How does one go about doing this? I've searched around, and managed to find an interesting little 'here is how to reset your ink chips with some home electronics' I don't quite want to go that far. Does the process require actual new cartridges or can it be done with only one?
The guide and program I found is here, for windows and some electronics for the parallel port: http://www.eddiem.com/photo/printer/chipres et/rese tchip.html
As nice as it seems, I don't have anything around that I can use to build that contraption. I do like the foam cartridge socket, though.
You can't forget about the universally fatal sexually transmitted disease, life.
I was going to say something about sex and being born, but then someone would have brought up a test-tube baby who grew up and is a virgin. Good thing I didn't confuse anyone with that example!
"Do you think my parent's generation went all deaf because they were glued to A.M. radio, which distorted and dropped frequency ranges?"
Well, almost everyone that listened to those original gramaphones and victrolas and edison cylinder players are dead now... Don't forget that poor RCA dog, listening for "his master's voice" all the time... The bad frequencies and unnatural sound must have killed him! Won't someone think of the canines?
why do i feel like this is part of some strange experiment? One paragraph, and a link that I ignored THREE TIMES until I realized 'oh, it goes to a story.' Yes, people are different. Why are we not going into the motvations of professional athletes, or high school athletes who have applied what they were motivated by to their non-athletic life? Should we focus on attention-starved people who drift in and out of relationships because they are insecure and / or easily bored? While I do understand that there is a bit of a spectrum between the individual happy-coloured geek and the monotonic monolithic faceless corporate buzzdrone suit, they (generally) are people too. They have favourite foods, songs. They probably dislike being poked in the eye with a stick. They still have to buy toilet paper.
(I'm worried that this is turning into an insightful post...)
What exactly does 'decentralization' have to do with it, other than that geeks are spread across vast geographic areas? (Some take up vast physical areas, too, but personally, I'm working on reducing my aerial footprint.)
Well, I suppose the least I can do is peer out of the laboratory bell jar and wave.
I think this is interesting for the sole fact that a whole lot of people who owe no direct kinship to each other elected to cooperate for a common cause.
I was listening to a presentation about different pagan holidays, and one component of one of the rituals was to honor / remember your ancestors. What made me remember this was that the presenter said that the ancestors didn't have to be biological, instead could be cultural, intellectual, or spiritual ancestors.
In this case, it seems that these 'artificial' families are willing to stick together and cooperate on a common goal, even if they themselves will not directly benefit. I suppose this is just a regular community, with enough people in it that a few would be motivated to assist. Then again, I could just be amazed by my own insight, marvelling at a fact that others have known for ages, and so think that I am smarter than I actually am.:-)
A week is a long time. Then again, there is a lot of information out there. I'm not sure how well a class can be tailored to fit an age range of 8-16 and still be interesting to everyone, but I think focusing on the spirit and drive behind free software. Focus on the volunteer and communitarian aspects, and how/why it is possible to actually create useful things instead of the whole chaotic thing not working. Then again, the 'kids' might not have forgotten how cooperating can be advantageous yet. There are so many things one can do, it should be planned out to make sure the class doesn't lose focus and/or go off track. Examples are good, though. Maybe one class can be GIMP? Eh... maybe not.
As for giving things free, how about Knoppix? www.knopper.net and find a good mirror. Many LUGs have them mirrored, too.
I'm sure there are lots of hints and tips I could give, but they all seem like common sense. I guess, just don't lose your mind while drafting the plans, and try to keep it interesting while also making them learn something.
More and more when I see these weird technological applications, and things that are totally feasable if enough money is put behind them, I start thinking that these religious nuts are less and less nutty. Maybe I don't agree with their direct motives, but their resistance and defence of certain things against forces of central control are generally noble. (Just don't try and convert me...)
As i'm sure many of you have noticed, there's a whole lot of nutty stuff out there on the intarweb... You want a conspiracy? Someone's already thought it out for you, probably. I'm talking about stuff like The Cutting Edge or other 'new world order' sources, UFOs, bizarre new-age (or ancient) occult plots, along with probably an unhealthy dose of gay martian overlord plots thrown in. I guess the trick is to 1. not go crazy and/or turn into a paranoid psychopath, 2. filter out all the BS 3. not discount an idea just because of the source 4. ??? 5. profit!
Seriously, though. combine the 'barcodes are the mark of the beast' and the possibilities for abuse of implantable electronics, and you have some serious conspiracy-fodder. Just because you're not paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
Dammit, where's my bourbon! No, I mean, tinfoil hat! (ha ha only serious?)
