"Well, it was his first year, they hadn't gotten that far in network programming yet."
I doubt it would take much googling to find the info he needed to teach himself enough to acomplish the project.
"There is no way to do anything when you receive a popup every 5 seconds. You can't type w/o loosing window focus. Makes disabling it rather difficult don't you think?"
Yea, you remove the network cable from the PC, clear the dialog boxes, disable the service and reboot. Hard I know.
Yea, HD producers have been using glass platters since the very first notebooks came out.
I remember dropping and breaking 2 gig Arial Hard Drive on the concrete floor of the tech room I worked in around 1994. Took the top off the drive and it was all crushed glass.
Company A Sells software B that won't show web sites of type C. Person D then does not buy Software B.
Isn't this why we have a "free market?"
Yea I read the part about the poor libraries that will be "forced" to use this software...I'll go out on a limb and say that they probably have a black/white list option where a librarian could add these banned sites back in.
Contrary to popular thought the world is only out to get you if you want it to.
FUD ALERT! Check your facts please...Google is my friend. MOD THE PARENT DOWN!
http://www.radiationworks.com/sl1reactor.htm
"A small, 3MW experimental BWR called SL-1 (Stationary Low-Power Plant No. 1) in Idaho was destroyed on January 3, 1961, when a control rod was removed manually." snip "A careful examination of the remains of the core and the vessel concluded that the control rod was manually withdrawn by about 50cm (40cm would have been enough to make the reactor critical), largely increasing the reactivity. The resulting power surge caused the reactor power to reach 20,000MW in about.01 seconds, causing the plate-type fule to melt. The molten fuel interacted with the water in the vessel, producing an explosive formation of steam that caused the water above the core to rise with such force that when it hit the lid of the pressure vessel, the vessel itself rose 3m in the air before dropping back down (Derived from DOE and US Army records)"
1) 3MW not 200kW - Makes a difference 2) It did "melt down" - effectivly anyway 3) It did contain water (presurized or not I dunno) 4) It was caused by human error 5) It was probably a lot larger fuel block
Silly FUD's, google will always win!
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A little more indepth view of MRAM can be read here.
Does anyone know if MRAM will be sensative to external magnets? Aka if I bump my portable mp3/ogg player into a giant fridge mag will I lost my data?
Question: Assume we can eventually manufacture gem quality diamonds for dollars on the carot... What is to keep US jewlers from buying these $5 diamonds and reselling them at the standard DeBeers rate?
The way I see it unless there is legislation forcing jewlers to disclose the source of said diamond they would just rack up the profits.
I didn't RTFA but there are some things one should think about.
A) DeBeers is recognized by the US as an illegal monopoly. Should they even set foot inside the US it would mean death to the company. Aka if your #1 happens in the US DeBeers can't touch them.
B) I don't imagine these semiconducter diamonds are required to be entire (say.5 carot) diamonds. More likly it will be a layered process where diamond crystals are grown to produce the gates needed. In this case DeBeers could really care less about where those crystals come from since they aren't in the business of growing diamond crystals.
Ok I'll bite. While I agree with you in most cases lets look at EQ specifically.
I'm paying 13.95 a month to play on Verant/SOL servers. Part of that montly fee could be seen as a promise from Verant/SOL that every single time I log into the game the things I have accuired in game will be there.
Enter A hacker who breakes into their servers (which I'm paying them to maintain) and deletes my stuff.
Now according to you its tough luck on my part and I should just go find a new game. But my wallet is now 14 bucks lighter and Verant/SOL haven't lived up to their promises. I want one of two things, my money back from Verant/SOL or my items back. Its up to them which will cost them more.
If I choose to take my gaming dollars elsewhere AFTER they have made good on their promises thats up to me. But until its free to play on their servers Verant/SOL MUST provide ME the PAYING customer the service I expect and deserve.
Ok, so its hard enough now to get the attention of your mistres...er waitress for another round even when you are tipping well and drinking a lot.
Now my waitress will be too busy to serve me because she'll need to be sitting behind a computer monitor quereing tables and feeding that data into a traveling salesman type algorithym to minimize her travel and maximize her tips.
Think of all the data that could be collected though... Which table/individual tips the most, how tips are effected by amount of consumption..after a couple hours a waitress could do a real time analyses of her projected tips for the night. Sweet.
How excatly do you get 8 Gig of ram into one of these machines? Even if you could get 1gig pieces you'd still need 8 slots. Even some of my servers only have 6 slots.
A) I agree with your point about "trading" and "copying."
B) So your saying the Celien Dion CD released in Europe with DRM that prevents it from even being played in a Mac or Windows based PC isn't somehow trying to prevent users from making legal fair use backups?
