DevX.com has reported a recent drop off in website hits and has implemented a campaign to "leverage" the Slashdot masses.
The new project entitled "Flaming Troll" was kicked off today with an article that would be very interesting and informative for your average Slashdot reader.
Exactly. It's like being a prison bitch. When someone on the outside comes after you, he will defend you.
But when there is no external danger around, he likes to pin you down to the ground and fuck you.
Fear the IBM ass raping!
Is the "mud" going to be a problem for the rover?
on
Spirit Rolls on Mars
·
· Score: 1
Take a longer look at the rear view picture of the rover. Kinda suprising how the soil is clumping in the tracks and on the left rear wheel of the rover.
Even JPL seems suprised on how "mud" like the soil in this landing spot seems to be.
I wonder if that's going to cause any problems for the rover?
Softmoding as the name says is only a software change.... It's completely reversable.. It either works or doesn't work.
If it doesn't work you simply get artifacts everywhere on the screen. It's simply a matter of a reboot to go back to the old way.
And it "usually" works anyway...
As far as the 9600.... It tends to get 3DMark 2003 scores around 3300 which is better than the out of the box 9800SE score of about 3000.
Softmodded and slightly overclocked I get 4100 with my 9800SE...;-)
If you're not afraid to install a non-ATI driver (Omega driver) and play with the overclock slider a little the 9800SE has one of the best performance/price ratios out there right now.
9800SE is not THAT bad. It has 128mbit bus with 4 pipelines opposed to the 9800 PRO with 256/8... But besides that, is has the same exact core meaning you get all of the DX9 bells and whistles.
"It makes it sound like there's no chance at all that it will succeed."
Landing a probe safely on Mars is not exactly easy. Personally I find unfavorable odds more exciting than a sure thing anyway. You just know one of the three probes is going to fail. But, which one?!
Build your application as a web app using ASP.NET/PHP or whatever. Use whatever SQL backend you want and have it run on a REAL server that is meant to do that work.
On the PDA, throw a 802.11b card in when at the office and some sort of cellular card for when you are out and about. The only software you need on the PDA is a good web browser. Bandwidth is much less of a issue because all you are transfering back and forth is simple HTML.
"What about doing REAL space and moon exploration instead of a big show off like the Appolo program was ?"
When a government is involved in anything it's always just a "big show".
China is doing this to show they are up and coming in the world stage. It's political foremost, science secondary, and economic benifits last on the priority scale.
I don't think mass commercialization of the moon is going to be accomplished by any government. Espcially a Communist one. You need many self-motivated companies competing for the moon. Economics take over, companies innovate, make getting to the moon cheaper, and so on until there is a McDonalds in every other crater.
I see Lonhorn as basically taking server applications and integrating them into the client.
WinFS is basically a desktop version of SQL Server.
The Longhorn App Model is basically a desktop version of IIS running ASP.NET like pages.
As a windows developer, I think it would be great knowing that every client my application runs on will have a SQL Server. No more registry crap.
Re:Does the shuttle problem really limit the ISS?
on
NASA's New Space Wheels
·
· Score: 3, Informative
NASA's orginal plan was for a fulltime 7 man crew, who could all use one, single escape vechicle called the X-38.
I'm not real sure what the status of this vehicle is now though.
There were some test flights.
Good point. If you have no idea what the data is it's very hard to decrypt it. It's like putting together a puzzle without the box cover...
But...
When you know a few facts it can make things easier.
1. You told us it's a credit card number meaning the data is purley numeric. Assuming you based your encryption off of the ASCII values this mean 48 to 57 is your range. This greatly narrows down any brute force method.
2. If I happen to know what type of card you have (Visa, Mastercard, etc) then this makes thing easier because all Visa's start with 4 and all Mastercards start with a 50,56,57,58 or 6. Again this helps any brute force method.
3. Finnally all credit card number have to pass the mod 10 test to be valid. Again helping any brute force method.
If one was so inclined, I don't think it would be that hard to figure out your credit card number, just by knowing it's a credit card number...
"Also, and I don't know the answer to this either, but did the life that exists on Earth around those heat sources evolve separately from all life on Earth? Or did it require some building blocks of life to sift down through the ocean over the years?"
Actually many people think that the origins of life started near deep ocean thermal vents. The bottom of the ocean was a far safer place to hang out during Earth's early years. Comet and astroiod impacts have very little influence on an ecosystem dependant on thermal vents 5 miles below water.
A law like that wouldn't last 10 years, let alone 100.
We are already moving away from storage that involves moving parts and headed towards solid state storage. In 10 years a HD will be considered a backup device (like tape is now) and a CD/DVD/Blue Laser DVD will be absoulete just like floppies are now. We will all be using some form of flash memory (probably that nanotube ram).
