We see oceans of information," said Adam Sohn a product manager for Microsoft's platform strategy and partner group
Don't worry about it. Many people experience similar hallucinations on psychoactives. Take it easy and try not to get paranoid. A beer or two would help too.
This is something I've been waiting for. I have always wanted to set up a "channel music" system throughout the house...cool for playing ambient music...but could never shell out enough money to go in for an audio system with multiple speakers.
Since I have 3 computers at home, each with a reasonably good sound card + speakers, I thought I'll try streaming music over the LAN using Shoutcast for Winamp.
The idea failed miserably, though. There was always a 5-10 second lag between the music played on the client machines and the server machine. I could never quite figure out why. I tried all sorts of things including reducing the bitrate at which music was being sent over the LAN, assuming that was the overhead...but nope. Haven't ever figured it out till now.
If only this thing came with a cheaper non-wireless version, I'd go get it.
$60000 to CONVERT a car to LPG? Who'd be nuts enough to do that? Maybe $50 is too low a figure, but it certainly does NOT cost more than $100, but again I'm converting the figures with the exchange rate...it costs an EQUIVALENT of $50 is what I meant (adjusting for cost of living). And LPG IS CHEAPER than petrol.
PUHLEEASE...$60,000 and you tell ME I'm making things up. SHEESH
US is one of the few countries where gasoline is still an affordable commodity. In several countries, the price of petrol has skyrocketed in the past decade (now about $5 per liter (about 0.5 gallons) taking into account the cost of living).
With gas increasingly becoming an expensive commodity, people are turning to other means for powering their gasoline engined vehicles. A European country (Italian?) already makes car conversion kits, which cost about $50, take about 2 hours to attach, and allow the car to run on liquefied petroleum gas (butane) commonly used as cooking gas. A cylinder of LPG fits comfortably in the trunk, lasts upto 200 miles, and can be exchanged for a new one at the gas station. A switch allows you to switch between gas and LPG on the fly....I've actually seen this work...if you want to switch from LPG to petrol, you turn the switch to OFF, allow the car to stall slightly and turn it to the petrol position...that's it....as easy as that. Not only is LPG a cleaner fuel, but it is also typically 5-6 times cheaper than normal petrol.
Another point.US is also one of the few countries where 2 wheeled vehicles like motorbikes/scooters are almost non existent. They are pretty widespread in European counties like Spain and in Asia. Not only are they more fuel efficient, but release lower amounts of polluting gases (atleast the 4 stroke versions, 2 stroke engines release more harmful gases for the same amount of fuel). I have noticed a growing use of scooters in the US, atleast in and around college campuses.
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Outside of the standard national ID concerns, now we'd have to worry about a terrorist stealing our super-secret ID from our wallet.
Looks like the submitter didn't RTFA. From the article:
"The cards will be linked to their owners through finger- and thumb-print scans at security turnstiles."
It's relatively simple with current technology, to scan and verify fingerprints and other unique identifying features instantly with a high degree of reliability. Infact, we had an experimental setup at a school I went to, where the skeletal outline of your palm was verified against the one stored in the database. It was painless, and from what I hear, quite reliable.
I'm neither for nor against the idea at this point, but I like the part about it being voluntary, as opposed to a compulsary big brotherly ID card.
I never know what I might find, on any day I go online. I used to get in quite a huff, while wading through unwanted stuff. But then I changed the man I am, the day I answered all my spam.
Now every time I check my box, I load up on fantastic stocks. I'll gladly say I felt no loss, when, with a smile, I fired my boss. With just one click, the best thing yet, I freed myself of all my debt.
I have, paying a few small fees, ten university degrees. Now that I'm losing all this weight, I'm sure, someday, I'll get a date. Instead of going to a show, I spy on everyone I know. (That's easy, since I have in hand, this nifty wireless video cam.)
I spend my evenings viewing screens, of barely legal horny teens. And with a little credit charge, Whoopee! My penis was enlarged! Meanwhile these shots of Britney Spears should be enough to last for years.
And so I lead this online life, my monitor is now my wife. It has become my greatest dream, to launch my own get-rich-quick scheme. And if you think you might get missed, relax, you're on my e-mail list.
