> maximum throughput of the Xbox DVD drive is 6.6 MB/s -- my Internet can do that
you probably mean your internet can do 6 Mbps (mega bits per second) - the Xbox drive throughput is in _Bytes_ per second?
The other thing is that if a significant portion of net users start running hour long 6 Mbps data streams, it puts a tremendous strain in the remote server and the ISPs along their network path and there will likely be QoS deterioration. That's why it makes sense taking the heaviest game assets from DVD
> 4TB hard drive once every 25 years (generation time) onto a brand new drive
Nope. Literally, its copying Y Chromosome data over and over trillions of times in sperm cells, one of which is then chosen at random for propagation to the next generation, where this process repeats.
"In Canada, federalism implies opposition to sovereigntist movements (usually those of Quebec). The same is historically true in the United States. Advocates of a weaker federal government and stronger state governments are those that generally favor confederation, often related to early "anti-federalists" and later the Confederacy."
Opens up a new class of concepts where pressure across time can be measured...Ctrl + A could select all items as usual, or a hard Ctrl+A (normal press on A, followed by a harder press) could select the entire application window which then could be move around with the cursor keys, resize with mouse scroll, etc.
From what I see on Global Sourcing LED based projector technology is getting cheaper and more common. Cameras, especially Digital SLRs (which this isn't) normally have space for larger battery packs than other handheld devices. So this seem like a natural fit.
I think that you wrote this post in a Flow state.:) Sorry but you're still wrong.
Its true that some of the best workers (knowledge industry or otherwise) are also the nicest people. Nice does not mean they never get angry. It just means they are patient and don't snap your head off when someone fumbles something minor.
The real reason why so many talented programmers are egotists is because they are arrogant: they let their knowledge and achievements define their self-worth.
It's the rare - and better person - who's both skilled and humble.
> Unfortunately, this is not the case. Each year, the winner of the Progress Prize WERE obliged to > publish details of their algorithms to date... and it was very clear that all the other competitors > jumped on these details.
Unfortunately?:) What's wrong with it? They win money, and NetFlix get them to disclose the details.
Yes, he's been trained. He still has free choice (he's posting to slashdot, isn't he?), and his training helped him overcome his previous undisciplined, capricious habits.
While you, dear person, are trying to brainwash others into your peculiar groupthink - that military style training aimed at developing self-discipline is "brainwashing" and inherently evil.
Forgot to add... why aren't they drilling in some desert area... some abandoned nuclear test site? Sure, the power transmission losses will be larger, but so will the safety (especially compared to SF)
> I don't know about Basel but I'm certain these guys know they would face serious legal/criminal action if they didn't know for sure it was safe.
Why don't you read the article?
Alarmed, Mr. Häring and other company officials decided to release all pressure in the well to try to halt the fracturing. But as they stood a few miles from the drill site, giving the orders by speakerphone to workers atop the hole, a much bigger jolt shook the room.
"I think that was us," said one stunned official.
Analysis of seismic data proved him correct. The quake measured 3.4 -- modest in some parts of the world. But triggered quakes tend to be shallower than natural ones, and residents generally describe them as a single, explosive bang or jolt -- often out of proportion to the magnitude -- rather than a rumble. Triggered quakes are also frequently accompanied by an "air shock," a loud tearing or roaring noise.
The noise "made me feel it was some sort of supersonic aircraft going overhead," said Heinrich Schwendener, who, as president of Geopower Basel, the consortium that includes Geothermal Explorers and the utility companies, was standing next to the borehole.
Not quite true here in Australia - my ISP - Exetel - lets me run servers on my home plan. The one exception is servers sending spam mail.
My plan provides a fixed IP, ADSL 2+, uncounted uploads, and a reasonable flat rate (AU$3/GB) for traffic over the limits (8 GB peak, 50 GB offpeak) for AU $46 a month.
In their forums Exetel management have said they have no problems with businesses using their residential services, or vice versa - they just have different support policies for each one.
