYSEG, no other choices.... UNLESS you lived in one of those few towns with municipal electric. A few years ago, I lived in one of those towns. They purchassed their electicity from NYSEG, and delivered it to residential customers with an eye to recovering costs, for the prices of about 3.9 cents per killowatt hour... NYSEG customers pay 14 cents for the same electricity. Many businesses are leaving the state and citing high energy costs as a primary reason, and many residential customers quite often find it difficult to pay their bills. So who is doing the damage? I somehow doubt that it's the municipal electric companies... I say "way to go" to those municipal utilities that are offering other services on top of electricity: perhaps the "big players" will get enough of a shock (but I doubt it) that they'll realize their astronomical prices and profits are more than the market should bear, or that the market WOULD bear if the customers had any other choices.
OK.... so at least half of the problem is the sys admins, though some of you seem to think it's all their fault for not patching the systems... You must all have nice cushy jobs where they pay you to stay on top of things! The problem is, not every sys admin gets paid to do what he'd like, and not every one of those ppl have been with a company long enough to FIND everything that needs fixing, never mind FIX it all. They don't get paid enough or else told "no overtime" and things just don't get done... Sure blame the admins, the guy who just took over the mess that was left for him when the last guy quit two weeks ago is surely to blame, especially since he's so digusted with the task he's found himself mired in (not to mention the low salary for 24/7 service or else a NO OVERTIME policy) that he's pondering his next resume and cover letter... And no, I'm not a sys admin, I'm a physics student, a self taught computer junkie and a former construction worker, disabled from being a grunt. i just know scapegoating when I see it, and it's all too easy to blame "the man" when in fact, he's getting screwed just like the rest of us.
Many have been the times when I wished that /. had another way to organize their "older stuff". Would it be possible to organize the older articles in a section according to continued postings? This way, those things that readiers wanted to keep ranting about would stay near the top, and topics that have gone quiet would disappear to the archives. Just a thought..
The common thread in all of these replies seems to be one where traumatic or otherwise highly stimulating events create a memory prior to when memories become imprinted as a normal course. I will not dispute the claims that most such memories are "false" as put forward by some, except to say that while the fullness of a memory may be falsified by the taints of conversations with adults, there does seem to be some kernel of a real memory at the bottom. My earliest memory is from about 2 1/2 years, and it is of the back of a chair at the house of a woman who eventually became my step-mother. I don't remember the house, and the only way I know it was there is because that location is the only place where anyone in my family can place such a chair, and that I used to hide behind it when my father went to visit her, but the chair is a real memory. Not long after that there is a memory of a horror movie. i don't know why anything was happening the way it was, but some creature was lurching forward slowly, and some people within the movie were trying desperately to get something accomplished before the creature got to where it was going... I'm assuming that it was a movie on the Saturday Movie Monster Matinee, because not long after, my memories of those movies become quite regular. Both events were probably quite frightening to me at the times when they occured, and a common thread among the posts seems to be where it is a stimulation such as fright that imprints the "first" memories in a person. I am sure that such memories are colorized with the accounts from others as time progresses such as if I'd simply said that "I remember watching Monster Movie Matinee" or saying that the chair was at my step-mother's house; it probably was, but there could be other unknown possiblities.
I'm a "new user" to Linux who has tried several times in the past to switch from Windows. I first tried Calderra years ago after listening to a friend tell me how great Linux was. 40 hours of phone help later (with aforementioned friend) I had everything on my computer working except the modem, and had just discovered the joys of unsupported hardware and winmodems. Half a year later and lots of "I think you'll like it this time" and I'd gone through two versions of redhat before finally getting everything to work, though not as well as on the Windows partition. Mounting and unmounting CD's.... Stale locks on the netscape browser.... Hours and hours spent chasing failed dependencies before I could get an app running... Two weeks later and I was running in my Win partition exclusively again. A year later and I built a new computer. I had a spare HD around so I put SuSE 7.0 on it. All my harware worked effortlessly except the monitor. And installing apps was more of a nightmare than ever.. And apps kept crashing down in the most annoying ways.. I'm typing this now from my redhat 7.2 drive, and so far, all is well. I've actually been running it almost exclusively for about two weeks. I'm dl'ing rh 8.0 as I type.. I've gotten everything working except the DVD player, cd burner and TV card.. I was able to find everything I needed for that hardware online, but started chasing "failed dependencies" off into doomsday... People in the irc help rooms have been a tremendous help, but the best solution I've gotten so far was "upgrade: the newest version has more complete libraries." I can't get Opera working (it installed but every time I "fire it up" it loads and crashes) and the browsers that came with the install can't be tweaked the way I like from a GUI. I'll try Oprea again when I get the upgrade done, and I'll spend another 4 hours getting all my hardware tweaked, I'll spend DAYS dl'ing libraries for "failed dependencies" and maybe (just maybe) I'll get the ATI drivers working for my TV-vid card. Then if I can get the DVD player working, the burner working, I'll have no more excuses to boot into windows. I'm guessing it'll take me two weeks, but this time I should get everything up and working. For me, it's worth it: I want to be able to CONTROL my OS, not be controlled by it. But guess what.. I did a reinstall of the Windows partition about two months ago, and it took me less then 3 hours to have EVERYTHING installed, running properly, and all my data restored to it's proper locations. I think it should be pretty apparent what it is that's keeping ppl from switching to Linux from Windows: and that's not even mentioning all the software that I own that isn't going to work until that day when I (by some miracle) get WINE running. People do work AT their computers, browse the net, get entertained, play games.... With Linux, getting the computer working has been more work than I'll do in a month while sitting here. I don't think it's worth it to most people.
