There is an unsubstanciated assumption in your comment that driving safely is contingent on driving legally.
If everybody drove legally, and all roads were in good condition, this would be true, however, if somebody drifts into your lane, and the only way to avoid being hit is an illegal lane change, is your priority to follow the law, or drive safely?
I think he was trying to make the point, that however unlikely it is for the laws of thermodynamics to turn out to have a few more special cases, it is possible.
Therefore, before simply dismissing yet another claim of a perpetual motion machine based on the laws of thermodynamics, it is worth while to look over the scientific analysis of the device and then find the caveat the 'discoverer' missed.
Usually the caveat the discoverer missed is that if they want to be taken seriously, they need to do their research in a scientific manner, but occasionally, they'll forget that the power from the sun is powering their device (or something of that nature)
But, isn't that backwards? Doesn't it make more sense for software makers to optimize for the available hardware? I always thought so. But, then it never until just now occurred to me that AMD is not and never has been in the business of making Intel-compatible chips; they've always been in the business of making Microsoft-compatible chips, and the distinction is not a subtle one.
yep, way back in 1980 or so when IBM was requiring a second source for 808x processors, AMD wasn't in the business of making Intel compatible chips, they were only making microsoft-compatible chips.
AMD chips run the same binaries as Intel chips, so long as you don't want all the advanced features to be exactly the same... I think that AMD stopped supporting all the opcodes when Intel stopped playing nice, right around the original pentium.
my school has ethernet plugs in the dorms, and in most classrooms, and a lot of the 'public areas' (the student center, library etc), and both a local number and a toll free number (not well documented, but a google search finds it), with ppp support.
I'm moving off campus for the next school year, and if I don't have funding for a cable modem or dsl, using the ppp (which i imagine only runs at 28.8 or so) will be fine. Any downloads I need to do can be done while on campus.
I'm going to do my best to find a home on campus for my 'desktop' with the debian mirror on it though, cause updating the mirror on a modem would be sad:)
I don't know how many students UNC has that would be using dialin lines, but they could start w/ a couple lines and grow as need be... could probably find some used modem racks fairly cheap, especially if 56k isn't important
Master[s] of Orion 3 is a turn based strategy, with plenty of AI. And they AI is good enough that the point of the game is to macromanage your empire and leave the micromanaging to the AI.
unless you have an urgent need for it, i'd leave it disconnected, but put a note on the front, and maybe one on the os too.. that lets anybody who would be shutting it down or rebooting it know, that while its down, they may as well hook up the floppy power cable
It wouldn't really matter if the public whois database no longer carried that information, since verisign runs the database, and could look at that info anyhow.
on the page w/ the recievers name and address, it clearly has the verisign logo, and the instructions have for step 3..
Sign the form to authorize your renewal, transfer and payment. It also clearly states the renewal rate and additionally, it has a section of inputs for 'Renewal and Transfer Authorization'
The fine print didn't really come through the scanner very well, so i have no idea what that says.
In any case, if you bother to read the mail, its not deceptive at all. I don't think its the greatest way to advertise, and it certainly doesn't encourage me to use verisign directly again, but theres nothing improper about it.
win2k won't do it, except in _very_ rare cases, winxp will though, its a limitation of the cards and win2k's interface to them. the 9x and xp drivers do extra jiggity things relating to BIOS'es, etc, but under win2k such jiggity things are disallowed.
well... probably if i were to email the lab notes, it would make it ok, but then ya have to trust the computer to keep it, or *shrug*
i don't really care too much, as i've already completed my chem and physics lab sequence, so i don't have to keep another lab book well ever again!!!:)
well... keeping the truck in southern california helps keep the rust at bay.
that said, there is significant body rust on my truck, but most of it is on the roof of the vehicle, or in areas that aren't significant to structural integrety (theres a large spot on the passenger side fender, near the door, a lot of other scouts i've seen on the net have a large spot in the same place)
as far as i can tell, these days SUV's are just last years minivan, w/ four doors (no sliding door), a hatchback (they minivans allready had one), and a lift kit.
at least the pickup inspired ones had character (i've got a '78 scout II, one of the better SUV's in my opinion, and if you disagree, mine has 'dual wall' steel construction, so my SUV can break your SUV:)
GDB: a debugger of certainly adequate power, able to take advantage of UNIX environment concepts such as core files, as well as debugging of actively running programs (and work-in-progress for debugging running _kernals_, both locally and remotely). Correct me if I am wrong as to state-of-the- debugging-art outside of the UNIX world, but I don't recall any mature tools for debugging MS-Win32 (or Win16) device drivers, which are analogous in difficulty and usefullness to debug, and _very_nasty_ to get wrong...
