Am I going crazy, or are all three systems using the same CPU?
Given that BusSpeed * ClockMultiplier = Processor Speed
Apple's three configurations: 1.6 Ghz - 800 Mhz bus 1.8 Ghz - 900 Mhz bus 2.0 Ghz - 1000 Mhz bus
Means that all three systems have the same multiplier on the chip. Which strongly implies to me that they're all the exact same chip. We'll have to wait and see how easy they are to overclock, but if you could just change the 800Mhz bus system to 1Ghz bus, you'd save yourself $1000 in the process.
The Weblogs are a good idea, because it allows the students to critique each others' papers on their at their convenience. And of course the Internet is a great research tool.
However most teachers fall victim to the temptation of using computers too often. Putting today's lesson into Flash may be "cool", but it doesn't help the student learn the material. English is about the written word, not about the latest technology.
Also, if you use the computers on a regular basis, there will always be a few students with poor computer skills or who crash the machine that will demand immediate attention. This iterrupts the flow of the class and cuts into precious class time.
Think twice about trying any of the suggestions here. Because college classes should be about learning first, using technology second (or third, or fourth...)
This method is neither new or novel, it's called Quantum Encruption. You can read a quick primer Here. By using polarized photos, you can trasmit bits that will be impossible to intercept without being detected. Research labs have been working on relaible, long-distance implementation for years.
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Yeah, I'm having a hard time feeling bad for these Loki employees. In fact, I think they're pretty stupid.
It's one thing for your company to bounce a paycheck or two here or there and pay up the next week or month. If you're committed to the company, you stay. But to not have been payed for a year? How many weeks in a row does it take for you to realize you're never going to be paid? At some point the blame for this situation falls on the employees, who didn't have the guts to stand up and tell Loki to shove it.
I don't know if the court will buy IM's argument that it's reporters are the same as TV or news reporters and that they deserve the same protection. The organization itself conducts itself in a fairly organized manner. But they let ANYONE be a reporter. You can literally walk in off the street and become "press", with a badge and everything. Or if you've taken some cool picture, you go to the IM center and turn it in, become press instantly (although I doubt retroactively to the moment you took the photo). IM also state that it's ok with them for their reporters to engage in protest activities; this is a big journalistic no-no. I think this is IM's biggest challenge that they will face in court: do their reporters deserve the freedom of press shield?
You probably could figure this out your self, but stop by Lionhead's Website. There's a programming discussion board and development diaries to read, as well as pretty screen shots, etc. to download.
(Why the site's address wasn't included in the news post I don't know)
Agreed, you have a valid point. A few days ago I submitted the news that the MPAA site had been DDoSed. Did it get posted? no. I thought with how hard Slashdot had been ragging on them lately it would be a shoe-in. And it wasn't getting much coverage in the main-stream media, so I hoped Slashdot might inform the citizenry who don't read hackernews.com and didn't catch the one article on ZDnet and MSNBC.
I also agree that the information is a bit more stale by the time it reaches slashdot these days. The Espresso thing was up on ArsTechnica two days ago, I read the Ask Jeeves thing at least a month ago... I think from Ars as well, if I remember correctly.
Let's hope what happened to Wired magazine doesn't happen to SlashDot. Wired used to be an enjoyable forum for digital technology reviews and concerns, now it's all about "new money", and slick stories. Please don't fall down that slippery slope, SlashDot! Keep to your roots!
Any help for people not in Auzzie/NZ who'd like to purchase a similar setup? The website with the Book PC info makes it clear that they're not available to Europe/North America.
Most of us probably remember when Wolfenstein 3D came out. Great graphics, fun gameplay, sleepless nights. The point of the game was, of course, to kill nazi soldiers and ultimately, kill some sort of robo-Hitler in the final showdown. Could anyone confuse this game as dangerously neo-Nazi? Of course not.
