Though the above post missed the point... I have had absoulely NO problems at all with Xfree4.1.99.1 on my Ti PowerBook running OS 10.1. In fact, the latest version of XDarwin (formerly called Xaqua project) runs X beautifully in rootless mode on top of quartz. (type: startx -- -quartz). XDarwin now supports dual head settups and runs rootless so you can have your xterm and Gimp run right next to terminal and Photoshop (not that I would do such a thing). I don't know why this guy had X break. I'm running a stock pre-compiled version of X for darwin and the latest XDarwin install. No special modifications, just upgraded from MacOS 10.0.4 to 10.1 and my PowerBook and I are happy as clams.
Yup, my cargo shorts are great! (dunno why this is funny) I cary my palm, cell, keys, wallet, mp3 player and pocket knife in the two main pockets. Other knick-nacks like tools, drinks and stuff in the others. American Eagle has pretty sturdy shorts and have a small, elevated cellphone pocket within a pocket.
I also use my Kensington Saddlebag for the laptop and all that stuff on long hauls. Its a lot like a purse but for men. You can sling it over a sholder, carry it like a briefcase or wear it like a backpack. And if you're too big around the middle for cargo shorts (why are you socially consious anyway? a fanny pack?) this is a little more stylish.
Cingular (formerly PacBell PCS in my area) also supplies every phone with this type of email address but they also send SMS outside of their network. I'm able to SMS my friends who use the SprintPCS network and friends in Europe with my 300 free messages/mo. Oh, and my unlimited nights and weekends, no long distance in the US and free US roaming is much cheaper and more convienient than that "pay as originator of call" system they use in Europe IMHO.
Serriously, that might work! I've thought about this. I know phone is too low fidelity to plug in to the mixer and record but what if you only record John and Rob on the mixer and have Nate and Jeff on the phone so you can talk in real time, have them record on semi-decent mics on their computers on either coast, convert their tracks to high quality mp3s (what-have-you), email them in and merge the tracks together. It's not quite as high fidelity as having you all on the mixer board but its 10x better than recording off the phone, not too much time shifting between tracks after 30 minutes and not too hard to do! Heck, I'll volunteer to merge the tracks together. I LOVE GIS, it make the drive to work so enjoyable, other drivers stuck in LA traffic just stair at me as I bust up at the lame geek jokes. Keep up the good work!
This should make the fuselage 30% lighter, reduce the cost of the plane by 25% and use less than half the parts of its traditional aluminum counterparts."
...and make lightning strikes 95% more dangerous to the aircraft. W/O a conductive cage holding the meat puppets and electronics inside, an electrical storm would rip right through one of these instead of traveling around the outside leaving a big smoldering hole and a bunch of disappointed commercial passengers. Lets hope they have the good sence to use a hybrid matrix of conductive metals and carbon fibers.
When I was living in college apartments before they started wiring for Ethernet, we came up with serious plans to flush Cat 5 down the toilet to get a connection to the far side of the apartment complex. We figure, flush a sting down one toilet and the cable down the other, find a freshman to go in to the sewer and tie the ends together and pull it up on the other side. You'd have the minor inconvience of a small leak in the toilet seal but it would have been well worth it to share a t1 back in those days! "Please don't piss on the Cat 5."
when that extra bandwith is needed? This storage systems utilizes unused network bandwith but network traffic load is a rather dynamic throughout the day, does it just start deleting files at random to make room for it's primary function, network traffic? This whole concept seems terribly impractical unless a provider has absolute control over each point in their network and can manage this storage without causing latency on other traffic... I believe there would be considerable demand for such high speed distributed storage for small size, high traffic, distributed database services.
We also use a VERY simple OS in our processor arch 2 and 3 classes. For the purposes of teaching fault handling/vector tables, virtual memory and such; students are given a simple framework of code for a MC68k simulator as well as the microcode for the processor as writen by a prof (and being re-writen in java by a student now). Students are required to perform a number of labs implementing the above features in 68k assembly.
