I find this exceedingly amusing because it is the PERFECT example of how poorly the mass media researches and checks their facts. Not a hack, hardly even a spoof. This is a problem directly with Conference Room, which works under small loads, but not under large ones.
Conference Room even has a 'NickServ' and 'ChanServ', making it easy to check if the president's typist has the correct password before voicing it. Nevermind the quick voice and devoice of someone under the nick President_C|inton. I'm not at all suprised someone under the same nick got voiced right away.
It's all just so amusing. His site is a good explanation of what happened - though the logs are a bit confusing.
I bet there could be a program written that parses Google's database for just this sort of thing - I could see it done, but it'd probably take quite a while to run.... sadly i doubt it can be distributed because of the nature of databases.:-/ --onyx
I completely agree. The Disc method sounded too complex and limiting from what I read on their page.
The card idea sounds much more marketable. Forget flash memory, minidiscs, and CD's - these are inexpensive (relatively - they said something of about $10 to produce one), shock resistant (nearly no moving parts - I'm sure they could be made very resistant to all but the heaviest shocks), small, fast, and very big (1tb on a 50 layer card? wow!).
I could see having a wallet in my car full of these, with 'better than cd quality' sound (24 bit audio at something like 48k), uncompressed, and a car player that can hold and change 3 of them right there in the deck! (because the cards are so small).
Then there's the portable applications... notebooks, portables (like webpads), cameras, players, etc. that have a media that is quick, large, and small.
Um, aren't aviation bands on the AM side? I believe they are because I can set the radio in the cessna to a local station on 850khz. and sure, many other frequencies are being used - most locations have differing frequencies for obvious reasons. but I do believe they're mostly on AM
Well... two - the accounting program we were using corporate-wide _was_ definatly not compliant with 2000, it simply would refuse to work. Last year we changed packages and havent had problems.
The other problem came Monday January 3rd - CADD techs plotting out of Microstation SE - things with automatic date strings in them. They read Jan 3 2000 on the newer builds, but Jan 3 100 on the older builds - not a hard fix but you would have thought Bentley would have notified one of their SELECT customers 'their service plan and stuff for high-volume customers' that there was this glitch.:-P --
Looks as if you have a good idea of what you need, or is it what you want? make sure you NEED all that processing power, super-expensive Rambus memory, and ultrafast video card.
I have a feeling this sounds like a storage machine - means you should have a good amount of ram, but regular PC100 or PC133 will work fine. Dual processors? maybe, if you are doing stripeing or mirroring with your disks.
Also don't limit yourself to RedHat - remember redhat is not linux - you can go ahead and look at debian, stormix, mandrake, suse, and the rest for a distribution that fits your needs, or one that just spikes your interest. (I personally like stormix)
if you can get past the windows mentions, look at the god-box and the other boxes over at Ars Technica. They have some great reccommendations on good value hardware.
Lastly, i saw a few complaints about the 3c905b cards in earlier posts. We religiously use these cards (albiet in windows NT machines) here at work and have had nothing but good experiences with them. I love the 3com and i have a hard time using anything else (execpt if it is free of course:-> )
The internet GREW because of PCs and their users (When I say PC i mean any computer you can put on your desk that costs less than a late model car). If it was limited to unix users of any type (be it Linux if it was ever to be invented, or *BSD) it wouldn't have the consumer appeal it does now. It would be purely information (which is not a bad thing, perhaps in the future there will be more of an InfoNet instead of a CommercialNet).
I do, however, think without unix of any type the internet would not exist, nor would anything like it (maybe fidonet and the other BBS networks, noting those are not realtime exchanges however). TCP/IP, and hell even Banyan Vines were developed for the unix popuplation to begin with - people with [vision|need] to port it to DOS or Windows* made consumer use possible.
The InterNet is InterRelated. Unix and PC and Mac and Amiga and C64 and whatever else you can stick a networking adapter in of some sort to make it work.
Now is this about the Creation of the Internet (ala Al Gore), or the Boom of the Internet (ala Borg Gates, with the huge PC marketshare), or the refinement of the internet (ala Netscape et al, making it look pretty)?
