internet explorer exists for solaris 2.6, strangely enough. you can actually tell where the operating system ends and the browser begins, based on what is missing from the browser.
Einstein's theory of general relativity hasn't been proven. You *can't* prove a theory of this nature.
Observing a thousand (or a million, or a google) events that fit the theory doesn't mean that the next event couldn't totally break the theory.
Claiming that Einstein's theories have been proven by our observations is like saying you proved the pythagorean theorem by drawing a thousand different triangles and measuring them and finding that they fit the formula. You still haven't proven that there isn't any right triangle that doesn't break the law.
what this means to educational institutions in general, but you ought to be able to get to napsters pages through anonymizer.com or rewebber.com, both of which launder your packets.
perhaps the proof reading issue could be minimized by first running the results through ispell, and perhaps writing a perl script that asks for confirmation on words which are spelled correctly, but are very similar to other words.
Or, if the only purpose of this is to be able to have technical docs on a CDR that you can carry with you on trips, it probably doesn't matter if there are a few typos.
before anybody else tells signal11 that sound travels faster in water, you ought to realize that he's claiming that the waves experience a slowdown due to *crossing* a boundary, that being the boundary between water and air. I don't know if this happens either, but enough with the 'sound travels faster in water' crap.
also, waves of any type behave very similarly, whether they are electromagnetic or mechanical.
why 33 fps isn't enough? even on the voodoo3 at 1024x768, linux still pulls 33fps. that's better than tv or film. The last game i played with any level of enthusiasm was doom II, and that ran at 320x240, probably 25 fps. i never had any complaints with that.
What's wrong with 1024x768 at 33fps? Is it even distinguishable from 60fps?
to the best of my knowledge, if you tell a telemarketer to take your name of their list, they are obligated by law to do so. If they call again after you have told them this, I believe you can take them to small claims court for about $500.
The laws are there, they just aren't being enforced.
Exactly how do you go about making sure that data is not lost when a node goes down? I am picturing something like a raid array where you divide data into N blocks and have an additional block which is just parity calculated across the other blocks. (thus allowing you to regenerate any one block that fails)
But, is one parity block per N data blocks sufficient? Or have you come up with something clever that somehow uses 2 extra blocks, and allows you to reconstruct any 2 failed nodes.
Have you done a probabilistic assumption of the likelyhood of enough nodes failing simultaneously such that data is irrevocably lost? If so, what is that probability and how does it compare to the probability of losing data that I have stored on a regularly backed up web server?
One last thing (i promise) do neighbor nodes attempt to rebuild the data on a node that fails after a certain period of silence from aforementioned node?
Nobody who thouroughly researches the topic of the existence of a supreme being can possibly deny outright. If you don't believe it, fine, but there is so much deep theological thought by thousands of people that any open minded person would have to concede that the universe is more complex than you have made it out to be.
Let's be clear: Armageddon is a mistranslation of "at meggido." Meggido is a place in Israel. This mistake was introduced in the KJV (i think). The battle already happened. A *long* time ago. What Jewish apocalyptic theology and the bible prophecy is a day when a judge (the messiah) will come to seperate God's elect from the masses of humanity. Those who were chosen by God will be resurrected, rise up out of their graves, and the earth will be restored to the moral category that existed in prefall eden. There will be no sin, and consequently no death.
>Hardly qualifies as news, unless it exploits >some fundamental weakness in the algorithm or >can factorise primes at a high rate.
Hell, if they can factorise primes at any rate, i'd say that constitutes a major breakthrough. Public Key cryptography relies on factoring large numbers, commonly the products of 2 primes. This is a possible task. Factoring a prime number is an impossible task.