C) PBS is just as biased as any other source. They exist from the contributions of private parties...you don't think by chance the RIAA donated a large chunk of cash to get that "favorable" interview?
"The QuesTec system judged that 32.1 percent of pitches were within the "strike zone", while the umpire called 31.4 percent as strikes."
Ok that tells me that the machine is very very close to making the calls exactly as a human umpire would. GJ, way to Tech!
"However, the umpires association has filed a complaint about the system's unreliability and incapability to replace the human 3-D, real-time view."
This tells me that the umps don't think the machine is at all acurate, yet the numbers match human calls. Does that mean the human calls are just as flawed as the umps complain these machines are?
I don't understand how somthing is only.7% off of a human call and is somehow majorly flawed. Sounds to me like they are afraid of two things...looking like fools infront of an audience (ala replay challanges in the NFL) and or losing thier jobs. Either way I have better things to be doing than watching rich people get richer.
Just this morning I got 5 emails from hotmail accounts asking if I wanted:
A) A bigger penis
B) A new home loan
C) Free cable descrambler
D) Viagra
E) Spam blocking software.
SHouldn't there be a law that requires web services to stop themselves from being used as spam sources?
I call FUD and BS on this post, how the hell was it moded to insightful...Miles ahead, vastly superior? Horse hockey, AMD has long suffered from stability, heat and poor packaging problems.
Like it or not Corporations don't buy "hackers delight" hardware for mission critical applications. Until HPAQ, DELL and IBM start shipping AMD based corporate servers you won't see any AMD products replacing traditional Intel systems.
We evaluated a Lindows PC for use in a Citrix/Terminal Server environment here at my work. There were a couple problems.
1) The Lindows PC didn't run any of the binary releases of the Citrix client availaible from their web site.
2) The Lindows PC didn't have a compiler that would allow me to compile the Citrix Client from source. Nor could I compile rdesktop to use the RDP protocol.
4) In the end I had to set up a java jump page on my web server for the Lindows PC to be able to log into Citrix via Java. It was less than pretty and was not the solution my company needed.
5) That PC is now running Windows 2000 Pro in our shipping department. For 200 bucks I'd gladly buy 10 of them and throw win98 and a Terminal Server client on it to replace our other aging PCs. At least everything will have the same hardware. (The PC's come with a driver disk that has all of the windows drivers on it.)
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Put me down for $20 as long as my name is on the final document that says "The people have spoken."
I think it's fairly safe to say the only people Nvidia cheated were themselves. If you create a card that only looks good in benchmarks and then performs poorly in real world games your customers will take notice. Especially since there are now 4.3*10^26 hardware review sites in every language. All of those sites will run side by side game evals and show the truth. On top of that most people buy these days by word of mouth. If HardOCP says FX is the shit then everyone buys, if they like ATI then ATI sells (Obligitory sheep sound here).
For the record I have one personal expierence with this from ATI as well. My roomate at the time had a Gateway with a GF2 that went bad, Then sent him an early ATI Raedon to replace it. The card was flawless at 100fps in Q3, but if you loaded up Half-Life it ran like crap, never getting over 10fps. Ati coded the original Raedons to look great in Q3 because that was the hot benchmarking game out there at the time. My buddy eventually beat Gateway about the head and neck until they sent him another Nvidia card and then he got his 60+fps in both Q3 and HL.
Just another case of the pot calling the kettle black in my eyes.
Just pay thousands of third world children.002 cents for every email they "authenticate."
Or, with computer vision growing in leaps and bounds this too would eventually be replaced by a computer with a $20 web cam and some nifty software.
Anyone remember the guy who wrote a program to let his computer play Tetris by taking screen grabs?
I'm sorry to be the one to bring this up, but if your wife ISN'T suggesting you buy a vibrator, I think you have, ahem, a BORING sex life.
I don't NEED whip cream and cherries to please my wife, but she does enjoy it every now and again.
"1. The new design is different from the old one.
Thus, any plates, etc a counterfeiter has for the old note are useless once the old note has been removed from general circulation."
Flaw in your logic: The new 5s,10s,20s and so on came out when? 99? 2000? I Still have old style bills (even old style 100s) in my wallet every week. So for at least 3 years the new bills have done nothing to stop counterfeiting...all they have done is givin the criminals 3 years to perfect printing the new bills.
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Porn isn't free!?!?!
Man, you just messed up my whole weekend.
"Well, it was his first year, they hadn't gotten that far in network programming yet."
I doubt it would take much googling to find the info he needed to teach himself enough to acomplish the project.
"There is no way to do anything when you receive a popup every 5 seconds. You can't type w/o loosing window focus. Makes disabling it rather difficult don't you think?"
Yea, you remove the network cable from the PC, clear the dialog boxes, disable the service and reboot. Hard I know.
