nah its when the real volume of pics from the surface arrive that it gets interesting. Once again we can start looking for wee little people fishing from the rocks...
Shame they did not land near the other probes, then they could have filmed each other. Yes, I know that is scientifically pointless, but you have to admit it would have been cool.
On the same note I always thought that Spirit or Opportunity should have been sent to visit Beagle crater...
"Solids" go where they're supposed to, but "liquids" don't.
I can't help it. My first reaction (and I am sure other peoples too) was what if an astronaut gets diarrhhea or gastroenteritis? suddenly opening the window would really look like a viable escape strategy. "Apollo bags" seems like an acceptable (albeit ghastly) short term solution.
We may be rational, sensible people but scatological subjects will always affect us badly.
You start with a knight on an empty chessboard and you need to write a simple algorithm to solve for a method where the knight can move over every square of the board only hitting each square once.
it a classic recursion interview question.
its even more relevant in my industry - embedded - where many of our uCs only have a stack depth of 31 so forces the interviewee to think creatively. any questions like "whats stack depth?" might send them straight out of the door....
its always a good problem to look at in a new language as well....
if it was me then I would immediately work on experimenting with new tech and maybe learning a new language for my CV/Resume.
I find there is never enough time to learn things.
Choose a programming language you do not already know, then try and code up the knights chess board problem, or something similar to test yourself and add more CV space.
As another poster commented this is their choice not yours. Unless they give you work you can do then you owe them nothing. I sympathize with your problem I have always tried a graceful exit and knowledge transfer myself as well.
the t-ray phaser that renders all your opponent's clothes see through! (I am visualising one fucked up trek episode there and then, "why yes captain, let me demonstrate the effect of the new weaponry on Uhuru"..
golly, I could of done with one of those at the nightclub last week...
Well I attempted to RTFA but it was waaay over my head.
So I'll summerize some simple questions and hope there are some kindly physicists who can answer...
1. will this help me see through girls clothing? (vaporising them and providing a 1ns window of "no clothing" does not count)
2. does this provide any new interesting military technology with "cool!" factor?
3. can T-rays diagnose all illnesses and promote world peace?
4. is this anything like those airport sensors? is the world going to become crowded with sweaty palmed "security" people who are obsessed with looking through people's clothing?
5. is hiring the security man of the future going to be like electing a president? (ie. anybody who wants the job should not have it)
we wantonly ignore our history because we actually have lots and lots of it, mate.
when you are tripping over history with every other step you take then you'll get pretty relaxed about it as well.
having said that, it make me weep when a properly constructed 150+ year old house get ripped down for a cramped development of flats made from bricks, spit and twigs. it is precisely because of the sheer amount of historical relevance and interest that naturally some things get sacrificed, and once its gone then its gone for ever.
face it, as a attraction Bletchley has to compete with central london only 25 miles away - and when you put it like that it will always lose.
I'm not so worried about this latest power grabbing move from MS. I mean we all know this is about maintaining market share aggressively in the face of cheap and nimble competition.
All MS are effectively doing is giving away a pig of an OS that will run like a slug in treacle compared to the free alternative. That's bound to persuade some people to move to Linux.
I often wondered at the time if this was a fair test?
I mean the german fellow was near teh transmitting station and got a very good signal and started right away.
Bletchley Park on the other hand, because of the atmospheric conditions did not get a signal until late in the day and started late. On the other hand the german SW took only 46 seconds.
I'm not saying that the german fellow should not of won, he did fair and square - but there seemed to be no mention in much of the news at the time of the receiver issues.
On the plus side, it was excellent publicity for the park and colossus. If only Churchill had not ordered then scrapped then Britain could of led the technological era.
They would have been a few tens of kilometers in diameter and would have appeared in the sky like bright stars. ...until one of them dropped onto the surface and wiped out the dinosaur civilization?
I wish I could I had a quick link. It was one of those quotes that stuck in my head - I'm not sure I got the wording exactly right. It was after one of those scandals (I think it was when it emerged that some people on the sex offenders list with prior convictions against children were cleared to work in schools by Ruth Kelly's mob think very early 2006). The then conservative leader challenged her to come clean and state how many were working in schools from that list and she could not answer. He promptly gave her the choice between being ill informed, lying or just incompetent and said that none of them was expected from a cabinet minister in her role.
I wish I could remember the exact quote - I had a quick look myself with no joy.
David Cameron is not the public speaker Howard was, but I think neither of them would make a good PM.