But the game *was* banned in Germany because of its Nazi trappings. Nazi symbols decorating walls and nazi guards patrolling the mazes made the game illegal under Germany's post-nazi reforms. I believe AOL or Compuserve even had to remove the game from their download areas to avoid its download by their German members, which in turn angered many young American gamers.
The point of the above? Wolfenstein was banned simply because it contained symbols of a racist organization. The context in which they were used was not looked at. And no one even touched the free-speech aspect of the decision. Stopping racism is of course a good thing and something we should all struggle to achieve, but we have to be careful not to step on the toes of free speech. And everyone has to realize that (use of racist symbol) != (racism).
I think MF did a great job talking about the current situation, but missed the boat a bit when talking about why people pirate. To quote the article:
Personally, I'm waiting for a subscription service that lets me view 20-year-old episodes of Dr. Who (or the Dilbert episode I missed last week) through the Internet for maybe 25 cents per half hour, or even better, for a flat monthly fee. That would eliminate piracy by making it no longer worth the effort. Access to a huge library of video is a service I'd certainly be willing to pay for, and keeping video on my hard drive or passing it along to friends would then be a complete waste of my time even if it was as easy as breathing.
I don't think this is exactly true. Some pirates (although probably not many) actually *do* pirate for philosophical reasons. For example, many people pirated Windows 98 when it came out. Why? Because they felt it was basically a patch for Windows 95, and the idea of paying $89.99 for it really pissed them off. Microsoft could have sent the product to their door and charged $0.25 for it, and still people would have pirated it because they had issue with Microsoft.
Another point is that people are cheap. Even if the TV show was $0.25 per half hour, people would still make copies for their friends and trade shows around, maximizing the return on their $0.25 investment. I mean, people steal candy bars! By the time quality video streams hit home PCs, everyone will (necessarily) have high-speed bandwidth. So passing off the TV shows to your friends would also be "as easy as breathing". Which would you rather do: breathe for free? or for $0.25?
Hmm... I re-read the article and it says that some sort of chemical layer turns blue after a certain amount of time/uses. Assuming there's normal DVD pits under this blue layer, the company is obviously *NOT* going to make this layer easy to remove. If any nimrod can rub it off with rubbing alcohol or acetone, or pop it in the microwave and melt it off, then the techology is useless. If the layer isn't somehow bonded (preferably at the molecular level) to the actual DVD, then what's the point?
Now even if it was bonded at the molecular level, the NSA could bust out a scanning electron microscope or whatever and read the pits that way. But that's only the binary pits; it doesn't tell the software how to read them so they make any sense.
Well, the application that immediately popped into my mind is as a storage device for one-time-pad encryption keys. If the DVD degraded after being used to encode some top-secret message, then the key is automatically destroyed. No "bad guy" can get ahold of it, and no stupid encryption clerk can accidentally/purposfully usr the same one-time-pad twice. Not a bad use.
... well, it's 5:45 p.m. (PST) and the "bidding" is already up to $3,000+ dollars. At this point I have a lot of doubts about the veracity of any bids. Domain Names on eBay regularly "sell" for $1,000,000... until (surprise!) it is found that the bidder was only kidding. I wouldn't be surprised if after 10 days the highest bid was $10^22 or whatever, and the seller had to trace back quite a few bids before he finds a real bidder. All I'm saying is, let's not get too excited and assume that: amount_going_to_charity = = amount_of_highest_bid.
On another note, what OSS geek can afford to throw around $3,000+ for a nifty momento? ESR? RMS? CmdrTaco?
There's a possible offshoot of this situation that is disturbing from a marketing point of view.
Now, when people buy billboard ads, they generally don't expect the ad to show up on TV, but it's a big bonus when it does. But ads in Times Square on New Years Eve are obviously expected to show up on TV - in fact I'd guess that's one reason Times Square ads are bought, and why they have value.