I'm curious to see what this will do to the MS stock price. Right now I'm thinking nothing, as I'm sure there are numerous companies of similar constitution who also run a few extremely profitable divisions and few to many money-losing operations. As much as I hate to say it, Microsoft being "evil" probably has nothing to do with this practice.
It is interesting, though, to think about what would happen if their major revenue streams were to be threatened somehow... I have suspiscions that some of the books at MS have been, how you say, grilled to perfection?
Probably the best thing to remember is this: Developers, Devel... oops, Diversify, Diversify, Diversify!
"It's impossible to get a speedup of more than 10 with any processor-related activities.
Using Amdahl's Law, one can find that Speedup = (s + p ) / (s + p / N ) where N is the number of processors, s is the amount of time spent (by a serial processor) on serial parts of a program and p is the amount of time spent (by a serial processor) on parts of the program that can be done in parallel."
While I'm no expert in software engineering (and I haven't really looked over the equation you put too closely) I think it assumes the original was written with some sort of intelligence behind it. I bet I could write some really atrocious code that would be so incredibly inefficient that almost anyone else could get a huge performance gain from it.
I'm not sure if I would have to try hard or not try at all to write really bad code.:-)
What if I wanted to put one of the Sims models into Splinter Cell? Maybe a Barney model...
Good idea, though. This could be hooked with a voice system so you could request "Baroque Vase number 32" and then place it on a table using some nifty future interface device.
Then again, we'll have to wait for the porn industry to find a way to make money for it before it really takes off.:-)
http://modern-ruins.com/ruins/boneyard/ or http://www.dm.af.mil/tours.htm (In AZ, though)
looks a sight better than http://postconflict.unep.ch/photos/afghanistan/ass essment/team3/kabul_-_airplane_graveyard_near_airp ort_(sep_2002_-_cs).html
Oh well, I kinda knew I wouldn't be the first to post about it. You do realize that posts like that are why you have relatively good karma, yes?:-)
The sooner all the animals are extinct, the sooner we'll find their money. - Ed Bluestone
So much for conservation.:-)
Somehow I don't think we'll get a species named after Slashdot, even though the swarming behaviours are quite similar to a site being hammered until it goes down.:-D
This sounds a bit like how the South Korean fiber lines that were built for use during the World Cup ended up being the infrastructure that let them install broadband access to a significant percentage of homes.
Admittedly, South Korea is a different sort of place than Idaho, but comparing it to a state is probably much better than comparing it to the whole US.
The problem is that no one really wants to pay for infrastructure unless they can see the "step n. Profit!" at the end of it. It is like roads and railways, infrastructure that allows companies to do business, but which is shared by others. I think this is a form of the 'free rider' problem, but I'm not an economist. Generally, the government gets to pay to keep the infrastructure going, and gets the money for it from taxes.
Short answer: good infrastructure allows many other activities, but individual entities are not always willing to make the investment.
"Ben & Jerry's (the ice cream people) has always been a hippie's stock. Instead of paying out dividents, they spend all their profits on charities. Somehow, the investors don't seem to mind."
Well, there's also the annual shareholders meetings. From what I've heard, Ben & Jerry's is no Johnson & Johnson.:-) A live concert, some carnival rides, and no doubt an abundance of ice cream. Shareholders also get coupons for ice cream every year, so I offer this as one example of owning shares because they like and believe in the company. But yeah, it's pretty rare, as companies go.
Hey, what kind of shareholder benefits does one get for owning Playboy stock?
"I'm a filmmaker. 2 years ago, video was the best format availible to me. Now, I distribute on DVD."
I'm just wondering... Can you take a DVD you've burned and make it into a pressed CD? Partly I'm being curious, and partly I'm being provacative, since I remember reading that consumer-grade general DVD writers do not let you mark it as a 'master' copy, as opposed to a studio grade drive which would allow you to create a 'professional' disc. (Not to say that you are unprofessional or doing unprofessional work!:-)
I'm just curious, because the article below is the only place I've heard it mentioned.
Check out What's Wrong With Copy Protection by John Gilmore in the even that you haven't read it many times already.:-)
At first I thought this was uncompetitive action (but I'm sure someone else will scream monopoly), then I thought 'oh, but there are other choices in the market, kmart can go with them instead, so it is just weird' and then I read the article.
