Geezz, this is tough. I guess the 1st msg would be something like...
We have free sex pics of young women sex that work at home sex to raise money sex to help their legal and sex financial problems/opportunities sex all at no sex risk to you!
Unfortunately, the little green men read this as:
blah blah sex blah blah blah sex blah blah blah sex blah blah sex blah blah blah sex blah blah sex blah blah sex blah blah.
While the Greeks did not have computers, the terms ethos, logos, and pathos have come a long way. However, the meaning of the words are still intact and are still studied because they still have some relevance. Take the word ethos. Woops, no relevance within the framework of modern day US politics. Logos: woops, no relevance as Congress obviously does not use logic. Ahhhh, Pathos still remains (maybe). Woops: maybe not.
Question: does ethos, logos, and pathos have to be confined to the study of Greek cutlure, or do the have some relevance today? This response was not that bad in raising these ideals. The application of a philosophy should not be oonfined to the "trite" application.
"Journalists" on the internet tend to repeat themselves, go around in circles, or produce articles that are fourth-hand rehashes of articles that appeared two week earlier in another forum. Furthermore, credibility of a "journalist" is not always based on what they say, but is sometimes based on who they were. This latter aspect is becoming more/will predominate as people realized that they can make big bucks off their good name.
The fundamental question is what should one do. For instance, one could attempt to discredit them via flame wars (that doesn't work) or by insightful responses (doesn't work when dealing with the clueless or money-grabbing scum). Or one could simply ignore them. Given the nature of the internet, one could also polute the various newsnet groups with mindless comments.
To me, the best way to respond is to ignore them in most cases. These people want lots of hits on their web site. The are used to being in the limelight; ignoring them is a way of saying that what they say doesn't even rate an response. Sorry, but if you are a pseudo-nerd, you know what silence means. OTOH, a good nerd would be oblivious to such an insult.
Don't publicize the pathetic meanderings of a bunch of old farts or clueless newbies. Discipline is the key. Attack where you want to, don't respond to meaningless counterattacks. It is the disadvantage of youth (and an advantage of youth) to respond to a threat with an equally potent response. Okay, but do you want to be the agressor or the resondee? Most of you might heard of Sun Tzu. I also recommend that you read the Five Rings by Miyamato Mushashi.
Remember: Discipline. Kick them in the nuts while you smile at them.
I went over the NASA site to see if anything was mentioned about this. Eventually, I ended up at the Ames Res. Center site and found this interesting related item. It turns out that ARC/NASA does work in robotics and sponsors a contest for middle and high school students called Botball. This from their press release.
Two robot teams will `do battle' at a time, trying to put the most Ping-Pong balls into a target within a set time limit. The small, one-foot robots compete on a smooth, 4-foot by 8-foot playing surface.
The botball program teaches students C computer programming as well as increases their skills and interest in mathematics, science, physics and design, according to organizers.
These is the contest rules. There is going to a live webcast (real video) of the finals on July 20 and 21. So it is too late for this year.
Sorry for the off-topic post but I love it when there is something like this that gets kids interested in science/engineering/computers.
I have a good friend/old drinking buddy from my grad school days that now works for NASA supervising the making of craters! The last time I visited his lab, he had this real nice rail gun that shot high velocity projectiles at a target. The propellant was gunpowder that was stuffed into condoms! Or as he politely puts it we load gunpowder into a shell or other receptacle He said that getting the condoms (in bulk of course), initially raised some eyebrows in the government purchasing office.
BTW, the study of impact craters is important to understanding many aspect of planetary science and other topics like why the dinosaurs died. I know that Bruce Willis would agree with me on this.
Yeah, I kind of agree with you, especially since I am contemplating whether I should buy one. Cyberian Outpost has the Palm V for $380 and the Palm IIIx for $300 (no tax, free shipping); not bad prices compared to other places. Still, I wish that they were about a $100 cheaper.
I really like the Palm V primarily because of the battery, styling, screen, size and weight. Size, weight, and Mac compatibility is really important to me. I'm not a suit (hell, I wear shorts to work during the summer and I work for the man!), and don't carry a backpack or an attache case; if it has to fit in my pocket.
And damn if I will run wince.
I welcome all recommendations and advice concerning the Palm V, IIIx, or other PDA's.
I don't necesarily agree with your comment about moving away from the gold standard. However, your main point about owning gold is something to consider. While gold (and silver) prices do fluctuate, it tends to be more stable than some national currency (e.g., the ruble). This I believe is because the value of gold is globally based.
People in many parts of the world do invest heavily in gold. In the middle east and India, gold jewery is primarily 22 carat (not the pathetic 14 carat here in the US). Why? Because gold jewery is an investment that one can also conveniently wear. The price is also very low. Furthermore, IIRC, in certain cultures one does not wear jewery of a dead person. Instead, one melts it down and makes new jewery.
As you may know, the IMF, Switzerland, the US, and others are seriously thinking about selling off part of their gold reserve in order to finance some projects. For instance, the Swiss sell off would be used to provide compensation for victims of the Holocaust.
However, the article that I read listed some interesting numbers. It said that 4000 tons of gold is supplied to the global market each year (the US has 8000 tons). So, 4000 tons per year X 2000 lb per ton X 16 ounces per lb X $260 per ounce = $33 billion per year. By today's economic standards, this is a paltry amount of money.
