antimatter is made of baryons too. non-baryonic matter is the really weird stuff we only see in high-energy situations, like in particle accelerators. That is all.
yes, but the wormhole theories also require energies greater than the equivalent of all the mass in the universe to create a wormhole big enough and stable enough to allow travel... not likely to happen
What you mentioned is at least as much the fault of the web browser as of the cooperative multitasking. a well-designed web browser would have been nice to the other tasks running. That is all.
er, you forgot about the Macintosh platform. Not so many of us, I know, but we do exist. And yes, I grew up with a command line; i just happen to like Apple's feel.
Furthermore, it is misleading to say that a DVD player will not play all DVD's - it will certainly play all DVD's available locally. Only if you get a foreign DVD will it not work, but guess what: the VHS from that region will not work, either!
Many things don't work between countries, such as many electrical appliances, so I don't see this as a big conspiracy.
The difference between DVD region codes and the different VHS formats is that the DVD region codes were created with the specific intent of preventing interoperablility. Fortunately, the region code scheme depends on the DVD player cooperating, and is easy to bypass for that reason. In any event, it _is_ a big conspiracy to keep people from bringing their DVD's to other regions, and the DVD folks freely admit that.
Nevertheless, my original point is that it is trivial for large-scale pirates to make their copies, CSS or no CSS. If they have to, they'll make a new master from a commercially available disc and stamp out copies just like the legit folks do. As for the unrecordable area on the DVD-R's, someone will fix that soon enough, I think.
My understanding was that this required specialized hardware, and that commdity DVD reader hardware was not capable of reading special tracks.
It sure does require special hardware - about 10 thousand bucks a pop, IIRC. That puts the bit-for-bit copy out of the reach of your average Joe, but it's pocket change for a large-scale pirating operation. And believe me, the DVD folks lose ten times(at least) as much business to the big-time pirates as to the little guys.
BTW, it's not that commodity readers are incapable of reading the special tracks, it's just that the hardware makers won't allow the contents of the aforementioned tracks to be passed outside the player. Perhaps some enterprising electrical engineer could fix that, no?
It's everyone else who thinks they're not allowed to make copies of anything they damn well please for personal use. The RIAA and others have spent the last n years bullshitting Americans into believing that any copying of anything for any purpose is illegal. That simply ain't so.
That being said, I know that slashdotters know all this. But has anyone seen any indication in the mainstream press that the DVD CCA is full of shit? I don't think so. Until we can spread that message to people who don't already know that, we're not doing any good. Write letters to the editor, folks. Write op-eds, if possible. Make sure people outside the tech community know that the DVD folks are wrong! In fact, I'm going to propose the smae thing I did back when NASA lost the last Mars mission - write your congressmen. Use registered mail, if possible. Write your newspapers, write to everyone you can think of. Forward these Slashdot stories to your less-technically-inclined friends. Spread the word, or we don't stand a chance.
uhm, i tried doing what was described on the aforementioned web page (sent the packet from my roommate's computer). Nothing happpened... has anyone else tried this?
It seems to me that every time the Gummint does something, be it patents, trademarks, Echelon, or taxes, Slashdot starts squealing like a stuck pig. (A possible exception, of course, is NASA.) Y'all need to get over it: the government exists, and governments need money. North Carolina is one of the states that relies heavily on sales taxes to pay for infrastructure. Since Net purchases use the same infrastructure as purchases from bricks-and-mortar companies, I fail to see what y'all's problem is. Most of the people doing the complaining, as far as I can tell, don't even live in NC. This is simply taking a rule which nobody really complained about and extending it to cover _all_ sales.
It's only fair that e-commerce should be taxed just the same as anything you buy in a store.
Disclaimer: It's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
Then why would Motorola bother to provide backwards compatibility with the G4? The only docs I could find to that effect on short notice were here. I know it's not a particularly clear reference, but I could probably find more, given some time. IIRC, the G5 is Motorola's 64-bit processor. One variant of the G5 will be for embedded systems, and another will be designed for personal computers.
the G4 is already out.
