I figured if the watches and flashlights carry lifetime warrantees, then the kinetic-charging thing was pretty reliable.
The real gist of all this tissue research, though, would be to just repair/regrow your heart in place, eliminating the need for a pacemaker in the first place.
Is digital delivery even important in most cases? Is there a difference that other people notice, because I don't.
We demo software on a box with 3 video cards, and 3 flat panel monitors. These are relatively high quality 19" panels. They all run at 1280x960.
Monitor A has a DVI output, B and C are both regular VGA outs. Looking at all three side by side, I can't see any difference whatsoever. I see no dot-crawl or artifacts on the analog monitors.
Same goes for the home theater setups. I've seen good DVD players hooked up via HDMI, and I've seen them hooked up via Component. It made no noticable difference to me.
So is all this DVI/HDMI thing about finally plugging the analog hole? I want my Component video, or if not that, at least RGBS. Something I can legally capture and timeshift, broadcast flag notwithstanding.
I could say the same thing about TOSlink vs analog. Maybe it's just me, and my eyes and ears are going?
I'm wondering if it's an actual physical place. A place where Linus and Andrew are actually at. Or do they work at home from their underwear, and OSDL just sends them checks?
I just like imagining a giant room full of cubicles, with only two occupied, with little nametags saying "Linus" and "Andrew".
And Lumbergh coming buy every 45 minutes to say "Hmmmmmm.... You know what? I'm going to need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday. Ok. Great. And we're putting cover sheets on all the kernel patches, ok? Great."
I wondered about one of those kinetic generators, like in the watches or shake-em-up LED flashlights.
Couldn't a small thing be somehow attached to the outside of the hearts wall, where it would be moving back and forth as the heart beats, continually charging itself?
Pacemakers don't need more power than a wristwatch, unless I'm completely mistaken.
It should be the Kings English again, that way we'd need royal approval before adding made up nonsense words like "blog" or "spam" to the lexicon, when perfectly cromulent words already exist.
Ok, this is the most poorly written "FA" ever posted on slashdot. As such, and in my opinion, it should be go down in lore with the likes of goatse, hot grits, Soviet Russia, and our giant ant overlords.
It makes "All your base" read like Shakespeare!
I dedicate this thread to shredding this raging bozo, and hereby retaliate in the name of the King's English.
I'll kick things off with my favorite.
In this case in order to put it on Winmx it will be not even necessary to convert it from analogical to digital
Thank you. I asked for technical answers, not "We ahte MSFT ahhahaha j00 suck" zealot bullshit.
There's a huge need for Windows. Hell, The AS400 runs Windows. There are apps, services, interfaces, etc, that only run on Windows, whether you like it or not. This is why vmware exists, and actually makes money.
You get 2gigs from giganews for free, if you want to upgrade that, it's cheap.
I payed another 10 bucks a month to take it to 12 gigs (I think?) I eventually cancelled it, usenet is useless, it's easier to just rent movies and video games at blockbuster an copy them.
Don't BS me and pretend you're beef with "only" 2 gigs of usenet has nothing to do with warez. You won't ever suck 2 gigs a month out of "alt.bozo.star-trek.fan.fiction"
There isn't any bandwidth cap. And if you really want to serve, pay another 20 bucks a month for the commercial account.
Though in actuallity, I haven't known anyone to get FAPed by Comcast for running services or hosting games. I use VPN and host games over the residential service all the time.
Because the way peering agreements work, they pay for data sent to the net, not downloaded from it.
So the lower the upload caps, the fatter the profit margin. That's why it's 40 bucks a month, not the hundreds of bucks a T1 would be.
Downstream is essentially free, and I don't quite get why they bother capping it at all, except to sell a faster service for more money. It would be nice to see an all-you-can-eat downstream policy, and base the pricing model on upstream.
I wonder when they're going to let the other shoe drop and start charging on a per-connected-machine basis and change their ToS to disallow the use of other NAT devices?
Just as soon as they decide to grow bankrupt.
I don't see this happening. Not only does every John Q Public have a PC, most have two or three. There's the family PC, dad's work laptop, the kids gaming computer, etc..
I use Comcast, and use my own linux-based NAT router. If they ever pulled crap about it, speakeasy and Dish network are but a phone call away.