There is a product called 'Soft-Ice' which is billed as a 'kernel mode debugger' which is marketed as able to help you debug device drivers you are writing.
I've never written a device driver, in linux or windows, nor debuged either one using other than print statements, so I don't know how well stuff works on either side of the house, but it is there on both sides.
the reason is that in a professional lab environment, if you're taken to court, the only thing that is admissable evidence is your lab notebook (kept in pen) properly kept (dated, signed, scribles initialed, etc, etc)
and so my school is trying to prepare us for that environment if we get into some sort of professional lab environment.
so everythign has to go in the lab book (analysis that you do on the computer is fine, if printed and attached in, but the raw data is supposed to be in pen in the lab book)
of course what this means with professors that don't collect the lab books every week is that all the stuff gets transfered from computer to lab book right around the last week of class.:)
the worst thing about a physics (or any other science) lab course with a laptop and a spreadsheet is that you still have to maintain a lab notebook, so you have to write all that sh?t down anyhow.
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There is an unsubstanciated assumption in your comment that driving safely is contingent on driving legally.
If everybody drove legally, and all roads were in good condition, this would be true, however, if somebody drifts into your lane, and the only way to avoid being hit is an illegal lane change, is your priority to follow the law, or drive safely?
well shit, how do i determine if i'm doing something for profit or not?
I mean, on the whole scheme of things, everything I do contributes to my life, and I hope I get something out of it (ie make a profit)
I think he was trying to make the point, that however unlikely it is for the laws of thermodynamics to turn out to have a few more special cases, it is possible.
Therefore, before simply dismissing yet another claim of a perpetual motion machine based on the laws of thermodynamics, it is worth while to look over the scientific analysis of the device and then find the caveat the 'discoverer' missed.
Usually the caveat the discoverer missed is that if they want to be taken seriously, they need to do their research in a scientific manner, but occasionally, they'll forget that the power from the sun is powering their device (or something of that nature)
well... thats the idea, but the point is kinda moot due to their small availability of area codes to choose from.
:)
(btw, check my sig
it says it doesn't support E911, not that it doesn't support 911.... I'm not sure if thats a piddly distinction or a big one.
*shrug*
yep, way back in 1980 or so when IBM was requiring a second source for 808x processors, AMD wasn't in the business of making Intel compatible chips, they were only making microsoft-compatible chips.
AMD chips run the same binaries as Intel chips, so long as you don't want all the advanced features to be exactly the same... I think that AMD stopped supporting all the opcodes when Intel stopped playing nice, right around the original pentium.
perhaps this could be used in reverse for bnetd to get all the battlenet code released... after all... in order to see if its the same or not...
i've never been a big fan of rpm's dependancies ... i don't care what _file_ i'm missing, i want to know what package i need to install.
:)
so i recommend debian's apt package manager
and apt-get source GPL
my school has ethernet plugs in the dorms, and in most classrooms, and a lot of the 'public areas' (the student center, library etc), and both a local number and a toll free number (not well documented, but a google search finds it), with ppp support.
:)
I'm moving off campus for the next school year, and if I don't have funding for a cable modem or dsl, using the ppp (which i imagine only runs at 28.8 or so) will be fine. Any downloads I need to do can be done while on campus.
I'm going to do my best to find a home on campus for my 'desktop' with the debian mirror on it though, cause updating the mirror on a modem would be sad
I don't know how many students UNC has that would be using dialin lines, but they could start w/ a couple lines and grow as need be... could probably find some used modem racks fairly cheap, especially if 56k isn't important
no prob :|
sorry to get you hooked on a game that isn't out yet though
[blatant plug]
Master[s] of Orion 3 is a turn based strategy, with plenty of AI. And they AI is good enough that the point of the game is to macromanage your empire and leave the micromanaging to the AI.
