PHP Script: Ho hum, the live of a script can be very boring, what's this? Hmm getting a lot of requests here. Well the server can handle the load. Oh wow it's getting hot in here, hey apache is giving me some signals to start rejecting people. But that apache guy sure is an asshole, I'll just ignore him, besides it's only a few requests. The server has the bandwidth and the processing power to easily handle this load, and it's probably just a spike, it'll die down soon. Hey what's that burning smell? Oh wow one of the processors died. Woah what's that puddle over there? Oh the T1's DSU just melted. So we're down to 2 processors, errr 1 processor, and the web server's connection switched over to the cable modem.
Charles Eriksen, an oceanography professor and one of the developers of the Seaglider, says that such a propulsion system isn't fast. At best, the glider can make about half a knot -- slightly more than half a mile an hour.
But since it will use only one-half watt of electrical energy to produce that speed, Eriksen says the Seaglider has a range of "thousands of kilometers" and remain in the ocean gather data for much longer.
"We can operate one of these for a year and across whole ocean basins," says Eriksen.
I can picture this thing going for a year...
Some Navy Officer: We've got a special mission for you, we sent out an underwater glider a year ago to collect data on enemy sub movement, we need you to recover the glider.
Navy Seal: Sir yes sir!
*goes into the water, takes 10 steps forward, reaches down, picks up glider*
A recent study by some guy down the street reveals that over 75% of all statistics are made up. "It comes as a real shocker to me, especially since 90% of all my decision making all day is based on statistics" says one local woman. The police chief says they're getting closer to figuring out who's releasing these made up statistics. He says "Well 85% of made up statistics are things people hear on a site known as Slashdot, and are then taken as fact, and passed on slightly distorted."
"There are lies, damn lies and statistics." says local resident Benjamin Disraeli.
Well before everyone gets all ready to donate anti-virus software to china, please read the article. They don't mean 80% of all computers in china right at this moment have a virus. They're talking about 80% of the computers they sampled, they MAY have been infected (at one time). I'm sure in america the numbers pretty high too, there's just no statistics (yet). So here we go, according to ME, 90% of all computers I've ever fixed in America at one time had a virus.
Re:Of course they're an environmental hazard.
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Discarded Cell Phones
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Well not quite. A computer and a VCR aren't designed to transmit data wirelessly so there's stuff a cell phone has that a computer doesn't (I'm sure this stuff is pretty hazardous too, I would look it up but I don't feel like opening the PDF's now.) Besides, how many computer's did you buy last year? How many did you throw out? A cell phone you carry around, it gets lost, dropped, stolen, whatever, and you can't upgrade it. A computer you can keep for a long time, VCR even longer.
My sister had 3 cell phones last year (one was a pre paid phone she decided she didn't want anymore, another she dropped into a creek and had to buy a new one, the third one she still uses.) My parent's bought a cell phone in 1990, they stopped using it that same year because it was way to expensive (back then they weren't the cheapest things to own.) Now they have 2, people go through cell phones like they were handing them out on the street. Just the other day I saw an ad for a cell phone, you sign up for whatever amount of time and you get a free phone. Anyway, cell phone's are really cheap now, people get them replaced all the time just because they don't like the shape, color, whatever.
While the commercial launch of Kaii may only happen sometime in March next year, he estimated that the monochrome version would be available "under Rs 10,000" and the colour version around Rs 15,000. (Sharp's Zaurus retails for $450.)
It's good to know that the color version will be Rs 15,000 which is such a bargain compared to the $450 Sharp Zaurus, the 2,669 DKK (Denmark Kroner) Clie N760C or even the 78,903.50 SDD (Sudan Dinars) Palm m515.
Actually, that's because the virus looks for shares on the network. It finds a share and sends data to it something like this -
Virus: Hey anyone out there shared?
Printer: Yo
Virus: Here's a copy of myself for you to run, too much work to check if you're actually a computer
Printer: *starts printing the data getting sent to it*
Most worms that spread over shares will print on shared printers because they don't check if it's a printer, only if it's shared.