The internet GREW because of PCs and their users (When I say PC i mean any computer you can put on your desk that costs less than a late model car). If it was limited to unix users of any type (be it Linux if it was ever to be invented, or *BSD) it wouldn't have the consumer appeal it does now. It would be purely information (which is not a bad thing, perhaps in the future there will be more of an InfoNet instead of a CommercialNet). I do, however, think without unix of any type the internet would not exist, nor would anything like it (maybe fidonet and the other BBS networks, noting those are not realtime exchanges however). TCP/IP, and hell even Banyan Vines were developed for the unix popuplation to begin with - people with [vision|need] to port it to DOS or Windows* made consumer use possible. The InterNet is InterRelated. Unix and PC and Mac and Amiga and C64 and whatever else you can stick a networking adapter in of some sort to make it work. Now is this about the Creation of the Internet (ala Al Gore), or the Boom of the Internet (ala Borg Gates, with the huge PC marketshare), or the refinement of the internet (ala Netscape et al, making it look pretty)?
At work we recently purchased a copy of L0phtCrack (Guess what - it has saved many many hours of work for me especially!) - for $99? Are you guys making a killing off of this tool or what?
What's even more funny is that the 4gb limit is only in the setup/install program as you boot from the disks. If you get lucky enough to modify that partition after you've installed windows NT (I've done this while using Ghost to set up a bunch of desktops) you can get to the REAL limit of 8gb for the boot partition (after that the NTLDR doesn't know what to do with such a big partition).
at least it tells you you can't make a bootable partition more than 4gb in there - it'd be worse if it would go ahead and extract to a 12gb partition and then you find out it does not work.
but what a pain - on the new machines we've gotten in, they have 13gb drives, so we are setting up 2gb for old dos/win3.1 (damn old programs that can't handle windowsNT), then we have NT on a ~8gb partition after the Ghost, which leaves about 3gb left over that we don't really want to partition because after the cdrom we're getting into network drive territory (F: for novell).
People are finally figuring out they should have their phonelines SHIELDED! what a concept!:-) (I've got my phones running through CAT5 now and have never had better connect speeds)
I guess the problem now is what to get rid of - AM radio or ADSL? let's see - AM Radio... gives us - talk radio and spanish stations over really bad mono audio. ADSL gives us nice bandwidth, neat lookin router thingies (I like the little cisco/netspeed router thingy), and more bandwidth.:-)
I had a 200ES (200 series is 17in) monitor where I think the power supply or something fried - luckily (for some odd reason) I bought the 3 year 'warranty' when I bought it - the store gave me the WHOLE retail price WHEN I BOUGHT IT origionally ($600) - so I figured other than the problem with the power I loved my sony, so bought a new sony 420GS (19in, flat as hell screen, all kinds of neat features, really great VGA port in the FRONT to hook up laptops etc)
I love it... don't kid yourself just because diamondtron monitors are normally rated high that trinitron is anything but awesome.
Is there any estimate on how long this is going to take? DES-III took some 72hrs I think and that was a 56bit encryption... Are there any pages with more information on the CS-Crypt algorithm?
All the more reason to get off yer lazy butts and update your client! the contest gets online tomorrow! I've updated mine... and added my little Indy to the mix:-) (yay it gets some 78kk/s on RC5... RS4000 processor yay!)
1: As of late, the updates to AntiOnline have gotten fewer and fewer, shorter and shorter, and more and more meaningless. Why is this?
2: After your 'change in mission plan' even I saw the change in the content. It, to my opinion, was of less quality and less relevance. I used to read the site every other day or so to check up on the world's security news, but now I stay on top with Security focus and hacker news network. Why did this change in plans change the face of the site so much? couldn't the same content quality have been continued, just from a slightly different perspective?
What is becoming increasingly annoying is machines named after their primary user (whoever's desk they sit at)... this sucks because we have a system of machine trickle-downs that end up changing about 6 machine names because their owners change.
