You cant buy the wikipedia anymore than you can buy linux... They already offered to host it, and it was declined... (which may have been because there were too many strings attached)
We have really old (and back then expensive) frequency counters here that use the same display technology.
Its basically a glow discharge tube like you can find them as gadgets sometimes (like a hearth, or a number or so glowing). The glow is around the kathode, which can be formed however you want.
So this tubes have 10 different kathodes in one tube, sorted by visibility (to but the "big" shapes back as to not hinder the view to other ones). All in all, you can see that they are in different planes (about 5-8mm or so, which makes neat effects for a frequency counter (as the digit seems to jump rapidly, seemingly randomly back and forth in 3d-space)).
The time article is online. And its a rather chilling read, as you can see how perceptive the writers were. They already knew something bad is coming, and the intention of the nomination is likely to be a wakeup call.
Your whole comment (including the list of how great your iqs) shows only one thing:
You miss the point. My point, and the original posters point. Think about it: If i admit i was an idiot, too, than this is from my adult point of view. That doesnt say anything about what i thought back then.
Nothing to do with breaking laws or IQs (i am in MENSA, too, thank you very much). Just changing point of views that creep into your mind while growing up and alter your perception of actions/behaviour/ect. Many things i thought to be "objectively" cool, or that my oppinion of "would never change", did change with growing up. You might not notice it, but after 10 years or so, your point of view WILL have changed so much that your own old behaviour mirrored by others will seem obnoxious to you.
Which just means: Stay in you age group, dont expect to hang out around kids in the internet and not be blown away by your experience of applied immaturity and stupidity.
That was my intention of the reply, too. To show the original poster that he isnt experiencing a web-only phenomenon, nor something linked to the current generation of teenagers.
Teenagers ARE fucking morons. When i was a teen, i also heard trashy music, also had cheesy jet-fighter posters in my room and wasnt known for my social skills. And the others in my class werent better, either.
The only thing thats different is that with the internet, occasionally older non-parent people stumble upon this stuff, which just didnt happen before the internet. I am sure if you go offline to an event thats REALLY in in the 12-15 age group, you wouldnt find a much different picture. But you wouldnt go there, while online, its just a click away...
Back in that time, those effects were not bad. Believe me. You might not remember it, but back then, when the enterprise of STNT had only canned model shots and only moved left/right, the quality downsides of the rendering was vastly offset by the increase of in creative possibilities.
And you know that Star Treck had about 4-5 times as much money per episode?
Your calculation isnt that sensible... I mean, you can get below 100$ if you just cut corners everywhere, easily. Just look at the lowest end pda. They have a screen and a processor and a memory== portable computer.
But you want a 12" or so lcd. In colour, most likely =20$ at least, even for a crappy one. THen you want a dvd. Laser&pickup/lenses dont grow on trees, so at least 10$, too. Power supplies are AMAZINGLY mass produced goods with near zero profit margin, but still cost some money. For a 50-75W PSU you wont get cheapter than 10$, no matter what you do. Then you need a battery. Cheapest possible would be lead-acid, but you dont want to exactly have a 10Kg laptop, either. So NiMh, being cheaper than Lithium-ion. Still 10-20$ for anything usuable. so you have 50-60$ without even a cpu, a chipset, memory, mass storage (flash or harddiscs) and a case that doesnt fall apart to put them in. And those stuff have the least potential for saving because they are allready mass-produceed to death.
Well, RC5 IS pointless and emberassingly parallel... (I still remember when distributed.net was running RC-56 or something for 8 months on 100k machines, and some people just made some asics that had 100+ parallel key-piplines and build a a machine that could exhaust the keyspace in 3 days or so...
So i wouldnt be too optimistic because of that little performance point....
am annoyed by the constant whining about the use of false-colors. Want to see what it really looks like? A very dark blob with nearly no discernable details because its so dark.
its not all that scary as long as your gravitiy well is shallow and your atmosphere is thin.
This has nothing really to do with the temperature per se, its more like a side effect.
Also, considering that the background of the universe is only 2.73k, 110k deserves the designation "warm". I mean, its even warm enough to evaporate nitrogen... (also, at 0K everything still has the zero point energy, i.e. the 0.5h_bar you can never shave off those pesky harmonic osszillators. Thats for example the reason why helium wont become solid even at 0k and zero pressure...)
