If you read about the data collection method it seems that they are creating a database that is a cross between what you could find on google and information submitted by anyone ala IndyMedia.
Hopefully it results in solid information and not thistype.
Carnot's law does not say that the temperature must go down...it says that the entropy of the universe must go up. For thermal systems, there is a temperature driven maximum efficiency. For non thermal systems, there is no such limitation, hence fuel cells, which use gibbs free energy to calculate efficiency versus carnot efficiency, have very high efficiency rates. Photons reflected from a solar cell (due to compton scattering) are at a lower energy... Energy of photons e=hv (where h is planks constant and v is frequency) and E=mc2 (where E is energy, c is speed of light and m is mass, photons have relativistic mass = hv/c2 since momentum p is = mass x speed , thus hv=pc..h and c are constants, so if p goes down (loss of momentum, and momentum is always conserved) v (frequency) must go down, and energy was hv, thus energy went down. Since energy was transfered, the future usefulness of the reflectant photons goes down, and thus entropy of the universe goes up. The photons cannot possibly transfer more momentum than the difference between current momentum (which was reduced by the solar cell) and the momentum due to brownian motion of the interstellar hydrogen (about 3K)with which they must be discharged. The crookes radiometer is consistent, since the mirrored surface encounters much less compton scattering it reflects most photons at a higher energy (thus on that side less momentum is transfered) than the black side which absorbs the high energy photons (visible light) and emmits lower energy photons at near infrared (it will heat up more). Thus the black side is absorbing more energy, and hence transfering more momentum, so the net moment arm pushes forward on the black side.
If you click "advanced" under display properties you can change the DPI that Windows uses, changing the size of the desktop without switching the resolution.
"Whether to post an exploit to a group, in order for the vendor to have incentive to patch it, or wait and hope the vendor listens to you."
The best method is to publish the exploit encrypted with a 8192-bit key, give the key to the vendor, and tell the vendor that you are making the key publically available in 30 days.
Note: this method works best if you are not in DMCA land.
" This one will have text that is too large onscreen, while others (Dell is particularly guilty of this) have super-hi res screens where everything is too small"
In Windows: Start -> Settings-> Control Panel -> Display -> Settings -> Advanced-> DPI setting "If your screen resolution makes screen items too small to view comfortably, you can increase the DPI to compensate."
Considering that the EU has convinced every 3rd world despot that genetically modified foods are the devil, that will probably not be happening any time soon.
Slate ponders projections that Linux PCs will pass Apple in desktop market share next year.
That's what the article is about. Not which is better. Not which has better software.
How about some figures.
Wednesday 30th April 2003 "Apple's worldwide market share is about a paltry 2 percent, according to IDC."
Friday, September 06, 2002 "According to Gartner Dataquest, Apple's worldwide market share was 2.5 percent last year[2001]"
Is it difficult to believe that Linux will achieve >2% penetration into the worldwide desktop market by next year?
Considering that Wal-Mart is selling Linux PC's for $199 and it is the OS of choice in developing countries trying to run a modern desktop OS on legacy hardware it does not seem to be that much of a stretch.
Well considering the Earth Simulator Project got ~$1Billion(US) to get going and the DOD gets $356Billion every year... I am sure that after 9/11 the NSA could write a blank check to put a system in place to break 32768-bit encryption.
Step 1: Contract with web host in Vanuatu Step 2: Move site to their server
So what is the problem?
It should be standard practice now for any site admin based in the US who thinks their site has any chance of violating the dmca to host it in a country such as Vanuatu, and keep the owners identity unknown.
So, this band releases two singles and makes two videos. The two videos cost a million dollars to make and 50 percent of the video production costs are recouped out of the band's royalties.
The band gets $200,000 in tour support, which is 100 percent recoupable.
The record company spends $300,000 on independent radio promotion. You have to pay independent promotion to get your song on the radio; independent promotion is a system where the record companies use middlemen so they can pretend not to know that radio stations -- the unified broadcast system -- are getting paid to play their records.
All of those independent promotion costs are charged to the band....the band may as well be working at a 7-Eleven.
Worst of all, after all this, the band owns none of its work... they can pay the mortgage forever but they'll never own the house. Like I said: Sharecropping. Our media says, "Boo hoo, poor pop stars, they had a nice ride. Fuck them for speaking up"; but I say this dialogue is imperative. And cynical media people, who are more fascinated with celebrity than most celebrities, need to reacquaint themselves with their value systems.
