My old school logo looked pretty similar to the Timberland logo, tree and lines under. Timberland sued us and won. So now we have a new logo. How there could possibly be confusion between a school and Timberland is anyone's guess.
Incidentally Motorola is only prime contractor for the project, eg. they built the satellites. Iridium Corp. owns and operates them. So the statement above that Motorola doesn't give a flying fuck has nothing to do with the facts.
Actually, the larger problem is that a cow is not designed to give birth to a tiger.
Could you imagine a human trying to give birth to a whale? It wouldn't work too well now would it?
That is why the scientists implanted the specific type of embryo into the housecat. Note that the article emphasizes the fact that the birth weight of the kittens are very similar. (around 3 pounds)
If the process of carrying the embryo to term is impossible, then the problem raising the resulting offspring hardly warrants considering.
The sterility of crossbreeds is caused by mismatching of chromosomes. Mules, for example (crossbred horses and donkeys) are sterile because the chromosomes in horses and donkeys fail to pair correctly during fertilization.
Please understand the topic you're considering before you make a conclusion. Yes, you were wrong. No, I don't hold you responsible for it.
Actually, IIRC the PPC chip is RISC (late 1980s instruction set) whereas x86 is CISC (circa 1970s instruction set). If you'd like to back your claim that the x86 architecture is superior to the PPC architecture please feel free to do so.
Obviously, that's just because 15 times as many people are going with the much more poorly coded, less efficient solution. It's more than a bit ironic to find people on/. advocating the use of a particular program even though it's demonstrably substandard, just because a majority of the ignorant masses are using it.
Hmm.... sounds like the situation with Microsoft to me... Inferior code, lots of users, use simply because it's the most prevalent solution, arrogance in that "we don't need to optimize the core because we have so many users"
Wondering if distributed.net has gotten into talks with Billy G.
Don't get me wrong, I've got the d.net client running right now, and I have been since a year or so ago, but the situation with CSC is pretty funny.
We should be looking for faster, more efficient ways to interface with our computers, if you think RAM is a bottleneck, think about physical interface
I find that there is an easy solution to the aforementioned "problem" - shell scripting. That's the idea behind automation; if you need to do something repetitively schedule the job and have the computer execute the task for you. I've also found that I know my setup well enough to be much much faster then the computer can respond; sometimes I can be as much as a second or two in front of the computer. And when I'm on old hardware.....
and i [think/hope?] we'd all agree that humans more intuitively deal with 3d space
Perhaps, but I would not want to deal with a computer workspace in 3 dimensions. I find that with two dimensions, I can't misplace anything, whereas my desk is a mess of papers. Whenever I need to find something, I have to hunt to find that one paper buried under all the others. I really would not want to deal with that on a computer. At least I can find everything fairly quickly on my system.
Hell, REAL hackers use the command line.:-) GUIs are for wussies...
I should hope that most people that tend to be stable should, in the first place, quite clearly understand the boundary between real life and a computer game. If you can't even tell the difference between a game and life, then there's probably something pretty messed up that won't change if computer games didn't exist.
Take, for example, the case in Columbine. (only because it was so widely quoted as a result of computer game violence) Do you honestly think that those two kids would not have ended up killing people if FPS/sims/video game violence did not exist? I personally am inclined to believe that it is easier to blame violence in computer games than to face the fact that some people are biased towards violence. It is like bias towards alcoholism... it's just something that happens to be part of everyone, and it's something that we refuse to deal with. There is an idea that everyone is equal, and yet we are not homogenous; instead everyone is unique.
There's also the issue of parenting... kids' parents have the duty and obligation to teach their children the difference between reality and fiction, and what is acceptable and what is not. Moral values are built up over time, so that as a result of their upbringing, people recognize immediately, almost instinctually, that killing people is bad and unacceptable. Blaming skewed moral values that allows people to walk into a room and mow down innocent people on computer games is simply irrational. If someone is able to do something like that, I think that it's clear that there is something deeper wrong with the person than prolonged exposure to video games.
So either pronounciation is correct. But yeah, you're right that it's 1.21 gigawatts, just pronounced the original way. Although the pronounciation as 'ji-ga' is outdated by my Webster's Unabridged Dictionary...
I'm sure we all know about Microsoft's Windows update site which lots of (l)users check for Windows updates.
Note that Netcraft shows windowsupdate.microsoft.com as a IIS/4.0 server.
Supposing somebody cracks into Windows update and uses the site to distribute backdoors that install themselves onto (l)users' computers all over the world who trust Microsoft?
nVidia has a common driver, Detonator, for its TNT, TNT2, and GeForce chips. As you can see from the link, there are drivers for Windows, BeOS, Linux, and even OS/2.