I have a feeling this is one of the better ways to do it, but doing it by machine type would be much easier in that case. (of course, this is NT so removing/adding it from/to the domain takes a little time, especially on the slower machines)
Blah, at home I use Pokemon characters that fit the machine...
Gyardos (Rather powerful blue pokemon) for my SGI Indy (also blue) Onix (just neat pokemon... goes with my name) for my NT machine eevee for my brothers machine (his favorite character... hehe)
Hey when there are over 150 characters you could use those pretty well.
Cookies, I hate to say it because in general I don't trust them, do make lives easier. I am not talking about for the user, I'm talking about for the site you visit.
For a yet-to-be-named site I'm developing we'll be 'watching' where people go on the site, what types of things they want to see. easy way to do this... send a cookie to them that states "Hi, I'm me. I have a user counter number of ##." and it gets thrown into a database for later analysis. True, this could be done with tracking IP numbers and such, but blah, that's a pain. cookies are easy.
The good thing about this is if someone has cookies disabled, bummer, we don't get their data. none of the site is broken because of it.
This will in turn make the site more friendly to the user because it will keep what people want, throw out things people don't want. lots easier and lots more truthful than saying "do you like this session please select yes or no".
Blarf, if you ask me, when I go to a site that I'll be putting any information into (such as amazon.com or whatever), I go and clear that cookie out of my file after I'm done. I like my slashdot autologin.:-)
Hell yah. The advantage of this becomes more limited information sources, yet stronger competition. Stuff gets better. And, if some benevolent guy with a T1+ wants to link the area fidonet (or whatever other message net) to the internet for worldwide communications, all the more power to him.
then again, I might be babbling again. I miss my BBS's.:-(
As I start to think about what this means to really anyone, I start think of a few 'motives' for this investment (and others).
1: Intel likes Linux: Meaning they want to see it thrive. 2: Intel wants to keep AMD et al out: Meaning their investments will make distros optimize for Intel (maybe only...) keeping AMD especially in a hard place. 3: Intel wants independency: Intel sees linux as the next top OS, wants to be sure they're not locked into Microsoft. 4: Intel likes throwing money at people who look neat: Hey, not such a far feched idea.
Eitherway I think it is good business practice... though AMD might think differently.
I:::ahem::: borrowed a real new infocus projector and hooked it up to my N64, projected it onto a wall in my basement. Real nice if you are sitting rather far back, the image quality is outstanding on those InFocus projectors.
Never got the chance to hook it up to my PC sadly, but GoldenEye, Rogue Squadron, Turok 2, EP1 Racer, all look great (that memory expansion pack really does help at that level hehe).
As for Q2 I imagine that you would have to pump the resolution on it, therefore slowing the framerate, something VERY important at that size as well.
Think about it - You've got a 7 foot tall screen... it's fun. (Get it hooked up to a good sound system with either digital surround powered by a Live! card or just some prologic faking...). Immersion.
I can tell you right now, Salon was right on all counts. Most of these 'corrections' have been outed in the media - but stuck in the 32nd page of the paper, and not even remotely mentioned on the TV or other 'mainstream media outlets'.
Look, I don't care if you believe me or not. I should know, I'm a student and I try to keep up with the TRUTH.
Bah. some people believe the wrong things too easily, some people believe everything, some people don't believe anything. Most of the above are too lazy or don't care enough to find the TRUTH.
Many of you probably do not know I'm a student at Columbine, lately that's been a very good thing. I say it's about damn time that SOMEONE cares enough about the TRUTH to come out and actually state it!
From the very beginning, from really the minute the story came on the news, facts were wrongly stated or possibly plain out fabricated. 1: Local NBC channel states there were maybe 100 people in the commons - multiply that by 4. 2: entrance was into the commons (Salon corrected that). I could go on and on, the Salon fixes most of the bad information.
Maybe the problem was the students from the school thinking they knew more than they really did. On that same NBC station (I was watching...) they had three or four students on that provided innacurate information, (this is where the homosexual trench coat mafia bit came from. seriously.)