When you look at the legal line on a CD, it says copyright 1976 Atlantic Records or copyright 1996 RCA Records. When you look at a book, though, it'll say something like copyright 1999 Susan Faludi, or David Foster Wallace. Authors own their books and license them to publishers. When the contract runs out, writers gets their books back. But record companies own our copyrights forever.
"The opera for instance is very interesting and can be fun and a lot of people consider opera to be 'art' and very artistic but really if you get down to it, all the opera is is entertainment. And of course long ago when people were writing plays, when they were writing the script for their own play in their theatre, if the theatre next door suddenly started running a production that was a very similar idea then all of a sudden the scriptwriter would re-write his script completely.
So that's probably one of the reasons that you used to see a lot of stories where things wouldn't line up at all and you'd have these crazy stories that didn't match together and people would say: "Oh, that's brilliant artistic expression" but (laughs) really it's probably more often because they were forced to change things at the last second because of other things in the market."
"The U.S. LZW patent expires June 20, 2003, the counterpart Canadian patent expires July 7, 2004, the counterpart patents in the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy expire June 18, 2004, and the Japanese counterpart patents expire June 20, 2004. "
Slashdot Mirror
If you read about the data collection method it seems that they are creating a database that is a cross between what you could find on google and information submitted by anyone ala IndyMedia.
Hopefully it results in solid information and not this type.
Wired (and slashdot??) did a writeup on this a while back:
Feel the Noise
I guess 48,000 Watts just ain't what it used to be.
Carnot's law does not say that the temperature must go down...it says that the entropy of the universe must go up. For thermal systems, there is a temperature driven maximum efficiency. For non thermal systems, there is no such limitation, hence fuel cells, which use gibbs free energy to calculate efficiency versus carnot efficiency, have very high efficiency rates. Photons reflected from a solar cell (due to compton scattering) are at a lower energy ... Energy of photons e=hv (where h is planks constant and v is frequency) and E=mc2 (where E is energy, c is speed of light and m is mass, photons have relativistic mass = hv/c2 since momentum p is = mass x speed , thus hv=pc..h and c are constants, so if p goes down (loss of momentum, and momentum is always conserved) v (frequency) must go down, and energy was hv, thus energy went down. Since energy was transfered, the future usefulness of the reflectant photons goes down, and thus entropy of the universe goes up. The photons cannot possibly transfer more momentum than the difference between current momentum (which was reduced by the solar cell) and the momentum due to brownian motion of the interstellar hydrogen (about 3K)with which they must be discharged. The crookes radiometer is consistent, since the mirrored surface encounters much less compton scattering it reflects most photons at a higher energy (thus on that side less momentum is transfered) than the black side which absorbs the high energy photons (visible light) and emmits lower energy photons at near infrared (it will heat up more). Thus the black side is absorbing more energy, and hence transfering more momentum, so the net moment arm pushes forward on the black side.
If you click "advanced" under display properties you can change the DPI that Windows uses, changing the size of the desktop without switching the resolution.
"Whether to post an exploit to a group, in order for the vendor to have incentive to patch it, or wait and hope the vendor listens to you."
The best method is to publish the exploit encrypted with a 8192-bit key, give the key to the vendor, and tell the vendor that you are making the key publically available in 30 days.
Note: this method works best if you are not in DMCA land.
If you choose a machine with Mandrake loaded do you still pay the Microsoft tax?
Anyone find figures for identical systems with the two OS's?
" This one will have text that is too large onscreen, while others (Dell is particularly guilty of this) have super-hi res screens where everything is too small"
In Windows: Start -> Settings-> Control Panel -> Display -> Settings -> Advanced-> DPI setting
"If your screen resolution makes screen items too small to view comfortably, you can increase the DPI to compensate."
What we need is a Dead Pool for spammers.
Support Tort Reform!!!
American Tort Reform Association
The Economic Benefits of Tort Reform
American Tort Reform Foundation
"I still like NVidia, I just hope their next card is better (and quieter) than the GeForce FX."
Only the FX5800 had that loud fan because it used DDR-2 memory. The FX5900 uses regular DDR-1 memory and has a normal fan.
