Actually, according to Wikipedia, the equatorial circumference of the earth is 40,075.02 km. So the plane would have to be traveling at 1669.7925 km/hr to keep pace with the sun.
What? Imperial units you want? Fine. 1 kilometer = 0.621371192 mi according to Google, so the plane would have to travel at 1037.56095611766 miles per hour. So the other poster who said 1000 was actually quite close.
The Broadcom driver (bcm43xx) is actually pretty good these days. I've only had experience with the 4311 chipset, but it works well enough for me. Both the native kernel driver and ndiswrapper work with this chipset. (ndiswrapper works better, though finding a driver compatible with it was a nightmare.)
Where are you living? I was in South Dakota and we had snow on the ground almost the entire time from mid-October to April, including some pretty bad storms when I was supposed to be flying out for a vacation in March. The weather fluctuates, these things happen. When I was a kid I was taught this in school. Now they're teaching that only increases are happening... and I don't understand it. For the record, I'm a mathematician, so I'm not entirely clueless about science. That said, I have not looked at the data for global temperatures.
It's been four years since I bought a CD because I just don't really care for mainstream music anymore. It's not that I'm waiting around for music to get better, it's because I just don't care about what the rest of the world is doing musically. The last brand new CD I bought must've been at least seven years ago.
I mostly listen to my own music which I give away for free on the Internet. Perhaps I'm self-centered. I imagine that many people are seeking free sources for their music. Why pay money when people out there are giving away good stuff for free, right?
Window redraw lag is gone when using Aero. This never bugged me too much in XP but now that I've lived without it for so long I tend to notice it a lot.
This is perhaps your only valid point. I still use Win2K myself (just upgraded from 98SE a few months ago) and am unaware of this situation. It may be my ignorance, though.
Per-application volume controls.
Most games already come with this feature. I certainly hope you don't set different volumes for the MessageBoxes that pop up in Notepad versus in Word.
Hit my keyboard's start button, start typing the name of an application and hit enter to launch the app.
While I have no "start" button on my keyboard, ever since Windows 95 I've been hitting Windows Key-R to open the run dialog box. There's only a negligible difference in movements.
Being able to show and sort by several file properties, directly in explorer.
Name, Size, Type, Date... what else is there? Perhaps I'm missing something, but these have been around at least since File Manager in Windows 3.1, if not as early as Windows 1.0.
Rename a file in explorer, and hit tab to start renaming the next file in the list.
Rename a file in explorer, hit the down arrow (or right, depending on how you arrange your folders) to start renaming the next file in the list.
Is there some way to embed a password in a document so as to bring down the FCC?
Your far superior literacy stupifies me. What it most obviously means is that if you have a password protected file it cannot be accepted because, zoink, they cannot read it because, holy cheese, it's password protected.
However, the rest of your ridiculing I agree with.
Assuming this is a real news article, however, I wonder at what stage the court wants a snapshot of the RAM? Any attempts to copy it would, I assume, modify the current contents of it. Or do they want to actual chips out of the computers? The defendant would probably then be charged with destroying evidence when the chips were found to contain no data...
Try it this way, you'll find it sounds better. ;) Note to readers: the normal hyphens you see in a guitar tab are ommited because Slashdot thinks I'm posting garbage with those. x's on top represent beats. Is this copyright violation?
x x x x x x x x e | | | B | | | G | | | D | 2 |0 4 02| A | 2 | 2 2 | E | 0 34 | |
Jet Moto 1 and 2 were made by Singletrac (I think was the company) and were excellent. They were bought out by Sony, who let another team make the 3rd game. It sucked.
Why should it be any different for Guitar Hero, who's original company has been bought out by MTV? I think that that was when the series officially died.
My experience was with Jet Moto 3. I absolutely loved the first one, and the second one only made it better. So naturally I assumed the third one must be excellent. Instead it was completely different, and quite stupid. It was made by a different developer than the first two, same route that Guitar Hero seems to be taking...
