QUESTION: I read in a newspaper that in 1981 you said, "640K of memory should be enough for anybody." What did you mean when you said this? (L. Marshall, lmarshal@science.watstar.uwaterloo.ca)
ANSWER: I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time.
The student in question is accused of breaking into college systems to change grades and there is other evidence (DHCP logs) to suggest that he was behind these activities.
No, there's evidence that the computer used to send the email belongs to Riccardo. The thing is, the affidavit says what Riccardo allegedly did is illegal, but the EFF claims that sending that email is not illegal and thus not not probable cause for a search.
The conflict here is that whoever signed off on the warrant may have believed that sending said email is illegal, but the EFF has a chance to say prima facae that sending said email is not illegal.
The charge doesn't fit the crime, if any. It could be conceived that Riccardo may have misrepresented his identity online to send the email, but the affidavit as filed cites a different, inapplicable charge. Furthermore, if the plaintiff is not actually gay, Riccardo may have defamed or libeled the plaintiff, but the affidavit doesn't charge that. And actually isn't that a civil matter, so the cop should not have been involved?
Finally, if a plaintiff alleges that Riccardo illegally changed grades, then a search warrant must be drawn up for that charge, yes? So, that's a strike.
Besides, the DHCP logs mentioned in the affidavit don't have the correct dates to support allegations of illegal grade changing.
You claim their goal is not worth pursuing, but it is.
This is just plain stupid. Look, Tesla wants to be "alternative" but in reality it's just a sportscar with an electrical motors and a shitload of batteries. That's their vision. What the hell is innovative about that? You use the similar amount of energy as any car, but now in electrical form.
The goal is to fuel with electricity, which is obtainable in many environmentally friendly, renewable or "endlessly-available" sources, as opposed to fueling a car with less environmentally, less renewable sources.
No, you can't. Linux on the PS3 does not have access to 3D graphics acceleration. Not to mention, at 512 MB, the PS3 has 1/4 of the RAM. Also, Ubuntu takes about three to five mutes to boot up and load Firefox and google.com. I know: I love my PS3 for the games and BluRay and I've tried Ubuntu on it.
Please point out the firmware versions that allowed RSX access, and how. I've been searching regularly for years and have never found such a claim, much less proof.
I thought it was an analog, non-QAM stream that was affected.I thought QAM was only for digital transmissions. I'm curious to know, having only a "pro-sumer" knowledge of how cable broadcast works.
And one more thing: There is this think called 'Google' [justfuckinggoogleit.com], you may have heard of it. It usually answers this sort of question in under 10 seconds.
Google will not give him concise recommendations based on personal experience from people he trusts. Slashdot will.
TFA says that that Xbox 1 has 90% yields from start to finish. How surprising is that? MS simply built a practically industry standard PC. It had a hard drive, an Intel processor, an NVIDIA chip, a DVD-ROM and a power supply. These components were so standard, time tested, and widespread that combining these components into a machine with high yields was child's play. Add to that, the fact that MS was willing to hemorrhage cash with some presumably going towards for build quality on each unit sold, and it's no wonder the Xbox 1 was reliable. What's more, the PCBs and heat sinks had plenty of open air around then to encourage heat dissipation and removal through the fan at the rear.
Many people complain about how incredibly hot their electronic devices become during use, and laptops get the most complaints. Why? Because everything is packed into a nearly air-tight space, hampering heat removal. The 360 designers sabotaged the 360's reliability by building a small and sexy machine that can't dissipate heat from the internal components fast enough to keep the running reliably.
