stop posting. I mean it. Ban yourself and nullroute slashdot. You are a worthless waste of skin. You have not contributed a single worthwhile story as an editor here. Hell, the fucking Daily News has you beaten with this story. Your moronic comments at the end of every summary comments are neither insightful nor witty; I should be glad that/. does not encourage its editors to provide anything more than an outdated link and a pathetic attempt at a humorous one-liner. Please die. We all hate you. Leave.
STMs are commonly built by hobbyists out of commodity parts. Nothing unusual. I have a half-finished one sitting on my desk right now (still missing the piezo elements, mostly due to laziness).
Then again, the EAS project is pretty simple either, just a pair of stepper motors. Cool, but what michael (why the fuck is that moron still allowed to post anything? seriously) described sounds more like an electron beam magnetizing the screen selectively.
Tazers based on this principle (some sites call them "phazers", see this link, for instance) have been "in development" for years. What makes this one different? I don't know, actually, it appears identical (if somewhat larger and uglier) than the prototype I've seen in an issue of Technika Molodeji 5, maybe 6 years ago.
They have to be connected to a network in order to deliver new ad content on a regular basis. It's highly unlikely that the billboards use some form of removable media for the ads, which leaves us with a network connection.
Depending on the positioning of the billboard, it could be a wired connection (cat5? Animated ads would probably be too large to transfer via slow serial connections) or a wireless (802.11x, or more likely something proprietary). All of the above are hackable.
The firewall most likely acts as a co-processor, similar to the cryptographic co-processors found in some 3Com cards. I doubt any serious vulnerabilities are present if it's implemented right.
Notice that the article mentions the possibility of 3rd party developers using the hardware component -- perhaps iptables can utilize it as well.
I'm not quite sure how this works. You no longer feel like a rich slob because you're wearing $160 headphones instead of the free bundled pair?
Don't get me wrong, I usually use a pair of Sennheisers with my mini (the headphones cost about as much as the iPod, heh), the sound is great, but how the hell do you feel more down to earth toting a pair of studio headphones?
Now, the advertising/trend following aspect is a valid point, although most tradeshow shirt-clad geeks (myself included- I only use the sennheisers for sound quality and isolation) won't give it a second thought.
That is NOT what patents are for. It doesn't matter if it ends up being a legal weapon in a valid case (which I admit this particular one is, since the company was trying to profit from emulation). The purpose of a patent is exclusively to protect an inventor's rights, allow him protection while seeking resources to begin commercial exploitation of his idea, and finally to ensure that the invention will enter the public domain once the patent expires, as well as to make the details of the invention publically availible to encourage further innovation in the field. Nintendo's patent is just abuse of the system, althogh we're pretty used to that nowdays.
Actually, I haven't noticed any increase in memory footprint between jaguar and panther. It could only be me, but it seems that OSX has gotten smaller, faster and more stable with each release.
I understand the concept, and I am not doubting its coolness; If I remember correctly, NeXT had a similar philosophy with MO discs. I am, however, doubting the practicality of using small, standardized (If I understand correctly) and read-only media for graphic designers and similar creative types. In my (rather limited) experience, graphics people tend to have a far more varied and sizable toolkit than your average coder or accountant. Then again, maybe I have misunderstood your original post, as you seem to suggest per-user customization.
My point is that the CD probably won't have all the necessary (and up to date!) software, be it due to space limitations or lack of customization for the graphics guy's specific task. If it does, all the better, but chances are it won't. Then again, maybe my friends just have bad IT people working with them.
I'm afraid the "graphics guy" isn't going to like having to work with a toolkit designed by IT people, and running from a CD. I know several graphic designer-type folks, and they usually have gigabytes upon gigabytes of filters, stock photos, textures, what have you, plus lots of obscure apps.
Of course, you could just store that on the distributed network, but what's the point of having a CD at all in that case?
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The parent poster probably including stacking vertically, as well.
Don't forget to check out the original, Natural Selection, a Half-Life mod. I'm not sure if Savage is based directly on NS, but NS has been out for quite some time and has matured in many aspects. NS can be a lot less demanding in terms of pure twitch than Quake/HL, depending on the version you play, and has a focus on teamwork. I haven't have time to play 3.0 yet, but it should still be good.
The AMD people were surprisingly clueless. I asked a few of them which socket a particular opteron system on display was using (Looked like it was 939), but most of them started mumbling "socket? what do you mean?", or worse. Some of the systems they had up were pretty cool though, like the dual opteron rackmounts with watercooling.
The sun booth was another disappointment in terms of the staff. I wanted to see how reponsive the Sun Rays were, so I walked up to one of their public terminals and started looking around, starting a couple applications, etc. The nearby sales drone stood and glared at me, as if I was going to steal the bloody thing, the entire time (after asking "May I help you?" in that "What the fuck are you doing here, kid, get lost!" tone). I just walked away.
