Are we going to see this technology this year? I doubt it. But 5 years down the road, I bet your graphics card will be based on an FPGA.
This was supposed to be the promise of Creative's Sound Blaster Live! series of cards, which was based on a programmable chip.
Creative never lived up to the hype... because hardware companies are in business to sell hardware--an FPGA based graphics card in unlikely, because nVidia cannot sell a new one to high end gamers every six months.
How many know that the Boeing 747 development was entirely funded by the DOD for building the AWACS.
The E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft is based on the Boeing 707, not the 747. The 707 (known to the USAF as the C-135) is the basis for just about every large, special role aircraft in the american inventory--tankers, ELINT, non-presidential VIP transport (the VC-25 (aka the 747) replaced the VC-135 as Airforce One in 1991) and a whole host of other roles.
Both the 707 and 747 are also products of the late 1960s/early 1970s--i.e. the height of the cold war, and before "World Trade" as we know it existed.
In other words, you're comparing apples and oranges.
Kasparov suggested this after his match with Deep Blue. I predict that a computer augmented GM would hold out against a computer opponent for many years to come.
Considering that the human would have all his normal advantages over the computer, while having all of the COMPUTER'S advantages as well, I'd be SURPRISED if a computer assisted GM didn't win consistantly.
Microsoft has a EULA indicating what you can and can't do (e.g. resell). This is bad. Bad Microsoft. We hates's Microsoft, they tricksies.
GLP has a EULA (you have to do this or that to use this code). Good GPL. They'ss our friendss. Nice GPL.
Good lord. Make up your mind, people.
What you're missing here is that Microsoft's EULA RESTRICTS your use of their product further than standard copyright law, while the GPL actually GRANTS you rights additional to those guaranteed by law.
Did anyone else see a logical disconnect between his assertation that two sticks of RAM were better than one because if one failed, the machine could still operate while they waited for a replacement stick... and yet he chose NOT to use RAID?
Even worse, his choice of drive was a single WD 80GB IDE drive? WTF? There's a reason the warranties on those things just dropped to a year!
The wireless is the satellite to the plane...inside there is one wired ethernet connection for every 1st class seat, and one for every two business/coach.
802.11g? maybe later....
Of course, had you read the entire article, you would have noticed this:
Cisco Systems Inc. is providing technology for the onboard 802.11b based network, which offers wireless connectivity throughout all cabins, in addition to wireline connectivity via an Ethernet connector in the passenger seats, according to a company statement. Five Cisco Aironet 350 series access points have been fitted throughout the plane, along with one Cisco 3640 router and nine Cisco Catalyst 3548 XL series switches, the company said. Cisco's equipment has been modified, tested and certified by Lufthansa to meet civil aviation regulations, it said.
I think those things would be more important then to bounce around on the lunar surface for a couple of hours or to increase the IIS budget with a few percent.
I agree. Enough money has been spent on IIS--it's time to sink some cash into Apache!
Which any self respecting geek knows, it's where they keep the Nuclear Wessels:)
Not anymore.:(
The naval base was closed around 1996 IIRC. I was in SF about a year ago for a job interview, and had some time to spare. I went to Alameda, and drove onto what used to be the base. Pretty damn sad, though the USS Hornet Museum ship now lives there.
It's more important an issue than you make it out to be. It was in there even before the Bill of Rights, for goodness sake. Think about that for awhile -- copyrights came before freedom of speech, unreasonable searches and seizures, and cruel and unusual punishment. That really curdles my milk.
This is exactly why so many of the founders were AGAINST a bill of rights. They believed that enumerating certain rights would lead to those rights that were NOT enumerated being seen as either less important or non-existant.
The Constitution specifies the powers of the federal and state governments, and LIMITATIONS on those powers. It is entirely logical that copyright be in the original document (as congress was specifically granted the POWER to establish copyrights and patents.)
