China on the moon by 2020. IZ Reloaded writes "China will send its astronauts to the moon by 2020 according to the Deputy Commander in Chief of China's manned space flight program. Hu Shixiang said that the goal is subject to the government's funding and their ability to build a rocket with 25 tons capacity."
The Chinese have a huge population and apparently an unknown AIDS victim population that keeps growing. Some estimates are in the 10+ million range.
China is full of amazing scientists that have been making huge advancements. Why are they pushing so hard for the space race and not for eliminating AIDS and opening their *real* numbers of infection to the world?
I'm unimpressed with anything they do until they get their ass in gear and stop w/the human rights issues and the government coverups that go along with it. That includes ANY country, not just them.
Bittorrent generally gives you the a dowload rate proportional to your upload rate. If your upload rate. If you are on an asymmetric connection, you might not saturate your downstream.
It gives you a percentage of your upstream. If you're giving 0kB/s it's likely you won't get anything downstream (thus the misconfigured router statement). I routinely limit my upstream to 15 to 20kB/s and max my downstream.
Tivo is in a world of hurt, from what I can tell. As one of the first Tivo users, my Tivo units just sit in the closet for the past few years.
I could see in the past year or so but not before that. My DirecTivo works just fine (and is inexpensive) as I (would normally) pay for it as part of my service. I think it's $5/mo? Their recent mistakes have caused me to leave the standalone Tivo boxes and not recommend them to my parents but that doesn't mean they should sit in the closet if you already have one.
1. If I download a show, it is always in a codec that I can't view easily. AVC doesn't run well on any of my platforms (I mostly have 1.8Ghz P4s). XViD seems better, but I get odd pixelization on occasion. Intel has the power to combine with Tivo and offer a codec that is specific to their hardware platform, whereas illegal torrents aren't really targetted at anyone. I would gladly pay for that consistency. So would most adults.
I wouldn't pay for TV downloads any more than I already do w/my ISP/phone service. I have *never* had a codec issue with Windows after picking up one of those codec packs that includes just about everything you need.
I don't currently download TV episodes as I have DirecTivo but when I did I didn't give a shit what quality it was as long as it was commercial free and not fuzzy like my rabbit ears were.
2. I want it quick. Yesterday I had to redownload Quicktime and I was watching the download at aroun 850K/s. That's damn fast (I'm testing a new broadband provider right now). My neighbor's comcast cable was getting consistent 400K/s downloads. BitTorrent and other P2P systems halt at about 50K for me (with and without NAT). If I want to download a file, I want it near real time or faster.
Then you are misconfigured at your router or you have some other problem. I routinely have torrents hitting my bandwidth limits. Especially ones with a lot of people on them (recent concert releases, etc).
3. I want to be able to pause, fast forward and rewind. I'm sick of getting movies that I have to re-encode beause someone screwed up and prevented me from skipping data.
I don't have this problem, ever on pirated stuff. Only DVDs that won't let me skip the commercials leading up to the movie.
If you think that the TV content providers are going to not include commercials, you've got another thing coming. Once one does it they all will. Paying for it twice!
5. I want to be able to store it for the future or be able to redownload it at a cheaper price.
Storing is an option that I would *demand*. Re-downloading is not something I'd expect or even ask for. You downloaded it, you should be able to view it (regardless of what PC/media device you moved it to) forever w/o keys, etc. That won't ever happen though.
A live person is missing a face. A dead person doesn't need theirs any more. Where's the problem?
According to the article, that you apparently didn't read: "In the controversial operation, tissues, muscles, arteries and veins were taken from a brain-dead donor and attached to the patient's lower face."
"Brain-dead" doesn't mean the donor wasn't alive.
It added that the woman - who wishes to remain anonymous - was in "excellent general health" and said the graft looked normal.
This was nothing more than a skin graft. If it weren't for the "ethical implications" of taking someone else's healthy tissue from their *face* this would have been a non-issue.
Now, some are finally starting to catch up, but for the most part, vast and entire new media entities are taking huge market share from newspaper because of their elitism causing a massive delay in switching to web.
Even when they did switch to the web they did so in a reduced and limited format. Some require personally identifiable information (yeah, you can fake it or use bugmenot but it's still a royal pain in the ass).