In a hundered years, when we are all using holographic memory or whatever, the notion of spinning a disk to read data will seem ridiculous.
For any electronic data archive to stay useful you just have to migrate it to a new platform every 10 years or so. Luckily each migration to a new medium increases the speed at which you can access the data, so the process gets faster as long as you don't add more data. Punch Paper-->Magentic Tape-->Hard Drive-->So on...
Serial buses seem to big a trend in the PC industry.
Especially with Intel...
Serial ATA, PCI Express, Rambus, the PIV.
The whole plan seems to be, to take the complexity out of each device and then up the clock speed to insane levels.
I mean, for the longest time it was always a push for more parallelism in the PC bus... 8bit to 16bit to 32bit to 64bit.
Serial sounds cool in theory. Less wiring, cheaper products, more speed and expandibility. But what is the catch? There has to be one or we would have always been using serial buses?
Question about GNU...
on
Open Source DRM
·
· Score: 5, Insightful
From the FAQ: "If OGG-S is open source, how can the encryption be secure?
If a company wishes to use OGG-S to protect their content, SideSpace Solutions highly recommends purchasing a binary distribution license. Under this license, any modifications to OGG-S (such as a change of encryption engine or private keys) do not have to be released."
OK.... Under GNU, do you have to release any private encryption keys you may have used with the code?
Encryption keys would seem to fall under content/data and not code. It is my understanding of the GNU license that you must redistribute the source code, not any data that your created and feed into the application. As long as you provide sample data (in this case another encryption key) to allow the application to run properly when compiled.
I don't see how they can force people, under the GNU, to release any private keys.
The problem is that the NT4 kernel isn't much different from the XP/2000/2003 kernels.
They basically be releasing the source code to their whole server platform...
Not going to happen.
Which also makes me think that this whole thing about NT4 being to old to fix is a load of crap. If they fix it in 2000/2003 they can fix it in NT4. They just don't WANT to...
Slashdot Mirror
DevX.com has reported a recent drop off in website hits and has implemented a campaign to "leverage" the Slashdot masses.
...
The new project entitled "Flaming Troll" was kicked off today with an article that would be very interesting and informative for your average Slashdot reader.
So far the project seems to be a success
Why was this modded +5 Interesting and not +5 Funny?
Exactly. It's like being a prison bitch. When someone on the outside comes after you, he will defend you.
But when there is no external danger around, he likes to pin you down to the ground and fuck you.
Fear the IBM ass raping!
Take a longer look at the rear view picture of the rover. Kinda suprising how the soil is clumping in the tracks and on the left rear wheel of the rover.
Even JPL seems suprised on how "mud" like the soil in this landing spot seems to be.
I wonder if that's going to cause any problems for the rover?
Someone needs a hug ...
Destiny was designed and made in the US.
Softmoding as the name says is only a software change.... It's completely reversable .. It either works or doesn't work.
...
;-)
If it doesn't work you simply get artifacts everywhere on the screen. It's simply a matter of a reboot to go back to the old way.
And it "usually" works anyway
As far as the 9600.... It tends to get 3DMark 2003 scores around 3300 which is better than the out of the box 9800SE score of about 3000.
Softmodded and slightly overclocked I get 4100 with my 9800SE...
If you're not afraid to install a non-ATI driver (Omega driver) and play with the overclock slider a little the 9800SE has one of the best performance/price ratios out there right now.
9800SE is not THAT bad. It has 128mbit bus with 4 pipelines opposed to the 9800 PRO with 256/8... But besides that, is has the same exact core meaning you get all of the DX9 bells and whistles.
Plus you can Softmod your 9800SE making it 128/8
Combine that with a little overclocking and I personally got a 40% speed increase making it a good performer for a great price!
"It makes it sound like there's no chance at all that it will succeed."
Landing a probe safely on Mars is not exactly easy. Personally I find unfavorable odds more exciting than a sure thing anyway. You just know one of the three probes is going to fail. But, which one?!
It's fun stuff!
Build your application as a web app using ASP.NET/PHP or whatever. Use whatever SQL backend you want and have it run on a REAL server that is meant to do that work.
On the PDA, throw a 802.11b card in when at the office and some sort of cellular card for when you are out and about. The only software you need on the PDA is a good web browser. Bandwidth is much less of a issue because all you are transfering back and forth is simple HTML.
"What about doing REAL space and moon exploration instead of a big show off like the Appolo program was ?"
When a government is involved in anything it's always just a "big show".
China is doing this to show they are up and coming in the world stage. It's political foremost, science secondary, and economic benifits last on the priority scale.
