WTF is Wired smoking these days? Why the heck is 60% of the story comprised of some kid's battle with liver cancer and another's dreams of becoming a golf champion?
... if you're affiliated with the military. There's a field to specify organization, if you put "Bob's Auto Maintenance" instead of "PACOM", they're going to throw out the application. If you lie on the form, they're going to prosecute you for impersonating a government worker or official or something like that.
I know this is getting off-topic, but it's something I just wanted to mention. The Original Article for this story makes the quote:
'The mobile is fast becoming an essential prop in the social life of 20-year-olds,' she said. 'It has even become part of their mating display, with young men trying to impress women with the advanced technology of their phones.'
Everywhere I look, there are these young guys who hardly can't afford to eat because they spent all their money on clothing, cars, loud stereos, and mobile phones... flashy stuff, in other words. Material posessions to give the impression to the world that they're rich, successful, and smart. Every talk to one of them? They are dumb as rocks. They seem to be slaves to their self-image. And I'm not talking about the occasional paycheck-waster; where I'm currently living, this demographic accounts for something like 80% of the population of 18-25 year old males.
Given a figure like that, it shouldn't seem so out of the ordinary to me, but it does. Maybe it's because I'm perfectly happy with my '92 Mercury Topaz. Or that I don't feel I need/want a cellphone. Or because I haven't bought a thread of clothing in a year and a half.
I've attributed much of this to being a mating ritual, but (and I could be wrong here) I don't believe my mating habits are the same as these guys. I don't feel the need to impress anyone, female or otherwise. If they do happen to be impressed with me then great. But I'm not going to make a conscious effort to be attractive. (In my mind, the effort is usually not worth the gain.) It should be noted that I am in fact engaged, though I assume my fiance did not say "yes," due to my sexy Mercury Topaz.
More like I should not be bothering with new releases when the current version I'm running has no problems after performing superbly for the better part of 7 or 8 months.
If you know of any serious (read: remote) exploits for 2.4.5 then I'll gladly upgrade but I currently know of none.
It all made perfect sense to me. And I'm well aware of 2.4's history. But you'd have to actually read my message to see that because you missed the part where I said I was still running 2.4.5, one of the more stable kernels of the series when we're up to 2.4.18.
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This reminds of those people who complain that there's nothing good on TV but spend 6-8 hours watching it anyway.
Take the Linux kernel updates out of the Linux OS topic? If you do that, then you'd have to rename the Linux OS topic to "GNU-based OS" topic because the only thing that makes Linux Linux is the kernel.
If you don't want to read about "minor" version releases then for god's sake use your scroll bar and read something else. Betteryet, read a book
I've said from day one that The Register cannot be trusted.
Right. Additionally, The Register puts what amounts to a disclaimer right there at the top of every page they serve.
See where it says "Biting the hand that feeds IT"? Who do you think they are referring to? They are referring to *everybody* in IT, even the open source community and small-time computer geeks like me.
That being said, I actually like the Register, mostly because they don't hesitate to smack stupid people and ideas down in their articles, which is funny. They have never claimed to be "professional" jouralists. If something newsworthy happens, I usually find out about it on The Register or Slashdot (same diff) and then get the truth from several other (aggregate) sources.
"A free replacement for Visual Basic which works with GNOME would be a major step forward; any capable team that wants to launch this project should please contact gnu@gnu.org." --RMS
Psst, Mr. Stallman sir, you've already got one: GNOME Basic.
Yeah, I'm gonna open my hard drive, sacrifice the warranty, get foreign matter in amongst the platters and heads..
Then don't do it. No, I'm not being funny or sarcastic. I'm serious. Don't do it. No one said you had to. Everything will be fine.
I'm guessing these modified hard drives don't last too long.
According to the article that you didn't read, the guy said that the drives he has modded have been in operation for months. Also, only an idiot would assume that this doesn't void his warranty, so I don't think you need to issue a warning. (Considering the article took care of that quite well.)
I'm not even gonna mention the RF that'd leak out your plastic window on the side of your case. If half your monitor goes dim, don't say I didn't warn ya.
Of all the towers and mid-towers I've ever owned, I have operated them all with at least one side of the case removed at one point or another, sometimes right next to the monitor and I have yet to see any adverse side effects from this. I'm talking none. Not even so much as a dim monitor. One of my computers is a full tower case that has never had the left side panel on and I have had neither problems with the computer nor with any nearby electronics. (And there are a great many nearby electronics.)