If the networks get free reign to replace any ad they like with their own logo or (worse) with another ad, the market value for billboards will fall, and the only "guarenteed" way of getting your ad on TV would be to buy commercial time, and thus the price of commercials would rise even higher. Extrapolating a bit more, consider the implications:
A local affiliate of CBS, KCBS if filming near the site of a car accident. In the background is a billboard for "Mom and Pop's Tractor Co.". Now it happens that KCBS has an agreement with John Deer Tractors that any other tractor maker or seller must be blocked out of live TV, or John Deer will take its $120 million/year commercial contract with KCBS elsewhere. I wonder what KCBS will do?
Of course this seems unlikely and ludicrous to us today, but if this technology is allowed to sneak in and be accepted, who knows where it will lead? Billboards would become even more of an advertising ghetto than they are already, and the networks might be held hostage by corporations even more so than today.
The NY Times article doesn't bring it up, but today's Wired News does. The issue around the gwbush.com site is whether or not an individual should be constricted by the same rules as corporations, or whether they are protected under freedom of the press, or whether there is some new legal standing for individuals on the internet. Bush may help us find an answer soon if he chooses to press ahead with his lawsuit.
Personally I think common sense should come in to play here: an individual is usually nither the press nor a corporation, and should not have the same protections/restrictions. And the internet shouldn't be allowed to become some political advertising free-for-all, lest we all be spammed with banner ads proclaiming "Vote Gore!" or pop-up windows advising us, "Get tough on Internet Porn with CyberCop and George W. Bush!". Oh, the humanity!
As a current CS undergraduate, I agree with you completely. Coming fresh ou of college, the number of doors opened by having a bit of experience and an MCSE is incredible. Just those four letters on a resume can mean a lot. Whereas unix/linux experience isn't easily sumed up for HR hiring managers. "I ran my own server with Linux..." doesn't sound as impressive on paper as "Yes, I am level T1a certified".
What would happen if these guys did trdaemark Linux in Uruguay? INAL, but I believe that companies that do not do business within Uruguay would be free to use the Linux name. But even if they feared the wrath of the Uruguan (sp?) court and trademark system, and decided not to use the word "Linux" in their products, what would be lost?
For the major players, very little. Brands such as "RedHat", "VA", and "Caldera" are indetifiable without the "Linux" appendage. In fact part of the reason these companies have been so sucessful is that they have powerful brand names backed up by good product(s). Highly evoloved tech companies should rely on more than just the latest craze to survive. In a world without the word "Linux", would we somehow not know what "RedHat" meant? Of course not. And a new term for the OS would crop up Slashdot discussions the next day anyway... PenguinOS for example.
Now, of course we'd all be pissed if the Linux name was taken, but we need to realize that there are more important battles to be fought, like for our rights on line, for free speech.
A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet...
Linux by any other name would still be as well coded...
It appears there used to be different text on the web page a few days ago, and instead of removing it they just commented it out (it appears these wizards of video-codecs have yet to master HTML *cough*). Using view source reveals:
"On January 10th, 2000, you will be given the key to the motion picture studio locked inside your computer. Introducing Broadcast 2000, one of the realtime, non linear audio and video editors for Linux. We can now capture, render, edit, composite, mix, and master dream movies in extreme speed even without having a job! And you will too in the next millenium."
How, exactly, am I going to afford all the equipment to do this (like a 1 terrabyte RAID!) without a job?! And don't even get me started about the millenium...
Especially Slashdot, since it has that nice little ".org" after it's name. This already declares that Slashdot is not a business out to make oodles of profit. I think that clause that mentioned volunteers doing work necessary for company productivity (sorry, paraphrasing) should be re-worded "necessary for company PROFIT". I think this is the main distinction between this AOL case and IRC or Slashdot. The latter aren't really out to make bucks off their sense of community, while AOL never fails to capitalize on it.
I just recently installed (1 week ago) Linux on my computer. With a little help from the manual, installing Red Hat 5.2 was a breeze. However, the command line continues to stump me.
And the real reason it does is not that I'm in some way afraid of typing commands instead of clicking them, but because when I see a command line I instantly harken back to my days of DOS.
