Having played with a Sectera when I interviewed with GD, I can tell you that its freaking huge. A little bigger than my blackberry curve but almost 2.5 time as thick.
The reason that it is built this way is because there are two separate circuit board that are enclosed inside; one for the "red" side and another for the "black" side.
There is a very stringent certification process that takes place for communication equipment certified at the TS level; namely that it must, in every conceivable situation, fail safe.
Theres also some fun anti-tampering features that are built into the secteras...
I was very excited when the PSP first came out because the premise of the UMD media was so great. I have become rather tired of scratched DVDs the refuse to play, and the premise of a smaller disk that includes a protective shield was quite attractive. I had hoped the sony would open the UMD so the consumers could use them not only for PSPs but also for data storage in general. I could see the UMD replacing compact disks and supplementing DVDs for data storage on a grand scale (they hold 1.8 gigs). If sony would permit the use of UMD as more than a proprietary format, I would think that they would have a great success. I suspect the reason that they haven't done this is to thwart pirates...
Irregardless, it would be rather nice to be able to put music videos or other movies on a tiny disc that you could watch just about anywhere.
However, the computer industry doesn't have anything else to sell other than computers. What they are trying to do is find new markets for existing products. Once the technology takes hold expansion can take place (where more powerful systems would be needed and larger profit margins can be found).
That sure does sound quite a bit like extortion (if taken to court). Not only would you be advertising that you connected to their network unauthorized, but then you advertise your presence, offering to fix their problem, for a fee. Just as the windows messenger pop-ups have been classified as extortion (you know the go this website and you can get these pop-ups to go away). I would steer clear of any such attempts, no matter how good you intentions are.
Reminds me of the Div3r reviews that came out a while back (there was even a slashdot story about it http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/28/ 1745250&tid=127&tid=98&tid=10) is which exclusive reviews for the game were given under the condition that the game be given AT LEAST a 90% (or comparable) score. This completely defeats the purpose of having game reviews, as the people reviewing are REQUIRED to be impartial...
Rant not withstanding, I personally have been looking forward to this game for several years and have already upgraded my box in anticipation... HL was great and I have no reason to expect anything but the very best from valve.
Back in 2000 when Intel was first surpassed by AMD when they were beaten to 1 Ghz, they rushed an overclocked 1.13 Ghz chip to market that eventually ended up being recalled. I suspect that the reason that the 4 Ghz chip is not yet being released may, in fact, have something to do with reliability. Also it is important to remember that this chip is running on the Prescott core, which will probably use over a hundred watts of power alone. Perhaps they need more time to explore better cooling solutions (that can be delivered cheaply) before rushing a potentially unreliable product to market. I am in favor of reliable chips (although personally being an AMD zealot myself); I think that the competition between AMD and Intel is important for innovation and fair prices.
It would be *much* simpler to whip out your power drill with a 1/4" bit and drill a couple hoes through the drive. If someone tried to spin the drive up, not only would there literally be sections of the data missing, but the loose particles inside the drive would grind the platters and probably destroy the read heads.
Something other than informative. Do the Moderators even check the links? I seriously doubt that the gut will be made by Sony as they are direct competitor with Microsoft in several areas (XBox vs. Playstation, WMA vs. ATRAC 3)
I'm pretty sure that the technology implemented to quiet
the fans *could* be used to reduce disk noise, although I
would be willing to bet that it would not be as effective, due to the fact the
noise source is a much larger area. Instead why not use some of zalman's hard
disk silencers that they implemented on their silent case
Ever play GTA 1? It was a very revolutionary game when it came out (the "killer app" for the PS2) While Vice City was more evolutionary (and in my opinion more fun)
Perhaps if I just piped in a simple singnal generating circut and filled the local area with white noise of about the same frequency of the northbridge?
I would have to agree...
Let us not only forget Joanna-
The lead character from the series "Perfect Dark"
I thought she did an excellent job portraying a woman, although I have (ahem) limited experience with them (mostly due to slashdot addiction).
It's already becoming a bit slow...
Looks like the Israel Defence Force may have done it again. Already famous for spawning an entire generation of software geniuses now active in the world of wireless technologies, the IDF has now apparently incubated the technical talent capable of creating a project that could change the world: the ability to run Linux on Windows 2000/XP.
