Oh come off it! 30+ million lines of code and nothing we want to borrow. Give me a break, I'm pretty sure we could find a line or two that's usefull in that crap.
Besides, think of the fun we could have with that little paper clip.
What then? Well for one thing, knowing that they exist is one thing in itself. That alone is worth the search. And suppose we find nothing and we are alone. That to, is worth knowing.
The client does indeed use spare cycles. Turn the client off and using top watch your cpu go to 98% idle. Now turn the client on and watch the idle time go away. Now notice that the client is running at a 1 nice value where everthing else has a value of 0. The seti client is indeed using only spare cycles. Besides if your real concerned do what I do and nice the seti client. Now it's nice value is 11 making it the lowest priority on the system. The thing that got me was the 12 meg of memory used. Even on a 64 meg system that put a hell of a dent in my it.
I may be in the minority here but I really don't get the big deal about a company releasing a binary only driver. I know it goes against the Linux spriit of open source and everything but most people here don't seem to have any problems with game companies releasing binary only games. What's the difference?
Linux's ability to incorp. modules into it is a prefect way for companies such as Creative to support Linux and keep some trade secrets.
Now someone tell me why a 3D card is better than my old SB 16?
An email address would have been nice. Speaking of NPR the morning edition did a short comment on the "jock" problem in American high schools.
I'm not going to go into it here but for me high school was a living hell. It isn't just Revenge of the Nerds anymore. We have a body count. It's time someone took notice of the other side of the story. But we need to becareful, media attention can be a double edged sword.
Hehe. I see the trashcan has been named Amiga. I guess after all these years some ST owners can still be mad. I'd kind of picture it like this now. The Amiga and the ST would be like two old men sitting on the front porch fighting over a checker game.
Well at least the ST did the way a computer should, in the market place. Not hung up by it's own parent company and strangled due mis-management and stupidity.
Well, it looked good on paper but tell me has anyone put one of these bad boys together and plugged it in?
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I've thought of doing this. I'd be willing to put up a website that featured a list of Linux/OSS hostle companies. Problem is I would have to find a place to host it. I was thinking about Geocities or something. My ISP allows webpages, at $5 for two megs.
I got to agree. This bill was still born before the ink was dry and the people the wrote it know it was. It could be AZ's congress', or whatever, way of saying "that our people don't want this in our state and if you try it we're going to ban it."
But more likly it's just a way to grab some press coverage and make a few brownie points with the privacy groups. Is it election time in AZ?
I have a simple solution for this. A program that patches the OS to send a random CPU ID when ever the CPU ID is requested from a web site or software.
Instead of random numbers this patch could let you assign any number you want to send or we could even have the patch send the same numbers all the time. Imagine the effect on this if everyone sent the same number.
There, problem solved. When ever Microsoft request your CPU Id when you download a patch you can give it what ever random number you computer feels like passing it or with, a check box, you can give it the number of fleas on your dog.
I came across this many years ago and was impressed by the thought in it. Sorry, the only copy I have is in postscript. I esp. like the ideal of sending out pellets of fuel a head of the ship in a "accelleration track."
This type of design is called a generation ship. I think the reason it is called that should be pretty obvious. While the design and concept as far as starships go is pretty simple. On paper the concept will work, but reallity is much more complex.
The first thing that makes this ship inpracticle is speed. Anything going less than 10% the speed of light is a waist of time. It would be better to stay home and develop faster engines than leave at anything less. At 10% light speed you could reach the nearest start in about 40 years. One lifetime, not many. Anything less and you might just find people there waiting for you.
The next thing is life spans. Like was pointed out, someone in that 299 generations is going to get piss or just flip out and toast the place. Even at 10% light speed it would still take generations to get to stars many light years away.
There are several ways aound this. One being faster ships could take advantage of time dilation and make the trip seem shorter. Another is sleeper ships. Instead of generation ship, you send one generation in hybernation. And there is one more answer people seem to keep missing, longer life spans.
People seem to keep pointing out when it comes to ship design there is no telling where we will be in 100 years much less 500. Well the same holds for medical technology too. Where the lifespan of a human in the middle ages was 40 years, now it's 70 years, and the next generation it will be 120 years. Where will it be in the year 2600? Say by that time aging has been elimiated and people stay young forever. What is 500 years to someone who is going to live forever?
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Oh come off it! 30+ million lines of code and nothing we want to borrow. Give me a break, I'm pretty sure we could find a line or two that's usefull in that crap.
Besides, think of the fun we could have with that little paper clip.
wait, that's office ... okay, maybe your right.
Now your talking! Time for the penguin to kick some butt!
What then? Well for one thing, knowing that they exist is one thing in itself. That alone is worth the search. And suppose we find nothing and we are alone. That to, is worth knowing.