I've been trying to get into *nix for a while now. First tried FreeBSD, didn't get it, dabbling with RH 6 now... still don't get it.
Maybe if it was easier to get into *nix it would spread much farther. And I'm not some clueless newbie, just brainwashed by Micros~1. I do tech support for Windows (hell) and I know how much it sucks, but I'm still completely lost in Linux. About the only commands I know are ls, cd, and pwd...
Anyone have any pointers to some good Linux newbie sites?
1 - Solid State HDs aren't new. I saw a review of one of the first ones in Boot about a year ago.
2 - EEPROM is expensive and slow. That's why it's not used for solid state hard drives. Usually, PC100 SDRAM is used, with a battery pack and a regular magnetic hard drive. When the power goes out, the battery pack keeps the data in the RAM while the hard drive makes a copy of the data. Protection of data in a power outage is essential for these things because you generally only can afford and only need a solid state hard drive for a server. The ones Quantum makes can do sustained 30 MB/sec off the RAM and average seek times of 3 - The ones Quantum make (the only ones I've seen, I don't work for Quantum) go up to 3.2 GB, although I'm sure the prices are all 5 digits.
4 - Heat? The way hard drives are manufactured now, the aluminum is just the actual platter and doesn't carry any data. All the data is on an iron oxide coating. (that's why hard drive platters are yellow-orange) My understanding is that these new drives would be the same on the outside (metal casing) but use plastic instead of aluminum - plastic platters coated also with iron oxide. Even so, the main cause of heat in hard drives is from air resistance to the platter/heads over the platter, so the plastic might still be affected. Might be interesting to see what happens. I run 7200 and 10000 RPM hard drives and I've never had a problem with heat though. Warm to the touch, but not hot.
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Well, if you ask Timberland they probably are...
My old school logo looked pretty similar to the Timberland logo, tree and lines under. Timberland sued us and won. So now we have a new logo. How there could possibly be confusion between a school and Timberland is anyone's guess.
Incidentally Motorola is only prime contractor for the project, eg. they built the satellites. Iridium Corp. owns and operates them. So the statement above that Motorola doesn't give a flying fuck has nothing to do with the facts.
And worse -
My plain old Wenger analog made today the 29th.... all tihs technology for nothing...
ROFL....
Go read the series on the BOFH (Bastard Operator From Hell)
Then you'll get the joke.
How about Dcypher.net's Gamma Flux Radiation project?
Actually, the larger problem is that a cow is not designed to give birth to a tiger.
Could you imagine a human trying to give birth to a whale? It wouldn't work too well now would it?
That is why the scientists implanted the specific type of embryo into the housecat. Note that the article emphasizes the fact that the birth weight of the kittens are very similar. (around 3 pounds)
If the process of carrying the embryo to term is impossible, then the problem raising the resulting offspring hardly warrants considering.
Jonathan Wang
There is only one species name for all humans; it is not divided between races:
Homo (genus) sapiens (species) sapiens (subspecies)
Jonathan Wang
Please realize that "crossbred" in the sense of this article is between different species and not different breeds of the same species.
Jonathan Wang
The sterility of crossbreeds is caused by mismatching of chromosomes. Mules, for example (crossbred horses and donkeys) are sterile because the chromosomes in horses and donkeys fail to pair correctly during fertilization.
Please understand the topic you're considering before you make a conclusion. Yes, you were wrong. No, I don't hold you responsible for it.
Jonathan Wang
Actually, IIRC the PPC chip is RISC (late 1980s instruction set) whereas x86 is CISC (circa 1970s instruction set). If you'd like to back your claim that the x86 architecture is superior to the PPC architecture please feel free to do so.
Jonathan Wang
Hmm.... sounds like the situation with Microsoft to me... Inferior code, lots of users, use simply because it's the most prevalent solution, arrogance in that "we don't need to optimize the core because we have so many users"
Wondering if distributed.net has gotten into talks with Billy G.
Don't get me wrong, I've got the d.net client running right now, and I have been since a year or so ago, but the situation with CSC is pretty funny.
Jonathan Wang
Jonathan Wang
"No time for sex tonight, gotta get a first post."
Did anyone else grimace when they saw those two excerpts?
Jonathan Wang
I find that there is an easy solution to the aforementioned "problem" - shell scripting. That's the idea behind automation; if you need to do something repetitively schedule the job and have the computer execute the task for you. I've also found that I know my setup well enough to be much much faster then the computer can respond; sometimes I can be as much as a second or two in front of the computer. And when I'm on old hardware.....
and i [think/hope?] we'd all agree that humans more intuitively deal with 3d space
Perhaps, but I would not want to deal with a computer workspace in 3 dimensions. I find that with two dimensions, I can't misplace anything, whereas my desk is a mess of papers. Whenever I need to find something, I have to hunt to find that one paper buried under all the others. I really would not want to deal with that on a computer. At least I can find everything fairly quickly on my system.