Think of it this way: As little children, most of use learn to speak only on language early on. After that point, it becomes progressively harder to learn a second language as well as the first. I grew up on DOS, and when Linux uses some convention that DOS didn't, I become easily confused and frustrated. Just last night, I was trying to run a cribbage game. There it was, "cribbage" in/usr/games, but I couldn't for the life of me get it to work. I typed "cribbage" as I would an.exe file. I tried "run", "start", even "compile" to see if I could envoke the file. No such luck. Clearly, I was still trying to speak English to my now Slavic computer.
But just as we all struggled to learn Spanish or French in high school, so I struggle with Linux. Sure, I'll get some terms wrong and native speakers will make fun of me. I may never use Linux as well as some one who learned Linux as their first language. But slowly I'll get there. That's just how the human brain works sometimes.
Many moderators above stated that they enjoyed posting far too much to make the new system viable for them. Would this create a problem of moderators have other "bogus" accounts? They would moderate with one, then post with the other.
Now I think most of the moderators would play fair, but this could be problematic. Rob could solve this problem with some sort of IP tracking, but the offender could simply state that his roommate/sibiling/whoever also reads Slashdot from their same computer, not that they're shafting the system.
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Am I going crazy, or are all three systems using the same CPU?
Given that BusSpeed * ClockMultiplier = Processor Speed
Apple's three configurations:
1.6 Ghz - 800 Mhz bus
1.8 Ghz - 900 Mhz bus
2.0 Ghz - 1000 Mhz bus
Means that all three systems have the same multiplier on the chip. Which strongly implies to me that they're all the exact same chip. We'll have to wait and see how easy they are to overclock, but if you could just change the 800Mhz bus system to 1Ghz bus, you'd save yourself $1000 in the process.
Use the computers only where it makes sense.
The Weblogs are a good idea, because it allows the students to critique each others' papers on their at their convenience. And of course the Internet is a great research tool.
However most teachers fall victim to the temptation of using computers too often. Putting today's lesson into Flash may be "cool", but it doesn't help the student learn the material. English is about the written word, not about the latest technology.
Also, if you use the computers on a regular basis, there will always be a few students with poor computer skills or who crash the machine that will demand immediate attention. This iterrupts the flow of the class and cuts into precious class time.
Think twice about trying any of the suggestions here. Because college classes should be about learning first, using technology second (or third, or fourth...)
Perhaps the author of this tool forgot to read this:
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http://slashdot.org/features/980720/0819202.sht
This method is neither new or novel, it's called Quantum Encruption. You can read a quick primer Here. By using polarized photos, you can trasmit bits that will be impossible to intercept without being detected. Research labs have been working on relaible, long-distance implementation for years.
Yeah, I'm having a hard time feeling bad for these Loki employees. In fact, I think they're pretty stupid.
It's one thing for your company to bounce a paycheck or two here or there and pay up the next week or month. If you're committed to the company, you stay. But to not have been payed for a year? How many weeks in a row does it take for you to realize you're never going to be paid? At some point the blame for this situation falls on the employees, who didn't have the guts to stand up and tell Loki to shove it.
The link in the article above is broken, here's the correct one:
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http://www.asus.com.tw/Products/Notebook/B1000/in
I don't know if the court will buy IM's argument that it's reporters are the same as TV or news reporters and that they deserve the same protection. The organization itself conducts itself in a fairly organized manner. But they let ANYONE be a reporter. You can literally walk in off the street and become "press", with a badge and everything. Or if you've taken some cool picture, you go to the IM center and turn it in, become press instantly (although I doubt retroactively to the moment you took the photo). IM also state that it's ok with them for their reporters to engage in protest activities; this is a big journalistic no-no. I think this is IM's biggest challenge that they will face in court: do their reporters deserve the freedom of press shield?
(Why the site's address wasn't included in the news post I don't know)
I also agree that the information is a bit more stale by the time it reaches slashdot these days. The Espresso thing was up on ArsTechnica two days ago, I read the Ask Jeeves thing at least a month ago... I think from Ars as well, if I remember correctly.