If you ask me, all this hooey from slashdotters about RF radiation remind me a lot like those Radon commercials that proliferated the airwaves in the late 90's. Yeah, if you suspect RF radiation is causing problems do something about it. But please don't go making it sound like it's going to be the next Black Plague because you didn't properly cover your box.
Well tough guy, if you were around to witness it, you'd note that any hype generated by Transmeta was a side-effect of their NDA that applied to their employees and anybody who got to view the technology before release. They could NOT spend four years building their new processor from scratch while telling the world about it, or Intel would have simply thrown money at them (in the form of lawers or competition) to make them go away. That's called a trade secret. That's called business.
Second, Transmeta did not produce the AquaPad, a company called FIC did. But of course, one would have to actually read the article to find that out...
If you really wanted to be cool, you could add yet a third drive by opening it up and swapping out that one 32MB CF memory card that the OS is held on. From there it would be trivial to copy the OS over to the microdrive and enable the saving of data to the internal hard drive itself.
3G seems like it would be fun for a web pad.:) Store an X-Files episode for on the go!
1) Mozilla has only been development for a couple years, and for a project of this scale, that is an incredibly short amount of time to turn out something as [generally] stable and featureful as Mozilla is now.
There are, or course, other examples. We are currently under strong selective pressure that favors those whose T cells do not have binding sites for HIV.
I wouldn't bet on that.
Keep in mind that if you get infected with HIV, you've got at least a good 7 years to a) pass the disease to someone else and b) produce offspring. With modern medice, a person infected with HIV can last what, a good 13 to 15 years? In many countries that's enough time for the HIV-infected offspring to produce their own HIV-infected offspring.
Your comment reminded me a bit of the Malaria + Sickle Cell thing in Africa. You die if you get Malaria and you eventually die if you have recessive Sickle Cell genes. BUT you die in your 20's or 30's (I think) with Sickle Cell, giving you a well enough chance to reproduce before passing on. The interesting angle is that the Sickle Cell gene makes you immune to Malaria... Thus, those with the Sickle Cell gene survive their mosquito bites and live to pass on that recessive gene. Something like 1/4 of Africans (not sure on this exact statistic, but it is a large portion) have Sickle Cell Anemia.
As others in this thread noted, I've been to MSP a few times... last time with a 3 hour layover. Just so happened that right next to my gate there was one of these little room-type things with... well I guess you could call them desks. In the same room were drop boxes for mailing, making faxes, etc. It was quite cool. No net access (at the time), though...
Additionally, he does need permission for songs like The Saga Begins, because the use of American Pie to parody Star Wars doesn't count like that.
I remember reading or viewing somewhere that Al and his band had the album, Running With Scissors, all ready to go and be released for two weeks and were just waiting for George Lucas to give the go ahead. Thank goodness he said yes, or Al would have had to seriously retool that album and he would have wasted a lot of money on one of his very best videos.
The article states that the danger from a D.C. current is negligable no matter the voltage, but that 60 (and 50) hz A.C. can cause damage, in theory.
HAH. You go ahead and grab that 15,000 volt inside your computer monitor while holding onto ground and then I'll gladly listen to your new definition of "negligable." Better yet, get struck by lightning; that's DC as well.
It's true that DC current isn't as harmful as AC, but crank up the potential and either one will zap you just fine.
In the aircraft maintenance biz, we work with many different types of power including 28VDC, 115VAC @ 50Hz, and 115VAC @ 400Hz. We have a saying that goes, "60 Hertz but 400 really Hertz!"
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WTF is Wired smoking these days? Why the heck is 60% of the story comprised of some kid's battle with liver cancer and another's dreams of becoming a golf champion?
I mean, really.
... if you're affiliated with the military. There's a field to specify organization, if you put "Bob's Auto Maintenance" instead of "PACOM", they're going to throw out the application. If you lie on the form, they're going to prosecute you for impersonating a government worker or official or something like that.
Luckily, I do work for the goverment. ^^
I know this is getting off-topic, but it's something I just wanted to mention. The Original Article for this story makes the quote:
'The mobile is fast becoming an essential prop in the social life of 20-year-olds,' she said. 'It has even become part of their mating display, with young men trying to impress women with the advanced technology of their phones.'
