If I were the one to classify it (and I am obviously not). I would have to base whether it is a planet or not on what it is made up of and how it came to be. If it is simply a fragment from some other large body then I wouldn't call it a planet, but it was formed from the birth of a solar system (any solar system), I would call it a planet. I say any solar system because it could be a planet from another system that left its orbit and then ended up in orbit around our sun, which is a likely case with pluto. Pluto was probably a moon from something else that left its orbit and entered orbit around our sun, which accounts for it strange orbit. But if Sedna appears to be in independent creation and not just a chunk of something else, I would call it a planet, no matter its size.
whoa, way off base there my man. No one (with brains) was claiming RFID had no legit uses, in fact I have seen lots of conversations on/. about good ways they could be used. The major concern is that if they are just allowed to be put into everything with no sort of regulations then they could easily be abused. I think most people just want assurance that RFID can not be used against them. I have to totally agree with this, I would have no problem with RFID if the tags had to be clearly visable and removable after purchase or disabled at purchase. RFID is a great tool BEFORE the point of sale.
I dunno about you, but I had a linux server running fine for 120 days and only went down due to a power outage. I had no loss of performance on the machine due to long uptime. I have never seen ANY version of windows last that long, hell after a month everything slows to a crawl until you reboot in my experience. So if you only rate stable on a short term scale... then sure, you are right. But in the long run I still gotta rate windows low.
I just searched "motherboard reviews" on google and about 9 out of 10 links it came up with DID take me to actual reviews, so I am not sure what your complaint here is. I am hearing more and more people trash google for having too many ads and not enough content but I have personally not once found this to be a problem on google. I always find what I want pretty damn quick there.
I find in a lot of these games people just blame good players for cheating and don't always back it up with proof. I never cheat in online games.. hell I just don't care that much. But I HAVE been banned from servers for cheating, simply because I play well.. and you know.. listen and pay attention. In my experience cheating is FAR LESS of a problem as people would have you believe. Either that or the people cheating still suck cheats or not and I still own them. Either way it is a moot point for me. I also do NOT play in clans and I do NOT "practice" to get better or attempt weird ass shit while alone in a server to see just how far I can pull a jump etc.. I just play when I have time with random people. The only real trick to starting an online FPS is to realize it is just a game and not get pissed when you are lossing. It is better to try to figure out why you are lossing and experiment with some new ideas a bit. You will probably die if you are experimenting, but you are dying anyway, so why does it matter? Eventually you will learn by this trial and error method.
I find most people do not vary their attack too much unless they never get any kills at all. So I generally do not dominate right off the bat, I do average until I figure out where each player likes to go and how they like to move and then I just pick them off left and right. The key is being able to adapt. If you are the type who gets super angry when you die, just start drinking lots of beer while you play... then you kind of expect to play poorly and you have some scapegoat you can blame it on, you still get some learning experience either way.
I am pretty sure I read somewhere that the cost of saving hubble was a major factor, not just safety, so this is no major surprise to me. But a quick glance through the archives here didn't turn up too many money related articles so maybe I didn't read it here. I did however find some other references in the past that relate to the story now.
The review is rather crappy IMHO. Half of the stuff he talks about already existed in previous versions of KDE. Like tabs for web browsing and file management... umm, yeah knoq already did that in 3.2. And the Font installer, again, was already there, just not in RH/Fedora. Also, kwrite is slow to open???! I dunno, maybe he just runs a really slow comp or something, but most all KDE apps open in about the same speed on my system, all of which are pretty speedy. And I haven't used 3.2 yet, but I have used 3.1.95 and I have to say that in my experience knoq's rendering of webpages was doing WORSE that it was in 3.1 on many pages. Nothing major, but some things didn't seem to line up right when they did in earlier versions of knoq. I hope they worked this out before the final, but I was suprised to hear any praises on that just yet.
