It's a completely pure 64-bit kernel (unlike OSX which only does 64bit memory addressing). One of the downsides for us nostalgic gamers is that support for 16 and 8 bit applications has been completely dropped, even from the WOW* architecture.
I'm curious if this will mean that 32bit apps will need to run through a WOW* type interface
*Windows on Windows: the 16 & 8 bit transparent emulator that allows backwards compatibility on WinNT systems. Wow.exe or Wow32.exe, depending on your version.
Article originally posted 10 days ago on Ars. You're really keeping up with the news, eh Zonk?
The editors job isn't to find articles to post, it's to post good articles that have been submitted and not to post dupes--something Zonk does do a poor job of.
Slashdot works because we, the readers, also read other news outlets and post things to slashdot. Check on the left where it says "Submit a story."
Umm... Assuming that a school employee is the one installing MS Office, wouldn't borrowing the school from work imply borrowing the CD from the school? And if the school didn't purchase a copy, then.... following where I'm going with this one?
why not just use Blu-Ray technolgy and HD-DVD name (silid's idea)
Based on what I read, I feel I can safetly say, "Everything about HD-DVD sucks by comparison to Blueray." But, at least if they used Sony's idea (MSTV instead of the Java counterpart) the physical format would remain unchanged, and that is definately the most important aspect (since that's where Blueray really dominates--using JMHP is just a bonus).
Interestingly enough, if you try to select "India" from the drop down, you'll find it isn't there. Google has no plans for posting satellite images of India beyond the 1km resolution they plan to do the entire world using.
Nope. When I asked them, as I did multiple times to two different people, "does this include static IP's" and they answer, as they did every time, "yes", then it isn't a "misunderstanding", it's a lie.
Yeah, I'd have to agree with you right there. That's pretty ballsy on their part...
You really don't understand the purpose of domain names, do you?
No, I understand the purpose of domain names just fine. What I don't understand is the need to static ip addresses. If all you ever give out is the domain, and the domain follows the ip address, who cares if the IP changes.
In any case, it's irrelevant. I'd have to agree that QWest lied to you. I find it strange, but I'm glad you found someone else to supply you with DSL. I definately wouldn't have stayed with QWest were I you.
Their technical staff and sales people told me "static IPs are included in the monthly price". We even talked about using one of the free DNS services to map the static IP to a name (since Qwest didn't do that.)
See, I wonder if that wasn't just a misunderstanding on their--or your--end. It's an inexcusable misunderstanding if on their part, but the fact that you discussed using free DNS services kind of throws me off. Most of those free DNS services are geared for use with Dynamic IP addresses, and I wonder why you would NEED a static ip address if you had the DNS mapping, and vice-versa. I run a number of servers off of my home cable modem (shhh) and I just point my top level domain map my top level domain to My No-Ip.com account (rather than to my ip, since my IP is dynamic.) My No-IP.com account (whatever.no-ip.com or whatever) keeps that updated checking ever hour or so to see if my ip has changed, and if so it updates the DNS mapping. Haven't had any trouble. As a sidebar, I've noticed on broadband that my Dynamic IP changes at most, once a month, unless they're doing major system upgrades.
Now surely the support staff should not have gotten confused when you mention static IPs and the fact that they were confused or blatently lied to you is completely inexcusable. But it also seems to me that anyone who needs a static IP would also have a fixed top-level domain name they can point to an IP (and thus wouldn't need a free solution) or don't have any use for a domain name at all, since the IP never changes.
Qwest has it in the areas of ND and Minessota I've lived for a couple of years, but I'm not sure if that's just because the cable companies in those areas offered naked cable modems (cause they did.)
offtopic: anyone know how to stop windows from swapping when there is 500mb+ of free ram? it's really annoying, and just putting the swap to 0 on all drives doesn't really solve the problem either(and some soft freak off from it, this is on XP). I hate having 1.5gb of ram and only seeing half of it used regularly while having windows swap horrendously.