21 year-old Dan Aloni, a graduate of an IDF computer unit, has developed a Linux application - called Cooperative Linux ("CoLinux" for short) - that is a port of the Linux kernel that allows it to run cooperatively alongside another operating system on a single machine. For instance, it allows one to freely run Linux on Windows without using a commercial PC virtualization software such as VMware, in a way which is much more optimal than using any general purpose PC virtualization software.
A member of the international open source community, Aloni developed CoLinux along with several Japanese programmers, collaborating over the Net. According to the Web site, they've written special core drivers for the host OS which modify the way the host OS receives notifications from the hardware - thus allowing both OSes to coexist peacefully - and run at a decent speed as well.
In Israel, acclaim for a system potentially capable of allowing organizations to run Linux and Windows in parallel on the same computer or server has been immediate.
Organizations would make great savings if they didn't any longer have to have separate machines for each OS, says Shahar Shemesh, a member of the Israeli open source forum. And Pini Cohen, a senior informations systems analyst at computer research company Meta Group Israel has called the development "an important stage in breaking Microsoft's monopoly."
"As the trend is for Linux to take a more important role in organizations," Shemesh continues, "Aloni's development is extremely interesting. The question is how Microsoft will react and whether it will allow support for Windows systems if they have Linux systems installed on them."
According to Haaretz.com that is carrying details of this story, Microsoft has so far made no comment on Aloni's development.
Cell Phone cameras are just as affective but not nearly as evil (not M$). I have the LG 5450 and must say for quick embarrassing photos of my friends (especially when they are drunk) it is hard to beat. I remember a Slashdot article from a couple of month back that some put a 1.3 megapixel camera in a phone, in case you are worried about quality.
Because the best security method is security via obscurity. It's been proven time after time...
Yeah- just look to Microsoft to find a shining example about how well security through obscurity works...
It's not clear at present that this is being done by anyone other than pranksters, but one can't help wondering, how long before commercial spammers catch on.
I'd be willing to bet that it won't be too long now that it has been blared across the front page of slashdot...
laptop fell off a moped and was run over by lorry...
Am I the only one that doesn't know what a lorry is?
The strangest thing I have ever seen was a guy that dropped his laptop off a three story building (he was a general contractor).
The laptop was toast (in sevral pieces accutally), but I was able to get the data of the HD onto CD.
I have been wanting to get one of those nifty camera phones, but I have been holding out until the number portability became a reality. I don't want to order new business cards, call everyone I know, and generally create havoc simply because "I want a cooler phone"
Slashdot had an article a while back the number portability would work for cell phone too ground line too.
I think you may be right; this whole thing does seem a little fishy here. I myself used earthstation5 for a couple of days but deleted it after I got feed up with the slow transfer speeds and terrible interface. I have serious doubts that there are 15 million people (where do they get their numbers? - this is supposed to be completely decentralized program, with no severs)) that are simultaneously willing to put up with all the BS associated with this particular pile of stinking crap. I have since moved over to eMule and haven't been happier.
In the event that this is legit, it would be used as fodder for the anti-P2P suits at the RIAA and MPAA to use to try and scare people from using P2P software. P2P software is far to integrated into our society (at least with the/.ers) to be shut down. The harder they work to shut them down, the more innovative the software will become to bypass their "blocks" (fake files, DoS on servers, etc.)
The premise for E5 is cool, but the execution is flawed, perhaps some developer would like to put together a program based on the same principals that does suck or hack your box.
Using windows for more than ten years (from parents, school, work, etc.) then being dropped to the wolves in Linux. Not than Linux isn't several magnitudes better than windows, just unfamiliar.
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It should be noted that every power that's ever tried a sea denial strategy ultimately failed and lost whatever war they were fighting.
-That strategy seemed to work fairly well for union forces during the civil war
Having played with a Sectera when I interviewed with GD, I can tell you that its freaking huge. A little bigger than my blackberry curve but almost 2.5 time as thick.
The reason that it is built this way is because there are two separate circuit board that are enclosed inside; one for the "red" side and another for the "black" side.