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That T-Shirt design really bugs me. I won't get into details but I believe that most of you can figure this out.
Darth Vader is Luke's father.
Leia and Luke are brother and sister.
C-3PO was built by Anakin/Darth Vader (hmmm, embrace and extend perhaps?)
The implications of all of this staggers the mind. Can you see the scene at the next Comdex when Bill looks over and says, "Linus, I am your father!" Of course, I look forward to the day when I hear, "You were right, you were right about me. Tell your sister, you were right." The connection between Leia and Luke is also interesting. Hidden at birth, but really related. At last we know the truth. The end of the OS naming wars is over.
Very good! But do you know why it was rated X at that time? (Now down rated to R).
Interesting enough, John Voigt was the lead role with Dustin Hoffman as the supporting actor. Hmmm, John Voigt was recently in the NBC movie "Noah's Ark." A pornographer actor playing Noah?
Now that I am older and wiser, I would find this repulsive South Park "movie" to be totally without social and meaningful content. Of course, I haven't seen this movie nor would I stoop so low to actually see something that I would criticize. I'm told that this movie is harmful to children, is the leading cause of AIDS in this country, and has deep homosexual undertones (just like that Jar Jar character). Cartoons should be like Fantasia with dancing elephants wearing pink tutus (I hope they weren't gay).
This is extremely similar to when that horrible Ed Sullivan Show had the broadcast where Elvis Presley gyrated his hips. Well actualy pictures below his waist were not shown, but teenage girls knew what was happening. And don't get me started on the negative influence of the Beatles, Alice Cooper, Kiss, or John Tesh.
Okay you can look up now.
There is going to be a lot of "feedback" with regard to this movie. I suppose that this will lead to lead to the next "Columbine" in that Americans will swarm across the border to kill or neuter (not that need to be neutered) those awful Canadians:-). This is a knee-jerk time in the US and I fear the worst but hope for calmer heads to prevail. Unfortunately, politicians love sound bites, and a few will take advantage of this opportunity. Hey Liddy, wanna see a movie with me and leave Mr Viagra at home with his bigger, longer, and uncut?
Geez, I also hope they that they don't burn an American flag in that movie. Hopefully they will abide by the Ten Commandments, like thou shall not kill. Oh no, They killed Kenny!
Bonus Question: Name the only X/NC-17 movie that was chosen as best picture by the Academy Awards. Hint: Think thirty years ago.
I have "fond" memories of MkLinux ever since I started with DR2 on my 6100. Playing with changing libraries (static to dynamic), changing disk formats, interesting X servers/clients, installing with -nodeps, sudden crashes, periods of stability... I loved it! Why?
MkLinux introduced me to Linux. (note: it did not introduced me to unix, the &$#!@ IBM RT did that dirty deed). I was able to work at home writing code that I could then take back to work. I could program naked!:-)
I now have a G3 and run LinuxPPC but I will not look down on the great MkLinux development folks. At the end, Apple "official" dropping of support for MkLinux really didn't mean much (except perhaps to Gary Thomas). So if I may, Good Luck David Gatwood in your new career. Anybody who could put up with constant questions about how their mouse buttons stopped working must be an angel.
Speaking of the mouse, my Mouse System 3 button mouse is not officially support under LinuxPPC R5. I got tired of manually patching the kernel source (plus the mouse was bunged up) so I looked for another solution. Since I have a USB PCI card, I wondered if a USB 3 button mouse was supported. What nice about Linux? Go to the kernel source and look at the code to see if there is support. I now have a new logitech usb 3 button mouse that works just fine.
There are two primary aspects of peer review in science; these two aspects are not mutually exclusive. First, there is the peer review of proposals to such agencies as NSF. While not perfect (nothing involving humans is perfect), it has generally been successful. The main criticisms about NSF peer review are that it does not recognize risky "cutting edge" science, and that it discriminates against the young unproven investigator who is not yet a member of the "old boys club."
The other form of peer review is with regard to publications in scientific journals. One's career can be highly dependent on publishing in prestigious journals. Once again, the two common criticisms with proposals also apply with regard to publications. Furthermore, the ability to get funded is dependent on one's publication record, and one's publication record is dependent on the type of funded research that one conducts.
For most other government agencies (for instance DoD), the decision of who to fund is left to the whims of program managers. Obviously, the abilities and intellect of the program managers is critical; I've seen PM's that range from idiots to enlightened Yodas. Nonetheless, if the these non-peer review program suceed, more funding usually ensues. Conversely, if the programs fail, the PM will start to see their budgets getting slashed.
I hope that this educates you on the basics of peer reviewed research. Your comments were particular misguided. Note that unless all the scientists are in cahoots with one another, increasing funding in a particular topic usually (but always) results in a decrease in funding elsewhere. If you want to see a bunch of scientist get mad, watch what happens when their programs lose funds at the expense of another program.
This article is probably based on an AP press release (it was also posted at yahoo). If it is a hoax, then somebody at AP is having a little bit too much fun today. I've checked the MITI, Matsushita, Mitsubishi, and Sumitomo web sites and have found nothing related to this announcement. However, info may be forthcoming in the next few days.