I can say as a journalist myself (I'm currently the photo, layout, and webpage editor for the paper. No, we don't have a page yet, but that's just because Acrobat Distiller is giving me problems. If anyone knows distiller and macintosh real well, help me out please hehe.), that I was disgusted by the photographers and reporters covering the incident. Cameramen running around getting in people's faces when they had all the time in the world to ask them a question or maybe even get a picture from a distance. Reporters demanding information from people who probably knew less than the reporter did. Even recently when the softball field was dedicated, a pair of reporters from the local daily was being a real prick about getting names and pictures of prettymuch everyone there. When the coach of the softball team was hugging Dave Sanders' wife (yes, Sanders' - his last name is Sanders damnit.) there was a rush of photographers looking for the 'sympathy' shot. There were much better shots earlier of the balloons going up over the field, with the school in the background, and everyone standing in the foreground.
Anyway, I just say I'm impressed by Salon getting the facts straight when NOBODY else has before. Maybe the 'mainstream' media needs a wakeup call.
(Too bad I didn't get to this article earlier, maybe some more people would have seen this post:-/, that's happened to me three times now.)
Neat - wonder if it is easy to throw it in the TI calculator line that uses it (83-86 I believe). It is amazing what these older-style chips have been relegated to, Graphing calculators, imbedded stuff... fun. Heck, the TI-89 and 92 use Motorola 68k processors now.:-) -Onyx
I am beginning to wonder if this article is a bit decieving in it's nature. It talks of the experiment of looking for a nick (scratch, notch) in a block of either red or green blocks - and a variety of blocks was presented.
I imagine that this is a serial experiment in itself because of how the mind works: trial and error (or the scientific method).
It works by checking the block it comes on first first for color - is it red or green?
Now check if it has a nick in it
go on
or: for (i=0,i < blocks, i++) if (block[i] == red) || (block[i] == green) { if (block[i] == nicked) { item.pick(block[i]) } } }
I don't believe this proves that the brain processes images serially - just experimentation data.
For Intel, the reason for changing socket / slot is anyone's guess:)
But for AMD, I believe that they CAN'T use the same technology as Intel, since they have a couple important patents on the technology. APIC comes to mind...
this is because of the EV6 architecture they borrowed from Alpha - that and in my opinion, slot # is weak... but that's my opinion. blorg.
So if you want to be able to run your Athlon in multi-cpu configurations, you won't be able to do so in an Intel motherboard.
since the above is true - this point is... well... pointless. The Point to Point architecture of the K7 is going to make multiprocessing awesome.
Besides, if you wanted to buy an UltraSparc, you'd have to get a new motherboard... or a PowerPC... or a MIPS... or a StrongArm... ?
Different architecture, different motherboard... it just makes sense after a while.
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I find this exceedingly amusing because it is the PERFECT example of how poorly the mass media researches and checks their facts. Not a hack, hardly even a spoof. This is a problem directly with Conference Room, which works under small loads, but not under large ones.
Conference Room even has a 'NickServ' and 'ChanServ', making it easy to check if the president's typist has the correct password before voicing it. Nevermind the quick voice and devoice of someone under the nick President_C|inton. I'm not at all suprised someone under the same nick got voiced right away.
It's all just so amusing. His site is a good explanation of what happened - though the logs are a bit confusing.
--onyx
I bet there could be a program written that parses Google's database for just this sort of thing - I could see it done, but it'd probably take quite a while to run. ... sadly i doubt it can be distributed because of the nature of databases. :-/ --onyx
The card idea sounds much more marketable. Forget flash memory, minidiscs, and CD's - these are inexpensive (relatively - they said something of about $10 to produce one), shock resistant (nearly no moving parts - I'm sure they could be made very resistant to all but the heaviest shocks), small, fast, and very big (1tb on a 50 layer card? wow!).
I could see having a wallet in my car full of these, with 'better than cd quality' sound (24 bit audio at something like 48k), uncompressed, and a car player that can hold and change 3 of them right there in the deck! (because the cards are so small).
