I put this in two weeks ago. Thermaltake Silent Boost For under $30 (including shipping) it cools an Athlon XP at about 21 decibals. Very nice. Not 100% silent, but very very quiet for the price.
If you put your finger 3 inches from your eyes, and stare at it, your eyes will look and feel crossed. That's how it will sorta feel if you do the cross-eyed method. If you stare far away, say, at a distant landmark, your eyes do the opposite of crossing, they spread out. This is sorta how parallel feels.
For more detail, the parallel is where your left eye looks at the left image, and your right eye looks at the right image (which is why they call it parallel, if you were to draw lines from your eyes to the picture they're looking at, you'd have to parallel lines).
The cross-eyed is the opposite. If you were to draw lines from eyes to picture, you'd see them cross.
In my opinion, cross-eyed method is easiest. If you can cross you eyes on two images, and you have enough eye control to force one "phantom" image to lay on top of another "phantom" image (from your other eye), bingo, it'll automatically work. It also has the nice bonus of being able to "touch" what you see. It also lets you cross-eye stuff many many inches apart, while parallel only lets you do maybe 3 inches max.
I thought just the opposite. This is what MS needs to do to gain respect. They flat out asked us "Ok, tell us, what do you think, we value your opinions and we want to know." MS has never done this before.
If MS shows respect and tolerance to the open-source community, it can win over many Linux fans. Too often, they've spread FUD about Linux, and they write off Linux users any chance they can. If they show signs of friendship, and even show interoperability with open-source products, that would lessen many people's hatred of Microsoft.
Last I saw,/. does not state that it is a news organization.
It was the "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters" motto that led me to believe this was a news site. And being a news site, they should follow professional journalism standards. But as you showed, they're biased like most news organizations are. And like you, I like to point out such bias. =)
Wow, how many biased rantings are found in michael's own submitted article? The story's headlined led us to believe it would be about the anti-spam law. Instead michael jumps into:
1) Calling it the 'anti'-spam (in quotes, of course...because michael doesn't like it.)
2) Adding the line "written largely by the Direct Marketing Association" (to feed michael's extreme anti-business slant)
3) "The bill preempts existing state laws which are tougher (states' rights anyone?)" That's what the federal government does michael...it's been doing it for over almost two hundred years now.
4) My favorite... "so for many citizens, this is purely a pro-spam law." Wow, nice opinion and conjecture...without even having backed it up yet!
5) And to continue the rant, michael throws in one last final attack by mentioning the possibility of bounty hunters possibility.
Try the CS lab in general. They tried to update it this summer. It's never worked right since. Sometimes during the first month, there was no internet access, no printers, and a login took 5 minutes. Go computer science dept. Can't even get the friggin lab to work.
Heh, in the Weber State computer science building, you can't even get a wireless connection if you're not on the same floor as the hub. And the building is only two freaking floors, and only has about 10 classrooms!
Living in Utah, finding broadband solutions can be annoying. Qwest is downright horrible, while Comcast is growing, but doesn't cover a large enough area. Most people in my town of 30,000 cannot get high speed (cable or DSL), and because of the way the phone lines are laid out, the best modem connection many get is 28.8k.
A statewide network should do what the state wanted, attract more business, as well as provide it's citizens with high speed bandwidth
I hope your referring to Matt supposedly being satirical, and not Fox News supposedly suing the Simpsons.
The way it appears, Matt Groening (either satircal, or flat out lying...and it appears he was just lying) claimed Fox News was going to sue him for that episode. Well, Fox News never claimed they would, and so Matt Groening and the Simpsons staff had to issue an apology.
Ya ya, I know it's Slashdot, and everyone hates Fox News. But this appears to be a case where Fox News isn't to blame.
Two weeks ago, Slashdot posts a story trying to create a conspiracy theory that the White House is hiding material about Iraq from search engines. A few days later, someone actualy *asks* the White House, thus finding a perfectly reasonable explanation (they had 2 websites, both practically a copy of the other, so they didn't want people to see duplicates of the same article on search results).
Fast forward to today, and Slashdot does it again! Yay for yellow journalism! They reference an article, speculate on it, but refuse to check up on how true their conpiracy theories are. Even worse, they point to the 2 week old article by essentially saying "See! Look! It happened in past!", while almost completely ignoring Slashdot themselves already found an explanation for it.
Yep. I actually wasn't surprised by the ending, I was pretty much expecting it.
I watched the Revolutions with one thought in mind. The Architect in Reloaded couldn't force Neo into the door he wanted. He was forced, by some higher ranking machine, to allow Neo to choose an alternatee path, a path that the Oracle and some higher machine power knew would hopefully lead to a peaceful coexistance.