Search for a decent cache manager. I recommend cacheman, but there are others. They often want to remain resident and free memory.. Since we're trying to fill memory, don't do this. CacheMan, in particular, lets you run a bunch of tweaks. Set your disk cache up on full, turn off "executive paging" etc. You might also want to try TweakUI, and I've had great luck with a cheap utility called "Advanced Registry Optimizer" although that's not exactly a program to solve your particular question.
Between a cachemanager program and MS TweakUI you should be able tell windows not to swap the system files out to disk, which will then actualyl cause a 0mb pagefile to have meaning...
I'll defend it. If it's my font, in that I hold the copyright, I can impose whatever conditions I like on you distributing documents made of it.
Unfortunately, not quite true. Checking the font FAQ, since you can only copyright a scalable font (not TypeFace designs or Bitmap fonts) I could print out my document, thus making it type face, and then I wouldn't have to worry about your license.
Also, since most document formats only tell the document viewer "use this font if it's installed, otherwise use the system default font," so long as I don't specifically embed your font into my document, distributing my document would fall outside your control.
What you could do is state that whenever I distribute a copy of your font (since that's what you hold copyright to) I have to stand on my head and whistle. This would also mean whenever I distribute my document in PDF format or some other format that embeds the font within the file I could have to stand on my head and whistle, but...
if I don't embed the font my file doesn't contain any information about your font other than your font name before the text I requested my document editor to format using your font. My document will load just fine without your font, it just won't look as purdy.
IANAL, but in-so-much as I understand the way of things, this is how it works.
the letters of the font are in the document. No ide code ends up in the finished program
Only which font to use and how to apply it (eg, which size of the font, style of the font, etc) are included, unless you embed the font into the document (ala pdf). Most of the time when documents are saved the font is not embeded, so the font is not part of the finished product... it just might not look quite right if the recipient doesn't have that particular font installed.
Agreed. Clean the lense manually with a foam-tipped cotton swap and some good +90% Isopropyl alcohol. I've had bad luck with cleaning disks, and cleaning manually often does the trick.
I'm not sure it's a good idea to blow canned air directly on the lense, either.
Also, stop buying home theatre DVD players. They suck. I've not gone through as many as people I know, but they don't seem to last nearly as long as anything in my computers. Build a myth TV system with quality Plextor or Lite-on drives... had good luck with both of them.
Otherwise (and for the general consumer) there isn't much you can do. Most of this stuff is cheap garbage, and that's unfortunate.
In order to do that, it would have to not open in the presence of certain frequencies - or in other words open when only certain combination of frequencies were applied to it. That's a pretty tall order and I don't think this technology is capable of that.
If you look right in the article it states: "The shape-changing ability is accomplished by attaching photosensitive molecules to a polymer. When exposed to ultraviolet light, the photosensitive particles become active and link to one another, changing the shape of the plastic. Exposing it to light of a slightly different frequency reverses the first reaction, allowing the plastic to return to its original shape."
In order to make the plastic re-form, you need to apply "a slightly different frequency". Obviously this technology is capable of doing exactly what I said is. What I don't think it is capable of is bending in the presence of light and then returning when light isn't there. It needs light of a different frequency to go back.
Now imagine that tank being rear-ended by a Hummer H2!!!
The should but a safety weak spot in the front of the tank, so that in a colision the front will rupture and it will rocket out the back into said hummer;)
The tank could even be mounted in a protective fireing tube...
It doesn't. Here [answers.com] is a more accurate description of how the technology works. The marketing droids turned "perpendicular" into "3D" to increase the hype level. This advance will probably only give an incremental improvement in density. Sigh.
How does this actually save space on the HD? I understand how this helps with Tape Storage (like on VHS tapes) but how does this help in HD storage, where you use the entire surface area of the disk (minus space between tracks) to store the data? How can the simple orientation provide such enormous yeilds?