Think about it.
The client does indeed use spare cycles. Turn the client off and using top watch your cpu go to 98% idle. Now turn the client on and watch the idle time go away. Now notice that the client is running at a 1 nice value where everthing else has a value of 0. The seti client is indeed using only spare cycles. Besides if your real concerned do what I do and nice the seti client. Now it's nice value is 11 making it the lowest priority on the system. The thing that got me was the 12 meg of memory used. Even on a 64 meg system that put a hell of a dent in my it.
Oh well. Back to hunting for LGM.
Well they fixed a few but put in one or two. Slashdot banners anyone?
I may be in the minority here but I really don't get the big deal about a company releasing a binary only driver. I know it goes against the Linux spriit of open source and everything but most people here don't seem to have any problems with game companies releasing binary only games. What's the difference?
Linux's ability to incorp. modules into it is a prefect way for companies such as Creative to support Linux and keep some trade secrets.
Now someone tell me why a 3D card is better than my old SB 16?
An email address would have been nice. Speaking of NPR the morning edition did a short comment on the "jock" problem in American high schools.
I'm not going to go into it here but for me high school was a living hell. It isn't just Revenge of the Nerds anymore. We have a body count. It's time someone took notice of the other side of the story. But we need to becareful, media attention can be a double edged sword.
So you see.. it's true.. the Geek shall inherit the earth
The jocks will inherit the Earth. Us Nerds and Geeks are going to the stars!
Damn! It just sucks to be him.
Hehe. I see the trashcan has been named Amiga. I guess after all these years some ST owners can still be mad. I'd kind of picture it like this now. The Amiga and the ST would be like two old men sitting on the front porch fighting over a checker game.
Well at least the ST did the way a computer should, in the market place. Not hung up by it's own parent company and strangled due mis-management and stupidity.
Okay. I must have missed the retraction.
I seem to recall that more than one system has been discovered with more than one planet. I think it was a neutron star.
Well, it looked good on paper but tell me has anyone put one of these bad boys together and plugged it in?
I've thought of doing this. I'd be willing to put up a website that featured a list of Linux/OSS hostle companies. Problem is I would have to find a place to host it. I was thinking about Geocities or something. My ISP allows webpages, at $5 for two megs.
I think I need a new ISP.
I got to agree. This bill was still born before the ink was dry and the people the wrote it know it was. It could be AZ's congress', or whatever, way of saying "that our people don't want this in our state and if you try it we're going to ban it."
But more likly it's just a way to grab some press coverage and make a few brownie points with the privacy groups. Is it election time in AZ?
I have a simple solution for this. A program that patches the OS to send a random CPU ID when ever the CPU ID is requested from a web site or software.
Instead of random numbers this patch could let you assign any number you want to send or we could even have the patch send the same numbers all the time. Imagine the effect on this if everyone sent the same number.
There, problem solved. When ever Microsoft request your CPU Id when you download a patch you can give it what ever random number you computer feels like passing it or with, a check box, you can give it the number of fleas on your dog.
I came across this many years ago and was impressed by the thought in it. Sorry, the only copy I have is in postscript. I esp. like the ideal of sending out pellets of fuel a head of the ship in a "accelleration track."
Heavy Explorer
This type of design is called a generation ship. I think the reason it is called that should be pretty obvious. While the design and concept as far as starships go is pretty simple. On paper the concept will work, but reallity is much more complex.
The first thing that makes this ship inpracticle is speed. Anything going less than 10% the speed of light is a waist of time. It would be better to stay home and develop faster engines than leave at anything less. At 10% light speed you could reach the nearest start in about 40 years. One lifetime, not many. Anything less and you might just find people there waiting for you.
The next thing is life spans. Like was pointed out, someone in that 299 generations is going to get piss or just flip out and toast the place. Even at 10% light speed it would still take generations to get to stars many light years away.
There are several ways aound this. One being faster ships could take advantage of time dilation and make the trip seem shorter. Another is sleeper ships. Instead of generation ship, you send one generation in hybernation. And there is one more answer people seem to keep missing, longer life spans.
People seem to keep pointing out when it comes to ship design there is no telling where we will be in 100 years much less 500. Well the same holds for medical technology too. Where the lifespan of a human in the middle ages was 40 years, now it's 70 years, and the next generation it will be 120 years. Where will it be in the year 2600? Say by that time aging has been elimiated and people stay young forever. What is 500 years to someone who is going to live forever?
Lack of thought? Sounds prefectly logical to me. I love it. Sometimes I wish the US government would have streight forward answers such at this.
Bullshit!
I take this to mean we're the furry mammals and we're just waiting for the killer komet(TM).