As a first timer, I learned a lot working at such a simple low level with a simulator I could modify and beat heck out of.
We've been lucky to have a few big names at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo probably because we're close to the bay area/SV. Rasterman has stopped by on his way from Redhat in north carolina to the SV and we have some guys from Eazel coming tonight. We also get major ISP admins to talk about security, hold our own meetings covering different issuses and hold a "Free Your Machine" day where we help the community install the distro of their choice on their PeeCees. Just target some smaller projects. We got some money from our EE department to take Rasterman out to dinner but we never really offer much. I know a prof that met RMS and invited him but he wanted some absurd honorarium upwards of a couple grand. =P
Actually, I've seen one of the big silver X's demo-ed when we had them visit our campus and one of the things they emphasized was that they'd have more realistic bodys/skin/movements for fighting games. They showed us an interactive demo where you could control a "fighter chick" and robot and the body had about 20 times the polys and body joints/flexible skin textures than any Tekken type game out there. The render quality was simply AMAZING for real time. I'd expect it to blow the games you mentioned out of the water. When the next round of console boxes finally come out, I expect to see the Xbox on top in all catagorys.
I've been playing video games all my life. I started my age old love affair with the Atari 2600 (which by the way had bio feed back). The sensation of getting hit by an older brother for beating him down at Combat or that of a full bladder from playing Pit Fall Harry for 3 hours straight. I've since moved on to such inspired weekend killers like Star Craft and Unreal Tournament and the ONLY attention focusing they've helped me with is focusing on the pretty colors on my monitor for hours on end. I think things like video games and information on demand have destroyed my attentions span. I make ADD look like a walk in the park. I truly can't focus on reading or homework like I used to. Please tell me I'm not alone in downloading great works of literature that are required reading for some class and then having my computer summarize 400 pages in to 40 the night before a quiz. I have more thoughts on the subject but I don't think I want to proof read anything longer than a paragraph.
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It's about time guys! Do you have any idea how boring GIS gets after you listen to the same episode a dozen times? I can only email Kurt so much ASCII porn. j/k I love GIS, i load it on my Rio and it makes my commute fly. Record more! Some of use are sickos and can't live very long between/.ing at home and/.ing at school, listening to geeky banter gives us reason to live. Keep up the great work!
Are you just trolling? He clearly states the mass of a PHOTON is zero which, at least in my 4 little dimensions, is entirely true; but then I got a C in modern physics (it's a particle, no it's a wave, no its a particle. Well it doesn't have mass anyway). Not that that statement being true has any reflection on the rest of this theory. It's all pretty to think about but implementation is a bitch. I can come up with all sorts of cute ideas ideas like single pole feromagnetic bubble gum but I'll be damned if I can actually make it.
My best friend (who will remain nameless after this story) did the same thing at Northland University Wisconsin. 300ft of cat-3 out the basement lab in his dorm, between the brick on the outside of the dorm, up 3 stories and in his window. All in a night's work with rubber cement and a little carpet pulling. Some kid got jealous and busted him but all he had to do was write letters of apologies to the campus admins and the school's president. Sounds a lot more reasonable than getting charged, fined and hot grits poured down your pants. If any of you have similar experiences, I'd encourage you to write the university a 'nice' note like I plan on with details of precedence set at other universities. May not help but after a few more beers, I won't care.
Hehe, you'll have to change the batteries on this thing more often than you change the CD. I think I'd rather have the tiny Rio 500 and load up a dozen songs every day before I skip off to classes. Is it true that the Rio isn't happy with most bit-rates?
Some of you take this stuff too seriously. I saw the first 3 movies as a kid and I love them today because of that simple fact. They were visually and musically appealing and that nostalga won't ever wear off. I've seen them dozens of times and revel in the fact that I know the movie word for word. My borderline obsession makes me happy isn't hurting anyone so I don't know why anyone would care. The fact is, these are and always have been simple, straight forward movies. Why some of you complain about that now is bewildering. And yes, the movies use other's stories heavily, that argument can be applied to just about every movie/book/show and doesn't make these movies any less special.