Good luck to your son, he'll need it.
Let me get this right...
Your son is at a computer college? I don't even know what a computer college is but it allready sounds dumb. "Welcome to Emachine College"
Then he is oh so bothered by people using the messenger service that he has to call daddy and have him write a "revenge" program?
You must live in Gullifornia.
A) Make him write the damn program himself...he could even ask his professor for help since he's at a "computer college."
B) Explain to him that you can TURN OFF the damn service...which is probably what whomever you sent 600 messages to did.
Lordy, somtimes the geek way is also the STUPID way.
Yea, HD producers have been using glass platters since the very first notebooks came out.
I remember dropping and breaking 2 gig Arial Hard Drive on the concrete floor of the tech room I worked in around 1994. Took the top off the drive and it was all crushed glass.
But I'm sure IBM came up with it anyway.
Company A Sells software B that won't show web sites of type C. Person D then does not buy Software B.
Isn't this why we have a "free market?"
Yea I read the part about the poor libraries that will be "forced" to use this software...I'll go out on a limb and say that they probably have a black/white list option where a librarian could add these banned sites back in.
Contrary to popular thought the world is only out to get you if you want it to.
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FUD ALERT! Check your facts please...Google is my friend. MOD THE PARENT DOWN!
.01 seconds, causing the plate-type fule to melt. The molten fuel interacted with the water in the vessel, producing an explosive formation of steam that caused the water above the core to rise with such force that when it hit the lid of the pressure vessel, the vessel itself rose 3m in the air before dropping back down (Derived from DOE and US Army records)"
http://www.radiationworks.com/sl1reactor.htm
"A small, 3MW experimental BWR called SL-1 (Stationary Low-Power Plant No. 1) in Idaho was destroyed on January 3, 1961, when a control rod was removed manually."
snip
"A careful examination of the remains of the core and the vessel concluded that the control rod was manually withdrawn by about 50cm (40cm would have been enough to make the reactor critical), largely increasing the reactivity. The resulting power surge caused the reactor power to reach 20,000MW in about
1) 3MW not 200kW - Makes a difference
2) It did "melt down" - effectivly anyway
3) It did contain water (presurized or not I dunno)
4) It was caused by human error
5) It was probably a lot larger fuel block
Silly FUD's, google will always win!
A little more indepth view of MRAM can be read here.
Does anyone know if MRAM will be sensative to external magnets? Aka if I bump my portable mp3/ogg player into a giant fridge mag will I lost my data?
Question: Assume we can eventually manufacture gem quality diamonds for dollars on the carot... What is to keep US jewlers from buying these $5 diamonds and reselling them at the standard DeBeers rate?
The way I see it unless there is legislation forcing jewlers to disclose the source of said diamond they would just rack up the profits.
I didn't RTFA but there are some things one should think about.
.5 carot) diamonds. More likly it will be a layered process where diamond crystals are grown to produce the gates needed. In this case DeBeers could really care less about where those crystals come from since they aren't in the business of growing diamond crystals.
A) DeBeers is recognized by the US as an illegal monopoly. Should they even set foot inside the US it would mean death to the company. Aka if your #1 happens in the US DeBeers can't touch them.
B) I don't imagine these semiconducter diamonds are required to be entire (say
"The Department of Defense notes that there are serious technical issues to be overcome and that useful applications may be decades away."
Damnit, and here I thought we might be able to retire weapons like these in a few "decades."
I kinda liked this approach.
HotBits
Basically use random radioactive decay to get your numbers. Can't beat mother nature.
Ok I'll bite. While I agree with you in most cases lets look at EQ specifically.
I'm paying 13.95 a month to play on Verant/SOL servers. Part of that montly fee could be seen as a promise from Verant/SOL that every single time I log into the game the things I have accuired in game will be there.
Enter A hacker who breakes into their servers (which I'm paying them to maintain) and deletes my stuff.
Now according to you its tough luck on my part and I should just go find a new game. But my wallet is now 14 bucks lighter and Verant/SOL haven't lived up to their promises. I want one of two things, my money back from Verant/SOL or my items back. Its up to them which will cost them more.
If I choose to take my gaming dollars elsewhere AFTER they have made good on their promises thats up to me. But until its free to play on their servers Verant/SOL MUST provide ME the PAYING customer the service I expect and deserve.
Ok, so its hard enough now to get the attention of your mistres...er waitress for another round even when you are tipping well and drinking a lot.
Now my waitress will be too busy to serve me because she'll need to be sitting behind a computer monitor quereing tables and feeding that data into a traveling salesman type algorithym to minimize her travel and maximize her tips.
Think of all the data that could be collected though... Which table/individual tips the most, how tips are effected by amount of consumption..after a couple hours a waitress could do a real time analyses of her projected tips for the night. Sweet.