SATIREWIRE'S 2ND ANNUAL POETRY SPAM 2001 FREESTYLE WINNER: "I Answered All My Spam" by Alex Silbajoris, Columbus, Ohio http://www.satirewire.com/features/poetry_sp am/01f ree_winner.shtml
Imagine if you will..the leader of the fifth invader force speaking to the commander in chief...
"They're made out of meat." "Meat?" "Meat. They're made out of meat." "Meat?" "There's no doubt about it. We picked several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, probed them all the way through. They're completely meat." "That's impossible. What about the radio signals? The messages to the stars?" "They use the radio waves to talk, but the signals don't come from them. The signals come from machines." "So who made the machines? That's who we want to contact." "They made the machines. That's what I'm trying to tell you. Meat made the machines." "That's ridiculous. How can meat make a machine? You're asking me to believe in sentient meat."
"I'm not asking you, I'm telling you. These creatures are the only sentient race in the sector and they're made out of meat."
"Maybe they're like the Orfolei. You know, a carbon-based intelligence that goes through a meat stage."
"Nope. They're born meat and they die meat. We studied them for several of their life spans, which didn't take too long. Do you have any idea the life span of meat?"
"Spare me. Okay, maybe they're only part meat. You know, like the Weddilei. A meat head with an electron plasma brain inside."
"Nope. We thought of that, since they do have meat heads like the Weddilei. But I told you, we probed them. They're meat all the way through."
"No brain?"
"Oh, there is a brain all right. It's just that the brain is made out of meat!"
"So... what does the thinking?"
"You're not understanding, are you? The brain does the thinking. The meat."
"Thinking meat! You're asking me to believe in thinking meat!"
"Yes, thinking meat! Conscious meat! Loving meat. Dreaming meat. The meat is the whole deal! Are you getting the picture?"
"Omigod. You're serious then. They're made out of meat."
"Finally, Yes. They are indeed made out meat. And they've been trying to get in touch with us for almost a hundred of their years."
"So what does the meat have in mind?"
"First it wants to talk to us. Then I imagine it wants to explore the universe, contact other sentients, swap ideas and information. The usual."
"We're supposed to talk to meat?"
"That's the idea. That's the message they're sending out by radio. 'Hello. Anyone out there? Anyone home?' That sort of thing."
"They actually do talk, then. They use words, ideas, concepts?"
"Oh, yes. Except they do it with meat."
"I thought you just told me they used radio."
"They do, but what do you think is on the radio? Meat sounds. You know how when you slap or flap meat it makes a noise? They talk by flapping their meat at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through their meat."
"Omigod. Singing meat. This is altogether too much. So what do you advise?"
"Officially or unofficially?"
"Both."
"Officially, we are required to contact, welcome, and log in any and all sentient races or multibeings in the quadrant, without prejudice, fear, or favor. Unofficially, I advise that we erase the records and forget the whole thing."
"I was hoping you would say that."
"It seems harsh, but there is a limit. Do we really want to make contact with meat?"
"I agree one hundred percent. What's there to say?" `Hello, meat. How's it going?' But will this work? How many planets are we dealing with here?"
"Just one. They can travel to other planets in special meat containers, but they can't live on them. And being meat, they only travel through C space. Which limits them to the speed of light and makes the possibility of their ever making contact pretty slim. Infinitesimal, in fact."
"So we just pretend there's no one home in the universe."
"That's it."
"Cruel. But you said it yourself, who wants to meet meat? And the ones who have
What about the rest of us...
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Overall, if you're the forward-thinking, range-extending, hardware-tinkering, soldering-iron wielding, average slashdot reader, you'll probably find it a fun read with lots of good ideas to offer.
...woman-fearing, microsoft hating, RIAA loathing, SCO bashing, tinfoil hat-wearing, troll-posting, penguin-loving, overlord-welcoming, beowulf-clustering, and russia-sovieting slashdot readers? Will we find it a good read too?
What part of the Windows design requires you to reboot after patching the OS? Let's say a patch fixes a DLL, parts of which are in memory. Why can't the administrator reload the fixed functions into memory on the fly?