I hate Jar Jar as much as the next guy now that I'm older but I don't think TPM should be disgarded as marketing trash. Its not some artsy fartsy, esoteric masterpiece like some of you require of a movie but it fit the storyline as expected and I'd be willing to bet most of you pee'd in your pants when Williams powerful music came booming over the speakers when Obiwan leaped up and halved Darth Maul. That's my rant, take it or leave it.
Here here... this genius uses his own phone line and goes directly from his ISP to the target system. I know script kiddies that are smart enough to bounce around through a few low security elementary school computers first. Oh yea, prooves he has brass ones by showing how eager he is to meet his new boy friend in the state pen. They should make an example of him but I fear that may make him a marter to his script kiddie buddies.
Yea! Ask your mom if I can come over and play. It can be the new secret/. club house. I'll bring cookies and my decoder ring and we can have a secret password to get it in! Just make sure you let it cool off for a day before you touch it.
WTF? How does making ICs the size of atoms translate to spreadable or wearable computers and why does the interview keep bringing that up? This is in such a theoretical stage that you could pull just about anything from your ass and claim it could be an application, why deal in these inane specifics? "Ohhh... we can make a car out of them that can share processes with the sex bot we made out of them when they are in contact." While such an idea is almost erotic to a nerd such as myself, I couldn't restrain from beating my head against my keyboard everytime the interview interjected. (post script rant: and why would these ICs be changing colors anyway?) I'm done now... "These aren't the flames we're looking for, you can go about your business... move along"
Anyone else notice that the article never said anything about recharging life? Maybe it's not an issue but usually those nice, dense batteries have a 'better' memory and are more difficult to recharge repeatedly.
Also, RISC pushes more of the work to the software, which is fundamentally slower than hardware. Lets do as much stuff as low as possible so our systems run faster. Adding layers sucks.
Your statment is correct, your conclusion is confusing && || wrong.
Yes, at compile time more work is done when RISC instuctions are broken down to really low level instructions (rather than instructions that need a huge microprogie to decode at run time) that means less decoding work to do at run time! What a concept. In GENERAL, programmers don't have to code RISC assembly level by hand to gain perfomance thanks to simple logic and good little compiler creators. At any rate; in a competative software market, no one gives a sh*t about whether the programmer WANTS to code assembly level in RISC or CISC anyway... (this from a masochist who enjoy's writing in MIPS)
Once I stopped laughing and clear the tears from my eyes I realized you were trying to be serious. All CISC processors I'm familiar with break down CISC instructions with a decoding process we like to call microcode. Surely you're not suggesting that because an instuction is decoded to an even more simple level on the processor, that makes that instuction set RISC. The definition of RISC may be a topic for debate but IMHO, if its not a Load Store arch and it runs a complex micro or nano program, it ain't RISC. Stop believing the "Me too" crowd and think about it a little.
These animals are NOT wild animals, they were born and raised in captivity. Would these people be complaining if some more common domesticated animal were brought to the conference? I have a pet bird and a dog that I know would love to be around all those friendly people. You can't simply say definitively that all animals fear crowds.
In all of my expiriences with animals, each react in some degree in three specific ways when in threatening or stressful situations. They either fight, flee/become withdrawn if that isn't possible or they play dead. While I'm no Dr. Doolittle like our fine friends at PETA claim to be, these penguins were showing none of these reactions. I have to agree with the first post the US media is full of whiners. That's my $0.02
I recall stories of glass platers floating around a couple years ago. They were to be lighter, faster and cheaper to produce. I even saw some proto-types in a materials engineering course. Whatever happened to this idea? Perhaps they didn't make enough noise about "market share" and "stock prices". Too bad development and investment go hand in hand.