*every* backup system should result in a set a of data offsite or in a storage area never to be touched again.
even if you use incremental backup every nth backup should be a complete archival read only copy re the previous sentence.
the *very* worst case should be the last major backup is in a format that is not readable with the current system and some red faced admins need help to read read the data.
5 million emails? jesus wept.
add the conspiracy theory factor into the mix and you have something that, on the face of it, sounds unbelievable.
as one of our politicians in the UK said to another a short while ago "you cannot have it both ways, you were either ignorant or incompetent - and neither is acceptable".
Did anyone RTFA?
But odds are, the edits were made by a single individual acting independently. Wikipedia's ban on the department's IP is due to be lifted today.
So.. you must be new here?
I have a compact distro on a thumb drive that I can boot on, mount ntfs vfat and rifle through a computer should I wish - but this sounds like its more comprehensive then that. And if it is designed for widespread cop usage then it must be extremely user friendly as well. And TFA implies you do not even need to power down the PC.
So.. I would a guess an auto run application that is designed from the bottom up the bypass security, promote to admin rights, scan for files matching keywords, copy log files, backup fat, scan partition information, mount any unmounted partitions, get internet history, scan for deleted files, log torrent trackers. Hell there is an awful lot that could be obtained quickly and then analyzed later on once saved on the thumb drive. It could even alert officers for clear violations to prompt for arrest.
Clever little toy.
1. its going to help drive a lot of people to not use Windows - I already do not.
2. If windows had a rigorous and well implemented security system this would not be possible in any case.
3. Its an open challenge to the wares communities to copy and reverse engineer
4. It promotes the belief that there must be back doors into Windows that this gizmo utilizes.
5. I guarantee that something like this will become the norm at customs/airports for a lot of cases if it is fast enough - something on the lines of hold on sir, please plug your PC into this for 30 seconds whilst we scan for illegal behavior
6. Running Linux will simply open you to suspicion and a more in depth analysis.
Always makes me wonder why they need all this power, after all anybody can build a very impressive home cluster these days that would of been classed a super computer a few years ago. I guess computing requirements rise to meet available systems thus fueling demand.
I support AMD right now, and if they got bigger then Intel then I would support Intel.
My belief is that any firm needs adequate competition to keep it innovative, competitive and customer focused. When one of them has a monopoly then we should be concerned.
But based on their litigious behavior to date publishing any details about them might bring down some legal wrath on your head.
So... what exactly is covered by freedom of speech or right to know?
- links to their website?
- phone numbers?
- photos of their HQ from public places?
- whistle blower documentation?
nothing to see really. its just your classic instance of internet suicide. goes something like this:
1. new website offers cool technology
2. people browse over, see it, like it, use it
3. it becomes a "defacto" standard and charges more money
4. because there is perceived to be a market, and people are frustrated with the charges from the original an alternative website is launched
5. as alternative website gains more custom it becomes a more viable alternative, more people hear about it, more people leave original site
6. the tipping point when the hassle of changing to the alternative is less then the annoyance of the charges charged by current website begins to slid in favor of the alternative
7. the original collapses like a flan in a cupboard and people move en masse to the alternative
8. realizing what an ass hat it has been the original makes desperate offers and price cuts to regain favor, hoping it has not pissed off its clientèle too much.
9. the alternative service decides that now it is the "defacto" standard, it can raise prices.....
"What Microsoft really wanted was that ISO stamp of approval to use as a marketing tool. And just like your mother told you, when they get what they want and have their way with you, they're probably not gonna call you in the morning."
hahaha. Tim Bray has a nice way with words.
nobody in the know is in the least surprised by this, I can just see those jizz swizzling bollock juggling idiots at the ISO now on the phone to MS "..but you promised you'd fix it!".."we put our credibility on the line..".. No sympathy, I'm still irate about the whole thing.
seriously though, this is Pyrrhic victory for MS - "the firm that cannot even meet their own standard".
In general the scientific community and academia are understanding to many theories - providing that there is evidence or strong theoretical grounds to support it. And thats where intelligent design falls down in my opinion.
Bottom line is: If there is evidence or theoretical reasoning for I.D. that can withstand concerted scientific examination and review then by all means get it on the table and I will prepare to eat humble pie.
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nah its when the real volume of pics from the surface arrive that it gets interesting. Once again we can start looking for wee little people fishing from the rocks...
See more... http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article3232035.ece
Shame they did not land near the other probes, then they could have filmed each other. Yes, I know that is scientifically pointless, but you have to admit it would have been cool.
On the same note I always thought that Spirit or Opportunity should have been sent to visit Beagle crater...
