C'mon mods, why is this off topic? He's suggesting a way to help support an organisation fighting for our rights, and that's what this is all about. The EFF knows what they're doing.
Actually, the free ice cream is available at any Baskin-Robbins, not just ones in the US. There aren't any in Russia I'm afraid, but there are in Canada, Korea, Britain, Australia, Puerto Rico...
You mentioned an update to XFS. I remember one time I had a friend whose new Debian install wouldn't boot because the root partition wouldn't mount correctly for one reason or another. I asked him what filesystem he was using, and he said, "hang on, let me check," and he watched the kernel messages scroll by and saw "xfs" (which of course stands for x font server) and so determined that he was using XFS. It took quite a long time to convince him that Debian stable was not quite that cutting-edge.
...more importantly, I noticed that Safari was using much more memory than Firefox when I had both open. Therefore, certainly we must ask ourselves, "is the Mac mini preferring certain programs over others?"
This must seriously be a joke, right? First, to clarify, Firewire 400, which the iPod uses, runs at 400 megabits per second, not 800. Firewire 800 runs at 800 mbps. Secondly, USB2 runs at 480 megabits per second, not "840," so I just don't know where this came from. Aside from the fact that all these figures are theoretical maximums and not real-world performance, it's not particularly likely that ANYONE is going to notice the difference between 400 and 480; the real bottleneck is the iPod's hard drive, not the bus.
As for the maximum number of supported items...puhLEEZE. Who in the whole world would ever have more than 63 devices? I think if you have that many, you can afford to just buy a FireWire PCI card, eh?
What might actually happen if this really occurred would be a shift in frequency, which in itself could easily be overcome by software radio. But anyway, you'd have to be going thousands of miles per second. Consider that colour is really just the differences in visible light frequency because of Doppler. The world in front of you would be turning red, and the world behind you turning blue, before you'd probably notice any problem in your connection. Even then, the TCP overhead would probably just grow. No, the real problem with this stuff is implementing real mesh-networking. For stuff like web browsing, jumping between different APs could actually work, since with the right sort of browser you could load some of the page from one connection, and the rest of the page, from a different connection, possibly with a different IP address, network interface, whatever. There is no way that that would work for something as real-time as VoIP. Wi-Fi is just not suited for this kind of thing.
Your point would be valid if in fact this wireless network was being paid for by taxpayer dollars, which, for the record, it is not. I've driven through Michigan many times and have never noticed any real problems with their roads, other than the fact that, just like the entire rest of the nation, a good sixth of them are under some sort of construction/maintenance at all times. But I digress; please shut up.
At the risk of sounding elitist.......possibly because the state of Alabama, instead of producing surplus cash, actually heavily relies on federal funds to subsist. In 2002 the state recieved $100.1 BILLION more in subsidies than it paid in taxes. If every state was like Alabama, the nation would cease functioning at once. Until Alabama and several other Southern and Western states. So to appy this to a technological paradigm; you'll get your wireless internet as soon the state actually has an economy that a wireless network could even benefit.
Well enough to understand AppleScript, certainly. The genius and uniqueness of AppleScript becomes apparent when you actually look at code. tell application Finder, if (variable) is equal to (value) then, display dialog box "Hello World" buttons "OK", end if, end tell. End of argument.
Do you even read Slashdot? This isn't a summary, it's a book review. Have a look at past book reviews, and you'll see that they're all about this length...
If you write "Pope" on your forehead, do you think people will believe you're the pope?
Well, no, but what if you look like the pope, talk like the pope, and are wearing the pope's clothing? It would be trivial to create a paypal clone that looks like paypal, feels like paypal, and seems to have the same URL. This is a most seriously problem.
I guarantee you, this is a very bad turn of events. Perhaps inevitable, but still bad. I think within five years now, we're going to need some serious government regulation about this. Wherever it's possible to display ads at a reasonable cost, ads in those locations appear. I've seen taxicabs in the last couple of years that are basically totally covered in advertisements. It's sad, really. I for one enjoy looking at the stars and planets in the night sky, and do NOT welcome our capitalist overlords. Good fucking grief.
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C'mon mods, why is this off topic? He's suggesting a way to help support an organisation fighting for our rights, and that's what this is all about. The EFF knows what they're doing.
Note: I'm not affiliated with the EFF in any way.
Actually, the free ice cream is available at any Baskin-Robbins, not just ones in the US. There aren't any in Russia I'm afraid, but there are in Canada, Korea, Britain, Australia, Puerto Rico...
Debian users: "Awesome, dude. Wait, what's this kernel 2.6 you speak of?"