Anyway, the review was poorly done and not entirely objective. I use KDE too but I will be the first to point out flaws and places that need major improvement as well as the things I love about it. This just read like a guy that prefers KDE writing a quick page without doing too terribly much in the way of examining the new desktop.
I don't quite understand the problem here. I mean you have to be charged for the domain somehow right? I own 2 from 2 different registrars and both times I bought it online via a credit card. Having enough CC info to charge me should also give them enough info to find me should I be violating some law. Why the focus on what info is in the whois database? The registrar SHOULD already have all the info it needs and if there is an investigation they would be required to pass that info on to law enforcement.
It doesn't have to be alive to cause a problem. We are not really looking to see if live DOES exist on Mars. We are looking to see if life DID exist on Mars. Thus whatever we are looking for is probably already dead anyway. So even if our bacteria in the soil dies in seconds or lives, it doesn't matter, it is already contaminated.
First Tennessee (is bank america their parent company?) has a great online banking page as well. About a year ago it worked 100% with all browsers I ever tried including knoqueror, then they made some minor changes and said it was to support even more browsers!! Even though I had tried several and all worked exactly as it should have. I give their site an A+.
I don't like the mentality that just because CPUs are faster that means software should bloat itself up more and more so that you HAVE to have the fastest chips just to run your OS. What crack are you smoking man? The fact that software isn't keeping up is a GOOD thing IMHO. I mean think about it, it means that we can do everything we need to do and have plenty of room to spare. This leads to greater multitasking as you can do many many things at once and not get bogged down. It means you games will run smoother, even if you have programs running in the background.
I personally do NOT want to see software makers TRYING to push CPU limits just for the sake of pushing them. We will just end up with a bunch of useless "features" that no one wants or uses and it will be just like all the cell phones out there:-P.
Normal people will continue to buy middle of the line stuff and will continue to say "gee, this is much faster than my old machine" which is how it should be. If they got new software with that new machine that used up all the cycles then it wouldn't feel much faster and there wouldn't be much point in buying it now would there? And there are plenty of people that will always have the "It can't be too fast" mentality. ie. gamers, multimedia people (images and movies), scientific computing, rendering farms, and I am sure lots more. I personally think things are on track.
I would also like to point out that I don't think there is anything wrong with DeCSS either... I was just showing a case in which things are less clear cut and opinion is more evenly divided. But it is basically the same type of case and in either one, I do not believe misuse of software to be the fault of the creator, unless of course that was its intended purpose.
I know that seems obvious in a case like this, and I think most people here will agree with you. But at the same time not everyone may see things so clear cut. DeCSS and its creators were blamed for people ripping and pirating DVDs, when the same software was needed to simply PLAY the DVD. Just because someone used a tool they made to commit illegal acts shouldn't make them guilty, but it did anyway. Just food for thought. (Not saying I agree that MS is guilty in THIS case, because they are not.)
umm, I would have to say that all modern CPUs are more similar to RISC than they are to CISC. RISC archetechure brought about things like caches and pipelining. Now I ask you, what CPU built today doesn't have these 2 features? Also the idea behind RISC was to break the operations up into smaller more basic blocks.. now why is this helpful? Because it then takes less time to complete any action and you can break up your pipeline into many many more stages, each taking less time to complete and then ramp the clock speed up faster. Does this sound familiar to you? Maybe something like the P4?
So yeah, anytime I hear people make reference to modern CPUs being CISC, or even being LIKE CISC I have to laugh because that really isn't the case at all.
Why isn't this article showing up on the main page? It is apparently over 3 hours old by the time I am typing this yet it would appear as if only subscribed users are seeing it (based on who is commenting). I only saw it because I was looking at another YRO article and this one was listed on the right side in that little block that has recent YRO articles. I know subscribers see it first, but isn't that only 20 mins earlier? Even if it is, I do not pay and I still saw it, just not on the main page, so that would be a hole in the system there;)
I live in TN and what makes this so much worse is now on TV I see commercials about how telecoms are trying to change laws to "bring us into the future". And they make it sound like they are looking out for us and trying to bring us new technology and crap.