I hope it has an external refil port for the compressed air tank. This will be a great way to take advantage of stations that offer "Free Air" (and also, unfortunately, prompt a decrease in the number of stations offering "free air"...)
More importantly, why has Honda/Toyota decided not to adopt these as factory options?
It said in the article that adding the wall plug would add $2000-$3000 to the price of the hybrid. One of the exec's from Toyota also said that the batteries couldn't handle being charged and discharged that frequently.
The second part I understand. Batteries loose capacity when you charge/discharge them, and plugging them in would mean they recharge every night whereas otherwise they might not do that quite so often. But what I want to know is why would it add any significant cost at all to add a trickle charger and a wall plug? Couldn't you just run a voltage adapter to the existant charging circuit that normally works off the alternator? Or is the $2000 price tag just what aftermarket installers are charging to make this modification?
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would leave a space before that last quotation. Last time I checked, HTML formatting doesn't come up as words.
Ahhh.. but > is definately a character, and it's right before the quotation mark. I'm sorry you can't SEE the character, but that's probably because you're using one of those newfangled WebWhatsit's instead of simply "wget http://slashdot.org/index.pl" like the rest of us.
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It's a completely pure 64-bit kernel (unlike OSX which only does 64bit memory addressing). One of the downsides for us nostalgic gamers is that support for 16 and 8 bit applications has been completely dropped, even from the WOW* architecture.
I'm curious if this will mean that 32bit apps will need to run through a WOW* type interface
*Windows on Windows: the 16 & 8 bit transparent emulator that allows backwards compatibility on WinNT systems. Wow.exe or Wow32.exe, depending on your version.
Project Prometheus has recently started a new web page
Actually, I was trying to figure out how a yet-to-be-built space craft has designed a web page. But, I suppose it isn't rocket-surgery.
Isn't the north Atlantic cold all times of year?
you can NOT insert the drive in a USB port without the keys : the litlle cord is FIXED on the drive !
They make keychains that seperate into halves. Mount your thumbdrive onto one of those.
Article originally posted 10 days ago on Ars. You're really keeping up with the news, eh Zonk?
The editors job isn't to find articles to post, it's to post good articles that have been submitted and not to post dupes--something Zonk does do a poor job of.
Slashdot works because we, the readers, also read other news outlets and post things to slashdot. Check on the left where it says "Submit a story."
or borrow an install CD from work?
Umm... Assuming that a school employee is the one installing MS Office, wouldn't borrowing the school from work imply borrowing the CD from the school? And if the school didn't purchase a copy, then.... following where I'm going with this one?
why not just use Blu-Ray technolgy and HD-DVD name (silid's idea)
Based on what I read, I feel I can safetly say, "Everything about HD-DVD sucks by comparison to Blueray." But, at least if they used Sony's idea (MSTV instead of the Java counterpart) the physical format would remain unchanged, and that is definately the most important aspect (since that's where Blueray really dominates--using JMHP is just a bonus).
I know people would say that Google can just buy satellite images from an independent source
Not that it changes your post much, but Google's aquisition of KeyHole netted them a satellite or two.
You can find out more on the Keyhole.com website under What are Google's Plans with KeyHole
Interestingly enough, if you try to select "India" from the drop down, you'll find it isn't there. Google has no plans for posting satellite images of India beyond the 1km resolution they plan to do the entire world using.
Nope. When I asked them, as I did multiple times to two different people, "does this include static IP's" and they answer, as they did every time, "yes", then it isn't a "misunderstanding", it's a lie.
Yeah, I'd have to agree with you right there. That's pretty ballsy on their part...
You really don't understand the purpose of domain names, do you?
No, I understand the purpose of domain names just fine. What I don't understand is the need to static ip addresses. If all you ever give out is the domain, and the domain follows the ip address, who cares if the IP changes.
In any case, it's irrelevant. I'd have to agree that QWest lied to you. I find it strange, but I'm glad you found someone else to supply you with DSL. I definately wouldn't have stayed with QWest were I you.