The newest players take full advantage of MPEG-4 compression. Way back in the day, when the DVD standard was made, all that existed was MPEG-2. Which really really sucks. If your player will play any movie without first downsampling it to the standard TV rate, then you would get HD content, but it would be more compressed than HD-DVD or Blu Ray. Whether or not the difference is noticable is another question.
You fail to realise that 500 years ago, the entire world was ignorant enough to not even be aware of the contintent they now call "America" standing in between Europe and Asia on the other side of the globe. The people weren't even called Americans at the time, either. That name came from Europe as well.
As a side, and mostly stupid comment, how else did you think that India had so many people in its country? Easy, they're located all around the globe! Har har har.... (that laugh should be read in monotone.)
[Pententing is] done all the time with the law of nature, so why not with the other laws? . . . Something that should not be justified, is to patent facts, like they do in science like physics and medicine.
You, my friend, are horribly mistaken. Pay more attention in school, less time reading conspiracy theories on Slashdot. The law is common knowledge. It is available to all. Patenting following the law makes no sense.
Medicine is not common knowledge. There's no big book where you can find all this stuff. We don't have a cure for AIDS. We don't have a surefire cure for cancer. The scientists working on making drugs spend millions of dollars trying to find a chemical which can perform a specific function, then they find a way to produce it efficiently. If after all this research anybody could then use it, where would the incentive to produce be? They spent millions of dollars on something that every drug company can now make. How are they going to recover their investment? That is what patents are for. That is their purpose. That is why they were invented.
Further, your mention of physics confuses me. Perhaps you mean engineering or something else of that nature? I'm trying to picture a young Ph.D. candidate patenting his thesis on a measurement of the cross section of inelastic neutron-deuteron scattering. That sort of thing doesn't happen as far as I am aware...
I recently built a computer for the cluster of my family which still lives under the same roof. What I did was install all the basic needed programs, then I included a fairly detailed HTML file containing documentation, and instructed them all to read it before using the computer. It contained information about how to intelligently use the Internet, that free software which does not come with source code should not be trusted (basically everything for Windows), and instructions about regularly running AdAware. (I was able to setup Spybot to run as a scheduled event every Sunday at 3 am, so they don't need to ever worry about that.)
The final step was to boot to Linux using a boot CD and swapping a hard drive in temporarily. I made an exact copy of the hard disk contents and used dd to get the excact boot and partition records and wrote my own hard disk restore program to put on a CD. This is actually rather trivial if you know how to use dd and make a bootable CD.
So far they haven't complained yet about the computer, though it's been less than a month. They have a copy of the restore disc though just in case they manage to screw things up royally. (I run a server out of their house using their cable Internet connection, and they have ftp access to it so that they can easily back up their data if they need to do a disk restore.)
The first game that disturbed me in a bad way was the first Duke Nukem
I can only assume you meant the first episode of Duke Nukem 3D. I was picturing the original Duke Nukem game, with Dr. Proton and all, and couldn't for the life of me recall any strippers in it.
The fact that someone mistook Duke 3D for the original Duke Nukem game shows that even I am getting old. *Sigh*.
...instead, it's the parents' job to make sure their kids don't play violent video games. Just as it's their job to make sure their children don't buy cigarettes, booze, crack, etc. We need to stop these opressive laws which are preventing our children from buying whatever they want to with their allowance behind their parents' backs and instead make sure that a sixteen year old child is under constant supervision not by big brother, but by big parent.
I think the only people who get mad at this sort of legislation are the people who are buying games their parents do not approve of behind their backs. I know, I used to be one of them.
I must second this statement. I, too, decided to put my CD collection (~500 CDs) on my computer in a lossless format (flac), with little difficulty.
Your four minute estimate is incorrect if you want to make sure you're actually copying the right data. Using (in Linux) grip and cdparanoia, it was pretty easy. I just queued up a new disc each time one popped out, whenever I was in my dorm room.