The 360 designers dug themselves a deeper hole by rushing unique hardware elements, in contrast to the Xbox 1, which had industry standard components. Intel had its Celeron's for the Xbox 1s "dialed in" at its factories: yields should have been in the nineties. Likewise, the SDRAM chips were industry-standard, along with the DVD drives. As far as I know, the NVIDIA GPU was neither new nor groundbreaking. Microsoft commissioned IBM to build a custom chip--who's IP would be owned by MS, so no skin off of IBM's nose if the custom processor failed due to MS's unrealistic usage in production--based on a fledgling microprocessor technology. This was a big risk that hasn't paid off because the 360s physical dimensions seem to belie an overly optimistic idea of heat production from the CPU. With the Xbox 1, any veteran engineer could say, "Look, here's a Celeron, here's its heat production, we NEED a heat sink of such and such size, we need open space around it, and this much airflow." With the custom 360 CPU, engineers may have been afraid to speak up about the thermal requirements because the CPU was so new and unfamiliar. Then, there's the ATI GPU, again custom. MS went ahead and crammed it into the system while telling themselves it wouldn't overheat, would perform admirably, and, if not, they could make it work reliably. Well, they should have been more cautious and properly spec'ed and tested the GPU. After taking the time to test and establish the GPU's operating conditions, only then should they they begun design on a case that would be small and still allow adequate heat dissipation.
In the end, the Xbox 1 was a great console because of three things: one, MS didn't innovate: they simply built a Wintel PC based on reliable, time-tested, industry standard components. Two, MS used its position in the software market to cover its losses for producing a high-powered, high quality PC. Three, MS built the Xbox 1 with more regard for function than form. The case was huge, but was great for thermal management.
Best example: The birthday song my parents sung me on my 1st birthday will be copyrighted until after I'm dead. How is that just?
I may have a better example: Thanks to copyright and royalties, I have to suffer hearing shitty non-infringing happy birthday jingles at restaurants till death!
Careful: I did a bunch of searches with the inurl command on Sprint's site, and three hours later my users on my NAT'ed network were being challenged with CAPTCHAs on Google!
They were getting the message
We're sorry... but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now.
along with being asked to fill out a CAPTCHA each. Thy were suspicious of filling it out, didn't know what to do and called the help desk!
I think one one way is to go to the Java Control Panel applet in Control Panel, go to the Java tab, click View for Java Application Runtime Settings, and uncheck the JREs you wish to not use.
I am unable to verify if this works though. Hesiod, have you tried this? Does it work?
At this point in my life, I wouldn't mind going to prison for five years for violating an NSL gag order, as long as I was able to tell the public what the hell the FBI wanted.
I don't have kids or family to support, and only student loans debt.
I wonder if wine's regedit can load native Windows registry hives You don't need to go through that hassle. Just grab and burn the "Offline NT Password and Registry Editor bootable linux ISO", burn it, boot it, then view and edit the registry: http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/
My left hand is retarded, always fat-fingering the 'a' and 's' keys while typing on home row. It's not much better when gaming with WASD. I'd snap one of these bad boys up if it it's better than my left hand mashing the WASD keys.
Microsoft dwarfs Google in both revenue and profit. It's just lost out in the online services market (where despite rising revenues it still makes a loss), and wants to catch up.
It seems like a big risk for MS to buy yahoo just to try to make it big in the online world. Why can't MS focus on what it does best?
This could go down like the Daimler/Chrysler merger where the "network effect" was supposed to build an uber car company, but didn't.
I don't like GIMPS free-floating main window for file operations, brushes, tools, etc. It's window management pain and things are generally buried. I think good right-click menus would speed things up. Just my 2 cents.
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Once we hit 100mbps we are good with speeds above only needed for special circumastance.
You're foolish to suggest that a certain amount of bandwidth is enough for an unspecified period of time. The influential Mr. Bill Gates has pointed that out quite nicely: http://web.archive.org/web/19970107024714/http://htimes.com/htimes/today/access/oldfiles/gates23.html
QUESTION: I read in a newspaper that in 1981 you said, "640K of memory should be enough for anybody." What did you mean when you said this? (L. Marshall, lmarshal@science.watstar.uwaterloo.ca)
ANSWER: I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time.
The student in question is accused of breaking into college systems to change grades and there is other evidence (DHCP logs) to suggest that he was behind these activities.