Their technical staff and sales people told me "static IPs are included in the monthly price". We even talked about using one of the free DNS services to map the static IP to a name (since Qwest didn't do that.)
See, I wonder if that wasn't just a misunderstanding on their--or your--end. It's an inexcusable misunderstanding if on their part, but the fact that you discussed using free DNS services kind of throws me off. Most of those free DNS services are geared for use with Dynamic IP addresses, and I wonder why you would NEED a static ip address if you had the DNS mapping, and vice-versa. I run a number of servers off of my home cable modem (shhh) and I just point my top level domain map my top level domain to My No-Ip.com account (rather than to my ip, since my IP is dynamic.) My No-IP.com account (whatever.no-ip.com or whatever) keeps that updated checking ever hour or so to see if my ip has changed, and if so it updates the DNS mapping. Haven't had any trouble. As a sidebar, I've noticed on broadband that my Dynamic IP changes at most, once a month, unless they're doing major system upgrades.
Now surely the support staff should not have gotten confused when you mention static IPs and the fact that they were confused or blatently lied to you is completely inexcusable. But it also seems to me that anyone who needs a static IP would also have a fixed top-level domain name they can point to an IP (and thus wouldn't need a free solution) or don't have any use for a domain name at all, since the IP never changes.
Qwest has it in the areas of ND and Minessota I've lived for a couple of years, but I'm not sure if that's just because the cable companies in those areas offered naked cable modems (cause they did.)
Professional doesn't even begin to describe the quality of the acting--at all.
offtopic: anyone know how to stop windows from swapping when there is 500mb+ of free ram? it's really annoying, and just putting the swap to 0 on all drives doesn't really solve the problem either(and some soft freak off from it, this is on XP). I hate having 1.5gb of ram and only seeing half of it used regularly while having windows swap horrendously.
Search for a decent cache manager. I recommend cacheman, but there are others. They often want to remain resident and free memory.. Since we're trying to fill memory, don't do this. CacheMan, in particular, lets you run a bunch of tweaks. Set your disk cache up on full, turn off "executive paging" etc. You might also want to try TweakUI, and I've had great luck with a cheap utility called "Advanced Registry Optimizer" although that's not exactly a program to solve your particular question.
Between a cachemanager program and MS TweakUI you should be able tell windows not to swap the system files out to disk, which will then actualyl cause a 0mb pagefile to have meaning...
I'll defend it. If it's my font, in that I hold the copyright, I can impose whatever conditions I like on you distributing documents made of it.
Unfortunately, not quite true. Checking the font FAQ, since you can only copyright a scalable font (not TypeFace designs or Bitmap fonts) I could print out my document, thus making it type face, and then I wouldn't have to worry about your license.
Also, since most document formats only tell the document viewer "use this font if it's installed, otherwise use the system default font," so long as I don't specifically embed your font into my document, distributing my document would fall outside your control.
What you could do is state that whenever I distribute a copy of your font (since that's what you hold copyright to) I have to stand on my head and whistle. This would also mean whenever I distribute my document in PDF format or some other format that embeds the font within the file I could have to stand on my head and whistle, but...
if I don't embed the font my file doesn't contain any information about your font other than your font name before the text I requested my document editor to format using your font. My document will load just fine without your font, it just won't look as purdy.
IANAL, but in-so-much as I understand the way of things, this is how it works.
the letters of the font are in the document. No ide code ends up in the finished program
Only which font to use and how to apply it (eg, which size of the font, style of the font, etc) are included, unless you embed the font into the document (ala pdf). Most of the time when documents are saved the font is not embeded, so the font is not part of the finished product... it just might not look quite right if the recipient doesn't have that particular font installed.
Agreed. Clean the lense manually with a foam-tipped cotton swap and some good +90% Isopropyl alcohol. I've had bad luck with cleaning disks, and cleaning manually often does the trick.
I'm not sure it's a good idea to blow canned air directly on the lense, either.