The commercials of course don't say anything ABOUT the laws, they just say stuff like, "When the current laws were made, PDA stood for.. well public display of affection. But now PDAs are everywhere. We need to change the laws accordingly so we can bring you the future, today." So apparently, I don't like their definition of accordingly.
Such an idea would leave too few options. Spammers wouldn't even need people to do the work at that point, they could just guess it. Since there would be like a 1 in 10 chance they guess right. If you tried to make 1000 spam addresses and put IBM as your phrase every time (based on the ad method) they are bound to get several that go through. Not only that, but it would be trival for a script to search the source of the page for the specific words it may ask for.
Basically, there isn't enough randomness in such a method for it to work, at least in my opinion.
While I am sure the parent isn't at all involved in the project and is probably wildly off base, I think it is a very interesting observation. I mean the guys as NASA guess the same kind of stuff right? They just have the means to check it and rule it out (or not). I would have to say based on the limited info he has of the rover, that this isn't an all that unlikely guess as to the cause of problems.
And for all those people that say things like "Do you think the people at NASA are just stupid and wouldn't have thought of this in the design?" Well no, they are not stupid, but they are not perfect either. And they have most certainly overlooked some pretty stupid things that caused serious failures. I mean hell, they only need one bug to bring the whole thing to a halt, and it isn't like they can do real world testing beforehand, they can only simulate what it will be like.
I am going to guess that it is because apache is one of the MAJOR reasons linux ever took off in any commercial setting in the first place. Preconfigured apache on linux boxes that were extremely cheap made very attractive web servers to many people and businesses. This was a major boost to linux awareness and usage. I think we all know how popular apache is as a webserver, and I think it is fair to say that the majority of apache servers out there are running on a *nix platform. Without apache, these platforms may not have ever got much exposure.
Can someone explain to me some specific problems there were with the old license? Not having it in every file I am sure makes things a bit easier, but what else does this do exactly? The original poster didn't make this too clear, and I don't exactly go around studing licenses unless I know it conflicts with something for me personally.
If it were open source patches would come in from all over the place. The algorithm is the important part! The bugs can be worked out as you go. But if your algorithm is crap, no amount of debugging will make it better.
I totally agree with the parent here. It would be cheaper, it would be a good educational tool for universities to get their students in. It wouldn't be hidden from the public since this is such a public issue. Experts could inspect the code at will and provide patches. I can't even really think of a negative here. I simply think too many government officals are convienced that if the source is open that means anyone can figure out how to break it, which isn't really the case.
Plus any good NEW ideas that might come out of it would also be open and could be used in other applications. And if they did, they would make good standards since they would probably be under a BSD type license. Good all around I say!
When will people get over this silly distinction? Poeple don't go around saying GNU/Solaris or GNU/BSD. And I don't call my windows Adobe/Windows because I may have a lot of adobe software!
This whole argument is obsurd, yes without GNU we wouldn't have linux as we know it, their contribution should not be forgotten, but the OS is LINUX!
If it executes a linux/ELF binary, then it is LINUX, not GNU/Linux. I think GNU tries to downplay the importance of a kernel with their stat on their web page stating that linux is only 3% of the system by volume in X common disto. Who gives a flying rats ass? Linux can be used in lots of different ways, not just a desktop. There may be aplications where there isn't much or any GNU software used at all... yet guess what.. STILL LINUX.
GNU is great and all, but the only truely GNU OS I know about is hurd, so if you are truly obsessed on using GNU/whatever, then start using hurd.:-P
Now time for all the GNU mods to say this is flamebait:-P
With a name like SPEWS do you really expect a quality service here? If I just heard that name I would imagine it was a porn site dedicated to streaming video.
