(On a serious note, I get ADSL 50Mbps for about $60 a month in a small Japanese city. I could also get a fiber connection if I wanted to for slightly more)
I've spent the last few days playing Quake (the first, no number after it!). Now, id's released the sourcecode for Quake and there are some good native Linux implementations, but for full nostalgia effect I downloaded the shareware Dos version and have been playing it through Dosbox.
Well, it seems that emulating Dos to play a CPU-intensive game like Quake over really slows things down, to the point that only the 320x240 resolution is playable on my Core Duo 1.6ghz. Doing the 640x480 slows things down to a crawl, and that only makes my nostalgia stronger;-) It's like I'm really playing on a 486!
Oh wait, your card wouldn't help me because it was only the later GLQuake that got 3d acceleration support:( And I only have a laptop anyway:(
For one that is not a publicity stunt/modern tomfoolery, there's Ichiro Suzuki in baseball.
"Ichiro" means "bright" or "number 1", and has the Japanese character for "one" in it. It's a regular name, and most Japanese would not think about the fact that it has a number.
An alternate form of "Ichiro"(as written in Japanese, but pronounced and transliterated to English the same way), which is more common, means "firstborn son", and is a common name in Japan. There is a whole series of male names that you can use to indicate their order: Ichiro (firstborn), Jiro (secondborn), Sanjiro (thirdborn), Yojiro (Fourthborn), and so on.
More fun Japanese names with numbers: Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto of WWII fame, whose first name means "fifty six", because that's how old his father was when he was born. Junichiro Koizumi, recent Prime Minister of Japan, the "ichiro" in Junichiro means "firstborn" Joichi "Joi" Ito, Tech journalist and Creative Commons CEO his name contains the character for "one".
If someone can post the relevant scene on Youtube, I'd appreciate it. Say what you will about file-sharing, I don't want to rent a whole movie just to see one scene, or download the whole thing for that matter.
For those who missed it, the title is a reference to Men Who Stare At Goats, a movie about a group of US Special Forces who tried to develop "psychic warfare" and "Jedi skills", supposedly based on a real story.
It stars Jeff Bridges as the Dude from Big Lebowski in uniform.
Read his second paragraph, he says he is talking about "per 100 SqFt"
>So you take some office building that was burning perhaps a couple hundred watts per 100 SqFt during mid-day, and colocate 42U racks within, raising energy density from maybe 200 watts/100 SqFT to a few thousand.
So he is probably assuming 3000kW/SqFt averaged over the whole building, so many tens of thousands of watts for a office-sized building.
I watched the final episode of The Prisoner, and that was so obtuse it could very well have been explaining the mysteries of Lost as well as ending The Prisoner.
So, I have no need to watch this last episode of Lost. It was all about men in robes and dem bones, right?
Why should he? It's not like we expect generals to fight in the trenches and shoot the enemy, why should a gerneral be expected to work exploits and hack code? Isn't a general's job by definition managing others who are experts in the field?
A serious question, can someone provide examples in industry of good leaders who were so because they knew the details, or who were bad because they didn't?
Slashdot's moderation system does encourage posting in a story faster rather than waiting to compose a reply, yes. It also makes it better to reply to a post with high moderation rather than starting your own thread. It's unfortunate, I wish there was a better way of combining mod point systems with time-based systems instead of the either/or sorting we have today.
It's a system that has been flawed since the 90's, so it's unlikely to go away.
Speaking of the bookmarks editor, try this in Firefox 3.X: Compare your browser history to your bookmarks, to see which site you've visited have been bookmarked.
Whoops, it's basically impossible (or at least takes too much effort to be worth it), because History and Bookmarks are separate tabs off the same window. You can't see both at the same time, just one or the other. And you can't open two instances of that window to dedicate one to Bookmarks and one to History. Even better, when you switch between those two tabs, it resets the window scroll position to the very top so you have to scroll down, see what pages you visited, change tabs, scroll down to see if those are bookmarked, repeat...
Maybe these guys should think a little about how their UI is designed?
Well, his background goes a long way to explain WHY he thinks the way he does, but it doesn't give it any more credence.
A former spy whose main experience with China is spying on them is going to see conspiracies everywhere. The fact that ethnic minorities seem to be marginalized in Russia would kind of add to that when he sees minorities openly displaying their language/culture. We've had Chinese communities in the USA since the 19th century, and we've not had major problems with them keeping their culture over here.
Ask him if we should be worried about the ethnic Russian communities in the USA. If I see borscht on the menu, is that a GRU front?
Sadly, this is already being done as fraud by These guys, who have over 39,000 separate titles printed, all apparently just wikipedia articles bound with stock photos. It seems to be done by machine, given the amount of books and the odd titles and stock photos.
And they're selling them for over $50 each, with no notice that they are just wikipedia articles!! I only noticed because I was searching for books on an obscure topic and found multiple books by this "author".
tl;dr: DO NOT BUY BOOKS FROM Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, and John McBrewster
volcanoes erupt along the pacific rim all the time, without the airspace of an entire continent having to be closed for a week
This. Motherfucking THIS.
