<BEGIN BOILERPLATE> This book is about space and science. It is fiction. It is very interesting and published by the good folks at McGraw Hill. I give it a 9 out of 10 because the picture on the cover isnt so good. <END BOILERPLATE>
I forget exactly what it means, something like an irq vector not pointing to the interrupt service routine.
It's nearly always caused by a memory failure or timing error, though a bad driver could cause it, it's doubtful.
It's really common these days what with kids overclocking a system made out of second hand shit they bought on eBay.
They get this error and blame windows.
I love overclocker forums, reading posts like "Yeah I got my P4 2.4 runnin at 3 ghz, and my compusa ram is runnin at 500mhz now. My Radeon 9500 overclocked and modded to the performance of a 9800xt, and I have no stability problems. Windows gets bluescreens 4 or 5 times a day, though, I think I need to upgrade to XP."
If I had maps of pre-war Iraq and then compared them to today, one could see how badly Iraq was destoryed.
Now is this just some liberal flamebaiting or what?
How would the map of Iraq differ from, say, a map after a major backbone got accidentally severed by a backhoe, or a DDoS against the root nameservers, or a power outage?
I wouldn't be surprised, actually, if there's more internet infrastructure in Iraq today as opposed to prewar, since all the troops are online.
Does every project, comment, discussion have to involve Iraq now?
"How would you like your steak, sir?"
"Saddam Hussein was a great man, and I liked pre war Iraq!"
Like all other linux fanatics, his box at home has a 120 gig HDD, with 110 gigs partitioned in NTFS for WinXP, which he swears is "just for games", and the rest is a token linux install.
And just like all other linux fanatics, he runs Windows all the time, and doesn't know the first thing about linux.
Seriously, go to any given linux channel on IRC and ask some questions about irc-ii or bitchx, or OSS ftp apps. Noone knows jack shit about it. Then ask them about mIRC or flashFXP, and everyone will jump to answer.
You ever wonder where the trolls came from? They were all contributing users at one time, who lost respect for this site and its politicizing of every fucking tech article, no matter how far a stretch.
I have lost all respect for this site as a source of intelligent technical discussions. I know I'll never learn anything here, but I get a kick out of watching pompous assholes reacting to clicking a goatse link for the first time, and that sort of thing.
No moving parts is a breakthrough. Solid state is the future. My Atari 2600 still works, solid state, no moving parts - plug in the cartridge and its ready to go. Contrast to the laser in my PS2 - which has already died.
The real news, though, is a data density of 1 GB cm^3.
If this tech could only read and write at decent speeds, kiss all the shortcomings of a magnetic or optical disc spinning at 10,000 rpm goodbye.
on any storage or computer technology that isn't bent into a "DRM MS is teh suck" right off the bat, by whatever troll submitted the article?
Here we have a story about cool solid state tech that can store albums on tiny little silicon wafers. And for no reason at all some wanker conspiracy theory about DRMed WMA files gets tacked onto the end of the submission.
Typical slashdot submission:
"Company X has announced a new quantum processor, as well as a storage medium that can store 12 thousand petabytes on a wafer the width of a human hair. I sure hope MS doesnt use the DMCA to make everybody listen to DRM WMA files!"
Is this still a place for computer geeks to discuss technology, or is it a platform for political rants nobody gives a flying fuck about?
You ever wonder where the trolls came from? They were all contributing users at one time, who lost respect for this site and its politicizing of every fucking tech article, no matter how far a stretch.
If it has 2 P4 Xeon processors, it's then a workstation computer, and thus cant be compared.
But it's ok for a Mac to have two G5 procs and still be a "personal" computer.
If the computer that I own and sits on my desk has 4 3.2ghz Xeons and 16 gigs of ram, is it not my personal computer?
It's irrelevant anyhow..
In england, and many other countries, you cant claim absolutes like that in advertising. X86 and PPC architecture are fundamentally different. It's spurious to say one is "faster" than the other. It all depends what you're doing with it.
Many, many homeless simply cannot be helped. The borderline mentally ill would have to be forced into homes - which would violate their rights under the constitution. Addicts would have to be forced into treatment, which again, barring the commission of a crime, would violate their rights.
If you were homeless, and wanted help, it's out there. Noones going to build you a 200,000 home and hand you the keys, but if you need a mailing address, a shower and shave, a hot meal, and clean clothes to get yourself a job - you could do so.
Did you know, however, that the average panhandler in NYC makes more than the average NYC police officer? "Homelessness" can be very lucrative. 45 k a year - tax free, and with very low overhead.