Everywhere I look, there are these young guys who hardly can't afford to eat because they spent all their money on clothing, cars, loud stereos, and mobile phones... flashy stuff, in other words. Material posessions to give the impression to the world that they're rich, successful, and smart. Every talk to one of them? They are dumb as rocks. They seem to be slaves to their self-image. And I'm not talking about the occasional paycheck-waster; where I'm currently living, this demographic accounts for something like 80% of the population of 18-25 year old males.
Given a figure like that, it shouldn't seem so out of the ordinary to me, but it does. Maybe it's because I'm perfectly happy with my '92 Mercury Topaz. Or that I don't feel I need/want a cellphone. Or because I haven't bought a thread of clothing in a year and a half.
I've attributed much of this to being a mating ritual, but (and I could be wrong here) I don't believe my mating habits are the same as these guys. I don't feel the need to impress anyone, female or otherwise. If they do happen to be impressed with me then great. But I'm not going to make a conscious effort to be attractive. (In my mind, the effort is usually not worth the gain.) It should be noted that I am in fact engaged, though I assume my fiance did not say "yes," due to my sexy Mercury Topaz.
More like I should not be bothering with new releases when the current version I'm running has no problems after performing superbly for the better part of 7 or 8 months.
If you know of any serious (read: remote) exploits for 2.4.5 then I'll gladly upgrade but I currently know of none.
It all made perfect sense to me. And I'm well aware of 2.4's history. But you'd have to actually read my message to see that because you missed the part where I said I was still running 2.4.5, one of the more stable kernels of the series when we're up to 2.4.18.
This reminds of those people who complain that there's nothing good on TV but spend 6-8 hours watching it anyway.
Take the Linux kernel updates out of the Linux OS topic? If you do that, then you'd have to rename the Linux OS topic to "GNU-based OS" topic because the only thing that makes Linux Linux is the kernel.
If you don't want to read about "minor" version releases then for god's sake use your scroll bar and read something else. Betteryet, read a book
Or you could simply use the current stable kernel that's running on your machine right now.
My production machines are all still on 2.4.5, perhaps the most stable of the 2.4 series. (In my experience.)
You got it right, I'm pretty sure. See the about page.
Heh, yeah, when I saw this story pop up, I was thinking very smugly to myself, "Haha, I knew it wasn't just a cache. Take that, slashbots."
I've said from day one that The Register cannot be trusted.
Right. Additionally, The Register puts what amounts to a disclaimer right there at the top of every page they serve.
See where it says "Biting the hand that feeds IT"? Who do you think they are referring to? They are referring to *everybody* in IT, even the open source community and small-time computer geeks like me.
That being said, I actually like the Register, mostly because they don't hesitate to smack stupid people and ideas down in their articles, which is funny. They have never claimed to be "professional" jouralists. If something newsworthy happens, I usually find out about it on The Register or Slashdot (same diff) and then get the truth from several other (aggregate) sources.
"A free replacement for Visual Basic which works with GNOME would be a major step forward; any capable team that wants to launch this project should please contact gnu@gnu.org." --RMS
Psst, Mr. Stallman sir, you've already got one: GNOME Basic.
Yeah, I'm gonna open my hard drive, sacrifice the warranty, get foreign matter in amongst the platters and heads..
Then don't do it. No, I'm not being funny or sarcastic. I'm serious. Don't do it. No one said you had to. Everything will be fine.
I'm guessing these modified hard drives don't last too long.
According to the article that you didn't read, the guy said that the drives he has modded have been in operation for months. Also, only an idiot would assume that this doesn't void his warranty, so I don't think you need to issue a warning. (Considering the article took care of that quite well.)
I'm not even gonna mention the RF that'd leak out your plastic window on the side of your case. If half your monitor goes dim, don't say I didn't warn ya.
Of all the towers and mid-towers I've ever owned, I have operated them all with at least one side of the case removed at one point or another, sometimes right next to the monitor and I have yet to see any adverse side effects from this. I'm talking none. Not even so much as a dim monitor. One of my computers is a full tower case that has never had the left side panel on and I have had neither problems with the computer nor with any nearby electronics. (And there are a great many nearby electronics.)