The Bill of Rights was seen--by those that supported it--as a further limitation on the power of government. Not as any sort of list of the rights of the people (who, by the way, retain ALL rights and powers that the constitution does not delegate to the government, or to the states.)
You don't have to be stupid to have a gun accident. You don't even have to be careless. You only have to be unlucky. And what's more, you only have to be unlucky once.
1 ALL firearms are ALWAYS loaded.
2 Never point a firearm at any object you are unwilling to destroy.
3 Keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on the target.
4 Know your target and what is beyond it.
Gun "accidents" are almost universally NEGLIGENCE (except the rare instance where a firearm mechanically malfunctions) and I can gaurantee you that in the case of ANY "accidental" shooting at LEAST two of the above rules were broken.
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He's not peeking around different sides of a tree-- he's sitting in exactly the same place. The only thing that changes is the camera angle. PJ is using the camera to drive home the point that Gollum/Smeagol is a divided personality. When he says "our precious" he really means "our". I thought it was a very clever way of doing it, and lent very well to the character development of Gollum (he had the most of any character in this movie, I think, and I think I like the movie Gollum better than I liked the book Gollum).
I couldn't agree more--I thought the way Gollum was handled was not just good, but EXCELLENT.
The Elf scenes and the way Faramir was handled (not to mention the friggin movie ended in the middle) was just downright poor. My fiancee kept leaning over to me during to the film and asking "uhh.. do you remember this part?"
At least a damned hour of screen time was out and out WASTED with stuff that never belonged there to begin with, and half the damn book gets pushed back to the third movie (leading me to believe that we won't get to see the hobbits return to the Shire after the fall of Sauron.)
Much like the rally here (Denver) that they held right after Columbine.
It was the yearly NRA convention. Scheduled years in advance. Costing hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars. With over ten thousand people travelling from across the US.
Of COURSE they didn't cancel it. It'd be like cancelling GenCon because some idiot in Milwaukee committed several killings with a sword the week before.
Bullet fingerprinting does absolutly ZERO damage to a person's ability to use a gun as they choose. BUT, if they murder someone, it makes it easy to trace. there is NO solid reason for the NRA to be against this, except that they support strong gun rights for not just citizens, hunters and for protection...but they effectivly support strong gun rights for criminals
OR it might be that the NRA looks on ballistic fingerprinting as a backdoor means of registering guns?
And, the only argument they can broke agaisnt this - is that criminals willjust use unfingerprinted bullets....to which I say BULLSHIT - not all crimes are pre-meditated, and not all criminals are smart. Some will use the bullets, and those will be easier to prosecute - all at no cost to the lawful gun user.
The absolutely shocking thing is you're screaming in support of something YOU DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND. One will most certainly NOT be buying "finger printed bullets," because the system doesn't work that way.
Ballistic fingerprinting is recording information about the WEAPON in the form of a spent bullet and shell casing.
As I'm sure someone of your vast experience with firearms knows, when a firearm is discharged, a projectile (the bullet) travels through the barrel. The barrel, for reasons of accuracy, is essentially threaded like a screw, imparting a spin on the bullet to increase accuracy--much like a football is thrown.
Additionally, semi-automatic weapons leave marks on shell casings when they strip the round off of the magazine, then eject the spent casing after the weapon is fired.
These are essentially tool marks, and they have been used for decades to match a weapon used in a crime to evidence recovered at the crime scene.
Their use in PREVENTIVE fingerprinting, however, poses several problems. One of these is the rather easy way these marks can be chaged (in the case of the ejector and extrator, with a file and 5 minutes time, and in the case of the barrel via lapping or a simple barrel replacement--and indeed, all of these marks will change over the life of the weapon, due to wear from use and cleaning.)
Another, far more difficult problem to solve is that modern manufacturing processes make firearms in the same lot QUITE similar--almost identical. How useful is it to trace a crime to one of several THOUSAND firearms?
The California Department of Justice--HARDLY what one would call NRA shills--commissioned a study on the topic and found that it won't work for the reasons noted above.