Took me a few months to finish it, and for some reason I had two albums that refused to rip in Linux. (Not DRMed ones, old ones -- Foo Fighters, "The Colour and the Shape," and Meat Puppets, "Too High to Die.") Didn't cost me a dime, and because I used cdparanoia it ripped at maybe 2x, so I only had to swap discs every half hour. I didn't consider myself a slave. Nice change of pace from hammering refresh on Slashdot. ; )
How many times is this going to be reported? This is complete nonsense. It was nonsense the first time I read it, nonsense the second time, the third, and so forth. Do the Slashdot editors realise how many times they've posted this story in the past few years? I've seen it multiple times here.
If this hack's idea held any water some more information from sources other than the one man proclaiming it as the ultimate solution would be speaking up and writing about it. As of the past couple years it's only been his web site and morons who read it and believe it.
"As net data is split in data streams and reassembled, for instance, the timing has to correct at the point of re-assembly.
If not, whatever data has been sent - voice packets in VoIP net phone calls for example - will come out garbled."
Did anyone else laugh as they read this? The writer of this article is unaware of sequence numbers... (and thinks that a timestamp is placed on each packet instead.) Wow. But this could also work with the computer's internal clock... though then all routing devices would have to be initialised to the same time. But I digress...
I know what you're talking about, and it wasn't a hoax, it was for real. While learning about neural networks last semester I remember that being an example of application.
I don't recall the company's name, but they had image classification that was trained on many pictures to tell if a picture is pornographic or not and eventually some sort of pattern was found. Perhaps images which contain many flesh tones.
I love how quick you are to label all movie fanatics as criminals. Though I've never ripped a DVD myself, I would guess that it takes more time to compress a movie file to a common format than to actually watch it.
I can watch a movie in approximately 90 minutes. After that I'm done with it and probably won't want to see it again for at least two years, if ever. Once that 90 minutes is up I'm ready for the next one. I can do this once a night, or two to four times a night on the weekend.
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Actually, according to Wikipedia, the equatorial circumference of the earth is 40,075.02 km. So the plane would have to be traveling at 1669.7925 km/hr to keep pace with the sun.
What? Imperial units you want? Fine. 1 kilometer = 0.621371192 mi according to Google, so the plane would have to travel at 1037.56095611766 miles per hour. So the other poster who said 1000 was actually quite close.
The Broadcom driver (bcm43xx) is actually pretty good these days. I've only had experience with the 4311 chipset, but it works well enough for me. Both the native kernel driver and ndiswrapper work with this chipset. (ndiswrapper works better, though finding a driver compatible with it was a nightmare.)
It's amazing to see people who can't even spell the word "president" making jokes about the intelligence of someone.
Where are you living? I was in South Dakota and we had snow on the ground almost the entire time from mid-October to April, including some pretty bad storms when I was supposed to be flying out for a vacation in March. The weather fluctuates, these things happen. When I was a kid I was taught this in school. Now they're teaching that only increases are happening... and I don't understand it. For the record, I'm a mathematician, so I'm not entirely clueless about science. That said, I have not looked at the data for global temperatures.
It's been four years since I bought a CD because I just don't really care for mainstream music anymore. It's not that I'm waiting around for music to get better, it's because I just don't care about what the rest of the world is doing musically. The last brand new CD I bought must've been at least seven years ago.
I mostly listen to my own music which I give away for free on the Internet. Perhaps I'm self-centered. I imagine that many people are seeking free sources for their music. Why pay money when people out there are giving away good stuff for free, right?
I must disagree.
Window redraw lag is gone when using Aero. This never bugged me too much in XP but now that I've lived without it for so long I tend to notice it a lot.
This is perhaps your only valid point. I still use Win2K myself (just upgraded from 98SE a few months ago) and am unaware of this situation. It may be my ignorance, though.
Per-application volume controls.
Most games already come with this feature. I certainly hope you don't set different volumes for the MessageBoxes that pop up in Notepad versus in Word.
Hit my keyboard's start button, start typing the name of an application and hit enter to launch the app.
While I have no "start" button on my keyboard, ever since Windows 95 I've been hitting Windows Key-R to open the run dialog box. There's only a negligible difference in movements.
Being able to show and sort by several file properties, directly in explorer.
