The other guy you're talking to is too polite, but I'm not.
The problem that you have with Debian is that you're an ass. The guy commented that you must be doing something wrong, and you insulted him. The Debian network driver for your card does indeed work perfectly.
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Why should I not post to Slashdot? I go to sleep much later than my wife does. Sorry that my life doesn't conform to your ideals. Give me your phone number and I'll call you next time I want to wipe my ass.
Or meet a couple of Miss Rights, just like the famous road warrior Charles Kuralt.
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I disagree completely. I travel between 20% and 40% of my time in any given year, and I've seen many things that I wouldn't have bothered to see otherwise.
You will as often find yourself in Lizard Lick, North Carolina as you find yourself in Paris, France. The difference is that while you might go to Paris for a vacation, you'll never to to Lizard Lick on your time off.
But if you make it a point to dig up something interesting no matter where you are, you will always be able to tell stories about that time you were stuck in Lizard Lick. Every place you visit has something interesting to see. If you rely on a big sign and a line of people with cameras and big hats to find something interesting, you'll hate it. If you can talk to people and don't mind walking out of your hotel with the goal of seeing something before you know what it is you will see, you'll like it.
You may not be able to backpack your way down the Appalachian Trail on a business trip, but there's plenty of other ways to see cool things in Virginia if you're sent there.
If you want to access the network, use a computer with a network card. A physical drive is for storing your programs. Also FYI, the physical drive is NOT usually referred to as 'memory', except at Comp USA.
Mod that up. Unison is in my opinion one of the most underrated pieces of open source software. If you don't know what it is, look at http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
Time for another bus on our computers: a power bus. Sure would be nice if the only thing we needed to plug into the wall was the main computer. Inside the computer would be a voltage converter and rectifier. That would go out to some jacks on the outside of the computer case.
Voltage would be perhaps 16-24 volts DC. The connectors would be small, and impossible to plug in backwards. Every external device on the system - LCD monitor, USB hard drives, Linksys routers, scanners, maybe inkjet printers, would have two jacks and allow a daisy chain of the power from one device to the next. So, you could plug the power from your scanner into the power from your USB hard drive which would be plugged into the power from the main computer.
Each device would have a circuit breaker, not a fuse, so the total capacity could not be exceeded.
If you wanted to use your little device without a computer to convert the power for you, you could get a little cheap wall wart. Each device would have a flexible range in input voltage that it would accept, so the wall wart would not have to be highly regulated. Just make it 18 volts +- 1 volt and that should be good enough. All you'd have to think about is what the device needs for watts, and how many watts the wall wart can supply.
This is so easy, I don't know why nobody has implemented it yet.
To fix this, just post a comment in the same discussion that you moderated in (logged in of course). This will undo all your moderations in that discussion.
First paragraph: OK, information theory isn't my strong suit either. I know a little about it.
Second paragraph: It's OK not to agree, but you'd be wrong.:-) Information has a definition that is not the same as the definition of "datum". One is a physical/mathematical thing with real existence and a property called entropy, and another one called energy, and some other properties too, no doubt. The other (datum) is what you described.
Third paragraph: Now you're talking! What will really bake your noodle is when you read about what astronomers believe about the information state of a black hole. i.e. no clue, many interesting guesses.
Fourth paragraph: Don't think electricity here. We're could be talking about molecular computers, so the power supply could BE heat in all liklihood.
And that just about covers the extent of my knowlege of the subject. I'd like to learn more, but franky my current computer just isn't warm enough for me to bother right now.
I also think that would be a nice thing, but here's a thought:
If you can ssh from work to your home server, then you can just always leave yourself logged into that home server, but with a port forwarded back to the work server. So, if you forgot to run unison on the work server, you can login to the work machine from home and do it.
What I do is synchronise my desktop and laptop through a common file server. Unison is transitive like that. My laptop goes wherever I go, so I can't forget to check in a file at work.:-)
Ideal computers aren't as wasteful as the ones we have now. Most of the heat generated is from resistive loads, as you mentioned. But some of that heat is from the actual computation done. There is a theoretical minimum energy of computation, and when you approach that the ability to reverse your calculation becomes useful. When you add 1+1, that takes some energy to get 2. But, when you reverse that computation you can reclaim the energy. The result is that less energy is wasted to ultimately become heat.