Linux, on the other hand doesn't require reboots after installing the patches. I think this is due to the fact that the required modules can be installed on demand without bringing the system down (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong here).
Federal and state regulators have voiced concern that a feature in Windows XP that involves online music purchasing may violate terms of Microsoft's antitrust settlement.
The issue surfaced in a court-mandated briefing filed jointly by Microsoft and federal and state regulators. The compliance update says there are ongoing discussions over the "Shop for Music Online" feature in the operating system.
"Plaintiffs are concerned that the feature invokes Microsoft's Internet Explorer, rather than the user's chosen default browser, in a manner that may be inconsistent" with the settlement, according to the filing.
After the last time/. published the story about the 3d laptop, I was engulfed by this urge to try out anaglyph (red-blue) games/software on my machine. What ensued was a frenzy of activity spanning about a week:
1. I purchased a 3-d jigsaw puzzle from Wal-mart for $15, which came with red-blue glasses. (A wiser idea would've been to go see SpyKids 3d for $6 and save the glasses (which I did later anyway)).
3. Downloaded some simple shooter/roller coaster type games from stereo3d.com
This site, btw, has a cool chart listing software for which 3d patches have been released, graphics cards supported etc. A really interesting quote about 3d API's:
"The reason why 3D-API's are important for 3D-glasses is the fact games written for these interfaces supply genuine 3D-information in a standard format. These 3D-informations (i.e. depth-informations, Z-values) can be utilized by special universal 3D-glasses-drivers to create real 3D-imagery."
Can't wait for the prices for 3d displays to come down.
Charter's move Friday suggested that Charter had undergone a change of heart on the issue. On Sept. 23, after the association issued its first subpoenas to Charter in St. Louis, a Charter spokesman said the company would "fully cooperate."
just how much of this benevolent change in heart was motivated by the competing DSL providers standing up for their customers.
They were busy licking RIAA's feet while the telcos were saying this, this and this.
When search grows up, it will look like Star Trek: you talk into the air ("Computer! What's the situation down on the planet?") and the computer processes your question, figures out its context, figures out what response you're looking for, searches a giant database in who-knows-how-many languages, translates/analyses/summarises all the results, and presents them back to you in a pleasant voice.
Sorry to break your bubble Star Trek fans...but it was actually just a human voiceover. They had some chick talk in a pleasant voice pretending to be a computer and answering questions from the script. It wasn't the computer talking after all.
Sorry to have to break it to you this way....
and oh yeah....Santa doesn't exist either.
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Don't worry about it. Many people experience similar hallucinations on psychoactives. Take it easy and try not to get paranoid. A beer or two would help too.
Since I have 3 computers at home, each with a reasonably good sound card + speakers, I thought I'll try streaming music over the LAN using Shoutcast for Winamp.
The idea failed miserably, though. There was always a 5-10 second lag between the music played on the client machines and the server machine. I could never quite figure out why. I tried all sorts of things including reducing the bitrate at which music was being sent over the LAN, assuming that was the overhead...but nope. Haven't ever figured it out till now.
If only this thing came with a cheaper non-wireless version, I'd go get it.
$60000 to CONVERT a car to LPG? Who'd be nuts enough to do that? Maybe $50 is too low a figure, but it certainly does NOT cost more than $100, but again I'm converting the figures with the exchange rate...it costs an EQUIVALENT of $50 is what I meant (adjusting for cost of living). And LPG IS CHEAPER than petrol. PUHLEEASE...$60,000 and you tell ME I'm making things up. SHEESH
With gas increasingly becoming an expensive commodity, people are turning to other means for powering their gasoline engined vehicles. A European country (Italian?) already makes car conversion kits, which cost about $50, take about 2 hours to attach, and allow the car to run on liquefied petroleum gas (butane) commonly used as cooking gas. A cylinder of LPG fits comfortably in the trunk, lasts upto 200 miles, and can be exchanged for a new one at the gas station. A switch allows you to switch between gas and LPG on the fly....I've actually seen this work...if you want to switch from LPG to petrol, you turn the switch to OFF, allow the car to stall slightly and turn it to the petrol position...that's it....as easy as that. Not only is LPG a cleaner fuel, but it is also typically 5-6 times cheaper than normal petrol.