Name, Size, Type, Date ... what else is there? Perhaps I'm missing something, but these have been around at least since File Manager in Windows 3.1, if not as early as Windows 1.0.
Rename a file in explorer, and hit tab to start renaming the next file in the list.
Rename a file in explorer, hit the down arrow (or right, depending on how you arrange your folders) to start renaming the next file in the list.
Simple, integrated searching.
Just hit F3.
You know, this is one of the reasons I don't use Ebay. After reading your argument, it seems to make 100% perfect sense.
I can only assume that this concept has already been patented, which is why they have not implemented it.
Is there some way to embed a password in a document so as to bring down the FCC?
Your far superior literacy stupifies me. What it most obviously means is that if you have a password protected file it cannot be accepted because, zoink, they cannot read it because, holy cheese, it's password protected.
However, the rest of your ridiculing I agree with.
The link redirects me to http://news.zdnet.comnull/.
Assuming this is a real news article, however, I wonder at what stage the court wants a snapshot of the RAM? Any attempts to copy it would, I assume, modify the current contents of it. Or do they want to actual chips out of the computers? The defendant would probably then be charged with destroying evidence when the chips were found to contain no data...
Try it this way, you'll find it sounds better. ;) Note to readers: the normal hyphens you see in a guitar tab are ommited because Slashdot thinks I'm posting garbage with those. x's on top represent beats. Is this copyright violation?
x x x x x x x x
e | | |
B | | |
G | | |
D | 2 |0 4 02|
A | 2 | 2 2 |
E | 0 34 | |
OpenOffice will crawl on a machine with less than 256MB
Really? It runs just fine on my 500 Mhz 128MB machine...
Jet Moto 1 and 2 were made by Singletrac (I think was the company) and were excellent. They were bought out by Sony, who let another team make the 3rd game. It sucked. Why should it be any different for Guitar Hero, who's original company has been bought out by MTV? I think that that was when the series officially died.
I wish I had mod points to second that notion.
My experience was with Jet Moto 3. I absolutely loved the first one, and the second one only made it better. So naturally I assumed the third one must be excellent. Instead it was completely different, and quite stupid. It was made by a different developer than the first two, same route that Guitar Hero seems to be taking...
The newest players take full advantage of MPEG-4 compression. Way back in the day, when the DVD standard was made, all that existed was MPEG-2. Which really really sucks. If your player will play any movie without first downsampling it to the standard TV rate, then you would get HD content, but it would be more compressed than HD-DVD or Blu Ray. Whether or not the difference is noticable is another question.
ignorant enough
You fail to realise that 500 years ago, the entire world was ignorant enough to not even be aware of the contintent they now call "America" standing in between Europe and Asia on the other side of the globe. The people weren't even called Americans at the time, either. That name came from Europe as well.
As a side, and mostly stupid comment, how else did you think that India had so many people in its country? Easy, they're located all around the globe! Har har har.... (that laugh should be read in monotone.)
[Pententing is] done all the time with the law of nature, so why not with the other laws? . . . Something that should not be justified, is to patent facts, like they do in science like physics and medicine.
You, my friend, are horribly mistaken. Pay more attention in school, less time reading conspiracy theories on Slashdot. The law is common knowledge. It is available to all. Patenting following the law makes no sense.
Medicine is not common knowledge. There's no big book where you can find all this stuff. We don't have a cure for AIDS. We don't have a surefire cure for cancer. The scientists working on making drugs spend millions of dollars trying to find a chemical which can perform a specific function, then they find a way to produce it efficiently. If after all this research anybody could then use it, where would the incentive to produce be? They spent millions of dollars on something that every drug company can now make. How are they going to recover their investment? That is what patents are for. That is their purpose. That is why they were invented.
Further, your mention of physics confuses me. Perhaps you mean engineering or something else of that nature? I'm trying to picture a young Ph.D. candidate patenting his thesis on a measurement of the cross section of inelastic neutron-deuteron scattering. That sort of thing doesn't happen as far as I am aware...
