Re:Early weird news reports
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Strike on Iraq
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IS it just me or is Slashdot suffering load issues...I'm on the east coast and the turtle like speed is miserable.
I'm on the east coast also, and I don't think it's/. that's suffering. I think the sheer number of posts is causing your browser to work pretty hard to render the page (lot's of nested tables!)..
This fact is made even more despicable by the fact that the second one - the plutonium bomb dropped on Nagasaki (the one dropped on Hiroshima was a uranium bomb) was quite obviously dropped mainly for the sake of seeing how it would work.
I just returned from Japan and I visited the atomic bomb museums in both Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Hiroshima was targeted because it was a military city and because it had not been targeted for many conventional bombing runs, which made it an ideal place to investigate the destructive capacity of the weapon. Nagasaki was a secondary target, and bombed only because the primary target (I can't remember which city it was) was clouded over. The US was not targeting a civilian area in Nagasaki. It targeted the Mitsubishi ship works. A target which it missed by many miles.
Just to provide a little info to the readers: The atomic bomb dropped on Nagaski was a 20 kiloton plutonium device that killed 73,884 and injured 74,909 people. Thousands have since died and continue to suffer the effects of radiation poisoning. In 1996, there were still 80,000 people in Hiroshima that were suffering from the effects of radiation exposure.
Would people before 9/11 have run out of a club screaming and freaking out because someone used mace? Nope.
Yep! We're so freakin' scared that we jump, and hopefully that's all we do, to the worst possible scenerio whenever someone sneezes.
I live in a small town in northern New York (up near Canada) and the folks around here are a little more relaxed than the people I know living in cities, but there's still a lot of anxiety. It's amazing how much more distrustful our society as a whole has become in the last ~18 months. Society is built upon trust and the Department of Homeland Security and USA Patriot Act are direct attacks our society because they incite mistrust among the people.
I'm not so sure why it would be faster to render the SVG and display the PNG (which needs to be decompressed), but keep in mind that it may depend on the test platform. Under Mac OS X 10.1, a lot of people were using a little command line hack that compressed the frame buffer. The memory bus was a bottle neck, and it was faster to compress and decompress the frame buffer than it was to move the uncompressed frame across the bus.. Just a thought.. CPU cycles are cheap, improve the memory system is not..
I have a 15" 1GHz Ti PowerBook that I bought just before Christmas.. I used it for about a week and was a little frustrated that the maximum charge percentage that I could reach dropped to 99% within two days and 98% by the end of the week..
Here's where things get a little strange..
After that first week, I hopped on a plane and flew to Japan for 3 weeks. The battery reading charged right up to 100%..
Now that I'm back in the US, my battery is back to a max charge of 99%. I'm betting that the power system in the US is just dirty enough that it's affecting our batteries.
To add more support to this idea, my iPod (5GB) battery life had dropped to 6 hours of use before the trip to Japan. On the return leg, it lasted almost the entire 11 hour flight.. Both the PB and iPod batteries seemed to be rejuvenated by the Japanese power system (Note: Japan uses the same power standard as the US).
I had a Lombard G3/400 with the DVD that did the same thing. Jaguar was much much worse.
I recently passed the Lombard on to my father to replace his Dell (which is on it's 3rd HDD in two years) and he's happy as a clam.. I wiped the entire disk and reinstalled the OSs and everything worked great.. I'm not sure what happened.
Sort of.. The SONY camera measured light in the IR spectrum and used that to enhance the images in low-light situations. If you enabled this option during the day, it would allow you to "see through clothes".. Of course, we're not talking about detail.. Just large scale features..
The guys shipping iCommune signed and agreement to get the iTunes Plugin SDK from Apple. They violated that agreement, so Apple cancelled their liscense. How does this make Apple a bad guy? or unfriendly?
REMEMBER: We're talking about the Mac. IE on the Mac is a dog. KHTML and Mozilla may not fair quite as well against the Windows version of IE (which is apparently a different codebase)..
