This is getting close to what I like to refer to as immersive video. My ideal setup would have one wall (or major portion of) covered by a video screen with good enough resolution that you can't count the pixels from ~ 5ft away. Have this screen tied into an ambiance/environmental feed that is time-synched to my location. Get up in the morning and feel like going to the beach? Just select the beach channel complete with surf, wind, sunbathers. Likewise for rain forest, arctic tundra, etc. For the more people oriented types, we could even have shopping mall or city street feeds. Not quite a holodeck but it would be good enough for me.
I've built many linux machines over the years (with several different distros) and I've learned through experience that best practice is to keep system files and user data on separate volumes. Either create a dedicated partition for/home or use another physical drive entirely. I've had too many upgrades go bad and didn't have the time or patience to poke around to find the cause, so the quickest and best solution was to format and start over. Just my 2 cents.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand this issue the Bells and other backbone providers want to charge to prioritize packets, not just give larger pipes to ISPs and users. In other words, www.anysite.com would be able to pay $nnn to have their packets routed ahead of those coming from www.othersite.com. When you give priority to one packet over another you increase performance for the first but degrade performance for the second. If othersite.com wants to stay in business they'll almost certainly have to pay up as well just to stay competitive.
We're all anxiously awaiting that killer asteroid that's supposed to cause the next extinction event. How about, instead of trying to blow it up or deflect it into the sun, we redirect it into LOE and use its gravitational pull as a natural vacuum cleaner? We end up with not only a cleaner sky but also a new moon to get all poetic about.
I'm not a web developer (so someone correct me if I'm wrong) but it's my understanding that the expiration date of a cookie is defined by the person creating the cookie. I prefer to have Firefox keep cookies only for the current session, then wipe them when I close the browser. I also routinely wipe the browser cache and history just out of basic tinfoil-hattedness.
I read Slashdot almost daily, and based on general comments I'd guess that us old farts (I passed 45 a couple months back) are not in that much of a minority. Sounds like a good subject for a Slashpoll! Editors, what do you think?
IF AMD can find instances in the compiler of "if Intel then...else if AMD then..." they'll have a case. But this may just be an instance of Intel knowing best how to optimize for Intel processors.
I didn't RTFA, but I believe the intended audience are the do-it-yourselfers. PowerPC motherboards and processors are not generally available to the home market, and when you can find them they are prohibitively expensive, so there isn't much point in including them.
This is just wrong on so many levels. These people expect to profit from highway traffic for at least the next 50 years, but what will they do when the gasoline runs out sometime in the next 20 years or so? Charge horse-and-buggy users a toll? Sure, we may be able to make the leap to a hydrogen economy for personal transport, but we may not. They should concentrate their efforts on installing an improved electrified rail system. It would divorce the transport method from a specific fuel, and make a far smaller scar on the landscape. Hell, they could even put in solar cell farms to power the system and remove its dependency on the national grid. But, noooooo, they want to pretend the gas will last forever. Dorks!
"... They don't even split into other elements."
Uhhh, wrong. My physics was a bit rusty, so I did a google on the fission process and found this on world-nuclear.org:
"The number of neutrons and the specific fission products from any fission event are governed by statistical probability, in that the precise break up of a single nucleus cannot be predicted. However, conservation laws require the total number of nucleons and the total energy to be conserved. The fission reaction in U-235 produces fission products such as Ba, Kr, Sr, Cs, I and Xe with atomic masses distributed around 95 and 135. Examples may be given of typical reaction products, such as:
U-235 + n ===> Ba-144 + Kr-90 + 2n + energy
U-235 + n ===> Ba-141 + Kr-92 + 3n + 170 MeV
U-235 + n ===> Zr-94 + La-139 + 3n + 197 MeV "
So you can see that U-235 is indeed split into other elements. The full articles can be found at:
http://www.world-nuclear.org/education/phys.htm
The insulation isn't for the battery but for the battery cable, and is there to shield against electromagnetic noise. Some users of the Treo 600 have reported a buzzing noise that has been traced back to an improperly shielded cable. A description of the problem and the corrective procedure can be found here: http://www.ktmonline.com.br/treo/treo600-buzzing.p df The cable is only about 3/4 inch long. I wrapped the cable in a small piece of foil, then wrapped the foil in electrical tape. No more buzz.
I was reluctant to buy an after market battery at first because of the news reports, but I started going through the numbers in my head. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of third party units have been sold. If there was a wholesale problem we'd see more than a handful of sensationalist news articles. The cell phone companies are hyping the reports because they want you to buy their product at an inflated price. I'm wlling to take the risk because I think I'd have a better chance of winning a lottery than of getting an exploding battery.