There is a very stringent certification process that takes place for communication equipment certified at the TS level; namely that it must, in every conceivable situation, fail safe.
Theres also some fun anti-tampering features that are built into the secteras...
I was very excited when the PSP first came out because the premise of the UMD media was so great. I have become rather tired of scratched DVDs the refuse to play, and the premise of a smaller disk that includes a protective shield was quite attractive. I had hoped the sony would open the UMD so the consumers could use them not only for PSPs but also for data storage in general. I could see the UMD replacing compact disks and supplementing DVDs for data storage on a grand scale (they hold 1.8 gigs). If sony would permit the use of UMD as more than a proprietary format, I would think that they would have a great success. I suspect the reason that they haven't done this is to thwart pirates...
Irregardless, it would be rather nice to be able to put music videos or other movies on a tiny disc that you could watch just about anywhere.
However, the computer industry doesn't have anything else to sell other than computers. What they are trying to do is find new markets for existing products. Once the technology takes hold expansion can take place (where more powerful systems would be needed and larger profit margins can be found).
Or you *could* purchase another PSION off of ebay http://search.ebay.com/psion
(I saw one going for about $80) if you really depend on it that much
Wulisoft even has a link to an EPOC emulator that you could use to run mentor if you had to.
That sure does sound quite a bit like extortion (if taken to court). Not only would you be advertising that you connected to their network unauthorized, but then you advertise your presence, offering to fix their problem, for a fee. Just as the windows messenger pop-ups have been classified as extortion (you know the go this website and you can get these pop-ups to go away). I would steer clear of any such attempts, no matter how good you intentions are.
Reminds me of the Div3r reviews that came out a while back (there was even a slashdot story about it http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/28/ 1745250&tid=127&tid=98&tid=10) is which exclusive reviews for the game were given under the condition that the game be given AT LEAST a 90% (or comparable) score. This completely defeats the purpose of having game reviews, as the people reviewing are REQUIRED to be impartial...
Rant not withstanding, I personally have been looking forward to this game for several years and have already upgraded my box in anticipation... HL was great and I have no reason to expect anything but the very best from valve.
Back in 2000 when Intel was first surpassed by AMD when they were beaten to 1 Ghz, they rushed an overclocked 1.13 Ghz chip to market that eventually ended up being recalled. I suspect that the reason that the 4 Ghz chip is not yet being released may, in fact, have something to do with reliability. Also it is important to remember that this chip is running on the Prescott core, which will probably use over a hundred watts of power alone. Perhaps they need more time to explore better cooling solutions (that can be delivered cheaply) before rushing a potentially unreliable product to market.
I am in favor of reliable chips (although personally being an AMD zealot myself); I think that the competition between AMD and Intel is important for innovation and fair prices.
It would be *much* simpler to whip out your power drill with a 1/4" bit and drill a couple hoes through the drive. If someone tried to spin the drive up, not only would there literally be sections of the data missing, but the loose particles inside the drive would grind the platters and probably destroy the read heads.
They seriously did this in an old issue of PC Accelerator, Titled the "Hardware Assasin"
Something other than informative.
Do the Moderators even check the links?
I seriously doubt that the gut will be made by Sony as they are direct competitor with Microsoft in several areas (XBox vs. Playstation, WMA vs. ATRAC 3)
I'm pretty sure that the technology implemented to quiet the fans *could* be used to reduce disk noise, although I would be willing to bet that it would not be as effective, due to the fact the noise source is a much larger area. Instead why not use some of zalman's hard disk silencers that they implemented on their silent case
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Here's that story: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/20/07582
Personal Favorite at our office was the common reoccurring ID-10-T error, (ID10T -> idiot for the l33t challenged)
Ever play GTA 1? It was a very revolutionary game when it came out (the "killer app" for the PS2)
While Vice City was more evolutionary (and in my opinion more fun)
Perhaps if I just piped in a simple singnal generating circut and filled the local area with white noise of about the same frequency of the northbridge?
I've got so many fans running in my computer that you can't even hold a conversation in the same room, much less listen for capacitors
I would have to agree...
Let us not only forget Joanna-
The lead character from the series "Perfect Dark"
I thought she did an excellent job portraying a woman,
although I have (ahem) limited experience with them (mostly due to slashdot addiction).