So are many of the processors mentioned in the article. If the predicted 1 GHz Athlon is newsworthy, so are the forthcoming higher-speed G4's. As always, that's just my opinion; I could be wrong.
that the PC World article made no mention of Motorola and IBM's processors (specifically the G4 and G5). I know, it's a Wintel-focused magazine, but an article that purports to be about "the processors of 2000" should be about _all_ the processors that are going into personal computers. That being said, I do applaud PC world for recognizing that the drooling masses are looking for nothing but more MHz, and that chip makers are capitalizing on this.
I also must express my grave doubts that Intel will be able to ship a PIV in the year 2000. From what I've heard, they are really pushing CISC as far as it can go, and they're having a lot of engineering-type trouble (the PIV allegedly draws huge amounts of power). I really don't expect to see a stable system based on the Pentium IV until mid-2001. But that's just my opinion; I could be wrong. Anyhow, give me an Athlon or a G4 over a Pentium anyday. 'Specially when them LiuxPPC folk get some Velocity Engine support for the apps
That, IMHO, is probably because it _is_ too good to be true. I've read much of the patent, and it seems to me that it is mostly the same mumbo-jumbo that the "free electricity" people are pushing. Free electricity folks talk about a "Fourth law of motion", Media Fusion talks about "exciting atomic states in the magnetic field surrounding the wire". Now I know quite a bit of physics, including a lot of EM theory, and that sounds like BS to me. What really sets off the alarm bells for me is that they want 300 million bucks to "speed up the development of the tech." Plus, the people who buy in early get preferential access. Sounds like a classic scam to me. Of course, that's just my opinion, based on my background knowledge; I could be wrong.
*waiting impatiently for more factual information*
me too, and i hope these folks really aren't full of it.
The impact probes have there own UHF communications sub-system and act independently of the main lander. The impact probes (with a much weaker UHF ) relay there signals through the orbiting surveyor that passes overhead every 2 hours.
IIRC, the impact probes aren't supposed to give up on the main lander for quite a while yet. The lander still has many, many opportunities to contact Earth; even if the communications systems were _all_ damaged too seriously to contact Earth (unlikely at best), the lander still has the option of swapping out its own components. Yes, they sent backups. In any event, it's hard to tell whether the impact probes survived the landing in the first place (I think they were expecting accelerations of several hundred G's, and they weren't sure whether the impact probes could survive that). The upshot of all this is, don't give up just yet. We've still got lots of chances.
I think that they overlooked some famous MS Easter Eggs of past that did, in fact, include a roster of credits for Windows (3.1? 95?) including some artistic renderings or pictures of some members, IIRC.
What the spokesman meant is that Microsoft, unlike Apple, has never _endorsed_ easter eggs or credits in their products. In fact, I seem to recall stories about programmers who were fired from MS for putting easter eggs into the software...
I don't know about the credits, but if this is true, I will really miss the Apple easter eggs. They added a lot of character to the software, and in most cases, they were really neat. Apple's long history of T-shirts and Easter eggs is part of what sets it apart from other companies, and I am sorry to see this piece of Apple go away. What's more, this looks like a Jobs decision. I could understand this under Spindler or Amelio, but it's the last thing I would expect from the man who created Apple, and then re-created it.
The M16 rifle is the very definition of a hack in hardware. It is elegant, and it gets the job done extremely well, even under the most adverse conditions. Ditto for the Glock 17, which can fire underwater if need be. Two truly elegant hacks.
I don't think there is a single technical advantage
The advantage is range. On a good night back home in NC, I could listen to Mets radio broadcasts on AM from New York. No way does any FM station have that kind of range...
and yes, i listened to the broadcast from NY b/c there was no local broadcast.
1: It doesn't help at all to shut down a nuclear power plant in there's a known problem on the way, because "the fuel will still be warm."
2: The control rods in nuclear power plants care what year it is. The SCRAM button doesn't work anymore in 2000.
3: Ditto for the cooling pumps.
pi: All the gauges in the control room might think everything's okay, but that doesn't matter because "the computer might also think it's 1900." What, nuclear reactors were built stronger back then?
4: When in doubt, tap the gauges: that will make everything ok.
5: 31337 hAxORz use AOL Instant Messenger.
6: 31337 hAxORz like to listen to music that says "I hate my life" over and over.
7: They fixed Apollo 13 using nothing but a hammer.
8: Acetylene and oxygen burn in a 1:1 ratio.