Well, he has a point. Storagereview completely ignored noise until recently, and their test criteria are more then questionable.
They dont meassure access noise at all, and their idle nosie meassurements are usually in "xx mm" distance, with xx being a low number... Which doesnt mean shit, as this will only meassure noise emitted right there (whatever surface they put the sensor above), but not the "real" noise profile you get in normal (50cm or so) working distance.
Performance-wise, otoh, their testbed is very balanced and sensible.
I googled quite a while and found only a commercial software (which i didnt want to buy for a single use) or a workaround using eudora as proxy that doesnt work (as eudora doesnt recognize thunderbirds mbox folders... so much for universal formats...)
I really like mozilla/firefox (using it since milestone 12, WAAAAY back), but cant they see that i only want a goddam browser that works, is fast and doesnt crash?
With the latest version (via autoupdate) i get crashes about 2 times a day, AFTER flashblock/adblock (which should take care of most bad crash-prone stuff).
Not to mention that thunderbird is a piece of shit. Whats the point of having a mail-client if it takes nearly a minute on a 1Gbyte A64 system to load after being minimized for 2 or 3 hours while using other applications? NO, and i mean ZERO non-mozilla-based applications i have ever used feature this nice "swap out and never come back without being dragged by the hair" behaviour. The only reason i am not going back to outlook is that i have a year of email in thunderbird and cant export it. Yeah to vendor lock-in:/
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You cant buy the wikipedia anymore than you can buy linux... ... (which may have been because there were too many strings attached)
They already offered to host it, and it was declined
We have really old (and back then expensive) frequency counters here that use the same display technology.
Its basically a glow discharge tube like you can find them as gadgets sometimes (like a hearth, or a number or so glowing). The glow is around the kathode, which can be formed however you want.
So this tubes have 10 different kathodes in one tube, sorted by visibility (to but the "big" shapes back as to not hinder the view to other ones). All in all, you can see that they are in different planes (about 5-8mm or so, which makes neat effects for a frequency counter (as the digit seems to jump rapidly, seemingly randomly back and forth in 3d-space)).
Hey, thats not fair.
:)
By 20000000, you will NEED a reverse entropy computing device for emacs, or running it could melt the universe or something worse...
it would be a story about mobile porn for the ipod video or somethink like that.
but doooh. The story is a stupid nonissue.
?
Whats your point?
Yield rates like that were very common in the beginning of dvd and cd production, too.
In fact i seem to remember reading about yields 50% for dual layer dvds in the beginning.
only if you want an APPLE IPOD.
You can get a mp3 player for 20$ if you want...
The time article is online.
And its a rather chilling read, as you can see how perceptive the writers were. They already knew something bad is coming, and the intention of the nomination is likely to be a wakeup call.
one hint: READ the corresponding article (the man of the year one).
Its available online.
Just read it, and see why the GP is a load of crap.
So its definitely NOT 320x200 pixels?
Because the definition of SD quite vague...
Are those shows downloadable in decent quality, or only in poststamp ipod format?
And 95.21% statistics are bullshit made up on the spot.
One hint: 10 orders of magnitudes more than a single ipod is more than the domestic product of the world... during this whole decade.
Some people pay more for _just_ a service contract.
Without any hardware whatsoever.
Your whole comment (including the list of how great your iqs) shows only one thing:
You miss the point. My point, and the original posters point.
Think about it: If i admit i was an idiot, too, than this is from my adult point of view.
That doesnt say anything about what i thought back then.
Nothing to do with breaking laws or IQs (i am in MENSA, too, thank you very much).
Just changing point of views that creep into your mind while growing up and alter your perception of actions/behaviour/ect.
Many things i thought to be "objectively" cool, or that my oppinion of "would never change", did change with growing up. You might not notice it, but after 10 years or so, your point of view WILL have changed so much that your own old behaviour mirrored by others will seem obnoxious to you.
Which just means: Stay in you age group, dont expect to hang out around kids in the internet and not be blown away by your experience of applied immaturity and stupidity.
That was my intention of the reply, too. To show the original poster that he isnt experiencing a web-only phenomenon, nor something linked to the current generation of teenagers.
Teenagers ARE fucking morons.
When i was a teen, i also heard trashy music, also had cheesy jet-fighter posters in my room and wasnt known for my social skills. And the others in my class werent better, either.