Maybe next time you should educate yourself on the topic before spouting off.
Well, I wasn't really talking about history here. I was talking about current proposed (and recently failed) legislation before Congress, which are mostly related
1) background checks, 2) waiting periods and 3) gun safety (trigger locks and the such).
Sorry, I wasn't taking pending legislation into account--merely items that had become law.
Of course, if one takes a cursory look at what is currently before the house and the senate, you'll find alot more than background checks.
Like HR3679, banning the possession of firearms "not suited to sporting purposes" (i.e. self-defense firearms.)
Or HR3660 which outlaws the sale of various gun parts like STOCKS through anything other than a licensed dealer.
or HR3182 (S505 companion) banning.50 caliber rifles.
or HR138, requiring registration of all handguns (note, according to the supreme court, requiring CRIMINALS to register firearms would violate the 5th amendment.)
or HR3751, which seeks to make "assault weapons" even MORE illegal.
There's also S330, which seeks to give the executive branch quite a bit of control over firearms design.
Forgive the lack of links, but Thomas creates temporary URLs, which are not valid for more than a few hours.
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Are we going to see this technology this year? I doubt it. But 5 years down the road, I bet your graphics card will be based on an FPGA.
This was supposed to be the promise of Creative's Sound Blaster Live! series of cards, which was based on a programmable chip.
Creative never lived up to the hype... because hardware companies are in business to sell hardware--an FPGA based graphics card in unlikely, because nVidia cannot sell a new one to high end gamers every six months.
How many know that the Boeing 747 development was entirely funded by the DOD for building the AWACS.
The E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft is based on the Boeing 707, not the 747. The 707 (known to the USAF as the C-135) is the basis for just about every large, special role aircraft in the american inventory--tankers, ELINT, non-presidential VIP transport (the VC-25 (aka the 747) replaced the VC-135 as Airforce One in 1991) and a whole host of other roles.
Both the 707 and 747 are also products of the late 1960s/early 1970s--i.e. the height of the cold war, and before "World Trade" as we know it existed.
In other words, you're comparing apples and oranges.
No, it's no longer "CCNP"; the Soviet Socialists are now calling themselves the nationlists, the Union is gone, and the country's just named Russia.
In Soviet Russia.... ahh, forget it, it's too easy.
What is funny is that "dark energy" is also termed "quintessence" or the fifth element
So, basically, it's Milla Jovovich?
I mean, what next, "Linux Networking: 9/11 All Over Again"?
/bin/laden joke coming on...
I feel a
just eclipsed Windows with Linux on my home system.
I just eclipsed my old toothbrush with a new one.
I just eclipsed the shit in my ass-crack with toilet paper.
Now, don't I sound FUCKING STUPID? Yes, I do.
Dude... it's a pun. You know, "Sun," "Eclipse," that sort of thing?
There's a word in the english language that will change you life... Decaf.
Kasparov suggested this after his match with Deep Blue. I predict that a computer augmented GM would hold out against a computer opponent for many years to come.
Considering that the human would have all his normal advantages over the computer, while having all of the COMPUTER'S advantages as well, I'd be SURPRISED if a computer assisted GM didn't win consistantly.
Let's see:
Microsoft has a EULA indicating what you can and can't do (e.g. resell). This is bad. Bad Microsoft. We hates's Microsoft, they tricksies.
GLP has a EULA (you have to do this or that to use this code). Good GPL. They'ss our friendss. Nice GPL.
Good lord. Make up your mind, people.
What you're missing here is that Microsoft's EULA RESTRICTS your use of their product further than standard copyright law, while the GPL actually GRANTS you rights additional to those guaranteed by law.
Think about it.
Did anyone else see a logical disconnect between his assertation that two sticks of RAM were better than one because if one failed, the machine could still operate while they waited for a replacement stick... and yet he chose NOT to use RAID?
Even worse, his choice of drive was a single WD 80GB IDE drive? WTF? There's a reason the warranties on those things just dropped to a year!