Another point.US is also one of the few countries where 2 wheeled vehicles like motorbikes/scooters are almost non existent. They are pretty widespread in European counties like Spain and in Asia. Not only are they more fuel efficient, but release lower amounts of polluting gases (atleast the 4 stroke versions, 2 stroke engines release more harmful gases for the same amount of fuel). I have noticed a growing use of scooters in the US, atleast in and around college campuses.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/2 3/2143200&tid=
:))
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This is waht I get now:
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Looks like the submitter didn't RTFA. From the article:
"The cards will be linked to their owners through finger- and thumb-print scans at security turnstiles."
It's relatively simple with current technology, to scan and verify fingerprints and other unique identifying features instantly with a high degree of reliability. Infact, we had an experimental setup at a school I went to, where the skeletal outline of your palm was verified against the one stored in the database. It was painless, and from what I hear, quite reliable.
I'm neither for nor against the idea at this point, but I like the part about it being voluntary, as opposed to a compulsary big brotherly ID card.
I never know what I might find,
p am/01f ree_winner.shtml
on any day I go online.
I used to get in quite a huff,
while wading through unwanted stuff.
But then I changed the man I am,
the day I answered all my spam.
Now every time I check my box,
I load up on fantastic stocks.
I'll gladly say I felt no loss,
when, with a smile, I fired my boss.
With just one click, the best thing yet,
I freed myself of all my debt.
I have, paying a few small fees,
ten university degrees.
Now that I'm losing all this weight,
I'm sure, someday, I'll get a date.
Instead of going to a show,
I spy on everyone I know.
(That's easy, since I have in hand,
this nifty wireless video cam.)
I spend my evenings viewing screens,
of barely legal horny teens.
And with a little credit charge,
Whoopee! My penis was enlarged!
Meanwhile these shots of Britney Spears
should be enough to last for years.
And so I lead this online life,
my monitor is now my wife.
It has become my greatest dream,
to launch my own get-rich-quick scheme.
And if you think you might get missed,
relax, you're on my e-mail list.
SATIREWIRE'S 2ND ANNUAL POETRY SPAM
2001 FREESTYLE WINNER:
"I Answered All My Spam"
by Alex Silbajoris, Columbus, Ohio
http://www.satirewire.com/features/poetry_s
He seems to have lost all the loving emails darling Darl sent him :'(
My heart cries out for him *sniff*
let's just have a vote to decide whether to adopt these machines or not.
Imagine if you will ..the leader of the fifth invader force speaking to the commander in chief...
"They're made out of meat."
"Meat?"
"Meat. They're made out of meat."
"Meat?"
"There's no doubt about it. We picked several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, probed them all the way through. They're completely meat."
"That's impossible. What about the radio signals? The messages to the stars?"
"They use the radio waves to talk, but the signals don't come from them. The signals come from machines."
"So who made the machines? That's who we want to contact."
"They made the machines. That's what I'm trying to tell you. Meat made the machines."
"That's ridiculous. How can meat make a machine? You're asking me to believe in sentient meat."
"I'm not asking you, I'm telling you. These creatures are the only sentient race in the sector and they're made out of meat."
"Maybe they're like the Orfolei. You know, a carbon-based intelligence that goes through a meat stage."
"Nope. They're born meat and they die meat. We studied them for several of their life spans, which didn't take too long. Do you have any idea the life span of meat?"
"Spare me. Okay, maybe they're only part meat. You know, like the Weddilei. A meat head with an electron plasma brain inside."
"Nope. We thought of that, since they do have meat heads like the Weddilei. But I told you, we probed them. They're meat all the way through."
"No brain?"
"Oh, there is a brain all right. It's just that the brain is made out of meat!"
"So... what does the thinking?"
"You're not understanding, are you? The brain does the thinking. The meat."
"Thinking meat! You're asking me to believe in thinking meat!"
"Yes, thinking meat! Conscious meat! Loving meat. Dreaming meat. The meat is the whole deal! Are you getting the picture?"