I recently built a computer for the cluster of my family which still lives under the same roof. What I did was install all the basic needed programs, then I included a fairly detailed HTML file containing documentation, and instructed them all to read it before using the computer. It contained information about how to intelligently use the Internet, that free software which does not come with source code should not be trusted (basically everything for Windows), and instructions about regularly running AdAware. (I was able to setup Spybot to run as a scheduled event every Sunday at 3 am, so they don't need to ever worry about that.)
The final step was to boot to Linux using a boot CD and swapping a hard drive in temporarily. I made an exact copy of the hard disk contents and used dd to get the excact boot and partition records and wrote my own hard disk restore program to put on a CD. This is actually rather trivial if you know how to use dd and make a bootable CD.
So far they haven't complained yet about the computer, though it's been less than a month. They have a copy of the restore disc though just in case they manage to screw things up royally. (I run a server out of their house using their cable Internet connection, and they have ftp access to it so that they can easily back up their data if they need to do a disk restore.)
-Steven
The first game that disturbed me in a bad way was the first Duke Nukem
I can only assume you meant the first episode of Duke Nukem 3D. I was picturing the original Duke Nukem game, with Dr. Proton and all, and couldn't for the life of me recall any strippers in it.
The fact that someone mistook Duke 3D for the original Duke Nukem game shows that even I am getting old. *Sigh*.
...instead, it's the parents' job to make sure their kids don't play violent video games. Just as it's their job to make sure their children don't buy cigarettes, booze, crack, etc. We need to stop these opressive laws which are preventing our children from buying whatever they want to with their allowance behind their parents' backs and instead make sure that a sixteen year old child is under constant supervision not by big brother, but by big parent.
I think the only people who get mad at this sort of legislation are the people who are buying games their parents do not approve of behind their backs. I know, I used to be one of them.
I must second this statement. I, too, decided to put my CD collection (~500 CDs) on my computer in a lossless format (flac), with little difficulty.
Your four minute estimate is incorrect if you want to make sure you're actually copying the right data. Using (in Linux) grip and cdparanoia, it was pretty easy. I just queued up a new disc each time one popped out, whenever I was in my dorm room.
Took me a few months to finish it, and for some reason I had two albums that refused to rip in Linux. (Not DRMed ones, old ones -- Foo Fighters, "The Colour and the Shape," and Meat Puppets, "Too High to Die.") Didn't cost me a dime, and because I used cdparanoia it ripped at maybe 2x, so I only had to swap discs every half hour. I didn't consider myself a slave. Nice change of pace from hammering refresh on Slashdot. ; )
How many times is this going to be reported? This is complete nonsense. It was nonsense the first time I read it, nonsense the second time, the third, and so forth. Do the Slashdot editors realise how many times they've posted this story in the past few years? I've seen it multiple times here.
If this hack's idea held any water some more information from sources other than the one man proclaiming it as the ultimate solution would be speaking up and writing about it. As of the past couple years it's only been his web site and morons who read it and believe it.
"As net data is split in data streams and reassembled, for instance, the timing has to correct at the point of re-assembly.
If not, whatever data has been sent - voice packets in VoIP net phone calls for example - will come out garbled."
Did anyone else laugh as they read this? The writer of this article is unaware of sequence numbers... (and thinks that a timestamp is placed on each packet instead.) Wow. But this could also work with the computer's internal clock... though then all routing devices would have to be initialised to the same time. But I digress...
Your argument is funny, considering that TV is dying.
I know what you're talking about, and it wasn't a hoax, it was for real. While learning about neural networks last semester I remember that being an example of application.
I don't recall the company's name, but they had image classification that was trained on many pictures to tell if a picture is pornographic or not and eventually some sort of pattern was found. Perhaps images which contain many flesh tones.
I love how quick you are to label all movie fanatics as criminals. Though I've never ripped a DVD myself, I would guess that it takes more time to compress a movie file to a common format than to actually watch it.
I can watch a movie in approximately 90 minutes. After that I'm done with it and probably won't want to see it again for at least two years, if ever. Once that 90 minutes is up I'm ready for the next one. I can do this once a night, or two to four times a night on the weekend.