One place I worked at, the label on the hosts indicating their hostnames were off slightly. We had to do an emergency shutdown of one of the hosts, as it was sending out funky ethernet frames that was crashing another host on the same network segment. Enter:
while true; do cat foo.au >/dev/audio; done
on said host. I'm *much* happier being a clueless programmer now:)
basically M:N threading like most modern OS'es use (and which Linux NPTL appears to have just obsoleted as a concept
Please explain why M:N threading is obsolete. For example, I don't see why the kernel should devote kernel resources to a thread that is blocking on IO.
Alternatively, rip out the guts of the clock, figure out the requisite DC voltage, and have the computer's power supply give it the power. Use a battery to keep it powered during the times when you move the computer.
You're right, there're tonnes of ways of making this mod better.
, it would be interesting to make a program that will take a dump of your video ram then just display it all as best it can.
Why? AGP interface is significantly slower than the main memory interface, and reading *from* the video card tend to be significantly slower than writing to the card itself. I'm not seeing why this would be interesting, as if you wanted screenshots, there're other ways of doing it. Can you elucidate?
"Ah, kamisama! Ore no atama ni ono ga arimasu yo!" is quite correct. To my ears, the use of "wa" makes the rhythm of the sentence quite lethargic. Though it may not be correct textbook Japanese (the use of the word "yo" already makes it conversational, and thus, some leeway in grammar is allowed), between peers, this usage will be quite acceptable.
Oooh, I like that idea. Of course, we'll have to prevent the employees of stores selling shrinkwrap from releasing bootlegs, but that's ok, with encryption technologies and such, it shouldn't be too difficult. This way, distribution costs for games become trivial too. Maybe we should ask EA, Blizzard, et. al. for possibility of having this sort of thing happen?:-)
Or, perhaps some sort of a hybrid approach can be used.
You buy it from a shrinkwrap store, and you *register* the key. Then, when you ask for a copy, they send you a copyable media, with your information encrypted on it, plus key portions of the datafiles should be encrypted with your key as the encryption key. They can charge a certain fee for this if they want, too. What do you think?
Of course, the chances of this being implemented ever are slim to none....
It all boils down to this: when you buy a CD, are you buying a piece of plastic and aluminium with some bits on it, or are you purchasing a *license* to some copyrighted work? I contend the former, while the RIAA contends the latter.
I'd *guarantee* you that what little advantage these machines will give you will be outclassed by the raw talents of the players themselves. Don't believe me? Give me one of these awesome rackets. Give a pro player (doesn't even have to be at Agassi's level, just some club player) a no-frills aluminum racket from the mid-80's. Have us play a best of three sets. You'll watch the other guy beat me probably close to 6-0, 6-0.
In sports like tennis and baseball, money will help, but you still need the skills to compete. It's not like the racket is playing for you.
I think tennis' popularity fell because of golf's emergence as a "deal making" sport that you play with a potential client. It's a lot easier to talk while playing golf than it is tennis. Heck, after a good game of tennis, I'm not talking, I'm just trying to catch my breath:-)
The Gartner group claims that within 5 years AT&T will be purchased by another corporation and will cease to exist as a serpate corporate entity. The time frame might be optimistic, 5 years seems a bit soon, but the conclustion is indisputable. AT&T just began a 5-1 stock reverse split. First time in its history and the first for a DOW component. That's something that soon-to-be-delisted dot-coms do. Not DOW components
Exactly. AT&T said that they're doing the reverse 5-1 split to buoy their share price to above $10, so that institutional investors will be more interested in their stocks. However, most companies would've created a plan for buoying their share price to above $10/share instead of hatching this hare-brained idea.
It's sad to see a company like AT&T go, because of its history with the research labs, but you're right, they're hurting for money, and that's the real reason behind the closing of these labs (Bell Labs is now owned, in most part, by Lucent).
What the heck are you talking about? Military spending creates new jobs, and the technologies created by military R&D eventually trickles down to the civilian sector. Look at high-impact plastics, computers, TCP/IP, etc.
You also mention that Japan and Germany are large economic powers, but that has a fair bit to do with the fact that they were both important, strategically, to American interests. So much so that the United States bankrolled almost the entire economic recovery in many parts of Western Europe, Germany included, and Japan. Japanese economy didn't start to recover from postwar periods until the Korean War, when Japanese factories were used to repair damaged American fighters.
Military spending becomes a liability when the flood of money stops. Eisenhower warned that *if* the United States creates an entire industry solely relegated to defense (as we did and still do), *when* the monetary flow slowed to that industry, *then* the economy will suffer. However, military R&D by itself will *not* be an economic liability, unless accompanied by shortsighted spending policies (as evidenced in the Reagan + Bush I years).
How could Intel manufacture faster memory than the companies that are SPECIALIZED in producing state-of-the-art memory chips?
Ok, I'm being trolled. So be it.
The companies that specialise in memory tend to specialise in DRAM. Cache is SRAM. The difference is that DRAM is a bunch of capacitors, while SRAM is closer to transistors. Knowledge in fabbing one does not necessarily mean knowledge in fabbing the other.
