Third world countries have surprisingly good mobile phone coverage, and the use of said network is pretty much free. This is why so many people in these places own mobile phones. Last I heard, the plan was to give the laptops a method of connecting to the net through the mobile network.
Actually, recent events and info have suggested that Intel is already designing the next era Powermac for Apple. I'd presume this is just the motherboard and such, since I doubt Jobs would let anyone but Apple's product design team touch it..
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were one of the very few success stories out of the massive piles of junk [wikibooks.org] there.
Junk? Dude, that's the coolest thing I've read for ages! You just made my day. Lemme find some toilet paper, I'll be back later...
People always complain about dupes on Slashdot, and I think I've deduced the reason.
Now, back in the day, they ran this site as a standard tech blog, not really making any money off it. Just a side hobby. However, when it got purchased, and the popularity really flew off, the Slashdot team discovered they didn't actually need to work anymore.
Now personally, if I'd discovered that what was a fun hobby now fed and clothed me, and there was practically no work involved, would I spend as long as possible on it, carefully checking each thing?
Of course not, that would invalidate the whole point. Instead, I'd look through the titles and occasionally the summaries of submitted stories, and let through whichever ones sounded vaguely interesting. Then I'd spend all my free time and money pissing around, and relaxing.
I don't hold it against them, Slashdot still works, we still get good comments, and damn, I'd do exactly the same thing.
Kudos to you, Taco and the rest of the gang! Live the dream! I know I would...
Meanwhile, the Russians used a pencil.
Also, it's worth pointing out that they're not supposed to be in Russia, it's Kazakhstan. Admittedly, Kazakhstan was the Soviet center for space work, so it's an easy mistake to make.
The test motherboard, yes. Yonah itself is never intended to be put in a desktop, we're waiting on the next generation for that.
And congratulation,s you just branded yourself as a garden variety fanboy. "Intel's is out in a couple of months, but AMD will do it too! And it will be ways better, because Intel is the suck, even though I've heard nothing about AMD's designs in the area!"
Uhuh, you go with that. Me? I'm hedging my bets until there's two reeased processors, that can be compared side by side fairly, and then deciding the cheaper one would be the better choice. And then buying an iBook, because I still want OSX =)
AMD makes much better processors than Intel these days; in general, that I'll not only admit, but profuse, and the system I'm considering building isn't going anywhere near Intel processors.
Woah, slow down cowboy. Comparing a [i]laptop[/i] processor to high range desktop processors? Show me a comparison to the current AMD mobile offerings, and maybe then I'll be impressed.
As it is, that's some damned fine performance; keeping level with dual core, incredibly hot, desktop processors? And there's only a quarter or two before this is superseded by the new core range.
Do you really want your teenagers first impression of sex to be some woman with six inch long nails taking it up two orifices while screaming "CUM INSIDE OF ME!!!"?
Trees have no appreciable effect on the carbon cycle. In a natural situation, trees change the balance so oxygen is favoured over carbon dioxide. However, when they die, their decomposition releases just as much back. In fact, cutting down trees for building material in fact helps oxygen production. The problems come when you burn the wood, since it's then spent less time producing oxygen, and releases big chunks of carbon dioxide into the air.
Of course, trees also lock up huge amounts of carbon dioxide by fossilising into coal. However, we've burnt big chunks of that, and there's simply no way to get rid of the carbon released in a quick manner. The only practical method is to remove excess carbon dioxide in a similar way, collect it up, and bury it somewhere.
Of course, when our descendants discover a way to create useful and valuable materials out of carbon dioxide (possibly by separating it somehow into carbon and oxygen), they then mount expeditions, and companies form, mining through the murky depths, tapping the underwater lakes of carbon dioxide.... And in using it, release huge amounts of oxygen into the atmosphere. And we all know what happened the *last* time that happened.
I know it's not likely, I'm just making a point. You can pick holes in a theory saying it's less natural, or has risks as much as you want. At some point, we're going to have start choosing one.
(Psst, the oxygen thing is a joke about when blue-green algae (Actually brown, but that's not the point) first used photosynthesis, and the oxygen killed over 90% of life on the earth.)
It would not outlaw unsecured wireless connections.
It's allowed to be unencrypted, it just has to be running a firewall. Which is stupid. Really stupid.