The machine isn't really getting ping flooded or having routing problems. They have a trained monkey watching the server logs and when someone gets in and starts to leave cracker foot prints, the monkey throws the power switch. If it isn't up for long enough, it can't be hacked. Now that's what Micros~1 meant by secure! You guys just don't give them enough credit for origional ideas!
BTW, I'm patenting my Secure Server Monkey idea, don't try to steal it or public license it.
Side note; do you really thing M$ is honest enough to admit to the media when this machine actaully gets cracked or will we see more exuses.
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Though the above post missed the point... I have had absoulely NO problems at all with Xfree4.1.99.1 on my Ti PowerBook running OS 10.1. In fact, the latest version of XDarwin (formerly called Xaqua project) runs X beautifully in rootless mode on top of quartz. (type: startx -- -quartz). XDarwin now supports dual head settups and runs rootless so you can have your xterm and Gimp run right next to terminal and Photoshop (not that I would do such a thing). I don't know why this guy had X break. I'm running a stock pre-compiled version of X for darwin and the latest XDarwin install. No special modifications, just upgraded from MacOS 10.0.4 to 10.1 and my PowerBook and I are happy as clams.
Yup, my cargo shorts are great! (dunno why this is funny) I cary my palm, cell, keys, wallet, mp3 player and pocket knife in the two main pockets. Other knick-nacks like tools, drinks and stuff in the others. American Eagle has pretty sturdy shorts and have a small, elevated cellphone pocket within a pocket.
I also use my Kensington Saddlebag for the laptop and all that stuff on long hauls. Its a lot like a purse but for men. You can sling it over a sholder, carry it like a briefcase or wear it like a backpack. And if you're too big around the middle for cargo shorts (why are you socially consious anyway? a fanny pack?) this is a little more stylish.
Cingular (formerly PacBell PCS in my area) also supplies every phone with this type of email address but they also send SMS outside of their network. I'm able to SMS my friends who use the SprintPCS network and friends in Europe with my 300 free messages/mo. Oh, and my unlimited nights and weekends, no long distance in the US and free US roaming is much cheaper and more convienient than that "pay as originator of call" system they use in Europe IMHO.
Serriously, that might work! I've thought about this. I know phone is too low fidelity to plug in to the mixer and record but what if you only record John and Rob on the mixer and have Nate and Jeff on the phone so you can talk in real time, have them record on semi-decent mics on their computers on either coast, convert their tracks to high quality mp3s (what-have-you), email them in and merge the tracks together. It's not quite as high fidelity as having you all on the mixer board but its 10x better than recording off the phone, not too much time shifting between tracks after 30 minutes and not too hard to do! Heck, I'll volunteer to merge the tracks together.
I LOVE GIS, it make the drive to work so enjoyable, other drivers stuck in LA traffic just stair at me as I bust up at the lame geek jokes. Keep up the good work!
When I was living in college apartments before they started wiring for Ethernet, we came up with serious plans to flush Cat 5 down the toilet to get a connection to the far side of the apartment complex. We figure, flush a sting down one toilet and the cable down the other, find a freshman to go in to the sewer and tie the ends together and pull it up on the other side. You'd have the minor inconvience of a small leak in the toilet seal but it would have been well worth it to share a t1 back in those days! "Please don't piss on the Cat 5."
when that extra bandwith is needed? This storage systems utilizes unused network bandwith but network traffic load is a rather dynamic throughout the day, does it just start deleting files at random to make room for it's primary function, network traffic? This whole concept seems terribly impractical unless a provider has absolute control over each point in their network and can manage this storage without causing latency on other traffic... I believe there would be considerable demand for such high speed distributed storage for small size, high traffic, distributed database services.
As a first timer, I learned a lot working at such a simple low level with a simulator I could modify and beat heck out of.
