To paraphrase a poster on Fark.com (can't give you an exact quote, they spilled beer on their database:) "I feel sorry for the Secret Service agent. You train for years to bust big counterfeiters, and then you get called for this."
It's a well known fact that Best Buy hires only the stupidest people it can find, but a cop ought to at least know what currencies are legal.
After reading their website, now I want to hear their April Fools podcast (" We will not play the show again. It was up for one day and one day only."). Did anybody who knew about this site before five minutes ago save it? Post a link?
For those of us who are interested in big-ass hard drives, doubling the density of the platters means halving the number of platters. Hopefully, we'll get slightly cheaper big drives (and bigger drives, too) as a result.
Sony sells Dual Shock controllers in different colors as PS2 accessories. You can see the motors and the weights in the translucent models, no need to disassemble.
You're correct, as far as I know the only limitations on ram are 32-bit vs. 64-bit, hence the 4GB maximum on Windoew XP. Windows XP 64-bit edition should be able to use more (if it can't, there's no point).
You're thinking like a civilian, but the military isn't about sharing and freedom. They will evaluate open source software, and if they find it worthy of expanded use, they will use it. And "force" is a pretty strong word to use, if OSS is truly better, the users will eventually realize that and embrace it. If it's not better, well, that's what this research is for.
Well, the UNIX equipment he's referring to is probably kludgy old special-purpose machines, for controlling radars and such. Linux is a general (and special) purpose operating system that also runs on the same equipment as Windows.
The Windows based systems are presumably the same sort of computers the soldiers use at home, no wonder they are more familiar and easier. Stick Linux on those computers and order people to use it.
Thanks. One seed (I guess that's you) and no peers. Well, there will be two seeds soon, I guess. Come on Slashdotters- justify the torrent's existence! Please!
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You and I may see Apply as a computer company...but these designers didn't. Not one computer among the pictures I was able to see.
It's all about perception, and Apple is not longer a computer company in the eyes of most people.
We've already found 145 extrasolar planets, and naming them is going to be a problem. We have only a finite supply of mythological names, and a lot of them are already taken. I'm sure someone, somewhere, is actually being paid by NASA and/or the ESA to think about this, and I have no inside knowledge of that process, but I would assume that plabets are going to be named after the stars they orbit wherever possible. If the star has no name, maybe they'll use the name of the constellation it is in as a basis...
Hopefully, we won't have to resort to the Stargate naming method for planets (P3X........). My memory isn't up to that.
Here is a hokey animation for you to watch. As far as I know, the occlusion method has never actually succeeded at discovering a planet, but it has been used to learn more about planets discovered through other means.
This is what you're thinking of. Fourteen drive bays. If money were no obstacle, this is what I would use, but I've almost built whole new computers for what it costs.
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To paraphrase a poster on Fark.com (can't give you an exact quote, they spilled beer on their database :) "I feel sorry for the Secret Service agent. You train for years to bust big counterfeiters, and then you get called for this."
It's a well known fact that Best Buy hires only the stupidest people it can find, but a cop ought to at least know what currencies are legal.
So this is what they hired Ken Jennings to do! It all makes sense now.
All your base are belong to dust /No voting- I didn't make it up
You know, about thirty seconds after I wrote this I tried just changing the date of one of their other 'casts. So, April Fools: http://www.somethingpositive.net/050401-slackastro .mp3
After reading their website, now I want to hear their April Fools podcast (" We will not play the show again. It was up for one day and one day only."). Did anybody who knew about this site before five minutes ago save it? Post a link?
I'm feeling boobie!
For those of us who are interested in big-ass hard drives, doubling the density of the platters means halving the number of platters. Hopefully, we'll get slightly cheaper big drives (and bigger drives, too) as a result.
That's probably the most informative thing ever posted by an AC. Thanks!
Photoshop Elements, $100 from Adobe but you can get it cheaper elsewhere.
There's no fun. But I don't own a PS2, and I didn't want to take apart my friends' controllers.
If you bought it, you do whatever you want;)
Sony sells Dual Shock controllers in different colors as PS2 accessories. You can see the motors and the weights in the translucent models, no need to disassemble.
But also very transient- move the computer, or just look at it from another angle, and the effect is destroyed.
And it has to be said: These people have way too much time on their hands!
You're correct, as far as I know the only limitations on ram are 32-bit vs. 64-bit, hence the 4GB maximum on Windoew XP. Windows XP 64-bit edition should be able to use more (if it can't, there's no point).
I imagine that, should I ever find myself using Longhorn, the first thing I'll do is turn it off and go back to the Windows 2000 style
Unless, of course, the default XP theme becomes the new Windows Classic theme for Longhorn. What are you going to do then?
You're thinking like a civilian, but the military isn't about sharing and freedom. They will evaluate open source software, and if they find it worthy of expanded use, they will use it. And "force" is a pretty strong word to use, if OSS is truly better, the users will eventually realize that and embrace it. If it's not better, well, that's what this research is for.
Well, the UNIX equipment he's referring to is probably kludgy old special-purpose machines, for controlling radars and such. Linux is a general (and special) purpose operating system that also runs on the same equipment as Windows.
The Windows based systems are presumably the same sort of computers the soldiers use at home, no wonder they are more familiar and easier. Stick Linux on those computers and order people to use it.
I don't know what's funnier, this post or the fact that it's been modded "insightful." Good stuff!
Thanks. One seed (I guess that's you) and no peers. Well, there will be two seeds soon, I guess. Come on Slashdotters- justify the torrent's existence! Please!
You and I may see Apply as a computer company...but these designers didn't. Not one computer among the pictures I was able to see.
It's all about perception, and Apple is not longer a computer company in the eyes of most people.
What's racist about insulting the French? They're not a race, they're a species of monkey. The cheese eatin' surrender kind.
Well, applying that naming scheme to our system would at least free up nine more names to use for extrasolar planets. Might be confusing for a while ;)
But...but my laptop weighs like five pounds, and I don't have muscles! Damn
We've already found 145 extrasolar planets, and naming them is going to be a problem. We have only a finite supply of mythological names, and a lot of them are already taken. I'm sure someone, somewhere, is actually being paid by NASA and/or the ESA to think about this, and I have no inside knowledge of that process, but I would assume that plabets are going to be named after the stars they orbit wherever possible. If the star has no name, maybe they'll use the name of the constellation it is in as a basis...
Hopefully, we won't have to resort to the Stargate naming method for planets (P3X........). My memory isn't up to that.
Here is a hokey animation for you to watch. As far as I know, the occlusion method has never actually succeeded at discovering a planet, but it has been used to learn more about planets discovered through other means.
This is what you're thinking of. Fourteen drive bays. If money were no obstacle, this is what I would use, but I've almost built whole new computers for what it costs.