Our heroes, Mira and Sam, are two workaday robots chugging out their endless hours on the red sands of Mars. But little do they know that they're about to be flung into an adventure, when they discover that Sam's leader, Cato, has gone insane, and now plans to kill the astronauts intending to land on Mars' surface.
They should of just gone ahead and named them Spirit and Opportunity. How awesome would it be, if someday, Spirit and Opportunity do have to come to the rescue of our astronauts landing on Mars. Battery life running out in September... another conspiracy I tell ya:-)
RAID-0
RAID Level 0 is not redundant, hence does not truly fit the "RAID" acronym. In level 0, data is split across drives, resulting in higher data throughput. Since no redundant information is stored, performance is very good, but the failure of any disk in the array results in data loss. This level is commonly referred to as striping.
Gotta love it. Remember this guy. He used USB floppies in pretty much the same manner. I actually emailed him because I was curious about portability(traveling kind). Apparently all the raid information is stored on the drives so the entire raid array could be plugged into another machine and would work with no problems.
Japan is not small. 135 million people, many of which with cell phones that would have to be upgraded.
The country has large cities, but it has 4 large islands that are completely separate. Not to mention the tons of smaller islands and the extreme separation that the different cities have due to mountains.
I think the reason that Japan is light years ahead of us is probably due to the public's desire for this type of technology. Most Japanese use their cell phones for email and web surfing. They want and will pay for faster technology. People in the United States are... they won't.
Actually... those words aren't Japanese at all. They are English. The Japanese language does not support Acronyms at all. And very little computer terminology is actually named in Japanese. Instead what you find is that the technology is named as English and then referred to as the English words.
They expect everything to be so userfriendly that it will install itself and automatically know how you want the settings to be!!
Sorry, I expect everything to install itself.
I expect to be able to plug in a printer and via Rendevous or some other method, automatically show up as an available printer.
I expect a firewall/router to be a turnkey solution. Plug in cable A here, cable B here computer hops on wireless network and I am then guided through a default webpage before I can browse the internet(which includes encryption). I expect the ports on these machines to be auto-sensing so that I don't have to make sure that wires 1,2,3 and 6 are setup as a crossover or patch cable on my cat 5.
I expect my computer to work when I turn it on. I expect software updates to happen in the background and I expect my software vendor to write software without obvious security holes in it.
I also expect my mother to expect these things. I don't expect her to get these because of attitudes like yours.
You might want to take a look at this and think about which operators are yet to be discovered
Yet to be discovered? means... Yet to be thought of... or yet to be documented. I am sure that I could find all of them by spending a few minutes looking through the code.
Sorry, I am just puzzled by what I am discovering.
if you were actually doing everything the right way, you wouldn't have that problem
uh oh:-) No, I have watched some pretty experienced Cisco admins deal with some crazy stuff in companies that I have worked for.
The routing thing dealt with routing tables received through bgp. The routing table grew to something like 60,000 routes which used up all the memory in the router. I would of expected a little more from Cisco gear in that scenario.
Router crashing every 20 minutes... certain features cause certain problems. Memory leaks do occur. Booting up a Cisco router and giving it the simplest of configurations, it may stay up for 2000 days. Start throwing in VPN, NAT, VLANS, packet shaping, BGP routing updates... things get a lot more complicated. Cisco is just like any other software/hardware... it isn't perfect, thinking it is... well that is just naive.
The MPCore multiprocessor enables system designers to view the core as a single "uniprocessor", simplifying development and reducing time-to-market, according to ARM.
The opposite of HyperThreading? 4 CPU's to one instead of 1 CPU to 2?
The only thing that I can guess they mean by simplifying is that a developer would not have to design a multi-threaded application to take advantage of the other threads.
Having had a look at some of the source code, I'm generally impressed.
Did you come to this conclusion from looking at the 1996 header file?
Cisco produces solid code.
Maybe they do, maybe they don't. Looks like it gets its first real test. I am betting on no. In fact, I am betting on god awful code. Why? Because companies can get away with writing bad code when nobody is there to call them out on it.
IOS is responsible for switching packets on a fair amount of heavy links; ipfw is responsible for switching packets at your average LAN.
Come on now, that has got to be some sort of argument fallacy. People don't use it, so it must not be as good. Anyone who has ever dealt with Cisco routers is most likely aware at how downright annoying they can be. Nothing like finding a router that crashes every 20 minutes, or finding that everything goes to the shitter because of too large of a routing table.
backdoor-style commands to IOS
I disagree. An application like Cisco's ios should be one application that should be nearly free of this. One would not be able to open a port for a backdoor because it would be noticed. Any source control edits of the login code would surely be audited. It is a lot more likely that the new features would have a bug.
Sounds familiar
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To make a projection, researchers focus a beam of electrons in a vacuum chamber at the point on a metal surface where they want it to grow. The metal melts at the centre of the beam. When the beam is moved sideways, surface tension pulls the molten metal into a droplet.