It is pretty weird, if you ask me. Some creditors (and Microsoft) are opposed to the sale of the internet unit because the licenses were made with kmart, and therefore can't be transferred. This sounds to me like when Via bought another company (was it a division of SiS or Acer or something?) that had license to make Pentium 4 busses (bussen?:-) and Intel said that Via didn't have the rights to manufacture them, and that the licenses were non-transferrable.
I still find it odd that non-Microsoft entities are getting involved against the sale, but that seems more like a tax- and payment-avoidance issue than something directly Microsoftian.
What you really should do to test this server is load a quake 3 and unreal tournament 2003 server on it, then ask someone (or someones, like all of slashdot's readership) to DDoS the new server, like they have done to many servers, large and small, in the past.
Or you could just do network load testing by playing a large number of fps games on a locally-connected network segment.
Additionally, as I crafted this little response... How about using Apache Bench? http://codeflux.com/ab/ is a gateway for it.
Tsunami-bench is a front-end http://sourceforge.net/projects/tsunami -ab
BenJaws is another front-end http://sourceforge.net/projects/benjaws /
I think the interesting thing (if we are thinking of the same episode) is that he was replaced by a 'more perfect' singing program, whereas he had tried very hard to make his program adopt certain human tones and styles.
Even if the new program was technically better and/or more accurate, the doctor wasn't terribly happy about being replaced...
I had heard somewhere that humans only use 5% of the actual surface to live on. Now I have to ask myself what that means, if they counted the number of 1-meter squares it would take for each person... So much for my murky memory and weird statistics.
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When I was shopping for manila folders at Staples, I saw one of these babies in a cardboard presentation case. The prices were way too high, but in case you wanted to spend even more, you could get a tiny keyboard with it. The keyboard looked kinda nice, though...
Slashdot Mirror
Well, I was searching around for a good place to put this, making it a reply to the author of the article seems as good a place as any :-)
/ matrix/
When I was poking around for something to let me learn octave, I came across this:
http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/bench
Perhaps it will be useful. It contains some code, too.
How does one go about doing this? I've searched around, and managed to find an interesting little 'here is how to reset your ink chips with some home electronics' I don't quite want to go that far. Does the process require actual new cartridges or can it be done with only one?
s et/rese tchip.html
The guide and program I found is here, for windows and some electronics for the parallel port:
http://www.eddiem.com/photo/printer/chipre
As nice as it seems, I don't have anything around that I can use to build that contraption. I do like the foam cartridge socket, though.
"Who needs a spoon? All you need is two sticks. "Eating soup with sticks?" I hear you thinking, yes, eating soup with sticks."
I hope the sticks are long and hollow, almost... strawlike.
You can't forget about the universally fatal sexually transmitted disease, life.
I was going to say something about sex and being born, but then someone would have brought up a test-tube baby who grew up and is a virgin. Good thing I didn't confuse anyone with that example!
"You must have missed the bits about the RIAA death squads."
Reminds me a little bit of a Garfield cartoon, where climbing on the drapes was deemed unhealthy, "because I'll break every bone in your body".
Just remember, you're downloading... Communism! or something.
"Do you think my parent's generation went all deaf because they were glued to A.M. radio, which distorted and dropped frequency ranges?"
Well, almost everyone that listened to those original gramaphones and victrolas and edison cylinder players are dead now... Don't forget that poor RCA dog, listening for "his master's voice" all the time... The bad frequencies and unnatural sound must have killed him! Won't someone think of the canines?
why do i feel like this is part of some strange experiment? One paragraph, and a link that I ignored THREE TIMES until I realized 'oh, it goes to a story.' Yes, people are different. Why are we not going into the motvations of professional athletes, or high school athletes who have applied what they were motivated by to their non-athletic life? Should we focus on attention-starved people who drift in and out of relationships because they are insecure and / or easily bored? While I do understand that there is a bit of a spectrum between the individual happy-coloured geek and the monotonic monolithic faceless corporate buzzdrone suit, they (generally) are people too. They have favourite foods, songs. They probably dislike being poked in the eye with a stick. They still have to buy toilet paper.
(I'm worried that this is turning into an insightful post...)
What exactly does 'decentralization' have to do with it, other than that geeks are spread across vast geographic areas? (Some take up vast physical areas, too, but personally, I'm working on reducing my aerial footprint.)
Well, I suppose the least I can do is peer out of the laboratory bell jar and wave.
Hi!
I think this is interesting for the sole fact that a whole lot of people who owe no direct kinship to each other elected to cooperate for a common cause.
