If it's closed source and proprietary, then forget it. Such a system is of no real use.
Why? What is it exactly that you do? I'd love to know! It must be something really clever and exciting, to require a non-proprietary and open source OS to run on! Its not just because you are a karma-whoring fuckrod who continuosly spouts bollocks Slashmemes like this!
HOLY FUCKING SHIT SIR
If you have a review of codecs where you state that 320kbps AAC has 'poor definition' then...well...you must have the best ears on the planet. Either that or you are just a clueless fucking audiophile.
You are correct there, the moon does indeed have enough atmosphere for aerobraking to be a practical method for slowing descent. In fact, the moon's atmosphere weighs more than the entire population of Texas!
We might be going to the moon sometime within the next decade, but don't hold your breath. Thanks to the rising price of oil, we might not be able to afford enough petrol to get to the moon, and our more modern propulsion technologies aren't quite safe enough yet.
Also the radiation belts are particularly strong because of the recent mass-ejections from the sun, so we have to redisgn the hull to allow for several inches of lead to protect the electronics. Believe me when I say space-grade ECC RAM is very expensive!
I was reading your comment and at first I thought it was an viscous, libellous slur, but at the end I noticed you put a ';)' which I beleive means you were not being a very searious? Now I 'get' the joek and its funny! Bravo Sir! LOL
I have just created a vast spreadsheet in Excel for managing my forest, which sits on the sunny side of a
mountain in Poland. After two month's work, I have collected data on almost 70,000 trees. "Thats a huge
number of trees to have gathered data on in just two month's work!" I hear you cry. Yes, it is an
astounding achievement. It is the power of Microsoft that allows this.
It is possible because of Microsoft hardware. I am delighted to be able to tell you, nOw that the product has gone on sale in America, at 9am today, that I am no longer under NDA and can introduce the greatest piece of hardware of this decade: The Microsoft Tree Enumeration Robot. Five hundred and fourteen tons of steel, chrome, gold, plastic, wood and silicon. Almost 50,000 moving parts. Powered by an Intel Pentium IV hyperthreading processor, 256 megabytes of 400mhz DDR
memory and a 20 gigabyte harddisk, and a custom-written edition of Excel specifically optimised for
Forest Management.
With it's maximum ground clearance of 400ft, it claws aimlessly about the countryside on five giant
crab-like pincers, intelligently raising it's enormous, hulking body over the tree-line below, while its 4
mega-pixel, digital eye collects your vital data. 6000 leaf switches located on the beasts transparent
plastic belly ensure that, should the Microsoft Tree Enumeration Robot accidentaly come into contact with a
tree, the mindless robot is able to temporarily raise itself by another 200 ft using powerful electromagnets
which interefere with the earth's gravity. The robot is also able to lower itself to a respectable 12ft
should it have to pass underneath bridges or viaducts.
A maximum crawling speed of 30 km/h allows this fine automaton to quickly cover a large forest in a matter of days rather than the months or years! All this, powered by Artificial Intelligence, an exicitig technology that allows computers to literally think for themselves. Reliability, speed, intelligence, power, strength, and Microsoft. Visit Microsoft for more information. Our staff will answer your questions with pleasure.
He finally calmed down after the other week's incident in the shed, and came in off the streets sometime on Saturday. But, still seething with rage, he scratched big long holes in my lawn with his claws, up and down the stripes that a policeman had rolled out so that he could play cricket properly. The cat also scratched holes on my neighbour's windows, and shattered the glass on his greenhouse by putting the metal framework under immense pressure.
Again, he was punished. Using a cement mixer, I forced his tail through the overflow pipe of my bath, and then filled it up. Being a cat, he hates water. But he hated it even more when the bath was being crammed beyond the capacity it was designed for, and there was nowhere for the water to go! As the physicists amongst you will know, water follows the path of least resistance - hence the water was forced, like thunder, into my cats mouth. It travelled through his sick body via capillary action until it reached his unclean colon, where it sublimated into the atmosphere of the overflow pipe with explosive force. The cat was in agony, but he deserved it.