Let's hope what happened to Wired magazine doesn't happen to SlashDot. Wired used to be an enjoyable forum for digital technology reviews and concerns, now it's all about "new money", and slick stories. Please don't fall down that slippery slope, SlashDot! Keep to your roots!
Any help for people not in Auzzie/NZ who'd like to purchase a similar setup? The website with the Book PC info makes it clear that they're not available to Europe/North America.
Yeah, let's hope the rest of today's posts aren't as "funny".
But the game *was* banned in Germany because of its Nazi trappings. Nazi symbols decorating walls and nazi guards patrolling the mazes made the game illegal under Germany's post-nazi reforms. I believe AOL or Compuserve even had to remove the game from their download areas to avoid its download by their German members, which in turn angered many young American gamers.
The point of the above? Wolfenstein was banned simply because it contained symbols of a racist organization. The context in which they were used was not looked at. And no one even touched the free-speech aspect of the decision. Stopping racism is of course a good thing and something we should all struggle to achieve, but we have to be careful not to step on the toes of free speech. And everyone has to realize that (use of racist symbol) != (racism).
Personally, I'm waiting for a subscription service that lets me view 20-year-old episodes of Dr. Who (or the Dilbert episode I missed last week) through the Internet for maybe 25 cents per half hour, or even better, for a flat monthly fee. That would eliminate piracy by making it no longer worth the effort. Access to a huge library of video is a service I'd certainly be willing to pay for, and keeping video on my hard drive or passing it along to friends would then be a complete waste of my time even if it was as easy as breathing.
I don't think this is exactly true. Some pirates (although probably not many) actually *do* pirate for philosophical reasons. For example, many people pirated Windows 98 when it came out. Why? Because they felt it was basically a patch for Windows 95, and the idea of paying $89.99 for it really pissed them off. Microsoft could have sent the product to their door and charged $0.25 for it, and still people would have pirated it because they had issue with Microsoft.
Another point is that people are cheap. Even if the TV show was $0.25 per half hour, people would still make copies for their friends and trade shows around, maximizing the return on their $0.25 investment. I mean, people steal candy bars! By the time quality video streams hit home PCs, everyone will (necessarily) have high-speed bandwidth. So passing off the TV shows to your friends would also be "as easy as breathing". Which would you rather do: breathe for free? or for $0.25?
*/offtopic* */rant*
Now even if it was bonded at the molecular level, the NSA could bust out a scanning electron microscope or whatever and read the pits that way. But that's only the binary pits; it doesn't tell the software how to read them so they make any sense.
Well, the application that immediately popped into my mind is as a storage device for one-time-pad encryption keys. If the DVD degraded after being used to encode some top-secret message, then the key is automatically destroyed. No "bad guy" can get ahold of it, and no stupid encryption clerk can accidentally/purposfully usr the same one-time-pad twice. Not a bad use.
On another note, what OSS geek can afford to throw around $3,000+ for a nifty momento? ESR? RMS? CmdrTaco?
Now, when people buy billboard ads, they generally don't expect the ad to show up on TV, but it's a big bonus when it does. But ads in Times Square on New Years Eve are obviously expected to show up on TV - in fact I'd guess that's one reason Times Square ads are bought, and why they have value.
If the networks get free reign to replace any ad they like with their own logo or (worse) with another ad, the market value for billboards will fall, and the only "guarenteed" way of getting your ad on TV would be to buy commercial time, and thus the price of commercials would rise even higher. Extrapolating a bit more, consider the implications:
A local affiliate of CBS, KCBS if filming near the site of a car accident. In the background is a billboard for "Mom and Pop's Tractor Co.". Now it happens that KCBS has an agreement with John Deer Tractors that any other tractor maker or seller must be blocked out of live TV, or John Deer will take its $120 million/year commercial contract with KCBS elsewhere. I wonder what KCBS will do?
