you can take my serial port from my cold, dead hands... seriously, I need that thing. for minocom to talk to my ipaq, for kermit to talk to my low-tech laptop.. and, pray tell, how would you program an usb cardreader? not at all. see? you need the serial port.
I had an Ipaq for quite some time now, not using it at all, mainly because I could not sync it with my linux box, or so I told myself.. but now I installed familiar linux on it, and never leave home without it.. not only do I like the additional geek coolness bonus I get from a linux pda, I also can finally write programs I need, instead of relying on what microsoft coughs up.. also, I use it as "floppy disk on steroids". familiar linux, complete with desktop environment and tools, uses about 14MB, which leaves you with 2 to 18mb of free space that you can fill with anything, and drop off to any ir-capable device.
i think the problem is that people view pda's as electronic organizers, which they aren't, and not as portable computers, which they are.
His father fought against the fascists in the Spanish Civil War. That in itself isn't a problem, but it puts him in a group that was heavily infiltrated and influenced by the Communist Party and Soviet intelligence operations.
umm, considering that a huge amount of the international brigades that fought against the spanish fascists WERE communists, this should come in natural, no?
remember, the spanish civil war happened long before stalin. communism was a great ideal and a dream for millions of workers back then, not the fascist nightmare stalin created.
does anybody remember the urban legend that vhs won the battle against betamax and video2000 because there was more pr0n or vhs? Hmm.. I wonder...
Disclaimer : I have no idea if betamax or video2000, or even vhs, were ever around in the us, so don't mod me down because of cultural ignorance:)
Actually, I am quite relieved MSN people cannot talk to me. I think either I'd scare them to death or they'd kill me with all the product placement in their brains.
NOTE : If you plan to mod this -1 troll, just ignore me and save the precious point for someone who wrote a helpful comment. thank you.
about a decade ago, I played sid meier's civilization and colonization a lot... they did not bring me straight A's all by themselves, but while learning, I had the "hey, I heard of that"-effect, and also had a rough idea what combustion, feudalism and unions are, and what happened in America between 1492 and 1776. That was quite helpful, and a lot of fun, because you learned stuff on the move, instead of getting it shoved in.
Among the first of these projects are some that enable computer systems to optimize computing resources and data storage on their own.
This sounds like they want a computer to run hd and memory defraggers. big deal.
Farther off in the future are other components of this autonomic vision, like maintaining ironclad security against unwanted intrusion, enabling fast automatic recovery after crashes, and developing standards to ensure interoperability among myriad systems and devices.
Systems should also be able to fix server failures, system freezes, and operating system crashes when they happen or, better yet, prevent them from cropping up in the first place.
don't worry about my mumbling, I just let my mind walk....
and, about the fear of many that this will cost IT jobs... I don't think so.. maybe the work of sysadmins will be a little more specific.. but isn't this what computers where built for in the first place? To keep us from uninteresting work, so we can focus on the intersting stuff? nowadays, we have many automated processes in our world (cronjobs, anyone?) Besides, look at how good computers are at translating text from one langueage to another..maybe a machine can repair minor problems, but it will be far future before they can really run themselves. So, don't see it as a rival, see it as an assistant. and don't think about that %Ä$ paperclip now:)
DISCLAIMER:
It's almost 2am, I'm dead tired, a bit drunk, and I scored C++++ on geek code, so don't take me too seriously;)
after 9/11, the most drastic chance was that the governments of most western countries did not try to spy on their citizens secretly, but more or less demanded everyone to give up their privacy... linetapping, isp logs seized and so on without an order from a court and stuff like that.
the local (austria) freedom party demanded that everyone's fingerprints should be taken (sic!) and put into a central database. there were other ideas, like taking dna samples from everyone, etc., but nothing really dramatic came out.
on the other side, the whole discussion showed John Doe and his mother-in-law just how much their privacy is in danger, and led to numerous groups and activists working against the banning of privacy.
disclaimer : please excuse the horrible english, it's 2am and I haven't slept in ages.
would be if you could mod this "AI" into learning not only from the player, but also from the opposite players, and then have a bunch of "AI"'s fight against each other...