Actually no I didn't have to, it was for the people who don't know the metric system I was trying to help them understand, obviously I do know it if I was able to convert kg into pounds... Besides by your rule the car only weighs 2.9 tons, when it really weighs 3.25 tons.
There's gas powered cars that weigh 1/4th that, have 15 second quarter miles (400km), and a top speed of 150 MPH (241 km/h). Is this some kind of cruel joke? Can't they put that engine and battery into a smaller frame and get an electric car good enough to compete in an actual race? That thing looks like a long minivan... If there was a cheaper version, with a MUCH better shape, I'm sure alot of people would buy it.
Linux has Tux the penguin. (Linus Torvalds likes penguins and there's the joke that penguins look like they're wearing tuxedoes which can be seen in many cartoons)
BSD has the BSD Daemon (sometimes known as Beastie, the daemon story is pretty long and I'm not going to type it here)
GNU has a Gnu (Well they share the same name so it was a fitting animal)
So umm why does MySQL have a dolphin? Named Sakila?
If ATI were a Winston Cup NASCAR, we'd say that the company is efficiently firing on all eight cylinders.
Jeez, if the Radeon was a car, it'd beat all the other car's in 1/4 mile times and top speed, but in a 500 lap race, at lap 200, the paint would peal, the doors would fall off, and the engine would fall out.
Further, ATI's latest round of hardware has been complimented by relatively stable drivers - a first, as far as the gaming community is concerned.
I hope they mean a first, as in, first time ATI released relatively stable drivers. What bother's me though is "Relatively stable drivers." well, stable in relation to what? In relation to a blind man balancing a chair on his nose while juggling chainsaws?
Everything inside Lindows 2.0 is improved. Not perfect, but improved. The graphics are better and there's an overall feeling of a professional OS inside, rather than geeks-only software. The KDE desktop looks and feels like Windows, with a few exceptions.
Jeez I don't know where to start...
There's an overall feeling of a professional OS inside, rather than geeks-only software.
Ummm I'm just reading this and my head begins to hurt. I use linux and I believe it has always been a professional OS. By professional I mean, well it works, it's extremely advanced, can be used for just about anything and it's very customizable. Not because it isn't "geeks-only" what kind of stupid statement is that? If I give my cousin a fisher price computer thingy with those plastic crappy cards that have different games on them, I don't call it a professional computer because it's not. It isn't "geeks-only", but that doesn't make it professional.
When I want a professional OS, I don't install Windows Me, that isn't professional, it isn't "geeks-only" either. I would install Linux (or FreeBSD which I have started to use these past few weeks.) When I use Linux it does have a "geeks-only" feel to it, that's one reason why I like it. It's stable, secure (well most of the time), small, powerfull, and all this stuff is what makes it professional (in my opinion), I don't call something professional when it isn't "geeks-only." I don't want a little paper clip to hold my hand when I compile a kernel, I don't want a little dog to help me updatedb and locate | grep. I want a raw OS, one that's powerfull and secure, not one that's designed with my grandmother in mind. The things that make it professional are the same things that make it feel like it's "geeks-only."
The KDE desktop looks and feels like Windows, with a few exceptions.
Why does everyone try to compare desktop managers with Windows? Isn't the whole point of installing Linux to get away from Microsoft? Out of the 6 billion people in this world (yeah they're not all comptuer geeks but still at least one should be good enough) is the Windows desktop the most creative and easy to use interface we can come up with? I'm sure there must be something better out there to use. Why do we keep making Linux more and more like windows in all these Distro's. Well I guess it's to make the transition into Linux an easy one, but people seem to learn how to use Mac OS just fine and that's far from windows (at least from what I've seen it is, I could be wrong, not a huge Mac user.) Anyway that statement about Lindows being more professional because it isn't "geeks-only" really pisses me off, and also the comparison to windows.
I always figured it was because Linux is much easier to slide into. I have FreeBSD installed now on my 300MHz PII and I had a bit of trouble figuring it out (I've got it now though, the handbook is VERY nice.) Anyway, with linux, anyone can go download a distro like redhat, install it in like an hour, have X setup (working nicely with just about any video card.) They don't need to worry about setting up X, they get a nice graphical install, very easy to understand too and well documented.