The only thing thats different is that with the internet, occasionally older non-parent people stumble upon this stuff, which just didnt happen before the internet.
I am sure if you go offline to an event thats REALLY in in the 12-15 age group, you wouldnt find a much different picture. But you wouldnt go there, while online, its just a click away...
I dont think the server racks that will be used in 2008 exist yet...
Er...
Because you dont WANT to delete something that is used by anything else?
Back in that time, those effects were not bad.
Believe me.
You might not remember it, but back then, when the enterprise of STNT had only canned model shots and only moved left/right, the quality downsides of the rendering was vastly offset by the increase of in creative possibilities.
And you know that Star Treck had about 4-5 times as much money per episode?
Your calculation isnt that sensible...
I mean, you can get below 100$ if you just cut corners everywhere, easily. Just look at the lowest end pda. They have a screen and a processor and a memory== portable computer.
But you want a 12" or so lcd. In colour, most likely =20$ at least, even for a crappy one.
THen you want a dvd. Laser&pickup/lenses dont grow on trees, so at least 10$, too.
Power supplies are AMAZINGLY mass produced goods with near zero profit margin, but still cost some money. For a 50-75W PSU you wont get cheapter than 10$, no matter what you do.
Then you need a battery. Cheapest possible would be lead-acid, but you dont want to exactly have a 10Kg laptop, either. So NiMh, being cheaper than Lithium-ion. Still 10-20$ for anything usuable.
so you have 50-60$ without even a cpu, a chipset, memory, mass storage (flash or harddiscs) and a case that doesnt fall apart to put them in. And those stuff have the least potential for saving because they are allready mass-produceed to death.
Well, RC5 IS pointless and emberassingly parallel...
(I still remember when distributed.net was running RC-56 or something for 8 months on 100k machines, and some people just made some asics that had 100+ parallel key-piplines and build a a machine that could exhaust the keyspace in 3 days or so...
So i wouldnt be too optimistic because of that little performance point....
am annoyed by the constant whining about the use of false-colors.
Want to see what it really looks like? A very dark blob with nearly no discernable details because its so dark.
its not all that scary as long as your gravitiy well is shallow and your atmosphere is thin.
This has nothing really to do with the temperature per se, its more like a side effect.
Also, considering that the background of the universe is only 2.73k, 110k deserves the designation "warm".
I mean, its even warm enough to evaporate nitrogen...
(also, at 0K everything still has the zero point energy, i.e. the 0.5h_bar you can never shave off those pesky harmonic osszillators. Thats for example the reason why helium wont become solid even at 0k and zero pressure...)
Well, he has a point.
Storagereview completely ignored noise until recently, and their test criteria are more then questionable.
They dont meassure access noise at all, and their idle nosie meassurements are usually in "xx mm" distance, with xx being a low number... Which doesnt mean shit, as this will only meassure noise emitted right there (whatever surface they put the sensor above), but not the "real" noise profile you get in normal (50cm or so) working distance.
Performance-wise, otoh, their testbed is very balanced and sensible.
I googled quite a while and found only a commercial software (which i didnt want to buy for a single use) or a workaround using eudora as proxy that doesnt work (as eudora doesnt recognize thunderbirds mbox folders... so much for universal formats...)
I could make TWO complete backups of my Hard drive on a single CD-r.
Today, i would need 50 Dual layer DVDs....
I, for my part, would welcome 300GB discs, or even 3TB discs.
Also, there is no need to push them everywhere. Or do you see all those cds dying out because of dvds (who could also store the audio)?
I really like mozilla/firefox (using it since milestone 12, WAAAAY back), but cant they see that i only want a goddam browser that works, is fast and doesnt crash?
:/
With the latest version (via autoupdate) i get crashes about 2 times a day, AFTER flashblock/adblock (which should take care of most bad crash-prone stuff).
Not to mention that thunderbird is a piece of shit. Whats the point of having a mail-client if it takes nearly a minute on a 1Gbyte A64 system to load after being minimized for 2 or 3 hours while using other applications? NO, and i mean ZERO non-mozilla-based applications i have ever used feature this nice "swap out and never come back without being dragged by the hair" behaviour.
The only reason i am not going back to outlook is that i have a year of email in thunderbird and cant export it. Yeah to vendor lock-in