You mentioned an update to XFS. I remember one time I had a friend whose new Debian install wouldn't boot because the root partition wouldn't mount correctly for one reason or another. I asked him what filesystem he was using, and he said, "hang on, let me check," and he watched the kernel messages scroll by and saw "xfs" (which of course stands for x font server) and so determined that he was using XFS. It took quite a long time to convince him that Debian stable was not quite that cutting-edge.
Or you could've just used the Ogg Vorbis plugin for Quicktime, and played them from iTunes.
...more importantly, I noticed that Safari was using much more memory than Firefox when I had both open. Therefore, certainly we must ask ourselves, "is the Mac mini preferring certain programs over others?"
Simply place a fan next to the turbine
it's wireless power!!!!
What the hell?
This must seriously be a joke, right? First, to clarify, Firewire 400, which the iPod uses, runs at 400 megabits per second, not 800. Firewire 800 runs at 800 mbps. Secondly, USB2 runs at 480 megabits per second, not "840," so I just don't know where this came from. Aside from the fact that all these figures are theoretical maximums and not real-world performance, it's not particularly likely that ANYONE is going to notice the difference between 400 and 480; the real bottleneck is the iPod's hard drive, not the bus.
As for the maximum number of supported items...puhLEEZE. Who in the whole world would ever have more than 63 devices? I think if you have that many, you can afford to just buy a FireWire PCI card, eh?
Conclusion, you're an idiot.
Why read them all when you can just write your own?
What might actually happen if this really occurred would be a shift in frequency, which in itself could easily be overcome by software radio. But anyway, you'd have to be going thousands of miles per second. Consider that colour is really just the differences in visible light frequency because of Doppler. The world in front of you would be turning red, and the world behind you turning blue, before you'd probably notice any problem in your connection. Even then, the TCP overhead would probably just grow. No, the real problem with this stuff is implementing real mesh-networking. For stuff like web browsing, jumping between different APs could actually work, since with the right sort of browser you could load some of the page from one connection, and the rest of the page, from a different connection, possibly with a different IP address, network interface, whatever. There is no way that that would work for something as real-time as VoIP. Wi-Fi is just not suited for this kind of thing.
I dont know, I think this is 1337-er :)
You are mistaken, sir. The game of Go is fantastically more complex than Chess can ever hope to be.
They've included a sentient 9000-series computer to automagically fix any problems that may crop up.
"nothing for you to see here..."
I really hate when this happens, and there must be a reasonably easy way to fix it...and how about that XHTML, huh....
Great! So I can open the closet door to dial a 1, talk to the puppy to dial a 2... ...this sounds pretty promising to me.
Your point would be valid if in fact this wireless network was being paid for by taxpayer dollars, which, for the record, it is not. I've driven through Michigan many times and have never noticed any real problems with their roads, other than the fact that, just like the entire rest of the nation, a good sixth of them are under some sort of construction/maintenance at all times. But I digress; please shut up.
At the risk of sounding elitist.......possibly because the state of Alabama, instead of producing surplus cash, actually heavily relies on federal funds to subsist. In 2002 the state recieved $100.1 BILLION more in subsidies than it paid in taxes. If every state was like Alabama, the nation would cease functioning at once. Until Alabama and several other Southern and Western states. So to appy this to a technological paradigm; you'll get your wireless internet as soon the state actually has an economy that a wireless network could even benefit.
Anyone else think for a second that it was a remote control ACTUAL Abrams?
Now that'd be a hack.
Maybe we should all start with this.
Most common ways to kill a PC
See previous article, regarding Windows Longhorn Beta.
Well enough to understand AppleScript, certainly. The genius and uniqueness of AppleScript becomes apparent when you actually look at code. tell application Finder, if (variable) is equal to (value) then, display dialog box "Hello World" buttons "OK", end if, end tell. End of argument.
Do you even read Slashdot? This isn't a summary, it's a book review. Have a look at past book reviews, and you'll see that they're all about this length...
If you write "Pope" on your forehead, do you think people will believe you're the pope?
Well, no, but what if you look like the pope, talk like the pope, and are wearing the pope's clothing? It would be trivial to create a paypal clone that looks like paypal, feels like paypal, and seems to have the same URL. This is a most seriously problem.
That's just what they want you to think.....haha okay bad joke.
I guarantee you, this is a very bad turn of events. Perhaps inevitable, but still bad. I think within five years now, we're going to need some serious government regulation about this. Wherever it's possible to display ads at a reasonable cost, ads in those locations appear. I've seen taxicabs in the last couple of years that are basically totally covered in advertisements. It's sad, really. I for one enjoy looking at the stars and planets in the night sky, and do NOT welcome our capitalist overlords. Good fucking grief.