This scientist isn't the first person to think of these things. I don't know for sure, but perhaps Claude Shannon first thought of this.
I'm surprised that MALE PORN STAR isn't on the list of overpaid people. If someone makes $30,000 a year making movies, he's at least $50,000 overpaid.
There are lots of people who would pay 20 thousand a year to be having sex with a large variety of women, several times a week, who are supposed to pretend they like it, and have their HIV tests in order.
We need a term for this. It's got to be catchy, and sort of intellectual sounding. Foreign words are good. Managers need to be able to use it as a buzzword as a way of sounding important, "in-the-loop", and "forward thinking".
The important part of learning computers in my opinion is being part of a vital community surrounding it. I had an Atari ST in high school and college, and found it difficult to connect to other Atari ST owners. I lived in a small town with no BBS's, user groups, etc. When I got to college, everyone had PC's.
I used to program my Atari ST in Modula-2, and figured out everything on my own. There was some stuff I never figured out, but would have if I could have interacted in a community. I also had a PC emulator on my Atari (Norton SI rating of 0.3!) that I actually used more as time went on. If I hit a block with something, there were hundreds of Turbo Pascal programmers around me that I could connect to. There was also the Internet for help.
When it comes to learning about computers, it really helps if you can learn from someone who knows a lot more than you. Actually, that applies to everything. Because of this, I would doubt the usefulness of a Commodore-64 now.
Your chance of winning the lottery is exactly the same if they change the winning numbers, or if they don't change them.
Making users change passwords does the following:
1) Annoys the users. 2) Users are likely to pick easy passwords to remember, rather than memorizing a really good password just once. Or worse, they will write the password down. 3) Does all that for no increase in security. Yay!
NNTP. Old fashioned newsgroups. How many companies resort to long meetings, or wide distribution of voice mails, or e-mails cc'd to everyone under the sun? These are silly abuses of technology, and they don't make sense.
NNTP is what you need for distribution of information. You can set up newsgroups for every possible special interest in your company.
I'll just have to say that you're a fucking peacenick compared to me. Really. I'm a bigger fan of the military that you are. I know more about it and the technology than you do.
I also disagree. Diebold is in fine shape. There's a link from the Diebold website (front and center) to an article in a newspaper called "The Gazette" from Southern Maryland.
The article claims that all the security brou-ha-ha-ha and hub-a-lub is just a bunch of hoo-hah because the State of Maryland folks think so. And they ought to know, because they been rigging, er, running elections in those parts for YEARS.
The article was written by a famous city-slicker named Barry Rascovar who is a strategic communications consultant. And you know he's important, because he has his e-mail address at a large and respectable firm. Contact him at brascovar@hotmail.com.
If I were a contestant, I'd go above and beyond the call of duty to win the contest. The rules of the competition say that the vehicles need to navigate a 250 mile long course without human steering. I'd say that all the other contestants are going to try to do just that, with various degrees of success.
But, I am gifted with the ability to see the forest for the trees. The people who are running the contest are with the Defense Department. Among other things, that department is responsible for prosecuting wars. And wars are just formal and legal ways to kill lots of people.
So, my strategy, in line with seeing the forest for the trees, would be to read between the lines. The rules talk about navigating a course, but why do they want to do that? TO KILL PEOPLE. The larger goal here is not to just navigate a course, but to win a war by killing lots of people.
My hypothetical entry would be a very large limousine, with a fully stocked bar, lots of hookers, a disco ball, and a bomb in the trunk. Everyone would take a look at my entry, and say "I gotta take a ride in that thing." The limousine would be very large, and could hold hundreds of people. When they are all inside, the autonomous function would take over. The contest does specify "autonomous" so the car would know what to do automatically. It would blow up, killing a lot of people, and hopefully anyone close by too.
With that kind of performance, I am quite sure that DARPA would be very impressed with my entry, and I would win.
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The other guy you're talking to is too polite, but I'm not.
The problem that you have with Debian is that you're an ass. The guy commented that you must be doing something wrong, and you insulted him. The Debian network driver for your card does indeed work perfectly.
Why should I not post to Slashdot? I go to sleep much later than my wife does. Sorry that my life doesn't conform to your ideals. Give me your phone number and I'll call you next time I want to wipe my ass.
MODERATE ME +1 MYOB.