We've been lucky to have a few big names at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo probably because we're close to the bay area/SV. Rasterman has stopped by on his way from Redhat in north carolina to the SV and we have some guys from Eazel coming tonight. We also get major ISP admins to talk about security, hold our own meetings covering different issuses and hold a "Free Your Machine" day where we help the community install the distro of their choice on their PeeCees. Just target some smaller projects. We got some money from our EE department to take Rasterman out to dinner but we never really offer much. I know a prof that met RMS and invited him but he wanted some absurd honorarium upwards of a couple grand. =P
Actually, I've seen one of the big silver X's demo-ed when we had them visit our campus and one of the things they emphasized was that they'd have more realistic bodys/skin/movements for fighting games. They showed us an interactive demo where you could control a "fighter chick" and robot and the body had about 20 times the polys and body joints/flexible skin textures than any Tekken type game out there. The render quality was simply AMAZING for real time. I'd expect it to blow the games you mentioned out of the water. When the next round of console boxes finally come out, I expect to see the Xbox on top in all catagorys.
I've been playing video games all my life. I started my age old love affair with the Atari 2600 (which by the way had bio feed back). The sensation of getting hit by an older brother for beating him down at Combat or that of a full bladder from playing Pit Fall Harry for 3 hours straight. I've since moved on to such inspired weekend killers like Star Craft and Unreal Tournament and the ONLY attention focusing they've helped me with is focusing on the pretty colors on my monitor for hours on end. I think things like video games and information on demand have destroyed my attentions span. I make ADD look like a walk in the park. I truly can't focus on reading or homework like I used to. Please tell me I'm not alone in downloading great works of literature that are required reading for some class and then having my computer summarize 400 pages in to 40 the night before a quiz. I have more thoughts on the subject but I don't think I want to proof read anything longer than a paragraph.
It's about time guys! Do you have any idea how boring GIS gets after you listen to the same episode a dozen times? I can only email Kurt so much ASCII porn. j/k I love GIS, i load it on my Rio and it makes my commute fly. Record more! Some of use are sickos and can't live very long between /.ing at home and /.ing at school, listening to geeky banter gives us reason to live. Keep up the great work!
Are you just trolling? He clearly states the mass of a PHOTON is zero which, at least in my 4 little dimensions, is entirely true; but then I got a C in modern physics (it's a particle, no it's a wave, no its a particle. Well it doesn't have mass anyway). Not that that statement being true has any reflection on the rest of this theory. It's all pretty to think about but implementation is a bitch. I can come up with all sorts of cute ideas ideas like single pole feromagnetic bubble gum but I'll be damned if I can actually make it.
My best friend (who will remain nameless after this story) did the same thing at Northland University Wisconsin. 300ft of cat-3 out the basement lab in his dorm, between the brick on the outside of the dorm, up 3 stories and in his window. All in a night's work with rubber cement and a little carpet pulling. Some kid got jealous and busted him but all he had to do was write letters of apologies to the campus admins and the school's president. Sounds a lot more reasonable than getting charged, fined and hot grits poured down your pants. If any of you have similar experiences, I'd encourage you to write the university a 'nice' note like I plan on with details of precedence set at other universities. May not help but after a few more beers, I won't care.
Hehe, you'll have to change the batteries on this thing more often than you change the CD. I think I'd rather have the tiny Rio 500 and load up a dozen songs every day before I skip off to classes. Is it true that the Rio isn't happy with most bit-rates?
Some of you take this stuff too seriously. I saw the first 3 movies as a kid and I love them today because of that simple fact. They were visually and musically appealing and that nostalga won't ever wear off. I've seen them dozens of times and revel in the fact that I know the movie word for word. My borderline obsession makes me happy isn't hurting anyone so I don't know why anyone would care. The fact is, these are and always have been simple, straight forward movies. Why some of you complain about that now is bewildering. And yes, the movies use other's stories heavily, that argument can be applied to just about every movie/book/show and doesn't make these movies any less special.