Your skepticism is well taken. I also suspect that the application may be a little far fetched at this time. However, MITI has political and financial powers that should never be underestimated. The Japanese are pursuing the advancement of micro-technology. I remember a time when they also decided to pursue high performance computing. At first, this seem like a joke but it is not a joke anymore.
And know I would like to say something totally non-PC (maybe not). It's an old joke related to how the Japanese have always managed to smaller and smaller items.
Did you hear about the Japanese businessman that just went bankrupt trying to sell miniature dildos?
While checking up the House Sub-Committee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection, I decided to look at some other bills that they are considering. This is highly misleading (w/o reading the text of the bills) but some of the titles are very interesting.
H.R.543: A bill to require the installation and use by schools and libraries of a technology for filtering or blocking material on the Internet on computers with Internet access to be eligible to receive or retain universal service assistance. (obviously to screen out/.)
H.J.RES.47: A joint resolution expressing the sense of the Congress regarding the need for a Surgeon General's report on media and violence. (where Dr Koop when you need him?)
H.R.313: A bill to regulate the use by interactive computer services of personally identifiable information provided by subscribers to such services. (Note: This one actually looks good, hence it will never pass)
H.R.515: A bill to prevent children from injuring themselves with handguns. (Great title, totally misleading)
Keep in mind that only a small amount of bills even get out of sub-committee. This is a good thing. Back onto the subject at hand, IMO the other sub-committees are going to gut the export provisions of HR850. IOW, those aspects (exports) may not reach the House Floor for a vote.
Why oops? I read what you wrote and could easily see the typo. I would hope that the other folks that view this site would also recognize this "typo." Some other people will also point out your 55 KBits/s -> 5.5KBytes/sec glitch (hey!, close enough for government work!). Big F*cking Deal! Your other points about the VAIO are well recieved. I don't know anybody else with this beast, so I welcome hands on comments about it.
Your oops is unfortunately required by/. and other net sites. Visualize vulture circling overhead, ready to pounce on any mistake. (Probably circuling this post:-))
What kind of computer and what type of USB support do you have? I also have a QuickCam Pro and had to run the gauntlet of misleading info to configure my computer. FYI, QuickCam Pro, beige Mac G3, and Entrega PCI USB card. The entrega USB device driver was interesting; you had to use ResEdit to get it to work.
Keyspan (another provider of PCI USB cards) had previously reported problems with the QuickCam Pro. Initial reports indicated that the voltage of the QuickCam was not up (actually down) to the USB standards. Tonight I return to the Keyspan site and find out that everybody is pointing the blame to everybody else.
Go figure.
BTW, I used to use a MacPoint Pro mouse to get 3 button support for LinuxPPC. Three kernel patches later (the patches had to be delicately manually put in), I decided to gamble with a USB 3 button mouse with the release of LinuxPPC R5. I heard reports that it was suppose to work. After some minor puttering around my 3 button USB mouse works great! Gnome looks great! This coming from a previous fvwm user.:-)
Huh? You still have finals at this time of the year? I would like to think that you folks in the valley should be working in the fields by now.:-)
Thanks for your info on the gpl and redhat; I should have known that. Perhaps, it may be that RedHat==Linux, so that LinuxPPC used this to gain acceptance. However, I keep thinking that this was an arrangement so that RedHat would maintain/update their installer for the PowerPC chip. Note: the mac end installer for R5 is entirely different than the RedHat installer. The new LinuxPPC Linux installer is okay, but it doesn't seem to have the same level of fine-tuning control that the RedHat installer has.
This is a dangerous post as I am still working on this new release. Perhaps I should keep my ignorant mouth shut until I am more informed about this. However, this is/. I'll swallow my pride for more info (this is more like Ask Slashdot).
Autostart 9805-A. I was not too please when a Virex scan gave me this message when I loaded my R5 CD yesterday. I'm almost speechless in describing what I feel about this.
I don't care if this thing won't spread. It is highly unprofessional to send out a CD with a virus on it (or something that will flagged by a virus scan). There are also some minor "glitches" with the distro. For instance, in one of the readme files, this instruction is given.
Where is the old RedHat installer? a) Just pass redhat as an arguement to the
To the ?? If you have used BootX before, you would probably realized that this is a parameter to pass to the kernel arguments. They might also wish to spell argument correctly. Note: I am not blaming these nitpicking mistakes to original author of the doc. Remember, this is Linux. Have other ppl review the source.
Nonetheless, I have installed R5 and it looks pretty good. Serious testing starts tomorrow. As a side note: I just realized that I am a totally pathetic (but extremely loyal) Apple/Linux supporter whom is willing to overlook glitches.:-)
I just have one last bitch. I start up LinuxPPC at runlevel 5 and eventually get greeted with the login screen. Off in the upper left hand corner is a fairly obnoxious and rather large RedHat logo. I was wondering, is this the result of some agreement between LinuxPPC and RedHat for the use of the RedHat installer?
Don't flame me if I made mistakes in spelling or grammar in this post (since I nitpick on this issue). I don't have another pair of eyes reviewing my post.
I do not believe that this has been previously noted, but the 2000 MTOPS export limit is not only a US restriction but is also part of the Wassenaar Arrangement. There is one caveat however. The provisions of the Wassenaar Arrangement are not binding. Each of the 30 something countries involved is free to establish their own national policy wrt to export restrictions. This point was previously discussed here at/. with regard to encryption.