The only reason I even randomly bother with newspapers these days is to get the grocery store coupons.
No need to bash them or to compare their offer with gmaps...
There has to be a standard to compare them with, no? I checked out some of the University of Minnesota's offerings using this tech. I don't know it they are pushing the limits but I'm certainly unimpressed compared to what people have been able to do using GMaps.
To just shrug it off and say it doesn't need to be compared seems shortsighted to me.
Is this perhaps in response to GMaps being so widely used by various web applications out there? It seems like everyone these days is using GMaps integration (Dodgeball (duh), crime statistics (as seen on Slashdot), frappr, etc).
I don't have access to anything done by AutoDesk, but is it as viable a platform as GMaps?
I'm glad that running apps remotely works that well for you over wireless but even over 100mbit ethernet it's not something I like to do.
I use Win98 on my P133 laptop with 40MB of RAM because the HD is so fucked up that it's not even worth formatting and reinstalling for fear that the fucker might just completely fall apart.
I mostly use putty to my on-going screen sessions and IE on it. It served as my machine machine from 12/96 to 7/99 with Linux and then as an MP3 server for the stereo from 2000 to 2002 and now it's relegated to simple surfing and Putty.
I do occasionally open Word if it's absolutely necessary and I'm just too lazy to go upstairs.
Old computers work fine. You just have to be patient with them;)
My guess is that it will be difficult to get anything other than simple casual games to run in real time using the interface, due to lag in response times.
Sounds like a worthwhile application, no? I mean, nothing like spending $400+ on a dumb-terminal to play laggy Solitare on a huge TV (this guy was just showing off his Sony HD monitor) and have it crash after a bit.
But I would think getting something like a full web browser up and running should be achievable.
He means porn. Otherwise, I'm not quite sure what the advantages would be to having an unstable browser session open on a huge monitor.
I'm going to ignore the other blatant shill comments, but this one I can't ignore:
As long as there's a good and active user community here, I'm still loyal to it. The founders aren't the most literate bunch in the world, and they make all kinds of silly mistakes, but this place seems to work and generate interesting stuff, and for that I'm happy.
Mistakes generate interesting stuff? What? Trolls, "insightful" comments, and +5 Funny's about duplicates and suggestions on how the "editors" could find duplicates on their own site (including using the scrollwheel to go down two articles)?
Give me a break. You are an "old-school" user, you should remember the days when Slashdot wasn't a pile of suckass shit. Where they didn't seem to be 7 days, 7 months, and 7 duplicates behind the rest of the technews sites.
I'm unimpressed with most of the comments these days. People don't take the time to do a simple search so that they can have the opportunity to be FP or post some unintelligent bullshit under another high rated post for them to get their Karma shots.
Blah.
Slashdot has been sucking bad and the "editors" just don't give a fuck. Hopefully that 10.25 hour break was them having a sit down meeting to discuss their serious breakdowns recently.
Don't be posting to Slashdot and reading the trolls you will receive in response instead of working on that high-spec'd dual headed monster you got.
That'll save you a ton more time than any of the advice given here;)
Personally, I have tried to use as much as I can via Putty (SSH+screen) and keep everything I do in one window. It cuts down on how much I have taking up my real estate and it seems to make me more productive.
Even with a 23" LCD it's nice to have everything in one place.
Well, if the device actually works (and the apparent overheating issues worked out) you will end up with a low cost, low profile machine with TV-out that can be used as a media center box while (in a perfect world) being able to still playing XBox games online.
One box to do it all. You get a lot by being able to run your own OS on the box. Don't troll with unintelligent comments, it's not worth it.
Or are at work and are doing something elsewhere and aren't constantly looking at their screen. Perhaps they hide their taskbar alerts for AIM because they aren't supposed to be using IM clients at work. Their boss might know that a flashing taskbar item is an IM but a flashing mouse button might not be known yet?
Other than that, I really don't see a use for it myself.
Because, y'know, without clarification, I might think someone didn't know what someone was saying.
I am fairly certain they knew what they were doing as they were trying to add to the continued confusion of Linux server "sales".
Microsoft wants everyone to believe that their TCO is lower than Linux when everyone knows it's not. By funding/writing misleading press releases, they can further blur (in the general public's mind) the lines that don't exist.