Or meet a couple of Miss Rights, just like the famous road warrior Charles Kuralt.
I disagree completely. I travel between 20% and 40% of my time in any given year, and I've seen many things that I wouldn't have bothered to see otherwise.
You will as often find yourself in Lizard Lick, North Carolina as you find yourself in Paris, France. The difference is that while you might go to Paris for a vacation, you'll never to to Lizard Lick on your time off.
But if you make it a point to dig up something interesting no matter where you are, you will always be able to tell stories about that time you were stuck in Lizard Lick. Every place you visit has something interesting to see. If you rely on a big sign and a line of people with cameras and big hats to find something interesting, you'll hate it. If you can talk to people and don't mind walking out of your hotel with the goal of seeing something before you know what it is you will see, you'll like it.
You may not be able to backpack your way down the Appalachian Trail on a business trip, but there's plenty of other ways to see cool things in Virginia if you're sent there.
hey, I totally agree. BTW, check out the website in my sig.
Use a physical drive to access the network? WTF.
If you want to access the network, use a computer with a network card. A physical drive is for storing your programs. Also FYI, the physical drive is NOT usually referred to as 'memory', except at Comp USA.
I can see the Fark headline now: Linux declared dead. In other news, Microsoft killed by zombie.
Mod that up. Unison is in my opinion one of the most underrated pieces of open source software. If you don't know what it is, look at http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
Time for another bus on our computers: a power bus. Sure would be nice if the only thing we needed to plug into the wall was the main computer. Inside the computer would be a voltage converter and rectifier. That would go out to some jacks on the outside of the computer case.
Voltage would be perhaps 16-24 volts DC. The connectors would be small, and impossible to plug in backwards. Every external device on the system - LCD monitor, USB hard drives, Linksys routers, scanners, maybe inkjet printers, would have two jacks and allow a daisy chain of the power from one device to the next. So, you could plug the power from your scanner into the power from your USB hard drive which would be plugged into the power from the main computer.
Each device would have a circuit breaker, not a fuse, so the total capacity could not be exceeded.
If you wanted to use your little device without a computer to convert the power for you, you could get a little cheap wall wart. Each device would have a flexible range in input voltage that it would accept, so the wall wart would not have to be highly regulated. Just make it 18 volts +- 1 volt and that should be good enough. All you'd have to think about is what the device needs for watts, and how many watts the wall wart can supply.
This is so easy, I don't know why nobody has implemented it yet.
They make a damn fine Joystick (not the best, but better than most, and the best one that I've owned).
Keyboards and mice are superb too.
I also really enjoy Slashdot, which while technically not a Microsoft product, this place really gets a lot of mileage from that company.
To fix this, just post a comment in the same discussion that you moderated in (logged in of course). This will undo all your moderations in that discussion.
First paragraph: OK, information theory isn't my strong suit either. I know a little about it.
:-) Information has a definition that is not the same as the definition of "datum". One is a physical/mathematical thing with real existence and a property called entropy, and another one called energy, and some other properties too, no doubt. The other (datum) is what you described.
Second paragraph: It's OK not to agree, but you'd be wrong.
Third paragraph: Now you're talking! What will really bake your noodle is when you read about what astronomers believe about the information state of a black hole. i.e. no clue, many interesting guesses.
Fourth paragraph: Don't think electricity here. We're could be talking about molecular computers, so the power supply could BE heat in all liklihood.
And that just about covers the extent of my knowlege of the subject. I'd like to learn more, but franky my current computer just isn't warm enough for me to bother right now.
I also think that would be a nice thing, but here's a thought:
:-)
If you can ssh from work to your home server, then you can just always leave yourself logged into that home server, but with a port forwarded back to the work server. So, if you forgot to run unison on the work server, you can login to the work machine from home and do it.
What I do is synchronise my desktop and laptop through a common file server. Unison is transitive like that. My laptop goes wherever I go, so I can't forget to check in a file at work.
If your grades aren't good enough, just become a French chef.
Ideal computers aren't as wasteful as the ones we have now. Most of the heat generated is from resistive loads, as you mentioned. But some of that heat is from the actual computation done. There is a theoretical minimum energy of computation, and when you approach that the ability to reverse your calculation becomes useful. When you add 1+1, that takes some energy to get 2. But, when you reverse that computation you can reclaim the energy. The result is that less energy is wasted to ultimately become heat.
