Yep, that's striking indeed. Very cool headed, the Napster. The kid sounds like a very decent guy all around, even more so when you compare to the Jack Welch and Andy Fastow of the world and the arrogant self-entitled corporate pond scum that pretends to run this little planet.
At 21C (70F) altitude 0, speed of sound = 344 m/s = 1129 ft/s
1G = 9.81m/s^2 (at the equator)
So, the acceleration = 344 * 5 / 15 = 114.6 m/s^2 = 11.69 G.
Wow, that's a lot. Jet fighter pilots usually blackout around 9G. I suppose the way the guinea pig is seated can make things better.
Banging your head with a hammer is good for you. It just fells so good when you stop.
As an earlier Slashdot story reported, software obfuscation doesn't provide security. It's mathematically proven. Someone please tells Matsushita (JVC) to get over it. They are losing their time.
Slamming your head with a hammer is good for you. It just feels so good when you stop.
No no no ! That would be too easy, unfair, kinda shooting fish in a barrel. Catching criminals must be a bit challenging otherwise the cops get bored and start locking innocent people.
I won't comment on the business aspect of the project, although I think that installing coax for CATV at the same time could be a nice way to finance the whole thing. Even without the cost of the trenches, it won't be cheap. On the technical side, install single mode fiber : the plain vanilla 10um kind. Basic 1310 nm GBICs for Ethernet 1000BASE-LX routinely are qualified for 3 miles and reach more than 6 miles without a glitch and quite often much more (I get 12 miles routinely in my lab, but, well, yeah, it's a lab environment so it doesn't really count). Beyond 6 miles, you should look at dispersion shifted SMF with 1550nm.
But in any case, DO NOT INSTALL MULTIMODE FIBER !!! It's more expansive than SMF with for a given conditionning and every single interface standard defined over MMF is moving to SMF. The most important, 100BASE-FX Ethernet, is being reformulated right now by the IEEE 802.3 EFM committee as "100BASE-LX" (not a definitive name), 100Mbit/s duplex over SMF at 1310 nm and will become available in 2003. Equipement pricing will in the same league than 100BASE-FX. So no MMF, no matter what the vendors say. MMF is worthless and has no future.
Ah, and of course, every time you lay down fiber, make sure they come by pairs:-) Bidirectionnal optics and PONs are in the work but not there yet. So you always need 2 fibers for a connection.
... let's fuck with the oceans! Considering our already limited ability to modelize long term weather in the current know conditions, it's 20/20 clear that we also should mess with the main thermal and CO2 regulator of the planet. Great idea. Just great.
Exxon's profits are soooo important (for GWB, at least).
Ok, Slashdot, I know, it's tempting, extending and leveraging the brand, opening new sources of revenue, and everything. And also it would be cool to have all those people meeting each other. But, no./. audience is way too diverse and geographically stretched to be a real community. What would the/. convention be, beer bash cum Star Treck with Linux with anti-MPAA activism with cool science and bits of space exploration and the Mars Society on the top of it ? Sorry, but it would be a mess. Conventions are always a mess, but there it's just too much of a mess.
And also, dear/., no imperial overstretch please please please. Lots of good companies die like that and I want to have you around for a few more years. Other companies do the right thing and carry on minding their core business without grandiose delusions and nicely evolve this so precious core. Typical example : Dolby. If new revenue is what's you're after, you should rather consider selling/maintaining Slashcode to/for companies. No kidding. Internal customized/. could be a great product for knowledge sharing.
And, if you really want to extend in meatspace, you should rather consider small conferences. With just a wiff of data mining,/. is a great marketing database to identify small highly motivated audiences on specific subjects, and doing things the right way (asking the permission first for instance), you may even succeed to do that without being offensive.
Right now, in most EU countries, people tend to be far more worried by corporations than by governments. Because of socialist/social-democrat traditions, governments are the normal mode of action, the solution rather than the problem. Corporations have always been seen as greedy, corrupt and destructive. Quite the opposite of the USA where gvt is always bad and free market the only true truth yadayada. Seems to me it's changing a bit on both sides of the Big Pond, courtesy of Enron in the US and looming deficits for socialized health care and retirement in the EU.