Other corporate booths were similar; either the staff didn't know that much beyond their script, or they didn't want to talk to me, by the benefit of me being a high school student (i.e. a PFY). It's appropriate, I suppose, since I'm not going to be making any million-dollar purchases anytime soon, but still not cool. The IBM booth was a notable exception; one guy showed me GeoProbe, a very neat visualization system. The program had two sets of seismological data loaded from an oil field in England (several square kilometers), and it could be manipulated in real time in various ways. It was running under RHEL 3.0 on a prototype opteron with only 4GB of ram; pretty impressive, considering the complexity of the model. In the mainframe section, two engineers showed me the new zSeries servers, and explained how the hardware worked. Really cool guys (both the mainframe and GeoProbe people), knew their stuff and were really friendly. Otherwise, Oracle's grid seemed promising, but I wasn't able to get too many technical details.
In the.ORG section we had the usual debian, BSD and Linuxboot people, fun to talk with as always. Didn't get a conversation going with the Gentoo or KDE guys, but the projects were still pretty interesting. EFF wasn't here this year, unfortunately, meant to buy some stickers.
O'Reilly had a pretty good deal on books, 25% off and a free shirt (the shirts only lasted through the first half of the day). Honeynet gave a pretty interesting presentation in the back of the O'Reilly booth.
There was also a robot rolling around the show floor, Sprocket (not sure of the spelling, it might have been different). It demonstrated pretty impressive speech recognition capabilities, talked to the presenters, made crude jokes and movie references. It seemed pretty capable of sustaining normal conversation and was able to recognize people based on their clothing (although it misinterpreted blue lettering on my t-shirt as a blue jacket). Unfortunately, I didn't get to talk to it for more than a couple of minutes.
How did they prevent condensation from forming on the hardware? It sounds like the air would be humid enough.
The blocked-out part you mention is where the model of the processor would normally live (i.e. the Mhz for intel cpus and the rating for AMDs). See here
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stop posting. I mean it. Ban yourself and nullroute slashdot. You are a worthless waste of skin. You have not contributed a single worthwhile story as an editor here. Hell, the fucking Daily News has you beaten with this story. /. does not encourage its editors to provide anything more than an outdated link and a pathetic attempt at a humorous one-liner. Please die. We all hate you. Leave.
Your moronic comments at the end of every summary comments are neither insightful nor witty; I should be glad that
And this is not marketing, how?
STMs are commonly built by hobbyists out of commodity parts. Nothing unusual. I have a half-finished one sitting on my desk right now (still missing the piezo elements, mostly due to laziness).
Then again, the EAS project is pretty simple either, just a pair of stepper motors. Cool, but what michael (why the fuck is that moron still allowed to post anything? seriously) described sounds more like an electron beam magnetizing the screen selectively.
Fuck the XBOX. Seriously. Nothing good has come from parallel Xbox/PC development, especially sequel development (see Deux Ex).
Tazers based on this principle (some sites call them "phazers", see this link, for instance) have been "in development" for years. What makes this one different? I don't know, actually, it appears identical (if somewhat larger and uglier) than the prototype I've seen in an issue of Technika Molodeji 5, maybe 6 years ago.
They have to be connected to a network in order to deliver new ad content on a regular basis. It's highly unlikely that the billboards use some form of removable media for the ads, which leaves us with a network connection.
Depending on the positioning of the billboard, it could be a wired connection (cat5? Animated ads would probably be too large to transfer via slow serial connections) or a wireless (802.11x, or more likely something proprietary). All of the above are hackable.
The firewall most likely acts as a co-processor, similar to the cryptographic co-processors found in some 3Com cards. I doubt any serious vulnerabilities are present if it's implemented right.
Notice that the article mentions the possibility of 3rd party developers using the hardware component -- perhaps iptables can utilize it as well.
Read the questions. The instructor claims that linux (and presumably all OSS) is in the public domain.
I'm not quite sure how this works. You no longer feel like a rich slob because you're wearing $160 headphones instead of the free bundled pair?
Don't get me wrong, I usually use a pair of Sennheisers with my mini (the headphones cost about as much as the iPod, heh), the sound is great, but how the hell do you feel more down to earth toting a pair of studio headphones?
Now, the advertising/trend following aspect is a valid point, although most tradeshow shirt-clad geeks (myself included- I only use the sennheisers for sound quality and isolation) won't give it a second thought.
That is NOT what patents are for. It doesn't matter if it ends up being a legal weapon in a valid case (which I admit this particular one is, since the company was trying to profit from emulation).
The purpose of a patent is exclusively to protect an inventor's rights, allow him protection while seeking resources to begin commercial exploitation of his idea, and finally to ensure that the invention will enter the public domain once the patent expires, as well as to make the details of the invention publically availible to encourage further innovation in the field. Nintendo's patent is just abuse of the system, althogh we're pretty used to that nowdays.