It's already becoming a bit slow... Looks like the Israel Defence Force may have done it again. Already famous for spawning an entire generation of software geniuses now active in the world of wireless technologies, the IDF has now apparently incubated the technical talent capable of creating a project that could change the world: the ability to run Linux on Windows 2000/XP. 21 year-old Dan Aloni, a graduate of an IDF computer unit, has developed a Linux application - called Cooperative Linux ("CoLinux" for short) - that is a port of the Linux kernel that allows it to run cooperatively alongside another operating system on a single machine. For instance, it allows one to freely run Linux on Windows without using a commercial PC virtualization software such as VMware, in a way which is much more optimal than using any general purpose PC virtualization software. A member of the international open source community, Aloni developed CoLinux along with several Japanese programmers, collaborating over the Net. According to the Web site, they've written special core drivers for the host OS which modify the way the host OS receives notifications from the hardware - thus allowing both OSes to coexist peacefully - and run at a decent speed as well. In Israel, acclaim for a system potentially capable of allowing organizations to run Linux and Windows in parallel on the same computer or server has been immediate. Organizations would make great savings if they didn't any longer have to have separate machines for each OS, says Shahar Shemesh, a member of the Israeli open source forum. And Pini Cohen, a senior informations systems analyst at computer research company Meta Group Israel has called the development "an important stage in breaking Microsoft's monopoly." "As the trend is for Linux to take a more important role in organizations," Shemesh continues, "Aloni's development is extremely interesting. The question is how Microsoft will react and whether it will allow support for Windows systems if they have Linux systems installed on them." According to Haaretz.com that is carrying details of this story, Microsoft has so far made no comment on Aloni's development.
Cell Phone cameras are just as affective but not nearly as evil (not M$). I have the LG 5450 and must say for quick embarrassing photos of my friends (especially when they are drunk) it is hard to beat. I remember a Slashdot article from a couple of month back that some put a 1.3 megapixel camera in a phone, in case you are worried about quality.
... Has an ad for "Club" the infamous hardcore porno mag. The writing on some of the billboards match the symbol for the mag...
I know that it is definitely in the Tokyo level, not sure about any of the others, though.
Because the best security method is security via obscurity. It's been proven time after time...
Yeah- just look to Microsoft to find a shining example about how well security through obscurity works...
It's not clear at present that this is being done by anyone other than pranksters, but one can't help wondering, how long before commercial spammers catch on.
I'd be willing to bet that it won't be too long now that it has been blared across the front page of slashdot...
laptop fell off a moped and was run over by lorry... Am I the only one that doesn't know what a lorry is? The strangest thing I have ever seen was a guy that dropped his laptop off a three story building (he was a general contractor). The laptop was toast (in sevral pieces accutally), but I was able to get the data of the HD onto CD.
I have been wanting to get one of those nifty camera phones, but I have been holding out until the number portability became a reality. I don't want to order new business cards, call everyone I know, and generally create havoc simply because "I want a cooler phone"
Slashdot had an article a while back the number portability would work for cell phone too ground line too.
I think you may be right; this whole thing does seem a little fishy here. I myself used earthstation5 for a couple of days but deleted it after I got feed up with the slow transfer speeds and terrible interface. I have serious doubts that there are 15 million people (where do they get their numbers? - this is supposed to be completely decentralized program, with no severs)) that are simultaneously willing to put up with all the BS associated with this particular pile of stinking crap. I have since moved over to eMule and haven't been happier. /.ers) to be shut down. The harder they work to shut them down, the more innovative the software will become to bypass their "blocks" (fake files, DoS on servers, etc.)
In the event that this is legit, it would be used as fodder for the anti-P2P suits at the RIAA and MPAA to use to try and scare people from using P2P software. P2P software is far to integrated into our society (at least with the
The premise for E5 is cool, but the execution is flawed, perhaps some developer would like to put together a program based on the same principals that does suck or hack your box.
Just a thought...
Using windows for more than ten years (from parents, school, work, etc.) then being dropped to the wolves in Linux. Not than Linux isn't several magnitudes better than windows, just unfamiliar.