So in my head, I sort of already knew that the Oracle and the Architect were opposites, but both playing the role they were designed for. Also there was higher machine power that eventually wanted a coexistance...when the time was right. The ending following helped conclude this idea nicely.
Wow, thanks for the link. It matched me up really well.
1. Bush 100% (I'd say I'm an 80% supporter)
2. Lieberman 57% I decided beforehand he's second on my list
3. McCain 53% Really like the guy ...
29 Al Gore 15%
31. Wesley Clark 9%
I don't hate Clark *that* bad, I just think he's a complete opportunist and brown noser. It did also place Kucinich at #7, 50%, and I absolutely hate that guy.
GWB will use this as an excuse to drop the whole hydrogen economy thing and further increase America's dependence on Middle Eastern oil.
Nice troll.
It's strange to hear you argue that we shouldn't be dependent on foreign oil...and then rip on GWB, one of your strongest allies for that cause. Anybody who follows the news knows Bush wants to decrease dependence on foreign oil to such a degree that he's willing to drill in Alaskan nature reserves.
Especially for someone who was so skeptical, yet found an article that "proved" his point. I guess he didn't bother to read even 4 paragraphs down to find these choice quote:
"Some 7.7 million tracks were bought and downloaded since the end of June - compared with four million CD singles sold, Billboard magazine reported. But some say online and CD single sales cannot be compared because so few singles are now released on CD."
It's still a good idea. Rain clouds have no problem forming over the middle of a barren desert, and they also used to form before the days of reservoirs.
Generally, rain clouds develop from humid air, not because they happen to be over lakes. So reducing the evaporation from reservoirs or lakes by 45% won't necessarily change weather patterns. Even lake effect snow storms (found in cities next to the Great Lakes and the Great Salt Lake) should be ok, since I believe its the warm air of the lakes, and not the moisture from the lakes, that help storms form.
Heh, next time I'll read the article before commenting.
Boating would be ok. Since this "blanket" isn't one physical object, but a collection of molecules...boaters could rip a path through the water, and these molecules would close off the exposed water. Wow, looks like the only hangup now is possible ecological issuegs.
This would be great for those of us in the intermountain west.
Our reservoirs lose tons of water over the long hot dry days of summer. Add that to the 5 year drought we're in....and it'd help enormously. Of course, that would probably mean boats and jetskis would be off limits during that time, but having water is more important that having fun.
So, someone finds a problem with blocking search engine bots.
1) First, a lot of these docs involve Iraq. So, wihtout real factual information, it's assumed they're trying to do something fishy regarding Iraq info 2) Using that assumption, the next assumption is that they're purposely trying to keep people from trying to find contradictory statements.
This could all be true, or it couldn't be. Either way, by making two assumptions without any real facts is just pathetic yellow journalism.
My personal balanced solution might be considered to be foolish by someone else. Get a few people together to decide on an average balanced solution?
From what I've seen, if you make up a committee of people who understand how to balance things out...any agreement doesn't give them everything they're looking for, but they walk away happy. It's only those that don't refuse to comprimise or see the other point of view that kick and scream until they get weird comprimises that don't really work at all.
And unfortunately, those types of people, althought being roughly 5% of the population (and I'd say roughly 25% of slashdotters), that really screw things up for the rest of us.
Heh, ya, that *could* happen, if the molester was a hacker, technophile, and has an affinity towards doing things the really hard way. But back in reality, scenarios dreamed up by your overactive imagination would have an extremely low chance of occuring. The benefits gained by automating the roll taking progress far outweight the chance of some criminal hacking the system to have instant tracking a person electronically
The whole point of this isn't that you get tracked -- it's that you get tracked WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE, and that RFIDs allow anyone who comes within reading range of the tags to read information from it.
I'm betting the id's they carry don't broadcast the personal info as plain text. They either use high encryption (which would mean the high tech molestor in your scenario would need access to how they encode the data), or they use a hasing method, where the hashed info on the id has to match up with a hashed info on a server to verify it.
So long as we balance our technology with a healthy dose of paranoia we should be in the best position.
Whoa! A sane, well thought out view on Slashdot! I agree completely. I just wish more people could be like you, looking at both sides, seeing their valid arguments, and arriving at a solutiong that balances both sides out.
Slashdot Mirror
It says the supplement exceeds 60 pages. So we don't know the actual size.
On a side note, any legal reason why they would say "exceed 60 pages". Why not 50 pages, or 70 pages, or whatever?
I put this in two weeks ago. Thermaltake Silent Boost For under $30 (including shipping) it cools an Athlon XP at about 21 decibals. Very nice. Not 100% silent, but very very quiet for the price.
