I'm sure they'll have backward compatibility. To not have would hurt sales a lot... Especially since XBox is such a huge box and I'd hate to have to keep it around after XBox2.
Hmm... Is Sony planning to have PS2 compatibility in PS3? If yes, and XBox2 doesn't have XBox compatibility, that'd be a very good reason to get PS3 instead and forget XBox2.
Especially since I doubt XBox2 can do anything that a modded XBox can't do as a "living-room entertainment center"... It certainly won't have as big HD as a modded XBox can have...
I think MS does see all this, and will make XBox2 compatible with XBox games.
well the planet does a funny thing... when it's summer in the northern hemi... it's... get this... WINTER in the southern hemisphere!
So you mean, like if Antarctic winter will in future have less ice than Antarctic summer has now, it'd still be perfectly normal, because in the Arctic the seasons are the other way around?
Hmm... It's probably just me being stupid, but I just can't follow your logic...
Methane is much "better" greenhouse gas than CO2. So the primary effect would be while it's still methane, and that's prolly what we should be worried about.
But I'm not sure how long-lived it is in atmosphere though, ie how fast the release of methane must be before it actually creates global increase in greenhouse gasses. Melting marshes would release it pretty slowly, over many decades I suppose, so if it breaks down fast enough, it might not be a big factor.
I have no idea if there is *so* much methane that it would affect CO2 and H2O content of atmosphere after it breaks up... Atmosphere is huge, but solid or liquid can absorb a lot of gas in a small volume too...
Perhaps some chemist/physicist can give us raw numbers?
But melting Greenland ice will affect it. Probably also permafrost in Siberia and Canada would start melting, which will potentially release a lot of methane from the northern marshes.
And I have hard time believing that if northern ice cap melts, also southern ice cap won't get smaller (and that will rise sea level)...
Better watch out if you live by the sea... Lease the land for your new house for 50-100 years, don't buy it, and you should be fine;)
apt-get is great, but it's not really the best part. Other distros have similar systems these days.
My point mostly was, that other distros might not have similar systems now, if Debian didn't develop apt-get.
But I'd be insterested in knowing if it was a Debian innovation in the first place, or if apt had some similar predecessor on some other distro / OS. And I mean something that works like apt-get, ie:
I mean, same kind of system is now all over the place, in about every distro. But did Debian "invent" it, or were they first to make the concept work in practice?
Then again, they are also responsible for dselect...
So the worm doesn't actually do anything really harmful, and is easy to stop? I wonder if it's actually a good thing, forcing people to patch this hole (and perhaps a dozen more at the same time if they've been neglecting security updates)...
I mean, the worm could easily be a lot stealthier, and do much more damage, couldn't it?
But I think wireless communication just isn't fast enough to run a Beowulf cluster on. At least not if you have a thousand dogs, like suggested. I mean, going wireless would be just a mess even for regular dog-to-dog communication with that amount of dogs in range. Beowulf on it seems like a no-go from the start. IMHO of course, please note that I don't have even one dog myself and don't have much experience with them at all.
Will internet come to a grinding halt or not? Are there enough dumb win-users who do not know what "security hole" is, or do enough people patch their systems in time? Stay tuned,/. will be back in a week to report more...
Yes, it's a very very California centric article, not really talking about other places in US. Never mind about all the places outside US that are discussed, they're totally irrelevant...
Does 802.11 yet do the stuff BT does in a standard way:
- hidden node removal problem
- convenient authentication (ie connect 2 devices once, use the connection securely after that)
- encryption (ie, is there improved standard WEP yet?)
- standard way to make HID devices (eg WLAN headsets for a mobile phones)
For networking, 802.11 beats BT hands down. But for IR/cable replacment, WLAN has still a long way to go... But my info may not be up to date, feel free to correct me.
Actually, I often do. Especially at work. But it's 'cos I am lazy, as it takes more time... Allows me to spend much more time in the toilet reading magazines than behind my desk;). I mean, let me tell you, trying to pee into a toilet standing up while reading a paper can get messy...
