"The parole board grants release dates to a relative few. Schwarzenegger vetoes most releases approved by the parole board, as did his predecessor, Gov. Gray Davis. Since taking office, Schwarzenegger has allowed 191 lifers to leave prison -- about 1% of more than 16,000 who had parole hearings."
Hmm, let's see "either you can pay me $50 to buy something or you can download it for free off the internet". Doesn't sound like a very good business model to me.
I read that in Japan someone sent out a spam that said "I know you're having an affair! Pay me $CASH_SUM or I'll tell your wife". He got lucky with some small percentage of the recipients who sent him money. But he got unlucky with a much smaller percentage who reported him to the police.
If he were a citizen of China or Zimbabwe he's probably be in Gitmo. Ok, China is bad example since the US is scared of them, but loads of non US/non UK citizens have basically been disappeared from the US/UK on suspicion of terrorist type stuff.
The worst thing would be if he was a citizen of some Arab state - then neither the US/UK or his home government would give a damn about him since they all hate Islamists. Then he'd be vulnerable to extraordinary rendition to some prison in the third world where he'd get tortured and quite possibly killed.
Come to think of it there were some Chinese citizens in Gitmo which the US decided were innocent, but they couldn't send them back to China because they would be shipped of to a Chinese concentration camp. The US eventually got Albania to accept them
Yeah, but that's worthless. For immigration purposes the value if citizenship is in the treaties that your government has signed. E.g. if you're from Europe or the US you can visa free access to most countries and it's relatively easy to become a resident. If you're a citizen of China or Zimbabwe neither is true.
My guess is that a UN Laissez Passer is worth even less than citizenship of a non well connected country.
2.5 inch hard disks seem to be surprisingly tough. I've dropped a bare drive a couple of metres onto a hard floor and it was ok. And I've dropped lots of laptops. All of them were ok.
None of the drives were running though, from what I've read it's not hard to kill them if drop them while they're spinning.
I think there's an argument for matching filesystem cluster sizes to flash block erase sizes since flash write is higher if you write an erase block at a time. But doing that is a relatively minor tweak to the IDE/SATA drive identify data (to say "I recommend this cluster size") and formatter (to pick that size by default).
Back then, the real Stack (not Microsoft's poorly implemented and unstable clone) didn't have a huge impact on the performance either, as it used a big cache and had significantly less amount of data to transfer from/to a harddisk which back then didn't shine bandwidth-wise.
The reason stack died isn't the preformance hit. The reason stack died is a combination of : - Microsoft managing to instill paranoia about RT-compression thank to their double-crap
This is nothing to do with Stac or Microsoft. That was on the fly compression of a FAT filesystem, this is on the fly compression of RAM in a PDA.
RM machines is a complete scandal in the UK. Originally they developed machines from scratch like 380Z and Nimbus. Then as those lagged behind PCs they switched to making PCs. But schools still buy their Wintel PCs from RM, despite the fact that there is no reason for single sourcing, apart from tradition.
And I suspect that RM's founders are well connected in educational circles.
I once worked in an embedded company - C, assembler and the like. It was a horrible, loathsome system where you'd often work continuously for 20 hours to find some memory corruption or timing bug introduced by some novice programmer refactoring so the system could be released late to some angry customer to stop them charging the company a fortune in penalty payments.
The management hired, probably as consultants, some 'fucking web hippies' as they were known to work on some project that no one seemed to be able to name. They were all sat in a room on the very quiet top floor and played some deathmatch type game all the time as far as I could see. For some reason they played with the sound turned WAY UP, and didn't bother to cover up the windows with posters.
What was funny is that the room on the other side of the corridor was the video conference room, where ultra senior managers would go to hear bad news from other sites around the world.
Not surprisingly, one day they all disappeared. I wish I'd organised a death pool for them, would have made some money.
I heard it was some sort of falling out between Charlie and NVidia over some issue I don't know which has turned into a long running feud. He writes stuff to piss them off, they try to cut off his information about them. There is a cycle.
So I don't believe a word he says about NVidia any more.
Is anyone actually surprised that the CEO is denying this? Even if the rumors were true, letting news out to market about it would give Intel time to prepare a response (and legal action).
The original story came from Charlie at The Inquirer. Charlie and NVidia hate each other.
No. The fault is not with the messenger. It is the people themselves who were brought up with a false sense of national superiority, unwilling to accept the fact that the lifestyle they are enjoying may contribute to the suppression of peoples around the world by their government and corporations.
It's not like the US is a slave state like Rome. The US has made some questionable foreign policy moves but the US's standard of living is not dependent on those. E.g. the coups that the CIA backed in Iran or Chile didn't improve US standard of living. And that wasn't why the US backed them - it was purely about ideology. The Chomskyite analysis of this as some big conspiracy by United Fruit or Haliburton or whatever is highly simplistic and to me totally unconvincing.
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"The parole board grants release dates to a relative few. Schwarzenegger vetoes most releases approved by the parole board, as did his predecessor, Gov. Gray Davis. Since taking office, Schwarzenegger has allowed 191 lifers to leave prison -- about 1% of more than 16,000 who had parole hearings."
This is a picture of Reiser being given that news
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/images/2008/08/29/reiser_1.jpg
You are a true slashdotter.
Would you prefer it if he said "massing on kilo" or "weighing g Newton"?