Actually, I haven't noticed any increase in memory footprint between jaguar and panther. It could only be me, but it seems that OSX has gotten smaller, faster and more stable with each release.
What makes you think that the US would be any different?
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I would think twice about buying a karma after reading the support boards. It seems to be very, very poorly built.
Ah, I thought I remembered reading that NeXT actually had the 'verbage', as you put it, on the CD as well, rather than just the homedir. My mistake.
As for the storage 'cloud' are you proposing something similar to Andrew FS or something with a greater degree of distribution/redundancy?
I understand the concept, and I am not doubting its coolness; If I remember correctly, NeXT had a similar philosophy with MO discs.
I am, however, doubting the practicality of using small, standardized (If I understand correctly) and read-only media for graphic designers and similar creative types. In my (rather limited) experience, graphics people tend to have a far more varied and sizable toolkit than your average coder or accountant. Then again, maybe I have misunderstood your original post, as you seem to suggest per-user customization.
My point is that the CD probably won't have all the necessary (and up to date!) software, be it due to space limitations or lack of customization for the graphics guy's specific task. If it does, all the better, but chances are it won't. Then again, maybe my friends just have bad IT people working with them.
I'm afraid the "graphics guy" isn't going to like having to work with a toolkit designed by IT people, and running from a CD. I know several graphic designer-type folks, and they usually have gigabytes upon gigabytes of filters, stock photos, textures, what have you, plus lots of obscure apps.
Of course, you could just store that on the distributed network, but what's the point of having a CD at all in that case?
The parent poster probably including stacking vertically, as well.
Don't forget to check out the original, Natural Selection, a Half-Life mod. I'm not sure if Savage is based directly on NS, but NS has been out for quite some time and has matured in many aspects. NS can be a lot less demanding in terms of pure twitch than Quake/HL, depending on the version you play, and has a focus on teamwork. I haven't have time to play 3.0 yet, but it should still be good.
Do grep -ri /usr/src/linux 'fuck' for an example of colorful programmer language. Not sure why they would remove it though.
I know it's a joke, but you're describing a change in acceleration, not in velocity, so it's referred to as, um, jerk.
"That is nothing new... with Linux I jerked Windows to 9.8 m/s^2".
(This is, also, a joke).
The AMD people were surprisingly clueless. I asked a few of them which socket a particular opteron system on display was using (Looked like it was 939), but most of them started mumbling "socket? what do you mean?", or worse. Some of the systems they had up were pretty cool though, like the dual opteron rackmounts with watercooling. .ORG section we had the usual debian, BSD and Linuxboot people, fun to talk with as always. Didn't get a conversation going with the Gentoo or KDE guys, but the projects were still pretty interesting. EFF wasn't here this year, unfortunately, meant to buy some stickers.
The sun booth was another disappointment in terms of the staff. I wanted to see how reponsive the Sun Rays were, so I walked up to one of their public terminals and started looking around, starting a couple applications, etc. The nearby sales drone stood and glared at me, as if I was going to steal the bloody thing, the entire time (after asking "May I help you?" in that "What the fuck are you doing here, kid, get lost!" tone). I just walked away.
Other corporate booths were similar; either the staff didn't know that much beyond their script, or they didn't want to talk to me, by the benefit of me being a high school student (i.e. a PFY). It's appropriate, I suppose, since I'm not going to be making any million-dollar purchases anytime soon, but still not cool. The IBM booth was a notable exception; one guy showed me GeoProbe, a very neat visualization system. The program had two sets of seismological data loaded from an oil field in England (several square kilometers), and it could be manipulated in real time in various ways. It was running under RHEL 3.0 on a prototype opteron with only 4GB of ram; pretty impressive, considering the complexity of the model. In the mainframe section, two engineers showed me the new zSeries servers, and explained how the hardware worked. Really cool guys (both the mainframe and GeoProbe people), knew their stuff and were really friendly. Otherwise, Oracle's grid seemed promising, but I wasn't able to get too many technical details.
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O'Reilly had a pretty good deal on books, 25% off and a free shirt (the shirts only lasted through the first half of the day). Honeynet gave a pretty interesting presentation in the back of the O'Reilly booth.
There was also a robot rolling around the show floor, Sprocket (not sure of the spelling, it might have been different). It demonstrated pretty impressive speech recognition capabilities, talked to the presenters, made crude jokes and movie references. It seemed pretty capable of sustaining normal conversation and was able to recognize people based on their clothing (although it misinterpreted blue lettering on my t-shirt as a blue jacket). Unfortunately, I didn't get to talk to it for more than a couple of minutes.
How did they prevent condensation from forming on the hardware? It sounds like the air would be humid enough.
The blocked-out part you mention is where the model of the processor would normally live (i.e. the Mhz for intel cpus and the rating for AMDs). See here