I don't think I will be able to compile this natively:-( Sorta sad that they picked opengl and then didn't go the next step with a platform independent wrapper.
cows would no longer be slaughtered, but still they'd still be raised commercially
I see this as more of a way of recycling. Crap is a by-product of an animal using energy. The actual energy needed to produce that crap is immense. Think of the grass that has to grow and the nutrients placed into the soil, then what your body can't use is the crap. When it gets down to it... we would probably save money, and resources just growing tress on that land and burning those(skip the cow). The benefit to the current setup is that we can raise the cow, eat em, and then recycle the by-products.
I hate to bring it up, but Apple does it the smart way. Install all the patches that you want, but if your key is considered invalid, the next time you try to run it... it prompts you for a valid key. Problem solved and all software is secure(but possibly not working).
It does suck because a few of my "Hi-End" software does not work, but you get what you pay for(troubles).
The EU has to make a decision on this. It just allowed in 10 more countries, and is defining the new standards of Economics and protection for all of Europe. The EU has to do this, or else the possibilities of Free Trade between Europe will be in Jeopardy.
Also, keep in mind that the countires let in on May 1st, are a lot of old Iron curtain countries in. All these countries are multi party Democracy now, but I am sure free Enterprise, Technology, and Patents may be very different in these countries.
macs don't get virii fo the same eason Linux doesn't. its not really common enough as a desktop OS to be worth it. but if macs ever become more popular than windows, we'll have the same thing over again.
Mac's first page summary is 1 hoax, 1 proof-of concept, 1 Applescript to Microsoft virus and an old school Classic virus. Ironic that the only virus on that first page relates to Microsoft technology?
Slashdot Mirror
but it is too awesome
"Never ask a man what sort of computer he drives. If it's a Mac, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?"
Tom Clancy
Our heroes, Mira and Sam, are two workaday robots chugging out their endless hours on the red sands of Mars. But little do they know that they're about to be flung into an adventure, when they discover that Sam's leader, Cato, has gone insane, and now plans to kill the astronauts intending to land on Mars' surface.
They should of just gone ahead and named them Spirit and Opportunity. How awesome would it be, if someday, Spirit and Opportunity do have to come to the rescue of our astronauts landing on Mars. Battery life running out in September... another conspiracy I tell ya:-)
I shouldn't even respond to this but...
RAID card,
RAID controller,
RAID drive(s),
RAID can
No reason to be ambiguous.
Never argue with an idiot, they'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience!
RAID-0
RAID Level 0 is not redundant, hence does not truly fit the "RAID" acronym. In level 0, data is split across drives, resulting in higher data throughput. Since no redundant information is stored, performance is very good, but the failure of any disk in the array results in data loss. This level is commonly referred to as striping.
Pulled from here
Gotta love it. Remember this guy. He used USB floppies in pretty much the same manner. I actually emailed him because I was curious about portability(traveling kind). Apparently all the raid information is stored on the drives so the entire raid array could be plugged into another machine and would work with no problems.
Former Microsoft Employee predicts doom for m$
Slashdot Cheers
Then everyone realizes that he just wanted his 15 minutes:-(
ummmm... profit!
I just ate so this sounds really gross, but yea, the highways of tomorrow may well be polluted with the subliminal aroma of fries.
but then again, the oil would normally be used in makeup so maybe this future has already greeted us:-(
Japan is not small. 135 million people, many of which with cell phones that would have to be upgraded.
The country has large cities, but it has 4 large islands that are completely separate. Not to mention the tons of smaller islands and the extreme separation that the different cities have due to mountains.
I think the reason that Japan is light years ahead of us is probably due to the public's desire for this type of technology. Most Japanese use their cell phones for email and web surfing. They want and will pay for faster technology. People in the United States are... they won't.
Actually... those words aren't Japanese at all. They are English. The Japanese language does not support Acronyms at all. And very little computer terminology is actually named in Japanese. Instead what you find is that the technology is named as English and then referred to as the English words.
Examples: Computer==konpyuta, website==webusaito, file==fairu, email==emeeru
Pronunciation is of course wrong as I don't know romaji at all
They expect everything to be so userfriendly that it will install itself and automatically know how you want the settings to be!!
Sorry, I expect everything to install itself.
I expect to be able to plug in a printer and via Rendevous or some other method, automatically show up as an available printer.
I expect a firewall/router to be a turnkey solution. Plug in cable A here, cable B here computer hops on wireless network and I am then guided through a default webpage before I can browse the internet(which includes encryption). I expect the ports on these machines to be auto-sensing so that I don't have to make sure that wires 1,2,3 and 6 are setup as a crossover or patch cable on my cat 5.
I expect my computer to work when I turn it on. I expect software updates to happen in the background and I expect my software vendor to write software without obvious security holes in it.
I also expect my mother to expect these things. I don't expect her to get these because of attitudes like yours.
You might want to take a look at this and think about which operators are yet to be discovered
Yet to be discovered? means... Yet to be thought of... or yet to be documented. I am sure that I could find all of them by spending a few minutes looking through the code.