I don't know about anybody else, but if even one post about this gets modded Funny, I will walk away from SlashDot for good.
If the posts so far are any indication of the number of Genuine Assholes who frequent this site, it's a lost cause anyway.
This is not funny in any way.
Whoever modded the parent as "Funny" is just plain sick.
What was her name?
Yeah, right, as if ANYONE in that building would ask...
802.11g? maybe later....
Of course, had you read the entire article, you would have noticed this:
It's not 802.11g, but it's still a WLAN.
I think those things would be more important then to bounce around on the lunar surface for a couple of hours or to increase the IIS budget with a few percent.
I agree. Enough money has been spent on IIS--it's time to sink some cash into Apache!
Which any self respecting geek knows, it's where they keep the Nuclear Wessels :)
:(
Not anymore.
The naval base was closed around 1996 IIRC. I was in SF about a year ago for a job interview, and had some time to spare. I went to Alameda, and drove onto what used to be the base. Pretty damn sad, though the USS Hornet Museum ship now lives there.
If Hotmail accounts are targeted randomly, the amount of spam you get is probably related to the complexity of your username....
If you look up, you'll see the joke flying over your head...
It's more important an issue than you make it out to be. It was in there even before the Bill of Rights, for goodness sake. Think about that for awhile -- copyrights came before freedom of speech, unreasonable searches and seizures, and cruel and unusual punishment. That really curdles my milk.
This is exactly why so many of the founders were AGAINST a bill of rights. They believed that enumerating certain rights would lead to those rights that were NOT enumerated being seen as either less important or non-existant.
The Constitution specifies the powers of the federal and state governments, and LIMITATIONS on those powers. It is entirely logical that copyright be in the original document (as congress was specifically granted the POWER to establish copyrights and patents.)
The Bill of Rights was seen--by those that supported it--as a further limitation on the power of government. Not as any sort of list of the rights of the people (who, by the way, retain ALL rights and powers that the constitution does not delegate to the government, or to the states.)
You don't have to be stupid to have a gun accident. You don't even have to be careless. You only have to be unlucky. And what's more, you only have to be unlucky once.
1 ALL firearms are ALWAYS loaded.
2 Never point a firearm at any object you are unwilling to destroy.
3 Keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on the target.
4 Know your target and what is beyond it.
Gun "accidents" are almost universally NEGLIGENCE (except the rare instance where a firearm mechanically malfunctions) and I can gaurantee you that in the case of ANY "accidental" shooting at LEAST two of the above rules were broken.
Luck has absolutely NOTHING to do with it.
220KB/sec here, sustained.
He's not peeking around different sides of a tree-- he's sitting in exactly the same place. The only thing that changes is the camera angle. PJ is using the camera to drive home the point that Gollum/Smeagol is a divided personality. When he says "our precious" he really means "our". I thought it was a very clever way of doing it, and lent very well to the character development of Gollum (he had the most of any character in this movie, I think, and I think I like the movie Gollum better than I liked the book Gollum).
I couldn't agree more--I thought the way Gollum was handled was not just good, but EXCELLENT.
The Elf scenes and the way Faramir was handled (not to mention the friggin movie ended in the middle) was just downright poor. My fiancee kept leaning over to me during to the film and asking "uhh.. do you remember this part?"
At least a damned hour of screen time was out and out WASTED with stuff that never belonged there to begin with, and half the damn book gets pushed back to the third movie (leading me to believe that we won't get to see the hobbits return to the Shire after the fall of Sauron.)
All in all, quite disappointing.
http://www.apple.com/switch
So, like, I tried to sent an assassin robot back in time and it was like "beep beep..."
I saw the movie at 9:30PM last night, and was home by 1:00AM.
:)
I also saw the movie for free, got free popcorn and soda, and even got to smuggle in outside goodies without fear of reprisal.
Having a fiancee that works for a movie chain definitely has its perks.
