Those are pretty pricey, it looks like about $2/ft for the smallest size. You might be better off buying colored Cat5e to match the color of the walls.
And of course, the next news article will be that HMO's have begun rejecting medical procedures based on the predisposition for certain diseases of certain genomes.
This reminds me of the urban legend where a guy attaches a JATO to his Impala and plants himself into the face of a cliff. Apparently the story had truthful elements, the real guy behind it did attach the JATO to an old push railroad car and it worked fairly well. So I can imagine something like that could be commercially viable with a little more advanced developement.
With the stability of Linux, I can leave my boxes on for an almost infinite length of time. So I do:). I never could do that with Windows, the machine would get all borked after only a couple of days. I guess Linux increases my power bill.
I was looking other day to see if any CD's I wanted had been released on DVD-audio and I found this site. Looks like the releases are quite limited but in the near future the numbers should increase. But only one Mozart release and no more in the works? That's a big mistake. I'd buy a recording of Requiem fast
Maybe Microsoft will follow the Church of Scientology and try to get them to remove the page from their cache. They certainly have the resources to enforce any threat they could make.
For things like this that rely on the accuracy of color, I believe analog will always (or at least for a long while) be the way to go. There is so many ways that a color can be distorted, but when it's on a simple swab of paper, the only variable is the light source. Perhaps an analog/digital combination is the best approach?
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Well, since the surface temperature of Triton is around -250 degrees C, there would have to be a whole lot of pressure to enable liquid water to exist.
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I just watched the BBC series on the planets of our solar system, and I have to say, I would now find it really hard to believe that there could be any sort of liquid water on Triton. Triton supposedly has the heaviest winds in the solar system (up to 1000 MPH!) but it also has a solid nitrogen surface. The only geological activity detected was liquid nitrogen geysers bursting through the surface caused by pressure buildup. So if underneath the surface is liquid nitrogen, I don't care how much deeper you go, the planet is not big enough to be able to go deep enough into the core to find temperatures in the range suitable for liquid water.
Well, they did a few years back anyway. I remember my friend challenged me to a game of Rise of The Triad in a booth at some theme park. The main attraction was that to see the game you got to wear these fancy looking 3D goggles. It was something like $3 a person, so I figured what the hell.
That was the worst first person shooter experience I've ever had. Maybe the goggles weren't focused right, but I got incredibly dizzy from playing it and ended up not being able to do much at all. Maybe a slower game like Icewind Dale II would be more playable in 3D, but then, what would the point of that be?
Yes, I realize the high-end gaming systems fetch a hefty profit margin, but isn't Alienware the standard retailer for such systems?
I think reputation has a lot to do with sales success, so it may be hard for Systemax to break into Alienware's marketshare. The watercooling option is definitely a step in the right direction; I'm pretty sure no system retailer has attempted such an offer.
The U.S. has sent how many manned missions to the moon, and how many to Mars? Yeah, I know the space race is over, and it's a whole lot farther to Mars than the moon, but still... it seems it's about time. We don't seem to have much luck with surface probes on the red planet, so maybe the only way to get anything done is send real astronauts.
Of course, with the recent metric/imperial conversion error, I'd hate to be in the first crew to touch down...
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If anyone likes the idea of a hacker history and doesn't have the time to do the reading, I'd recommend Pirates of Silicon Valley. It aired a few months ago on TV and covers most of what the reviewer talks about.
Very cool to see the history of something that is still so alive today
From the article: Everyone who hates the DMCA has to illegally copy a movie or a song, and then tell both the Congress and the U.S. Copyright Office exactly what they did.
How exactly is doing something like this going to catch the public eye? Joe Public still won't have heard of what's going on, the only people that will know about it are Congress and the US Copyright Office. Now, something like what Bruce Perens planned to do (violate the DMCA in front of a crowd) on a larger scale would be more like it...
This kind of civil disobedience is NOT going to be very effective.
With the civil rights movement of the 1960's, civil disobedience was very vocal and right in the public eye- this, on the other hand, will hardly be noticed by most people.
A more effective way to show your displeasure with the current legislation may be to protest in "real life" rather than in cyberspace.
Doesn't this kind of go against the theory of natural selection? I mean, if the mutated gene is hidden, then there really isn't a difference between the inferior and superior versions, so the gene pool won't be improved.
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Those are pretty pricey, it looks like about $2/ft for the smallest size. You might be better off buying colored Cat5e to match the color of the walls.
And of course, the next news article will be that HMO's have begun rejecting medical procedures based on the predisposition for certain diseases of certain genomes.
This reminds me of the urban legend where a guy attaches a JATO to his Impala and plants himself into the face of a cliff. Apparently the story had truthful elements, the real guy behind it did attach the JATO to an old push railroad car and it worked fairly well. So I can imagine something like that could be commercially viable with a little more advanced developement.