I made my own reply post, but it's apparently lost in the lower levels due to lateness.
tl;dr: I live within 10km of a volcano that does this almost every day, sometimes more than once a day. Japan doesn't close their airspace, or even airspace around Kyushu. Or the airport 50km from the volcano.
Most of the people talking in this thread talk about "flying in the ash cloud" as if the cloud is going to be as dense 500km from the volcano as it is at the source. Also as if there isn't particulate matter in the air all the time, to varying degrees.
It all sounds like the problem is the inexperience of European countries with actually dealing with volcanoes.
I live in Kagoshima, Japan, which is 10km from an active volcano, and its airport is 50km from the volcano.
The volcano is called Sakurajima, and it has multiple eruptions daily, each of which sends up a large plume of ash for about an hour or so. It's a Decade volcano, and here is its wiki page.
Its ash volume must be much less than the Iceland volcano, but it's also an order of magnitude closer to the airport and its airspace. I don't ever hear about them closing the airport for ash, so it would appear that as long as one stays out of the really thick part of the cloud, you'll be fine.
No, great-grandparent post was generally right, if you count the tactical nukes that fit into a cruise missile or artillery shell, the US had enough to wipe out country such as China "off the map".
I don't know what your point about volcanoes was, just because mother nature has far more power does not mean that the US/Russian arsenal is not awesome in human scales.
>You could barely wipe Delaware off the map with a hundred such bombs.
You must be using some definition of "destroy" that means physically changing the geography, or getting every last man woman and child in the initial volly. This is not really what you aim for in a nuclear attack, and even if you were intent on genocide 90% casualties would be enough.
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I live in Japan. /wins
(On a serious note, I get ADSL 50Mbps for about $60 a month in a small Japanese city. I could also get a fiber connection if I wanted to for slightly more)
You could give it to me, for one :P
I've spent the last few days playing Quake (the first, no number after it!). Now, id's released the sourcecode for Quake and there are some good native Linux implementations, but for full nostalgia effect I downloaded the shareware Dos version and have been playing it through Dosbox.
Well, it seems that emulating Dos to play a CPU-intensive game like Quake over really slows things down, to the point that only the 320x240 resolution is playable on my Core Duo 1.6ghz. Doing the 640x480 slows things down to a crawl, and that only makes my nostalgia stronger ;-) It's like I'm really playing on a 486!
Oh wait, your card wouldn't help me because it was only the later GLQuake that got 3d acceleration support :( And I only have a laptop anyway :(
id still hosts the shareware at ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake/quake106.zip
if anyone else wants some gibs.
Actually, the limit on twitter is 140 characters, so what GP wrote would become
"The last thing I need is more noise. That's why I don't use twitter. Besides, 160 characters doesn't exactly lend itself to worthwhile disco"
Well, sign me right up!
For one that is not a publicity stunt/modern tomfoolery, there's Ichiro Suzuki in baseball.
"Ichiro" means "bright" or "number 1", and has the Japanese character for "one" in it. It's a regular name, and most Japanese would not think about the fact that it has a number.
An alternate form of "Ichiro"(as written in Japanese, but pronounced and transliterated to English the same way), which is more common, means "firstborn son", and is a common name in Japan. There is a whole series of male names that you can use to indicate their order: Ichiro (firstborn), Jiro (secondborn), Sanjiro (thirdborn), Yojiro (Fourthborn), and so on.
More fun Japanese names with numbers:
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto of WWII fame, whose first name means "fifty six", because that's how old his father was when he was born.
Junichiro Koizumi, recent Prime Minister of Japan, the "ichiro" in Junichiro means "firstborn"
Joichi "Joi" Ito, Tech journalist and Creative Commons CEO his name contains the character for "one".
In the same vein, I once met a geek who changed his last name to "dot net", all lowercase, with an umlaut over the "o" in "dot".
I asked him if he ever had problems with databases. He just shrugged and said "yes".
top-down C&C infrastructures, like those employed throughout the 1990s
My C&C keeps going down because the &*#$ing Harvester goes after Tiberium next to the enemy tanks :(
With many botnet operators maintaining dozens or sometimes hundreds of C&C servers around the world at any one time
Oh I wish.
If someone can post the relevant scene on Youtube, I'd appreciate it. Say what you will about file-sharing, I don't want to rent a whole movie just to see one scene, or download the whole thing for that matter.
Plus, it's called Firefox! Does it crash?
For those who missed it, the title is a reference to Men Who Stare At Goats, a movie about a group of US Special Forces who tried to develop "psychic warfare" and "Jedi skills", supposedly based on a real story.
It stars Jeff Bridges as the Dude from Big Lebowski in uniform.
My god, there's more to the world of science and technology than a single company!
Yes, there are two. Apple and Google.
Ducks and Beavers living together, UTTER CONFUSION!!!!
Read his second paragraph, he says he is talking about "per 100 SqFt"
>So you take some office building that was burning perhaps a couple hundred watts per 100 SqFt during mid-day, and colocate 42U racks within, raising energy density from maybe 200 watts/100 SqFT to a few thousand.
So he is probably assuming 3000kW/SqFt averaged over the whole building, so many tens of thousands of watts for a office-sized building.