Also, it could be used as a nifty screensaver... or to shock non-techie friends... "Yeah, I'm a bit stressed, so my machine is deathmatching itself."
Let's just hope there are no Harvesters in this upcoming game...
It is true that both mp3 and Ogg are lossy formats..
but, I tried converting some of my mp3s to ogg, and did not notice any quality loss (I replayed them on my pc, using an sb128, active speakers and a subwoofer, not really hi-fi). to quote the oggasm faq...
Run oggasm on a limited number of files having it NOT delete the mp3s after conversion. Listen to those oggs and see if they meet your exacting standards... if so, go hog wild, if not try increasing the bitrate. If there are still problems, just delete the oggs and go on with your life as if all of this never happened.
Disclaimer : Going on with your life as if nothing happened will not stop Fraunhofer from charging you for mp3 de/en-coding.;)
If I do not reply, I'm a coward.
If I reply, I get modded down -1 for flaimbait..
what to do.. ah, the heck with it. my field research considering amphetamines consists of one personal expirience and a few google'd websites.
I think it's safe to say that everyone reacts differently to drugs. Some people get happy and peaceful on pot, some get depressive, and this is definitely not only a question of set and setting.
But for the sake of your personal happiness, I'll correct my posting. MY personal expirience with speed was a lack of emotions, plus, I read that this is a possible side-effect on some unqualified websites. Me being neither a chemist, nor god, I cannot provide facts for every living being on this planet. The data was taken from lists I have, and from the websites mentioned under the posting. Since comparing them showed quite similar numbers, I accept them as true. Also, the amount of caffeine in a single, specific drink/food/drug may vary, this goes especially for coffee and tea.
And, yes, the list is incomplete, the "every caffeinated thingie on earth" statement was more than a joke, also, the 101 should give a hint that's it's merly a mix between an introduction and a short readme.
But, if you know all these things, why did you just flame, instead of adding something interesting?
Boys and girls, the redundant post you've been waiting for... a complete list of all things makey-wakey known to mankind (and then some), featuring caffeine level where avaiable, legality, and possible side effects.
Soft drinks range from anywhere between 35 (Pepsi light) to 71 mg of caffeine per 12 oz. Also, most of them add sugar for an enhanced energy kick. Sugar highs are short-time, meaning you get power for only a few minutes, but with caffeine, which works long-term, that's quite okay. Except for getting fat, there are no real side effects. Depending on your constitution, age and weight, you'd need to drink between 4 and 8 litres of this stuff to get caffeine shock. (Please don't try this at home, kids, I know the feeling, and it's not good.)
Energy drinks, like Red Bull, XTC, etc. contain about 100mg caffeine per 8 oz, with additons such as guarana, ginseng or taurine. Because of the higher doses, it's generally not smart, though widespread, to mix those with alcohol. Remember, caffeine may enance the effects of any other drugs you consume.
Coffee, the allmighty coffee. From a low 65 mg in instant coffee to a nice 175 in drip per 8 oz, it is easy to get, tastes okay, and will give you heart and stomach diseases. 2 cans of strong drip coffee will make you shake like a boogie dancer.
I put tea in this category (yes, tea also containes a form of caffeine), strong black tea has 50-80mg per 8 oz, while iced tea and fruit tea range from nada to 15mg. Not quite the kick, but your digestive organs will be much more happy.
Tabs. The all time favorite would be NoDoz, with eiter 100mg in the standard or 200mg in the shiny "kill your brains" edition. Also, you can get various caffeine tablets at your local pharmacy, with different names, those will mostly contain 100mg per tab. Also, many painkillers use caffeine as an ingredience. Your doc will probably tell you that you should not consume more than 500mg of caffeine per day. Understand that 500mg may be enough for the non-coders and non-gamers out there. Real hax0r doods swallow half a gram for breakfast;)
Speed. The common name for Amphetamines and Metaamphetamines, at least you can hope that they are inside the stuff. Usually snorted or swallowed, sometimes injected or smoked. Speed is avaiable from your friendly neighbourhood dealer(tm), ILLEGAL, and can be very dangerous to your health. One dose will keep you awake for 6 to 24 hours, in this time you will expirience a "brain high", and a lack of emotions. When getting stoned, you'll be dead tired, will sleep for a long time (12+ hours), and have a serious hangover afterwards. Physical addition is possible, but it's more likely that you'll take downers afterward to sleep, followed by more speed when you wake up, and the cycle is finished. May cause seizures, heart strokes, and other nasty things you want to avoid. Just say know.