RIP Nicola Tesla. Towards the end of his life, he seems to have descended into mental illness . Now our portrayals of him are doing the same - for example, the TV series 'Sanctuary' apparently shows him as a vampire.
Or better, buy a old color PDA that has wifi from ebay. Install a VNC client on it and a VNC server on the laptop. Mount the PDA on the dash, and the laptop in the boot.
You now have a color, touchscreen client hooked up wirelessly to an invisible server.
That's why you filtering all mail without a sub-address to a folder labeled "probable_spam"
Excellent idea!!!
So just make sure you never give our untagged addresses, redirect untagged mail to trash, and you've got unguessable, unique-per-partner addresses in Gmail!!!
If this practise picks up, spammers will wisen up and start automatically use random tags with gmail ('example+random_tag@gmail.com' - hopefully whitelisting services can kick in by then to counteract it (e.g., my Iphone autogenerates an address, and generates a whitelist rule on gmail).
> So what good does it do you to know who sold your address? Yes, you can have a chat with them More usefully, you can automatically redirect all email from them (and the people they sold the compromised address to) to trash.
Slashdot Mirror
100 mbit Internet. Neat. Good for you but very few other people are thus privileged.
See also my second point for why the Internet is not a good replacement for your SATA bus.
just following this interesting discussion,
> maximum throughput of the Xbox DVD drive is 6.6 MB/s -- my Internet can do that
you probably mean your internet can do 6 Mbps (mega bits per second) - the Xbox drive throughput is in _Bytes_ per second?
The other thing is that if a significant portion of net users start running hour long 6 Mbps data streams, it puts a tremendous strain in the remote server and the ISPs along their network path and there will likely be QoS deterioration. That's why it makes sense taking the heaviest game assets from DVD
> 4TB hard drive once every 25 years (generation time) onto a brand new drive
Nope. Literally, its copying Y Chromosome data over and over trillions of times in sperm cells, one of which is then chosen at random for propagation to the next generation, where this process repeats.
Try that with your 4 TB RAID setup. :)
I do hope they win!
By federalism, you mean this, right?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalism
"In Canada, federalism implies opposition to sovereigntist movements (usually those of Quebec). The same is historically true in the United States. Advocates of a weaker federal government and stronger state governments are those that generally favor confederation, often related to early "anti-federalists" and later the Confederacy."
Opens up a new class of concepts where pressure across time can be measured ...Ctrl + A could select all items as usual, or a hard Ctrl+A (normal press on A, followed by a harder press) could select the entire application window which then could be move around with the cursor keys, resize with mouse scroll, etc.
From what I see on Global Sourcing LED based projector technology is getting cheaper and more common. Cameras, especially Digital SLRs (which this isn't) normally have space for larger battery packs than other handheld devices. So this seem like a natural fit.
I think that you wrote this post in a Flow state. :) Sorry but you're still wrong.
Its true that some of the best workers (knowledge industry or otherwise) are also the nicest people. Nice does not mean they never get angry. It just means they are patient and don't snap your head off when someone fumbles something minor.
The real reason why so many talented programmers are egotists is because they are arrogant: they let their knowledge and achievements define their self-worth.
It's the rare - and better person - who's both skilled and humble.
> Unfortunately, this is not the case. Each year, the winner of the Progress Prize WERE obliged to ... and it was very clear that all the other competitors
> publish details of their algorithms to date
> jumped on these details.
Unfortunately? :) What's wrong with it? They win money, and NetFlix get them to disclose the details.
This is just great for humanity as a whole.
> It's not 2TB, it's only 3.2gb. You need enwiki-20080103-pages-articles.xml.bz2,
> from http://www.archive.org/details/enwiki-20080103
i recall reading somewhere the unzipped size of wikipedia was 1-2 TB... not sure about this file though
So now you equate boot-camp trainees to ****Holocaust victims?***
Get some perspective man!
I thought we were discussing boot camps!
Even so, Colin Powell, John McCain, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, JFK, Ted Kennedy and John Kerry would disagree.