BSD would be much more popular if it were easier to install and supported more stuff. There's the problem with nvidia and you can't use their driver in BSD (which drives me nuts because all my video cards use the nvidia chipset, and I can't do OpenGL stuff with my viper 770 because it has to use the vesa video driver and it's incredibly slow.) The kernel is a bit harder to compile (in my opinion anyway, I like make menuconfig in linux.) Anyway, when BSD becomes much easier to install, and much easier to config, more and more people will start using it. It doesn't seem like an OS you can switch to from windows.
Sharp Corp, Japan's largest maker of liquid crystal displays, said on Friday its researchers in Britain had developed a flat-panel display for either two- or three-dimensional viewing that does not require special glasses.
It just mentions that Sharp is the largest maker of liquid crystal displays and they developed a flat-panel display for 2D or 3D viewing, I don't see any indication that they make LCD's or flat panel dipslays. These slashdot editor's should really look over the story next time.
Oh yeah a flat screen monitor is a CRT with a flat screen (instead of curved, think back to IBM PS/1 monitors and the like) and a flat panel display is (as far as I know) an LCD screen that's completely flat.
This has probably got to be one of the most addicting games I've ever played, Crack Attack! It's open source, works in windows and linux, uses open gl, and it's a game based on tetris attack. The score to beat on the site (4135 I think) is actually from one of my friends, we play this game all the time. It has very nice multiplayer support and a game browser is in the works (although probably in the distant future.
You'll spend weeks playing to get the highest score on the list, then you spend even more time trying to get 1000. The game is sure to keep anyone entertained for hours.
The second I saw it I thought, FINALLY now there's an AOL client for linux, I can now get rid of my last windows computer (my sister uses it with WindowsXP to go on AOL.) Plus if an AOL client was ever created for linux there would be alot of customer's to come with it. The problem with those customer's though is that most of them are probably going to try to install linux for the first time (since it would support AOL and they heard linux was really good so they wanted to try it), probably use it for a week, say "Hey I can't do crap in this stupid OS", then go back to windows and tell everyone to stay away from linux.
AOL on linux would bring alot of other people who will stick with linux, but then again alot of them will be the wrong people. They'll probably come into #linuxhelp all day and ask questions like "Hey umm I was installing linux version 8.0 and I tried to load x windows but that didn't work so I tried to install it from the kernel and that didn't work either" (I've actually seen someone come into the channel and say that, tried to help him too, he was completely clueless.)
Although there will be some good if AOL was brought to linux, other software companies would see AOL making a client for linux, realize how many people use AOL, and (hopefully) decide to port some software over. AOL customer's using linux (and actually understanding it) would become a great asset to linux, they'll be the one's buying the software companies port to linux, they're already paying $20 a month for a crummy ISP, they'll create a bigger market for linux software.
I wish AOL was making a client for linux, Netscape 7 for linux doesn't really thrill me, I could really care less, ever since I started using mozilla I never wanted to use anything else. I really wish the headline was correct, I bet there's going to be hundreds of other people who get all excited, then let down when they read the story.
Don't know if this'll work for anyone else but I just registered,
username = BobDolio
password = bobdole
Anyway, I was wondering, why didn't the New York time's have a small one line description of each experiment (in order) then you can click on one and go to the full length description. I think it would be a lot easier to read it that way. Oh well.
Bah, how could I get modded offtopic alread, I just tried to read the memo's (right after they got posted) and they were all down with the message
"We're sorry, but this page is currently unavailable for viewing.
If this site belongs to you, please read this help page for more information and assistance."
Figured a parody of the message would be better than actually tying to post a reply to the two lines of text in the story. Makes me wonder if moderator's actually LOOK at the link in the story (off topic and the story was up for 4 minutes?) Mod THIS POST off topic if you'd like (well it's just a rant about how I'm beginning to hate the moderator's decissions.)
We're sorry, but this page is currently unavailable for viewing.
If this site belongs to you, you owe us big time, one of our rack's just melted from this fatal slashdoting.
