Maybe sunlight and/or water? I'd hate to leave a disk out in my car and forget about it for a few days, then come back and find it degraded just enough that I can't access the data on it anymore.
So beter don't leave them, because this is about what happens. I've already seen disks left by a window or heater that looked like from Salvadore Dali's images, enough sunlight may damage data permanently, some more will melt the plastic.
High-end computer systems may surpass the computational ability of the standard human brain within 20 years.
They already did... cc for cc of "thinking volume". If we had an efficient method of cooling large-volume CPUs, a CPU the size of human brain would have computational power surpassing human by far. But for now we are sentenced to that tiny toys that are maybe a milimeter or two thick, a centimeter or two wide, and carry a kilogram of cooling devices on top. Of course add the level of paralellism in human brain (but that's just engineering problem, not technological) and problems of teaching that thing stuff so it could become sentient or something, but the CPU power is there... just can't be brought together in one place. (compare total mass of "thinking volume" (not mounting, heat sinks etc, just the chip inside itself) of a good, 1024 CPU beowulf cluster with a mammal brain. You probably get something like a bigger rodent or smaller canine...
...has conquered the Greeks, but look at what they became - they took so much from their culture that in fact it was the Greeks who conquered the Romans - culturally.
So, maybe cellular phones will push PDAs from the market, but how? Just by becoming "PDAs with built in cellular phone" themselves. That's what they are starting to be now, just look at some models. Organisers, games, java, mp3, radio, bluetooth, calculator, calendar, www browsers... The phone itself is just a small add-on to that...
PDAs don't die. They just get renamed as "smart phones".
The OpenBSD and FreeBSD graphs stop early because OpenBSD crashed when I forked more processes, and I couldn't find out how to increase FreeBSD's system limit on the number of processes (sysctl said the value was read-only).
saw a link to "Airzooka" on/. and decided to investigate more. Found this and from a box of chips and broken condom (no trolling, really!) I built a gun that shoots vortexes of air:)
"Whenever I come closer to my server to troubleshoot it going offline, everything works just fine but if I leave it unattended for 15 minutes it loses connection. And if I come back it gets it back..."
Think of this... The Cube generates image, full 3D and all, something GBA plainly can't do. The card scales it down and broadcasts a'la TV. Then the card in GBA receives the image and replays it on the small screen. It also sends back the "joystick events" to the "server". True you're still tied to the wireless link range but, say, your boss at work will allow you to play GB in free moments (say, when there's no customers for a while) but a fully blown console is an overkill - so you hide GameCube in a drawer and "just play innocent Gameboy":)
Note I'm not US-based. LOTR at used books store costs about the same as my monthly net access, which is about 1/3 my monthly bursary. I'm not quite ready to sacrifice that much of my money for something I could download off the web for free. Of course I found some real bargains for books I'd like to have on the net (good books under $0.50) but then shipping charges apply, and that's often $20-$30... Do you know how much is $30 for a student in Poland?
Simple rule. If you want to run my database to test how it works, to try out whether it makes sense, or for example to manage your cocaine transfers, then sure you can use a warez copy. But if you want to use it in legal business environment, if you want to base your company on it, you just have to buy a legal copy, and doesn't matter if wyou have warez server downstairs and can go there and get yourself a copy - a wise manager simply WILL use a legally purchased program. Even if not to be legally safe, then just to receive security patches and user support.
Yeah, I still owe a couple of bucks to Thalion for some great games they wrote. It happens that they were simply completely unavailable in Poland by any legal channels.
With $1+ million of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' money and an Amazon VP on its Board, BountyQuest vowed to reform the patent system through its prior art contests. While BountyQuest raised eyebrows when it found winning prior art right off the bat for a patent Amazon was sued for infringing on, it surprisingly drew little...and so on and on...