Crack. Leave your hands of it. 'nuff said.
Well kids, that concludes today's lesson. The next time, you'll learn where/. posters get all the free time to write up useless postings like this one!
nowhere in this article is mentioned why those specific people are thought to be "future criminals".
being poor alone is by far not enough motivation for commiting crime, ask your local shrink about that. Of course, living in a crime-infested community (Now that was a bad phrase. Sorry.) can lead to thoughts in the range of "Everyone does it" or "If they get away with it, then I can too", but still, no proof.
And, even if some of the people, or even all of them, commit crimes in the future, what good will this list bring? Probably they will just sit down in the flat where they are registered and wait for the police to come, eh? Not.
Could prevention be a reason? Like, "Oh, the police think I might commit a crime someday, so I better be good" ? The article states that most people on this list are from poor neighborhoods. Not exactly the kind of people that read/. on a regular basis, so they will probably never now they are on this list.
All in all, it seems this is yet another attempt to turn the "Land of the Free" (tm) into a well organized prison the size of a continent.
Better mark "Innocent until proven guilty" as KIA.
please don't instantly flame me, I'm just letting my thoughts run here. I've been thinking of a monitor replacement/new input device for some time now, and this story brought back the idea..
imagine any kind of 3d projector system, holographic , gazillions of colored laser beams, whatever. now imagine that they display the content of your screen. and now imagine that, when you move your finger on, let's say, a part of the projection where a file sits, your comp opens the file.
now I am far not hardware savvy to bring any smart ideas in how to do that, but I feel that this might be doable with such a powerglove.. anyone got any ideas?
In the eighties, middle-class parents told their kids to study medicine or law, because the big bucks were in that. 3 years ago, john doe and his stepsister studied anything IT. And this blob of pseudo-qualified people took all the jobs.
now we have a big economical crash here in europe, with unemployment rising and bankrupt companies every other day. and the pseudo-technicans are leaving for other fields.
now, this may sound very much like propaganda, but I think that being a computer geek is not something you can learn at a college or school.
either you are a child of von neumann, or not.
in conclusion, I can already see that the "real geeks" are getting back into better jobs here, and the tie-wearing, solitaire-playing pseudo-people wandering off.
economy is like a sinus wave in capitalism. wait 5 years, and everything will have recovered.
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best of luck, you too!
will we get a new "because-the-wife-said-so" department now?
umm.. dude... why the hell would you be wanting to use slackware 1, or a 1.0 kernel in the year 2002?
I just don't get it.
you can take my serial port from my cold, dead hands... seriously, I need that thing. for minocom to talk to my ipaq, for kermit to talk to my low-tech laptop.. and, pray tell, how would you program an usb cardreader? not at all. see? you need the serial port.
i think the problem is that people view pda's as electronic organizers, which they aren't, and not as portable computers, which they are.
umm, considering that a huge amount of the international brigades that fought against the spanish fascists WERE communists, this should come in natural, no?
remember, the spanish civil war happened long before stalin. communism was a great ideal and a dream for millions of workers back then, not the fascist nightmare stalin created.
honeybeer is what the old vikings called met. a strong alcoholic drink made from honey. but what that has to do with robotics is beyond me.
Hmmm... I wonder... if we ever, ever, manage to /. google.. will the world as we know it end?
does anybody remember the urban legend that vhs won the battle against betamax and video2000 because there was more pr0n or vhs? Hmm.. I wonder... Disclaimer : I have no idea if betamax or video2000, or even vhs, were ever around in the us, so don't mod me down because of cultural ignorance :)
NOTE : If you plan to mod this -1 troll, just ignore me and save the precious point for someone who wrote a helpful comment. thank you.