However, I still don't see how the toilet seat being up when somebody wants to sit on the toilet (whatever the reason) can be a problem. Do men teally have better eye-spine-hand coordination and don't need to think about putting it down before sitting, while women do have problems with this?;-)
So they have a quantum gate. But is it just a transistor replacement, which you still would use to build traditional computers, chomping through processor instructions, processing binary (or base 4 or whatever) numbers? Or is for quantum computers working on a completely different paradigm?
Only because somebody else is paying for the music you listen, in hopes of getting you to listen to their advertisments also.
And everybody pays for that music inderectly (in prices of the advertised products). So it's far from free.
Online, it's harder to get people to pay for advertisements (and then of course there are all the too-easy-to-pirate issues etc). And indeed most of us just hate online advertising! The price to pay for this is that we must then pay for the content. And IMHO this is just fine (or will be, if there's ever going to be a successful international micropayment system in place).
The 68000 executes 16 bit code. Last I looked it had a 24 bit address space, that's pretty cool. Nonetheless it is not a 32 bit processor, as you say.
If it executes 32bit code identical to 68020 32bit code, then why wouldn't it be a 32 bit processor?
IMHO it's internal workings doen't really matter. If it natively runs 32bit code, then it must be a 32bit processor.
Stopping and turning in place are advantages a bike or a scooter can't match at all. The alternative to segway in it's "natural" applications is walking. Wether it's advantage over walking outweights the cost is matter of application, as well as matter of how much money there is to spend.
I expect the technology to mature, and in 10 years segway-style vehicles will be a viable alternative for small scooters too, not just walking. I mean, the advantages are clear (ability to stop and turn in place without moving), only the disadvantages (slower speed, slow to recharge, unproven technology) need to improve. But they will improve, like perhaps fuel cell replacing the batteries and enabling fast refuelling and more power without sacrificing range, and maturing technology allowing faster speeds safely.
Using a segway now is akin to having a car a century ago; a toy for the rich, while real work was being done with horses. But it'll change, and it'll change a lot faster than it changed with cars I bet.
...
And putting foot to the ground so you can stay upright with a bike when stopped may be something you take for granted. A friend of mine did, until he got his feet stuck in his "pedal hooks" (or whatever they are called) at a red light, and neatly just fell sideways. Fortunately no harm done, and it was great fun to watch, cartoon style indeed;). But it clearly demonstrates that you have a separate "stop mode" for a bike, and if you fail to use it, the bike falls sideways:-D
The big difference with Segway compared to bike, in my impression, is that it can stop. And not only "can", but will stop "instinctively" because the driver instinctively stops leaning forward when there's something ahead. Well, of course a bike can stop too, but you have to put your foot to the ground then and go to "stop mode" so to say. With Segway there's no separate stop mode any more than there is when just walking, so it's much more agile, considering it can turn around in place.
Also, with bikes, when you're on a high gear and going fast, stopping and then having to accelerate is a real bummer, especially if it's uphill. With motorized vehicles it's much less so (especially if there are no gears to worry about) since there's no extra effort involved.
So I'd rather compare it to a wheelchair than to a bike or scooter.
But still for most people I'd classify it as an expensive toy. But so are sports cars and motorcycles for most people, nothing but expensive toys;-).
Just eating will not work. Sorry. You'll get very fat that way. It would seem that the body would use all its energy supplies and not create fat, but it does. I haven't yet learned why.
Well, I suppose body will try to create fat whenever it has the chance, to have that spare fuel reserve. Until very recently (100-50 years in industrialized countries? In some parts of the world still today?) that was a very good survival trait, because there was high likelyhood of long perioids (eg winters after bad summer) with not enough food. And of course in colder climes (and in water) fat is excellent thermal insulation, so having healthy amount of fat around the body was probalby good just about always, while average living conditions made sure that there wasn't much chance of getting too fat.