9: It's perfectly alright to walk around inside the containment building of a hot nuclear reactor.
A: Water can cool a nuclear reactor from 4500 degrees without boiling or even getting warm. A corollary to this is that no matter what the core temperature is, the rest of the containment building stays at a nice, cool 72 degrees.
B: Altitude gauges on aircraft care what date it is.
C: Trig calculations can be performed simply by drawing circles on a sheet of notebook paper.
D: If one power plant goes down, the entire eastern seaboard goes with it. Note that the power grid is neatly divided into time zones: We can't get help from the Central time zone, because that would be cheating.
E: All soldiers are too stupid to tell whether a shotgun was fired into the air or directly at them.
F: When in doubt, blow something up to save the day. You get extra credit if there are a lot of big sparks.
Well, that movie was fun _and_ educational! We should make it part of the science curriculum!
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antimatter is made of baryons too. non-baryonic matter is the really weird stuff we only see in high-energy situations, like in particle accelerators. That is all.
yes, but the wormhole theories also require energies greater than the equivalent of all the mass in the universe to create a wormhole big enough and stable enough to allow travel... not likely to happen
in current Mac OSes, and in fact ever since I've been using a Mac, icons have been present in multiple sizes. Apple's just adding more, I think...
What you mentioned is at least as much the fault of the web browser as of the cooperative multitasking. a well-designed web browser would have been nice to the other tasks running. That is all.
Can I buy one without it, no. but you can hack around it with some duct tape...
er, you forgot about the Macintosh platform. Not so many of us, I know, but we do exist. And yes, I grew up with a command line; i just happen to like Apple's feel.
Many things don't work between countries, such as many electrical appliances, so I don't see this as a big conspiracy.
The difference between DVD region codes and the different VHS formats is that the DVD region codes were created with the specific intent of preventing interoperablility. Fortunately, the region code scheme depends on the DVD player cooperating, and is easy to bypass for that reason. In any event, it _is_ a big conspiracy to keep people from bringing their DVD's to other regions, and the DVD folks freely admit that.
Nevertheless, my original point is that it is trivial for large-scale pirates to make their copies, CSS or no CSS. If they have to, they'll make a new master from a commercially available disc and stamp out copies just like the legit folks do. As for the unrecordable area on the DVD-R's, someone will fix that soon enough, I think.
It sure does require special hardware - about 10 thousand bucks a pop, IIRC. That puts the bit-for-bit copy out of the reach of your average Joe, but it's pocket change for a large-scale pirating operation. And believe me, the DVD folks lose ten times(at least) as much business to the big-time pirates as to the little guys.
BTW, it's not that commodity readers are incapable of reading the special tracks, it's just that the hardware makers won't allow the contents of the aforementioned tracks to be passed outside the player. Perhaps some enterprising electrical engineer could fix that, no?
- John Doe no. 53, an individual
That being said, I know that slashdotters know all this. But has anyone seen any indication in the mainstream press that the DVD CCA is full of shit? I don't think so. Until we can spread that message to people who don't already know that, we're not doing any good. Write letters to the editor, folks. Write op-eds, if possible. Make sure people outside the tech community know that the DVD folks are wrong! In fact, I'm going to propose the smae thing I did back when NASA lost the last Mars mission - write your congressmen. Use registered mail, if possible. Write your newspapers, write to everyone you can think of. Forward these Slashdot stories to your less-technically-inclined friends. Spread the word, or we don't stand a chance.
- John Doe #53, an individual
uhm, i tried doing what was described on the aforementioned web page (sent the packet from my roommate's computer). Nothing happpened... has anyone else tried this?
That's the only one I disagreed with... The Video game for them has got to be Nethack. The damn thing lasts forever!
It's only fair that e-commerce should be taxed just the same as anything you buy in a store.
Disclaimer: It's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
Then why would Motorola bother to provide backwards compatibility with the G4? The only docs I could find to that effect on short notice were here. I know it's not a particularly clear reference, but I could probably find more, given some time. IIRC, the G5 is Motorola's 64-bit processor. One variant of the G5 will be for embedded systems, and another will be designed for personal computers.
the G4 is already out.