Then there's the portable applications... notebooks, portables (like webpads), cameras, players, etc. that have a media that is quick, large, and small.
Um, aren't aviation bands on the AM side? I believe they are because I can set the radio in the cessna to a local station on 850khz. and sure, many other frequencies are being used - most locations have differing frequencies for obvious reasons. but I do believe they're mostly on AM
The other problem came Monday January 3rd - CADD techs plotting out of Microstation SE - things with automatic date strings in them. They read Jan 3 2000 on the newer builds, but Jan 3 100 on the older builds - not a hard fix but you would have thought Bentley would have notified one of their SELECT customers 'their service plan and stuff for high-volume customers' that there was this glitch. :-P --
I have a feeling this sounds like a storage machine - means you should have a good amount of ram, but regular PC100 or PC133 will work fine. Dual processors? maybe, if you are doing stripeing or mirroring with your disks.
Also don't limit yourself to RedHat - remember redhat is not linux - you can go ahead and look at debian, stormix, mandrake, suse, and the rest for a distribution that fits your needs, or one that just spikes your interest. (I personally like stormix)
if you can get past the windows mentions, look at the god-box and the other boxes over at Ars Technica. They have some great reccommendations on good value hardware.
Lastly, i saw a few complaints about the 3c905b cards in earlier posts. We religiously use these cards (albiet in windows NT machines) here at work and have had nothing but good experiences with them. I love the 3com and i have a hard time using anything else (execpt if it is free of course :-> )
The internet GREW because of PCs and their users (When I say PC i mean any computer you can put on your desk that costs less than a late model car). If it was limited to unix users of any type (be it Linux if it was ever to be invented, or *BSD) it wouldn't have the consumer appeal it does now. It would be purely information (which is not a bad thing, perhaps in the future there will be more of an InfoNet instead of a CommercialNet).
I do, however, think without unix of any type the internet would not exist, nor would anything like it (maybe fidonet and the other BBS networks, noting those are not realtime exchanges however).
TCP/IP, and hell even Banyan Vines were developed for the unix popuplation to begin with - people with [vision|need] to port it to DOS or Windows* made consumer use possible.
The InterNet is InterRelated. Unix and PC and Mac and Amiga and C64 and whatever else you can stick a networking adapter in of some sort to make it work.
Now is this about the Creation of the Internet (ala Al Gore), or the Boom of the Internet (ala Borg Gates, with the huge PC marketshare), or the refinement of the internet (ala Netscape et al, making it look pretty)?
The internet GREW because of PCs and their users (When I say PC i mean any computer you can put on your desk that costs less than a late model car). If it was limited to unix users of any type (be it Linux if it was ever to be invented, or *BSD) it wouldn't have the consumer appeal it does now. It would be purely information (which is not a bad thing, perhaps in the future there will be more of an InfoNet instead of a CommercialNet). I do, however, think without unix of any type the internet would not exist, nor would anything like it (maybe fidonet and the other BBS networks, noting those are not realtime exchanges however). TCP/IP, and hell even Banyan Vines were developed for the unix popuplation to begin with - people with [vision|need] to port it to DOS or Windows* made consumer use possible. The InterNet is InterRelated. Unix and PC and Mac and Amiga and C64 and whatever else you can stick a networking adapter in of some sort to make it work. Now is this about the Creation of the Internet (ala Al Gore), or the Boom of the Internet (ala Borg Gates, with the huge PC marketshare), or the refinement of the internet (ala Netscape et al, making it look pretty)?
At work we recently purchased a copy of L0phtCrack (Guess what - it has saved many many hours of work for me especially!) - for $99? Are you guys making a killing off of this tool or what?