This reminds me of another text:
"An ye be a man of mettle and sympathy, aid me now. I hight the Princess Alison Jocelyn, daughter to good King Giles, and him, foully murdered by his brother, the bloody Duke Wulf, who hath ta'en my three brothers, the princes Corin, Colin, and Calvin, and cast them into a fell prison as hostages that I will wed his fat son, Lord Dudley, but I bribed the sentinel and sopped the dogs--" (Peter Beagle, _The Last Unicorn_)
No wonder dragons were married and princessed slain in that ancient times with explainations like that, and no wonder 12-yo grannies subpoenate 1-click systems and free software defenders get distributed over beowulf clusters of those nowadays.
I just woke up so I'm not thinking at my highest resolution, so Would someone PLEASE, slowly, clearly and simply explain WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING ABOUT?
Project Gutenberg is good and I've read quite a few decent works from them, but their problem is... that they are legal. And as such they just don't have many of the books I could find in a library (or couldn't because they were just borrowed by someone else). I found most of the titles I wanted to read on P2P though. All of Pratchett, whole Zelazny's Amber, some "classics" like LOTR (completely unreachable in library, and bookstores only sell a new hard cover edition that costs a fortune), Neuromancer, all of Stanislaw Lem and many more. And of course quite a few books on computers, programming etc. O'Reilly's mostly,] Yeah, it's copyrighted. So if I erase the files from my harddrive after I read them, wouldn't this be equal to borrowing them from library?
What about setting up 486 or pentium with Linux or BSD as firewall? Cheap, effective, stable and doesn't create any CPU overhead in the windows machine:)
But the operation takes quite a while. Enough to start suspecting something went "very wrong" and th disconnect the drive before all the data gets destroyed. But "random shooting" - erasing randomly picked sectors of the drive may pass unnoticed for quite a while, while most of sensitive data is damaged. Note for a program to stop working, a few bytes missing is just enough. For a compressed file, it's often "lethal" (bad CRC), for database entry - what worth is a database with corrupted data? The damage spreads way faster. It's not that "20% of the files is erased, the rest is untouched". It's "95% of the files is corrupted in various degree."
you're stealing just like a highschool freshman steals CDs from MediaPlay or Walmart
Say I'm stealing your CD. Do you mind the fact that suddenly I have a CD? Would you mind me having a CD with content just the same as yours? No, you're pissed off because suddenly you don't have your own CD anymore. Now if what I "steal" is some digital media, as result I have a CD but you still have it too. What you lost is some imaginary profit "in case I bought it from you". But your conditions/prices are so ridiculous, that I would never buy it from you anyway, so you would earn on me nothing so you lose nothing. Well, maybe you're pissed off that I don't appreciate your work enough to pay the ridiculous prices you demand? More self-criticism advised then, and lowering self-esteem a bit - maybe you didn't deserve as much as you asked for in the first place?
if the Chinese use 1/7th of NASA:s budget, I think it is expensive. I haven't heard of any big Chinese Space achievements before this.
Okay, so they don't have any YET. So think now: The US ALREADY has space shuttles, launch sites, laboratories, test facilities, all that stuff they keep using. Chineese had to build all that starting from scratch.
Comparison: You have a car and spend $700 a year to keep it running. Meantime I build myself (or buy?) a car and maintain it for a year for $100. And yet you bitch at me saying that my car looks worse than yours and has unfashionable engine, plus I'm from Kentucky and in Kentucky everyone fucks chickens.
Those who decide about promotion surely won't endanger their positions by promoting people that on right places, by contrast, would show how much better they are.
"When talking to high rank executive, an employee should take a meek and miserable posture, so the executive wouldn't feel confused with employee's knowledge." -- part of official clerk instruction in royal Austria (end of XIX Century)
Why waste time on trying to land man on the Moon? It was theoretically proven that this can be achieved. We knew we can. So why do it?
GameCube's architecture is as different from PC or other Linux boxes, as the Moon's natural environment is different from Earth's. It's not just a play, toying with new hardware. It's a real challenge.