Anyway, back to topic. The suggestion of glucose pills would still work, or diet which produces a lot of glucose directly to food (I mean what's the difference from the point of view of these glucose-machines?). The machines take glucose out of blood, while user puts extra glucose to blood.
Now please explain how the body knows there's more total glucose? I'm pretty sure it does not measure how much glucose is brought into the system, it can only measure the curren glucose level in the blood. So more consumption directly from blood + extra glucose input is no different than normal consumption + normal glucose input. I don't see how body could even notice the change, let alone get hypoglycemia... AFAIK glucose can be absorbed even directly from mouth to blood already, so getting that extra glucose in shouldn't be a problem no matter what the persons condition.
I mean... consider that person excercises and gets stronger heart. Now logically (ie I could be wrong) that stronger heart uses more energy at all times. Now take a weaker heart + glucose-powered implant, which would use exactly the same amount of glucose than the stronger heart alone. What's the critical difference that makes the implant "harmful"?
And even if user would have to be real careful to keep the glucose levels normal (though I imagine these devices use tiny amounts compared to normal body functions), with this technology you could even have glucose powered blood sugar level indicators, with embedded indicators (leds or vibrators). Indicator notifies the person, who pops a glucose pill into his mouth. Might as well have a lot of other indicators there too, to warn about too high heart rate, alcohol or caffeine content out of specified boundaries...;-)
Of course any other issues common to all implants would apply to devices using this technology, but I really don't see how extra sugar consumption would even be noticed by the body, or if it is that big, how it couldn't be fixed with extra glucose input. But I'm no expert.
How about digital video and audio (consumer tech is not there yet, but maybe in 2 years there's something in the horizon at least...)?
Or just fast RAID array in the basement?
Or no extra lag for network gaming, where every ms counts?
And you need to have the cable connecting the WLAN access point(s) to the network anyway.
Though copper is still prolly a better choice in 2 years than fiber... But it'll be some kind of cables and gigabit ethernet as the backbone of my network, unless something really surprising and new comes up before then.
...when I'll hopefully be building my own house in a few years. Better allow enough space for optical cabling, adding it afterwards would be a pain if bend radius has to be that big.
Well, X uses up quite a lot more resources than Win3.11. 8 megs would run X (and window manager like twm) rather nicely IIRC, but only with no local applications running. So it'd make a usable X terminal at least.
But I wouldn't even think of launching a modern GUI web browser on it locally...
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I'm sure they'll have backward compatibility. To not have would hurt sales a lot... Especially since XBox is such a huge box and I'd hate to have to keep it around after XBox2.
Hmm... Is Sony planning to have PS2 compatibility in PS3? If yes, and XBox2 doesn't have XBox compatibility, that'd be a very good reason to get PS3 instead and forget XBox2.
Especially since I doubt XBox2 can do anything that a modded XBox can't do as a "living-room entertainment center"... It certainly won't have as big HD as a modded XBox can have...
I think MS does see all this, and will make XBox2 compatible with XBox games.
well the planet does a funny thing... when it's summer in the northern hemi... it's... get this... WINTER in the southern hemisphere!
So you mean, like if Antarctic winter will in future have less ice than Antarctic summer has now, it'd still be perfectly normal, because in the Arctic the seasons are the other way around?
Hmm... It's probably just me being stupid, but I just can't follow your logic...
Methane is much "better" greenhouse gas than CO2. So the primary effect would be while it's still methane, and that's prolly what we should be worried about.
But I'm not sure how long-lived it is in atmosphere though, ie how fast the release of methane must be before it actually creates global increase in greenhouse gasses. Melting marshes would release it pretty slowly, over many decades I suppose, so if it breaks down fast enough, it might not be a big factor.
I have no idea if there is *so* much methane that it would affect CO2 and H2O content of atmosphere after it breaks up... Atmosphere is huge, but solid or liquid can absorb a lot of gas in a small volume too...
Perhaps some chemist/physicist can give us raw numbers?
So how do FreeBSD ports work?