No, there's evidence that the computer used to send the email belongs to Riccardo. The thing is, the affidavit says what Riccardo allegedly did is illegal, but the EFF claims that sending that email is not illegal and thus not not probable cause for a search.
The conflict here is that whoever signed off on the warrant may have believed that sending said email is illegal, but the EFF has a chance to say prima facae that sending said email is not illegal.
The charge doesn't fit the crime, if any. It could be conceived that Riccardo may have misrepresented his identity online to send the email, but the affidavit as filed cites a different, inapplicable charge. Furthermore, if the plaintiff is not actually gay, Riccardo may have defamed or libeled the plaintiff, but the affidavit doesn't charge that. And actually isn't that a civil matter, so the cop should not have been involved?
Finally, if a plaintiff alleges that Riccardo illegally changed grades, then a search warrant must be drawn up for that charge, yes? So, that's a strike.
Besides, the DHCP logs mentioned in the affidavit don't have the correct dates to support allegations of illegal grade changing.
This is just plain stupid. Look, Tesla wants to be "alternative" but in reality it's just a sportscar with an electrical motors and a shitload of batteries. That's their vision. What the hell is innovative about that? You use the similar amount of energy as any car, but now in electrical form.
The goal is to fuel with electricity, which is obtainable in many environmentally friendly, renewable or "endlessly-available" sources, as opposed to fueling a car with less environmentally, less renewable sources.
:-) :-) :-) :-) :-) to :-| :-) to :-(
:-( :-) to :-|
Tesla/Electric fuel sources:
windmills
hydroelectric
solar
geo-thermal
nuclear
combustion
GM/hybrid/Internal combustion energy sources:
petroleum - very
ethanol
No, you can't. Linux on the PS3 does not have access to 3D graphics acceleration. Not to mention, at 512 MB, the PS3 has 1/4 of the RAM. Also, Ubuntu takes about three to five mutes to boot up and load Firefox and google.com. I know: I love my PS3 for the games and BluRay and I've tried Ubuntu on it.
Touche. Allow is the wrong word. Could you perhaps point out the name of the exploit and which firmware revisions were vulnerable?
Please point out the firmware versions that allowed RSX access, and how. I've been searching regularly for years and have never found such a claim, much less proof.
I thought it was an analog, non-QAM stream that was affected.I thought QAM was only for digital transmissions. I'm curious to know, having only a "pro-sumer" knowledge of how cable broadcast works.
I had no idea he was the [b]FIRST![/b]
What good is great Javascript performance and Flash 9 when sites detect I have Flash 9 and refuse to run unless I have Flash 10?!?
And one more thing: There is this think called 'Google' [justfuckinggoogleit.com], you may have heard of it. It usually answers this sort of question in under 10 seconds.
Google will not give him concise recommendations based on personal experience from people he trusts. Slashdot will.
a series of tubes /
made of many fiber strands /
stymied by lawsuit
I've searched before but haven't found a clear answer. What's a process and what's a thread in Win32, and what are the differences?
TFA says that that Xbox 1 has 90% yields from start to finish. How surprising is that? MS simply built a practically industry standard PC. It had a hard drive, an Intel processor, an NVIDIA chip, a DVD-ROM and a power supply. These components were so standard, time tested, and widespread that combining these components into a machine with high yields was child's play. Add to that, the fact that MS was willing to hemorrhage cash with some presumably going towards for build quality on each unit sold, and it's no wonder the Xbox 1 was reliable. What's more, the PCBs and heat sinks had plenty of open air around then to encourage heat dissipation and removal through the fan at the rear.
Many people complain about how incredibly hot their electronic devices become during use, and laptops get the most complaints. Why? Because everything is packed into a nearly air-tight space, hampering heat removal. The 360 designers sabotaged the 360's reliability by building a small and sexy machine that can't dissipate heat from the internal components fast enough to keep the running reliably.