Hey, they tried to charge per TV, that's the whole point of digital TV and external tuners. It ain't working out like they planned: if analog cable leaves, myself and a good chunk of their 6.5 million subscribers will leave too. If I want digital or high def, I can do better than Comcast.
This is what makes competition a good thing. Telco vs Cable vs Satellite vs wireless startups. Now it's all about pumping bits to the home. Whether it's through coax or fibre or twisted pair or microwaves is becoming irrelevant.
Verizon does the same thing, last thing they want is you ditching their PSTN, and using Vonage over their DSL connections.
Places like speakeasy are in for a kick in the balls, aren't they?
They offer 6mbit/768 for 100 bucks a month, vs 60 bucks a month for Comcast with no TV service.
Now, geeks know they have a much more sensible approach to users hosting, and generally not fucking with our traffic for no good reason, but I don't see how they can sell that to the masses.
Because last friday, when/. posted the story about the Avalon developer preview, I was seeing 5mbit+ on my Comcast connection.
Here's a question though: what's the best way to actually know my upstream bandwidth, so I can adjust my traffic shaping scripts accordingly? A third party measuring tool like DSLReports?
Comcast never lets me know when they bump my speed up, and this is the third bump (1.5 to 3 to 4 now to 6). Not that I'm bitching about the free speed, I just want to make sure I'm taking advantage of it as best I can.
As for competition with the telcos, great. Telcos are starting to offer digital TV, and cable is starting to offer telephony.
Where once there were two isolated monopolies, there is now one very competitive battlefield. And hey, let's not ignore wireless and satellite providers yet either. The customers (should in theory) ultimately win.
To achieve such high performance, Xen requires that OSes are ported to run on it. So far we have stable ports of Linux 2.4, Linux 2.6, and NetBSD. Ports of FreeBSD and Plan 9 are nearing completion.
1.4 Does Xen support Microsoft Windows?
Unfortunately there are no plans to support any versions of Windows in the near future. Furthermore, a port of Windows would be encumbered by licensing issues. Longer term, virtualisation features in next-generation CPUs should make it much easier to support unmodified OSes: at that time we will reconsider Windows support.
What is Xen good for, exactly? I mean I can run NetBSD, linux, linux and linux on the same machine?
In what sort of situation would I want more virtual linux machines, where UML wouldn't suffice? When would I need to run NetBSD and linux together, when everything that runs on one can be recompiled easily for the other?
I could see concurrently running Windows and linux as a useful thing in business, since sometimes you just can't get away from Windows.
What's it good for that vmware isn't, if you need to run customized OS's on top of it?
I'm just curious. Anyone use it? What exactly are it's features, besides free vs Free vs blah blah philosophy, I'm talking technology here.
That's not the way most people see it. If someone's making money off it, it's a good thing.
They don't think about the harm to competition or chill effects or anything so abstract.
What I'm saying, is you have to show, with actual numbers, who's losing money because of software patents, or how end-users are getting screwed.
Eolas v MSFT would be a really good example of frivolous patents hurting the industry, arguably one of the best. Of course slashdotters cant see past their anti-MS zealotry so it won't get a lot of playtime.
No idea, my only point was, to John Q Businessguy, and I. P. Lawyer, as long as someone's making money off them, patents are nothing but a good thing for the economy.
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I figured if the watches and flashlights carry lifetime warrantees, then the kinetic-charging thing was pretty reliable.
The real gist of all this tissue research, though, would be to just repair/regrow your heart in place, eliminating the need for a pacemaker in the first place.
So get an external component switch.
Is digital delivery even important in most cases? Is there a difference that other people notice, because I don't.
We demo software on a box with 3 video cards, and 3 flat panel monitors. These are relatively high quality 19" panels. They all run at 1280x960.
Monitor A has a DVI output, B and C are both regular VGA outs. Looking at all three side by side, I can't see any difference whatsoever. I see no dot-crawl or artifacts on the analog monitors.
Same goes for the home theater setups. I've seen good DVD players hooked up via HDMI, and I've seen them hooked up via Component. It made no noticable difference to me.
So is all this DVI/HDMI thing about finally plugging the analog hole? I want my Component video, or if not that, at least RGBS. Something I can legally capture and timeshift, broadcast flag notwithstanding.
I could say the same thing about TOSlink vs analog. Maybe it's just me, and my eyes and ears are going?