I don't live in America, so this won't effect me. I just still think it's stupid. I run my own connection free of firewalls anywhere in the chain. Sure, if someone can be bothered, they could get into my files, as long as they spent long enough with a bruteforce. Hell, I even allow root connections via ssh. Unless someone's seriously personally interested in cracking my machine, I don't need one, I only run MacOS, Linux and BeOS on the net, I'm not worred about malware or viruses. My wireless data is encrypted, but it won't keep anyone out, the encryption key is exactly the same as the SSID
The only reason I have that is so the (computer illiterate) people a few houses over don't connect accidentally, and use my bandwidth for no reason. Hell, I've connected to their router and changed its channel and such to produce the minimum interference between them.
I don't care if a guy nearby has lost his net for a bit, and so uses mine for a backup. I don't care if someone driving through switches to my connection.
If someone is using too much of my bandwidth, I'll just block their MAC address for a bit. Sure, they can crack that. If they do, I'll just change my WEP password. They're bored enough to crack that as well? Fine, I'll just stop my router from giving anymore DHCP leases than I use. Meanwhile, I'll track down where they are, using the many machines and people I can pull up to pinpoint where wireless traffic is. Then, I'll go over and kick the shit out of them.
So far, no one's ever done anything with my connection that's pissed me off. I've had people talk to me on rendezvous with iChat (Or whatever it's called now, the LAN chat thing) and thank me for letting people connect.
I like sharing my internet. I once set up a directional antenna so that a friend some ways over could use it when his cable company had screwed things up.
People keep saying this, hell, half of the comments seem to be it.
Have you people ever heard of grammar? "those outside the US, EU and Canada (or in Québec) are ineligible to enter." means people a) outside of the US, EU and Canada AND b) People in Quebec may not take part.
Try reading things before insulting their writing.
But the problem is, compare it to the Pentium 4 on your desk, and there's not really that much difference. In my opinion, we'll only see if there was any value to the switch when we see what Intel puts out next year. Hopefully it will be nice, it's pretty certain they'll have the laptop area, but desktops are another matter.
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I don't have a computer!
Sure, it won't be broadband, but it'll be there.
Do you understand how many dead transistors there are in a modern CPU? We already have [b]huge[b] fault tolerant abilities in microchips.
Actually, recent events and info have suggested that Intel is already designing the next era Powermac for Apple. I'd presume this is just the motherboard and such, since I doubt Jobs would let anyone but Apple's product design team touch it..
Junk? Dude, that's the coolest thing I've read for ages! You just made my day. Lemme find some toilet paper, I'll be back later...
Now, back in the day, they ran this site as a standard tech blog, not really making any money off it. Just a side hobby. However, when it got purchased, and the popularity really flew off, the Slashdot team discovered they didn't actually need to work anymore.
Now personally, if I'd discovered that what was a fun hobby now fed and clothed me, and there was practically no work involved, would I spend as long as possible on it, carefully checking each thing?
Of course not, that would invalidate the whole point. Instead, I'd look through the titles and occasionally the summaries of submitted stories, and let through whichever ones sounded vaguely interesting. Then I'd spend all my free time and money pissing around, and relaxing.
I don't hold it against them, Slashdot still works, we still get good comments, and damn, I'd do exactly the same thing.
Kudos to you, Taco and the rest of the gang! Live the dream! I know I would...
I dunno about your country, but here in the UK I just ask if they can get a particular book in, and they maybe ask my name,,,
20 return
Wait... Okay, so I haven't taken any computer programming since playing with my texas instruments calculator in maths. Your point? :)
Whereas the good ol' U S of A would simply build their space station by throwing cubes at it! Good one, boys!
Meanwhile, the Russians used a pencil. Also, it's worth pointing out that they're not supposed to be in Russia, it's Kazakhstan. Admittedly, Kazakhstan was the Soviet center for space work, so it's an easy mistake to make.
That's Copland. Rhapsody did become OSX; it just got a little clean up, and a better GUI.
20 opteron system, for $30 a year? Jeez, even if it's only for three years, and has craploads of other costs, I want me one of them...
And congratulation,s you just branded yourself as a garden variety fanboy. "Intel's is out in a couple of months, but AMD will do it too! And it will be ways better, because Intel is the suck, even though I've heard nothing about AMD's designs in the area!"