If you ask me, all this hooey from slashdotters about RF radiation remind me a lot like those Radon commercials that proliferated the airwaves in the late 90's. Yeah, if you suspect RF radiation is causing problems do something about it. But please don't go making it sound like it's going to be the next Black Plague because you didn't properly cover your box.
Nope, this was:
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Well tough guy, if you were around to witness it, you'd note that any hype generated by Transmeta was a side-effect of their NDA that applied to their employees and anybody who got to view the technology before release. They could NOT spend four years building their new processor from scratch while telling the world about it, or Intel would have simply thrown money at them (in the form of lawers or competition) to make them go away. That's called a trade secret. That's called business.
Second, Transmeta did not produce the AquaPad, a company called FIC did. But of course, one would have to actually read the article to find that out...
If you really wanted to be cool, you could add yet a third drive by opening it up and swapping out that one 32MB CF memory card that the OS is held on. From there it would be trivial to copy the OS over to the microdrive and enable the saving of data to the internal hard drive itself.
3G seems like it would be fun for a web pad.
Yes, I do agree. Africa is not exactly a santiarium.
At the same time, the few features I do want never seem to be a priority.
*sigh* Welcome to the world of being a software user.
1) Mozilla has only been development for a couple years, and for a project of this scale, that is an incredibly short amount of time to turn out something as [generally] stable and featureful as Mozilla is now.
2) Release Early, Release Often.
No sites matching your query were found in the Open Directory.
Try your search on one of these search engines that incorporate Open Directory data in their results:
Netscape
Google
AOL
Lycos
There are, or course, other examples. We are currently under strong selective pressure that favors those whose T cells do not have binding sites for HIV.
I wouldn't bet on that.
Keep in mind that if you get infected with HIV, you've got at least a good 7 years to a) pass the disease to someone else and b) produce offspring. With modern medice, a person infected with HIV can last what, a good 13 to 15 years? In many countries that's enough time for the HIV-infected offspring to produce their own HIV-infected offspring.
Your comment reminded me a bit of the Malaria + Sickle Cell thing in Africa. You die if you get Malaria and you eventually die if you have recessive Sickle Cell genes. BUT you die in your 20's or 30's (I think) with Sickle Cell, giving you a well enough chance to reproduce before passing on. The interesting angle is that the Sickle Cell gene makes you immune to Malaria... Thus, those with the Sickle Cell gene survive their mosquito bites and live to pass on that recessive gene. Something like 1/4 of Africans (not sure on this exact statistic, but it is a large portion) have Sickle Cell Anemia.
As others in this thread noted, I've been to MSP a few times... last time with a 3 hour layover. Just so happened that right next to my gate there was one of these little room-type things with... well I guess you could call them desks. In the same room were drop boxes for mailing, making faxes, etc. It was quite cool. No net access (at the time), though...
Additionally, he does need permission for songs like The Saga Begins, because the use of American Pie to parody Star Wars doesn't count like that.
I remember reading or viewing somewhere that Al and his band had the album, Running With Scissors, all ready to go and be released for two weeks and were just waiting for George Lucas to give the go ahead. Thank goodness he said yes, or Al would have had to seriously retool that album and he would have wasted a lot of money on one of his very best videos.
Now *that's* a gamble.
That much is true... I can't remember what the original post said (too lazy to look it up) but I'm pretty sure I was on-topic!
That being said, I do remember that one of the hazards quoted by the luddite was electric shock.
Well, I suppose it depends on the tube. I just chose that value because that's what they use on the 9" monitors that I repair at work...
The voltmeter probes make quite a spark when nearing up to the terminal on that guy.
The article states that the danger from a D.C. current is negligable no matter the voltage, but that 60 (and 50) hz A.C. can cause damage, in theory.
HAH. You go ahead and grab that 15,000 volt inside your computer monitor while holding onto ground and then I'll gladly listen to your new definition of "negligable." Better yet, get struck by lightning; that's DC as well.
It's true that DC current isn't as harmful as AC, but crank up the potential and either one will zap you just fine.
In the aircraft maintenance biz, we work with many different types of power including 28VDC, 115VAC @ 50Hz, and 115VAC @ 400Hz. We have a saying that goes, "60 Hertz but 400 really Hertz!"