Hell, REAL hackers use the command line. :-) GUIs are for wussies...
Jonathan Wang
I should hope that most people that tend to be stable should, in the first place, quite clearly understand the boundary between real life and a computer game. If you can't even tell the difference between a game and life, then there's probably something pretty messed up that won't change if computer games didn't exist.
Take, for example, the case in Columbine. (only because it was so widely quoted as a result of computer game violence) Do you honestly think that those two kids would not have ended up killing people if FPS/sims/video game violence did not exist? I personally am inclined to believe that it is easier to blame violence in computer games than to face the fact that some people are biased towards violence. It is like bias towards alcoholism... it's just something that happens to be part of everyone, and it's something that we refuse to deal with. There is an idea that everyone is equal, and yet we are not homogenous; instead everyone is unique.
There's also the issue of parenting... kids' parents have the duty and obligation to teach their children the difference between reality and fiction, and what is acceptable and what is not. Moral values are built up over time, so that as a result of their upbringing, people recognize immediately, almost instinctually, that killing people is bad and unacceptable. Blaming skewed moral values that allows people to walk into a room and mow down innocent people on computer games is simply irrational. If someone is able to do something like that, I think that it's clear that there is something deeper wrong with the person than prolonged exposure to video games.
Jonathan Wang
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Rob/CmdrTaco...
If you chance to read this, perhaps it would be wise to add a limit on posts within a certain amount of time from an IP. Just a suggestion.
Jonathan Wang
Unfortunately, I'd expect that very little of that $20 savings will trickle down to the consumer.
Also, the savings to the DSL provider would probably vary across locations...
Not only that, but all of the above files no longer exist....
Main Entry: giga-
Pronunciation: 'ji-g&, 'gi-
So either pronounciation is correct. But yeah, you're right that it's 1.21 gigawatts, just pronounced the original way. Although the pronounciation as 'ji-ga' is outdated by my Webster's Unabridged Dictionary...
It's actually 1.21 Jigowatts. I have no idea what the conversion factor is. Well, there's Hollywood for you....
I'm sure we all know about Microsoft's Windows update site which lots of (l)users check for Windows updates.
Note that Netcraft shows windowsupdate.microsoft.com as a IIS/4.0 server.
Supposing somebody cracks into Windows update and uses the site to distribute backdoors that install themselves onto (l)users' computers all over the world who trust Microsoft?
Just a thought...
Jonathan Wang
nVidia has a common driver, Detonator, for its TNT, TNT2, and GeForce chips. As you can see from the link, there are drivers for Windows, BeOS, Linux, and even OS/2.
Okay.
I've been trying to get into *nix for a while now. First tried FreeBSD, didn't get it, dabbling with RH 6 now... still don't get it.
Maybe if it was easier to get into *nix it would spread much farther. And I'm not some clueless newbie, just brainwashed by Micros~1. I do tech support for Windows (hell) and I know how much it sucks, but I'm still completely lost in Linux. About the only commands I know are ls, cd, and pwd...
Anyone have any pointers to some good Linux newbie sites?
Jonathan Wang
Just for the hell of it,
That would be non sequitur or "does not follow." In essence, you're saying that A leads to B when it really doesn't.
Begging the question is like:
Windows is better than Linux, therefore Windows is better than Linux.
Usually not so blatant but you get the idea.
Jonathan Wang
1 - Solid State HDs aren't new. I saw a review of one of the first ones in Boot about a year ago.
2 - EEPROM is expensive and slow. That's why it's not used for solid state hard drives. Usually, PC100 SDRAM is used, with a battery pack and a regular magnetic hard drive. When the power goes out, the battery pack keeps the data in the RAM while the hard drive makes a copy of the data. Protection of data in a power outage is essential for these things because you generally only can afford and only need a solid state hard drive for a server. The ones Quantum makes can do sustained 30 MB/sec off the RAM and average seek times of 3 - The ones Quantum make (the only ones I've seen, I don't work for Quantum) go up to 3.2 GB, although I'm sure the prices are all 5 digits.
4 - Heat? The way hard drives are manufactured now, the aluminum is just the actual platter and doesn't carry any data. All the data is on an iron oxide coating. (that's why hard drive platters are yellow-orange) My understanding is that these new drives would be the same on the outside (metal casing) but use plastic instead of aluminum - plastic platters coated also with iron oxide. Even so, the main cause of heat in hard drives is from air resistance to the platter/heads over the platter, so the plastic might still be affected. Might be interesting to see what happens. I run 7200 and 10000 RPM hard drives and I've never had a problem with heat though. Warm to the touch, but not hot.
Jonathan Wang