I hate Jar Jar as much as the next guy now that I'm older but I don't think TPM should be disgarded as marketing trash. Its not some artsy fartsy, esoteric masterpiece like some of you require of a movie but it fit the storyline as expected and I'd be willing to bet most of you pee'd in your pants when Williams powerful music came booming over the speakers when Obiwan leaped up and halved Darth Maul. That's my rant, take it or leave it.
Here here... this genius uses his own phone line and goes directly from his ISP to the target system. I know script kiddies that are smart enough to bounce around through a few low security elementary school computers first. Oh yea, prooves he has brass ones by showing how eager he is to meet his new boy friend in the state pen. They should make an example of him but I fear that may make him a marter to his script kiddie buddies.
Yea! Ask your mom if I can come over and play. It can be the new secret /. club house. I'll bring cookies and my decoder ring and we can have a secret password to get it in! Just make sure you let it cool off for a day before you touch it.
WTF? How does making ICs the size of atoms translate to spreadable or wearable computers and why does the interview keep bringing that up? This is in such a theoretical stage that you could pull just about anything from your ass and claim it could be an application, why deal in these inane specifics? "Ohhh... we can make a car out of them that can share processes with the sex bot we made out of them when they are in contact." While such an idea is almost erotic to a nerd such as myself, I couldn't restrain from beating my head against my keyboard everytime the interview interjected. (post script rant: and why would these ICs be changing colors anyway?)
I'm done now...
"These aren't the flames we're looking for, you can go about your business... move along"
Anyone else notice that the article never said anything about recharging life? Maybe it's not an issue but usually those nice, dense batteries have a 'better' memory and are more difficult to recharge repeatedly.
Your statment is correct, your conclusion is confusing && || wrong.
Yes, at compile time more work is done when RISC instuctions are broken down to really low level instructions (rather than instructions that need a huge microprogie to decode at run time) that means less decoding work to do at run time! What a concept.
In GENERAL, programmers don't have to code RISC assembly level by hand to gain perfomance thanks to simple logic and good little compiler creators.
At any rate; in a competative software market, no one gives a sh*t about whether the programmer WANTS to code assembly level in RISC or CISC anyway... (this from a masochist who enjoy's writing in MIPS)
Once I stopped laughing and clear the tears from my eyes I realized you were trying to be serious. All CISC processors I'm familiar with break down CISC instructions with a decoding process we like to call microcode. Surely you're not suggesting that because an instuction is decoded to an even more simple level on the processor, that makes that instuction set RISC. The definition of RISC may be a topic for debate but IMHO, if its not a Load Store arch and it runs a complex micro or nano program, it ain't RISC. Stop believing the "Me too" crowd and think about it a little.
These animals are NOT wild animals, they were born and raised in captivity. Would these people be complaining if some more common domesticated animal were brought to the conference? I have a pet bird and a dog that I know would love to be around all those friendly people. You can't simply say definitively that all animals fear crowds.
In all of my expiriences with animals, each react in some degree in three specific ways when in threatening or stressful situations. They either fight, flee/become withdrawn if that isn't possible or they play dead. While I'm no Dr. Doolittle like our fine friends at PETA claim to be, these penguins were showing none of these reactions.
I have to agree with the first post the US media is full of whiners. That's my $0.02
I recall stories of glass platers floating around a couple years ago. They were to be lighter, faster and cheaper to produce. I even saw some proto-types in a materials engineering course. Whatever happened to this idea? Perhaps they didn't make enough noise about "market share" and "stock prices". Too bad development and investment go hand in hand.
The machine isn't really getting ping flooded or having routing problems. They have a trained monkey watching the server logs and when someone gets in and starts to leave cracker foot prints, the monkey throws the power switch. If it isn't up for long enough, it can't be hacked. Now that's what Micros~1 meant by secure! You guys just don't give them enough credit for origional ideas!
BTW, I'm patenting my Secure Server Monkey idea, don't try to steal it or public license it.
Side note; do you really thing M$ is honest enough to admit to the media when this machine actaully gets cracked or will we see more exuses.