Many readers keep discussing the difference between theft and copyright infringement, and many readers still don't seem to "get it." This comment is for all of those people who seem to think that copyright infringement is equal to theft. If I get into another person's car, break the steering lock, hotwire the ignition and drive off, it is THEFT. Alternatively, if I gain access to, or duplicate the engineering plans for that very same car, then manufacture that car (to either give away or sell, or call my own) I have infringed upon a patent. The difference is in no way a moral judgement on the two crimes, but there IS a significant difference.
Science and creationism are both incorrect. Science is a process that attempts to slowly get closer to the truth, but any GOOD scientist knows that his understanding is incomplete, and will proudly tell you that what he knows is not totally correct: look to Sir Isaac Newton for example. Newton was a genius. His works stood as (and for a lot of terrestrial activities STILL stand) a workable explanation of the cosmos for centuries. He was WRONG. Einstein showed that he was wrong. Does that make Einstein right? Probably not, science will probably deepen our understanding over time, and we will see where Einstein was wrong. Does this make them anything less than the genuises they were? No it does not: they pushed the evelope and enlarged our nderstanding of the cosmos. Creationists on the other hand, claim to be RIGHT. They do not have a process to deepen understanding, but instead look for flaws in science to bolster their claims to "the truth." Their "science" is to resist the advancement of understanding by ascribing the very things we don't understand to some mysterious "higher power." I think I will stick to the path of deeper understanding with the full knowledge that I will never truly understand instead of choosing not to try to understand simply because it is elusive.
You are incorrect about the standard atheist argument: "I don't understand something, and I will TRY to understand it. Furthermore I will do myself and humanity a grave disservice but ascribing what I don't understand to an unknown god and failing to try to understand."
It would seem to me that the directors of a film would have every right to deny the "sale" of edited movies that they created. We would all object if someone were selling "edited" copies of books that removed "objectionable material" and would applaud any author who chose to sue over the practice. Do not let our distaste for the film industry colorize our thoughts on this matter, There is, however, a way in which the company could proceed in a perfectly legal fashion: do not edit any given movie until AFTER a customer requests that a movie be edited, then edit and burn the new copy. The technical details could be worked out so that this would become a short process (the movies are "pre-mapped" so that they can be edited as they are burned for instance) but it would remove the process from the real of "sale of edited works" into the realm of a "service," namely, editing films for individuals. It would be as if someone were paying someone else to "preread" a book and use a black marker to remove material that they would find objectionable. A silly distincion, I know, but the letter of the law makes for weird distinctions.
Yup... My parents too, though I've got to add that I've QUIT fixing my mother's machine. She used to break her computer, then I'd go fix things, get it running as smoothly as possible (for a windows machine) and two weeks later she'd break something else. Her "usual damage" was mostly software related (deleting files from that wonderful windows folder.... why isn't there a root sign in to prevent that?) but there was the occasionsal "bull in the china closet" damage. The problem was, my repairs from the previous break would suddenly become (in her mind) the reason for the current problems! Never mind the fact that she'd moved the computer and tried to force cables into the incorrect slots.... Once she had two discs in the CD tray, and the ethernet card I'd put in her computer a month or so prior became "to blame" for her CD tray not opening. Mother can call the professionals now......
Here's an odd effect of legislation passed in response to the Sept 11 tragdy: the price of my camp fuel has skyrocketed. It has suddenly been reclassified as an explosive (camping gaz??? I mean.... C'MON!!) and the shipping costs are now about twice what the fuel itself used to cost. Time for me to find some back-packing alternatives..
I dual boot back and forth between windows '98 and Rad Hat 7.2 I like my Linux partition: it has some of the best science tools that I've found available for any OS -and for free as well! I like my Win '98 too, I think I have the one and only stable copy ever produced. I've been running this copy for two years, never had to reinstall it, only have to reboot from a lock-up about twice a year, and I use it with Analog-X Proxy so that I can pretend to be a server for the other two computers in the house as well! I know that Linux would probably do just as well -if I could only connect to the internet with it. The solution that every Linux "expert" has come up with for the problem so far has been "buy a new modem." It's not a desktop OS IMHO when this is the "solution" to a problem. The modem worked fine for a year before I decided to dual boot with Linux, I'm not about to replace it for the sake of running Linux. My DVD player actually works better in the Linux partition then in Windows, but you can forget about my burner. And the scanner? At least i can upload pics from my camera -though I can drag and drop just as easy from Windows -and i didn't need to install anything to be able to. I think the guy was right about hardware config problems in Linux. One last note: I don't know where he has been going for advice, but I've received tons of good advice from the Linux community -even if it still all boiled down to "buy a new modem"- and I think I've only heard "RTFM" once, and that was about it for arrogance. Easy to ignore, and I think I'm likely to get more comments like that asking for advice on fixing my car. I'd like to say thanks for all the help, and keep up the good work sooner or later Linux will get all 60 gig on my HD!