Sounds to me like Robert Heinlein is a fucking moron. Right up their with Hilter and other fascist dictators.
Generally speaking, fascist dictators like their subjects disarmed. Makes them easier to round up and slaughter, you know.
But despite all that nobody is claiming that I do not have the right to drive a car!
But the gun control groups all but unanimously claim that Americans DO NOT have a right to own a gun.
So, for that matter, did the US Government under the Clinton administration, and argued the point in US v. Emerson.
Much like the rally here (Denver) that they held right after Columbine.
It was the yearly NRA convention. Scheduled years in advance. Costing hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars. With over ten thousand people travelling from across the US.
Of COURSE they didn't cancel it. It'd be like cancelling GenCon because some idiot in Milwaukee committed several killings with a sword the week before.
Bullet fingerprinting does absolutly ZERO damage to a person's ability to use a gun as they choose. BUT, if they murder someone, it makes it easy to trace. there is NO solid reason for the NRA to be against this, except that they support strong gun rights for not just citizens, hunters and for protection...but they effectivly support strong gun rights for criminals
OR it might be that the NRA looks on ballistic fingerprinting as a backdoor means of registering guns?
And, the only argument they can broke agaisnt this - is that criminals willjust use unfingerprinted bullets....to which I say BULLSHIT - not all crimes are pre-meditated, and not all criminals are smart. Some will use the bullets, and those will be easier to prosecute - all at no cost to the lawful gun user.
The absolutely shocking thing is you're screaming in support of something YOU DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND. One will most certainly NOT be buying "finger printed bullets," because the system doesn't work that way.
Ballistic fingerprinting is recording information about the WEAPON in the form of a spent bullet and shell casing.
As I'm sure someone of your vast experience with firearms knows, when a firearm is discharged, a projectile (the bullet) travels through the barrel. The barrel, for reasons of accuracy, is essentially threaded like a screw, imparting a spin on the bullet to increase accuracy--much like a football is thrown.
Additionally, semi-automatic weapons leave marks on shell casings when they strip the round off of the magazine, then eject the spent casing after the weapon is fired.
These are essentially tool marks, and they have been used for decades to match a weapon used in a crime to evidence recovered at the crime scene.
Their use in PREVENTIVE fingerprinting, however, poses several problems. One of these is the rather easy way these marks can be chaged (in the case of the ejector and extrator, with a file and 5 minutes time, and in the case of the barrel via lapping or a simple barrel replacement--and indeed, all of these marks will change over the life of the weapon, due to wear from use and cleaning.)
Another, far more difficult problem to solve is that modern manufacturing processes make firearms in the same lot QUITE similar--almost identical. How useful is it to trace a crime to one of several THOUSAND firearms?
The California Department of Justice--HARDLY what one would call NRA shills--commissioned a study on the topic and found that it won't work for the reasons noted above.
Maybe next time you should educate yourself on the topic before spouting off.
Well, I wasn't really talking about history here. I was talking about current proposed (and recently failed) legislation before Congress, which are mostly related
.50 caliber rifles.
1) background checks,
2) waiting periods and
3) gun safety (trigger locks and the such).
Sorry, I wasn't taking pending legislation into account--merely items that had become law.
Of course, if one takes a cursory look at what is currently before the house and the senate, you'll find alot more than background checks.
Like HR3679, banning the possession of firearms "not suited to sporting purposes" (i.e. self-defense firearms.)
Or HR3660 which outlaws the sale of various gun parts like STOCKS through anything other than a licensed dealer.
or HR3182 (S505 companion) banning
or HR138, requiring registration of all handguns (note, according to the supreme court, requiring CRIMINALS to register firearms would violate the 5th amendment.)
or HR3751, which seeks to make "assault weapons" even MORE illegal.
There's also S330, which seeks to give the executive branch quite a bit of control over firearms design.
Forgive the lack of links, but Thomas creates temporary URLs, which are not valid for more than a few hours.