Actually, somebody (go google it, I'm lazy) has a mechanism to run JAD/JAR games on android.
Despite the level of ugly in it, J2ME has done a heck of a job achieving "Write Once, Run Anywhere" with cellphone games. Still too painful to actually use for me. Played with it a couple times. It hurt. And, I've been doing professional Java for about 10 years.
But, that reminds me. I can add Symbian, SonyEricson phones and a few others to the list up there. Oh, and.Net/CLI is really a platform in its own right. Java will run on it too.
Gee. Why have I been installing Flash players for all these years? I thought I had to download and install that particular VM in order to run those.swf files.
All right. I'll probably cheat and hit google before I'm done writing this.
Mac OS X
SunOS
Solaris
Irix
HP/UX
Windows NT
Windows Vista
Windows NT
Android
Linux
FreeBSD
AIX
Nope. No google needed. I've personally run and/or written Java/Swing applications on all but 3 of those.
Um, the G2 that was mentioned by the GGP? Granted, I haven't checked his twitter in a couple hours, but he wasn't booting his kernel last update I read.
Considering the unique nature of the photograph in question and the *very* limited number of people who could be in such a photograph, it is pretty easy to argue that the subject is identifiable. Obviously, he was able to identify himself after all.
This isn't a case of "Hey, that's my elbow! Right there! Between the column and the giraffe's neck. Can't you see it?"
Well, most corporate networks are a lot more like those garages at some apartments. I have my own garage door. I can lock it. But, there is no wall between my car and my neighbors car.
If I can absolutely trust everyone of my neighbors (current and future and maybe past, if they kept a key), I don't need to lock my car.
Not an expert on cryptography and had never heard of Zipf's Law before googling it just now. However, my understanding is that one of the fundamental aims of modern cryptography is to not only eliminate Zipf's Law in the resulting cyphertext, but to end up with a cyphertext such that any frequency table you can derive from it is flat. All "words" have equal frequency.
According to my limited knowledge, all (most) ciphers used up through the beginning of the cold war were very vulnerable to statistical analysis attacks based on something akin to Zipf's Law. Bletchly Park rather famously exploited this fact in reference to the Enigma ciphers.
The whole field has been working on overcoming this issue since.
Experts: Feel free to tear this summary apart. I *think* it's roughly accurate. But, I'm no expert in the field.
Curious attitude. I have two game consoles and at least three portable game consoles in the house. My kids love them.
However, most of the games *I* play are unavailable on consoles. And would probably be unplayable on them. At least to me.
I'm that guy who plays all of his computer games with as little mouse contact as possible. Trying to access complex controls is a nightmare with a mouse (for me). Trying to do it without a decent pointing device sounds horrific.
Oh well. To each his own.
But then, I probably have less money in my computer than all the consoles combined. And most of those were bought second-hand. Wow! A $1600 computer. In this day-and-age. Must be amazing. Unless you're thinking of a laptop. Then, that's cheating. And, a console can't possibly match the portability anyway.
However, it seems that all of those instances are quite a bit newer than the subject.
Criticize what you will, but put into historical context, Christie was a brilliant writer. And this isn't her only instance of a "surprise" twist at the end of a mystery plot. However, she's probably one of the earlier instances.
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Problem is, we're not really at that scale yet. Takes a pretty big station to achieve a reasonable gravity with spin.
[...]but then again a disproportionate amount of magazine shoplifting heists have been masterminded by white Christian teenagers.
Globally? I seriously doubt it.
Actually, somebody (go google it, I'm lazy) has a mechanism to run JAD/JAR games on android.
Despite the level of ugly in it, J2ME has done a heck of a job achieving "Write Once, Run Anywhere" with cellphone games. Still too painful to actually use for me. Played with it a couple times. It hurt. And, I've been doing professional Java for about 10 years.
But, that reminds me. I can add Symbian, SonyEricson phones and a few others to the list up there. Oh, and .Net/CLI is really a platform in its own right. Java will run on it too.
Doh! One of those was supposed to be 7.
Gee. Why have I been installing Flash players for all these years? I thought I had to download and install that particular VM in order to run those .swf files.