How excatly do you get 8 Gig of ram into one of these machines? Even if you could get 1gig pieces you'd still need 8 slots. Even some of my servers only have 6 slots.
A) I agree with your point about "trading" and "copying."
B) So your saying the Celien Dion CD released in Europe with DRM that prevents it from even being played in a Mac or Windows based PC isn't somehow trying to prevent users from making legal fair use backups?
C) PBS is just as biased as any other source. They exist from the contributions of private parties...you don't think by chance the RIAA donated a large chunk of cash to get that "favorable" interview?
"The QuesTec system judged that 32.1 percent of pitches were within the "strike zone", while the umpire called 31.4 percent as strikes."
.7% off of a human call and is somehow majorly flawed. Sounds to me like they are afraid of two things...looking like fools infront of an audience (ala replay challanges in the NFL) and or losing thier jobs. Either way I have better things to be doing than watching rich people get richer.
Ok that tells me that the machine is very very close to making the calls exactly as a human umpire would. GJ, way to Tech!
"However, the umpires association has filed a complaint about the system's unreliability and incapability to replace the human 3-D, real-time view."
This tells me that the umps don't think the machine is at all acurate, yet the numbers match human calls. Does that mean the human calls are just as flawed as the umps complain these machines are?
I don't understand how somthing is only
Did they put themselves on notice?
Just this morning I got 5 emails from hotmail accounts asking if I wanted:
A) A bigger penis
B) A new home loan
C) Free cable descrambler
D) Viagra
E) Spam blocking software.
SHouldn't there be a law that requires web services to stop themselves from being used as spam sources?
I call FUD and BS on this post, how the hell was it moded to insightful...Miles ahead, vastly superior? Horse hockey, AMD has long suffered from stability, heat and poor packaging problems.
Like it or not Corporations don't buy "hackers delight" hardware for mission critical applications. Until HPAQ, DELL and IBM start shipping AMD based corporate servers you won't see any AMD products replacing traditional Intel systems.
We evaluated a Lindows PC for use in a Citrix/Terminal Server environment here at my work. There were a couple problems.
1) The Lindows PC didn't run any of the binary releases of the Citrix client availaible from their web site.
2) The Lindows PC didn't have a compiler that would allow me to compile the Citrix Client from source. Nor could I compile rdesktop to use the RDP protocol.
4) In the end I had to set up a java jump page on my web server for the Lindows PC to be able to log into Citrix via Java. It was less than pretty and was not the solution my company needed.
5) That PC is now running Windows 2000 Pro in our shipping department. For 200 bucks I'd gladly buy 10 of them and throw win98 and a Terminal Server client on it to replace our other aging PCs. At least everything will have the same hardware. (The PC's come with a driver disk that has all of the windows drivers on it.)
Put me down for $20 as long as my name is on the final document that says "The people have spoken."
I think it's fairly safe to say the only people Nvidia cheated were themselves. If you create a card that only looks good in benchmarks and then performs poorly in real world games your customers will take notice. Especially since there are now 4.3*10^26 hardware review sites in every language. All of those sites will run side by side game evals and show the truth. On top of that most people buy these days by word of mouth. If HardOCP says FX is the shit then everyone buys, if they like ATI then ATI sells (Obligitory sheep sound here).
For the record I have one personal expierence with this from ATI as well. My roomate at the time had a Gateway with a GF2 that went bad, Then sent him an early ATI Raedon to replace it. The card was flawless at 100fps in Q3, but if you loaded up Half-Life it ran like crap, never getting over 10fps. Ati coded the original Raedons to look great in Q3 because that was the hot benchmarking game out there at the time. My buddy eventually beat Gateway about the head and neck until they sent him another Nvidia card and then he got his 60+fps in both Q3 and HL.
Just another case of the pot calling the kettle black in my eyes.
Just pay thousands of third world children .002 cents for every email they "authenticate."
Or, with computer vision growing in leaps and bounds this too would eventually be replaced by a computer with a $20 web cam and some nifty software.
Anyone remember the guy who wrote a program to let his computer play Tetris by taking screen grabs?
I'm sorry to be the one to bring this up, but if your wife ISN'T suggesting you buy a vibrator, I think you have, ahem, a BORING sex life. I don't NEED whip cream and cherries to please my wife, but she does enjoy it every now and again.
"1. The new design is different from the old one. Thus, any plates, etc a counterfeiter has for the old note are useless once the old note has been removed from general circulation."
Flaw in your logic: The new 5s,10s,20s and so on came out when? 99? 2000? I Still have old style bills (even old style 100s) in my wallet every week. So for at least 3 years the new bills have done nothing to stop counterfeiting...all they have done is givin the criminals 3 years to perfect printing the new bills.