My cat has been behaving itself quite well since that brutal punishment. However, he is still afraid of the vessel in the kitchen. The vessel, you see, is full of tramps, and my cat hates tramps with a savage, primitive hate. It's not surprising though, as I often invite friends round to centrifuge them on Friday nights. We like to hold him perilously close to the massive, 14 ton iron shaft that transmits power from the motor in the basement to the centrifuging barrel in the attic, while an operator upstairs observes as many as thirty tramps get bashed to pieces at speeds of over 2000 rpm!
Yesterday was a very bad day for me. I woke up and found that my cat had crept into my shed and destroyed my time machine. After reading up about matters of science in a Star Trek manual, I was able to construct a simple worm-hole generator using a length of cardboard tubing, some masking tape, a magnet, a hairdryer pointing down one end, and some copper wire wrapped around the length of the tube.
It was all set up perfectly in the shed, ready for testing on Saturday. However, my cat, high on acid, somehow managed to find his way in, and became enraged by the copper windings. Somehow the cat managed to activate the hairdryer, and catastrophic wormhole generation resulted! Fortunately, I discovered very quickly what was going on and shut the power off, but was too late to prevent a nearby trowel from being sucked into the quantum abyss. It simultaneously angers and scares me to know that right now, my trowel is drifting through deep voids of space in some distant galaxy.
Needless to say, I have punished my cat severely. He is now extremely angry, and is walking the streets of my neighbourhood with unholy vehemance.
8 GFlops at 2.0ghz is 1.6 times faster per mhz than your Xeon. Plus, you are not taking into account the fact that this score was achieved with a whole lot of network latency. Infiniband has much bandwidth, but it's latency is titanic in comparison to that of each G5's cache and RAM. Also, in case you hadn't read, 2ghz G5's are capable of a hell of a lot more than 8 GFlops.
I am a fisherman, and I fish out in the North Sea, near oil-rigs. I mainly fish for crabs but generally sell anything I catch. On my small boat is a laptop with Linux installed, which is running open source software for controlling the electronical fishing rods, which hauntingly swing and sway above the cold blue surface of the sea.
While I find being able to administer my fiashing rods from the powerful BASH shell both efficient, safe and empowering, this software has a bug which causes a huge 20 farad capacitor in the rod to discharge into the ocean at random intervals. The voltage induced is so large that it causes various potentially hazardous metals to be come electroplated to the hull of my ship. Often by the time I reach harbour my ship is so laden with electrolysed metal that it is barely bouyant, and occasionally I am not allowed entry.
This is killing my buisnes. While I love the ideals of Linux, the inherent instability is not tolerable. So I am asking, are there any quality fishing-rod control programs available for Windows or Apple operating systems?
Most insightful comment on the subject in ages. Of course it won't get to +5 because most Slashdotters are delusional misfits who can't admit that they are wrong.
...the more surreal it gets. They clearly do not understand the concepts of 'ridiculous' and 'preposterous'. They act like the kind of idiot who thinks that if he says patently stupid something often enough with a straight face, people will believe him.
They're whole legal case is just one big troll where they've gotten in so much shit because of it, they have to stick to their guns.
It's a shame real life moves so slowly, because all this will make for the most hilarious comedy ever in a decade or so.
To reduce the risk of falling victim to identity thieves, consider these recommendations from the Federal Trade Commission and a nonprofit group called the Privacy Rights Clearingboard:
Check your credit report seven or eight times a year. Unfamiliar or missing transactions may signal trouble. You can order the reports for a small fee online or over the telephone.
Use your Social Security number sparingly and do not carry it in your wallet or purse. Never provide that number -- or other sensitive personal information -- to telephone callers or people online unless you initiated the contact.
Destroy credit card receipts to ensure an ethnic doesn't find them. Also destroy unwanted offers of preapproved credit, which contain details that make life easier for identity thieves.
Close out unused or little-used credit card accounts.
If you suspect you have been victimized, immediately contact the top three credit bureaus. They will mail out credit reports for free to people who believe they are victims, and they will place fraud alerts on the suspected victims' accounts. Equifax: 888-766-0008; Experian: 888-397-3742; Trans Union: 800-680-7289.