I have a completely different philosophy (and routinely get modded into oblivion for expressing it because God forbid you have a different opinion): So what if we are exitinct? Who cares? The Earth doesn't. We're just one small blip on the map of the history of Earth. If we're gone it's likely that something else will come along later that might even be better (maybe not).
It's all part of the lifecycle. Stop worrying about it. If it's not Global Warming it'll be volcanos, nuclear holocaust, mass disease, World War, or mass alien abduction!
The ability to use the PSP as a portable window to my living room certainly sounds like an interesting proposition so I test drove the system for a couple of weeks to see how it works in real life and the verdict is: pretty well.
It's a portable window into TV. I'm not quite sure that I understand the point and it seems like an awful waste of money and bandwidth. Why not just prerecord the content and then move it to the device and watch it? Is live TV that big of a deal?
BTW -- you have to upgrade the firmware on the PSP to use this... I wonder why that is;-)
libc5 vs glibc/libc6? That's why I switched. It was too much of a pain in the ass to manually upgrade all that shit and it was a fuckton easier to just use something like RedHat instead.
I stayed away because while it gave me a TON of base knowledge about Linux as an OS, it was too much of a pain in the ass to maintain compared to other distros out there.
aptitude update; aptitude upgrade is much better than tar -zxf foo.tar.gd ; cd./foo ;./configure && make install
It's a "good first distro" like DOS was a good first OS. I don't mean that in a good or bad way. It's just the way you may approach and then grow while using any OS.
With DOS/Slackware you have to actually know some structure, commands, and have a bit of basic knowledge to do anything more than whatever the base install can do. Sure, plenty of people can use Slackware, type startx, and use a window manager just like you could have typed "win" when you booted your DOS OS and gotten to the same thing.
Slackware was my first Linux distro and I learned a ton from it. I learned how to compile my own kernels (after screwing them up 100s of times), how to make sure my system stayed in order, and how to edit my own.conf files. DOS taught me quite a bit of the same stuff.
I run Debian now (after trying various other distros but mainly RH 5.1, 5.2 and 6.0) and with the knowledgebase I gained over the years running Slackware I'm comfortable using maintained packages while still being able to know what the fuck is going on in my system.
Problem is that people don't typically want to "learn" how to "properly" use their OS. They want to turn on the machine and surf the web. That's fine. Slackware is not all that great for that. I would recommend something more modern for that type of user.
So, if you're looking to actually *learn* about Linux, use Slackware first for a couple months and then switch to something else that's fancier... If you're looking to use Linux to replace your XP experience and you don't want to fuck around with a bunch of work, use something modern right off.
If you get a "free" or heavily discounted cell phone, you're stuck with a contract with large cancellation penalties. You're just amortizing the cost of the cell phone into your bill. (Personally, I wish they'd just offer financing on the cell phone and lower the price of service.)
And in the grand scheme of things it's likely that you are going to buy more than one game to play on the XBox 360 and likely a subscription to a year of Live.
Yeah, with the first XBox a small percentage of people took the machine and put Linux on it and I'm sure that it will happen again with the 360 but those are about the same number of people that are only going to buy one game for their unit.
If the current problems continue to crop up maybe no one will buy them at all;)
Considering that bittorrent.com is not the first site you'd think of when searching for torrents, and that bittorrent itself is Open Source, how is this relevant to anyone other than Cohen?
That's *exactly* what I thought when I heard about this yesterday. Like, I haven't been to Cohen's site since BitTorrent first arrived on the scene and would never have thought that he would have been linking to copyrighted content anyway. Guess I was wrong?
But... What I do find interesting is that they are going about this the "right" way rather than suing him and making a big public spectacle about how they are a bunch of Social Security stealing assholes they are "coming to an agreement" with Cohen and putting a positive spin on it.
Better than trying to put a positive spin on suing the pants off of everyone and anyone including sending out subpeonas to ISPs.
Slashdot Mirror
LOL, mod down the truth to the floor because God forbid we lower the importance of "Geek Science" in favor of humans.
China on the moon by 2020. IZ Reloaded writes "China will send its astronauts to the moon by 2020 according to the Deputy Commander in Chief of China's manned space flight program. Hu Shixiang said that the goal is subject to the government's funding and their ability to build a rocket with 25 tons capacity."