On the contrary, *many* large brokerage firms have large Java developments going and/or deployed, in "mission critical" positions. What's "mission critical" anyway? Aren't most systems "mission critical" if the disruption of the system affects productivity or the revenue stream?
But in Myst, there *is* no learning curve required to learn how to play the game. What your parent post is suggesting is more like an accurate simulation program. Take, for examlple, Falcon 3. This program was designed to be an accurate simulation of an F-16 fighter. In its highest realism setting, it took literally *months* before anyone can actually control the aircraft, much less successfully fight a battle with it. A contrasting example would be the entire Wing Commander series, with its simplified controls and physics engines.
Unfortunately, simulations worthy of their names really require someone to spend quite some time learning the subject at hand (although once learned, these skills learned should be applicable to other simulations). Unfortunately, many see games as something that they can play in a sort of a mindless trance, sort of like a pseudo-TV.
On the other hand, that's what the "Compose" key is for anyway.
I parsed that as "that's what the 'Compost' key is for anyway", and immediately thought, "Compost key? Don't you mean that silly Windows key?". *sigh*. Must go home and have some coffee or something.
Ah, on another anti-democrat note, are you aware that the KKK is a bunch of democratic-protestants? Did you forget that Abraham Lincoln, the guy who freed the slaves, was a republican and the guy who assassinated him was democrat?
Of course, you seem to believe that the political parties' agendas do not change for over a century.
Also, what evidence do you present that the KKK is predominantly democrat? Funny, I would've thought that because of who the KKK are, they would not support a party that has large numbers of support in the inner cities, which are now predominantly African-American or Hispanic, depending on the region.
You're completely confusing communism and socialism, btw. Communism is as you describe, "everyone is equal". The basic tenet of socialism is that the society's role is to help individuals, by spreading the risk of various activities to the greater whole.
BTW--Clinton may have been a Democrat, but liberal he was not. Scrutinize his policies, and you'll begin to understand.
My Nokia 8290 can get information off of my Palm III through its IR port. There're a few problems, though. First, only the last name seems to get transferred. Second, it only grabs the first phone number of the address record. Finally, you have to transfer them one at a time (as far as I can tell). It got to be a problem enough that I don't quite use it that often anymore.
I just don't like the dongle. Seriously, I know it's more me than the dongle, and that I should be more careful of it, but I end up breaking a dongle every 5-6 months. My next laptop will have built-in ethernet (but a modem is a moot point:-)
Dell/Compaq/Gateway/IBM/Me would most happily sell you a single desktop PIII for $40,000:-)
Seriously, depends on what you consider a part of the machine and what you consider a part of the storage "mesh", and you probably would be able to configure a $40k machine. Not to say it will outperform (depending on the performance criteria) a $40k Alpha (RIP) or a Sun, of course, but you probably could do it.
[What] 12-year-old would have the patience to play Majora's Mask.
My fiancee's 10yr-old. Kids have a surprising amount of patience, if they enjoy what they're doing. Also, having finished a particular game giving them a bit of kid "status" with his peers really does help.
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One place I worked at, the label on the hosts indicating their hostnames were off slightly. We had to do an emergency shutdown of one of the hosts, as it was sending out funky ethernet frames that was crashing another host on the same network segment. Enter:
on said host. I'm *much* happier being a clueless programmer nowPlease explain why M:N threading is obsolete. For example, I don't see why the kernel should devote kernel resources to a thread that is blocking on IO.
You're right, there're tonnes of ways of making this mod better.
Given the rather instantaneous /.'ing, apparently not.
Why? AGP interface is significantly slower than the main memory interface, and reading *from* the video card tend to be significantly slower than writing to the card itself. I'm not seeing why this would be interesting, as if you wanted screenshots, there're other ways of doing it. Can you elucidate?
"Ah, kamisama! Ore no atama ni ono ga arimasu yo!" is quite correct. To my ears, the use of "wa" makes the rhythm of the sentence quite lethargic. Though it may not be correct textbook Japanese (the use of the word "yo" already makes it conversational, and thus, some leeway in grammar is allowed), between peers, this usage will be quite acceptable.
Yes, I do speak Japanese fluently :-P
IIRC, many 486SX's were 486DX's with defective FPU.
Oooh, I like that idea. Of course, we'll have to prevent the employees of stores selling shrinkwrap from releasing bootlegs, but that's ok, with encryption technologies and such, it shouldn't be too difficult. This way, distribution costs for games become trivial too. Maybe we should ask EA, Blizzard, et. al. for possibility of having this sort of thing happen? :-)
Or, perhaps some sort of a hybrid approach can be used.
You buy it from a shrinkwrap store, and you *register* the key. Then, when you ask for a copy, they send you a copyable media, with your information encrypted on it, plus key portions of the datafiles should be encrypted with your key as the encryption key. They can charge a certain fee for this if they want, too. What do you think?
Of course, the chances of this being implemented ever are slim to none....