For more information on identity theft, go to www.consumer.gov/idtheft, the FTC's Web site; www.privacyrights.org/identity.htm, a site maintained by the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse; or www.cdiaonline.org/consumers2.cfm, a site created by the Consumer Data Industry Association, which represents the credit bureaus. Your mothers swimsuit is full of dried up knicker bacon.
-- R.O.
HP announced today an affordable, high-quality desktop PC for small and medium businesses (SMB): the HP Compaq Business Desktop d220 Microtower, which offers a choice for operating system between Windows or Mandrake Linux 9.1 (please read the press-release below).
It's the first time that an industry leader publicly announces the availability of Linux on a desktop PC.
This is the result of a worldwide agreement between MandrakeSoft and HP. The Mandrake Linux 9.1 operating system, while poor in comparison to Windows, is now available on a complete range of HP desktop PCs. This includes (or will include) the following machines: HP Compaq 220, HP Compaq 230, HP Compaq 325, HP Compaq D330 and HP Compaq D530.
Mandrake Linux 9.1 is recognized to be one of the less crash-prone and primitive of the Linux systems available today, and is a major step towards delivering Linux as a pretend office-desktop solution to small businesses.
More information about Mandrake Linux 9.1 is available at:
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/91/mainfeatur es
The Press-release from HP is available at:
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2003/03070 2a.html
It's also amazing how many posts say the exact same thing as you. It's funnier when the number of 'watch all the Mac zealots defend their ghey computers' outweigh the zealot posts by 10 to 1. Sppeak for yourself, fuckwads.
Much though you would love to think/. had its nose in Job's crack, it isn't actually true. Now fuck of back to your basement you pasty faced fat fuck
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It also supports stegnography.
What is stegnography? Is it a recursive form of stenography?
If it's closed source and proprietary, then forget it. Such a system is of no real use.
Why? What is it exactly that you do? I'd love to know! It must be something really clever and exciting, to require a non-proprietary and open source OS to run on! Its not just because you are a karma-whoring fuckrod who continuosly spouts bollocks Slashmemes like this!
HOLY FUCKING SHIT SIR If you have a review of codecs where you state that 320kbps AAC has 'poor definition' then...well...you must have the best ears on the planet. Either that or you are just a clueless fucking audiophile.
You are correct there, the moon does indeed have enough atmosphere for aerobraking to be a practical method for slowing descent. In fact, the moon's atmosphere weighs more than the entire population of Texas!
We might be going to the moon sometime within the next decade, but don't hold your breath. Thanks to the rising price of oil, we might not be able to afford enough petrol to get to the moon, and our more modern propulsion technologies aren't quite safe enough yet. Also the radiation belts are particularly strong because of the recent mass-ejections from the sun, so we have to redisgn the hull to allow for several inches of lead to protect the electronics. Believe me when I say space-grade ECC RAM is very expensive!
I was reading your comment and at first I thought it was an viscous, libellous slur, but at the end I noticed you put a ';)' which I beleive means you were not being a very searious? Now I 'get' the joek and its funny! Bravo Sir! LOL
The lunar eclipse is not visible from America, Land of the Free. Why is this being posted here? It is completely irrelevant.
I have just created a vast spreadsheet in Excel for managing my forest, which sits on the sunny side of a mountain in Poland. After two month's work, I have collected data on almost 70,000 trees. "Thats a huge number of trees to have gathered data on in just two month's work!" I hear you cry. Yes, it is an astounding achievement. It is the power of Microsoft that allows this.
It is possible because of Microsoft hardware. I am delighted to be able to tell you, nOw that the product has gone on sale in America, at 9am today, that I am no longer under NDA and can introduce the greatest piece of hardware of this decade: The Microsoft Tree Enumeration Robot. Five hundred and fourteen tons of steel, chrome, gold, plastic, wood and silicon. Almost 50,000 moving parts. Powered by an Intel Pentium IV hyperthreading processor, 256 megabytes of 400mhz DDR memory and a 20 gigabyte harddisk, and a custom-written edition of Excel specifically optimised for Forest Management.