All right. I'll probably cheat and hit google before I'm done writing this.
Mac OS X
SunOS
Solaris
Irix
HP/UX
Windows NT
Windows Vista
Windows NT
Android
Linux
FreeBSD
AIX
Nope. No google needed. I've personally run and/or written Java/Swing applications on all but 3 of those.
But Lynx lacks that little button with "Allow scripts..." pop-up menu.
You do realize that NoScript blocks all embedded objects don't you?
Um, the G2 that was mentioned by the GGP? Granted, I haven't checked his twitter in a couple hours, but he wasn't booting his kernel last update I read.
Geez. I *am* getting old. I can repeat that exact sentence honestly. Just replace middle-school with college.
However, you've clearly not worked very hard at this acquired geek-cred though. You misspelled the race's name. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Wookiee
But then, I wouldn't even try to guess at spelling their planet's name without looking it up. Lot's of "Y"s. That's all I'm sure of.*
* Cue a bigger nerd to correct me.
Considering the unique nature of the photograph in question and the *very* limited number of people who could be in such a photograph, it is pretty easy to argue that the subject is identifiable. Obviously, he was able to identify himself after all.
This isn't a case of "Hey, that's my elbow! Right there! Between the column and the giraffe's neck. Can't you see it?"
Beautiful! Just re-watched that one last night.
Firewalls should have become part of the core OS as soon as networking was.
Isn't hindsight beautiful?
Well, most corporate networks are a lot more like those garages at some apartments. I have my own garage door. I can lock it. But, there is no wall between my car and my neighbors car.
If I can absolutely trust everyone of my neighbors (current and future and maybe past, if they kept a key), I don't need to lock my car.
Not an expert on cryptography and had never heard of Zipf's Law before googling it just now. However, my understanding is that one of the fundamental aims of modern cryptography is to not only eliminate Zipf's Law in the resulting cyphertext, but to end up with a cyphertext such that any frequency table you can derive from it is flat. All "words" have equal frequency.
According to my limited knowledge, all (most) ciphers used up through the beginning of the cold war were very vulnerable to statistical analysis attacks based on something akin to Zipf's Law. Bletchly Park rather famously exploited this fact in reference to the Enigma ciphers.
The whole field has been working on overcoming this issue since.
Experts: Feel free to tear this summary apart. I *think* it's roughly accurate. But, I'm no expert in the field.
There is way too much going on in this world for a single person to understand.
I'm working on it though. Or at least the interesting parts. And with my rampant ADD, that's a pretty broad brush.
Curious attitude. I have two game consoles and at least three portable game consoles in the house. My kids love them.
However, most of the games *I* play are unavailable on consoles. And would probably be unplayable on them. At least to me.
I'm that guy who plays all of his computer games with as little mouse contact as possible. Trying to access complex controls is a nightmare with a mouse (for me). Trying to do it without a decent pointing device sounds horrific.
Oh well. To each his own.
But then, I probably have less money in my computer than all the consoles combined. And most of those were bought second-hand. Wow! A $1600 computer. In this day-and-age. Must be amazing. Unless you're thinking of a laptop. Then, that's cheating. And, a console can't possibly match the portability anyway.
URLs become unsharable. Or worse, sharing a link to my photo-posting folder includes the magic value that logs me in.
Maybe not? http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20016505-71.html
These people have probably bought Office for Christ's sake. They obviously don't care about bloatware of wasted CPU cycles.
Hmm. In my experience, MS Office is considerably less bloated than OpenOffice. Interesting choice of straw man.
Actually, it's probably closer to calling Ubuntu a fork of Debian, which it is. Or perhaps, calling Kubuntu a fork of Ubuntu, which it is as well.
However, it seems that all of those instances are quite a bit newer than the subject.
Criticize what you will, but put into historical context, Christie was a brilliant writer. And this isn't her only instance of a "surprise" twist at the end of a mystery plot. However, she's probably one of the earlier instances.
Alright. I got most of them. What's the Adam and Eve one?
But, information wants to be fffrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!
Shouldn't every article about a work of fiction automatically contain the entire text/transcript?