It all boils down to this: when you buy a CD, are you buying a piece of plastic and aluminium with some bits on it, or are you purchasing a *license* to some copyrighted work? I contend the former, while the RIAA contends the latter.
I'd *guarantee* you that what little advantage these machines will give you will be outclassed by the raw talents of the players themselves. Don't believe me? Give me one of these awesome rackets. Give a pro player (doesn't even have to be at Agassi's level, just some club player) a no-frills aluminum racket from the mid-80's. Have us play a best of three sets. You'll watch the other guy beat me probably close to 6-0, 6-0. In sports like tennis and baseball, money will help, but you still need the skills to compete. It's not like the racket is playing for you.
I think tennis' popularity fell because of golf's emergence as a "deal making" sport that you play with a potential client. It's a lot easier to talk while playing golf than it is tennis. Heck, after a good game of tennis, I'm not talking, I'm just trying to catch my breath :-)
Exactly. AT&T said that they're doing the reverse 5-1 split to buoy their share price to above $10, so that institutional investors will be more interested in their stocks. However, most companies would've created a plan for buoying their share price to above $10/share instead of hatching this hare-brained idea.
It's sad to see a company like AT&T go, because of its history with the research labs, but you're right, they're hurting for money, and that's the real reason behind the closing of these labs (Bell Labs is now owned, in most part, by Lucent).
What the heck are you talking about? Military spending creates new jobs, and the technologies created by military R&D eventually trickles down to the civilian sector. Look at high-impact plastics, computers, TCP/IP, etc.
You also mention that Japan and Germany are large economic powers, but that has a fair bit to do with the fact that they were both important, strategically, to American interests. So much so that the United States bankrolled almost the entire economic recovery in many parts of Western Europe, Germany included, and Japan. Japanese economy didn't start to recover from postwar periods until the Korean War, when Japanese factories were used to repair damaged American fighters.
Military spending becomes a liability when the flood of money stops. Eisenhower warned that *if* the United States creates an entire industry solely relegated to defense (as we did and still do), *when* the monetary flow slowed to that industry, *then* the economy will suffer. However, military R&D by itself will *not* be an economic liability, unless accompanied by shortsighted spending policies (as evidenced in the Reagan + Bush I years).
Ok, I'm being trolled. So be it.
The companies that specialise in memory tend to specialise in DRAM. Cache is SRAM. The difference is that DRAM is a bunch of capacitors, while SRAM is closer to transistors. Knowledge in fabbing one does not necessarily mean knowledge in fabbing the other.
On the contrary, *many* large brokerage firms have large Java developments going and/or deployed, in "mission critical" positions. What's "mission critical" anyway? Aren't most systems "mission critical" if the disruption of the system affects productivity or the revenue stream?
Read the fscking article please ;p
Unfortunately, simulations worthy of their names really require someone to spend quite some time learning the subject at hand (although once learned, these skills learned should be applicable to other simulations). Unfortunately, many see games as something that they can play in a sort of a mindless trance, sort of like a pseudo-TV.
On the other hand, that's what the "Compose" key is for anyway.
I parsed that as "that's what the 'Compost' key is for anyway", and immediately thought, "Compost key? Don't you mean that silly Windows key?". *sigh*. Must go home and have some coffee or something.
Of course, you seem to believe that the political parties' agendas do not change for over a century.
Also, what evidence do you present that the KKK is predominantly democrat? Funny, I would've thought that because of who the KKK are, they would not support a party that has large numbers of support in the inner cities, which are now predominantly African-American or Hispanic, depending on the region.
You're completely confusing communism and socialism, btw. Communism is as you describe, "everyone is equal". The basic tenet of socialism is that the society's role is to help individuals, by spreading the risk of various activities to the greater whole.
BTW--Clinton may have been a Democrat, but liberal he was not. Scrutinize his policies, and you'll begin to understand.
My Nokia 8290 can get information off of my Palm III through its IR port. There're a few problems, though. First, only the last name seems to get transferred. Second, it only grabs the first phone number of the address record. Finally, you have to transfer them one at a time (as far as I can tell). It got to be a problem enough that I don't quite use it that often anymore.
What is wrong with PCMCIA?
I just don't like the dongle. Seriously, I know it's more me than the dongle, and that I should be more careful of it, but I end up breaking a dongle every 5-6 months. My next laptop will have built-in ethernet (but a modem is a moot point :-)
Does anybody sell $40,000 x86 machines??
Dell/Compaq/Gateway/IBM/Me would most happily sell you a single desktop PIII for $40,000 :-)
Seriously, depends on what you consider a part of the machine and what you consider a part of the storage "mesh", and you probably would be able to configure a $40k machine. Not to say it will outperform (depending on the performance criteria) a $40k Alpha (RIP) or a Sun, of course, but you probably could do it.
My fiancee's 10yr-old. Kids have a surprising amount of patience, if they enjoy what they're doing. Also, having finished a particular game giving them a bit of kid "status" with his peers really does help.
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And, if you don't use it all, you get charged at $100/min
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