Oh my dear god no! STAT! Give this man 500mg of Akira and a double dose of Jin-Roh NOW! We're losing him!
about a decade ago, I played sid meier's civilization and colonization a lot... they did not bring me straight A's all by themselves, but while learning, I had the "hey, I heard of that"-effect, and also had a rough idea what combustion, feudalism and unions are, and what happened in America between 1492 and 1776. That was quite helpful, and a lot of fun, because you learned stuff on the move, instead of getting it shoved in.
Did they chance the setting already?
This sounds like they want a computer to run hd and memory defraggers. big deal.
Ironclad security : Firewalls?
Fast automatic recovery : fsck?
interoperability : kermit?
fix crashes : watchdog card?
prevent crashes : automatically convert to linux?
don't worry about my mumbling, I just let my mind walk....
and, about the fear of many that this will cost IT jobs... I don't think so.. maybe the work of sysadmins will be a little more specific.. but isn't this what computers where built for in the first place? To keep us from uninteresting work, so we can focus on the intersting stuff? nowadays, we have many automated processes in our world (cronjobs, anyone?) Besides, look at how good computers are at translating text from one langueage to another..maybe a machine can repair minor problems, but it will be far future before they can really run themselves. So, don't see it as a rival, see it as an assistant. and don't think about that %Ä$ paperclip nowDISCLAIMER:
It's almost 2am, I'm dead tired, a bit drunk, and I scored C++++ on geek code, so don't take me too seriouslythe local (austria) freedom party demanded that everyone's fingerprints should be taken (sic!) and put into a central database. there were other ideas, like taking dna samples from everyone, etc., but nothing really dramatic came out.
on the other side, the whole discussion showed John Doe and his mother-in-law just how much their privacy is in danger, and led to numerous groups and activists working against the banning of privacy.
disclaimer : please excuse the horrible english, it's 2am and I haven't slept in ages.
Also, it could be used as a nifty screensaver... or to shock non-techie friends... "Yeah, I'm a bit stressed, so my machine is deathmatching itself."
Let's just hope there are no Harvesters in this upcoming game...
The horror... the horror...
(I replayed them on my pc, using an sb128, active speakers and a subwoofer, not really hi-fi).
to quote the oggasm faq
Disclaimer : Going on with your life as if nothing happened will not stop Fraunhofer from charging you for mp3 de/en-coding. ;)
Oggasm
mp32ogg
Mp3 to Vorbis
If I reply, I get modded down -1 for flaimbait..
what to do.. ah, the heck with it. my field research considering amphetamines consists of one personal expirience and a few google'd websites.
I think it's safe to say that everyone reacts differently to drugs. Some people get happy and peaceful on pot, some get depressive, and this is definitely not only a question of set and setting.
But for the sake of your personal happiness, I'll correct my posting. MY personal expirience with speed was a lack of emotions, plus, I read that this is a possible side-effect on some unqualified websites. Me being neither a chemist, nor god, I cannot provide facts for every living being on this planet. The data was taken from lists I have, and from the websites mentioned under the posting. Since comparing them showed quite similar numbers, I accept them as true. Also, the amount of caffeine in a single, specific drink/food/drug may vary, this goes especially for coffee and tea.
And, yes, the list is incomplete, the "every caffeinated thingie on earth" statement was more than a joke, also, the 101 should give a hint that's it's merly a mix between an introduction and a short readme.
But, if you know all these things, why did you just flame, instead of adding something interesting?
Soft drinks range from anywhere between 35 (Pepsi light) to 71 mg of caffeine per 12 oz. Also, most of them add sugar for an enhanced energy kick. Sugar highs are short-time, meaning you get power for only a few minutes, but with caffeine, which works long-term, that's quite okay. Except for getting fat, there are no real side effects. Depending on your constitution, age and weight, you'd need to drink between 4 and 8 litres of this stuff to get caffeine shock. (Please don't try this at home, kids, I know the feeling, and it's not good.)