Regardless of your opinion of their politics, you can say they made something of their lives.
Yes, he's been trained. He still has free choice (he's posting to slashdot, isn't he?), and his training helped him overcome his previous undisciplined, capricious habits.
While you, dear person, are trying to brainwash others into your peculiar groupthink - that military style training aimed at developing self-discipline is "brainwashing" and inherently evil.
http://www.amazon.com/Buddha-Figurine-Statue-Heart-Sutra/dp/B000SE1OTY
YOU MEAN 'LAUGHING BUDDHA'
Forgot to add ... why aren't they drilling in some desert area... some abandoned nuclear test site? Sure, the power transmission losses will be larger, but so will the safety (especially compared to SF)
> I don't know about Basel but I'm certain these guys know they would face serious legal/criminal action if they didn't know for sure it was safe.
Why don't you read the article?
Alarmed, Mr. Häring and other company officials decided to release all pressure in the well to try to halt the fracturing. But as they stood a few miles from the drill site, giving the orders by speakerphone to workers atop the hole, a much bigger jolt shook the room.
"I think that was us," said one stunned official.
Analysis of seismic data proved him correct. The quake measured 3.4 -- modest in some parts of the world. But triggered quakes tend to be shallower than natural ones, and residents generally describe them as a single, explosive bang or jolt -- often out of proportion to the magnitude -- rather than a rumble.
Triggered quakes are also frequently accompanied by an "air shock," a loud tearing or roaring noise.
The noise "made me feel it was some sort of supersonic aircraft going overhead," said Heinrich Schwendener, who, as president of Geopower Basel, the consortium that includes Geothermal Explorers and the utility companies, was standing next to the borehole.
ban them both ... its a false dichotomy to say if you ban child porn simulations, child rape will rise.
Its fair to expect at least this much from people.
...then why did the child run away?
Stop making statistics up!
Not quite true here in Australia - my ISP - Exetel - lets me run servers on my home plan. The one exception is servers sending spam mail.
My plan provides a fixed IP, ADSL 2+, uncounted uploads, and a reasonable flat rate (AU$3 /GB) for traffic over the limits (8 GB peak, 50 GB offpeak) for AU $46 a month.
Terms of service:
http://www.exetel.com.au/a_acceptable_use_adsl2.php
In their forums Exetel management have said they have no problems with businesses using their residential services, or vice versa - they just have different support policies for each one.
'eldavojohn' writes: "...eats away juicy tender delicious ant brain..."
Three adjectives, no less.
Exactly who is the submitter? :-)
Mod parent informative!!! ;-)
(post rated PG for offensive language)
RIP Nicola Tesla. Towards the end of his life, he seems to have descended into mental illness . Now our portrayals of him are doing the same - for example, the TV series 'Sanctuary' apparently shows him as a vampire.
Or better, buy a old color PDA that has wifi from ebay. Install a VNC client on it and a VNC server on the laptop. Mount the PDA on the dash, and the laptop in the boot.
You now have a color, touchscreen client hooked up wirelessly to an invisible server.
That's why you filtering all mail without a sub-address to a folder labeled "probable_spam"
Excellent idea!!!
So just make sure you never give our untagged addresses, redirect untagged mail to trash, and you've got unguessable, unique-per-partner addresses in Gmail!!!
If this practise picks up, spammers will wisen up and start automatically use random tags with gmail ('example+random_tag@gmail.com' - hopefully whitelisting services can kick in by then to counteract it (e.g., my Iphone autogenerates an address, and generates a whitelist rule on gmail).
> So what good does it do you to know who sold your address?
Yes, you can have a chat with them
More usefully, you can automatically redirect all email from them (and the people they sold the compromised address to) to trash.
> Plus addressing is trivial to evade (as you correctly pointed out). You still get all the spam.
I thought so too, but see excellent idea by user reiisi -- http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1212423&cid=27727057
Essentially, redirect all non-tagged emails (sent to 'example@gmail.com') to trash. And never ever give out a non-tagged address. :-D