Hmm.. maybe that is a quality service, I may have spoken too soon.;)
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If I were the one to classify it (and I am obviously not). I would have to base whether it is a planet or not on what it is made up of and how it came to be. If it is simply a fragment from some other large body then I wouldn't call it a planet, but it was formed from the birth of a solar system (any solar system), I would call it a planet. I say any solar system because it could be a planet from another system that left its orbit and then ended up in orbit around our sun, which is a likely case with pluto. Pluto was probably a moon from something else that left its orbit and entered orbit around our sun, which accounts for it strange orbit. But if Sedna appears to be in independent creation and not just a chunk of something else, I would call it a planet, no matter its size.
whoa, way off base there my man. No one (with brains) was claiming RFID had no legit uses, in fact I have seen lots of conversations on /. about good ways they could be used. The major concern is that if they are just allowed to be put into everything with no sort of regulations then they could easily be abused. I think most people just want assurance that RFID can not be used against them. I have to totally agree with this, I would have no problem with RFID if the tags had to be clearly visable and removable after purchase or disabled at purchase. RFID is a great tool BEFORE the point of sale.
I dunno about you, but I had a linux server running fine for 120 days and only went down due to a power outage. I had no loss of performance on the machine due to long uptime. I have never seen ANY version of windows last that long, hell after a month everything slows to a crawl until you reboot in my experience. So if you only rate stable on a short term scale... then sure, you are right. But in the long run I still gotta rate windows low.
I just searched "motherboard reviews" on google and about 9 out of 10 links it came up with DID take me to actual reviews, so I am not sure what your complaint here is. I am hearing more and more people trash google for having too many ads and not enough content but I have personally not once found this to be a problem on google. I always find what I want pretty damn quick there.
Blind people still have an Iris. I haven't seen too many with completely white eyes. Glass eyes maybe though.
I find in a lot of these games people just blame good players for cheating and don't always back it up with proof. I never cheat in online games.. hell I just don't care that much. But I HAVE been banned from servers for cheating, simply because I play well.. and you know.. listen and pay attention. In my experience cheating is FAR LESS of a problem as people would have you believe. Either that or the people cheating still suck cheats or not and I still own them. Either way it is a moot point for me. I also do NOT play in clans and I do NOT "practice" to get better or attempt weird ass shit while alone in a server to see just how far I can pull a jump etc.. I just play when I have time with random people. The only real trick to starting an online FPS is to realize it is just a game and not get pissed when you are lossing. It is better to try to figure out why you are lossing and experiment with some new ideas a bit. You will probably die if you are experimenting, but you are dying anyway, so why does it matter? Eventually you will learn by this trial and error method.
I find most people do not vary their attack too much unless they never get any kills at all. So I generally do not dominate right off the bat, I do average until I figure out where each player likes to go and how they like to move and then I just pick them off left and right. The key is being able to adapt. If you are the type who gets super angry when you die, just start drinking lots of beer while you play... then you kind of expect to play poorly and you have some scapegoat you can blame it on, you still get some learning experience either way.
I am pretty sure I read somewhere that the cost of saving hubble was a major factor, not just safety, so this is no major surprise to me. But a quick glance through the archives here didn't turn up too many money related articles so maybe I didn't read it here. I did however find some other references in the past that relate to the story now.
NASA to Reconsider Hubble Decision
Saving Hubble
Space Tug to Save the Hubble?
The review is rather crappy IMHO. Half of the stuff he talks about already existed in previous versions of KDE. Like tabs for web browsing and file management... umm, yeah knoq already did that in 3.2. And the Font installer, again, was already there, just not in RH/Fedora. Also, kwrite is slow to open???! I dunno, maybe he just runs a really slow comp or something, but most all KDE apps open in about the same speed on my system, all of which are pretty speedy. And I haven't used 3.2 yet, but I have used 3.1.95 and I have to say that in my experience knoq's rendering of webpages was doing WORSE that it was in 3.1 on many pages. Nothing major, but some things didn't seem to line up right when they did in earlier versions of knoq. I hope they worked this out before the final, but I was suprised to hear any praises on that just yet.