If you put your finger 3 inches from your eyes, and stare at it, your eyes will look and feel crossed. That's how it will sorta feel if you do the cross-eyed method. If you stare far away, say, at a distant landmark, your eyes do the opposite of crossing, they spread out. This is sorta how parallel feels.
For more detail, the parallel is where your left eye looks at the left image, and your right eye looks at the right image (which is why they call it parallel, if you were to draw lines from your eyes to the picture they're looking at, you'd have to parallel lines).
The cross-eyed is the opposite. If you were to draw lines from eyes to picture, you'd see them cross.
In my opinion, cross-eyed method is easiest. If you can cross you eyes on two images, and you have enough eye control to force one "phantom" image to lay on top of another "phantom" image (from your other eye), bingo, it'll automatically work. It also has the nice bonus of being able to "touch" what you see. It also lets you cross-eye stuff many many inches apart, while parallel only lets you do maybe 3 inches max.
I thought just the opposite. This is what MS needs to do to gain respect. They flat out asked us "Ok, tell us, what do you think, we value your opinions and we want to know." MS has never done this before.
If MS shows respect and tolerance to the open-source community, it can win over many Linux fans. Too often, they've spread FUD about Linux, and they write off Linux users any chance they can. If they show signs of friendship, and even show interoperability with open-source products, that would lessen many people's hatred of Microsoft.
Last I saw, /. does not state that it is a news organization.
It was the "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters" motto that led me to believe this was a news site. And being a news site, they should follow professional journalism standards. But as you showed, they're biased like most news organizations are. And like you, I like to point out such bias. =)
Wow, how many biased rantings are found in michael's own submitted article? The story's headlined led us to believe it would be about the anti-spam law. Instead michael jumps into:
1) Calling it the 'anti'-spam (in quotes, of course...because michael doesn't like it.)
2) Adding the line "written largely by the Direct Marketing Association" (to feed michael's extreme anti-business slant)
3) "The bill preempts existing state laws which are tougher (states' rights anyone?)" That's what the federal government does michael...it's been doing it for over almost two hundred years now.
4) My favorite... "so for many citizens, this is purely a pro-spam law." Wow, nice opinion and conjecture...without even having backed it up yet!
5) And to continue the rant, michael throws in one last final attack by mentioning the possibility of bounty hunters possibility.
Thanks michael. Once again you showed a complete lack of professional journalism. But then, we always knew you were heavily biased and slant the facts, since you admitted it yourself. I also find it ironic that you try to portray yourself as a moral spokesman on such matters, when you are unethical, hypocritical, and can't be trusted. But if you don't like this thread, you can always censor it, like you and other Slashdot editors have done many times in the past.
Try the CS lab in general. They tried to update it this summer. It's never worked right since. Sometimes during the first month, there was no internet access, no printers, and a login took 5 minutes. Go computer science dept. Can't even get the friggin lab to work.
Heh, in the Weber State computer science building, you can't even get a wireless connection if you're not on the same floor as the hub. And the building is only two freaking floors, and only has about 10 classrooms!
I personally am hoping for oppressor/oppressee. It's much for fun to use, and it's even less politically correct. =)
Wow, I wonder what they'll say when they realize why some computer cables ends are called male and female.
Living in Utah, finding broadband solutions can be annoying. Qwest is downright horrible, while Comcast is growing, but doesn't cover a large enough area. Most people in my town of 30,000 cannot get high speed (cable or DSL), and because of the way the phone lines are laid out, the best modem connection many get is 28.8k.
A statewide network should do what the state wanted, attract more business, as well as provide it's citizens with high speed bandwidth
Does anyone really believe that?
I hope your referring to Matt supposedly being satirical, and not Fox News supposedly suing the Simpsons.
The way it appears, Matt Groening (either satircal, or flat out lying...and it appears he was just lying) claimed Fox News was going to sue him for that episode. Well, Fox News never claimed they would, and so Matt Groening and the Simpsons staff had to issue an apology.
Ya ya, I know it's Slashdot, and everyone hates Fox News. But this appears to be a case where Fox News isn't to blame.
Wow! Yellow journalism at its finest.
Two weeks ago, Slashdot posts a story trying to create a conspiracy theory that the White House is hiding material about Iraq from search engines. A few days later, someone actualy *asks* the White House, thus finding a perfectly reasonable explanation (they had 2 websites, both practically a copy of the other, so they didn't want people to see duplicates of the same article on search results).
Fast forward to today, and Slashdot does it again! Yay for yellow journalism! They reference an article, speculate on it, but refuse to check up on how true their conpiracy theories are. Even worse, they point to the 2 week old article by essentially saying "See! Look! It happened in past!", while almost completely ignoring Slashdot themselves already found an explanation for it.