Energy drinks, like Red Bull, XTC, etc. contain about 100mg caffeine per 8 oz, with additons such as guarana, ginseng or taurine. Because of the higher doses, it's generally not smart, though widespread, to mix those with alcohol. Remember, caffeine may enance the effects of any other drugs you consume.
Coffee, the allmighty coffee. From a low 65 mg in instant coffee to a nice 175 in drip per 8 oz, it is easy to get, tastes okay, and will give you heart and stomach diseases. 2 cans of strong drip coffee will make you shake like a boogie dancer.
I put tea in this category (yes, tea also containes a form of caffeine), strong black tea has 50-80mg per 8 oz, while iced tea and fruit tea range from nada to 15mg. Not quite the kick, but your digestive organs will be much more happy.
Tabs. The all time favorite would be NoDoz, with eiter 100mg in the standard or 200mg in the shiny "kill your brains" edition. Also, you can get various caffeine tablets at your local pharmacy, with different names, those will mostly contain 100mg per tab. Also, many painkillers use caffeine as an ingredience. Your doc will probably tell you that you should not consume more than 500mg of caffeine per day. Understand that 500mg may be enough for the non-coders and non-gamers out there. Real hax0r doods swallow half a gram for breakfast ;)
Speed. The common name for Amphetamines and Metaamphetamines, at least you can hope that they are inside the stuff. Usually snorted or swallowed, sometimes injected or smoked. Speed is avaiable from your friendly neighbourhood dealer(tm), ILLEGAL, and can be very dangerous to your health. One dose will keep you awake for 6 to 24 hours, in this time you will expirience a "brain high", and a lack of emotions. When getting stoned, you'll be dead tired, will sleep for a long time (12+ hours), and have a serious hangover afterwards. Physical addition is possible, but it's more likely that you'll take downers afterward to sleep, followed by more speed when you wake up, and the cycle is finished. May cause seizures, heart strokes, and other nasty things you want to avoid. Just say know.
Crack. Leave your hands of it. 'nuff said.
Well kids, that concludes today's lesson. The next time, you'll learn where /. posters get all the free time to write up useless postings like this one!
Links of interest :
caffeine content of food and drugs
Amount of caffeine in drinks
a salute to caffeine
thinkgeek : caffeine
amphetamine facts
being poor alone is by far not enough motivation for commiting crime, ask your local shrink about that. Of course, living in a crime-infested community (Now that was a bad phrase. Sorry.) can lead to thoughts in the range of "Everyone does it" or "If they get away with it, then I can too", but still, no proof.
And, even if some of the people, or even all of them, commit crimes in the future, what good will this list bring? Probably they will just sit down in the flat where they are registered and wait for the police to come, eh? Not.
Could prevention be a reason? Like, "Oh, the police think I might commit a crime someday, so I better be good" ? The article states that most people on this list are from poor neighborhoods. Not exactly the kind of people that read /. on a regular basis, so they will probably never now they are on this list.
All in all, it seems this is yet another attempt to turn the "Land of the Free" (tm) into a well organized prison the size of a continent.
Better mark "Innocent until proven guilty" as KIA.
imagine any kind of 3d projector system, holographic , gazillions of colored laser beams, whatever. now imagine that they display the content of your screen. and now imagine that, when you move your finger on, let's say, a part of the projection where a file sits, your comp opens the file.
now I am far not hardware savvy to bring any smart ideas in how to do that, but I feel that this might be doable with such a powerglove.. anyone got any ideas?
microsoft announces they'll have a booth at linuxworld.
sales of nerf weapons and super soaker water pistols rise to all-time highs.
well, telling them what they are doing right actually won't take very long.. maybe some minutes to think up something.. ;)
now we have a big economical crash here in europe, with unemployment rising and bankrupt companies every other day. and the pseudo-technicans are leaving for other fields.
now, this may sound very much like propaganda, but I think that being a computer geek is not something you can learn at a college or school. either you are a child of von neumann, or not.
in conclusion, I can already see that the "real geeks" are getting back into better jobs here, and the tie-wearing, solitaire-playing pseudo-people wandering off.
economy is like a sinus wave in capitalism. wait 5 years, and everything will have recovered.