Anyway, the review was poorly done and not entirely objective. I use KDE too but I will be the first to point out flaws and places that need major improvement as well as the things I love about it. This just read like a guy that prefers KDE writing a quick page without doing too terribly much in the way of examining the new desktop.
I don't quite understand the problem here. I mean you have to be charged for the domain somehow right? I own 2 from 2 different registrars and both times I bought it online via a credit card. Having enough CC info to charge me should also give them enough info to find me should I be violating some law. Why the focus on what info is in the whois database? The registrar SHOULD already have all the info it needs and if there is an investigation they would be required to pass that info on to law enforcement.
It must suck to live in your world with only 3 IM clients.
It doesn't have to be alive to cause a problem. We are not really looking to see if live DOES exist on Mars. We are looking to see if life DID exist on Mars. Thus whatever we are looking for is probably already dead anyway. So even if our bacteria in the soil dies in seconds or lives, it doesn't matter, it is already contaminated.
First Tennessee (is bank america their parent company?) has a great online banking page as well. About a year ago it worked 100% with all browsers I ever tried including knoqueror, then they made some minor changes and said it was to support even more browsers!! Even though I had tried several and all worked exactly as it should have. I give their site an A+.
I don't like the mentality that just because CPUs are faster that means software should bloat itself up more and more so that you HAVE to have the fastest chips just to run your OS. What crack are you smoking man? The fact that software isn't keeping up is a GOOD thing IMHO. I mean think about it, it means that we can do everything we need to do and have plenty of room to spare. This leads to greater multitasking as you can do many many things at once and not get bogged down. It means you games will run smoother, even if you have programs running in the background.
:-P.
I personally do NOT want to see software makers TRYING to push CPU limits just for the sake of pushing them. We will just end up with a bunch of useless "features" that no one wants or uses and it will be just like all the cell phones out there
Normal people will continue to buy middle of the line stuff and will continue to say "gee, this is much faster than my old machine" which is how it should be. If they got new software with that new machine that used up all the cycles then it wouldn't feel much faster and there wouldn't be much point in buying it now would there? And there are plenty of people that will always have the "It can't be too fast" mentality. ie. gamers, multimedia people (images and movies), scientific computing, rendering farms, and I am sure lots more. I personally think things are on track.
I would also like to point out that I don't think there is anything wrong with DeCSS either... I was just showing a case in which things are less clear cut and opinion is more evenly divided. But it is basically the same type of case and in either one, I do not believe misuse of software to be the fault of the creator, unless of course that was its intended purpose.
I know that seems obvious in a case like this, and I think most people here will agree with you. But at the same time not everyone may see things so clear cut. DeCSS and its creators were blamed for people ripping and pirating DVDs, when the same software was needed to simply PLAY the DVD. Just because someone used a tool they made to commit illegal acts shouldn't make them guilty, but it did anyway. Just food for thought. (Not saying I agree that MS is guilty in THIS case, because they are not.)
umm, I would have to say that all modern CPUs are more similar to RISC than they are to CISC. RISC archetechure brought about things like caches and pipelining. Now I ask you, what CPU built today doesn't have these 2 features? Also the idea behind RISC was to break the operations up into smaller more basic blocks.. now why is this helpful? Because it then takes less time to complete any action and you can break up your pipeline into many many more stages, each taking less time to complete and then ramp the clock speed up faster. Does this sound familiar to you? Maybe something like the P4?
So yeah, anytime I hear people make reference to modern CPUs being CISC, or even being LIKE CISC I have to laugh because that really isn't the case at all.
Why isn't this article showing up on the main page? It is apparently over 3 hours old by the time I am typing this yet it would appear as if only subscribed users are seeing it (based on who is commenting). I only saw it because I was looking at another YRO article and this one was listed on the right side in that little block that has recent YRO articles. I know subscribers see it first, but isn't that only 20 mins earlier? Even if it is, I do not pay and I still saw it, just not on the main page, so that would be a hole in the system there ;)
I live in TN and what makes this so much worse is now on TV I see commercials about how telecoms are trying to change laws to "bring us into the future". And they make it sound like they are looking out for us and trying to bring us new technology and crap.