The girl next door isn't dumb enough
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LAN Camera Review
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She didn't fall for the X11 camera disguised as a bottle of shampoo so I doubt I'll get any good use out of a LAN camera.
Ummm maybe I'm wrong here, but isn't Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) closed because everything is DIRECTLY linked? With the 802.11b that these LAN camera's use, you don't have a direct link, the signal is broadcast all over (the power of the signal may vary) instead of to one specific point (like CCTV.)
Now when a signal is broadcast all over, anyone with enough time and resources can pick up the signal (and decode it or do whatever they need to.) With CCTV there is a direct link, either with cables, infrared beams, microwave frequencies, whatever. Anyway my point is 802.11b is NOT CCTV, it's just a wireless way to send data (now this doesn't mean your camera can't send encrypted data, and i'm sure there's millions of ways to secure the signal, but most signals will probably be broadcast fine and can probably be received by anyone willing to try.)
Hehe I was going to mention that I agree with nothing on the page, or pick a better site, but I was lazy and picked the first page I found. Which does have info on frog boiling that relates to the article, if you can find a better page on frog boiling well then by all means share it with us, otherwise don't complain about the crappiness of the link I found.
The title of this story actually makes sense. To boil a frog you can't just throw a live frog into a hot pot of water (it'll jump out). What you do is put a frog in a cold pot of water and slowly turn up the heat, the frog never leaps out because the change is too slowly, then when the water's too hot the frog can't jump out because it's dead (PLEASE DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME, I HAVE NEVER DONE THIS BUT I READ ABOUT IT!)
Anyway what the story title is suggesting is that we're like the frogs, DRM is like hot water. To get us used to DRM (and eventually "killed" by it) they (yeah it's always them) have to introduce DRM slowly so you get used to it, then they add more DRM, then you get used to that, it's a cycle that ends only after it's too late and DRM is everywhere.
By the way, check google for "How to boil a frog" and you'll find where I got my information from (should be the first result.)
It's really bothering me. 9/11 happens and everyone goes bezerk "How did these terrorists get weapons aboard a plane!" and "Why didn't anyone realize what these terrorists were up to!" Then now they actually try to "fix" the system and now everyone's shouting "Hey this is an invasion of privacy!" or "Well it'll do no good now!" Sure it is a stupid system, it will probably be cost ineffective, fail misserably, burn down, fall over, and sink into the swamp, but still it's better than nothing.
I flew to Puerto Rico in January, and I live in NYC, I flew From JFK to an airport in Aguadilla (or something like that.) My bag was searched, my shoes were examined, but the search was completely random. There was one person near the end of the x-ray machine picking up suspicious BAGS (remember, that's BAGS not PEOPLE). They didn't go out of their way and say "Young white male traveling with an old woman! Let's search him!" So it really bother's me to hear people complaining about how annoying airport security is. What bothered me about the search is that I had razors in my bag (for shaving, not on board the plane but I like to keep toiletries in my back pack.) What they actually examined the most were my juggling balls (I guess that makes sense, I'm sure through an x-ray machine it must look like small balls filled with gun powder.)
Anyway, if they stop 10,000,000 people, search them and just one of them is a terrorist deciding to hijack a plane or blow it up or whatever, and they stop that terrorist, won't it be worth it? You know if they don't you'll just complain "How did they not get this guy?!?! That airport security is so bad, why don't they do something about it!" Plus stuff like this help kill time at an airport, where there's a 90% chance that your flight will be delayed, you'll probably arrive an hour early and your row doesn't board till last (no matter where you're sitting unless it's in business class you lucky bastige!)
*patiently awaits the -1 troll moderations from the hypocrites who praise disney for releasing anime in the US when 5 minutes earlier they were bashing the MPAA for whatever new evil thing they did*
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PHP Script: Ho hum, the live of a script can be very boring, what's this? Hmm getting a lot of requests here. Well the server can handle the load. Oh wow it's getting hot in here, hey apache is giving me some signals to start rejecting people. But that apache guy sure is an asshole, I'll just ignore him, besides it's only a few requests. The server has the bandwidth and the processing power to easily handle this load, and it's probably just a spike, it'll die down soon. Hey what's that burning smell? Oh wow one of the processors died. Woah what's that puddle over there? Oh the T1's DSU just melted. So we're down to 2 processors, errr 1 processor, and the web server's connection switched over to the cable modem.