Apple is trying to sell their product to Joe Sixpack. Joe doesn't know or care what a GB is. He does know, roughly how long a CD or a record takes to listen to.
The default import settings for iTunes is 160kbps MP3 (non-VBR). At those settings, 1000 songs (or roughly 2.6 days worth of music) consumes roughly 4.6GB which leaves enough space for the OS and your calendar, contacts, etc.
If you take a look at the Tech Specs page
you'll find: At a 160Kbps compression rate (the default setting for encoding MP3s in iTunes), 20GB equals approximately 4,000 songs, or about 400 CDs. At 128Kbps -- the most popular compression rate people use for MP3s -- 20GB is equivalent to approximately 5,200 songs, or about 520 CDs.
Many companies offer huge educational discounts on software.
I'm at a private university. If I want to buy a single copy of LabVIEW for a computer in my research lab, it will cost me roughly 50% of the retail price. That's not uncommon.
You need an Audible account to purchase the tracks, but once they're on your iPod, there's really nothing stopping you from sucking it off with any one of a dozen utilities.
My lab is filled with inexpensive PCs because it's much easier to find data acquisition hardware with Windows drivers. National Instruments supports Linux, AIX, Solaris, Windows, Mac OS, OS X (I have a LV7 beta disk for OS X on my desk right now), and Linux. Unfortunately, they don't have drivers for anything other than their GPIB cards on any of the platforms except Windows.. It's frustrating and I'd switch to something else, if I could get the hardware issues sorted out..
I've noticed a few false positives with Mail.app, but that's probably because I'm doing exactly what you just suggested.
Every time there's an article on/. about SPAM, there's a bunch of posts with filter definitions. I generally end up looking through those posts and adding a few new rules to my list. In the last 3 months I've accrued just under 70 messages in my junk mail folder. That's a small percentage of the 100's that are being trashed.
Re:This is good advancement, but...
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Landshark
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Actually, the current land speed record holder is a three-wheeled gas turbine powered vehicle. Two wheels up front and a pair of co-linear wheels in the rear.. They had some stability issues at the prototype stage, but the car that they ultimated ran worked fine..
The PowerBooks are pretty easy to work on. I've upgraded the Harddrive, memory, and recently even swapped the g3/400 processor card for a g4/500 card in my Bronze Powerbook. The processor upgrade took 15 minutes which included the time required to watch the quicktime video that stepped through the process..
This makes absolutely no sense!.. Hybrid drive trains use a generator and motor combination to transfer power to the wheels rather than a traditional transmission. There is absolutely no reason that a diesel engine could not replace the gasoline engine currently used.
Does anyone know if there's been any research done on music and productivity in the workplace? I'm sure the CEO's could be swayed to support file sharing or even a corporate jukebox (music streaming computer), if there was a potential increase in productivity associated with it. CEO's like money. Phrase your arguments for network freedom in the form of an opportunity and they're going to be much more responsive to your pleas..
Corporations should consider a central streaming model. Have employees donate CDs to the repository where they get ripped, cataloged, and streamed to the waiting masses.. It places a load on the network, but the corporation doesn't have oodles of copies of music scattered around the building taking up space on their work stations and they can't really be hit for distributing copies of the music. The corporation is merely playing music over the users work station speakers/headphones rather than the PA system.
I do something similar here but on a much much smaller scale. All my music resides on one machine in my lab. When I'm in my office or at home, my notebook points to the music server. The notebook retains a set of playlists in its library along with a catalog of the songs on the server, but the songs all remain on the remote box. It works pretty well..
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IS it just me or is Slashdot suffering load issues ...I'm on the east coast and the turtle like speed is miserable.
I'm on the east coast also, and I don't think it's /. that's suffering. I think the sheer number of posts is causing your browser to work pretty hard to render the page (lot's of nested tables!)..
The economy will probably start to improve now
With this war, we've alienated a lot of the countries we trade with. What makes you think that the economy will improve?