If you reencode them in a different format, you've altered them, and you are no longer archiving the original eBooks.
Keep em as they are. Our primitive 1024 bit encryption keys will be a joke to the quantum processing space men of the future, anyways.
It'd be like translating french works from folks like Voltaire or Hugo into english, and throwing out the original manuscripts, because it will be easier for future historians to grok.
It wasn't the US government, it was some doofy judge in Pennsylvania.
But, if your question is, will the LoC archive child pornography? No, they wont.
I'm sure the UK would do it, or France, or Germany. But to them, heading an "international" effort means spending US tax dollars. "International Space Station" = NASA money, 2/3rds of the UN operating budget = American money.
No matter who does it, as an American resident, I'm going to wind up bankrolling the motherfucker. Might as well keep it local.
The LOC is one of few institutions in a position to do so.
Because the LOC is located in a free country (blah blah slashdot rightwinger whining here) that will not censor the books, and will share the books with anyone who wants to see them. They also have the funding and resources available to make it happen.
It doesnt preclude, say, China from making their own archive, and no doubt they would. But their archive would only include government approved books, and fat chance ever getting access to it.
Now technically, when I was a kid, and we'd build the big ramp at the bottom of the ravine, and I'd get probably 8 feet in the air on my BMX - was that not "suborbital" flight?
Slashdot Mirror
I'll tell you:
<BEGIN BOILERPLATE>
This book is about space and science. It is fiction. It is very interesting and published by the good folks at McGraw Hill. I give it a 9 out of 10 because the picture on the cover isnt so good.
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CRAMAK GONA FIX IT!
Please dont use all caps, it's like yelling. Cramak is gona fix it though.
I forget exactly what it means, something like an irq vector not pointing to the interrupt service routine.
It's nearly always caused by a memory failure or timing error, though a bad driver could cause it, it's doubtful.
It's really common these days what with kids overclocking a system made out of second hand shit they bought on eBay.
They get this error and blame windows.
I love overclocker forums, reading posts like "Yeah I got my P4 2.4 runnin at 3 ghz, and my compusa ram is runnin at 500mhz now. My Radeon 9500 overclocked and modded to the performance of a 9800xt, and I have no stability problems. Windows gets bluescreens 4 or 5 times a day, though, I think I need to upgrade to XP."
Why would you send a command to flush the write cache of a read-only device?
Why were mandrake using a development driver in the "stable" kernel? Something wrong with the stable ATA/ATAPI drivers?
There's enough blame on both sides for this one. Both were smoking from the same pipe.
This isn't a map of the web, it's a map of the network.
If I had maps of pre-war Iraq and then compared them to today, one could see how badly Iraq was destoryed.
Now is this just some liberal flamebaiting or what?
How would the map of Iraq differ from, say, a map after a major backbone got accidentally severed by a backhoe, or a DDoS against the root nameservers, or a power outage?
I wouldn't be surprised, actually, if there's more internet infrastructure in Iraq today as opposed to prewar, since all the troops are online.
Does every project, comment, discussion have to involve Iraq now?
"How would you like your steak, sir?"
"Saddam Hussein was a great man, and I liked pre war Iraq!"
You mean like American Express or Bank of America, who are both major sponsors of this project?
Like all other linux fanatics, his box at home has a 120 gig HDD, with 110 gigs partitioned in NTFS for WinXP, which he swears is "just for games", and the rest is a token linux install.
And just like all other linux fanatics, he runs Windows all the time, and doesn't know the first thing about linux.
Seriously, go to any given linux channel on IRC and ask some questions about irc-ii or bitchx, or OSS ftp apps. Noone knows jack shit about it. Then ask them about mIRC or flashFXP, and everyone will jump to answer.
I'm not bitching about trolls.
Did you not read what I said?
You ever wonder where the trolls came from? They were all contributing users at one time, who lost respect for this site and its politicizing of every fucking tech article, no matter how far a stretch.
I have lost all respect for this site as a source of intelligent technical discussions. I know I'll never learn anything here, but I get a kick out of watching pompous assholes reacting to clicking a goatse link for the first time, and that sort of thing.
No moving parts is a breakthrough. Solid state is the future. My Atari 2600 still works, solid state, no moving parts - plug in the cartridge and its ready to go. Contrast to the laser in my PS2 - which has already died.
The real news, though, is a data density of 1 GB cm^3.
If this tech could only read and write at decent speeds, kiss all the shortcomings of a magnetic or optical disc spinning at 10,000 rpm goodbye.
on any storage or computer technology that isn't bent into a "DRM MS is teh suck" right off the bat, by whatever troll submitted the article?