The Chinese have a huge population and apparently an unknown AIDS victim population that keeps growing. Some estimates are in the 10+ million range.
China is full of amazing scientists that have been making huge advancements. Why are they pushing so hard for the space race and not for eliminating AIDS and opening their *real* numbers of infection to the world?
I'm unimpressed with anything they do until they get their ass in gear and stop w/the human rights issues and the government coverups that go along with it. That includes ANY country, not just them.
Bittorrent generally gives you the a dowload rate proportional to your upload rate. If your upload rate. If you are on an asymmetric connection, you might not saturate your downstream.
It gives you a percentage of your upstream. If you're giving 0kB/s it's likely you won't get anything downstream (thus the misconfigured router statement). I routinely limit my upstream to 15 to 20kB/s and max my downstream.
Tivo is in a world of hurt, from what I can tell. As one of the first Tivo users, my Tivo units just sit in the closet for the past few years.
I could see in the past year or so but not before that. My DirecTivo works just fine (and is inexpensive) as I (would normally) pay for it as part of my service. I think it's $5/mo? Their recent mistakes have caused me to leave the standalone Tivo boxes and not recommend them to my parents but that doesn't mean they should sit in the closet if you already have one.
1. If I download a show, it is always in a codec that I can't view easily. AVC doesn't run well on any of my platforms (I mostly have 1.8Ghz P4s). XViD seems better, but I get odd pixelization on occasion. Intel has the power to combine with Tivo and offer a codec that is specific to their hardware platform, whereas illegal torrents aren't really targetted at anyone. I would gladly pay for that consistency. So would most adults.
I wouldn't pay for TV downloads any more than I already do w/my ISP/phone service. I have *never* had a codec issue with Windows after picking up one of those codec packs that includes just about everything you need.
I don't currently download TV episodes as I have DirecTivo but when I did I didn't give a shit what quality it was as long as it was commercial free and not fuzzy like my rabbit ears were.
2. I want it quick. Yesterday I had to redownload Quicktime and I was watching the download at aroun 850K/s. That's damn fast (I'm testing a new broadband provider right now). My neighbor's comcast cable was getting consistent 400K/s downloads. BitTorrent and other P2P systems halt at about 50K for me (with and without NAT). If I want to download a file, I want it near real time or faster.
Then you are misconfigured at your router or you have some other problem. I routinely have torrents hitting my bandwidth limits. Especially ones with a lot of people on them (recent concert releases, etc).
3. I want to be able to pause, fast forward and rewind. I'm sick of getting movies that I have to re-encode beause someone screwed up and prevented me from skipping data.
I don't have this problem, ever on pirated stuff. Only DVDs that won't let me skip the commercials leading up to the movie.
If you think that the TV content providers are going to not include commercials, you've got another thing coming. Once one does it they all will. Paying for it twice!
5. I want to be able to store it for the future or be able to redownload it at a cheaper price.
Storing is an option that I would *demand*. Re-downloading is not something I'd expect or even ask for. You downloaded it, you should be able to view it (regardless of what PC/media device you moved it to) forever w/o keys, etc. That won't ever happen though.
A live person is missing a face. A dead person doesn't need theirs any more. Where's the problem?
According to the article, that you apparently didn't read: "In the controversial operation, tissues, muscles, arteries and veins were taken from a brain-dead donor and attached to the patient's lower face."
"Brain-dead" doesn't mean the donor wasn't alive.
It added that the woman - who wishes to remain anonymous - was in "excellent general health" and said the graft looked normal.
This was nothing more than a skin graft. If it weren't for the "ethical implications" of taking someone else's healthy tissue from their *face* this would have been a non-issue.
Move along.
Now, some are finally starting to catch up, but for the most part, vast and entire new media entities are taking huge market share from newspaper because of their elitism causing a massive delay in switching to web.
Even when they did switch to the web they did so in a reduced and limited format. Some require personally identifiable information (yeah, you can fake it or use bugmenot but it's still a royal pain in the ass).
The only reason I even randomly bother with newspapers these days is to get the grocery store coupons.
No need to bash them or to compare their offer with gmaps...
There has to be a standard to compare them with, no? I checked out some of the University of Minnesota's offerings using this tech. I don't know it they are pushing the limits but I'm certainly unimpressed compared to what people have been able to do using GMaps.