What's even more funny is that the 4gb limit is only in the setup/install program as you boot from the disks. If you get lucky enough to modify that partition after you've installed windows NT (I've done this while using Ghost to set up a bunch of desktops) you can get to the REAL limit of 8gb for the boot partition (after that the NTLDR doesn't know what to do with such a big partition).
at least it tells you you can't make a bootable partition more than 4gb in there - it'd be worse if it would go ahead and extract to a 12gb partition and then you find out it does not work.
but what a pain - on the new machines we've gotten in, they have 13gb drives, so we are setting up 2gb for old dos/win3.1 (damn old programs that can't handle windowsNT), then we have NT on a ~8gb partition after the Ghost, which leaves about 3gb left over that we don't really want to partition because after the cdrom we're getting into network drive territory (F: for novell).
Yuck.
People are finally figuring out they should have their phonelines SHIELDED! what a concept! :-)
:-)
(I've got my phones running through CAT5 now and have never had better connect speeds)
I guess the problem now is what to get rid of - AM radio or ADSL? let's see - AM Radio... gives us - talk radio and spanish stations over really bad mono audio. ADSL gives us nice bandwidth, neat lookin router thingies (I like the little cisco/netspeed router thingy), and more bandwidth.
I had a 200ES (200 series is 17in) monitor where I think the power supply or something fried - luckily (for some odd reason) I bought the 3 year 'warranty' when I bought it - the store gave me the WHOLE retail price WHEN I BOUGHT IT origionally ($600) - so I figured other than the problem with the power I loved my sony, so bought a new sony 420GS (19in, flat as hell screen, all kinds of neat features, really great VGA port in the FRONT to hook up laptops etc)
I love it... don't kid yourself just because diamondtron monitors are normally rated high that trinitron is anything but awesome.
...drool...
Is there any estimate on how long this is going to take? DES-III took some 72hrs I think and that was a 56bit encryption... Are there any pages with more information on the CS-Crypt algorithm?
:-) (yay it gets some 78kk/s on RC5 ... RS4000 processor yay!)
All the more reason to get off yer lazy butts and update your client! the contest gets online tomorrow! I've updated mine... and added my little Indy to the mix
1: As of late, the updates to AntiOnline have gotten fewer and fewer, shorter and shorter, and more and more meaningless. Why is this?
2: After your 'change in mission plan' even I saw the change in the content. It, to my opinion, was of less quality and less relevance. I used to read the site every other day or so to check up on the world's security news, but now I stay on top with Security focus and hacker news network. Why did this change in plans change the face of the site so much? couldn't the same content quality have been continued, just from a slightly different perspective?
I have a feeling this is one of the better ways to do it, but doing it by machine type would be much easier in that case. (of course, this is NT so removing/adding it from/to the domain takes a little time, especially on the slower machines)
Blah, at home I use Pokemon characters that fit the machine...
Gyardos (Rather powerful blue pokemon) for my SGI Indy (also blue) ... goes with my name) for my NT machine
Onix (just neat pokemon
eevee for my brothers machine (his favorite character... hehe)
Hey when there are over 150 characters you could use those pretty well.
I couldn't agree more.
blah - I hate it when all i have to say is 4 words. per-post voting should be an option :-)
For a yet-to-be-named site I'm developing we'll be 'watching' where people go on the site, what types of things they want to see. easy way to do this... send a cookie to them that states "Hi, I'm me. I have a user counter number of ##." and it gets thrown into a database for later analysis. True, this could be done with tracking IP numbers and such, but blah, that's a pain. cookies are easy.
The good thing about this is if someone has cookies disabled, bummer, we don't get their data. none of the site is broken because of it.
This will in turn make the site more friendly to the user because it will keep what people want, throw out things people don't want. lots easier and lots more truthful than saying "do you like this session please select yes or no".
Blarf, if you ask me, when I go to a site that I'll be putting any information into (such as amazon.com or whatever), I go and clear that cookie out of my file after I'm done. I like my slashdot autologin. :-)
then again, I might be babbling again. I miss my BBS's. :-(
1: Intel likes Linux: Meaning they want to see it thrive.
2: Intel wants to keep AMD et al out: Meaning their investments will make distros optimize for Intel (maybe only...) keeping AMD especially in a hard place.
3: Intel wants independency: Intel sees linux as the next top OS, wants to be sure they're not locked into Microsoft.