Charles Eriksen, an oceanography professor and one of the developers of the Seaglider, says that such a propulsion system isn't fast. At best, the glider can make about half a knot -- slightly more than half a mile an hour.
But since it will use only one-half watt of electrical energy to produce that speed, Eriksen says the Seaglider has a range of "thousands of kilometers" and remain in the ocean gather data for much longer.
"We can operate one of these for a year and across whole ocean basins," says Eriksen.
I can picture this thing going for a year...
Some Navy Officer: We've got a special mission for you, we sent out an underwater glider a year ago to collect data on enemy sub movement, we need you to recover the glider.
Navy Seal: Sir yes sir!
*goes into the water, takes 10 steps forward, reaches down, picks up glider*
Navy Seal: Sir I have recovered the glider sir!
A recent study by some guy down the street reveals that over 75% of all statistics are made up. "It comes as a real shocker to me, especially since 90% of all my decision making all day is based on statistics" says one local woman. The police chief says they're getting closer to figuring out who's releasing these made up statistics. He says "Well 85% of made up statistics are things people hear on a site known as Slashdot, and are then taken as fact, and passed on slightly distorted." "There are lies, damn lies and statistics." says local resident Benjamin Disraeli.
Well before everyone gets all ready to donate anti-virus software to china, please read the article. They don't mean 80% of all computers in china right at this moment have a virus. They're talking about 80% of the computers they sampled, they MAY have been infected (at one time). I'm sure in america the numbers pretty high too, there's just no statistics (yet). So here we go, according to ME, 90% of all computers I've ever fixed in America at one time had a virus.
Well not quite. A computer and a VCR aren't designed to transmit data wirelessly so there's stuff a cell phone has that a computer doesn't (I'm sure this stuff is pretty hazardous too, I would look it up but I don't feel like opening the PDF's now.) Besides, how many computer's did you buy last year? How many did you throw out? A cell phone you carry around, it gets lost, dropped, stolen, whatever, and you can't upgrade it. A computer you can keep for a long time, VCR even longer.
My sister had 3 cell phones last year (one was a pre paid phone she decided she didn't want anymore, another she dropped into a creek and had to buy a new one, the third one she still uses.) My parent's bought a cell phone in 1990, they stopped using it that same year because it was way to expensive (back then they weren't the cheapest things to own.) Now they have 2, people go through cell phones like they were handing them out on the street. Just the other day I saw an ad for a cell phone, you sign up for whatever amount of time and you get a free phone. Anyway, cell phone's are really cheap now, people get them replaced all the time just because they don't like the shape, color, whatever.
While the commercial launch of Kaii may only happen sometime in March next year, he estimated that the monochrome version would be available "under Rs 10,000" and the colour version around Rs 15,000. (Sharp's Zaurus retails for $450.)
It's good to know that the color version will be Rs 15,000 which is such a bargain compared to the $450 Sharp Zaurus, the 2,669 DKK (Denmark Kroner) Clie N760C or even the 78,903.50 SDD (Sudan Dinars) Palm m515.
Actually, that's because the virus looks for shares on the network. It finds a share and sends data to it something like this -
Virus: Hey anyone out there shared?
Printer: Yo
Virus: Here's a copy of myself for you to run, too much work to check if you're actually a computer
Printer: *starts printing the data getting sent to it*
Most worms that spread over shares will print on shared printers because they don't check if it's a printer, only if it's shared.
Actually no I didn't have to, it was for the people who don't know the metric system I was trying to help them understand, obviously I do know it if I was able to convert kg into pounds... Besides by your rule the car only weighs 2.9 tons, when it really weighs 3.25 tons.
Running Performance 14.5 sec. (0-400m)
A quarter mile in only 14.5 seconds? Or am I reading that wrong?
Max Speed 311.67 km/h
Top speed, 193 MPH
Gross weight 2980 kg
Gross weight, 6,569 pounds!!!!! WHAT! That's 3 tons!