To just shrug it off and say it doesn't need to be compared seems shortsighted to me.
Is this perhaps in response to GMaps being so widely used by various web applications out there? It seems like everyone these days is using GMaps integration (Dodgeball (duh), crime statistics (as seen on Slashdot), frappr, etc).
I don't have access to anything done by AutoDesk, but is it as viable a platform as GMaps?
I'm glad that running apps remotely works that well for you over wireless but even over 100mbit ethernet it's not something I like to do.
;)
I use Win98 on my P133 laptop with 40MB of RAM because the HD is so fucked up that it's not even worth formatting and reinstalling for fear that the fucker might just completely fall apart.
I mostly use putty to my on-going screen sessions and IE on it. It served as my machine machine from 12/96 to 7/99 with Linux and then as an MP3 server for the stereo from 2000 to 2002 and now it's relegated to simple surfing and Putty.
I do occasionally open Word if it's absolutely necessary and I'm just too lazy to go upstairs.
Old computers work fine. You just have to be patient with them
Hopefully those parts of the OS aren't upgradeable with OS updates during XBox Live or game play. That would pretty much spoil the fun of the fun.
My guess is that it will be difficult to get anything other than simple casual games to run in real time using the interface, due to lag in response times.
Sounds like a worthwhile application, no? I mean, nothing like spending $400+ on a dumb-terminal to play laggy Solitare on a huge TV (this guy was just showing off his Sony HD monitor) and have it crash after a bit.
But I would think getting something like a full web browser up and running should be achievable.
He means porn. Otherwise, I'm not quite sure what the advantages would be to having an unstable browser session open on a huge monitor.
I'm going to ignore the other blatant shill comments, but this one I can't ignore:
As long as there's a good and active user community here, I'm still loyal to it. The founders aren't the most literate bunch in the world, and they make all kinds of silly mistakes, but this place seems to work and generate interesting stuff, and for that I'm happy.
Mistakes generate interesting stuff? What? Trolls, "insightful" comments, and +5 Funny's about duplicates and suggestions on how the "editors" could find duplicates on their own site (including using the scrollwheel to go down two articles)?
Give me a break. You are an "old-school" user, you should remember the days when Slashdot wasn't a pile of suckass shit. Where they didn't seem to be 7 days, 7 months, and 7 duplicates behind the rest of the technews sites.
I'm unimpressed with most of the comments these days. People don't take the time to do a simple search so that they can have the opportunity to be FP or post some unintelligent bullshit under another high rated post for them to get their Karma shots.
Blah.
Slashdot has been sucking bad and the "editors" just don't give a fuck. Hopefully that 10.25 hour break was them having a sit down meeting to discuss their serious breakdowns recently.
I have little faith.
Don't be posting to Slashdot and reading the trolls you will receive in response instead of working on that high-spec'd dual headed monster you got.
;)
That'll save you a ton more time than any of the advice given here
Personally, I have tried to use as much as I can via Putty (SSH+screen) and keep everything I do in one window. It cuts down on how much I have taking up my real estate and it seems to make me more productive.
Even with a 23" LCD it's nice to have everything in one place.
Well, if the device actually works (and the apparent overheating issues worked out) you will end up with a low cost, low profile machine with TV-out that can be used as a media center box while (in a perfect world) being able to still playing XBox games online.
One box to do it all. You get a lot by being able to run your own OS on the box. Don't troll with unintelligent comments, it's not worth it.
Or are at work and are doing something elsewhere and aren't constantly looking at their screen. Perhaps they hide their taskbar alerts for AIM because they aren't supposed to be using IM clients at work. Their boss might know that a flashing taskbar item is an IM but a flashing mouse button might not be known yet?
Other than that, I really don't see a use for it myself.
Because, y'know, without clarification, I might think someone didn't know what someone was saying.
I am fairly certain they knew what they were doing as they were trying to add to the continued confusion of Linux server "sales".
Microsoft wants everyone to believe that their TCO is lower than Linux when everyone knows it's not. By funding/writing misleading press releases, they can further blur (in the general public's mind) the lines that don't exist.