This fact is made even more despicable by the fact that the second one - the plutonium bomb dropped on Nagasaki (the one dropped on Hiroshima was a uranium bomb) was quite obviously dropped mainly for the sake of seeing how it would work.
I just returned from Japan and I visited the atomic bomb museums in both Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Hiroshima was targeted because it was a military city and because it had not been targeted for many conventional bombing runs, which made it an ideal place to investigate the destructive capacity of the weapon. Nagasaki was a secondary target, and bombed only because the primary target (I can't remember which city it was) was clouded over. The US was not targeting a civilian area in Nagasaki. It targeted the Mitsubishi ship works. A target which it missed by many miles.
Just to provide a little info to the readers: The atomic bomb dropped on Nagaski was a 20 kiloton plutonium device that killed 73,884 and injured 74,909 people. Thousands have since died and continue to suffer the effects of radiation poisoning. In 1996, there were still 80,000 people in Hiroshima that were suffering from the effects of radiation exposure.
Would people before 9/11 have run out of a club screaming and freaking out because someone used mace? Nope.
Yep! We're so freakin' scared that we jump, and hopefully that's all we do, to the worst possible scenerio whenever someone sneezes.
I live in a small town in northern New York (up near Canada) and the folks around here are a little more relaxed than the people I know living in cities, but there's still a lot of anxiety. It's amazing how much more distrustful our society as a whole has become in the last ~18 months. Society is built upon trust and the Department of Homeland Security and USA Patriot Act are direct attacks our society because they incite mistrust among the people.
This would be great!..
I'm not so sure why it would be faster to render the SVG and display the PNG (which needs to be decompressed), but keep in mind that it may depend on the test platform. Under Mac OS X 10.1, a lot of people were using a little command line hack that compressed the frame buffer. The memory bus was a bottle neck, and it was faster to compress and decompress the frame buffer than it was to move the uncompressed frame across the bus.. Just a thought.. CPU cycles are cheap, improve the memory system is not..
I have a 15" 1GHz Ti PowerBook that I bought just before Christmas.. I used it for about a week and was a little frustrated that the maximum charge percentage that I could reach dropped to 99% within two days and 98% by the end of the week..
Here's where things get a little strange..
After that first week, I hopped on a plane and flew to Japan for 3 weeks. The battery reading charged right up to 100%..
Now that I'm back in the US, my battery is back to a max charge of 99%. I'm betting that the power system in the US is just dirty enough that it's affecting our batteries.
To add more support to this idea, my iPod (5GB) battery life had dropped to 6 hours of use before the trip to Japan. On the return leg, it lasted almost the entire 11 hour flight.. Both the PB and iPod batteries seemed to be rejuvenated by the Japanese power system (Note: Japan uses the same power standard as the US).
I had a Lombard G3/400 with the DVD that did the same thing. Jaguar was much much worse.
I recently passed the Lombard on to my father to replace his Dell (which is on it's 3rd HDD in two years) and he's happy as a clam.. I wiped the entire disk and reinstalled the OSs and everything worked great.. I'm not sure what happened.
Sort of.. The SONY camera measured light in the IR spectrum and used that to enhance the images in low-light situations. If you enabled this option during the day, it would allow you to "see through clothes".. Of course, we're not talking about detail.. Just large scale features..
Just imagine the garbage that the rumor sites would come up with just before the State of the Union address each year..
Come to think of it, the wild speculation that passes for news in this country isn't any better than the rumor sites half the time.
Mini-vans generally have better gas mileage, larger cargo areas, a better ride, and similar towing capacities to SUVs.
When was the last time you NEEDED four-wheel drive?
The guys shipping iCommune signed and agreement to get the iTunes Plugin SDK from Apple. They violated that agreement, so Apple cancelled their liscense. How does this make Apple a bad guy? or unfriendly?
REMEMBER: We're talking about the Mac. IE on the Mac is a dog. KHTML and Mozilla may not fair quite as well against the Windows version of IE (which is apparently a different codebase)..