Another person mentioned that this is not an outright export ban. Once again, under the Wassenaar and US policy, exemptions to the export restrictions can be sought and approved. I think that is an important point that should be considered. OTOH, I have had the fun of dealing with export laws wrt to sending equipment overseas so that I could conduct my own research. As I don't have bags full of money to help grease the skids, my experience can be best described by the following phrase: bend over and grab your ankles.
Finally, keep in mind that changes in US export policy changes at a glacier pace that is not commensurate with Moore's law. Changes do occur, but they are driven by the interaction of industry lobbyists and politicans. This mix is not condusive for the establishment of intelligent policy.
As a side note, the Wassenaar Arrangement previously (1996?) had an export restriction of 700 MTOPS, IIRC.
Interesting. I guess that I bought into the hype that Motorola was spreading about AltiVec.;-) I always thought that AIM was an "interesting" alliance made up of strange bedfellows.
Do you know what the original specs were and how much it changed in the actual implementation?
If this comment starts off as a +2 it is not because of content.
While AltiVec is being hyped by Apple, it is really a Motorola creation. As you known, IBM and Motorola have a philosophical disagreement wrt to the PowerPC architecture; IBM wants simplicity and pure speed, while Motorola wants the additional SIMD instruction set.
AltiVec is relevant to the issue at hand (ie. Disney). In terms of audio and video processing (we're talking multimedia, not necessarily restricted to gaming), many of the basic algorithms are primarily vector manipulations. Rather than having each individual programmer reinvent the wheel, Motorola, Apple, and others are recoding these essential algorithms using the AltiVec technology. I believed that things like optimized FFT's (audio manipulations), DCT's (video), BLAS (lot's of applications) are or will be available. As for the polygons, I want 60M lighted, textured, Gouraud shaded triangles per second (then I will be really impressed).;-)
I realize that you are wary of the hype (as one should be), but check out the performance specs for some very useful algorithms. I personally hope that this is not hype. I also wish that AltiVec optimized libraries (e.g., FFT's) become available for LinuxPPC.
BTW, elsewhere in this thread you comment about the Apple hype concerning the PowerPC performance. IIRC, the integer Byte test results were heavily biased by a single test (bit manipulation?); Apple then reported the "average" test results.
Jon Katz and RMS are flaming idiots who secretly use MS Outlook Express to check their e-mail at their AOL accounts. They are obviously not nerds since they use both AOL and MS.
There, I just said here at/. for all to read. Katz and RMS are incredibly offended by this as they do not use AOL and consider themselves nerds. Steve Case is offended that I have disparaged his fine company. Bill Gates calls out to his minions that he now wants my head on a platter.
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Whatcha gonna do when they come for you.
Rob, I hate to raise this issue, but suing a ISP has relevance for this site. I may be wrong but some of the comments that are posted here may be interpreted as being rather inflammatory. This leads to the following questions.
1) Is your ISP responsible for the/. content? 2) Are you protected from our stupid comments? 3) Will you turn over your log files when the Man slaps you with a subpoena? Remember Raytheon? 4) There are court case related to posting links to libelous material. Do you have some policy with regard to this as we can include links in our comments? 5) Moderators control what is up and what is down. Can they be held accountable for their actions? You do have log files that document the actions of the moderators.
I feel like a real asshole right now for asking these questions. Please flame me if I'm wrong but I would hate to see bad things happen to you or to this site. One suggestion is to contact a group of legal eagles that would probably be willing to provide you with some info. I don't know if they are the right ppl but the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School might be a good place to start.
Just before I sent this in I checked the other comments and saw that chabotic raises similar concerns.
Off topic: Everybody's posting should start at the default level (0 or 1) unless they come from someone who is always -1.
I'll apologize out front, but I really take offense with some of your comments. To say that it is not worth making linux for a mac is entirely out of line. Your other comments displays a level of ignorance or bias that is absolutely pathetic. I'm almost speechless.
For one thing, there are some extremely talented ppl porting linux to the PPC. Consider this point. These ppl, who are a small minority of linux developers, have somehow managed to get linux working on the PPC architecture. Are their efforts are a waste of time? Why did they choose to develop for the PPC?
Perhaps you only want an Intel version of linux? Or maybe only an Intel, Sparc, or Alpha port of linux? The great thing about linux is that it is cross-platform! You are obviously too young to remember when Unix was a totally splintered OS. Linux represents a way to reunify Unix, which is a really important point. This requires cross-platform support otherwise you get HP-UX, Apollo-Unix, AIX, AUX, SCO, Ultrix, SunOS, ad nauseum.
As for a MacOS "emulator": Have you heard of SheepShaver or Mac-On-Linux? Not entirely there yet, but they are real close!
I have been a Mac user for over 10 yrs so I must be a retard. My first experience with Unix was with an IBM RT (try to figure out what was this POS). This at times was a tough machine to work with, but it did have a C compiler and introduced me to a better computing environment. I still like this computing environment and still use a Mac.
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Geezz, this is tough. I guess the 1st msg would be something like...
We have free sex pics of young women sex that work at home sex to raise money sex to help their legal and sex financial problems/opportunities sex all at no sex risk to you!