"Omigod. You're serious then. They're made out of meat."
"Finally, Yes. They are indeed made out meat. And they've been trying to get in touch with us for almost a hundred of their years."
"So what does the meat have in mind?"
"First it wants to talk to us. Then I imagine it wants to explore the universe, contact other sentients, swap ideas and information. The usual."
"We're supposed to talk to meat?"
"That's the idea. That's the message they're sending out by radio. 'Hello. Anyone out there? Anyone home?' That sort of thing."
"They actually do talk, then. They use words, ideas, concepts?"
"Oh, yes. Except they do it with meat."
"I thought you just told me they used radio."
"They do, but what do you think is on the radio? Meat sounds. You know how when you slap or flap meat it makes a noise? They talk by flapping their meat at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through their meat."
"Omigod. Singing meat. This is altogether too much. So what do you advise?"
"Officially or unofficially?"
"Both."
"Officially, we are required to contact, welcome, and log in any and all sentient races or multibeings in the quadrant, without prejudice, fear, or favor. Unofficially, I advise that we erase the records and forget the whole thing."
"I was hoping you would say that."
"It seems harsh, but there is a limit. Do we really want to make contact with meat?"
"I agree one hundred percent. What's there to say?" `Hello, meat. How's it going?' But will this work? How many planets are we dealing with here?"
"Just one. They can travel to other planets in special meat containers, but they can't live on them. And being meat, they only travel through C space. Which limits them to the speed of light and makes the possibility of their ever making contact pretty slim. Infinitesimal, in fact."
"So we just pretend there's no one home in the universe."
"That's it."
"Cruel. But you said it yourself, who wants to meet meat? And the ones who have
So much for body movement.
it's called Pay-per-view.
Linux, on the other hand doesn't require reboots after installing the patches. I think this is due to the fact that the required modules can be installed on demand without bringing the system down (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong here).
What prevents Windows from doing the same?
Federal and state regulators have voiced concern that a feature in Windows XP that involves online music purchasing may violate terms of Microsoft's antitrust settlement.
The issue surfaced in a court-mandated briefing filed jointly by Microsoft and federal and state regulators. The compliance update says there are ongoing discussions over the "Shop for Music Online" feature in the operating system.
"Plaintiffs are concerned that the feature invokes Microsoft's Internet Explorer, rather than the user's chosen default browser, in a manner that may be inconsistent" with the settlement, according to the filing.
Space set to become war zone, warns US General.
Almost like a 2200 Star Trek headline, except that we should be fighting off the enemies of the confederation.
Well...atleast the Romuluns'll be happy about this.
\\//
Big Mac also achieved around 14 KTons with 128 kids.
After the last time /. published the story about the 3d laptop, I was engulfed by this urge to try out anaglyph (red-blue) games/software on my machine. What ensued was a frenzy of activity spanning about a week:
1. I purchased a 3-d jigsaw puzzle from Wal-mart for $15, which came with red-blue glasses. (A wiser idea would've been to go see SpyKids 3d for $6 and save the glasses (which I did later anyway)).
2. I downloaded and installed Anaglyph Stereo Quake and had hours of headachy fun.
3. Downloaded some simple shooter/roller coaster type games from stereo3d.com This site, btw, has a cool chart listing software for which 3d patches have been released, graphics cards supported etc. A really interesting quote about 3d API's:
"The reason why 3D-API's are important for 3D-glasses is the fact games written for these interfaces supply genuine 3D-information in a standard format. These 3D-informations (i.e. depth-informations, Z-values) can be utilized by special universal 3D-glasses-drivers to create real 3D-imagery."
Can't wait for the prices for 3d displays to come down.
just how much of this benevolent change in heart was motivated by the competing DSL providers standing up for their customers. They were busy licking RIAA's feet while the telcos were saying this, this and this.
Sorry to break your bubble Star Trek fans...but it was actually just a human voiceover. They had some chick talk in a pleasant voice pretending to be a computer and answering questions from the script. It wasn't the computer talking after all.
Sorry to have to break it to you this way....
and oh yeah....Santa doesn't exist either.
It's official.