:-)
I was listening to a presentation about different pagan holidays, and one component of one of the rituals was to honor / remember your ancestors. What made me remember this was that the presenter said that the ancestors didn't have to be biological, instead could be cultural, intellectual, or spiritual ancestors.
In this case, it seems that these 'artificial' families are willing to stick together and cooperate on a common goal, even if they themselves will not directly benefit. I suppose this is just a regular community, with enough people in it that a few would be motivated to assist. Then again, I could just be amazed by my own insight, marvelling at a fact that others have known for ages, and so think that I am smarter than I actually am.
A week is a long time. Then again, there is a lot of information out there. I'm not sure how well a class can be tailored to fit an age range of 8-16 and still be interesting to everyone, but I think focusing on the spirit and drive behind free software. Focus on the volunteer and communitarian aspects, and how/why it is possible to actually create useful things instead of the whole chaotic thing not working. Then again, the 'kids' might not have forgotten how cooperating can be advantageous yet. There are so many things one can do, it should be planned out to make sure the class doesn't lose focus and/or go off track. Examples are good, though. Maybe one class can be GIMP? Eh... maybe not.
As for giving things free, how about Knoppix? www.knopper.net and find a good mirror. Many LUGs have them mirrored, too.
I'm sure there are lots of hints and tips I could give, but they all seem like common sense. I guess, just don't lose your mind while drafting the plans, and try to keep it interesting while also making them learn something.
More and more when I see these weird technological applications, and things that are totally feasable if enough money is put behind them, I start thinking that these religious nuts are less and less nutty. Maybe I don't agree with their direct motives, but their resistance and defence of certain things against forces of central control are generally noble. (Just don't try and convert me...)
As i'm sure many of you have noticed, there's a whole lot of nutty stuff out there on the intarweb... You want a conspiracy? Someone's already thought it out for you, probably. I'm talking about stuff like The Cutting Edge or other 'new world order' sources, UFOs, bizarre new-age (or ancient) occult plots, along with probably an unhealthy dose of gay martian overlord plots thrown in. I guess the trick is to 1. not go crazy and/or turn into a paranoid psychopath, 2. filter out all the BS 3. not discount an idea just because of the source 4. ??? 5. profit!
Seriously, though. combine the 'barcodes are the mark of the beast' and the possibilities for abuse of implantable electronics, and you have some serious conspiracy-fodder. Just because you're not paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
Dammit, where's my bourbon! No, I mean, tinfoil hat! (ha ha only serious?)
I'm curious to see what this will do to the MS stock price. Right now I'm thinking nothing, as I'm sure there are numerous companies of similar constitution who also run a few extremely profitable divisions and few to many money-losing operations. As much as I hate to say it, Microsoft being "evil" probably has nothing to do with this practice.
It is interesting, though, to think about what would happen if their major revenue streams were to be threatened somehow... I have suspiscions that some of the books at MS have been, how you say, grilled to perfection?
Probably the best thing to remember is this: Developers, Devel... oops, Diversify, Diversify, Diversify!
"It's impossible to get a speedup of more than 10 with any processor-related activities.
:-)
Using Amdahl's Law, one can find that
Speedup = (s + p ) / (s + p / N ) where N is the number of processors, s is the amount of time spent (by a serial processor) on serial parts of a program and p is the amount of time spent (by a serial processor) on parts of the program that can be done in parallel."
While I'm no expert in software engineering (and I haven't really looked over the equation you put too closely) I think it assumes the original was written with some sort of intelligence behind it. I bet I could write some really atrocious code that would be so incredibly inefficient that almost anyone else could get a huge performance gain from it.
I'm not sure if I would have to try hard or not try at all to write really bad code.
What if I wanted to put one of the Sims models into Splinter Cell? Maybe a Barney model...
:-)
Good idea, though. This could be hooked with a voice system so you could request "Baroque Vase number 32" and then place it on a table using some nifty future interface device.
Then again, we'll have to wait for the porn industry to find a way to make money for it before it really takes off.
OK, so you can't buy it. But can you build it?
That is the question. I don't mean to reimplement the hardware itself, but to provide equal or similar data protection between wireless points.
http://modern-ruins.com/ruins/boneyard/ or http://www.dm.af.mil/tours.htm (In AZ, though)
s essment/team3/kabul_-_airplane_graveyard_near_airp ort_(sep_2002_-_cs).html
:-)
looks a sight better than http://postconflict.unep.ch/photos/afghanistan/as
Oh well, I kinda knew I wouldn't be the first to post about it. You do realize that posts like that are why you have relatively good karma, yes?