Unfortunately, the little green men read this as:
blah blah sex blah blah blah sex blah blah blah sex blah blah sex blah blah blah sex blah blah sex blah blah sex blah blah.
(with apologies to Larson and Ginger).
While the Greeks did not have computers, the terms ethos, logos, and pathos have come a long way. However, the meaning of the words are still intact and are still studied because they still have some relevance. Take the word ethos. Woops, no relevance within the framework of modern day US politics. Logos: woops, no relevance as Congress obviously does not use logic. Ahhhh, Pathos still remains (maybe). Woops: maybe not.
Question: does ethos, logos, and pathos have to be confined to the study of Greek cutlure, or do the have some relevance today? This response was not that bad in raising these ideals. The application of a philosophy should not be oonfined to the "trite" application.
"Journalists" on the internet tend to repeat themselves, go around in circles, or produce articles that are fourth-hand rehashes of articles that appeared two week earlier in another forum. Furthermore, credibility of a "journalist" is not always based on what they say, but is sometimes based on who they were. This latter aspect is becoming more /will predominate as people realized that they can make big bucks off their good name.
The fundamental question is what should one do. For instance, one could attempt to discredit them via flame wars (that doesn't work) or by insightful responses (doesn't work when dealing with the clueless or money-grabbing scum). Or one could simply ignore them. Given the nature of the internet, one could also polute the various newsnet groups with mindless comments.
To me, the best way to respond is to ignore them in most cases. These people want lots of hits on their web site. The are used to being in the limelight; ignoring them is a way of saying that what they say doesn't even rate an response. Sorry, but if you are a pseudo-nerd, you know what silence means. OTOH, a good nerd would be oblivious to such an insult.
Don't publicize the pathetic meanderings of a bunch of old farts or clueless newbies. Discipline is the key. Attack where you want to, don't respond to meaningless counterattacks. It is the disadvantage of youth (and an advantage of youth) to respond to a threat with an equally potent response. Okay, but do you want to be the agressor or the resondee? Most of you might heard of Sun Tzu. I also recommend that you read the Five Rings by Miyamato Mushashi.
Remember: Discipline. Kick them in the nuts while you smile at them.
I went over the NASA site to see if anything was mentioned about this. Eventually, I ended up at the Ames Res. Center site and found this interesting related item. It turns out that ARC/NASA does work in robotics and sponsors a contest for middle and high school students called Botball. This from their press release.
Two robot teams will `do battle' at a time, trying to put the most Ping-Pong balls into a target within a set time limit. The small, one-foot robots compete on a smooth, 4-foot by 8-foot playing surface.
The botball program teaches students C computer programming as well as increases their skills and interest in mathematics, science, physics and design, according to organizers.
These is the contest rules.
There is going to a live webcast (real video) of the finals on July 20 and 21. So it is too late for this year.
Sorry for the off-topic post but I love it when there is something like this that gets kids interested in science/engineering/computers.
I have a good friend/old drinking buddy from my grad school days that now works for NASA supervising the making of craters! The last time I visited his lab, he had this real nice rail gun that shot high velocity projectiles at a target. The propellant was gunpowder that was stuffed into condoms! Or as he politely puts it we load gunpowder into a shell or other receptacle He said that getting the condoms (in bulk of course), initially raised some eyebrows in the government purchasing office.
Here's the web site. that describes the lab.
Ain't science great!
BTW, the study of impact craters is important to understanding many aspect of planetary science and other topics like why the dinosaurs died. I know that Bruce Willis would agree with me on this.
Yeah, I kind of agree with you, especially since I am contemplating whether I should buy one. Cyberian Outpost has the Palm V for $380 and the Palm IIIx for $300 (no tax, free shipping); not bad prices compared to other places. Still, I wish that they were about a $100 cheaper.
I really like the Palm V primarily because of the battery, styling, screen, size and weight. Size, weight, and Mac compatibility is really important to me. I'm not a suit (hell, I wear shorts to work during the summer and I work for the man!), and don't carry a backpack or an attache case; if it has to fit in my pocket.
And damn if I will run wince.
I welcome all recommendations and advice concerning the Palm V, IIIx, or other PDA's.
I don't necesarily agree with your comment about moving away from the gold standard. However, your main point about owning gold is something to consider. While gold (and silver) prices do fluctuate, it tends to be more stable than some national currency (e.g., the ruble). This I believe is because the value of gold is globally based.
People in many parts of the world do invest heavily in gold. In the middle east and India, gold jewery is primarily 22 carat (not the pathetic 14 carat here in the US). Why? Because gold jewery is an investment that one can also conveniently wear. The price is also very low. Furthermore, IIRC, in certain cultures one does not wear jewery of a dead person. Instead, one melts it down and makes new jewery.
As you may know, the IMF, Switzerland, the US, and others are seriously thinking about selling off part of their gold reserve in order to finance some projects. For instance, the Swiss sell off would be used to provide compensation for victims of the Holocaust.
However, the article that I read listed some interesting numbers. It said that 4000 tons of gold is supplied to the global market each year (the US has 8000 tons). So, 4000 tons per year X 2000 lb per ton X 16 ounces per lb X $260 per ounce = $33 billion per year. By today's economic standards, this is a paltry amount of money.