With the stability of Linux, I can leave my boxes on for an almost infinite length of time. So I do :). I never could do that with Windows, the machine would get all borked after only a couple of days. I guess Linux increases my power bill.
Maybe it isn't as technical as you want the questions to be, but I'm interested in the answer:
Can open source software and Palladium coexist?
I was looking other day to see if any CD's I wanted had been released on DVD-audio and I found this site. Looks like the releases are quite limited but in the near future the numbers should increase. But only one Mozart release and no more in the works? That's a big mistake. I'd buy a recording of Requiem fast
Maybe Microsoft will follow the Church of Scientology and try to get them to remove the page from their cache. They certainly have the resources to enforce any threat they could make.
Will it support Ogg Vorbis?
I've got a "joy stick" that needs some reliability testing ;}
I think this guy owes us an explanation. Does he know something we should know?
Qwa O Wahr?
Sounds like my cat when I stuck it in the microwave.
Here's a link to the ISO. /. away!
Dl'ing at 100 KB/s now- probably not for long.
He could whip all their asses... and would do it happily no less!
Maybe you're just going to the wrong web sites?
Slashdot is definitely not like sex.
WTF... I already posted this, but the comment seems to be deleted.
Anyway-
Sounds like marketing FUD to me, although hopefully this is a step in the right direction I doubt it really is a "green" pc
They are at least right in one sense- the PCB really is green.
For things like this that rely on the accuracy of color, I believe analog will always (or at least for a long while) be the way to go. There is so many ways that a color can be distorted, but when it's on a simple swab of paper, the only variable is the light source. Perhaps an analog/digital combination is the best approach?
Well, since the surface temperature of Triton is around -250 degrees C, there would have to be a whole lot of pressure to enable liquid water to exist.
I just watched the BBC series on the planets of our solar system, and I have to say, I would now find it really hard to believe that there could be any sort of liquid water on Triton. Triton supposedly has the heaviest winds in the solar system (up to 1000 MPH!) but it also has a solid nitrogen surface. The only geological activity detected was liquid nitrogen geysers bursting through the surface caused by pressure buildup. So if underneath the surface is liquid nitrogen, I don't care how much deeper you go, the planet is not big enough to be able to go deep enough into the core to find temperatures in the range suitable for liquid water.
Well, they did a few years back anyway. I remember my friend challenged me to a game of Rise of The Triad in a booth at some theme park. The main attraction was that to see the game you got to wear these fancy looking 3D goggles. It was something like $3 a person, so I figured what the hell.
That was the worst first person shooter experience I've ever had. Maybe the goggles weren't focused right, but I got incredibly dizzy from playing it and ended up not being able to do much at all. Maybe a slower game like Icewind Dale II would be more playable in 3D, but then, what would the point of that be?
Yes, I realize the high-end gaming systems fetch a hefty profit margin, but isn't Alienware the standard retailer for such systems?
I think reputation has a lot to do with sales success, so it may be hard for Systemax to break into Alienware's marketshare. The watercooling option is definitely a step in the right direction; I'm pretty sure no system retailer has attempted such an offer.
The U.S. has sent how many manned missions to the moon, and how many to Mars? Yeah, I know the space race is over, and it's a whole lot farther to Mars than the moon, but still... it seems it's about time. We don't seem to have much luck with surface probes on the red planet, so maybe the only way to get anything done is send real astronauts.
Of course, with the recent metric/imperial conversion error, I'd hate to be in the first crew to touch down...
If anyone likes the idea of a hacker history and doesn't have the time to do the reading, I'd recommend Pirates of Silicon Valley. It aired a few months ago on TV and covers most of what the reviewer talks about.
Very cool to see the history of something that is still so alive today
From the article:
Everyone who hates the DMCA has to illegally copy a movie or a song, and then tell both the Congress and the U.S. Copyright Office exactly what they did.
How exactly is doing something like this going to catch the public eye? Joe Public still won't have heard of what's going on, the only people that will know about it are Congress and the US Copyright Office. Now, something like what Bruce Perens planned to do (violate the DMCA in front of a crowd) on a larger scale would be more like it...
This kind of civil disobedience is NOT going to be very effective.
With the civil rights movement of the 1960's, civil disobedience was very vocal and right in the public eye- this, on the other hand, will hardly be noticed by most people.
A more effective way to show your displeasure with the current legislation may be to protest in "real life" rather than in cyberspace.
Doesn't this kind of go against the theory of natural selection? I mean, if the mutated gene is hidden, then there really isn't a difference between the inferior and superior versions, so the gene pool won't be improved.