Apple is trying to sell their product to Joe Sixpack. Joe doesn't know or care what a GB is. He does know, roughly how long a CD or a record takes to listen to.
The default import settings for iTunes is 160kbps MP3 (non-VBR). At those settings, 1000 songs (or roughly 2.6 days worth of music) consumes roughly 4.6GB which leaves enough space for the OS and your calendar, contacts, etc.
If you take a look at the Tech Specs page you'll find: At a 160Kbps compression rate (the default setting for encoding MP3s in iTunes), 20GB equals approximately 4,000 songs, or about 400 CDs. At 128Kbps -- the most popular compression rate people use for MP3s -- 20GB is equivalent to approximately 5,200 songs, or about 520 CDs.
Many companies offer huge educational discounts on software.
I'm at a private university. If I want to buy a single copy of LabVIEW for a computer in my research lab, it will cost me roughly 50% of the retail price. That's not uncommon.
You can send feedback to Apple using feedback@apple.com.
This is a good idea. Everyone should let them know that we care about the freedom to use our computers as we see fit.
You need an Audible account to purchase the tracks, but once they're on your iPod, there's really nothing stopping you from sucking it off with any one of a dozen utilities.
Many pets now receive RFID implants. It wouldn't be to hard to implant the children either..
I use MAC OS X on my primary machine, however...
My lab is filled with inexpensive PCs because it's much easier to find data acquisition hardware with Windows drivers. National Instruments supports Linux, AIX, Solaris, Windows, Mac OS, OS X (I have a LV7 beta disk for OS X on my desk right now), and Linux. Unfortunately, they don't have drivers for anything other than their GPIB cards on any of the platforms except Windows.. It's frustrating and I'd switch to something else, if I could get the hardware issues sorted out..
I've noticed a few false positives with Mail.app, but that's probably because I'm doing exactly what you just suggested.
Every time there's an article on /. about SPAM, there's a bunch of posts with filter definitions. I generally end up looking through those posts and adding a few new rules to my list. In the last 3 months I've accrued just under 70 messages in my junk mail folder. That's a small percentage of the 100's that are being trashed.
Actually, the current land speed record holder is a three-wheeled gas turbine powered vehicle. Two wheels up front and a pair of co-linear wheels in the rear.. They had some stability issues at the prototype stage, but the car that they ultimated ran worked fine..
The PowerBooks are pretty easy to work on. I've upgraded the Harddrive, memory, and recently even swapped the g3/400 processor card for a g4/500 card in my Bronze Powerbook. The processor upgrade took 15 minutes which included the time required to watch the quicktime video that stepped through the process..
Either way hybrid beats Diesel.
This makes absolutely no sense!.. Hybrid drive trains use a generator and motor combination to transfer power to the wheels rather than a traditional transmission. There is absolutely no reason that a diesel engine could not replace the gasoline engine currently used.
This is done at a lot of fraternities (with alcohol rather than cell phones) to remind the guys to give their brothers a call at the end of the night.
Does anyone know if there's been any research done on music and productivity in the workplace? I'm sure the CEO's could be swayed to support file sharing or even a corporate jukebox (music streaming computer), if there was a potential increase in productivity associated with it. CEO's like money. Phrase your arguments for network freedom in the form of an opportunity and they're going to be much more responsive to your pleas..
Corporations should consider a central streaming model. Have employees donate CDs to the repository where they get ripped, cataloged, and streamed to the waiting masses.. It places a load on the network, but the corporation doesn't have oodles of copies of music scattered around the building taking up space on their work stations and they can't really be hit for distributing copies of the music. The corporation is merely playing music over the users work station speakers/headphones rather than the PA system.
I do something similar here but on a much much smaller scale. All my music resides on one machine in my lab. When I'm in my office or at home, my notebook points to the music server. The notebook retains a set of playlists in its library along with a catalog of the songs on the server, but the songs all remain on the remote box. It works pretty well..