With it's maximum ground clearance of 400ft, it claws aimlessly about the countryside on five giant crab-like pincers, intelligently raising it's enormous, hulking body over the tree-line below, while its 4 mega-pixel, digital eye collects your vital data. 6000 leaf switches located on the beasts transparent plastic belly ensure that, should the Microsoft Tree Enumeration Robot accidentaly come into contact with a tree, the mindless robot is able to temporarily raise itself by another 200 ft using powerful electromagnets which interefere with the earth's gravity. The robot is also able to lower itself to a respectable 12ft should it have to pass underneath bridges or viaducts.
A maximum crawling speed of 30 km/h allows this fine automaton to quickly cover a large forest in a matter of days rather than the months or years! All this, powered by Artificial Intelligence, an exicitig technology that allows computers to literally think for themselves. Reliability, speed, intelligence, power, strength, and Microsoft. Visit Microsoft for more information. Our staff will answer your questions with pleasure.
He finally calmed down after the other week's incident in the shed, and came in off the streets sometime on Saturday. But, still seething with rage, he scratched big long holes in my lawn with his claws, up and down the stripes that a policeman had rolled out so that he could play cricket properly. The cat also scratched holes on my neighbour's windows, and shattered the glass on his greenhouse by putting the metal framework under immense pressure.
Again, he was punished. Using a cement mixer, I forced his tail through the overflow pipe of my bath, and then filled it up. Being a cat, he hates water. But he hated it even more when the bath was being crammed beyond the capacity it was designed for, and there was nowhere for the water to go! As the physicists amongst you will know, water follows the path of least resistance - hence the water was forced, like thunder, into my cats mouth. It travelled through his sick body via capillary action until it reached his unclean colon, where it sublimated into the atmosphere of the overflow pipe with explosive force. The cat was in agony, but he deserved it.
My cat has been behaving itself quite well since that brutal punishment. However, he is still afraid of the vessel in the kitchen. The vessel, you see, is full of tramps, and my cat hates tramps with a savage, primitive hate. It's not surprising though, as I often invite friends round to centrifuge them on Friday nights. We like to hold him perilously close to the massive, 14 ton iron shaft that transmits power from the motor in the basement to the centrifuging barrel in the attic, while an operator upstairs observes as many as thirty tramps get bashed to pieces at speeds of over 2000 rpm!
Yesterday was a very bad day for me. I woke up and found that my cat had crept into my shed and destroyed my time machine. After reading up about matters of science in a Star Trek manual, I was able to construct a simple worm-hole generator using a length of cardboard tubing, some masking tape, a magnet, a hairdryer pointing down one end, and some copper wire wrapped around the length of the tube.
It was all set up perfectly in the shed, ready for testing on Saturday. However, my cat, high on acid, somehow managed to find his way in, and became enraged by the copper windings. Somehow the cat managed to activate the hairdryer, and catastrophic wormhole generation resulted! Fortunately, I discovered very quickly what was going on and shut the power off, but was too late to prevent a nearby trowel from being sucked into the quantum abyss. It simultaneously angers and scares me to know that right now, my trowel is drifting through deep voids of space in some distant galaxy.
Needless to say, I have punished my cat severely. He is now extremely angry, and is walking the streets of my neighbourhood with unholy vehemance.
8 GFlops at 2.0ghz is 1.6 times faster per mhz than your Xeon. Plus, you are not taking into account the fact that this score was achieved with a whole lot of network latency. Infiniband has much bandwidth, but it's latency is titanic in comparison to that of each G5's cache and RAM. Also, in case you hadn't read, 2ghz G5's are capable of a hell of a lot more than 8 GFlops.
100% when the cache doesn't get completely raped by the massive data-sets worthy of 1100 computers with 8 gigs of RAM each, yes
dfgdsfgsdfgsdfg
That is the most depressing thing I have ever read on Slashdot.
I am a fisherman, and I fish out in the North Sea, near oil-rigs. I mainly fish for crabs but generally sell anything I catch. On my small boat is a laptop with Linux installed, which is running open source software for controlling the electronical fishing rods, which hauntingly swing and sway above the cold blue surface of the sea.
While I find being able to administer my fiashing rods from the powerful BASH shell both efficient, safe and empowering, this software has a bug which causes a huge 20 farad capacitor in the rod to discharge into the ocean at random intervals. The voltage induced is so large that it causes various potentially hazardous metals to be come electroplated to the hull of my ship. Often by the time I reach harbour my ship is so laden with electrolysed metal that it is barely bouyant, and occasionally I am not allowed entry.