Yet, talking about revolutions, the EU people have a much shorter fuse than Americans. Normal, the government being the solution, when things go wrong, the government must change.
'Cause there's already something called QDR. See
QDR consortium. It's a high speed SRAM with separate input and output data I/O buffers, and 2 tranfers in (write) and 2 transfers out (read) per clock cycle, hence 4 transfers per cycle total. It's fairly popular for packet buffers in routers and switches alike.
I'am a techy, a geek, a nerd, call it what you want. And, I hate Startrek ! I really do hate Startrek. I mean, that Startrek stuff is so, so,...
Arfff, there's no word for that boring sclerotic half-assed sit-com, full of wooden third rate actors, stupid plots, 3 hours long "meaningful glances", you know, all those crappy sitcom gimmicks. May be Startrek is not the worst of the sitcom lot, but it's still a damn bloody lousy sitcom. If you want SF, read Frank Herbert, Dan Simmons, etc. I don't know. Do something ! But not Startrek, please, not Startrek.
Startrek is dumb and life is too short to do dumb things. So please, stop slapping Startrek and Geekdom together, please, please, please....
I don't see any mass uprising against the DMCA or against anything for that matter, so it means that the people approve it, at least by default. Joe Average doesn't care about such basic things as universal health care, a decent public education or a clean taxation system. Joe Average doesn't bother to understand those problems or to vote when all it takes is 2 hours driving to and from the polling station once every 2 years. Joe Average just grunmbles against Washington and "all those corrupt bastards" and doesn't give a shit.
So, why should you care ? When one considers the apathy of our citizens on a whole slew of issues far more important than DMCA and far easier to understand, there's simply no point fighting against DMCA. DMCA is just perfect for those sheeps. Let them eat pre-processed corporate mush. That's all they deserve.
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Yep, that's striking indeed. Very cool headed, the Napster. The kid sounds like a very decent guy all around, even more so when you compare to the Jack Welch and Andy Fastow of the world and the arrogant self-entitled corporate pond scum that pretends to run this little planet.
Refreshing
At 21C (70F) altitude 0, speed of sound = 344 m/s = 1129 ft/s
1G = 9.81m/s^2 (at the equator)
So, the acceleration = 344 * 5 / 15 = 114.6 m/s^2 = 11.69 G.
Wow, that's a lot. Jet fighter pilots usually blackout around 9G. I suppose the way the guinea pig is seated can make things better.
Banging your head with a hammer is good for you. It just fells so good when you stop.
As an earlier Slashdot story reported, software obfuscation doesn't provide security. It's mathematically proven. Someone please tells Matsushita (JVC) to get over it. They are losing their time.
Slamming your head with a hammer is good for you. It just feels so good when you stop.
Anyone who uses this code in its product.
It's not the Frauenhofer code which requires a license, it's the format itself. If your product can use, play, encode in MP3, you gotta pay.
Sigs, what for ?
No no no ! That would be too easy, unfair, kinda shooting fish in a barrel. Catching criminals must be a bit challenging otherwise the cops get bored and start locking innocent people.
I won't comment on the business aspect of the project, although I think that installing coax for CATV at the same time could be a nice way to finance the whole thing. Even without the cost of the trenches, it won't be cheap. On the technical side, install single mode fiber : the plain vanilla 10um kind. Basic 1310 nm GBICs for Ethernet 1000BASE-LX routinely are qualified for 3 miles and reach more than 6 miles without a glitch and quite often much more (I get 12 miles routinely in my lab, but, well, yeah, it's a lab environment so it doesn't really count). Beyond 6 miles, you should look at dispersion shifted SMF with 1550nm.
:-) Bidirectionnal optics and PONs are in the work but not there yet. So you always need 2 fibers for a connection.
But in any case, DO NOT INSTALL MULTIMODE FIBER !!! It's more expansive than SMF with for a given conditionning and every single interface standard defined over MMF is moving to SMF. The most important, 100BASE-FX Ethernet, is being reformulated right now by the IEEE 802.3 EFM committee as "100BASE-LX" (not a definitive name), 100Mbit/s duplex over SMF at 1310 nm and will become available in 2003. Equipement pricing will in the same league than 100BASE-FX. So no MMF, no matter what the vendors say. MMF is worthless and has no future.