So are many of the processors mentioned in the article. If the predicted 1 GHz Athlon is newsworthy, so are the forthcoming higher-speed G4's. As always, that's just my opinion; I could be wrong.
I also must express my grave doubts that Intel will be able to ship a PIV in the year 2000. From what I've heard, they are really pushing CISC as far as it can go, and they're having a lot of engineering-type trouble (the PIV allegedly draws huge amounts of power). I really don't expect to see a stable system based on the Pentium IV until mid-2001. But that's just my opinion; I could be wrong. Anyhow, give me an Athlon or a G4 over a Pentium anyday. 'Specially when them LiuxPPC folk get some Velocity Engine support for the apps
That, IMHO, is probably because it _is_ too good to be true. I've read much of the patent, and it seems to me that it is mostly the same mumbo-jumbo that the "free electricity" people are pushing. Free electricity folks talk about a "Fourth law of motion", Media Fusion talks about "exciting atomic states in the magnetic field surrounding the wire". Now I know quite a bit of physics, including a lot of EM theory, and that sounds like BS to me. What really sets off the alarm bells for me is that they want 300 million bucks to "speed up the development of the tech." Plus, the people who buy in early get preferential access. Sounds like a classic scam to me. Of course, that's just my opinion, based on my background knowledge; I could be wrong.
*waiting impatiently for more factual information*
me too, and i hope these folks really aren't full of it.
IIRC, the impact probes aren't supposed to give up on the main lander for quite a while yet. The lander still has many, many opportunities to contact Earth; even if the communications systems were _all_ damaged too seriously to contact Earth (unlikely at best), the lander still has the option of swapping out its own components. Yes, they sent backups. In any event, it's hard to tell whether the impact probes survived the landing in the first place (I think they were expecting accelerations of several hundred G's, and they weren't sure whether the impact probes could survive that). The upshot of all this is, don't give up just yet. We've still got lots of chances.
What the spokesman meant is that Microsoft, unlike Apple, has never _endorsed_ easter eggs or credits in their products. In fact, I seem to recall stories about programmers who were fired from MS for putting easter eggs into the software...
so it goes.
The M16 rifle is the very definition of a hack in hardware. It is elegant, and it gets the job done extremely well, even under the most adverse conditions. Ditto for the Glock 17, which can fire underwater if need be. Two truly elegant hacks.
The advantage is range. On a good night back home in NC, I could listen to Mets radio broadcasts on AM from New York. No way does any FM station have that kind of range...
and yes, i listened to the broadcast from NY b/c there was no local broadcast.
10: When the power fails, lights go off one at a time, in timed sequence. Ditto for lorge-scale blackouts.
I think this calls for a massive ping flood at midnight, 1/1/2000 GMT. That would be fun.
2: The control rods in nuclear power plants care what year it is. The SCRAM button doesn't work anymore in 2000.
3: Ditto for the cooling pumps.
pi: All the gauges in the control room might think everything's okay, but that doesn't matter because "the computer might also think it's 1900." What, nuclear reactors were built stronger back then?
4: When in doubt, tap the gauges: that will make everything ok.
5: 31337 hAxORz use AOL Instant Messenger.
6: 31337 hAxORz like to listen to music that says "I hate my life" over and over.
7: They fixed Apollo 13 using nothing but a hammer.
8: Acetylene and oxygen burn in a 1:1 ratio.
9: It's perfectly alright to walk around inside the containment building of a hot nuclear reactor.
A: Water can cool a nuclear reactor from 4500 degrees without boiling or even getting warm. A corollary to this is that no matter what the core temperature is, the rest of the containment building stays at a nice, cool 72 degrees.
B: Altitude gauges on aircraft care what date it is.
C: Trig calculations can be performed simply by drawing circles on a sheet of notebook paper.
D: If one power plant goes down, the entire eastern seaboard goes with it. Note that the power grid is neatly divided into time zones: We can't get help from the Central time zone, because that would be cheating.
E: All soldiers are too stupid to tell whether a shotgun was fired into the air or directly at them.
F: When in doubt, blow something up to save the day. You get extra credit if there are a lot of big sparks.
Well, that movie was fun _and_ educational! We should make it part of the science curriculum!
I don't understand why you'd _want_ to run Linux in emulation, when there are several flavors of Linux plus all the BSD's available native...