Here we have a story about cool solid state tech that can store albums on tiny little silicon wafers. And for no reason at all some wanker conspiracy theory about DRMed WMA files gets tacked onto the end of the submission.
Typical slashdot submission:
"Company X has announced a new quantum processor, as well as a storage medium that can store 12 thousand petabytes on a wafer the width of a human hair. I sure hope MS doesnt use the DMCA to make everybody listen to DRM WMA files!"
Is this still a place for computer geeks to discuss technology, or is it a platform for political rants nobody gives a flying fuck about?
You ever wonder where the trolls came from? They were all contributing users at one time, who lost respect for this site and its politicizing of every fucking tech article, no matter how far a stretch.
That's a fun double standard.
If it has 2 P4 Xeon processors, it's then a workstation computer, and thus cant be compared.
But it's ok for a Mac to have two G5 procs and still be a "personal" computer.
If the computer that I own and sits on my desk has 4 3.2ghz Xeons and 16 gigs of ram, is it not my personal computer?
It's irrelevant anyhow..
In england, and many other countries, you cant claim absolutes like that in advertising. X86 and PPC architecture are fundamentally different. It's spurious to say one is "faster" than the other. It all depends what you're doing with it.
Belkin make some BAD ASS cables.
While you sissymaries are all whining about your wireless interweb, BELKIN is out there making pimp ass WIRES for those of us who know the score.
Btw, buy your networking equipment from a cable manufacturer, you get what you deserve.
You insensitive clod.
It won't be a problem until people start using linux on the desktop.
Which noone does. All these slashdotters INSTALL linux, and claim that the Windows partition is only there for games, but they're full of shit.
They know linux desktops are absolutely unusable when compared to XP or OSX.
We use them over the 'net all the time, we just have our firewall allow only from trusted sites.
The NET family of commands are more useful than just popup messages.
It's not up to the ISP to block ANYTHING. What's inside those TCP or UDP packets is none of their fucking business.
This is a COMPLETELY different thing, this has nothing to do with popups on browsers.
This is using DOS's NET SEND command to make dialog boxes pop up on machines that have the messenger service enabled on the internet.
It has nothing to do with "not caring".
Many, many homeless simply cannot be helped. The borderline mentally ill would have to be forced into homes - which would violate their rights under the constitution. Addicts would have to be forced into treatment, which again, barring the commission of a crime, would violate their rights.
If you were homeless, and wanted help, it's out there. Noones going to build you a 200,000 home and hand you the keys, but if you need a mailing address, a shower and shave, a hot meal, and clean clothes to get yourself a job - you could do so.
Did you know, however, that the average panhandler in NYC makes more than the average NYC police officer? "Homelessness" can be very lucrative. 45 k a year - tax free, and with very low overhead.
Well, it takes 12 hours or so for a signal to reach us.
A light year is light travelling in a year.
The EM signals move pretty close to the speed of light, IIRC.
So, half a day = 0.5/365 =~ 0.001369863013698630136986301369863 light years.
Probably less than that.
How did it get so fucking dusty in the vaccuum of space in the first place?
The whole thing sounds made up.
If you reencode them in a different format, you've altered them, and you are no longer archiving the original eBooks.
Keep em as they are. Our primitive 1024 bit encryption keys will be a joke to the quantum processing space men of the future, anyways.
It'd be like translating french works from folks like Voltaire or Hugo into english, and throwing out the original manuscripts, because it will be easier for future historians to grok.
The medium is the message.
It wasn't the US government, it was some doofy judge in Pennsylvania.
But, if your question is, will the LoC archive child pornography? No, they wont.
I'm sure the UK would do it, or France, or Germany. But to them, heading an "international" effort means spending US tax dollars. "International Space Station" = NASA money, 2/3rds of the UN operating budget = American money.
No matter who does it, as an American resident, I'm going to wind up bankrolling the motherfucker. Might as well keep it local.
The LOC is one of few institutions in a position to do so.
Because the LOC is located in a free country (blah blah slashdot rightwinger whining here) that will not censor the books, and will share the books with anyone who wants to see them. They also have the funding and resources available to make it happen.
It doesnt preclude, say, China from making their own archive, and no doubt they would. But their archive would only include government approved books, and fat chance ever getting access to it.
Don't worry, there'll be plenty of dead know-it-alls coming out of all this spaceman bullshit.
Now technically, when I was a kid, and we'd build the big ramp at the bottom of the ravine, and I'd get probably 8 feet in the air on my BMX - was that not "suborbital" flight?
This is all speculation. Noone has any proof that MS is looking to buy anything.