Considering that the EU has convinced every 3rd world despot that genetically modified foods are the devil, that will probably not be happening any time soon.
". I really do not understand what the niche for this might be."
How about people who regard aesthetics in as high a regard as engineering specs?
After we get a Doom3 build for the Mac is anyone going to care about Spec scores?
Slate ponders projections that Linux PCs will pass Apple in desktop market share next year.
That's what the article is about. Not which is better. Not which has better software.
How about some figures.
Wednesday 30th April 2003
"Apple's worldwide market share is about a paltry 2 percent, according to IDC."
Friday, September 06, 2002
"According to Gartner Dataquest, Apple's worldwide market share was 2.5 percent last year[2001]"
Is it difficult to believe that Linux will achieve >2% penetration into the worldwide desktop market by next year?
Considering that Wal-Mart is selling Linux PC's for $199 and it is the OS of choice in developing countries trying to run a modern desktop OS on legacy hardware it does not seem to be that much of a stretch.
Well considering the Earth Simulator Project got ~$1Billion(US) to get going and the DOD gets $356Billion every year... I am sure that after 9/11 the NSA could write a blank check to put a system in place to break 32768-bit encryption.
Considering they used gcc to test the Xeon I do not put much credence in those, so bring on the DoomIII benches.
Step 1: Contract with web host in Vanuatu
Step 2: Move site to their server
So what is the problem?
It should be standard practice now for any site admin based in the US who thinks their site has any chance of violating the dmca to host it in a country such as Vanuatu, and keep the owners identity unknown.
Courtney Love does the math ...The record is a big hit and sells a million copies.
...the band may as well be working at a 7-Eleven.
... they can pay the mortgage forever but they'll never own the house. Like I said: Sharecropping. Our media says, "Boo hoo, poor pop stars, they had a nice ride. Fuck them for speaking up"; but I say this dialogue is imperative. And cynical media people, who are more fascinated with celebrity than most celebrities, need to reacquaint themselves with their value systems.
So, this band releases two singles and makes two videos. The two videos cost a million dollars to make and 50 percent of the video production costs are recouped out of the band's royalties.
The band gets $200,000 in tour support, which is 100 percent recoupable.
The record company spends $300,000 on independent radio promotion. You have to pay independent promotion to get your song on the radio; independent promotion is a system where the record companies use middlemen so they can pretend not to know that radio stations -- the unified broadcast system -- are getting paid to play their records.
All of those independent promotion costs are charged to the band.
Worst of all, after all this, the band owns none of its work
When you look at the legal line on a CD, it says copyright 1976 Atlantic Records or copyright 1996 RCA Records. When you look at a book, though, it'll say something like copyright 1999 Susan Faludi, or David Foster Wallace. Authors own their books and license them to publishers. When the contract runs out, writers gets their books back. But record companies own our copyrights forever.
"these files might not be around for long"
you can't unring a bell.
The FBI will be too busy for this sort of thing anyway, with Harassing people around Area51
Does this mean that we will finally see "Netcraft reports that Netcraft is dying"?
Interview with C&VG Miyamoto Interview Part 1
"The opera for instance is very interesting and can be fun and a lot of people consider opera to be 'art' and very artistic but really if you get down to it, all the opera is is entertainment. And of course long ago when people were writing plays, when they were writing the script for their own play in their theatre, if the theatre next door suddenly started running a production that was a very similar idea then all of a sudden the scriptwriter would re-write his script completely.
So that's probably one of the reasons that you used to see a lot of stories where things wouldn't line up at all and you'd have these crazy stories that didn't match together and people would say: "Oh, that's brilliant artistic expression" but (laughs) really it's probably more often because they were forced to change things at the last second because of other things in the market."
Here is a mirror of the video if you want to check it out:
pinball_720x540_(divx).avi
troll? I was just wondering if anyone had figures about piracy of WinXP. Settle down.
Note: If I could install it on more than one machine I may have purchased it, but there is no way I was going to buy 4 copies.
found in google cache
License Information on GIF
"The U.S. LZW patent expires June 20, 2003, the counterpart Canadian patent expires July 7, 2004, the counterpart patents in the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy expire June 18, 2004, and the Japanese counterpart patents expire June 20, 2004. "