The commercials of course don't say anything ABOUT the laws, they just say stuff like, "When the current laws were made, PDA stood for.. well public display of affection. But now PDAs are everywhere. We need to change the laws accordingly so we can bring you the future, today." So apparently, I don't like their definition of accordingly.
Such an idea would leave too few options. Spammers wouldn't even need people to do the work at that point, they could just guess it. Since there would be like a 1 in 10 chance they guess right. If you tried to make 1000 spam addresses and put IBM as your phrase every time (based on the ad method) they are bound to get several that go through. Not only that, but it would be trival for a script to search the source of the page for the specific words it may ask for.
Basically, there isn't enough randomness in such a method for it to work, at least in my opinion.
While I am sure the parent isn't at all involved in the project and is probably wildly off base, I think it is a very interesting observation. I mean the guys as NASA guess the same kind of stuff right? They just have the means to check it and rule it out (or not). I would have to say based on the limited info he has of the rover, that this isn't an all that unlikely guess as to the cause of problems.
And for all those people that say things like "Do you think the people at NASA are just stupid and wouldn't have thought of this in the design?" Well no, they are not stupid, but they are not perfect either. And they have most certainly overlooked some pretty stupid things that caused serious failures. I mean hell, they only need one bug to bring the whole thing to a halt, and it isn't like they can do real world testing beforehand, they can only simulate what it will be like.
I am going to guess that it is because apache is one of the MAJOR reasons linux ever took off in any commercial setting in the first place. Preconfigured apache on linux boxes that were extremely cheap made very attractive web servers to many people and businesses. This was a major boost to linux awareness and usage. I think we all know how popular apache is as a webserver, and I think it is fair to say that the majority of apache servers out there are running on a *nix platform. Without apache, these platforms may not have ever got much exposure.
Can someone explain to me some specific problems there were with the old license? Not having it in every file I am sure makes things a bit easier, but what else does this do exactly? The original poster didn't make this too clear, and I don't exactly go around studing licenses unless I know it conflicts with something for me personally.
If it were open source patches would come in from all over the place. The algorithm is the important part! The bugs can be worked out as you go. But if your algorithm is crap, no amount of debugging will make it better.
I totally agree with the parent here. It would be cheaper, it would be a good educational tool for universities to get their students in. It wouldn't be hidden from the public since this is such a public issue. Experts could inspect the code at will and provide patches. I can't even really think of a negative here. I simply think too many government officals are convienced that if the source is open that means anyone can figure out how to break it, which isn't really the case.
Plus any good NEW ideas that might come out of it would also be open and could be used in other applications. And if they did, they would make good standards since they would probably be under a BSD type license. Good all around I say!
When will people get over this silly distinction? Poeple don't go around saying GNU/Solaris or GNU/BSD. And I don't call my windows Adobe/Windows because I may have a lot of adobe software!
:-P
:-P
This whole argument is obsurd, yes without GNU we wouldn't have linux as we know it, their contribution should not be forgotten, but the OS is LINUX!
If it executes a linux/ELF binary, then it is LINUX, not GNU/Linux. I think GNU tries to downplay the importance of a kernel with their stat on their web page stating that linux is only 3% of the system by volume in X common disto. Who gives a flying rats ass? Linux can be used in lots of different ways, not just a desktop. There may be aplications where there isn't much or any GNU software used at all... yet guess what.. STILL LINUX.
GNU is great and all, but the only truely GNU OS I know about is hurd, so if you are truly obsessed on using GNU/whatever, then start using hurd.
Now time for all the GNU mods to say this is flamebait
With a name like SPEWS do you really expect a quality service here? If I just heard that name I would imagine it was a porn site dedicated to streaming video.
;)
Hmm.. maybe that is a quality service, I may have spoken too soon.