4: Intel likes throwing money at people who look neat: Hey, not such a far feched idea.
Eitherway I think it is good business practice... though AMD might think differently.
Never got the chance to hook it up to my PC sadly, but GoldenEye, Rogue Squadron, Turok 2, EP1 Racer, all look great (that memory expansion pack really does help at that level hehe).
As for Q2 I imagine that you would have to pump the resolution on it, therefore slowing the framerate, something VERY important at that size as well.
Think about it - You've got a 7 foot tall screen ... it's fun. (Get it hooked up to a good sound system with either digital surround powered by a Live! card or just some prologic faking...). Immersion.
I can tell you right now, Salon was right on all counts. Most of these 'corrections' have been outed in the media - but stuck in the 32nd page of the paper, and not even remotely mentioned on the TV or other 'mainstream media outlets'.
Look, I don't care if you believe me or not. I should know, I'm a student and I try to keep up with the TRUTH.
Bah. some people believe the wrong things too easily, some people believe everything, some people don't believe anything. Most of the above are too lazy or don't care enough to find the TRUTH.
From the very beginning, from really the minute the story came on the news, facts were wrongly stated or possibly plain out fabricated. 1: Local NBC channel states there were maybe 100 people in the commons - multiply that by 4. 2: entrance was into the commons (Salon corrected that). I could go on and on, the Salon fixes most of the bad information.
Maybe the problem was the students from the school thinking they knew more than they really did. On that same NBC station (I was watching...) they had three or four students on that provided innacurate information, (this is where the homosexual trench coat mafia bit came from. seriously.)
I can say as a journalist myself (I'm currently the photo, layout, and webpage editor for the paper. No, we don't have a page yet, but that's just because Acrobat Distiller is giving me problems. If anyone knows distiller and macintosh real well, help me out please hehe.), that I was disgusted by the photographers and reporters covering the incident. Cameramen running around getting in people's faces when they had all the time in the world to ask them a question or maybe even get a picture from a distance. Reporters demanding information from people who probably knew less than the reporter did. Even recently when the softball field was dedicated, a pair of reporters from the local daily was being a real prick about getting names and pictures of prettymuch everyone there. When the coach of the softball team was hugging Dave Sanders' wife (yes, Sanders' - his last name is Sanders damnit.) there was a rush of photographers looking for the 'sympathy' shot. There were much better shots earlier of the balloons going up over the field, with the school in the background, and everyone standing in the foreground.
Anyway, I just say I'm impressed by Salon getting the facts straight when NOBODY else has before. Maybe the 'mainstream' media needs a wakeup call.
(Too bad I didn't get to this article earlier, maybe some more people would have seen this post :-/, that's happened to me three times now.)
Neat - wonder if it is easy to throw it in the TI calculator line that uses it (83-86 I believe). It is amazing what these older-style chips have been relegated to, Graphing calculators, imbedded stuff... fun. Heck, the TI-89 and 92 use Motorola 68k processors now. :-) -Onyx
I imagine that this is a serial experiment in itself because of how the mind works: trial and error (or the scientific method).
or:
for (i=0,i < blocks, i++)
if (block[i] == red) || (block[i] == green) {
if (block[i] == nicked) {
item.pick(block[i])
}
}
}
I don't believe this proves that the brain processes images serially - just experimentation data.
But for AMD, I believe that they CAN'T use the same technology as Intel, since they have a couple important patents on the technology. APIC comes to mind ...
this is because of the EV6 architecture they borrowed from Alpha - that and in my opinion, slot # is weak... but that's my opinion. blorg.
So if you want to be able to run your Athlon in multi-cpu configurations, you won't be able to do so in an Intel motherboard.
since the above is true - this point is ... well ... pointless. The Point to Point architecture of the K7 is going to make multiprocessing awesome.
Besides, if you wanted to buy an UltraSparc, you'd have to get a new motherboard ... or a PowerPC ... or a MIPS ... or a StrongArm ... ?
Different architecture, different motherboard... it just makes sense after a while.