There's gas powered cars that weigh 1/4th that, have 15 second quarter miles (400km), and a top speed of 150 MPH (241 km/h). Is this some kind of cruel joke? Can't they put that engine and battery into a smaller frame and get an electric car good enough to compete in an actual race? That thing looks like a long minivan... If there was a cheaper version, with a MUCH better shape, I'm sure alot of people would buy it.
Linux has Tux the penguin. (Linus Torvalds likes penguins and there's the joke that penguins look like they're wearing tuxedoes which can be seen in many cartoons)
BSD has the BSD Daemon (sometimes known as Beastie, the daemon story is pretty long and I'm not going to type it here)
GNU has a Gnu (Well they share the same name so it was a fitting animal)
So umm why does MySQL have a dolphin? Named Sakila?
If ATI were a Winston Cup NASCAR, we'd say that the company is efficiently firing on all eight cylinders.
Jeez, if the Radeon was a car, it'd beat all the other car's in 1/4 mile times and top speed, but in a 500 lap race, at lap 200, the paint would peal, the doors would fall off, and the engine would fall out.
Further, ATI's latest round of hardware has been complimented by relatively stable drivers - a first, as far as the gaming community is concerned.
I hope they mean a first, as in, first time ATI released relatively stable drivers. What bother's me though is "Relatively stable drivers." well, stable in relation to what? In relation to a blind man balancing a chair on his nose while juggling chainsaws?
Everything inside Lindows 2.0 is improved. Not perfect, but improved. The graphics are better and there's an overall feeling of a professional OS inside, rather than geeks-only software. The KDE desktop looks and feels like Windows, with a few exceptions.
Jeez I don't know where to start...
There's an overall feeling of a professional OS inside, rather than geeks-only software.
Ummm I'm just reading this and my head begins to hurt. I use linux and I believe it has always been a professional OS. By professional I mean, well it works, it's extremely advanced, can be used for just about anything and it's very customizable. Not because it isn't "geeks-only" what kind of stupid statement is that? If I give my cousin a fisher price computer thingy with those plastic crappy cards that have different games on them, I don't call it a professional computer because it's not. It isn't "geeks-only", but that doesn't make it professional.
When I want a professional OS, I don't install Windows Me, that isn't professional, it isn't "geeks-only" either. I would install Linux (or FreeBSD which I have started to use these past few weeks.) When I use Linux it does have a "geeks-only" feel to it, that's one reason why I like it. It's stable, secure (well most of the time), small, powerfull, and all this stuff is what makes it professional (in my opinion), I don't call something professional when it isn't "geeks-only." I don't want a little paper clip to hold my hand when I compile a kernel, I don't want a little dog to help me updatedb and locate | grep. I want a raw OS, one that's powerfull and secure, not one that's designed with my grandmother in mind. The things that make it professional are the same things that make it feel like it's "geeks-only."
The KDE desktop looks and feels like Windows, with a few exceptions.
Why does everyone try to compare desktop managers with Windows? Isn't the whole point of installing Linux to get away from Microsoft? Out of the 6 billion people in this world (yeah they're not all comptuer geeks but still at least one should be good enough) is the Windows desktop the most creative and easy to use interface we can come up with? I'm sure there must be something better out there to use. Why do we keep making Linux more and more like windows in all these Distro's. Well I guess it's to make the transition into Linux an easy one, but people seem to learn how to use Mac OS just fine and that's far from windows (at least from what I've seen it is, I could be wrong, not a huge Mac user.) Anyway that statement about Lindows being more professional because it isn't "geeks-only" really pisses me off, and also the comparison to windows.
I always figured it was because Linux is much easier to slide into. I have FreeBSD installed now on my 300MHz PII and I had a bit of trouble figuring it out (I've got it now though, the handbook is VERY nice.) Anyway, with linux, anyone can go download a distro like redhat, install it in like an hour, have X setup (working nicely with just about any video card.) They don't need to worry about setting up X, they get a nice graphical install, very easy to understand too and well documented.