This scientist isn't the first person to think of these things. I don't know for sure, but perhaps Claude Shannon first thought of this.
With Viagra? I would be willing to take part in a double blind study.
I'm surprised that MALE PORN STAR isn't on the list of overpaid people. If someone makes $30,000 a year making movies, he's at least $50,000 overpaid.
There are lots of people who would pay 20 thousand a year to be having sex with a large variety of women, several times a week, who are supposed to pretend they like it, and have their HIV tests in order.
We need a term for this. It's got to be catchy, and sort of intellectual sounding. Foreign words are good. Managers need to be able to use it as a buzzword as a way of sounding important, "in-the-loop", and "forward thinking".
How about "organizational bukkake".
The important part of learning computers in my opinion is being part of a vital community surrounding it. I had an Atari ST in high school and college, and found it difficult to connect to other Atari ST owners. I lived in a small town with no BBS's, user groups, etc. When I got to college, everyone had PC's.
I used to program my Atari ST in Modula-2, and figured out everything on my own. There was some stuff I never figured out, but would have if I could have interacted in a community. I also had a PC emulator on my Atari (Norton SI rating of 0.3!) that I actually used more as time went on. If I hit a block with something, there were hundreds of Turbo Pascal programmers around me that I could connect to. There was also the Internet for help.
When it comes to learning about computers, it really helps if you can learn from someone who knows a lot more than you. Actually, that applies to everything. Because of this, I would doubt the usefulness of a Commodore-64 now.
To this day I cannot hear the name "Penn State" without instantly thinking that they are a menace to everyone on the Usenet.
And then, I realize that I would kill for those days, before AOL turned on their Usenet gateway.
It's actually a stupid idea.
Your chance of winning the lottery is exactly the same if they change the winning numbers, or if they don't change them.
Making users change passwords does the following:
1) Annoys the users.
2) Users are likely to pick easy passwords to remember, rather than memorizing a really good password just once. Or worse, they will write the password down.
3) Does all that for no increase in security. Yay!
NNTP. Old fashioned newsgroups. How many companies resort to long meetings, or wide distribution of voice mails, or e-mails cc'd to everyone under the sun? These are silly abuses of technology, and they don't make sense.
NNTP is what you need for distribution of information. You can set up newsgroups for every possible special interest in your company.
I'll just have to say that you're a fucking peacenick compared to me. Really. I'm a bigger fan of the military that you are. I know more about it and the technology than you do.
So what are you crying about?
I also disagree. Diebold is in fine shape. There's a link from the Diebold website (front and center) to an article in a newspaper called "The Gazette" from Southern Maryland.
The article claims that all the security brou-ha-ha-ha and hub-a-lub is just a bunch of hoo-hah because the State of Maryland folks think so. And they ought to know, because they been rigging, er, running elections in those parts for YEARS.
The article was written by a famous city-slicker named Barry Rascovar who is a strategic communications consultant. And you know he's important, because he has his e-mail address at a large and respectable firm. Contact him at brascovar@hotmail.com.
(Check the article)
If I were a contestant, I'd go above and beyond the call of duty to win the contest. The rules of the competition say that the vehicles need to navigate a 250 mile long course without human steering. I'd say that all the other contestants are going to try to do just that, with various degrees of success.
But, I am gifted with the ability to see the forest for the trees. The people who are running the contest are with the Defense Department. Among other things, that department is responsible for prosecuting wars. And wars are just formal and legal ways to kill lots of people.
So, my strategy, in line with seeing the forest for the trees, would be to read between the lines. The rules talk about navigating a course, but why do they want to do that? TO KILL PEOPLE. The larger goal here is not to just navigate a course, but to win a war by killing lots of people.
My hypothetical entry would be a very large limousine, with a fully stocked bar, lots of hookers, a disco ball, and a bomb in the trunk. Everyone would take a look at my entry, and say "I gotta take a ride in that thing." The limousine would be very large, and could hold hundreds of people. When they are all inside, the autonomous function would take over. The contest does specify "autonomous" so the car would know what to do automatically. It would blow up, killing a lot of people, and hopefully anyone close by too.
With that kind of performance, I am quite sure that DARPA would be very impressed with my entry, and I would win.