Also, stop buying home theatre DVD players. They suck. I've not gone through as many as people I know, but they don't seem to last nearly as long as anything in my computers. Build a myth TV system with quality Plextor or Lite-on drives... had good luck with both of them.
Otherwise (and for the general consumer) there isn't much you can do. Most of this stuff is cheap garbage, and that's unfortunate.
The GIMP has a very very good interface.
I don't know which is funnier: that story you just told, or your signature! They're both hilarious!!
... it shows that you didn't read the article
In order to do that, it would have to not open in the presence of certain frequencies - or in other words open when only certain combination of frequencies were applied to it. That's a pretty tall order and I don't think this technology is capable of that.
If you look right in the article it states:
"The shape-changing ability is accomplished by attaching photosensitive molecules to a polymer. When exposed to ultraviolet light, the photosensitive particles become active and link to one another, changing the shape of the plastic. Exposing it to light of a slightly different frequency reverses the first reaction, allowing the plastic to return to its original shape."
In order to make the plastic re-form, you need to apply "a slightly different frequency". Obviously this technology is capable of doing exactly what I said is. What I don't think it is capable of is bending in the presence of light and then returning when light isn't there. It needs light of a different frequency to go back.
The plastic only reacts to certain frequencies, and this is better than an electronic solution since it'll work when the power's out.
It won't automatically open the door when the sun shines on it...
Anyway, the door thing really just sounds like a semi-cool idea, not anything really marketable or practical...
Now imagine that tank being rear-ended by a Hummer H2!!!
;)
The should but a safety weak spot in the front of the tank, so that in a colision the front will rupture and it will rocket out the back into said hummer
The tank could even be mounted in a protective fireing tube...
Hey! Great artwork
But doesn't this just make the tracks wider? Whether you store:
Longitudinally on a 9x22 matrix
N S . S N . S N . N S
N S . S N . S N . N S
N S . S N . S N . N S
N S . S N . S N . N S
N S . S N . S N . N S
4x5 = 20 bits
or
Perpendicularly on a 9x22 matrix:
N S S N N S S N N S S
S N N S S N N S S N N
N S S N N S S N N S S
S N N S S N N S S N N
N S S N N S S N N S S
S N N S S N N S S N N
11x3= 33 bits.. alright. I eat my hat. I get it now. =)
It doesn't. Here [answers.com] is a more accurate description of how the technology works. The marketing droids turned "perpendicular" into "3D" to increase the hype level. This advance will probably only give an incremental improvement in density. Sigh.
How does this actually save space on the HD? I understand how this helps with Tape Storage (like on VHS tapes) but how does this help in HD storage, where you use the entire surface area of the disk (minus space between tracks) to store the data? How can the simple orientation provide such enormous yeilds?
I hope it has an external refil port for the compressed air tank. This will be a great way to take advantage of stations that offer "Free Air" (and also, unfortunately, prompt a decrease in the number of stations offering "free air"...)
More importantly, why has Honda/Toyota decided not to adopt these as factory options?
It said in the article that adding the wall plug would add $2000-$3000 to the price of the hybrid. One of the exec's from Toyota also said that the batteries couldn't handle being charged and discharged that frequently.
The second part I understand. Batteries loose capacity when you charge/discharge them, and plugging them in would mean they recharge every night whereas otherwise they might not do that quite so often. But what I want to know is why would it add any significant cost at all to add a trickle charger and a wall plug? Couldn't you just run a voltage adapter to the existant charging circuit that normally works off the alternator? Or is the $2000 price tag just what aftermarket installers are charging to make this modification?
There should have been at least one character before it, or some characters from the preceding line pulled down
...<br> "
and
would leave a space before that last quotation. Last time I checked, HTML formatting doesn't come up as words.
Ahhh.. but > is definately a character, and it's right before the quotation mark. I'm sorry you can't SEE the character, but that's probably because you're using one of those newfangled WebWhatsit's instead of simply "wget http://slashdot.org/index.pl" like the rest of us.