That T-Shirt design really bugs me. I won't get into details but I believe that most of you can figure this out.
Darth Vader is Luke's father.
Leia and Luke are brother and sister.
C-3PO was built by Anakin/Darth Vader (hmmm, embrace and extend perhaps?)
The implications of all of this staggers the mind. Can you see the scene at the next Comdex when Bill looks over and says, "Linus, I am your father!" Of course, I look forward to the day when I hear, "You were right, you were right about me. Tell your sister, you were right." The connection between Leia and Luke is also interesting. Hidden at birth, but really related. At last we know the truth. The end of the OS naming wars is over.
Very good! But do you know why it was rated X at that time? (Now down rated to R).
Interesting enough, John Voigt was the lead role with Dustin Hoffman as the supporting actor. Hmmm, John Voigt was recently in the NBC movie "Noah's Ark." A pornographer actor playing Noah?
Here it comes. Duck!
Now that I am older and wiser, I would find this repulsive South Park "movie" to be totally without social and meaningful content. Of course, I haven't seen this movie nor would I stoop so low to actually see something that I would criticize. I'm told that this movie is harmful to children, is the leading cause of AIDS in this country, and has deep homosexual undertones (just like that Jar Jar character). Cartoons should be like Fantasia with dancing elephants wearing pink tutus (I hope they weren't gay).
This is extremely similar to when that horrible Ed Sullivan Show had the broadcast where Elvis Presley gyrated his hips. Well actualy pictures below his waist were not shown, but teenage girls knew what was happening. And don't get me started on the negative influence of the Beatles, Alice Cooper, Kiss, or John Tesh.
Okay you can look up now.
There is going to be a lot of "feedback" with regard to this movie. I suppose that this will lead to lead to the next "Columbine" in that Americans will swarm across the border to kill or neuter (not that need to be neutered) those awful Canadians:-). This is a knee-jerk time in the US and I fear the worst but hope for calmer heads to prevail. Unfortunately, politicians love sound bites, and a few will take advantage of this opportunity. Hey Liddy, wanna see a movie with me and leave Mr Viagra at home with his bigger, longer, and uncut?
Geez, I also hope they that they don't burn an American flag in that movie. Hopefully they will abide by the Ten Commandments, like thou shall not kill. Oh no, They killed Kenny!
Bonus Question: Name the only X/NC-17 movie that was chosen as best picture by the Academy Awards. Hint: Think thirty years ago.
It would be much more interesting if Andy van Dam or Scott Myers were in that picture.:-)
Bite em Bears! Or more appropriately Bite em Beers!
I have "fond" memories of MkLinux ever since I started with DR2 on my 6100. Playing with changing libraries (static to dynamic), changing disk formats, interesting X servers/clients, installing with -nodeps, sudden crashes, periods of stability... I loved it! Why?
MkLinux introduced me to Linux. (note: it did not introduced me to unix, the &$#!@ IBM RT did that dirty deed). I was able to work at home writing code that I could then take back to work. I could program naked!:-)
I now have a G3 and run LinuxPPC but I will not look down on the great MkLinux development folks. At the end, Apple "official" dropping of support for MkLinux really didn't mean much (except perhaps to Gary Thomas). So if I may, Good Luck David Gatwood in your new career. Anybody who could put up with constant questions about how their mouse buttons stopped working must be an angel.
Speaking of the mouse, my Mouse System 3 button mouse is not officially support under LinuxPPC R5. I got tired of manually patching the kernel source (plus the mouse was bunged up) so I looked for another solution. Since I have a USB PCI card, I wondered if a USB 3 button mouse was supported. What nice about Linux? Go to the kernel source and look at the code to see if there is support. I now have a new logitech usb 3 button mouse that works just fine.
There are two primary aspects of peer review in science; these two aspects are not mutually exclusive. First, there is the peer review of proposals to such agencies as NSF. While not perfect (nothing involving humans is perfect), it has generally been successful. The main criticisms about NSF peer review are that it does not recognize risky "cutting edge" science, and that it discriminates against the young unproven investigator who is not yet a member of the "old boys club."
The other form of peer review is with regard to publications in scientific journals. One's career can be highly dependent on publishing in prestigious journals. Once again, the two common criticisms with proposals also apply with regard to publications. Furthermore, the ability to get funded is dependent on one's publication record, and one's publication record is dependent on the type of funded research that one conducts.
For most other government agencies (for instance DoD), the decision of who to fund is left to the whims of program managers. Obviously, the abilities and intellect of the program managers is critical; I've seen PM's that range from idiots to enlightened Yodas. Nonetheless, if the these non-peer review program suceed, more funding usually ensues. Conversely, if the programs fail, the PM will start to see their budgets getting slashed.
I hope that this educates you on the basics of peer reviewed research. Your comments were particular misguided. Note that unless all the scientists are in cahoots with one another, increasing funding in a particular topic usually (but always) results in a decrease in funding elsewhere. If you want to see a bunch of scientist get mad, watch what happens when their programs lose funds at the expense of another program.
Athlon as they make a good chip and can manufacture pentium them, they'll be okay. I wonder if they will celeron $400?
This article is probably based on an AP press release (it was also posted at yahoo). If it is a hoax, then somebody at AP is having a little bit too much fun today. I've checked the MITI, Matsushita, Mitsubishi, and Sumitomo web sites and have found nothing related to this announcement. However, info may be forthcoming in the next few days.