The quote at the bottom of the page was this:
:-)
:-D
The sooner all the animals are extinct, the sooner we'll find their money. - Ed Bluestone
So much for conservation.
Somehow I don't think we'll get a species named after Slashdot, even though the swarming behaviours are quite similar to a site being hammered until it goes down.
I think you need to upgrade your bookshelf. It seems to be pretty low resolution. :-D
This sounds a bit like how the South Korean fiber lines that were built for use during the World Cup ended up being the infrastructure that let them install broadband access to a significant percentage of homes.
Admittedly, South Korea is a different sort of place than Idaho, but comparing it to a state is probably much better than comparing it to the whole US.
The problem is that no one really wants to pay for infrastructure unless they can see the "step n. Profit!" at the end of it. It is like roads and railways, infrastructure that allows companies to do business, but which is shared by others. I think this is a form of the 'free rider' problem, but I'm not an economist. Generally, the government gets to pay to keep the infrastructure going, and gets the money for it from taxes.
Short answer: good infrastructure allows many other activities, but individual entities are not always willing to make the investment.
"Ben & Jerry's (the ice cream people) has always been a hippie's stock. Instead of paying out dividents, they spend all their profits on charities. Somehow, the investors don't seem to mind."
:-) A live concert, some carnival rides, and no doubt an abundance of ice cream. Shareholders also get coupons for ice cream every year, so I offer this as one example of owning shares because they like and believe in the company. But yeah, it's pretty rare, as companies go.
Well, there's also the annual shareholders meetings. From what I've heard, Ben & Jerry's is no Johnson & Johnson.
Hey, what kind of shareholder benefits does one get for owning Playboy stock?
"I'm a filmmaker. 2 years ago, video was the best format availible to me. Now, I distribute on DVD."
:-)
:-)
I'm just wondering... Can you take a DVD you've burned and make it into a pressed CD? Partly I'm being curious, and partly I'm being provacative, since I remember reading that consumer-grade general DVD writers do not let you mark it as a 'master' copy, as opposed to a studio grade drive which would allow you to create a 'professional' disc. (Not to say that you are unprofessional or doing unprofessional work!
I'm just curious, because the article below is the only place I've heard it mentioned.
Check out What's Wrong With Copy Protection by John Gilmore in the even that you haven't read it many times already.
At first I thought this was uncompetitive action (but I'm sure someone else will scream monopoly), then I thought 'oh, but there are other choices in the market, kmart can go with them instead, so it is just weird' and then I read the article.
:-) and Intel said that Via didn't have the rights to manufacture them, and that the licenses were non-transferrable.
It is pretty weird, if you ask me. Some creditors (and Microsoft) are opposed to the sale of the internet unit because the licenses were made with kmart, and therefore can't be transferred. This sounds to me like when Via bought another company (was it a division of SiS or Acer or something?) that had license to make Pentium 4 busses (bussen?
I still find it odd that non-Microsoft entities are getting involved against the sale, but that seems more like a tax- and payment-avoidance issue than something directly Microsoftian.
What you really should do to test this server is load a quake 3 and unreal tournament 2003 server on it, then ask someone (or someones, like all of slashdot's readership) to DDoS the new server, like they have done to many servers, large and small, in the past.
i -ab
s /
Or you could just do network load testing by playing a large number of fps games on a locally-connected network segment.
Additionally, as I crafted this little response... How about using Apache Bench? http://codeflux.com/ab/ is a gateway for it.
Tsunami-bench is a front-end
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tsunam
BenJaws is another front-end
http://sourceforge.net/projects/benjaw
Run those a few times...
I think the interesting thing (if we are thinking of the same episode) is that he was replaced by a 'more perfect' singing program, whereas he had tried very hard to make his program adopt certain human tones and styles.
Even if the new program was technically better and/or more accurate, the doctor wasn't terribly happy about being replaced...
I had heard somewhere that humans only use 5% of the actual surface to live on. Now I have to ask myself what that means, if they counted the number of 1-meter squares it would take for each person... So much for my murky memory and weird statistics.
When I was shopping for manila folders at Staples, I saw one of these babies in a cardboard presentation case. The prices were way too high, but in case you wanted to spend even more, you could get a tiny keyboard with it. The keyboard looked kinda nice, though...