...if I can sue a telemarketer if I crash my car in high trafic on my way to work because of his call, and all my friends who have my number were told not to call during that time ("because I have difficulties with splitting my attention")
I think Linux running from a cartridge which would work as harddrive (or flash-drive) too would do the trick. It's not "Why would one want that?" but "Can it be done?" question. Launch Linux on Cube just to show it can run there. And nothing more... well, maybe except turning it into an inexpensive game development platform? AFAIK GameCube developer kits cost a small fortune, this could be alternative. Plus the border between "game" and "reality" is blurred. (I personally consider hunting Mozilla bugs on bugzilla.mozilla.org a great game, porting linux to laundromats, cellular phones or game consoles is just another.:)
Especially the installation of XP went quick and very painless. No driver issues;
Dumb luck. Same as with Linux - a friend had his installer crashing continuously because of his ZIP drive. There is some hardware some OSes don't like. It just happens that in Linux everything is pretty thoroughly documented and open-source so troubleshooting non-obvious problems is easier. (compare 3-button-mouse HOWTO with corresponding pages of Windows built-in help. While in Linux you can learn HOW THE HELL DAMNED THING WORKS and how to repair it by logical means, on Windows it's usually random tries with similar drivers, rebooting, cursing and movement in random directions, not always towards the solution). And while I RTFM for linux quite often, adventures with M$ User Support taught me it's easier, faster and more effective to try all possible combinations of settings than to look the solution up in official sources.
Hmm, I lllloved that... Have to create accounts for students in BackOffice server for small business. Creating one account with the "wizard" takes about 5 minutes and I have good 300-400 of them to create. So I look up creating using templates. After good 20 mins of browsing the help system I finally get my answer: This version of BackOffice does not support templates for creating user accounts. Use the wizard instead.
Imagine a system for Linux where you would feel just as helpless as I did then.
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Maybe sunlight and/or water? I'd hate to leave a disk out in my car and forget about it for a few days, then come back and find it degraded just enough that I can't access the data on it anymore.
So beter don't leave them, because this is about what happens. I've already seen disks left by a window or heater that looked like from Salvadore Dali's images, enough sunlight may damage data permanently, some more will melt the plastic.
High-end computer systems may surpass the computational ability of the standard human brain within 20 years.
They already did... cc for cc of "thinking volume". If we had an efficient method of cooling large-volume CPUs, a CPU the size of human brain would have computational power surpassing human by far. But for now we are sentenced to that tiny toys that are maybe a milimeter or two thick, a centimeter or two wide, and carry a kilogram of cooling devices on top. Of course add the level of paralellism in human brain (but that's just engineering problem, not technological) and problems of teaching that thing stuff so it could become sentient or something, but the CPU power is there... just can't be brought together in one place. (compare total mass of "thinking volume" (not mounting, heat sinks etc, just the chip inside itself) of a good, 1024 CPU beowulf cluster with a mammal brain. You probably get something like a bigger rodent or smaller canine...
...has conquered the Greeks, but look at what they became - they took so much from their culture that in fact it was the Greeks who conquered the Romans - culturally.
So, maybe cellular phones will push PDAs from the market, but how? Just by becoming "PDAs with built in cellular phone" themselves. That's what they are starting to be now, just look at some models. Organisers, games, java, mp3, radio, bluetooth, calculator, calendar, www browsers... The phone itself is just a small add-on to that...
PDAs don't die. They just get renamed as "smart phones".
From the article:
The OpenBSD and FreeBSD graphs stop early because OpenBSD crashed when I forked more processes, and I couldn't find out how to increase FreeBSD's system limit on the number of processes (sysctl said the value was read-only).
MOD THIS STORY DOWN AS A TROLL! BSD NOT DEAD!
saw a link to "Airzooka" on /. and decided to investigate more. Found this and from a box of chips and broken condom (no trolling, really!) I built a gun that shoots vortexes of air :)
"Whenever I come closer to my server to troubleshoot it going offline, everything works just fine but if I leave it unattended for 15 minutes it loses connection. And if I come back it gets it back..."
...they will be able to release "MS Linux - Caldera".