I've had my Treo 600 for just over a year now and started having this issue (on the Sprint network) a couple months ago. It turned out to be the battery failing. I couldn't send or receive calls even when the battery was showing a full charge but the phone worked like a champ when plugged into a travel charger. I replaced the battery with an aftermarket unit that does just as well and has a higher capacity to boot. Be careful if you decide to try this, the internal battery is glued to the circuit board with rubber cement and has to be pried loose carefully. While you have the case open you'll want to insulate the battery cable with a bit of tin foil and tape. This should fix some, if not all, of any sound problems you might be having.
I recall reading something along these lines once as an alternative way to track web server hits, but the programmer used random animal and bird noises. Jungle in a box.
Mirroring (RAID 1) is strictly for redundancy, striping (RAID 0) is for performance. A mirrored set is still accessed as a single drive where the secondary drive is just a shadow copy. If you want the best of both, you'll have to go RAID 1+0, mirrored + striped, which will cost you a minimum of four drives to implement.
BTW, I hope you don't store anything of value on your RAID 0 array because you're doubling the chance of system failure. If one drive dies in RAID 0 you lose the whole shebang.
Well, duh....
1. They'll make them out of that liquid-enhanced body armor discussed just a couple days ago, and
2. They'll fill them with all the helium produced as a by-product of cold fusion.
A flash-back from my childhood. Silly Putty was a commercial example of a shear-thickening visco-elastic fluid. Under normal pressure it would flow like goo, but give it a sudden yank and it would turn rigid and snap leaving a clean shear plane. I suspect they're working along similar lines to develop this body armor enhancement. Also, I suspect "liquid" is just market-speak. "Fluid" would probably be a more accurate description.
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This is getting close to what I like to refer to as immersive video. My ideal setup would have one wall (or major portion of) covered by a video screen with good enough resolution that you can't count the pixels from ~ 5ft away. Have this screen tied into an ambiance/environmental feed that is time-synched to my location. Get up in the morning and feel like going to the beach? Just select the beach channel complete with surf, wind, sunbathers. Likewise for rain forest, arctic tundra, etc. For the more people oriented types, we could even have shopping mall or city street feeds. Not quite a holodeck but it would be good enough for me.
Are you suggesting that witches are not actually made out of wood?
But they still weigh the same as a duck.
"...Isle be seeing you...in all the old familiar places..."
I've built many linux machines over the years (with several different distros) and I've learned through experience that best practice is to keep system files and user data on separate volumes. Either create a dedicated partition for /home or use another physical drive entirely. I've had too many upgrades go bad and didn't have the time or patience to poke around to find the cause, so the quickest and best solution was to format and start over. Just my 2 cents.
Linux and Windows will never have useful REXX support
/ linux/index.html/
/ windows/index.html/
Ummm...
REXX for linux: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/obj-rexx
REXX for Windows: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/obj-rexx
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand this issue the Bells and other backbone providers want to charge to prioritize packets, not just give larger pipes to ISPs and users. In other words, www.anysite.com would be able to pay $nnn to have their packets routed ahead of those coming from www.othersite.com. When you give priority to one packet over another you increase performance for the first but degrade performance for the second. If othersite.com wants to stay in business they'll almost certainly have to pay up as well just to stay competitive.
We're all anxiously awaiting that killer asteroid that's supposed to cause the next extinction event. How about, instead of trying to blow it up or deflect it into the sun, we redirect it into LOE and use its gravitational pull as a natural vacuum cleaner? We end up with not only a cleaner sky but also a new moon to get all poetic about.
Although the number of victims aren't really comparable, I'd be more willing to compare Tiananmen Square to the Kent State massacre.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_Massacre
Chill. The sig is a quotation from despair.com
http://despair.com/meetings.html
I'm not a web developer (so someone correct me if I'm wrong) but it's my understanding that the expiration date of a cookie is defined by the person creating the cookie. I prefer to have Firefox keep cookies only for the current session, then wipe them when I close the browser. I also routinely wipe the browser cache and history just out of basic tinfoil-hattedness.
I read Slashdot almost daily, and based on general comments I'd guess that us old farts (I passed 45 a couple months back) are not in that much of a minority. Sounds like a good subject for a Slashpoll! Editors, what do you think?
IF AMD can find instances in the compiler of "if Intel then...else if AMD then..." they'll have a case. But this may just be an instance of Intel knowing best how to optimize for Intel processors.