The current release date is 3rd Quarter 2002
do you need the floppy drive to have power?
unless you have an urgent need for it, i'd leave it disconnected, but put a note on the front, and maybe one on the os too.. that lets anybody who would be shutting it down or rebooting it know, that while its down, they may as well hook up the floppy power cable
It wouldn't really matter if the public whois database no longer carried that information, since verisign runs the database, and could look at that info anyhow.
on the page w/ the recievers name and address, it clearly has the verisign logo, and the instructions have for step 3..
Sign the form to authorize your renewal, transfer and payment.
It also clearly states the renewal rate and additionally, it has a section of inputs for 'Renewal and Transfer Authorization'
The fine print didn't really come through the scanner very well, so i have no idea what that says.
In any case, if you bother to read the mail, its not deceptive at all. I don't think its the greatest way to advertise, and it certainly doesn't encourage me to use verisign directly again, but theres nothing improper about it.
win2k won't do it, except in _very_ rare cases, winxp will though, its a limitation of the cards and win2k's interface to them. the 9x and xp drivers do extra jiggity things relating to BIOS'es, etc, but under win2k such jiggity things are disallowed.
with ext3fs or reiser fs, or any other journalling fs, a suprise cold boot like that shouldn't cause permanent damage
quoth the original poster:
...'
perhaps myself or someone else here might be able to suggest
quoth the replier:
Of course you meant to say, "... perhaps me or someone else here...."
while you are correct that 'myself' is incorrect, me is also not correct...
because 'perhaps me might be able to suggest...' isn't right.
the correct phrase would be 'perhaps someone else here or I might
well...
:)
probably if i were to email the lab notes, it would make it ok, but then ya have to trust the computer to keep it, or *shrug*
i don't really care too much, as i've already completed my chem and physics lab sequence, so i don't have to keep another lab book well ever again!!!
well... keeping the truck in southern california helps keep the rust at bay.
that said, there is significant body rust on my truck, but most of it is on the roof of the vehicle, or in areas that aren't significant to structural integrety (theres a large spot on the passenger side fender, near the door, a lot of other scouts i've seen on the net have a large spot in the same place)
as far as i can tell, these days SUV's are just last years minivan, w/ four doors (no sliding door), a hatchback (they minivans allready had one), and a lift kit.
:)
at least the pickup inspired ones had character (i've got a '78 scout II, one of the better SUV's in my opinion, and if you disagree, mine has 'dual wall' steel construction, so my SUV can break your SUV
Quoth the poster:
GDB: a debugger of certainly adequate power, able to take advantage of UNIX environment concepts such as core files, as well as debugging of actively running programs (and work-in-progress for debugging running _kernals_, both locally and remotely). Correct me if I am wrong as to state-of-the- debugging-art outside of the UNIX world, but I don't recall any mature tools for debugging MS-Win32 (or Win16) device drivers, which are analogous in difficulty and usefullness to debug, and _very_nasty_ to get wrong...
There is a product called 'Soft-Ice' which is billed as a 'kernel mode debugger' which is marketed as able to help you debug device drivers you are writing.
I've never written a device driver, in linux or windows, nor debuged either one using other than print statements, so I don't know how well stuff works on either side of the house, but it is there on both sides.
the reason is that in a professional lab environment, if you're taken to court, the only thing that is admissable evidence is your lab notebook (kept in pen) properly kept (dated, signed, scribles initialed, etc, etc)
:)
and so my school is trying to prepare us for that environment if we get into some sort of professional lab environment.
so everythign has to go in the lab book (analysis that you do on the computer is fine, if printed and attached in, but the raw data is supposed to be in pen in the lab book)
of course what this means with professors that don't collect the lab books every week is that all the stuff gets transfered from computer to lab book right around the last week of class.
the worst thing about a physics (or any other science) lab course with a laptop and a spreadsheet is that you still have to maintain a lab notebook, so you have to write all that sh?t down anyhow.
i would agree he is not doing anything wrong
however, by not doing something, he is in the wrong, by not doing anything to prevent spam going through his server, he is becoming a spam magnent
he is being neglegent by not setting up some sot of authentication.
[feeds trolls]
usually you have to buy the weapon unloaded and then buy bullets and then load the weapon