Your skepticism is well taken. I also suspect that the application may be a little far fetched at this time. However, MITI has political and financial powers that should never be underestimated. The Japanese are pursuing the advancement of micro-technology. I remember a time when they also decided to pursue high performance computing. At first, this seem like a joke but it is not a joke anymore.
And know I would like to say something totally non-PC (maybe not). It's an old joke related to how the Japanese have always managed to smaller and smaller items.
Did you hear about the Japanese businessman that just went bankrupt trying to sell miniature dildos?
While checking up the House Sub-Committee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection, I decided to look at some other bills that they are considering. This is highly misleading (w/o reading the text of the bills) but some of the titles are very interesting.
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H.R.543: A bill to require the installation and use by schools and libraries of a technology for filtering or blocking material on the Internet on computers with Internet access to be eligible to receive or retain universal service assistance. (obviously to screen out
H.J.RES.47: A joint resolution expressing the sense of the Congress regarding the need for a Surgeon General's report on media and violence. (where Dr Koop when you need him?)
H.R.313: A bill to regulate the use by interactive computer services of personally identifiable information provided by subscribers to such services. (Note: This one actually looks good, hence it will never pass)
H.R.515: A bill to prevent children from injuring themselves with handguns. (Great title, totally misleading)
Keep in mind that only a small amount of bills even get out of sub-committee. This is a good thing. Back onto the subject at hand, IMO the other sub-committees are going to gut the export provisions of HR850. IOW, those aspects (exports) may not reach the House Floor for a vote.
Why oops? I read what you wrote and could easily see the typo. I would hope that the other folks that view this site would also recognize this "typo." Some other people will also point out your 55 KBits/s -> 5.5KBytes/sec glitch (hey!, close enough for government work!). Big F*cking Deal! Your other points about the VAIO are well recieved. I don't know anybody else with this beast, so I welcome hands on comments about it.
/. and other net sites. Visualize vulture circling overhead, ready to pounce on any mistake. (Probably circuling this post :-))
Your oops is unfortunately required by
What kind of computer and what type of USB support do you have? I also have a QuickCam Pro and had to run the gauntlet of misleading info to configure my computer. FYI, QuickCam Pro, beige Mac G3, and Entrega PCI USB card. The entrega USB device driver was interesting; you had to use ResEdit to get it to work.
Keyspan (another provider of PCI USB cards) had previously reported problems with the QuickCam Pro. Initial reports indicated that the voltage of the QuickCam was not up (actually down) to the USB standards. Tonight I return to the Keyspan site and find out that everybody is pointing the blame to everybody else.
Go figure.
BTW, I used to use a MacPoint Pro mouse to get 3 button support for LinuxPPC. Three kernel patches later (the patches had to be delicately manually put in), I decided to gamble with a USB 3 button mouse with the release of LinuxPPC R5. I heard reports that it was suppose to work. After some minor puttering around my 3 button USB mouse works great! Gnome looks great! This coming from a previous fvwm user.:-)
Huh? You still have finals at this time of the year? I would like to think that you folks in the valley should be working in the fields by now.:-)
/. I'll swallow my pride for more info (this is more like Ask Slashdot).
Thanks for your info on the gpl and redhat; I should have known that. Perhaps, it may be that RedHat==Linux, so that LinuxPPC used this to gain acceptance. However, I keep thinking that this was an arrangement so that RedHat would maintain/update their installer for the PowerPC chip. Note: the mac end installer for R5 is entirely different than the RedHat installer. The new LinuxPPC Linux installer is okay, but it doesn't seem to have the same level of fine-tuning control that the RedHat installer has.
This is a dangerous post as I am still working on this new release. Perhaps I should keep my ignorant mouth shut until I am more informed about this. However, this is
Autostart 9805-A. I was not too please when a Virex scan gave me this message when I loaded my R5 CD yesterday. I'm almost speechless in describing what I feel about this.
I don't care if this thing won't spread. It is highly unprofessional to send out a CD with a virus on it (or something that will flagged by a virus scan). There are also some minor "glitches" with the distro. For instance, in one of the readme files, this instruction is given.
Where is the old RedHat installer?
a) Just pass redhat as an arguement to the
To the ?? If you have used BootX before, you would probably realized that this is a parameter to pass to the kernel arguments. They might also wish to spell argument correctly. Note: I am not blaming these nitpicking mistakes to original author of the doc. Remember, this is Linux. Have other ppl review the source.
Nonetheless, I have installed R5 and it looks pretty good. Serious testing starts tomorrow. As a side note: I just realized that I am a totally pathetic (but extremely loyal) Apple/Linux supporter whom is willing to overlook glitches.:-)
I just have one last bitch. I start up LinuxPPC at runlevel 5 and eventually get greeted with the login screen. Off in the upper left hand corner is a fairly obnoxious and rather large RedHat logo. I was wondering, is this the result of some agreement between LinuxPPC and RedHat for the use of the RedHat installer?
Don't flame me if I made mistakes in spelling or grammar in this post (since I nitpick on this issue). I don't have another pair of eyes reviewing my post.