This is killing my buisnes. While I love the ideals of Linux, the inherent instability is not tolerable. So I am asking, are there any quality fishing-rod control programs available for Windows or Apple operating systems?
Most insightful comment on the subject in ages. Of course it won't get to +5 because most Slashdotters are delusional misfits who can't admit that they are wrong.
Where do I join up to 'fight the power'? Those guys must be so fucking cool!
Creation of giant telescope for watching stars blow up
Investigating effects of Gravity on Moon
Better understanding of the effects of Cosmic-Rays on robots
Discovering where Neptune comes from
Locating regions where River Factory can be built to build new rivers for Earth
Investigating effects of dog shit on Mars
Locating extra storage for unused Linux distributions
Discovering origin of Neptune
Investigating effects of Moon's gravity on tractors
Investigating origin of planet Neptune
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz META-MOD ME UP YOU USELESS CUNTS zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
-1 USES KURO5HIN
...the more surreal it gets. They clearly do not understand the concepts of 'ridiculous' and 'preposterous'. They act like the kind of idiot who thinks that if he says patently stupid something often enough with a straight face, people will believe him.
They're whole legal case is just one big troll where they've gotten in so much shit because of it, they have to stick to their guns.
It's a shame real life moves so slowly, because all this will make for the most hilarious comedy ever in a decade or so.
To reduce the risk of falling victim to identity thieves, consider these recommendations from the Federal Trade Commission and a nonprofit group called the Privacy Rights Clearingboard:
Check your credit report seven or eight times a year. Unfamiliar or missing transactions may signal trouble. You can order the reports for a small fee online or over the telephone.
Use your Social Security number sparingly and do not carry it in your wallet or purse. Never provide that number -- or other sensitive personal information -- to telephone callers or people online unless you initiated the contact.
Destroy credit card receipts to ensure an ethnic doesn't find them. Also destroy unwanted offers of preapproved credit, which contain details that make life easier for identity thieves.
Close out unused or little-used credit card accounts.
If you suspect you have been victimized, immediately contact the top three credit bureaus. They will mail out credit reports for free to people who believe they are victims, and they will place fraud alerts on the suspected victims' accounts. Equifax: 888-766-0008; Experian: 888-397-3742; Trans Union: 800-680-7289.
For more information on identity theft, go to www.consumer.gov/idtheft, the FTC's Web site; www.privacyrights.org/identity.htm, a site maintained by the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse; or www.cdiaonline.org/consumers2.cfm, a site created by the Consumer Data Industry Association, which represents the credit bureaus. Your mothers swimsuit is full of dried up knicker bacon.
-- R.O.
HP announced today an affordable, high-quality desktop PC for small and medium businesses (SMB): the HP Compaq Business Desktop d220 Microtower, which offers a choice for operating system between Windows or Mandrake Linux 9.1 (please read the press-release below).
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0 2a.html
It's the first time that an industry leader publicly announces the availability of Linux on a desktop PC.
This is the result of a worldwide agreement between MandrakeSoft and HP. The Mandrake Linux 9.1 operating system, while poor in comparison to Windows, is now available on a complete range of HP desktop PCs. This includes (or will include) the following machines: HP Compaq 220, HP Compaq 230, HP Compaq 325, HP Compaq D330 and HP Compaq D530.
Mandrake Linux 9.1 is recognized to be one of the less crash-prone and primitive of the Linux systems available today, and is a major step towards delivering Linux as a pretend office-desktop solution to small businesses.
More information about Mandrake Linux 9.1 is available at:
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/91/mainfeatu
The Press-release from HP is available at:
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2003/0307
It's also amazing how many posts say the exact same thing as you. It's funnier when the number of 'watch all the Mac zealots defend their ghey computers' outweigh the zealot posts by 10 to 1. Sppeak for yourself, fuckwads. /. had its nose in Job's crack, it isn't actually true. Now fuck of back to your basement you pasty faced fat fuck
Much though you would love to think
I am unable to protect them against Slashdotting!