Of course this seems unlikely and ludicrous to us today, but if this technology is allowed to sneak in and be accepted, who knows where it will lead? Billboards would become even more of an advertising ghetto than they are already, and the networks might be held hostage by corporations even more so than today.
Personally I think common sense should come in to play here: an individual is usually nither the press nor a corporation, and should not have the same protections/restrictions. And the internet shouldn't be allowed to become some political advertising free-for-all, lest we all be spammed with banner ads proclaiming "Vote Gore!" or pop-up windows advising us, "Get tough on Internet Porn with CyberCop and George W. Bush!". Oh, the humanity!
As a current CS undergraduate, I agree with you completely. Coming fresh ou of college, the number of doors opened by having a bit of experience and an MCSE is incredible. Just those four letters on a resume can mean a lot. Whereas unix/linux experience isn't easily sumed up for HR hiring managers. "I ran my own server with Linux..." doesn't sound as impressive on paper as "Yes, I am level T1a certified".
There's an unsuprisingly similar article at CNN, for anyone who cares to read it.
For the major players, very little. Brands such as "RedHat", "VA", and "Caldera" are indetifiable without the "Linux" appendage. In fact part of the reason these companies have been so sucessful is that they have powerful brand names backed up by good product(s). Highly evoloved tech companies should rely on more than just the latest craze to survive. In a world without the word "Linux", would we somehow not know what "RedHat" meant? Of course not. And a new term for the OS would crop up Slashdot discussions the next day anyway... PenguinOS for example.
Now, of course we'd all be pissed if the Linux name was taken, but we need to realize that there are more important battles to be fought, like for our rights on line, for free speech.
A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet...
Linux by any other name would still be as well coded...
"On January 10th, 2000, you will be given the key to the motion picture studio locked inside your computer. Introducing Broadcast 2000, one of the realtime, non linear audio and video editors for Linux. We can now capture, render, edit, composite, mix, and master dream movies in extreme speed even without having a job! And you will too in the next millenium."
How, exactly, am I going to afford all the equipment to do this (like a 1 terrabyte RAID!) without a job?! And don't even get me started about the millenium...
Especially Slashdot, since it has that nice little ".org" after it's name. This already declares that Slashdot is not a business out to make oodles of profit. I think that clause that mentioned volunteers doing work necessary for company productivity (sorry, paraphrasing) should be re-worded "necessary for company PROFIT". I think this is the main distinction between this AOL case and IRC or Slashdot. The latter aren't really out to make bucks off their sense of community, while AOL never fails to capitalize on it.
I just recently installed (1 week ago) Linux on my computer. With a little help from the manual, installing Red Hat 5.2 was a breeze. However, the command line continues to stump me.
/usr/games, but I couldn't for the life of me get it to work. I typed "cribbage" as I would an .exe file. I tried "run", "start", even "compile" to see if I could envoke the file. No such luck. Clearly, I was still trying to speak English to my now Slavic computer.
And the real reason it does is not that I'm in some way afraid of typing commands instead of clicking them, but because when I see a command line I instantly harken back to my days of DOS.
Think of it this way: As little children, most of use learn to speak only on language early on. After that point, it becomes progressively harder to learn a second language as well as the first. I grew up on DOS, and when Linux uses some convention that DOS didn't, I become easily confused and frustrated. Just last night, I was trying to run a cribbage game. There it was, "cribbage" in
But just as we all struggled to learn Spanish or French in high school, so I struggle with Linux. Sure, I'll get some terms wrong and native speakers will make fun of me. I may never use Linux as well as some one who learned Linux as their first language. But slowly I'll get there. That's just how the human brain works sometimes.
- FR
Many moderators above stated that they enjoyed posting far too much to make the new system viable for them. Would this create a problem of moderators have other "bogus" accounts? They would moderate with one, then post with the other.
Now I think most of the moderators would play fair, but this could be problematic. Rob could solve this problem with some sort of IP tracking, but the offender could simply state that his roommate/sibiling/whoever also reads Slashdot from their same computer, not that they're shafting the system.
Ideas?