So, say, half-life can cure arachnophobia. But didn't someone think it can induce paranoia or schizophrenia just as efficiently?
A real winNT kernel (made by Sun or something around this thread, I don't remember) unlike the puny MS DOS extension that passed for kernel in 9x/ME.
Think of this... The Cube generates image, full 3D and all, something GBA plainly can't do. The card scales it down and broadcasts a'la TV. Then the card in GBA receives the image and replays it on the small screen. It also sends back the "joystick events" to the "server". True you're still tied to the wireless link range but, say, your boss at work will allow you to play GB in free moments (say, when there's no customers for a while) but a fully blown console is an overkill - so you hide GameCube in a drawer and "just play innocent Gameboy" :)
Note I'm not US-based. LOTR at used books store costs about the same as my monthly net access, which is about 1/3 my monthly bursary. I'm not quite ready to sacrifice that much of my money for something I could download off the web for free. Of course I found some real bargains for books I'd like to have on the net (good books under $0.50) but then shipping charges apply, and that's often $20-$30... Do you know how much is $30 for a student in Poland?
Simple rule. If you want to run my database to test how it works, to try out whether it makes sense, or for example to manage your cocaine transfers, then sure you can use a warez copy. But if you want to use it in legal business environment, if you want to base your company on it, you just have to buy a legal copy, and doesn't matter if wyou have warez server downstairs and can go there and get yourself a copy - a wise manager simply WILL use a legally purchased program. Even if not to be legally safe, then just to receive security patches and user support.
Yeah, I still owe a couple of bucks to Thalion for some great games they wrote. It happens that they were simply completely unavailable in Poland by any legal channels.
With $1+ million of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' money and an Amazon VP on its Board, BountyQuest vowed to reform the patent system through its prior art contests. While BountyQuest raised eyebrows when it found winning prior art right off the bat for a patent Amazon was sued for infringing on, it surprisingly drew little...and so on and on...
This reminds me of another text:
"An ye be a man of mettle and sympathy, aid me now. I hight the Princess Alison Jocelyn, daughter to good King Giles, and him, foully murdered by his brother, the bloody Duke Wulf, who hath ta'en my three brothers, the princes Corin, Colin, and Calvin, and cast them into a fell prison as hostages that I will wed his fat son, Lord Dudley, but I bribed the sentinel and sopped the dogs--" (Peter Beagle, _The Last Unicorn_)
No wonder dragons were married and princessed slain in that ancient times with explainations like that, and no wonder 12-yo grannies subpoenate 1-click systems and free software defenders get distributed over beowulf clusters of those nowadays.
I just woke up so I'm not thinking at my highest resolution, so Would someone PLEASE, slowly, clearly and simply explain WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING ABOUT?
Project Gutenberg is good and I've read quite a few decent works from them, but their problem is... that they are legal. And as such they just don't have many of the books I could find in a library (or couldn't because they were just borrowed by someone else). I found most of the titles I wanted to read on P2P though. All of Pratchett, whole Zelazny's Amber, some "classics" like LOTR (completely unreachable in library, and bookstores only sell a new hard cover edition that costs a fortune), Neuromancer, all of Stanislaw Lem and many more. And of course quite a few books on computers, programming etc. O'Reilly's mostly,]
Yeah, it's copyrighted. So if I erase the files from my harddrive after I read them, wouldn't this be equal to borrowing them from library?
What about setting up 486 or pentium with Linux or BSD as firewall? Cheap, effective, stable and doesn't create any CPU overhead in the windows machine :)
the code to wipe a drive is about 12 lines of ASM
But the operation takes quite a while. Enough to start suspecting something went "very wrong" and th disconnect the drive before all the data gets destroyed. But "random shooting" - erasing randomly picked sectors of the drive may pass unnoticed for quite a while, while most of sensitive data is damaged. Note for a program to stop working, a few bytes missing is just enough. For a compressed file, it's often "lethal" (bad CRC), for database entry - what worth is a database with corrupted data? The damage spreads way faster. It's not that "20% of the files is erased, the rest is untouched". It's "95% of the files is corrupted in various degree."