The G4 is a much much better chip than the PIII. I would *love* to have a G4 box running LinuxPPC. My only point was and still is that right now, i can get way more overall processor bandwidth for my money with an x86 box than with a G4 box. If there are 3rd party G4's available for a reasonable price when i buy my next computer, you better believe that's what I'll buy. But G4's aren't worth it right now.
i could easily build a 4 proc. PIII for that money. *Even* if G4 is 2.7 times faster than a pentium, 4 550 MHz processor's are > 1 500 MHz processor. Hey, i'd love to have one of those things, but you ain't gettin what you pay for. Those are the facts
$3,499.00 500MHz G4 1MB L2 256MB SDRAM 27GB Ultra ATA Zip drive DVD-RAM/DVD Video ATI RAGE 128 AGP 10/100BASE-T No
I don't care what the benchmarks say, I could build a faster x86 system than this thing for $3500. This doesn't even have a monitor. Geeze... ridiculous
Well, it's darn near impossible to talk facts about anything involving computers, but here's my take on it.
1. I don't like Apple's philosophy. (closed hardware, closed software)
2. RISC is superior to CISC. We've known this for a long time. Intel continues to use a CISC design for backwards compatibility. This is why my heatsink is twice as big as my PII 350. But I can still run wordstar 1.0!
3. If i manage to wean myself off of windows completely (yes, i'm writing this in IE 5.0), and switch to linux, my next computer will be a G4 running LinuxPPC. A dual if they exist. CISC will die someday, i hope not to own anything CISC when that day comes.
Wavestar is a technology being developed by Lucent technologies that uses Wave division Multiplexing to transmit data over a fiber at 400Gbits/second. Check this out for more information. Granted, it's FOR SONET/SDH, which means that to do IP you have to do IP over ATM and then put the ATM signal over SONET, but it still blows 80Gbits out of the water.
Slashdot Mirror
internet explorer exists for solaris 2.6, strangely enough. you can actually tell where the operating system ends and the browser begins, based on what is missing from the browser.
-mark
oh great, geeks are smarter than jocks... what an educated community we have here.
Us freaks are better than those norms anyday!!! i hear they eat their young!!!
b.s. i knew smart jocks and stupid outcasts in highschool.
Einstein's theory of general relativity hasn't been proven. You *can't* prove a theory of this nature.
Observing a thousand (or a million, or a google) events that fit the theory doesn't mean that the next event couldn't totally break the theory.
Claiming that Einstein's theories have been proven by our observations is like saying you proved the pythagorean theorem by drawing a thousand different triangles and measuring them and finding that they fit the formula. You still haven't proven that there isn't any right triangle that doesn't break the law.
-mark
Actually 300,000 km/sec is the speed of light in a vacuum. It is somewhat less when traveling through a glass fiber.
-Mark
what this means to educational institutions in general, but you ought to be able to get to napsters pages through anonymizer.com or rewebber.com, both of which launder your packets.
-mark
i go to northeastern university. I knew Shawn, somewhat. Trust me, he was smart. bored, not stupid.
-mark
you forgot carbon nanotubes.
-mark
perhaps the proof reading issue could be minimized by first running the results through ispell, and perhaps writing a perl script that asks for confirmation on words which are spelled correctly, but are very similar to other words.
Or, if the only purpose of this is to be able to have technical docs on a CDR that you can carry with you on trips, it probably doesn't matter if there are a few typos.
-Mark
would andover.net please hire an editor for jon katz?
Please moderate this down as redundant if you see fit, i'm sure dozens of people are screaming the same thing.
-mark
before anybody else tells signal11 that sound travels faster in water, you ought to realize that he's claiming that the waves experience a slowdown due to *crossing* a boundary, that being the boundary between water and air. I don't know if this happens either, but enough with the 'sound travels faster in water' crap.
also, waves of any type behave very similarly, whether they are electromagnetic or mechanical.
why 33 fps isn't enough? even on the voodoo3 at 1024x768, linux still pulls 33fps. that's better than tv or film. The last game i played with any level of enthusiasm was doom II, and that ran at 320x240, probably 25 fps. i never had any complaints with that.
What's wrong with 1024x768 at 33fps? Is it even distinguishable from 60fps?
confused,
mark
Req is no longer used at ccs. We now use rt. req had to be abandoned because it ran only on SunOS, which was not y2k compliant.