Yep. I actually wasn't surprised by the ending, I was pretty much expecting it.
I watched the Revolutions with one thought in mind. The Architect in Reloaded couldn't force Neo into the door he wanted. He was forced, by some higher ranking machine, to allow Neo to choose an alternatee path, a path that the Oracle and some higher machine power knew would hopefully lead to a peaceful coexistance.
So in my head, I sort of already knew that the Oracle and the Architect were opposites, but both playing the role they were designed for. Also there was higher machine power that eventually wanted a coexistance...when the time was right. The ending following helped conclude this idea nicely.
Wow, thanks for the link. It matched me up really well.
...
1. Bush 100% (I'd say I'm an 80% supporter)
2. Lieberman 57% I decided beforehand he's second on my list
3. McCain 53% Really like the guy
29 Al Gore 15%
31. Wesley Clark 9%
I don't hate Clark *that* bad, I just think he's a complete opportunist and brown noser. It did also place Kucinich at #7, 50%, and I absolutely hate that guy.
GWB will use this as an excuse to drop the whole hydrogen economy thing and further increase America's dependence on Middle Eastern oil.
Nice troll.
It's strange to hear you argue that we shouldn't be dependent on foreign oil...and then rip on GWB, one of your strongest allies for that cause. Anybody who follows the news knows Bush wants to decrease dependence on foreign oil to such a degree that he's willing to drill in Alaskan nature reserves.
Especially for someone who was so skeptical, yet found an article that "proved" his point. I guess he didn't bother to read even 4 paragraphs down to find these choice quote:
"Some 7.7 million tracks were bought and downloaded since the end of June - compared with four million CD singles sold, Billboard magazine reported. But some say online and CD single sales cannot be compared because so few singles are now released on CD."
It's still a good idea. Rain clouds have no problem forming over the middle of a barren desert, and they also used to form before the days of reservoirs.
Generally, rain clouds develop from humid air, not because they happen to be over lakes. So reducing the evaporation from reservoirs or lakes by 45% won't necessarily change weather patterns. Even lake effect snow storms (found in cities next to the Great Lakes and the Great Salt Lake) should be ok, since I believe its the warm air of the lakes, and not the moisture from the lakes, that help storms form.
Heh, next time I'll read the article before commenting.
Boating would be ok. Since this "blanket" isn't one physical object, but a collection of molecules...boaters could rip a path through the water, and these molecules would close off the exposed water. Wow, looks like the only hangup now is possible ecological issuegs.
This would be great for those of us in the intermountain west.
Our reservoirs lose tons of water over the long hot dry days of summer. Add that to the 5 year drought we're in....and it'd help enormously. Of course, that would probably mean boats and jetskis would be off limits during that time, but having water is more important that having fun.
I was under the impression that it wouldn't hit until around noon tomorrow. Anyone with better knowledge know a more certain time?
So, someone finds a problem with blocking search engine bots.
1) First, a lot of these docs involve Iraq. So, wihtout real factual information, it's assumed they're trying to do something fishy regarding Iraq info
2) Using that assumption, the next assumption is that they're purposely trying to keep people from trying to find contradictory statements.
This could all be true, or it couldn't be. Either way, by making two assumptions without any real facts is just pathetic yellow journalism.
My personal balanced solution might be considered to be foolish by someone else. Get a few people together to decide on an average balanced solution?
From what I've seen, if you make up a committee of people who understand how to balance things out...any agreement doesn't give them everything they're looking for, but they walk away happy. It's only those that don't refuse to comprimise or see the other point of view that kick and scream until they get weird comprimises that don't really work at all.
And unfortunately, those types of people, althought being roughly 5% of the population (and I'd say roughly 25% of slashdotters), that really screw things up for the rest of us.
Heh, ya, that *could* happen, if the molester was a hacker, technophile, and has an affinity towards doing things the really hard way. But back in reality, scenarios dreamed up by your overactive imagination would have an extremely low chance of occuring. The benefits gained by automating the roll taking progress far outweight the chance of some criminal hacking the system to have instant tracking a person electronically
The whole point of this isn't that you get tracked -- it's that you get tracked WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE, and that RFIDs allow anyone who comes within reading range of the tags to read information from it.
I'm betting the id's they carry don't broadcast the personal info as plain text. They either use high encryption (which would mean the high tech molestor in your scenario would need access to how they encode the data), or they use a hasing method, where the hashed info on the id has to match up with a hashed info on a server to verify it.
So long as we balance our technology with a healthy dose of paranoia we should be in the best position.
Whoa! A sane, well thought out view on Slashdot! I agree completely. I just wish more people could be like you, looking at both sides, seeing their valid arguments, and arriving at a solutiong that balances both sides out.