The 360 designers dug themselves a deeper hole by rushing unique hardware elements, in contrast to the Xbox 1, which had industry standard components. Intel had its Celeron's for the Xbox 1s "dialed in" at its factories: yields should have been in the nineties. Likewise, the SDRAM chips were industry-standard, along with the DVD drives. As far as I know, the NVIDIA GPU was neither new nor groundbreaking. Microsoft commissioned IBM to build a custom chip--who's IP would be owned by MS, so no skin off of IBM's nose if the custom processor failed due to MS's unrealistic usage in production--based on a fledgling microprocessor technology. This was a big risk that hasn't paid off because the 360s physical dimensions seem to belie an overly optimistic idea of heat production from the CPU. With the Xbox 1, any veteran engineer could say, "Look, here's a Celeron, here's its heat production, we NEED a heat sink of such and such size, we need open space around it, and this much airflow." With the custom 360 CPU, engineers may have been afraid to speak up about the thermal requirements because the CPU was so new and unfamiliar. Then, there's the ATI GPU, again custom. MS went ahead and crammed it into the system while telling themselves it wouldn't overheat, would perform admirably, and, if not, they could make it work reliably. Well, they should have been more cautious and properly spec'ed and tested the GPU. After taking the time to test and establish the GPU's operating conditions, only then should they they begun design on a case that would be small and still allow adequate heat dissipation.
In the end, the Xbox 1 was a great console because of three things: one, MS didn't innovate: they simply built a Wintel PC based on reliable, time-tested, industry standard components. Two, MS used its position in the software market to cover its losses for producing a high-powered, high quality PC. Three, MS built the Xbox 1 with more regard for function than form. The case was huge, but was great for thermal management.
Best example: The birthday song my parents sung me on my 1st birthday will be copyrighted until after I'm dead. How is that just?
I may have a better example: Thanks to copyright and royalties, I have to suffer hearing shitty non-infringing happy birthday jingles at restaurants till death!
They were getting the message
We're sorry... but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now.
along with being asked to fill out a CAPTCHA each. Thy were suspicious of filling it out, didn't know what to do and called the help desk!
Joybubbles was a frequent contributor to the Pioneer Press feature "Bulletin Board." His entries to this print-based forum were fun and insightful.
He lived the last 19 years of his life as a five year old. Crazy as that sounds, it seems like a nice way to live: free-spirited and fun loving.
I had no idea he was a phreaker. Small world, eh? Especially with Bruce Schneier living in the Twin Cities too!
I think one one way is to go to the Java Control Panel applet in Control Panel, go to the Java tab, click View for Java Application Runtime Settings, and uncheck the JREs you wish to not use. I am unable to verify if this works though. Hesiod, have you tried this? Does it work?
At this point in my life, I wouldn't mind going to prison for five years for violating an NSL gag order, as long as I was able to tell the public what the hell the FBI wanted. I don't have kids or family to support, and only student loans debt.
Don't believe me? IRQ conflicts make Ghost run slow on computers (2004), and believe you me that this is still a problem on Dell Optiplex 745s in 2007 and 2008!
My left hand is retarded, always fat-fingering the 'a' and 's' keys while typing on home row. It's not much better when gaming with WASD. I'd snap one of these bad boys up if it it's better than my left hand mashing the WASD keys.
What is idle.slashdot.org?
How do I make it work? Why is it so obtuse?
Where is the idle.slashdot "About" or "Help"?
Why does this suck so much like Rotten Tomato's redesign?
/. doesn't need a fancy asymmetric interface to be web 2.0; community involvement is web 2.0!
/. was already web 2.0 a decade ago!
It seems like a big risk for MS to buy yahoo just to try to make it big in the online world. Why can't MS focus on what it does best?
This could go down like the Daimler/Chrysler merger where the "network effect" was supposed to build an uber car company, but didn't.
I don't like GIMPS free-floating main window for file operations, brushes, tools, etc. It's window management pain and things are generally buried. I think good right-click menus would speed things up. Just my 2 cents.
I can't easily draw outlines of geometric shapes such as circles and squares. Right click menus aren't very context sensitive.