Once again, same flawed comparison:
you're stealing just like a highschool freshman steals CDs from MediaPlay or Walmart
Say I'm stealing your CD. Do you mind the fact that suddenly I have a CD? Would you mind me having a CD with content just the same as yours? No, you're pissed off because suddenly you don't have your own CD anymore. Now if what I "steal" is some digital media, as result I have a CD but you still have it too. What you lost is some imaginary profit "in case I bought it from you". But your conditions/prices are so ridiculous, that I would never buy it from you anyway, so you would earn on me nothing so you lose nothing. Well, maybe you're pissed off that I don't appreciate your work enough to pay the ridiculous prices you demand? More self-criticism advised then, and lowering self-esteem a bit - maybe you didn't deserve as much as you asked for in the first place?
Now I'd like to see an ancient-egyptian keyboard!!!
if the Chinese use 1/7th of NASA:s budget, I think it is expensive. I haven't heard of any big Chinese Space achievements before this.
Okay, so they don't have any YET. So think now: The US ALREADY has space shuttles, launch sites, laboratories, test facilities, all that stuff they keep using. Chineese had to build all that starting from scratch.
Comparison: You have a car and spend $700 a year to keep it running. Meantime I build myself (or buy?) a car and maintain it for a year for $100. And yet you bitch at me saying that my car looks worse than yours and has unfashionable engine, plus I'm from Kentucky and in Kentucky everyone fucks chickens.
Those who decide about promotion surely won't endanger their positions by promoting people that on right places, by contrast, would show how much better they are.
"When talking to high rank executive, an employee should take a meek and miserable posture, so the executive wouldn't feel confused with employee's knowledge." -- part of official clerk instruction in royal Austria (end of XIX Century)
Why waste time on trying to land man on the Moon? It was theoretically proven that this can be achieved. We knew we can. So why do it?
GameCube's architecture is as different from PC or other Linux boxes, as the Moon's natural environment is different from Earth's. It's not just a play, toying with new hardware. It's a real challenge.
...if I can sue a telemarketer if I crash my car in high trafic on my way to work because of his call, and all my friends who have my number were told not to call during that time ("because I have difficulties with splitting my attention")
I think Linux running from a cartridge which would work as harddrive (or flash-drive) too would do the trick. It's not "Why would one want that?" but "Can it be done?" question. Launch Linux on Cube just to show it can run there. And nothing more... well, maybe except turning it into an inexpensive game development platform? AFAIK GameCube developer kits cost a small fortune, this could be alternative. Plus the border between "game" and "reality" is blurred. (I personally consider hunting Mozilla bugs on bugzilla.mozilla.org a great game, porting linux to laundromats, cellular phones or game consoles is just another. :)
"Offtopic" m2'ed "unfair".
Well, not quite, but apaches rode horses and, you know... :)
Especially the installation of XP went quick and very painless. No driver issues;
Dumb luck. Same as with Linux - a friend had his installer crashing continuously because of his ZIP drive. There is some hardware some OSes don't like. It just happens that in Linux everything is pretty thoroughly documented and open-source so troubleshooting non-obvious problems is easier. (compare 3-button-mouse HOWTO with corresponding pages of Windows built-in help. While in Linux you can learn HOW THE HELL DAMNED THING WORKS and how to repair it by logical means, on Windows it's usually random tries with similar drivers, rebooting, cursing and movement in random directions, not always towards the solution). And while I RTFM for linux quite often, adventures with M$ User Support taught me it's easier, faster and more effective to try all possible combinations of settings than to look the solution up in official sources.
Hmm, I lllloved that... Have to create accounts for students in BackOffice server for small business. Creating one account with the "wizard" takes about 5 minutes and I have good 300-400 of them to create. So I look up creating using templates. After good 20 mins of browsing the help system I finally get my answer: This version of BackOffice does not support templates for creating user accounts. Use the wizard instead.
Imagine a system for Linux where you would feel just as helpless as I did then.