I'll save you the time of reading TFA:
It's line-compatible DVI with a pair of lines for digital audio, and a slimmer connector.
It can carry 5gbps over copper, more than enough for 1080p video and 8 192khz audio channels.
Wow. The joke was lame.
But the fact that you actually know who "the other guy from Wham!" is, well thats indescribably lame.
I know what it's purpose is, who founded it, etc.
I'm wondering if it's an actual physical place. A place where Linus and Andrew are actually at. Or do they work at home from their underwear, and OSDL just sends them checks?
I just like imagining a giant room full of cubicles, with only two occupied, with little nametags saying "Linus" and "Andrew".
And Lumbergh coming buy every 45 minutes to say "Hmmmmmm.... You know what? I'm going to need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday. Ok. Great. And we're putting cover sheets on all the kernel patches, ok? Great."
What are you talking about?
You can assign whatever UIDs you want to user or machine accounts. If it comes to it, you can edit them directly in the backend.
Does this mean that I'll soon be able to drop in Samba as a replacement for an AD domain controller?
No? Damn. Oh well, good for him.
Kind of sucks to be a 'fellow', it sounds kind of silly and outdated. I'd rather be a 'guy' or a 'dude'.
Anyways, is AD Domain Controller support still on the roadmap for Samba 4? Are we close to production release yet?
I wondered about one of those kinetic generators, like in the watches or shake-em-up LED flashlights.
Couldn't a small thing be somehow attached to the outside of the hearts wall, where it would be moving back and forth as the heart beats, continually charging itself?
Pacemakers don't need more power than a wristwatch, unless I'm completely mistaken.
Sounds like you just hit on the problem.
It should be the Kings English again, that way we'd need royal approval before adding made up nonsense words like "blog" or "spam" to the lexicon, when perfectly cromulent words already exist.
There's no external power source, because these things EAT OLD PEOPLES MEDICINE FOR FUEL!
I don't know why the scientists keep inventing them.
And when they grab you in their metal claws, you can't escape, because they're made of metal.
Ok, this is the most poorly written "FA" ever posted on slashdot. As such, and in my opinion, it should be go down in lore with the likes of goatse, hot grits, Soviet Russia, and our giant ant overlords.
It makes "All your base" read like Shakespeare!
I dedicate this thread to shredding this raging bozo, and hereby retaliate in the name of the King's English.
I'll kick things off with my favorite.
In this case in order to put it on Winmx it will be not even necessary to convert it from analogical to digital
A written declaration of an individual or group's ideas, purposes, and intentions.
In other words, a manifesto has nothing to do with facts or thruths, only agendas and propaganda.
This "oh poor me I shouldnt have to pay for Britney Spears because I don't like her" crap is aptly titled.
Thank you. I asked for technical answers, not "We ahte MSFT ahhahaha j00 suck" zealot bullshit.
There's a huge need for Windows. Hell, The AS400 runs Windows. There are apps, services, interfaces, etc, that only run on Windows, whether you like it or not. This is why vmware exists, and actually makes money.
You get 2gigs from giganews for free, if you want to upgrade that, it's cheap.
I payed another 10 bucks a month to take it to 12 gigs (I think?) I eventually cancelled it, usenet is useless, it's easier to just rent movies and video games at blockbuster an copy them.
Don't BS me and pretend you're beef with "only" 2 gigs of usenet has nothing to do with warez. You won't ever suck 2 gigs a month out of "alt.bozo.star-trek.fan.fiction"
There isn't any bandwidth cap. And if you really want to serve, pay another 20 bucks a month for the commercial account.
Though in actuallity, I haven't known anyone to get FAPed by Comcast for running services or hosting games. I use VPN and host games over the residential service all the time.
I've noticed Comcast slow down once in awhile, at 3AM - not every night, and it doesn't cut right off. Just slows a little bit.
Other than that, the only outage I had was when I accidentally cut the coax with my lawnmower.
It stayed online last time my power went out, my router and PC are on UPS, and I was surfing away for about a half hour before the batteries died.
Because the way peering agreements work, they pay for data sent to the net, not downloaded from it.
So the lower the upload caps, the fatter the profit margin. That's why it's 40 bucks a month, not the hundreds of bucks a T1 would be.