:)
Say, I notice that default install didn't install "most" (a pager, which has nifty hex display mode). In Debian I do sudo apt-get install most
How do you do same with FreeBSD ports? Last time I used FreeBSD was in '98 I think, so my memory is a bit hazy
Sure thing melting northern polar cap doesn't affect sea level, it's floating already.
;)
But melting Greenland ice will affect it. Probably also permafrost in Siberia and Canada would start melting, which will potentially release a lot of methane from the northern marshes.
And I have hard time believing that if northern ice cap melts, also southern ice cap won't get smaller (and that will rise sea level)...
Better watch out if you live by the sea... Lease the land for your new house for 50-100 years, don't buy it, and you should be fine
Trust me, ratio of smelly geeks to non-smelly geeks is much higher than average ratio of smelly people to non-smelly people.
At least applies at our geeky work place.
Hmm, or is it, ratio of smelly men to non-smelly men... that would fit too... uh, never mind (I'm a man).
apt-get is great, but it's not really the best part. Other distros have similar systems these days.
My point mostly was, that other distros might not have similar systems now, if Debian didn't develop apt-get.
But I'd be insterested in knowing if it was a Debian innovation in the first place, or if apt had some similar predecessor on some other distro / OS. And I mean something that works like apt-get, ie:
*user needs some software*
$ {pkg utility} {search command} {search text}
$ sudo {pkg utility} {install command} {package name}
*magic happens*
$ {binary-from-new-package}
Is that apt-get?
I mean, same kind of system is now all over the place, in about every distro.
But did Debian "invent" it, or were they first to make the concept work in practice?
Then again, they are also responsible for dselect...
I wouldn't be too surprised if there'll be initiatives to make participating in things like Freenet illegal...
I mean, the worm could easily be a lot stealthier, and do much more damage, couldn't it?
But I think wireless communication just isn't fast enough to run a Beowulf cluster on. At least not if you have a thousand dogs, like suggested. I mean, going wireless would be just a mess even for regular dog-to-dog communication with that amount of dogs in range. Beowulf on it seems like a no-go from the start. IMHO of course, please note that I don't have even one dog myself and don't have much experience with them at all.
Will internet come to a grinding halt or not? /. will be back in a week to report more...
Are there enough dumb win-users who do not know what "security hole" is, or do enough people patch their systems in time?
Stay tuned,
Better stick with satellites and computers for longer warning time, much less hassle.
I'd be tempted to declare you a troll, actually ;)
- hidden node removal problem
- convenient authentication (ie connect 2 devices once, use the connection securely after that)
- encryption (ie, is there improved standard WEP yet?) - standard way to make HID devices (eg WLAN headsets for a mobile phones)
For networking, 802.11 beats BT hands down. But for IR/cable replacment, WLAN has still a long way to go... But my info may not be up to date, feel free to correct me.
However, I still don't see how the toilet seat being up when somebody wants to sit on the toilet (whatever the reason) can be a problem. Do men teally have better eye-spine-hand coordination and don't need to think about putting it down before sitting, while women do have problems with this? ;-)
So they have a quantum gate. But is it just a transistor replacement, which you still would use to build traditional computers, chomping through processor instructions, processing binary (or base 4 or whatever) numbers? Or is for quantum computers working on a completely different paradigm?
Only because somebody else is paying for the music you listen, in hopes of getting you to listen to their advertisments also.
And everybody pays for that music inderectly (in prices of the advertised products). So it's far from free.
Online, it's harder to get people to pay for advertisements (and then of course there are all the too-easy-to-pirate issues etc). And indeed most of us just hate online advertising! The price to pay for this is that we must then pay for the content. And IMHO this is just fine (or will be, if there's ever going to be a successful international micropayment system in place).
If it executes 32bit code identical to 68020 32bit code, then why wouldn't it be a 32 bit processor? IMHO it's internal workings doen't really matter. If it natively runs 32bit code, then it must be a 32bit processor.