-Mark
to the best of my knowledge, if you tell a telemarketer to take your name of their list, they are obligated by law to do so. If they call again after you have told them this, I believe you can take them to small claims court for about $500.
The laws are there, they just aren't being enforced.
Mark
Exactly how do you go about making sure that data is not lost when a node goes down? I am picturing something like a raid array where you divide data into N blocks and have an additional block which is just parity calculated across the other blocks. (thus allowing you to regenerate any one block that fails)
But, is one parity block per N data blocks sufficient? Or have you come up with something clever that somehow uses 2 extra blocks, and allows you to reconstruct any 2 failed nodes.
Have you done a probabilistic assumption of the likelyhood of enough nodes failing simultaneously such that data is irrevocably lost? If so, what is that probability and how does it compare to the probability of losing data that I have stored on a regularly backed up web server?
One last thing (i promise) do neighbor nodes attempt to rebuild the data on a node that fails after a certain period of silence from aforementioned node?
Thanks much!
Mark Logan
mlogan@ccs.neu.edu
I definitely agree with this. I hardly use windows anymore, but IE is faster and renders more correctly than Netscape.
-Mark
Nobody who thouroughly researches the topic of the existence of a supreme being can possibly deny outright. If you don't believe it, fine, but there is so much deep theological thought by thousands of people that any open minded person would have to concede that the universe is more complex than you have made it out to be.
Let's be clear: Armageddon is a mistranslation of "at meggido." Meggido is a place in Israel. This mistake was introduced in the KJV (i think). The battle already happened. A *long* time ago. What Jewish apocalyptic theology and the bible prophecy is a day when a judge (the messiah) will come to seperate God's elect from the masses of humanity. Those who were chosen by God will be resurrected, rise up out of their graves, and the earth will be restored to the moral category that existed in prefall eden. There will be no sin, and consequently no death.
cheers,
mark
>Hardly qualifies as news, unless it exploits
>some fundamental weakness in the algorithm or
>can factorise primes at a high rate.
Hell, if they can factorise primes at any rate, i'd say that constitutes a major breakthrough. Public Key cryptography relies on factoring large numbers, commonly the products of 2 primes. This is a possible task. Factoring a prime number is an impossible task.
The G4 is a much much better chip than the PIII. I would *love* to have a G4 box running LinuxPPC. My only point was and still is that right now, i can get way more overall processor bandwidth for my money with an x86 box than with a G4 box. If there are 3rd party G4's available for a reasonable price when i buy my next computer, you better believe that's what I'll buy. But G4's aren't worth it right now.
i could easily build a 4 proc. PIII for that money. *Even* if G4 is 2.7 times faster than a pentium, 4 550 MHz processor's are > 1 500 MHz processor. Hey, i'd love to have one of those things, but you ain't gettin what you pay for. Those are the facts
$3,499.00
500MHz G4
1MB L2
256MB SDRAM
27GB Ultra ATA
Zip drive
DVD-RAM/DVD Video
ATI RAGE 128 AGP
10/100BASE-T
No
I don't care what the benchmarks say, I could build a faster x86 system than this thing for $3500. This doesn't even have a monitor. Geeze... ridiculous
Well, it's darn near impossible to talk facts about anything involving computers, but here's my take on it.
1. I don't like Apple's philosophy. (closed hardware, closed software)
2. RISC is superior to CISC. We've known this for a long time. Intel continues to use a CISC design for backwards compatibility. This is why my heatsink is twice as big as my PII 350. But I can still run wordstar 1.0!
3. If i manage to wean myself off of windows completely (yes, i'm writing this in IE 5.0), and switch to linux, my next computer will be a G4 running LinuxPPC. A dual if they exist. CISC will die someday, i hope not to own anything CISC when that day comes.
Wavestar is a technology being developed by Lucent technologies that uses Wave division Multiplexing to transmit data over a fiber at 400Gbits/second. Check this out for more information. Granted, it's FOR SONET/SDH, which means that to do IP you have to do IP over ATM and then put the ATM signal over SONET, but it still blows 80Gbits out of the water.