I do not believe that this has been previously noted, but the 2000 MTOPS export limit is not only a US restriction but is also part of the Wassenaar Arrangement. There is one caveat however. The provisions of the Wassenaar Arrangement are not binding. Each of the 30 something countries involved is free to establish their own national policy wrt to export restrictions. This point was previously discussed here at /. with regard to encryption.
Another person mentioned that this is not an outright export ban. Once again, under the Wassenaar and US policy, exemptions to the export restrictions can be sought and approved. I think that is an important point that should be considered. OTOH, I have had the fun of dealing with export laws wrt to sending equipment overseas so that I could conduct my own research. As I don't have bags full of money to help grease the skids, my experience can be best described by the following phrase: bend over and grab your ankles.
Finally, keep in mind that changes in US export policy changes at a glacier pace that is not commensurate with Moore's law. Changes do occur, but they are driven by the interaction of industry lobbyists and politicans. This mix is not condusive for the establishment of intelligent policy.
As a side note, the Wassenaar Arrangement previously (1996?) had an export restriction of 700 MTOPS, IIRC.
Interesting. I guess that I bought into the hype that Motorola was spreading about AltiVec.;-) I always thought that AIM was an "interesting" alliance made up of strange bedfellows.
Do you know what the original specs were and how much it changed in the actual implementation?
If this comment starts off as a +2 it is not because of content.
While AltiVec is being hyped by Apple, it is really a Motorola creation. As you known, IBM and Motorola have a philosophical disagreement wrt to the PowerPC architecture; IBM wants simplicity and pure speed, while Motorola wants the additional SIMD instruction set.
AltiVec is relevant to the issue at hand (ie. Disney). In terms of audio and video processing (we're talking multimedia, not necessarily restricted to gaming), many of the basic algorithms are primarily vector manipulations. Rather than having each individual programmer reinvent the wheel, Motorola, Apple, and others are recoding these essential algorithms using the AltiVec technology. I believed that things like optimized FFT's (audio manipulations), DCT's (video), BLAS (lot's of applications) are or will be available. As for the polygons, I want 60M lighted, textured, Gouraud shaded triangles per second (then I will be really impressed).;-)
I realize that you are wary of the hype (as one should be), but check out the performance specs for some very useful algorithms. I personally hope that this is not hype. I also wish that AltiVec optimized libraries (e.g., FFT's) become available for LinuxPPC.
BTW, elsewhere in this thread you comment about the Apple hype concerning the PowerPC performance. IIRC, the integer Byte test results were heavily biased by a single test (bit manipulation?); Apple then reported the "average" test results.
Jon Katz and RMS are flaming idiots who secretly use MS Outlook Express to check their e-mail at their AOL accounts. They are obviously not nerds since they use both AOL and MS.
/. for all to read. Katz and RMS are incredibly offended by this as they do not use AOL and consider themselves nerds. Steve Case is offended that I have disparaged his fine company. Bill Gates calls out to his minions that he now wants my head on a platter.
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There, I just said here at
Comments are owned by the Poster.
Whatcha gonna do when they come for you.
Rob, I hate to raise this issue, but suing a ISP has relevance for this site. I may be wrong but some of the comments that are posted here may be interpreted as being rather inflammatory. This leads to the following questions.
1) Is your ISP responsible for the
2) Are you protected from our stupid comments?
3) Will you turn over your log files when the Man slaps you with a subpoena? Remember Raytheon?
4) There are court case related to posting links to libelous material. Do you have some policy with regard to this as we can include links in our comments?
5) Moderators control what is up and what is down. Can they be held accountable for their actions? You do have log files that document the actions of the moderators.
I feel like a real asshole right now for asking these questions. Please flame me if I'm wrong but I would hate to see bad things happen to you or to this site. One suggestion is to contact a group of legal eagles that would probably be willing to provide you with some info. I don't know if they are the right ppl but the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School might be a good place to start.
Just before I sent this in I checked the other comments and saw that chabotic raises similar concerns.
Off topic: Everybody's posting should start at the default level (0 or 1) unless they come from someone who is always -1.
I'll apologize out front, but I really take offense with some of your comments. To say that it is not worth making linux for a mac is entirely out of line. Your other comments displays a level of ignorance or bias that is absolutely pathetic. I'm almost speechless.
For one thing, there are some extremely talented ppl porting linux to the PPC. Consider this point. These ppl, who are a small minority of linux developers, have somehow managed to get linux working on the PPC architecture. Are their efforts are a waste of time? Why did they choose to develop for the PPC?
Perhaps you only want an Intel version of linux? Or maybe only an Intel, Sparc, or Alpha port of linux? The great thing about linux is that it is cross-platform! You are obviously too young to remember when Unix was a totally splintered OS. Linux represents a way to reunify Unix, which is a really important point. This requires cross-platform support otherwise you get HP-UX, Apollo-Unix, AIX, AUX, SCO, Ultrix, SunOS, ad nauseum.
As for a MacOS "emulator": Have you heard of SheepShaver or Mac-On-Linux? Not entirely there yet, but they are real close!
I have been a Mac user for over 10 yrs so I must be a retard. My first experience with Unix was with an IBM RT (try to figure out what was this POS). This at times was a tough machine to work with, but it did have a C compiler and introduced me to a better computing environment. I still like this computing environment and still use a Mac.