I can't help it. My first reaction (and I am sure other peoples too) was what if an astronaut gets diarrhhea or gastroenteritis? suddenly opening the window would really look like a viable escape strategy. "Apollo bags" seems like an acceptable (albeit ghastly) short term solution.
We may be rational, sensible people but scatological subjects will always affect us badly.
Simple.
You start with a knight on an empty chessboard and you need to write a simple algorithm to solve for a method where the knight can move over every square of the board only hitting each square once.
it a classic recursion interview question.
its even more relevant in my industry - embedded - where many of our uCs only have a stack depth of 31 so forces the interviewee to think creatively. any questions like "whats stack depth?" might send them straight out of the door....
its always a good problem to look at in a new language as well....
if it was me then I would immediately work on experimenting with new tech and maybe learning a new language for my CV/Resume.
I find there is never enough time to learn things.
Choose a programming language you do not already know, then try and code up the knights chess board problem, or something similar to test yourself and add more CV space.
As another poster commented this is their choice not yours. Unless they give you work you can do then you owe them nothing. I sympathize with your problem I have always tried a graceful exit and knowledge transfer myself as well.
hehehe. I cannot help it again...
the t-ray phaser that renders all your opponent's clothes see through! (I am visualising one fucked up trek episode there and then, "why yes captain, let me demonstrate the effect of the new weaponry on Uhuru"..
golly, I could of done with one of those at the nightclub last week...
Arg, I cannot help it....
...a phaser?
for the geek factor alone, I'll gladly suffer the +5 redundant rightfully coming my way.
Well I attempted to RTFA but it was waaay over my head.
So I'll summerize some simple questions and hope there are some kindly physicists who can answer...
1. will this help me see through girls clothing? (vaporising them and providing a 1ns window of "no clothing" does not count)
2. does this provide any new interesting military technology with "cool!" factor?
3. can T-rays diagnose all illnesses and promote world peace?
4. is this anything like those airport sensors? is the world going to become crowded with sweaty palmed "security" people who are obsessed with looking through people's clothing?
5. is hiring the security man of the future going to be like electing a president? (ie. anybody who wants the job should not have it)
Answers on a postcard, much obliged.
statistics? profiling?
that data would be worth something to ad men surely...
we wantonly ignore our history because we actually have lots and lots of it, mate.
when you are tripping over history with every other step you take then you'll get pretty relaxed about it as well.
having said that, it make me weep when a properly constructed 150+ year old house get ripped down for a cramped development of flats made from bricks, spit and twigs. it is precisely because of the sheer amount of historical relevance and interest that naturally some things get sacrificed, and once its gone then its gone for ever.
face it, as a attraction Bletchley has to compete with central london only 25 miles away - and when you put it like that it will always lose.
I'm not so worried about this latest power grabbing move from MS. I mean we all know this is about maintaining market share aggressively in the face of cheap and nimble competition.
All MS are effectively doing is giving away a pig of an OS that will run like a slug in treacle compared to the free alternative. That's bound to persuade some people to move to Linux.
I often wondered at the time if this was a fair test?
I mean the german fellow was near teh transmitting station and got a very good signal and started right away.
Bletchley Park on the other hand, because of the atmospheric conditions did not get a signal until late in the day and started late. On the other hand the german SW took only 46 seconds.
I'm not saying that the german fellow should not of won, he did fair and square - but there seemed to be no mention in much of the news at the time of the receiver issues.
On the plus side, it was excellent publicity for the park and colossus. If only Churchill had not ordered then scrapped then Britain could of led the technological era.
Thank fuck. I thought for a moment Uwe Boll had found another notch for his bed post...!
...until one of them dropped onto the surface and wiped out the dinosaur civilization?
this is not the same as open sourcing it.
i would guess this is more like attempting to gain market share at the same time as holding the family jewels close to the chest as it were.
still, its a step in the right direction to be sure.
I wish I could I had a quick link. It was one of those quotes that stuck in my head - I'm not sure I got the wording exactly right. It was after one of those scandals (I think it was when it emerged that some people on the sex offenders list with prior convictions against children were cleared to work in schools by Ruth Kelly's mob think very early 2006). The then conservative leader challenged her to come clean and state how many were working in schools from that list and she could not answer. He promptly gave her the choice between being ill informed, lying or just incompetent and said that none of them was expected from a cabinet minister in her role.
I wish I could remember the exact quote - I had a quick look myself with no joy.
David Cameron is not the public speaker Howard was, but I think neither of them would make a good PM.
utter bollocks. just unbe-fucking-lievable.
*every* backup system should result in a set a of data offsite or in a storage area never to be touched again.
even if you use incremental backup every nth backup should be a complete archival read only copy re the previous sentence.
the *very* worst case should be the last major backup is in a format that is not readable with the current system and some red faced admins need help to read read the data.