I have a completely different philosophy (and routinely get modded into oblivion for expressing it because God forbid you have a different opinion): So what if we are exitinct? Who cares? The Earth doesn't. We're just one small blip on the map of the history of Earth. If we're gone it's likely that something else will come along later that might even be better (maybe not).
It's all part of the lifecycle. Stop worrying about it. If it's not Global Warming it'll be volcanos, nuclear holocaust, mass disease, World War, or mass alien abduction!
The ability to use the PSP as a portable window to my living room certainly sounds like an interesting proposition so I test drove the system for a couple of weeks to see how it works in real life and the verdict is: pretty well.
;-)
It's a portable window into TV. I'm not quite sure that I understand the point and it seems like an awful waste of money and bandwidth. Why not just prerecord the content and then move it to the device and watch it? Is live TV that big of a deal?
BTW -- you have to upgrade the firmware on the PSP to use this... I wonder why that is
Why the hell do they call them pod"casts"? There is no "casting" involved -- it's a pull model, and always has been.
;)
Because podpulls sounds too much like pudpulls! Who would want to listen to a bunch of guys sitting around pulling their puds?
libc5 vs glibc/libc6? That's why I switched. It was too much of a pain in the ass to manually upgrade all that shit and it was a fuckton easier to just use something like RedHat instead.
./foo ; ./configure && make install
I stayed away because while it gave me a TON of base knowledge about Linux as an OS, it was too much of a pain in the ass to maintain compared to other distros out there.
aptitude update; aptitude upgrade is much better than tar -zxf foo.tar.gd ; cd
That's me.
It's a "good first distro" like DOS was a good first OS. I don't mean that in a good or bad way. It's just the way you may approach and then grow while using any OS.
.conf files. DOS taught me quite a bit of the same stuff.
With DOS/Slackware you have to actually know some structure, commands, and have a bit of basic knowledge to do anything more than whatever the base install can do. Sure, plenty of people can use Slackware, type startx, and use a window manager just like you could have typed "win" when you booted your DOS OS and gotten to the same thing.
Slackware was my first Linux distro and I learned a ton from it. I learned how to compile my own kernels (after screwing them up 100s of times), how to make sure my system stayed in order, and how to edit my own
I run Debian now (after trying various other distros but mainly RH 5.1, 5.2 and 6.0) and with the knowledgebase I gained over the years running Slackware I'm comfortable using maintained packages while still being able to know what the fuck is going on in my system.
Problem is that people don't typically want to "learn" how to "properly" use their OS. They want to turn on the machine and surf the web. That's fine. Slackware is not all that great for that. I would recommend something more modern for that type of user.
So, if you're looking to actually *learn* about Linux, use Slackware first for a couple months and then switch to something else that's fancier... If you're looking to use Linux to replace your XP experience and you don't want to fuck around with a bunch of work, use something modern right off.
I thumb my nose at your joke!
If you get a "free" or heavily discounted cell phone, you're stuck with a contract with large cancellation penalties. You're just amortizing the cost of the cell phone into your bill. (Personally, I wish they'd just offer financing on the cell phone and lower the price of service.)
;)
And in the grand scheme of things it's likely that you are going to buy more than one game to play on the XBox 360 and likely a subscription to a year of Live.
Yeah, with the first XBox a small percentage of people took the machine and put Linux on it and I'm sure that it will happen again with the 360 but those are about the same number of people that are only going to buy one game for their unit.
If the current problems continue to crop up maybe no one will buy them at all
Actually, until Microsoft and the X-Box, the "lose money on the hardware" idea was a myth:
Crazy, all of my cell phones have been sold to me at a loss so that I would buy the service.
Considering that bittorrent.com is not the first site you'd think of when searching for torrents, and that bittorrent itself is Open Source, how is this relevant to anyone other than Cohen?
That's *exactly* what I thought when I heard about this yesterday. Like, I haven't been to Cohen's site since BitTorrent first arrived on the scene and would never have thought that he would have been linking to copyrighted content anyway. Guess I was wrong?
But... What I do find interesting is that they are going about this the "right" way rather than suing him and making a big public spectacle about how they are a bunch of Social Security stealing assholes they are "coming to an agreement" with Cohen and putting a positive spin on it.
Better than trying to put a positive spin on suing the pants off of everyone and anyone including sending out subpeonas to ISPs.