BSD would be much more popular if it were easier to install and supported more stuff. There's the problem with nvidia and you can't use their driver in BSD (which drives me nuts because all my video cards use the nvidia chipset, and I can't do OpenGL stuff with my viper 770 because it has to use the vesa video driver and it's incredibly slow.) The kernel is a bit harder to compile (in my opinion anyway, I like make menuconfig in linux.) Anyway, when BSD becomes much easier to install, and much easier to config, more and more people will start using it. It doesn't seem like an OS you can switch to from windows.
Yeah really all I see is
Sharp Corp, Japan's largest maker of liquid crystal displays, said on Friday its researchers in Britain had developed a flat-panel display for either two- or three-dimensional viewing that does not require special glasses.
It just mentions that Sharp is the largest maker of liquid crystal displays and they developed a flat-panel display for 2D or 3D viewing, I don't see any indication that they make LCD's or flat panel dipslays. These slashdot editor's should really look over the story next time.
Oh yeah a flat screen monitor is a CRT with a flat screen (instead of curved, think back to IBM PS/1 monitors and the like) and a flat panel display is (as far as I know) an LCD screen that's completely flat.
Shopkeeper: "... I must warn you they've found life on venus."
Homer: "That's bad."
Shopkeeper: "But it was only some bugs!"
Homer: "That's good!"
Shopkeeper: "The news was reported on New Scientist."
Homer: "That's bad."
Shopkeeper: "But they don't require you to register!"
Homer: "That's good!"
Shopkeeper: "They log your IP address and keep logs of all the pages you go to."
[Silence; Homer looks puzzled]
Shopkeeper: "That's bad."
Homer: "Can I go now?"
This has probably got to be one of the most addicting games I've ever played, Crack Attack! It's open source, works in windows and linux, uses open gl, and it's a game based on tetris attack. The score to beat on the site (4135 I think) is actually from one of my friends, we play this game all the time. It has very nice multiplayer support and a game browser is in the works (although probably in the distant future.
You'll spend weeks playing to get the highest score on the list, then you spend even more time trying to get 1000. The game is sure to keep anyone entertained for hours.
The second I saw it I thought, FINALLY now there's an AOL client for linux, I can now get rid of my last windows computer (my sister uses it with WindowsXP to go on AOL.) Plus if an AOL client was ever created for linux there would be alot of customer's to come with it. The problem with those customer's though is that most of them are probably going to try to install linux for the first time (since it would support AOL and they heard linux was really good so they wanted to try it), probably use it for a week, say "Hey I can't do crap in this stupid OS", then go back to windows and tell everyone to stay away from linux.
AOL on linux would bring alot of other people who will stick with linux, but then again alot of them will be the wrong people. They'll probably come into #linuxhelp all day and ask questions like "Hey umm I was installing linux version 8.0 and I tried to load x windows but that didn't work so I tried to install it from the kernel and that didn't work either" (I've actually seen someone come into the channel and say that, tried to help him too, he was completely clueless.)
Although there will be some good if AOL was brought to linux, other software companies would see AOL making a client for linux, realize how many people use AOL, and (hopefully) decide to port some software over. AOL customer's using linux (and actually understanding it) would become a great asset to linux, they'll be the one's buying the software companies port to linux, they're already paying $20 a month for a crummy ISP, they'll create a bigger market for linux software.
I wish AOL was making a client for linux, Netscape 7 for linux doesn't really thrill me, I could really care less, ever since I started using mozilla I never wanted to use anything else. I really wish the headline was correct, I bet there's going to be hundreds of other people who get all excited, then let down when they read the story.
Don't know if this'll work for anyone else but I just registered,
username = BobDolio
password = bobdole
Anyway, I was wondering, why didn't the New York time's have a small one line description of each experiment (in order) then you can click on one and go to the full length description. I think it would be a lot easier to read it that way. Oh well.
Bah, how could I get modded offtopic alread, I just tried to read the memo's (right after they got posted) and they were all down with the message
"We're sorry, but this page is currently unavailable for viewing.
If this site belongs to you, please read this help page for more information and assistance."