Isn't again being the operative word here? Perhaps first time around people want the happy ever after fairytale.
Hmm, let's see "either you can pay me $50 to buy something or you can download it for free off the internet". Doesn't sound like a very good business model to me.
Freedom 5: The ability to use parts of the program in your application with releasing the source code to your application.
I read that in Japan someone sent out a spam that said "I know you're having an affair! Pay me $CASH_SUM or I'll tell your wife". He got lucky with some small percentage of the recipients who sent him money. But he got unlucky with a much smaller percentage who reported him to the police.
If he were a citizen of China or Zimbabwe he's probably be in Gitmo. Ok, China is bad example since the US is scared of them, but loads of non US/non UK citizens have basically been disappeared from the US/UK on suspicion of terrorist type stuff.
The worst thing would be if he was a citizen of some Arab state - then neither the US/UK or his home government would give a damn about him since they all hate Islamists. Then he'd be vulnerable to extraordinary rendition to some prison in the third world where he'd get tortured and quite possibly killed.
Come to think of it there were some Chinese citizens in Gitmo which the US decided were innocent, but they couldn't send them back to China because they would be shipped of to a Chinese concentration camp. The US eventually got Albania to accept them
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6242891.stm
Yeah, but that's worthless. For immigration purposes the value if citizenship is in the treaties that your government has signed. E.g. if you're from Europe or the US you can visa free access to most countries and it's relatively easy to become a resident. If you're a citizen of China or Zimbabwe neither is true.
My guess is that a UN Laissez Passer is worth even less than citizenship of a non well connected country.
You mean the US system protects its citizens better than the UK one does?
Maybe that Paine chap was on to something after all.
2.5 inch hard disks seem to be surprisingly tough. I've dropped a bare drive a couple of metres onto a hard floor and it was ok. And I've dropped lots of laptops. All of them were ok.
None of the drives were running though, from what I've read it's not hard to kill them if drop them while they're spinning.
I think there's an argument for matching filesystem cluster sizes to flash block erase sizes since flash write is higher if you write an erase block at a time. But doing that is a relatively minor tweak to the IDE/SATA drive identify data (to say "I recommend this cluster size") and formatter (to pick that size by default).
The high end ones have scored metal cases too to produce handgrenade style shrapnel.
Yeah, I'm surprised they don't HAL_PORTER IS A CHEAPSKATE WHO STOLE WINDOWS do something more drastic.
That's just wrong on so many levels.
Back then, the real Stack (not Microsoft's poorly implemented and unstable clone) didn't have a huge impact on the performance either, as it used a big cache and had significantly less amount of data to transfer from/to a harddisk which back then didn't shine bandwidth-wise.
The reason stack died isn't the preformance hit. The reason stack died is a combination of :
- Microsoft managing to instill paranoia about RT-compression thank to their double-crap
This is nothing to do with Stac or Microsoft. That was on the fly compression of a FAT filesystem, this is on the fly compression of RAM in a PDA.
First ... like ... post ... dude.
I am .... so fucking .... baked.
Well at least I'm not a CATSHAGGER.
RM machines is a complete scandal in the UK. Originally they developed machines from scratch like 380Z and Nimbus. Then as those lagged behind PCs they switched to making PCs. But schools still buy their Wintel PCs from RM, despite the fact that there is no reason for single sourcing, apart from tradition.
And I suspect that RM's founders are well connected in educational circles.
I once worked in an embedded company - C, assembler and the like. It was a horrible, loathsome system where you'd often work continuously for 20 hours to find some memory corruption or timing bug introduced by some novice programmer refactoring so the system could be released late to some angry customer to stop them charging the company a fortune in penalty payments.
The management hired, probably as consultants, some 'fucking web hippies' as they were known to work on some project that no one seemed to be able to name. They were all sat in a room on the very quiet top floor and played some deathmatch type game all the time as far as I could see. For some reason they played with the sound turned WAY UP, and didn't bother to cover up the windows with posters.
What was funny is that the room on the other side of the corridor was the video conference room, where ultra senior managers would go to hear bad news from other sites around the world.
Not surprisingly, one day they all disappeared. I wish I'd organised a death pool for them, would have made some money.
That's ridiculous. Being useless is not what makes math beautiful. There are plenty of useless things that aren't beautiful.
A lot of them post here.
I heard it was some sort of falling out between Charlie and NVidia over some issue I don't know which has turned into a long running feud. He writes stuff to piss them off, they try to cut off his information about them. There is a cycle.
So I don't believe a word he says about NVidia any more.
Is anyone actually surprised that the CEO is denying this? Even if the rumors were true, letting news out to market about it would give Intel time to prepare a response (and legal action).
The original story came from Charlie at The Inquirer. Charlie and NVidia hate each other.
Don't you mean Alt F4?
No. The fault is not with the messenger. It is the people themselves who were brought up with a false sense of national superiority, unwilling to accept the fact that the lifestyle they are enjoying may contribute to the suppression of peoples around the world by their government and corporations.
It's not like the US is a slave state like Rome. The US has made some questionable foreign policy moves but the US's standard of living is not dependent on those. E.g. the coups that the CIA backed in Iran or Chile didn't improve US standard of living. And that wasn't why the US backed them - it was purely about ideology. The Chomskyite analysis of this as some big conspiracy by United Fruit or Haliburton or whatever is highly simplistic and to me totally unconvincing.