Sorry, I am just puzzled by what I am discovering.
in a weird, square computer fetish sorta way.
if you were actually doing everything the right way, you wouldn't have that problem
uh oh:-) No, I have watched some pretty experienced Cisco admins deal with some crazy stuff in companies that I have worked for.
The routing thing dealt with routing tables received through bgp. The routing table grew to something like 60,000 routes which used up all the memory in the router. I would of expected a little more from Cisco gear in that scenario.
Router crashing every 20 minutes... certain features cause certain problems. Memory leaks do occur. Booting up a Cisco router and giving it the simplest of configurations, it may stay up for 2000 days. Start throwing in VPN, NAT, VLANS, packet shaping, BGP routing updates... things get a lot more complicated. Cisco is just like any other software/hardware... it isn't perfect, thinking it is... well that is just naive.
The MPCore multiprocessor enables system designers to view the core as a single "uniprocessor", simplifying development and reducing time-to-market, according to ARM.
The opposite of HyperThreading? 4 CPU's to one instead of 1 CPU to 2?
The only thing that I can guess they mean by simplifying is that a developer would not have to design a multi-threaded application to take advantage of the other threads.
Having had a look at some of the source code, I'm generally impressed.
Did you come to this conclusion from looking at the 1996 header file?
Cisco produces solid code.
Maybe they do, maybe they don't. Looks like it gets its first real test. I am betting on no. In fact, I am betting on god awful code. Why? Because companies can get away with writing bad code when nobody is there to call them out on it.
IOS is responsible for switching packets on a fair amount of heavy links; ipfw is responsible for switching packets at your average LAN.
Come on now, that has got to be some sort of argument fallacy. People don't use it, so it must not be as good. Anyone who has ever dealt with Cisco routers is most likely aware at how downright annoying they can be. Nothing like finding a router that crashes every 20 minutes, or finding that everything goes to the shitter because of too large of a routing table.
backdoor-style commands to IOS
I disagree. An application like Cisco's ios should be one application that should be nearly free of this. One would not be able to open a port for a backdoor because it would be noticed. Any source control edits of the login code would surely be audited. It is a lot more likely that the new features would have a bug.
To make a projection, researchers focus a beam of electrons in a vacuum chamber at the point on a metal surface where they want it to grow. The metal melts at the centre of the beam. When the beam is moved sideways, surface tension pulls the molten metal into a droplet.
Sounds like me with a soldering iron
Point taken, but I am wanting to play them on Mac.
...
From the glutil.h(a common header):
#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
#include <windows.h>
#include <windowsx.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <gl/gl.h>
...
I don't think I will be able to compile this natively:-( Sorta sad that they picked opengl and then didn't go the next step with a platform independent wrapper.
The Official Website for the event
The article is building up hype for the event starting on March 18 through March 21, 2004.
According to here... these guys are using SourceForge for hosting the games.
Downloading the games now, but I think these are windows only.
cows would no longer be slaughtered, but still they'd still be raised commercially
I see this as more of a way of recycling. Crap is a by-product of an animal using energy. The actual energy needed to produce that crap is immense. Think of the grass that has to grow and the nutrients placed into the soil, then what your body can't use is the crap. When it gets down to it... we would probably save money, and resources just growing tress on that land and burning those(skip the cow). The benefit to the current setup is that we can raise the cow, eat em, and then recycle the by-products.
No disassemble!!!! G4... is alive!
Generally speaking, features are what define different kernels.
2.6 is a branch of the kernel and the "dot releases" are usually bug fixes around the 2.6 features.
It will take to three years to assess the technical feasibility of the multiband solar cell, according to the researchers.
Which means that we won't see anything for at least 3 years in the form of commercial products.
Microsoft will allow people to install SP2?
I hate to bring it up, but Apple does it the smart way. Install all the patches that you want, but if your key is considered invalid, the next time you try to run it... it prompts you for a valid key. Problem solved and all software is secure(but possibly not working).
It does suck because a few of my "Hi-End" software does not work, but you get what you pay for(troubles).
Don't be Braindead and assume that this is bad.
The EU has to make a decision on this. It just allowed in 10 more countries, and is defining the new standards of Economics and protection for all of Europe. The EU has to do this, or else the possibilities of Free Trade between Europe will be in Jeopardy.
Also, keep in mind that the countires let in on May 1st, are a lot of old Iron curtain countries in. All these countries are multi party Democracy now, but I am sure free Enterprise, Technology, and Patents may be very different in these countries.
macs don't get virii fo the same eason Linux doesn't. its not really common enough as a desktop OS to be worth it. but if macs ever become more popular than windows, we'll have the same thing over again.
Linux doesn't get virii? What about this one, or this one, this, this, this...
and that is just the first page of Norton Virus Query.
Mac's first page summary is 1 hoax, 1 proof-of concept, 1 Applescript to Microsoft virus and an old school Classic virus. Ironic that the only virus on that first page relates to Microsoft technology?