Ah, and of course, every time you lay down fiber, make sure they come by pairs
... let's fuck with the oceans! Considering our already limited ability to modelize long term weather in the current know conditions, it's 20/20 clear that we also should mess with the main thermal and CO2 regulator of the planet. Great idea. Just great.
Exxon's profits are soooo important (for GWB, at least).
Ok, Slashdot, I know, it's tempting, extending and leveraging the brand, opening new sources of revenue, and everything. And also it would be cool to have all those people meeting each other. But, no. /. audience is way too diverse and geographically stretched to be a real community. What would the /. convention be, beer bash cum Star Treck with Linux with anti-MPAA activism with cool science and bits of space exploration and the Mars Society on the top of it ? Sorry, but it would be a mess. Conventions are always a mess, but there it's just too much of a mess.
/., no imperial overstretch please please please. Lots of good companies die like that and I want to have you around for a few more years. Other companies do the right thing and carry on minding their core business without grandiose delusions and nicely evolve this so precious core. Typical example : Dolby. If new revenue is what's you're after, you should rather consider selling/maintaining Slashcode to/for companies. No kidding. Internal customized /. could be a great product for knowledge sharing.
/. is a great marketing database to identify small highly motivated audiences on specific subjects, and doing things the right way (asking the permission first for instance), you may even succeed to do that without being offensive.
And also, dear
And, if you really want to extend in meatspace, you should rather consider small conferences. With just a wiff of data mining,
My $.04678 (inflation is a bitch).
Right now, in most EU countries, people tend to be far more worried by corporations than by governments. Because of socialist/social-democrat traditions, governments are the normal mode of action, the solution rather than the problem. Corporations have always been seen as greedy, corrupt and destructive. Quite the opposite of the USA where gvt is always bad and free market the only true truth yadayada. Seems to me it's changing a bit on both sides of the Big Pond, courtesy of Enron in the US and looming deficits for socialized health care and retirement in the EU.
Yet, talking about revolutions, the EU people have a much shorter fuse than Americans. Normal, the government being the solution, when things go wrong, the government must change.
Why can't they just call it QDR
'Cause there's already something called QDR. See QDR consortium. It's a high speed SRAM with separate input and output data I/O buffers, and 2 tranfers in (write) and 2 transfers out (read) per clock cycle, hence 4 transfers per cycle total. It's fairly popular for packet buffers in routers and switches alike.
I'am a techy, a geek, a nerd, call it what you want. And, I hate Startrek ! I really do hate Startrek. I mean, that Startrek stuff is so, so, ...
Arfff, there's no word for that boring sclerotic half-assed sit-com, full of wooden third rate actors, stupid plots, 3 hours long "meaningful glances", you know, all those crappy sitcom gimmicks. May be Startrek is not the worst of the sitcom lot, but it's still a damn bloody lousy sitcom. If you want SF, read Frank Herbert, Dan Simmons, etc. I don't know. Do something ! But not Startrek, please, not Startrek.
Startrek is dumb and life is too short to do dumb things. So please, stop slapping Startrek and Geekdom together, please, please, please....
When the title is "China to build Moon base", 90% of the discussions are related to 'communists', 'stealing technology', 'human rights'.
Not. Most of the discussion is actually about how a bunch of inept bozos the US gvt and the NASA are for leaving the ground to a 3rd world country.
I don't see any mass uprising against the DMCA or against anything for that matter, so it means that the people approve it, at least by default. Joe Average doesn't care about such basic things as universal health care, a decent public education or a clean taxation system. Joe Average doesn't bother to understand those problems or to vote when all it takes is 2 hours driving to and from the polling station once every 2 years. Joe Average just grunmbles against Washington and "all those corrupt bastards" and doesn't give a shit.
So, why should you care ? When one considers the apathy of our citizens on a whole slew of issues far more important than DMCA and far easier to understand, there's simply no point fighting against DMCA. DMCA is just perfect for those sheeps. Let them eat pre-processed corporate mush. That's all they deserve.
America, Land of the Free, Home of the Brave.