A small house is about 1000 SqFT, btw.
I watched the final episode of The Prisoner, and that was so obtuse it could very well have been explaining the mysteries of Lost as well as ending The Prisoner.
So, I have no need to watch this last episode of Lost. It was all about men in robes and dem bones, right?
Dem bones dem bones
Why should he? It's not like we expect generals to fight in the trenches and shoot the enemy, why should a gerneral be expected to work exploits and hack code? Isn't a general's job by definition managing others who are experts in the field?
A serious question, can someone provide examples in industry of good leaders who were so because they knew the details, or who were bad because they didn't?
Slashdot's moderation system does encourage posting in a story faster rather than waiting to compose a reply, yes. It also makes it better to reply to a post with high moderation rather than starting your own thread. It's unfortunate, I wish there was a better way of combining mod point systems with time-based systems instead of the either/or sorting we have today.
It's a system that has been flawed since the 90's, so it's unlikely to go away.
Speaking of the bookmarks editor, try this in Firefox 3.X: Compare your browser history to your bookmarks, to see which site you've visited have been bookmarked.
Whoops, it's basically impossible (or at least takes too much effort to be worth it), because History and Bookmarks are separate tabs off the same window. You can't see both at the same time, just one or the other. And you can't open two instances of that window to dedicate one to Bookmarks and one to History. Even better, when you switch between those two tabs, it resets the window scroll position to the very top so you have to scroll down, see what pages you visited, change tabs, scroll down to see if those are bookmarked, repeat...
Maybe these guys should think a little about how their UI is designed?
Wait a minute, if he's "former GRU", shouldn't HE be the one being accused of being a spy?!?!
I smell a disinformation attempt to throw us off the trail.
Well, his background goes a long way to explain WHY he thinks the way he does, but it doesn't give it any more credence.
A former spy whose main experience with China is spying on them is going to see conspiracies everywhere. The fact that ethnic minorities seem to be marginalized in Russia would kind of add to that when he sees minorities openly displaying their language/culture. We've had Chinese communities in the USA since the 19th century, and we've not had major problems with them keeping their culture over here.
Ask him if we should be worried about the ethnic Russian communities in the USA. If I see borscht on the menu, is that a GRU front?
Hey, I saw it in theaters and thought it was okay, but you won't see me getting aroused or suicidal over it...
For society in general, sure, but for individuals it still pays to be more competitive.
How's the market for CS BS-holders versus community college CS grads? How about for lib arts BA holders?
I've been out of the US a couple of years and missed the big crunch recently. How healthy is the programmer/network admin market in general there now?
1:1 Japan size, of course, means it's about 1:1.2 for an American Eva unit.
I propose a new word to describe this - wikiflagarism, the flagrant plagarism of wikipedia.
It is an portmanteau of a malapropism with a neologism, or a Malamanteau.
Sadly, this is already being done as fraud by These guys, who have over 39,000 separate titles printed, all apparently just wikipedia articles bound with stock photos. It seems to be done by machine, given the amount of books and the odd titles and stock photos.
And they're selling them for over $50 each, with no notice that they are just wikipedia articles!! I only noticed because I was searching for books on an obscure topic and found multiple books by this "author".
tl;dr: DO NOT BUY BOOKS FROM Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, and John McBrewster
volcanoes erupt along the pacific rim all the time, without the airspace of an entire continent having to be closed for a week
This. Motherfucking THIS.
I made my own reply post, but it's apparently lost in the lower levels due to lateness.
tl;dr: I live within 10km of a volcano that does this almost every day, sometimes more than once a day. Japan doesn't close their airspace, or even airspace around Kyushu. Or the airport 50km from the volcano.
Most of the people talking in this thread talk about "flying in the ash cloud" as if the cloud is going to be as dense 500km from the volcano as it is at the source. Also as if there isn't particulate matter in the air all the time, to varying degrees.
It all sounds like the problem is the inexperience of European countries with actually dealing with volcanoes.
I live in Kagoshima, Japan, which is 10km from an active volcano, and its airport is 50km from the volcano.
The volcano is called Sakurajima, and it has multiple eruptions daily, each of which sends up a large plume of ash for about an hour or so. It's a Decade volcano, and here is its wiki page.
Its ash volume must be much less than the Iceland volcano, but it's also an order of magnitude closer to the airport and its airspace. I don't ever hear about them closing the airport for ash, so it would appear that as long as one stays out of the really thick part of the cloud, you'll be fine.
here's a pic with a good pic of it erupting. Keep in mind this happens every day here.
No, great-grandparent post was generally right, if you count the tactical nukes that fit into a cruise missile or artillery shell, the US had enough to wipe out country such as China "off the map".
I don't know what your point about volcanoes was, just because mother nature has far more power does not mean that the US/Russian arsenal is not awesome in human scales.
>You could barely wipe Delaware off the map with a hundred such bombs.
You must be using some definition of "destroy" that means physically changing the geography, or getting every last man woman and child in the initial volly. This is not really what you aim for in a nuclear attack, and even if you were intent on genocide 90% casualties would be enough.