I expect the technology to mature, and in 10 years segway-style vehicles will be a viable alternative for small scooters too, not just walking. I mean, the advantages are clear (ability to stop and turn in place without moving), only the disadvantages (slower speed, slow to recharge, unproven technology) need to improve. But they will improve, like perhaps fuel cell replacing the batteries and enabling fast refuelling and more power without sacrificing range, and maturing technology allowing faster speeds safely.
Using a segway now is akin to having a car a century ago; a toy for the rich, while real work was being done with horses. But it'll change, and it'll change a lot faster than it changed with cars I bet.
... ;). But it clearly demonstrates that you have a separate "stop mode" for a bike, and if you fail to use it, the bike falls sideways :-D
And putting foot to the ground so you can stay upright with a bike when stopped may be something you take for granted. A friend of mine did, until he got his feet stuck in his "pedal hooks" (or whatever they are called) at a red light, and neatly just fell sideways. Fortunately no harm done, and it was great fun to watch, cartoon style indeed
Also, with bikes, when you're on a high gear and going fast, stopping and then having to accelerate is a real bummer, especially if it's uphill. With motorized vehicles it's much less so (especially if there are no gears to worry about) since there's no extra effort involved.
So I'd rather compare it to a wheelchair than to a bike or scooter.
But still for most people I'd classify it as an expensive toy. But so are sports cars and motorcycles for most people, nothing but expensive toys ;-).
Well, I suppose body will try to create fat whenever it has the chance, to have that spare fuel reserve. Until very recently (100-50 years in industrialized countries? In some parts of the world still today?) that was a very good survival trait, because there was high likelyhood of long perioids (eg winters after bad summer) with not enough food. And of course in colder climes (and in water) fat is excellent thermal insulation, so having healthy amount of fat around the body was probalby good just about always, while average living conditions made sure that there wasn't much chance of getting too fat.
Anyway, back to topic. The suggestion of glucose pills would still work, or diet which produces a lot of glucose directly to food (I mean what's the difference from the point of view of these glucose-machines?). The machines take glucose out of blood, while user puts extra glucose to blood.
Now please explain how the body knows there's more total glucose? I'm pretty sure it does not measure how much glucose is brought into the system, it can only measure the curren glucose level in the blood. So more consumption directly from blood + extra glucose input is no different than normal consumption + normal glucose input. I don't see how body could even notice the change, let alone get hypoglycemia... AFAIK glucose can be absorbed even directly from mouth to blood already, so getting that extra glucose in shouldn't be a problem no matter what the persons condition.
I mean... consider that person excercises and gets stronger heart. Now logically (ie I could be wrong) that stronger heart uses more energy at all times. Now take a weaker heart + glucose-powered implant, which would use exactly the same amount of glucose than the stronger heart alone. What's the critical difference that makes the implant "harmful"?
And even if user would have to be real careful to keep the glucose levels normal (though I imagine these devices use tiny amounts compared to normal body functions), with this technology you could even have glucose powered blood sugar level indicators, with embedded indicators (leds or vibrators). Indicator notifies the person, who pops a glucose pill into his mouth. Might as well have a lot of other indicators there too, to warn about too high heart rate, alcohol or caffeine content out of specified boundaries... ;-)
Of course any other issues common to all implants would apply to devices using this technology, but I really don't see how extra sugar consumption would even be noticed by the body, or if it is that big, how it couldn't be fixed with extra glucose input. But I'm no expert.
Or just fast RAID array in the basement?
Or no extra lag for network gaming, where every ms counts?
And you need to have the cable connecting the WLAN access point(s) to the network anyway.
Though copper is still prolly a better choice in 2 years than fiber... But it'll be some kind of cables and gigabit ethernet as the backbone of my network, unless something really surprising and new comes up before then.
...when I'll hopefully be building my own house in a few years. Better allow enough space for optical cabling, adding it afterwards would be a pain if bend radius has to be that big.
But I wouldn't even think of launching a modern GUI web browser on it locally...