5 million emails? jesus wept.
add the conspiracy theory factor into the mix and you have something that, on the face of it, sounds unbelievable.
as one of our politicians in the UK said to another a short while ago "you cannot have it both ways, you were either ignorant or incompetent - and neither is acceptable".
So.. you must be new here?
I believe thats what is generally called "rattling the bushes"...
..but what will come out? a paper tiger or a man eater? I cannot see the DOJ taking this lying down.
hmm.
I have a compact distro on a thumb drive that I can boot on, mount ntfs vfat and rifle through a computer should I wish - but this sounds like its more comprehensive then that. And if it is designed for widespread cop usage then it must be extremely user friendly as well. And TFA implies you do not even need to power down the PC.
So.. I would a guess an auto run application that is designed from the bottom up the bypass security, promote to admin rights, scan for files matching keywords, copy log files, backup fat, scan partition information, mount any unmounted partitions, get internet history, scan for deleted files, log torrent trackers. Hell there is an awful lot that could be obtained quickly and then analyzed later on once saved on the thumb drive. It could even alert officers for clear violations to prompt for arrest.
Clever little toy.
1. its going to help drive a lot of people to not use Windows - I already do not.
2. If windows had a rigorous and well implemented security system this would not be possible in any case.
3. Its an open challenge to the wares communities to copy and reverse engineer
4. It promotes the belief that there must be back doors into Windows that this gizmo utilizes.
5. I guarantee that something like this will become the norm at customs/airports for a lot of cases if it is fast enough - something on the lines of hold on sir, please plug your PC into this for 30 seconds whilst we scan for illegal behavior
6. Running Linux will simply open you to suspicion and a more in depth analysis.
Always makes me wonder why they need all this power, after all anybody can build a very impressive home cluster these days that would of been classed a super computer a few years ago. I guess computing requirements rise to meet available systems thus fueling demand.
I support AMD right now, and if they got bigger then Intel then I would support Intel.
My belief is that any firm needs adequate competition to keep it innovative, competitive and customer focused. When one of them has a monopoly then we should be concerned.
I have no idea.
But based on their litigious behavior to date publishing any details about them might bring down some legal wrath on your head.
So... what exactly is covered by freedom of speech or right to know?
- links to their website?
- phone numbers?
- photos of their HQ from public places?
- whistle blower documentation?
nothing to see really. its just your classic instance of internet suicide. goes something like this:
...
1. new website offers cool technology
2. people browse over, see it, like it, use it
3. it becomes a "defacto" standard and charges more money
4. because there is perceived to be a market, and people are frustrated with the charges from the original an alternative website is launched
5. as alternative website gains more custom it becomes a more viable alternative, more people hear about it, more people leave original site
6. the tipping point when the hassle of changing to the alternative is less then the annoyance of the charges charged by current website begins to slid in favor of the alternative
7. the original collapses like a flan in a cupboard and people move en masse to the alternative
8. realizing what an ass hat it has been the original makes desperate offers and price cuts to regain favor, hoping it has not pissed off its clientèle too much.
9. the alternative service decides that now it is the "defacto" standard, it can raise prices..
hell we've all seen it again, and again.
any bets on what the alternative will be?
"What Microsoft really wanted was that ISO stamp of approval to use as a marketing tool. And just like your mother told you, when they get what they want and have their way with you, they're probably not gonna call you in the morning."
hahaha. Tim Bray has a nice way with words.
nobody in the know is in the least surprised by this, I can just see those jizz swizzling bollock juggling idiots at the ISO now on the phone to MS "..but you promised you'd fix it!".."we put our credibility on the line..".. No sympathy, I'm still irate about the whole thing.
seriously though, this is Pyrrhic victory for MS - "the firm that cannot even meet their own standard".
So..
can they alter the meat as well? less fat? more protein? extra vitamins? or can large corporations make them more addictive?
"buy your McBurger, now with the latest McD meat profiling taste and additives"
I am a Darwinist and fan of R Dawkins - there my cards are on the table, don't flame me for a hidden agenda.
I am also quite interested in Neurotheology - an attempt to explain the religious phenomenon though scientific means.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurotheology
In general the scientific community and academia are understanding to many theories - providing that there is evidence or strong theoretical grounds to support it. And thats where intelligent design falls down in my opinion.
Bottom line is: If there is evidence or theoretical reasoning for I.D. that can withstand concerted scientific examination and review then by all means get it on the table and I will prepare to eat humble pie.