I didn't RTFA, but I believe the intended audience are the do-it-yourselfers. PowerPC motherboards and processors are not generally available to the home market, and when you can find them they are prohibitively expensive, so there isn't much point in including them.
"...you'd think we live on a gigantic ball of oil and grease surrounded by a black haze of car exhaust and soot." You mean, like this...? http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/na tural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=12829
This is just wrong on so many levels. These people expect to profit from highway traffic for at least the next 50 years, but what will they do when the gasoline runs out sometime in the next 20 years or so? Charge horse-and-buggy users a toll? Sure, we may be able to make the leap to a hydrogen economy for personal transport, but we may not. They should concentrate their efforts on installing an improved electrified rail system. It would divorce the transport method from a specific fuel, and make a far smaller scar on the landscape. Hell, they could even put in solar cell farms to power the system and remove its dependency on the national grid. But, noooooo, they want to pretend the gas will last forever. Dorks!
"... They don't even split into other elements." Uhhh, wrong. My physics was a bit rusty, so I did a google on the fission process and found this on world-nuclear.org: "The number of neutrons and the specific fission products from any fission event are governed by statistical probability, in that the precise break up of a single nucleus cannot be predicted. However, conservation laws require the total number of nucleons and the total energy to be conserved. The fission reaction in U-235 produces fission products such as Ba, Kr, Sr, Cs, I and Xe with atomic masses distributed around 95 and 135. Examples may be given of typical reaction products, such as: U-235 + n ===> Ba-144 + Kr-90 + 2n + energy U-235 + n ===> Ba-141 + Kr-92 + 3n + 170 MeV U-235 + n ===> Zr-94 + La-139 + 3n + 197 MeV " So you can see that U-235 is indeed split into other elements. The full articles can be found at: http://www.world-nuclear.org/education/phys.htm
The insulation isn't for the battery but for the battery cable, and is there to shield against electromagnetic noise. Some users of the Treo 600 have reported a buzzing noise that has been traced back to an improperly shielded cable. A description of the problem and the corrective procedure can be found here: http://www.ktmonline.com.br/treo/treo600-buzzing.p df The cable is only about 3/4 inch long. I wrapped the cable in a small piece of foil, then wrapped the foil in electrical tape. No more buzz.
I was reluctant to buy an after market battery at first because of the news reports, but I started going through the numbers in my head. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of third party units have been sold. If there was a wholesale problem we'd see more than a handful of sensationalist news articles. The cell phone companies are hyping the reports because they want you to buy their product at an inflated price. I'm wlling to take the risk because I think I'd have a better chance of winning a lottery than of getting an exploding battery.
I've had my Treo 600 for just over a year now and started having this issue (on the Sprint network) a couple months ago. It turned out to be the battery failing. I couldn't send or receive calls even when the battery was showing a full charge but the phone worked like a champ when plugged into a travel charger. I replaced the battery with an aftermarket unit that does just as well and has a higher capacity to boot. Be careful if you decide to try this, the internal battery is glued to the circuit board with rubber cement and has to be pried loose carefully. While you have the case open you'll want to insulate the battery cable with a bit of tin foil and tape. This should fix some, if not all, of any sound problems you might be having.
It's called coral reefs and shellfish. Oh, wait, we're poisoning both of those already. Doh!
I recall reading something along these lines once as an alternative way to track web server hits, but the programmer used random animal and bird noises. Jungle in a box.
With the low end RAID chips like Highpoint and Sil, you ARE doing software RAID.
Mirroring (RAID 1) is strictly for redundancy, striping (RAID 0) is for performance. A mirrored set is still accessed as a single drive where the secondary drive is just a shadow copy. If you want the best of both, you'll have to go RAID 1+0, mirrored + striped, which will cost you a minimum of four drives to implement. BTW, I hope you don't store anything of value on your RAID 0 array because you're doubling the chance of system failure. If one drive dies in RAID 0 you lose the whole shebang.
Well, duh.... 1. They'll make them out of that liquid-enhanced body armor discussed just a couple days ago, and 2. They'll fill them with all the helium produced as a by-product of cold fusion.
A flash-back from my childhood. Silly Putty was a commercial example of a shear-thickening visco-elastic fluid. Under normal pressure it would flow like goo, but give it a sudden yank and it would turn rigid and snap leaving a clean shear plane. I suspect they're working along similar lines to develop this body armor enhancement. Also, I suspect "liquid" is just market-speak. "Fluid" would probably be a more accurate description.