Figured a parody of the message would be better than actually tying to post a reply to the two lines of text in the story. Makes me wonder if moderator's actually LOOK at the link in the story (off topic and the story was up for 4 minutes?) Mod THIS POST off topic if you'd like (well it's just a rant about how I'm beginning to hate the moderator's decissions.)
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If this site belongs to you, you owe us big time, one of our rack's just melted from this fatal slashdoting.
She didn't fall for the X11 camera disguised as a bottle of shampoo so I doubt I'll get any good use out of a LAN camera.
Ummm maybe I'm wrong here, but isn't Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) closed because everything is DIRECTLY linked? With the 802.11b that these LAN camera's use, you don't have a direct link, the signal is broadcast all over (the power of the signal may vary) instead of to one specific point (like CCTV.)
Now when a signal is broadcast all over, anyone with enough time and resources can pick up the signal (and decode it or do whatever they need to.) With CCTV there is a direct link, either with cables, infrared beams, microwave frequencies, whatever. Anyway my point is 802.11b is NOT CCTV, it's just a wireless way to send data (now this doesn't mean your camera can't send encrypted data, and i'm sure there's millions of ways to secure the signal, but most signals will probably be broadcast fine and can probably be received by anyone willing to try.)
Hehe I was going to mention that I agree with nothing on the page, or pick a better site, but I was lazy and picked the first page I found. Which does have info on frog boiling that relates to the article, if you can find a better page on frog boiling well then by all means share it with us, otherwise don't complain about the crappiness of the link I found.
This story about boiling frogs is what you should find. It's not about ACTUALLY boiling frogs, it's metaphorically speaking.
The title of this story actually makes sense. To boil a frog you can't just throw a live frog into a hot pot of water (it'll jump out). What you do is put a frog in a cold pot of water and slowly turn up the heat, the frog never leaps out because the change is too slowly, then when the water's too hot the frog can't jump out because it's dead (PLEASE DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME, I HAVE NEVER DONE THIS BUT I READ ABOUT IT!)
Anyway what the story title is suggesting is that we're like the frogs, DRM is like hot water. To get us used to DRM (and eventually "killed" by it) they (yeah it's always them) have to introduce DRM slowly so you get used to it, then they add more DRM, then you get used to that, it's a cycle that ends only after it's too late and DRM is everywhere.
By the way, check google for "How to boil a frog" and you'll find where I got my information from (should be the first result.)
It's really bothering me. 9/11 happens and everyone goes bezerk "How did these terrorists get weapons aboard a plane!" and "Why didn't anyone realize what these terrorists were up to!" Then now they actually try to "fix" the system and now everyone's shouting "Hey this is an invasion of privacy!" or "Well it'll do no good now!" Sure it is a stupid system, it will probably be cost ineffective, fail misserably, burn down, fall over, and sink into the swamp, but still it's better than nothing.
I flew to Puerto Rico in January, and I live in NYC, I flew From JFK to an airport in Aguadilla (or something like that.) My bag was searched, my shoes were examined, but the search was completely random. There was one person near the end of the x-ray machine picking up suspicious BAGS (remember, that's BAGS not PEOPLE). They didn't go out of their way and say "Young white male traveling with an old woman! Let's search him!" So it really bother's me to hear people complaining about how annoying airport security is. What bothered me about the search is that I had razors in my bag (for shaving, not on board the plane but I like to keep toiletries in my back pack.) What they actually examined the most were my juggling balls (I guess that makes sense, I'm sure through an x-ray machine it must look like small balls filled with gun powder.)
Anyway, if they stop 10,000,000 people, search them and just one of them is a terrorist deciding to hijack a plane or blow it up or whatever, and they stop that terrorist, won't it be worth it? You know if they don't you'll just complain "How did they not get this guy?!?! That airport security is so bad, why don't they do something about it!" Plus stuff like this help kill time at an airport, where there's a 90% chance that your flight will be delayed, you'll probably arrive an hour early and your row doesn't board till last (no matter where you're sitting unless it's in business class you lucky bastige!)
*patiently awaits the -1 troll moderations from the hypocrites who praise disney for releasing anime in the US when 5 minutes earlier they were bashing the MPAA for whatever new evil thing they did*