Uhuh, you go with that. Me? I'm hedging my bets until there's two reeased processors, that can be compared side by side fairly, and then deciding the cheaper one would be the better choice. And then buying an iBook, because I still want OSX =)
AMD makes much better processors than Intel these days; in general, that I'll not only admit, but profuse, and the system I'm considering building isn't going anywhere near Intel processors.
Woah, slow down cowboy. Comparing a [i]laptop[/i] processor to high range desktop processors? Show me a comparison to the current AMD mobile offerings, and maybe then I'll be impressed. As it is, that's some damned fine performance; keeping level with dual core, incredibly hot, desktop processors? And there's only a quarter or two before this is superseded by the new core range.
Lnk plz
Wait, I could make money off that! ^W^W^W^W think that could actually be a really useful idea in today's internet centered world!
This is why they're gonna get burned from this.
Does this mean it will be released before 2008, then?
It was a joke, maybe not a massively funny one, but most definitely not a troll.
And that's why we should ban cigarettes, and allow only weed and pipe tobacco! Much nicer smell.
Of course, trees also lock up huge amounts of carbon dioxide by fossilising into coal. However, we've burnt big chunks of that, and there's simply no way to get rid of the carbon released in a quick manner. The only practical method is to remove excess carbon dioxide in a similar way, collect it up, and bury it somewhere.
Of course, when our descendants discover a way to create useful and valuable materials out of carbon dioxide (possibly by separating it somehow into carbon and oxygen), they then mount expeditions, and companies form, mining through the murky depths, tapping the underwater lakes of carbon dioxide.... And in using it, release huge amounts of oxygen into the atmosphere. And we all know what happened the *last* time that happened.
I know it's not likely, I'm just making a point. You can pick holes in a theory saying it's less natural, or has risks as much as you want. At some point, we're going to have start choosing one.
(Psst, the oxygen thing is a joke about when blue-green algae (Actually brown, but that's not the point) first used photosynthesis, and the oxygen killed over 90% of life on the earth.)
No, it's fine. It doesn't have to be encrypted, just firewalled. It's a crap summary, I'm afraid.
It's allowed to be unencrypted, it just has to be running a firewall. Which is stupid. Really stupid.
I don't live in America, so this won't effect me. I just still think it's stupid. I run my own connection free of firewalls anywhere in the chain. Sure, if someone can be bothered, they could get into my files, as long as they spent long enough with a bruteforce. Hell, I even allow root connections via ssh. Unless someone's seriously personally interested in cracking my machine, I don't need one, I only run MacOS, Linux and BeOS on the net, I'm not worred about malware or viruses. My wireless data is encrypted, but it won't keep anyone out, the encryption key is exactly the same as the SSID
The only reason I have that is so the (computer illiterate) people a few houses over don't connect accidentally, and use my bandwidth for no reason. Hell, I've connected to their router and changed its channel and such to produce the minimum interference between them.
I don't care if a guy nearby has lost his net for a bit, and so uses mine for a backup. I don't care if someone driving through switches to my connection.
If someone is using too much of my bandwidth, I'll just block their MAC address for a bit. Sure, they can crack that. If they do, I'll just change my WEP password. They're bored enough to crack that as well? Fine, I'll just stop my router from giving anymore DHCP leases than I use. Meanwhile, I'll track down where they are, using the many machines and people I can pull up to pinpoint where wireless traffic is. Then, I'll go over and kick the shit out of them.
So far, no one's ever done anything with my connection that's pissed me off. I've had people talk to me on rendezvous with iChat (Or whatever it's called now, the LAN chat thing) and thank me for letting people connect.
I like sharing my internet. I once set up a directional antenna so that a friend some ways over could use it when his cable company had screwed things up.
Have you people ever heard of grammar? "those outside the US, EU and Canada (or in Québec) are ineligible to enter." means people a) outside of the US, EU and Canada AND b) People in Quebec may not take part.
Try reading things before insulting their writing.
But the problem is, compare it to the Pentium 4 on your desk, and there's not really that much difference. In my opinion, we'll only see if there was any value to the switch when we see what Intel puts out next year. Hopefully it will be nice, it's pretty certain they'll have the laptop area, but desktops are another matter.