Downstream is essentially free, and I don't quite get why they bother capping it at all, except to sell a faster service for more money. It would be nice to see an all-you-can-eat downstream policy, and base the pricing model on upstream.
I wonder when they're going to let the other shoe drop and start charging on a per-connected-machine basis and change their ToS to disallow the use of other NAT devices?
Just as soon as they decide to grow bankrupt.
I don't see this happening. Not only does every John Q Public have a PC, most have two or three. There's the family PC, dad's work laptop, the kids gaming computer, etc..
I use Comcast, and use my own linux-based NAT router. If they ever pulled crap about it, speakeasy and Dish network are but a phone call away.
Hey, they tried to charge per TV, that's the whole point of digital TV and external tuners. It ain't working out like they planned: if analog cable leaves, myself and a good chunk of their 6.5 million subscribers will leave too. If I want digital or high def, I can do better than Comcast.
This is what makes competition a good thing. Telco vs Cable vs Satellite vs wireless startups. Now it's all about pumping bits to the home. Whether it's through coax or fibre or twisted pair or microwaves is becoming irrelevant.
So what?
Sew buttons.
Comcast TV + Internet: 80 bucks.
Speakeasy 6/768 service plus Dish: ~130 or higher.
You got a problem with competition or something?
Verizon does the same thing, last thing they want is you ditching their PSTN, and using Vonage over their DSL connections.
Places like speakeasy are in for a kick in the balls, aren't they?
They offer 6mbit/768 for 100 bucks a month, vs 60 bucks a month for Comcast with no TV service.
Now, geeks know they have a much more sensible approach to users hosting, and generally not fucking with our traffic for no good reason, but I don't see how they can sell that to the masses.
Because last friday, when /. posted the story about the Avalon developer preview, I was seeing 5mbit+ on my Comcast connection.
Here's a question though: what's the best way to actually know my upstream bandwidth, so I can adjust my traffic shaping scripts accordingly? A third party measuring tool like DSLReports?
Comcast never lets me know when they bump my speed up, and this is the third bump (1.5 to 3 to 4 now to 6). Not that I'm bitching about the free speed, I just want to make sure I'm taking advantage of it as best I can.
As for competition with the telcos, great. Telcos are starting to offer digital TV, and cable is starting to offer telephony.
Where once there were two isolated monopolies, there is now one very competitive battlefield. And hey, let's not ignore wireless and satellite providers yet either. The customers (should in theory) ultimately win.
1.3 Which OSes run on Xen?
To achieve such high performance, Xen requires that OSes are ported to run on it. So far we have stable ports of Linux 2.4, Linux 2.6, and NetBSD. Ports of FreeBSD and Plan 9 are nearing completion.
1.4 Does Xen support Microsoft Windows?
Unfortunately there are no plans to support any versions of Windows in the near future. Furthermore, a port of Windows would be encumbered by licensing issues. Longer term, virtualisation features in next-generation CPUs should make it much easier to support unmodified OSes: at that time we will reconsider Windows support.
What is Xen good for, exactly? I mean I can run NetBSD, linux, linux and linux on the same machine?
In what sort of situation would I want more virtual linux machines, where UML wouldn't suffice? When would I need to run NetBSD and linux together, when everything that runs on one can be recompiled easily for the other?
I could see concurrently running Windows and linux as a useful thing in business, since sometimes you just can't get away from Windows.
What's it good for that vmware isn't, if you need to run customized OS's on top of it?
I'm just curious. Anyone use it? What exactly are it's features, besides free vs Free vs blah blah philosophy, I'm talking technology here.
No shit, IBM ain't doing the work. It's done for free by the OSS dopes.
They aren't, and have never been, in the business of improving stuff.
I know what he's saying.
That's not the way most people see it. If someone's making money off it, it's a good thing.
They don't think about the harm to competition or chill effects or anything so abstract.
What I'm saying, is you have to show, with actual numbers, who's losing money because of software patents, or how end-users are getting screwed.
Eolas v MSFT would be a really good example of frivolous patents hurting the industry, arguably one of the best. Of course slashdotters cant see past their anti-MS zealotry so it won't get a lot of playtime.
No idea, my only point was, to John Q Businessguy, and I. P. Lawyer, as long as someone's making money off them, patents are nothing but a good thing for the economy.
Just to add, the slogan should be: "Linux: All the UNIX you remember, with none of the vendor ass rape."