I don't think mass commercialization of the moon is going to be accomplished by any government. Espcially a Communist one. You need many self-motivated companies competing for the moon. Economics take over, companies innovate, make getting to the moon cheaper, and so on until there is a McDonalds in every other crater.
As the parent post said.
Helium 3
My favorite quote:
"The equivalent of a single space shuttle load or roughly 25 tons could supply the entire United States' energy needs for a year"
It's rarely found on Earth, and requires more energy than it is worth to make. Sounds like a good reason for a moon base to me.
Well besides setting a huge "laser" pointed towards Earth can calling the whole thing a "deathstar".
I see Lonhorn as basically taking server applications and integrating them into the client.
WinFS is basically a desktop version of SQL Server.
The Longhorn App Model is basically a desktop version of IIS running ASP.NET like pages.
As a windows developer, I think it would be great knowing that every client my application runs on will have a SQL Server. No more registry crap.
NASA's orginal plan was for a fulltime 7 man crew, who could all use one, single escape vechicle called the X-38. I'm not real sure what the status of this vehicle is now though. There were some test flights.
Good point. If you have no idea what the data is it's very hard to decrypt it. It's like putting together a puzzle without the box cover...
...
But
When you know a few facts it can make things easier.
1. You told us it's a credit card number meaning the data is purley numeric. Assuming you based your encryption off of the ASCII values this mean 48 to 57 is your range. This greatly narrows down any brute force method.
2. If I happen to know what type of card you have (Visa, Mastercard, etc) then this makes thing easier because all Visa's start with 4 and all Mastercards start with a 50,56,57,58 or 6. Again this helps any brute force method.
3. Finnally all credit card number have to pass the mod 10 test to be valid. Again helping any brute force method.
If one was so inclined, I don't think it would be that hard to figure out your credit card number, just by knowing it's a credit card number...
"Also, and I don't know the answer to this either, but did the life that exists on Earth around those heat sources evolve separately from all life on Earth? Or did it require some building blocks of life to sift down through the ocean over the years?"
Actually many people think that the origins of life started near deep ocean thermal vents. The bottom of the ocean was a far safer place to hang out during Earth's early years. Comet and astroiod impacts have very little influence on an ecosystem dependant on thermal vents 5 miles below water.
A law like that wouldn't last 10 years, let alone 100.
We are already moving away from storage that involves moving parts and headed towards solid state storage. In 10 years a HD will be considered a backup device (like tape is now) and a CD/DVD/Blue Laser DVD will be absoulete just like floppies are now. We will all be using some form of flash memory (probably that nanotube ram).
In a hundered years, when we are all using holographic memory or whatever, the notion of spinning a disk to read data will seem ridiculous.
For any electronic data archive to stay useful you just have to migrate it to a new platform every 10 years or so. Luckily each migration to a new medium increases the speed at which you can access the data, so the process gets faster as long as you don't add more data. Punch Paper-->Magentic Tape-->Hard Drive-->So on...
"The true problem will be to see if silicon processors will ever be able to match the processing power of a single neuron."
I have to disagree there... One neuron is pretty simple to emulate (and improve on) in hardware or even software.
Then again, one neuron doesn't get you very far.
It's trying to emulate trillions of them at once that presents the problem.
Serial buses seem to big a trend in the PC industry.
Especially with Intel...
Serial ATA, PCI Express, Rambus, the PIV.
The whole plan seems to be, to take the complexity out of each device and then up the clock speed to insane levels.
I mean, for the longest time it was always a push for more parallelism in the PC bus... 8bit to 16bit to 32bit to 64bit.
Serial sounds cool in theory. Less wiring, cheaper products, more speed and expandibility. But what is the catch? There has to be one or we would have always been using serial buses?
From the FAQ:
"If OGG-S is open source, how can the encryption be secure?
If a company wishes to use OGG-S to protect their content, SideSpace Solutions highly recommends purchasing a binary distribution license. Under this license, any modifications to OGG-S (such as a change of encryption engine or private keys) do not have to be released."
OK....
Under GNU, do you have to release any private encryption keys you may have used with the code?
Encryption keys would seem to fall under content/data and not code. It is my understanding of the GNU license that you must redistribute the source code, not any data that your created and feed into the application. As long as you provide sample data (in this case another encryption key) to allow the application to run properly when compiled.
I don't see how they can force people, under the GNU, to release any private keys.
Someone please explain.
I don't see how they can
The problem is that the NT4 kernel isn't much different from the XP/2000/2003 kernels.
...
They basically be releasing the source code to their whole server platform...
Not going to happen.
Which also makes me think that this whole thing about NT4 being to old to fix is a load of crap. If they fix it in 2000/2003 they can fix it in NT4. They just don't WANT to